Wikipedia:2023 Recap

Events

 * January:
 * Vector 2022 desktop skin was unveiled. It received mixed reviews, see Press coverage 2023
 * February: Pakistan blocks Wikipedia over 'sacrilegious' content, see Press coverage 2023
 * February: Pakistan blocks Wikipedia over 'sacrilegious' content, see Press coverage 2023
 * March: The first sound logo of Wikimedia (including Wikipedia) was adopted.
 * August 16–19: [[Image:Wikimania.svg|32px]]Wikimania 2023, 18th annual Wikimedia Conference, in Singapore

Adminship

 * July: (Requests for adminship/Firefangledfeathers)
 * August: (Requests for adminship/Pppery), Theleekycauldron
 * September: (Requests for adminship/Hey man im josh)

De-adminship

 * July: AlisonW (sanctioned for conduct), Amberrock (inactive), Closedmouth (inactive), Scottywong (sanctioned for conduct)
 * August:
 * Dwheeler (inactive)
 * G.A.S (inactive)
 * Royalbroil (resigned)
 * Ssd (inactive)
 * September:
 * Alex Bakharev (inactive)
 * CorbieVreccan (resigned)
 * Cyphoidbomb (inactive)
 * Davodd (inactive)
 * Hog Farm (resigned)
 * JamesR (resigned)
 * KnightLago (resigned)
 * Mark Ironie (resigned)
 * Nosebagbear (deceased)
 * Rschen7754 (resigned)
 * Tamzin (temporarily resigned)
 * TonyBallioni (resigned)

Indef blocks and bans

 * July 25: Vladimir Medeyko (User:Drbug), the former head of Wikimedia Russia and founder of the Russian government-approved Ruwiki fork, has been globally banned by WMF. Medeyko had previously been blocked indefinitely on the Russian Wikipedia, following a discussion at the Russian Wikipedia's Administrators' Noticeboard, as well as on Commons (July 3), where the reason given was "Long-term abuse: creating a Wikipedia fork which includes stolen content from Commons as well"
 * August 25: banned indefinitely (Arbitration/Requests/Case/SmallCat dispute)