Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2017/1

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2016).

New administrators
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Samtar • Boson • Ad Orientem • Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news
 * A proposal to include a speedy deletion criteria for books closed as no consensus.
 * Userpages are now protected from edits by unconfirmed or unregistered users by use of an edit filter.

Technical news
 * The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey Results have now been published. A number of high ranking requests will be of interest to administrators.
 * Since 17 November some edit filters have not been correctly triggering on file uploads. See T153217 and T153251.

Arbitration
 * The 2016 Arbitration Committee Election results have been announced.
 * A motion that remedy 1.1 of the Austrian economics case be rescinded has passed.
 * A passed motion adds to remedy 2 of the Palestine-Israel articles 3 case; editors must now obtain consensus through discussion before restoring a reverted edit to affected articles.

Ongoing backlogs
 * Edit filter/False positives - Sockpuppet investigations - Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure - Did you know/Queue - Files for discussion

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