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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

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removed Wugapodes

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Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

  • Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
  • Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous


user recovery

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Hamisi gift Musitwa popularly known as Volvexzshawa page was deleted on Wikipedia by my research I do believe this is a mistake kindly look into this Teresia Akinyi Achilo (talk) 06:15, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The deletion was the outcome of a proper deletion process, which is archived at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Volvexzshawa. The discussion was brief, but looking at the deleted article, I agree that it was extremely light and did not establish notability. From this point, a few options are available. 1) you can initiate a deletion review, but based on the content of the deleted article, I doubt that the outcome will be different. or 2) you can start a draft article, and I can see that you have started one at Draft:Volvexzshawa, and your application to publish it has been declined recently. If I may offer insight and recommendation, I can understand why the publication of the draft was declined. Content was minimal and the references provided were not linked to statements in the article. That being said, the subject topic may be notable and worthy of an article. What is missing here is establishing notability as per WP:BIO and specifically WP:MUSICBIO, and proper referencing. Olivier (talk) 15:42, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

Request for a copy of a deleted article

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Parker Sonnet was deleted some time ago. Other Parker pens have their own articles now, so I am wondering if the this article that I started should be restored. I would be grateful if you would provide me with a copy of the undeleted article. Snowman (talk) 20:58, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have userfied the article at User:Snowmanradio/Parker Sonnet. I have included comments on the userfied page. The article was deleted twice. The first time was in 2015 after was looks like a very short AfD discussion, but I don't know the context and there may have been a reason for that, for instance other similar articles being deleted at the same time. The second time, the article was very short and speedily deleted. Olivier (talk) 07:41, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for a copy of a deleted article as advised

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Eurospares was deleted recently and I was advised to reach out to an authority admin to get a copy that I can review and ask for help with please. Can you do this for me? Cheers. MotionMogul123 (talk) 08:28, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have WP:USERFIED the article at User:MotionMogul123/Eurospares. Olivier (talk) 02:41, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Nyttend
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removed Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

readded Joe Roe

Oversight changes

removed GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Copy of Deleted Article

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Hello, I saw your name listed on (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_administrators_willing_to_provide_copies_of_deleted_articles) and was wondering if you would be able to provide me with the txt from the deleted article BoomCase (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoomCase) If I did the request wrong I do apologize. Do let me know what is needed if so. Thank you.

MistaKoko (talk) 23:01, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have WP:USERFIED the article at User:MistaKoko/BoomCase. Olivier (talk) 09:22, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much! Its greatly appreciated. I need to put some more work on this when I get some free time. I worked on the article off and on for almost 4 years so it would be terrible to have it all just disappear.
Thanks again. MistaKoko (talk) 17:20, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Graham Beards
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Oversight changes

removed Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Good article reassessment for Kowloon Walled City

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Kowloon Walled City has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ltbdl (talk) 05:30, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Isabelle Belato
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Interface administrator changes

readded Izno

CheckUser changes

removed Barkeep49

Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

removed Pppery

Interface administrator changes

removed Pppery

Oversighter changes

removed Wugapodes

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Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
  • A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Good article reassessment for Institutions of the European Union

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Institutions of the European Union has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 22:52, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

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Invitation to participate in a research

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Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.

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