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

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

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

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

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.

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
24		Evgenia Obraztsova (talk)	Add sources
956		Pahlavi dynasty (talk)	Add sources
6		Ajudanieh (talk)	Add sources
180		(Is This the Way to) Amarillo (talk)	Add sources
12		Steel Azin F.C. (talk)	Add sources
10		Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker (talk)	Add sources
101		Hissein Brahim Taha (talk)	Cleanup
598		Quasi-state (talk)	Cleanup
4,809		Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (talk)	Cleanup
10,798		COVID-19 pandemic (talk)	Expand
5		2011–12 Persian Gulf Cup (talk)	Expand
8		2013–14 Persian Gulf Cup (talk)	Expand
3,311		Lil Nas X (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
319		Late modern period (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
175		Contemporary Sant Mat movements (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
4		Arzenu (talk)	Merge
19		Distributed workforce (talk)	Merge
56		Acquired homosexuality (talk)	Merge
324		Women in Iran (talk)	Wikify
22		Fariborz Maseeh (talk)	Wikify
82		Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (talk)	Wikify
7		Stop Hazara Genocide (talk)	Orphan
2		Barkédji (talk)	Orphan
6		Can Batlló (La Bordeta) (talk)	Orphan
30		Girls' School (song) (talk)	Stub
20		Prorastomus (talk)	Stub
4		Ekhtiarieh (talk)	Stub
9		Ekbatan Stadium (talk)	Stub
22		Hamdullah Mukhlis (talk)	Stub
7		Anomotherium (talk)	Stub

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
3,940		Tehran (talk)	Add sources
616		Thresher shark (talk)	Add sources
4		Mahmoodieh (talk)	Add sources
6		Aghdasieh (talk)	Add sources
94		Evolution of sirenians (talk)	Add sources
15		We Kill the World/Boonoonoonoos (talk)	Add sources
21		Iran–Sweden relations (talk)	Cleanup
78		Youth America Grand Prix (talk)	Cleanup
598		Hasan Akhund (talk)	Cleanup
37		Eighth East Asia Summit (talk)	Expand
12		Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (talk)	Expand
5,406		Camila Cabello (talk)	Expand
657		Rivers of Babylon (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
72		King of Easter Island (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
465		East African Federation (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
898		Microplastics (talk)	Merge
182		Compulsory hijab in Iran (talk)	Merge
15		B Train (talk)	Merge
70		First East Asia Summit (talk)	Wikify
14		Community School, Tehran (talk)	Wikify
39		Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (talk)	Wikify
42		Chaand Baaliyan (talk)	Orphan
3		Ahmed Saeed Awan (talk)	Orphan
2		Anna-Maria Tsakali (talk)	Orphan
24		Polina (film) (talk)	Stub
25		Prorastomidae (talk)	Stub
10		Morteza Hannaneh (talk)	Stub
11		S. L. Hakimi (talk)	Stub
8		Hydrodamalinae (talk)	Stub
7		Markazi Bihsud District (talk)	Stub

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

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

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

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
503		Karaj (talk)	Add sources
3,721		Reza Shah (talk)	Add sources
4		Allary Éditions (talk)	Add sources
8		Darrous (talk)	Add sources
5		Doulat (talk)	Add sources
41		Kharazmi University (talk)	Add sources
4,480		Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran (talk)	Cleanup
3		Élodie Bernard (talk)	Cleanup
339		Comoro Islands (talk)	Cleanup
12		Fifth East Asia Summit (talk)	Expand
153		Middle Eastern Americans (talk)	Expand
93		Economy of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (talk)	Expand
78		National Museum of Iran (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
91		Sacred waters (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
83		Hazaragi dialect (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
83		Scientific writing (talk)	Merge
580		Sciences Po (talk)	Merge
410		Woman, Life, Freedom (talk)	Merge
253		Sinner's prayer (talk)	Wikify
127		Persecution of Hazaras (talk)	Wikify
66		Sylvia (ballet) (talk)	Wikify
4		Reihane Taravati (talk)	Orphan
3		Jean Schalit (talk)	Orphan
2		Birudur (talk)	Orphan
7		Mehran (district) (talk)	Stub
76		Qari Fasihuddin (talk)	Stub
4		Piroozi (talk)	Stub
17		Shahid Dastgerdi Stadium (talk)	Stub
6		Larissa Lezhnina (talk)	Stub
6		Farahzad (talk)	Stub

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

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

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

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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