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Class=C[edit]

The last entry on Talk:Desert island about Class=C is one that concerns me, as an editor who has added and corrected thousands of talk page WikiProject entries. I was ejected from A. W. B. last year, and I will not return. --Dthomsen8 (talk) 21:32, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well I had a look at it, I certainly agree that an explicit parameter is much better. Perhaps it should go in the AWB general fixes. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:47, 19 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Perhaps it should go in the AWB general fixes. No perhaps, but how would that happen? Also, see Talk:Desert island again.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 22:48, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It would need programming, User:Magioladitis was active in that area. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:50, 5 March 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bots Newsletter, March 2018[edit]

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

Magioladitis 2 happened, leading to further restrictions on Magioladitis (decision, summary).
Betacommand 3 was proposed to be amended to lift the indefinite ban on Δ, but was unsuccessful (decision).
A motion concerning Crosswiki issues (mostly concerning Wikidata) was passed (see discussion).

BAG

Hersfold was removed from the BAG due to long term inactivity.

BRFAs

We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.

New things

WP:BOTDICT, a dictionary of common bot-related terms (see discussion).
6 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion).
The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey happened. Two bot-related proposal passed, #6 deploy Article Alerts to other languages and #10 Commons deletion notification bot, although other entries may affect bots as well.
Category:Wikipedia bots and its subcategories has had some cleanup. Bot-related pages that were historically important but are no longer of interests can be found in Category:Wikipedia bots (historical)
The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.
You will soon be able to ping users from the edit summary (see T188469). If you wish to use this feature in your bot, please do so intelligently.

Upcoming

HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ).

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:12, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #302[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #303[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #304[edit]

Runescape/ listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Runescape/. Since you had some involvement with the Runescape/ redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 05:17, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #305[edit]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	I Would like to award you the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar for your extra mile contributions on Sindhi Wikipedia..Thanks. Jogi 007 20:38, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:30, 29 March 2018 (UTC).[reply]