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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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New administrator activity requirement[edit]

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment. Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have: Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Suppressed user subpage[edit]

Hi Tony. I had a page called Anthonyhcole/Passwords which has been suppressed. Can this be restored or, if not, would you mind emailing me a copy, please?

Thanks for all you do here, by the way. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 01:15, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There would be quite a security risk in either case - probably best to let it go and use something like a password manager in future instead of putting your passwords on wiki to prevent any accounts from being compromised. Remagoxer ^(talk) 13:11, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, I sent the OP an email two days ago and haven't heard anything back. Primefac (talk) 17:32, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User:Primefac. Thanks for the email. I'd prefer to discuss this onwiki if you don't mind. Either my talk page or yours is fine with me. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 02:50, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what there is to discuss. A list of passwords, in any form, is not acceptable, so I will not restore the content. I am more than happy to send it via email. Primefac (talk) 08:01, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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troll is back[edit]

But I think I placed in the wrong sock puppet, User:Victoria2Sander178

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/My Royal Young,

Regards, Govvy (talk) 10:56, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'll post at the AN board, doesn't look like your online much. Govvy (talk) 11:11, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]