27 December 2019
From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages Special report: Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Wikipedia articles? In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters? Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December Technology report: User scripts and more Gallery: Holiday wishes Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?) On the bright side: What's making you happy this month? Op-Ed: Why we need to keep talking about Wikipedia's gender gap WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
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A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	For editing Ratilal Borisagar. Thanks, Nizil (talk) 06:08, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

@Nizil Shah: Well thank you! Much appreciated! Puddleglum ^2.0 06:11, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2020[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes Dreamy Jazz • Newslinger • Rosguill Deor • Spartaz • Xeno Angusmclellan • clpo13 • Edgar181 • Matthewedwards • NCurse

CheckUser changes Bradv • Casliber • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno Oversight changes Bradv • Casliber • DGG • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno Someguy1221

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

Have a barnstar![edit]

		The Wikipedia Motivation Barnstar
		Thank you for motivating me to keep going! Brownlowe.2 (talk) 12:35, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Brownlowe.2! If you have anymore questions/requests, please don't hesitate to ask! Puddleglum ^2.0 14:55, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject History![edit]

Chris Troutman (talk) 01:01, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject History. glad to have you aboard!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 05:34, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Revision to my own role[edit]

Hi. I have revised my own role at Wikipedia:WikiProject History. I have added a note at the talk page to reflect this. Just wanted to let you know. thanks!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 16:57, 13 January 2020 (UTC)