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Tech News: 2020-49
17:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).
Interface administrator changes
- There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.
- Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.
- Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.
Tech News: 2020-50
16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Blocked user returns?
Hello, not sure where to post this (I put this on your Wikimedia talk page), but the abuse taking place here appears to have resumed under a registered account. For future cases, is there an easier way to report these edits or someone directly on en.wikipedia whom I should notify of them? Many thanks. Toccata quarta (talk) 14:02, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Toccata quarta: thanks for letting me know! I've locked the account. For future cases, you should report the user/IP at Steward requests/Global on meta, and then we can take the relevant actions from there. Thanks! Best, —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 21:35, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-51
21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-52
20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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- Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)
. The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason). - Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
Tech News: 2021-02
15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-03
16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-04
18:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
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- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people
, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
- Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!
Tech News: 2021-05
22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello Tks4Fish. If there's anything specific you might want to know, you could send me email! I did the obvious checks, but haven't followed this case from the beginning, so am not sure what is of interest. Since people are doing global locks I guess they must be taking this one seriously. EdJohnston (talk) 23:35, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- Hey @EdJohnston:! Sorry for the delay. It was basically a check if there are any other accounts that could be seen on their ranges so that I could lock, as I could see some other accounts on loginwiki, so there could be additional ones here. Thanks for your work! —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 00:53, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply. I note with interest you have issued global blocks of Doratig (talk · contribs) and Neverstopthat (talk · contribs), who are mentioned here in WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Doratig. I'll be commenting in that SPI shortly. EdJohnston (talk) 01:01, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-06
17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-07
17:55, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Global watchlist - Update 8
Tech News: 2021-08
00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-09
19:07, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
- TJMSmith
- Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley
Interface administrator changes
- A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
- A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect. - A request for comment asks if sysops may
place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions
? - There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.
- When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
- When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
- There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).
- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.
Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions. - The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed
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- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
- Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.
Tech News: 2021-10
17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-11
23:20, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-12
16:51, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-13
17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
- Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
- Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)
- A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.
Tech News: 2021-14
19:39, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
Global watchlist - Update 9
Tech News: 2021-16
16:48, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-17
21:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-18
15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Interface administrator changes
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
- The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.
- The user group
oversight
will be renamed tosuppress
. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.
- The user group
- The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.
Tech News: 2021-19
15:09, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-20
13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-21
17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Fui bloqueado na portuguesa por...
Fui bloqueado por criar a página de Adonis Frías na wiki pt e retirar corretamente a ER, pois Wikipédia:Critérios de notoriedade/Desporto 3. Todos os atletas que tenham sido medalhados, em competições intercontinentais e regionais, tais como. Ele só é campeão da Copa Sul-Americana de 2020Marcaram Frías, Braian Romero (ex-Athletico Paranaense) e Camacho diante de 2.500 torcedores credenciados. Você pode me dizer porque fui bloqueado? se cumpre os critério, se tem fontes? Delta Tee (talk) 23:34, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-22
17:05, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-23
20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
- Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless
- Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)
- Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
- Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.
- Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.
- After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.
Tech News: 2021-24
20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-25
15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-26
16:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
Interface administrator changes
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- Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
- An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.
- IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.
- The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.
Tech News: 2021-27
17:32, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-29
15:30, 19 July 2021 (UTC)