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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
- Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.
Technical news
- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)
Miscellaneous
- The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.
U2 of renamed user
I think you made a mistake in deleting User talk:ClydeFranklin. WP:U2 excludes "redirects created due to a user being renamed
". SilverLocust 💬 13:13, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @SilverLocust: in practice this is allowed with consent of the renamed user (this should probably be clarified in policy somewhere). Elli (talk | contribs) 13:42, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
- You are correct, the policy as written doesn't fully reflect current practice, and in many cases there are legitimate reasons for wanting these redirects removed. – bradv 17:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Bradv: Then you should try to change the CSD rather than making out-of-process deletions. SilverLocust 💬 20:40, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
- You are correct, the policy as written doesn't fully reflect current practice, and in many cases there are legitimate reasons for wanting these redirects removed. – bradv 17:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Administrator changes
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.
New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello Bradv,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.
Reminders:
- You can access live chat with patrollers on the New Pages Patrol Discord.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Sockpuppet Magonz
Now that its been confirmed that Magonz was socking, this editor was also prolific in creating content forks. I'm wondering what is best to do with all the articles they created? WCMemail 16:22, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- I haven't seen any such examples, but if there are problematic articles they will need to be dealt with through the usual editing process. WP:G5 and WP:BMB only apply to edits made while a user was banned (i.e. they are not retroactive). Also FYI, there is currently an unblock request at User talk:Magonz#Blocked as a sockpuppet, so it's probably best not to rush into anything. – bradv 23:30, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
How to reopen a sockpuppet investigation?
Hello. The case page of the Sockpuppet Investigations regarding R2dra was closed on April 4th and archived. However, a brand new user, User:Khalid bin walid II[1], has moved two drafts, Draft:Mughal Invasion of Bikaner (1534) and Draft:Al-Mamun's Invasion of Mewar, both of which were created by Narook, a sock of R2dra. Considering the similarity in editing areas, and the fact that Khalid bin walid II's first edit was made on April 5th, just after all the socks of R2dra were blocked, and both are editing Rajput-related articles, what procedure should I follow to reopen the case? Imperial[AFCND] 12:16, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- Stop targeting me and reverting my edits. You are promoting your own ideology on Wikipedia Khalid bin walid II (talk) 12:50, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- @ImperialAficionado, done. Thanks for letting me know. You can either do the same next time, or open a new investigation at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/R2dra. If you have Twinkle it makes the process easier (see the instructions at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations). – bradv 14:16, 12 April 2024 (UTC)