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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
- Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
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- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
MOS:ACCESS and MOS:COLOR on Australian Survivor pages
Hi there! There has been some issues regarding the consensus by Survivor task force. There is a user that had been reverting my edits because there "isn't a consensus" and because "the Australian edition shouldn't be subjected to those edits". I'd like some support to address them and apply those changes there too, please. Freddy7GL (talk) 22:59, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
- well, quite simply, there is policy that states these miss, and an RfC that says "follow the MOS". Anything going against this is vandalism at this point. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 07:11, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to the drive!
Welcome, welcome, welcome Lee Vilenski! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.
CactiStaccingCrane (talk)15:39, 2 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)
German Masters held-over qualifiers
Hi Lee, thanks for cleaning up the 2024 German Masters article! I noticed that you moved the held-over qualifier part of the prose to the Qualifying section. I agree that the held-over matches should be counted as qualifying rather than main stage, but the century breaks in those matches are counted in the qualifying centuries section. Also, other recent tournament pages still treat those matches as part of the main event. Perhaps it's worth a wider discussion about whether we should change this, and include it in MOS:SNOOKER?
I can go back and update other articles, at least for this season, to make it consistent. Though with the WST live score site in shambles it might be a bit tricky. AmethystZhou (talk) 20:19, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
- Sure. We have to treat the centuries as they are measured by the sport, but that doesn't mean those matches aren't qualification matches. We don't put the held over matches in the main draw for example. I do think it's worth ironing out, but I think it's better as it is now. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 21:07, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
DYK for 2024 Masters (snooker)
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TFA for 1984 World Snooker Championship
Also pinging @BennyOnTheLoose. Per the (recently removed) listing at WP:TFAP, I've got 1984 World Snooker Championship down as the April 21 TFA. No need to do anything if this works for you two. Let me know if there's anything I can do. - Dank (push to talk) 02:24, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
WikiCup 2024 February newsletter
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Cue sports
I had a few edits that I believe are correct. A user deleted them. I think it is true. Maybe some of my edits (which were not finished yet) had errors. But the user deleted all my edits in bulk. Tell me what is wrong with the following two edits?
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Union_Mondiale_de_Billard&oldid=1209731279#Events
In my opinion they are correct and should be returned.
Are you responsible for Cue Sports in Wikipedia?
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cue sports :I don't know how to make articles. Can I order users to create articles here?
HC0011 (talk) 09:01, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hi. What you've done is add a load of uncited information and linked it to the German Wikipedia, which we shouldn't do. This has been suitably reverted.
- No, you cannot order people to make articles. You could perhaps ask someone nicely if they wanted to. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 09:35, 24 February 2024 (UTC)