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Administrators' newsletter – August 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).
Administrator changes
Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 (first RfA to reach WP:300)
Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem
Guideline and policy news
- Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
- A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
- An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.
Technical news
- LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
- The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.
Bot setup
Hi - I'm not sure this really counts as bot support per se (got the impression that was more for "help the bot reverted my edit" sorta things), so I hope you don't mind the message on your talk page. Anyway, I've become fascinated by ClueBot NG and neural nets in general recently, and I was actually hoping you could help me get it set up on a wiki I contribute to on Wikia. I popped into the ClueBot IRC yesterday and today, but no one was there. I was hoping we could arrange a time to meet on the IRC (this week or next or whenever) to discuss how I could get such a bot working on Wikia, which uses an older version of MediaWiki (I'm not sure if this is a big issue or not for ClueBot). Is there a good time for you coming up, or should I speak to someone else instead? Thanks. :) —Atvelonis (talk) 03:54, 1 August 2017 (UTC)