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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:08, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Your editing at CCI

Could you please slow down with your edits at CCI? You have been editing rapidly there, and have been making some mistakes:

• here you presumptively removed content not added by the CCI subject. I reverted you, as presumptive removals are only for content that the subject of the CCI adds. If you checked the diff next to the listing, you would've seen they added reviews, not the plot summary. The website you cited at the CCI is a likely mirror. Film plot summaries are among the most copied from things on Wikipedia.
• You removed the plot summaries of these articles, citing the CCI, but you did not cite the supposed source copied from, and if you check the listed diffs you'll see the editor did not add those plot summaries.

Please slow down your editing at CCI and make sure to read the associated guides. If you have any further questions, please ask me. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 04:43, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

@Moneytrees thanks for telling me. Clearly, I am not in any way ready to be a copyright clerk, and have withdrawn my request. I've tried to identify mirrors, and I've definitely done better than when I first tried (which didn't go well), but as you have let me know, I'm still making mistakes.

I will slow down, check my previous edits there and make sure I'm being a lot more careful. Sorry if I created a bit of a mess, while I am generally confident in copyright, CCI is not an area I'm experienced at, and I should've gone much slower from the start. The fact that I started off fast is a very bad decision, and very bad judgement from me, and that's something I need to work on. Again, thanks for letting me know. echidnaLives - talk - edits 04:54, 6 January 2023 (UTC).

(and thank you for fixing my stupid mistakes) echidnaLives - talk - edits 05:11, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

It's alright, it's not that serious of an issue, the area lends itself easily to mistakes. Just make sure to act carefully, especially when removing large portions of articles, and ask questions to those more experienced in the area. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 05:18, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Question from Timurhan61 (07:58, 8 January 2023)

How can I change my User name and link for my Wikipedia Thank you Happy new year --Timurhan61 (talk) 07:58, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Hey @Timurhan61, you can rename your account Special:GlobalRenameRequest, and it will be processed by a renamer within around 24 hours.

As for changing your link, could you please elaborate on what you mean?

Thanks, echidnaLives sock - talk - edits 08:06, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1]
• Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
• You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2]
• A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [3]
• Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [4]
• You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [5]

Changes later this week

• Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:05, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

2020–2023 United States racial unrest

This isn't really a requested move, it's actually about reverting an undiscussed controversial move from 3rd January. Can you close the request and do it? 10mmsocket (talk) 12:15, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

@10mmsocket Ahh, I understand. I'll do that now. In the future, there's no need to start a requested move discussion, WP:RMTR has a section just for reverting undiscussed moves :). Thanks, echidnaLives - talk - edits 12:22, 12 January 2023 (UTC). Oh, just noticed you didn't start the discussion. Ignore the advice :).

That was quick thanks! 10mmsocket (talk) 12:28, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thank you for participating in Articles for Creation's January 2023 Backlog Drive! You reviewed 164 drafts, for a total of 185 points. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 00:46, 15 January 2023 (UTC)