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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.
Miscellaneous
- 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!
Cyberbot I
Cyberbot I needs to stop adding pages prefixed Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting to today's AFD page Geschichte (talk) 18:49, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
- Likely caused by mal-transcluded AfD categories from here. IceWelder [✉] 19:16, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Please ask Cyberbot to nest tags correctly
In this edit from 2 Feb 2024, Cyberbot added misnested <s>...</s> tags to a page. Please ask Cyberbot to place both the opening and closing <s>...</s> tags inside any existing tags, like this. Thanks! – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:27, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Great mess
Including @Harej:
This edit by the InternetArchiveBot didn't exacttly result into something decent at those places where the deleted template {{Wayback}} was replaced by {{cite web}}. The way it's done results in a big mess. Probably instead of "|report={{cite web| .... }}", "|report=Report<ref>{{cite web| .... }}</ref>" would have result into something proper. I'm not going to correct it, since basketball is not my beef and it wouldn't surprise me if this is not the only page where such a mess is created, like the pages of NBA finals for other years. Using {{cite web}} or other cite templates not enclosed within <ref> and </ref> doesn't seem wise to me anyway. --Sb008 (talk) 10:42, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
urldatachangestate
Hi!
I'm translating InternetArchiveBot user interface into Hebrew, and I have a question.
The message urldatachangestate says "from <b>{{logfrom}}</b> to <b>{{logto}}</b>". I guess that "{{logfrom}}" and "{{logto}}" are something like "live", "dead", etc., but can you please explain more specifically what are the possible values?
And are they always in English, or can they be translated?
I'll update the documentation for translators after you reply.
Thanks! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:13, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
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.
RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
- Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
- Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
- Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
- Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
- Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
- Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
- Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
- Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
- Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
- Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
- Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
- Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
- Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
- Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
- Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
- Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
- Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Request for global bot flag for CommonsDelinker
Hello!
This is a notification to let you know that a new request for the global bot flag for CommonsDelinker has been started.
Please note that the request will remain open for 14 days starting today. You can leave a comment or opinion on the relevant page!
Best regards --Superpes15 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 12:47, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Cyberbot I seems to have left the Wikipedia namespace
Hi there,
It's been a while since we had this problem, but Cyberbot I last did its thing in the Wikipedia namespace around 05:07 UTC today, and jobs are piling up at WP:RFPP. Could you give it a push?
Regards, Favonian (talk) 13:46, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Cyberbot has been running - it's just not updating Admin stats. — Maile (talk) 11:34, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Maile66: In the Wikipedia namespace, it has only processed AfD requests. Other tasks, like RfPP, sandbox cleaning, etc. are pending since yesterday morning. Favonian (talk) 13:09, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Last run at RfPP was 5 days ago. Lectonar (talk) 15:18, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Lectonar: Nope, yesterday: Special:Diff/1214475595. The RfPP overview page is only modified when the admin backlog status changes, and that last happened five days ago (Special:Diff/1213888207). Favonian (talk) 16:43, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Last run at RfPP was 5 days ago. Lectonar (talk) 15:18, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Maile66: In the Wikipedia namespace, it has only processed AfD requests. Other tasks, like RfPP, sandbox cleaning, etc. are pending since yesterday morning. Favonian (talk) 13:09, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- What I'm talking about is Template:Adminstats/Maile66&action=history where the last update shows as March 18. — Maile (talk) 18:26, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Bot is back in business: Special:Diff/1214776067. Thanks! Favonian (talk) 06:49, 21 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.
Bot query
Evening.
Is it possible for Cyberbot to follow redirects? Just tagged a request I dealt with at RFPP as not being protected, the page itself was but the request was made using the redirect link due to the "–" vs "—" problem and therefore didnt read as protected despite not being the actual target.
Not sure if anything can be done to have it read redirects or not?
Amortias (T)(C) 20:25, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- How could the bot tell if what was really being requested was that the redirect be protected? * Pppery * it has begun... 20:41, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
Technical news
- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
Cyberbot I stopped working
It's the usual: the bot last visited Wikipedia space this morning at 05:51 (UTC). Since then, it has only edited its own files under "User:Cyberbot I/". A restart would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Favonian (talk) 15:18, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- No idea if this is related, but since there's already a thread, it also hasn't updated its RfX report (ToadetteEdit has been closed for three days). Queen of ♡ | Speak 03:42, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- You should really stop using the bot's report and switch to {{RFX report}} instead. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- I'm well aware; I saw this on someone else's user page. Queen of ♡ | Speak 04:05, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- You should really stop using the bot's report and switch to {{RFX report}} instead. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- I do believe, it's back. Thanks! Favonian (talk) 15:44, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:
- Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
- Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
- Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
- Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
- Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
- Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
- Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
- Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed
See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Hungarian Wikipedia top contributor
Dear Cyberpower!
The Hungarian Wikipedia community has collected the top contributors for the year 2023, of which you have achieved the 3rd place in the category Botoperators of the Year. Congratulations from the heart on behalf of the community and the Wikimedia Hungary Association! Best regards:VRéka (WMM) (talk) 18:03, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Automated comment issue at AfD
Hi Cyperpower678, I hope you are well!
I had a quick though about a comment that your bot left at an AfD (this one). Because it is a bot, I think that the comment it left shouldn't say "I have transcluded it to..." but rather "[this] has been transcluded to...", as it's hard to think of a bot able to talk about itself using first person.
Cheers! Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 18:30, 11 May 2024 (UTC)