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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
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- Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
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- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.
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Minor thing
[edit]I came across your Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia via Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors.
Nitpick: "But Wikipedia's transparency makes manipulation visible and correctable: every edit is publicly logged, discussed, and reversible."
Discuss-able perhaps, but thankfully not necessarily discussed. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:47, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
- True! GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 14:39, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
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Million & DtoQ Award
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The Million Award |
| For your contributions to bring Incel (estimated annual readership: 2,200,000) to good article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! 1989 (talk) 06:23, 15 January 2025 (UTC) |
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The Deletion to Quality Award | |
| For your contributions to bring Incel (prior candidate for deletion at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Involuntary celibacy (4th nomination)) to Good Article status, I hereby present you The Deletion to Quality Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! 1989 (talk) 06:23, 15 January 2025 (UTC) |
Thank you. I 100% endorse. I was doxxed by conservatives who were irritated that I deleted an article about a NN conservative group. Bearian (talk) 17:58, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
- Ugh, I'm really sorry to hear that. Stay safe. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 19:32, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
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Women in Red February 2025
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
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- Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
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Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.
User:GorillaWarfare/script/curlies.js bug
[edit]Hey, I was using User:GorillaWarfare/script/curlies.js here and in the text „Св. св. Кирил и Методий” it replaced only the closing quote, leading to „Св. св. Кирил и Методий" Gonnym (talk) 15:24, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Gonnym: What is the intended behavior here? GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 18:04, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- MOS:CURLY says not
use accent marks, backticks (`text´), low-high („ “) or guillemet (« ») marks as quotation marks (except when such marks are internal to quoted non-English text [...])
so either the script changes both start and end or ignores start and end. If the script is smart enough to know if the text is inside a quote having it replace the other usages would be great. Gonnym (talk) 19:59, 6 February 2025 (UTC)- I've made the change so that „ will be replaced with " now. It's a very basic script, so it is not smart enough to detect quotes in quotes in its current form. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 20:27, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- MOS:CURLY says not
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).
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- A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
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DYK for Tenrei Ōta
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On 13 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tenrei Ōta, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that birth-control advocate Tenrei Ōta (pictured) changed his name and went into hiding after he was repeatedly arrested for his work? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tenrei Ōta. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tenrei Ōta), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2025
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Former waitress, meet former Uber driver
[edit]I remember being very amused by a comment you made in some discussion a few years ago that "former X" should not be used as a derogatory, since almost all of us had menial jobs of some kind early in our lives, for example, you were a former waitress. Well, right now, on the Wikipedia front page, we have the DYK "... that a former Uber driver is the nominee to be the deputy secretary of a U.S. government department?" 
--GRuban (talk) 03:18, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
- On thinking about it, I'm going to ask that it be pulled. If you were to do it, I would be obliged. --GRuban (talk) 03:25, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Gettr screenshot 2021-07-01.png
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Women in Red May 2025
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You found a gorilla!
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The yawning gorilla gorilla |
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).
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- Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025
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- An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.
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- A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
- History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.
Arbitration
- An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.
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- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
- An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
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