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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration

Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.

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Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:55, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Section: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Requesting_bulk_revision_undeletion_for_Richardson_family_murders. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:55, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:51, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lusi

I know it’s odd but Lusi genuinely peaked with 10- minute wind speeds higher than the 1-minute. This is because for the SPAC, Wikipedia takes it’s winds from the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center for 1- minute and a mixture of Australian BoM, Fiji Met Service or New Zealand’s MetService depending on where the system peaked rather than assessing it ourselves.Jason Rees (talk) 07:29, 23 March 2018 (UTC) Jason Rees (talk) 07:29, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks.-gadfium 07:29, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New article

Please take a look at (and add to?) List of electoral firsts in New Zealand, partly based on List of electoral firsts in the United Kingdom but with wider coverage of MPs and ministers generally. Hugo999 (talk) 04:06, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:23, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Maori Australian Historians

Hello Gadfium,

We are a group of Maori Australian Scholars/Academics and Historians. For the past two days we have been trying to edit the appalling Maori Australian page, which has drawn much criticism from Koori and Maori here in Australia.

Our group are Maori who were born here and Maori who were brought up here. We research our own and as I previously said, we are Academics, Scholars and Historians, all published and/or researchers. We have been advised by Diannaa that my edit breached copywrite. I own my own copywrite and I also updated my research to reflect the latest research. This was disregarded, the information regarding Immigration was deleted and the information regarding the very first Maori Australian and her mother and grandfather was deleted. When I asked why I was told it 'too hard' to check.

Our latest edits were removed. As you are someone who is active on the Maori Wiki pages, and as you removed one of the edits, could you please advise us why?

Heoi ano Maarama Maarama (talk) 09:27, 2 April 2018 (UTC) Nga Puhi, Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Kanguru[reply]

I have replied to you at Talk:Māori Australians.-gadfium 19:51, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Andre Ingram semi

Hi there. Any chance of semi protection for Andre Ingram? Lots of traffic and vandalism at the moment. Cheers. DaHuzyBru (talk) 04:24, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for 12 hours.-gadfium 04:27, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for protecting Andre Ingram however the vandalism has continued almost immediately after the protection wore off. Can you please extend it? HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 21:01, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done, three days. You should make a request at WP:RFPP if you think it needs longer.-gadfium 21:04, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks! HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 21:05, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Portal:Oceania for deletion

A proposal has been made to delete Portal:Oceania, which you have made significant contributions to, as well as all other portals on English Wikipedia. You are welcome to contribute to the discussion if you'd like, which is located at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RfC: Ending the system of portals. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:31, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

User:DavidYork71

From memory, you were one of the admins most involved with this editor and their sockpuppet accounts. They are requesting to be unbanned, and I've noted you as being the admin who might have most recently blocked one of these sockpuppets as part of the discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Community ban appeal by User:DavidYork71. Nick-D (talk) 09:31, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gloriavale Christian Community

Hello User:Gadfium, I hope this message finds you doing well. The reason I added the Bruderhof and the Hutterites to the "see also" section is because they hold similar practices, such as keeping a community of goods, as well as the wearing of plain dress. I personally think that including these links would be helpful to the reader. If you feel otherwise, I do not wish to edit war and will leave it up to you. I hope this helps. With regards, Anupam^Talk 08:19, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Gloriavale article does not mention that they practice community of goods (or common ownership), or plain dress. If you would like to add these, with suitable sources, then the "see also" may not be necessary.-gadfium 09:18, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Block

Sorry about that, not sure happened with the restored vandalism, I was editing on my phone and didn't do it intentionally - fat fingers. Anyhow, I'll be more careful Heliotom (talk) 12:19, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks for the explanation.-gadfium 19:18, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that

Can’t log in at work and therefore can’t fix it till I get home, not sure how it happened. I can wait till I get home or if you’re inclined you have permission to move it back to my user space as I was planning on using it today. Sabine’s Sunbird (not logged in) 115.189.82.138 (talk) 20:48, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing my foul up. Sabine's Sunbird talk 05:26, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem.-gadfium 06:04, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The current discussion on macrons in place names: next step?

I was wondering, since you've no doubt seen/been part of numerous debates like this, what you think should happen with the discussion on WP:NZ. It's generating a lot of text, from the same few people (including me), and we're seeing arguments rehashed and wandering away from the initial question. Any way we can move this towards a proposal to change the naming policy? —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 20:49, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think a Request for comment proposing a change to the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (New Zealand) would be the appropriate next step.-gadfium 20:55, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:00, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for this. I went to the Wayback Machine to see if I could figure out when that Hindustan Times article was first published (rather than updated). Couldn't find any archive earlier than September 2017, so I'm glad you were able to find the earlier NZ paper ref. Also, thanks for fixing the template. I always confuse {{Age as of date}} template with {{birth based on age as of date}} and was juuuust about to fix it when you came by, so thanks for that as well. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:19, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:David Willey (cricketer)

Hope you don't mind but I modified your post so as to link Bishop Auckland for those who might wonder why you would confuse a city with a bishop. Akld guy (talk) 22:19, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No problem-gadfium 22:28, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Akld guy (talk) 23:01, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

FA for Fawad Khan

Hi, I've recently listed Fawad Khan in FA candidates. I'll an honor for me if you consider reviewing it.Amirk94391 (talk) 04:06, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:22, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gold Coast light rail failures

This project began its construction even before the 2012 election when Labor (Bligh) was in power, although LNP and Newman vowed to scrap it and met with tons of popularity among Gold Coast residents, Newman government had no choice but to finish it once they took over, and then they booted off by Labor (Palaszczuk) in 2015 too. This was quite a controversial topic in QLD politics. According to statistics, the ridership number was very low compared to similar systems. Although riders mostly tourists (paying full fare) but they just don’t have enough number to balance with operating cost.

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+== Gold Coast light rail failures ==
+This project began its construction even before the 2012 election when Labor (Bligh) was in power, although LNP and Newman vowed to scrap it and met with tons of popularity among Gold Coast residents, Newman government had no choice but to finish it once they took over, and then they booted off by Labor (Palaszczuk) in 2015 too. This was quite a controversial topic in QLD politics.
+According to statistics, the ridership number was very low compared to similar systems. Although riders mostly tourists (paying full fare) but they just don’t have enough number to balance with operating cost.