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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
• Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration

• Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
• The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
• A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:18, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Hello Mz7,

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 04, 2023, which is when the first evidence phase closes. Submitted evidence will be summarized by Arbitrators and Clerks at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland/Evidence/Summary. Owing to the summary style, editors are encouraged to submit evidence in small chunks sooner rather than more complete evidence later.

Details about the summary page, the two phases of evidence, a timeline and other answers to frequently asked questions can be found at the case's FAQ page.

For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.

For the Arbitration Committee,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:13, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 01:24, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Regarding this finding, can you say whether any other socks were used at Talk:Highland Park parade shooting#Victims'_names? I know you mentioned logged out abuse as well, and was wondering if maybe any IPs were !voting that were actually them? —Locke Cole • t • c 00:25, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

@Locke Cole: The only accounts that I found in that investigation were EnPassant and OrgoneBox, both of which commented in that discussion. Because of the CheckUser policy: No comment with respect to IP address(es). Mz7 (talk) 08:50, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:03, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

thanks for fixing my investigation. :) Blitzfan51 (talk) 14:14, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Nonetheless I thank you for taking the request at face value 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 20:38, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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Hi Mz7. You recently blocked Volgabulgari as a sockpuppet of Kamista. A new account (Chuvash Studies) has appeared immediately afterwards, and given their edits to Chuvash people (here Volgabulgari adds undefined refs to "Golden 2006" and "Golden 2007a", here Chuvash Studies does the same), they appear to be another sock. Should I raise this at SPI or is this WP:QUACK enough to act on? -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 20:07, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

@ActivelyDisinterested: Confirmed. Blocked and tagged. Mz7 (talk) 03:47, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Precious

Nine years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:14, 4 May 2023 (UTC)