News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 13:31, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Wishing Legoktm a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Aasim 20:31, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Hey Lego, I sent you this message on IRC but hadn't got a response, so I imagine you're not actually active on it - copying it here as a consequence. I hope you and yours are well and safe.

I don't know if you've seen, but Legobot appears to have stopped working with the Feedback Request Service, and hasn't been sending any notifications since December. I'm happy to try and build out a replacement for that functionality of Legobot, but I wanted to reach out to you to check it wasn't something you were actively working on first.

Let me know, and all the best. Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 11:20, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the MediaWiki Parser From Hell! Been using it a lot at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 Gabrielaltay (talk) 21:47, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

17:18, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi there, I was wondering if you could help me with improving this article to see if we can get rid of the ban (article has a multiple issues) which was placed few days ago. Please feel free to make edits, I see you have a longtime experience with wiki. Thank you in advance! Best,Sausa (talk) 19:31, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Hey there,

Just checking in re: Legobot and the RfC feedback request service. I remember bringing this up (on IRC I think) a few months ago, realizing it hadn't been active since last year, but haven't seen any discussion of it since. It seems it's become a pretty fundamental part of our dispute resolution process, pulling in uninvolved editors into difficult discussions, so I hope it can be resolved somehow... — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 22:48, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Rhododendrites: This is WP:FRS, so have you checked WT:FRS lately? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:40, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Aha. I did when I reached out the first time. Didn't know someone else was taking it up. Thanks. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 14:49, 28 May 2020 (UTC)