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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
99		Google mobile services (talk)	Add sources
37		Informal romanizations of Cyrillic (talk)	Add sources
6		Florida State Road 776 (talk)	Add sources
162		John A. Roebling (talk)	Add sources
580		Airsoft (talk)	Add sources
331		Los Feliz, Los Angeles (talk)	Add sources
1,024		Mobile operating system (talk)	Cleanup
18		Imperial Iranian Air Force Flight 48 (talk)	Cleanup
58		Google matrix (talk)	Cleanup
197		Interstate 4 (talk)	Expand
5,703		The Staircase (talk)	Expand
2,146		Lake Baikal (talk)	Expand
112		Googlewhack (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
9		Brainship (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
43		Homebuilt computer (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
46		Search engine manipulation effect (talk)	Merge
92		Mordvinic languages (talk)	Merge
876		ThinkPad (talk)	Merge
271		Psychological testing (talk)	Wikify
180		Turbo Pascal (talk)	Wikify
16		Recurring segments on The Colbert Report (talk)	Wikify
6		Educational Federal Credit Union (talk)	Orphan
4		Prabjot (PJ) Randhawa (talk)	Orphan
6		Natalie's Orchid Island (talk)	Orphan
14		Hypnotize U (talk)	Stub
20		Matt Nathanson: Live at Google (talk)	Stub
64		GDDR SDRAM (talk)	Stub
126		ISO 7001 (talk)	Stub
22		Together (French duo) (talk)	Stub
64		Spanish Movie (talk)	Stub

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21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

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Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
33		D.A.F.T.: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes (talk)	Add sources
845		3rd millennium (talk)	Add sources
23		Indo Silver Club (talk)	Add sources
5		Old Miakka, Florida (talk)	Add sources
44		Universal Express Pass (talk)	Add sources
16		US Metric Association (talk)	Add sources
4		Environmentally Sensitive Lands Protection Program (talk)	Cleanup
65		Dialects of Polish (talk)	Cleanup
327		Digraph (orthography) (talk)	Cleanup
133		Romanthony (talk)	Expand
1,645		Sexual harassment (talk)	Expand
64,238		Instagram (talk)	Expand
3,332		Unforgiven (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
162		Restrictions on geographic data in China (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
51		Martian language (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
63		Metrication opposition (talk)	Merge
369		Xbox system software (talk)	Merge
1,097		Catan (talk)	Merge
2,001		Kubernetes (talk)	Wikify
16,743		Resident Evil (TV series) (talk)	Wikify
68		Center for Internet Security (talk)	Wikify
8		Stamping (custom) (talk)	Orphan
9		Ed Burr (talk)	Orphan
4		Cluetivity (talk)	Orphan
22		Myakka River (talk)	Stub
71		ARCore (talk)	Stub
28		YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group (talk)	Stub
44		Flying High Again (talk)	Stub
4		Deer Prairie Creek Preserve (talk)	Stub
32		Myakka City, Florida (talk)	Stub

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23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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23:20, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
32		Road signs in Bangladesh (talk)	Add sources
26		Google Volume One (talk)	Add sources
30		Road signs in Vietnam (talk)	Add sources
10		North York Central Library (talk)	Add sources
470		Irish Sea (talk)	Add sources
40		1980 United States presidential election in Vermont (talk)	Add sources
384		Sunkist (soft drink) (talk)	Cleanup
194		Cypress Semiconductor (talk)	Cleanup
39		Carrier IQ (talk)	Cleanup
3		Tennessee State Route 475 (talk)	Expand
13		Scouting in Florida (talk)	Expand
26		Baseline Study (talk)	Expand
284		Warning sign (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
99		Take Two with Phineas and Ferb (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
110		World of Color (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
380		Tenet Healthcare (talk)	Merge
852		2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis (talk)	Merge
882		File Allocation Table (talk)	Merge
444		Preferred gender pronoun (talk)	Wikify
30		NASA research (talk)	Wikify
302		Pasco County, Florida (talk)	Wikify
1		Hungarian Defence Forces (HDF) General Staff Scientific Research Centre (talk)	Orphan
4		CollaborateMD (talk)	Orphan
5		The Third Twin (duo) (talk)	Orphan
5		Gwendolyn Yates Whittle (talk)	Stub
4		Traxler, Florida (talk)	Stub
2		Jelks Preserve (talk)	Stub
16		Road signs in Azerbaijan (talk)	Stub
31		Bob Zany (talk)	Stub
29		Río Bravo, Tamaulipas (talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
204		Estevanico (talk)	Add sources
39		Google Environment (talk)	Add sources
341		Northwest Angle (talk)	Add sources
17		Marguerite, bâtarde de France (talk)	Add sources
11		Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging (talk)	Add sources
6,459		Assassination of Shinzo Abe (talk)	Add sources
181		Ace Magashule (talk)	Cleanup
476		Eugénie de Montijo (talk)	Cleanup
563		Oka Crisis (talk)	Cleanup
228		Howard Frankland Bridge (talk)	Expand
66		Android lawn statues (talk)	Expand
11,073		Sofía Vergara (talk)	Expand
302		Tron (franchise) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
65		Transportation safety in the United States (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
96		Sydney Grammar School (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
394		Burgundian State (talk)	Merge
80		Glass instrument (talk)	Merge
185		Black Economic Empowerment (talk)	Merge
90		Cadre (politics) (talk)	Wikify
37		Cape Independence Party (talk)	Wikify
271		Chamaedorea elegans (talk)	Wikify
2		Pathatrix (talk)	Orphan
107		2022 Koya drone bombing (talk)	Orphan
3		Captiva Current (talk)	Orphan
50		Trendalyzer (talk)	Stub
34		Anvato (talk)	Stub
20		James Moroka (talk)	Stub
29		Google.by (talk)	Stub
9		Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel (talk)	Stub
19		Southern Technical College (talk)	Stub

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Hi, I saw you undid my recent edits to Ingress (video game). I restored the edits and added a comment about why I think the edits are justified. Rosedaler (talk) 06:45, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

All of your edits are based on original research with no sources provided. – The Grid (talk) 00:21, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

OK, I'm removed the part with original research about it not being AR and redoing the edit about it being geolocation-based, with an an additional source for completeness. Rosedaler (talk) 00:42, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
8		John Weeks (economist) (talk)	Add sources
13		Stonewall Young Democrats (talk)	Add sources
6		Proteobiotics (talk)	Add sources
30		Redistribution (election) (talk)	Add sources
148		Hurricane Betsy (talk)	Add sources
1,532		Beyblade (talk)	Add sources
99		Honoring our PACT Act of 2022 (talk)	Cleanup
50		Health in the United States (talk)	Cleanup
236		The Irrepressibles (talk)	Cleanup
41		Telephone numbers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (talk)	Expand
155		Debbie Lesko (talk)	Expand
56		Ron Klein (talk)	Expand
66		WQED (TV) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
31		Politics of the United States Virgin Islands (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
50		Azonto (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
61		Tanganyika groundnut scheme (talk)	Merge
1,159		Cosmic microwave background (talk)	Merge
63		Israel at the FIFA World Cup (talk)	Merge
73		Captiva, Florida (talk)	Wikify
277		Telephone numbers in Ukraine (talk)	Wikify
106		Baker County, Florida (talk)	Wikify
5		Willie Drye (talk)	Orphan
5		Sophia Ellis (talk)	Orphan
4		Allegro Tosca (talk)	Orphan
65		Michael Frey (footballer) (talk)	Stub
3		Armand Deumi (talk)	Stub
18		Doug Carlston (talk)	Stub
250		Telephone numbers in Poland (talk)	Stub
45		Profound Mysteries II & III (talk)	Stub
4		Battenville, New York (talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
• An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
• You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
• Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

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