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An article that you have been involved in editing— Computation of radiowave attenuation in the atmosphere—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Pierre cb ( talk) 14:13, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
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... you were recipient no. 1888 of Precious, a prize of QAI! |
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:14, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
You and others have warned this editor for an extended period of time. But he just keeps on deleting RS-supported text he dislikes. For example, here. -- 2604:2000:E010:1100:C1A8:D36F:1207:BBE6 ( talk) 20:43, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
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Administrators
must secure their accounts
The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.
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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:35, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.
Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.
For the Arbitration Committee, - Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).
the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so
will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).
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Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).
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applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.
focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).
Interface administrator changes
will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.
– 2020 is a
leap year –
news article.
– Background color is Classic Blue (
#0F4C81), Pantone's
2020 Color of the year
– North America 1000 22:11, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).
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the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpretedrather than
reasonably construed.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).
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wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
must notundo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than
should not.
Hi,
Sorry to bother you with this, but I didn't see any documentation on this and you were the last person to edit Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Deleting. Where can non-admins submit a request? I've come across a few old edits that violate Wikipedia:Copyrights and can't figure out how to submit a request to delete a revisison (it's much less forward then say an AFD). Appreciate the help. Jakesyl ( talk) 11:02, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
To avoid the Streisand effect, there is no dedicated on-wiki forum for requesting revision deletion under other circumstances. You can send a message to any administrator in Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests either at their talk page or by email, especially if privacy is a concern.
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Two years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:45, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
Hey there, Edison! I'm Windyshadow32, a new member of the sadly inactive Wikiproject Shopping Centers. I am trying to revive this project to highlight the unique stories of malls across the country and the world especially as we lose more and more of them. Undoubtedly, we will lose shopping malls due to the challenges we face at this moment. Your account was listed as involved in the project, and I would like to know if you would like to help revive it! Your contributions to articles in the scope of this project make you a much-needed resource in getting this project back up and running again. I would love to have your assistance in assessing articles and finally putting together a list of shopping center pages by quality listing. I can't take on this massive project without you! Please let me know if you'd be willing to help; I really appreciate it!
Windyshadow32 ( talk) 06:50, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
I appreciate your honesty. I had no idea about the history of this certain Wikiproject. Would you be willing to share with me any advice you may have to try and revive more interest or does this project have a real negative background that can't be salvaged? Windyshadow32 ( talk) 04:48, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).
mustor
shoulduse the articles for creation process.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).
1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).
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any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.
standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people.( American Politics 2 Arbitration case).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).
Interface administrator changes
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Interface administrator changes
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at
Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
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Three years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:04, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Interface administrator changes
oversight
will be renamed to suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
Hello, I have strolled and looked at your user page and talk page! Tho, I don't think this is very notable, but this is notable for speedy deletion. :)
BloxyColaSweet ( talk) 05:35, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi!
You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.
When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.
Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.
If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.
We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.
Thank you. / Johan (WMF)
18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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Four years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:28, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
deletelogentry
and deletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the
Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (
T301928)The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).
Interface administrator changes
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).
Interface administrator changes
An article that you have been involved in editing— Computation of radiowave attenuation in the atmosphere—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Pierre cb ( talk) 14:13, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).
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Ten years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:56, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
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biographies | |
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... you were recipient no. 1888 of Precious, a prize of QAI! |
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:14, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
You and others have warned this editor for an extended period of time. But he just keeps on deleting RS-supported text he dislikes. For example, here. -- 2604:2000:E010:1100:C1A8:D36F:1207:BBE6 ( talk) 20:43, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).
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Administrators
must secure their accounts
The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.
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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:35, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.
Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.
For the Arbitration Committee, - Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).
the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so
will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).
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Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).
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applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.
focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).
Interface administrator changes
will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.
– 2020 is a
leap year –
news article.
– Background color is Classic Blue (
#0F4C81), Pantone's
2020 Color of the year
– North America 1000 22:11, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).
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the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpretedrather than
reasonably construed.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).
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wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
must notundo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than
should not.
Hi,
Sorry to bother you with this, but I didn't see any documentation on this and you were the last person to edit Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Deleting. Where can non-admins submit a request? I've come across a few old edits that violate Wikipedia:Copyrights and can't figure out how to submit a request to delete a revisison (it's much less forward then say an AFD). Appreciate the help. Jakesyl ( talk) 11:02, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
To avoid the Streisand effect, there is no dedicated on-wiki forum for requesting revision deletion under other circumstances. You can send a message to any administrator in Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests either at their talk page or by email, especially if privacy is a concern.
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Two years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:45, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
Hey there, Edison! I'm Windyshadow32, a new member of the sadly inactive Wikiproject Shopping Centers. I am trying to revive this project to highlight the unique stories of malls across the country and the world especially as we lose more and more of them. Undoubtedly, we will lose shopping malls due to the challenges we face at this moment. Your account was listed as involved in the project, and I would like to know if you would like to help revive it! Your contributions to articles in the scope of this project make you a much-needed resource in getting this project back up and running again. I would love to have your assistance in assessing articles and finally putting together a list of shopping center pages by quality listing. I can't take on this massive project without you! Please let me know if you'd be willing to help; I really appreciate it!
Windyshadow32 ( talk) 06:50, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
I appreciate your honesty. I had no idea about the history of this certain Wikiproject. Would you be willing to share with me any advice you may have to try and revive more interest or does this project have a real negative background that can't be salvaged? Windyshadow32 ( talk) 04:48, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).
mustor
shoulduse the articles for creation process.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).
1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).
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any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.
standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people.( American Politics 2 Arbitration case).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).
Interface administrator changes
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Interface administrator changes
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at
Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
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Three years! |
---|
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:04, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Interface administrator changes
oversight
will be renamed to suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
Hello, I have strolled and looked at your user page and talk page! Tho, I don't think this is very notable, but this is notable for speedy deletion. :)
BloxyColaSweet ( talk) 05:35, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
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Hi!
You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.
When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.
Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.
If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.
We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.
Thank you. / Johan (WMF)
18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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Four years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:28, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
deletelogentry
and deletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the
Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (
T301928)The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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