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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

  • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

Your GA nomination of 1993 Finchley Road bombings

The article 1993 Finchley Road bombings you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1993 Finchley Road bombings for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 09:02, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vitaium (02:12, 10 October 2021)

Hello Berrely! Why only interface administrators can edit, create, and move pages in MediaWiki namespace, user scripts, and userspace CSS? --Vitaium (talk) 02:12, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Vitaium, these pages are extremely dangerous if anyone could edit them. If a malsicious person could edit pages in the MediaWiki namespace, or a commonly used userscript, they could install a bitcoin miner, IP grabber or worse. For this reason we prevent even administrators from editing these pages and only allow highly trusted users called Interface Administrators (IAs) to edit the pages. — Berrely • TalkContribs 07:39, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vitaium (14:44, 13 October 2021)

Hello Berrely! What are the features in RedWarn? --Vitaium (talk) 14:44, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Vitaium, RedWarn is a counter-vandalism script (it also does other things, but mainly focussed on counter-vandalism) that is like Twinkle but with a nice GUI. The page you linked has plenty of information on it, but I find the useful to be the rollback buttons and warning dialogues. (As someone who helps with RedWarn's development I have a COI on this subject so I'd recommend trying it out to see :D) — Berrely • TalkContribs 06:04, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vitaium on Wikipedia:User scripts (05:39, 17 October 2021)

Hello Berrely! How to create a user script? --Vitaium (talk) 05:39, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Vitaium! Do you have knowledge of JavaScript? — Berrely • TalkContribs 07:52, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

No. Vitaium (talk) 09:43, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Vitaium, sadly userscripts are coded in JavaScript, and your require knowledge of it to create one. You can request user scripts at WP:US/R, if you want. — Berrely • TalkContribs 09:44, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vitaium (03:44, 20 October 2021)

Hello Berrely! Can a globally lock user makes an edits? --Vitaium (talk) 03:44, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

@Vitaium, not they can't. The page you linked has information explaining this further. — Berrely • TalkContribs 09:29, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

ready

HI! The draft is ready to be proofread here. thank you! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:45, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

 DoneBerrely • TalkContribs 10:14, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Asking a question

Hello! I wanted to ask if the template message on Orbit Culture page can be removed now? Would appreciate if you could check it out. BlackSiren77 (talk) 07:39, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

@BlackSiren77, the cleanup tag still appears to be valid. Sections 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7 and the members section still lack citations. — Berrely • TalkContribs 12:01, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard- October 2021

Hi, Berrely! Here is the October 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard!

Wikipedia News

Humour

Editor's Notes

  • Thank you for your patience, I was busy, and still am, so issues of TWW may be delayed.
Like this Issue? Got Feedback? Spot a mistake? Discuss this issue here

To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here. Enjoy this Issue and have a safe and happy Halloween/October! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 00:22, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Question from User 9828728123 (11:31, 26 October 2021)

Hi Berrely,

Could you help me publish a article without getting block? It fits all the policy requirments (mainly being noteworthy) but everytime I try it's seen as purely promotional. --User 9828728123 (talk) 11:31, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi @User 9828728123 and welcome to Wikipedia:
  • What's the relevant article?
  • Have you used any previous accounts, and if so what were their usernames?
Berrely • TalkContribs 11:33, 26 October 2021 (UTC)


@Berrely: Error in Template:Reply to: Username not given. It's for a company called Zest Car Rental who are a leading UK car Rental company. Previous name was: Portugal traveler 52574 which apparently violated username policies..

Anyhelp would be great! I've got some copy that I'm currently working on with references from news organsitations. --User 9828728123 (talk) 14:02, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by User 9828728123 (talkcontribs) 13:23, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Growth Newsletter #19

18:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vitaium (03:04, 30 October 2021)

Hello Berrely! What does {{Shared IP advice}} template do? --Vitaium (talk) 03:04, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

@Vitaium as the name suggests, that template gives advice to IP editors about the advantages of registering an account. — Berrely • TalkContribs 09:35, 30 October 2021 (UTC)