User talk:OhanaUnited/Archive 24

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Enable a Geonotice or two?

Hi, I already nudged Andrew G. as requested, but our SF Wikipedia Day event has gone unnoticed for a week or so, and the date is rapidly approaching. Could you take a look? It looks like there's a new entry there today for Boston as well, though that one lacks coordinates thus far. Wikipedia:Geonotice#San_Francisco_Bay_Area_Wikipedia_15 Thank you, and happy new year! -Pete (talk) 22:55, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Bristol Portal nomination

The Portal of Bristol has been recieved 3 "Support" comments and not a single "Oppose" comment and also the discussion was started long back on September 10, 2015 (4 months ago). At this point, does the discussion needs to be closed? Thanks. SuperHero ● 👊 ● ★ 07:19, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Saudi Arabia portal nomination

The portal of Saudi Arabia has 2 "support" vote and no single "oppose" or any discussion vote yet made on it. It was nominated on December 2015 and as per present (i.e: February 2016) time, no "active" votes are even presented. Mostly, it needs to preserved as "archive". SuperHero ● 👊 ● ★ 08:56, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Portal:Wetlands

Hello. I have just made a portal on Wetlands. Would you mind taking a look and letting me know what else it needs to be considered complete? Thanks for your assistance. H.dryad (talk) 13:16, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

I've made the changes you suggest. Would you mind taking another look to see if everything is Halal? Thanks. H.dryad (talk) 13:17, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Disambiguation page

Hello, OhanaUnited. When you changed Tuck rule from a redirect into a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:

When creating disambiguation pages, fix all resulting mis-directed links.

Before moving an article to a qualified name (in order to create a disambiguation page at the base name, to move an existing disambiguation page to that name, or to redirect that name to a disambiguation page), click on What links here to find all of the incoming links. Repair all of those incoming links to use the new article name.

It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Tuck rule" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks.

Tuck rule (ice hockey) has been nominated for Did You Know

Hello, OhanaUnited. Tuck rule (ice hockey), an article you either created or significantly contributed to, has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot (talk!) 03:20, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Tuck rule (ice hockey)

On 27 March 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tuck rule (ice hockey), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the tuck rule prevents National Hockey League players from tucking in their jerseys during games, although it took almost fifty years to enforce it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tuck rule (ice hockey). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 01:42, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Regarding your undo of my University of Toronto article.

Hi,

I saw you have undone my enrolment count update to University of Toronto article. The article clearly mentions that it is intended for the main (downtown) campus whereas the enrolment count shows the combined total of other two satellite campuses combined -- each campus has its own article. This should be clear if you actually read the reference cited.

Let me know if you have questions. Thanks.174.118.75.13 (talk) 15:47, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

ANI discussion

There is a topic in which you were involved being discussed at WP:ANI. The topic is concern over Adam9007's removal of speedy deletion templates. You are welcome to join the discussion here. Toddst1 (talk) 20:05, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

User:Philipandrew2 and User:RioHondo edit warring at Philippines

Hi OhanaUnited, can you please do an investigation with regards to the case of sockpuppeting of this user? And also, I've noticed that some edits made in the article Philippines was been messing up big time because of those 2 users Philipandrew2 (who recently reported by RioHondo for sockpuppeting), and of course RioHondo. I think this considers as a edit warring. But of course, I don't want to judge the book by its cover first, so I'm requesting you please review their edits carefully? The edits of RioHondo are much more specific and easy to understand, but with regards to Philipandrew2 edits, I'm a little bit confused, and also I noticed that he/she is having a grammar problem so I want to see that stop. Please do address this problem. Thank you. Hamham31 Heke!KushKush! 04:41, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Very well then, thank you for acknowledging my concerns. Let make this Wikipedia, a peaceful one. Hamham31 Heke!KushKush! 04:53, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, OhanaUnited. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
This message was sent to the administrators' mass message list. To opt-out of future messages, please remove yourself from the list. 17:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi OhanaUnited.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, OhanaUnited. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Time for the featured portal process to call it a day?

Hi OU, I've mentioned you in a comment at Wikipedia talk:Featured portal candidates#Did anyone notice we lost a Featured Portal director? and suggested tagging the idea of featured process as {{historical}} because it is clear that no-one is interested in nominating, discussing, promoting, archiving, or demoting featured portals these days. As the only remaining FPo director, you might be interested in adding your views. Cheers, Bencherlite ^Talk 00:59, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection policy RfC

You are receiving this notification because you participated in a past RfC related to the use of extended confirmed protection levels. There is currently a discussion ongoing about two specific use cases of extended confirmed protection. You are invited to participate. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk (sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:31, 22 December 2016 (UTC))

Diligent Librarian Barnstar

		The Diligent Librarian Barnstar
		For going where no one else would go while at Resource Exchange, providing key reliable sources for Bengal famine of 1943, please accept this award. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 00:27, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Let's reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement!

Hi OhanaUnited, please allow me to get in touch because you have stated sympathy with environmental causes on your user page. I would like to invite you to check out the Environmental impact project page on Meta, where I am trying to create some momentum to reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. My first goal is to have all the Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy. Maybe you could show your support for this project as well by adding your signature here? Thank you, --Gnom (talk) 22:01, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for so much for your help editing with the Black Lunch Table!!

Heathart (talk) 20:48, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Featured portal process

Hello, hope all's well. As nothing's happened in the world of featured portals since my comment last December, I boldly marked the whole process as {{historical}} earlier today and there's now a discussion in progress at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RfC about marking the Featured portals process as "historical", which might be of interest to you. Regards, Bencherlite ^Talk 19:38, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

2015 Pan American Games

Hey, thank you so much for helping to update the nation pages. I stated with Guatemala, but my time is now limited to do any substantial work. I do not mean to be a pest but some of the edits (for ex. Panama and wrestling) were against the MOS set out, you can see the changes here [1]. Also no pictograms in the headings per MOS as well. Thanks again! Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 01:49, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Triple Crown Nomination

Hi there. Thanks for adding your nomination for the Imperial Napoleonic Triple Crown to Wikipedia:Triple Crown/Nominations. Just letting you know, your nomination is likely to be processed much sooner if you add links to at least support your DYKs, as searching for this information manually can be quite time consuming. Here's an example of someone else who has done this, in case you don't understand what I mean: [2]. It's also helpful to add links to support your GAs and Featured content as well, though its much less time consuming to search for evidence that you contributed to this type of content than it is for DYKs. Have a nice day. Freikorp (talk) 09:01, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Check your pic on Toronto Coach Terminal.

It's showing a wee bit bigger than needs to be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Allamericanbear (talk • contribs)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes

Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn

ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.

Technical news

Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.

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Can you help verify translations of articles from Chinese

Hello OhanaUnited,

Would you be able to help evaluate the accuracy of translations of Wikipedia articles from Chinese to English Wikipedia?

File:Language icon.svg

This would involve evaluating a translated article on the English Wikipedia by comparing it to the original Chinese article, and marking it "Pass" or "Fail" based on whether the translation faithfully represents the original. Here's the reason for this request:

There are a number of articles on English Wikipedia that were created as machine translations from different languages including Chinese , using the Content Translation tool, sometimes by users with no knowledge of the source language. The config problem that allowed this to happen has since been fixed, but this has left us with a backlog of articles whose accuracy of translation is suspect or unknown, including some articles translated from Chinese. In many cases, other editors have come forward later to copyedit and fix any English grammar or style issues, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the translation is accurate, as factual errors from the original translation may remain. To put it another way: Good English is not the same as good translation.

If you can help out, that would be great. Here's a sample of the articles that need checking:

All you have to do, is compare the English article to the Chinese article, and mark it "Pass" or "Fail" (templates {{Pass}} and {{Fail}} may be useful). (Naturally, if you feel like fixing an inaccurate translation and then marking it "Pass", that's even better, but it isn't required.)

If you can help, please let me know. Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 22:12, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Ransom (TV series)

Hi. I'm actually sry, I am not from the US but from Germany. I am actually geoblocked too, but managed to view the CBS video via VPN and later the youtube-video to. It is indeed the same video, although it is 4:56 minutes long on CBS while it is 5:01 on youtube. And starts with Spotnitz talking and scenes taking place on the Cote d'Azure. It's the same, yes.--Robberey1705 (talk) 00:47, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Lysimachi

Hi OhanaUnited. I message you here because you recently left a final warning on the talk page of Lysimachi. Instead of ceasing, they have simply ramped up the relentless political agenda editing. A case of WP:NOTHERE that could use some attention. Thank you, Citobun (talk) 15:12, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

@OhanaUnited: I was actually about to post this message on WP:ANV, please see here: [3] (but was removed by bot). A 30-day ban is not enough. I have reverted the user myself in the past, but it seems s/he has still persisted. DA1 (talk) 00:40, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes

Happyme22 • Dragons flight

Zad68

Guideline and policy news

The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.

Technical news

Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.

Miscellaneous

A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:59, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Imperial Napoleonic Triple Crown

RfA

Thanks for supporting my run for administrator. I am honored and grateful. ) Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:22, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

Administrator changes

Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 ^{(first RfA to reach WP:300)}

Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news

LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

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FYI

Could you please join the discussion at https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Appeal_of_community_sanctions_placed_on_User:Barts1a Twitbook space tube 12:32, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

Administrator changes

Nakon • Scott

Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news

ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.

Technical news

You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:35, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Admin confidence survey

Hello,

Beginning in September 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tool team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing and mitigating things like sockpuppetry, vandalism, and harassment.

The survey should only take 5 minutes, and your individual response will not be made public. This survey will be integral for our team to determine how to better support administrators.

To take the survey sign up here and we will send you a link to the form.

We really appreciate your input!

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For the Anti-harassment tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 19:52, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Canada 10k lists

Hi, OhanaUnited! I thought I'd discuss this here because you were the most interested in this plus you're an admin so you likely know more about this than me. Rather than manually going through articles and adding province notes, I'm still hoping there's a semi-automated way to do it through categories. Some Projects use talk page categories to keep track of articles they'd improved. For example, Category:WikiProject Women in Red 2017 articles and Category:Articles copy edited by the Guild of Copy Editors. If we created something similar for articles improved on the Canada 10k challenge, then, so long as other relevant categories are in place, there are tools (e.g.: Wikipedia:PetScan) to cross-reference those articles by province, subject, article class, etc. You'd also be able to do an incategory search.

I don't know much about categories or policies regarding them, this is just something that I've seen with other projects and thought it might work for us. It would still require some work – placing the category on 1100+ article talk pages (for starters). My guess is that this would be less work than manually sorting by provinces, though, and could potentially yield more data.

I feel the easiest way would be if I made a small talk page banner template (a simpler version of {{WIR}}) which would include the category, and link/advertise for the 10k challenge. (I should have time to work on this in October, for now I'm just looking at options and trying to figure things out.) What do you think? – Reidgreg (talk) 15:55, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi Andrew, thank you for your comments at my RfA. Your support is much appreciated! Cheers, ansh 666 19:36, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Ice drilling article

Hi -- I just switched computers today and decommissioned the old one, and just realized I didn't transfer the article you posted for me at WP:RX. If it's easy for you, could you repost it, and I'll let you know when I have it again? If not, no problem; I can recommission the old computer and pull it from there. Thanks again. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:12, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

I have it now, so you can remove it -- thank you again. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:19, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem

Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news

You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration

Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest

Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. The articles done may also count towards the ongoing challenge. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles please add them to the sub lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:49, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration

Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries

The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:50, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Canada 10,000 Challenge award

		The Bronze Maple Leaf Award
		This maple leaf is awarded to OhanaUnited for writing 3 new articles, expanding 13, and making dozens of other quality improvements during The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 15:38, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

ANI Experiences survey

The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative (led by the Safety and Support and Anti-Harassment Tools team) is conducting a survey for en.wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with the Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works - which problems it deals with well, and which problems it struggles with.

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Thank you on behalf of the Support & Safety and Anti-Harassment Tools Teams, Patrick Earley (WMF) talk 18:24, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

Joe Roe

JzG

Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga

Guideline and policy news

Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news

Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
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Hello, OhanaUnited. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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southwestern Ontario regional history

Hi there,

I'm wondering if you could give me your sense of (a) Wikipedia's coverage and (b) how many Wikipedians are active in writing about the regional history of southwestern Ontario (as in Chatham-Kent, Windsor, etc., not Toronto). I've been talking with someone at the University of Windsor about sponsoring a Visiting Scholar interested in those topics and I'm trying to get a sense of whether or not that scope is too narrow. It's far outside of my wheelhouse and I wonder if you might be more familiar (or know someone who is)? Thanks. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:18, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you for updating your signature! —Anomalocaris (talk) 17:15, 8 December 2017 (UTC)