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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

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

Guideline and policy news

  • There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a 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.

Miscellaneous

  • The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

Follow Up

So how do we edit the status of an organization if it is now defunct? That was the goal of original edit. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.17.13.40 (talk) 22:15, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You cite a source that proves the organization is officially defunct, and then change "is an organization" to "was an organization". That's the least you can do. We do not remove articles simply because an organization ceases to exist. Wikipedia is not a catalog of currently active companies. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 22:20, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2020)

Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

The Sims (video game)

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Previous selections: Meatloaf • Ignorance


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19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2020)

Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Anna Lindh

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Previous selections: The Sims (video game) • Meatloaf


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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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Screenshot showing what the Reply tool looks like
This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

Reply tool improved with edit tool buttons
In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

  • On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
  • The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
    • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
    • a rich-text visual editing option, and
    • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You may wish to revoke TPA.--Cahk (talk) 07:13, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

PC trial request

Hi I noticed that you semi-protected Bishop Auckland however, because there was only one JackSucksAtLife edit since it was unprotected, I think the semiprotection was a little undeserved. I think a pending changes trial should be set up unless there is a high edit rate on the article. OcelotCreeper (talk) 22:38, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@OcelotCreeper: Thank you for your message. I stand by my semi-protection given how long this kerfuffle has been going on for (apparently much of the vandalism was being done by JackSucksAtLife's fans, and they've been at it for much too long). I would prefer that his fans lose interest and go away rather than still having to undo their edits. The page has been protected numerous times previously with escalating protection lengths, so this is following standard pattern. I will not, however, object if another admin decides to apply PC protection. On another note, I am still miffed that I made an unwelcome appearance in one of his videos, and his fans have attempted to harass me on Twitter. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:16, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ok thanks. OcelotCreeper (talk) 02:31, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 26 April 2020

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2020)

Elements of the human body by mass. Trace elements are less than 1% combined (and each less than 0.1%).
Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Human body

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Previous selections: Russian Academy of Natural Sciences • Anna Lindh


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