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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.
Miscellaneous
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!
The Signpost: 15 January 2025
[edit]- From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
- In the media: Will you be targeted?
- Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
- Opinion: Reflections one score hence
- Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
- Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
- Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
GOCE newsletters
[edit]Hi Mini, I plan to recreate Category:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors newsletters so I can group the Guild's newsletter pages together, and to nest it within Category:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. Because you deleted the newsletter category in 2016, I thought I'd better ask if there's a reason I shouldn't recreate it. I notice the Wikiproject's pages could be better organized. Thanks, Baffle☿gab 02:19, 18 January 2025 (UTC).
- Hi again, Baffle. I don't remember why I deleted the newsletter category; feel free to recreate it. Thanks and all the best, Miniapolis 14:31, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for that; what seems to have happened is one editor created the category and added the early newsletters, which had been (and still are) transcluded to many talk pages, which were added to the nl category. Transcluding seems to have been the nl distribution model in the early years. These cat additions were then reverted and they had the cat page deleted. I'm using noinclude tags to ensure it doesn't happen again (hint; it did till I worked out why). I'm now up to 2018, so it's nearly there. Fun and games. ;-) Cheers, Baffle☿gab 09:44, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Many thanks, Baffle, for doing what I don't know how to do :-). Let me know when there's an RfA in your future. All the best, Miniapolis 18:39, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for that; what seems to have happened is one editor created the category and added the early newsletters, which had been (and still are) transcluded to many talk pages, which were added to the nl category. Transcluding seems to have been the nl distribution model in the early years. These cat additions were then reverted and they had the cat page deleted. I'm using noinclude tags to ensure it doesn't happen again (hint; it did till I worked out why). I'm now up to 2018, so it's nearly there. Fun and games. ;-) Cheers, Baffle☿gab 09:44, 21 January 2025 (UTC)