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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
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- 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.
File:Octicons-tools.svg 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.
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- Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping.
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- 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!
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
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- Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. Template:Phab
- A '
Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. Template:Phab
File:Scale of justice 2.svg Arbitration
- The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).
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- A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
- A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
- A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.
File:Octicons-tools.svg Technical news
- A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. Template:Phab
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. Template:Phab
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- The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.
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Happy First Edit Day!
| File:Nuvola apps cookie.svg | Happy First Edit Day, Gyrofrog, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:02, 4 April 2025 (UTC) |
Happy First Edit Day!
| File:Nuvola apps cookie.svg | Happy First Edit Day, Gyrofrog, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Randompersonediting (✍️•📚) 04:18, 4 April 2025 (UTC) |
Administrators' newsletter – April 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2025).
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- Sign up for The Core Contest, a competition running from 15 April to 31 May to improve vital articles.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).
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- added Rusalkii
- readded NaomiAmethyst (overlooked last month)
- removed Template:Hlist
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File:Green check.svg Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
- An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO.
- An RfC has resulted in a broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.
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- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).
File:Wikipedia Administrator.svg Administrator changes
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File:Green check.svg Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.
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- A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
- History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.
File:Scale of justice 2.svg Arbitration
- An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.
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- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
- An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in June 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with Template:Tl. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
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Hello. You're invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It will be held from Monday June 16 - Sunday July 13. There is over $3300 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for subjects which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested. Even if you can only manage a few articles they would be very much appreciated and help towards making the content produced as diverse and broad as possible!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:02, 15 June 2025 (UTC)