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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

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Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Tech News: 2024-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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• The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [1][2]
• Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [3]
• Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [5][6]
• When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [7]

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• A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
• Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [8]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

IP block on Met Office

Hey @AmandaNP I'm a Wikimedian in Residence working on climate change info. Yesterday I was at the UK Met Office to run an editathon but my group was unable to edit for most of the session due to your IP block on the Met Office. I'm sure there's a reason the block is in place. I wanted to ask if that reason has been resolved and the block can be lifted? Alternatively, would it be possible to lift the block for one day on Friday the 10th of May 2024 (UK time) so that I can do a follow up session with the participants?

Much appreciated! TatjanaClimate (talk) 08:32, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@TatjanaClimate: I would of course need to know which block this is related too (aka the IP address) but I can understand you not posting it openly. If you could email it to me for review, I can check to see what possibilities exist. -- Amanda (she/her) 12:01, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Email sent! Thanks! TatjanaClimate (talk) 13:43, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

@TatjanaClimate: This IP does not directly belong to the Met Office. It belongs to IBOSS, which essentially acts as a proxy for many people which is something we have to keep strictly blocked. Can you advise participants to create one from home before they come? That or we might be able to see what ACC could do in real time - but day before the event is really not the time to be organizing this :/ especially since I work 10+ hours days right now. @Stwalkerster and FastLizard4: for additional guideance & help outside hours i'm avail. -- Amanda (she/her) 13:57, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

@AmandaNP is it an anononly block?

ACC might be able to help with this if it's just accounts that are needed, especially if we know a time window where most requests will be coming in so we can keep a closer eye on the queue. The best approach at this point is indeed to get participants to pre-create if possible, or maybe to use something like the Programs and Events dashboard to create the accounts as needed for you. This is all contingent on what type of block is in place though as to whether you'll be able to edit through the block while logged in. stwalkerster (talk) 14:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)