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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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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Clarification

When I undid a revision by that user I only reverted a change in the cast section and did not change anything entirely. Plus, I manually changed the reception part which was some hate spewing on the film. Re-check as I was not the one who reverted anything other than this. Please double check before accusing me of reverting your "hard work because I did not do that. I hope it's clear now.Krish | Talk 17:17, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Given your combative tone, I didn't think you saw my apology on WP:GOCE/REQ. WP:VOLUNTEER, and making demands of volunteers won't get you what you want. Miniapolis 18:48, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

So I guess you are not going to copyedit those two "top" articles despite being wrong in your accusations? Those articles have been up there since two months, yet nobody is ready to touch them. Wow!Krish | Talk 18:49, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Despite being very busy IRL, I'm working on The Bat (play). Frankly, I don't like your attitude and (judging by your block log) may not be alone in this. Again, WP:VOLUNTEER. Miniapolis 22:50, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

I just wanted to clarify things up. You assumed that I had reverted your edits but the truth was I never reverted your edits on that article. That's it.Krish | Talk 17:56, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Understood. Unless someone else has gotten to it, I'll resume the Gunday copyedit when I have time. Sorry for the misunderstanding and all the best, Miniapolis 16:13, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Help design a new feature to stop harassing emails

Hi there,

The Anti-Harassment Tools team plans to start develop of a new feature to allow users to restrict emails from new accounts. This feature will allow an individual user to stop harassing emails from coming through the Special:EmailUser system from abusive sockpuppeting accounts.

We’re inviting you to join the discussion because you voted or commented in the 2016 Community Wishlist discussion or IdeaLab discussion about letting users restrict who can send them email.

You can leave comments on this discussion page or send an email to the Anti-Harassment Tools team.

It is important to hear from a broad range of people who are interested in the design of the tool, so we hope you join the discussion.

For the Anti-Harassment Tools team SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 21:48, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

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Barbarella

Thank you for your help on the Barbarella article! It's looking much better now. You and the rest of the copy-editing team always do a good job. Thanks again! Andrzejbanas (talk) 16:30, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Glad to help, since I'm old enough to remember the film :-). Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis 16:58, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2017

• News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!
  The Wikimedia Foundation publishes the latest fundraising report, convenes over the close of the strategic plan discussion, and moves into a new space.

• Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables
  A variety of topics promoted.

• Humour: Guys named Ralph
  If your name is Ralph, well sorry.

• In focus: Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon
  Advocates for sharing offline information gather to make content, software, hardware, and social decisions.

• Blog: The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example
  A chat with a developer of open source software which allows users to download web content for offline reading, and the future of offline access to Wikipedia.

• In the media: Facebook and poetry
  Fighting fake news and plagiarism.

• Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK
  Wikimedia UK's partnerships and achievements working with GLAM institutions.

• Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment
  Readers interested in the the death of Hef, Puerto Rico, films and television.

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