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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Non-admins at User:JamesR/AdminStats

Just to note that there are users appearing at User:JamesR/AdminStats that aren't admins - e.g., User:Pundit and User:Ryan Kaldari (WMF). Presumably a bug somewhere? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:52, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Mike, I'll have to take a look at the code and get back to you on that one. Thanks for the heads up! — JamesR (talk) 22:18, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

I've noticed this as well, there's a large number of non-admins appearing on the list as of now (sorting the All Totals list by total in ascending order brings up a fair few). I sampled a few and haven't been able to discern much of a pattern; some were even accounts that were quickly banned for vandalism, but apparently have protected pages, deleted pages etc. as an administrator. Alcherin (talk) 23:25, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

IP edits at adminstats-bot?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:JamesR/AdminStats&oldid=765418262

For your information...is this ok? Lectonar (talk) 08:36, 14 February 2017 (UTC)