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Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor
  Gogo Dodo
  Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

  Bureaucrat changes

  Andrevan • EVula

  Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
  • A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

  Technical news

  • Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
  • Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon ( ) in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
  • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

  Miscellaneous

  • Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
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The Bugle: Issue CXLVII, July 2018

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  Sro23
  KaisaL • Ymblanter

  Guideline and policy news

  • After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
  • Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

  Technical news

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The Bugle: Issue CXLVIII, August 2018

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Bots Newsletter, August 2018

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Bots Newsletter, August 2018
 

Greetings!

Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM
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BAG
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BOTREQs and BRFAs

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Books & Bytes – Issue 29

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Issue 29, June – July 2018

Hindi, Italian and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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The Signpost: 30 August 2018

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WikiCup 2018 September newsletter

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The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:

  •   Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
  •   Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
  •   Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
  • Other contestants who qualified for the final round were   Nova Crystallis,   Iazyges,   SounderBruce,   Kosack and   Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  None
  Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz
  Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam

  Interface administrator changes

  Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

  Technical news

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
  • Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
  • Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

  Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.
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The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018

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{{WikibreakSwitch}}

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The Signpost: 1 October 2018

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  Justlettersandnumbers • L235
  Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter

  Interface administrator changes

  Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333

  Oversight changes

  Guerillero • NativeForeigner • Snowolf • Xeno

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
  • Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

  Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
  • The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
  • Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
  • Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.
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The Bugle: Issue CL, October 2018

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Translation help

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Greetings,

I see that your name is listed on Wikipedia:Translators available for "Korean-to-English" translations. I was wondering if you had time to translate a couple of sources in Korean. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:39, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi, if it's not urgent, just give me what you need to have translated and I'll have a look later this week. — regards, Revi 18:53, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Not urgent at all. It's these two publications, not sure if that's too much. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:18, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Just had a look. It would be helpful if you can tell me what you're looking for? :-) — regards, Revi 03:17, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
A translation of the two Korean-language PDFs to write an article on the underwater mountain Lomilik. The two PDFs are about a dozen pages long each. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:43, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
I currently don’t have time to do the full text translation. For now, I don’t have time to do such stuff until end of 2018. If you can wait, sure, and I understand if you want to find someone else :) — regards, Revi 11:07, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Nah, I can wait. The sources and my free time don't run away, I am sure. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 11:21, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Great, rest assured this job will be recorded at Things, so it reminds me around Jan 2019. — regards, Revi 11:23, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Notability assessment

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Hi, Revi, can you please evaluate as to whether Draft:Andrea Yi Chung passes WP:NBIO or WP:GNG, in light of available regional sourcing? :-) Thanks! ∯WBGconverse 08:02, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

I did some digging, but I was unable to find any source that links to this Andrea Chung. (All the references point to the businesswoman Chung.) — regards, Revi 20:07, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes, Issue 30

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Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018

  • Library Card translation
  • Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available in meta!
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The Signpost: 28 October 2018

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Editing News #2—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

 

Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.

 

Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

Recent changes

Let's work together

  • The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
  • The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
  • If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!

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WikiCup 2018 November newsletter

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The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is   Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

  1.   Courcelles (submissions)
  2.   Kosack (submissions)
  3.   Kees08 (submissions)
  4.   SounderBruce (submissions)
  5.   Cas Liber (submissions)
  6.   Nova Crystallis (submissions)
  7.   Iazyges (submissions)
  8.   Ceranthor (submissions)


All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email). — Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery (talk • contribs) 06:19, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
  • A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
  • The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

  Arbitration

  • Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
  • The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.
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Temporary checkuser permission for election scrutineers

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The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:

Temporary local Checkuser rights are granted to -revi, علاء and Mardetanha for the purpose of their acting as Scrutineers in the 2018 Arbitration Committee election.

For the Arbitration Committee, --Cameron11598 (Talk) 22:57, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Temporary checkuser permission for election scrutineers

You have been selected to serve as a scrutinizer

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My condolences to you.  ;-) You have been selected to server as a scrutinizer for the English Wikipedia ArbCom elections. The scrutiny process begins on December 3, 2018 at the stroke of midnight. If you will not be able to perform the task, please let us know as soon as possible so we can coordinate for a replacement. You will receive temporary CheckUser access at the start of the process. Thank you for volunteering serve as a scrutinizer.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:51, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Condolenses LOL. Ok, noted! Though I thought I was supposed to do some of screening work during election per docs. — regards, Revi 02:34, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
-revi, what kind of screening work? —CYBERPOWER (Around) 12:56, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
#: "As much of the above tasks should be done during the voting period as possible, per 2015 RfC." — regards, Revi 12:58, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
-revi, Of course they would cram that little sentence in there and I miss it. I’ll see to getting you access during the voting period then. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:02, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, -revi. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 2 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Given everything over the past week, you've more than earned this (in its literal sense.) Thanks for everything! Best, Mifter (talk) 07:01, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz
  Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

  Interface administrator changes

 Deryck Chan

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
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  • A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
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  • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
  • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

  Obituaries

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Ditobolli

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Hi, can you please globally lock Ditobolli (talk · contribs · count), a confirmed sock of Ciphers (talk · contribs · count)? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:06, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Done. — regards, Revi 23:11, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks much.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:18, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Also done! — regards, Revi 05:31, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks again.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:19, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLII, December 2018

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A barnstar for you!

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  The Barnstar of Diligence
Thank you so much for your hard work scrutinizing the results of the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections. We can't say how much we appreciate it. Mz7 (talk) 07:43, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
  — regards, Revi 14:24, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 31

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  • OAWiki
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  • Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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The Signpost: 24 December 2018

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Global lock request

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Hi, can you please globally lock Kdske (talk · contribs · count)? I'm getting obnoxious e-mail from the account at meta. The accounts of this master are usually globally locked anyway. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:56, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

@Bbb23: I blocked email from meta on that account for now, hope it helps. — xaosflux Talk 20:29, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
@Xaosflux: Thanks. I don't know how to tell what time you did it, so I'm assuming I shouldn't get any more, at least from now on, but after I left my original post above, I got several from Commons and one from fr.wiki. They're really more stupid than obnoxious; he likes the word "fuck". The account should be globally locked also, but -revi can take care of that when he returns. Thanks again for stepping in.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:20, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Looks like Trijnstel was faster. — regards, Revi 08:09, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks everyone.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:14, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
This time Rxy got it. (I'm usually sleeping after 15-1700 UTC which is 0:00~02:00 AM here) — regards, Revi 04:15, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
Posting at your Talk page seems to work, no matter which steward acts.  I don't know rxy. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:57, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

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  3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

  Technical news

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Could you please globally lock R2d232h2 (talk · contribs · count)? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:21, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Done. — regards, Revi 16:25, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
Thanks much for the quick response.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:38, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

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