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Administrators' newsletter – December 2018
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
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
- 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".
- A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.
Technical news
- Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
- To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
- Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.
Miscellaneous
- 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
- Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.
Thank You for your Bot
Thank you for ClueBot NG it always beats me to reverting vandalism. A 10 fireplane Imform me 18:19, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
IP Blanking your Userpage-Subpages
I've went and RBed them all, but for some inexplicable reason someone is just going ham on your Userpages. Geartooth (talk) 11:16, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, I think I've taken care of it for now, and if not, I shall apply more powerful magical wards. -- Cobi(t|c|b) 21:59, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
ClueBot NG not reporting to AIV
Hey Cobi,
Is there any update on what is happening with this please? Looking back on ClueBot NG's talk page, this was reported back in October that the last time the bot reported anything to AIV was September 22nd. K6ka pinged you in a discussion on ClueBot NG's talk page. I've just looked over ClueBot NG's edits for the last few days and I've not noticed anything being reported. Is there any update?-- 5 albert square (talk) 02:11, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
New bot
Hi, I've just created User:RF1 Bot that works with your bot. Thought I'd let you know. RhinosF1 (talk) 17:47, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Merry Xmas
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Merry Xmas |
| Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to you! Thanks for all your work with the ClueBots this year - makes my job a load easier! 5 albert square (talk) 19:35, 22 December 2018 (UTC) |