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22:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

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In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

  • Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
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Invitation to Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons

 
 


October 2016

Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons
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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 September 2016

21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2016

16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

An invitation to November's events

 
 


November 2016

Announcing two exciting online editathons
Women in Food and Drink and Women Writers
as well as our strong support for articles on women in connection with
Wikipedia Asian Month
Faciliated by Women in Red

 

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:32, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

19:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Ganeshk.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Ganeshk. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

December 2016 at Women in Red

 
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December 2016

Two new topics for our online editathons
Women in Aviation and Women in the Military
Our geographical topic of the month is
Caribbean Women
During the period of 21 Nov - 8 Dec, we are also supporting
BBC 100 Women

Women in Red

 

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

 

Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

  1. Adjust number of entries and days at Last unpatrolled
  2. Editor-focused central editing dashboard
  3. "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages
  4. Real-Time Recent Changes App for Android
  5. Shortcut for patrollers to last changes list

Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

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The Signpost: 22 December 2016

January 2017 at Women in Red

 
 


January 2017

Women Philosophers & Women in Education online editathons
Faciliated by Women in Red

 

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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Graphical list of chief ministerial tenures and important events of Tamil Nadu for deletion

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Graphical list of chief ministerial tenures and important events of Tamil Nadu is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Graphical list of chief ministerial tenures and important events of Tamil Nadu until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Spiderone 16:26, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 January 2017

20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

AWB problem when creating new articles

I hope you can help me, but because you have developed CSVPlugin and i guess you knows alot of AWB too. I would be gratefull, if you could give me a hint about why AWB don't can open or load text from txt-(UTF-8)-file, even after i done everything i read from enwiki (Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Create new pages). When i used AWB with a txt-file name list, it try only to save emty pages to fiwiki despite all txt-files contain over 2000 bytes. Could my problem be caused by some rear issues or have i done someting odd with AWB? Thanks for your time,.. --J Hokkanen (talk) 20:44, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

@J Hokkanen: I am not familiar with that functionality. I suggest you post at WT:AWB and someone will help you out. Ganeshk (talk) 01:29, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks anyway.--J Hokkanen (talk) 08:33, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

February 2017 at Women in Red

 
 


February 2017

Black Women & Women Anthropologists online editathons
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13:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 February 2017

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March 2017 at Women in Red

 
Welcome to...
Women's History Month worldwide online editathon
Facilitated by Women in Red
  • March 2017
     
     
  • Featuring: "Art+Feminism" and "The Women You Have Never Met"
  • Feel free to add articles in other languages too

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The Signpost: 27 February 2017

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22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Re-initiating INCOTM

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Re-initiating INCOTM

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Invitation to join the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Indian military history

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Wiki Loves Indian defence services

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April events at Women in Red

 

Welcome to Women in Red's
April 2017 worldwide online editathons.
Participation is welcome in any language.

 
 
 



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Bots Newsletter, April 2017

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May 2017 at Women in Red

 

Welcome to Women in Red's
May 2017 worldwide online editathons.
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