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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

  Administrator changes

  Clovermoss
  Dennis Brown
 

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


please take a look at my edits on the English Wikipedia

Hello Johannnes89 If you have time and inclination as a "global sysop" (admin), please take a look at my edits on the English Wikipedia. As of August 2023, I have written articles on several projects on the English Wikipedia. The number of my articles is about 70 articles. During this time, I never worked in another language. I also had a very good interaction with the editors. In consultation with an experienced editor KylieTastic with Assuming good faith, I have a request: Is it possible to remove the "crosswiki spam by Special:CentralAuth/Patricia Mannerheim" for this draft?: Draft:Mehdi Mirza Mehdi Tehrani. You can see i have updated since the last removal from main-space. Although Afd tag history should be kept. I agree that experienced editors should be kept in the loop. Another thing is that I promise never to write any edits or articles on the German Wikipedia. And if I was going to do something like that, it shouldn't be in the main namespace and I'd have to work in a draft. With this condition and with the conditions that you will probably have and I also accept, is it possible to open my access in the German Wikipedia? Best wishes. —Patricia (Talk) 13:58, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Patricia, you created machine translations of Mehdi Mirza Mehdi Tehrani in 19 different languages [1][2], likely having an undisclosed conflict of interest regarding the person you are writing about. That's what constitutes crosswiki spam in my opinion and AfC reviewers of Draft:Mehdi Mirza Mehdi Tehrani should be aware that Mehdi Mirza Mehdi Tehrani has been previously deleted as Mehdi Tehrani.
Nonetheless I want to point out that I don't have any special authority on enwiki, as global sysop permissions only apply to small wikis. I'm just a regular editor like anyone else on this project. If you think my tag at Draft:Mehdi Mirza Mehdi Tehrani is no longer justified, go ahead and remove the first sentence.
Regarding dewiki access: You would need to start an unblock request. If you want to do so, I can temporarily unblock your account at dewiki, though I'm not convinced other admins will change the initial decision if you don't want to contribute to dewiki anyway (and likely cannot do so due to lacking language proficiency) – especially given your only dewiki contributions were creating your own user page and the xwiki machine translation spam which got you blocked. Johannnes89 (talk) 21:41, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
I strongly believe what you wrote. But with the assumption of good faith, I admit that I have no conflict of interest. It was an ignorant and pointless exercise that I wrote about on other wikis. I made a big mistake and paid for it. I deserved to be punished. But I request you to remove the first sentence assuming your good faith. If this draft is moved to the original namespace, I deeply and openly pledge never to write an article for this topic on any Wikipedia in other languages. Personally, if I delete the first sentence, I will feel bad. Maybe this work of mine can be considered bold and insulting for an experienced and global editor like you.
As for the German Wikipedia, I follow the protocol you instructed but now I cannot request to unblock. Because I have been completely banned from editing German Wikipedia. I am learning German. But I promise to refrain from editing in the main namespace and only work on draft articles about women until I get the hang of it.
I consider it my duty to thank you again for educating me about Wikipedia's policies.—Patricia (Talk) 11:55, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
I removed the sentence [3] and unblocked your account on dewiki in order to allow you to start a de:WP:Sperrprüfung [4] (no need to notify me, I will see when you are starting your unblock request there). Johannnes89 (talk) 12:15, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
I sincerely thank you for trusting me. I will definitely do my best to make the result of this trust impressive and brilliant. Also, I posted an unblock request on your German Wikipedia talk page. Hope you check it out. thanks again. Best. —Patricia (Talk) 12:46, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
see [5], you'll need to request unblocking at de:WP:Sperrprüfung. Johannnes89 (talk) 12:49, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
I'm doing it right now. thank you.
Patricia (Talk) 12:54, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

 

  CheckUser changes

  Wugapodes

  Interface administrator changes

 

  Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

  Technical news

  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

  Arbitration

  • Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
  • Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

  Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

  Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

 

  Administrator changes

 

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous

  • Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

Global lock

Hi, you globally locked Jayprakash Chaurasiya on March 30. I just blocked राहिल खान as a sock of JC. Could you globally lock राहिल खान? Also, if you're aware of an earlier master than JC, please let me know. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:30, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Bbb23, the user is part of a sockpuppet group related to Special:CentralAuth/Muhammad Bilal Muzzamil. Some related accounts [6][7][8][9][10]. The sockpuppets usually try to create xwiki articles about Indian entrepreneurs, doctors and other people, most of them don't meet notability criteria. Johannnes89 (talk) 16:09, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Whoa, that's a lot of socks. I looked at every one of them on the lists you linked to, and very few have even registered at en.wiki, let alone edited here. It looks like the oldest we know about is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Btw Santhosh, so I'm going to retag the two recent ones just to keep things tidy. Thanks for all the information.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:03, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Yes Btw Santhosh seems to be related, „Hacktivist Vanguard“ is one person which I've seen spammed many times [11]. I've created a list of domains frequently being used in relation to this article spam [12] (e.g. [13] for „Simanchal Panda“) and tried to use m:Special:AbuseFilter/338 for monitoring edits potentially related to this spam. Unfortunately many of those links are also being used by regular editors, so there's not much one can do except monitoring. Johannnes89 (talk) 18:25, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

  Administrator changes

  Nyttend
 

  Bureaucrat changes

  Nihonjoe
 

  CheckUser changes

  Joe Roe

  Oversight changes

  GeneralNotability

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

  Administrator changes

  Graham Beards
 

  Bureaucrat changes

 
 

  Oversight changes

  Dreamy Jazz

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

 

  Administrator changes

 
 

  Technical news

  Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

  Administrator changes

  Isabelle Belato
 

  Interface administrator changes

  Izno
 

  CheckUser changes

  Barkeep49

  Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

  Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

  Administrator changes

  Pppery

  Interface administrator changes

  Pppery
 

  Oversighter changes

  Wugapodes

  CheckUser changes

 

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
  • A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

 

  Administrator changes

 
 

  CheckUser changes

 
 

  Guideline and policy news

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous