User talk:TheSandDoctor/Archives/2019/February

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Nostalgic34 in topic Tech News: 2019-07

Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

 

  Administrator changes

  EnterpriseyJJMC89
  BorgQueen
  Harro5Jenks24GraftR. Baley

  Interface administrator changes

 Enterprisey

  Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
  • Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
  • A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

  Technical news

  • A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

  Miscellaneous

  • Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
  • A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:16, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Tag with Template:R from unnecessary disambiguation

Any updates on this? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:56, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

@Headbomb: Sorry for the delay in my response, it has been a busy weekend for me. Unfortunately not as I haven't managed to unzip the downloaded archive and need to relocate my temp folder (windows) to another internal drive as the SSD doesn't have enough room for the cache. That said, I have little time lately for bot work it seems. I will try and help out, but I also need to figure out what sort of a regex I will need to use. I work tonight, but will try and look at it tomorrow. I will update within a couple of days. --TheSandDoctor Talk 16:09, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
It's not time critical. I got plenty of space, so if you write something than can be AWB-ized, or can be run from windows relatively easily, I could run it myself. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:49, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

17:11, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

PERM request

Hey there TheSandDoctor, I recently submitted a request at WP:RFP/AWB but nobody reviewed it yet. I contacted different admins but all of them either didn't reply, told me to wait, or said they're not experienced with PERMS. Could you review my request? Cheers! GN-z11 12:03, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-07

18:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi Dr Sand,

  • I just wanted to highlight that User:DeprecatedFixerBot has added superfluous sections to the Infobox in music album articles that I created (for example Heavy Metal Be-Bop). These have all been corrected now without any problem. Nostalgic34 (talk) 01:17, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

21:16, 25 February 2019 (UTC)