Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2017/1
 | This issue was an early proof of concept and was not sent out to administrators. The newsletter's first published issue was Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2017/2. |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2016).
New administrators
Samtar • Boson • Ad Orientem • Ivanvector
Guideline and policy news
- A proposal to include a speedy deletion criteria for books closed as no consensus.
- Userpages are now protected from edits by unconfirmed or unregistered users by use of an edit filter.
Technical news
- The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey Results have now been published. A number of high ranking requests will be of interest to administrators.
- Since 17 November some edit filters have not been correctly triggering on file uploads. See T153217 and T153251.
Arbitration
- The 2016 Arbitration Committee Election results have been announced.
- A motion that remedy 1.1 of the Austrian economics case be rescinded has passed.
- A passed motion adds to remedy 2 of the Palestine-Israel articles 3 case; editors must now obtain consensus through discussion before restoring a reverted edit to affected articles.
Ongoing backlogs
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| 2017: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 |
| 2018: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 |
| 2019: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 |
| 2020: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 |
| 2021: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 |
| 2022: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 |
| 2023: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 |
| 2024: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05 |