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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

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  • A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.

Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

  • Overall winner
    • 1st - $500
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  • Diversity winner - $100
  • Gender-gap filler - $100
  • Language Winners - up to $100*

We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

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"Pedophile pope" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Pedophile pope. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 31#Pedophile pope until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Bangalamania (talk) 00:10, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Biography

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Foster Mushavi is a South African musician born 1991/4th/July. He was born as Foster Mushavi. He never changed his name for stage name. Even though he was told to never use his full name cause Mushavi doesn't sound class. But he never took that advice. He's a son of Phineas and Ester Mushavi. Foster was born at Elim hospital from Limpopo South Africa. Foster lost his father 2009 8th July. Phineas died by a car crash. Ester and up at hospital on Comer for tow weeks. Foster have 4 brothers Phunwell 1986,Lowrence 1989, Foster 1991, Freddie 1993 and the late happy who 3 moths old. Foster stayed with his grandmother until when she die. She was killed by illness 1997. After the funeral of his grandmother he was taken by his parents to stay with them at Thohoyandou Itsani Village from Limpopo. The schools he attended Mathithivhale School, Mashila School from Limpopo. Foster went to Pretoria 2012 after his family moved to Pretoria. His musical journey began 2006 at Itsani he was just only just writing lyrics without recording it. 2009 at the funeral of his met Tshikhudo. Tshikhudo promised to take from his cousin who had at the time. But the cousin of Tshikhudo never wanted to record Foster. He only wanted Foster to be The write and Tshikhudo will be the one to sing. But Foster rejected. 2010 Foster met Kelso a hip hop producer. Kelso promised to record Foster for free of charge. Foster record a song produced by Kelso, that song was never released cause Foster felt it was not meant to be released. 2011 he recorded another song with another producer Colonizer but the song never released. He recorded a song again with Tshikhudo as a singer Foster as writer but the never got official release. 2013 Foster built his own studio and began to produce his own music. He said I don't any producer can understand what I want. 2015 he was working at Karen Park Super Spar. 2017 October he left at Spar went back to do music again. 2017 December he built a studio again at Pretoria. He recorded a song called ( You Won't Get Away) His first song to be released official. But that's not his first song. He rocrded a song with a downloaded instruments and did a video of that song sent the video to all music channel but rejected it cause he did have license of the instruments. Foster his allocated at Pretoria South Africa. His a big fan of Michael Jackson,Prince Ronger Nelson, Brenda Fase, Iyvon Chaka Chaka, Madonna, Jaon Jett, Roxxet, Heart Rock Band, PJ Powers, Karen White, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Puff Johnson, Jason Malachi, Cindy Lauper, Billy Ocean, Lucky Dube and Bob Marley. He favourite movies is action Movies he doesn't watch romantic movies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foster Mushavi (talkcontribs) 19:26, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Post it for me FOSTER (talk) 19:27, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi there. Based on a cursory reading of Foster's biography above, he doesn't seem to meet the guideline for inclusion at this point. Regards, decltype (contact) 11:02, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

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added TJMSmith
removed Boing! said ZebedeeHiberniantearsLear's FoolOnlyWGFinley

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added AmandaNP

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Technical news

  • When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
  • When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
  • There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

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removed AlexandriaHappyme22RexxS

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
  • Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

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  • When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
  • Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

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removed EnchanterCarlossuarez46

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removed Ragesoss

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  • The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

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added AshleyyoursmileLess Unless
removed HusondMattWadeMJCdetroitCariocaVague RantKingboykThunderboltzGwen GaleAniMateSlimVirgin (deceased)

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  • Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
  • An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

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  • IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

  • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

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