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You have twice removed my posts to [[WP::AIV]]. Look carefully before you edit there again!...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 00:25, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

@WilliamJE: Please note the reason the bot is reverting your request is because it wasn’t complete. It needs to follow the correct template including the * at the beginning of the template. Thank you, — JamesR (talk) 00:36, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
AIV is not somewhere I have posted to more than once or twice COUNTING today. The wrong placing is my fault but due to inexperience. On the other hand no edit summaries when moving it doesn't help tell an editor anything....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 00:43, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

added Lourdes
removed AngelOfSadnessBhadaniChris 73CorenFridayMidomMike V
† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

  • The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
  • Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
  • A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
  • A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

  • CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
  • The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

Obituaries

  • Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

AIV HB 5

Hi JamesR, take a look at phab:T32750. I'm a bit worried that AIV Helper Bot 5 is going to start flooding admins that block users with pings. Perhaps changing the "blocked by" from a User: link to a Logs link or the like will be better? — xaosflux Talk 18:09, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Thank you for the heads up on this one. I’ve seen your comment and subscribed to hear the response. I’m happy to make the minor change to the code if it’s going to be problematic. — JamesR (talk) 19:55, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
@Xaosflux: Am I wrong that prefixing a colon ([[:User:Amorymeltzer]]) to the "user" in the link would be sufficient? ~ Amory (utc) 18:00, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm not sure that is ready - yet - but is being planned as an option according to the phab tickets, but more likely edit summary pinging will be disabled for bots in general. — xaosflux Talk 18:06, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, just ec'd you updating myself with phab:T189067 and phab:T189040. ~ Amory (utc) 18:09, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

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