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The Signpost: 1 December 2018

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

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

Administrator changes

readded Al Ameer sonRandykittySpartaz
removed BosonDaniel J. LeivickEfeEsanchez7587Fred BauderGarzoMartijn HoekstraOrangemike

Interface administrator changes

removedDeryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
  • A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
  • A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
  • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries


16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Old decisions at SPI coming up recently.

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Per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Jan_Blanicky/Archive#08_June_2014, of which you were the closing admin:

Recent events have made me relook at this. User:Heptapolein was found to be a sock of his and I am strongly suspecting Helveticus96 once again. Either that, or he is a meatpuppet. It's one or the other. Not only does he seem to have only one cause, "[The Czechia Initiative]", I have found a Facebook page showing that the user, who gives his name on Wikipedia as Vaclac Sulista, is a paid or COI editor. (You can clearly see "Vaclav Sulista" listed as a member of this organization whose mission is"...to institutionalize and practically adopt the one-word name of the country." Upon furthur investigation, Helveticus seems to have edits/created many articles that Blanicky and socks have a vested interest in, and themself are likely a paid contributor in relation to.(Blanicky runs the site for Vladimir Hirsch, for example, and even sourced the site as being authored by "J Blanicky," as well as having been accused of COI editing before, earlier this year.)

I'm asking to relook at this because of the afformentioned as well as a few other things. In the invesitgation on Heveticus96 you performed a checkuser at 12:38 pm([[6]]), and then at 12:57 pm, now-confirmed sockpuppet Askave (talk · contribs) states "["Yes, we agree ! All of us are the one !! [link to Czechia Initiave FB"]]). This seems to have gone unnoticed, and the case was closed within 24 hours and no comment made about it.

Of note, Helveticus really picks up his editing in April 2016 within just weeks of Blanicky's two main accounts being banned in May. ([[7]]). I've also noticed via the "Editor Interaction analyser tool" that Helveticus has edited 26 of the same articles that Blanicky-linked socks have edited, notably the following, with some edits merely minutes apart, as in the case of some of the talk pages (mind you this is only via the English Wikipedia, not the Czech one or any of the others that the users are active at...:

In addition, they have many of the same articles that they have created when compared transwiki-style.

  • Helveticus created de:Mikuláš Medek, and Jan Blanicky created the English Mikuláš Medek
  • Martina Sanollová, was created by Blanicky and deleted n 2018 as a user discovered he was a COI editor, and his sock Heptapolein recreated it in Sepetmeber. Meanwhile, the German version was created by Helveticus. ([[12]])
  • Skrol, of which is another COI edit, was created by Jan Blanicky. the German version was created by Helveticus. ([[13]])

- R9tgokunks 23:00, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you think the new evidence warrants it, please file a new SPI on the same page. -- King of 02:56, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I did just that, with a major update as well. - R9tgokunks 08:03, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

December 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan, near Columbus Circle. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus (South Lounge) at 113 W 60th Street, Manhattan
(note this month we will be meeting in Manhattan, near Columbus Circle, not at Babycastles)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 03:22, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Daniel L. Feldman

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Hi there! I'd like to revive the Daniel L. Feldman posting I started a long time ago, would love to finish it. Some of the sources I'd use:

https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/daniel-l-feldman https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-L.-Feldman/e/B001KE9Y8Y%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/16/nyregion/the-1998-campaign-congress-weiner-is-victor-over-katz-in-bid-to-replace-schumer.html

Do you have to approve that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yankeefan2225 (talkcontribs) 22:28, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You'll need more substantial coverage to meet our notability guidelines. -- King of 08:33, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 24 December 2018

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