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Administrators' newsletter – November 2017
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).
Administrator changes
Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite
Technical news
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
- A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
- Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.
Obituaries
- The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.
Sustainable Development Goals and Iran
[edit]Hello, Miniapolis – I had copy-edited this article about five weeks ago. It involved more than copy-editing, including putting non-standard English into standard English and improving the formatting. I kept it on my watch list, and I just saw this edit to the article. I don't really understand the edit summary, so I don't know what to make of the edit. What do you think? – Corinne (talk) 01:58, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) It looks like someone's awkward attempt to make the article's title appear in the lead sentence. See WP:BEGIN. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:03, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
- You may be right, Jonesey; I hadn't thought of that. I checked the editor's contribs and talk page; they've been very active recently, but their talk page still has posts from 2014. Since the edit wasn't an improvement, I undid it. All the best, Miniapolis 02:07, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
Saxons
[edit]What do you think of these edits to Saxons? I think the adverbs "first" and "soon" add to the meaning. I don't know about lowercase "empire", but I tend to think it's all right. – Corinne (talk) 16:40, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
- I agree about "first" and "soon" in this context. IMO, Roman Empire should always be capitalized as a proper name; "continent" (meaning Europe) looks okay, since I think "the Continent" as a synonym for Europe is modern usage. Happy Thanksgiving and all the best, Miniapolis 19:33, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
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Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 10:44, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for your email. You may not have seen the notice at the top of this page that I no longer accept direct copyedit requests (for sanity reasons), and I'm currently working on the backlog of oldest tagged articles. WP has no deadline; keep listing your articles at WP:GOCE/REQ and they'll get done. Good luck with the GAs and all the best, Miniapolis 14:30, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 November 2017
[edit]- News and notes: Cons, cons, cons
- Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely
- Technology report: Searching and surveying
- Interview: A featured article centurion
- WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects
- In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution
- Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate
- Featured content: We will remember them
- Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text