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Lugnuts

Hey there, I'm Redexxes. I'm new to the Guild of Copy Editors.

I was wondering how to start, what articles I should be looking for, and was wondering what I could do to help. Red.exxes (talk) 18:00, 1 May 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redexxes (talk • contribs) [reply]

Welcome! We can always use help. We've just begun our month-long, bimonthly backlog-reduction drive, so feel free to get your feet wet with that. Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/How to and Wikipedia:Basic copyediting are useful guides, and you'll become familiar with WP's Manual of Style as you go along. BTW, please sign your talk-page posts with four tildes (~~~~). Let me know if I can be of further assistance. Have fun, see you around and all the best, Miniapolis 21:02, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator changes

None

Guideline and policy news

The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.