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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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13:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Formal sector

Hello SebastianHelm,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Formal sector for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

DrStrauss talk 16:44, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Editing as Activism: Black WikiHistory Month Workshop and Edit-a-thon at UW Bothell

Event poster for the Black History Month Editing as Activism Workshop and Edit-a-thon at University of Washington-Bothell Feb. 22-23, 2017.

Editing as Activism: Black WikiHistory Month Workshop and Edit-a-thon Social Justice Organizers at University of Washington-Bothell are hosting a two-day editing event for Black WikiHistory Month on Feb. 22 and Feb. 23, 2017. Main page: Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/Editing as Activism Learn to Purposefully Edit Wikipedia February 22, 2017 ~3-5:30pm Location: UW Bothell Activities & Recreation Center (ARC) Overlook (Sports and Recreation Complex on the campus map), Second floor, room 202. Address: 18220 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011; vehicle parking in North parking garage $3 for 3 hours or $6/all day rate cash or card This workshop gives you the critical tools you need to log on with purpose and make edits that make a difference. Led by Monika Sengul-Jones Black History Month Edit-a-thon February 23, 2017 3-6pm Location: UW Bothell Common Grounds Cafe in the Commons Hall (UW2), main floor. Address: 18115 Campus Way NE Bothell, WA 98011; vehicle parking in South parking garage $3 for 3 hours or $6/all day rate cash or card Put your editing skills to work in a group editing session. Edit and/or create pages that improve Wikipedia's coverage of Black history and culture. All welcome. Novice editors encouraged to attend the Learn to Purposefully Edit session on Feb. 22. Bring your laptops, power cords, and books/articles to edit with. All are welcome; this event is specifically geared towards the University of Washington student and faculty community. Light refreshments will be served. Affiliated Sponsor: Cascadia Wikimedians User Group To unsubscribe from future messages from Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle, please remove your name from this list. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:57, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

cascadia.wiki

Art+Feminism March 2017 at UW Seattle

cascadia.wiki

Art+Feminism Learn to Edit Pre-session When: Friday, March 3rd, 2017, from 12-2pm PT Where: Research Commons, Allen Library South, Ground floor. University of Washington. Seattle, WA 98195 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon When: Saturday, March 4th, 2017, 9am-1pm PT Where: Research Commons, Allen Library South, Ground floor. University of Washington. Seattle, WA 98195 Google Map link The University of Washington Research Commons, Cascadia Wikimedians, iArts, & iQueeries will jointly host an Art+Feminism event in March at the Research Commons. Join us for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism! Our focus is on improving Wikipedia's representation of North American Indigenous art, Indigenous womxn artists, and Indigenous feminism. We will provide tutorials for beginner Wikipedians, childcare, refreshments, and live streaming for those unable to attend. Cost is free! Anyone and everyone who wishes to attend this event is welcome. Bring your own laptops and power cords (guest access to UW WiFi will be available). RSVP here: http://bit.ly/AFUW-RSVP Event page: http://bit.ly/ArtFeminismUW Transportation: Sign up here http://bit.ly/AFUW-Carpool for carpooling Childcare: Please indicate your need for childcare in our RSVP form: http://bit.ly/AFUW-RSVP To unsubscribe from future messages from Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle, please remove your name from this list. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:36, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

File:Bilabial plosives English.PNG listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Bilabial plosives English.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Jon Kolbert (talk) 08:04, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

June 30, Talkback

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Gender-neutral

Template:Gender-neutral has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. KMF (talk) 04:28, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Balto-Slavic languages

Hello, Sebastian, I would like to ask you for third opinion on this page. Discussion is below a chapter "Raising of stressed *o to *u in a final syllable". If you wouldn't do it personally could you ask about it other users, please?--Ed1974LT (talk) 18:17, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Kircher

I don't have any profound knowledge of Athanasius Kircher. I've just seen various of his diagrams and maps for many years, and know that he was attempting a kind of grand synthesis of traditional systems and schemas at a time when many of them would soon be pushed aside by the rise of modern science. (A little similar to Casaubon in Middlemarch, maybe.) AnonMoos (talk) 14:45, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Assyrian cuneiform

I was planning to first, do post-upload cross-checking and minor error-corrections, then sort them by according to Unicode order, then decide which is the basic or most typical sign (in cases where multiple Assyrian Cuneiform glyphs correspond to a single Unicode code point). However, I only ever got 30% of the way through post-upload cross-checking and minor error-corrections. I could give you a table of the SVGs in Unicode order, but it would be missing some of the cross-checking, and there would be multiple SVGs for some Unicode code points... AnonMoos (talk) 14:45, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in replying, but the Assyrian Cuneiform project has kind of been on the back-burner for several months, and I had to set aside some time to bring myself back up to speed.

As for File:Assyrian cuneiform U1212C MesZL 3 or U12400 MesZL 2.svg, there's not a one-to-one correspondence between Old Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian cuneiform signs. Generally, Old Babylonian makes more distinctions (which is why it was chosen as the basis of the Unicode standard), but sometimes a single Old Babylonian sign will correspond to multiple Assyrian signs. See the chart beginning on page 11 of the PDF file included in http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/AkkadianAssyrian.zip for a visual guide to this.

I hadn't really decided whether or not to rename files, but the error-checking I've done so far revealed has shown that File:Assyrian cuneiform MesZL 27.svg is closer to U1234B than to any other Unicode character, while the Unicode way of writing File:Assyrian cuneiform MesZL 133.svg is U12137 followed by U122BB (even though Studt and Borger disapprove of that).

As for ordering, you're probably right -- I guess I confused Cuneiform (Unicode block) with List of cuneiform signs. I'm not sure whether I would add them to Cuneiform (Unicode block) (which would require Unicode ordering)... AnonMoos (talk) 05:01, 30 October 2017 (UTC)