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Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

• Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
• Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
• Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
• Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
• Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
• Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
• Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
• Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear (DYK) and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old (OTD). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:51, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about Samuel Kummer, one of five items on the Main page - more musing on my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:32, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

last offer in May: photos of the river Rhine, and the adjacent Eltville rose garden, - high water and interesting weather --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:20, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

As this was the first running of an experimental RfA, I'm not sure that less than 3 hours was enough time to see how it would pan out. I would say that the candidate hasn't presented themselves well, and, as it stood at the point you closed it, I would have opposed; however, it might be the case that under this experimental system that a lot more objections would surface early on. Or that when a candidate can see how their behaviour is giving concern that they may start making amends that will cause people to start supporting. We just don't know. SilkTork (talk) 07:07, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi SilkTork. Fair point on the 3 hours. It was around 1:00 AM my time when I saw the RfA, and if there hadn’t been over 20 opposes already, I would have just gone to bed and looked in on it again in the morning. But seeing the numbers where they stood, I felt like the chances were very low that the result would be anything other than the guy getting beaten up for another 8 hours with hurt feelings on all sides and questions about where the ’crats were and why no one did anything to stop it, much like in last month’s RfA, which was halted at 0/0/0. Realistically I don’t see how this RfA could have succeeded, and I feel like letting the oppose count get up to 30 or 40 before calling it off would have done a disservice to the candidate, but I’m certainly open to the idea that I’ve misjudged it. 28bytes (talk) 07:30, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

In cases like this it comes down to a judgement call, which you made as you saw it, and I don't see any real advantage to re-opening it, but I'm thinking that moving forward more information may be gathered if an experimental RfA is left to unfold a little longer. Just between you and me (and your talkpage watchers) when I saw that RfA in its early stages I wanted to put an end to it because it was clear that the candidate was not the most appropriate one to be trialling the new process because of their unusually limited approach to communication. I feel sure they would have failed under the traditional RfA, but they might have gathered more support early on which might have led to a more balanced discussion. Perhaps this is indicating that the new system is quicker at highlighting a candidate's weaknesses. SilkTork (talk) 08:54, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

All good points. Another thought I had was that it would be nice if people “held their fire” on additional opposes once there were 15 or 20 opposes already (in cases of <10 supports) so that things could run a little longer without fear of a pile-on. But then again, we’re already asking them to wait 2 days before opposing, so that’s probably not realistic either. 28bytes (talk) 09:06, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

My anecdotal observation of various polls or consumer reviews is that when a trend starts, a pile on follows. I guess we are communal animals, and there is something instinctively reassuring about following the herd and being part of the pack. Emotions are infectious - laughter, fear, joy, anger, etc - it's difficult to remain aloof from these emotions when they are swelling around us. Intellectually someone can think: "This doesn't need my oppose/support", but emotionally they get gripped by the moment, and want to be seen as part of the community. Especially as on Wikipedia we put a deal of weight on being part of the community. SilkTork (talk) 10:31, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

Around a year ago, I redirected my userpage to my talk page, according to WP:UP , to get rid of the red font that my username would appear in every time I made an edit. However, I discovered today the joy of user boxes and am interested in making a userpage. I can't seem to figure out how to un-redirect my userpage to my talk page, however. So, I searched up active admins and your username popped out the most to me so I'm here asking you this question. Thanks! InfiniteSword (talk) 04:27, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Happy editing! 28bytes (talk) 12:09, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Just out of curiosity, how did you end up doing it? Also, is there a way to change it so that only autoconfirmed users can edit the page? You know, to avoid vandalism and stuff. InfiniteSword (talk) 16:26, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

When you open a page that’s been redirected, there’s a line right under “From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia” that says “(Redirected from such-and-such)”. Click on the such-and-such link and it will let you edit the page and replace the #REDIRECT with whatever you like. 28bytes (talk) 17:46, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Oh, and per WP:UPROT, user pages are automatically protected from editing by unconfirmed accounts and IP editors. That should be sufficient for now, but let me know if you run into any problems with vandalism and we can bump up the protection if needed. 28bytes (talk) 17:53, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Last question (hopefully), is there a way to edit my user page with the visual editor instead of the source editor? It's much harder for me to edit using the source editor, since I don't really know where to put brackets and curly braces and such. InfiniteSword (talk) 00:32, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I believe I need to sign my posts on talk pages like this? Idk, I've never done this before, this is just a test. InfiniteSword InfiniteSword (talk) 00:35, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

ohhhhh all I need to do is this InfiniteSword (talk) 00:35, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, you should be able to use the Visual Editor to edit your user page. WP:VisualEditor should give you the information you need to enable it. 28bytes (talk) 00:52, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I read the page but couldn't figure out how to enable the visual editor for my user page. Also, is there a way to redirect my user page on the Spanish Wiki to the English One? InfiniteSword (talk) 02:29, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

As far as I’m aware, you can’t do cross-wiki redirects. You’d just have to use a regular link. As for VisualEditor, I haven’t used it in many years, so unfortunately I’m probably not the best person to help troubleshoot it. The WP:Help desk might be able to better assist. 28bytes (talk) 03:15, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Someone on Discord just pointed out that Conway's Game of Life has a playable version of the game. That's a delightful and unusual level of interactivity for a Wikipedia article -- cheers for that. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 02:26, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! When I saw that gadget on Spanish Wikipedia I thought it would be nice to bring it to our wiki as well. 28bytes (talk) 02:43, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Ah! Thought you created it. No matter -- barnstar still deserved. I just need to give out another one now. :) — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 03:17, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

I wish I had! It’s a cool little gadget. I may try my hand at creating one at some point, though; a three-body problem simulator came to mind. Xaosflux and Pppery deserve thanks for helping get the gadget going, as well as the gadget’s creators. 28bytes (talk) 14:00, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Today we have a centenarian story (documentation about it by Percy Adlon) and an article that had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Today is a feast day for which Bach composed a chorale cantata in 1724 (and we had a DYK about it in 2012). Can't believe that Jodie Devos had to die, - don't miss her video from the Opéra-Comique at the end, - story to come. The weekend brought plenty of music sung and listened to, and some of it is reflected in the last two stories! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:51, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:59, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

My story today is - because of the anniversary of the premiere OTD in 1782 - about Die Entführung aus dem Serail, opera by Mozart, while yesterday's was - because of the TFA - about Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera by Offenbach. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:14, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers the music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:17, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Main Page history/2024 July 30b will have a baritone, a violinist, a composer and a Bach cantata, - almost too much, and the composer's article, Wolfgang Rihm, should be better, help wanted. - Plenty of music on my parents anniversary day ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:28, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Have you seen his uploads? Elinruby (talk) See? look at the below. He is going to try to use this as evidence of something or other until the cows come home. This entire report is pure fiction. Elinruby (talk) 12:32, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

@Elinruby: maybe don’t harass a bureaucrat who just showed you an inordinate degree of mercy Dronebogus (talk) 12:33, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Would the two of you consent to a two-way interaction ban, and save the community the trouble of imposing one? Please? Mackensen (talk) 13:02, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Mackensen I have never interacted with this editor in the first place! And I submitted an editor interaction report to prove that! Nor mentioned his name anywhere before this! I suggest you examine his uploads, re name-calling. If you feel the need to answer this please do so on my talk page, not here. Elinruby (talk) 13:19, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

I will respect your close because you are an uninvolved admin and bureaucrat and I don’t want to get blocked for no good reason; however is User:Elinruby really deserving of “kindness” considering the evidence presented? Isn’t a warning about incivility and cross-wiki disruption at least in order? Dronebogus (talk) 12:29, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Because my ping didn’t work here. Dronebogus (talk) 12:46, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

28bytes. I'm sorry you have been deemed worthy of multiple posts on your own talk about the same thing. I know the feeling. For my answers to DB regarding this issue, please see my talk page discussion. ——Serial Number 54129 13:07, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

@Dronebogus: Edit conflicts are annoying, aren’t they? I e/c’ed three times trying to close that thread, and another two times trying to reply here on my own talk page. Anyway, I recommend letting it be, even if it’s the wrong version. The last thing we need is an edit war. 28bytes (talk) 13:18, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

I am not going to argue with you about the close, 28bytes, but am just pointing out that your closing is going to be used to misrepresent what happened even more than it already has been. I would like you to reconsider "name calling" since that is not what happened, but I will indeed let it be if you do not. However, yes, I got about three edit conflicts myself. Thank you for understanding that I had not yet seen the close. The post that Dronebogus so sanctimoniously removed is a fine example of why I thought it was worth sticking my neck out. Please see the example of what he is so strenuously defending. That is all, and thank you for your attention to this matter. Elinruby (talk) 14:14, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Elinruby. So there are really two issues as I see it. The first is the name-calling (i.e. the diff Dronebogus provided of you calling a third party an utter asshole, and Dronebogus’s comment in that thread calling a different third party an absolute jerk.) Given that a one-week block was just handed out to that third party for calling someone a moron in an edit summary, hopefully it’s obvious why I felt that closing the thread at that point would avoid unnecessary civility or NPA blocks. I simply asked everyone to stop doing that, which I believe is a fairly reasonable and uncontroversial ask.

The second issue is your characterization of DB’s uploads, which I deliberately did not address because that is a Commons issue, or, if you feel that the Commons community is not doing the right thing, an issue to be escalated to the WMF (legal-reports@wikimedia.org) or to other authorities. It is not something the English Wikipedia community or its admins have any control over, and talking about concerning Commons uploads here is simply not going to have any effect on the uploads, or really accomplish anything other than antagonizing the uploader. 28bytes (talk) 14:34, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

well, that's an unnamed hypothetical asshole, but alright, I did say "assholes", and the nuns would have disapproved <g> You're right about that. As for Commons, I completely agree with you, (and thank you for the email link btw), but I am not the one who dragged someone to ANI over it.

I did say I would not argue with you, and I am not, because this is one of the better explanations I have ever received of an admin action, but I do source verification and absolutely will hear about this close the next time someone takes me to ANI for a failed verification tag. Just saying. Thank you for the courteous reply though. Elinruby (talk) 15:35, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in August! - Today's story is about a stage director, - watch Aida, so tender so cruel. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:55, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Today is the birthday of Alma Mahler. I believe that Siegfried Lorenz should be mentioned on the Main page among the Recent deaths. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:43, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

... and he appeared! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:10, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

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• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

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• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
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Three stories related to today in memory, 11 September, 20 July and 20 June, the latter piece of art also pictured on the Main page. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:53, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Today is Schoenberg's 150th birthday! On display, portrayed by Egon Schiele, with a DYK hook from 2010 and another from 2014, about his 40th birthday, appeared on his 140th birthday. - See places for a stunning sunrise, on the day Bruckner's 200th birthday was celebrated (a few days late). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:32, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi there! The trial of the RfA discussion-only period passed at WP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

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Administrator changes

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• Good Olfactory
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• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

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Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
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Administrator changes

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• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
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greetings from a trip -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:59, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

I uploaded pics of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang Hevenu shalom aleichem at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:25, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.