Administrators’ newsletter – November 2017
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.
Precious five years!
—Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:48, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
- Wow, time really flies. Thanks for the reminder 🙂 Legoktm (talk) 18:04, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
Tech News: 2017-45
18:45, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
Tech News: 2017-46
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Tech News: 2017-47
19:19, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 November 2017
- News and notes: Cons, cons, cons
The first ever Wikidata conference was a con we wanted. Problematic paid editing while in a position of trust: not so much.
- Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely
Arbitration matters from October and November.
- Technology report: Searching and surveying
A new advanced search interface; the Community Wishlist Survey is back.
- Interview: A featured article centurion
Brianboulton talks about featured articles on his 100th promotion.
- WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects
A novel approach to recruit members for your project!
- In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution
Wikipedia seen as flawed but important; conservative think-tank fellow wants his say; volunteer in Madison wants to close the gender gap.
- Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate
Readers intrigued by the Netflix show Stranger Things, and by sexual assault allegations.
- Featured content: We will remember them
War memorials, soldiers, extinct species, and devastating hurricanes are some of the most recently promoted featured content.
- Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
And other new research publications.
- Humour: Good faith (but still incomprehensible)
The entertainment value of Wikipedia.
Tech News: 2017-48
20:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)