User talk:DatGuy/Archives/2024/October

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

User:DatBot/newpagesbacklog

Hello DatGuy, the reports at User:DatBot/newpagesbacklog have not been updated since 29 September. Maybe this job is stuck and needs a restart. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:06, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

I'll take a look only in a few days unfortunately. ‪MPGuy2824‬ courtesy ping, saw you also mentioned this. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 22:35, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

We are currently running a backup at User:BaranBOT/newpagesbacklog and have updated the {{NPP dashboard}} template to pull data from this page. Please feel free to revert this change once you restart your bot, and you can stop my bot here. Courtesy ping @MPGuy2824. – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:27, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

The task is back online. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 13:16, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. DR has already switched the template to use your bots subpage. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 13:20, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

IP address block request

Hi there :) I'm running a wikipedia editing workshop at the Feminist Library, Peckham, London. We're having a little trouble with the IP address being blocked - we'd like to create a couple more new users! If you're around, please could you unblock? With many thanks! IP 82.71.2.227. Thanks for your help! Medievalfran (talk) 15:36, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello! So, first, the IP isn't directly blocked – I assume it's an WP:AUTOBLOCK. The intended target of the block is most likely using the same WiFi the library uses. I've adjusted one block that may be the one causing you issues. If the issue remains, let me know, and I'll look into granting you the event coordinator user group. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 15:46, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much! We'll try again and let you know :) really appreciated on the advice! First time flying solo for an in person wikithon.Medievalfran (talk) 15:48, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi there! Thank you again for trying :) it still didn't work in the end, but this is something we'll tackle and ask for help well in advance from Wikimedia UK next time! Thank you so much. Medievalfran (talk) 08:10, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Get DatBot on a foreign wiki project

Hi, is there a way to get the the DatBot on the si:wikipedi.org to get the backlogs on the project. I dont have much knowledge on wiki bots. Looking for help in this matter. VihirLak007 (talk) 13:50, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

@VihirLak007 I'm unsure which task you are discussing, but regardless, I'd need to see some sort of community consensus. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 14:17, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in a research

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.

You do not have to be an Administrator to participate.

The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement .

Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 23 October 2024 (UTC)