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Administrators' newsletter – March 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes

AmortiasDeckillerBU Rob13
RonnotelIslanderChamal NIsomorphicKeeper76Lord VoldemortSherethBdeshamPjacobi

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
  • Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
  • A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.

March 2017 WikiCup newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:

  • Scotland Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
  • European Union Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
  • Japan 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
  • South Australia Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:51, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A user you have blocked has opened UTRS appeal #17653 on the Unblock Ticket Request System. The reviewing administrator, Just Chilling (talk · contribs), has requested your input:

yohohn (block logactive blocksglobal blocksautoblockscontribsdeleted contribsabuse filter logcreation logchange block settingsunblockcheckuser (log))


Time: Mar 01, 2017 20:31:06

Message: How do you feel about offering them the 'second chance'?

Notes:

  • If you do not have an account on UTRS, you may create one at the administrator registration interface.
  • Alternatively, you can respond here and indicate whether you are supportive or opposed to an unblock for this user and your rationale, if applicable.

--UTRSBot (talk) 20:31, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Just Chilling: Greetings! Just so you are aware, I am not the original blocking admin for this user; you'll want Bbb23 instead. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:49, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oops! That will teach me to trust the technology! Thx! Just Chilling (talk) 00:09, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2017)

Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Plastic explosive

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Previous selections: Grey market • Växjö


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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:10, 6 March 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

You blocked this user a few hours ago for going on a blanking rampage; they've since reverted your and my attempts to keep the shared IP template on their talk. I can't go to AIV because, since they're already blocked, the bot will automatically wipe my report. (For that matter, I can't find a policy or guideline on whether or not IP users can remove these notices.) CityOfSilver 18:31, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@CityOfSilver: WP:REMOVED says that these notices can't be removed; however, restoring these notices is also not a listed exception of 3RR. I initially revoked their talk page access, then thought twice and decided to restore it again. Since they're continuing their disruptive edits, I've decided to pull it for now. Requests to remove talk page access from a blocked user can be submitted to WP:ANI. Thanks for letting me know about this. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 18:39, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know how to reply to your answer here, but my answer is yes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.120.213.134 (talk) 17:51, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, "Yes" to what? To respond to a question there, please log in to your account, click on the "Edit" button next to the title of your request, and then add your comments at the bottom of the editing window. The requests page works similarly to a talk page.
Since I don't know who you are (As you did not log in), nor do I even know what request you are referring to, I cannot do anything else at this time. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:55, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Can you help me to remove my ip for. This list? It;$ protected. 83.31.59.25 (talk) 22:15, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you have already filed a report at Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Reports#83.31.59.25 and an administrator has responded to your comments there. I'd have to ask the same question. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 22:19, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2017)

Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Tandoori chicken

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Previous selections: Plastic explosive • Grey market


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15:25, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2017)

The long-legged buzzard is an example of a bird of prey.
Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Bird of prey

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Previous selections: Tandoori chicken • Plastic explosive


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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 20 March 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

17:02, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

User:2A00:1028:83BE:4392:E1F3:E4A8:FC01:A324

I think 2A00:1028:83BE:4392:E1F3:E4A8:FC01:A324 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) need his talk page access privileges reconsidered. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 01:06, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Jim1138: KTC has reconsidered, and they have reconsidered well. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 01:13, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2017)

The Czech philosopher Radovan Richta (1924–1983) originated the theory of technological evolution.
Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Technological evolution

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Previous selections: Bird of prey • Tandoori chicken


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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 27 March 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

In your edit here, you said, "The information at WP:USURP is outdated and is not up to date with current global rename policies." If that's the case, it should be amended. What information is incorrect? WJBscribe (talk) 11:14, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@WJBscribe: At Wikipedia:Changing_username/Usurpations/Rejected/23#Masclet.7Eenwiki_.28originally_Masclet.29_.E2.86.92_Masclet, AnomieBOT reported that the username was eligible for usurpation; this is probably because AnomieBOT is still programmed to look only at enwiki, since renames used to be local. Now that renames are almost always done globally, a username that may have once been eligible for usurpation locally may not be eligible for usurpation globally, so AnomieBOT should not be reporting that a username is eligible for usurpation in such cases (like this one). That was perhaps the biggest source of confusion. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:44, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, OK - the issue is the bot not the language on the page itself. I've asked Anomie to change the bot responses. I think the issue with Masclet is a broader one, which comes up from time to time. SUL finalisation meant that people lost their account because, at the time the accounts were unified, someone else had more edits. It's hard for them to understand why they can't have the account back now they have more edits than the person who took their account. It does seem particularly unfair in cases where the person who ended up with the global account hasn't edited after the account was unified. WJBscribe (talk) 13:03, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

14:46, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Almost immediately after your protection expired, the same banned IP-hopping user returned to disrupt this article. Could you please re-semi? Sro23 (talk) 23:51, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Sro23: ...and reprotected. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:53, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]