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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

Bureaucrat changes

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!

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

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News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023

Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade

Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor

In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say

News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024

Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies

Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth

Featured content: We didn't start the wiki

Essay: No queerphobia

Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!

Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer

Comix: The Wikipediholic Family

Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox

Concept: Palimpsestuous

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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

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News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates

Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board

In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators

Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna

In the media: War and information in war and politics

Sister projects: On editing Wikisource

Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov, Hyacinth, and PirjanovNurlan

Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion

Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos

Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections

Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares

Humour: A joke

Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn

Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps

Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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

Administrator changes

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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