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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024 News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024). Administrator changes Nyttend JohnOwens Killiondude MelanieN Nihonjoe Bureaucrat changes Nihonjoe CheckUser changes Joe Roe Oversight changes GeneralNotability Guideline and policy news Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report. Technical news Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531 Arbitration The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed. Miscellaneous This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA. A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate! Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here! Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:26, 2 May 2024 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – June 2024 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! Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – July 2024 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 Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – August 2024 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 Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 6 August 2024 (UTC)