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Volume 20Issue 1712 December 2024 English: C.M. Bell – PDNews and notesArbitrator election concludes New arbs to be seated in January. NASA – PDArbitration reportPalestine-Israel articles 5 Will the fifth try at achieving peace be a mudfight, or something better? Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department – PDDisinformation reportSex, power, and money revisited Should old acquaintance be forgot? Bill Magritz – CC0Op-edOn the backrooms An editor's reflection on social capital and their changing relationship with Misplaced Pages culture. Dave Pape – PDIn focusAre Misplaced Pages articles representative of Western or world knowledge?Misplaced Pages aims to represent the sum of all knowledge. Is there an imbalance between Western countries and the rest of the world? Michal Bělka – CC BY-SA 4.0In the mediaLike the BBC, often useful but not impartial Ballooning British bias bombast! Amy – cc-by-2.0Traffic reportSomething Wicked for almost everybody Fighting and killing – on screen, in politics, and in the ring – competes for attention with Disney. Pearson Scott Foresman – PDOpinionWorm That Turned's reconfirmation RfA debriefing The importance of feedback. Single-page edition ← Previous issue It's your Signpost. You can help us. Home About Archives Newsroom Subscribe Suggestions

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Volume 20Issue 1712 December 2024

English: C.M. Bell – PDNews and notesArbitrator election concludes New arbs to be seated in January.

NASA – PDArbitration reportPalestine-Israel articles 5 Will the fifth try at achieving peace be a mudfight, or something better?

Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department – PDDisinformation reportSex, power, and money revisited Should old acquaintance be forgot?

Bill Magritz – CC0Op-edOn the backrooms An editor's reflection on social capital and their changing relationship with Misplaced Pages culture.

Dave Pape – PDIn focusAre Misplaced Pages articles representative of Western or world knowledge?Misplaced Pages aims to represent the sum of all knowledge. Is there an imbalance between Western countries and the rest of the world?

Michal Bělka – CC BY-SA 4.0In the mediaLike the BBC, often useful but not impartial Ballooning British bias bombast!

Amy – cc-by-2.0Traffic reportSomething Wicked for almost everybody Fighting and killing – on screen, in politics, and in the ring – competes for attention with Disney.

Pearson Scott Foresman – PDOpinionWorm That Turned's reconfirmation RfA debriefing The importance of feedback. Single-page edition ← Previous issue It's your Signpost. You can help us. Home About Archives Newsroom Subscribe Suggestions

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024). Administrator changes Ahecht DoubleGrazing Dr vulpes FOARP Peaceray Queen of Hearts Rsjaffe SD0001 SilverLocust Sohom Datta ThadeusOfNazereth Voorts Ajpolino Fathoms Below Pppery Tamzin Worm That Turned Aervanath Christopher Sundita Dank Dennis Brown Dragons flight Fastily Graham87 JaGa Kbh3rd Marine 69-71 Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington Yamamoto Ichiro Interface administrator changes SD0001 Sohom Datta Pppery CheckUser changes Spicy TheresNoTime Guideline and policy news Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity. Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used. Technical news Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024. Arbitration The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed. An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive

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

Administrator changes

Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

Tech News weekly
m:Tech/News/Latest Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page. Updates for editors Users of the iOS Misplaced Pages App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history. Users of the Android Misplaced Pages App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles. The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year. View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Misplaced Pages App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped. Updates for technical contributors There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

Tech News weekly

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

Updates for editors

Users of the iOS Misplaced Pages App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
Users of the Android Misplaced Pages App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Misplaced Pages App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

Nomination for deletion of Template:PTG/all-wiki-pt

Template:PTG/all-wiki-pt has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 06:09, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Latin script/diacritic with all letters/overview

Template:Latin script/diacritic with all letters/overview has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 09:27, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Numcr2namecr

Template:Numcr2namecr has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 06:35, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Hindu temple/doc/sandbox

Template:Infobox Hindu temple/doc/sandbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 18:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Hiero/doc/sandbox

Template:Hiero/doc/sandbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 18:32, 16 December 2024 (UTC)