16:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah Mentifisto → Lofty abyss Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes DeltaQuad Kingturtle

Technical news

• In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

Miscellaneous

• Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
• As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

18:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Someone tried to crash your bot... : User:-x20HBCx20AIVx20Helperx20botx00crashx00. Happy editing, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 20:56, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Is there an issue with User:HBC AIV helperbot5? It's not edited in 9 hours. RhinosF1^(chat)_{(status)(contribs)} 07:20, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

It's back RhinosF1^(chat)_{(status)(contribs)} 08:43, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

19:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Would it be possible to make the bot prefix its comments with ** instead of :* per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Lists? * Pppery * _{has returned} 23:30, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

@Pppery:  Done — JamesR (talk) 14:31, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Wow, that was fast! * Pppery * _{has returned} 14:32, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

This caused a display problem when merging duplicate reports. To fix it, you need to blank line before the second report when doing a merge. * Pppery * _{has returned} 22:52, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Taking a look now, I can see the issue. — JamesR (talk) 23:13, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

No, it looks like the extraneous blank line was added by XLinkBot, not this bot, and the original behavior of adding a newline was correct. Sorry for the confusion. * Pppery * _{has returned} 23:43, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

@Pppery:  Fixed — JamesR (talk) 00:53, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

22:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)