15:24, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

• An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
• An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
• An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

• The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
• Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

• The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
• The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

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A year ago ...

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... you were recipient no. 1961 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:28, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello, JamesR,

It seems like AdminStatsBot used to update frequently throughout the day (sometimes hourly) but it is not updating very often any more (once or twice a day). I know that this is not an essential bot for editing purposes but I thought I'd inquire just in case anything needs to be checked or updated. Thanks for your bot! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:40, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

And now it hasn't updated in 4 days, James. Time to oil the gears or give the machinery a nudge with your elbow? Or maybe it has something to do with the notice about a replica database (see above). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:12, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Looks like it has something to do with Actor storage changes on the Wiki Replicas, maybe? Just a guess. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:26, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

@Liz: My apologies for the delay in my response, I will be taking a look at this tomorrow. I definitely think it must be related to the replica change. I’ll keep you posted. — JamesR (talk) 11:45, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, James. I hope I wasn't a nuisance. No more messages! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:18, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

@Liz: My apologies for the delay in getting the bot back in operation. It’s now updating again. For the moment, I’ll have the bot running once daily and look to progressively make this more frequent again. — JamesR (talk) 20:53, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, James! Daily is okay for me. Much appreciated! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:54, 28 June 2019 (UTC)