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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Technical news
- Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
- A '
Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.
Administrators' newsletter – March 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
- A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
- A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.
Technical news
- A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378
Miscellaneous
- The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.
Prize fund
[edit]Hi, I've updated the prize system to be more flexible, thanks for your input on that. It's just the emphasis has got to go into buying books for producing future content given the paid editing hangups many have on here. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:24, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
Map
[edit]Hi today I thought of creating a tool that makes a map showing the locations of the articles that editors have created. I made one for my article creations and then I remembered that you've created a lot of articles for towns and things so I wondered what yours would look like. Here it is:
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―Panamitsu (talk) 05:39, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
- Wow, thanks heaps. I've put it on my user page.-Gadfium (talk) 05:55, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
- At User:Panamitsu/sandbox I've made a map of 2,500 WikiProject New Zealand articles. The map template does not allow many more points than this, so it doesn't have all the ~8,500 WPNZ articles I've found with coordinates. I might find a mapping library that I can use where every article can be shown and the size of the dots can be decreased. ―Panamitsu (talk) 23:33, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
- You could break it up by area, e.g. northern North Island, central North Island, southern..., but I'm not sure if there are suitable location maps to use. There are location maps for regions [1], so you could use those.-Gadfium (talk) 23:54, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
- At User:Panamitsu/sandbox I've made a map of 2,500 WikiProject New Zealand articles. The map template does not allow many more points than this, so it doesn't have all the ~8,500 WPNZ articles I've found with coordinates. I might find a mapping library that I can use where every article can be shown and the size of the dots can be decreased. ―Panamitsu (talk) 23:33, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Nelson
[edit]Hi I've just noticed that Nelson, New Zealand, and Category:Nelson Region are named differently. I don't really know much about this topic so I thought I'd ask you, should one of them be renamed to match the other? ―Panamitsu (talk) 06:37, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Nelson Region is a redirect to Nelson, New Zealand. Each have categories. If you are asking why one is disambiguated, it's because Nelson is a disambiguation page because there are lots of people, places and things called that, but Nelson Region doesn't need disambiguation. There's a formal/legal distinction between the city and the region, but in practice one article covers them well. The demographics section gives figures for both the urban area and the region, because the population density is very different. The region category covers the rural areas as well as the city. Comparing them to the equivalent but separate Auckland Region and Auckland articles might be interesting.-Gadfium (talk) 08:32, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- That clears it up, thanks. ―Panamitsu (talk) 08:40, 21 March 2025 (UTC)