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Guideline and policy news
Administrator elections
are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to
requests for adminship
(RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with
candidate sign-up
from October 8 to 14, a
discussion phase
from October 22 to 24, and
SecurePoll voting
from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at
Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections
.
Following
a discussion
, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion
G8
to
F2
. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
A
request for comment
is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an
administrator recall
process.
Arbitration
The arbitration case
Historical elections
has been closed.
An arbitration case regarding
Backlash to diversity and inclusion
has been opened.
Editors are invited to
nominate themselves
to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until
23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC)
.
Miscellaneous
If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put
MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
and
MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist
on your watchlist, and help out when you can.
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26 September 2024
In the media:
Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws"
Community view:
Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus
Serendipity:
A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics
Opinion:
asilvering's RfA debriefing
News and notes:
Are you ready for admin elections?
Gallery:
Are Ludd
ai
tes defending the English Wikipedia?
Recent research:
Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors
Traffic report:
Jump in the line, rock your body in time
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