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Let's draft Commons Gazette! Please use this page for coordination and discussion, and feel free to submit any news for inclusion in future issues.
Guide[edit]
Keep it succinct. Write in a neutral tone. Commons Gazette serves to inform the community of facts.
Agenda[edit]
- Appointment and removal of Commons:Administrators, Commons:Bureaucrats, Commons:Checkusers and Commons:Oversighters.
- Details of appointment (vote results, links to request pages) or removal (reason, e.g. resignation, inactivity, decease). Grouped by appointment, honourable removal, or other removal, and arranged in this order. Sorted within each group first chronologically and then alphabetically.
- Appreciation for users who are honourably removed.
- Notices of major Wikimedia Commons events.
Schedule[edit]
- 1st draft due 30th day
- 1st day asap, no later than 2nd day
- check for additional changes
- finalise text
- publish on Commons:Commons Gazette/Latest, Commons:Commons Gazette/2023, COM:VP, etc.
- help update Commons:List of former administrators
Cheatsheet[edit]
=== Staff changes ===
Currently, there are <!-- [{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers/sysop|limit=500}} {{subst:NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} sysops]. -->
=== Other news ===
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Discussion[edit]
Conception of Commons Gazette[edit]
Commons Gazette was started following this discussion Commons:Village_pump/Proposals/Archive/2022/10#Monthly_notice_of_changes_to_the_sysop_team.--RZuo (talk) 00:30, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
Draft 2023-01[edit]
Staff changes[edit]
In December 2022, 2 sysops were removed. Currently, there are sysops.
- User:Seddon (WMF)'s temporary sysop expired on 2 December. We thank him for his service.
- User:4nn1l2 was globally banned by WMF on 6 December and subsequently removed.
- (The global ban was applied to 16 users. Some statements about the global ban by WMFOffice: 1 2 3.)
Other news[edit]
After more than 10 years and campaign efforts by many Commons users, user right sboverride was finally created in July 2022. This user right would allow users edit while overriding m:Spam blacklist.
Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 00:47, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
Dummy google sheet[edit]
i made a dummy sheet that takes wikitext as input and allows manual comparison to sieve out changes to the sysop list. better, fully automated solution to follow.--RZuo (talk) 00:47, 1 January 2023 (UTC)