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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2025).

Administrator changes

• Giraffer
• Goldsztajn

Dennis Brown

• Cyclonebiskit
• Nohat
• Someguy1221

Bureaucrat changes

Barkeep49

CheckUser changes

0xDeadbeef

Oversighter changes

GB fan

Moneytrees

Miscellaneous

• Sign up for The Core Contest, a competition running from 15 April to 31 May to improve vital articles.

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The second round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 April at 23:59 UTC. To reiterate what we said in the previous newsletter, we are no longer disqualifying contestants based on how many points (now known as round points) they received. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. These tournament points are carried over between rounds, and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers at the end of each round. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned.

Round 2 was quite competitive. Four contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and eight scored more than 500 points (including one who has withdrawn). The following competitors scored at least 800 points:

• BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,233 round points from 24 good articles, 28 Did you know articles, and one In the news nomination, mainly about athletes and politicians
• Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 1,127 round points, almost entirely from two high-multiplier featured articles on Black Widow (Natasha Romanova) and Grace Coolidge, in addition to two GAs and two reviews
• History6042 (submissions) with 1,088 round points from four featured lists about Michelin-starred restaurants, nine good articles and a good topic mostly on Olympic-related subjects, seven ITN articles, and dozens of reviews
• Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,085 round points from three FAs, one GA, and four DYKs on military history, as well as 18 reviews
• Arconning (submissions) with 887 round points, mostly from four FLs, six GAs, and seven DYKs on Olympic topics, along with more than two dozen reviews

In addition, we would like to recognize Generalissima (submissions) for her efforts; she scored 801 round points but withdrew before the end of the round.

The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 13 featured articles, 20 featured lists, 4 featured-topic articles, 138 good articles, 7 good-topic articles, and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 19 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 300 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:03, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).

Administrator changes

Rusalkii

NaomiAmethyst (overlooked last month)

• Master Jay
• Orderinchaos
• Roger Davies
• Tinucherian

Interface administrator changes

Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
• An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO.
• An RfC has resulted in a broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.

Technical news

• A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
• History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
• An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in June 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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37		Nkhamanga Kingdom (talk)	Add sources
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350		They (talk)	Add sources
724		British Airways fleet (talk)	Add sources
225		English personal pronouns (talk)	Add sources
335		Malaysia Airlines fleet (talk)	Cleanup
34		Robert Görl (talk)	Cleanup
89		Document camera (talk)	Cleanup
1,059		Aam Aadmi Party (talk)	Expand
53		Electricity sector in Brazil (talk)	Expand
161		Four Sisters Before the Wedding (talk)	Expand
762		Visa policy of the United States (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
102		Sraosha (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
19		Ľudovít Rajter (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
139		2024 European heatwaves (talk)	Merge
41		WatchESPN (talk)	Merge
32		Shot peening of steel belts (talk)	Merge
85		Dentyne (talk)	Wikify
71		Hispanic and Latino conservatism in the United States (talk)	Wikify
231		57 (number) (talk)	Wikify
2		Hiram F. "Pete" Gregory Jr. (talk)	Orphan
348		Eid al-Adha in Nigeria (talk)	Orphan
2		Anytime Soon (talk)	Orphan
63		Cross Creek Pictures (talk)	Stub
7		Exoprosopa agassizii (talk)	Stub
2		Frank Lumley Playford (talk)	Stub
22		Mountaineer Boys State (talk)	Stub
14		The Indian Picture Opera (talk)	Stub
59		Abilene Christian Wildcats football (talk)	Stub

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315		Talha ibn Ubayd Allah (talk)	Add sources
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693		Superhero film (talk)	Add sources
246		Battle of Dak To (talk)	Add sources
760		Qatar Airways fleet (talk)	Add sources
260		Jet airliner (talk)	Cleanup
168		Cozy Bear (talk)	Cleanup
32		French-American School of New York (talk)	Cleanup
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31		Mozilla Composer (talk)	Expand
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32		The Generators (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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61		Arabian gazelle (talk)	Merge
6		Reddish tuco-tuco (talk)	Merge
3		546th Fighter Squadron (talk)	Merge
233		First class (aviation) (talk)	Wikify
200		NLF and PAVN battle tactics (talk)	Wikify
1,384		Pando (tree) (talk)	Wikify
8		Geopolitics of the Roman Empire (talk)	Orphan
46		K. Arun Prakash (talk)	Orphan
2		Abd Al Salam Al Masawi (talk)	Orphan
90		DLocal (talk)	Stub
3		Yatsushiro, Yamanashi (talk)	Stub
3		Higashiyatsushiro District, Yamanashi (talk)	Stub
11		Ebarb, Louisiana (talk)	Stub
28		Mats Löfström (talk)	Stub
12		Chris Ralston (talk)	Stub

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155		Holy Saturday (talk)	Add sources
974		Lufthansa fleet (talk)	Add sources
257		GMA Network (company) (talk)	Add sources
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672		Rolling coal (talk)	Cleanup
609		Pronoun (talk)	Cleanup
10		Rehar (talk)	Cleanup
898		2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election (talk)	Expand
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52		2022 Delhi liquor policy case (talk)	Expand
285		Knit cap (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
460		Languages of the European Union (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
83		Limitanei (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
22		Screwdriver Bit (talk)	Merge
44		2024 Premier Volleyball League season (talk)	Merge
35		Rugby Ralph Lauren (talk)	Merge
1,092		Cookie Run: Kingdom (talk)	Wikify
236		Headgear (talk)	Wikify
53		Quentin Collins (talk)	Wikify
2		Chokeelagee Creek (talk)	Orphan
2		2016 (June) Patna Pirates season (talk)	Orphan
2		Clinical Systems and Networks (talk)	Orphan
32		Dinichthys (talk)	Stub
45		Me Love (talk)	Stub
7		Plourdosteus (talk)	Stub
31		Nilesh Kulkarni (talk)	Stub
5		Misaka, Yamanashi (talk)	Stub
18		Cenesthopathy (talk)	Stub

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