</span><ulabout="#mwt232"><li>News and notes: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-08-29/News_and_notes"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-08-29/News and notes">Enough time left to vote! IP ban</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt232">
</span><ulabout="#mwt232"><li>In the media: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-08-29/In_the_media"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-08-29/In the media"><ilang="fr"title="French-language text">Vive la différence!</i></a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt232">
</span><ulabout="#mwt232"><li>Wikimedians of the year: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-08-29/Wikimedians_of_the_year"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-08-29/Wikimedians of the year">Seven Wikimedians of the year</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt232">
</span><ulabout="#mwt232"><li>Gallery: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-08-29/Gallery"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-08-29/Gallery">Our community in 20 graphs</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt232">
</span><ulabout="#mwt232"><li>News from Wiki Education: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-08-29/News_from_Wiki_Education"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-08-29/News from Wiki Education">Changing the face of Wikipedia</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt232">
</span><ulabout="#mwt232"><li>Recent research: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-08-29/Recent_research"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-08-29/Recent research">IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt232">
</span><ulabout="#mwt232"><li>WikiProject report: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-08-29/WikiProject_report"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-08-29/WikiProject report">WikiProject Days of the Year Interview</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt232">
</span><ulabout="#mwt232"><li>Traffic report: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-08-29/Traffic_report"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-08-29/Traffic report">Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt232">
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</section><sectiondata-mw-section-id="78"id="mwBy0"><h2id="Administrators'_newsletter_–_September_2021"><spanid="Administrators.27_newsletter_.E2.80.93_September_2021"typeof="mw:FallbackId"></span>Administrators' newsletter – September 2021</h2>
<pid="mwBy4"><arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Administrators'_newsletter"title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter"id="mwBy8">News and updates for administrators</a> from the past month (August 2021).</p>
<pid="mwB0s"><spantypeof="mw:Image"id="mwB0w"><ahref="./File:Green_check.svg"id="mwB00"><imgalt=""resource="./File:Green_check.svg"src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png"decoding="async"data-file-width="600"data-file-height="600"data-file-type="drawing"height="20"width="20"srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/30px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/40px-Green_check.svg.png 2x"id="mwB04"/></a></span><bid="mwB08">Guideline and policy news</b></p>
<dlid="mwB1A"><ddid="mwB1E"><ulid="mwB1I"><liid="mwB1M">Feedback is requested on the <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Enforcement_draft_guidelines_review"title="Wikipedia:Universal Code of Conduct/Enforcement draft guidelines review"id="mwB1Q">Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft</a> by the <arel="mw:WikiLink/Interwiki"href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal%20Code%20of%20Conduct/Drafting%20committee#Phase_2"title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee"class="extiw"id="mwB1U">Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee</a>.</li>
<liid="mwB1Y">A <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Should_we_use_ECP_on_templates?"title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)"id="mwB1c">RfC is open</a> on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:HIGHRISK"title="Wikipedia:HIGHRISK"class="mw-redirect"id="mwB1g">high-risk templates</a>.</li>
<liid="mwB1k">A <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Discord_logs"title="Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)"id="mwB1o">discussion is open</a> to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)</li>
<liid="mwB1s">A <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_183#RFC:_Pending-changes_protection_of_Today's_featured_article"title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 183"id="mwB1w">RfC</a> on the next steps after the trial of <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:PC"title="Wikipedia:PC"class="mw-redirect"id="mwB10">pending changes</a> on <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:TFA"title="Wikipedia:TFA"class="mw-redirect"id="mwB14">TFAs</a> has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.</li></ul></dd></dl>
<dlid="mwB2Q"><ddid="mwB2U"><ulid="mwB2Y"><liid="mwB2c">The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the <arel="mw:WikiLink/Interwiki"href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score/2021%20security%20advisory"title="mw:Extension:Score/2021 security advisory"class="extiw"id="mwB2g">mediawiki page</a>.</li></ul></dd></dl>
<dlid="mwB24"><ddid="mwB28"><ulid="mwB3A"><liid="mwB3E"><arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021"title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021"id="mwB3I">A request for comment</a> is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021"title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021"id="mwB3M">the Arbitration Committee election</a> and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.</li></ul></dd></dl>
<dlid="mwB3k"><ddid="mwB3o"><ulid="mwB3s"><liid="mwB3w">The <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/2021_review/Issues"title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2021 review/Issues"id="mwB30">2021 RfA review</a> is now open for comments.</li></ul></dd></dl>
<ul><li><arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia_talk:Administrators'_newsletter"title="Wikipedia talk:Administrators' newsletter">Discuss this newsletter</a></li>
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</span><ulabout="#mwt237"><li>News and notes: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/News_and_notes"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-09-26/News and notes">New CEO, new board members, China bans</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt237">
</span><ulabout="#mwt237"><li>In the media: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/In_the_media"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-09-26/In the media">The future of Wikipedia</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt237">
</span><ulabout="#mwt237"><li>Opinion: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/Opinion"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-09-26/Opinion">Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt237">
</span><ulabout="#mwt237"><li>Op-Ed: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/Op-Ed"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-09-26/Op-Ed">I've been desysopped</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt237">
</span><ulabout="#mwt237"><li>Disinformation report: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/Disinformation_report"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-09-26/Disinformation report">Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt237">
</span><ulabout="#mwt237"><li>Discussion report: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/Discussion_report"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-09-26/Discussion report">Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt237">
</span><ulabout="#mwt237"><li>Recent research: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/Recent_research"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-09-26/Recent research">Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt237">
</span><ulabout="#mwt237"><li>Community view: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/Community_view"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-09-26/Community view">Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt237">
</span><ulabout="#mwt237"><li>Traffic report: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/Traffic_report"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-09-26/Traffic report">Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt237">
</span><ulabout="#mwt237"><li>News from Diff: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-09-26/News_from_Diff"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-09-26/News from Diff">Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt237">
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<pid="mwB44"><arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Administrators'_newsletter"title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter"id="mwB48">News and updates for administrators</a> from the past month (September 2021).</p>
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<pid="mwB5E"><spantypeof="mw:Image"id="mwB5I"><ahref="./File:Green_check.svg"id="mwB5M"><imgalt=""resource="./File:Green_check.svg"src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png"decoding="async"data-file-width="600"data-file-height="600"data-file-type="drawing"height="20"width="20"srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/30px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/40px-Green_check.svg.png 2x"id="mwB5Q"/></a></span><bid="mwB5U">Guideline and policy news</b></p>
<dlid="mwB5Y"><ddid="mwB5c"><ulid="mwB5g"><liid="mwB5k">Following <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Special:Diff/1042239556#Should_we_use_ECP_on_templates?"title="Special:Diff/1042239556"id="mwB5o">an RfC</a>, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:HRT"title="Wikipedia:HRT"class="mw-redirect"id="mwB5s">high-risk templates</a>.</li>
<liid="mwB5w">Following <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_169#Discord_logs"title="Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 169"id="mwB50">a discussion at the Village Pump</a>, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.</li></ul></dd></dl>
<dlid="mwB6M"><ddid="mwB6Q"><ulid="mwB6U"><liid="mwB6Y"><arel="mw:WikiLink/Interwiki"href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:DiscussionTools"title="mw:Help:DiscussionTools"class="extiw"id="mwB6c">DiscussionTools</a> has superseded <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Special:PermanentLink/1042678970#Reply-link_officially_superseded_by_DiscussionTools"title="Special:PermanentLink/1042678970"id="mwB6g">Enterprisey's reply-link</a> script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under <spanclass="example"style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"about="#mwt242"typeof="mw:Transclusion"data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"myprefs","href":"./Template:Myprefs"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Beta features"}},"i":0}}]}'id="mwB6k"><arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Special:Preferences"title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a><spantypeof="mw:Entity"></span>→ <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures"title="Special:Preferences">Beta features</a></span>.</li></ul></dd></dl>
<dlid="mwB68"><ddid="mwB7A"><ulid="mwB7E"><liid="mwB7I">A <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Special:PermanentLink/1045390397#Extended_confirmed_restriction_omnibus_motion"title="Special:PermanentLink/1045390397"id="mwB7M">motion</a> has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Procedures#Extended_confirmed_restriction"title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures"id="mwB7Q">the Arbitration Committee's procedures</a>.</li>
<liid="mwB7U">Following the closure of the <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian_politics"title="Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian politics"id="mwB7Y">Iranian politics</a> case, standard discretionary sanctions <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:ARBIRPDS"title="Wikipedia:ARBIRPDS"class="mw-redirect"id="mwB7c">are authorized</a> for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.</li>
<liid="mwB7g">The Arbitration Committee <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian_politics#RfC_moderation"title="Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian politics"id="mwB7k">encourages uninvolved administrators</a> to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.</li></ul></dd></dl>
<dlid="mwB78"><ddid="mwB8A"><ulid="mwB8E"><liid="mwB8I">Editors <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Special:PermanentLink/1043716941#Proposal_to_expand_trial_of_Growth_team_features"title="Special:PermanentLink/1043716941"id="mwB8M">have approved</a> expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Growth_Team_features/Mentor_list"title="Wikipedia:Growth Team features/Mentor list"id="mwB8Q">add themselves to the mentor list</a>.</li>
<liid="mwB8U">The <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/CheckUser_and_Oversight/2021_CUOS_appointments"title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2021 CUOS appointments"id="mwB8Y">community consultation phase</a> of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.</li></ul></dd></dl>
<ul><li><arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia_talk:Administrators'_newsletter"title="Wikipedia talk:Administrators' newsletter">Discuss this newsletter</a></li>
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</span><ulabout="#mwt245"><li>From the editor: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/From_the_editor"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-10-31/From the editor">Different stories, same place</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt245">
</span><ulabout="#mwt245"><li>News and notes: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/News_and_notes"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-10-31/News and notes">The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt245">
</span><ulabout="#mwt245"><li>In the media: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/In_the_media"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-10-31/In the media">China bans, and is there intelligent life on this planet?</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt245">
</span><ulabout="#mwt245"><li>Opinion: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/Opinion"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-10-31/Opinion">A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt245">
</span><ulabout="#mwt245"><li>Discussion report: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/Discussion_report"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-10-31/Discussion report">Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt245">
</span><ulabout="#mwt245"><li>Community view: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/Community_view"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-10-31/Community view">Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt245">
</span><ulabout="#mwt245"><li>Traffic report: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/Traffic_report"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-10-31/Traffic report">James Bond and the Giant Squid Game</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt245">
</span><ulabout="#mwt245"><li>Technology report: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/Technology_report"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-10-31/Technology report">Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt245">
</span><ulabout="#mwt245"><li>Serendipity: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/Serendipity"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-10-31/Serendipity">How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt245">
</span><ulabout="#mwt245"><li>Book review: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/Book_review"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-10-31/Book review"><i>Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality</i></a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt245">
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</section><sectiondata-mw-section-id="82"id="mwB9Y"><h2id="Administrators'_newsletter_–_November_2021"><spanid="Administrators.27_newsletter_.E2.80.93_November_2021"typeof="mw:FallbackId"></span>Administrators' newsletter – November 2021</h2>
<pid="mwB9c"><arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Administrators'_newsletter"title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter"id="mwB9g">News and updates for administrators</a> from the past month (October 2021).</p>
<pid="mwB9o"><spantypeof="mw:Image"id="mwB9s"><ahref="./File:Green_check.svg"id="mwB9w"><imgalt=""resource="./File:Green_check.svg"src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png"decoding="async"data-file-width="600"data-file-height="600"data-file-type="drawing"height="20"width="20"srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/30px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/40px-Green_check.svg.png 2x"id="mwB90"/></a></span><bid="mwB94">Guideline and policy news</b></p>
<dlid="mwB98"><ddid="mwB-A"><ulid="mwB-E"><liid="mwB-I"><arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/2021_review/Proposals"title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2021 review/Proposals"id="mwB-M">Phase 2</a> of the 2021 <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/2021_review"title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2021 review"id="mwB-Q">RfA review</a> has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/2021_review#Issues_identified"title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2021 review"id="mwB-U">found in Phase 1</a>. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.</li></ul></dd></dl>
<dlid="mwB-s"><ddid="mwB-w"><ulid="mwB-0"><liid="mwB-4"><arel="mw:WikiLink/Interwiki"href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub"title="meta:Toolhub"class="extiw"id="mwB-8">Toolhub</a> is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at <arel="mw:ExtLink"href="https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/"class="external text"id="mwB_A">https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/</a>.</li></ul></dd></dl>
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<tbodyid="mwCBI"><trid="mwCBM"><tdstyle="vertical-align:middle; padding-left:1px; padding-right:0.5em;"id="mwCBQ"><spantypeof="mw:Image"id="mwCBU"><ahref="./File:Scale_of_justice_2.svg"id="mwCBY"><imgresource="./File:Scale_of_justice_2.svg"src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Scale_of_justice_2.svg/40px-Scale_of_justice_2.svg.png"decoding="async"data-file-width="204"data-file-height="208"data-file-type="drawing"height="41"width="40"srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Scale_of_justice_2.svg/60px-Scale_of_justice_2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Scale_of_justice_2.svg/80px-Scale_of_justice_2.svg.png 2x"id="mwCBc"/></a></span></td><tdid="mwCBg">Hello! Voting in the <bid="mwCBk"><arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:ACE2021"title="Wikipedia:ACE2021"class="mw-redirect"id="mwCBo">2021 Arbitration Committee elections</a></b> is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on <spanabout="#mwt257"typeof="mw:Transclusion"data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"#time:l, j F Y","function":"time"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"{{Arbitration Committee candidate/data|2021|end}}-1 day"}},"i":0}}]}'id="mwCBs">Monday, 6 December 2021</span>. All <bid="mwCBw"><arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021#Election_timeline"title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021"id="mwCB0">eligible users</a></b> are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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</span><ulabout="#mwt261"><li>WikiProject report: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-11-29/WikiProject_report"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-11-29/WikiProject report">Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt261">
</span><ulabout="#mwt261"><li>Serendipity: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-11-29/Serendipity"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-11-29/Serendipity">"Did You Know ..." featured a photo of the wrong female WWII pilot</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt261">
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</span><ulabout="#mwt261"><li>Traffic report: <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-11-29/Traffic_report"title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-11-29/Traffic report">Reporting ticket sales on the edge of the Wiki, if <i>Eternals</i> should fail</a></li></ul><spanabout="#mwt261">
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<pid="mwCDk"><arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Administrators'_newsletter"title="Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter"id="mwCDo">News and updates for administrators</a> from the past month (November 2021).</p>
<dlid="mwCFQ"><ddid="mwCFU"><ulid="mwCFY"><liid="mwCFc">Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (<arel="mw:WikiLink/Interwiki"href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284642"title="phabricator:T284642"about="#mwt262"typeof="mw:Transclusion"class="extiw"data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"phab","href":"./Template:Phab"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"T284642"}},"i":0}}]}'id="mwCFg">T284642</a>)</li>
<liid="mwCFk">The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (<arel="mw:WikiLink/Interwiki"href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293866"title="phabricator:T293866"about="#mwt263"typeof="mw:Transclusion"class="extiw"data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"phab","href":"./Template:Phab"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"T293866"}},"i":0}}]}'id="mwCFo">T293866</a>)</li></ul></dd></dl>
<dlid="mwCGA"><ddid="mwCGE"><ulid="mwCGI"><liid="mwCGM">Voting in the <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021"title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021"id="mwCGQ">2021 Arbitration Committee Elections</a> is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).</li>
<liid="mwCGU">The already authorized standard <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Wikipedia:AC/DS"title="Wikipedia:AC/DS"class="mw-redirect"id="mwCGY">discretionary sanctions</a> for all pages relating to the <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Horn_of_Africa"title="Horn of Africa"id="mwCGc">Horn of Africa</a> (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, <arel="mw:WikiLink"href="./Special:PermanentLink/1057777898#Arbitration_motion_regarding_Horn_of_Africa"title="Special:PermanentLink/1057777898"id="mwCGg">have been made permanent</a>.</li></ul></dd></dl>
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