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Administrators' newsletter – April 2025

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

Administrator changes

Dennis Brown

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.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:46, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WIkiProject Doctor Who: March 2025 Newsletter

The Space-Time Telegraph
Volume III, Issue I — March 2025
Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who

One hell of a newsletter.

Geronimoooo!

Apparently this newsletter the queen of outer space... wait... no, sorry; that's Belinda! Swashbuckle your seatbelts because this newsletter is full of information regarding recent happenings in the Doctor Who WikiProject. You'll also find updates on the upcoming series and elsewhere the expanded Whoniverse.

Series 15

The fifteenth series of Doctor Who is set to begin this Saturday with "The Robot Revolution" on 12 April and will conclude eight weeks later after "The Reality War" airs on 31 May. It will once again be accompanied by a new series of Doctor Who: Unleashed. Draft articles for all eight episodes have already been created, the links to which can be found here. New novelisations adapting the first three episodes of the series are set to be released on 10 July.

Recent Article Regenerations

Since the last Newsletter, we've had a whole heap of quality content added to the Project. The articles Thasmin, "Joy to the World", Vislor Turlough, "Space Babies", "Legend of the Sea Devils", Weeping Angel, Doctor Who series 13, Pyramids of Mars, "The Legend of Ruby Sunday", "The Power of the Doctor", The Twin Dilemma, "The Husbands of River Song", "Demons of the Punjab", Doctor Who Live, "The Return of Doctor Mysterio", and Attack of the Cybermen have all been improved to GA-level quality. List of Torchwood episodes and List of Doctor Who episodes (2005-present) have been improved to FL-level quality, while the Doctor Who specials (2022) and Doctor Who series 14 Good Topics have been successfully promoted.

An additional good topic covering the series articles from 2005–present has been nominated and is currently receiving feedback. Though content creation has slowed in recent months, content improvement should hopefully see an increase as series 15 ticks ever closer.

Future Project Goals

The WikiProject will once again be working in collaboration to complete a Good Topic encompassing the series and its related articles. Any contributions will be greatly appreciated. Several editors have planned upcoming work for Doctor Who-related character, episode, and performer articles. More information, as well as where you can find out how to help, can be found it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Goals.

We Want You... To Help With The Newsletter

Due to the departure of previous newsletter contributors, the Newsletter is beaming out a message from Stonehenge requesting your help. If anyone would like to help actively contribute to the Newsletter's content updates, please let us know, as we are willing to accept anyone who is interested in helping with writing the Newsletter. We'll all stories in the end... make sure the newsletter is a chapter in yours.

Intelligence Bulletin from the Subwave Network

An additional novelisation for the fourteenth series adapting "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" and "Empire of Death" written by script editor Scott Handcock is also set to be released on 10 July.
Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper are reuniting as the Ninth Doctor and Rose for a new series of Big Finish audio dramas due to be released from this August.
A special hour-long episode of Doctor Who: Unleashed documenting Doctor Who's 2005 revival process is currently in production. It is set to be released later this year on BBC iPlayer in the UK and internationally on YouTube to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the revival.
The blu-ray box set for Doctor Who season 7 collection was made available on 3 March.
In breaking news, David Tennant almost didn't touch this.

Contributors

TheDoctorWho (talk)
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:50, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fyi, new uploads in German.

You are listed at WP:EMBASSY. Can you bring these files to the attention of any potentially interested German-speaking Wikimedian for further categorization.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Department_of_Defense._Department_of_the_Navy._Division_of_Naval_History._1952-1971

Thank you, -- Ooligan (talk) 03:39, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ooligan: Since they seem to be related to German naval operations in WW II, the most likely place to find interested editors is probably the MILHIST WikiProject. I left a message there. Regards So Why 20:52, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vielen Dank- for helping this historic United States government information to Volunteers that can understand it and put ii to use in various projects and pages. -- Ooligan (talk) 21:45, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adding the link, kindly created by SoWhy, to the WP:MilHist talk page here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Uploads of possible interest for this project at Commons. -- Ooligan (talk) 22:13, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adoption

Hi SoWhy

someone recommended I get an experienced editor to adopt me and help me. I’m asking you because I see your an Admin. I want to help out anc contribute by blocking vandals and deciding which pages to delete. You can find out more about me on my user page and also some of the other posts I made. I thought maybe I could get to know you and then we could take it from their. L$Aiden$L (talk) 17:13, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@L$Aiden$L: Thank you for your message and your interest. Unfortunately, I fear my days as an adopter are behind me, since I no longer have sufficient time to dedicate to editing Wikipedia. If you are interested in adoption, WP:ADOPTERS has a list of users interested in adopting. I'm sure you will be able to find someone there

Regards So Why 21:05, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

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

Administrator changes

Rusalkii

NaomiAmethyst (overlooked last month)

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!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 68

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 68, March–April 2025

In this issue we highlight two resource renewals, #EveryBookItsReader, a note about Phabricator, and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:19, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]