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Tech News: 2025-27

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

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

Administrator changes

removed NuclearWarfare

Interface administrator changes

added L235

Guideline and policy news

Miscellaneous

  • The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
  • Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!

Tech News: 2025-28

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:02, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

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Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

  • July 9–15 - Call for candidates
  • July 18–22 - Discussion phase
  • July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

  • The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
  • Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
  • The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
  • The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
  • Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. A separate user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.

If you are interested in the process, please make sure to watchlist the appropriate pages. A watchlist notice will be added when the discussion phase opens, and again when the voting phase opens.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:11, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-29

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:06, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Collins

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Thanks for that, though I think someone is trying to change the incoming links to the article. 331dot (talk) 10:44, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Onel5969: You can hold off on updating those until there's a requested move. I've reverted the bold move to Susan Collins (politician). ~ Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 10:47, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sure thing. Onel5969 TT me 10:50, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Let me know if you need me to go back and revert those changes.Onel5969 TT me 10:51, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No need to revert them per WP:NOTBROKEN. ~ Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 10:55, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections | Discussion phase

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Administrator Elections | Discussion phase

The discussion phase of the July 2025 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

  • July 18–22 - Discussion phase (we are here)
  • July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase
  • July 30–c. Aug 3 - Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Discussion phase.

On July 23, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's totals during the election. You must be extended confirmed to vote.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last approximately four days, or perhaps a little longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:52, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request

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Could you change the Hip Hop template to look more like this?

Modified from Template:Hip-hop

This template's initial visibility currently defaults to autocollapse, meaning that if there is another collapsible item on the page (a navbox, sidebar, or table with the collapsible attribute), it is hidden apart from its title bar; if not, it is fully visible.

To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used:

  • {{SilverLocust|state=collapsed}} will show the template collapsed, i.e. hidden apart from its title bar.
  • {{SilverLocust|state=expanded}} will show the template expanded, i.e. fully visible.


2601:C7:C280:14C0:604B:6A11:AF10:4EE (talk) 17:38, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'm not going to remove all of the hyphens from "hip-hop". See the discussions Requested move 23 November 2024 and Requested move 2 December 2024 where there was consensus to use the hyphen. ~ Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 18:00, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Leave all the hyphens in, but other than that, change the template to what I've shown. 2601:C7:C280:14C0:604B:6A11:AF10:4EE (talk) 19:01, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The other changes consist, so far as I have found, of things like using former names of articles (like changing LGBTQ representation in hip-hop to LGBT representations in hip hop music or changing Romani hip-hop to Romany hip hop) or section names that are not the current section names. Each one that I have checked has not been a helpful change. If there's any particular changes in there that you want to identify, please say what the changes are and why they would be helpful. ~ Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 00:46, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like you to put in the rap rock genres that are not there.2601:C7:C280:14C0:38E3:7302:6F55:75EA (talk) 14:30, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-30

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:39, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections | Voting phase

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Administrator Elections | Voting phase

The voting phase of the July 2025 administrator elections has started and continues until July 29 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

  • July 23–29 – Voting phase
  • July 30–c. Aug 3 – Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for approximately four days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:36, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]