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For this section, try to only include changes that have been implemented since the last issue, and not ongoing RfCs or speculation of upcoming changes. The newsletter should be biased toward changes in policy, with closures resulting in no consensus or no change generally not needing to be mentioned.
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for an example. Alternatively, as deceased administrators have their rights removed for security, you can note an administrator is deceased by adding this in brackets after noting their removal in the administrator changes section. You may wish to wikilink this to the
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Some guidance and notes for writing each section of the administrators' newsletter. For all sections, please include only information that
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to see if anything is relevant to administrators. Also check the "Announce in next Tech/News" and "In current Tech/News draft" columns at
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Technical news may include upcoming changes, provided they are relevant to admins and are expected to happen in the coming month.
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Consider looking through the past few months of the newsletter and checking to see if any RfCs mentioned were subsequently closed.
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Occasionally there's something worth notifying administrators about that doesn't fit into any other category. Add it here.
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one and two months ago, to see if any of the RfCs have since been closed, or look at removed entries for the last month.
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pertaining to arbitration enforcement or discretionary sanctions, but not individual users or minor clarifications.
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All WMF teams may at any time be working on things relevant to admins, but you may want to check the
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Unlikely (hopefully) to happen very often, but deceased administrators should be listed. Check
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A chronological list of successful requests for administrator rights can be found at
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For administrators whose user right was removed in the last month, check the
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If another way to find information for a section occurs to you, just add it!
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usually accepts proposals in November with voting going into December.
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for upcoming changes that may be worth mentioning ahead of time.
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archives for the previous month, to see if any RfCs were closed.
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for users who requested their rights back in the last month.
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Interface administrator changes will typically be noted at
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Checkuser and oversight changes will typically be noted at
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Bureaucrat changes should also be noted when applicable (
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includes a list of removed entries from the template.
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and remember to list them in Administrator Changes.
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Knowledge:Administrators' newsletter
Administrators' newsletter
Archive
Subscribe
Write
Knowledge:Successful requests for adminship
WP:BN
bureaucrats' noticeboard
Knowledge:Inactive administrators
Arbitration Committee Noticeboard
Knowledge:Administrators/Message list
example
Knowledge:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard
meta:SRP
Knowledge:Interface administrators' noticeboard
Village Pump
Template:Centralized discussion
Knowledge:Centralized discussion/Archive
ANRFC
Tech News
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/user-notice/
Community Tech
Phabricator board
Knowledge:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard
Template:ArbComOpenTasks
December 2019 discussion
Knowledge:Deceased Wikipedians
File:Nuvola apps knewsticker.png
first issue
Knowledge:Deceased Wikipedians

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