Commons talk:Commons Gazette

Let's draft Commons Gazette! Please use this page for coordination and discussion, and feel free to submit any news for inclusion in future issues.

Guide

Keep it succinct. Write in a neutral tone. Commons Gazette serves to inform the community of facts.

Agenda

• Appointment and removal of Commons:Administrators, Commons:Bureaucrats, Commons:Checkusers and Commons:Oversighters.
  • Details of appointment (vote results, links to request pages) or removal (reason, e.g. resignation, inactivity, decease). Grouped by appointment, honourable removal, or other removal, and arranged in this order. Sorted within each group first chronologically and then alphabetically.
  • Appreciation for users who are honourably removed.
• Notices of major Wikimedia Commons events.

Schedule

• 1st draft due 30th day.
• 1st day asap, no later than 2nd day.
  1. check for additional changes.
  2. finalise text.
  3. publish on Commons:Commons Gazette/Latest, Commons:Commons Gazette/2024, COM:VP, etc.

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• help update Commons:List of former administrators.

Cheatsheet

=== Staff changes ===
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Draft 2024-01

Happy New Year 2024!

• Currently, there are
• Please take part in Commons:Requests for comment/Technical needs survey to share your thoughts about Wikimedia Commons.

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 09:07, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Draft 2024-02

Volunteer staff changes

In January 2024, 1 sysop was elected. Currently, there are

• User:TheAafi was elected (40/0/0) on 11 January.

Other news

The Toolforge Grid Engine platform is scheduled to be stopped on 14 February. All tools running on it, such as Commons:CropTool, will stop.

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 12:43, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Draft 2024-03

Volunteer staff changes

In February 2024, 2 sysops were elected; 1 sysop was removed. Currently, there are

Election:

• User:Matrix was elected (21/4/1) on 27 February.
• User:Bedivere was elected (21/2/0) on 29 February.

Removal:

• User:Nick was removed on 13 February due to resignation. He had served as sysop from 6 January 2008 to 10 April 2011, and from 1 May 2014.

We thank him for his service.

Other news

• CropTool received necessary maintenance. Its lossless mode is working again.

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 20:28, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Draft 2024-04

Volunteer staff changes

In March 2024, 2 sysops and 1 checkuser were removed. Currently, there are

• User:De728631 was removed on 14 March due to inactivity. He had served as sysop since 26 July 2015.
• User:Kaldari was removed on 14 March due to inactivity. They had served as sysop since 3 June 2008.
• User:Trijnstel was removed as sysop and checkuser on 14 March due to resignation. She had served as sysop since 10 August 2011 and as checkuser since 28 October 2012.

We thank them for their service.

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 22:28, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Draft 2024-05

Volunteer staff changes

In 2024, . Currently, there are

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