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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=== Other news ===
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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 2024, . Currently, there are

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