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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.
- check for additional changes.
- finalise text.
- publish on Commons:Commons Gazette/Latest, Commons:Commons Gazette/2025, COM:VP, etc.
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- help update Commons:List of former administrators.
Cheatsheet
=== Staff changes ===
Currently, there are <!-- [{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers/sysop|limit=500}} {{subst:NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} sysops]. -->
=== Other news ===
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Draft 2024-12
[edit]- Currently, there are
- Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is hosting a series of community calls to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. Next calls will be held at 08:00 and 16:00 UTC, 12 December 2024. Join and have your say!
Edited by RoyZuo (talk). --RoyZuo (talk) 08:47, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
Draft 2025-01
[edit]
Volunteer staff changes
[edit]In December 2024, 2 sysops were elected; 1 sysop was removed. Currently, there are
Election:
- User:Auntof6 was elected (38/0/1) on 5 December.
- User:Triplec85 was elected (19/4/0) on 9 December.
Removal:
- User:JarrahTree passed away on 2 December.[1] He had served as sysop from 29 March 2010.
A big loss for our community. We thank him for his service.
Edited by Abzeronow and RoyZuo.
- @Abzeronow: please take a look at the draft.--RoyZuo (talk) 09:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- It looks fine to me. Abzeronow (talk) 21:08, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
Draft 2025-02
[edit]In January 2025, 1 sysop was elected. Currently, there are
- User:Ratekreel was elected (27/2/2) on 27 January.
Draft 2025-03
[edit]In February 2025, 1 sysop was elected; 1 sysop was removed. Currently, there are
Election:
Removal:
- User:Spiritia was removed on 12 February due to inactivity. She had served as sysop from 9 April 2008.
We thank her for her service.
Edited by RoyZuo. --RoyZuo (talk) 11:35, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
Draft 2025-04
[edit]Volunteer staff changes
[edit]In March 2025, 1 checkuser was elected; 5 sysops and 1 bureaucrat were removed. Currently, there are Election:
- User:The Squirrel Conspiracy was elected (39/0/0) on 20 March.
Removal:
- User:Czar was removed on 13 March due to inactivity. They had served as sysop since 15 May 2016.
- User:Ellin Beltz was removed on 13 March due to inactivity. She had served as sysop since 28 February 2014 and as bureaucrat since 2 June 2015.
- User:Hesperian was removed on 13 March due to inactivity. They had served as sysop since 3 July 2008.
- User:MBisanz was removed on 13 March due to inactivity. He had served as sysop since 3 November 2008.
- User:Storkk was removed on 13 March due to inactivity. He had served as sysop since 1 March 2016.
We thank them for their service.
An appeal to all Commons users: please consider applying to become sysops or nominating users. Departure of multiple sysops exacerbates Commons volunteer staff shortage. Your experience and passion are much needed.
Other news
[edit]- Thanks to User:Don-vip, Video2commons was fixed so uploads from Youtube are possible again. This bug impeded Video2commons for approximately two months.
Video2commons is in need of maintainers. Please help keep it running!
Edited by Abzeronow and RoyZuo.
--RoyZuo (talk) 18:36, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
- User:The Squirrel Conspiracy was also elected as a checkuser. Abzeronow (talk) 18:28, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Abzeronow: thx! I accidentally overlooked it.😅 I added your name.--RoyZuo (talk) 18:39, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
Draft 2025-05
[edit]Volunteer staff changes
[edit]In 2025, . Currently, there are
Edited by .