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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2024!

Hello Ajpolino, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2024. Happy editing, Spread the love by adding ((subst:Seasonal Greetings)) to other user talk pages.

Wname1 (talk) 06:41, 19 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Spicy (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Best wishes, and I swear I'll work on articles with you again someday :)

Spread the cheer by adding ((subst:Xmas5)) to their talk page with a friendly message.

Thank you Spicy, same to you. I'm always glad to see you're still around, even if you've left (interesting) medicine articles for (obviously boring) SPI work ;) Cheers and warm wishes. Ajpolino (talk) 20:05, 25 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

~ ~ ~ Merry Christmas! ~ ~ ~

Hello Ajpolino: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, --Dustfreeworld (talk) 15:08, 25 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi - thank you for your review at Talk:Louis Isaac Woolf/GA1, I greatly appreciate the help!

Please could you help me move File:Dr Louis Woolf.png to Wikimedia Commons as it doesn't seem to be working for me.

Thanks again! GnocchiFan (talk) 18:14, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It's now at c:File:Louis I Woolf 1972.jpg. Let me know if you need a hand with anything else. Best, Ajpolino (talk) 22:35, 12 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

		The Reviewers Award
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable reviews you have carried out at FAC. This work is very much appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:17, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Welcome, welcome, welcome Ajpolino! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)17:55, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with ((Unreferenced)). You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!