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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
• A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
• Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries

• The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

Your input is needed here. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:18, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Cobi. You have new messages at Redrose64's talk page.
Message added 14:13, 5 November 2017 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the ((Talkback)) or ((Tb)) template.

Your input is solicited.Regards:) Winged Blades of Godric^{On leave} 14:13, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Hey Cobi,

FYI there is a discussion at ANI mentioning edits made by ClueBot NG. You can find the discussion here 5 albert square (talk) 19:54, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Conversation moved to User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2017/December#Proposed change to standard wording. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 22:22, 28 November 2017 (UTC)