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A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.
I've went and RBed them all, but for some inexplicable reason someone is just going ham on your Userpages. Geartooth (talk) 11:16, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, I think I've taken care of it for now, and if not, I shall apply more powerful magical wards. -- Cobi(t|c|b) 21:59, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
ClueBot NG not reporting to AIV
Hey Cobi,
Is there any update on what is happening with this please? Looking back on ClueBot NG's talk page, this was reported back in October that the last time the bot reported anything to AIV was September 22nd. K6ka pinged you in a discussion on ClueBot NG's talk page. I've just looked over ClueBot NG's edits for the last few days and I've not noticed anything being reported. Is there any update?-- 5 albert square (talk) 02:11, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
New bot
Hi,
I've just created User:RF1 Bot that works with your bot. Thought I'd let you know.
RhinosF1 (talk) 17:47, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Merry Xmas
Merry Xmas
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to you! Thanks for all your work with the ClueBots this year - makes my job a load easier! 5 albert square (talk) 19:35, 22 December 2018 (UTC)