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/2023, COM:VP, etc. {{subst:Commons:Commons Gazette/Latest}}
• help update Commons:List of former administrators

Cheatsheet

=== Staff changes ===
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=== Other news ===
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Draft 2023-02

In January 2023, the total number of uploaded files exceeded 90 million.

Currently, there are

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 02:39, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Draft 2023-03

Staff changes

In February 2023, 1 sysop was elected; 1 sysop was removed. Currently, there are

• User:Cybularny was elected (26/1/0) on 1 February.
• User:Mardetanha was removed on 13 February due to inactivity. He has served as sysop since 24 August 2008. We thank him for his service.

Other news

Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Multimedia and Commons concluded.

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 07:52, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Draft 2023-04

Staff changes

In March 2023, 1 sysop was elected. Currently, there are

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Edited by RZuo (talk).