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/2024, COM:VP, etc.

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• help update Commons:List of former administrators.

Cheatsheet

=== Staff changes ===
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=== Other news ===
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Draft 2024-07

Currently, there are

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 20:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

@JWilz12345 info from 2023 and 2021 is not "news" anymore. RZuo (talk) 05:59, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

@RZuo how about the recent discovery of the FoP in Mongolia by Chinneeb when they looked for the copyright law changes in theie country? Not news too? JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 06:24, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

@JWilz12345: i removed them because neither was recent.

if the scope of the newsletter is expanded to old news, then there will be endless things worth mentioning.--RZuo (talk) 18:58, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Draft 2024-08

Currently, there are

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 16:29, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Draft 2024-09

Volunteer staff changes

In 2024, . Currently, there are

Other news

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Possible content

Some statistics on media? New features and other stuff WMF came up with? Enhancing999 (talk) 12:39, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

you can write them down in the draft whenever you have. RZuo (talk) 13:38, 2 August 2024 (UTC)