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Administrators' newsletter – March 2026
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2026).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
- A request for comment is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 in favour of handling such redirects through RfD.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
- Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
- The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
- An Unreferenced articles backlog drive is taking place in March 2026 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!
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This Month in Education: February 2026
This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 2 • February 2026
In This Issue
- Cairo University Spanish Language Volunteers document Madrid’s Historic and Contemporary Palaces
- Celebrating 25 Years of Wikipedia in Uzbekistan
- Meeting of the Latin American Network of Feminist Artificial Intelligence: building possible futures
- Farewelling the Auckland Museum Summer Students
- Inclusive Climate Learning with Wikimedia Reaches Special School in Kumasi
- Introducing Wikimedia in Academic curriculum for students of higher education in universities of Telangana
- Learning from Finland: Edit-a-thon on Finnish Education set to take place in Belgrade
- Library of IME-USP Workshop: Edits in History of Mathematics
- LitFest 2026: Room to Dream to amplify local voices across Wikimedia
- New online workshops for the German language Wikipedia
- Road to Wiki Cohort 1: Building India's Next Generation of Wikimedia Technical Contributors
- The history of the Wikimedia movement in a Brazil: a book about stories and projects
- Wiki Club Federal Government Boys College Celebrates Mother Tongue Day
- Wiki Club Minalabac joins Freedom to Read 2026: One World, Many Languages
- Wiki Love Folklore Photowalk at Khajuraho Dance Festival 2026
- Wiki Loves Fish Workshop Empowers Students to Document Coastal Biodiversity
- WikiCendekia 2026: Insights from our training of admins in Indonesia
- Wikimedia MKD's activities- new wiki club and a lots of new training workshops
- WikiPatrimoine Senghor : Valuation of African cultural heritage at the University Senghor
- Wikipedia Turns 25: Young Voices, Big Future
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The Signpost: 10 March 2026
- Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO
Part 2.
- News and notes: Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki
Dormant worm awakes; a sketchy archiving site struck; ether burns.
- Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?
A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?
- In the media: Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware
As well as controversy over LLM translations.
- Recent research: To wiki, perchance to groki
Comparisons continue.
- Obituary: Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet
Rest in peace.
- Opinion: Interface administrators and trusting trust
Potential attacks are the logical consequence of giving a group of users unlimited control over JavaScript.
- Technology report: English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
After the archive site launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started, with consensus to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times.
- Op-ed: Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?
The answer is slop.
- Essay: The pursuit of a button click
Volunteering for Wikipedia has its rewards. The thank-button, for example.
- In focus: Short descriptions: One year later
A discussion of the challenge set forth to the Wikipedia community one year ago!
- WikiProject report: Unreferenced articles backlog drive
Unreferenced articles in English Wikipedia - help us in the backlog drive!
- Community view: Speaking of planning ...
The WMF planning process is underway.
- Traffic report: Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
Death and the Winter Olympics.
- Crossword: "It will never happen"
Want to take a break?
- Comix: BRIEn't
Or is it.
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