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 2024-04

Volunteer staff changes

In March 2024, 2 sysops and 1 checkuser were removed. Currently, there are

• User:De728631 was removed on 14 March due to inactivity. He had served as sysop since 26 July 2015.
• User:Kaldari was removed on 14 March due to inactivity. They had served as sysop since 3 June 2008.
• User:Trijnstel was removed as sysop and checkuser on 14 March due to resignation. She had served as sysop since 10 August 2011 and as checkuser since 28 October 2012.

We thank them for their service.

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 22:28, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Draft 2024-05

• Currently, there are
• User:CGoubert-WMF & User:HNowlan (WMF) made improvements to the stability of large uploads (T358308).

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Edited by Bawolff (talk) and RZuo (talk).

--RZuo (talk) 10:36, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

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I'm not sure if this is the sort of thing you want to mention, but User:CGoubert-WMF & User:HNowlan (WMF) did a bunch of work to make uploads of large files more stable (T358308). In essence, uploads >2.5GB work again after being broken for several months. Is that the sort of thing you want to include in these reports? Bawolff (talk) 16:31, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

yes, sure. can you write a short summary (with some links to more detailed explanation)? RZuo (talk) 23:02, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Added. I mostly just linked to the task. The details are pretty nitty gritty. Bawolff (talk) 15:49, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Draft 2024-06

Volunteer staff changes

In May 2024, 1 sysop was removed. Currently, there are

• User:Benoît Prieur was removed on 13 May due to global ban by the Wikimedia Foundation. He had served as sysop since 18 January 2018.

Other news

• Video2commons is out of service since 16 May.
• User:SteinsplitterBot is back in service rotating files. User:Steinsplitter explained that it was out of service because ' the so called "Toolsforge" does not provide enough ressources (RAM, CPU, Storage and binarys) to run Rotatebot '.

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 13:40, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Draft 2024-07

Volunteer staff changes

In 2024, . Currently, there are

Other news

• Kosovo enacted Law No. 08/l-205 on Copyright and Related Rights, becoming effective five days after its publication on the Official Gazette of the Republic of Kosovo on 12 October 2023. The new law is heavily patterned after the European Union standards; Wikimedia Commons-compatible freedom of panorama now exists in the country.
• A new copyright law in Mongolia was adopted on 6 May 2021. The new Law of Mongolia on Copyrights now provides freedom of panorama for works of architecture and three-dimensional works like statues. See this discussion for more details.

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Edited by JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.). --JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 14:27, 1 June 2024 (UTC)