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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Draft 2023-10

• 7 September was the 19th anniversary of the founding of Wikimedia Commons.
• Currently, there are
• Commons:Adiutor is a new tool for maintenance tasks.

User:Vikipolimer was appointed temporarily as administrator and interface administrator from 4 to 11 September to facilitate set-up of Adiutor.

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 11:47, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Draft 2023-11

• Currently, there are
• Overwriting other users' uploads is now limited to users who have autopatrol.

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Draft 2023-12

• The total number of files on Wikimedia Commons exceeded 100 million on 16 November 2023. This has taken 7 009 days since the founding of Wikimedia Commons on 7 September 2004.

Some files on Wikimedia Commons

Zimbabwe $100 000 000 (2008)

Galaxy NGC 7479, approximately 100 million light-years from Earth.

Galaxy M82's burst of star formation is thought to have been initiated by a close encounter with M81 about 100 million years ago.

• Currently, there are

References

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Draft 2024-01

Happy New Year 2024!

• Currently, there are
• Please take part in Commons:Requests for comment/Technical needs survey to share your thoughts about Wikimedia Commons.

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Edited by RZuo (talk). --RZuo (talk) 09:07, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Draft 2024-02

Volunteer staff changes

In 2024, . Currently, there are

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