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Thank you for the page protection, with Bach music for Easter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

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Technical news

  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:47, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

You have been april fooled!

April fool another user! (optional) Sebbers10 Your bisexual friend! 17:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
Thank you so much for being extremely reliable and hardworking! PsychMysterio (talk) 23:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Spammer

You missed one, , spamming the same link as . v/r - Seawolf35 19:09, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

And another med spammer, v/r - Seawolf35 19:24, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
And med spammer, , v/r - Seawolf35 19:27, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
@Seawolf35 That was an interesting little rabbit hole! There's very rarely just one spam account. Feel free to drop any more spam accounts here; they're almost always worth a look. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:47, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Scrutinize this guy for me?

Bolstamar has an incredibly odd editing pattern for someone new to the site x1 day, including putting dig at RfA in here. I don't keep track on which LTA pattern this matches, but since you protected the last page to which he made an unconstructive edit, I thought I'd bring him to your (or any relevant admin TPS') attention. Jclemens (talk) 06:14, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

NVM, Izno took care of it. Jclemens (talk) 07:43, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
I think it's probably Shanateen (who caused the protection). Someone burning a 2 year old sleeper on that is... a choice. I've got an open quick CU request out but it's as liable to find socks as it is to find proxies I'd guess, given LTA's apparent knowledge. Izno (talk) 07:46, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
I don't mind blocking some proxies. I'll have a look when I get chance. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 08:42, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
@Jclemens @Izno worse than a proxy, they're on a vast mobile range. I couldn't see any other accounts but that doesn't mean much. If this is going to be an an ongoing problem, we can upgrade the protection to ECP but there's always a chance they might go away if we ignore them. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:42, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

ArbCom update

Hi HJ, I hope you are doing well. It's sad that GN resigned from ArbCom. I noticed that two pages, Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Clerks#Mailing list and User:ArbClerkBot/Authorized users need to be updated after GN's resignation. I could have done it myself, but I don't think it's within my authority to edit official pages. Thanks. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:30, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer Thanks for pointing that out. I'm going to ping Maxim who's more knowledgeable about this sort of housekeeping than I am. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:36, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
I've updated both of the linked pages. Maxim (talk) 13:43, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
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