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Administrators' newsletter – October 2026

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2026).

Administrator changes

Oversight changes

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, the good article criteria have been amended to add accessibility requirements.
Following an RfC, late signatures added to administrator recall petitions after 720 hours from opening are reverted or struck and do not count towards the threshold, even if the petition has not yet been formally closed.
The post-May 2026 administrator elections RfCs concluded with consensus for election monitors to curate blatantly inappropriate questions after posting, and to remove or merge true duplicates, clearly marking merged questions. Calls for candidates will include advisory guidance that users with less than one year’s experience or 5,000 edits generally lack a realistic chance of success.

Technical news

Interface administrators no longer need to specify the ResourceLoader option in the definitions for gadgets on MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition as gadgets are always loaded through ResourceLoader. (T298199)
The list=abusefilters API module now supports formatversion=2 and includes breaking changes to its responses. In particular, the actions property is now a JSON array rather than a string, regardless of the format version. Maintainers of user scripts and other code using this module should check compatibility and update their code as needed. (T435828)

Arbitration

The arbitration case Gun control 2 has been closed.

Obituaries

Doug Weller passed away on 30 September 2026. Doug Weller began editing Wikipedia in 2006 and became an administrator in 2008, making nearly 275,000 edits over two decades. He served on the Arbitration Committee from 2015 through 2018 and was also a longtime CheckUser and Oversighter.

Miscellaneous

The October 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from September 29 to October 19. The call for candidates ends October 5.
Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2026 Arbitration Committee elections is opened and closes on 8 October.
The Good Article Nominations backlog drive has begun and is scheduled to end on November 3.

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Oct 20 Opening (Access) Night with EFF + Oct 30 Wikidata Day NYC

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Opening (Access) Night for OA Week with Electronic Frontier Foundation

When: October 20, 2026

Where: Prime Produce

Time: 5:00pm to 8:00pm

Note: This gathering replaces October's WikiWednesday Salon. Prime Produce is at 424 West 54th Street.

Wikidata Day

When: October 30, 2026

Where: Pratt Institute School of Information

Time: 2:00pm to 6:00pm

This event marks the 14th Birthday of Wikidata with a celebration and mini-conference. Sign up for a lightning talk or presentation and view the most up to date schedule on the Wikipedia event registration page!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Photography Policy.

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:38, 11 October 2026 (UTC)Reply