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Some guidance and notes for writing each section of the administrators' newsletter.

If another way to find information for a section occurs to you, just add it!

New administrators

Guideline and policy news

  • Look through the Village Pump archives for the previous month, to see if any RfCs were closed.
  • See what was listed at Template:Centralized discussion one and two months ago, to see if any of the RfCs have since been closed, or look at removed entries for the last month.
  • Check which RfCs are in the recent archives for ANRFC.

Technical news

  • Look through last month's editions of Tech News to see if anything is relevant to administrators. Also check the "Announce in next Tech/News" and "In current Tech/News draft" columns at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/user-notice/ for upcoming changes that may be worth mentioning ahead of time.
  • Ask someone at Community Tech if they want feedback or notices about upcoming tech changes.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • Unlikely (hopefully) to happen very often, but deceased administrators should be listed. Check Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians and remember to list them in Administrator Changes.