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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/2025, 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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