Optional: write a lede — not necessarily a WP:LEAD. Interesting > encyclopedic.

Results from the July 2025 administrator elections have been posted. In alphabetical order, the newly-elected administrators are:

• CoconutOctopus
• Curbon7
• Hinnk
• Jlwoodwa
• Ser!
• Smasongarrison
• UndercoverClassicist

From the 16 candidates who were on the voting ballot, 9 of them succeeded. This brings the number of new admins this year to 12, continuing the trend of AELECT producing more new admins than RfA. There is now an ongoing debrief about the election. Election officials, candidates, and uninvolved editors are welcome to give their feedback about the July 2025 election. The election process may be further work-shopped based on this feedback, with the next elections expected to be conducted in 5 months.

The Signpost thanks these editors and the others who stepped forward to be considered for adminship. – B, S

Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Office_action:_Removals_on_the_article_Caesar_DePaço jp×g🗯️ 03:31, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) announced an appointment process for non-voting members. The process will work on a rolling basis, where interested community members may nominate themselves anytime, followed by a two week public feedback process from the community. There can be a maximum of 4 non-voting members appointed to the U4C at any given time.

The U4C was last covered by The Signpost in the 18 July issue. – S

TKTK - Expand from brief notes talk page discussion, Arbs described as "reasonable ask, done at an incorrect scale".

TKTK - Expand from brief notes. Needs more discussion/verification before it can be published Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 223#alleged_"massive_leak_on_Wikimedia_sites" involves off-wiki claim that oversighted information was substantive and not just the usual libel, copyright violations, and other dreck.

Decide if this needs inclusion in the issue itself Discussion is ongoing in Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Clean_start_(Morning277), last covered in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-10-09/News and notes, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-01-29/News and notes, and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-02-04/Op-ed

TKTK - Expand from brief notes meta:Request_for_comment/Closure_of_Sister_Project_Task_Force

meta:Wikinews Pulse proposed

TKTK - Expand from brief notes meta:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard#June_2025_meeting_outcomes

meta:Wikimedia Foundation elections/2025/Shortlisting process - BoT 2025 elections, 6 candidates shortlisted, 26 August is "campaigning period", followed by Voting period of 2 weeks

TKTK expand from notes

These are the latest Wikimedia Foundation bulletins.

• Bulletin 9 (May 16)
• Bulletin 10 (May 30)
• Bulletin 11 (June 13)
• Bulletin 12 (June 27)
• Bulletin 13 (July 11)
• Bulletin 14 (July 25) "The bulletin will be back after Wikimania with a special issue on the 19th August."

• The U4C passed a motion about mass blocks on Hebrew Wikipedia. This sets up a final layer of escalation for appealing hewiki blocks via U4C.
• During July, 4 functionaries resigned their Checkuser and Oversight rights - Alison, Bradv, Joe Roe and RickinBaltimore.
• After 21 days, the recall petition for Night_Gyr was certified. Discussion was notably heated, with nearly 48 thousand words from editors on the page.
• English Wikipedia content was removed by court order again at the article Caesar DePaço. Revision deletions appear to cover edits made from 12 January 2021 up until 10 April 2025. See Village pump discussion for details.