Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-12-04/Discussion report

Musical scores, diversity conference, Module:Convert, and more

This is mostly a list of Non-article page

, recent watchlist notices and SiteNotices. The latter two are in bold. Items that are new to this report are in italics even if they are not new discussions. If an item can be listed under more than one category it is usually listed once only in this report. Clarifications and corrections are appreciated; please leave them in this article's comment box at the bottom of the page.

Style and naming

• "Proposed amendment to MOS:COMMA" for dates and places
• Use of horizontal lines on date pages

Policies and guidelines

• Where Wikipedia should discuss identity policy
• PROD proposal
• "Should the website of a known trolling and hacking group be included in this article ...?
• In the album infobox, "add a "format" parameter to the albums template"?
• "Should this proposal, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest limit, be made into a policy?"

WikiProjects and collaborations

• "Should we eliminate cash rewards?" on the Reward board?

Technical issues and templates

• "...migrate convert to use the module Module:Convert"?
• In the "Infobox television" template, "Should the website parameter be renamed to official_website and production_website parameter renamed to official_website_2?"

Proposals

• Allow only autoconfirmed users to create AfD requests?
• Location blacklist for articles for creation
• MassMessage user right
• Use of the "Orphan" tag

English Wikipedia notable requests for permissions

(This section will include active RfAs, RfBs, CU/OS appointment requests, and Arbcom elections)

• "Voting is now open to elect new members of the Arbitration Committee. Voting will close on Monday, 9 December at 23:59 UTC. (Important note: Votes made prior to 00:01 26 November 2013 were discarded due to a technical error)"
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Callanecc

Meta

• "Wikimedia Central and Eastern European Meeting 2013 opens in Modra, Slovakia."
• "The first Wikimedia Research Hackathon takes place in cities around the world." on 9–10 November 2013
• "Wikidata celebrates its first birthday. Thanks to all who made this possible!"
• Trademark practices
• Scope of the Ombudsman Commission
• Draft Privacy Policy – comments accepted until 15 January 2014

Upcoming online meetings

• "VisualEditor", 2 December 19:00 UTC
• "VisualEditor", 3 December 1:00 UTC
• "Engineering Community Team", 17 December 17:00 UTC

Wikimedia blog posts

• "German war cemetery photo wins special award in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013"
• "Adding musical scores to Wikimedia"
• "Konkani Vishkawosh encyclopedia released under free license"
• "In Wikipedia, a roadmap to life"
• "Creative Commons releases version 4.0: Congratulations!"
• "Diversity Conference brings Wikimedians to Berlin"
• "Introducing the Wikidata “Concept Cloud”"
• "OAuth now available on Wikimedia wikis"
• "Developing Distributedly, Part 2: Best Practices for Staying in Sync"
• "Wikisource organizes proofreading contest for its 10th anniversary"
• "Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Vice President of Engineering"
• "How to make a Wikipedian angry"
• "Learning from patterns: a new way to share important lessons"
• "Wikimedia Foundation sends cease and desist letter to WikiPR"
• "Saudi students join the Wikipedia Education Program"
• Call for input on the new trademark policy"
• "On Consortium-Based Wikipedian in Residence Positions"
• "Wikimedia Highlights, October 2013"
• "Wikimedia Foundation Report, October 2013"