Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-12-01/Discussion report
Discussion report
Farewell, Mediation Committee
MedCom closed
Study the Past, at the U.S. National Archives
Wikipedians reached a consensus
dispute resolution noticeboard
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Admin controversies lead to new RfCs
Several admin accounts – some of which were largely inactive but stayed in compliance with the
interface admins
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In other admin news, after a bureaucrat desysopped an admin who removed someone else's block of their account (see the
the policy for whether it's acceptable" (option C), another option was offered of bureaucrats being able to self-unblock but not other admins (option B). Four days after the RfC was created, developers implemented option A
, though admins will still be able to remove blocks they made on themselves.
Other discussions this month
- On WT:Bot policy: Should bot approval group members have an activity requirement à la admins?
- On notability criteriafor deceased members of marginalized groups.
- Wikipedia has a lot of short articles.an RfCon whether they should be moved to draftspace.
- On Meta, the m:Community Wishlist Survey 2019 is now
open for votingclosed. This is your chance to make your voice heard about what features the Wikimedia Foundation should implement on wikis. Check it out.- There's also some related controversy on how much canvassing on the proposals is acceptable; see RFC. Users over on Meta encourage it to some extent, but some EnWPans have become worried about spam on the village pumps.
- There's also some related controversy on how much canvassing on the proposals is acceptable; see
- This one's less of a discussion than a vote, but Arbitration Committee elections are going on now, so don't forget to vote if you're eligible.
Follow-ups
The new silverlock icon
- Page movers can now override the title blacklist, as determined by unanimous consensus at the village pump.
- Consensus was reached autoconfirmedusers should be blocked from adding images.
- Enough about mediation and wheel-warring, let's talk about something much more important: padlocks! Specifically, they have a new design. Enjoy!
- ^ There are over two million members of Category:All stub articles as of publication date.
- Iridescentto be between 10,000 and 100,000 pages; in other words, up to 4.5% of all stubs.
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Medcom
In March 2018, I called for the shutdown of Medcom. It's good to see that the community eventually agreed. GoodDay (talk) 04:34, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]