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If so I would be happy to send you a copy. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 16:21, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
May I just say that I appreciate you immensely. The importance of your work on this project is undeniable. But more than that, I appreciate your dedication to reflection. Not everyone can do that and even fewer can assess the findings and apply changes to themselves and their conduct upon said reflection. You communicated this beautifully through your words. We have all lost the trust of people we care and admire along life's journey due to our emotional state of being in the moment and it sometimes is very hard to regain or rebuild that trust but I commend you on taking the steps and committing to the task of doing just that. I've never blamed you for your emotional response because I understand the reason behind it, even if I disagreed with your actions at the time. You are a unique and magnificent Rainbow of colors and character. You are an amazing symphony of various talents, abilities and experiences. Though some may appear to be negative or set you back, they are still a part of your Song and your journey whose ultimate goal is to be heard and be a part of the larger sound of human kind. I just wanted to stop by and say that you have been heard and I acknowledge you. -- ARose Wolf 14:45, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks for your comments here. I have a very low tolerance for misplaced condescension, but I should have stepped away earlier. I'm happy that two other editors hopped in to explain and resolve the situation on the talk page. -- JBL ( talk) 17:20, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
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Your statement reminded me of something. My understanding is that if someone isn't active (for whatever reason) when an ArbCom case is started, they have 3 months to respond? AlisonW did try to defend herself and demonstrate accountability, even if it wasn't quite the reponse I was hoping to hear. But it's an attempt at accountability that's more than someone just disappearing from a situation, which is understandable to its own extent too because I'd imagine such events are stressful. So 3 months either way might make sense? I don't have any firm thoughts on this either way and maybe I'm not thinking this through enough, but I do try to keep an open mind. I'll also admit that Secretlondon's statement did bother me because they seem to be extremely concientous about trying to do the right thing. It didn't lead me to the same conclusion as jc37, but it did bother me that something that seemed so clear to me wasn't to others. It wasn't the mistake that bothered me at ARC but the response... I was expected something more along the lines of what GeneralNotability suggested. But I also don't want to make admins from older wikigenerations feel like they're walking on eggshells because some things have changed over time. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 01:27, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi TNT. I was surprised to see this on my watchlist. Putting aside the wisdom of handling potentially controversial WP:PERM requests off-wiki, why make the right permanent only two weeks into a two month trial that you yourself decided on? I note that you note that the "concern on the talk page" ( User_talk:Illusion_Flame#DRAFTIFY_and_hasty_reviewing, I assume), but I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. For me the issue is decidedly un-resolved since Illusion Flame didn't in fact respond to any of my concerns. I was planning to check whether there were still issues with his draftifications when his trial expired – it's hard to tell now since he seems to have mostly given up on article reviewing since that exchange. A quick look through his talk page—with negative feedback about his CVU patrolling, new page patrolling, RfA conduct, asking to become an NPP coordinator while still on a trial, all from this month—shows that I'm far from the only one worried that this user is biting off more than they can chew. – Joe ( talk) 15:13, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
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can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can
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If so I would be happy to send you a copy. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 16:21, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
May I just say that I appreciate you immensely. The importance of your work on this project is undeniable. But more than that, I appreciate your dedication to reflection. Not everyone can do that and even fewer can assess the findings and apply changes to themselves and their conduct upon said reflection. You communicated this beautifully through your words. We have all lost the trust of people we care and admire along life's journey due to our emotional state of being in the moment and it sometimes is very hard to regain or rebuild that trust but I commend you on taking the steps and committing to the task of doing just that. I've never blamed you for your emotional response because I understand the reason behind it, even if I disagreed with your actions at the time. You are a unique and magnificent Rainbow of colors and character. You are an amazing symphony of various talents, abilities and experiences. Though some may appear to be negative or set you back, they are still a part of your Song and your journey whose ultimate goal is to be heard and be a part of the larger sound of human kind. I just wanted to stop by and say that you have been heard and I acknowledge you. -- ARose Wolf 14:45, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Sammy, I fully understand how you felt back then, and your motivation was unquestionably honourable. I almost went for the Barnstar of Integrity, which would be appropriate - but this one has a rainbow, which is nice :-) Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 16:58, 18 May 2023 (UTC) |
Schools are exempt from WP:A7.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 19:55, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks for your comments here. I have a very low tolerance for misplaced condescension, but I should have stepped away earlier. I'm happy that two other editors hopped in to explain and resolve the situation on the talk page. -- JBL ( talk) 17:20, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
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Your statement reminded me of something. My understanding is that if someone isn't active (for whatever reason) when an ArbCom case is started, they have 3 months to respond? AlisonW did try to defend herself and demonstrate accountability, even if it wasn't quite the reponse I was hoping to hear. But it's an attempt at accountability that's more than someone just disappearing from a situation, which is understandable to its own extent too because I'd imagine such events are stressful. So 3 months either way might make sense? I don't have any firm thoughts on this either way and maybe I'm not thinking this through enough, but I do try to keep an open mind. I'll also admit that Secretlondon's statement did bother me because they seem to be extremely concientous about trying to do the right thing. It didn't lead me to the same conclusion as jc37, but it did bother me that something that seemed so clear to me wasn't to others. It wasn't the mistake that bothered me at ARC but the response... I was expected something more along the lines of what GeneralNotability suggested. But I also don't want to make admins from older wikigenerations feel like they're walking on eggshells because some things have changed over time. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 01:27, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
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Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.
Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.
Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.
You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.
Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).
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Hi TNT. I was surprised to see this on my watchlist. Putting aside the wisdom of handling potentially controversial WP:PERM requests off-wiki, why make the right permanent only two weeks into a two month trial that you yourself decided on? I note that you note that the "concern on the talk page" ( User_talk:Illusion_Flame#DRAFTIFY_and_hasty_reviewing, I assume), but I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. For me the issue is decidedly un-resolved since Illusion Flame didn't in fact respond to any of my concerns. I was planning to check whether there were still issues with his draftifications when his trial expired – it's hard to tell now since he seems to have mostly given up on article reviewing since that exchange. A quick look through his talk page—with negative feedback about his CVU patrolling, new page patrolling, RfA conduct, asking to become an NPP coordinator while still on a trial, all from this month—shows that I'm far from the only one worried that this user is biting off more than they can chew. – Joe ( talk) 15:13, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
potentially controversial WP:PERM requestsbeing handled off-wiki (and, on reflection, I should have asked them to reiterate their comments on-wiki, that's my mistake..) I do try to only make decisions based on on-wiki information. Atsme's comment in that thread (which was indeed the one I was referring to) went some way to assuage the concerns I had specific to the NPP right, which along with becoming an NPP coordinator at least made me lean towards the extension of the permission. I agree that Illusion Flame is biting off more than they can chew (and I've told them as much previously), but so did I way back when — I try to judge the "hat collecting sorts" on the likelihood of them causing damage or disruption, and leave those who are well-meaning but overenthusiastic to figure out "the hard way" why collecting headwear never works out.
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Hi TNT, I was wondering if you could extend my rollback indefinitely, I know it's a few months away, but so far I've enjoyed using the tool and the tools that require it, and would like it extending indefinitely. Best, Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 19:29, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
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I was wondering whether we have edit filters for old AfDs, that tracks non-bot edits made to AfD pages after their conclusion. There's an AfD I begun at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sardar Patel (disambiguation). There is a vandal with 3 usernames that keeps on vandalising this and 4 other AfD pages. Now, my eyes are on the AfD I created, and so are others looking at it, but do we have protection from vandals for AfDs that were closed long ago? Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 16:31, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Dear interface administrator,
This is Samuel from the Security team and I hope my message finds you well.
There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed policy governing the use of external resources in gadgets and UserJS. The proposed Third-party resources policy aims at making the UserJS and Gadgets landscape a bit safer by encouraging best practices around external resources. After an initial non-public conversation with a small number of interface admins and staff, we've launched a much larger, public consultation to get a wider pool of feedback for improving the policy proposal. Based on the ideas received so far, the proposed policy now includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, best practices for gadgets and UserJS developers, and exemptions requirements such as code transparency and inspectability.
As an interface administrator, your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on the policy talk page.
Have a great day!Samuel (WMF), on behalf of the Foundation's Security team 23:02, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
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