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Following this discussion of SPI archives that were exceeding the template include size, I've written a solution to the problem into the SPI helper script. It would preemptively move an archive page before an archiving edit, if the edit would cause the page to become to big. The script is at User:Sir Sputnik/spihelper update.js. Please have a look and consider rolling it out to everyone else. Sir Sputnik ( talk) 03:02, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

1) Why is the limit 14598? That seems low. 2) Does a move that fails in mediawiki come back as an HTTP error or just in the API (see how edit errors are handled)? 3) Do the SPI archive header templates detect and show these moved archive pages? T. Canens ( talk) 14:26, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

1) This was a copy/paste error. I artificially reduced the limit for testing and apparently neglected change it back to evaluating the proportion of the limit used. Thanks for catching that. 2) The API doesn't offer much feedback to move requests. In the success case, it just echos the request back at you. I'm trusting that it will respond with an appropriate status code (see line 719) if the move fails. 3) Yes. Sir Sputnik ( talk) 02:28, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

For 2) - can you test this a bit? It should be pretty straightforward to get it to fail (bogus token, illegal target name, etc.). T. Canens ( talk) 02:48, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

I've added some more error handling. The script should respond appropriately to failed page moves. Sir Sputnik ( talk) 00:52, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

 Done T. Canens ( talk) 14:38, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
• Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

• Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. ( T219126)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true. No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well TC. MarnetteD| Talk 20:55, 16 December 2019 (UTC)