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class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.3.1 Support (Preemptive PCECP) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Support_(Preemptive_PCECP)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.3.2 Oppose (Preemptive PCECP) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Neutral_(preemptive_PCECP)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Neutral_(preemptive_PCECP)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.3.3 Neutral (preemptive PCECP) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Neutral_(preemptive_PCECP)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Discussion_(preemptive_PCECP)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Discussion_(preemptive_PCECP)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.3.4 Discussion (preemptive PCECP) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Discussion_(preemptive_PCECP)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Q3:_If_this_proposal_does_not_pass,_should_ECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_articles_under_WP:ARBECR_topics?" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Q3:_If_this_proposal_does_not_pass,_should_ECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_articles_under_WP:ARBECR_topics?"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.4 Q3: If this proposal does not pass, should ECP be applied preemptively to articles under WP:ARBECR topics? </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Q3:_If_this_proposal_does_not_pass,_should_ECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_articles_under_WP:ARBECR_topics?-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Support_(preemptive_ECP)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Support_(preemptive_ECP)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.4.1 Support (preemptive ECP) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Support_(preemptive_ECP)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.4.2 Oppose (preemptive ECP) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Neutral_(preemptive_ECP)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Neutral_(preemptive_ECP)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.4.3 Neutral (preemptive ECP) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Neutral_(preemptive_ECP)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Discussion_(preemptive_ECP)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Discussion_(preemptive_ECP)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.4.4 Discussion (preemptive ECP) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Discussion_(preemptive_ECP)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Q4:_Should_there_be_a_Git-like_system_for_submitting_and_reviewing_edits_to_protected_pages?" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Q4:_Should_there_be_a_Git-like_system_for_submitting_and_reviewing_edits_to_protected_pages?"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.5 Q4: Should there be a Git-like system for submitting and reviewing edits to protected pages? </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Q4:_Should_there_be_a_Git-like_system_for_submitting_and_reviewing_edits_to_protected_pages?-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Survey_(Q4)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Survey_(Q4)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.5.1 Survey (Q4) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Survey_(Q4)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Discussion_(Q4)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Discussion_(Q4)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.5.2 Discussion (Q4) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Discussion_(Q4)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-General_discussion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#General_discussion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.6 General discussion </div> </a> <ul id="toc-General_discussion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Courtesy_ping" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Courtesy_ping"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.6.1 Courtesy ping </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Courtesy_ping-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Protection?" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Protection?"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.6.2 Protection? </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Protection?-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Move_to_close" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Move_to_close"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1.7 Move to close </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Move_to_close-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Add_AI_translation_option_for_translating_from_English_to_non-English_article." class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Add_AI_translation_option_for_translating_from_English_to_non-English_article."> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.2 Add AI translation option for translating from English to non-English article. </div> </a> 9 comments <ul id="toc-Add_AI_translation_option_for_translating_from_English_to_non-English_article.-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Require_2FA_for_bureaucrats" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Require_2FA_for_bureaucrats"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.3 Require 2FA for bureaucrats </div> </a> 24 comments <ul id="toc-Require_2FA_for_bureaucrats-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-RfC:_Should_a_blackout_be_organized_in_protest_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation's_actions?" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#RfC:_Should_a_blackout_be_organized_in_protest_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation's_actions?"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.4 RfC: Should a blackout be organized in protest of the Wikimedia Foundation's actions? </div> </a> <ul id="toc-RfC:_Should_a_blackout_be_organized_in_protest_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation's_actions?-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Proposal_to_update_WP:NBAND_to_be_explicitly_constrained_by_WP:GNG" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Proposal_to_update_WP:NBAND_to_be_explicitly_constrained_by_WP:GNG"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.5 Proposal to update WP:NBAND to be explicitly constrained by WP:GNG </div> </a> 51 comments <ul id="toc-Proposal_to_update_WP:NBAND_to_be_explicitly_constrained_by_WP:GNG-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-RfC:_Enable_the_mergehistory_permission_for_importers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#RfC:_Enable_the_mergehistory_permission_for_importers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.6 RfC: Enable the mergehistory permission for importers </div> </a> 66 comments <ul id="toc-RfC:_Enable_the_mergehistory_permission_for_importers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.6.1 Support (mergehistory for importers) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Oppose_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Oppose_(mergehistory_for_importers)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.6.2 Oppose (mergehistory for importers) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Oppose_(mergehistory_for_importers)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Discussion_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Discussion_(mergehistory_for_importers)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.6.3 Discussion (mergehistory for importers) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Discussion_(mergehistory_for_importers)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-RfC:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool_at_both_the_merge_target_and_merge_source" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#RfC:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool_at_both_the_merge_target_and_merge_source"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.7 RfC: Log the use of the HistMerge tool at both the merge target and merge source 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href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%C4%8Car%C5%A1ija/Ideje" title="Wikipedia:Čaršija/Ideje – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Wikipedia:Čaršija/Ideje" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:La_taverna/Propostes" title="Viquipèdia:La taverna/Propostes – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Viquipèdia:La taverna/Propostes" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Pod_l%C3%ADpou_(n%C3%A1vrhy)" title="Wikipedie:Pod lípou (návrhy) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Wikipedie:Pod lípou (návrhy)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verbesserungsvorschl%C3%A4ge" title="Wikipedia:Verbesserungsvorschläge – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Wikipedia:Verbesserungsvorschläge" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dty mw-list-item"><a href="https://dty.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8B_(%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0)" title="विकिपिडिया:चौपातो (विचार) – Doteli" lang="dty" hreflang="dty" data-title="विकिपिडिया:चौपातो (विचार)" data-language-autonym="डोटेली" data-language-local-name="Doteli" class="interlanguage-link-target">डोटेली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Caf%C3%A9/Archivo/Propuestas/Actual" title="Wikipedia:Café/Archivo/Propuestas/Actual – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Wikipedia:Café/Archivo/Propuestas/Actual" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A_Taberna_(propostas)" title="Wikipedia:A Taberna (propostas) – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Wikipedia:A Taberna (propostas)" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Zahtjevi_i_%C5%BEelje" title="Wikipedija:Zahtjevi i želje – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Wikipedija:Zahtjevi i želje" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dap-ayan/Singsingasing" title="Wikipedia:Dap-ayan/Singsingasing – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Wikipedia:Dap-ayan/Singsingasing" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ilokano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Warung_Kopi_(Usulan)" title="Wikipedia:Warung Kopi (Usulan) – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Wikipedia:Warung Kopi (Usulan)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Angkringan_Usul" title="Wikipédia:Angkringan Usul – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Wikipédia:Angkringan Usul" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Jawa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%90:%E1%83%A4%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98/%E1%83%AC%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="ვიკიპედია:ფორუმი/წინადადებები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ვიკიპედია:ფორუმი/წინადადებები" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%90%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%96%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%96%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%A7%D8%A0%D8%B3%D9%8E%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8E%D9%84%DB%8C_(%D8%AA%D9%8E%D8%AC%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%96%D8%B2)" title="وِکیٖپیٖڈیا:اؠسَمبَلی (تَجویٖز) – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="وِکیٖپیٖڈیا:اؠسَمبَلی (تَجویٖز)" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target">कॉशुर / کٲشُر</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC/%D2%B0%D1%81%D1%8B%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Уикипедия:Форум/Ұсыныстар – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Уикипедия:Форум/Ұсыныстар" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%AEk%C3%AEpediya:D%C3%AEwan_(p%C3%AA%C5%9Fniyaz)" title="Wîkîpediya:Dîwan (pêşniyaz) – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Wîkîpediya:Dîwan (pêşniyaz)" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Kocsmafal_(javaslatok)" title="Wikipédia:Kocsmafal (javaslatok) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Wikipédia:Kocsmafal (javaslatok)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%9E%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D_(%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%BE)" title="വിക്കിപീഡിയ:പഞ്ചായത്ത് (നിർദ്ദേശങ്ങൾ) – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="വിക്കിപീഡിയ:പഞ്ചായത്ത് (നിർദ്ദേശങ്ങൾ)" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kedai_Kopi_(cadangan)" title="Wikipedia:Kedai Kopi (cadangan) – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Wikipedia:Kedai Kopi (cadangan)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9D%E1%80%AE%E1%80%80%E1%80%AE%E1%80%95%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%92%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9A%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8:%E1%80%9C%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%96%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9B%E1%80%8A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%86%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA_(%E1%80%A1%E1%80%86%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%95%E1%80%BC%E1%80%AF%E1%80%81%E1%80%BB%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%99%E1%80%BB%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8)" title="ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား:လက်ဖက်ရည်ဆိုင် (အဆိုပြုချက်များ) – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား:လက်ဖက်ရည်ဆိုင် (အဆိုပြုချက်များ)" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Idee%C3%ABnbus" title="Wikipedia:Ideeënbus – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Wikipedia:Ideeënbus" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80_(%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0)" title="विकिपिडिया:चौतारी (विचार) – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="विकिपिडिया:चौतारी (विचार)" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8:%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC/%D0%9A%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Википеди:Форум/Кховдор – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Википеди:Форум/Кховдор" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Нохчийн</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediya:Forum/Takliflar" title="Vikipediya:Forum/Takliflar – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Vikipediya:Forum/Takliflar" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-blk mw-list-item"><a href="https://blk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9D%E1%80%AE%E1%80%81%E1%80%AE%E1%80%95%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%92%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9A%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8:Village_pump_(proposals)" title="ဝီခီပီးဒီးယား:Village pump (proposals) – Pa'O" lang="blk" hreflang="blk" data-title="ဝီခီပီးဒီးယား:Village pump (proposals)" data-language-autonym="ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ" data-language-local-name="Pa'O" class="interlanguage-link-target">ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%DA%A9%D9%8A%D9%BE%DB%90%DA%89%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%A8%D9%86%DA%89%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%81%D8%A7%DB%8C/%D9%88%DA%93%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86%D9%87" title="ويکيپېډيا:بنډارځای/وړانديزونه – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="ويکيپېډيا:بنډارځای/وړانديزونه" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/propostas" title="Wikipédia:Esplanada/propostas – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Wikipédia:Esplanada/propostas" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Википедия:Форум/Предложения – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Википедия:Форум/Предложения" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE" title="विकिपीडिया:प्रस्तावसभा – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="विकिपीडिया:प्रस्तावसभा" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target">संस्कृतम्</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%B4%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F:%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%9D%E0%B6%B4%E0%B7%92_%E0%B6%9A%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%9A_(%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%9D%E0%B6%A2%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8F)" title="විකිපීඩියා:කෝපි කඩේ (යෝජනා) – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="විකිපීඩියා:කෝපි කඩේ (යෝජනා)" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target">සිංහල</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DA%AA%D9%8A%D9%BE%D9%8A%DA%8A%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD_%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88/%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86" title="وڪيپيڊيا:صلاح مشورو/تجويزون – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="وڪيپيڊيا:صلاح مشورو/تجويزون" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target">سنڌي</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Kaviare%C5%88/N%C3%A1vrhy" title="Wikipédia:Kaviareň/Návrhy – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Wikipédia:Kaviareň/Návrhy" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedyjo:Sztamtisz/Propozycyje" title="Wikipedyjo:Sztamtisz/Propozycyje – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Wikipedyjo:Sztamtisz/Propozycyje" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ślůnski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%95%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%BE%DB%8E%D8%B4%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%95%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86)" title="ویکیپیدیا:دیوەخان (پێشنیارەکان) – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ویکیپیدیا:دیوەخان (پێشنیارەکان)" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0:%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B3/%D0%98%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%B5" title="Википедија:Трг/Идеје – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Википедија:Трг/Идеје" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sawala_(ajuan)" title="Wikipedia:Sawala (ajuan) – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Wikipedia:Sawala (ajuan)" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sunda</a></li><li 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Before submitting: <ul><li>Check to see whether your proposal is already described at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Perennial_proposals" title="Wikipedia:Perennial proposals">Perennial proposals</a>. You may also wish to search the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ_index" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FAQ index">FAQ</a>.</li> <li>This page is for concrete, actionable proposals. Consider developing earlier-stage proposals at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)">Village pump (idea lab)</a>.</li> <li>Proposed policy changes belong at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)">Village pump (policy)</a>.</li> <li>Proposed speedy deletion criteria belong at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion">Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion</a>.</li> <li>Proposed WikiProjects or task forces may be submitted at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals">Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals</a>.</li> <li>Proposed new wikis belong at <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects" class="extiw" title="meta:Proposals for new projects">meta:Proposals for new projects</a>.</li> <li>Proposed new articles belong at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles" title="Wikipedia:Requested articles">Wikipedia:Requested articles</a>.</li> <li>Discussions or proposals which warrant the attention or involvement of the Wikimedia Foundation belong at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF)">Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF)</a>.</li> <li>Software changes which have consensus should be filed at <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/" class="extiw" title="phabricator:">Phabricator</a>.</li></ul> Discussions are automatically archived after remaining inactive for nine days. <div style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_archive" title="Wikipedia:Village pump archive">« Archives</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_194" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 194">194</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_195" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 195">195</a>, <a 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.side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right archive-top-result" style="padding: 10px; line-height: inherit;"> <div class="side-box-abovebelow" style="padding: 0;"> SNOW NO</div> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text" style="padding: 0;">c'mon guys, it's clear now with only 1 support and tons of participation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/07/18/building-community-inclusivity-stack-overflow/#:~:text=Even%20kind%20feedback%20can%20come%20off%20as%20caustic%20and%20mean%20when%20there%20is%20a%20mob%20of%20people%20behind%20it.%20No%20matter%20how%20nicely%20they%20say%20it%2C%20when%20a%20large%20group%20of%20people%20you%20really%20respect%20publicly%20challenge%20something%20you%E2%80%99ve%20done%20it%20can%20feel%20like%20a%20personal%20attack.">just let this thing expire</a> <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120025900-Redesigning_locks_and_other_icons" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:59, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</div></div> </div> <div class="boilerplate-header" style="margin-left: 1.6em; font-style: italic;"> The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. </div> <hr/> Re-instating <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_155#Proposal/RFC:_Redesigning_page-protection_padlock_icons_to_be_more_accessible" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 155">this proposal</a>, I want to make the icons look more clear and sleek; I will eventually add on more to the icons (such as good articles, audio articles, etc.) I also want to add region-based letter shackles, so for example 拡 (拡張, Kakuchō) would be the Japanese extended-protection icon, same with 満 (満杯, Manpai) for full-protection. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New_Wikipedia_Icons.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/New_Wikipedia_Icons.png/220px-New_Wikipedia_Icons.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/New_Wikipedia_Icons.png/330px-New_Wikipedia_Icons.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/New_Wikipedia_Icons.png/440px-New_Wikipedia_Icons.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a><figcaption>Wikipedia new icons request. (Available to all)</figcaption></figure> by <a href="/wiki/User:2I3I3" title="User:2I3I3">2I3I3</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2I3I3" title="User talk:2I3I3">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2I3I3-20241016162500-Redesigning_locks_and_other_icons" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:25, 16 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Agree with others that these new icons look dated. However, if we are discussing changes to lock icons, then I must say the the purple for upload protected is incongruously gaudy. <a href="/wiki/User:Cremastra" title="User:Cremastra">Cremastra</a> — <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cremastra" title="User talk:Cremastra">talk</a> — <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cremastra" title="Special:Contributions/Cremastra">c</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Cremastra-20241017202300-2I3I3-20241016162500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:23, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I agree and would happily support a proposal to make it darker - maybe #813ec3? <a href="/wiki/User:Rexogamer" title="User:Rexogamer">Rexo</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Rexogamer" title="User talk:Rexogamer">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Rexogamer" title="Special:Contributions/Rexogamer">contributions</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Rexogamer-20241029203300-Cremastra-20241017202300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:33, 29 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>Oppose. I think the gradients or bevels make these icons less clear and sleek, at least in their current iteration. The icons also become less readable at smaller resolutions since the shackle part of the padlocks takes up more space, making the actual symbol inside smaller.</dd> <dd>Who knows, graphic design seems to be slowly moving away from flat design again so maybe in a few years? <a href="/wiki/User:Quidama" title="User:Quidama">quidama</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Quidama" title="User talk:Quidama">talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Quidama-20241023221900-2I3I3-20241016162500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:19, 23 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>No. We do not need icons that look like they were made in <a href="/wiki/Kid_Pix" title="Kid Pix">Kid Pix</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:LilianaUwU" title="User:LilianaUwU">LilianaUwU</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:LilianaUwU" title="User talk:LilianaUwU">talk</a> / <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/LilianaUwU" title="Special:Contributions/LilianaUwU">contributions</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-LilianaUwU-20241107012500-2I3I3-20241016162500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:25, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <table class="wikitable floatright"> <caption>Current Protection icons </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Icon</th> <th>Mode </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Pending-protection-shackle.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pending changes protected"><img alt="White padlock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Pending-protection-shackle.svg/40px-Pending-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Pending-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Pending-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Pending-protection-shackle.svg/80px-Pending-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a> White</td> <td><a href="#pending">Pending changes protected</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Semi-protection-shackle.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Semi-protected"><img alt="Silver padlock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1b/Semi-protection-shackle.svg/40px-Semi-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1b/Semi-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Semi-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1b/Semi-protection-shackle.svg/80px-Semi-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a> Silver</td> <td><a href="#semi">Semi-protected</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Extended-protection-shackle.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Extended confirmed protection"><img alt="Dark blue padlock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/Extended-protection-shackle.svg/40px-Extended-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/Extended-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Extended-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/Extended-protection-shackle.svg/80px-Extended-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a> Blue</td> <td><a href="#extended">Extended confirmed protected</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Template-protection-shackle.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Template-protected"><img alt="Pink padlock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/Template-protection-shackle.svg/40px-Template-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/Template-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Template-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/Template-protection-shackle.svg/80px-Template-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a> Pink</td> <td><a href="#template">Template-protected</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Full-protection-shackle.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fully protected"><img alt="Gold padlock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Full-protection-shackle.svg/40px-Full-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Full-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Full-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Full-protection-shackle.svg/80px-Full-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a> Gold</td> <td><a href="#full">Fully protected</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Interface-protection-shackle.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Brown padlock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Interface-protection-shackle.svg/40px-Interface-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Interface-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Interface-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Interface-protection-shackle.svg/80px-Interface-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a> Red</td> <td><a href="#interface">Interface protected</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Move-protection-shackle.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Move protected"><img alt="Green padlock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Move-protection-shackle.svg/40px-Move-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Move-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Move-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Move-protection-shackle.svg/80px-Move-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a> Green</td> <td><a href="#move">Move protected</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Create-protection-shackle.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Create protected"><img alt="Blue padlock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/02/Create-protection-shackle.svg/40px-Create-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/02/Create-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Create-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/02/Create-protection-shackle.svg/80px-Create-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a> Skyblue</td> <td><a href="#create">Create protected</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Upload-protection-shackle.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Upload protected"><img alt="Purple padlock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Upload-protection-shackle.svg/40px-Upload-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Upload-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Upload-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Upload-protection-shackle.svg/80px-Upload-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a> Purple</td> <td><a href="#upload">Upload protected</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Cascade-protection-shackle.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cascade protected"><img alt="Turquoise padlock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/Cascade-protection-shackle.svg/40px-Cascade-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/Cascade-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Cascade-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/Cascade-protection-shackle.svg/80px-Cascade-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a> Turquoise</td> <td><a href="#cascade">Cascade protected</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Office-protection-shackle.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Protected by Office"><img alt="Black padlock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Office-protection-shackle.svg/40px-Office-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Office-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Office-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Office-protection-shackle.svg/80px-Office-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></a> Black</td> <td><a href="#office">Protected by Office</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd>Pretty strong oppose trying to run a geolocation script on every load to try to make dynamic labels here. If anything (which I also don't like) labels should follow user interface language. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241016173900-Redesigning_locks_and_other_icons" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:39, 16 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I understand the differences, I was just suggesting (because I don't really speak any other language you could propose a specific version) Also, I will later add the letters on the shackles.</dd> <dd>by <a href="/wiki/User:2I3I3" title="User:2I3I3">2I3I3</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2I3I3" title="User talk:2I3I3">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2I3I3-20241016191600-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:16, 16 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>and icons* <a href="/wiki/User:2I3I3" title="User:2I3I3">2I3I3</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2I3I3" title="User talk:2I3I3">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2I3I3-20241016191600-2I3I3-20241016191600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:16, 16 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>SVG file formats can be translated. See <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Translation_possible/Learn_more" class="extiw" title="c:Commons:Translation possible/Learn more">c:Commons:Translation possible/Learn more</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241016233300-2I3I3-20241016191600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:33, 16 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Oppose making the primary (only) differentiation be color, as that gives out less information then the current scheme and is useless for those without color viewing abilities. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241016174100-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:41, 16 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Agree with Xaosflux on this one. Furthermore, the two issues of the old icon scheme (color and "realistic" shading that doesn't look great on small icons), which were the reasons for the change to begin with, are present on this one too.<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>Regarding the region-based symbols, it would make more sense to display them based on the language edition, and, since each language edition already sets its own standards for this stuff, there isn't much more we can do. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241016181300-Xaosflux-20241016174100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:13, 16 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Agree with Xaosflux, as the coloring and shading doesn't look good on the small icons. ‹<a href="/wiki/User:Hamterous1" title="User:Hamterous1">hamster717🐉</a>› (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Hamterous1" title="User talk:Hamterous1">discuss anything!🐹✈️</a> • <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Hamterous1" title="Special:Contributions/Hamterous1">my contribs🌌🌠</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Hamterous1-20241018203300-Xaosflux-20241016174100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:33, 18 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Symbol_confirmed.svg/20px-Symbol_confirmed.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Symbol_confirmed.svg/30px-Symbol_confirmed.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Symbol_confirmed.svg/40px-Symbol_confirmed.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/> Agree, but only slightly. If you added the letters, it would be better. Also, a solution to your region-basing could be to do a Language-based (like "O" for "Office" would become "S" for "Schoolhouse" in a theoretical "Reversed English") <a href="/wiki/User:The_Master_of_Hedgehogs" title="User:The Master of Hedgehogs">The Master of Hedgehogs</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:The_Master_of_Hedgehogs" title="User talk:The Master of Hedgehogs">converse</a>) (<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/The_Master_of_Hedgehogs" title="Special:Contributions/The Master of Hedgehogs">hedgehogs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-The_Master_of_Hedgehogs-20241017143300-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:33, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/File:New_Wikipedia_Icons.png" title="File:New Wikipedia Icons.png">File:New Wikipedia Icons.png</a> Well, here you go! (I made these, CC0 license) <a href="/wiki/User:2I3I3" title="User:2I3I3">2I3I3</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2I3I3" title="User talk:2I3I3">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2I3I3-20241017174500-The_Master_of_Hedgehogs-20241017143300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:45, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>Will those icons/colours work with dark mode? I also agree that letters are essential. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241017144400-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:44, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Shackles? You mean locks? And they look more like <a href="/wiki/Handbag" title="Handbag">handbags</a> to me. --<a href="/wiki/User:Khajidha" title="User:Khajidha">User:Khajidha</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Khajidha" title="User talk:Khajidha">talk</a>) (<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Khajidha" title="Special:Contributions/Khajidha">contributions</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Khajidha-20241017154700-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:47, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>They're called shackles <a href="/wiki/File:Pending-protection-shackle.svg" title="File:Pending-protection-shackle.svg">File:Pending-protection-shackle.svg</a> <a href="/wiki/User:2I3I3" title="User:2I3I3">2I3I3</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2I3I3" title="User talk:2I3I3">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2I3I3-20241017174700-Khajidha-20241017154700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:47, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>See also <a href="/wiki/Shackle" title="Shackle">Shackle</a>. These are padlocks, and the upper U-shaped bit is the shackle. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241017202200-2I3I3-20241017174700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:22, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I thought we were using "shackle" as the word to describe a thing by a single aspect for the purposes of avoiding conflation with protecting/locking editing. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241102181300-WhatamIdoing-20241017202200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:13, 2 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Well, we shouldn't, because as @<a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> noted, the shackle is one part of a padlock. And simply using the word "padlock" avoids conflation, without calling things the wrong thing. (It's even the exact same number of letters.) <a href="/wiki/User:FeRDNYC" title="User:FeRDNYC">FeRDNYC</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:FeRDNYC" title="User talk:FeRDNYC">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-FeRDNYC-20241103035500-Aaron_Liu-20241102181300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:55, 3 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Yet another solution in search of a problem. <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241017161800-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:18, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Per <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKICLICHE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WIKICLICHE">WP:WIKICLICHE</a> we've been asked to not say this quite as much, due to supply chain issues – if we use them too much we could see a huge shortage down the road. But I hope I'm <ins>not</ins> generating more heat than light with this comment, or throwing the baby out with the bathwater. <a href="/wiki/User:Cremastra" title="User:Cremastra">Cremastra</a> — <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cremastra" title="User talk:Cremastra">talk</a> — <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cremastra" title="Special:Contributions/Cremastra">c</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Cremastra-20241017202200-Pppery-20241017161800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:22, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Never throw the baby out with the bathwater. This will contaminate your greywater collection system. Like other meats, babies are not compostable, so they should be sorted into the landfill waste stream unless otherwise advised by your municipal waste management authority. <a href="/wiki/User:Folly_Mox" title="User:Folly Mox">Folly Mox</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Folly_Mox" title="User talk:Folly Mox">talk</a>) <a href="/wiki/User:Folly_Mox" title="User:Folly Mox">Folly Mox</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Folly_Mox" title="User talk:Folly Mox">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Folly_Mox-20241017204600-Cremastra-20241017202200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:46, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Is the bathwater the same water I'm meant to bring this horse to? <a href="/wiki/User:Remsense" title="User:Remsense">Remsense</a> ‥ <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Remsense" title="User talk:Remsense">论</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Remsense-20241017214000-Folly_Mox-20241017204600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:40, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Maybe it's under a bridge – that would explain all this trouble. <a href="/wiki/User:Jlwoodwa" title="User:Jlwoodwa">jlwoodwa</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jlwoodwa" title="User talk:Jlwoodwa">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jlwoodwa-20241019011400-Remsense-20241017214000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:14, 19 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>The pseudo-3D shading looks dated compared to the current flat icons. Most modern design systems (including <a class="external text" href="https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/">codex</a>, which is the new design system for Wikimedia wikis) are built around flat icons. --<a href="/wiki/User:Ahecht" title="User:Ahecht">Ahecht</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Ahecht" title="User talk:Ahecht">TALK PAGE</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Ahecht-20241017183600-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:36, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>What about icons such as featured, good, and audio? <a href="/wiki/User:2I3I3" title="User:2I3I3">2I3I3</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2I3I3" title="User talk:2I3I3">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2I3I3-20241017185500-Ahecht-20241017183600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:55, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Good_article_fractal_star.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Good_article_fractal_star.svg/100px-Good_article_fractal_star.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Good_article_fractal_star.svg/150px-Good_article_fractal_star.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Good_article_fractal_star.svg/200px-Good_article_fractal_star.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="204" data-file-height="204"/></a><figcaption>Just for fun</figcaption></figure>Still feel like a step backwards. The current "Good article" icon, on top of having less of a distracting shading and being more readable, is in a consistent style with a lot of our other icons. The current "Featured article" icon, although not consistent with the others, is pretty unique and recognizable in design, while this one looks like a generic star.<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>Just for fun, I did once make a "Good article" star in the style of the FA one – not meant for any official implementation beyond <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby/GoodArticleStar.js" title="User:Chaotic Enby/GoodArticleStar.js">my personal script</a> of course, but it's neat to see how it would look like. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241017221400-2I3I3-20241017185500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:14, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><div style="font-size:85%;">what the actual- <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241102171000-Chaotic_Enby-20241017221400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:10, 2 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</div> <dl><dd>Have you ever looked at the Featured Article icon, full-size? (If not, check it out at <a href="/wiki/File:Cscr-featured.png" title="File:Cscr-featured.png">File:Cscr-featured.png</a>. I'll wait.) ...Like or lump @<a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a>'s GA star, it's actually of a fairly harmonious style with the current FA star, which is (as noted) currently not consistent with anything else anywhere. Arguably it's well-known/recognizable — Chaotic makes that argument, anyway — but TBH I have a feeling the great majority of readers never see it larger than head-of-a-pin-scaled, and wouldn't even recognize the actual, full-sized image AS our FA icon. <a href="/wiki/User:FeRDNYC" title="User:FeRDNYC">FeRDNYC</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:FeRDNYC" title="User talk:FeRDNYC">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-FeRDNYC-20241103041000-Aaron_Liu-20241102171000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:10, 3 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I have seen the full FA icon; the GA star is just straight out of Cthulhu (...positively). It is fun, but I think GA should be more inline with the rest of the article-rating icons because of the kinda lesser rigor. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241103132600-FeRDNYC-20241103041000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:26, 3 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>To be fair, it's definitely a concept design rather than an actual proposal. If anything, I far prefer having the current GA icon as our official one, as it is more harmonious with basically anything that isn't the FA star. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241104221800-Aaron_Liu-20241103132600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:18, 4 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>These are not visual improvements whatsoever, unfortunately. They are clear regressions in design, and the current icons are fine. Our system is particular to the English Wikipedia, so it's perfectly appropriate for their design to be relative to the English language.<a href="/wiki/User:Remsense" title="User:Remsense">Remsense</a> ‥ <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Remsense" title="User talk:Remsense">论</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Remsense-20241017192900-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:29, 17 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Color me baffled. By starting with <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248585704">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk{color:#00B785}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk{color:#00B785}}.mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk{font-family:Georgia,"DejaVu Serif",serif;color:#008560;quotes:none}.mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk-italic{font-family:inherit;font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk-marks{quotes:"\"""\""}</style><q class="inline-quote-talk">Re-instating <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_155#Proposal/RFC:_Redesigning_page-protection_padlock_icons_to_be_more_accessible" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 155">this proposal</a></q>, you make me think you want to reinvigorate some failed proposal. But then I follow your link and see that the proposal led to the implementation of new padlock icons, which; I guess, you mean to reverse. I also fail to understand what you mean by <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">region-based letter shackles</q>; do you mean for articles about, e.g., Japan? Or articles viewed by somebody we're supposed to have guessed might be in Japan? Or somebody with the Japanese language listed in a userbox on their User page? It's English Wikipedia, so I can't see the last two being useful options, and the first one will only lead to arguments and confusion and we've got that already. The current icons seem clear enough to me, although I don't know how to measure "sleek", I guess. In summary: baffled. — <a href="/wiki/User:JohnFromPinckney" title="User:JohnFromPinckney">JohnFromPinckney</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:JohnFromPinckney" title="User talk:JohnFromPinckney">talk</a> / <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/JohnFromPinckney" title="Special:Contributions/JohnFromPinckney">edits</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-JohnFromPinckney-20241018121500-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:15, 18 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I mean region-based letter shackles basically like the letters on shackles but different regional translations. (This'll probably not work because of @<a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a>'s post.)</dd> <dd>by <a href="/wiki/User:2I3I3" title="User:2I3I3">2I3I3</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2I3I3" title="User talk:2I3I3">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2I3I3-20241018183600-JohnFromPinckney-20241018121500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:36, 18 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>So (just to see if I understand it finally), you're proposing on English Wikipedia that Japanese Wikipedia use icons with Japanese symbology, and Spanish Wikipedia use some Spanish-language indicator on the padlock, etc. Yes? — <a href="/wiki/User:JohnFromPinckney" title="User:JohnFromPinckney">JohnFromPinckney</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:JohnFromPinckney" title="User talk:JohnFromPinckney">talk</a> / <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/JohnFromPinckney" title="Special:Contributions/JohnFromPinckney">edits</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-JohnFromPinckney-20241018223000-2I3I3-20241018183600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:30, 18 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>ja.wiki already seems to have its own icons, e.g. <a href="/wiki/File:Edit_Semi-permanent_Extended_Semi-protection.svg" title="File:Edit Semi-permanent Extended Semi-protection.svg">File:Edit Semi-permanent Extended Semi-protection.svg</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Cremastra" title="User:Cremastra">Cremastra</a> — <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cremastra" title="User talk:Cremastra">talk</a> — <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cremastra" title="Special:Contributions/Cremastra">c</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Cremastra-20241018231900-JohnFromPinckney-20241018223000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:19, 18 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Oppose for now. Status quo is fine. It's really cool that you're contributing your graphics skills to the movement though. I'm sure there's some less high profile areas that could really benefit from your skills. –<a href="/wiki/User:Novem_Linguae" title="User:Novem Linguae">Novem Linguae</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Novem_Linguae" title="User talk:Novem Linguae">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Novem_Linguae-20241023035500-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:55, 23 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Oppose: New proposals are nice but I personally like the style of the old ones better, and flat icons also seem more up-to-date to me. Regional shackles sound like a good idea, but don't appear to be in this proposal, so I'll just say I support those (maybe in the old design-style in my preference). <a href="/wiki/User:Mrfoogles" title="User:Mrfoogles">Mrfoogles</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mrfoogles" title="User talk:Mrfoogles">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Mrfoogles-20241023202200-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:22, 23 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Well...</dd> <dd>just don't make this <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Great_Edit_War" title="Wikipedia:Great Edit War">Wikipedia:Great Edit War</a> but for icons and shackles... <a href="/wiki/User:2I3I3" title="User:2I3I3">2I3I3</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2I3I3" title="User talk:2I3I3">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2I3I3-20241101171300-Mrfoogles-20241023202200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:13, 1 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>Oppose per Remsense. The new 3D icons look like something from the early days of the internet. Plus the shadowing makes the icons appear unnecessarily "bulky" (not sure how to say this). <a href="/wiki/User:Nythar" title="User:Nythar">Nythar</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Nythar" title="User talk:Nythar">💬</a>-<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Nythar" title="Special:Contributions/Nythar">🍀</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Nythar-20241025223300-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:33, 25 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose here as well. It's not about status quo or resistance to change, I vastly prefer the current icons to the proposed replacements. (Admittedly subjective) points in favor of the current icons over the new ones: <ul><li>The flatter look will render better at small sizes (since these icons are actually shown at a fraction of the size they're displayed in this thread) <ul><li>Ditto the blockier font</li> <li>Ditto the thicker shackle arcs</li></ul></li> <li>The skinny shackles and rectangular body give the proposed replacements the appearance of handbags, not padlocks</li> <li>The letter placement is more uniform and precise in the current icons; the proposed replacements appear to have been "eyeballed". IMHO SVG art of this sort is best hand-coded (if not from scratch, then at least as a finalization pass to clean up the code), with all of the dimensions precise and uniform.</li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dd>I appreciate the effort, and I'm sorry to be critical, but I'm just not into them at all. The current set, OTOH, are actually fairly well-designed and optimized for their purpose, which is an important consideration in designing functional artwork of this sort. It's puzzling to me that anyone would be looking to replace them, as there's surprisingly little room for improvement IMHO. <a href="/wiki/User:FeRDNYC" title="User:FeRDNYC">FeRDNYC</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:FeRDNYC" title="User talk:FeRDNYC">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-FeRDNYC-20241026131900-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:19, 26 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I think the proposed sets may been cool at the time of the previous proposal. Those locks would be more appropriate for something like in 2008. It's for the same reason why traffic lights are always (from top to bottom) red yellow green. And why train doors on British trains need doors to have sufficient contrast to the rest (see <a href="/wiki/PRM_TSI" title="PRM TSI">PRM TSI</a>). In other words, using colour alone for distinguishing isn't enough.</dd> <dd>Additionally, this is the same reason why logos are getting flatter. <a href="/wiki/User:JuniperChill" title="User:JuniperChill">JuniperChill</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:JuniperChill" title="User talk:JuniperChill">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-JuniperChill-20241102014900-FeRDNYC-20241026131900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:49, 2 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>Oppose - not a fan of the proposed icons (see also Nythar's comment), and the current locks work quite well. however, I would be supportive of a redesign of the GA/FA icons (/the various icons of the same style) in a style similar to the current locks. <a href="/wiki/User:Rexogamer" title="User:Rexogamer">Rexo</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Rexogamer" title="User talk:Rexogamer">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Rexogamer" title="Special:Contributions/Rexogamer">contributions</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Rexogamer-20241029203000-Xaosflux-20241016173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:30, 29 October 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>What if we kept the shackles and good icon, get a new featured icon, and make a built-in feature that allows shackles to be compatible with dark mode? <a href="/wiki/User:2I3I3" title="User:2I3I3">2I3I3</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2I3I3" title="User talk:2I3I3">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2I3I3-20241102030700-Rexogamer-20241029203000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:07, 2 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That's still not a shackle. (And, to Rexo, I don't see why quality article symbols should imply protection and locked editing.) <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241102170700-2I3I3-20241102030700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:07, 2 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>(to clarify: the style used by a lot of icons across the wiki (including FA/GA) feels dated, and the locks have a cleaner look that I think could be used as a basis for further redesigns. I don't think that would inherently lead to the quality symbols implying protection.) <a href="/wiki/User:Rexogamer" title="User:Rexogamer">Rexo</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Rexogamer" title="User talk:Rexogamer">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Rexogamer" title="Special:Contributions/Rexogamer">contributions</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Rexogamer-20241104135400-Aaron_Liu-20241102170700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:54, 4 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I don't think the Norro or FA icons are dated, and using padlocks to indicate quality just makes no semantic sense. We adopted padlocks because it showed that the article was locked from editing. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241104140700-Rexogamer-20241104135400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:07, 4 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> I don't think Rexo means using actual padlocks; I think she means developing a flatter design inspired by and similar to our protection icons. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cremastra" title="User talk:Cremastra">Cremastra</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Cremastra" title="User:Cremastra">u</a> — <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cremastra" title="Special:Contributions/Cremastra">c</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Cremastra-20241104205600-Aaron_Liu-20241104140700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:56, 4 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>How do you do that without taking elements from locks? <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241104213200-Cremastra-20241104205600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:32, 4 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I think you can do that by taking the non-locky elements; like the text and the solid-colour background. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cremastra" title="User talk:Cremastra">Cremastra</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Cremastra" title="User:Cremastra">u</a> — <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cremastra" title="Special:Contributions/Cremastra">c</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Cremastra-20241104213500-Aaron_Liu-20241104213200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:35, 4 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>So, basically, OOUI/Codex UI, as shown at <a href="/wiki/User:Arsonxists/Flat_Icons" title="User:Arsonxists/Flat Icons">User:Arsonxists/Flat Icons</a> (except for the topicons section)? <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241104214000-Cremastra-20241104213500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:40, 4 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>More or less; at least, that's what I think they mean. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cremastra" title="User talk:Cremastra">Cremastra</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Cremastra" title="User:Cremastra">u</a> — <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cremastra" title="Special:Contributions/Cremastra">c</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Cremastra-20241104214700-Aaron_Liu-20241104214000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:47, 4 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>apologies for the confusion but yes, pretty much this. <a href="/wiki/User:Rexogamer" title="User:Rexogamer">Rexo</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Rexogamer" title="User talk:Rexogamer">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Rexogamer" title="Special:Contributions/Rexogamer">contributions</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Rexogamer-20241104223200-Cremastra-20241104213500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:32, 4 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>I'm confused - the locks look fine to me on (Vector 2022's) dark mode? the Office one's background is a bit hard to see, but the rest look fine to me. <a href="/wiki/User:Rexogamer" title="User:Rexogamer">Rexo</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Rexogamer" title="User talk:Rexogamer">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Rexogamer" title="Special:Contributions/Rexogamer">contributions</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Rexogamer-20241104135600-2I3I3-20241102030700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:56, 4 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></li></ul> Just so we're all on the same page, terminology-wise: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:312px;max-width:312px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:185px;max-width:185px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:133px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Manilles.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Manilles.jpg/183px-Manilles.jpg" decoding="async" width="183" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Manilles.jpg/275px-Manilles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Manilles.jpg/366px-Manilles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="862" data-file-height="630"/></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">Shackles.</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:123px;max-width:123px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:133px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Three_padlocks.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Three_padlocks.jpg/121px-Three_padlocks.jpg" decoding="async" width="121" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Three_padlocks.jpg/182px-Three_padlocks.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Three_padlocks.jpg/242px-Three_padlocks.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1648" data-file-height="1818"/></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">Locks.</div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">They're different, see?</div></div></div></div> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cremastra" title="User talk:Cremastra">Cremastra</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Cremastra" title="User:Cremastra">u</a> — <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cremastra" title="Special:Contributions/Cremastra">c</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Cremastra-20241102171200-Redesigning_locks_and_other_icons" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:12, 2 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <ul><li>Our article <a href="/wiki/Shackle" title="Shackle">Shackle</a> says "A shackle is also the similarly shaped piece of metal used with a locking mechanism in <a href="/wiki/Padlock" title="Padlock">padlocks</a>.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>". Some here seem confused, but anyone using "shackle" to refer to the handle part of the handbag-looking icon is correct. <a href="/wiki/User:Anomie" title="User:Anomie">Anomie</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Anomie" title="User talk:Anomie">⚔</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Anomie-20241102211800-Cremastra-20241102171200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:18, 2 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>\o/ I'm technically correct, "The best kind of correct!" (You might be surprised how infrequently that happens, sadly.) <a href="/wiki/User:FeRDNYC" title="User:FeRDNYC">FeRDNYC</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:FeRDNYC" title="User talk:FeRDNYC">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-FeRDNYC-20241103034300-Anomie-20241102211800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:43, 3 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Really? You're citing a wikipedia article to define what 'shackle' means? Don't you know anyone can edit articles on that site? — <a href="/wiki/User:Penultimate_supper" title="User:Penultimate supper">penultimate_supper</a> 🚀 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Penultimate_supper" title="User talk:Penultimate supper">talk</a> • <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Penultimate_supper" title="Special:Contributions/Penultimate supper">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Penultimate_supper-20241114160500-Anomie-20241102211800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:05, 14 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I've updated the section heading to not be confusing (except, I guess, to one person whose <a href="/wiki/Idiolect" title="Idiolect">idiolect</a> equates locks and shackles, which is rather like calling your door a "handle" or "knob". — <a href="/wiki/User:SMcCandlish" title="User:SMcCandlish">SMcCandlish</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:SMcCandlish" title="User talk:SMcCandlish">☏</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish" title="Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish">¢</a> 😼 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-SMcCandlish-20241115212100-Penultimate_supper-20241114160500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:21, 15 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Ah yes, because when people want to cause trouble on Wikipedia, they immediately think "I'm going to change the wikipedia article for <a href="/wiki/Shackle" title="Shackle">Shackles</a> so that anyone who wants to know anything about them will be confused! <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Archer87643&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Archer87643 (page does not exist)">Archer87643</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Archer87643&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:Archer87643 (page does not exist)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Archer87643-20241120002700-Penultimate_supper-20241114160500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:27, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Oppose. While I personally favor <a href="/wiki/Skeuomorphism" class="mw-redirect" title="Skeuomorphism">skeuomorphism</a> in electronic interface design and am not fan of the last decade or so's fashion for making everything flat and same-looking, we cannot sensibly re-inject a cluster of skeuomorphic design elements and leave the rest anti-skeuomorphic. Design and user-experience do not work like that. PS: The actually-named-a-shackle part of the lock depicted in the proposed new icons looks farcically thin and weak, like those on the pretend-security of luggage locks, so even if WP went with a skeuomorphic design (for everything) again, these icons in particular should not be used. — <a href="/wiki/User:SMcCandlish" title="User:SMcCandlish">SMcCandlish</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:SMcCandlish" title="User talk:SMcCandlish">☏</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish" title="Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish">¢</a> 😼 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-SMcCandlish-20241115213300-Cremastra-20241102171200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:33, 15 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1232521257">.mw-parser-output .reflist-talk{margin:auto 0;border:1px dashed var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:4px;padding-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-talk-title{font-weight:bold}</style><div class="reflist-talk"> References <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRobinson1973" class="citation book cs1">Robinson, Robert L. (1973). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Complete_Course_in_Professional_Locksmit/ioy3vqVglTkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA163">Complete Course in Professional Locksmithing</a>. Rowman & Littlefield. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-911012-15-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-911012-15-6"><bdi>978-0-911012-15-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Complete+Course+in+Professional+Locksmithing&rft.pub=Rowman+%26+Littlefield&rft.date=1973&rft.isbn=978-0-911012-15-6&rft.aulast=Robinson&rft.aufirst=Robert+L.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fedition%2FComplete_Course_in_Professional_Locksmit%2Fioy3vqVglTkC%3Fhl%3Den%26gbpv%3D1%26pg%3DPA163&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3AVillage+pump+%28proposals%29" class="Z3988"> </li> </ol></div></div> </div> <dl><dd>Oppose primarily because “why?” and secondly because the proposed icons look 20 years out of date. <a href="/wiki/User:Dronebogus" title="User:Dronebogus">Dronebogus</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dronebogus" title="User talk:Dronebogus">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Dronebogus-20241120004200-Redesigning_locks_and_other_icons" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:42, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <div style="padding-left: 1.6em; font-style: italic; border-top: 1px solid #a2a9b1; margin: 0.5em 0; padding-top: 0.5em">The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.</div> </div><div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading1"><h1 id="Wikipedia_donation_adds" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241105195800">Wikipedia donation adds</h1>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Wikipedia donation adds">edit</a>]</div> in the school I go to, they have chromebooks for Wikipedia but they are reset every time you log on so every time i go to wikipidia I always get the annoying Wikipidia donation adds, and even though I press x they come back the next time I log on, which can be many times in one day. I am proposing that the poppup system should ask for donations bassed off of the IP adress and not bassed of of cookies. Instead of adds automaticaly popping up when wikipidia is oppened for the first time on the browser, make them poppup when its oppened for the first time on the IP adress or user. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="RfC:_Extended_confirmed_pending_changes_(PCECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-RfC:_Extended_confirmed_pending_changes_(PCECP)-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241105195800">RfC: Extended confirmed pending changes (PCECP)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: RfC: Extended confirmed pending changes (PCECP)">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238436933">.mw-parser-output .ombox{margin:4px 0;border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);box-sizing:border-box;color:var(--color-base,#202122)}.mw-parser-output .ombox.mbox-small{font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{border:2px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ombox-delete{border:2px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ombox-content{border:1px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ombox-style{border:1px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ombox-move{border:1px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ombox-protection{border:2px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.9em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-invalid-type{text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ombox{margin:4px 10%}.mw-parser-output .ombox.mbox-small{clear:right;float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 1em;width:238px}}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.ombox img{max-width:none!important}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}</style><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Dialog-information_on.svg/40px-Dialog-information_on.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Dialog-information_on.svg/60px-Dialog-information_on.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Dialog-information_on.svg/80px-Dialog-information_on.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="wikipediauserbox" style="float:right;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;margin:1px;width:238px"><table role="presentation" style="border-collapse:collapse;width:238px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;background:#e0e0e0;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><td style="border:0;width:45px;height:45px;background:#d0d0d0;text-align:center;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;color:black;padding:0 1px 0 0;line-height:1.25em;vertical-align:middle"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Internet-group-chat.svg/48px-Internet-group-chat.svg.png" decoding="async" width="48" height="48" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Internet-group-chat.svg/72px-Internet-group-chat.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Internet-group-chat.svg/96px-Internet-group-chat.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></td><td style="border:0;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;padding:0 4px 0 4px;height:45px;line-height:1.25em;color:black;vertical-align:middle">Please consider joining the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Feedback_request_service" title="Wikipedia:Feedback request service">feedback request service</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table></div>An editor has <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment">requested comments</a> from other editors for this discussion. This page has been added to the following list: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Wikipedia_proposals" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia proposals">Wikipedia proposals</a></li></ul> When discussion has <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment#Ending_RfCs" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment">ended</a>, remove this tag and it will be removed from the list. If this page is on additional lists, they will be noted below.</td></tr></tbody></table> Should a new pending changes protection level - extended confirmed pending changes (hereby abbreviated as PCECP) - be added to Wikipedia? <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241105195800-RfC:_Extended_confirmed_pending_changes_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:58, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background" data-mw-thread-id="h-Background-RfC:_Extended_confirmed_pending_changes_(PCECP)">Background</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Background">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> (from my understanding) encourages liberal use of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:30500" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:30500">EC protection</a> in topic areas authorized by the community or the arbitration committee. However, some administrators refuse to protect pages unless if there is recent disruption. Extended confirmed pending changes would allow non-XCON users to propose changes for them to be approved by someone extended confirmed, and can be applied preemptively to these topic areas. It is assumed that it is technically possible to have PCECP. That is, we can have PCECP as "[auto-accept=extended confirmed users] [review=extended confirmed users]" Right now it might not be possible to have extended confirmed users review pending changes with this protection with the current iteration of <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs#User_rights_and_user_groups" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs">FlaggedRevs</a>, but maybe in the future. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Survey_(PCECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Survey_(PCECP)-RfC:_Extended_confirmed_pending_changes_(PCECP)-20241105195800">Survey (PCECP)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Survey (PCECP)">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Support_(PCECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Support_(PCECP)-Survey_(PCECP)-20241105195800">Support (PCECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Support (PCECP)">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Support for multiple reasons: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> only applies to contentious topics. Correcting typos is not a contentious topic. Second, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> encourages the use of pending changes when protection is not used. Third, pending changes effectively serves to allow uncontroversial edit requests without needing to create a new talk page discussion. And lastly, this is within line of our protection policy, which states that protection should not be applied preemptively in most cases. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241105195800-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:58, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support (per... nom?) PC is the superior form of uncontroversial edit requests. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241105200900-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:09, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It's better than EC, which already restricts being the free encyclopedia more. As I've said below, the VisualEditor allows much more editing from new people than edit requesting, which forces people to use the source editor. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241106035200-Aaron_Liu-20241105200900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:52, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>This is not somehow less or more restrictive as ECR. It's exactly the same level of protection, just implemented in a different way. I do not get the !votes from either side who either claim that this will be more restriction or more bureaucracy. I understand neither, and urge them to explain their rationales. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241112123200-Aaron_Liu-20241105200900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:32, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>By creating a difference between what non logged-in readers (that is, the vast majority of them) see versus logged-in users, there is an extra layer of difficulty for non-confirmed and non-autoconfirmed editors, who won't see the actual page they're editing until they start the editing process. Confirmed and autoconfirmed editors may also be confused that their edits are not being seen by non-logged in readers. Because pending changes are already submitted into the linear history of the article, unwinding a rejected edit is potentially more complicated than applying successive edit requests made on the talk page. (This isn't a significant issue when there aren't many pending changes queued, which is part of the reason why one of the recommended criteria for applying pending changes protection is that the page be infrequently edited.) For better or worse, there is no deadline to process edit requests, which helps mitigate issues with merging multiple requests, but there is pressure to deal with all pending changes expediently, to reduce complications in editing. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241112195400-Aaron_Liu-20241112123200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:54, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Do you think this would be fixed with "branching" (similar to GitHub branches)? In other words, instead of PC giving the latest edit, PC just gives the edit of the stable revision and when "Publish changes" is clicked it does something like put the revision in a separate namespace (something like Review:PAGENAME/#######) where ####### is the revision ID. If the edit is accepted, then that page is merged and the review deleted. If the edit is rejected the review is deleted, but can always be restored by a Pending Changes Reviewer or administrator. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241112210100-Isaacl-20241112195400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:01, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Technically, that would take quite a bit to implement. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241112231800-Awesome_Aasim-20241112210100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:18, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>There are a lot of programmers who struggle with branching; I'm not certain it's a great idea to make it an integral part of Wikipedia editing, at least not in a hidden, implicit manner. If an edit to an article always proceeded from the last reviewed version, editors wouldn't be able to build changes on top of their previous edits. I think at a minimum, an editor would have to be able to do the equivalent of creating a personal working branch. For example, this could be done by working on the change as a subpage of the user's page (or possibly somewhere else (perhaps in the Draft namespace?), using some standard naming hierarchy), and then submitting an edit request. That would be more like how git was designed to enable de-centralized collaboration: everyone works in their own repository, rebasing from a central repository (*), and asks an integrator to pull changes that they publish in their public repository.</dd> <dd>(*) Anyone's public repository can act as a central repository. It just has to be one that all the collaborators agree upon using, and thus agree with the decisions made by the integrator(s) merging changes into that repository. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241112232200-Awesome_Aasim-20241112210100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:22, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>That makes sense. This has influenced me to amend my Q2 answer slightly, but I still support the existence of this protection and the preemptive PC protecting of low-traffic pages. (Plus, it's still not more restriction.) <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241112232000-Isaacl-20241112195400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:20, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Support, functionally a more efficient form of edit requests. The volume of pending changes is still low enough for this to be dealt with, and it could encourage the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes_reviewer" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Pending changes reviewer">pending changes reviewer</a> right to be given to more people currently reviewing edit requests, especially in contentious topics. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241105202500-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:25, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support having this as an option. I particularly value the effect it has on attribution (because the change gets directly attributed to the individual who wanted it, not to the editor who processed the edit request). <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241105203600-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:36, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support: better and more direct system than preemptive extended-confirmed protection followed by edit requests on the talk page. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cremastra" title="User talk:Cremastra">Cremastra</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Cremastra" title="User:Cremastra">u</a> — <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cremastra" title="Special:Contributions/Cremastra">c</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Cremastra-20241105204200-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:42, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support, Pending Changes has the capacity to take on this new task. PC is much better than the edit request system for both new editors and reviewers. It also removes the downsides of slapping ECP on everything within contentious topic areas. <a href="/wiki/User:Toadspike" title="User:Toadspike">Toadspike</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Toadspike" title="User talk:Toadspike">[Talk]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Toadspike-20241105205300-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:53, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I've read the opposes below and completely disagree that this would lead to more gatekeeping. The current edit request system is extremely complicated and inaccessible to new users. I've been here for half a decade and I still don't really know how it works. The edit requests we do get are a tiny fraction of the edits people want to make to ECP pages but can't. PCECP would allow them to make those edits. And many (most?) edit requests are formatted in a way that they can't be accepted (not clear what change should be made, where, based on what souce), a huge issue which would be entirely resolved by PCECP.</dd> <dd>The automatic EC protection of all pages in certain CTOPs is not the point of this proposal. Whether disruption is a prerequisite to protection is not altered by the existence of PCECP and has to be decided in anther RfC at another venue, or by ArbCom. PCECP is solely about expanding accessibility to editing ECP pages for new and unregistered editors, which is certainly a positive move.</dd> <dd>I, too, hate the PC system at dewiki, and I appreciate that Kusma mentioned it. However, what we're looking at here is lowering protection levels and reducing barriers to editing, which is the opposite of dewiki's PC barriers. <a href="/wiki/User:Toadspike" title="User:Toadspike">Toadspike</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Toadspike" title="User talk:Toadspike">[Talk]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Toadspike-20241116102400-Toadspike-20241105205300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:24, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>Support (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Feedback_request_service" title="Wikipedia:Feedback request service">Summoned by bot</a>): per above. <a href="/wiki/User:CFA" title="User:CFA">C F A</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:CFA" title="User talk:CFA">💬</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-CFA-20241105233400-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:34, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support : Per above. PC is always at a low or very low backlog, therefore is completely able to take this change. <a href="/wiki/User:Bunnypranav" title="User:Bunnypranav">~/Bunnypranav</a>:<<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bunnypranav" title="User talk:Bunnypranav">ping</a>> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Bunnypranav-20241106112600-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:26, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support: I would be happy to see it implemented. <a href="/wiki/User:GrabUp" title="User:GrabUp">GrabUp</a> - <a href="/wiki/User_talk:GrabUp" title="User talk:GrabUp">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-GrabUp-20241106151400-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:14, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support Agree with JPxG's principle that it is better to "have drama on a living project than peace on a dead one," but this is far less restrictive than preemptively setting EC protection for all <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> pages. From a new editor's perspective, they experience a delay in the positive experience of seeing their edit implemented, but as long as pending changes reviewers are equipped to minimize this delay, then this oversight seems like a net benefit. New users will get feedback from experienced editors on how to operate in Wikipedia's toughest content areas, rather than stumbling through. <a href="/wiki/User:ViridianPenguin" title="User:ViridianPenguin">ViridianPenguin 🐧</a> ( <a href="/wiki/User_talk:ViridianPenguin" title="User talk:ViridianPenguin">💬</a> ) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-ViridianPenguin-20241108085700-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">08:57, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241111051700-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:17, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support Idk what it's like in other areas but in mine, of edit requests that I see, a lot, maybe even most of them are POV/not actionable/nonsense/insults so if it is already ECR only, then yea, more filtering is a good thing.<a href="/wiki/User:Selfstudier" title="User:Selfstudier">Selfstudier</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Selfstudier" title="User talk:Selfstudier">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Selfstudier-20241111181700-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:17, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support assuming this is technically possible (which I'm not entirely sure it is), it seems like a good idea, and would definitely make pending changes more useful from my eyes. <a href="/wiki/User:Zippybonzo" title="User:Zippybonzo">Zippybonzo</a> | <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zippybonzo" title="User talk:Zippybonzo">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zippybonzo" title="Special:Contributions/Zippybonzo">contribs</a> (they/them) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zippybonzo-20241112200000-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:00, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Strong support per @<a href="/wiki/User:JPxG" title="User:JPxG">JPxG</a>:'s reasoning—I think it's wild that we're willing to close off so many articles to so many potential editors, and even incremental liberalization of editing restrictions on these articles should be welcomed. This change would substantially expand the number of potential editors by letting non-EC contributors easily suggest edits to controversial topic areas. It would be a huge win for contributions if we managed to replace most ECP locks with this new PCECP.<a href="/wiki/User:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User:Closed Limelike Curves">– Closed Limelike Curves</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User talk:Closed Limelike Curves">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241114020700-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:07, 14 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Yes, in fact, somebody read my mind here (I was thinking about this last night, though I didn't see this VP thread...<a href="/wiki/File:718smiley.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/718smiley.svg/20px-718smiley.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/718smiley.svg/30px-718smiley.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/718smiley.svg/40px-718smiley.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="733" data-file-height="733"/></a>) <a href="/wiki/User:Myrealnamm" title="User:Myrealnamm">Myrealnamm</a> <big>(<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Myrealnamm" title="User talk:Myrealnamm">💬Let's talk</a></big> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Myrealnamm" title="Special:Contributions/Myrealnamm">📜My work</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Myrealnamm-20241114213800-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:38, 14 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support in principle. Edit requests are a really bad interface for new users; if discouraging people from editing is the goal, we've succeeded. Flagged revisions aren't the best, but they are better than edit request templates. <a href="/wiki/User:Toadspike" title="User:Toadspike">Toadspike</a>'s reasoning hasn't been refuted. Right now, it seems like opposers aren't aware that the status quo for many Palestine-Israel related articles is ECP. Both <a href="/wiki/Israeli_cuisine" title="Israeli cuisine">Israeli cuisine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_cuisine" title="Palestinian cuisine">Palestinian cuisine</a> are indefinitely under <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ECP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ECP">WP:ECP</a> due to <a href="/wiki/Gastronationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Gastronationalist">gastronationalist</a> arguments about the <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_food_in_the_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict" title="Politics of food in the Arab–Israeli conflict">politics of food in the Arab–Israeli conflict</a> (a page not protected), so editors without 500/30 status cannot add information about <a href="/wiki/Falafel" title="Falafel">falafels</a> to Wikipedia. That being said, this proposal would benefit from more detail. For example, the current edit request policy requires the proposed change to be uncontroversial and puts the burden on the proposer to show that it is uncontroversial. On the other hand, the current review policy assumes a change is correct unless it's obvious vandalism or the like, which would be a big change to the edit request workflow. Likewise, what counts as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INVOLVED" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INVOLVED">WP:INVOLVED</a> for reviewers? Right now, there's a big firewall between editors involved in content in an area like Israel-Palestine and admins using their powers in that area. Can reviewers edit in the area and use their tools? This needs to be clarified, as it seems like editing in PIA doesn't disqualify one from answering edit requests. <a href="/wiki/User:Chess" title="User:Chess">Chess</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chess" title="User talk:Chess">talk</a>) (please <a href="/wiki/Help:Talk_pages#Notifications" title="Help:Talk pages">mention</a> me on reply) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chess-20241118210600-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:06, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237805129">.mw-parser-output .talkquote{color:var(--color-base,#202122);background-color:#eaf8f4;border-left:3px solid #008560;padding:0 .8em;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .talkquote-by,.mw-parser-output .talkquote-source{margin-left:1.6em}.mw-parser-output .skin-vector-2022 .talkquote>:last-child{padding-bottom:0}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .talkquote{background-color:#0d261f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .talkquote{background-color:#0d261f}}</style><blockquote class="talkquote">the current review policy assumes a change is correct unless it's obvious vandalism or the like</blockquote>@<a href="/wiki/User:Chess" title="User:Chess">Chess</a> That's true, but reviewers are also currently expected to accept and revert if the change is correct but also irky for a revert. Below, Aasim clarified that reviewers should only reject edits that fail the existing PC review guidelines plus <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">edits made in violation of an already well-established consensus</q>. As for Involved, since there's no guidance about edit request reviewers yet either, I think that should be asked in a separate RfC. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241118213500-Chess-20241118210600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:35, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>Support. The number of sysops is ever decreasing and so we will need to take drastic action to ensure maintenance and vandalism prevention can keep up. <a href="/wiki/User:Stifle" title="User:Stifle">Stifle</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Stifle" title="User talk:Stifle">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Stifle-20241119172900-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:29, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support in principle. While I understand objections from others based on the technical downsides and design of the current Flagged Revisions extension, I support making it easier for users to suggest changes with a GUI rather than a difficult-to-understand edit request template, which creates a barrier to entry. <a href="/wiki/User:Frostly" title="User:Frostly">Frostly</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Frostly" title="User talk:Frostly">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Frostly-20241126052400-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:24, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support - It seems to be entirely preferable to ECR. It would be interesting if any current or former Arbcom members were to see it as more problematic. — <a href="/wiki/User:Chalst" title="User:Chalst">Charles Stewart</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chalst" title="User talk:Chalst">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chalst-20241128041200-Support_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:12, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Oppose_(PCECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Oppose_(PCECP)-Survey_(PCECP)-20241106034500">Oppose (PCECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Oppose (PCECP)">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Oppose There's a lot of history here, and I've opposed <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FPPR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FPPR">WP:FPPR</a>/FlaggedRevs consistently since ~2011. Without reopening the old wounds over how the initial trial was implemented/ended, nothing that's happened since has changed my position. I believe that proceeding with an expansion of FlaggedRevs would be a further step away from our commitment to being the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit without actually solving any critical problems that our existing tools aren't already handling. While the proposal includes <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">However, some administrators refuse to protect pages unless if there is recent disruption</q> as a problem, I see that as a positive. In fact that's the entire point; protection should be preventative and there should be evidence of recent disruption. If a page is experiencing disruption, protection can handle it. If not, there's no need to limit anyone's ability to edit. <a href="/wiki/User:The_Wordsmith" title="User:The Wordsmith">The Wordsmith</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:The_Wordsmith" title="User talk:The Wordsmith">Talk to me</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-The_Wordsmith-20241106034500-Oppose_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:45, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/User:The_Wordsmith" title="User:The Wordsmith">The Wordsmith</a>, regarding "<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">However, some administrators refuse to protect pages unless if there is recent disruption</q> as a problem, I see that as a positive.", for interest, I see it as a negative for a number of reasons, at least in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PIA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PIA">WP:PIA</a> topic area, mostly because it is subjective/non-deterministic. <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> rules have no dependency on subjective assessments of the quality of edits. Non-EC editors are only allowed to make edit requests. That is what we tell them. <ul><li>If it is the case that non-EC editors are only allowed to make edit requests, there is no reason to leave pages unprotected.</li> <li>If it is not the case that non-EC editors can only allowed to make edit requests, then we should not be telling them that via talk page headers and standard notification messages.</li></ul></li> <li>There appears to be culture based on an optimistic faith-based belief that the community can see ARBECR violations, make reliable subjective judgements based on some value system and deal with them appropriately through action or inaction. This is inconsistent with my observations. <ul><li>Many disruptive violations are missed when there are hundreds of thousands of revisions by tens of thousands of actors.</li> <li>The population size of editors/admins who try to address ARBECR violations is very small, and their sampling of the space is inevitably an example of the <a href="/wiki/Streetlight_effect" title="Streetlight effect">streetlight effect</a>.</li> <li>The PIA topic area is largely unprotected and there are thousands of articles, templates, categories, talk pages etc. Randomness plays a large part in ARBECR enforcement for all sorts of reasons (and maybe that is good to some extent, hard to tell).</li></ul></li> <li>Wikipedia's lack of tools to effectively address ban evasion in contentious topic areas means that it is not currently possible to tell whether a revision by a non-EC registered account or IP violating <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> that resembles an okay edit (to me personally with all of my biases and unreliable subjectivity) is the product of a helpful person or a ban evading recidivist/member of an off-site activist group exploiting a backdoor.</li></ul></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241106080000-The_Wordsmith-20241106034500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">08:00, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>Oppose I am strongly opposed to the idea of getting yet another level of protection for the sole purpose of using it preemtively, which has never been ok and should not be ok. <a href="/wiki/User:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User:Just Step Sideways">Just Step Sideways</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User talk:Just Step Sideways">from this world ..... today</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Just_Step_Sideways-20241106212500-Oppose_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:25, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose, I hate pending changes. Using them widely will break the wiki. We need to be as welcoming as possible to new editors, and the instant gratification of wiki editing should be there on as many pages as possible. —<a href="/wiki/User:Kusma" title="User:Kusma">Kusma</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kusma" title="User talk:Kusma">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Kusma-20241106214700-Oppose_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:47, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Kusma" title="User:Kusma">Kusma</a> Could you elaborate on "using them widely will break the wiki", especially as we currently have the stricter and less-friendly EC protection? <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241106222800-Kusma-20241106214700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:28, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Exhibit A is dewiki's <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PendingChanges" class="extiw" title="de:Special:PendingChanges">53-day Pending Changes backlog</a>. —<a href="/wiki/User:Kusma" title="User:Kusma">Kusma</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kusma" title="User talk:Kusma">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Kusma-20241106230300-Aaron_Liu-20241106222800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:03, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>We already have a similar and larger backlog at <a href="/wiki/CAT:EEP" class="mw-redirect" title="CAT:EEP">CAT:EEP</a>. All this does is move the backlog into an interface handled by server software that allows newcomers to use VE for their "edit requests", where currently they must use the source editor due to being confined to talk pages. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241106230600-Kusma-20241106230300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:06, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The dewiki backlog is over 18,000 pages. <a href="/wiki/CAT:EEP" class="mw-redirect" title="CAT:EEP">CAT:EEP</a> has 54. The brokenness of optional systems like VE should not be a factor in how we make policy. —<a href="/wiki/User:Kusma" title="User:Kusma">Kusma</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kusma" title="User talk:Kusma">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Kusma-20241107094000-Aaron_Liu-20241106230600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">09:40, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The backlog will not be longer than the EEP backlog. (Also, I meant that EEP's top request was over 3 months ago, sorry.) <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241107122300-Kusma-20241107094000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:23, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>... if the number of protected pages does not increase. I expect an increase in protected pages from the proposal, even if the terrifying proposal to protect large classes of articles preemptively does not pass. —<a href="/wiki/User:Kusma" title="User:Kusma">Kusma</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kusma" title="User talk:Kusma">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Kusma-20241107130800-Aaron_Liu-20241107122300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:08, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Why so? <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241107133300-Kusma-20241107130800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:33, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Most PCECP pages should be ECP pages (downgraded?) as they have lesser traffic/disruption. So, the number of pages that will be increase should not be that much. <a href="/wiki/User:Bunnypranav" title="User:Bunnypranav">~/Bunnypranav</a>:<<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bunnypranav" title="User talk:Bunnypranav">ping</a>> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Bunnypranav-20241107133500-Kusma-20241107130800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:35, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Kusma" title="User:Kusma">Kusma</a> Isn't the loss of instant gratification of editing better than creating a request on the talk page of an ECP page, and having no idea by when will it be reviewed and implemented. <a href="/wiki/User:Bunnypranav" title="User:Bunnypranav">~/Bunnypranav</a>:<<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bunnypranav" title="User talk:Bunnypranav">ping</a>> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Bunnypranav-20241107112500-Kusma-20241106214700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:25, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>With PC you also do not know when or whether your edit will be implemented. —<a href="/wiki/User:Kusma" title="User:Kusma">Kusma</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kusma" title="User talk:Kusma">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Kusma-20241107130300-Bunnypranav-20241107112500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:03, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Oppose — Feels unnecessary and will only prevent other good faith editors from editing, not to mention the community effort required to monitor and review pending changes requests given that some areas like ARBIPA apply to hundreds of thousands of pages. <a href="/wiki/User:Ratnahastin" title="User:Ratnahastin">Ratnahastin</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Ratnahastin" title="User talk:Ratnahastin">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Ratnahastin-20241107014200-Oppose_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:42, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Ratnahastin" title="User:Ratnahastin">Ratnahastin</a> Similar to my above question, won't this encourage more good faith editors compared to a literal block from editing of an ECP page? <a href="/wiki/User:Bunnypranav" title="User:Bunnypranav">~/Bunnypranav</a>:<<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bunnypranav" title="User talk:Bunnypranav">ping</a>> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Bunnypranav-20241107113200-Ratnahastin-20241107014200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:32, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>There is a very good reason I reference <a href="/wiki/Community_Resources_Against_Street_Hoodlums" title="Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums">Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums</a> in my preferred name for the protection scheme, and the answer is generally no since the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CT/A-I" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CT/A-I">topic area we are primarily talking about</a> is an ethno-political contentious topic, which tend to draw partisans interested only in "winning the war" on Wikipedia. This is not limited to just new users coming in, but also established editors who have strong opinions on the topic and who may be put into the position of reviewing these edits, as a read of any random <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CT/EE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CT/EE">Eastern Europe</a>- or Palestine-Israel-focused Arbitration case would make clear just from a quick skim. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241107182100-Bunnypranav-20241107113200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:21, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Aren't these problems that can also be seen to the same extent in edit requests if they exist? <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241107191000-Jéské_Couriano-20241107182100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:10, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>A disruptive/frivolous edit request can be summarily reverted off to no damage as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VAND" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VAND">patently disruptive/frivolous</a> without implicating the 1RR in the area. As long as it's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:3RRNO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:3RRNO">not vandalism or doesn't introduce BLP violations</a>, an edit committed to an article that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POVPUSH" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POVPUSH">isn't exactly helpful</a> is constrained by the 1RR, with or without any sort of protection scheme. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241108162100-Aaron_Liu-20241107191000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:21, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Patently disruptive and frivolous edits are vandalism, emphasis on "patently". <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241108162800-Jéské_Couriano-20241108162100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:28, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>POV-pushing is not prima facie vandalism. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241108163200-Aaron_Liu-20241108162800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:32, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>POV-pushing isn't patently disruptive/frivolous and any more removable in edit requests. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241110164500-Jéské_Couriano-20241108163200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:45, 10 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>But edit requests make it harder to actually push that POV to a live article. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241111172200-Aaron_Liu-20241110164500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:22, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Same with pending changes. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241111173600-Jéské_Couriano-20241111172200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:36, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Maybe in some fantasy land where the edit didn't need to be committed to the article's history. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241111180800-Aaron_Liu-20241111173600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:08, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Except that is how pull requests work on GitHub. You make the edit, and someone with reviewer permissions approves it to complete the merge. Here, the "commit" happens, but the revision is not visible until reviewed and approved. Edit requests are not pull requests, they are the equivalent of "issues" on GitHub. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241111190300-Jéské_Couriano-20241111180800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:03, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It may come as a surprise, but Wikipedia is not GitHub. While they are both collaborative projects, they are very different in most other respects. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241111192000-Awesome_Aasim-20241111190300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:20, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>With Git, submitters make a change in their own branch (which can even be in their own repository), and then request that an integrator pull that change into the main branch. So the main branch history remains clean: it only has changes that were merged in. (It's one of the guiding principles of Git: allow the history tree of any branch to be simplified to improve clarity and performance.) <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241111221800-Awesome_Aasim-20241111190300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:18, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Edit requests are supposed to be pull requests.<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote">Clearly indicate which sections or phrases should be replaced or added to, and what they should be replaced with or have added. — <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CHANGEXY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CHANGEXY">WP:ChangeXY</a></blockquote> <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241111225100-Awesome_Aasim-20241111190300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:51, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Yeah that is what they are supposed to be but in practice they are not. As anyone who has answered edit requests before, there are often messages that look like this:</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1256386598">.mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#F0F2F5;color:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#CCFFCC;color:inherit}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#14181F;color:inherit}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#003500;color:inherit}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#14181F;color:inherit}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#003500;color:inherit}}</style> <div style="margin-left:0"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-archivedtalk mw-collapsed" style="color:inherit; background: transparent; text-align: left; border: 1px solid Silver; margin: 0.2em auto auto; width:100%; clear: both; padding: 1px;"> <tbody><tr> <th class="cot-header-other" style="; font-size:87%; padding:0.2em 0.3em; text-align:center;"><div style="font-size:115%;margin:0 4em">Extended content</div> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; border: solid 1px Silver; padding: 0.6em; background: var(--background-color-base, #fff);"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237879475">.mw-parser-output .tmbox{margin:4px 0;border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid #c0c090;background-color:#f8eaba;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmbox.mbox-small{font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .tmbox-speedy{border:2px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .tmbox-delete{border:2px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .tmbox-content{border:2px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .tmbox-style{border:2px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .tmbox-move{border:2px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .tmbox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.9em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmbox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmbox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmbox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .tmbox .mbox-invalid-type{text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmbox{margin:4px 10%}.mw-parser-output .tmbox.mbox-small{clear:right;float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 1em;width:238px}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmbox{background-color:#2e2505}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmbox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmbox{background-color:#2e2505}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmbox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.tmbox img{max-width:none!important}</style><table id="editextendedprotected" class="plainlinks tmbox tmbox-notice editrequest" role="presentation" data-origlevel="semi"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/Extended-protection-shackle.svg/60px-Extended-protection-shackle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/Extended-protection-shackle.svg/90px-Extended-protection-shackle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/Extended-protection-shackle.svg/120px-Extended-protection-shackle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></td><td class="mbox-text">It is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_requests" title="Wikipedia:Edit requests">requested</a> that an edit be made to the <a href="/wiki/Help:Protection" title="Help:Protection">extended-confirmed-protected</a> article at <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia&redirect=no">Wikipedia</a>. (<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia&action=edit">edit</a> · <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia&action=history">history</a> · <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia&diff=cur&oldid=prev">last</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia" title="Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia">links</a> · <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Wikipedia&type=protect">protection log</a>) This template must be followed by a complete and specific description of the request, that is, specify what text should be removed and a verbatim copy of the text that should replace it. "Please change X" is not acceptable and will be rejected; the request must be of the form "please change X to Y". The edit may be made by any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels#Extended_confirmed_users" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">extended confirmed</a> user. Remember to change the <code style="white-space: nowrap;">|answered=no</code> parameter to "yes" when the request has been accepted, rejected or on hold awaiting user input. This is so that inactive or completed requests don't needlessly fill up the edit requests category. You may also wish to use the {{<a href="/wiki/Template:EEp" title="Template:EEp">EEp</a>}} template in the response. To request that a page be protected or unprotected, make a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection" title="Wikipedia:Requests for page protection">protection request</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="urn:x-wp-editextendedprotected:Wikipedia"></a></td></tr></tbody></table> The reference is wrong. Please fix it. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/192.0.0.1" title="Special:Contributions/192.0.0.1">192.0.0.1</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:192.0.0.1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:192.0.0.1 (page does not exist)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-192.0.0.1-20241111231900-Oppose_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:19, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <ul><li><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd>Which is not in practice <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CHANGEXY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CHANGEXY">WP:CHANGEXY</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241111231900-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:19, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>I don't see how that's much of a problem, especially as edits are also committed to the talk page's history. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241111225000-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:50, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Do the words "Provoke edit wars" mean anything? Talk page posts are far less likely to be the locus of an edit war than article edits. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241114180500-Aaron_Liu-20241111225000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:05, 14 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd><div class="outdent-template" style="position:relative;left:1px;"></div> As an editor who started out processing edit requests, including ECP edit requests, I disagree. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241114180800-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:08, 14 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>Oppose, per what <a href="/wiki/User:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User:Just Step Sideways">JSS</a> has said. I am a little uncomfortable at the extent to which we've seemingly accepted preemptive protection of articles in contentious areas. It may be a convenient way of reducing the drama us admins and power users have to deal with... but only at the cost of giving up on the core principle that anybody can edit. I would rather have drama on a living project than peace on a dead one. <a href="/wiki/User:JPxG" title="User:JPxG">jp</a>×<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/JPxG" title="Special:Contributions/JPxG">g</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:JPxG" title="User talk:JPxG">🗯️</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-JPxG-20241107181600-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:16, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose I am one of those admins who likes to see disruption before protecting. <a href="/wiki/User:Lectonar" title="User:Lectonar">Lectonar</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Lectonar" title="User talk:Lectonar">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Lectonar-20241108084800-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">08:48, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose as unnecessary, seems like a solution in search of a problem. Furthermore, this *is* Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit; preemptively protecting pages discourages contributions from new editors. -<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Fastily" title="User talk:Fastily">Fastily</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Fastily-20241108223600-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:36, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Weak Oppose I do understand where this protection would be helpful. But I just think something is EC-protectable or not. Don't necessarily think adding another level of bureaucracy is particularly helpful. --<a href="/wiki/User:Takipoint123" title="User:Takipoint123">Takipoint123</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Takipoint123" title="User talk:Takipoint123">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Takipoint123-20241111051400-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:14, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose. I'm inclined to agree that the scenarios where this tool would work a benefit as technical solution would be exceedingly niche, and that such slim benefit would probably be outweighed by the impact of having yet one more tool to further nibble away at the edges of the open spaces of the project which are available to new editors. Frankly, in the last few years we have already had an absurdly aggressive trend towards community (and ArbCom fiat) decisions which have increasingly insulated anything remotely in the vain of controversy from new editors--with predictable consequences for editor recruitment and retention past the period of early involvement, further exacerbating our workloads and other systemic issues. We honestly need to be rolling back some of these changes, not adding yet one more layer (however thin and contextual) to the bureaucratic fabric/new user obstacle course. <a href="/wiki/User:Snow_Rise" title="User:Snow Rise">SnowRise</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Snow_Rise" title="User talk:Snow Rise"> let's rap</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Snow_Rise-20241112112300-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:23, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose. The more I read this discussion, the more it seems like this wouldn't solve the majority of what it sets out to solve but would create more problems while doing so, making it on balance a net negative to the project. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241112214300-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:43, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose and Point of Order Oppose because pending changes is already too complicated and not very useful. I'm a pending changes reviewer and I've never rejected one on PC grounds (basically vandalism). But I often revert on normal editor grounds after accepting on PC grounds. (I suspect that many PC rejections are done for non-PC reasons instead of doing this) "Point of Order" is because the RFC is unclear on what exactly is being opposed. Sincerely, North8000 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:North8000#top" title="User talk:North8000">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-North8000-20241112221500-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:15, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Pretty sure that what happens is that when vandals realize they will have to submit their edit for review before it goes live, that takes all the fun out of it for them because it will obviously be rejected, and they don't bother. That's pretty much how it was supposed to work. <a href="/wiki/User:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User:Just Step Sideways">Just Step Sideways</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User talk:Just Step Sideways">from this world ..... today</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Just_Step_Sideways-20241112222200-North8000-20241112221500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:22, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>This is a very good point, and I ask for @<a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome Aasim</a>'s clarification on whether reviewers will be able to reject edits on grounds for normal reverts combined with the EC restriction. I think there's enough rationale to apply this here beyond the initial rationale for PC as explained by JSS above. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241112232400-North8000-20241112221500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:24, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Reviewers are given specific reasons for accepting edits (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes#Reviewing_pending_edits" title="Wikipedia:Pending changes">Wikipedia:Pending changes § Reviewing pending edits</a>) to avoid overloading them with work while processing pending changes expeditiously. If the reasons are opened up to greater evaluation of the quality of edits, then expectations may shift towards this being a norm. Thus some users are concerned this will create a hierarchy of editors, where edits by non-reviewers are gated by reviewers. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241112234400-Aaron_Liu-20241112232400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:44, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I understand that and wonder how the reviewer proposes to address this. I would still support this proposal if having reviewers reject according to whether they'd revert and "ostensibly" to enforce EC is to be the norm, albeit to a lesser extent for the reasons you mentioned (though I'd replaced "non-reviewers" with "all non–auto-accepted"). <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241113001300-Isaacl-20241112234400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:13, 13 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'm not sure to whom you are referring when you say "the reviewer" – you're the one suggesting there's a rationale to support more reasons for rejecting a pending change beyond the current set. Since any pending change in the queue will prevent subsequent changes by non-reviewers from being visible to most readers, their edits too will get evaluated by a single reviewer before being generally visible. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241113005900-Aaron_Liu-20241113001300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:59, 13 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Sorry, I meant Aasim, the nominator. I made a thinko. Currently, reviewers can undo just the edits that aren't good and then approve the revision of their own revert. I thought that was what we were supposed to do. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241113021300-Isaacl-20241113005900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:13, 13 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Yes. Anything that is obvious vandalism or a violation of existing Wikipedia's policies can still be rejected. However, for edits where there is no other problem, the edit can still be accepted. In other words, a user not being extended confirmed shall not be sufficient grounds for rejecting an edit under PCECP, since the extended confirmed user takes responsibility for the edit. If the extended confirmed user accepts a bad edit, it is on them, not whoever made it. That is the whole idea.</dd> <dd>Of course obviously helpful changes such as fixing typos and adding up-to-date information should be accepted sooner, while more controversial changes should be discussed first. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241113173700-Aaron_Liu-20241112232400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:37, 13 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>By <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">or a violation of existing Wikipedia's policies</q>, do you only mean violations of BLP, copyvio, and "other obviously inappropriate content" that may be very-quickly checked, which is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes#Reviewing_pending_edits" title="Wikipedia:Pending changes">the current scope of what to reject</a>? <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241113174100-Awesome_Aasim-20241113173700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:41, 13 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Yeah, but also edits made in violation of an already well-established consensus. Edits that enforce a clearly-established consensus (proven by previous talk page discussion), are, from my understanding, exempt from all <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:EW" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EW">WP:EW</a> restrictions. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241113183800-Aaron_Liu-20241113174100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:38, 13 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li></ul> <ul><li>Oppose per Thryduulf and SnowRose. Also regardless of whether this is a good idea as a policy, <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs">FlaggedRevs</a> has a large amount of technical debt, to the extent that deployment to any additional WMF wikis is prohibited, so it seems unwise to expand its usage. <a href="/wiki/User:Mir_Novov" title="User:Mir Novov">novov</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mir_Novov" title="User talk:Mir Novov">talk</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mir_Novov" title="Special:Contributions/Mir Novov">edits</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Mir_Novov-20241113190500-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:05, 13 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose I have never found the current pending changes system easily to navigate as a reviewer. <a href="/wiki/User:AirshipJungleman29" title="User:AirshipJungleman29">~~ AirshipJungleman29</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:AirshipJungleman29" title="User talk:AirshipJungleman29">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-AirshipJungleman29-20241114205000-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:50, 14 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose the more productive approach would be to reduce the overuse of extended-confirmed protection. We have come to rely on it too much. This would be technically difficult and complex for little real gain. —<a href="/wiki/User:Ganesha811" title="User:Ganesha811">Ganesha811</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Ganesha811" title="User talk:Ganesha811">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Ganesha811-20241116183000-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:30, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose there might be a need for this but not preemptive. <a href="/wiki/User:AndreJustAndre" title="User:AndreJustAndre">Andre</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:AndreJustAndre" title="User talk:AndreJustAndre">🚐</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-AndreJustAndre-20241117013100-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:31, 17 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose. The pending changes system is awful and this would make it awfuler (that wasn't a word but it is now). <a href="/wiki/User:Zero0000" title="User:Zero0000">Zero</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zero0000" title="User talk:Zero0000">talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zero0000-20241117055800-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:58, 17 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose. How can we know that the 72,837 extended-confirmed users are capable of reviewing pending changes? I assume this is a step above normal PCP (eg. pcp is preferred over pcecp), how can reviewing semi-protected pending changes have a higher bar (requiring a request at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PERM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PERM">WP:PERM</a>) than reviewing extended-protected pending changes? Doesn't make much sense to me. — <a href="/wiki/User:BerryForPerpetuity" title="User:BerryForPerpetuity">BerryForPerpetuity</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:BerryForPerpetuity" title="User talk:BerryForPerpetuity">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-BerryForPerpetuity-20241120141500-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:15, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I do not think that XCON are reviewers is fixed. This RfC is primarily about the creation of PCECP. <a href="/wiki/User:Bunnypranav" title="User:Bunnypranav">~/Bunnypranav</a>:<<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bunnypranav" title="User talk:Bunnypranav">ping</a>> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Bunnypranav-20241120142100-BerryForPerpetuity-20241120141500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:21, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Well, they're capable of reviewing edit requests. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120143900-BerryForPerpetuity-20241120141500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:39, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Sure, but assuming this will work the same as PCR, isn't it possible that an extended-confirmed user who doesn't want to review edits, will try to edit a PCECP page, and be required to review edits beforehand? They're not actively seeking out to review edits in the same way that a PCR or someone who handles edit requests does. Will their review be on par with the scrutiny required for this level of protection? — <a href="/wiki/User:BerryForPerpetuity" title="User:BerryForPerpetuity">BerryForPerpetuity</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:BerryForPerpetuity" title="User talk:BerryForPerpetuity">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-BerryForPerpetuity-20241120145500-Aaron_Liu-20241120143900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:55, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>You do not need to review edits to edit the pending version of the page, which is what happens when you press save on a page with pending edits. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120150200-BerryForPerpetuity-20241120145500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:02, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Is it not the case that reviewers need to check a page's pending changes to edit a page? Either way, the point of "what would constitute a revert" needs to be discussed and decided on before we start to implement this, which I appreciate you discussing above. — <a href="/wiki/User:BerryForPerpetuity" title="User:BerryForPerpetuity">BerryForPerpetuity</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:BerryForPerpetuity" title="User talk:BerryForPerpetuity">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-BerryForPerpetuity-20241120153800-Aaron_Liu-20241120150200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:38, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>No. It's just that if the newest change is not reviewed, the last reviewed change is shown to readers instead of the latest change. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120160000-BerryForPerpetuity-20241120153800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:00, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">How can we know that the 72,734 extended-confirmed users are capable of reviewing pending changes?</q> This isn't about pending changes level 1. This is about pending changes as applied to enforce ECP, with the level [auto-accept=extendedconfirmed] [review=extendedconfirmed]. As this is only intended to be used for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> restricted pages, it shouldn't be used for anything else.</dd> <dd>What might need to happen for this to work is there are ways to configure who can auto-accept and review changes individually (rather than bundled as is right now) with the FlaggedRevs extension. Something like this for these drop-downs: <ul><li>Auto-accept: <ul><li>All users</li> <li>Autoconfirmed</li> <li>Extended confirmed</li> <li>Template editor</li> <li>Administrators</li></ul></li> <li>Review: <ul><li>Autoconfirmed</li> <li>Extended confirmed and reviewers</li> <li>Template editors and reviewers</li> <li>Administrators</li></ul></li></ul></dd> <dd>Of course, autoreview will have auto-accept perms regardless of these settings, and review will have review perms regardless of these settings. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241120163600-BerryForPerpetuity-20241120141500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:36, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I understand what you're saying, and I'm aware this isn't about level 1. I'm not strongly opposed to PCECP, but my original point was talking about the difference in reviewer requirements for semi-protected PC and XCON PC. If this passes, it would make reviewing semi-protected pending changes require a permission request, but reviewing extended-protected pending changes would only require being extended-confirmed. If that could be explained so I could understand it better, I'd appreciate it.</dd> <dd>This also relates to edit requests. XCON users are capable of reviewing edit requests, because they don't have to implement what the request was verbatim. If a user makes a request that has good substance, but has a part that doesn't adhere to some policy (MOS, NPOV, ect), the reviewer can change it to fit policy. With pending changes, there's really no way to do that besides editing the accepted text after accepting it. The edit request reviewer can ask for clarification on something, add notes, give a reason for declining, ect.</dd> <dd>Especially on pages that have ARBCOM enforcement on them, the edit request system is far better than the pending changes system. This approach seems to be a solution for the problem of over-protection, which is what should actually be addressed. — <a href="/wiki/User:BerryForPerpetuity" title="User:BerryForPerpetuity">BerryForPerpetuity</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:BerryForPerpetuity" title="User talk:BerryForPerpetuity">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-BerryForPerpetuity-20241122172200-Awesome_Aasim-20241120163600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:22, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Personally, I would also support this change if only reviewers may accept. I think editing a change after acceptance is superior. It makes clear which parts were written by whom (and thus much easier to satisfy our CC license). <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241122174300-BerryForPerpetuity-20241122172200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:43, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Identifying which specific parts were written by whom isn't necessary for the CC BY-SA license. (And since each new revision is a new derivative work, it's not that easy to isolate.) <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241122185000-Aaron_Liu-20241122174300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:50, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Right, but there's no need to forget the attributive edit summary, which is needed when accepting edit requests. Identifying specific parts is just cleaner this way. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241122185700-Isaacl-20241122185000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:57, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>If the change is rejected, then a user who isn't an author of the content appears in the article history. In theory that would unnecessarily entangle the user in any copyright issues that arose, or possibly defamation cases. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241122225500-Aaron_Liu-20241122185700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:55, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I personally see that as a much lesser problem than the EditRequests issue. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241123191500-Isaacl-20241122225500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:15, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>We should be maximizing the number of pages that are editable by all. Protection fails massively at this task. All this does is tell editors "hey don't edit this page", which is fine for certain legal pages and the main page that no one should really be editing, but for articles? There is a reason we have this thing called "code review" on Git and "peer review" everywhere else; we should be encouraging changes but if there is disruption we should be able to hold them for review so we can remove the problematic ones.</dd> <dd>Since Wikipedia is not configured to have software-based RC patrol outside of new pages patrol (and RC patrol would be a problem anyway not only because of the sheer volume of edits but also because edits older than a certain timeframe are removed from the patrol queue), we have to rely on other software measures to hide revisions until they are approved. Specifically, RC patrol hiding all edits until approved (wikiHow does this) would be a problem on Wikipedia. But that is a tangent. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241122194300-BerryForPerpetuity-20241122172200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:43, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>There's also a reason why Git changes aren't pushed directly to the main code branch for review, and instead a pull request is sent to an integrator in order to integrate the changes. There's a bottleneck in processing the request (including integration testing). Also note with software development, rebasing your changes onto the latest integrated stream is your responsibility. The equivalent with pending changes would be for each person to revalidate their proposed change after a preceding change had been approved or rejected. Instead, the workload falls upon the reviewer. Side note: the term "code review" far predates git, and is widely used by many software development teams. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241122224500-Awesome_Aasim-20241122194300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:45, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I see I see. I do think we need better pending changes as the current flagged revs system sucks. Also just because a feature is turned on doesn't mean there is consensus to use it, as seen by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SUPERPROTECT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SUPERPROTECT">WP:SUPERPROTECT</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PC2" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PC2">WP:PC2</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123181100-Isaacl-20241122224500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:11, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Your second sentence would render everything about this to be meaningless. Plus, the community does not like unnecessarily turning features on; both of your examples have been removed. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241123191800-Awesome_Aasim-20241123181100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:18, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I know, that is my point. We also have consensus to make in Vector 2022 the unlimited width being default which was never turned on. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123192000-Aaron_Liu-20241123191800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:20, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I don't understand your point. You're making a proposal for a new feature that has to be developed in a MediaWiki extension. If it does get developed, it won't get deployed on English Wikipedia unless there's consensus to use it. And given that the extension is not supported by the WMF right now, to the extent that it won't deploy it on new wikis, I'm not sure it has the ability to support any new version. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241123225300-Awesome_Aasim-20241123192000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:53, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Oppose, per JSS and others. We don't need another system just to allow the preemptive protection of pages, and allowing non-EC editors to clutter up this history in ARBECR topic areas would just create a lot of extra work with little or no real benefit. – <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bradv" title="User talk:Bradv">bradv</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Bradv-20241123231000-192.0.0.1-20241111231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:10, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Neutral_(PCECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Neutral_(PCECP)-Survey_(PCECP)-20241106023600">Neutral (PCECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Neutral (PCECP)">edit</a>]</div> <ol><li>I have made my opposition to all forms of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PC">FlaggedRevisions</a> painfully clear since 2011. I will not formally oppose this, however, so as to avoid the process being derailed by people rebutting my opposition. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241106023600-Neutral_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:36, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>I'm not a fan of the current pending changes, so I couldn't support this. But it also wouldn't effect my editing, so I won't oppose it if it helps others.-- LCU <a href="/wiki/User:ActivelyDisinterested" title="User:ActivelyDisinterested">ActivelyDisinterested</a> «<a href="/wiki/User_talk:ActivelyDisinterested" title="User talk:ActivelyDisinterested">@</a>» °<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested" title="Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested">∆t</a>° <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-ActivelyDisinterested-20241106143200-Neutral_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:32, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Discussion_(PCECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Discussion_(PCECP)-Survey_(PCECP)-20241106094100">Discussion (PCECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Discussion (PCECP)">edit</a>]</div> Someone who is an expert at configuring <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs">mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs</a> will need to confirm that it is possible to simultaneously have our current type of pending changes protection plus this new type of pending changes protection. The current enwiki FlaggedRevs config looks something like the below and may not be easy to configure. You may want to ping <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup">Ladsgroup</a> or post at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VPT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VPT">WP:VPT</a> for assistance. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1256386598"> <div style="margin-left:0"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-archivedtalk mw-collapsed" style="color:inherit; background: transparent; text-align: left; border: 1px solid Silver; margin: 0.2em auto auto; width:100%; clear: both; padding: 1px;"> <tbody><tr> <th class="cot-header-other" style="; font-size:87%; padding:0.2em 0.3em; text-align:center;"><div style="font-size:115%;margin:0 4em">Extended content</div> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; border: solid 1px Silver; padding: 0.6em; background: var(--background-color-base, #fff);"> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre>// enwiki // InitializeSettings.php $wgFlaggedRevsOverride = false; $wgFlaggedRevsProtection = true; $wgSimpleFlaggedRevsUI = true; $wgFlaggedRevsHandleIncludes = 0; $wgFlaggedRevsAutoReview = 3; $wgFlaggedRevsLowProfile = true; // CommonSettings.php $wgAvailableRights[] = 'autoreview'; $wgAvailableRights[] = 'autoreviewrestore'; $wgAvailableRights[] = 'movestable'; $wgAvailableRights[] = 'review'; $wgAvailableRights[] = 'stablesettings'; $wgAvailableRights[] = 'unreviewedpages'; $wgAvailableRights[] = 'validate'; $wgGrantPermissions['editprotected']['movestable'] = true; // flaggedrevs.php wfLoadExtension( 'FlaggedRevs' ); $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote = false; $wgHooks['MediaWikiServices'][] = static function () { global $wgAddGroups, $wgDBname, $wgDefaultUserOptions, $wgFlaggedRevsNamespaces, $wgFlaggedRevsRestrictionLevels, $wgFlaggedRevsTags, $wgFlaggedRevsTagsRestrictions, $wgGroupPermissions, $wgRemoveGroups; $wgFlaggedRevsNamespaces[] = 828; // NS_MODULE $wgFlaggedRevsTags = [ 'accuracy' => [ 'levels' => 2 ] ]; $wgFlaggedRevsTagsRestrictions = [ 'accuracy' => [ 'review' => 1, 'autoreview' => 1 ], ]; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['movestable'] = true; // T16166 $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['stablesettings'] = false; // -aaron 3/20/10 $allowSysopsAssignEditor = true; $wgFlaggedRevsNamespaces = [ NS_MAIN, NS_PROJECT ]; # We have only one tag with one level $wgFlaggedRevsTags = [ 'status' => [ 'levels' => 1 ] ]; # Restrict autoconfirmed to flagging semi-protected $wgFlaggedRevsTagsRestrictions = [ 'status' => [ 'review' => 1, 'autoreview' => 1 ], ]; # Restriction levels for auto-review/review rights $wgFlaggedRevsRestrictionLevels = [ 'autoconfirmed' ]; # Group permissions for autoconfirmed $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['autoreview'] = true; # Group permissions for sysops $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['review'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['stablesettings'] = true; # Use 'reviewer' group $wgAddGroups['sysop'][] = 'reviewer'; $wgRemoveGroups['sysop'][] = 'reviewer'; # Remove 'editor' and 'autoreview' (T91934) user groups unset( $wgGroupPermissions['editor'], $wgGroupPermissions['autoreview'] ); # Rights for Bureaucrats (b/c) if ( isset( $wgGroupPermissions['reviewer'] ) ) { if ( !in_array( 'reviewer', $wgAddGroups['bureaucrat'] ?? [] ) ) { // promote to full reviewers $wgAddGroups['bureaucrat'][] = 'reviewer'; } if ( !in_array( 'reviewer', $wgRemoveGroups['bureaucrat'] ?? [] ) ) { // demote from full reviewers $wgRemoveGroups['bureaucrat'][] = 'reviewer'; } } # Rights for Sysops if ( isset( $wgGroupPermissions['editor'] ) && $allowSysopsAssignEditor ) { if ( !in_array( 'editor', $wgAddGroups['sysop'] ) ) { // promote to basic reviewer (established editors) $wgAddGroups['sysop'][] = 'editor'; } if ( !in_array( 'editor', $wgRemoveGroups['sysop'] ) ) { // demote from basic reviewer (established editors) $wgRemoveGroups['sysop'][] = 'editor'; } } if ( isset( $wgGroupPermissions['autoreview'] ) ) { if ( !in_array( 'autoreview', $wgAddGroups['sysop'] ) ) { // promote to basic auto-reviewer (semi-trusted users) $wgAddGroups['sysop'][] = 'autoreview'; } if ( !in_array( 'autoreview', $wgRemoveGroups['sysop'] ) ) { // demote from basic auto-reviewer (semi-trusted users) $wgRemoveGroups['sysop'][] = 'autoreview'; } } }; </pre></div> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> –<a href="/wiki/User:Novem_Linguae" title="User:Novem Linguae">Novem Linguae</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Novem_Linguae" title="User talk:Novem Linguae">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Novem_Linguae-20241106094100-Discussion_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">09:41, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I basically came here to ask if this is even possible or if it would need WMMF devs involvement or whatever.</dd> <dd>For those unfamiliar, pending changes is not the same thing as the flagged revisions used on de.wp. PC was developed by the foundation specifically for this project after we asked for it. We also used to have <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PC2" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PC2">WP:PC2</a> but nobody really knew what that was supposed to be and how to use it and it was discontinued. <a href="/wiki/User:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User:Just Step Sideways">Just Step Sideways</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User talk:Just Step Sideways">from this world ..... today</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Just_Step_Sideways-20241106212100-Novem_Linguae-20241106094100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:21, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Is PC2 an indication of implementation being possible? <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241106222700-Just_Step_Sideways-20241106212100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:27, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Depends on what exactly is meant by "implementation". A configuration where edits by non-extendedconfirmed users need review by reviewers would probably be similar to what was removed in <a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r//r/334511" class="extiw" title="gerrit:/r/334511">gerrit:/r/334511</a> to implement <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156448" class="extiw" title="phabricator:T156448">T156448</a> (removal of PC2). I don't know whether a configuration where edits by non-extendedconfirmed users can be reviewed by any extendedconfirmed user while normal PC still can only be reviewed by reviewers is possible or not. <a href="/wiki/User:Anomie" title="User:Anomie">Anomie</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Anomie" title="User talk:Anomie">⚔</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Anomie-20241107133200-Aaron_Liu-20241106222700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:32, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Looking at the MediaWiki documentation, it is not possible atm. That said, currently the proposal assumes that it is possible and we should work with that (though I would also support allowing all extended-confirmed to review all pending changes). <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241107135600-Anomie-20241107133200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:56, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> I think the RfC summary statement is a bit incomplete. My understanding is that the pending changes feature introduces a set of rights which can be assigned to corresponding user groups. I believe all the logic is based on the user rights, so there's no way to designate that one article can be autoreviewed by one user group while another article can be autoreviewed by a different user group. Thus unless the proposal is to replace autoconfirmed pending changes with extended confirmed pending changes, I don't think saying "enabled" in the summary is an adequate description. And if the proposal is to replace autoconfirmed pending changes, I think that should be explicitly stated. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241106220600-Discussion_(PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:06, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The proposal assumes that coexistence is technically possible. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241106222800-Isaacl-20241106220600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:28, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The proposal did not specify if it assumed co-existence is possible, or enabling it is possible, which could mean replacement. Thus I feel the summary statement (before the timestamp, which is what shows up in the central RfC list) is incomplete. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241106223100-Aaron_Liu-20241106222800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:31, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>While on a re-read, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">It is assumed that it is technically possible to have PCECP</q> does not explicitly imply co-existence, that is how I interpreted it. Anyways, it would be wonderful to hear from @<a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome Aasim</a> about this. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241106224200-Isaacl-20241106223100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:42, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The key question that ought to be clarified is if the proposal is to have both, or to replace the current one with a new version. (That ties back to the question of whether or not the arbitration committee's involvement is required.) Additionally, it would be more accurate not to use a word in the summary that implies the only cost is turning on a switch. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241106224900-Aaron_Liu-20241106224200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:49, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It is assuming that we can have PC1 where only reviewers can approve edits and PCECP where only extended confirmed users can approve edits AND make edits without requiring approval. With the current iteration I don't know if it is technically possible. If it requires an extension rewrite or replacement, that is fine. If something is still unclear, please let me know. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241106230600-Isaacl-20241106224900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:06, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I suggest changing the summary statement to something like, "Should a new pending changes protection level be added to Wikipedia – extended confirmed pending changes (hereby abbreviated as PCECP)?". The subsequent paragraph can provide the further explanation on who would be autoreviewed and who would serve as reviewers with the new proposed level. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241106231900-Awesome_Aasim-20241106230600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:19, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Okay, done. I tweaked the wording a little. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241106234000-Isaacl-20241106231900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:40, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>I think inclusion of the preemptive-protection part in the background statement is causing confusion. AFAIK preemptive protection and whether we should use PCECP over ECP are separate questions. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241107191100-Isaacl-20241106220600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:11, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Q2:_If_this_proposal_passes,_should_PCECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_WP:ARBECR_topics?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Q2:_If_this_proposal_passes,_should_PCECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_WP:ARBECR_t-RfC:_Extended_confirmed_pending_changes_(PCECP)-20241105195800">Q2: If this proposal passes, should PCECP be applied preemptively to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> topics?</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Q2: If this proposal passes, should PCECP be applied preemptively to WP:ARBECR topics?">edit</a>]</div> Particularly on low traffic articles as well as all talk pages. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ECP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ECP">WP:ECP</a> would still remain an option to apply on top of PCECP. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241105195800-Q2:_If_this_proposal_passes,_should_PCECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_WP:ARBECR_t" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:58, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Support_(Preemptive_PCECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Support_(Preemptive_PCECP)-Q2:_If_this_proposal_passes,_should_PCECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_WP:ARBECR_t-20241105195800">Support (Preemptive PCECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Support (Preemptive PCECP)">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Support for my reasons in Q1. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241105195800-Support_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:58, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Also to add on there needs to be some enforcement measure for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a>. No technical enforcement measures on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> is akin to site-banning an editor and then refusing to block them because "blocks should be preventative". <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241113194200-Awesome_Aasim-20241105195800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:42, 13 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Blocking a site-banned user is preventative, because if we didn't need to prevent them from editing they wouldn't have been site banned. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241113211600-Awesome_Aasim-20241113194200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:16, 13 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Slightly ambivalent on protecting talk pages, but I guess it would bring prominence to low-traffic pages. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241105201300-Support_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:13, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Per isaacl, I only support preemptive protection on low-traffic pages. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241112232100-Aaron_Liu-20241105201300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:21, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li><s>Support, including on talk pages. With edit requests mostly dealt with through pending changes, protecting the talk pages too should limit the disruption and unconstructive comments that are often commonplace there.</s> (Changing my mind, I don't think applying PCECP on all pages would be a constructive solution. The rules of ARBECR limit participation to extended-confirmed editors, but the spirit of the rules has been to only enforce that on pages with actual disruption, not preemptively. 20:49, 7 November 2024 (UTC)) <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241105202100-Support_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:21, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support I'm going to disagree with the "no" argument entirely - we should be preemptively ECPing (even without pending changes). It's a perversion of logic to say "you can't (per policy) do push this button", and then refuse to actually technically stop you from pushing the button even though we know you could. <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241105205200-Support_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:52, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Feedback_request_service" title="Wikipedia:Feedback request service">Summoned by bot</a>): While I disagree with ECR in general, this is a better way of enforcing it as long as it exists. Constructive "edit requests" can be accepted, and edits that people disagree with can be easily reverted. I'm slightly concerned with how this could affect the pending changes backlog (which has a fairly small number of active reviewers at the moment), but I'm sure that can be figured out. <a href="/wiki/User:CFA" title="User:CFA">C F A</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:CFA" title="User talk:CFA">💬</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-CFA-20241105234100-Support_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:41, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)-Q2:_If_this_proposal_passes,_should_PCECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_WP:ARBECR_t-20241105203700">Oppose (Preemptive PCECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Oppose (Preemptive PCECP)">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>No, I don't think this is necessary at this time. I think it should be usable there, but I don't feel like this is a necessary step at this time. We could revisit it later. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241105203700-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:37, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <dl><dd>No, we still shouldn't be protecting preemptively. Wait until there's disruption, and then choose between PCXC or regular XC protection (I would strongly favour the former for the reasons I gave above). <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cremastra" title="User talk:Cremastra">Cremastra</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Cremastra" title="User:Cremastra">u</a> — <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cremastra" title="Special:Contributions/Cremastra">c</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Cremastra-20241105204300-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:43, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mu_(negative)#Non-dualistic_meaning" title="Mu (negative)">Mu</a> - This is a question that should be asked afterwards, not same time as, since ArbCom will want to look at any such proposal. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241106023800-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:38, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>No, I feel this would be a bad idea. Critics of Wikipedia already use the idea that it's controlled by a select group, this would only make that misconception more common. -- LCU <a href="/wiki/User:ActivelyDisinterested" title="User:ActivelyDisinterested">ActivelyDisinterested</a> «<a href="/wiki/User_talk:ActivelyDisinterested" title="User talk:ActivelyDisinterested">@</a>» °<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested" title="Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested">∆t</a>° <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-ActivelyDisinterested-20241106143600-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:36, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Preemptive protection has always been contrary to policy, with good reason. <a href="/wiki/User:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User:Just Step Sideways">Just Step Sideways</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User talk:Just Step Sideways">from this world ..... today</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Just_Step_Sideways-20241106212600-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:26, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Absolutely not. No need for protection if there is no disruption. The number of protected pages should be kept low, and the number of pages that cry out "look at me!" on your watchlist (anything under pending changes) should be as close to zero as possible. —<a href="/wiki/User:Kusma" title="User:Kusma">Kusma</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kusma" title="User talk:Kusma">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Kusma-20241106214400-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:44, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">No need for protection if there is no disruption.</q> Trouble is, the ECR restriction is enacted in response to widespread disruption, this time to the entire topic area as a whole. Disregard for POV, blatant inclusion of unverifiable or false (unreliable) information, and more all pose serious threats of disruption to the project. If <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> was applied broadly without any protection I would agree, but <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> is applied in response to disruption (or a serious threat of), not preemptively. Take <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1110#Volunteer_Marek" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1110">this one</a> for example, which is a long winded ANI discussion that ended in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GS">WP:GS</a> for the Russo-Ukranian War (and the ECR restrictions). And as for Arbitration Committee, ArbCom is a last resort when all other attempts to resolve disruption fail. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBPIA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBPIA">WP:ARBPIA</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBPIA2" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBPIA2">WP:ARBPIA2</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBPIA3" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBPIA3">WP:ARBPIA3</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBPIA4" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBPIA4">WP:ARBPIA4</a>. The earliest reference to the precursor to ARBECR in this case is on the third ArbCom case. Not protecting within a topic area that has a high risk of disruption is akin to having a high-risk template unprotected. The only difference is that carelessly editing a high-risk template creates technical problems, while carelessly editing a high-risk topic area creates content problems.</dd> <dd>Either the page is protected technically (which enforces a community or ArbCom decision that only specific editors are allowed in topic areas) or the page is not protected technically but protected socially (which then gives a chance of evasion). I see this situation no different from banning an editor sitewide and then refusing to block them on the grounds that "blocks should only be used to prevent disruption" while ignoring the circumstances leading up to the site ban.</dd> <dd>What PCECP would do is allow for better enforcement of the community aspect. New editors won't be bitten, if they find something that needs fixing like a typo, they can make an edit and it can get approved. More controversial edits will get relegated to the talk page where editors not banned from that topic area can discuss that topic. And blatant POV pushing and whatnot would get reverted and would never even be seen by readers.</dd> <dd>The workflow would look like this: new/anon user make an edit → edit gets held for review → extended confirmed user approves the edit. Rather than the current workflow (and the reason why preemptive ECP is unpopular): new/anon user makes an edit → user is greeted with a "this page is protected" message → user describes what they would like to be changed but in a badly formulated way → edit request gets closed as "unclear" or something similar. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241111142100-Kusma-20241106214400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:21, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Consider <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=StopAntisemitism&diff=prev&oldid=1255591763">this</a> POV change made to a topic that I presume is covered under <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBPIA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBPIA">WP:ARBPIA</a> and that is not protected. The whole reason that there is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> is to prevent stuff like this from happening. There already is consensus either among arbitrators or among the community to enact ECR within specific contentious topic areas, so I don't see how it is productive to refuse to protect pages because of "not enough disruption" when the entire topic area has faced widespread disruption in the past. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123181800-Awesome_Aasim-20241111142100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:18, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Simple, everyday vandalism is far from the levels of disruption that caused the topic to be marked Contentious. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241123192000-Awesome_Aasim-20241123181800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:20, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That example I provided isn't vandalism. Yes it is disruptive POV pushing but it is not vandalism. Wikipedia also exists in the real world, and Wikipedia does not have the technical tools to fight armies of POV pushers and more. One example is <a href="/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1197462753#Arbitration_motion_regarding_PIA_Canvassing" title="Special:PermanentLink/1197462753">Special:PermaLink/1197462753#Arbitration_motion_regarding_PIA_Canvassing</a>. When the stakes are this high people feel entitled to impose their view on the project, but Wikipedia isn't the place to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RIGHTGREATWRONGS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RIGHTGREATWRONGS">right great wrongs</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123193200-Aaron_Liu-20241123192000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:32, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It is vandalism, the changing of content beyond recognition. Even if it were just POV-pushing, there was no army here. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241123194100-Awesome_Aasim-20241123193200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:41, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Per <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Ratnahastin-20241107014200-Oppose_(PCECP)">my vote</a> above. <a href="/wiki/User:Ratnahastin" title="User:Ratnahastin">Ratnahastin</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Ratnahastin" title="User talk:Ratnahastin">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Ratnahastin-20241107090000-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">09:00, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Absolutely not. Protection should only ever be preventative. Kusma puts it better than I can. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241107134900-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:49, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Per my comment above. <a href="/wiki/User:JPxG" title="User:JPxG">jp</a>×<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/JPxG" title="Special:Contributions/JPxG">g</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:JPxG" title="User talk:JPxG">🗯️</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-JPxG-20241107181700-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:17, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>No; see my comment above. I prefer to see disruption before protecting. <a href="/wiki/User:Lectonar" title="User:Lectonar">Lectonar</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Lectonar" title="User talk:Lectonar">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Lectonar-20241108085100-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">08:51, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>No. We should be quicker to apply protection in these topics than we would elsewhere, but not preemptively except on highly visible pages (which, in these topics, are probably ECP-protected anyway). <a href="/wiki/User:Animal_lover_666" title="User:Animal lover 666">Animal lover</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Animal_lover_666" title="User talk:Animal lover 666">|666|</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Animal_lover_666-20241111171800-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:18, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>No, that would create a huge backlog. <a href="/wiki/User:AirshipJungleman29" title="User:AirshipJungleman29">~~ AirshipJungleman29</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:AirshipJungleman29" title="User talk:AirshipJungleman29">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-AirshipJungleman29-20241114205000-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:50, 14 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose per Kusma <a href="/wiki/User:AndreJustAndre" title="User:AndreJustAndre">Andre</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:AndreJustAndre" title="User talk:AndreJustAndre">🚐</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-AndreJustAndre-20241117013000-Oppose_(Preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:30, 17 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Neutral_(preemptive_PCECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Neutral_(preemptive_PCECP)-Q2:_If_this_proposal_passes,_should_PCECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_WP:ARBECR_t">Neutral (preemptive PCECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Neutral (preemptive PCECP)">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Discussion_(preemptive_PCECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Discussion_(preemptive_PCECP)-Q2:_If_this_proposal_passes,_should_PCECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_WP:ARBECR_t-20241106035100">Discussion (preemptive PCECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Discussion (preemptive PCECP)">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> Could you link to said ArbCom discussion? <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241106035100-Discussion_(preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:51, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'm not saying such a discussion exists, but changes to Arbitration remedies/discretionary sanctions are something they would want to weigh in on. Arbitration policy (which includes <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contentious_topics" title="Wikipedia:Contentious topics">WP:Contentious topics</a>) is in their wheelhouse and this would have serious implications for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CT/A-I" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CT/A-I">WP:CT/A-I</a> and any further instances where ArbCom (rather than individual editors, as a discretionary sanction) would need to resort to a 500/30 rule as an explicit remedy. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241106045800-Aaron_Liu-20241106035100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:58, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That is not my reading of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a>. Specifically, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">On any page where the restriction is not enforced through extended confirmed protection, this restriction may be enforced by...the use of pending changes...</q> (bold added by me for emphasis). But if there is consensus not to use this preemptively so be it. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241106051300-Jéské_Couriano-20241106045800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:13, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>While I appreciate the forward thinking that PCECP may want to be used in Arb areas, this feels like a considerable muddying of the delineation between the Committee's role and the community's role. Traditionally, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CT">Contentious Topics</a> have been the realm of ArbCom, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GS">General Sanctions</a> have been the realm of the Community. Part of the logic comes down to who takes the blame when things go wrong. The Community shouldn't take the blame when ArbCom makes a decision, and vice versa. Part of the logic is separation of powers. If the community wants to say "ArbCom, you will enforce this so help you God," then that should be done by amending <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBPOL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBPOL">ArbPol</a>. Part of the logic is practical. If the community creates a process that adds to an existing Arb process, what happens when the Arbs want to change that process? Or even end it altogether? Bottomline: Adopting PCECP for ARBECR is certainly something ArbCom could do. But I'd ask the community to consider the broader structural problems that would arise if the community adopted it on behalf of ArbCom. <a href="/wiki/User:CaptainEek" title="User:CaptainEek">CaptainEek</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:CaptainEek" title="User talk:CaptainEek">Edits Ho Cap'n!</a><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/CaptainEek" title="Special:Contributions/CaptainEek">⚓</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-CaptainEek-20241107051800-Discussion_(preemptive_PCECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:18, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Interesting. I'd say ArbCom should be able to override the community if they truly see such action fit and worthy of potential backlash. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241107123000-CaptainEek-20241107051800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:30, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Just a terminology note, although I appreciate many think of general sanctions in that way, it's defined on the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:General_sanctions" title="Wikipedia:General sanctions">Wikipedia:General sanctions</a> page as <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">... a type of Wikipedia sanctions that apply to all editors working in a particular topic area. ... General sanctions are measures used by the community or the Arbitration Committee ("ArbCom") to improve the editing atmosphere of an article or topic area.</q>. Thus the contentious topics framework is a form of general sanctions. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241107152200-CaptainEek-20241107051800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:22, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Regarding the general point: I agree that it is cumbersome for the community to impose a general sanction that is added on top of a specific arbitration remedy. I would prefer that the community work with the arbitration committee to amend its remedy, which would facilitate keeping the description of the sanction and logging of its enforcement together, instead of split. (I appreciate that for this specific proposal, logging of enforcement is not an issue.) <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241107153000-CaptainEek-20241107051800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:30, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Extended confirmed started off as an arbcom concept - 500 edits/30 days - which the community then choose to adopt. ArbCom then decided to make its remedy match the community's version - such that if the community were to decide extended confirmed were 1000 edits/90 days all ArbCom restrictions would update. I find this a healthy feedback loop between ArbCom and the community. The community could clearly choose (at least on a policy level, given some technical concerns) to enact PCECP. It could choose to apply this to some/all pages. If it is comfortable saying that it wants to delegate some of which pages this applies to the Arbitration Committee I think it can do so without amending ArbPol. However, I think ArbCom could could decide that PCECP would not apply in some/all CTOP areas given that the Committee is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CONEXEMPT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CONEXEMPT">exempt from consensus</a> for areas with-in its scope. And so it might ultimately make more sense to do what isaacl suggests. Best, <a href="/wiki/User:Barkeep49" title="User:Barkeep49">Barkeep49</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Barkeep49" title="User talk:Barkeep49">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Barkeep49-20241107160200-CaptainEek-20241107051800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:02, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>The "contentious topics" procedure does seem like something that the community should absolutely mirror and that ultimately both the community and ArbCom should work out of. If one diverges, there is probably a good reason why it diverged.</dd> <dd>As for the <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">broader structural problems that would arise if the community adopted it on behalf of ArbCom</q>, there are already structural problems with general sanctions because of the community's failure to adopt the new CTOP procedure for new contentious topics. Although the community has adopted the contents of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> for other topic areas like <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RUSUKR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RUSUKR">WP:RUSUKR</a>, they don't adopt it by reference but by copying the whole text verbatim. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241107171300-CaptainEek-20241107051800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:13, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That's not the same structural problem. The community hasn't had a lot of discussion about adopting the contentious topic framework for its own use (in my opinion, because it's a very process-wonky discussion that doesn't interest enough editors to generate a consensus), but that doesn't interfere with how the arbitration committee uses the contentious topic framework. This proposal is suggesting that the community automatically layer on its own general sanction on top of any time the arbitration committee decides to enact a specific sanction. Thus the committee would have to consider each time whether or not to override the community add-on, and amendment requests might have to be made both to the committee and the community. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241107173300-Awesome_Aasim-20241107171300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:33, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Prior to contentious topics there were discretionary sanctions. Those became very muddled and so the committee created Contentious topics to help clarify the line between community and committee (disclosure: I help draft much of that work). As part of that the committee also established ways for the community to tie-in to contentious topics if it wanted. So for the community hasn't made that choice which is fine. But I do this is an area that, in general, ArbCom does better than the community because there is more attention paid to having consistency across areas and when a problem arises I have found (in basically this one area only) ArbCom to be more agile at addressing it. But the community is also more willing to pass a GS than ArbCom is to designate something a CT (which I think is a good hting all around) and so having the community come to consensus about how, if at all, it wants to tie in to CT (and its evolutions) or if it would prefer to do its own thing (including just mirroring whatever happens to be in CT at the time but not subsequent changes) would probably be a good meta discussion to have. But it also doesn't seem necessary for this particular proposal. Best, <a href="/wiki/User:Barkeep49" title="User:Barkeep49">Barkeep49</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Barkeep49" title="User talk:Barkeep49">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Barkeep49-20241107174100-Awesome_Aasim-20241107171300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:41, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Q3:_If_this_proposal_does_not_pass,_should_ECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_articles_under_WP:ARBECR_topics?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Q3:_If_this_proposal_does_not_pass,_should_ECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_articl-RfC:_Extended_confirmed_pending_changes_(PCECP)-20241105195800">Q3: If this proposal does not pass, should ECP be applied preemptively to articles under <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> topics?</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Q3: If this proposal does not pass, should ECP be applied preemptively to articles under WP:ARBECR topics?">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Support_(preemptive_ECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Support_(preemptive_ECP)-Q3:_If_this_proposal_does_not_pass,_should_ECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_articl-20241105195800">Support (preemptive ECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Support (preemptive ECP)">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><s>Support as a second option, but only to articles. Talk pages can be enforced solely through reverts and short protections so I see little reason why those should be protected. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> 19:58, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</s> Moved to oppose. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241105195800-Support_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:10, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li><s>Support for articles per Aasim. Talk pages still need to be open for edit requests.</s> (Also changing my mind, per above. If anything, we should clarify ARBECR so that the 500-30 limit is only applied in cases where it is needed, not automatically, to resolve the ambiguity. 20:52, 7 November 2024 (UTC)) <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241105202000-Support_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:20, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support per my comment in the previous section. <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241105205200-Support_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:52, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>I agree with Chaotic Enby and Pppery above and think all CT articles should be protected. I am generally not a fan of protecting Talk pages, but it's true that many CT Talk pages are cesspools of hate, so I am not sure where I sit on protecting Talk pages. <a href="/wiki/User:Toadspike" title="User:Toadspike">Toadspike</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Toadspike" title="User talk:Toadspike">[Talk]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Toadspike-20241105205700-Support_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:57, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Under the current wording of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">ARBECR</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">When such a restriction is in effect in a topic area, only extended-confirmed editors may make edits related to the topic area.</q> We should protect pages, rather than letting new editors edit and then reverting them for basically no reason. This is a waste of their time and very <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BITE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BITE">BITEy</a>.</dd> <dd>I am not opposed to changing the wording of ARBECR to forbid reverting solely because an editor is not extended confirmed, which is a silly reason to revert otherwise good edits. However, until ArbCom changes ARBECR, we are stuck with the rules we have. We ought to make these rules clear to editors before they edit, by page protection, instead of after they edit, by reversion. <a href="/wiki/User:Toadspike" title="User:Toadspike">Toadspike</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Toadspike" title="User talk:Toadspike">[Talk]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Toadspike-20241116105500-Toadspike-20241105205700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:55, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>Support preemptive ECP without PCECP (for article space only). If we have a strict policy (or ArbCom ruling) that a class of user is forbidden to edit a class of page, there is no downside whatever to implementing that policy by technical means. All it does is stop prohibited edits. The consequences would all be positive, such as removing the need for constant monitoring, reducing IP vandalism to zero, and reducing the need to template new editors who haven't learned the rules yet. What I'd like with regard to the last one, is that a non-EC editor sees an "edit" button on an ECP page but clicking it diverts them to a page that explains EC and how to get it. <a href="/wiki/User:Zero0000" title="User:Zero0000">Zero</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zero0000" title="User talk:Zero0000">talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zero0000-20241117055300-Support_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:53, 17 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)-Q3:_If_this_proposal_does_not_pass,_should_ECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_articl-20241105204200">Oppose (preemptive ECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Oppose (preemptive ECP)">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Oppose because I think this is a bad idea. For one thing, just making a list of all the covered articles could produce disputes that we don't need. (This article might be covered, but is it truly covered? Reasonable people could easily disagree about whether some articles are "mostly" about the restricted area vs "partly", and therefore about whether the rule applies.) Second, where a serious and obvious problem, such as blatant vandalism, is concerned, it would be better to have an IP revert it than to mindlessly follow the rules. It is important to remember that our rules exist as a means to an end. We follow them because, and to the extent that, they help overall. We expect admins and other editors to exercise discretion. It is our policy that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:If_a_rule_prevents_you_from_improving_or_maintaining_Wikipedia,_ignore_it." class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.">Wikipedia:If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.</a> This is a proposal to declare that the IAR policy never applies to the rule about who should normally be editing these articles, and that exercising discretion is not allowed. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241105204200-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:42, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I am neither Arb nor admin, but I think the words "broadly construed" are specifically chosen so that if a topic is "partly" about the restricted area, it is included in the CTOP. @<a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a>, could you please show me an example of a case where CTOP designation or ECP was disputed? <a href="/wiki/User:Toadspike" title="User:Toadspike">Toadspike</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Toadspike" title="User talk:Toadspike">[Talk]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Toadspike-20241116105900-WhatamIdoing-20241105204200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:59, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I avoid most of those articles, but consider "the entire set of Arab-Israeli conflict-related articles, broadly interpreted": Does that include BLPs who come from Israel/Palestine? What about BLPs who are in the news because of what they said about the Israel–Hamas war? IMO reasonable people could disagree about whether "every person living in the affected area" or "every person talking about the conflict" is part of "the entire set of Arab-Israeli conflict-related articles, broadly interpreted". <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241116195400-Toadspike-20241116105900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:54, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/David_Miller_(sociologist)" title="David Miller (sociologist)">David Miller</a> is what we call a "partial" Arbpia. So while it's a BLP in general, parts of it are subject to Arbpia/CT, not a particularly unusual situation. The talkpage and edit notices should, but don't always, tell you whether it is or isn't, part of. <a href="/wiki/User:Selfstudier" title="User:Selfstudier">Selfstudier</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Selfstudier" title="User talk:Selfstudier">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Selfstudier-20241116205900-WhatamIdoing-20241116195400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:59, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IAR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IAR">WP:IAR</a> applies to content not to conduct. ArbCom is empowered to take action against poor conduct. You can't claim <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IAR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IAR">WP:IAR</a> for example <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1034#User:Can_I_Log_In_use_of_AWB_without_authorization" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1034">to reverse engineering a script that requires specific permissions to use</a>. Likewise a new editor cannot claim "IAR" to adding unverifiable (albeit true) information to an ARBECR protected article. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241116152500-WhatamIdoing-20241105204200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:25, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>IAR stands for IgnoreAllRules. The latter two cannot be claimed valid based on IgnoreAllRules because they don't have strong IgnoreAllRules arguments for what they did, not because IgnoreAllRules somehow only applies to content. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241116160700-Awesome_Aasim-20241116152500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:07, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I meant ignore all rules applies to rules not to behavior. Point still stands as ARBPIA addresses behavior not content. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241116210400-Aaron_Liu-20241116160700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:04, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I agree that "ignore all rules" applies to rules – including rules about behavior. ARBPIA is a rule about behavior. IAR therefore applies to ARBPIA.</dd> <dd>Of course, if breaking the rule doesn't prove helpful to Wikipedia in some way, then no matter what type of rule it is, you shouldn't break the rule. We have a rule against bad grammar in articles, and you should not break that rule. But when two rules conflict – say, the style rule of "No bad grammar" and the behavioral rule of "No editing this ARBPIA article while logged out, even if it's because you're on a public computer and can't remember your password" – IAR says you can choose to ignore the rule that prevents you from improving Wikipedia. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241116213400-Awesome_Aasim-20241116210400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:34, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>While there's already precedent for preemptive protection at e.g. RFPP, I do not like this. For one, as talk pages (and, by extension, edit requests) cannot use the visual editor, this makes it much harder for newcomers to contribute edits, often unnecessarily on articles where there are no disruption. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241105234700-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:47, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Feedback_request_service" title="Wikipedia:Feedback request service">Summoned by bot</a>): Too strict. <a href="/wiki/User:CFA" title="User:CFA">C F A</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:CFA" title="User talk:CFA">💬</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-CFA-20241106000300-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:03, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mu_(negative)#Non-dualistic_meaning" title="Mu (negative)">Mu</a> - This is basically my reading of the 500/30 rule as writ. Anything that would fall into the 500/30'd topic should be XCP'd on discovery. It's worth noting I don't view this as anywhere close to ideal but then <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBPIA3#At_wit's_end" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBPIA3">neither did ArbCom</a>, and given the circumstances of the <a href="/wiki/Arab-Israeli_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab-Israeli conflict">real-world ethnopolitical conflict</a> only <a href="/wiki/Israel-Hamas_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel-Hamas war">escalating as of late</a> (which in turn feeds the disruption) the only other - even worse - option would be full-protection across the board everywhere in the area. So why am I not arguing Support? Because just like the question above, this is putting the cart before the horse and this is better off being discussed after this RfC ends, not same time as. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241106024700-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:47, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose Preemptive protection of any page where there is not a problem that needs solving. <a href="/wiki/User:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User:Just Step Sideways">Just Step Sideways</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User talk:Just Step Sideways">from this world ..... today</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Just_Step_Sideways-20241106212800-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:28, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Absolutely not, pages that do not experience disruption should be open to edit. Pending changes should never become widely used to avoid situations like dewiki's utterly absurd <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PendingChanges" class="extiw" title="de:Special:PendingChanges">53-day backlog</a>. —<a href="/wiki/User:Kusma" title="User:Kusma">Kusma</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kusma" title="User talk:Kusma">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Kusma-20241106215300-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:53, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Very strong oppose, again Kusma puts it excellently. Protection should always be the exception, not the norm. Even in the Israel-Palestine topic area most articles do not experience disruption. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241107135000-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:50, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RUNAWAY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RUNAWAY">WP:RUNAWAY</a> sums up some of the tactics used by disruptive editors: namely <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">Their edits are limited to a small number of pages that very few people watch</q> and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">Conversely, their edits may be distributed over a wide range of articles to make it less likely that any given user watches a sufficient number of affected articles to notice the disruptions</q>. If a user is really insistent on pushing their agenda, they might not be able to push it on the big pages, they may push it on some of the smaller pages where their edits may get unwatched for months if not years. Then, researchers digging up information will come across the POV article and blindly cite it. Although Wikipedia should never be cited as a source, it still happens. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241111143500-Thryduulf-20241107135000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:35, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>Per my comment above. <a href="/wiki/User:JPxG" title="User:JPxG">jp</a>×<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/JPxG" title="Special:Contributions/JPxG">g</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:JPxG" title="User talk:JPxG">🗯️</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-JPxG-20241107181800-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:18, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>No, see my comment to the other questions. <a href="/wiki/User:Lectonar" title="User:Lectonar">Lectonar</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Lectonar" title="User talk:Lectonar">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Lectonar-20241108085200-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">08:52, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>No, we should never be preemptively protecting pages. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cremastra" title="User talk:Cremastra">Cremastra</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Cremastra" title="User:Cremastra">u</a> — <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cremastra" title="Special:Contributions/Cremastra">c</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Cremastra-20241110163500-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:35, 10 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>No, except on the most prominent articles on each CT topic (probably already done on current CTs, but relevant for new ones). <a href="/wiki/User:Animal_lover_666" title="User:Animal lover 666">Animal lover</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Animal_lover_666" title="User talk:Animal lover 666">|666|</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Animal_lover_666-20241111194700-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:47, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Absolutely not. See above comments for details. <a href="/wiki/User:AirshipJungleman29" title="User:AirshipJungleman29">~~ AirshipJungleman29</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:AirshipJungleman29" title="User talk:AirshipJungleman29">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-AirshipJungleman29-20241114205000-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:50, 14 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Comment - The number of revisions within the PIA topic area that violate the ARBECR rule is not measured. It is not currently possible to say anything meaningful about the amount of 'disruption' in the topic area by non-EC IPs and accounts. And the way people estimate the amount of 'disruption' subjectively depends on the timescale they choose to measure it. Nobody can see all of the revisions and the number of people looking is small. Since the ARBECR rule was introduced around the start of 2020, there have been over 71,000 revisions by IPs to articles and talk pages within the subset of the PIA topic, about 11,000 pages, used to gather statistical data (ARBPIA templated articles and articles that are members of both wikiproject Israel and wikiproject Palestine). Nobody has any idea how many of those were constructive, how many were disruptive, how many involved ban-evading disposable accounts etc. And yet, this incomplete information situation apparently has little to no impact on the credence we all assign to our views about what would work best for the PIA topic area. I personally think it is better to dispense with non-evidence-based beliefs about the state of the topic area at any given time and simply let the servers enforce the rule as written in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a>, "only extended-confirmed editors may make edits related to the topic area, subject to the following provisions...". <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241116172200-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:22, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Make sense, but I am not sure if this is meant to be an oppose. Personally, since there hasn't been much big outrage not solved by a simple RfPP, anecdotally I see no problem with the status quo on this question. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241117012400-Sean.hoyland-20241116172200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:24, 17 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>Oppose per Thryduulf and others <a href="/wiki/User:AndreJustAndre" title="User:AndreJustAndre">Andre</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:AndreJustAndre" title="User talk:AndreJustAndre">🚐</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-AndreJustAndre-20241117012900-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:29, 17 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Oppose. Preemptive protection is just irresponsible.—<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Alalch_E." title="User talk:Alalch E.">Alalch E.</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Alalch_E.-20241122232200-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:22, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>As OP I am actually starting to lean weak oppose unless if we have a robust and new-user-friendly edit request system (which currently we don't). We already preemptively protect templates used on a lot of pages for technical reasons, and I don't think new users are at all going to be interested in templates so our current edit request system works decent for templates, modules, code pages, etc. When we choose to protect it should be the same as blocking which is the risk of disruption for specific pages or topic areas, using previous disruption to hope predict the future. Users already have a hard time submitting edit requests for pages not within contentious topic areas, so as it stands right now preemptive protection will do more harm than good. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123191000-Oppose_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:10, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Neutral_(preemptive_ECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Neutral_(preemptive_ECP)-Q3:_If_this_proposal_does_not_pass,_should_ECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_articl">Neutral (preemptive ECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Neutral (preemptive ECP)">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Discussion_(preemptive_ECP)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Discussion_(preemptive_ECP)-Q3:_If_this_proposal_does_not_pass,_should_ECP_be_applied_preemptively_to_articl-20241105201100">Discussion (preemptive ECP)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Discussion (preemptive ECP)">edit</a>]</div> I think this question should be changed to "...articles under WP:ARBECR topics?". <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241105201100-Discussion_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:11, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Okay, updated. Look good? <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241105201300-Aaron_Liu-20241105201100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:13, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> As I <a href="/wiki/Special:GoToComment/c-Isaacl-20241107153000-CaptainEek-20241107051800" title="Special:GoToComment/c-Isaacl-20241107153000-CaptainEek-20241107051800">discussed in another comment</a>, should this concept gain approval, I feel it is best for the community to work with the arbitration committee to amend its remedy. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241107153400-Discussion_(preemptive_ECP)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:34, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>And as I <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#c-Barkeep49-20241107160200-CaptainEek-20241107051800">discussed in another comment</a> while I think the community could do this, I agree with isaac that it would be best to do it in a way that works with the committee. Best, <a href="/wiki/User:Barkeep49" title="User:Barkeep49">Barkeep49</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Barkeep49" title="User talk:Barkeep49">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Barkeep49-20241107160300-Isaacl-20241107153400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:03, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Q4:_Should_there_be_a_Git-like_system_for_submitting_and_reviewing_edits_to_protected_pages?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Q4:_Should_there_be_a_Git-like_system_for_submitting_and_reviewing_edits_to_prot-RfC:_Extended_confirmed_pending_changes_(PCECP)-20241123185200">Q4: Should there be a Git-like system for submitting and reviewing edits to protected pages?</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Q4: Should there be a Git-like system for submitting and reviewing edits to protected pages?">edit</a>]</div> This behaves a little like pending changes, but with a few different things: <ol><li>There would be an additional option entitled "allow users to submit edits for review" in the protection window. There could also be a specific user group able to accept such edits.</li> <li>Instead of the standard "protected page text" informing the user is protected, when this option is enabled, the user is given a message something like "This page is currently protected, so you are currently submitting an edit request. Only when your change is approved will your edit be visible." An edit summary as well as a more detailed explanation into the review can be provided. Same for title blacklisted pages. However, the "permission error" will still show for attempting to rename the page, as well as for cases where a user cannot edit a page for a reason other than protection (like being blocked from editing).</li> <li>All the changes submitted for review end up in some namespace (like Review:1234567) with the change id. Only users with the ability to edit the page or accept the revision would be able to see these changes. There would also be the ability to discuss each change on the talk page for that change or something similar. This namespace by design will be unprotectable.</li> <li>Users with the ability to edit the page (or when a higher accept level is selected, users with that accept level) are given the ability to merge these changes in. Administrators can delete changes just like they can delete individual revisions, and these changes can also be suppressed just like individual revisions.</li> <li>Changes are not directly committed to the edit history, unlike the current pending changes system; only to the page in the Review: namespace.</li></ol> This would be a major improvement over our edit request system which ONLY allows a user to write what they want changed, and that is often prone to stuff that is not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CHANGEXY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CHANGEXY">WP:CHANGEXY</a>. If there are merge conflicts preventing a clean merge then the person who submitted the edit or the reviewer will have to manually fix it before it merges cleanly. If this path is chosen we can safely retire pending changes. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123185200-Q4:_Should_there_be_a_Git-like_system_for_submitting_and_reviewing_edits_to_prot" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:52, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Survey_(Q4)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Survey_(Q4)-Q4:_Should_there_be_a_Git-like_system_for_submitting_and_reviewing_edits_to_prot-20241123185200">Survey (Q4)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Survey (Q4)">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Support failing Q1, as it streamlines the experience for making edit requests, especially for new users. I have had ideas for scripts to make the experience of submitting an edit request a lot easier but none has really come to fruition. I still don't entirely agree with the arguments with Q2 and Q3, but I am starting to agree that that is putting the pen before the pig and thus can be closed as premature, unless if there is an emerging consensus that pages being within a topic area should not be protected for being within that particular topic area. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123185200-Survey_(Q4)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:52, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support in theory, but wait to see if this is technically possible to implement. While a clear improvement, it will likely require quite some amount of work (and workshopping) for implementation. While a non-binding poll to gauge community interest is a good thing, having a full RfC to adopt this before coding has even begun is way too premature. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241123212900-Survey_(Q4)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:29, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Too soon to know. Once it is known that it is technically possible and you have mockups of things like interfaces and details of how it would handle a range of common real-world scenarios then we can discuss whether it would make sense to implement it. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241123225200-Survey_(Q4)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:52, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The whole premise of this RfC is if this is possible, and if it is not that some are willing to make this possible. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123225400-Thryduulf-20241123225200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:54, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Before proposing something like this, first find out whether it is possible. If it isn't currently possible but could be, work out structures and how it will work, at least broadly. Then find out whether enough people want it that someone spending the time to make it will be worthwhile. You can't just assume that anything you want is technically possible and that if enough other people also want it that developers will make it for you. Some relatively simple, uncontroversial feature requests, with demonstrated demand, have been open tasks awaiting developer intention for over 15 years. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241124021600-Awesome_Aasim-20241123225400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:16, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>As an actual developer, this seems like it would be possible in the technical sense, but also a sufficiently large project that it won't actually get done unless some WMF team takes the initiative to do it. This would likely amount to writing a new extension, which would have to go through <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment" class="extiw" title="mw:Writing an extension for deployment">the review queue</a>, whose first step now is <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">Find at least one WMF team (or staff member on behalf of their team) to agree to offer basic support for the extension for when it's deployed to Wikimedia Production</q>. <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div> And I have no idea what team would support this. <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Moderator_Tools" class="extiw" title="mw:Moderator Tools">Moderator Tools</a> would be my first guess, but they <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355150#9843260" class="extiw" title="phab:T355150">refused to support Adiutor</a> even when it was actually coded up and ready to go and is much simpler, so they definitely won't. <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div> I personally think this requirement is unnecessary (and hypocritical), and the WMF needs to stop stifling volunteers' creativity, but there's nothing I can do about it now. <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div> And all of this is despite the fact that I think there's actually some merit to the idea. <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241124041700-Thryduulf-20241124021600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:17, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Provisionally support - there is the problem that this requires implementation, so a support !vote has to wait until someone comes along who has the skills needed and is sufficiently enthusiastic about the proposal to get it done. This barrier aside, I do think that this is a good idea. It is more likely to attract attention if the underlying proposal is approved. Perhaps the underlying proposal could be added as an alternate to page protection for use by Arbcom. — <a href="/wiki/User:Chalst" title="User:Chalst">Charles Stewart</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chalst" title="User talk:Chalst">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chalst-20241128051900-Survey_(Q4)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:19, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Discussion_(Q4)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Discussion_(Q4)-Q4:_Should_there_be_a_Git-like_system_for_submitting_and_reviewing_edits_to_prot-20241123185200">Discussion (Q4)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Discussion (Q4)">edit</a>]</div> If additional proposals come (seems unlikely), I wonder if this might be better split as a "pending changes review" or something similar. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123185200-Discussion_(Q4)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:52, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] I really think this should be straight-up implemented as whatever first instead of being asked in an RfC. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241123193200-Discussion_(Q4)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:32, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] First, please stop calling this a git-like system. The real essence of version control systems is branching history. Plus one of the key principles for git is to enable developers to keep the branching history as simple as possible, with changes merged cleanly into an integration branch, so proposed changes never show up in the history of the integration branch. I would prefer keeping the article history clear of any edit requests. There could be a tool that would clone an article (or designated sections) to a user subpage, preserving attribution in the edit summary. The user could make their changes on that page, and then a tool could assist them in creating an edit request. Whoever processes the request will be able to review the diff on the subpage. If the current version of the article has changed significantly, they can ask the requester to rebase the page to the current version and redo their change. I think this approach simplifies both creating and reviewing a proposed change, and helps spread the workload of integrating changes when they pile up. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241123224400-Discussion_(Q4)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:44, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It won't. If the change is not merged. The point of this is the edit history remains clear up until the edit is approved. We can do some "squashing" as well as limit edits to be reviewed to the original creator. A commit on GitHub and GitLab does not show up on main until merged. It is already possible to merge two page's histories right now, this is done after cut and paste moves. This just takes it to a different level. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123225300-Isaacl-20241123224400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:53, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>History merge isn't really the same thing, in that you can't interlace changes in the version history, but only have a "clean" merge when the two have disjoint timespans. If multiple versions of the same page are edited simultaneously before being merged, even assuming no conflicts in merging, the current histmerge system will not be able to handle it properly. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241123225800-Awesome_Aasim-20241123225300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:58, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>If it doesn't show up in the article history, then it isn't like pending changes at all, so I suggest your summary should be updated accordingly. In which case, under the hood your proposal is similar to mine; I suggest having subpages under the user page would be easier for the user to manage. Squashing shouldn't be done with the history of public branches (commits should remain fixed once they've been made known to everyone) plus rewriting history can be confusing, so I think the change history should be preserved on the working page. If you mean that the submission into the article should be one edit, sure.</dd> <dd>My proposal was to layer on tools to assist with creating edit requests, while yours seeks to integrate the system with the edit function when a user is prevented from editing due to page protection. Thus from an implementation perspective, my proposal can be implemented independently of the rest of the MediaWiki code base (and could be done with gadgets), while yours would require changes to the MediaWiki code. Better integration of course offers a more cohesive user experience, but faces greater implementation and integration challenges. I suggest reaching out to the WMF development team to find a contact to discuss your ideas. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241123231300-Awesome_Aasim-20241123225300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:13, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I agree that for now we should have JS tools, although that itself has challenges. A modification to MediaWiki core will also have challenges but it might be worth it in the long run, as Core gets regular updates to features, but extensions not always. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241124013100-Isaacl-20241123231300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:31, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_discussion" data-mw-thread-id="h-General_discussion-RfC:_Extended_confirmed_pending_changes_(PCECP)-20241105195800">General discussion</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: General discussion">edit</a>]</div> Since we're assuming that PCECP is possible and the last two questions definitely deal with policy, I feel like maybe this should go to VPP instead, with the header edited to something like "Extended-confirmed pending changes and preemptive protection in contentious topics" to reflect the slightly−larger-than-advertised scope? <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241105235300-General_discussion" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:53, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I think policy proposals are also okay here, though I see your point. There is definitely overlap, though. This is both a request for a technical change as well as establishing policy/guidelines around that technical change (or lack thereof). <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241106002600-Aaron_Liu-20241105235300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:26, 6 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> If this proposal is accepted, my assumption is that we'd bring back the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ORANGELOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ORANGELOCK">ORANGELOCK</a> which was used for the original incarnation of Pending Changes Level 2. There's a proposed lock already at <a href="/wiki/File:Pending_Changes_Protected_Level_2.svg" title="File:Pending Changes Protected Level 2.svg">File:Pending_Changes_Protected_Level_2.svg</a>, though it needs fixes in terms of name (should probably be something like <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">Pending-level-2-protection-shackle.png</code> or <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">Extended-pending-protection-shackle.png</code>), SVG code (the top curve is a bit cut off), and color (should probably be darker but still clearly distinguishable from <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:REDLOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:REDLOCK">REDLOCK</a>). —<a href="/wiki/User:Pythoncoder" title="User:Pythoncoder">pythoncoder</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pythoncoder" title="User talk:Pythoncoder">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/pythoncoder" title="Special:Contributions/pythoncoder">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pythoncoder-20241108214300-General_discussion" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:43, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I think light blue is a better color for this. But in any case we will probably need a lock with a checkmark and the letter "E" for extended confirmed. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241108222200-Pythoncoder-20241108214300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:22, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Courtesy_ping" data-mw-thread-id="h-Courtesy_ping-General_discussion-20241105195800">Courtesy ping</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Courtesy ping">edit</a>]</div> Courtesy ping all from the idea lab that participated in helping formulate this RfC: @<a href="/wiki/User:Toadspike" title="User:Toadspike">Toadspike</a> @<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> @<a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> @<a href="/wiki/User:Mach61" title="User:Mach61">Mach61</a> @<a href="/wiki/User:Cremastra" title="User:Cremastra">Cremastra</a> @<a href="/wiki/User:Anomie" title="User:Anomie">Anomie</a> @<a href="/wiki/User:SamuelRiv" title="User:SamuelRiv">SamuelRiv</a> @<a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">Isaacl</a> @<a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> @<a href="/wiki/User:Ahecht" title="User:Ahecht">Ahecht</a> @<a href="/wiki/User:Bunnypranav" title="User:Bunnypranav">Bunnypranav</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241105195800-Courtesy_ping" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:58, 5 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Protection?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Protection?-General_discussion-20241111234000">Protection?</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Protection?">edit</a>]</div> I am actually starting to wonder if "protection" is a bit of a misnomer, because technically pages under pending changes are not really "protected". Yeah the edits are subject to review, but there are no technical measures to prevent a user from editing. It is just like recent changes on many wikis; those hold edits for review until they are approved, but they do not "protect" the entire wiki. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241111234000-Protection?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:40, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>How about “kinder, gentler protection”? To appear in the know, you can use an acronym, such as in “TCPIP is an example of KGP”. — <a href="/wiki/User:Chalst" title="User:Chalst">Charles Stewart</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chalst" title="User talk:Chalst">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chalst-20241128045700-Awesome_Aasim-20241111234000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:57, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Move_to_close" data-mw-thread-id="h-Move_to_close-RfC:_Extended_confirmed_pending_changes_(PCECP)-20241122230900">Move to close</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Move to close">edit</a>]</div> The main proposal is basically deadlocked and has been for six days, and the sub-proposals are clearly failing. Seems like we have a result. <a href="/wiki/User:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User:Just Step Sideways">Just Step Sideways</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User talk:Just Step Sideways">from this world ..... today</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Just_Step_Sideways-20241122230900-Move_to_close" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:09, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I was about to withdraw Q2 and Q3 for putting the pen before the pig, but I did realize I added a couple more comments particularly to Q2. I did add a Q4 that might be more actionable and that is about making the experience of submitting edit requests a lot better. I am starting to agree though for Q2 and Q3 everything that has needed to be said has been said so the proposals can be withdrawn.</dd> <dd>We do need to consider the experience of the users actually being locked out of this. I understand the opposition to Q3 (and in fact just struck my !vote because of this). But Q2? Look at the disaster that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V22RFC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V22RFC">WP:V22RFC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V22RFC2" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V22RFC2">WP:V22RFC2</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V22RFC3" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V22RFC3">WP:V22RFC3</a> is. These surveys are barely representative of new users, just of experienced editors. We should absolutely be bringing new editors to the table for these discussions. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123191300-Just_Step_Sideways-20241122230900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:13, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Please don't pre-close. 4 of the opposers to the main proposal seem to address only Q2 instead of Q1, and I don't see anyone addressing the argument that it's less restrictive than ECP. It's up to the closer to weigh the consensus. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241123193000-Just_Step_Sideways-20241122230900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:30, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Add_AI_translation_option_for_translating_from_English_to_non-English_article." data-mw-thread-id="h-Add_AI_translation_option_for_translating_from_English_to_non-English_article.-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241107185000">Add AI translation option for translating from English to non-English article.</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Add AI translation option for translating from English to non-English article.">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> AI certainly improved a lot by now. It can translate to many non-english language better than traditional translators . My suggestion is to add AI translation option for translating from English to non-English article. User will review the AI translation to see if its correct. It will increase the translation quality. I dont suggest using AI for English article, that could have a devastating impact. <a href="/wiki/User:Dark1618" title="User:Dark1618">Dark1618</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dark1618" title="User talk:Dark1618">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Dark1618-20241107185000-Add_AI_translation_option_for_translating_from_English_to_non-English_article." class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:50, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That's out of scope here, and would need to be asked on each and every individual language-edition of Wikipedia, as those would be the ones dictating policy for translations into their respective languages. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241107191000-Dark1618-20241107185000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:10, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Why would a translation into English be devastating, but a translation from English into any other language be acceptable? English just happens to be that most used language in the world by some measures: beyond that it has no special status. Anyway, we can not decide here what is appropriate for other language Wikipedias. <a href="/wiki/User:Phil_Bridger" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Phil Bridger">Phil Bridger</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Phil_Bridger" title="User talk:Phil Bridger">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Phil_Bridger-20241107193300-Dark1618-20241107185000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:33, 7 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Good Idea! That’s actually what I was going to propose but you took it. To add to your amazing proposal, I suggest that every wiki translation must be approved by a speaker. Like If someone translated an article from English to Arabic, the translated article goes to an Arab speaker, by algorithm when the person would press a button that says “send for approval” or something like that, and the Arab person who gets the translated article will read the Wikipedia page and look for any errors, then the Arab corrects it and it gets published to the world. And why can’t the opposite happen, when an article gets translated to say french To English the same thing happens the French person machine translates the article, it gets sent to approval, a fluent English speaker goes and corrects it, then it gets published. If it is an extinct language, a person who is a professional in the language will correct it, and as for rates, I mean Wikipedia has at least 1 person who knows the language. Anyway have a good day! Cheers! <a href="/wiki/User:Datawikiperson" title="User:Datawikiperson">Datawikiperson</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Datawikiperson" title="User talk:Datawikiperson">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Datawikiperson-20241110101000-Dark1618-20241107185000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:10, 10 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Doesn't <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CXT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CXT">WP:CXT</a> already do this somewhat? <a href="/wiki/User:Lee_Vilenski" title="User:Lee Vilenski">Lee Vilenski</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Lee_Vilenski" title="User talk:Lee Vilenski">talk</a> • <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Lee_Vilenski" title="Special:Contributions/Lee Vilenski">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Lee_Vilenski-20241110103600-Dark1618-20241107185000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:36, 10 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'm not sure of the technical backend for that tool, but I do see at English Wikipedia a constant inflow of articles translated from sister projects, usually without proper attribution, sometimes with broken templates.<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>Some of these translations are pretty good, up to idiomatic phrasing; others have the appearance of raw machine translation, with errors no one fluent in the target language would leave in.<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>As to the original proposal / idea, a flow of machine translations from this project to sister Wikipediae, that is indeed out of scope here, and would have to be brought up individually at each language project. Except maybe <a href="/wiki/Cebuano_Wikipedia" title="Cebuano Wikipedia">Cebuano Wikipedia</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Folly_Mox" title="User:Folly Mox">Folly Mox</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Folly_Mox" title="User talk:Folly Mox">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Folly_Mox-20241110144900-Lee_Vilenski-20241110103600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:49, 10 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>I occasionally translate from English to Chinese and vice versa, and take on some bits from Japanese and Korea projects to be translated on to here if the information and sources can be used on here. And I strongly discourage automated AI translations from English to other languages, which you are proposing, without further inputs from the targeted language projects. AI translations to other languages from English are not perfect and can have the same devastating impact you don't want to see on English Wikipedia. <a href="/wiki/User:Robertsky" title="User:Robertsky">– robertsky</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Robertsky" title="User talk:Robertsky">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Robertsky-20241111143000-Dark1618-20241107185000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:30, 11 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Machine translation from English to most other languages is already enabled (and where it isn't it is a choice of the to project, not of the English Wikipedia). I don't think there is anything for us to do about this proposal? — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241116103300-Dark1618-20241107185000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:33, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <ul><li>Oppose see also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CXT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CXT">WP:CXT</a>. We should never be using AI to translate works; always humans. Yes AI is good, but just by the nature of how LLMs and neural networks work, they can't necessarily be better than humans. AI does not have any understanding of context, cultural norms, and so much more that humans do have, it just finds patterns in data to see what comes next. <a href="/wiki/User:Awesome_Aasim" title="User:Awesome Aasim">Awesome</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Awesome_Aasim" title="User talk:Awesome Aasim">Aasim</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Awesome_Aasim-20241123191700-Dark1618-20241107185000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:17, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Require_2FA_for_bureaucrats" data-mw-thread-id="h-Require_2FA_for_bureaucrats-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241112092400">Require 2FA for bureaucrats</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Require 2FA for bureaucrats">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> Heya, I noticed a couple of weeks ago that while interface administrators and central notice administrators need 2FA, bureaucrats, who can grant interface admin don't need 2FA. To me this seems a bit weird, because if you wanted to compromise an account with access to interface admin tools, bureaucrats may not all have 2FA. Hence, I'm proposing requiring all enwiki bureaucrats to enable 2FA as a precaution. <a href="/wiki/User:Zippybonzo" title="User:Zippybonzo">Zippybonzo</a> | <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zippybonzo" title="User talk:Zippybonzo">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zippybonzo" title="Special:Contributions/Zippybonzo">contribs</a> (they/them) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zippybonzo-20241112092400-Require_2FA_for_bureaucrats" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">09:24, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>If this is the case then they absolutely should begin to require 2FA (although I'm sure in practice they all have it anyway) <a href="/wiki/User:Gaismagorm" title="User:Gaismagorm">Gaismagorm</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Gaismagorm" title="User talk:Gaismagorm">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Gaismagorm-20241112133500-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:35, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Yeah, that's my thoughts, I imagine they do all have it, but formalising it as a requirement seems to make sense IMO. <a href="/wiki/User:Zippybonzo" title="User:Zippybonzo">Zippybonzo</a> | <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zippybonzo" title="User talk:Zippybonzo">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zippybonzo" title="Special:Contributions/Zippybonzo">contribs</a> (they/them) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zippybonzo-20241112143000-Gaismagorm-20241112133500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:30, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>Hold. This is being evaluated upstream (<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242555" class="extiw" title="phab:T242555">phab:T242555</a> (restricted task)) - if WMF ends up requiring it we won't need a local project rule. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241112135100-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:51, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I see non-restricted adjacent bugs T242553 and T242556 were both created on 12 Jan 2020. Would it be accurate to describe this as an evaluation which has been unresolved for about 5 years? -- <a href="/wiki/User:Zzuuzz" title="User:Zzuuzz">zzuuzz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zzuuzz" title="User talk:Zzuuzz">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zzuuzz-20241112135800-Xaosflux-20241112135100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:58, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Hold—for another five years :) <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Serial_Number_54129" title="User talk:Serial Number 54129">SerialNumber</a><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Serial_Number_54129" title="Special:Contributions/Serial Number 54129">54129</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Serial_Number_54129-20241112143900-Xaosflux-20241112135100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:39, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Before GTA6 maybe lol <a href="/wiki/User:Zippybonzo" title="User:Zippybonzo">Zippybonzo</a> | <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zippybonzo" title="User talk:Zippybonzo">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zippybonzo" title="Special:Contributions/Zippybonzo">contribs</a> (they/them) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zippybonzo-20241112170200-Serial_Number_54129-20241112143900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:02, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>There's no reason we can't impose a local requirement for this independently of the WMF. And the current system is utterly illogical. Support doing so. <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241112170700-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:07, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Support per pppery and zippybonzo - should be a requirement locally. Waiting for phab tickets could take years while I imagine a RFC would pass pretty quickly. <a href="/wiki/User:Bugghost" title="User:Bugghost">BugGhost</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bugghost" title="User talk:Bugghost">🦗👻</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Bugghost-20241112194400-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:44, 12 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Easy support. They have to much potential power to not have max security on accounts. <a href="/wiki/User:Kingsmasher678" title="User:Kingsmasher678">Kingsmasher678</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kingsmasher678" title="User talk:Kingsmasher678">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Kingsmasher678-20241114195400-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:54, 14 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>No knowing when WMF might implement. Support. <a href="/wiki/User:AirshipJungleman29" title="User:AirshipJungleman29">~~ AirshipJungleman29</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:AirshipJungleman29" title="User talk:AirshipJungleman29">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-AirshipJungleman29-20241114210200-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:02, 14 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>The fact that 'crats can assign <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Interface_admin" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Interface admin">interface admin</a> (a role which requires 2FA) but are not required to have 2FA personally enabled is wild. Support a local rule (and hopefully the largest WMF project implementing such a rule will encourage others to make such a change). <a href="/wiki/User:HouseBlaster" title="User:HouseBlaster">House</a><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/HouseBlaster" title="Special:Contributions/HouseBlaster">Blaster</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:HouseBlaster" title="User talk:HouseBlaster">talk</a> • he/they) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-HouseBlaster-20241115004300-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:43, 15 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Definite support. I am personally in favor of a 2FA requirement for any privileged group, but it is something I doubt will happen anytime soon. Crats should absolutely have it enabled. <a href="/wiki/User:EggRoll97" title="User:EggRoll97">EggRoll97</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:EggRoll97" title="User talk:EggRoll97">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-EggRoll97-20241115015100-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:51, 15 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Question. How are you going to check whether the user enabled 2FA or not? This information is not public. Only WMF can confirm this. <a href="/wiki/User:Ruslik0" title="User:Ruslik0">Ruslik</a>_<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Ruslik0" title="User talk:Ruslik0">Zero</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Ruslik0-20241115200200-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:02, 15 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Technically stewards can do it too. And, of course, trusting people not to lie to us. <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241115201000-Ruslik0-20241115200200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:10, 15 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>If someone's a crat and lies about having their 2FA enabled then that's probably breaching the trust we have in them as crats. <a href="/wiki/User:Zippybonzo" title="User:Zippybonzo">Zippybonzo</a> | <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zippybonzo" title="User talk:Zippybonzo">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zippybonzo" title="Special:Contributions/Zippybonzo">contribs</a> (they/them) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zippybonzo-20241116091200-Pppery-20241115201000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">09:12, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Haven't heard that nickname before <a href="/wiki/User:Gaismagorm" title="User:Gaismagorm">Gaismagorm</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Gaismagorm" title="User talk:Gaismagorm">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Gaismagorm-20241116133200-Zippybonzo-20241116091200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:32, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Yes, stewards can check this, and we periodically audit this for compliance on projects. Also, 'crats will very likely soon be able to check this as well - just some paperwork in that way right now (primarily so they can check it before assigning intadmin to others). — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241116102900-Ruslik0-20241115200200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:29, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>Oppose, because the last time I checked, WMF's self-developed version of 2FA was not really fit for purpose. It's not like they're using Duo or Google or something. If anything, I'd support removing it from the roles requiring it now. --<a href="/wiki/User:Floquenbeam" title="User:Floquenbeam">Floquenbeam</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Floquenbeam" title="User talk:Floquenbeam">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Floquenbeam-20241115201600-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:16, 15 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It works OK, but is certainly not ready for large-scale deployment due to the support model and capacity. Staff is generally responsive to recovery requests for those that WMF requires enrollment though. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241116103000-Floquenbeam-20241115201600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:30, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>Support in theory - I use 2FA as a crat. Makes all the sense to me. As Xaos says above it's not ideal how it's setup. If it was just a "should this user group use 2FA", then I think yes. And, I'd argue administrators should as well. I can't support the technical solution we currently have being rolled out further without more Dev time. <a href="/wiki/User:Lee_Vilenski" title="User:Lee Vilenski">Lee Vilenski</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Lee_Vilenski" title="User talk:Lee Vilenski">talk</a> • <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Lee_Vilenski" title="Special:Contributions/Lee Vilenski">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Lee_Vilenski-20241116133700-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:37, 16 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <dl><dd>Support now. This is an security oversight. Regardless of the issues with WMF's 2FA this is still a flaw in the current security model since an attacker could gain interface admin without bypassing 2FA <a href="/wiki/User:Chess" title="User:Chess">Chess</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chess" title="User talk:Chess">talk</a>) (please <a href="/wiki/Help:Talk_pages#Notifications" title="Help:Talk pages">mention</a> me on reply) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chess-20241119004400-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:44, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <ul><li>Oppose per Floq, plus it's not clear how we're enforcing this: either we're revoking permissions (in which case several crats will lose the bit on inactivity alone) or we're not (in which case we're no more secure than before). A much better solution would be to just put the stewards in charge of adding/removing intadmin. <a href="/wiki/User:Extraordinary_Writ" title="User:Extraordinary Writ">Extraordinary Writ</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Extraordinary_Writ" title="User talk:Extraordinary Writ">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Extraordinary_Writ-20241121061300-Zippybonzo-20241112092400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:13, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I mean, I support implementing <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282624" class="extiw" title="phab:T282624">phab:T282624</a>, which would make IA a steward-only thing. 2FA for interface admins is <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interface_administrators" class="extiw" title="m:Interface administrators">required by WMF</a>, and only stewards can check whether the requirement is being followed. Letting 'crats check whether 2FA is enabled is stuck <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265726" class="extiw" title="phab:T265726">in phab purgatory</a>, though there has been some movement in 2024. <a href="/wiki/User:HouseBlaster" title="User:HouseBlaster">House</a><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/HouseBlaster" title="Special:Contributions/HouseBlaster">Blaster</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:HouseBlaster" title="User talk:HouseBlaster">talk</a> • he/they) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-HouseBlaster-20241122052500-Extraordinary_Writ-20241121061300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:25, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="RfC:_Should_a_blackout_be_organized_in_protest_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation's_actions?" data-mw-thread-id="h-RfC:_Should_a_blackout_be_organized_in_protest_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation's_act-Wikipedia_donation_adds">RfC: Should a blackout be organized in protest of the Wikimedia Foundation's actions?</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: RfC: Should a blackout be organized in protest of the Wikimedia Foundation's actions?">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235781174">.mw-parser-output .hmbox-outer{margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .hmbox-inner{display:inline-block;color:var(--color-base,#202122);border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);margin-right:0.5em;padding:0.3em 0.5em}</style><div role="note" class="hmbox-outer resolved"><div class="hmbox-inner"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Purple_arrow_right.svg/20px-Purple_arrow_right.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Purple_arrow_right.svg/30px-Purple_arrow_right.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Purple_arrow_right.svg/40px-Purple_arrow_right.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="250"/> Moved to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/2024_Wikipedia_blackout" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2024 Wikipedia blackout">Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2024 Wikipedia blackout</a></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Proposal_to_update_WP:NBAND_to_be_explicitly_constrained_by_WP:GNG" data-mw-thread-id="h-Proposal_to_update_WP:NBAND_to_be_explicitly_constrained_by_WP:GNG-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241118131700">Proposal to update <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NBAND" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NBAND">WP:NBAND</a> to be explicitly constrained by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">WP:GNG</a></h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Proposal to update WP:NBAND to be explicitly constrained by WP:GNG">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> Over at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)">Wikipedia:Village_pump (policy)</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Graywalls" title="User:Graywalls">Graywalls</a> raised an issue that I also independently encountered at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jayson_Sherlock" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jayson Sherlock">Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jayson Sherlock</a>. That is, that WP:BAND currently circumvents <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">WP:GNG</a>. That Village pump discussion is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Issues_with_antiquated_guideline_for_WP:NBAND_that_essentially_cause_run_of_the_mill_non-notable_items_to_be_kept" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)">here</a>. In light of that discussion, I am formally proposing an update to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BAND" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BAND">WP:BAND</a>. Please see that proposal <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Band_notability_proposal" title="Wikipedia:Band notability proposal">here</a>. I have highlighted the addition to existing policy in green.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241118131700-Proposal_to_update_WP:NBAND_to_be_explicitly_constrained_by_WP:GNG" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:17, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Unless I'm misunderstanding something, then this proposal passing will be the equivalent of replacing criteria 2-11 with "they must meet the GNG"? Per several comments in the discussion at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Issues_with_antiquated_guideline_for_WP:NBAND_that_essentially_cause_run_of_the_mill_non-notable_items_to_be_kept" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)">Wikipedia:Village_pump (policy)#Issues with antiquated guideline for WP:NBAND that essentially cause run of the mill non-notable items to be kept</a> I'm not convinced that there is currently a problem that can be solved in this manner. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241118160300-3family6-20241118131700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:03, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Yes, this is basically saying that to have an article, the subject must meet GNG. There is an example in the article deletion discussion I mentioned above where NBAND was argued as an exception to GNG.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241118160700-Thryduulf-20241118160300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:07, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>A single discussion where somebody argues something that does not gain consensus is not evidence of a problem, let alone evidence that the proposed change would solve that problem. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241118162600-3family6-20241118160700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:26, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>I would like to emphasize a key part of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">WP:N</a>:</dd> <dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote">A topic is <a href="/wiki/Presumption" title="Presumption">presumed</a> to merit an article if: <ol><li>It meets either the general notability guideline (GNG) below, or the criteria outlined in a subject-specific notability guideline (SNG); and</li> <li>It is not excluded under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">What Wikipedia is not</a> policy.</li></ol></blockquote></dd> <dd>This is a feature, not a bug; "or" does not mean "and". That <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">WP:BAND currently circumvents WP:GNG</q> is either trivially true (as creating subject-specific notability guidance outside of the GNG is the whole point of a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SNG">WP:SNG</a>) or arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the subject-specific notability guidelines. — <a href="/wiki/User:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User:Red-tailed hawk">Red-tailed hawk</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User talk:Red-tailed hawk">(nest)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Red-tailed_hawk-20241119165000-3family6-20241118131700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:50, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">or arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the subject-specific notability guidelines.</q> That might actually be what is at issue - there seem to be two different understandings of what SNG's are - supporting GNG or an alternative to it.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241119181700-Red-tailed_hawk-20241119165000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:17, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Some SNGs take one approach; others take different approaches. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SNG">WP:SNG</a> was written to allow for the diversity of approaches represented by the current SNGs. <a href="/wiki/User:Newimpartial" title="User:Newimpartial">Newimpartial</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Newimpartial" title="User talk:Newimpartial">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Newimpartial-20241122221000-3family6-20241119181700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:10, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>I posted this in the other village pump thread, but while I'm generally fine with this proposal, I don't think it's coming from a place of understanding.</dd> <dd>Basically, there's an assumption happening that record labels work off some kind of predictable tier system, where the Big 3 labels are home to the most famous artists, indie labels are home to the semi-famous ones, and everyone else is a non-notable bottom feeder. That's not how it works. One of the more notable albums of the year is Cindy Lee's <a href="/wiki/Diamond_Jubilee_(album)" title="Diamond Jubilee (album)">Diamond Jubilee</a>, which was self-released. Meanwhile, there are artists on the Big 3 who I would guess probably don't have significant coverage. This is because music journalism is dying, no one has staff and no one has money, and the range of artists being covered has shrunk dramatically. See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cjr.org/analysis/music-journalism-access.php">this Columbia Journalism Review</a> article for further on that.</dd> <dd>So in other words, I don't think criterion 5 in NBAND is good or useful, but for the opposite reasons that this proposal suggests. The problem is not that people's random garage bands will be considered a "label." The problem is there is less and less correlation between being signed to a label and having significant coverage. (Ironically, the "albums" criterion is probably the more stringent one, because labels are less and less likely to put out a full-length album by an artist that isn't already established via singles and streaming tracks.)</dd> <dd>I don't know what to do with that. (I honestly think the collapse of journalism and the shrinking scope of what gets reported on is a ticking time bomb for notability criteria across the board, but that's a whole other topic.) The most straightforward solution is to use <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">WP:GNG</a>, but I think it's important to have a correct understanding of exactly what musicians we're talking about here. The bar is way, way, way higher than "run of the mill non-notable items" now. The bar is one or two tiers below <a href="/wiki/Sabrina_Carpenter" title="Sabrina Carpenter">Sabrina Carpenter</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Gnomingstuff" title="User:Gnomingstuff">Gnomingstuff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Gnomingstuff" title="User talk:Gnomingstuff">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Gnomingstuff-20241119212600-3family6-20241118131700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:26, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Addendum: One way that this criterion could have value is to serve as a reminder that one Google search is not a sufficient <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BEFORE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BEFORE">WP:BEFORE</a> check, because artists on notable labels are likely to have received coverage in print. (Another way this proposal is misinformed</dd> <dd>- removing NBAND #5 will primarily affect older bands, not newer ones.) But alas, people do not do thorough checks even when they're reminded. <a href="/wiki/User:Gnomingstuff" title="User:Gnomingstuff">Gnomingstuff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Gnomingstuff" title="User talk:Gnomingstuff">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Gnomingstuff-20241119213300-Gnomingstuff-20241119212600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:33, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'd love to make BEFORE specifically include looking where sources are most likely to be found and explicitly state that looking at the first few pages of Google do not constitute a proper check. This always gets shot down in howls of protest at how dare I require people nominating pages for deletion to do more work than they imagine it took to create a three line sub-stub. I don't know how we get past this. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241119214500-Gnomingstuff-20241119213300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:45, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I mean, it already does: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">The minimum search expected is a normal Google search, a Google Books search, a Google News search, and a Google News archive search; Google Scholar is suggested for academic subjects</q>. The problem is that WP:BEFORE is not considered binding so there are no consequences to ignoring it. <a href="/wiki/User:Gnomingstuff" title="User:Gnomingstuff">Gnomingstuff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Gnomingstuff" title="User talk:Gnomingstuff">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Gnomingstuff-20241119215100-Thryduulf-20241119214500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:51, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/User:Gnomingstuff" title="User:Gnomingstuff">Gnomingstuff</a>, there seems to be a lot of agreement that #5 as it stands does not make much sense for newer bands, but does make sense prior to the rise of streaming services. I'm seeing cut-offs suggested for the mid- to late-2000s.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241122125300-Gnomingstuff-20241119213300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:53, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Yeah I get that. I don't agree with the reasoning but I basically agree with the conclusion. <a href="/wiki/User:Gnomingstuff" title="User:Gnomingstuff">Gnomingstuff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Gnomingstuff" title="User talk:Gnomingstuff">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Gnomingstuff-20241122172700-3family6-20241122125300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:27, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> Your proposal operatively eliminates the SNG for bands. And also creates an even tougher GNG requirement than GNG by requiring that GNG compliance be demonstrated. I would like there to be some at least partial demonstration requirement added to GNG, but that's a whole 'nother issue and a secondary one in this case. It also sort of misses the main point discussed at the linked pump discussion which was eliminating one or two items / "ways in" in the SNG.Sincerely, North8000 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:North8000#top" title="User talk:North8000">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-North8000-20241118180400-Proposal_to_update_WP:NBAND_to_be_explicitly_constrained_by_WP:GNG" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:04, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>in line with this, NBAND can be eeaily fixed to makes sure that the idea that the criteria are a presumption of notability is added. I do not see any language like this though the intent seems to be there. That would quickly resolve one conflict. Mind you, deprecating or time gating criteria that do not make sense in modern music distribution is also a reasonable step though I would not remove them outright for historical purposes. <a href="/wiki/User:Masem" title="User:Masem">Masem</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Masem" title="User talk:Masem">t</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Masem-20241118190200-North8000-20241118180400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:02, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>this was precisely the intent. Am allowed to modify proposals if there have been no votes yet?--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241118190500-Masem-20241118190200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:05, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>I was amazed by how much our guidelines were written with Western popular musicians in mind when I started editing 17 years ago and it seems that nothing has changed since. It is so much easier for such a person to have an article about them than for other types or nationalities of musician. This is so obviously caused by Wikipedia's demographics that I hesitate to say anything further. <a href="/wiki/User:Phil_Bridger" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Phil Bridger">Phil Bridger</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Phil_Bridger" title="User talk:Phil Bridger">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Phil_Bridger-20241118191800-North8000-20241118180400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:18, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I wonder what effect imposing GNG would have on that. I've heard from some African editors that much of the real news for music and pop culture is posted on social media (i.e., actually posted on Facebook itself, not some website that's sorta kinda social media-like). So if you take away an objective but non-source-oriented criteria and substitute 'must have the kind of sources that are usual enough in the US and UK but are unusual in Nigeria', will that tip even further towards overrepresenting Western popular musicians?</dd> <dd>My impression of the two albums/two films kinds of rules from back in the day is that the advice had more to do with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Build_the_web" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Build the web">WP:Build the web</a> than with writing full articles. The expectation was that (if there weren't significant sources to justify writing more), the articles would usually be very brief ("Joe Film is an American actor who appeared in <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">Film</a> and <a href="/wiki/Example" class="mw-disambig" title="Example">Example</a>" or "The Band is a British band who released <a href="/wiki/Album" title="Album">Album</a> in 1998 and <a href="/wiki/Cover_album" class="mw-redirect" title="Cover album">Cover album</a> in 2001") but that we'd still be able to provide non-red links in related pages and still not have to duplicate information. Consequently, I think the traditional thinking is closer to how we think of spinning off a list or splitting a long article, than about trying to justify the subject as "worthy" of a full, stand-alone article via extensive sourcing.</dd> <dd>I could imagine people opposing this merely for fear of the resulting red links, and of course the idea of going beyond the GNG to require "demonstrating" it will turn off other editors. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241118193600-Phil_Bridger-20241118191800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:36, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>If it is established that reliable third party sources covering African music are going to include posts on social media rather than print or web publishing, then we should work to accomodate that so that we are more inclusive, rather than expect the more traditional forms of media. <a href="/wiki/User:Masem" title="User:Masem">Masem</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Masem" title="User talk:Masem">t</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Masem-20241118200500-WhatamIdoing-20241118193600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:05, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>speaking for myself, I never had issues with using a third party posting via something like Facebook. I've always considered that to be a statement by that third party, they're just using Facebook as the medium. Am I understanding this example correctly?--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241118201800-Masem-20241118200500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:18, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:UGC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:UGC">user-generated content</a> (including social media) is not a reliable source, except in limited instances (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ABOUTSELF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ABOUTSELF">WP:ABOUTSELF</a>). <a href="/wiki/User:Schazjmd" title="User:Schazjmd">Schazjmd</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Schazjmd" title="User talk:Schazjmd">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Schazjmd-20241118203100-3family6-20241118201800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:31, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>A statement by the band('s representatives) on the band's official facebook page is no more user-generated content and no less reliable than if that same statement was made by the same people was posted on the band's official website or quoted verbatim in a newspaper. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241118205500-Schazjmd-20241118203100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:55, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><dl><dd>Yes, <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a>, that's partly what I'm referring to. <a href="/wiki/User:Schazjmd" title="User:Schazjmd">Schazjmd</a>, I am indeed familiar with that guideline. In fact, my first edit on Wikipedia was removing content that I had generated as a user on another site. I'm referring to established media outlets posting something on Facebook. Like, say, <a href="/wiki/Salon_(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Salon (magazine)">Salon</a> posted a story on Facebook rather than on their official site. It's gone through an editorial process, they just are using Facebook as a publishing medium.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241118210000-Thryduulf-20241118205500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:00, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>There isn't a wiki-requirement for the type of source that sources used, or even that they have sources. Of course such things still matter regarding regarding actual/ real world reliability of of the source. North8000 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:North8000#top" title="User talk:North8000">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-North8000-20241118213600-3family6-20241118210000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:36, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>So keeping in mind that I have never had a Facebook account and have no experience with social media, my impression from these editors was that when they say they get news on Facebook, it's not necessarily the band that's posting (which wouldn't be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">Wikipedia:Independent sources</a>) or even news articles being shared. Instead, it could be an ordinary comment by someone whom their followers believe is knowledgeable but who is not necessarily "official". For example – and I completely make this example up; the African editors who told me about this dilemma two years ago are welcome to disavow and correct anything I say – imagine a post by a professional DJ: They'll know things about music and bands, and they'll probably know more than a magazine writer assigned to do a piece on pop music in that city/country. They are "reliable" in the sense that people "rely on" them every day of the year. But it's outside the kinds of formal structures that we use to evaluate official sources: no editor, no publisher, no fact-checker, no peer review, etc. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241120053300-3family6-20241118201800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:33, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'm all for adapting guidelines and policies for geographic and cultural considerations. However, I don't think this would get far, because it's essentially a using self-published sources for BLPs issue, and that's going to be a steep climb to weaken that policy.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241122125500-WhatamIdoing-20241120053300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:55, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Yeah, I don't see any easy solution here. Even if it's not BLP-related, it relies on already knowing which accounts are the trustworthy ones, and there's no impartial way to evaluate an unfamiliar source. The post could say something like "This village is best known for cloth dyeing" or "The bus service there doesn't run on Sundays", and you'd still have to know whether that source is a good source of information. What if one person posts that the bus runs on Sundays and another person posts that it doesn't? An outsider would have no way of knowing which to trust. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241122232800-3family6-20241122125500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:28, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>I always thought the the reason "two or more" was specified was that if there was only one the name could be redirected. Since that time there seems to have developed a dislike for stubs. I don't know where that came from (most articles in most traditional encyclopedias only consisted of one or two sentences, if that) but in order to satisfy that dislike maybe criterion 6 should be an encouragement to create a disambiguation page (or maybe a set index page, if you want to be pedantic) for the title. <a href="/wiki/User:Phil_Bridger" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Phil Bridger">Phil Bridger</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Phil_Bridger" title="User talk:Phil Bridger">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Phil_Bridger-20241122194300-WhatamIdoing-20241118193600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:43, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I think that is correct. If there's only one, then you could: <ul><li>Have an article about the album</li> <li>Redirect the band's name to it</li> <li>Put the little bit of information you have about the band in the album article</li></ul></dd> <dd>but if there are multiple albums, then: <ul><li>You can have an article about each album</li> <li>But which one do you redirect the band's name to?</li> <li>And do you duplicate the information about the band in each of the album articles?</li></ul></dd> <dd>So it seemed easier to have an article. Now, of course, when the median size of an article is 13 sentences and 4 refs, and when we have a non-trivial minority of editors who think even that is pathetic, there is resistance to it. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241122233300-Phil_Bridger-20241122194300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:33, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> Comment I am interpreting this section as an RfCBEFORE, and contributing in that spirit. Having briefly reviewed the linked discussions, I do not see a problem with NBAND itself that would justify deprecation (rather than revision). And turning NBAND into a predictor of GNG rather than a standalone SNG seems to me essentially akin to deprecation. Fixing specific criteria seems much more appropriate to me, given the issues raised to date. There are what seem to me to be evident reasons why NBAND operates according to the same logic as NCREATIVE, which is explicitly excluded from <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTINHERITED" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTINHERITED">WP:NOTINHERITED</a>. These SNGs reflect the reality that creative people produce creative works, and that therefore the people creating those works gain encyclopedic relevance directly from having created them. In addition, it seems to me that there are practical, navigational reasons (having to do with the affordances of hypertext, Wikipedia's list system, and Wikipedia's category system) to offer more consistent treatment rather than leaving each individual musician, each musical group and each album up to the vagaries of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NBASIC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NBASIC">WP:NBASIC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NORG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NORG">WP:NORG</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">WP:GNG</a>. There may be problems with specific NBAND criteria and the way they are sometimes used at AfD, but it seems entirely incommensurate to deprecate the whole SNG based on such marginal concerns. <a href="/wiki/User:Newimpartial" title="User:Newimpartial">Newimpartial</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Newimpartial" title="User talk:Newimpartial">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Newimpartial-20241118203100-Proposal_to_update_WP:NBAND_to_be_explicitly_constrained_by_WP:GNG" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:31, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] IMO the Wikipedia norm for a "just barely made it" band has sourcing that meets a slightly lenient interpretation of GNG, and the decision is influenced by somewhat meeting an SNG criteria, thus being more conducive to artists than for example a for-profit corporation. And the "norm" means that is is how Wikipedia as a whole wants it. There are folks out there who are at the extreme deletionist end of the spectrum and they will typically say that the above is not the case and piece together an unusually strignent "letter of the law" demand, even adding some things from essays saying that three sources that 100% meet GNG is the expectation. And so while I really think that the burden should shift to providing some GNG-ish sources (vs. just saying "they are out there" without actually supplying any) I'm loath to shift the balance too much, keeping the folks at the deletionist end of the spectrum in mind. The pump discussion started with talking about how being signed by a label is no longer as indicative as it used to be and to remove it as being a key to the city of SNG compliance. I think there was support for that. Sincerely, North8000 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:North8000#top" title="User talk:North8000">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-North8000-20241118211600-Proposal_to_update_WP:NBAND_to_be_explicitly_constrained_by_WP:GNG" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:16, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] I agree with everyone else above that this proposal would gut WP:BAND, which I am not okay with. If you want to remove some criteria of WP:BAND, like #5, which I agree is a little opaque and outdated, fine. But this seems like a sneaky way of demolishing WP:BAND without openly saying so. <a href="/wiki/User:Toadspike" title="User:Toadspike">Toadspike</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Toadspike" title="User talk:Toadspike">[Talk]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Toadspike-20241118213600-Proposal_to_update_WP:NBAND_to_be_explicitly_constrained_by_WP:GNG" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:36, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I like the point North made, that our notability rules are set up to be <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">more conducive to artists than for example a for-profit corporation</q>. I've never thought of our guidelines on artists as particularly lax, but I know that NCORP is purposely stringent and that is the way things should be. <a href="/wiki/User:Toadspike" title="User:Toadspike">Toadspike</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Toadspike" title="User talk:Toadspike">[Talk]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Toadspike-20241118214100-Toadspike-20241118213600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:41, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <ul><li>I'm not disappointed at the consensus emerging here, and hopefully it might help clarify discussions. there does seem to be some consensus to ditch criterion 5. I'm happy to amend it to that particular criterion disappearing and everything else stays.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241118214800-Toadspike-20241118213600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:48, 18 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I wonder if the most practical thing with criterion 5 (the one about releasing two albums on a label) would be to give it an end date. It was a useful criterion in the pre-streaming music world, so why not say "two albums on a label before 2010", or at whatever point editors decide that labels became less relevant? <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241119164200-3family6-20241118214800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:42, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Something like that I think makes sense.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241119181400-WhatamIdoing-20241119164200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:14, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>I think this is a good idea but the cutoff should be earlier. The iTunes music store was founded in 2003, Spotify was founded in 2006, sometime around there would make more sense. <a href="/wiki/User:Gnomingstuff" title="User:Gnomingstuff">Gnomingstuff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Gnomingstuff" title="User talk:Gnomingstuff">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Gnomingstuff-20241119213900-WhatamIdoing-20241119164200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:39, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I cheerfully leave the determination of the date to someone else, but I note that <a href="/wiki/Spotify#History" title="Spotify">Spotify#History</a> says that Spotify reached the US market in July 2011, so I'm not sure that it had much effect in 2006. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241120053700-Gnomingstuff-20241119213900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:37, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Fair point. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/04/tech/itunes-18-year-anniversary/index.html">iTunes probably had the bigger impact anyway</a>.</dd> <dd>If we are specifically concerned about self-published labels (again, I think the "more important indie" labels part already rules that out anyway, but whatever), the digital distribution companies making that happen <a href="/wiki/DistroKid" title="DistroKid">DistroKid</a> in 2012 and <a href="/wiki/CDBaby" class="mw-redirect" title="CDBaby">CDBaby</a> in 2004. But even those had their main impact by partnering with Spotify and iTunes respectively. <a href="/wiki/User:Gnomingstuff" title="User:Gnomingstuff">Gnomingstuff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Gnomingstuff" title="User talk:Gnomingstuff">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Gnomingstuff-20241122173200-WhatamIdoing-20241120053700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:32, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>What problem would this solve? – <a href="/wiki/User:Joe_Roe" title="User:Joe Roe">Joe</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Joe_Roe" title="User talk:Joe Roe">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Joe_Roe-20241119165400-Toadspike-20241118213600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:54, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Articles which don't have reliable sources but that are defended by citing SNG as warranting inclusion, anyway.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241119181800-Joe_Roe-20241119165400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:18, 19 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Since the band's own website and the albums themselves are "reliable sources", we probably don't have any NBAND articles with no reliable sources. I would think that the main concern is the absence of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">Wikipedia:Independent sources</a>, and especially of independent sources that have <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SIGCOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SIGCOV">WP:SIGCOV</a> and are not<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Interviews" title="Wikipedia:Interviews">Wikipedia:Interviews</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241120053900-3family6-20241119181800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:39, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DELPOL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DELPOL">WP:DELPOL</a> allows for deletion of "articles for which thorough attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed" – isn't that sufficient? – <a href="/wiki/User:Joe_Roe_(mobile)" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Joe Roe (mobile)">Joe</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Joe_Roe_(mobile)" class="mw-redirect" title="User talk:Joe Roe (mobile)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Joe_Roe_(mobile)-20241120065000-3family6-20241119181800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:50, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>AIUI the problem there isn't that deletion isn't one of several available options according to policy; instead, the problem is that other editors do not agree to delete it. DELPOL allows such deletions, but it does not require them, and if I want to delete the article for being IMO undersourced, but other editors show up at AFD saying things like "qualifies under NBAND 5", then the article won't actually get deleted. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241121221800-Joe_Roe_(mobile)-20241120065000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:18, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>This is precisely the issue - NBAND is cited to contest deletions of content that doesn't have significant independent coverage.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241122125700-WhatamIdoing-20241121221800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:57, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That's what I thought. The rules don't result in the deletions "I" want; therefore, we must change the rules so other editors can't prevent the deletions "I" want. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241122233600-3family6-20241122125700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:36, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I think over the years, I forgot that SNGs are explicitly allowed to differ from GNG. With that in mind, I'm fine with this proposal being shot down.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241126212600-WhatamIdoing-20241122233600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:26, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Strongly opposed to the proposal as written by <a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> as it's written at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Band_notability_proposal" title="Wikipedia:Band notability proposal">Wikipedia:Band_notability_proposal</a> now, because it still contains the same text from #5 and #6, which are the two criteria from NBAND that I am objecting to that SNG's presence in the first place. I am unfamiliar with proposal process, but 3family6 went ahead and put it together on his own and doesn't want anyone editing it now. As I said, I don't know how proposals work, but if one user puts it together and quickly puts it out for a vote, is it off limits to editing? <a href="/wiki/User:Graywalls" title="User:Graywalls">Graywalls</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Graywalls" title="User talk:Graywalls">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Graywalls-20241121220900-Toadspike-20241118213600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:09, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Graywalls" title="User:Graywalls">Graywalls</a> I didn't remove 5 and 6 because instead what I did is propose that 5 and 6 be supported with significant independent coverage from reliable sources.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241122125800-Graywalls-20241121220900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:58, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Making criteria 2-11 contingent on also meeting criterion 1 is a much larger (and seemingly unnecessary) change compared to removing or reformulating 5 and 6. <a href="/wiki/User:Newimpartial" title="User:Newimpartial">Newimpartial</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Newimpartial" title="User talk:Newimpartial">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Newimpartial-20241122130800-3family6-20241122125800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:08, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I agree that it's a much larger change.--<a href="/wiki/User:3family6" title="User:3family6">3family6</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:3family6" title="User talk:3family6">Talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/3family6" title="Special:Contributions/3family6">See what I have done</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-3family6-20241122185200-Newimpartial-20241122130800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:52, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="RfC:_Enable_the_mergehistory_permission_for_importers" data-mw-thread-id="h-RfC:_Enable_the_mergehistory_permission_for_importers-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241120122600">RfC: Enable the mergehistory permission for importers</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: RfC: Enable the mergehistory permission for importers">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1250141580"><div class="boilerplate archived archive-top mw-archivedtalk" style=""><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right archive-top-result" style="padding: 10px; line-height: inherit;"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text" style="padding: 0;"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SNOW" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SNOW">WP:SNOW</a> close, clear consensus to add the <code>mergehistory</code> permission to the <code>importer</code> group on English Wikipedia. Will track this work in <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380753" class="extiw" title="phab:T380753">phab:T380753</a>. –<a href="/wiki/User:Novem_Linguae" title="User:Novem Linguae">Novem Linguae</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Novem_Linguae" title="User talk:Novem Linguae">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Novem_Linguae-20241125144600-RfC:_Enable_the_mergehistory_permission_for_importers" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:46, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</div></div> </div> <div class="boilerplate-header" style="margin-left: 1.6em; font-style: italic;"> The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. </div> <hr/> Should the <code>(mergehistory)</code> permission be enabled for the <code>importer</code> group? <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241120122600-RfC:_Enable_the_mergehistory_permission_for_importers" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:26, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)-RfC:_Enable_the_mergehistory_permission_for_importers-20241120122600">Support (mergehistory for importers)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Support (mergehistory for importers)">edit</a>]</div> <ol><li>Support. During <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Graham87_2" title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Graham87 2">Graham87's re-request for adminship</a>, it was brought up that some of the more technical <a href="/wiki/Help:Import" title="Help:Import">imports</a> he performed required <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:HISTMERGE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:HISTMERGE">history merges</a>. For now, this permission is only available to administrators, limiting the technical capabilities of non-administrator <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Importers" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Importers">importers</a>. A technical solution to this would be to enable the <code>(mergehistory)</code> permission for both administrators and importers. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241120122600-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:26, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Yeah, why not; I didn't really see the point back then, I'm not sure, honestly, that I do now, but enough people have said it's useful work that who am I to deny it? And Graham87's obviously both good at it and committed to it. Support this proposal. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Serial_Number_54129" title="User talk:Serial Number 54129">SerialNumber</a><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Serial_Number_54129" title="Special:Contributions/Serial Number 54129">54129</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Serial_Number_54129-20241120124200-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:42, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Importers can be trusted to do this adjacent and very important work. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120124600-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:46, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>I was about to come propose this myself, but you beat me to it. <a href="/wiki/User:QuicoleJR" title="User:QuicoleJR">QuicoleJR</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:QuicoleJR" title="User talk:QuicoleJR">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-QuicoleJR-20241120125700-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:57, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support File importers are trusted enough. <a href="/wiki/User:Robertsky" title="User:Robertsky">– robertsky</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Robertsky" title="User talk:Robertsky">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Robertsky-20241120130300-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:03, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support; histmerges are often an essential part of importation work, as noted by Chaotic Enby. <a href="/wiki/User:JJPMaster" title="User:JJPMaster">JJP</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:JJPMaster" title="User talk:JJPMaster">Mas</a><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/JJPMaster" title="Special:Contributions/JJPMaster">ter</a> (<a href="/wiki/She_(pronoun)" title="She (pronoun)">she</a>/<a href="/wiki/Singular_they" title="Singular they">they</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-JJPMaster-20241120130700-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:07, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_conflict" title="Help:Edit conflict">edit conflict</a>) Support. Importers are editors who are highly trusted to undertake a very specialised role and it makes sense that they be given the rights needed to fully do the job properly. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241120130900-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:09, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support obviously – thanks, wow, did not expect this and I didn't know this would be feasible. As I said at my RRFA, I have <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118132" class="extiw" title="phab:T118132">my own issues with this tool</a> (which explain why I didn't use it so much), but access to it is way better than no history-merge access at all. <a href="/wiki/User:Graham87" title="User:Graham87">Graham87</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Graham87" title="User talk:Graham87">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Graham87-20241120132500-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:25, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support if technically feasible. I really opposed the RRFA because Graham87 was asking for a role we didn't have. If they can do their importing/merging work without being able to block users, I would support that. (Normally I wouldn't support a one-off solution like this but, given the rareness of this, I think it makes sense here.) Note that I would also favor further unbundling admin powers beyond this nom. - <a href="/wiki/User:RevelationDirect" title="User:RevelationDirect">RevelationDirect</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:RevelationDirect" title="User talk:RevelationDirect">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-RevelationDirect-20241120133500-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:35, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Yes, it is feasible. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241120133900-RevelationDirect-20241120133500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:39, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Oops, just asked that question below. "Thanks for the prompt rely! <a href="/wiki/User:RevelationDirect" title="User:RevelationDirect">RevelationDirect</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:RevelationDirect" title="User talk:RevelationDirect">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-RevelationDirect-20241120134100-Xaosflux-20241120133900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:41, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Support - clear benefit, and I don't see any reason not to. <a href="/wiki/User:Tazerdadog" title="User:Tazerdadog">Tazerdadog</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tazerdadog" title="User talk:Tazerdadog">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Tazerdadog-20241120134000-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:40, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support sure. This is super niche, but basically: if someone can be trusted to be able to do an xmlimport, this is related and much less dangerous. If we're going to touch it I'm find also adding it to transwiki importers as well (even though we don't have any currenty) for parity. transwiki import is less dangerous, and most of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RFPI" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RFPI">WP:RFPI</a> items are able to be done that way -- in case any non-admins were looking to work in that area. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241120134400-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:44, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support If somebody is a importer, they can be trusted with not messing up the databases any further while apply <code>(merge-history)</code>. <a href="/wiki/User:Sohom_Datta" title="User:Sohom Datta">Sohom</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sohom_Datta" title="User talk:Sohom Datta">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sohom_Datta-20241120135800-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:58, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support, makes sense to give this group the tools they need to do the job properly. <a href="/wiki/User:CapitalSasha" title="User:CapitalSasha">CapitalSasha</a> ~ <a href="/wiki/User_talk:CapitalSasha" title="User talk:CapitalSasha">talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-CapitalSasha-20241120141200-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:12, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support. It just makes sense to do it. ~~ <a href="/wiki/User:Jessintime" title="User:Jessintime">Jessintime</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jessintime" title="User talk:Jessintime">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jessintime-20241120145000-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:50, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support. Makes sense if the two are so interlinked. If an editor is trusted with one, they should also be fine to have the other. ---- <a href="/wiki/User:Patar_knight" title="User:Patar knight">Patar knight</a> - <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Patar_knight" title="User talk:Patar knight">chat</a>/<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Patar_knight" title="Special:Contributions/Patar knight">contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Patar_knight-20241120154100-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:41, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support. This seems like a bit of an exceptional case, but I do think that it's worthwhile to allow importers to merge histories for practical reasons. And the role is so restricted that I don't have trust issues here. — <a href="/wiki/User:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User:Red-tailed hawk">Red-tailed hawk</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User talk:Red-tailed hawk">(nest)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120155300-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:53, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support: Makes perfect sense from my perspective. <a href="/wiki/User:Hey_man_im_josh" title="User:Hey man im josh">Hey man im josh</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Hey_man_im_josh" title="User talk:Hey man im josh">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Hey_man_im_josh-20241120160600-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:06, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support, sensible unbundling. Nobody becomes an importer without scrutiny so this seems fine to me. <a href="/wiki/User:WindTempos" title="User:WindTempos">WindTempos</a> <a href="/wiki/Non-binary_gender" title="Non-binary gender">they</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WindTempos" title="User talk:WindTempos">talk</a> • <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/WindTempos" title="Special:Contributions/WindTempos">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WindTempos-20241120170200-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:02, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support per xaosflux.—<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Alalch_E." title="User talk:Alalch E.">Alalch E.</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Alalch_E.-20241120173200-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:32, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support. Graham's tireless work in this area is the demonstration of why this should be permitted. — <a href="/wiki/User:Hex" title="User:Hex">Hex</a> • <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Hex" title="User talk:Hex">talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Hex-20241120174100-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:41, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>I got to support Graham's importer request once upon a time. Pleased to support this request as well. Even setting aside the direct impetus, this is a logical bundling of the tools that does not raise the required trust level for this small user group. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Tamzin" title="User:Tamzin">Tamzin</a>[<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tamzin" title="User talk:Tamzin">cetacean needed</a>] (<a href="/wiki/User:Tamzin/%F0%9F%A4%B7" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Tamzin/🤷">they|xe</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Tamzin-20241120175300-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:53, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support --<a href="/wiki/User:Redrose64" title="User:Redrose64">Redrose64</a> 🌹 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Redrose64" title="User talk:Redrose64">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Redrose64-20241120210500-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:05, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support See no reason not to. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Pawnkingthree" title="User:Pawnkingthree">Pawnkingthree</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pawnkingthree" title="User talk:Pawnkingthree">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pawnkingthree-20241120211800-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:18, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Suppport. A logical part of the bundle. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dilettante" title="User talk:Dilettante">Sincerely, Dilettante</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Dilettante-20241120213300-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:33, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Clearly yes. There's very low risk of collateral damage here and obvious benefits.—<a href="/wiki/User:S_Marshall" title="User:S Marshall">S Marshall</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:S_Marshall" title="User talk:S Marshall">T</a>/<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/S_Marshall" title="Special:Contributions/S Marshall">C</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-S_Marshall-20241120232300-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:23, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Graham (the only non admin importer) is trusted enough for this, no reason not to. <a href="/wiki/User:Queen_of_Hearts_mobile" title="User:Queen of Hearts mobile">charlotte</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Queen_of_Hearts_mobile" class="mw-redirect" title="User talk:Queen of Hearts mobile">👸♥📱</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Queen_of_Hearts_mobile-20241121060500-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:05, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support. Let's at least permit Graham to continue his archaeological work. No one else does this, and it requires the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">mergehistory</code> perm. <a href="/wiki/User:Folly_Mox" title="User:Folly Mox">Folly Mox</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Folly_Mox" title="User talk:Folly Mox">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Folly_Mox-20241121111500-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:15, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Graham has a clear use-case for this so I have no objections. <a href="/wiki/User:JavaHurricane" title="User:JavaHurricane"> Java</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:JavaHurricane" title="User talk:JavaHurricane">Hurricane</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-JavaHurricane-20241121134900-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:49, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support I see no problems with this. <a href="/wiki/User:EggRoll97" title="User:EggRoll97">EggRoll97</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:EggRoll97" title="User talk:EggRoll97">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-EggRoll97-20241121145600-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:56, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support Seems like this is a necessary change given that importing often requires these merges. <a href="/wiki/User:Hurricane_Noah" title="User:Hurricane Noah">Noah</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBA#BSBA" class="mw-redirect" title="BBA">BSBA</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Hurricane_Noah" title="User talk:Hurricane Noah">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Hurricane_Noah-20241121155300-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:53, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support and would go for a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SNOW" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SNOW">WP:SNOW</a> close as well, given the margin.<a href="/wiki/User:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User:Closed Limelike Curves">– Closed Limelike Curves</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User talk:Closed Limelike Curves">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241121212800-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:28, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support, obviously, this is invaluable work and it would be a clear negative for it to stop being done, which is effectively what would happen otherwise. <a href="/wiki/User:Gnomingstuff" title="User:Gnomingstuff">Gnomingstuff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Gnomingstuff" title="User talk:Gnomingstuff">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Gnomingstuff-20241122015100-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:51, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support My gut doesn't like this (mergehistory feels like a distinct permission from importer), but I do trust Graham87 to use the tool and think the chance of us ever getting any other non-admin importers is negligible, so I guess I support this. <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241122015400-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:54, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support seems like a sensible thing to do. <a href="/wiki/User:Lepricavark" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Lepricavark">LEPRICAVARK</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Lepricavark#top" title="User talk:Lepricavark">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Lepricavark-20241122122900-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:29, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support Importers are already highly trusted and it is granted by a steward, so this would be a narrow unbundling that would probably satisfy any WMF legal requirements. And I would trust Graham87 with this tool. <a href="/wiki/User:Abzeronow" title="User:Abzeronow">Abzeronow</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Abzeronow" title="User talk:Abzeronow">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Abzeronow-20241122205800-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:58, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support Importers already can fuck with the page history a lot more than someone with history merge rights can. I see no reason to not allow importers to merge history. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:ThatIPEditor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:ThatIPEditor (page does not exist)">ThatIPEditor</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:ThatIPEditor" title="User talk:ThatIPEditor">Talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/ThatIPEditor" title="Special:Contributions/ThatIPEditor">Contribs</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-ThatIPEditor-20241123020400-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:04, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support because if this enables work to be performed that much easier for one editor, then chances are increased for other editors to follow suit or pick up the mantle later on down the line. Thanks. <a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537" title="User:Huggums537">Huggums</a>537<a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537/Poll" title="User:Huggums537/Poll">voted!</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537/Guestbook" title="User:Huggums537/Guestbook">sign🖋️</a>|<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Huggums537" title="User talk:Huggums537">📞talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Huggums537-20241125065000-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:50, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support, much has been said above to agree with, an easy support. <a href="/wiki/User:Randy_Kryn" title="User:Randy Kryn">Randy Kryn</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Randy_Kryn" title="User talk:Randy Kryn">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Randy_Kryn-20241125124000-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:40, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support Importers are trusted enough so I see no problem with this <a href="/wiki/User:TheAstorPastor" title="User:TheAstorPastor">The AP </a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:TheAstorPastor" title="User talk:TheAstorPastor">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-TheAstorPastor-20241125140100-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:01, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Support. I don't see a reason why not. This seems relevant to the importer group, and I'm surprised this permission isn't already included. – <a href="/wiki/User:Epicgenius" title="User:Epicgenius">Epicgenius</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Epicgenius" title="User talk:Epicgenius">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Epicgenius-20241125143100-Support_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:31, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oppose_(mergehistory_for_importers)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Oppose_(mergehistory_for_importers)-RfC:_Enable_the_mergehistory_permission_for_importers-20241120162700">Oppose (mergehistory for importers)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Oppose (mergehistory for importers)">edit</a>]</div> <ol><li>Oppose the current system works just fine. I'm not seeing any compelling reason to carve out an exception for two users.<a href="/wiki/User:Isaidnoway" title="User:Isaidnoway"> Isaidnoway </a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaidnoway" title="User talk:Isaidnoway">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaidnoway-20241120162700-Oppose_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:27, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Because importing is importing a bunch of revisions into the history of the page. It's quite similar and often needed. Those two users are the only ones who maintain this area critical to Wikipedia, and that's the system, which has persisted due to their being able to merge history; now that Graham's been stripped of history merging, half of his duty and thus a quarter of this system, we need to rectify it or risk destabilizing of the system. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120163700-Isaidnoway-20241120162700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:37, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>There is no risk of destabilizing the system, that's hyperbolic nonsense.<a href="/wiki/User:Isaidnoway" title="User:Isaidnoway"> Isaidnoway </a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaidnoway" title="User talk:Isaidnoway">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaidnoway-20241120202900-Aaron_Liu-20241120163700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:29, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The system is only two people doing this work, and we're otherwise taking away half of what one of them does. I don't see any reason not to do this. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120203600-Isaidnoway-20241120202900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:36, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>It no longer "works fine". Your information may be outdated. <a href="/wiki/User:Folly_Mox" title="User:Folly Mox">Folly Mox</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Folly_Mox" title="User talk:Folly Mox">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Folly_Mox-20241121111700-Isaidnoway-20241120162700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:17, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>My information is not "outdated". Thanks. <a href="/wiki/User:Isaidnoway" title="User:Isaidnoway"> Isaidnoway </a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaidnoway" title="User talk:Isaidnoway">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaidnoway-20241121205200-Folly_Mox-20241121111700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:52, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Discussion_(mergehistory_for_importers)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Discussion_(mergehistory_for_importers)-RfC:_Enable_the_mergehistory_permission_for_importers-20241120134000">Discussion (mergehistory for importers)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Discussion (mergehistory for importers)">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Scope Clarification Are @<a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">Xaosflux</a>: and Graham87 the only two editors with this permission? What is the process for getting the importer permission? - <a href="/wiki/User:RevelationDirect" title="User:RevelationDirect">RevelationDirect</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:RevelationDirect" title="User talk:RevelationDirect">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-RevelationDirect-20241120134000-Discussion_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:40, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:RevelationDirect" title="User:RevelationDirect">RevelationDirect</a> yes, criteria is basically a user-specific RFC. This is a super niche area; though I'd be open to expanding this permission to the less dangersour transwiki-importer group -- which also requires a per-user rfc to add too, but with a lower bar to entry. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241120134600-RevelationDirect-20241120134000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:46, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:RevelationDirect" title="User:RevelationDirect">RevelationDirect</a>: (after EC) Yes, <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=import">we're the only ones</a>; the permission has historically been obtained either through a request to this page (as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_103#Request_for_import_user_right" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 103">I did</a>) or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_page_importation" title="Wikipedia talk:Requests for page importation">Wikipedia talk:Requests for page importation</a> (as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_page_importation/Archive_1#importer_flag_for_Xaosflux" title="Wikipedia talk:Requests for page importation/Archive 1">Xaosflux did</a>). <a href="/wiki/User:Graham87" title="User:Graham87">Graham87</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Graham87" title="User talk:Graham87">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Graham87-20241120135500-Xaosflux-20241120134600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:55, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Graham87" title="User:Graham87">Graham87</a>: Since the topic has come up, I've actually wanted to jump into importing for a while (I'll be quite honest, probably transwiki importing, given it seems like a better place to start out at than XML import), but how does one really get into that line of work? I presume the common answer would probably be the direction of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RFA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RFA">WP:RFA</a>, but that seems like a bit much given a right already exists that is outside of the sysop group. <a href="/wiki/User:EggRoll97" title="User:EggRoll97">EggRoll97</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:EggRoll97" title="User talk:EggRoll97">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-EggRoll97-20241120205400-Graham87-20241120135500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:54, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:EggRoll97" title="User:EggRoll97">EggRoll97</a> transwiki comes with admin, so most people that want to deal with it go that route, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RFA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RFA">WP:RFA</a>. It is possible to add transwiki in isolation - to do so start a discussion (suggest over at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_page_importation" title="Wikipedia talk:Requests for page importation">Wikipedia talk:Requests for page importation</a>). The discussion will need to be well advertised (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AN">WP:AN</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VPM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VPM">WP:VPM</a> are good places), run for a reasonable time to allow feedback (about a week), be well attended, and show a good consensus of support (someone else should 'close' the discussion with such showing). The bar for transwiki is generally less than for sysop, while the bar for importxml access is generally higher than sysop. At that point, it would get processed over at <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Permissions#Miscellaneous_requests" class="extiw" title="m:Steward requests/Permissions">m:Steward requests/Permissions#Miscellaneous requests</a>. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241121115100-EggRoll97-20241120205400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:51, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">Xaosflux</a>: Yeah that. @<a href="/wiki/User:EggRoll97" title="User:EggRoll97">EggRoll97</a>:, I did notice your ping, but I wasn't sure how to respond (given that no-one,, especially a non-admin, has asked such a question before) then got distracted by other things. If you have a good idea how/where you'd like to use the import tool, feel free to float your proposal as noted in the message above. <a href="/wiki/User:Graham87" title="User:Graham87">Graham87</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Graham87" title="User talk:Graham87">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Graham87-20241121155200-EggRoll97-20241120205400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:52, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>I would also support it. If more users are interested in doing this kind of work, it could be useful for them to have the relevant tools. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241120134900-Xaosflux-20241120134600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:49, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Technical Feasability Is this request technically feasible, i.e. can the proposed permissions be granted à la carte? - <a href="/wiki/User:RevelationDirect" title="User:RevelationDirect">RevelationDirect</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:RevelationDirect" title="User talk:RevelationDirect">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-RevelationDirect-20241120134000-Discussion_(mergehistory_for_importers)-1" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:40, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>(It is, see above.) <a href="/wiki/User:RevelationDirect" title="User:RevelationDirect">RevelationDirect</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:RevelationDirect" title="User talk:RevelationDirect">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-RevelationDirect-20241120134200-RevelationDirect-20241120134000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:42, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>It is, and no. The only way we can assign permissions is to add the permissions to a group, then users can be added to the group. It would be possible to create an entirely new group that has this permission - but that seems overkill here unless it was going to do a whole lot more (like a "technician" group that had a bunch of other sub-admin permissions). — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241120134900-RevelationDirect-20241120134000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:49, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Yes. It'd involve a small patch to <a class="external free" href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/+/master/wmf-config/core-Permissions.php#714">https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/+/master/wmf-config/core-Permissions.php#714</a> –<a href="/wiki/User:Novem_Linguae" title="User:Novem Linguae">Novem Linguae</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Novem_Linguae" title="User talk:Novem Linguae">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Novem_Linguae-20241121230900-RevelationDirect-20241120134000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:09, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>I'm concerned by the fact that Graham has said <a href="/wiki/Special:MergeHistory" title="Special:MergeHistory">Special:MergeHistory</a> results in sub-optimal outcomes (that it is better to use <a href="/wiki/Special:DeletePage" title="Special:DeletePage">Special:Delete</a> and <a href="/wiki/Special:Undelete" title="Special:Undelete">Special:Undelete</a>) and how this step would encourage non-admin page importers (Graham, and anyone else who might obtain the right in the future) to use an inferior process for history merges. —<a href="/wiki/User:Compassionate727" title="User:Compassionate727">Compassionate727</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Compassionate727" title="User talk:Compassionate727">T</a>·<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Compassionate727" title="Special:Contributions/Compassionate727">C</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Compassionate727-20241120140300-Discussion_(mergehistory_for_importers)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:03, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Compassionate727" title="User:Compassionate727">Compassionate727</a> those are certainly case-by-case. Sometimes historymerge is the right tool for the job. Any complicated merge/imports that require deletion are going to have to be handled by admins unless we want to make some new sub-admin technician group in the future (the community has repeatedly rejected such proposals though) which could have extra tools (like delete/undelete and others) but only be permitted to use them for certain purposes. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241120140900-Compassionate727-20241120140300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:09, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Graham believes that the MergeHistory tool is inferior simply because it doesn't log a merge on the target page. I see no problem with this view. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120141100-Compassionate727-20241120140300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:11, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Not everyone agrees with my view, such as <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">Pppery</a>; see <a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341760#9269957">this Phabricator comment</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Graham87" title="User:Graham87">Graham87</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Graham87" title="User talk:Graham87">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Graham87-20241120144800-Aaron_Liu-20241120141100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:48, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I've started an RfC below regarding this issue; I do think it would be useful to have community input if there is any desire to ever build this functionality. — <a href="/wiki/User:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User:Red-tailed hawk">Red-tailed hawk</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User talk:Red-tailed hawk">(nest)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120155200-Graham87-20241120144800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:52, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li></ul> <div style="padding-left: 1.6em; font-style: italic; border-top: 1px solid #a2a9b1; margin: 0.5em 0; padding-top: 0.5em">The discussion above is closed. 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If this page is on additional lists, they will be noted below.</td></tr></tbody></table> Currently, there are open <a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341760#9269957">phab</a> <a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118132">tickets</a> proposing that the use of the HistMerge tool be logged at the target article in addition to the source article. Several proposals have been made: <ul><li>Option 1a: When using <a href="/wiki/Special:MergeHistory" title="Special:MergeHistory">Special:MergeHistory</a>, a null edit should be placed in both the merge target and merge source's page's histories stating that a history merge took place. <dl><dd>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341760" class="extiw" title="phab:T341760">phab:T341760</a>: Special:MergeHistory should place a null edit in the page's history describing the merge, authored Jul 13 2023)</dd></dl></li> <li>Option 1b: When using <a href="/wiki/Special:MergeHistory" title="Special:MergeHistory">Special:MergeHistory</a>, add a log entry recorded for the articles at the both HistMerge target and source that records the existence of a history merge. <dl><dd>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118132" class="extiw" title="phab:T118132">phab:T118132</a>: Merging pages should add a log entry to the destination page, authored Nov 8 2015)</dd></dl></li> <li>Option 2: Do not log the use of the <a href="/wiki/Special:MergeHistory" title="Special:MergeHistory">Special:MergeHistory</a> tool at the merge target, maintaining the current status quo.</li></ul> Should the use of the HistMerge tool be explicitly logged? If so, should the use be logged via an entry in the page history or should it instead be held in a dedicated log? — <a href="/wiki/User:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User:Red-tailed hawk">Red-tailed hawk</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User talk:Red-tailed hawk">(nest)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120155100-RfC:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool_at_both_the_merge_target_and_merge_source" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:51, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" data-mw-thread-id="h-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool-RfC:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool_at_both_the_merge_target_and_merge_source-20241120155100">Survey: Log the use of the <a href="/wiki/Special:MergeHistory" title="Special:MergeHistory">HistMerge tool</a></h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Survey: Log the use of the HistMerge tool">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Option 1a/b. I am in principle in support of adding this logging functionality, since people don't typically have access to the source article title (where the histmerge is currently logged) when viewing an article in the wild. There have been several times I can think of when I've been going diff hunting or browsing page history and where some explicit note of a histmerge having occurred would have been useful. As for whether this is logged directly in the page history (as is done currently with page protection) or if this is merely in a separate log file, I don't have particularly strong feelings, but I do think that adding functionality to log histmerges at the target article would improve clarity in page histories. — <a href="/wiki/User:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User:Red-tailed hawk">Red-tailed hawk</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User talk:Red-tailed hawk">(nest)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120155100-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:51, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Option 1a/b. No strong feelings on which way is best (I'll let the experienced histmergers comment on this), but logging a history merge definitely seems like a useful feature. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241120160200-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:02, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Option 1a/b. Choatic Enby has said exactly what I would have said (but more concisely) had they not said it first. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241120162300-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:23, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>1b would be most important to me but but 1a would be nice too. But this is really not the place for this sort of discussion, as noted below. <a href="/wiki/User:Graham87" title="User:Graham87">Graham87</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Graham87" title="User talk:Graham87">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Graham87-20241120162800-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:28, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Option 2 History merging done right should be seamless, leaving the page indistinguishable from if the copy-paste move being repaired had never happened. Adding extra annotations everywhere runs counter to that goal. Prefer 1b to 1a if we have to do one of them, as the extra null edits could easily interfere with the history merge being done in more complicated situations. <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241120164900-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:49, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Could you expound on why they should be indistinguishable? I don't see how this could harm any utility. A log action at the target page would not show up in the history anyways, and a null edit would have no effect on comparing revisions. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120172900-Pppery-20241120164900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:29, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Why shouldn't it be indistinguishable? Why it it necessary to go out of our way to say even louder that someone did something wrong and it had to be cleaned up? <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241120174500-Aaron_Liu-20241120172900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:45, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>All cleanup actions are logged to all the pages they affect. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120183200-Pppery-20241120174500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:32, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>2 History merges <a href="/wiki/Special:Log/merge" title="Special:Log/merge">are already logged</a>, so this survey name is somewhat off the mark. As someone who does this work: I do not think these should be displayed at either location. It would cause a lot of noise in history pages that people probably would not fundamentally understand (2 revisions for "please process this" and "remove tag" and a 3rd revision for the suggested log), and it would be "out of order" in that you will have merged a bunch of revisions but none of those revisions would be nearby the entry in the history page itself. I also find protections noisy in this way as well, and when moves end up causing a need for history merging, you end up with doubled move entries in the merged history, which also is confusing. Adding history merges to that case? No thanks. History merges are more like deletions and undeletions, which already do not add displayed content to the history view. <a href="/wiki/User:Izno" title="User:Izno">Izno</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Izno" title="User talk:Izno">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Izno-20241120165400-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:54, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>They presently are logged, but only at the source article. Take for example <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=165940437">this entry</a>. When I search for the merge target, I get <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=merge&user=&page=Connor+Hall+%28racing+driver%29&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist">nothing</a>. It's only when I search the <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=merge&user=&page=Draft%3AConnor+Hall+%28racing+driver%29&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist">merge source</a> that I'm able to get a result, but there isn't a way to know the merge source.</dd> <dd>If I don't know when or if the histmerge took place, and I don't know what article the history was merged from, I'd have to look through the entirety of the merge log manually to figure that out—and that's suboptimal. — <a href="/wiki/User:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User:Red-tailed hawk">Red-tailed hawk</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User talk:Red-tailed hawk">(nest)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120170500-Izno-20241120165400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:05, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>... Page moves do the same thing, only log the move source. Yet this is not seen as an issue? :)</dd> <dd>But ignoring that, why is it valuable to know this information? What do you gain? And is what you gain actually valuable to your end objective? For example, let's take your <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">There have been several times I can think of when I've been going diff hunting or browsing page history and where some explicit note of a histmerge having occurred would have been useful.</q> Is not the revisions left behind in the page history by both the person requesting and the person performing the histmerge not enough (see {{<a href="/wiki/Template:Histmerge" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Histmerge">histmerge</a>}})? There are history merges done that don't have that request format such as the WikiProject history merge format, but those are almost always ancient revisions, so what are you gaining there? And where they are not ancient revisions, they are trivial kinds of the form "draft x -> page y, I hate that I even had to interact with this history merge it was so trivial (but also these are great because I don't have to spend significant time on them)". <a href="/wiki/User:Izno" title="User:Izno">Izno</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Izno" title="User talk:Izno">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Izno-20241120173200-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120170500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:32, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote">... Page moves do the same thing, only log the move source. Yet this is not seen as an issue? :)</blockquote>I don't think everyone would necessarily agree (see Toadspike's comment below). <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241120174200-Izno-20241120173200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:42, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Page moves do leave a null edit on the page that describes where the page was moved from and was moved to. And it's easy to work backwards from there to figure out the page move history. The same cannot be said of the <a href="/wiki/Special:MergeHistory" title="Special:MergeHistory">Special:MergeHistory</a> tool, which doesn't make it easy to re-construct what the heck went on unless we start diving naïvely through the logs. — <a href="/wiki/User:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User:Red-tailed hawk">Red-tailed hawk</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User talk:Red-tailed hawk">(nest)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120175000-Izno-20241120173200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:50, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>It can be *possible* to find the original history merge source page without looking through the merge log, but the method for doing so is very brittle and extremeley hacky. Basically, look for redirects to the page using "What links here", and find the redirect whose first edit has an unusual byte difference. This relies on the redirect being stable and not deleted or retargetted. There is also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:History_merging/Archive_1#Old_bugs" title="Wikipedia talk:History merging/Archive 1">another way</a> that relies on byte difference bugs as described in the above-linked discussion by <a href="/wiki/User:Wbm1058" title="User:Wbm1058">wbm1058</a>. Both of those are ... particularly awful. <a href="/wiki/User:Graham87" title="User:Graham87">Graham87</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Graham87" title="User talk:Graham87">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Graham87-20241121034800-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120170500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:48, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>In the given example, the history-merge occurred <a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/1242921582" title="Special:Diff/1242921582">here</a>. Your "log" is the edit summaries. "Created page with '..." is the edit summary left by a normal page creation. But wait, there is page history before the edit that created the page. How did it get there? Hmm, the previous edit summary "Declining submission: v - Submission is improperly sourced (AFCH)" tips you off to look for the same title in draft: namespace. <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Connor_Hall_(racing_driver)&action=history">Voila!</a> Anyone looking for help with understanding a particular merge may ask me and I'll probably be able to figure it out for you. – <a href="/wiki/User:Wbm1058" title="User:Wbm1058">wbm1058</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wbm1058" title="User talk:Wbm1058">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Wbm1058-20241121055100-Graham87-20241121034800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:51, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Here's another example, of a merge within mainspace. The <a href="/wiki/Help:Automatic_edit_summaries" title="Help:Automatic edit summaries">automatic edit summary</a> (created by the MediaWiki software) of this <a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/1257579851" title="Special:Diff/1257579851">(No difference) diff</a> "Removed redirect to <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jordan_B._Acker&redirect=no">Jordan B. Acker</a>" points you to the page that was merged at that point. <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jordan_B._Acker&action=history">Voila</a>. <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Jordan+B.+Acker">Voila</a>. <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Jordan+Acker">Voila</a>. – <a href="/wiki/User:Wbm1058" title="User:Wbm1058">wbm1058</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wbm1058" title="User talk:Wbm1058">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Wbm1058-20241121134400-Graham87-20241121034800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:44, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>There are times where those traces aren't left. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241121135100-Wbm1058-20241121134400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:51, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Here's another scenario, this one from <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_History_Merge" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge">WP:WikiProject History Merge</a>. The <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flag_of_Yucat%C3%A1n&action=history&offset=20231015234549%7C1180330900&limit=2">page history</a> shows an edit adding +5,800 bytes, leaving the page with 5,800 bytes. But the previous edit did not leave a blank page. Some say this is a bug, but it's also a feature. That "bug" is actually your "log" reporting that a hist-merge occurred at that edit. <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Flag+of+Yucat%C3%A1n">Voila</a>, the log for that page shows a temp delete & undelete setting the page up for a merge. The first item on the log: <dl><dd>@ 20:14, 16 January 2021 Tbhotch moved page <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Yucat%C3%A1n" title="Flag of Yucatán">Flag of Yucatán</a> to <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Yucat%C3%A1n&redirect=no">Flag of the Republic of Yucatán</a> (Correct name)</dd></dl></dd> <dd>clues you in to where to look for the source of the merge. <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Yucat%C3%A1n&action=history">Voila</a>, that single edit which removed −5,633 bytes tells you that previous history was merged off of that page. The <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Flag+of+the+Republic+of+Yucat%C3%A1n">log</a> provides the details. – <a href="/wiki/User:Wbm1058" title="User:Wbm1058">wbm1058</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wbm1058" title="User talk:Wbm1058">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Wbm1058-20241121160300-Aaron_Liu-20241121135100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:03, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76557" class="extiw" title="phab:T76557">phab:T76557</a>: Special:MergeHistory causes incorrect byte change values in history, authored Dec 2 2014) — Preceding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures" title="Wikipedia:Signatures">unsigned</a> comment added by <a href="/wiki/User:Wbm1058" title="User:Wbm1058">Wbm1058</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wbm1058#top" title="User talk:Wbm1058">talk</a> • <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Wbm1058" title="Special:Contributions/Wbm1058">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Wbm1058-20241121181300-Aaron_Liu-20241121135100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:13, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Again, there are times where the clues are much harder to find, and even in those cases, it'd be much better to have a unified and assured way of finding the source. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241121161100-Wbm1058-20241121181300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:11, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Indeed. This is a prime example of an unintended <a href="/wiki/Undocumented_feature" title="Undocumented feature">undocumented feature</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Graham87" title="User:Graham87">Graham87</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Graham87" title="User talk:Graham87">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Graham87-20241122085000-Aaron_Liu-20241121161100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">08:50, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Support 1b (log only), oppose 1a (null edit). I defer to the experienced histmergers on this, and if they say that adding null edits everywhere would be inconvenient, I believe them. However, I haven't seen any arguments against logging the histmerge at both articles, so I'll support it as a sensible idea. (On a similar note, it bothers me that page moves are only logged at one title, not both.) <a href="/wiki/User:Toadspike" title="User:Toadspike">Toadspike</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Toadspike" title="User talk:Toadspike">[Talk]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Toadspike-20241120171000-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:10, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Option 2. The merges are <a href="/wiki/Special:Log/Merge" title="Special:Log/Merge">already logged</a>, so there’s no reason to add it to page histories. While it may be useful for habitual editors, it will just confuse readers who are looking for an old revision and occasional editors. <a href="/wiki/User:Ships%26Space" title="User:Ships&Space">Ships</a> & <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Ships%26Space" title="User talk:Ships&Space">Space</a>(<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ships%26Space" title="Special:Contributions/Ships&Space">Edits</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Ships&Space-20241120183300-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:33, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>But only the source page is logged as the "target". IIRC it currently can be a bit hard to find out when and who merged history into a page if you don't know the source page and the mergeperson didn't leave any editing indication that they merged something. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120184000-Ships&Space-20241120183300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:40, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>1B. The present situation of the action being only logged at one page is confusing and unhelpful. But so would be injecting null-edits all over the place. — <a href="/wiki/User:SMcCandlish" title="User:SMcCandlish">SMcCandlish</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:SMcCandlish" title="User talk:SMcCandlish">☏</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish" title="Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish">¢</a> 😼 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-SMcCandlish-20241121013800-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:38, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Option 2. This exercise is dependent on finding a volunteer MediaWiki developer willing to work on this. Good luck with that. Maybe you'll find one a decade from now. – <a href="/wiki/User:Wbm1058" title="User:Wbm1058">wbm1058</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wbm1058" title="User talk:Wbm1058">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Wbm1058-20241121055100-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:51, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>And, more importantly, someone in the <a class="external text" href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/admin/groups/4cdcb3a1ef2e19d73bc9a97f1d0f109d2e0209cd">MediaWiki group</a> to review it. I suspect there are many people, possibly including myself, who would code this if they didn't think they were wasting their time shuffling things from one queue to another. <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241121060300-Wbm1058-20241121055100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:03, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That link requires a Gerrit login/developer account to view. It was a struggle to get in to mine (I only have one because of an old Toolforge account and I'd basically forgotten about it), but for those who don't want to go through all that, that group has only 82 members (several of whose usernames I recognise) and I imagine they have a lot on their collective plate. There's more information about these groups at <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Privilege_policy" class="extiw" title="mw:Gerrit/Privilege policy">Gerrit/Privilege policy on MediaWiki</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Graham87" title="User:Graham87">Graham87</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Graham87" title="User talk:Graham87">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Graham87-20241121153800-Pppery-20241121060300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:38, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Sorry, I totally forgot Gerrit behaved in that counterintuitive way and hid public information from logged out users for no reason. The things you miss if Gerrit interactions become something you do pretty much every day. If you want to count the members of the group you also have to follow the chain of included groups - it also includes <a class="external free" href="https://ldap.toolforge.org/group/wmf">https://ldap.toolforge.org/group/wmf</a>, <a class="external free" href="https://ldap.toolforge.org/group/ops">https://ldap.toolforge.org/group/ops</a> and <a class="external text" href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/admin/groups/8f7f4df5062198c795a6eb18c3536f3410c465fe,members">the WMDE-MediaWiki group</a> (another login-only link), as well as a few other permission edge cases (almost all of which are redundant because the user is already in the MediaWiki group) <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241121180700-Graham87-20241121153800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:07, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Support 1a/b, and I would encourage the closer to disregard any opposition based solely on the chances of someone ever actually implementing it. —<a href="/wiki/User:Compassionate727" title="User:Compassionate727">Compassionate727</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Compassionate727" title="User talk:Compassionate727">T</a>·<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Compassionate727" title="Special:Contributions/Compassionate727">C</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Compassionate727-20241121125200-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:52, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Fine. This stupid RfC isn't even asking the right questions. Why did I need to delete (an expensive operation) and then restore a page in order to <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Jordan+Acker">"set up for a history merge"</a> Should we fix the software so that it doesn't require me to do that? Why did the page-mover resort to cut-paste because there was page history blocking their move, rather than ask a administrator for help? Why doesn't the software just let them move over that junk page history themselves, which would negate the need for a later hist-merge? (Actually in this case the offending user only has made 46 edits, so they don't have page-mover privileges. But they were able to move a page. They just couldn't move it back a day later after they changed their mind.) <a href="/wiki/User:Wbm1058" title="User:Wbm1058">wbm1058</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wbm1058" title="User talk:Wbm1058">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Wbm1058-20241121134400-Compassionate727-20241121125200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:44, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Yeah, <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T23312" class="extiw" title="phab:T23312">revision move</a> would be amazing, for a start. <a href="/wiki/User:Graham87" title="User:Graham87">Graham87</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Graham87" title="User talk:Graham87">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Graham87-20241121153800-Wbm1058-20241121134400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:38, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Option 1b – changes to a page's history should be listed in that page's log. There's no need to make a null edit; pagemove null edits are useful because they meaningfully fit into the page's revision history, which isn't the case here. <a href="/wiki/User:Jlwoodwa" title="User:Jlwoodwa">jlwoodwa</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jlwoodwa" title="User talk:Jlwoodwa">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jlwoodwa-20241122005500-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:55, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Option 1b sounds best since that's what those in the know seem to agree on, but 1a would probably be OK. <a href="/wiki/User:Abzeronow" title="User:Abzeronow">Abzeronow</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Abzeronow" title="User talk:Abzeronow">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Abzeronow-20241123034400-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:44, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>Option 1b seems like the one with the best transparency to me. Thanks. <a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537" title="User:Huggums537">Huggums</a>537<a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537/Poll" title="User:Huggums537/Poll">voted!</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537/Guestbook" title="User:Huggums537/Guestbook">sign🖋️</a>|<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Huggums537" title="User talk:Huggums537">📞talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Huggums537-20241125065900-Survey:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:59, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Discussion:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" data-mw-thread-id="h-Discussion:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool-RfC:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool_at_both_the_merge_target_and_merge_source-20241120155100">Discussion: Log the use of the <a href="/wiki/Special:MergeHistory" title="Special:MergeHistory">HistMerge tool</a></h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Discussion: Log the use of the HistMerge tool">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>I'm noticing some commentary in the above RfC (on widening importer rights) as to whether or not this might be useful going forward. I do think that having the community weigh in one way or another here would be helpful in terms of deciding whether or not this functionality is worth building. — <a href="/wiki/User:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User:Red-tailed hawk">Red-tailed hawk</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User talk:Red-tailed hawk">(nest)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120155100-Discussion:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:51, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VPT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VPT">WP:VPT</a> <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&diff=prev&oldid=1258597248">notified</a>. — <a href="/wiki/User:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User:Red-tailed hawk">Red-tailed hawk</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User talk:Red-tailed hawk">(nest)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120160100-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120155100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:01, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>This is a missing feature, not a config change. <a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Liu" title="User:Aaron Liu">Aaron Liu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Liu#top" title="User talk:Aaron Liu">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Aaron_Liu-20241120155800-Discussion:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:58, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Indeed; it's about a feature proposal. — <a href="/wiki/User:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User:Red-tailed hawk">Red-tailed hawk</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User talk:Red-tailed hawk">(nest)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Red-tailed_hawk-20241120160200-Aaron_Liu-20241120155800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:02, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>As many of the above, this is a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BUG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BUG">feature request</a> and not something that should be special for the English Wikipedia. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241120160300-Discussion:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:03, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>See <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341760" class="extiw" title="phab:T341760">phab:T341760</a>. I'm not seeing any sort of reason this would need per-project opt-ins requiring a local discussion. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Xaosflux-20241120160500-Xaosflux-20241120160300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:05, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>True, but I agree with Red-tailed hawk that it's good to have the English Wikipedia community weigh on whether we want that feature implemented here to begin with. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241120160500-Xaosflux-20241120160300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:05, 20 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>Here is the <a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-mergehistory/">Phabricator project page for MergeHistory</a>, and the project's <a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-akajyvoook7xktbdczef&statuses=open()&group=none&order=newest#R">11 open tasks</a>. – <a href="/wiki/User:Wbm1058" title="User:Wbm1058">wbm1058</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wbm1058" title="User talk:Wbm1058">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Wbm1058-20241121181300-Discussion:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:13, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>I agree that this is an odd thing to RFC. This is about a feature in MediaWiki core, and there are a lot more users of MediaWiki core than just English Wikipedia. However, please do post the results of this RFC to both of the phab tickets. It will be a useful data point with regards to what editors would find useful. –<a href="/wiki/User:Novem_Linguae" title="User:Novem Linguae">Novem Linguae</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Novem_Linguae" title="User talk:Novem Linguae">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Novem_Linguae-20241121231600-Discussion:_Log_the_use_of_the_HistMerge_tool" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:16, 21 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="CheckUser_for_all_new_users" data-mw-thread-id="h-CheckUser_for_all_new_users-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241122040600">CheckUser for all new users</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: CheckUser for all new users">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> All new users (IPs and accounts) should be subject to CheckUser against known socks. This would prevent recidivist socks from returning and save the time and energy of users who have to prove a likely case at SPI. Recidivist socks often get better at covering their "tells" each time making detection increasingly difficult. Users should not have to make the huge effort of establishing an SPI when editing from an IP or creating a new account is so easy. We should not have to endure <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/HarveyCarter" title="Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/HarveyCarter">Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/HarveyCarter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Ph%E1%BA%A1m_V%C4%83n_R%E1%BA%A1ng/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Phạm Văn Rạng/Archive">Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Phạm Văn Rạng/Archive</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Orchomen/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Orchomen/Archive">Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Orchomen/Archive</a> if CheckUser can prevent them. <a href="/wiki/User:Mztourist" title="User:Mztourist">Mztourist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mztourist" title="User talk:Mztourist">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Mztourist-20241122040600-CheckUser_for_all_new_users" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:06, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'm pretty sure that even if we had enough checkuser capacity to routinely run checks on every new user that doing so would be contrary to global policy. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241122041400-Mztourist-20241122040600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:14, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Setting aside privacy issues, the fact that the WMF wouldn't let us do it, and a few other things: Checking a single account, without any idea of who you're comparing them to, is not very effective, and the worst LTAs are the ones it would be least effective against. This has been floated several times in the much narrower context of adminship candidates, and rejected each time. It probably belongs on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PEREN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PEREN">WP:PEREN</a> by now. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Tamzin" title="User:Tamzin">Tamzin</a>[<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tamzin" title="User talk:Tamzin">cetacean needed</a>] (<a href="/wiki/User:Tamzin/%F0%9F%A4%B7" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Tamzin/🤷">they|xe</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Tamzin-20241122042100-Mztourist-20241122040600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:21, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Why can't it be automated? What are the privacy issues and what would WMF concerns be? There has to be a better system than SPI which imposes a huge burden on the filer (and often fails to catch socks) while we just leave the door open for LTAs. <a href="/wiki/User:Mztourist" title="User:Mztourist">Mztourist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mztourist" title="User talk:Mztourist">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Mztourist-20241122043900-Tamzin-20241122042100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:39, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>How would it be automated? We can't just block everyone who even sometimes shares an IP with someone, which is most editors once you factor in mobile editing and institutional WiFi. Even if we had a system that told checkusers about all shared-IP situations and asked them to investigate, what are they investigating for? The vast majority of IP overlaps will be entirely innocent, often people who don't even know each other. There's no way for a checkuser to find any signal in all that noise. So the only way a system like this would work is if checkusers manually identified IP ranges that are being used by LTAs, and then placed blocks on those ranges to restrict them from account creation... Which is what already happens. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Tamzin" title="User:Tamzin">Tamzin</a>[<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tamzin" title="User talk:Tamzin">cetacean needed</a>] (<a href="/wiki/User:Tamzin/%F0%9F%A4%B7" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Tamzin/🤷">they|xe</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Tamzin-20241122045800-Mztourist-20241122043900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:58, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I would assume that IT experts can work out a way to automate CheckUser. If someone edits on a shared IP used by a previous sock that should be flagged and human CheckUsers notified so they can look at the edits and the previous sock edits and warn or block as necessary. <a href="/wiki/User:Mztourist" title="User:Mztourist">Mztourist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mztourist" title="User talk:Mztourist">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Mztourist-20241122054600-Tamzin-20241122045800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:46, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>We already have <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoblock" title="Wikipedia:Autoblock">autoblock</a>. For cases it doesn't catch, there's an additional manual layer of blocking, where if a sock is caught on an IP that's been used before but wasn't caught by autoblock, a checkuser will block the IP if it's technically feasible, sometimes for months or years at a time. Beyond that, I don't think you can imagine just how often "someone edits on a shared IP used by a previous sock". I'm doing that right now, probably, because I'm editing through T-Mobile. Basically anyone who's ever edited in India or Nigeria has been on an IP used by a previous sock. Basically anyone who's used a large institution's WiFi. There is not any way to weed through all that noise with automation. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Tamzin" title="User:Tamzin">Tamzin</a>[<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tamzin" title="User talk:Tamzin">cetacean needed</a>] (<a href="/wiki/User:Tamzin/%F0%9F%A4%B7" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Tamzin/🤷">they|xe</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Tamzin-20241122055400-Mztourist-20241122054600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:54, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Addendum: An actually potentially workable innovation would be something like a system that notifies CUs if an IP is autoblocked more than once in a certain time period. That would be a software proposal for Phabricator, though, not an enwiki policy proposal, and would still have privacy implications that would need to be squared with the WMF. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Tamzin" title="User:Tamzin">Tamzin</a>[<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tamzin" title="User talk:Tamzin">cetacean needed</a>] (<a href="/wiki/User:Tamzin/%F0%9F%A4%B7" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Tamzin/🤷">they|xe</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Tamzin-20241122055700-Tamzin-20241122055400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:57, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>I believe Tamzin has it about right, but I want to clarify a thing. If you're hypothetically using T-Mobile (and this also applies to many other ISPs and many LTAs) then the odds are very high that you're using an IP address which has never been used before. With T-Mobile, which is not unusually large by any means, you belong to at least one /32 range which contains a number of IP addresses so big that it has 30 digits. These ranges contain a huge number of users. At the other extreme you have some countries with only a handful of IPs, which everyone uses. These IPs also typically contain a huge number of users. TLDR; is someone is using a single IP on their own then we'll probably just block it, otherwise you're talking about matching a huge number of users. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Zzuuzz" title="User:Zzuuzz">zzuuzz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zzuuzz" title="User talk:Zzuuzz">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zzuuzz-20241123032000-Tamzin-20241122055400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:20, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>As I understand it, if you're hypothetically using T-Mobile, then you're not editing, because someone range-blocked the whole network in pursuit of a vandal(s). See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_to_T-Mobile_IPv6_users" title="Wikipedia:Advice to T-Mobile IPv6 users">Wikipedia:Advice to T-Mobile IPv6 users</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241123033600-Zzuuzz-20241123032000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:36, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>T-Mobile USA is a perennial favourite of many of the most despicable LTAs, but that's besides the point. New users with an account can actually edit from T-Mobile. They can also edit from Jio, or Deutsche Telecom, Vodafone, or many other huge networks. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Zzuuzz" title="User:Zzuuzz">zzuuzz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zzuuzz" title="User talk:Zzuuzz">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zzuuzz-20241123035000-WhatamIdoing-20241123033600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:50, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Would violate the policy <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTFISHING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTFISHING">WP:NOTFISHING</a>. –<a href="/wiki/User:Novem_Linguae" title="User:Novem Linguae">Novem Linguae</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Novem_Linguae" title="User talk:Novem Linguae">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Novem_Linguae-20241122044300-Mztourist-20241122040600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:43, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It would apply to every new User as a protective measure against sockpuppetry, like a credit check before you get a card/overdraft. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTFISHING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTFISHING">WP:NOTFISHING</a> is archaic like the whole burdensome SPI system that forces honest users to do all the hard work of proving sockpuppetry while socks and vandals just keep being welcomed in under <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">WP:AGF</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Mztourist" title="User:Mztourist">Mztourist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mztourist" title="User talk:Mztourist">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Mztourist-20241122054600-Novem_Linguae-20241122044300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:46, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>What you're suggesting is to just inundate checkusers with thousands of cases. The suggestion (as I understand it) removes burden from SPI filers by adding a disproportional burden on checkusers, who are already an overworked group. If you're suggesting an automated solution, then I believe IP blocks/IP range blocks and autoblock (discussed by Tamzin, above) already cover enough. It's quite hard to weigh up what you're really suggesting because it feels very vague without much detail - it sounds like you're just saying "a new SPI should be opened for every new user and IP, forever" which is not really a workable solution (for instance, <a href="/wiki/Special:Log/newusers" title="Special:Log/newusers">50 accounts were made in the last 15 minutes</a>, which is about one every 18 seconds) <a href="/wiki/User:Bugghost" title="User:Bugghost">BugGhost</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bugghost" title="User talk:Bugghost">🦗👻</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Bugghost-20241122181200-Mztourist-20241122054600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:12, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>And most of those accounts will make zero, one, or two edits, and then never be used again. Even if we liked this idea, doing it for every single account creation would be a waste of resources. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241122234300-Bugghost-20241122181200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:43, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>No, they should not. <a href="/wiki/User:Voorts" title="User:Voorts">voorts</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Voorts" title="User talk:Voorts">talk</a>/<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Voorts" title="Special:Contributions/Voorts">contributions</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Voorts-20241122172300-Mztourist-20241122040600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:23, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>This, very bluntly, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy" class="extiw" title="m:Privacy policy">flies in the face of WMF policy with regards to use/protection of PII</a>, and as noted by Tamzin this would result in frankly obscene amounts of collateral damage. You have absolutely no idea how frequently IP addresses get passed around (especially in the developing world or on <a href="/wiki/T_Mobile" class="mw-redirect" title="T Mobile">T Mobile</a>), such that it could feasibly have three different, unrelated, people on it over the course of a day or so. —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241122185900-Mztourist-20241122040600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:59, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Symbol_question.svg/17px-Symbol_question.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Symbol_question.svg/26px-Symbol_question.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Symbol_question.svg/34px-Symbol_question.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/> Just out of curiosity: If a certain <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AN#Seeking_opinions:_protection_of_the_help_desk_and_teahouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AN">case of IPs spamming at Help Desk</a> is any indication, would a CU be able to stop that in its track? 2601AC47 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2601AC47" title="User talk:2601AC47">talk</a>|<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601AC47" title="Special:Contributions/2601AC47">contribs</a>) Isn't a IP anon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2601AC47-20241123142900-Mztourist-20241122040600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:29, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>CU's use their tools to identify socks when technical proof is necessary. The problem you're linking to is caused by one particular <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LTA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LTA">LTA</a> account who is extremely obvious and doesn't really require technical proof to identify - check users would just be able to provide evidence for something that is already easy to spot. There's an essay on the distinction over at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DUCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DUCK">WP:DUCK</a> <a href="/wiki/User:Bugghost" title="User:Bugghost">BugGhost</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bugghost" title="User talk:Bugghost">🦗👻</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Bugghost-20241123144500-2601AC47-20241123142900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:45, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:2601AC47" class="mw-redirect" title="User:2601AC47">2601AC47</a>: No, and that is because the user in question's MO is to abuse VPNs. Checkuser is worthless in this case because of that (but the IPs can and should be blocked for 1yr as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies" title="Wikipedia:Open proxies">VPNs</a>). —<a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User:Jéské Couriano">Jéské Couriano</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano" title="User talk:Jéské Couriano">v^_^v</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/AG" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Jéské Couriano/AG">threads</a> <a href="/wiki/User:J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano/Decode" title="User:Jéské Couriano/Decode">critiques</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jéské_Couriano-20241126193500-2601AC47-20241123142900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:35, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/User:MidAtlanticBaby" title="User:MidAtlanticBaby">LTA MAB</a> is using a peer-to-peer VPN service which is similar to <a href="/wiki/TOR" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="TOR">TOR</a>. Blocking peer-to-peer VPN service endpoint IP addresses carries a higher risk of collateral damage because those aren't assigned to the VPN provider but rather a third party ISP who is likely to dynamically reassign the blocked address to a completely innocent party. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/216.126.35.235" title="Special:Contributions/216.126.35.235">216.126.35.235</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:216.126.35.235" title="User talk:216.126.35.235">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-216.126.35.235-20241127002200-Jéské_Couriano-20241126193500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:22, 27 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>I slightly oppose this idea. This is not <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a> where socks are immediately banned or shadowbanned outright. Reddit doesn't have <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DUCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DUCK">WP:DUCK</a> as any wiki does. <a href="/wiki/User:Ahri_Boy" title="User:Ahri Boy">Ahri Boy</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Ahri_Boy" title="User talk:Ahri Boy">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Ahri_Boy-20241125001400-Mztourist-20241122040600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:14, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>How do you know this is how Reddit deals with ban and suspension evasion? They use advanced techniques such as device and IP fingerprinting to ban and suspend users in under an hour. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147" title="Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147">2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147 (page does not exist)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147-20241128234700-Ahri_Boy-20241125001400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:47, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>I can see where this is coming from, but we must realise that checkuser is not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PIXIEDUST" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PIXIEDUST">magic pixie dust</a> nor is it meant for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTFISHING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTFISHING">fishing</a>. - <a href="/wiki/User:Ratnahastin" title="User:Ratnahastin">Ratnahastin</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Ratnahastin" title="User talk:Ratnahastin">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Ratnahastin-20241127044900-Mztourist-20241122040600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:49, 27 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The question I ask myself is why must we realize that it is not meant for fishing? To catch fish, you need to fish. The no-fishing rule is not fit for purpose, nor is it a rule that other organizations that actively search for ban evasion use. Machines can do the fishing. They only need to show us the fish they caught. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241127052400-Ratnahastin-20241127044900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:24, 27 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I think for the same reason we don't want governments to be reading our mail and emails. If we checkuser everybody, then nobody has any privacy. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Donald_Albury" title="User talk:Donald Albury">Donald Albury</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Donald_Albury-20241127202000-Sean.hoyland-20241127052400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:20, 27 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> I sympathize with Mztourist. The current system is less effective than it needs to be. Ban evading actors <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hLd18Lr1OX7d70jCfWmkrCVpz-mKvRLC/view?usp=sharing">make a lot of edits</a>, they are dedicated hard-working folk in contentious topic areas. They can make up nearly 10% of new extendedconfirmed actors some years and the quicker an actor becomes EC the more likely they are to be blocked later for ban evasion. Their presence splits the community into two classes, the sanctionable and the unsanctionable with completely different payoff matrices. This has many consequences in contentious topic areas and significantly impacts the dynamics. The current rules are probably not good rules. Other systems have things like a 'commitment to authenticity' and actively search for ban evasion. It's tempting to burn it all down and start again, but with what? Having said that, the SPI folks do a great job. The average time from being granted extendedconfirmed to being blocked for ban evasion seems to be going down. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241122182800-CheckUser_for_all_new_users" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:28, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I confess that I am doubtful about that 10% claim. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241122234300-Sean.hoyland-20241122182800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:43, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a>, me too. I'm doubtful about everything I say because I've noticed that the chance it is slightly to hugely wrong is quite high. The EC numbers are work in progress, but I got distracted. The description "nearly 10% of new extendedconfirmed actors" is a bit misleading, because 'new' doesn't really mean new actors. It means actors that acquired EC for a given year, so newly acquired privileges. They might have registered in previous years. Also, I don't have 100% confidence in the way count EC grants because there are some edge cases, and I'm ignoring sysops. But anyway, the statement was based on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GYUN576YH-0zgLNZwmHgKM-PhH4xRLDo/view?usp=sharing">this data of questionable precision</a>. And the statement about a potential relationship between speed of EC acquisition and probability of being blocked is based on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/11T2xiOm2_GAMJrSf69_EZXvVMN5T_xb1/view?usp=sharing">this data of questionable precision</a>. And of course, currently undetected socks are not included, and there will be many. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241123033900-WhatamIdoing-20241122234300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:39, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'm not interested in clicking through to a Google file. Here's my back-of-the-envelope calculation: We have something like 120K accounts that would qualify for EXTCONF. Most of these are no longer active, and many stopped editing so long ago that they don't actually have the user right.</dd> <dd>Wikipedia is almost 24 years old. That makes convenient math: On average, since inception, 5K editors have achieved EXTCONF levels each year.</dd> <dd>If the 10% estimate is true, then 500 accounts per year – about 10 per week – are being created by banned editors and going undetected long enough for the accounts to make 500 edits and to work in CTOP areas. Do we even have enough <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BANNED" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BANNED">WP:BANNED</a> editors to make it plausible to expect banned editors to bring 500 accounts a year up to EXTCONF levels (plus however many accounts get started but are detected before then)? <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241123035300-Sean.hoyland-20241123033900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:53, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Suit yourself. I'm not interested in what interests other people or back of the envelope calculations. I'm interested in understanding the state of a system over time using evidence-based approaches by extracting data from the system itself. Let the data speak for itself. It has a lot to tell us. Then it is possible to test hypotheses and make evidence-based decisions. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241123041300-WhatamIdoing-20241123035300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:13, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a>, there's a sockmaster in the IPA CTOP who has made more than 100 socks. 500 new XC socks every year doesn't seem that much of a stretch in comparison. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Asilvering" title="User:Asilvering">asilvering</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Asilvering" title="User talk:Asilvering">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Asilvering-20241123191200-WhatamIdoing-20241123035300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:12, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>More than 100 XC socks? Or more than 100 detected socks, including socks with zero edits?</dd> <dd>Making a lot of accounts isn't super unusual, but it's a lot of work to get 100 accounts up to 500+ edits. Making 50,000 edits is a lot, even if it's your full-time job. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241124015900-Asilvering-20241123191200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:59, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Lots of users get it done in a couple of days, often through vandal fighting tools. It really is not that many when the edits are mostly mindless. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Nableezy" title="User talk:Nableezy">nableezy</a> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Nableezy-20241126001800-WhatamIdoing-20241124015900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:18, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>But that's kind of my point: "A couple of days", times 100 accounts, means 200–300 days per year. If you work five days per week and 52 weeks per year, that's 260 work days. This might be possible, but it's a full-time job.</dd> <dd>Since the 30-day limit is something that can't be achieved through effort, I wonder if a sudden change to, say, 6 months would produce a five-month reprieve. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241126022300-Nableezy-20241126001800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:23, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Who says it’s only one at a time? Icewhiz for example has had 4 plus accounts active at a time. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Nableezy" title="User talk:Nableezy">nableezy</a> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Nableezy-20241126022500-WhatamIdoing-20241126022300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:25, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jl98F5JOQRJuDkpPzn07aDbSjl-JK8Fe">There is some data</a> about ban evasion timelines for some sockmasters in PIA that show how accounts are operated in parallel. Operating multiple accounts concurrently seems to be the norm. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241126043100-Nableezy-20241126022500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:31, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Imagine that it takes an average of one minute to make a (convincing) edit. That means that 500 edits = 8.33 hours, i.e., more than one full work day.</dd> <dd>Imagine, too, that having reached this point, you actually need to spend some time using your newly EXTCONF account. This, too, takes time.</dd> <dd>If you operate several accounts at once, that means:</dd> <dd>You spend an hour editing from Account1. You spend the next hour editing from Account2. You spend another hour editing from Account3. You spend your fourth hour editing from Account4. Then you take a break for lunch, and come back to edit from Accounts 5 through 8.</dd> <dd>At the end of the day, you have brought 8 accounts up to 60 edits (12% of the minimum goal). And maybe one of them got blocked, too, which is lost effort. At this rate, it would take you an entire year of full-time work to get 100 EXTCONF accounts, even though you are operating multiple accounts concurrently. Doing 50 edits per day in 10 accounts is not faster than doing 500 edits in 1 account. It's the same amount of work. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241129051300-Sean.hoyland-20241126043100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:13, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Many of our frequent fliers are already adept at warehousing accounts for months or even years, so a bump in the time period probably won't make much off a difference. Additionally, and without going into detail publicly, there are several methods whereby semi- or even fully-automated editing can be used to get to 500 edits with a minimum of effort, or at least well within script-kid territory. Because so many of those are obvious on inspection some will assume that all of them are, but there are a number of rather subtle cases that have come up over the years and it would be foolish to assume that it isn't ongoing. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/184.152.68.190" title="Special:Contributions/184.152.68.190">184.152.68.190</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:184.152.68.190" title="User talk:184.152.68.190">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-184.152.68.190-20241128173100-WhatamIdoing-20241126022300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:31, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> Also, if we divide the space into contentious vs not-contentious, maybe a one size fits all CU policy doesn't make sense. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241122185500-CheckUser_for_all_new_users" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:55, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] Terrible idea. Let's AGF that most new users are here to improve Wikipedia instead of damage it. <a href="/wiki/User:Some1" title="User:Some1">Some1</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Some1" title="User talk:Some1">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Some1-20241122183300-CheckUser_for_all_new_users" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:33, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Ban evading actors who employ deception via sockpuppetry in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PIA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PIA">WP:PIA</a> topic area are here to improve Wikipedia, from their perspective, rather than damage it. There is no need to use faith. There are statistics. There is a probability that a 'new user' is employing ban evasion. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241122184600-Some1-20241122183300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:46, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>My initial comment wasn't a direct response to yours, but <a href="/wiki/Special:Log/newusers" title="Special:Log/newusers">new users</a> and IPs won't be able to edit in the WP:PIA topic area anyway since they need to be extended confirmed. <a href="/wiki/User:Some1" title="User:Some1">Some1</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Some1" title="User talk:Some1">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Some1-20241122200800-Sean.hoyland-20241122184600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:08, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Let's not hold up the way PIA handles new users and IPs, in which they are allowed to post to talk pages but then have their talk page post removed if it doesn't fall within very specific parameters, as some sort of model. <a href="/wiki/User:Chipmunkdavis" title="User:Chipmunkdavis">CMD</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chipmunkdavis" title="User talk:Chipmunkdavis">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chipmunkdavis-20241123025100-Some1-20241122200800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:51, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> Strongly support automatically checkusering all active users (new and existing) at regular intervals. If it were automated -- e.g., a script runs that compares IPs, user agent, other typical subscriber info -- there would be no privacy violation, because that information doesn't have to be disclosed to any human beings. Only the "hits" can be forwarded to the CU team for follow-up. I'd run that script daily. If the policy forbids it, we should change the policy to allow it. It's mind-boggling that Wikipedia doesn't do this already. It's a basic security precaution. (Also, email-required registration and get rid of IP editing.) <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123023900-CheckUser_for_all_new_users" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:39, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I don't think you've been reading the comments from people who know what they are talking about. There would be hundreds, at least, of hits per day that would require human checking. The policy that prohibits this sort of massive breach of privacy is the Foundation's and so not one that en.wp could change even if it were a good idea (which it isn't). <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241123031000-Levivich-20241123023900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:10, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>A computer can be programmed to check for similarities or patterns in subscriber info (IP, etc), and in editing activity (time cards, etc), and content of edits and talk page posts (like the existing language similarity tool), with various degrees of certainty in the same way the Cluebot does with ORES when it's reverting vandalism. And the threshold can be set so it only forwards matches of a certain certainty to human CUs for review, so as not to overwhelm the humans. The WMF can make this happen with just $1 million of its $180 million per year (and it wouldn't be violating its own policies if it did so). Enwiki could ask for it, other projects might join too. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123052400-Thryduulf-20241123031000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:24, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>"Oh now I see what you mean, Levivich, good point, I guess you know what you're talking about, after all."</dd> <dd>"Thanks, Thryduulf!" <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123174200-Levivich-20241123052400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:42, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I seem to have missed this comment, sorry. However I am very sceptical that sockpuppet detection is meaningfully automatable. From what CUs say it is as much art as science (which is why SPI cases can result in determinations like "possilikely"). This is the sort of thing that is difficult (at best) to automate. Additionally the only way to reliably develop such automation would be for humans analyse and process a massive amount of data from accounts that both are and are not sockpuppets and classify results as one or the other, and that anaylsis would be a massive privacy violation on its own. Assuming you have developed this magic computer that can assign a likelihood of any editor being a sock of someone who has edited in the last three months (data older than that is deleted) on a percentage scale, you then have to decide what level is appropriate to send to humans to check. Say for the sake of argument it is 75%, that means roughly one in four people being accused are innocent and are having their privacy impinged unnecessarily - and how many CUs are needed to deal with this caseload? Do we have enough? SPI isn't exactly backlog free and there aren't hoards of people volunteering for the role (although unbreaking RFA might help with this in the medium to long term). The more you reduce the number sent to CUs to investigate, the less benefit there is over the status quo.</dd> <dd>In addition to all the above, how similar is "similar" in terms of articles edited, writing style, timecard, etc? How are you avoiding legitimate sockpuppets? <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241123184400-Levivich-20241123174200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:44, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>You know this already but for anyone reading this who doesn't: when a CU "checks" somebody, it's not like they send a signal out to that person's computer to go sniffing around. In fact, all the subscriber info (IP address, etc.) is already logged on the WMF's server logs (as with any website). A CU "check" just means a volunteer CU gets to look at a portion of those logs (to look up a particular account's subscriber info). That's the privacy concern: we have rules, rightfully so, about when volunteer CUs (not WMF staff) can read the server logs (or portions of them). Those rules do not apply to WMF staff, like devs and maintenance personnel, nor do they apply to the WMF's own software reading its own logs. Privacy is only an issue when those logs are revealed to volunteer CUs.</dd> <dd>So... feeding the logs into software in order to train the software doesn't violate anyone's policy. It's just letting a computer read its own files. Human verification of the training outcomes also doesn't have to violate anyone's privacy -- just don't use volunteer CUs to do it, use WMF staff. Or, anonymize the training data (changing usernames to "Example1", "Example2", etc.). Or use historical data -- which would certainly be part of the training, since the most effective way would be to put known socks into the training data to see if the computer catches them.</dd> <dd>Anyway, training the system won't violate anyone's privacy.</dd> <dd>As for the hit rate -- 75% would be way, way too low. We'd be looking for definitely over 90% or 95%, and probably more like 99.something percent. Cluebot doesn't get vandalism wrong 1 out of 4 times, neither should CluebotCU. Heck, if CluebotCU can't do better than 75%, it's not worth doing. A more interesting question is whether the 99.something% hit rate would be helpful to CUs, or whether that would only catch the socks that are so obvious you don't even need CU to recognize them. Only testing in the field would tell.</dd> <dd>But overall, AI looking for patterns, and checking subscriber info, edit patterns, and the content of edits, would be very helpful in tamping down on socking, because the computer can make far more checks than a human (a computer can look at 1,000 accounts and a 100,000 edits no problem, which no human can do), it'll be less biased than humans, and it can do it all without violating anyone's privacy -- in fact, lowering the privacy violations by lowering the false positives, sending only high-probability (90%+, not 75%+) to humans for review. And it can all be done with existing technology, and the WMF has the money to do it. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123193800-Thryduulf-20241123184400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:38, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The more you write the clearer you make it that you don't understand checkuser or the WMF's policies regarding privacy. It's also clear that I'm not going to convince you that this is unworkable so I'll stop trying. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241123204200-Levivich-20241123193800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:42, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Yeah it's weird how repeatedly insulting me hasn't convinced me yet. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123205700-Thryduulf-20241123204200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:57, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>If you are are unable to distinguish between reasoned disagreement and insults, then it's not at all weird that reasoned disagreement fails to convince you. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241123224400-Levivich-20241123205700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:44, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a>: Whatever existing data set we have has too many biases to be useful for this, and this is going to be prone to false positives. AI needs lots of data to be meaningfully trained. Also, AI here would be learning a <a href="/wiki/Function_(mathematics)" title="Function (mathematics)">function</a>; when the output is not in fact a function of the input, there's nothing for an AI model to target, and this is very much the case here. On <a href="/wiki/Wikidata" title="Wikidata">Wikidata</a>, where I am a CheckUser, almost all edit summaries are automated even for human edits (just like clicking the rollback button is, or undoing an edit is by default), and it is very hard to meaningfully tell whether someone is a sock or not without highly case-specific analysis. No AI model is better than the data it's trained on.</dd> <dd>Also, about the privacy policy: you are completely incorrect when you <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">"Those rules do not apply to WMF staff, like devs and maintenance personnel, nor do they apply to the WMF's own software reading its own logs"</q>. Staff can only access that information on a <a href="/wiki/Need_to_know" title="Need to know">need to know</a> basis, just like CheckUsers, and data privacy laws like the EU's and California's means you cannot just do whatever random thing you want with the information you collect from users about them.--<a href="/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng" title="User:Jasper Deng">Jasper Deng</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jasper_Deng" title="User talk:Jasper Deng">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jasper_Deng-20241123215600-Levivich-20241123193800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:56, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>So which part of the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy" class="extiw" title="wmf:Privacy Policy">wmf:Privacy Policy</a> would prohibit the WMF from developing an AI that looks at server logs to find socks? Do you want me to quote to you the portions that explicitly disclose that the WMF uses personal information to develop tools and improve security? <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123220200-Jasper_Deng-20241123215600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:02, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I mean yeah that would probably be more productive than snarky bickering <a href="/wiki/User:Bugghost" title="User:Bugghost">BugGhost</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bugghost" title="User talk:Bugghost">🦗👻</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Bugghost-20241123220500-Levivich-20241123220200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:05, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a>: Did you read the part where I mentioned privacy laws? Also, in this industry no one is allowed unfettered usage of private data even internally; there are internal policies that govern this that are broadly similar to the privacy policy. It's one thing to test a proposed tool on an IP address like <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:db8::/32" title="Special:Contributions/2001:db8::/32">Special:Contribs/2001:db8::/32</a>, but it's another to train an AI model on it. Arguably an equally big privacy concern is the usage of new data from new users after the model is trained and brought online. The foundation is already hiding IP addresses by default even for anonymous users soon, and they will not undermine that mission through a tool like this. Ultimately, the <a href="/wiki/Board_of_directors" title="Board of directors">Board of Trustees</a> has to assume legal responsibility and liability for such a thing; put yourself in their position and think of whether they'd like the liability of something like this.--<a href="/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng" title="User:Jasper Deng">Jasper Deng</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jasper_Deng" title="User talk:Jasper Deng">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jasper_Deng-20241123221300-Levivich-20241123220200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:13, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>So can you quote a part of the privacy policy, or a part of privacy laws, or anything, that would prohibit feeding server logs into a "Cluebot-CU" to find socking?</dd> <dd>Because I can quote the part of the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy" class="extiw" title="wmf:Privacy Policy">wmf:Privacy Policy</a> that allows it, and it's a lot:</dd> <dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote">We may use your public contributions, either aggregated with the public contributions of others or individually, to create new features or data-related products for you or to learn more about how the Wikimedia Sites are used ... Because of how browsers work, we receive some information automatically when you visit the Wikimedia Sites ... This information includes the type of device you are using (possibly including unique device identification numbers, for some beta versions of our mobile applications), the type and version of your browser, your browser's language preference, the type and version of your device's operating system, in some cases the name of your internet service provider or mobile carrier, the website that referred you to the Wikimedia Sites, which pages you request and visit, and the date and time of each request you make to the Wikimedia Sites. Put simply, we use this information to enhance your experience with Wikimedia Sites. For example, we use this information to administer the sites, provide greater security, and fight vandalism; optimize mobile applications, customize content and set language preferences, test features to see what works, and improve performance; understand how users interact with the Wikimedia Sites, track and study use of various features, gain understanding about the demographics of the different Wikimedia Sites, and analyze trends. ... We actively collect some types of information with a variety of commonly-used technologies. These generally include tracking pixels, JavaScript, and a variety of "locally stored data" technologies, such as cookies and local storage. ... Depending on which technology we use, locally stored data may include text, Personal Information (like your IP address), and information about your use of the Wikimedia Sites (like your username or the time of your visit). ... We use this information to make your experience with the Wikimedia Sites safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and their interaction with the Wikimedia Sites, and to generally improve our services. ... We and our service providers use your information ... to create new features or data-related products for you or to learn more about how the Wikimedia Sites are used ... To fight spam, identity theft, malware and other kinds of abuse. ... To test features to see what works, understand how users interact with the Wikimedia Sites, track and study use of various features, gain understanding about the demographics of the different Wikimedia Sites and analyze trends. ... When you visit any Wikimedia Site, we automatically receive the IP address of the device (or your proxy server) you are using to access the Internet, which could be used to infer your geographical location. ... We use this location information to make your experience with the Wikimedia Sites safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and their interaction with the Wikimedia Sites, and to generally improve our services. For example, we use this information to provide greater security, optimize mobile applications, and learn how to expand and better support Wikimedia communities. ... We, or particular users with certain administrative rights as described below, need to use and share your Personal Information if it is reasonably believed to be necessary to enforce or investigate potential violations of our Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, or any Wikimedia Foundation or user community-based policies. ... We may also disclose your Personal Information if we reasonably believe it necessary to detect, prevent, or otherwise assess and address potential spam, malware, fraud, abuse, unlawful activity, and security or technical concerns. ... To facilitate their work, we give some developers limited access to systems that contain your Personal Information, but only as reasonably necessary for them to develop and contribute to the Wikimedia Sites. ...</blockquote> Yeah that's a lot. Then there's <a class="external text" href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Privacy_policy/Frequently_asked_questions#investigateuseFAQ">this whole FAQ</a> that says <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote">It is important for us to be able to make sure everyone plays by the same rules, and sometimes that means we need to investigate and share specific users' information to ensure that they are. For example, user information may be shared when a CheckUser is investigating abuse on a Project, such as suspected use of malicious "sockpuppets" (duplicate accounts), vandalism, harassment of other users, or disruptive behavior. If a user is found to be violating our Terms of Use or other relevant policy, the user's Personal Information may be released to a service provider, carrier, or other third-party entity, for example, to assist in the targeting of IP blocks or to launch a complaint to the relevant Internet Service Provider.</blockquote></dd> <dd>So using IP addresses, etc., to develop new tools, to test features, to fight violations of the Terms of Use, and disclosing that info to Checkusers... all explicitly permitted by the Privacy Policy. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123222200-Jasper_Deng-20241123221300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:22, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">"We, or particular users with certain administrative rights as described below, need to use and share your Personal Information if it is reasonably believed to be necessary to enforce or investigate potential violations of our Terms of Use"</q> – "reasonably believed to be necessary" is not going to hold up in court when it's sweepingly applied to everyone. This doesn't even take into consideration the laws I mentioned, like <a href="/wiki/GDPR" class="mw-redirect" title="GDPR">GDPR</a>. I'm not a lawyer, and I'm guessing neither are you. If you want to be the one assuming the legal liability for this, contact the board today and sign the contract. Even then they would probably not agree to such an arrangement. So you're <a href="/wiki/Preaching_to_the_choir" class="mw-redirect" title="Preaching to the choir">preaching to the choir</a>: only the foundation could even consider assuming this risk. Also, it's clear that you do not have a single idea of how developing something like this works if you think it can be done for $1 million. Something this complex has to be done right and tech salaries and computing resources are expensive.--<a href="/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng" title="User:Jasper Deng">Jasper Deng</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jasper_Deng" title="User talk:Jasper Deng">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jasper_Deng-20241123222800-Levivich-20241123222200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:28, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>What I am suggesting does not involve sharing everyone's data with Checkusers. It's pretty obvious that looking at their own server logs is "necessary to enforce or investigate potential violations of our Terms of Use". Five people is how big the WMF's <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning" class="extiw" title="wmf:Machine Learning">wmf:Machine Learning</a> team is, @ $200k each, $1m/year covers it. Five people is enough for that team to improve ORES, so another five-person team dedicated to "ORES-CU" seems a reasonable place to start. They could double that, and still have like $180M left over. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123224000-Jasper_Deng-20241123222800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:40, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a>: Yeah no, lol. $200k each is not a very competitive total compensation, considering that that needs to include benefits, health insurance, etc. This doesn't include their manager or the hefty hardware required to run ML workflows. It doesn't include the legal support required given the data privacy law compliance needed. Capriciously looking at the logs does not count; accessing data of users the foundation cannot reasonably have said to be likely to cause abuse is not permissible. This all aside from the bias and other data quality issues at hand here. You can delude yourself all you want, but <a href="/wiki/Nature_cannot_be_fooled" class="mw-redirect" title="Nature cannot be fooled">nature cannot be fooled</a>. I'm finished arguing with you anyways, because this proposal is either way dead on arrival.--<a href="/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng" title="User:Jasper Deng">Jasper Deng</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jasper_Deng" title="User talk:Jasper Deng">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jasper_Deng-20241123234500-Levivich-20241123224000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:45, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng" title="User:Jasper Deng">Jasper Deng</a>, haggling over the math here isn't really important. You could quintuple the figures @<a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> gave and the Foundation would still have millions upon millions of dollars left over. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Asilvering" title="User:Asilvering">asilvering</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Asilvering" title="User talk:Asilvering">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Asilvering-20241123234800-Jasper_Deng-20241123234500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:48, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Asilvering" title="User:Asilvering">Asilvering</a>: The point I'm making is Levivich does not understand the complexity behind this kind of thing and thus his arguments are not to be given weight by the closer. <a href="/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng" title="User:Jasper Deng">Jasper Deng</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jasper_Deng" title="User talk:Jasper Deng">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jasper_Deng-20241123235600-Asilvering-20241123234800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:56, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>As a statistician/data scientist, @<a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> is correct about the technical side of this—building an ML algorithm to detect sockpuppets would be pretty easy. Duplicate user algorithms like these are common across many websites. For a basic classification task like this (basically an ML 101 homework problem), I think $1 million is about right. As a bonus, the same tools could be used to identify and correct for possible canvasing or brigading, which behaves a lot like sockpuppetry from a statistical perspective. A similar algorithm is already used by Twitter's <a href="/wiki/Community_notes" class="mw-redirect" title="Community notes">community notes</a> feature.</dd> <dd>IANAL, so I can't comment on the legal side of this, and I can't comment on whether that money would be better-spent elsewhere since I don't know what the WMF budget looks like. Overall though, the technical implementation wouldn't be a major hurdle. <a href="/wiki/User:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User:Closed Limelike Curves">– Closed Limelike Curves</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User talk:Closed Limelike Curves">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241124204400-Jasper_Deng-20241123234500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:44, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Third-party services <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sift.com/solutions/account-creation">like Sift.com</a> provide this kind of algorithm-based account fraud protection as an alternative to building and maintaining internally. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Czar" title="User talk:Czar">czar</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Czar-20241124234100-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241124204400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:41, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Building such a model is only a small part of a real production system. If this system is to operate on all account creations, it needs to be at least as reliable as the existing systems that handle account creations. As you probably know, data scientists developing such a model need to be supported by software engineers and site reliability engineers supporting the actual system. Then you have the problem of new sockers who are not on the list of sockmasters to check against. Non-English-language speakers often would be put at a disadvantage too. It's not as trivial as you make it out to be, thus I stand by my estimate.--<a href="/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng" title="User:Jasper Deng">Jasper Deng</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jasper_Deng" title="User talk:Jasper Deng">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jasper_Deng-20241125065900-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241124204400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:59, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>None of you have accounted for <a href="/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law" title="Hofstadter's law">Hofstadter's law</a>.</dd> <dd>I don't think we need to spend more time speculating about a system that WMF Legal is extremely unlikely to accept. Even if they did, it wouldn't exist until several years from now. Instead, let's try to think of things that we can do ourselves, or with only a very little assistance. Small, lightweight projects with full community control can help us now, and if we prove that ____ works, the WMF might be willing to adopt and expand it later. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241125233900-Jasper_Deng-20241125065900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That's a mistake -- doing the same thing Wikipedia has been doing for 20+ years. The mistake is in leaving it to volunteers to catch sockpuppetry, rather than insisting that the WMF devote significant resources to it. And it's a mistake because the one thing we volunteers can't do, that the WMF can do, is comb through the server logs looking for patterns. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241125234400-WhatamIdoing-20241125233900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:44, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Not sure about the "building an ML algorithm to detect sockpuppets would be pretty easy" part, but I admire the optimism. It is certainly the case that it is possible, and people have done it with a surprising level of success a very long time ago in ML terms e.g. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2018.03.002">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2018.03.002</a>. These projects tend to rely on the category graph to distinguish sock and non-sock sets for training, the categorization of accounts as confirmed or suspected socks. However, the category graph is woefully incomplete i.e. there is information in the logs that is not reflected in the graph, so ensuring that all ban evasion accounts are properly categorized as such might help a bit. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241126035800-Levivich-20241125234400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:58, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Thankfully, we wouldn't have to build an ML algorithm, we can just use one of the existing ones. Some are even open source. Or WMF could use a third party service like the aforementioned sift.com. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241126161700-Sean.hoyland-20241126035800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:17, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Let me guess: Essentially, you would like their machine-learning team to use Sift's <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">AI-Powered Fraud Protection</q>, which from what I can glance, handles <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">safeguarding subscriptions to defending digital content and in-app purchases</q> and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">helps businesses reduce friction and stop sophisticated fraud attacks that gut growth</q>, to provide the ability for us to <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">automatically checkuser all active users</q>? 2601AC47 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2601AC47" title="User talk:2601AC47">talk</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601AC47" title="Special:Contributions/2601AC47">contribs</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:UserRights/2601AC47" title="Special:UserRights/2601AC47">my rights</a>) Isn't a IP anon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2601AC47-20241126162500-Levivich-20241126161700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:25, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The WMF already has the ability to "automatically checkuser all users" (the verb "checkuser" just means "look at the server logs"), I'm suggesting they use it. And that they use it in a sophisticated way, employing (existing, open source or commercially available) AI/ML technologies, like the same kind we already use to automatically revert vandalism. Contrary to claims here, doing so would not be illegal or even expensive (comparatively, for the WMF). <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241126164000-2601AC47-20241126162500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:40, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>So, in my attempt to get things set right and steer towards a consensus that is satisfactory, I sincerely follow-up: <a href="/wiki/Moana_2" title="Moana 2">What lies beyond</a> that in this vast, uncharted sea? And could this mean any more in the next 5 years? 2601AC47 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2601AC47" title="User talk:2601AC47">talk</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601AC47" title="Special:Contributions/2601AC47">contribs</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:UserRights/2601AC47" title="Special:UserRights/2601AC47">my rights</a>) Isn't a IP anon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2601AC47-20241126164900-Levivich-20241126164000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:49, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>What lies beyond is <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimilarEditors" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:SimilarEditors">mw:Extension:SimilarEditors</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241126172600-2601AC47-20241126164900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:26, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>So, @<a href="/wiki/User:2601AC47" class="mw-redirect" title="User:2601AC47">2601AC47</a>, I think the answer to your question is "tell the WMF we really, really, really would like more attention to sockpuppetry and IP abuse from the ML team". -- <a href="/wiki/User:Asilvering" title="User:Asilvering">asilvering</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Asilvering" title="User talk:Asilvering">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Asilvering-20241126173100-Levivich-20241126172600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:31, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Which I don't suppose someone can at the next board meeting on December 11? 2601AC47 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2601AC47" title="User talk:2601AC47">talk</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601AC47" title="Special:Contributions/2601AC47">contribs</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:UserRights/2601AC47" title="Special:UserRights/2601AC47">my rights</a>) Isn't a IP anon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2601AC47-20241126180000-Asilvering-20241126173100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:00, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>I may also point to <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2014-11-21" class="extiw" title="foundation:Minutes:2014-11-21">this</a>, where they mention <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">development in other areas, such as social media features and machine learning expertise</q>. 2601AC47 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2601AC47" title="User talk:2601AC47">talk</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601AC47" title="Special:Contributions/2601AC47">contribs</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:UserRights/2601AC47" title="Special:UserRights/2601AC47">my rights</a>) Isn't a IP anon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2601AC47-20241126163600-Levivich-20241126161700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:36, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>e.g. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Sockpuppet_detection_in_Wikimedia_projects" class="extiw" title="m:Research:Sockpuppet detection in Wikimedia projects">m:Research:Sockpuppet_detection_in_Wikimedia_projects</a> <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241126170200-2601AC47-20241126163600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:02, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>And that mentions <a class="external text" href="https://socksfinder.toolforge.org/">Socksfinder</a>, still in beta it seems. 2601AC47 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2601AC47" title="User talk:2601AC47">talk</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601AC47" title="Special:Contributions/2601AC47">contribs</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:UserRights/2601AC47" title="Special:UserRights/2601AC47">my rights</a>) Isn't a IP anon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2601AC47-20241126171000-Sean.hoyland-20241126170200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:10, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>3 days! When I first posted my comment and some editors responded that I didn't know what I was talking about, it can't be done, it'd violate the privacy policy and privacy laws, WMF Legal would never allow it... I was wondering how long it would take before somebody pointed out that this thing that can't be done has already been done and has been under development for <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171635" class="extiw" title="phab:T171635">at least 7 years now</a>.</dd> <dd>Of course it's already under development, it's pretty obvious that the same Wikipedia that developed <a href="/wiki/ClueBot" class="mw-redirect" title="ClueBot">ClueBot</a>, one of the world's earlier and more successful examples of ML applications, would try to employ ML to fight multiple-account abuse. I mean, I'm obviously not gonna be the first person to think of this "innovation"!</dd> <dd>Anyway, it took 3 days. Thanks, Sean! <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241126173100-Sean.hoyland-20241126170200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:31, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd><div class="outdent-template" style="position:relative;left:1px;"></div> Unlike what is being proposed, SimilarEditors only works based on publicly available data (e.g. similarities in editing patterns), and not IP data. To quote the page Sean linked, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">in the model's current form, we are only considering public data, but most saliently private data such as IP addresses or user-agent information are features currently used by checkusers that could be later (carefully) incorporated into the models</q>.<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>So, not only the current model doesn't look at IP data, the research project also acknowledges that actually using such data should only be done in a "careful" way, because of those very same privacy policy issues quoted above.<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>On the ML side, however, this does proves that it's being worked on, and I'm honestly not surprised at all that the WMF is working on machine learning-based tools to detect sockpuppets. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241126175000-Levivich-20241125234400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:50, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Right. We should ask WMF to do the <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk inline-quote-talk-marks">later (carefully) incorporated into the models</q> part (especially since it's now later). BTW, the <a class="external text" href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/services/similar-users">SimilarUsers API</a> already pulls IP and other metadata. SimilarExtensions (a tool that uses the API) doesn't release that information to CheckUsers, by design. And that's a good thing, we can't just release all IPs to CheckUsers, it does indeed have to be done carefully. But user metadata can be used. What I'm suggesting is that the WMF should proceed to develop these types of tools (including the careful use of user metadata). <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241126175700-Chaotic_Enby-20241126175000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:57, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd><div class="outdent-template" style="position:relative;left:1px;"></div> Not really clear that they're pulling IP data from logged-in users. The relevant sections reads:<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote"><code>USER_METADATA</code> (203MB): for every user in <code>COEDIT_DATA</code>, this contains basic metadata about them (total number of edits in data, total number of pages edited, user or IP, timestamp range of edits).</blockquote><div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>This reads like they're collecting the username or IP depending on whether they're a logged-in user or an IP user. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241126181400-Levivich-20241125234400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:14, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>In a few years people might look back on these days when we only had to deal with simple devious primates employing deception as the halcyon days. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241126183300-Levivich-20241125234400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:33, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>I assumed 1 million USD/year was accounting for Hofstadter's law several times over. Otherwise it feels wildly pessimistic. <a href="/wiki/User:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User:Closed Limelike Curves">– Closed Limelike Curves</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User talk:Closed Limelike Curves">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241126155700-WhatamIdoing-20241125233900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:57, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1256395271">.mw-parser-output .hidden-archive{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:0.2em auto 0;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .hat-header{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center;background-color:#f2dfce;color:inherit}.mw-parser-output .hat-content{border:solid 1px silver;padding:8px;background-color:#fff4f2;color:inherit;text-align:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .hat-header{background-color:#492b13}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .hat-content{background-color:#391c19}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .hat-header{background-color:#492b13}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .hat-content{background-color:#391c19}}</style> <table class="hidden-archive mw-collapsible mw-archivedtalk mw-collapsed"> <tbody><tr> <th class="hat-header">IP range <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:0:0:0:0/64" title="Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:0:0:0:0/64">2600:1700:69F1:1410:0:0:0:0/64</a> blocked by a CU </th></tr> <tr> <td style="font-style:italic;">The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. </td></tr> <tr> <td class="hat-content"> <dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd>Why do you guys hate the WMF so much? If it weren’t for them, you wouldn’t have this website at all. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147" title="Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147">2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147 (page does not exist)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147-20241128235100-CheckUser_for_all_new_users" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:51, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>We don’t. 2601AC47 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2601AC47" title="User talk:2601AC47">talk</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601AC47" title="Special:Contributions/2601AC47">contribs</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:UserRights/2601AC47" title="Special:UserRights/2601AC47">my rights</a>) Isn't a IP anon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2601AC47-20241129011300-2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147-20241128235100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:13, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Then why do you guys always whine and complain about how incompetent they are and how much money they make and are actively against their donation drives? <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:6DF5:851F:7413:CA3B" title="Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:6DF5:851F:7413:CA3B">2600:1700:69F1:1410:6DF5:851F:7413:CA3B</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2600:1700:69F1:1410:6DF5:851F:7413:CA3B" title="User talk:2600:1700:69F1:1410:6DF5:851F:7413:CA3B">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2600:1700:69F1:1410:6DF5:851F:7413:CA3B-20241129012900-2601AC47-20241129011300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:29, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>We don't. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241129024700-2600:1700:69F1:1410:6DF5:851F:7413:CA3B-20241129012900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:47, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Don’t “we don’t” me again. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5" title="Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5">2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5" title="User talk:2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5-20241129031100-Levivich-20241129024700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:11, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>This may be surprising, but it turns out there's more than one person on Wikipedia, and many of us have different opinions on things. You're probably thinking of @<a href="/wiki/User:Guy_Macon" title="User:Guy Macon">Guy Macon</a>'s essay.</dd> <dd>I disagree with his argument that the WMF is incompetent, but at the same time, <a href="/wiki/Marginal_utility" title="Marginal utility">smart thinking happens on the margin</a>. Just because the WMF spent their first $20 million extremely well (on creating Wikipedia) doesn't mean giving them $200 million would make them 10× as good. Nobody here thinks the WMF budget should be cut to $0; there's just some of us who think it needs a haircut.</dd> <dd>For me it comes down to, "if you don't donate to the WMF, <a href="/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window" title="Parable of the broken window">what does that money go instead</a>"? I'd rather you give that money to <a href="/wiki/GiveWell" title="GiveWell">some other charity</a>—feeding African children is more important than reskinning Wikipedia—but if you won't, I'd doubt giving it to the WMF is worse than whatever else you were going to spend it on. Whether we should cut back on ads depends on whether this money is coming out of donors' charity budgets or their regular budgets. <a href="/wiki/User:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User:Closed Limelike Curves">– Closed Limelike Curves</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User talk:Closed Limelike Curves">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241129031000-2600:1700:69F1:1410:6DF5:851F:7413:CA3B-20241129012900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:10, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I already struggle enough with prioritizing charities and whether which ones are ethical or not and how I should be spending every single penny I get on charities dealing with PIA and trans issues because those are the most oppressed groups in the world right now. The WMF is not helping people who are actively getting killed and having their rights taken away therefore they are not important. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5" title="Special:Contributions/2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5">2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5" title="User talk:2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5-20241129031500-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241129031000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:15, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>In that case, I'd suggest checking out <a href="/wiki/GiveWell" title="GiveWell">GiveWell</a>, which has some very good recommendations. That said, this subthread feels wildly off-topic. <a href="/wiki/User:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User:Closed Limelike Curves">– Closed Limelike Curves</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User talk:Closed Limelike Curves">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241129033300-2600:1700:69F1:1410:C812:78B7:C08A:5AA5-20241129031500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:33, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>So goes this whole discussion; but to give a slightly longer answer to the IP: We’re not telling them to <a href="/wiki/Moana_2" title="Moana 2">get lost on a different path</a>, we’re trying (despite everything) to establish relations, consensus and mutual trust. And hopefully long-term progress on key areas of contention. We don’t hate them, or else they’ll dismiss us completely. 2601AC47 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2601AC47" title="User talk:2601AC47">talk</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601AC47" title="Special:Contributions/2601AC47">contribs</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:UserRights/2601AC47" title="Special:UserRights/2601AC47">my rights</a>) Isn't a IP anon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2601AC47-20241129034400-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241129033300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:44, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd>Any such system would be subject to numerous biases or be easily defeatable. Such an automated anti-abuse system would have to be exclusively a foundation initiative as only they have the resources for such a monumental undertaking. It would need its own team of developers.--<a href="/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng" title="User:Jasper Deng">Jasper Deng</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jasper_Deng" title="User talk:Jasper Deng">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jasper_Deng-20241123185700-2600:1700:69F1:1410:5D40:53D:B27E:D147-20241128235100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:57, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> Absolutely no chance that this would pass. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SNOW" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SNOW">WP:SNOW</a>, even though there isn't a flood of opposes. There are two problems: <ol><li>The existing CheckUser team barely has the bandwidth for the existing SPI load. Doing this on every single new user would be impractical and would enable <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LTA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LTA">WP:LTA</a>'s by diverting valuable CheckUser bandwidth.</li> <li>Even if we had enough CheckUser's, this would be a severe privacy violation absolutely prohibited under the Foundation privacy policy.</li></ol> The vast majority of vandals and other disruptive users don't need CU involvement to deal with. There's very little to be gained from this.--<a href="/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng" title="User:Jasper Deng">Jasper Deng</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jasper_Deng" title="User talk:Jasper Deng">(talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jasper_Deng-20241123183600-CheckUser_for_all_new_users" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:36, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It is perhaps an interesting conversation to have but I have to agree that it is unworkable, and directly contrary to foundation-level policy which we cannot make a local exemption to. En.wp, I believe, already has the largest CU team of any WMF project, but we would need hundreds more people on that team to handle something like this. In the last round of appointments, the committee approved exactly one checkuser, and that one was a returning former mamber of the team. And there is the very real risk that if we appointed a whole bunch of new CUs, some of them would abuse the tool. <a href="/wiki/User:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User:Just Step Sideways">Just Step Sideways</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User talk:Just Step Sideways">from this world ..... today</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Just_Step_Sideways-20241123185500-Jasper_Deng-20241123183600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:55, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>And its worth pointing out that the Committee approving too few volunteers for Checkuser (regardless of whether you think they are or aren't) is not a significant part of this issue. There simply are not tens of people who are putting themselves forward for consideration as CUs. Since 2016 54 applications (an average of per year) have been put forward for consideration by Functionaries (the highest was 9, the lowest was 2). Note this is total applications not applicants (more than one person has applied multiple times), and is not limited to candidates who had a realistic chance of being appointed. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241123204000-Just_Step_Sideways-20241123185500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:40, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The dearth of candidates has for sure been an ongoing thing, it's worth reminding admins that they don't have to wait for the committee to call for candidates, you can put your name forward at any time by emailing the committee. <a href="/wiki/User:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User:Just Step Sideways">Just Step Sideways</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User talk:Just Step Sideways">from this world ..... today</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Just_Step_Sideways-20241124234800-Thryduulf-20241123204000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:48, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Generally, I tend to get the impression from those who have checkuser rights that CU should be done as a last resort, and other, less invasive methods are preferred, and it would seem that indiscriminate use of it would be a bad idea, so I would have some major misgivings about this proposal. And given the ANI case, the less user information that we retain, the better (which is also probably why temporary accounts are a necessary and prudent idea despite other potential drawbacks). <a href="/wiki/User:Abzeronow" title="User:Abzeronow">Abzeronow</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Abzeronow" title="User talk:Abzeronow">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Abzeronow-20241123035600-Jasper_Deng-20241123183600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:56, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Oppose. A lot has already been written on the unsustainable workload for the CU team this would create and the amount of collateral damage; I'll add in the fact that our most notorious sockmasters in areas like PIA already use highly sophisticated methods to evade CU detection, and based on what I've seen at the relevant SPIs most of the blocks in these cases are made with more weight given to the behaviour, and even then only after lengthy deliberations on the matter. These sort of sockmasters seem to have been in the OP's mind when the request was made, and I do not see automated CU being of any more use than current techniques against such dedicated sockmasters. And, has been mentioned before, most cases of sockpuppetry (such as run-of-the-mill vandals and trolls using throwaway accounts for abuse) don't need CU anyways. <a href="/wiki/User:JavaHurricane" title="User:JavaHurricane"> Java</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:JavaHurricane" title="User talk:JavaHurricane">Hurricane</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-JavaHurricane-20241124081700-Jasper_Deng-20241123183600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">08:17, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>These are, unfortunately, fair points about the limits of CU and the many experienced and dedicated ban evading actors in PIA. CU information retention policy is also a complicating factor. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241124082800-JavaHurricane-20241124081700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">08:28, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>As I said in my original post, recidivist socks often get better at covering their "tells" each time making behavioural detection increasingly difficult and meaning the entire burden falls on the honest user to convince an Admin to take an SPI case seriously with scarce evidence. After many years I'm tired of defending various pages from sock POV edits and if WMF won't make life easier then increasingly I just won't bother, I'm sure plenty of other users feel the same way. <a href="/wiki/User:Mztourist" title="User:Mztourist">Mztourist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mztourist" title="User talk:Mztourist">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Mztourist-20241126054500-Sean.hoyland-20241124082800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:45, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SimilarEditors" data-mw-thread-id="h-SimilarEditors-CheckUser_for_all_new_users-20241126174300">SimilarEditors</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: SimilarEditors">edit</a>]</div> The development of <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimilarEditors" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:SimilarEditors">mw:Extension:SimilarEditors</a> -- the type of tool that could be used to do what Mztourist suggests -- has been "stalled" since 2023 and downgraded to low-priority in 2024, according to its documentation page and related phab tasks (see e.g. <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376548" class="extiw" title="phab:T376548">phab:T376548</a>, <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304633" class="extiw" title="phab:T304633">phab:T304633</a>, <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291509" class="extiw" title="phab:T291509">phab:T291509</a>). Anybody know why? <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241126174300-SimilarEditors" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:43, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Honestly, the main function of that sort of thing seems to be compiling data that is already available on XTools and various editor interaction analyzers, and then presenting it nicely and neatly. I think that such a page could be useful as a sanity check, and it might even be worth having that sort of thing as a standalone toolforge app, but I don't really see why the WMF would make that particular extension a high priority. — <a href="/wiki/User:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User:Red-tailed hawk">Red-tailed hawk</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Red-tailed_hawk" title="User talk:Red-tailed hawk">(nest)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Red-tailed_hawk-20241126175800-Levivich-20241126174300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:58, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Well, it doesn't have to be that particular extension, but it seems to me that the entire "idea" has been stalled, unless they're working on another tool that I'm unaware of (very possible). (Or, it could be because of recent changes in domestic and int'l privacy laws that derailed their previous development advances, or it could be because of advancements in ML elsewhere making in-house development no longer practical.) As to why the WMF would make this sort of problem a high priority, I'd say because the spread of misinformation on Wikipedia by sockpuppets is a big problem. Even without getting into the use of user metadata, just look at recent SPIs I filed, like <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Icewhiz/Archive#27_August_2024" title="Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Icewhiz/Archive">Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Icewhiz/Archive#27 August 2024</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Icewhiz/Archive#09_October_2024" title="Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Icewhiz/Archive">Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Icewhiz/Archive#09 October 2024</a>. That involved no private data at all, but a computer could have done automatically, in seconds, what took me hours to do manually, and those socks could have been uncovered before they made thousands and thousands of edits spreading misinformation. If the computer looked at private data as well as public data, it would be even more effective (and would save CUs time as well). Seems to me to be a worthy expenditure of 0.5% or 1% of the WMF's annual budget. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241126180900-Red-tailed_hawk-20241126175800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:09, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>This looks really interesting. I don't really know how extensions are rolled out to individual wikis - can anyone with knowledge about that summarise if having this tool turned on (for check users/relevant admins) for en.wp is feasible? Do we need a RFC, or is this a "maybe wait several years for a phab ticket" situation? <a href="/wiki/User:Bugghost" title="User:Bugghost">BugGhost</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bugghost" title="User talk:Bugghost">🦗👻</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Bugghost-20241126180900-Levivich-20241126174300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:09, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>I find it amusing that ~4 separate users above are arguing that automatic identification of sockpuppets is impossible, impractical, and the WMF would never do it—and meanwhile, the WMF is already doing it. <a href="/wiki/User:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User:Closed Limelike Curves">– Closed Limelike Curves</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User talk:Closed Limelike Curves">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241127192900-Levivich-20241126174300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:29, 27 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>So, discussion is over? 2601AC47 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2601AC47" title="User talk:2601AC47">talk</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601AC47" title="Special:Contributions/2601AC47">contribs</a><big>·</big><a href="/wiki/Special:UserRights/2601AC47" title="Special:UserRights/2601AC47">my rights</a>) Isn't a IP anon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2601AC47-20241127193100-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241127192900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:31, 27 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>I think what's happening is that people are having two simultaneous discussions – automatic identification of sockpuppets is already being done, but what people say "the WMF would never do" is using private data (e.g. IP addresses) to identify them. Which adds another level of (ethical, if not legal) complications compared to what SimilarEditors is doing (only processing data everyone can access, but in an automated way). <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241128075900-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241127192900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">07:59, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>"automatic identification of sockpuppets is already being done" is probably an overstatement, but I agree that there may be a potential legal and ethical minefield between the Similarusers service that uses public information available to anyone from the databases after redaction of private information (i.e. course-grained sampling of revision timestamps combined with an attempt to quantify page intersection data), and a service that has access to the private information associated with a registered account name. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241128111500-Chaotic_Enby-20241128075900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:15, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>Yes, automatic identification of (these) sockpuppets is impossible. There are many reasons for this, but the simplest one is this: These types of tools require hundreds of edits – at minimum – to return any viable data, and the sort of sockmasters who get accounts up to that volume of edits know how to evade detection by tools that analyse public information. The markers would likely indicate people from similar countries – naturally, two Cypriots would be interested in <a href="/wiki/Category:Cyprus" title="Category:Cyprus">Category:Cyprus</a> and over time similar hour and day overlaps will emerge, but what's to let you know whether these are actual socks when they're evading technical analysis? You're back to square one. There are other tools such as <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup/masz" class="extiw" title="mediawikiwiki:User:Ladsgroup/masz">mediawikiwiki:User:Ladsgroup/masz</a> which I consider equally circumstantial; an analysis of myself returns a high likelihood of me being other administrators and arbitrators, while analysing an alleged sock currently at SPI returns the filer as the third most likely sockmaster. This is not commentary on the tools themselves, but rather simply the way things are. <a href="/wiki/User:DatGuy" title="User:DatGuy">DatGuy</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:DatGuy" title="User talk:DatGuy">Talk</a><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/DatGuy" title="Special:Contributions/DatGuy">Contribs</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-DatGuy-20241128174200-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241127192900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:42, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Oh, fun! Too bad it's CU-restricted, I'm quite curious to know what user I'm most stylometrically similar to. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Asilvering" title="User:Asilvering">asilvering</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Asilvering" title="User talk:Asilvering">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Asilvering-20241128175100-DatGuy-20241128174200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:51, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That would be <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LittlePuppers">LittlePuppers</a> and <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LEvalyn">LEvalyn</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:DatGuy" title="User:DatGuy">DatGuy</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:DatGuy" title="User talk:DatGuy">Talk</a><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/DatGuy" title="Special:Contributions/DatGuy">Contribs</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-DatGuy-20241129030200-Asilvering-20241128175100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:02, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Fascinating! One I've worked with, one I haven't, both AfC reviewers. Not bad. -- <a href="/wiki/User:Asilvering" title="User:Asilvering">asilvering</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Asilvering" title="User talk:Asilvering">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Asilvering-20241129061400-DatGuy-20241129030200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:14, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Idk, the half dozen ARBPIA socks I recently reported at SPI were obvious af to me, as are several others I haven't reported yet. That may be because that particular sockfarm is easy to spot by its POV pushing and a few other habits; though I bet in other topic areas it's the same. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBECR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBECR">WP:ARBECR</a> helps because it forces the socks to make 500 edits minimum before they can start POV pushing, but still we have to let them edit for a while post-XC just to generate enough diffs to support an SPI filing. Software that combines tools like Masz and SimilarEditor, and does other kinds of similar analysis, could significantly reduce the amount of editor time required to identify and report them. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241128180200-DatGuy-20241128174200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:02, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>I think it is possible, studies have demonstrated that it is possible, but it is true that having a sufficient number of samples is critical. Samples can be aggregated in some cases. There are several other important factors too. I have tried some techniques, and sometimes they work, or let's say they can sometimes produce results consistent with SPI results, better than random, but with plenty of false positives. It is also true that there are a number of detection countermeasures (that I won't describe) that are already employed by some bad actors that make detection harder. But I think the objective should be modest, to just move a bit in the right direction by detecting more ban evading accounts than are currently detected, or at least to find ways to reduce the size of the search space by providing ban evasion candidates. Taking the human out of the detection loop might take a while. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241128183900-DatGuy-20241128174200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:39, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>If you mean it's never going to be possible to catch some sockpuppets—the best-hidden, cleverest, etc. ones—you're completely correct. But I'm guessing we could cut the amount of time SPI has to spend dramatically with just some basic checks. <a href="/wiki/User:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User:Closed Limelike Curves">– Closed Limelike Curves</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User talk:Closed Limelike Curves">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241129022700-DatGuy-20241128174200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:27, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I disagree. Empirically, the vast majority of time spent at SPI is not on finding possible socks, nor is it using the CheckUser tool on them, but rather it's the CU completed cases (of which there are currently 14 and I should probably stop slacking and get onto some) with non-definitive technical results waiting on an administrator to make the final determination on whether they're socks or not. Extension:SimilarUsers would concentrate various information that already exists (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_Interaction_Analyzer" class="mw-disambig" title="Wikipedia:Editor Interaction Analyzer">EIA</a>, RoySmith's <a class="external text" href="https://spi-tools.toolforge.org/">SPI tools</a>) in one place, but I wouldn't say the accessibility of these tools is a cause of SPI backlog. An AI analysis tool to give an accurate magic number for likelihood? I'm anything but a Luddite, but still believe that's wishful thinking. <a href="/wiki/User:DatGuy" title="User:DatGuy">DatGuy</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:DatGuy" title="User talk:DatGuy">Talk</a><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/DatGuy" title="Special:Contributions/DatGuy">Contribs</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-DatGuy-20241129030200-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241129022700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:02, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Something seems better than nothing in this context doesn't it? EIA and the Similarusers service don't provide an estimate of the significance of page intersections. An intersection on a page with few revisions or few unique actors or few pageviews etc. is very different from a page intersection on the Donald Trump page. That kind of information is probably something that could sometimes help, even just to evaluate the importance of intersection evidence presented at SPIs. It seems to me that any kind of assistance could help. And another thing about the number of edits is that too many samples can also present challenges related to noise, with signals getting smeared out, although the type of noise in a user's data can itself be a characteristic signal in some cases it seems. And if there are too few samples, you can generate synthetic samples based on the actual samples and inject them into spaces. Search strategy matters a lot. The space of everyone vs everyone is vast, so good luck finding potential matches in that space without a lot of compute, especially for diffs. But many socks inhabit relatively small subspaces of Wikipedia, at least in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CunBVWOscGAdBtvA9VmYnE6Uzs0qMh6H/view?usp=sharing">20%-ish of time (on average in PIA)</a> they edit(war)/POV-push etc. in their topic of interest. So, choosing the candidate search space and search strategy wisely can make the problem much more tractable for a given topic area/subspace. Targeted fishing by picking a potential sock and looking for potential matches (the strategy used by the Similarusers service and CU I guess) is obviously a very different challenge than large-scale industrial fishing for socks in general. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241129040800-DatGuy-20241129030200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:08, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>And to continue the whining about existing tools, EIA and the Similarusers service use a suboptimal strategy in my view. If the objective is page intersection information for a potential sock against a sockmaster, and a ban evasion source has employed n identified actors so far e.g. almost 50 accounts for Icewhiz, the source's revision data should be aggregated for the intersection. This is not difficult to do using the category graph and the logs. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241129042500-DatGuy-20241129030200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:25, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>There is so much more that could be done with the software. EIA gives you page overlaps (and isn't 100% accurate at it), but it doesn't tell you: <ul><li>how many times the accounts made the same edits (tag team edit warring)</li> <li>how many times they voted in the same formal discussions (RfC, AfD, RM, etc) and whether they voted the same way or different (vote stacking)</li> <li>how many times they use the same language and whether they use unique phraseology</li> <li>whether they edit at the same times of day</li> <li>whether they edit on the same days</li> <li>whether account creation dates (or start-of-regular-editing dates) line up with when other socks were blocked</li> <li>whether they changed focus after reaching XC and to what extent (useful in any ARBECR area)</li> <li>whether they "gamed" or "rushed" to XC (same)</li></ul></dd> <dd>All of this (and more) would be useful to see in a combined way, like a dashboard. It might make sense to restrict access to such compilations of data to CUs, and the software could also throw in metadata or subscriber info in there, too (or not), and it doesn't have to reduce it all into a single score like ORES, but just having this info compiled in one place would save editors the time of having to compile it manually. If the software auto-swept logs for this info and alerted humans to any "high scores" (however defined, eg "matches across multiple criteria"), it would probably not only reduce editor time but also increase sock discovery. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241129045300-Sean.hoyland-20241129042500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:53, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>This is like one of my favorite strategies for meetings. Propose multiple things, many of which are technically challenging, then just walk out of the meeting.</dd> <dd>The 'how many times the accounts made the same edits' is probably do-able because you can connect reverted revisions to the revisions that reverted them using json data in the database populated as part of the tagging system, look at the target state reverted to and whether the revision was an exact revert. ...or maybe not without computing diffs, having just looked at an article with a history of edit warring. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241129074300-Levivich-20241129045300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">07:43, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Requiring_registration_for_editing" data-mw-thread-id="h-Requiring_registration_for_editing-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241123043200">Requiring registration for editing</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Requiring registration for editing">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_information_vote.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="information" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Symbol_information_vote.svg/18px-Symbol_information_vote.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Symbol_information_vote.svg/27px-Symbol_information_vote.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Symbol_information_vote.svg/36px-Symbol_information_vote.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a> Note: This section was split off from <a href="/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1259615160#CheckUser_for_all_new_users" title="Special:PermanentLink/1259615160">"CheckUser for all new users" (permalink)</a> and the "parenthetical comment" referred to below is: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk inline-quote-talk-marks">(Also, email-required registration and get rid of IP editing.)</q>—03:49, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</dd></dl> @<a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a>, about your parenthetical comment on requiring registration: <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>Part of the eternally unsolvable problem is that new editors are frankly bad at it. I can give examples from my own editing: Create an article citing a personal blog post as the main source? Check. Merge two articles that were actually different subjects? Been there, done that, got the revert. Misunderstand and mangle wikitext? More times than I can count. And that's after I created my account. Like about half of experienced editors, I edited as an IP first, fixing a typo here or reverting some vandalism there. <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>But if we don't persist through these early problems, we don't get experienced editors. And if we don't get experienced editors, Wikipedia will die. <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>Requiring registration ("get rid of IP editing") shrinks the number of people who edit. The Portuguese Wikipedia banned IPs only from the mainspace three years ago. <a class="external text" href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pt.wikipedia.org/contributing/editors/normal%7Cline%7C2020-11-20~2024-11-23%7Ceditor_type~anonymous*user%7Cmonthly">Have a look at the trend</a>. After the ban went into effect, they had 10K or 11K registered editors each month. It's since dropped to 8K. The number of contributions has dropped, too. They went from 160K to 210K edits per month down to 140K most months. <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>Some of the experienced editors have said that they like this. No IPs means less impulsive vandalism, and the talk pages are stable if you want to talk to the editor. Fewer newbies means I don't "have to" clean up after so many mistake-makers! Fewer editors, and especially fewer inexperienced editors, is more convenient – in the short term. But I wonder whether they're going to feel the same way a decade from now, when their community keeps shrinking, and they start wondering when they will lose critical mass. <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>The same thing happens in the real world, by the way. Businesses want to hire someone with experience. They don't want to train the helpless newbie. And then after years of everybody deciding that training entry-level workers is <a href="/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem" title="Somebody else's problem">Somebody else's problem</a>, they all look around and say: Where are all the workers that I need? Why didn't someone else train the next generation while I was busy taking the easy path? <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>In case you're curious, there is a Wikipedia that puts all of the IP and newbie edits under "PC" type restrictions. Nobody can see the edits until they've been approved by an experienced editor. The rate of vandalism visible to ordinary readers is low. Experienced editors love the level of control they have. Have a look at <a class="external text" href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org/contributing/editors/normal%7Cline%7C2013-11-04~2024-11-23%7C~total%7Cmonthly">what's happened to the size of their community</a> during the last decade. Is that what you want to see here? If so, we know how to make that happen. The path to that destination even looks broad, easy, and paved with all kinds of good intentions. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241123043200-Requiring_registration_for_editing" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:32, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Size isn't everything... what happened to their output--the quality of their encyclopedias--after they made those changes? <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123052400-WhatamIdoing-20241123043200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:24, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Well, I can tell you objectively that the number of edits declined, but "quality" is in the eye of the beholder. I understand that the latter community has the lowest use of inline citations of any mid-size or larger Wikipedia. What's now yesterday's TFA there wouldn't even be rated B-class here due to whole sections not having any ref tags. In terms of citation density, their FA standard is currently where ours was >15 years ago.</dd> <dd>But I think you have missed the point. Even if the quality has gone up according to the measure of your choice, if the number of contributors is steadily trending in the direction of zero, what will the quality be when something close to zero is reached? That community has almost halved in the last decade. How many articles are out of date, or missing, because there simply aren't enough people to write them? A decade from now, with half as many editors again, how much worse will the articles be? We're none of us idiots here. We can see the trend. We know that people die. You have doubtless seen this famous line:</dd> <dd><blockquote>All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.</blockquote></dd> <dd>I say:</dd> <dd><blockquote>All Wikipedia editors are mortal. Dead editors do not maintain or improve Wikipedia articles. Therefore, maintaining and improving Wikipedia requires editors who are not dead.</blockquote></dd> <dd>– and, <a href="/wiki/Memento_mori" title="Memento mori">memento mori</a>, we are going to die, my friend. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing/I_am_going_to_die" title="User:WhatamIdoing/I am going to die">I am going to die</a>. If we want Wikipedia to outlive us, we cannot be so shortsighted as to care only about the quality today, and never the quality the day after we die. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241123061300-Levivich-20241123052400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:13, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Trends don't last forever. Enwiki's active user count decreased from its peak over a few years, then flattened out for over a decade. The quality increased over that period of time (by any measure). Just because these other projects have shed users doesn't mean they're doomed to have zero users at some point in the future. And I think there's too many variables to know how much any particular change made on a project affects its overall user count, nevermind the quality of its output. <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123062800-WhatamIdoing-20241123061300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:28, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Age_of_Wikipedia_users_(2023_Wikipedia_survey).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Age_of_Wikipedia_users_%282023_Wikipedia_survey%29.png/300px-Age_of_Wikipedia_users_%282023_Wikipedia_survey%29.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Age_of_Wikipedia_users_%282023_Wikipedia_survey%29.png/450px-Age_of_Wikipedia_users_%282023_Wikipedia_survey%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Age_of_Wikipedia_users_%282023_Wikipedia_survey%29.png/600px-Age_of_Wikipedia_users_%282023_Wikipedia_survey%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1756" data-file-height="1436"/></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> If the graph to the right accurately reflects the age distribution of Wikipedia users, then a large chunk of the user base will die off within the next decade or two. Not to be dramatic, but I agree that requiring registration to edit, which will discourage readers from editing in the first place, will hasten the project's decline.... <a href="/wiki/User:Some1" title="User:Some1">Some1</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Some1" title="User talk:Some1">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Some1-20241123144000-WhatamIdoing-20241123061300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:40, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>😂 Seriously? What do you suppose that chart looked like 20 years ago, and then what happened? <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123144500-Some1-20241123144000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:45, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>There are significantly more barriers to entry than there were 20 years ago, and over that time the age profile has increased (quite significantly iirc). Adding more barriers to entry is not the way to solve the issued caused by barriers to entry. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Thryduulf-20241123155000-Levivich-20241123144500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:50, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><div style="clear:both;" class=""></div>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.13740">PaperQA2 writes cited, Wikipedia style summaries of scientific topics that are significantly more accurate than existing, human-written Wikipedia articles</a>" - maybe the demographics of the community will change. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241123163000-Thryduulf-20241123155000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:30, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That talks about LLMs usage in artcles, not the users. 2601AC47 (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:2601AC47" title="User talk:2601AC47">talk</a>|<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601AC47" title="Special:Contributions/2601AC47">contribs</a>) Isn't a IP anon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-2601AC47-20241123163400-Sean.hoyland-20241123163000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:34, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Or you could say it's about a user called PaperQA2 that writes Wikipedia articles significantly more accurate than articles written by other users. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241123165500-2601AC47-20241123163400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:55, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>No, it is very clearly about a language model. As far as I know, PaperQA2, or WikiCrow (the generative model using PaperQA2 for question answering), has not actually been making any edits on Wikipedia itself. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241123165800-Sean.hoyland-20241123165500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:58, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That is true. It is not making any edits on Wikipedia itself. There is a barrier. But my point is that in the future that barrier may not be there. There may be users like PaperQA2 writing articles better than other users and the demographics will have changed to include new kinds of users, much younger than us. <a href="/wiki/User:Sean.hoyland" title="User:Sean.hoyland">Sean.hoyland</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sean.hoyland" title="User talk:Sean.hoyland">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sean.hoyland-20241123173300-Chaotic_Enby-20241123165800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:33, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>And who will never die off! <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Levivich" title="User talk:Levivich">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Levivich-20241123173900-Sean.hoyland-20241123173300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:39, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>But which will not be Wikipedia. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241124060300-Levivich-20241123173900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:03, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>In re "What do you suppose that chart looked like 20 years ago": I believe that the numbers, very roughly, are that the community has gotten about 10 years older, on average, than it was 20 years ago. That is, we are bringing in some younger people, but not at a rate that would allow us to maintain the original age distribution. (Whether the original age distribution was a good thing is a separate consideration.) <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241124060600-Levivich-20241123144500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:06, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>I like looking at the <a class="external text" href="https://retention.toolforge.org/enwiki">en.wikipedia user retention</a> graph hosted on Toolforge (for anyone who might go looking for it later, there's a link to it at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Editor_Retention#Resources" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention">Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention § Resources</a>). It shows histograms of how many editors have edited in each month, grouped by all the editors who started editing in the same month. The data is noisy, but it does seem to show an increase in editing tenure since 2020 (when the pursuit of a lot of solo hobbies picked up, of course). Prior to that, there does seem to be a bit of slow growth in tenure length since the lowest point around 2013. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241123171800-Some1-20241123144000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:18, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>The trend is a bit clearer when looking at the <a class="external text" href="https://retention.toolforge.org/enwiki/10em">retention graph based on those who made at least 10 edits in a month</a>. (To see the trend when looking at the <a class="external text" href="https://retention.toolforge.org/enwiki/100em">retention graph based on 100 edits in a month</a>, the default colour range needs to be shifted to accommodate the smaller numbers.) <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241123172500-Some1-20241123144000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:25, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'd say that the story there is: Something amazing happened in 2006. Ours (since both of us registered our accounts that year) was the year from which people stuck around. I think that would be just about the time that the wall o' automated rejection really got going. There was some UPE-type commercial pressure, but it didn't feel unmanageable. It looks like an inflection point in retention. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241124061200-Isaacl-20241123172500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:12, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I don't think something particularly amazing happened in 2006. I think the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia">rapid growth in articles</a> starting in 2004 attracted a large land rush of editors as Wikipedia became established as a top search result. The cohort of editors at that time had the opportunity to cover a lot of topics for the first time on Wikipedia, requiring a lot of co-ordination, which created bonds between editors. As topic coverage grew, there were fewer articles that could be more readily created by generalists, the land rush subsided, and there was less motivation for new editors to persist in editing. Boom-bust cycles are common for a lot of popular things, particularly in tech where newer, shinier things launch all the time. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Isaacl-20241124190700-WhatamIdoing-20241124061200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:07, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Ah yes, that glorious time when we gained an article on every Pokemon character and, it seems, every actor who was ever credited in a porn movie. Unfortunately, many of the editors I bonded with then are no longer active. Some are dead, some finished school, some presumably burned out, at least one went into the ministry. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Donald_Albury" title="User talk:Donald Albury">Donald Albury</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Donald_Albury-20241126234900-Isaacl-20241124190700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:49, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">Have a look at what happened to the size of their community.</q>—I'm gonna be honest: eyeballing it, I don't actually see much (if any) difference with enwiki's activity. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=X56QYFOoibE">"Look at this graph"</a> only convinces people when the dataset passes the interocular trauma test (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Hockey_stick_graph" title="Hockey stick graph">the hockey stick</a>).</dd> <dd>On the other hand, if there's a dataset of "when did $LANGUAGEwiki adopt universal pending changes protections", we could settle this argument once and for all using a real statistical model that can deliver precise effect sizes on activity. Maybe then we can all finally <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:STICK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:STICK">drop the stick</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User:Closed Limelike Curves">– Closed Limelike Curves</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User talk:Closed Limelike Curves">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241126180800-WhatamIdoing-20241123043200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:08, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> This particular idea will not pass, but the binary developing in the discussion is depressing. A bargain where we allow IPs to edit (or unregistered users generally when IPs are masked), and therefore will sit on our hands when dealing with abuse and even harassment is a grim one. Any steps taken to curtail the second half of that bargain would make the first half stronger, and I am generally glad to see thoughts about it, even if they end up being impractical. <a href="/wiki/User:Chipmunkdavis" title="User:Chipmunkdavis">CMD</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chipmunkdavis" title="User talk:Chipmunkdavis">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chipmunkdavis-20241124021300-Requiring_registration_for_editing" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:13, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I don't want us to sit on our hands when we see abuse and harassment. I think our toolset is about 20 years out of date, and I believe there are things we could do that will help (e.g., <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Temporary_accounts" class="extiw" title="mw:Temporary accounts">mw:Temporary accounts</a>, cross-wiki checkuser tools for Stewards, detecting and responding to a little bit more information about devices/settings [perhaps, e.g., whether an edit is being made from a private/incognito window]). <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241124063900-Chipmunkdavis-20241124021300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:39, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Temporary accounts will help with the casual vandalism, but they’re not going to help with abuse and harassment. If it limits the ability to see ranges, it will make issues slightly worse. <a href="/wiki/User:Chipmunkdavis" title="User:Chipmunkdavis">CMD</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chipmunkdavis" title="User talk:Chipmunkdavis">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chipmunkdavis-20241124071300-WhatamIdoing-20241124063900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">07:13, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'm not sure what the current story is there, but when I talked to the team last (i.e., in mid-2023), we were talking about the value of a tool that would do range-related work. For various reasons, this would probably be Toolforge instead of MediaWiki, and it would probably be restricted (e.g., to admins, or to a suitable group chosen by each community), but the goal was to make it require less manual work, particularly for cross-wiki abuse, and to be able to aggregate some information without requiring direct disclosure of some PII. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241125235600-Chipmunkdavis-20241124071300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:56, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> Oh look, misleading statistics! "The Portuguese Wikipedia banned IPs only from the mainspace three years ago. <a class="external text" href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pt.wikipedia.org/contributing/editors/normal%7Cline%7C2020-11-20~2024-11-23%7Ceditor_type~anonymous*user%7Cmonthly">Have a look at the trend</a>. After the ban went into effect, they had 10K or 11K registered editors each month. It's since dropped to 8K. " Of course you have a spike in new registrations soon after you stop allowing IP edits, and you can't sustain that spike. That is not evidence of anything. It would have been more honest and illustrative to show the graph before and after the policy change, not only afterwards, e.g. <a class="external text" href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pt.wikipedia.org/contributing/editors/normal%7Cline%7C2018-05-09~2024-11-23%7Ceditor_type~anonymous*user%7Cmonthly">thus</a>. Oh look, banning IP editing has resulted in on average some 50% more registered editors than before the ban. Number of active editors is up 50% as well<a class="external autonumber" href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pt.wikipedia.org/contributing/active-editors/normal%7Cline%7C2018-05-09~2024-11-23%7C(page_type)~content*non-content%7Cmonthly">[1]</a>. The number of new pages has stayed the same<a class="external autonumber" href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pt.wikipedia.org/contributing/new-pages/normal%7Cbar%7C2018-05-09~2024-11-23%7C~total%7Cmonthly">[2]</a>. Number of edits is down, yes, but how much of this is due to less vandalism / vandalism reverts? A lot apparently, as the count of user edits has stayed about the same<a class="external autonumber" href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pt.wikipedia.org/contributing/user-edits/normal%7Cbar%7C2018-05-09~2024-11-23%7C(page_type)~content*non-content%7Cmonthly">[3]</a>. Basically, from those statistics, used properly, it is impossible to detect any issues with the Portuguese Wikipedia due to the banning of IP editing. <a href="/wiki/User:Fram" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Fram">Fram</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Fram" title="User talk:Fram">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Fram-20241126085500-Requiring_registration_for_editing" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">08:55, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>"how much of this is due to less vandalism / vandalism reverts?" That's a good question. Do we have some data on this? <a href="/wiki/User:Jo-Jo_Eumerus" title="User:Jo-Jo Eumerus">Jo-Jo Eumerus</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jo-Jo_Eumerus" title="User talk:Jo-Jo Eumerus">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Jo-Jo_Eumerus-20241126092000-Fram-20241126085500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">09:20, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Jo-Jo_Eumerus" title="User:Jo-Jo Eumerus">Jo-Jo Eumerus</a>:, the dashboard is <a class="external text" href="https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/notebooks/AHT/ptwiki_dashboard.html#Number-of-reverts">here</a> although it looks like they stopped reporting the data in late 2021. If you take "Number of reverts" as a proxy for vandalism, you can see that the block shifted the number of reverts from a higher equilibrium to a lower one, while overall non-reverted edits does not seem to have changed significantly during that period. <a href="/wiki/User:Chipmunkdavis" title="User:Chipmunkdavis">CMD</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chipmunkdavis" title="User talk:Chipmunkdavis">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chipmunkdavis-20241128114400-Jo-Jo_Eumerus-20241126092000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:44, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>I agree that one should expect a spike in registration. (In fact, I have suggested a strictly temporary requirement to register – a few hours, even – to push some of our regular IPs into creating accounts.) But once you look past that initial spike, the trend is downward. <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing" title="User:WhatamIdoing">WhatamIdoing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing" title="User talk:WhatamIdoing">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-WhatamIdoing-20241129053200-Fram-20241126085500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:32, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote">But once you look past that initial spike, the trend is downward.</blockquote></dd> <dd>I still don't see any evidence that this downward trend is unusual. Apparently the WMF <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Editing_Restriction_Study/Portuguese_Wikipedia" class="extiw" title="metawiki:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/IP Editing Restriction Study/Portuguese Wikipedia">did an analysis of ptwiki</a> and didn't find evidence of a drop in activity. Net edits (non-revert edits standing for at least 48 hours) increased by 5.7%, although edits across other wikis increased slightly more. The impression I get is any effects are small either way—the gains from freeing up anti-vandalism resources basically offset the cost of some IP editors not signing up.</dd> <dd>TBH this lines up with what I'd expect. Very few people I talk to cite issues like "creating an account" as a major barrier to editing Wikipedia. The most common barrier I've heard from people who tried editing and gave it up is "Oh, I tried, but then some random admin reverted me, linked me to <a href="/w/index.php?title=MOS:OBSCURE_BULLSHIT&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MOS:OBSCURE BULLSHIT (page does not exist)">MOS:OBSCURE BULLSHIT</a>, and told me to go fuck myself but with less expletives." <a href="/wiki/User:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User:Closed Limelike Curves">– Closed Limelike Curves</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Closed_Limelike_Curves" title="User talk:Closed Limelike Curves">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Closed_Limelike_Curves-20241129073200-WhatamIdoing-20241129053200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">07:32, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Proposal_to_change_behavior_of_navigational_tabs_on_redirects" data-mw-thread-id="h-Proposal_to_change_behavior_of_navigational_tabs_on_redirects-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241122130900">Proposal to change behavior of navigational tabs on redirects</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Proposal to change behavior of navigational tabs on redirects">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> There's a proposal at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Proposed_change_to_tabs_on_redirect_pages" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)">Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Proposed change to tabs on redirect pages</a> proposing that MediaWiki should be changed so that the "Article" tab on redirects will no longer follow the redirect. The "Talk" tab would be affected similarly in some cases but not others. Please discuss there if interested. <a href="/wiki/User:Anomie" title="User:Anomie">Anomie</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Anomie" title="User talk:Anomie">⚔</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Anomie-20241122130900-Proposal_to_change_behavior_of_navigational_tabs_on_redirects" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:09, 22 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="IPs_in_deletion_discussions" data-mw-thread-id="h-IPs_in_deletion_discussions-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241123164400">IPs in deletion discussions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: IPs in deletion discussions">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> The deletion discussion boards (AfD, RfD, etc..) are riddled with socks. You can see in old AfD pages, how many accounts were later banned as socks (strikethroughs). It would be interesting to analyze this data to quantify how bad the sock situation is. IPs are some of the worse abusers. Deletion of content by straight vandalism is hard, but aggressively and maliciously voting delete while using socks? That's kind of fun and "legal" (if you don't get caught). This misbehavior could be better managed with some simple rules. One Example: <ul><li>IPs are not "banned", but IPs are limited to a certain number of deletion votes per week. It's good faith self-monitored restriction that can be enforced if needed.</li></ul> Such a rule would force frequent IPs to either register, which makes sock detection easier; or force them to use dynamic IPs, which is more difficult and costly for them. Legitimate IP editors who frequently vote in deletion discussions need to register or do something else, I don't believe this category of editors will be a large number. The consensus discussions, particularly deletion, are frequently abused by sock accounts not operating in Good Faith. We can take simple low-friction steps to make things more difficult for them, and easier for us to detect. -- <a href="/wiki/User:GreenC" title="User:GreenC">Green</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:GreenC" title="User talk:GreenC">C</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-GreenC-20241123164400-IPs_in_deletion_discussions" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:44, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I don't think limiting IPs to a certain number of votes would be helpful. It would restrict participation from legitimate users who might not wish to create an account, while encouraging abusers to use even more socks when voting. Also, many people already have dynamic IPs, which is more often a function of the ISP/network they are using than any costly choice (to take an extreme example, an IPv6 user can have the second half of their address vary between 264 possibilities in their device's assigned /64 range). This would automatically put static IP users and dynamic IP users on unequal grounds, and make it even more enticing to sock/use multiple IPs.<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>It is easy to make proposals raising the bar for prospective editors to participate, in the name of defending the wiki from socks/bad actors/etc., but each step we take in that direction brings us further from our ideal of "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit", and we should be very careful about this. <a href="/wiki/User:Chaotic_Enby" title="User:Chaotic Enby">Chaotic Enby</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chaotic_Enby" title="User talk:Chaotic Enby">talk</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaotic_Enby" title="Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby">contribs</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chaotic_Enby-20241123165500-GreenC-20241123164400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:55, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I've been closing a lot of AFDs lately and, while some socks are caught in some discussions, I have not personally seen a serious issue with block-evading IP users. This proposal seems like it is assuming bad faith if IP users wish to particpaite at AFD. <a href="/wiki/User:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User:Just Step Sideways">Just Step Sideways</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Just_Step_Sideways" title="User talk:Just Step Sideways">from this world ..... today</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Just_Step_Sideways-20241123185800-Chaotic_Enby-20241123165500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:58, 23 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>As IPs may not be a single person over time, a soft participation limit doesn't work. It is at any rate up to closers to evaluate an AfD on its merits, not as a vote count. <a href="/wiki/User:Chipmunkdavis" title="User:Chipmunkdavis">CMD</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Chipmunkdavis" title="User talk:Chipmunkdavis">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Chipmunkdavis-20241124015100-GreenC-20241123164400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:51, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>"It would be interesting to analyze this data to quantify how bad the sock situation is." Then do so, before proposing a policy based on it? <a href="/wiki/User:Gnomingstuff" title="User:Gnomingstuff">Gnomingstuff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Gnomingstuff" title="User talk:Gnomingstuff">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Gnomingstuff-20241124054300-GreenC-20241123164400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:43, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Without any idea of the statistics, we don't have any way to know if the problem is serious enough to justify restricting anons on this. When gathering data, exclude any CTOPs where anons are already disallowed, as these are more likely to reflect the CTOPs than AFD. Other CTOPs may also suffer from this, so probably list those separately. <a href="/wiki/User:Animal_lover_666" title="User:Animal lover 666">Animal lover</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Animal_lover_666" title="User talk:Animal lover 666">|666|</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Animal_lover_666-20241124123900-Gnomingstuff-20241124054300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:39, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>I routinely discount low-activity IP's in discussions, on the argument that there is an absence of a basis for determining whether they understand the purpose of the encyclopedia and its policies. <a href="/wiki/User:BD2412" title="User:BD2412">BD2412</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:BD2412" title="User talk:BD2412">T</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-BD2412-20241124150800-GreenC-20241123164400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:08, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The problem with that is that it's impossible to tell the difference between a newcomer IP, an anon who edits on a wide range of IP addresses and has perhaps hundreds of edits, and a long-time registered user who got logged out without realizing it and decided after expressing their opinion to let it stand as an anon vote. <a href="/wiki/User:Animal_lover_666" title="User:Animal lover 666">Animal lover</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Animal_lover_666" title="User talk:Animal lover 666">|666|</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Animal_lover_666-20241124163300-BD2412-20241124150800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:33, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Animal_lover_666" title="User:Animal lover 666">Animal lover 666</a>: I am aware of that, but the problem runs both ways. It is equally impossible to tell if an IP is really another editor already involved in the discussion; or a COI editor, or the like. If an IP makes a persuasive argument backed by evidence, their argument should be able to persuade non-IP participants in the discussion, whose opinions will be weighted more heavily. <a href="/wiki/User:BD2412" title="User:BD2412">BD2412</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:BD2412" title="User talk:BD2412">T</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-BD2412-20241125170300-Animal_lover_666-20241124163300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:03, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:BD2412" title="User:BD2412">BD2412</a>, that seems like a reasonable way to handle things with ip's. <a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537" title="User:Huggums537">Huggums</a>537<a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537/Poll" title="User:Huggums537/Poll">voted!</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537/Guestbook" title="User:Huggums537/Guestbook">sign🖋️</a>|<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Huggums537" title="User talk:Huggums537">📞talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Huggums537-20241125072000-BD2412-20241124150800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">07:20, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>Disclosure in advance, I do periodically participate in XfDs, though not as often as I should as they can be time-consuming to do right, especially AfD.</dd> <dd>That out of the way. It's not clear to me what this is trying to accomplish or why it matters whether someone is registered or unregistered. If someone is blindly spamming keep or delete across many discussions that is disruptive and the user should be blocked, at least from projectspace, account or no. If they are putting in low-effort JUSTAVOTE type stuff, then the closer should ignore them. If they are putting in high-quality, well-researched, PAG-based rationales that demonstrate careful consideration, then that's a good thing and we should encourage them to participate more because XfDs of all kinds are chronically understaffed, and its a time-consuming and thankless task.</dd> <dd>If a sock is persistently disrupting XfD(s), then report them to AIV or SPI as appropriate depending on the complexity of the case. However, merely being prone more to deletion !votes than keep ones is not in itself a concern; remember delete is by a significant margin the most common AfD result so someone who most frequently !votes for deletion should not automatically be judged thereby a sock, or even a deletionist, but simply normal.</dd> <dd>Sidenote, registration makes socks harder to detect, as the only difference is one less piece of information. Disruption from someone who remains unregistered is almost invariably easier to handle, and I don't think anyone with years of RCP time is going to differ much on that assessment.</dd> <dd>In the larger view, troublesome editors who can employ bureaucratic and social skills waste more of the community's time than vandals. I'm not saying IPs can't become vested, and sometimes we do, after our own fashion, but in practice the people who have caused the most trouble have accounts. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/184.152.68.190" title="Special:Contributions/184.152.68.190">184.152.68.190</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:184.152.68.190" title="User talk:184.152.68.190">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-184.152.68.190-20241128182300-GreenC-20241123164400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:23, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>I'm not sure IP editors are the biggest problem sock-wise. Usually what I've seen is some account that's built up 100 to maybe just under a thousand edits through some semi-automated (e.g. IA bot) or otherwise very quick edits, sometimes a few months before they start editing again, and then almost exclusively editing AFD pages thereafter. I'm not sure there's much we can do policy-wise or technically, my expectation is that we need to rely on the experience of closers. However, XFDs that do end up with a number of socks picked up after the fact should probably be brought to review. <a href="/wiki/User:Alpha3031" title="User:Alpha3031">Alpha3031</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Alpha3031" title="User talk:Alpha3031">t</a> • <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Alpha3031" title="Special:Contributions/Alpha3031">c</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Alpha3031-20241129032800-GreenC-20241123164400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:28, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> IP and non EC editors are not permitted to participate in consensus forming discussions if the subject matter is a CT, which are probably(?) the worst affected areas. If my assumption is wrong and the problem is extensive beyond CT, then perhaps consider a similar rule across the board, why not. It is not clear to me how such editors even find these discussions.<a href="/wiki/User:Selfstudier" title="User:Selfstudier">Selfstudier</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Selfstudier" title="User talk:Selfstudier">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Selfstudier-20241124152200-IPs_in_deletion_discussions" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:22, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Selfstudier" title="User:Selfstudier">Selfstudier</a>, that sounds like a good idea. <a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537" title="User:Huggums537">Huggums</a>537<a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537/Poll" title="User:Huggums537/Poll">voted!</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Huggums537/Guestbook" title="User:Huggums537/Guestbook">sign🖋️</a>|<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Huggums537" title="User talk:Huggums537">📞talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Huggums537-20241125072100-Selfstudier-20241124152200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">07:21, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <ul><li>For some context, see <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_17&diff=prev&oldid=1259140906">this comment by GreenC</a>, where he makes an unprovoked casting of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ASPERSIONS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ASPERSIONS">WP:ASPERSIONS</a> with no evidence. Also worth noting is that the actual sock in this case, TeapotsOfDoom, had an account, and wasn't editing unregistered. Also also worth noting, is that yes, while socking is disruptive generally, Teapots's activity at RFD was overall quite productive, bringing a lot of bad redirects to the forum's attention. If he's reading this, I hope he follows the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SO">WP:SO</a> approach and is able to return. Also also also worth noting is GreenC's characterization as "malicious", which is completely uncalled for. I would highly urge you to reconsider your words and strike your aspersion at the RFD in question. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/35.139.154.158" title="Special:Contributions/35.139.154.158">35.139.154.158</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:35.139.154.158" title="User talk:35.139.154.158">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-35.139.154.158-20241124161100-Selfstudier-20241124152200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:11, 24 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It was because TeapotsOfDoom had an account that checkuser was able to work. It doesn't work with IPs. That's the point. There is a loophole that gives IPs an easy bypass of checkuser and SPI. They have an advantage over registered accounts, when it comes to socking. -- <a href="/wiki/User:GreenC" title="User:GreenC">Green</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:GreenC" title="User talk:GreenC">C</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-GreenC-20241125225500-35.139.154.158-20241124161100" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:55, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That's not accurate, the details are at <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/extension:checkuser" class="extiw" title="mw:extension:checkuser">mw:extension:checkuser</a>, but you absolutely can use <a href="/wiki/Special:Investigate" title="Special:Investigate">Special:Investigate</a> or <a href="/wiki/Special:CheckUser" title="Special:CheckUser">Special:Checkuser</a> on IPs or CIDR ranges, and this is done routinely. It is true that functionaries will not publicly connect accounts to IPs unless the account owner expressly allows this, but that does not prevent them from sockblocking IPs <samll>which also happens routinely, or prevent the filing of AIV or SPI reports, simply do not request use of the checkuser tool in those SPIs.</dd> <dd>I don't keep tabs on other IP editors like I used to, even the ones that do RCP, and I'll admit I struggle far more to find scent trails than in past years. But 35.139.154.158 does not have a strong LTA/sock sniff and the insinuation was uncalled for. Good-faith users can disagree whether <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RFD#D8" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RFD">WP:RFD#D8</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RFD#K3" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RFD">WP:RFD#K3</a> is more applicable in that discussion without personalizing the dispute. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/184.152.68.190" title="Special:Contributions/184.152.68.190">184.152.68.190</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:184.152.68.190" title="User talk:184.152.68.190">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-184.152.68.190-20241128184400-GreenC-20241125225500" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:44, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>This is also not quite true: we routinely connect IPs with accounts, and IP editors with other IP editors, just not publicly. And on English Wikipedia we are not permitted to check an account just because the owner asks, nor to reveal an account's IP at the owner's request (though it's fairly simple for them to do so themselves). <a href="/wiki/User:Ivanvector" title="User:Ivanvector">Ivanvector</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Ivanvector" title="User talk:Ivanvector">Talk</a>/<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ivanvector" title="Special:Contributions/Ivanvector">Edits</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Ivanvector-20241128184800-184.152.68.190-20241128184400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:48, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I wasn't referring to that but to the somewhat unusual case where an account has already been privately connected to IPs by a functionary, and the owner agrees to discuss them as part of a public appeal. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/184.152.68.190" title="Special:Contributions/184.152.68.190">184.152.68.190</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:184.152.68.190" title="User talk:184.152.68.190">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-184.152.68.190-20241128185600-Ivanvector-20241128184800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:56, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Oppose per Chaotic Enby, this would also cause problems because many IPs would not know this rule. <a href="/wiki/User:Crouch,_Swale" title="User:Crouch, Swale">Crouch, Swale</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Crouch,_Swale" title="User talk:Crouch, Swale">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Crouch,_Swale-20241125200800-Selfstudier-20241124152200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:08, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><ul><li>Reply - It's like 3RR or anything else, you have the option to warn them, it's all voluntary there is no hard rule that stops them from editing. If nobody sees their editing as a problem then it won't be a problem. The issues are that it can be very hard to prove at SPI because IPs have natural immunity from checkuser. IPs are often used in deletion discussions for that reason. -- <a href="/wiki/User:GreenC" title="User:GreenC">Green</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:GreenC" title="User talk:GreenC">C</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-GreenC-20241125230600-Crouch,_Swale-20241125200800" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:06, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/extension:checkuser" class="extiw" title="mw:extension:checkuser">The checkuser extension</a> works just fine on IPs/ranges; see my above comment. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/184.152.68.190" title="Special:Contributions/184.152.68.190">184.152.68.190</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:184.152.68.190" title="User talk:184.152.68.190">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-184.152.68.190-20241128184600-GreenC-20241125230600" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:46, 28 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li></ul></dd></dl></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Discussion_at_Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion_§_RfC:_Enacting_T5_(unused_template_subpages)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Discussion_at_Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion_§_RfC:_Enacting_T5_(u-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241125030200">Discussion at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#RfC:_Enacting_T5_(unused_template_subpages)" title="Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion">Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion § RfC: Enacting T5 (unused template subpages)</a></h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion § RfC: Enacting T5 (unused template subpages)">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Symbol_watching_blue_lashes_high_contrast.svg/25px-Symbol_watching_blue_lashes_high_contrast.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Symbol_watching_blue_lashes_high_contrast.svg/38px-Symbol_watching_blue_lashes_high_contrast.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Symbol_watching_blue_lashes_high_contrast.svg/50px-Symbol_watching_blue_lashes_high_contrast.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/> You are invited to join the discussion at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#RfC:_Enacting_T5_(unused_template_subpages)" title="Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion">Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion § RfC: Enacting T5 (unused template subpages)</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:HouseBlaster" title="User:HouseBlaster">House</a><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/HouseBlaster" title="Special:Contributions/HouseBlaster">Blaster</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:HouseBlaster" title="User talk:HouseBlaster">talk</a> • he/they) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-HouseBlaster-20241125030200-Discussion_at_Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion_§_RfC:_Enacting_T5_(u" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:02, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="End_dates_in_office,_for_presidents_&_vice_presidents_of_Brazil" data-mw-thread-id="h-End_dates_in_office,_for_presidents_&_vice_presidents_of_Brazil-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241125142200">End dates in office, for presidents & vice presidents of Brazil</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: End dates in office, for presidents & vice presidents of Brazil">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> Which dates do we use for when a president or vice president of Brazil's term ends. As I understand it, their term of office (barring a military coup) ended at midnight. <a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GoodDay" title="User talk:GoodDay">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-GoodDay-20241125142200-End_dates_in_office,_for_presidents_&_vice_presidents_of_Brazil" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:22, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] I believe it's time we settle this matter, on which dates to use. @<a href="/wiki/User:Torimem" title="User:Torimem">Torimem</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Coltsfan" title="User:Coltsfan">Coltsfan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/User:Luke_Elaine_Burke" title="User:Luke Elaine Burke">Luke Elaine Burke</a>: & others. I didn't know where else to have this discussion, so I've brought to the Village Pump. <a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GoodDay" title="User talk:GoodDay">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-GoodDay-20241125142500-End_dates_in_office,_for_presidents_&_vice_presidents_of_Brazil" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:25, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] Using <a href="/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro" title="Jair Bolsonaro">Jair Bolsonaro</a> as an example: For the end of his term as president of Brazil. Do we use 31 December 2022 or 1 January 2023. <a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GoodDay" title="User talk:GoodDay">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-GoodDay-20241125143400-End_dates_in_office,_for_presidents_&_vice_presidents_of_Brazil" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:34, 25 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'm brazilian, so I think can answer this for y'all. The term ends the day the next president/governor is inaugurated. So for example, Jair Bolsonaro's term ended 1 January 2023, and Lula started 1 January 2023 (same day).</dd></dl> <dl><dd>The new term starts at the time the inauguration takes place. So as an example, if the inauguration takes place at 1400, Bolsonaro was president until 1400, when Lula became the president.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>Sorry if my English isn't quite accurate. <a href="/wiki/User:Eduardo_Gottert" title="User:Eduardo Gottert">Eduardo Gottert</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Eduardo_Gottert" title="User talk:Eduardo Gottert">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Eduardo_Gottert-20241126013200-GoodDay-20241125143400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:32, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <dl><dd>The fact is we will never have an answer because the Constitution is ambiguous. It states the date when the term begins, but also states that the president must take the oath of office.</dd> <dd>As this has never been brought before the Supreme Court to rule upon because there have never been any issues with deciding who the president is between midnight and 10 a.m. of January 1, the ambiguity will likely remain unresolved.</dd> <dd>That said, the public perception is that the incoming president becomes president on the morning of the 1st, when they receive the sash from the outgoing president (when the outgoing president is gracious enough to take part in the ceremony). For that alone I would suggest that the term be said to end on January 1. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Zelani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Zelani (page does not exist)">Zelani</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zelani" title="User talk:Zelani">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zelani-20241126022700-GoodDay-20241125143400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:27, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>This covers all the presidents & vice presidents of Brazil. So if we go with January 1? We'll have to also go with November 15 & March 15 for the earlier presidents & vice presidents. <a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GoodDay" title="User talk:GoodDay">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-GoodDay-20241126024200-Zelani-20241126022700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:42, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a> The fact is that "terms end at midnight" just isn't a thing. Nobody's looking at their watches saying, "Ten seconds until Jurandir becomes mayor!" Jurandir's team isn't waiting at the door of Paçoquinha do Norte City Hall just waiting to barge in at midnight to take the reins to municipal administration.</dd> <dd>Transfer of power is (ideally) a smooth handover of power.</dd> <dd>If the Constituent Assembly had intended for there to be an exact time, they would have written it into the document.</dd> <dd>I honestly think it makes a lot more sense for one term to end on the same day the next term begins. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Zelani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Zelani (page does not exist)">Zelani</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zelani" title="User talk:Zelani">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zelani-20241126092700-GoodDay-20241126024200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">09:27, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That argument wouldn't go far, concerning Mexico presidents or New York governors & lieutenant governors. Terms in some places, do end at midnight. <a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GoodDay" title="User talk:GoodDay">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-GoodDay-20241126115900-Zelani-20241126092700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:59, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>My point is, you're splitting hairs over an issue that is irrelevant outside of Wikipedia. It has no bearing in the real world.</dd> <dd>Anyway, the Constitution is clear in one respect:</dd> <dd>"Art. 78. O Presidente e o Vice-Presidente da República tomarão posse em sessão do Congresso Nacional, prestando o compromisso de manter, defender e cumprir a Constituição, observar as leis, promover o bem geral do povo brasileiro, sustentar a união, a integridade e a independência do Brasil."</dd> <dd>This, to me, leaves no margin for doubt. The President's term begins when they take the oath of office in the session in Congress.</dd> <dd>I retract my previous comment that the Constitution is ambiguous. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Zelani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Zelani (page does not exist)">Zelani</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zelani" title="User talk:Zelani">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zelani-20241126145300-GoodDay-20241126115900" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:53, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Yeah, I forgot to mention the ambiguity in the constitution. But for most matters, January 1st is the day.</dd> <dd>If there happens to be something that the supreme court might intervene, that'd be settled, but for now I think we should just take the most used answer. <a href="/wiki/User:Eduardo_Gottert" title="User:Eduardo Gottert">Eduardo G.</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Edu22213" class="mw-redirect" title="User talk:Edu22213">msg</a>-<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Edu22213" title="Special:Contributions/Edu22213">contrib</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Edu22213-20241126024700-Zelani-20241126022700" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:47, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> I'll revert to the non-midnight style, for these bios. <a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GoodDay" title="User talk:GoodDay">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-GoodDay-20241126153300-End_dates_in_office,_for_presidents_&_vice_presidents_of_Brazil" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:33, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Thanks for taking our feedback into account. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Zelani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Zelani (page does not exist)">Zelani</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Zelani" title="User talk:Zelani">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Zelani-20241126155300-GoodDay-20241126153300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:53, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Redlinks_on_dab_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Redlinks_on_dab_pages-Wikipedia_donation_adds-20241126100000">Redlinks on dab pages</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Redlinks on dab pages">edit</a>]<div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> I often remove redlinks from dab pages per <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DDD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DDD">WP:DDD</a>. I recently did this on the <a href="/wiki/Sylvester" title="Sylvester">Sylvester</a> page and was pleased to see at the top of the editing page <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">Attention editors! No red links. Every entry in this list must have an article written in the English Wikipedia ... else it will be removed without warning.</q> I assumed this must be a new feature for dab pages, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere else so far. Some dab pages do have a notice at the top of the editing page explaining their purpose, but with no mention of redlinks, and many dab pages have nothing like this at all. Can/should they all be flagged with an appropriate notice about redlinks? Or at least all flagged with an explanation of dab pages? <a href="/wiki/User:Shantavira" title="User:Shantavira">Shantavira</a>|<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Shantavira" title="User talk:Shantavira">feed me</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Shantavira-20241126100000-Redlinks_on_dab_pages" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:00, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Name articles are not dabs per <a href="/wiki/MOS:DABNAME" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:DABNAME">MOS:DABNAME</a> but that does not nullify your point here. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/115.188.72.131" title="Special:Contributions/115.188.72.131">115.188.72.131</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:115.188.72.131" title="User talk:115.188.72.131">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-115.188.72.131-20241126102700-Shantavira-20241126100000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:27, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:Editnotices/Page/Sylvester" title="Template:Editnotices/Page/Sylvester">That editnotice</a> was specifically created for the page <a href="/wiki/Sylvester" title="Sylvester">Sylvester</a> by <a href="/wiki/User:Alexf" title="User:Alexf">Alexf</a>. – <a href="/wiki/User:Joe_Roe" title="User:Joe Roe">Joe</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Joe_Roe" title="User talk:Joe Roe">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Joe_Roe-20241126103300-Shantavira-20241126100000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:33, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Having an editnotice for name articles as @<a href="/wiki/User:Shantavira" title="User:Shantavira">Shantavira</a> suggests seems like a good idea. It should definitely be centralized and automatically added, so that we can ensure it represents best practices/consensuses and reduces the workload.</dd> <dd>(Also, the fact it wasn't clear this was an editnotice goes to <a href="/wiki/User:CapnZapp" class="mw-redirect" title="User:CapnZapp">CapnZapp</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Editnotice#adding_a_backlink_to_edit_notices" title="Wikipedia talk:Editnotice">stalled suggestion</a> that we add backlinks.) <a href="/wiki/User:Sdkb" title="User:Sdkb">Sdkb</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sdkb" title="User talk:Sdkb">talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Sdkb-20241126141400-Joe_Roe-20241126103300" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:14, 26 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>We already have <a href="/wiki/Template:Disambig_editnotice" title="Template:Disambig editnotice">Template:Disambig editnotice</a> applied automatically. That page doesn't get it because it's technically a SIA not a DAB. <a href="/wiki/User:Pppery" title="User:Pppery">* Pppery *</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pppery" title="User talk:Pppery">it has begun...</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#c-Pppery-20241129044300-Sdkb-20241126141400" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:43, 29 November 2024 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&useformat=desktop" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&oldid=1260184421">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&oldid=1260184421</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_village_pump" title="Category:Wikipedia village pump">Wikipedia village pump</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_proposals" title="Category:Wikipedia proposals">Wikipedia proposals</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requests_for_comment" title="Category:Wikipedia requests for comment">Wikipedia requests for comment</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_move-protected_project_pages" title="Category:Wikipedia move-protected project pages">Wikipedia move-protected project pages</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Non-talk_pages_with_subpages_that_are_automatically_signed" title="Category:Non-talk pages with subpages that are automatically signed">Non-talk pages with subpages that are automatically signed</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pages_automatically_checked_for_incorrect_links" title="Category:Pages automatically checked for incorrect links">Pages automatically checked for incorrect links</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pages_using_multiple_image_with_auto_scaled_images" title="Category:Pages using multiple image with auto scaled images">Pages using multiple image with auto scaled images</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 29 November 2024, at 09:58 (UTC).</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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