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- 1 Vietnamese Wikipedia administrator passes away
- 2 Reddit AMA with Aaron Halfaker
- 3 John Rocco Edit-A-Thon
- 4 OTRS Commons-permission queue has a backlog of 73 days
- 5 Edit warring on WP article over corruption case in Pakistan
- 6 Wikimedia France controversy
- 7 Community size update.
- 8 There are 38 million dates in the English language Wikipedia.
Vietnamese Wikipedia administrator passes away
vi:User:Lê Thy, until recently a Vietnamese Wikipedia administrator, passed away this weekend. [1] – Minh Nguyễn 💬 18:08, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Reddit AMA with Aaron Halfaker
Hey everyone! Aaron Halfaker's (User:EpochFail) Reddit AMA is starting in about 30 minutes, and if the Signpost gets going again, it could be a fun thing to cover. He's focusing on artificial intelligence on Wikipedia and how we're working to counteract vandalism. We'd love to have your questions. Join us! Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 20:37, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
John Rocco Edit-A-Thon
The Rick Riordan task force of WikiProject Novels is hosting its first Edit-A-Thon to increase project visibility and member participation. In honor of his July birthday, the event will focus on pages related author/illustrator John Rocco. The event will last until the first day of August, when the most helpful contributor will be featured on RRTF's forums. More information can be found here on the talk page, also a good place for questions and comments. We welcome outside input and participation! -- 2ReinreB2 (talk) 03:51, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
OTRS Commons-permission queue has a backlog of 73 days
OTRS Commons-permission is used for permissions related to Images on Commons. Currently we have a backlog of ~700 messages and 73 days. This means that many people emailing permissions for their images will not be looked at for 2.5 months. Any delay over a 15 days is problematic because images without permission are mass deleted in 15 days. This slows the process even further as you need admins to undelete images, and you usually loose info about which article was image added to. Another side effect is that once you contact back the clients, they often angry (because they sent by that time 5 more desperate emails about their images being deleted), or unresponsive if you need further clarifications. This affects all the projects and we could use some more OTRS volunteers experienced with image licensing. --Jarekt (talk) 19:26, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
- @Jarekt: Is there a discussion about fixing this anywhere? I imagine we wouldn't have as much of a backlog if we stopped revoking people's OTRS access after 6 months of inactivity and then making them jump through a bunch of hoops to get their access restored. It took me over a month to get my OTRS access restored after it lapsed last time. Next time, I won't bother. We shouldn't be punishing our volunteers with red tape, IMO. Kaldari (talk) 20:50, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
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- Ah. Now we getting down to business. Think this needs to be brought to a wider audience to review our Workflow. 15 days may have seemed reasonable when this project was smaller. As Jarekt said: “We do have 190 Commons OTRS volunteers, which sounds like enough to handle the load, but somehow the system is collapsing.” Commons:Village_pump. Suggestion: Have a temporary period to extend the period from 15 days to 48 day (for any mathematicians, I choose that figure because it is 64% of 73 days. Reason: Median, binomial statistics and all those things that have faded from my mind over the decades). Yet, this extension in time, could provides a necessary buffer zone for the OTRS volunteers to get back on top of the backlog and do away with having to repeatedly undelete images. Most copyvios are obvious but whilst those are being delt with, the valid images get deleted due to the 15 day rule. Aspro (talk) 22:18, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
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- Kaldari, There is a little of discussion at c:Commons:Village_pump#.7B.7BOTRS_backlog.7D.7D and c:Commons_talk:OTRS#.7B.7Btl.7COTRS_backlog.7D.7D. User:Fæ related similar experience to yours with OTRS. He lost access to OTRS and his attempt to get it back was rejected. I think others complained about this in the past. I never had issues with OTRS despite of being able to help only occasionally there. Retaining experienced volunteers is a big part of this, but we should also work on getting new volunteers. --Jarekt (talk) 02:33, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
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- The backlogging was also discussed at Meta-wiki's Wikimedia Forum, and the Wikimania submission is pending a review for acceptance. --George Ho (talk) 02:36, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
- Not good news: the submission is receiving
lower scores than I hoped for. --George Ho (talk) 01:13, 11 June 2017 (UTC) - Re-checked; the submission received decent scores initially, but one bad score decreased the average score, lowering the chance of acceptance. --George Ho (talk) 01:17, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Edit warring on WP article over corruption case in Pakistan
See Talk:Calibri and the article itself. The article has been full protected for a week over edit-warring about the date of release and the relevance of this date to an ongoing corruption case in Pakistan. Nthep (talk) 16:32, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Wikimedia France controversy
This last few days, a huge shitstorm arose in the fr.wp community, making up for a good part of the 'Bistro' (Village Pump) discussion for the last days. At the center of it, the management of the French chapter, with several resignation on the board, conflicts of interest, members expelled, and so on. A detailled timeline is available, and several high profile wikimedians, such as former chairwoman Anthere are leading the efforts to clean up this mess. The Twitter #wmfrgate is widely used to discuss those issues. Defunes43 (talk) 19:27, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
- yes. I also recommend ... this reading (in French... and I doubt anyone will ever translate that). Anthere (talk)
Community size update.
It has been a couple of years since I broke the story about the EN community - Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-08-26/In focus no longer being in decline. Despite that there is still a meme out there of the community being in decline, I've bumped into two editors in the last 24 hours who weren't aware that the 2007-2014 decline ended over two years ago. Since the story was originally broken in the signpost it seems appropriate to update it here - so would you like an update? ϢereSpielChequers 12:12, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for the offer. This user would like to see an update. - kosboot (talk) 12:19, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
There are 38 million dates in the English language Wikipedia.
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