Meta:Babel/Archives/2017-07

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Proposal to remove Programs and Participation namespaces

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

Namespaces removed. —MarcoAurelio 20:34, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

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Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T61837 resolved

Three years ago, a proposal to remove the Participation namespace was made, with no action taken. Three years later I am re-opening the proposal and adding the "Programs" namespace to it (which had been defunct for years and only recently did I move the last remaining pages). My goal in removing these namespaces is to reduce UI clutter and discourage the use of long-deprecated namespaces. Existing redirects should be preserved. See the Phabricator task. Harej (WMF) (talk) 17:13, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

• Please remove. Better to remove all the namespaces that we don't need. Stryn (talk) 17:26, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
• +1, obviously good to remove. Thanks for following up. --Nemo 18:52, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
• +1, if unused, then remove. Thanks. —MarcoAurelio 10:01, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
• Sounds good to me. Thanks for cleaning up! --MZMcBride (talk) 03:30, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
• +1, I'm also agree.--Syum90 (talk) 07:59, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

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My comment notwithstanding, there's consensus to have those namespaces removed and I'll note that on Phabricator so we can continue with this. —MarcoAurelio 22:16, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

This is happening now. —MarcoAurelio 13:51, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Unfortunately this could not be done in this window since we ran out of time. I'll try to schedule this for another deployment window. —MarcoAurelio 14:08, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Now really happening if time allows and Zuul does not troll us. —MarcoAurelio 18:12, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Done. —MarcoAurelio 20:34, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

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All the best, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 14:20, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Stewards/confirm/2011/Stewards' discussion

Please fully protect that page. 83.24.95.61 11:09, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Instead of protecting I'm going to revert your changes if you don't comment here why did you do that change. Stryn (talk) 13:27, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Done. Stryn (talk) 16:24, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Inactive bureaucrats in Persian Wikiquote

Moved to Wikimedia Forum.--Syum90 (talk) 10:38, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

TemplateStyles extension

There is a new TemplateStyles extension that lets you define per-template stylesheets, as opposed to inline styles in HTML tags or overloading MediaWiki:Common.css with template-specific code. Currently they are looking for some wikis to serve as early test cases. I think this extension would help significantly with making portals on Meta mobile-responsive and would help with cleaning code out of Common.css. If you would like Meta to be one of the early users of the extension, please comment here or on the Phabricator task. Harej (WMF) (talk) 18:44, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I see that they already have three wikis where this new extension is going to be tested. Looks promising but I'd prefer that they do the initial testing on other wikis and if the results are satisfactory then I won't oppose having it installed here as well. Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 23:28, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Simple English Wikibooks (3)

The project's own domain should be closed and redirected to the Incubator. 83.24.99.100 19:08, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

@83.24.99.100: This is a request for Phabricator. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:35, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Not quite. Closing the domain requires either deletion or a change in policy (Closing projects policy). --Nemo 20:00, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

That's already closed for years, isn't that? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 07:37, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

While the project has been closed for years, the domain is still accessible, so in that sense the domain is still "open" even though the project isn't.--FeralOink (talk) 00:13, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Since Simple English Wikibooks is not written in a language, I don't know if it can be redirected to the Incubator. I make this observation based on the comments in the closure of Simple English Wikibooks proposal. Usually, when a project is closed, it is moved to the incubator until there's enough interest to give it its own domain again. Due to the languages rule, Simple English Wikibooks can't be restarted, so would it be appropriate to even move it to the Incubator? I don't have any objection to closing the domain for a closed project.--FeralOink (talk) 00:30, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

The appropriate way to handle this is to enter a new proposal at PCP. Per CPP, this would be a type 2 proposal, and the request would be to delete Simple English Wikibooks, with any worthwhile content exported to (?).

I will say that by current policy the contents would not be imported to Incubator. They would likely be placed into a new category, or namespace, or other subdivision of English Wikibooks. What I don't know is if (a) that was ever done, (b) whether the Wikijunior content of English Wikibooks covers most of that ground, or (c) if there is worthwhile content to salvage. StevenJ81 (talk) 22:33, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Some user(talk) pages are having double colons in their soft redirect links and hence they are broken

e.g. @Jimmy Xu: has [[::w:zh:User:Jimmy Xu|:w:zh:User:Jimmy Xu]] but in source codes there's only one leading colon ({{Softredirect|:w:zh:User:Jimmy Xu}}), I don't know if someone broke {{Interwiki redirect}} or not. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

No need to add the leading double colon before w, as it comes automatically from the template. Stryn (talk) 05:03, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

The problem is those users don't actually add double colons, but it's for some reasons rendering as :: in output. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 23:03, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Comment I tried some fix recently. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 02:55, 25 July 2017 (UTC)