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Info about RfC for change of license on Wikinews
editHi! As I understand it a notice here is not required but to be safe I can inform you that I created Requests for comment/Update standard license for Wikinews. I will post a notice on the Wikinewses but it may take a while and I may not complete today. Just in case someone complain that they did not get a notice etc. MGA73 (talk) 16:21, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hello! The votes on all Wikinewses are set to end on January 20. My plan is to check all Wikinewses right after that (hopefully on January 21) and add the results to the Requests for comment/Update standard license for Wikinews.
- After that I hope the RfC can be closed shortly after that so there is time to create a task on Phabricator and for someone to create the relevant patch and check etc.
- When I created the RfC I was not aware that changes can only be made Monday to Thursday so the actual change can't be made late on January 31 or early February 1. It has to be made either January 30 or February 3. I suggest January 30 so there will be a little less time to make this happen.
- So I would like to hear if there are there any advice or requirements from the stewards that I should know in order to make the closure go as smooth as possible? Should I for example create a request on Steward requests/Miscellaneous? --MGA73 (talk) 19:13, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
- Striking my previous comments (well removing as nobody will have read it yet!). A Meta admin or Steward can close the RFC. If you post a request on / Miscellaneous when ready, someone will look to close the RFC. If you need help implementing the results - e.g., admin actions on projects with no active admins - please include that in the request. MarcGarver (talk) 09:26, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you! Requests_for_comment/Policy#Closure_of_RFCs states that "Only stewards can close any RFC requiring steward action or changing global policy.". I thought perhaps the word "global" might apply here because it affect the default license for Wikinewses. But I'm happy with an admin too. --MGA73 (talk) 10:32, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- I read that to mean if the change needs a steward to action it or if the change affects a global policy. In this case you are proposing a license change to a handful of projects. That isn't a policy, and it isn't global, so I think a Meta admin could close it. However, if you need someone to do some admin actions on the various WN projects that don't have local admins, then you'll need a steward. MarcGarver (talk) 15:00, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- Aha, thanks a lot. --MGA73 (talk) 15:10, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- I read that to mean if the change needs a steward to action it or if the change affects a global policy. In this case you are proposing a license change to a handful of projects. That isn't a policy, and it isn't global, so I think a Meta admin could close it. However, if you need someone to do some admin actions on the various WN projects that don't have local admins, then you'll need a steward. MarcGarver (talk) 15:00, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you! Requests_for_comment/Policy#Closure_of_RFCs states that "Only stewards can close any RFC requiring steward action or changing global policy.". I thought perhaps the word "global" might apply here because it affect the default license for Wikinewses. But I'm happy with an admin too. --MGA73 (talk) 10:32, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- Striking my previous comments (well removing as nobody will have read it yet!). A Meta admin or Steward can close the RFC. If you post a request on / Miscellaneous when ready, someone will look to close the RFC. If you need help implementing the results - e.g., admin actions on projects with no active admins - please include that in the request. MarcGarver (talk) 09:26, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Crosswiki Machinetranslation or potential cross wiki abuse
editI'm not sure this is the most appropriate place to discuss the below issues. In that case, please move this to the appropriate venue.
I was reviewing the most interwiki-linked pages on Wikipedia and noticed that David Woodard has articles in 325 languages, including English, which is the highest number for any subject (tied with Turkey). Notably, David Woodard is not listed in any level of vital articles.
I checked the Malayalam Wikipedia, where I'm an administrator, and found that the article is a rough machine translation. Upon further investigation, I discovered that one editor, User:Swmmng, created articles about David Woodard in multiple languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Nepali. A review of User:Swmmng's global edit history suggests that they may be responsible for creating most of the interwiki links for this.TheWikiholic (talk) 14:50, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
Shāntián Tàiláng glock
editWith all due respect, I think stewards may not be looking deeply enough into this matter. This user absolutely does meet the description of "an ongoing pattern of cross-wiki abuse that is not merely vandalism or spam"
This all started over four years ago at en.wikt. What I don't think the Stewards are getting is that all the other blocks flow from that same problem, he just keeps moving the same complaints from one wiki to another and dragging more users into it. The original block is for "Abusing multiple accounts/block evasion: using IPs to evade block; continuing to ping other users to ask them make edits for them after request to stop pinging other editors" This is exactly what they did on en.wp, Commons, el.wikt, and here, stretching from 2022 until just a few days ago here on Meta. The socking may have stopped, but the rest has just dragged on and on with no sign that they have the slightest understanding of why it is unacceptable. In fact, they suggested at User talk:Bastique#Something I really meant to say on COM:AN/U that the real problem is that they should be exempt from the normal expectations because of their personal issues. Note also that they pinged me in that discussion, when part of what has gotten them blocked across multiple projects over four years is nuisance pinging.
@Yann:, the admin who blocked them for three months on Commons, upon seeing that they instantly imported the dispute here, supported global action.
I am the last of several blocking admins on en.wp and I also am asking for it as they have pestered me personally, deliberately, across three WMF sites. I thought I was done when re-blocking them without talk page access last month but since then they have carried the dispute to Commons and then here, exhibiting the exact same behavior that led to the initial block on en.,wikt. That they aren't blocked on every single project where they have ever made a single edit does not excuse this.
One of their sock accounts is already globally locked.
This person is incapable of learning from their errors. This has been going on for years and admins from multiple projects are asking for help from stewards, and it is not the first time it has been asked for. Please rid of us this user without forcing an RFC for a ban. Thanks. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:03, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
- I would be supportive of a global block, with the possibility that the block be locally exempted on enws. I agree with Alaa that this would typically be a candidate for a global ban, but I think the introduction of account global blocks gives us a middle ground, time saving option in cases like this. – Ajraddatz (talk) 18:19, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
New zhwiki SPI Clerk Nominee: 0xDeadbeef
editHello,
As I have previously noted in Special:diff/28148474, the community has endorsed a new clerk candidate, @0xDeadbeef:, to join the zhwiki SPI team.
It is a local policy for any clerk nominations to be made public here at the Steward's noticeboard for seven days before the nominee assumes position, in the event of which stewards would have major concerns about the candidate that would fail such nomination.
A bit more about the clerk nominee: 0xDeadbeef is currently volunteering as an administrator and SPI clerk on enwiki. I am personally looking forward to having 0xDeadbeef working with the zhwiki clerk team as well amid clerk shortages as long as there is support from the stewards. Please feel free to leave a note below: whether it's concerns, encouragements, or comments are all appreciated. cc @Sotiale, AmandaNP, and EPIC:. （☎） 17:54, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
- No issues on my part, though if the others have any concerns I'll take them into account. EPIC (talk) 18:02, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
- No issues, he is also on the U4C. Good candidate. – Ajraddatz (talk) 18:15, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think there is a problem. To avoid confusion for other stewards, can you link to a page with a list of clerks? Thanks. --Sotiale (talk) 07:45, 6 February 2025 (UTC)