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Template

I've templatized the Goings-on page. It is now a condensed version of the community portal, yet has the same content it has traditionally had. I did this because the announcement section here had run dry, since everybody has been posting their announcements on the Community Portal, due to its high visibility and easy accessibility. Archiving is taken care of on the template level for both the Community Bulletin Board and the New featured content. --Go for it! 14:05, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And since each section is now a template, they can be accessed directly by link for those who want an even more compact version:

Or include one in double-curly brackets to display the entire thing on your userpage.

Have fun...

--Go for it! 14:08, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I admit it, this is a good idea. I will have to watch three things rather than one, though, but never mind. -- ALoan (Talk) 14:29, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There's a problem with this - this will effectively make the archives useless. Raul654 07:47, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All that is required is a new archiving procedure. --Go for it! 14:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've reverted. Not only does it make the archives useless, but it makes this page entirely useless (no longer could you watch one page and get all you need to know). It also includes a whole heap of not-important stuff which never did go on this page (things like the founding of random WikiProjects). Ambi 08:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to attract volunteers to your new WikiProject is not important? The main purpose of advertising a WikiProject is to attract people to it so they can help out. How is that not important? --Go for it! 14:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Plenty important, but this is not the place. Ambi 06:31, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Archiving can be done by substing the transcluded templates on the right day. Is it such a problem to watchlist a few extra pages? -- ALoan (Talk) 10:52, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was just going to add the Featured Pages template here before I read this discussion. I'm the guy who's been adding the new Featured Pictures to the lists most of the time, and it does seem silly to me to have to add them to two lists that are exactly the same. If changes like this would make the page useless, I might question the need for it at all. Raven4x4x 09:14, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The New Featured Content template that is displayed on the Community Portal has been picked up by the Featured Content Portal and is being displayed there as well. By templatizing, we create value, by making it easy to create new applications for the data. Perhaps that portal would be a good place to keep and maintain featured content archives. --Go for it! 10:47, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A request

Could someone other than me *please* take the time to keep this page properly archived and updated? It's enough work doing the dozen-or-more edits required to promotion batches of featured articles without having to keep this page updated too. Raul654 07:48, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - I had been doing it for a while until a month or so ago, but the conversation above led me to doubt its uility. It is not a terribly difficult task if anyone else notices that it needs to be done (move the previous week to a new subpage; copy back to the original page; change the date, delete last week's entries, add a link to the new archive). I keep forgetting to check (or uncheck) the box so the talk page is not moved too... -- ALoan (Talk) 11:27, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would actually recommend converting this page back to self-updating templates, or abandoning it entirely. I'm not sure it's worth the effort of keeping up, given that between the Community Portal and Wikipedia:Featured content, you can see everything you can see here now. There are too many "news" pages now, anyway, and this one is no longer being used for anything other than things that happen every week (and are announced elsewhere). Really, I think it would be more useful to direct people who want to hear about real goings-on to the Community Portal. -- Beland 20:41, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Fine, kill the bloody thing. I'm sick of having to argue every second week when someone who doesn't use this perfectly useful page decides that they must make it die. Ambi 01:41, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I quit

I'm tired of having to archive this page every time I promote new featured articles. I will no longer be maintaing it - that is to say, I will not be posting newly promoted FAs to this list and I will not be archiving it. Raul654 23:03, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Archiving has been done for week beginning April 23. -TonyW 23:34, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to reiterate my above comment from a year ago - if nobody takes it upon themselves to archive this page, I will stop updating it. Raul654 01:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to keep up with it as I had been — I just had to take a much-needed wikibreak the past month or so. — TKD::Talk 05:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps it would be possible to arrange for a bot to do it? I still find this page very useful. -- ALoan (Talk) 08:34, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requested a bot at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Goings-on archival. I probably have the technical knowledge to do it myself, but, after coding at work, I'm almost never up for doing more of the same at home. That's also why I tend not to edit computer-science-related articles; my Wikipedia contributions provide me a change of pace and subject matter. :) — TKD::Talk 12:46, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ANYBODY HOME !!!!!!!!!

Raul, Gimme and I have repeatedly made this request over many many years, yet NO OTHER FEATURED PROCESS helps maintain this page. I've just had to archive and make a FL correction, and I've been asking for months for one of the other processes to add the new dates to the archive template at the bottom of the page. FAs are not the only process that uses this page-- will the other processes please do their share? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:18, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I didn't see the request. FL make promotions on an ad-hoc basis so there's always a chance (like today) that we'll never see the "cross-over" point. My mistake that I added to a Goings On which was expired. Seriously no reason to explode at us, as I said, I have never seen any requests at FLC/FL about maintaining the process of this page. More than happy to do that now I've been alerted to it though. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:32, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Interwikis

Anyone have a problem with me changing the interwikis to only display on the current page and not the archived pages? --Pascal⁶⁶⁶ 21:22, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GimmeBot

I think GimmeBot's down. I just did a manual archive of the page.

You know, we could do this a lot more easily, if we wanted. Have a templated setup, and use a simple Date check to pull up the right Goings-on page. As day of the week is, as I recall, 0 for Sunday, 1 for monday, and so on, we could just use date - (day of week) days, to pull up the right subpage. I wonder if we could make a changeable redirect? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:06, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Archiving

I notice this page hasn't archived for the week ending 20 April, and now the following week's stuff is being added. Paul MacDermott (talk) 19:20, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

fixed — ΛΧΣ²¹ 20:15, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fix needed

It needs to WP:SUBST the "Collaborations" column items. If you go back in the archives, each issue always shows the current issue's items, making the entire left column of the archived issues useless. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 07:24, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Archival bot

I've been recently testing a bot that's supposed to archive this page, and I plan to test it for a single edit for the current archival (in about two hours). Just a quick FYI. APerson (talk!) 21:59, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This bot has been approved for trial, please report any issues or concerns at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/APersonBot 6. From the Bot Approvals Group, — xaosflux ^Talk 00:25, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect6 template

Wikipedia:Goings-on uses the Redirect6 template, a template currently at TfD. This should be replaced with {{redirect|WP:GO|the Go button|Help:Searching|the Go WikiProject|Wikipedia:WikiProject Go}}. Also, the hatnotes on the archived subpages are misleading and should be removed using AWB. Finally, we should tell Armbrust, Enterprisey (the owner of APersonBot), and Laser brain to remove the hatnote from the archived pages after moving to prepare for a new week. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 14:26, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I changed over the template on WP:GO, and APersonBot no longer will include the hatnote in the archives. Enterprisey (talk!) _{(formerly APerson)} 17:41, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Archived archive instructions

I removed the following archival instructions from the editnotice of the main WP:GO page, because it looks like APersonBot has it pretty much covered:

This page should be archived in a weekly digest-like fashion, every Sunday at 0:01 UTC.
Here's what to do:

Copy the entire contents of Wikipedia:Goings-on to your clipboard.

Move this page (but NOT the talk page) to Wikipedia:Goings-on/Month day, Year. Again, make sure to uncheck "Move associated talk page".

Edit Wikipedia:Goings-on and replace the redirect with your copy-and-pasted code.

Change the date in the line "Goings-on in the week starting" to the new Sunday that just started.

Clear out the bulleted items in the ==New featured content== section, leaving only the bolded subheadings.

Save the page.

Edit Template:Goings-on and add the date that you just archived to. Note from Sandy: I added thru May in advance to avoid this step each time.)

You're done!

I guess the talk page archive is the right place for this. Enterprisey (talk!) _{(formerly APerson)} 17:36, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for setting this up, Enterprisey! --Laser brain (talk) 17:49, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone maintain this?

Template:Announcements/Current collaborations This template is transcluded into this page but it hasn't been updated in 3.5 years. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:31, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect?

Is it OK to redirect this to Wikipedia:News? -- Beland (talk) 21:24, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And don't see any reason, why this page should be redirected at all. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:13, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Armbrust: It looks like Template:Announcements/Current collaborations hasn't been updated in a long time, so this page no longer seems to be serving its intended purpose. I suppose the static links to newly featured content are still useful, though these could be merged to Wikipedia:News or someplace? It seems silly to have a page just for that short list. -- Beland (talk) 13:55, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see, those featured listings aren't static. This page's edit history is a bit confusing because it keeps getting moved for archival purposes. If people find that little listing useful, that's fine I guess, though that information is available from looking at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log and friends. -- Beland (talk) 14:01, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Activity

Is this page still used for anything? Does anything else serve its purpose? PrussianOwl (talk) 00:59, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge

A proposal to merge this page into WP:The Signpost was posted at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost. PrussianOwl (talk) 02:00, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

note re item listed

the item below is now inactive, but is still listed here. can anyone please add a notation to indicate this? thanks. item:

Wikizine, for global Wikimedia news (merged with Wikipedia:Signpost in 2013)

thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 17:08, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Wikipedia:Holy shit, something really fucked up happened" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Wikipedia:Holy shit, something really fucked up happened. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 20#Wikipedia:Holy shit, something really fucked up happened until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 22:25, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

October 10 and October 17 missing

@Enterprisey: Normally, the bot archives the page every Sunday around midnight UTC (which might be Saturday in your local time if you live west of the prime meridian). However, the bot did not do this on October 10 or October 17, so the October 3 page was not archived until October 24 and the October 10 and October 17 pages are missing. So, why wasn't the bot able to archive the page on October 10 or October 17? None of the other past week subpages (going all the way back to Leap Day 2004) are redlinked at Template:Goings-on, so this is the first time redlinks to past weekly subpages ever appear in that template. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 00:43, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The bot had some login issues, so all the entries went on the October 3 archive. I suppose we could redirect them, unless someone wants to split the older bullet points out manually? For the time being I'll redirect them. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:08, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done splitting that page. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:30, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]