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San Diego in-person Wikimania 2021 mixer

Saturday 14 August 2021: San Diego in-person Wikimania 2021 mixer

You are invited to the San Diego in-person Wikimania 2021 mixer on Saturday 14 August, from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm at American Legion Albert J. Hickman, Post 460, in Kearny Mesa, San Diego. Join Wikimedians from San Diego, and from throughout Southern California, at one of a few in-person events happening throughout the world to commemorate the virtual Wikimania 2021.

Visit our event page for more information at your convenience.

We hope to see you there! --RightCowLeftCoast (talk · contribs)

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Thanks for the thanks

In addition to skirting the edge of WP:1E, that draft is obviously a BLP minefield because he's on trial. I am not a lawyer, so I just put in a lot of "said" and a lot of news references. I hope knowledgeable editors will improve it; I think I've done all I can. If the verdict is handed down in April as expected, or later, it will probably need to be de-G13'd again; in any event, it should really be credited to Arad8086, so it would be inappropriate for me to put the "submit" template on it, and I hope whoever either does that or simply moves it to mainspace gives that editor the credit. Yngvadottir (talk) 01:03, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:18, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

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Sixteenth anniversary on Wikipedia!

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Stanistani/Archive 1,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 19:08, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Seventeenth anniversary on Wikipedia!

According to the previous year's message from Chris troutman, this is also the 48th anniversary of your first edit. I'm not sure that makes any sense, but sure! casualdejekyll 01:45, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! This all makes more sense once you understand that this is a fold in time, and I invented the Internet in early 1974 when I was nineteen. →StaniStani 06:21, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 20:54, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

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Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:27, 5 January 2024 (UTC) Happy new year! --

An invitation

You're invited to attend a meetup at the San Diego Central Library on Monday 26 February 2024. Hopefully see you there. RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 11:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

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RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins

Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikipediocracy account

I couldn't find if, site admin, Midsize Jake has a Wikipedia account to contact them, so I'll post this here as I can see that you've linked your Wikipedia and are a 'Trustee'. I'm currently drafting a piece for The Signpost about the discussion on the Trump fist photo. My aim is to report accurately on Wikipedia. I came across this edit with the edit summary This was posted on Wikipediocracy. Let's be careful. Despite my efforts, I was unable to locate its specific mention on the site. I'm presuming this might be due to it being posted on a members-only thread. I attempted to register earlier, but I kept getting an error. I can't remember exactly what the message said, it included the word 'invalid', but I may have been on a VPN, with the location setting as 'Smart location'. I've tried again and I'm still having difficulty logging in.

If it was indeed posted on a members-only thread, this has saved me a lot of hassle. If I do mention it in my report, I will simply state, "It was posted in a private thread on Wikipediocracy", thereby avoiding the necessity of providing a link (even if the thread is subsequently made public, I'll still say that). If you see my previous work, I'm not going to be some sort of undercover journalist, exposing the members-only threads. But if I do want to report on something posted to a members-only thread for The Signpost, I'll run it past you/Midsize Jake/the poster/others for approval.

I was reading (and trying my best to understand) the ANI stuff last week, and another reason I wanted to join was to prevent impersonation. Is there a mechanism in place to prevent someone from registering with another user's name and making defamatory, lurid, and nonsensical posts that could impact the user? I'd also like to claim my username to prevent this possibility.

Most of what I've read on Wikipediocracy (mainly about wikipolitics) has gone over my head, so I won't be joining in with the discussions any time soon. This means that I also won't be reading the site regularly. Should any of my work be posted in the 'Crap articles' thread, please direct them to my talk page, and I'll (try my best to) improve it and work with those who also want it to be improved. Svampesky (talk) 18:37, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

I didn't make it clear, I wasn't confirming that the edit/Wikipediocracy will definitely be mentioned. The final decision rests with JPxG (or whomever is responsible for final approval). It is important to accurately report on Wikipedia-related events, as The Signpost's mission is to serve as the Wikimedia movement's online newspaper; but I'm also committed to protecting editors from harm. Svampesky (talk) 19:17, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

My apologies @Svampesky:, I was not monitoring my Wikipedia account for a few days. The support email was the best way to contact us, and it worked. I have no problem with your version of events. →StaniStani 06:04, 21 July 2024 (UTC)