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In Newsroom --> "Disputed". Many require deletion with careful checking that they were not un-abandoned or otherwise useful. Please assist? (To update, click purge icon on that page.) Thank you in advance! Gryllida (talk) 11:52, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Microchip08 please? --Gryllida (talk) 12:15, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

I was wondering what needed to be done to fix this so I clicked a few random links and many of them were allready marked and in Category:Speedy deletion. So if someone have time to delete pages it should reduce the number a lot. --MGA73 (talk) 18:55, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Closing DR about sxw-files

Could someone close Wikinews:Deletion_requests#825_sxw-files? It has been open since August 2023.

There is a discussion at Wikinews:2024 Copyright license upgrade if {{Printedition}} should be updated or if a new template should be created. If we are to change the template to "Template:Printedition 2.5" (or another name) then it would be good to have this DR closed soon.

If the files are to be deleted it is possible to use a script to mass delete or global sysops can help. So please do not let the time it take to delete the files be the reason not to close the DR. MGA73 (talk) 18:50, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

I have closed the discussion as successful and made the request for deletion below.

We no longer produce a printed edition. Therefore I think the easiest course of action would be to update {{Printedition}} to state the following:

This file is a release of the Wikinews Print Edition, which is no longer produced. Text contained in Print Edition articles created after September 25, 2005 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Some images are released into the public domain, others are used under the Wikinews fair use policy

I can make this change. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 15:45, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Ofcourse. No need to update template then :-) --MGA73 (talk) 15:49, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Resolved.

Requesting edits to protected pages and deletion of outdated files

This is a two-part request, both needs stem from this discussion started over a year ago: Wikinews:Deletion requests#825 sxw-files, which has achieved general consensus from the community.

The first part can be handled by either a local or global sysop. The second part involves deleting several hundred files and would likely be best handled by a global sysop.

1. For the User:MGA73/Sandbox list, we need an admin to remove any links, broken or functional, to OpenOffice SXW files as was done here: Special:Diff/4805561.
2. For the Category:Print Edition (SXW), we need all listed OpenOffice SXW files deleted.

If you have any questions, needs, or concerns, reach out to MGA73 or myself.

Thank you in advance! —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 15:35, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

If the file page does not have {{Image info}} it might be a good idea to add that at the same time as the sxw part is removed. If my bot is granted a temporary admin status it might be able to fix most of the files in the first part and perhaps add the {{Image info}} too. Just so you know the alternative. --MGA73 (talk) 15:47, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I am a global sysop, I am writing because i noticed a request. I wrote a script that will allow you to mass unprotect and protect sites. If you want, I can do it or show you how to use it. Regards, AramilFeraxa (talk) 08:27, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@AramilFeraxa Thank you. Can you please unprotect the files listed in User:MGA73/Sandbox? I will then fix the pages. --MGA73 (talk) 08:33, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@MGA73: done. AramilFeraxa (talk) 08:52, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@AramilFeraxa: Thank you very much. Now that you made your script could you also undelete the 3 I added here: Special:Diff/4806310? I know its a bit silly for only 3 files but its a shame not to use your script ;-) We also need to delete 821 files. I assume the other script you mentioned on meta can delete files? --MGA73 (talk) 09:52, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@MGA73: yes, one of my scripts can massdelete files. But I don't know exactly what you mean about those 3 files, since they are not deleted? AramilFeraxa (talk) 10:01, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

One more remark about massdelete - it would be better if the files were in some category :) AramilFeraxa (talk) 10:03, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@AramilFeraxa: I would like the protection removed for the 3 files. The files to be deleted are in a category (Category:Print Edition (SXW) see dot 2 above). I also added them to a list Special:Diff/4806312 just so they are easy to find in case someone will ever wonder which files were deleted. --MGA73 (talk) 10:09, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@MGA73: ok, sorry, I misunderstood :) I unprotected those files. And as for massdelete, I can do it, but maybe I would ask the flood flag because 821 pages is a bit much though :) AramilFeraxa (talk) 10:39, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your help AramilFeraxa. For Michael.C.Wright's reference, I am a local sysop and I may be able to assist quickly, I only need clearer instructions what needs to be done and up to two days to respond. Seems like a non urgent issue and I had no idea what steps are needed. If anything is needed in future a request can be made here with specific instructions. Gryllida (talk) 10:46, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@Gryllida: It would be a total waste of your time if you had to do 50+ edits like this Special:Diff/4806299 manually when there are other ways to do it. I would personally think Wikinews benefit much more if you would spend the time write or review articles. Besides removing the sxw part the files are now fixed and removed from Category:Files needing attention. As for the files that no longer have a protection the only question that remain is if they should be protected again. I think we should just leave the files as they are. There are 1102 files in Category:Print Edition (PDF) and why only protect those 50+? If you would like to have the files protected we should protect all files. Or perhaps move them all to Commons and keep them there.

About the 821 sxw files all that needs to be done is to delete them. If you want to do it you are ofcourse very welcome. I would however suggest that you "borrow" the script so you can also mass delete. I tried a similar script on Commons and they are nice. It takes a little time to set them up and get to know them. Much easier than to do it manually :-) --MGA73 (talk) 11:32, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

If you want to use my script for mass delete simply add mw.loader.load('//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:AramilFeraxa/QD.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); to your common.js and go to Special:QD. If you are not sure, let me know then I can do it :) AramilFeraxa (talk) 11:48, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Gryllida would you mind if we ask AramilFeraxa to delete the files? I think that if you have time to spare it would be better if you check the pages in Category:Speedy deletion. Those probably need a local user. --MGA73 (talk) 16:31, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Gryllida I do not know if you saw this notice. It may not be urgent but I see no reason not just to get this done and away from the list of things to do. So unless you would like to try mass delete I will ask AramilFeraxa to delete the files. --MGA73 (talk) 16:29, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Vandalism report

Wikipadia23 (t · c · b) – created the out-of-scope article Elizabeth-Gladys II and keeps edit warring to remove the deletion template. FlyingAce (talk) 21:01, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

tracker for admin action for licence upgrade

Hi @MGA73 @Michael.C.Wright @Leaderboard @RockerballAustralia @Bddpaux @George Ho (users involved in discussion and recently active admins)

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_talk:2024_Copyright_license_upgrade#Set_date_of_actual_upgrade_(a_poll)

• i'd suggest asking WN:AAA two days ahead, listing what actions need to be done -- instead of granting user rights temporarily to a particular user (gaining concensus for this may take ages) @MGA73

please detail what needs to be done exactly, here, now and include what is pending (i.e. reply from wmf legal) before it can be carried out. please do this immediately as a reply to this message, at your earliest convenience.

would be easier for me to know what will need to be done and when.

thanks! Gryllida (talk) 04:11, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Is creating a task at the Phabricator necessary for licensing upgrade? I searched for existing tasks without avail. --George Ho (talk) 04:31, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@George Ho yes it is needed. See m:Requesting wiki configuration changes. As an example see ar.wikinews change phab:T372730. I have not made the request yet because we are waiting for a reply from legal. --MGA73 (talk) 07:29, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi @MGA73 @Michael.C.Wright @Leaderboard @RockerballAustralia @Bddpaux @George Ho (users involved in discussion and recently active admins)

Thank you for the reply.

We need to prepare a draft of the request to phabricator. I did not read the one linked, I am busy and do not want to learn of it currently. Someone will need to write the request for here for English Wikinews. I would be happy to see the request text summarized on-wiki somewhere.

Also, what admin actions will need to be done on-wiki? I have no idea. It would be good to know now.

Thank you. Gryllida (talk) 10:01, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@Gryllida: previously you wrote: i'd suggest asking WN:AAA two days ahead, listing what actions need to be done... I did that six days ago.[1]

[W]hat admin actions will need to be done on-wiki? I have no idea. We have organized the project here: Wikinews:2024 Copyright license upgrade. In addition to the mass deletion request above, we have a long-standing request for admin asstance listed here: Wikinews:2024_Copyright_license_upgrade#Pages_to_update_when_license_is_updated_from_2.5_to_4.0.

We need to prepare a draft of the request to phabricator. I did not read the one linked, I am busy and do not want to learn of it currently. If you are too busy and have no desire to read up on the project then please step back completely and we will work with global sysops. As stated, we've been trying for some time to work with local admins. We will continue to make the requests (as we have been doing) here at WN:AAA but we need to allow global sysops to do the work if local admin are too busy or don't want to read up on what's needed. It was decided in June that the community wants global sysops to assist us[2]. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 15:37, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

I'm available every day for last several months. I hope we can work something out together that helps to move things forward. There is a related discussion at my talk page about it. Gryllida (talk) 18:15, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@Gryllida: I made a suggestion for the phab ticket here: Wikinews:2024_Copyright_license_upgrade#Suggested_ticket. If legal does not reply soon and we get very close on the date we can always add a "pretty please with sugar on the top" etc. because the admins will have very short time to fix. --MGA73 (talk) 16:40, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi @MGA73 @Michael.C.Wright @Leaderboard @RockerballAustralia @Bddpaux @George Ho (users involved in discussion and recently active admins)

Thank you for your reply. I cannot read about the other issues here straight away, first I would like to respond to the issue about licence. I received message about phab ticket draft. I don't know what changes are requested exactly, but it reads okay to me. If it is possible to clarify what configuration changes are being requested, I think it would be better.

I received the link to page describing what needs to be changed. I understand now why a date was needed. I asked a question at its talk page about one of the pages involved. I think I can try to do these edits on the date.

Are you comfortable actioning this without prior legal advice? I'm not. If Legal don't respond by the date, I'd be more comfortable postponing it. Keen to know your thoughts.

Thank you. Gryllida (talk) 18:09, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Do you want the this list to be actioned immediately -- for example, today -- or wait until the actual date? I understood you don't want to wait. If this is the case, I'm comfortable implementing this changes within around two days after I get a confirmation that you don't want to wait for reply from Legal team first. I would prefer to wait for it, personally, unless there is some information I am missing (for example, how did other wikis implement this -- if they did it in exactly same way then there is less cause for concern). Thanks. Gryllida (talk) 18:21, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

I think that the pages where "{{Current CC Version}}" is to be added can be changed now. Pages where 2.5 is to be changed to 4.0 should be changed on the day (if possible). I tried to make it clear in the table what needs to be changed for each page. --MGA73 (talk) 18:45, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

MGA73 Thanks, I'll try to understand it. There are 13 items marked as 'not done' or 'partially done'. Two of them are pending date. Do you want me to do the remaining 11 items now? Does someone filing and implementing a phabricator ticket precede this, or can this be done immediately? I didn't understand what is to be done through phabricator ticket. Gryllida (talk) 01:07, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

I can't edit MediaWiki:Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js, interfaceadmin required. I requested this permission here. Gryllida (talk) 01:07, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

@ Gryllida I added a column with "when" where I wrote if I think the change should be done "now" or "on date". Now can also be tomorrow or on sunday. It is just to indicate if the change can be done before the date or not. It will be good to get things done so they can be checked and so there are not a lot of pages to change at the same time. Also "on date" can also mean the day after because some pages like the audio pages are probably not highly visible so it will not break anything if the change happens a bit later. The important pages are the MediaWiki pages.

@Michael.C.Wright If you do not agree you are ofcourse welcome to change the time.

Perhaps there should be a top notice about the change and maybe also a notice on the Water cooler? I have not included any of those. Just an idea. --MGA73 (talk) 16:21, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi MGA73,

• For admin actions requried: there is only two pages to make edits 'now' , MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning and Wikinews:Social media. I did these edits.

• I would like to confirm that it worked, for the first one; documentation says the text is visible under the edit box when editing a page. Yet, for example, this does not show the text from MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning. Where is it visible?

• I also protected {{Current CC Version}}, as it can be vulnerable to vandalism.

Please let me know if any further action is required now. Gryllida (talk) 18:19, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

@ Gryllida I think it looks fine! --MGA73 (talk) 18:18, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

File renaming request

Please move File:Rsz gdqg3agxaaagxlt.jpeg to File:Trump and Trudeau dining.jpeg. — JJP_Master (she/they) 01:30, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Done. Gryllida (talk) 18:09, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

213.106.79.154

Please block this one, excessively vandalism. Lemonaka (talk) 11:38, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

IP:216.186.51.108

please block keeps reverting nonsensical notnews page. Thank you. BigKrow (talk) 21:59, 2 December 2024 (UTC)