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Request for minor change to ezpr2

Hi @Asked42

1. In heading of user talk message i suggest writing "Published: Article Name (Month Day)" instead of "your submission (Month Day)". Replace "Published" with "Revision requested" (not "not ready" - the revision requested is more like a call for action) if review did not pass.

2. In any place where "not ready" any software or template I propose to write "revision requested".

Regards, -- Gryllida 05:20, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

I am moving this to Wikinews talk:Easy Peer Review (2025 version), to keep all related discussions for EPR 2025 in one place. -- Asked42 (talk) 14:49, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Article marked not ready (because stale) on 16th of December? The "not ready" template has not automatically marked the news article as "Abandoned"?

Last actual edit of article was on 13th of December? Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport man dies after being struck by snowplow

Please look into how the template works and whether any improvements can be done.

Thank you! Wikiwide (talk) 10:11, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

hi @Asked42 this looks like possible bug, recently some templates were changed to auto-tag article as abandoned after some time. the 'not ready' template should do that too. could you please add this change? please let me know if this is not the case. thank you! Gryllida 04:32, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

The not ready template is not supposed to automatically tag the article with the {{Abandoned}} template, in its current form. There was a discussion about making it auto tag, but that module was never implemented on any templates. So that won't work without using the module (or some other approach). Also, many of these templates are protected, so I am not able to make changes to them. -- Asked42 (talk) 08:08, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Ok, I will request for consensus, and then will get back to you about the modifications. Thank you! Gryllida 10:17, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Software request to sort leads on main page by event date

Hi @Asked42 at time of making event a lead on main page via Lead Manager I would suggest prompting the user (if they have taglet installed) to specify event date so that the new lead being added is put chronologically rather than 'at the top'. Gryllida 20:30, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

I can do that. But you can also choose the lead template where you want to add the new lead in Lead Manager currently. -- Asked42 (talk) 15:31, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Oh ok this is good idea and is probably sufficient thanks Gryllida 20:05, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Review about some code in MediaWiki:Common.css

General CSS

Please remove this wikitable CSS code because it interferes with dark mode:

/* Standard table formatting */
/* <pre><nowiki> */
 
/* wikitable class for skinning normal tables */

table.wikitable {
  margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;
}

table.wikitable th {
  background: #f2f2f2;
}

This following code should probably be removed because some title letters go below the line in Vector 2022:

/*
/* Interlining in titles. To prevent title overlap. Not sure if should be in monobook.css as this is diff in diff skins. yell at me if this breaks anything in any of the skins. */
 
h1.firstHeading { line-height: 1em; }

Main Page

This code can be adjusted for the Main Page:

/* Stuff only for main page. Do not use [[MediaWiki:Common.css/Main Page]] (flash of unstyled content). */
body.page-Main_Page #footer-info-lastmod,
body.page-Main_Page #mw-revisiontag, #mw-fr-revisiontag,
body.page-Main_Page #catlinks {
    display: none;
}

/* This is for edit the templates, not the leads. */
body.page-Main_Page .editor a {
    background: none !important;
    padding: 0 !important;
    display: none;
	/* To turn the edit links back on, add the following to your personal CSS: 
    .editor a { display: inline !important; }
    */
 }

/* Make a border when write an article is linked to */
body.page-Main_Page #writeAnArticleCell:target {
    border: black medium solid
}
/* End stuff for main page only */

#firstHeading should be removed from the CSS because it is possible to remove the Main Page heading by setting both MediaWiki:Mainpage-title and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin to blank. Thoughts? Codename Noreste (talk) 01:35, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Asked42 may have a better understanding of this. They've done CSS work in the past.Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 14:23, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

I was going to make the first change above, in section titled General CSS but I don't have access. It may require @Asked42, who is an interface admin.Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 14:26, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestions. I have implemented the changes, which remove #firstHeading as this will not cause any issues with the main page heading being hidden. -- Asked42 (talk) 15:45, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

ezpr2 bug report it does not add note to article talk when article is published

https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Domestic_call_in_Rochester,_New_York_leads_to_three_police_officers_being_shot&action=history

article was published but no note was left at article talk page - is this a bug

please check, thanks Gryllida 04:30, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

@Gryllida: Hi, could you clarify what you mean by the note? If you are referring to the review result added using the peer review template, then that has been added to the talk page. I don't recall anything else being added to the article's talk page in either EzPR or the new EzPR 2025. In both scripts, only the review result is added to the talk page, and that has been done on the article that you mention by the EzPR 2025. Please let me know if you are referring to something else. -- Asked42 (talk) 08:01, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, I misread. I thought that long passage was a not ready comment. Thanks, there is no bug then. Gryllida 10:10, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Request for consensus: auto-tag as 'abandoned'

Hello, I am proposing to add Module:DetectAbandoned (by Asked42) to various templates such as 'develop', 'tasks', 'not ready', 'review', 'stale', and others, so that articles automatically get marked as abandoned after they have not been edited for some time. Then, humans don't need to do the tagging anymore, leaving them more time to edit content. Do you support this idea?

Please vote below, as a consensus is required before making this change. Thanks. Gryllida 10:21, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

cc @Bddpaux @Michael.C.Wright for comment thanks Gryllida, RockerballAustralia, Michael.C.Wright, Bddpaux, JJLiu112 Hi @George Ho @Wikiwide @BigKrow @Lofi Gurl @Back ache @Md Mobashir Hossain @Almondo2025, @Dsuke1998AEOS, @Ternera, @Monsieur2137 @Asked42, @Sheminghui.WU, @excelblue (if you want yourself removed or someone else added to this list, please inquire here) A revision has been requested. Here is a list of what to do. (If/when you intend to start working on it, please Subscribe to this section and to this talk page, and post reply messages here when you started and finished editing) See below:

1) read the text above

2) comment or vote

thanks Gryllida 23:50, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

@Gryllida: I have prepared the template {{DetectAbandoned}}. To use it, you can add it to templates like this:

{{DetectAbandoned| 
  <!-- content of the template where you want to add -->
}}

This ensures that when the {{Abandoned}} template is activated, the wrapped template content will not be displayed. -- Asked42 (talk) 16:11, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

Votes

click [reply] link next to this line to add your vote: --Gryllida 10:22, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

• Support as per above. Gryllida 10:21, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Support seems like a great change to save time! Ternera (talk) 00:13, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

• Support sounds good to me. --RockerballAustralia contribs 03:29, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
• Support. Codename Noreste (talk) 05:50, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

software request to disturb users for developing article not submitted for review

if article was developing and was not submitted for review immediately, some software could leave each contributor a message 'pls finalise and submit for review now', i would propose to do this at 2h, 6h, and 12h mark from time it was added to developing category. hope this is helpful. thanks Gryllida 23:59, 4 January 2026 (UTC)