Wikinews:Water cooler/technical/archives/2025/December

bug report about 'copyedit an article' button

I clicked it and it took me to https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/U.S._Congresswoman_Marjorie_Taylor_Greene_vows_to_stop_using_%27toxic%27_rhetoric which is tagged with {{abandoned}} now button 'Copyedit another article' is missing. :-( Haha. This story is pretty bad, is not new, maybe I can edit and maybe not, so would be good to have another such button to keep going to next article in the list. cc @Asked42 Gryllida 09:26, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Implementing this new feature to copyedit another article in a row would require more work and time. I would like to wait for the Board's decision about wikinews before making this change. I will still see what I can do to achieve this. Also to clarify, this is not a bug though. -- Asked42 (talk) 15:03, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

It is a Special:Random in category, that's how English Wikipedia does it for drafts, they have a 'next draft' link in sidebar. I hope you are comfortable continuing to contribute in the case Wikinews hosting is moved elsewhere like Miraheze, as that would at least be my intent to stick around, I believe. Gryllida 20:47, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

request for statistics information

Given that at a request for reviewing permissions one note was that the user needs to respond to messages at talk pages, could someone please compile a list of users who are not already a reviewer who were chatty at talk pages within the last year, based at least on pages which weren't deleted. Separate breakdown for: User talk pages, Wikinews talk pages, and Main namespace talk pages. Thanks, Gryllida 02:30, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Request for change to ezpr2

Hi @Asked42

Suggest a few changes

1) Template about successful review: suggest making it more like a text than a box. I can't stand the box just my personal preference. I would suggest text like 'Hi USERNAME, article has been published. Please view the (LINK history) and (LINK talk page) for information about changes made during review, as they may help you with writing your next news report, and also you may be able to modify the story within up to 24 hours after it was published, if needed.

Here are other articles if you would like to help editing them: (link to newsroom) You may also want to help with assessing new pages: (link to 2-3 paragraph info page about Taglet for dummies)

(Custom comment from reviewer)'

2) As per above, ability to enter a custom comment from reviewer to provide it to users, this may be different from the review outcome comment provided on article talk

3) Ability to tick which users to notify, as there may have been multiple users who edited an article before it was reviewed.

4) same as comments 1 to 3, for 'Nope, this page is not ready' outcome of review.

Hope this makes sense, and I am curious to know what others think also.

Regards, -- Gryllida 20:46, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for these suggestions and feedback. I think we can summarize points 1 and 2 as allowing the reviewer to use a custom message for the author(s). And for point 3, listing all users who have made more than one edit on the article (excluding minor edits). I will implement these changes in a few days. -- Asked42 (talk) 07:39, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Done: I have implemented both of the suggested features. Now all users who have made more than two edits to the article can also be sent notifications. Reviewers can also write custom notification messages if they want. The custom notification message will replace the notification templates. I will update the documentation soon. -- Asked42 (talk) 10:40, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Page protection

i saw [1] but no page protection, so i protected it. helps to manage drive by spam and also a news is not supposed to be edited after archival unless 'correction'. please advise if this was not needed. thanks Gryllida 04:20, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

It was already protected: Special:Diff/4878093Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 13:47, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

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)

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)