Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/January 2019

Incoming queries from godaddy to non-existent subpages

The WikiJournals maintain several godaddy domains that redirect to Wikiversity pages:

However, godaddy has an issue where a random 5-character string is added as a subpage (on approx 1% of attempts). Obviously on a wiki, this just goes to a non-existent subpage. Is there any server-side fix to redirect incoming links from godaddy to non-existent subpages? I don't know much about the back end of mediawiki, but here's an example of someone else's PHP fix here. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 03:33, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell, there's nothing "GoDaddy-specific" about the solution. A missing subpage is redirected to the corresponding base page rather than displaying an error. There might be an extension that does this already. If not, it should be relatively easy to create one. You could try creating a Phabricator request and see where it goes. The other option, of course, would be to not use GoDaddy as a registrar. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 14:51, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea, I'll pop a request on phabricator. We were also looking at moving off godaddy a while back so we'll revisit that. Thanks! T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 23:50, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Good day. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

User:MichaelBillington; last edit: 2016-09-24, last log action: 2014-12-03.
User:WiseWoman; last edit: 2016-07-10, last log action: 2006-08-15.

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --MarcoAurelio (discuss • contribs) 19:26, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How can I move the Intellectual property education page from Wikipedia to Wikiversity?

My graduate class in Copyright for Information Professionals added more information and resources to the Wikipedia Wikipedia:Draft:Intellectual property education page. In the review to have it moved and name changed, it was suggested this this page does not now belong on Wikipedia, and might be more appropriate here in Wikiversity. My question is now if indeed this page could move to Wikiversity and, if yes, how to do it. Advice? -- Jahurst (discuss • contribs) 02:07, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jahurst: Welcome to Wikiversity! Typically, import requests are added to Wikiversity:Imports, but this works. I've imported the page to Draft:Intellectual property education. I'd recommend merging it with or replacing Intellectual property. Everything here is assumed to be education, so including education in the title doesn't add value. And what you have already appears to be better than the existing page. Note that Wikiversity isn't strict on Sentence case titles. If your class would prefer Intellectual Property, that's fine, too. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 03:27, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Dave Braunschweig: Oh, I hadn't found the Imports page! Thanks for your help. The current Intellectual property is confusing, so I would be okay with replacing it. I am assuming that I should post a notice there first. Yes? And...yes...I'm fine with the page title of Intellectual Property. Thanks for your help. I do know that I'll need to fix some of the links on the page, and will schedule time to do that in the next couple of days. Jahurst (discuss • contribs) 20:06, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jahurst: Intellectual property has been abandoned for seven years. Be bold! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:12, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Dave Braunschweig: One final question. How do I move/replace the draft page to the Intellectual property? If you can point me towards directions, I would be grateful. I don't want to blunder it! Jahurst (discuss • contribs) 17:57, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jahurst: Moving / renaming pages is at the top on the page pull-down menu. Merging pages (deleting the original and then combining the histories) requires advanced rights. You should be all set now. See Intellectual property. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 22:06, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Dave Braunschweig: You are awesome! Thank you. I'm now emailing the students, who worked on this page, to tell them that it has found a new home. Jahurst (discuss • contribs) 01:50, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of RfC on English Wikipedia

A request for comment is taking place on the English Wikipedia (Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal IV - Relocate to different product) that could result in the Wikipedia reference desk being moved to this wiki, please post further comments there. BrandonXLF (discuss • contribs) 04:04, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

FileExporter beta feature

Coming soon: the beta feature FileExporter

A new beta feature will soon be released on all wikis: The FileExporter. It allows exports of files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, including their file history and page history. Which files can be exported is defined by each wiki's community: Please check your wiki's configuration file if you want to use this feature.

The FileExporter has already been a beta feature on mediawiki.org, meta.wikimedia, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP and on wikisource.org. After some functionality was added, it's now becoming a beta feature on all wikis. Deployment is planned for January 16. More information can be found on the project page.

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test the FileExporter, please activate it in your user preferences. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:41, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

You will not be able to edit the wikis for up to 30 minutes on 17 January 07:00 UTC. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis are not affected on this page. Most wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

18:38, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi

--41.113.247.171 (discuss) 20:27, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome! Feel free to "be bold but not reckless"! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 20:44, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]