Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-06-19/Discussion report

Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting: A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

Discussion report

Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting

By Pine

Seating in the Saeima, the Parliament of Latvia

This is mostly a list of Non-article page requests for comment believed to be active on 19 June 2013 linked from subpages of Wikipedia:RfC, and recent watchlist notices and SiteNotices. The latter two are in bold. Items that are new to this report are in italics even if they are not new discussions. If an item can be listed under more than one category it is usually listed once only in this report. Clarifications and corrections are appreciated; please leave them in this article's comment box at the bottom of the page.

Style and naming

• Dates in the Citation Style 1 family of citation templates
• WP:CITE#Variation in citation methods
• Manual of Style/Capital letters for short prepositions
• Italics or quote marks for titles of media franchises?
• Exact birth and death dates in article ledes?
• Eliminate the "no fair use images" rule for TFAs?

Policies and guidelines

• Non-free content criterion 1
• Naming conventions for Australian roads
• RfC on validity of RfC on main page items
• Conflict of interest guideline amendment
• Naming conventions: use English or local language?
• Scope of "Manual of Style/Accessibility"
• Capitalization of names of music bands
• Disambiguation to Wikisource articles

WikiProjects and collaborations

• WikiProject Eurovision, Eurovision Song Contest

Technical issues and templates

• Members of the European Parliament 1999–2004 template
• Make X!'s edit counter detailed statistics public for everyone by default?
• VisualEditor is coming, request for help with testing
• Derivative works and cultural references templates for novels
• Implement a mainpage link to Hindi Wikipedia?

Proposals

• Bot flags
• Refdesk reform
• Non-admin access to Special:UnwatchedPages
• Should there be a DYK entry for Wikipediocracy?
• Request for SWF functionality

English Wikipedia notable requests for permissions

(This section will include active RfAs, RfBs, CU/OS appointment requests, and Arbcom elections)

• Requests for adminship/Anna Frodesiak

Meta

• Trademark practices
• Create a global group for Wikidata bots?
• Scope of the Ombudsman Commission
• Funds Dissemination Committee elections (votes being accepted until 23:59 22 June 2013 UTC)
• Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections (votes being accepted until 23:59 22 June 2013 UTC)
• WMF Board election (votes being accepted until 23:59 22 June 2013 UTC)

Upcoming online meetings

• MediaWiki Release Management for non-WMF users RFP submissions Q&A meeting

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• Not sure if this qualifies for inclusion, but the WMF is asking for input on a new privacy policy at m:Privacy policy/Call for input (2013) and Signpost readers may be intersted in commenting there. Best. 64.40.54.119 (talk) 04:22, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for the link. I mostly note Meta items from Meta's mainpage, and that item isn't on Meta's mainpage perhaps because of a lack of translations, but I agree that it's notable enough to mention in this report. I'll include it next week. --Pine^✉ 07:13, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you and thanks again for bringing back the Discussion Report. 64.40.54.92 (talk) 01:53, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

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