Allpedia talk:Community Portal

Create some policies
I was wondering if anyone had any policies in mind or wanted to create any.

The Vandalism Policy is under construction.

Any other ideas? SoyokoAnis (talk) 02:41, 12 May 2021 (UTC)


 * SoyokoAnis Should we have an edit summary policy? I'm planning on making an Abuse Filter that warns you if you forget your edit summary, but should it become a hard-set policy? Turtle84375 (talk) 04:35, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * @Turtle84375 Yes, after a few times should it automatically block you for a few hours or days? SoyokoAnis (talk) 11:33, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh and by the way, did you get pinged? SoyokoAnis (talk) 11:39, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * SoyokoAnis Yep, it pinged me. All right, I'll modify the filter to have a rate limit. Turtle84375 (talk) 17:34, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Open Phabricator Task
I had to open up a Phabricator task about the Batch Testing feature for Abuse Filter, it gave me an Internal Error message when I tried to test a filter I made. You can view the task here. Turtle84375 (talk) 04:54, 12 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Update: Turns out this is an upstream bug, so we can't do anything about it... Turtle84375 (talk) 06:47, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Update: This got fixed. Turtle84375 (talk) 22:21, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Resigning Rights
Hello, it is with a lot of painful thought that I've come to this decision, but in the end it is inevitable that I will be taking an indefinite wiki leave of absence. In the near future, due to some rather personal reasons, I will no longer be able to attend to my wikis or any others, for that matter, and am unsure when I will be able to find the time to get back into Miraheze. The time that I have spent here was time that I enjoyed, I enjoyed working with you guys. I wish I didn't have to stop now, right when I was really getting into the swing of things, but again, circumstances in my life have changed, and I need to devote my attention to other things. Therefore, I would like to request that all of my administrator user group be removed from me. You may remove any of the others as well, but I know for a fact that I will not be able to assist as an administrator any time soon. Thank you all for understanding, and I hope that sometime in the distant future, I may be able to come back and pick up where I left off. Turtle84375 (talk) 22:21, 19 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Done. SoyokoAnis (talk) 19:11, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Heads up regarding Wikipedia articles
Allpedia is using articles from Wikipedia, without following the legals terms, which can result in Steward intervention, may it be due to a notice by Wikimedia, or if they notice that this is violating the terms. Currently, WP uses Creative Commons 3.0 Unported IIRC, which requires a similar license to be used. If we decide to remove all Wikipedia articles for good, we will make a policy that prohibits the usage of Wikipedia articles, while maintaining the Public Domain license.

If we change the license, we must gather consensus with the wiki contributors. I will talk to SoyokoAnis, asking her what we should do regarding this issue. Bongo Cat (talk) 22:12, 25 September 2021 (UTC)


 * I believe you may be able to pass by properly attributing the source to wikipedia and encouraging editors to rewrite it locally, though indeed any future articles should be properly rewritten so to avoid the issue going forward. But as long as this much is done I sincerely doubt either Miraheze Stewards (busy enough) or the Foundation (small fish) will worry too much. However, I might suggest tuning down the technical references that ooze Wikipedia in locations with somewhat sloppy integration like Allpedia:Twinkle/Preferences. --Raidarr (talk) 08:40, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * It still would be best practice to follow the Creative Commons license. Bongo Cat (talk) 12:22, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Public Domain is not the same, nor similar, nor a compatible license, and if we don't change the license or remove wikipedia article, wouldn't it be copyright infringement or something like that? Bongo Cat (talk) 13:02, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * And also it shouldn't though, Wikipedia has a list of wiki forks yet most of them still exist and some of them don't credit Wikipedia at all. SoyokoAnis (talk) 13:57, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * @Bongo Cat I support this idea. I misunderstood both licenses so when I chose to use the template to allow copied articles from Wikipedia I thought the Public Domain would fit this wiki. SoyokoAnis (talk) 13:49, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * If we all are in agreeiance, I can change the license now. SoyokoAnis (talk) 13:51, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, wiki forks would most likely explicitly state that it IS a fork of Wikipedia. Although it doesn't necessarily credit Wikipedia directly, it indirectly would. Bongo Cat (talk) 15:00, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * @Bongo Cat To be honest though, you probably shouldn't have deleted the pages until we came to a clear consensus. SoyokoAnis (talk) 18:57, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * @Bongo Cat I also just realized we have a policy about copied wikipedia articles. SoyokoAnis (talk) 19:02, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * @Bongo Cat (Last ping) When should we end the consensus? SoyokoAnis (talk) 13:46, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Probably in a week, that seems like a reasonable time window so other contribs can help. Bongo Cat (talk) 13:51, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay. SoyokoAnis (talk) 14:02, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Probably in a week, that seems like a reasonable time window so other contribs can help. Bongo Cat (talk) 13:51, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay. SoyokoAnis (talk) 14:02, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

= License change = I've decided to change the license as a majority vote since it's been a week. The license has been officially changed to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Now awaiting Bongo Cat to undelete the articles. SoyokoAnis (talk) 17:25, 1 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Undeleted. Bongo Cat (talk) 19:35, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Why we should join the WikiWee Family
WikiWee is a "Wiki Organization" of unity. If we join the WikiWee, Allpedia will benefit the WikiWee Rewards

- A higher level Anti-Vandalism group

- More organization

- WikiWee custom domain eligibility (if possible)

Support
Support: theres reasons to make it up for you

Oppose
What is WikiWee? Link? Lex213 (talk) 05:51, 24 October 2021 (UTC)