User talk:FaviFake
Before making edits like Special:Diff/1304031929 to longstanding process pages, it would be a good idea to investigate why things are structured the way they are. If you had proposed that change on the talk page, for example, I'd have pointed out that having the header as a subpage makes it less likely for new editors to accidentally mess up the header when they're trying to add to a discussion on the page, and makes it easier for people editing the whole page (rather than making a section edit) to find the discussions after the header content. Since the header content seldom actually needs to be edited anyway, a slight difficulty in people being able to find it seems like a good tradeoff. Anomie⚔ 12:04, 4 August 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for your message! I actually did try to investigate by looking at the earliest edits of the page, any hidden comments, or transclusions of the template. Since I couldn't find any reason, I applied WP:BRD and it seems to (kind of?) have worked as intended. I'd argue new editors should never be on a page for requesting bot approval, but your second reason makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks! FaviFake (talk) 07:16, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-32
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Updates for editors
- Editors can now enable the User Info card. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled in your global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences. [1]
- Everybody is invited to share comments on Collaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by the Connection team. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the project talk page. [2]
- Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named
MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-accountand use a value defined inMediaWiki:Ipboptions. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList. More documentation is available. [3] 
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