Wookieepedia:Mofferences/February 12, 2012

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Log

 * February 12, 2012 (Text)
 * Agenda

Minutes

 * 1) IRC Cloak request system: IRC/Cloaks officially ratified
 * 2) Limiting editing of user pages: Unregistered users attempting to edit userpages will be restricted and issued a warning. Exception will be allowed for editing of user subpages.
 * 3) Abandoned WookieeProject IRC channels: All WookieeProject IRC subchannels that have become abandoned or idle will be merged into a single channel, #wookieepedia-wookieeprojects
 * 4) Treatment of "Unidentified" in articles: "Unidentified" will now be included in infobox name field as standard
 * 5) Treatment of parenthetical titles in articles: Conjecturally-titled articles will always include parenthetical descriptors in infobox name field as standard; parenthetical descriptors will be excluded from infobox name field for canonical names when parenthetical title is used for disambiguation purposes
 * 6) Abuse Filter reviews:
 * 7) Abuse Filter 23 will undergo administrative review within 20-30 days of Mofference date
 * 8) Abuse Filter 26 will allow for all relevant, official sites to be added as external links (Dark Horse, Titan, etc.) Other obvious nonsense links will not be allowed. Additionally, a link will be provided to the offending user in the filter warning: "False positive? Report "
 * 9) Proposed overhaul to Protection policy will be sent to Consensus track for further discussion
 * 10) Grace period for consensus discussions: No consensus reached for creating grace period for successfully passed consensus measures
 * 11) Celebration fan table: Specifics regarding Wookieepedia fan table at Celebration VI will be held publicly on Senate Hall thread(s). Direct all requests and ideas to.
 * 12) Proper infobox documentation: Support idea to provide proper and specific documentation for infobox fields. Further specifics will be discussed in Senate Hall thread.
 * 13) Substitute for quote galleries: Wq will now be used in articles to link to Quote of the Day subpages that have at least ten quotes.
 * 14) Enabling Gadgets: Gadgets Extension will be enabled on Wookieepedia
 * 15) Reference note punctuation: References will only use periods at the end of the citation if the citation is a complete sentence. References that are not complete sentences will not use periods. Identical to current site policy for image caption punctuation.
 * 16) Wookieepedia Copyrights: Copyrights is now full site policy
 * 17) Amendments to Signature policy:
 * 18) Randomization scripts for color and font restricted
 * 19) Timestamp and date code to be black
 * 20) CheckUsers: and  approved for CheckUser rights. Additionally,  re-approved for CheckUser rights. Request to have Darth Culator granted right will be resubmitted to Wikia Staff.
 * 21) Good articles on Main Page: Measure will be brought to Senate Hall for further discussion
 * 22) Official Friends removal process: Removal process for Official Friends officially ratified with additional clause included: "If an existing Official Friend has altered their site in such a way that a connection to Wookieepedia is no longer visible, or has changed their format significantly since their nomination, an administrator may remove them from the Main Page prior to the closing of this vote."
 * 23) Amendments to User image policy:
 * 24) Item 7 will now read: "Users with no contributions to the main namespace for more than 12 months are considered inactive and lose their privileges in regards to user images."
 * 25) Item 10 will be created: "Users must meet the requirements of Wookieepedia:Single-issue voters to earn and maintain user image privileges."
 * 26) Citation for non-Star Wars books: Manual of Style will be amended to include the following provision: "References to print works not covered by articles at Wookieepedia should be cited in Modern Language Association citation format." Additionally, the designation "Print" in the citation itself is not to be used.