- Create the timeline (started July 6th, ends ???)
- Tell the tech folks T254614: Notify "tech audiences" about signature requirement consultation outcomes
- Post in Tech/News
- Write necessary documentation T254613: Post final requirements and implementation plan to proposal page + https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_requirements_for_user_signatures/Help
- Generate lists of affected editors
- Tell affected editors in groups T254616: Post messages on user talk pages people affected by new requirements
- Announce the end of the "grandfathering" period
Description
Description
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T233443 [Epic] Reply Tool | |||
| Open | None | T230654 Parser support for talk pages | |||
| Open | None | T53939 Some users have their signature automatically treated as wiki markup, apparently without their knowledge | |||
| Resolved | None | T70117 empty signature preference gives invalid default signature | |||
| Open | None | T248632 Implement new signature requirements | |||
| Stalled | None | T255898 Tell people about the new requirements for custom user signatures | |||
| Resolved | • Whatamidoing-WMF | T254613 Post final requirements and implementation plan to proposal page | |||
| Resolved | • Whatamidoing-WMF | T254614 Notify "tech audiences" about signature requirement consultation outcomes | |||
| Stalled | None | T254616 Post messages on user talk pages people affected by new requirements | |||
| Stalled | None | T254619 Send final reminder about signature changes |
Event Timeline
Comment Actions
Quick update: The software change has been "live" for about two weeks, and the plain-fancy-sig error at enwiki (the wiki with the most errors) has declined from 1000+ to ~850 since then. Since our lists are only people who have made an edit during the preceding 30 days, I think this is largely new editors rolling through the system. I'm therefore going to postpone individual messages until the software has been in place for a minimum of 30 days, so that we can minimize the number of messages being sent (and therefore reduce the risk of flooding anyone's watchlist).
Comment Actions
Update: I asked @AntiCompositeNumber to extend the timeframe in https://signatures.toolforge.org/reports/en.wikipedia.org We're working with a rolling period of 90 days, which meant 1,618 editors with plain-fancy-sig late last week. I've sent directions to all of those people. We're hoping to find out what kind of response rate we get from MassMessages before trying to replicate that process at other wikis.
Comment Actions
Removing task assignee due to inactivity as this open task has been assigned for more than two years. See the email sent to the task assignee on August 22nd, 2022.
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