I can do nothing but wait for Itu to finally position himself, then he will probably either support the change or block it even with a majority still supporting.

As I have told and it has been confirmed by Conny above, we voted for the change with three (maybe four votes) in favor, and one vote against (now two), so I created the task in the belief that the decision had been made, independent from Itu still being undecided.

@DreamRimmer As Itu did not respond, please add dewikinews to the French patch (when will it take place) or create a patch for dewikinews to change the configuration on January 2. Thanks,

Wouldn't it be possible to change the configuration on January 2, but edit the pages on January 1 and do the config change retroactively as I wrote above?

I am sorry, but the German Wikinews has also decided in favour of the update, while Itu (who expressed his hesitation above) has abstained from the vote. It has been over one year since MGA73 notified the other languages about the ongoing discussion. Since then, I notified the other admins eight times, in Itu’s case even ten times. I definitely have “given an opportunity for objections” as required by the Meta page. Itu may finally form an opinion or please stay with his abstention to make the update possible per January 2 (or January 1 retroactively).