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Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1

Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 1, June 2021Read the full newsletter

Welcome to the first issue of Universal Code of Conduct News! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.

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Affiliate consultations – Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (continue reading)
2021 key consultations – The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (continue reading)
Roundtable discussions – The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (continue reading)
Phase 2 drafting committee – The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (continue reading)
Diff blogs – The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (continue reading)

This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 00:42, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

Semi protect on every wiki

Not 100% sure if this is the right place, but couldn't find another help desk on meta.wiki. Is there a way for my talkpages to be semi-protected on all Wikimedia projects except for en.wiki (the only user talkpage I actually use)? There's a long term abuser/sockpuppet who's started doing cross-wiki annoyance on multiple language Wikipedias, sending random baity messages (Commons, French, Spanish, Tagalog today), and it'd be good to stop them on every project in one go. And is there a way to disable email notifications on every Wikimedia project in one go too? My Meta settings have email notifications when someone posts disabled, but that doesn't apply every time they post crap on my talkpage on other language Wikis. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:29, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

@Joseph2302: yes and no. There is no way to centrally apply protection on your talk pages, that would need to be done at respective wikis. What I have done is added your username into one of our anti-LTA global abuse filters, and that will apply on medium and small wikis and offer a layer of protection. For your email receipt settings, go to your preferences, then into your global settings, and you will see the control there. This is not really the right place however, the right eyes have seen it. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:14, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 00:42, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

Question about why an account was blocked

Hello, this is likely not the right place for this posting, but if it is not, please tell me where it should be posted instead of simply removing it. The account Alcatel 144895534 was blocked on META for being a "vandalism-only account" and their only edit was "revision deleted" or "oversighted" (I do not know the difference). However the edit was to make a request for removal from the title blacklist, which can be seen on Simple English Wikipedia here. I am not this user, but I restored their edit after it was reverted by Billinghurst because I agreed with them that the page should be created. See on English Wikipedia: w:I Made a Game with Zombies in It!. I am mainly concerned that the edits were "revision deleted" or "oversighted", and the user was blocked, when they did not do any vandalism, Because I think there is a policy against those things. 50.30.176.21 16:36, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

It looked like typical troll behaviour in obfuscating text from a junk name, then an uncommented reversion by an IP is typical follow-up behaviour on numbers of pages. If the first post looked problematic, surely the subsequent actions can be seen as more suspicious. The user has been unblocked and I have made a comment to simpleWP — billinghurst sDrewth 23:14, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: I do not know what you mean by obfuscate text, that is the real title of the video game. The user wanted to create an article on Simple English Wikipedia under that title, but it was blocked by the spam filter because there were too many exclamation points. This was the place to request exceptions to the spam filter. Please un-"revision delete" or un-"oversight" the revisions, because I think it was improper for it they were not vandalism. Thank you. 172.58.144.239 00:36, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Done Revisions undeleted, also unblocked 50.30.176.26. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 05:26, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! 50.30.176.26 07:33, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 00:42, 16 July 2021 (UTC)