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Meta-Wiki maintenance announcements [edit] General maintenance announcements:

(as of 19 January 2020)

• Cooperation on Meta-Wiki maintenance is always welcome.
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Abuse filter for IP edits on broadcasts

Would you add an abuse filter to prevent ips from editing subpages of special:prefixindex/Global message delivery/Targets/ ? I don't think IPs can do anything productive there. I'm not sure if broadcasts could even be sent to IP talk pages.

If you want to go a step further: semi-protection of the pages is probably not a good idea as users might not be confirmed before wanting to edit this. However, maybe not-confirmed editors should shouldn't be editing other users entries. Jura1 (talk) 11:19, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Comment presumably only in the main namespace, rather than to impact the translations that are attached to some of the pages, and would fall under the PAGENAME paths. @Jura1: Do you have some examples of what IP addresses have been doing, as it may be worthwhile customising a disallow notice to better guide them, maybe even look at something translated, or to a landing page.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:18, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Is this only an issues on meta-wiki? The local titleblacklist may be better to deal with this. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:32, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Update Main Page to automatically display localised version

Hi! Since october 2018 update, Main Page is displayed in English by default, readers have to choose their language in bottom frame each time they visit Main Page. We can fix that issue using the same trick which is used by {{LangSwitch}} and some other templates, based on {{int:lang}} automatically localised interface message. Can a sysop do:

1. Move Main Page to Template:Main Page/v2, including translation pages.
2. Wait for moving is finished (it should be entered in Page translation log).
3. Recreate Main Page with current content of Main page sandbox.

You also can remove Template:Main Page/v3 which I have created and which is unuseful. —Pols12 (talk) 14:46, 18 January 2020 (UTC)