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Unfortunately I got some bad news: the project's founder, {{admin|Dennis Brown}}, has retired from Wikipedia. [[User:Sjones23|Lord Sjones23]] ([[User talk:Sjones23|talk]] - [[User:Sjones23/Wikipedia contributions|contributions]]) 10:26, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Unfortunately I got some bad news: the project's founder, {{admin|Dennis Brown}}, has retired from Wikipedia. [[User:Sjones23|Lord Sjones23]] ([[User talk:Sjones23|talk]] - [[User:Sjones23/Wikipedia contributions|contributions]]) 10:26, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
: Perhaps it would be wise to wait for ∼ 100 days, at shortest, to determine whether is he retired ''sensu stricto''. People [[Wikipedia:Community_response_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation's_ban_of_Fram|upset due to contests over power]] don’t usually quit wiki projects – they might move to some alternative site, or dumbly undo the “retirement” afterwards. [[User:Incnis Mrsi|Incnis Mrsi]] ([[User talk:Incnis Mrsi|talk]]) 12:03, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

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Back on July 1, 2012, Dennis Brown said: "I'm seeing a lot of discussion in a lot of place regarding editor retention, but not a coordinated effort. This is that coordinated effort, a way for us to actually do something beside speak out in random venues."

Concerning disruptive editors...

Hi, all. I've dealt with quite a few chronically disruptive users in the past, some of whom are de facto banned for their behavior. However, if a disruptive editor has had too many sock puppets to create further disruption, is it necessary to implement community bans to prevent it? If not, what’s the best possible approach? If they do reform and get unblocked, should they go to this WikiProject? I'm thinking about some possible precautions. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 19:46, 5 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 14

Newsletter • June 2019

Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.

There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:

  • A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
  • We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!

Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:

  • Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
  • WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Another long-term editor has bit the dust

Unfortunately I got some bad news: the project's founder, Dennis Brown (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), has retired from Wikipedia. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 10:26, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps it would be wise to wait for ∼ 100 days, at shortest, to determine whether is he retired sensu stricto. People upset due to contests over power don’t usually quit wiki projects – they might move to some alternative site, or dumbly undo the “retirement” afterwards. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 12:03, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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