Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia proposals

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The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

As the first step to the adoption of Wikidata, I propose the following:

A. That we recognize that it is advantageous to read the information about the Commons category on Wikidata rather than to keep it locally - meaning removing the category name parameter from {{commonscat}} (in the situation Wikidata has the info) would not be considered as disruptive and can be, in principle, carried out by bot on a large scale. (I do not intend to do it myself).

B. If we agree on A, there are two ways to visualize the information (note that they are not mutually exclusive):

B1. To continue doing what we are already doing, i.e. using {{commonscat}}, {{commonscat-inline}}, and having the dedicated field in some specialized templates (for example, it is included in {{Infobox Russian district}}, see Rzhevsky District for an example of an application).

B2. To keep the link to the category on Commons on the left panel, similarly to how it is used in Wikivoyage and some other Wikipedias, see voy:Fontainebleau for an example).

PS. I am not aware of any previous discussions of this topic; I will appreciate links if appropriate. PPS. I in principle intend to advertise this as RfC, however, I would like to wait for a day for comments before adding the template - possibly the issue has been discussed already, or some good ideas will be forthcoming.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:51, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:2015 administrator election reform/Phase II/Clerking RfC

==Introduction

Background

See also: Wikipedia:2015 administrator election reform/Phase I/RfC and Wikipedia:2015 administrator election reform/Phase II/RfC

Requests for adminship (commonly abbreviated as "RfA") is the process by which the Wikipedia community selects its administrators, trusted users who have the ability to perform certain technical actions. There is widespread consensus that the RfA process is broken, for various reasons, and many reform efforts over the past years have been unsuccessful. In late 2015, a new project, RFA2015, was launched. In the first phase of this project, which consisted of an RfC, the community successfully identified the problems with the RfA process. One of those problems is a hostile environment. In the same RfC, it was suggested that to remedy this problem, we allow certain users (called "clerks") to maintain order and decorum at RfA.

In his closing statement, the closer of that RfC concluded that the "community would like to discuss the idea of clerking", and we will do that in this RfC. Originally, the issue of clerking was to be discussed as a part of the Phase II RfC for RFA2015, but it was determined that because of the issue's complexity, it would be best to discuss it in a separate RfC. Set forth below are proposals concerning: (1) The responsibilities of RfA clerks; (2) Which users are authorized to perform those tasks. This RfC will run for 30 days and will be as widely advertised as possible, since the results may have a major impact on the RfA process. Biblioworm 23:12, 21 December 2015 (UTC)


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