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Articles needing archived

Latest comment: 17 days ago6 comments3 people in discussion

We need an admin to archive many of the articles that are published, but not archived. The process is temporarily unique in that as a result of our recent project Wikinews:2024 Copyright license upgrade, all articles published before December 16 will need to have {{Archived-cc-2.5}} placed on them to reflect our old license. Articles published after December 16 will receive {{Archived}} as normal.

The following DPL should work for identifying pages that need to be archived:

<DynamicPageList>
allowcachedresults = true
category=Published
notcategory=Archived
notcategory=AutoArchived
notcategory=Retracted articles
namespace=wiki
addfirstcategorydate=true
</DynamicPageList>

Let me know if you have any questions regarding the two templates, or the project and thank you in advance for the help! —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 16:22, 19 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

I plan to work on this on some time, by writing a bot that will handle the archival process. Leaderboard (talk) 06:07, 25 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Michael.C.Wright This has mostly been done. Articles that have not been archived are articles whose last edit (not the same as published) are less than 3 weeks old - expect this to eventually be tweaked once the bot starts running unsupervised. There is also a chance articles "right at the border" may have an incorrect template - there are none right now, and any that do exist should be easy to fix. Leaderboard (talk) 11:25, 25 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Something interesting has happened involving some articles previously in Category:Published. It looks like a number of published articles have been removed from that category but still exist in the archived category.

The following DPL can be used to help identify the pages:

<DynamicPageList>
category=Archived
notcategory=Published
namespace=wiki
addfirstcategorydate=true
</DynamicPageList>

When you say 'right at the border' do you mean the December 16 date of license update?

Thanks as always, and Merry Christmas! —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 14:13, 25 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Michael.C.Wright That's fixed, and yes. Leaderboard (talk) 16:21, 25 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the archival Leaderboard. Gryllida (talk) 22:36, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Replace redirect code at template:archive

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I have made an edit request at the following: Template talk:Archived but the edit is needed at Template:Archive, which is redirected to Template:Archived. The redirect also affects the talk page. So to be clear, I'm posting here as well. Please see the full request here. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 16:09, 21 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done Leaderboard (talk) 05:18, 23 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

129.63.91.8

Latest comment: 17 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Mass creation of non news related articles. BigKrow (talk) 17:49, 3 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

129.63.91.8 (talk · contribs)... this user is currently blocked by Leaderboard I think this is all done for now. Gryllida (talk) 22:37, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Revdel request for special:diff/4834165 and its edit summary

Latest comment: 17 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Dear admins, please consider the deletion of this revision and its edit summary which includes uncivil statements. Thank you for your attention to this case. MathXplore (talk) 02:35, 8 January 2025 (UTC)Reply