[02:51:25] I see the election just started for the board vote. It's been a while I've seen these, but isn't there normally a list of candidates with some kind of information about them? [02:52:15] the banner goes straight to Specal:SecurePoll -> votewiki, where there is only a plain textx message about cats and dogs and 19 dropdown menus, plus a small text link to general instructions, and a small text link to a translation page with the same plain text explaining secure poll [02:53:22] foks: ^ [02:54:00] we have a slack :D [02:54:06] but yes, I'm working on it [03:09:18] in 2017 I think it was the same [03:09:35] here's a 2017 banner with a direct link to SecurePoll: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/Election2017_Board_voting_starts_new [03:10:23] here's the 2017 SecurePoll interface translations: https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/translate/637/en [03:10:31] interface messages I should say [03:13:31] the later 2017 banners were the same: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/Election2017_Board_voting_starts_FinishLine1 [03:20:26] In 2017 we could put the candidate statement in votewiki tiself [03:20:32] we can't do that with the STV implementation :( [03:32:19] a link to the candidates page prominently in the text seems prudent? [03:33:27] currently only prominent link is a page on meta without the 2021 sidebar, so one woudl have to do some indirect searching or navigating around to get to that. [03:38:18] I also ran into https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections where the links in the sidebar contain "2021" but are all redlink/404s [03:38:43] spend a few minutes trying to see what was wrong with the template, but didn't see anything obvious. It's missing a slash somewhere I guess. [03:48:10] foks added a link to the intro message [03:48:34] yeah I'm adding it now [03:48:59] that navbox is a mess unfortunately, not sure how to fix it, probably just needs to go [03:49:39] looks like the same template on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_elections , where it works [03:52:16] without the year parameter it works [03:52:25] kind of [03:53:28] it's because this is actually 2020 still (you know everyone said 2020 would last forever) [03:53:34] these are the 2020 elections [03:55:31] lmao [03:56:03] still getting to the bottom of it [03:57:12] yes there are pages for a cancelled 2020 election with [[Wikimedia Foundation elections/2020/Board of Trustees]] as the root [03:57:35] the 2021 pages have [[Wikimedia Foundation elections/2021]] as the root, no "Board of Trustees" in the titles [03:58:44] {{WMF elections}} has 2020 as the default year so in places where it is used without specifying the year it goes to the cancelled 2020 election [03:59:10] if you specify 2021 as the year it is all red links due to the change in title scheme [04:01:43] I can't move the page (even if I was brave enough), moving it is limited to gods of the realm of translation administrators [04:01:56] like editing pretty much anything on meta successfully [04:07:41] yeah. Maybe we just redirect the 2020 stuff to 2021 though it's good to have the historical record. I dunno! [04:09:44] foks: perhaps adding {{Board_Elections_2021_Nav}} to [[m:Wikimedia Foundation elections]] would work better than making the generic tpl work? [04:09:56] I'm doing that [04:10:08] cool [04:11:22] I've added it to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Single_Transferable_Vote as well, for a superprotect translationadmin to approve. [04:11:51] good night. [04:11:52] seems like we've lost [04:12:28] Krinkle, thanks :D [04:13:47] re-added which was for some reason part of the navbox template [04:15:35] if you're bilingual and not a native english speaker, would you set your language to english to avoid the constantly out of date and partially translated content on meta and mediawikiwiki? [04:19:09] maybe! [04:19:45] for that page, all translations apart from english now have a broken box full of red links on them, but I can't fix them without being a metagod [04:20:09] ok I can fix them but I can't mark my own change as needing translation [04:26:29] I can do it [04:27:55] * TimStarling worships metagod [04:31:26] :D [13:03:10] Change on 12meta.wikimedia.org a page Tech was modified, changed by AKlapper (WMF) link https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=21901559 edit summary: [+269] /* Adding Portuguese Wikinews to the Google News feed via Search Console */ [18:51:38] Change on 12meta.wikimedia.org a page Tech was modified, changed by GLederrey (WMF) link https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=21903573 edit summary: [+277] /* Adding Portuguese Wikinews to the Google News feed via Search Console */