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Eleven years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. (Sorry, missed you last year.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:11, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there. When you get a minute you might want to take a closer look at User talk:Evad37/rater.js#It is no longer possible to assign an importance to a redirect. Looks like a fairly severe rater bug. Thank you. –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:12, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please have a look - it is a problem!!! JarrahTree 13:45, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am also seeing this come up - importance is assessed as none or NA for all articles, not just set indexes or redirects. Reconrabbit 17:34, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know how rater determines the list of accepted importance values for each project? I am trying to understand what might have caused this bug, and whether it is related to a change on Module:WikiProject banner — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:15, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever sets this.items on this line, if someone wants to go digging. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:09, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(Replied on script talk page - Evad37 [talk] 00:35, 1 October 2024 (UTC))[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

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