The Tech Team is bringing forth a bill to change one existing area of the Technical Content Policy, and add three more. These changes can be seen on this sandbox page and are discussed in further detail below.
Adult Content Pages
(This change is not reflecting in the above sandbox link.)
This section is to be removed in its entirety. The entirety of this section has been deprecated by changes to how adult pages are handled, and the removal of the adult: category means that this is no longer an element of policy that needs to be mandated by the Technical Team. The only portion of the Technical Content Policy that remains relevant is the final line:
The URLs of pages are never permitted to contain adult content.
This line is to be relocated into the Adult Content Warning Guide.
ListUsers Module
The ListUsers module, which calls upon the username of the reader, is a tool that is frequently used on the wiki. However, it allows for the display of different articles or content based on whether a user is logged in or not, which is less than ideal. This can significantly complicate various parts of site function, such as how the article is tagged or should display. Furthermore, it could potentially allow an entirely different article to be displayed to users who are not logged in, which would be the most prominent and frequently seen version of the article, but functionally immune to voting.
This policy is to limit the degree amount that ListUsers is used, and make sure that articles are not significantly different to a user who is not logged in. It is written in a way that should not effect existing content on the wiki.
Link Shorteners
You cannot see the end destination of a shortened link or QR code and QR codes can have security exploits or download malicious files. Further, there is no use for them on the Wiki, as the character limit is 200,000, more than sufficient to handle long links. As such, the Tech Team moves to ban these.
Page Renaming
The first half of this section is more of a guide, and seeks to codify the basic rules that we have around moving pages into new urls. Nothing here is new, except for the list of steps, which simply seeks to provide reference for the best case procedure that Tech Team members try to follow when they need to rename pages.
The section in the green box, however, is a new line of policy. It seeks to prevent a rather unpopular form of slot sniping, in which a user who doesn't have a near complete or finished article simply moves an article they have already posted into a newly opened slot. This extant article is able to sneak into the slot and will normally have a high rating, so it will claim the slot in a manner that our users frequently find unfair. The proposal in the green box seeks to limit this while not restricting other cases of slot renaming. It will be put to a vote separate from the other sections.
This thread is open to all staff and will last for one week. The 04 version of this thread can be found here.
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