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MediaWiki message delivery 01:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Hello! In the Wikidata game New Wikiquote article and category matches, the entry type feature doesn't seem to be working. I selected English yet a keep getting German and Romance language items. If this happens to be relevant, the url I had was https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=90&opt=%7B%22type%22%3A%22en%22%7D. Thank you, I can do stuff! (talk) 02:52, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 18:49, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Hi Mike, I noticed that your name is missing on multiple 2024 board resolutions. For example:
There are 12 of you. The pages shows 11 "Approve" votes, one "Not present", and no "Not approve" votes. However, Esra'a is listed as both "Approve" and as "Not present". Am I right in assuming that this is just a clerical error, and you in fact approved as well? This seems to affect all resolutions that were part of foundation:Resolution:Review, Ratification, and Approval of Consent Agenda, June_2024.
Also – may I suggest you list the individual resolutions on foundation:Resolution:Main as sub-points for the consent agendas, rather than just the consent agendas on their own? This would look like this:
The reason I'm asking is that "consent agenda" is a very opaque term to an outsider. I first imagined it was about something completely different. As it stands, visitors to the page can't actually see what the board resolved just from looking at foundation:Resolution:Main – they have to know to click on each consent agenda first. Listing the individual decisions on foundation:Resolution:Main as shown above would aid transparency. Regards, Andreas JN466 19:09, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
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