Xenharmonic Wiki:Daily newsfeed

February 17, 2025

Mass protection reforms

Lériendil reporting.

A massive swath of content pages that had previously been fully protected - that is, those protected by Mike Battaglia - are now once again freely editable. This was done due to consensus on the Discord overwhelmingly considering this a much-needed change, and due to Mike Battaglia's recent inactivity as well as the preservation of these pages on the Legacy wiki.

Meanwhile, a few "easily accessed" pages, specifically those listed on the sidebar or otherwise prominently positioned on the wiki, have been given semi-protection. These are the pages considered "portals", from which pedagogical resources can be accessed.

Main Page revisions

Lériendil reporting.

A space for proposing edits to the Main Page has been established at Talk:Main Page/Revision proposals by me, Lériendil. One specific revision has already been proposed by Sintel, which will be transcluded here for broadcasting purposes.

• Remove the link to Migration FAQ (unnecessary at this point, 7 years after the migration from Wikispaces).
• Remove the link to the Xenrhythm Wiki (because it has very little content or activity).

Another proposal has been added this same day, again by me. That proposal is to link this newsfeed itself on the main page so that people can keep updated on what's happening on the wiki or in the community at large.

February 16, 2025

Results of the referendum

Lériendil reporting.

The referendum has been completed. Pursuant to its results, FloraC has been granted Bureaucrat permissions, and Fredg999 and Lériendil have been granted Interface Administrator and Sysop permissions. A system has been established, as suggested by Sintel, whereby any future sysop/administrator or bureaucrat appointments, or removals, will be discussed among members of the community and granted by a bureaucrat provided there is near-unanimous community consensus. A page protection policy, also suggested by Sintel, was also approved, to ensure that the power to protect pages is not abused; it will be written by the new staff members in the near term.

I sincerely thank everyone who participated in the referendum; most especially BudjarnLambeth, for negotiating with the Facebook group to get us to this point and for running the referendum, FloraC and Doug Blumeyer for initiating these discussions, Sintel for taking the time and having the commitment to create three proposals that have all now been enshrined by the community, and Tyler Henthorn for being an impartial judge and fully respecting the decisions that the community has made.