News from the Village Pump: Threads since June.
The electric winnowing described (and employed) in this issue's Discussion report does not just work on noticeboards: it works on the village pump as well, and it is there that some of the most momentous consensa develop.
The standard caveats apply here — and there's less detail than optimal, since this is catching up to quite a bit of a backlog. Nonetheless, these are the most-active threads of the six Villages Pump[1], from June to today: Policy, Technical, Proposals, Idea Lab, WMF and Miscellaneous.
| Thread | Length | Number of signatures | Opened | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idea lab: Revisiting WP:INACTIVITY | 153488 | 267 | 2025-07-16 | 2025-08-02 |
| Tweaking the parameters concerned with removal for inactive administrators is harder than it sounds. | ||||
| Miscellaneous: Declined vs rejected at AfC | 35709 | 58 | 2025-07-26 | 2025-08-02 |
| Are there better ways to respond to good faith editors who should "try again" with their Article for Creation (AfC) submission (currently coded as declined) versus not so good faith editors and hopeless dead ends (rejected)?. | ||||
| Policy: Is using selective transclusion to remove citations ever an acceptable way to reduce page size or overcome template maximums | 86430 | 164 | 2025-07-13 | 2025-07-21 |
| A very provincial issue — despite being one of the world's most popular websites, Wikipedia is not technically capable of displaying the full list of common misconceptions without it being split into various subpages. The argument here is about local versus global consensus, whether it should be split into sub-articles, how the split should be done, and maybe how we can finally bring our website into, at least, the 2010s. | ||||
| Policy: Are political userboxes now allowed in Templatespace? | 41099 | 78 | 2025-06-22 | 2025-08-03 |
| Userbox dispute. | ||||
| Policy: Citation Needed Epidemic: Tag Bombing Violates Good Faith and Hurts Wikipedia! | 38532 | 59 | 2025-07-25 | 2025-08-03 |
| 1.6 million citation-needed tags probably aren't really serving a purpose.[citation needed] What to do about it? | ||||
| Proposals: Finishing WP:LUGSTUBS2 | 127536 | 178 | 2025-04-24 | 2025-07-16 |
| A proposal to finish draftifying a bunch of stub articles. The decision to do this had actually been made way back in a 2023 RfC (see prior Signpost coverage). | ||||
| Proposals: Latitude and longitude | 37338 | 80 | 2025-06-03 | 2025-07-02 |
Concerning correcting impossibly precise levels of accuracy - buildings and structures given with coordinates like 41.572947546321°N, 125.462903749248°Wby imposing a blanket "standard precision". Interesting observations on the use of inappropriate coordinate precision (a link that may or may not be a Wikipedia guideline, according to commenters). Many decimals of precision would, in theory, allow one to locate a subatomic particle, but continental drift becomes an issue much sooner than that on the scale of human lifetimes. Eventually the proposal did not reach consensus. | ||||
| Proposals: Creating an edit filter or automatic new page flag for likely LLM-generated material | 22599 | 55 | 2025-07-10 | 2025-07-16 |
| The edit filter or abuse filter is a tool that allows editors in the edit filter manager group to set controls, mainly to address common patterns of harmful editing. Would one to control insertion of LLM-generated material be helpful? (See "AI slop" in this issue). | ||||
| Technical: We are looking for a pilot for our new feature, Favourite Templates | 63339 | 117 | 2025-06-17 | 2025-07-05 |
WMF rolls out a new tool that will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog. Then rebuffs suggestions to roll it out as a software beta feature. Hilarity ensues. | ||||
| Technical: AI use on ko wiki (WikiVault) | 32118 | 51 | 2025-06-21 | 2025-07-14 |
With a low ratio of editors to population, Korean Wikipedia is embracing AI tools for content creation in a way not seen here at English Wikipedia... | ||||
| WMF: RfC: Adopting a community position on WMF AI development | 249401 | 313 | 2025-05-29 | 2025-07-03 |
| ...and an English Wikipedia administrator opens a discussion on whether WMF is ahead of the community in enthusiasm for implementation of AI. | ||||
| WMF: Official Wikipedia Roblox game and Generative AI use | 36419 | 63 | 2025-06-17 | 2025-07-30 |
| Concerning an exception to the usually prohibited use of AI image generation (see prior Signpost coverage), to illustrate Foundation-supported Roblox game. | ||||
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Just wanted to voice my appreciation, this was a very interesting summary of village pump threads. Qwerfjkltalk 11:40, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Villages Pump? Are you saying multiple villages share this pump, rather than multiple pumps being available? No wonder it gets crowded! --//Replayful (talk | contribs) 11:54, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- It's several villages that somehow take "pump" as an adjective, apparently? Anomie⚔ 19:56, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm also grateful for this helpful use of our Signpost to bring attention to VP discussions. BusterD (talk) 01:12, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]