User talk:Bawolff – Wikinews, the free news source

Your last review was in October 2021 which is nearly 3 years ago. Your last admin action was in March 2024 (technically), but it was an action that should not have been taken and one you later reverted. Outside of this, your last admin action was in October 2018, nearly 6 years ago. According to [[WN:PEP]] users who do not use those permissions for 2 years will have them removed. This is just a notice and I have not requested removal of your permissions. You will also be renotified at least once more before I make a request for removal of your permissions. Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 18:35, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I defer to the wikinews community what rights they want me to have. Bawolff ?? 19:07, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Second notification, I might request removal of your reviewer and admin rights soon Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 11:53, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi

(I am messaging all reviewers)

Hope you are doing well.

Here are submitted for peer review:

Could you please review? Even a little edit or just one review would help a lot. (I don’t require a commitment to review every day from now on.)

Would you like to get notified of new drafts submitted for review? If so, please tell me which topics (or any topic) and where (email, wiki messages, push notification on smart phone, notification in wiki Notifications, or somewhere else).

Would you find a WN:RNA page for reviewers useful, it would be similar to WN:AAA but intended for reviewers to discuss reviewing and related software.

Would you be interested other communications off-wiki to create audio or video contact with other reviewers? I think this online gathering could be an essential part to deduce how to make article authoring and review easier. It could be just 30 minutes a month, and you don’t have to participate every time. I would write a meeting minutes note after each session and publish it on-wiki if desired.

Thanks!

Regards, Gryllida (talk) 11:24, 25 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

I am receiving two errors from EasyPeerReview when publishing. This is new behavior.

Error 1: WWC error [step 1] [tell bawolff]:api is not a function

Error 2: Easy Peer Review experienced some issue when creating opinion page.
Please tell user:Bawolff (include browser and technical details).
Technical details: api is not a function

Let me know if there is anything I can do on my end to help with debugging. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 16:04, 4 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

I forgot to mention that WN:ML has also stopped working for me; nothing happens when I click the “Make lead” button. I don’t know if the problems are related. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 16:12, 4 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not sure what is going on here. Do other people also experience this issue? Bawolff ?? 11:02, 5 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

@RockerballAustralia, Gryllida: do either of you experience issues when using EasyPeerReview? See above for details. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 13:35, 5 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not that I’ve noticed. I’ll certainly keep an eye out for it. RockerballAustralia contribs 00:15, 6 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Is it still broken if you disable your /common.js and meta /global.js? Maybe there is some sort of conlict. Bawolff ?? 01:09, 6 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

I’ll have a play around with it to see what I can find out when I’ve got time. That should be sometime later this afternoon my time (UTC+10). RockerballAustralia contribs 01:20, 6 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

I used the tool twice today and in both cases the articles were ‘not-ready’d’ and I did not get any errors either time. I have only gotten the errors when the review results in a published article. I will test again with another article after first disabling the scripts as you proposed. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 15:44, 6 November 2024 (UTC); edited 15:45, 6 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

I suspect the conflict is with m:User:TenWhile6/XReport.js. I disabled /common.js, which does not call XReport, and still received the two errors when publishing. However, after disabling XReport from /global.js, I was again able to use WN:ML. I will test easypeerreview again later with XReport disabled to see if that is indeed to culprit. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 16:45, 7 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

The Task Force has released a report that formally recommends closing Wikinews. The public consultation is here: m:Public consultation about Wikinews.Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 13:58, 26 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

A community response to the Task Force is underway and I believe it’s critical that we show clear support from contributors, reviewers, and administrators if we want Wikinews to remain open.

If you believe Wikinews still has potential for revitalization and should remain active, I ask that you:

• Review and help improve the draft community response, and/or
• Add your endorsement once you’re comfortable with the language

The goal is to finalize the draft before the July 16 Task Force call, so our response is ready for consideration.

You can find the draft here:
? Wikinews:Response to Proposal for Closing Wikinews

Thanks for considering.Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 14:32, 11 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Bawolff BigKrow (talk) 19:10, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

No Bawolff ?? 19:36, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

So, it seems you have pretty much entirely stepped away from English WN — is that a fair assessment?–Bddpaux (talk) 21:54, 3 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Yes. I’m happy to do fixes to jacascript things i made in the past, but beyond that I’ve mostly moved on to other things. Bawolff ?? 23:30, 3 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Make lead is aggravating my gastritis. NO INSULT TO YOUR EFFORTS — I’m just a hair confused.–Bddpaux (talk) 16:51, 10 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

John could abuse power here in Wikimedia, whereas most of functionaries do it. But he also spoke truth like meta:Special:Diff/10125313; I concur not only based on interaction with the user in question on Freenode. Not least, in 2017 Ss harassed Solomon203 (t · c · b) together with the execution squad from en.Wikipedia. Anyway, you are entitled to your opinion; just let you know that my positive attitude has its grounds too. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 18:19, 4 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Most people who abuse positions of power have positive attributes. You don’t get to be in a position of power if you don’t. In my opinion, John is very lucky that none of the people involved were letigious. Bawolff ?? 20:38, 4 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

let me know if interested? @Bawolff Don Don 23:49, 4 April 2026 (UTC)Reply