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This is the page to propose page moves that might be controversial. These should be listed for seven days and implemented if there is no opposition. Any language may be used on this page, although English is the most common. Users who wish to use this place should place {{move}} on the page in question to alert other users, which adds the page to Category:Proposed page moves.
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Board elections to Wikimedia Foundation Board elections [edit]

Board elections to Wikimedia Foundation Board elections

  • Nowadays there are many Wikimedia boards, so this needs disambiguating. I would simply move the page, but there seem to be over 2000 subpages that also need to be moved here, so I'm posting this here both to ensure that there is consensus for the move and to ask for (bot?) help to move all of the subpages. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:03, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
  • Agree with Mike. John Vandenberg (talk) 06:29, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
    Hmm, we only have one board where the entire community is part of the election. This is fundamentally a community exercise and the pages are community pages rather than WMF board pages. Keeping at the shorter name does have its benefits. It would be good to get more community input into this move request. John Vandenberg (talk) 06:40, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Support Support. A disambig page would be good. Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 06:57, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Agree with move to more specific title. Tony (talk) 07:53, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Which other Wikimedia Boards do exist? I think the current title works well and there is no need to complicate it. --MF-W 16:27, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
    • Pick a Wikimedia chapter - each of them has a board. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:26, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
      • Hm, that is indeed true. I hadn't thought of it because I almost only read stuff about German-speaking chapters which use a translation not in the least similar to the word "Board". However, I still think that it is quite clear that in most cases "the Board" refers to that one of the Foundation. As John Vandenberg points out, "the Board"'s elections are also the only ones who take place on Meta, while chapter Boards are elected in assemblies. They are probably also one of the few occasions on which users from other wikis come to Meta in high numbers, so I think having them at a quite simple name might be better for their (and Meta's...) accessibility. Of course the proposed new name is still better than this historic one ;) --MF-W 18:44, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

There's 5 to 1 to move the page & subpages, and this has been opened since August 2012. I think that enough time has elapsed. Could a uninvolved admin please have a look at this? Thanks. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:31, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

  • As an uninvloved admin, it seems clear that this will pass, but the standard move only moves 100 subpages, and this has 2200+ subpages. Any thoughts on how to accomplish this without massive manual labor? -- Avi (talk) 17:22, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
    The movepages.py script to the rescue! - However indeed it's a very large ammount of subpages. Perhaps advertise this at Meta:Babel to gauge more comments before this massive move is done would be a good idea? This has to be done with a bot (to avoid clogging Meta's RC for the whole month [:-)] and because it'll be tedious to do this manually) Thanks. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 17:27, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Posted at Babel. -- Avi (talk) 17:46, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
  • The move seems fine to me, but I agree with Nemo's comment that some of these subpages should probably be killed off before the move. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:59, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
    • I'm not a botop, but I think it is safe to say this move has consensus to be performed. Someone who runs a bot should prune-then-move. -- Avi (talk) 17:23, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
      • Thanks Avraham. I've created User:Thehelpfulone/Board which is a list of all the pages in the Board elections/* namespace and the corresponding page that I plan to move the pages to. I'm using Wikimedia Foundation elections/ as a prefix to match the naming choice of this year's Election Committee. Could someone have a look over that for any obvious problems? Thehelpfulone 15:11, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
        • What's the status here? --MF-W 23:59, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
          • I just need a confirmation from someone that the proposed page moves look okay, then I can run my bot and move the pages. Thehelpfulone 13:00, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Some pages [edit]

When language codes are after a forward slash in a title, they are usually lowercase. πr2 (t • c) 19:37, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikimedia CAT and Associació Amical Viquipèdia -> Amical Wikimedia [edit]

Hello. I'm updating Amical Wikimedia information since we have agreed to change our name. Is it possible to move all the subpages from Associació Amical Viquipèdia to subpages of Amical Wikimedia? ONLY the subpages, the page itself will be turned into a redirection.

Also, apart from this, I need the same with Wikimedia CAT subpages. Some of them are obsolete and shall be deleted, but I will do it later.

Finally, all those subpages should be categorized into Category:Amical Wikimedia, and Category:Associació Amical Viquipèdia and Category:Wikimedia CAT should be deleted.

Thank you in advance.--Arnaugir (talk) 12:53, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, it is possible for admins, who have the move-subpages right, to do that move. However, categories cannot be automatically changed (a bot could do this, or someone could manually handle it). Is there a link to consensus about this? PiRSquared17 (talk) 01:25, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
I will do the categories, okay. Just move the subpages :-) well, the organization now is going to be named Amical Wikimedia and hopefully will be recognized very soon by the WMF, so I thought I would start renaming and merging things onto a new updated page, since those are obsolete (Wikimedia CAT name is no longer used, and so is Associació Amical Viquipèdia). Thank you--Arnaugir (talk) 08:15, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Yes check.svg Done, but some could not be moved where page already exists (like /bylaws). See Special:PrefixIndex/Associació Amical Viquipèdia and Special:PrefixIndex/Wikimedia CAT. PiRSquared17 (talk) 12:35, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Never mind, I went back and histmerged those. Everything should be fixed except for the categories, double redirects, and possibly outdated links. PiRSquared17 (talk) 12:48, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

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