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Hi. You are now listed as missing. Should you ever return or choose not to be listed, you are welcome to remove your name. Chris Troutman (talk) 20:36, 28 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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In 2020, during the first wave of the COVID pandemic, A levels and GCSE exams in the UK were cancelled due to students being unable to safely sit them. At the time, I was a final year A level student, and had taken up Wikipedia editing during the lockdown as a way to continue my studies and keep expanding my knowledge before coming to university. My intention at the time was very much to continue editing into university. The cancellation of the exams, however, led to the 2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, in which Ofqual, the Government agency in the UK responsible for setting qualifications, developed an algorithm for determining what grades a student "would have got" had they sat the exams. Unfortunately for all of us, this algorithm was not only ill-thought-through, but patently biased and dangerous. So much so that, at the start of August 2020, I realised that it would need challenging, and began to use my time to do just that. My edits stopped because, working with the legal nonprofit Foxglove, I was setting out to challenge the algorithm in the courts, which eventually got some fair media coverage (perhaps making me qualify as a WP:BLP1E!) We ultimately didn't have to go through with the court process in full as the Government U-turned of its own accord a matter of hours before we were due to file our case formally in the courts, but the events still turned a lot of what I was doing in the rest of my life upside down, and effectively dominated the next couple of months of my life. By the point that the fallout from that was over, another COVID wave was striking the UK, and I knew I wanted to do something more to help respond to it - so I began volunteering with St John Ambulance, the UK's first aid charity and volunteer health reserve, where I'm still giving pretty much all my volunteering time at the moment in both a clinical and a management role. All of those things put together really didn't leave a lot of time for Wikipedia, and every day that passed I found it more difficult to write this explanation of what had happened - it didn't occur to me to do so at all for a couple of months, but beyond that it kept feeling as though it were too late! That probably sounds ridiculous, but it's the truth :) Also, if you're reading this all the way to the end, thank you, but you evidently find me a lot more interesting than I do! |
❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️
We have been talking at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment#FRS bot speed about slowing down Yapperbot to once a day (it's currently once an hour). I've been assuming that this would be an easy change for you to make. If you have a few minutes sometime, would you please do that? Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:30, 23 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
Hi,
For some reason I've stopped getting RfC notifications even though my username is still at Wikipedia:Feedback request service. I have no idea why.
Kind Regards, TarnishedPathtalk 08:02, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hello friend. Just a courtesy note to let you know that your bot has been down for a couple months, and we are thinking about forking it. If you are around to either fix the bot or help us with forking it, it could really expedite the process. The discussion is at User talk:Yapperbot#Down since mid-December?. I hope you are doing well in life and with all your charity work! –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:48, 19 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
A tool is considered abandoned and eligible for adoption by an interested maintainer when:
1. Any of the following conditions are met:
1. The tool must have been nonfunctional (no webservice/offline) for 14 days.
2. The current tool maintainer(s) must not have been active in any Wikimedia project for 28 days.
2. The current tool maintainer(s) must be notified via talk page post on Wikitech, and their home wiki (if known), and email (if available).
3. The current tool maintainer(s) must not object to the addition within 14 days from their notification.
Naypta: This is your official notification per Abandoned Tool Policy that because:
That, unless you respond within 14 days, your maintenance for the tool Yapperbot may be put up for adoption by a new maintainer(s). Please let us know if you object to such an adoption and can resume maintenance of the tool. --David Tornheim (talk) 22:20, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi, I've been on a couple lists on Wikipedia:Feedback request service for five-ish months and still haven't received any notices about RfCs. I do see that there have been some issues of late, but based on my browsing of other users' talk pages it seems to be up and running - I've poked in on others on my lists and everybody else has gotten at least 2 or 3 notices on their talk page in the last couple months, when I haven't had even my first. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks! Wow Mollu (talk) 13:53, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply