If you're not very busy, would you please translate New requirements for user signatures for me? I've only marked the top and the section headings for translation (so far). I'm not sure that people will really want to read everything, but I wanted at least a little to be available to French speakers.
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The announcement is already done: Wikipédia:Le Bistro/5 mars 2020#Nouvelles exigences pour les signatures. I will do it on MetaWiki during the weekend.
Thank you!
Something weird in your RfC. You are asking "what should be done about existing signatures that don't meet the new limits? For example, should they be disallowed?" but highlight that "existing signatures will *NOT* be affected". Do you mean that the Editing Team will do nothing for the existing signatures if the communities do not want it?
Just had to read: "we're looking for feedback as to whether you would like existing invalid signatures to be disallowed". Okay, okay!
"Yes". ;-)
The main goal is to stop letting people create more bad signatures. (There are only a few thousand "bad" ones at enwiki now; if you asked on the talk page, the volunteer would probably look up the frwiki numbers for you.)
Later, existing bad signatures could be removed. It is technically feasible to let the old signatures stay there forever. On the talk page, at the moment, editors support removing the old sigs in maybe 6 or 12 months.
I'm sorry that it's a bit confusing. I really don't want people to read that it and think "Oh, no, they're going to ban ALL custom signatures!" (which is not true) or even that bad signatures have to be fixed immediately (there is plenty of time).
I just didn't read correctly, nothing to worry. I believe that the feature will not be on beta this week, do you know if it will be next week?
It's supposed to (finally!) get to you on Monday. I don't know the exact time, but probably later in the European day.
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