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'''2026-03-17''' | |||
A couple of announcements today! We're officially launching both the Wiki Zulip server, and the superconfirmed role on the Wiki. | |||
The Zulip server, located at https://zulip.consumerrights.wiki/ (and accessible via the left sidebar), is intended to act as a Discord alternative for those of you who aren't too keen on setting up a Discord account. It is a privacy respecting open source program which we self-host, and we've also set up bridge infrastructure, meaning that many of the main channels on the Discord and Zulip allow for cross sahj-platform communication, with messages sent on one platform being viewable on the other. | |||
Unlike a full wiki mod, superconfirmed users will not have any special privileges relating to banning or managing the permissions of other accounts on the site, but will still be able to remove article notices, edit protected pages, and so on. The full requirements can be found on [[Consumer_Rights_Wiki:Moderator_applications]] however the gist of it is that you need to know what you're on about and have ~1 month of productive edits on this wiki, or demonstrate to an administrator that you have experience on another wiki with comparable editorial standards, such as Wikipedia. | |||
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Quick note to say that we're deprecating Archive.today, and editors should no longer use them for [[Projects:Archive_everything|archiving]]. | Quick note to say that we're deprecating Archive.today, and editors should no longer use them for [[Projects:Archive_everything|archiving]]. | ||
The reason is a whole bunch of internet drama but long story short, the site maintainer/owner seems to have used malicious Javascript to make all visitors to the site unwittingly participate in a DDOS against the personal website of someone they didn't like, as well as allegedly '''editing archived pages''' as a form of harassment against the same target, making archive.today no longer a reliable archive. | The reason is a whole bunch of internet drama but long story short, the site maintainer/owner seems to have used malicious Javascript to make all visitors to the site unwittingly participate in a DDOS against the personal website of someone they didn't like, as well as allegedly '''editing archived pages''' as a form of harassment against the same target, making archive.today no longer a reliable archive. | ||
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