Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-10-22/Discussion report

Discussion report

Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution

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Redesign of Help:Contents: A redesign of Wikipedia's main help page has been proposed.
Reforming dispute resolution: The Wikipedia dispute resolution process has been under fire for a lack of volunteers which causes backlogs. Your help is requested to discuss proposed changes to the dispute resolution process.
Good Article Main Page section: A section for good article of the day has been proposed to be added to the main page.
Good Article Did you Know: A new criterion has been proposed that would allow good articles that have been promoted within 5 days to be eligible for the Did You Know process.
Limit block permissions: A proposal is being discussed to limit block rights to a selected group to limit blocks that are immediately removed.

Syntax highlighting: A discussion of different forms of highlighting has been started to find out what should be highlighted and if it should be enabled by default.
Civility enforcement: Civility is one of the five pillars of Wikipedia yet there are issues regarding civil behavior. This discussion will attempt to resolve issues with civility and responses to those issues.
Arbitration Committee Elections: Arbitration Committee elections are coming up in December and the community wants help to determine the structure for the proceedings.
Actresses categorization: The policies at categorization in regards to using Category:Actors and Category:Actresses are under discussion.
Abortion advocacy movement coverage: Feedback is wanted to help decide the fate of the articles Support for the legalization of abortion and Opposition to legal abortion in regards to scope and title.