[02:30:51] <Dragonfly6-7>	 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=D._Keith_Mano&type=revision&diff=1021663456&oldid=1021632515     what's the point of removing invisible LTR marks? Is it because they might fuck with screenreaders?
[02:31:11] <Dragonfly6-7>	 and how is it that they get into the text in the first place?
[03:12:36] <quiddity>	 Dragonfly6-7, I think that bot was just fixing a double-space. (I tried pasting the change into https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html and it says they are just plain "space"). The unclear edit-summary is partially explained by the note at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:FrescoBot/Details#Link-related - in your case, only the "[...] and minor changes" applied. :)
[03:13:53] <Dragonfly6-7>	 ah
[03:14:22] <Dragonfly6-7>	 second question still applies, thoug
[03:19:03] <quiddity>	 How the 2 double-spaces got in there?  I guess that would depend on any tools and edits you used during creation. There's nothing listed in the editfilters, so I'm not sure if you used any wiki-features during creation?  I accidentally double-space when pasting/rearranging text all the time, so if it were me I'd blame myself!
[03:20:55] <Dragonfly6-7>	 no
[03:21:04] <Dragonfly6-7>	 I'm specifically asking about invisible LTR marks
[03:21:12] <Dragonfly6-7>	 even if that's not what the issue was here
[17:55:03] <bd808>	 Anyone who is active as a tool maintainer or code contributor, but not active in editing on a wiki: there is a call for discussion of Board election criteria for technical contributors at T281977 that you may want to participate in.
[17:55:04] <stashbot>	 T281977: Reconsidering of eligibility criteria for technical contributions in elections - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281977
[22:10:15] <ori>	 bd808: nice write-up. no doubt the criteria need to be updated. I wonder how many technical contributors there are in practice that don't also meet the criteria for editors, which are pretty light.
[22:28:35] <bd808>	 ori: that's a question I have no answer for. anecdotally I know of 1 tech volunteer in that position. I guess I could say me too, but I have the staff qualification and maybe even enough edits on mw.o to count
[22:29:33] <bd808>	 a big oops in this today is that we don't have a canonical way to map Developers to SUL identities to compare
[22:52:25] <Nemo_bis>	 I remember this being a complicated discussion a decade or so ago
[22:52:39] <Nemo_bis>	 Then the elections started losing meaning anyway so few cared any more