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RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

  • Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
  • Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
  • Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
  • Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
  • Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
  • Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
  • Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
  • Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
  • Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
  • Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
  • Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
  • Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
  • Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
  • Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
  • Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
  • Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
  • Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

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User page

Hey Sohom, I hope all's good with you. Your user page is quite impressive, by the way. Just wanted to mention, I spotted some outdated lines from 2023 about your travel plans and IP addresses. Thought you might want to tweak or remove them. If you are already onto it, just ignore my message. – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:26, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

I've updated that text. I'm still somewhat prone to travel around and public univ/college wifi. So overlap is still expected unfortunately. (I'm writing this in unversity/public wifi lol). Sohom (talk) 21:58, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Cookie stuffing you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Mokadoshi -- Mokadoshi (talk) 01:23, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

The article Cookie stuffing you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cookie stuffing and Talk:Cookie stuffing/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Mokadoshi -- Mokadoshi (talk) 01:03, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

The article Cookie stuffing you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cookie stuffing for comments about the article, and Talk:Cookie stuffing/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Mokadoshi -- Mokadoshi (talk) 05:02, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from The Ravens of Odin (13:44, 19 March 2024)

Hi I'm Pablo and I hear you are going to be my mentor. I there any way to reach you other than Wikipedia? --The Ravens of Odin (talk) 13:44, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Not as such, sorry for the rather late reply. Sohom (talk) 01:02, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Annettemlesure (07:04, 20 March 2024)

Hi, I messed up on my username. How can I fix it? --Annettemlesure (talk) 07:04, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

@Annettemlesure You can change your username at Special:GlobalRenameRequest. Sohom (talk) 01:03, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of DOM clobbering

The article DOM clobbering you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:DOM clobbering for comments about the article, and Talk:DOM clobbering/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Elli -- Elli (talk) 18:43, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from HaloSpartanCats (23:22, 26 March 2024)

Hello! I wish to cite a source in an infobox, but when I tried to do that it just added the citation as text instead of a citation. Do you know how to properly add a citation to an infobox? --HaloSpartanCats (talk) 23:22, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

@HaloSpartanCats It's really complicated to do this in the Visual Editor (which is what I assume you are using). You will need to create the citation and then use the source editor to move the citations (the citation should start with <ref>{{ and end with }}</ref>) into the correct template parameter for the infobox (i.e. if there is a infobox like {{Infobox person |death = 2001 |birth= 1999...}} and if you wanted to add a citation to the death field you would effectively make the code {{Infobox person |death = 2001<ref>{{cite web|url=https://example.com|title=Obituary for John Doe|access-date=2024-03-27}}</ref> |birth= 1999 ...}}) Sohom (talk) 01:33, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

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GA of Yahoo Data Breaches

Hey, thanks for all the work you put into reviewing Yahoo!_data_breaches. Totally agree with all your points (some are my carelessness and some are my timidness) I'll rewrite and try again in a little while: I certainly think I couldn't have moved much further forward without another editor encouraging an even deeper revision than I've already done. Much appreciated. Joe (talk) 18:29, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

I look forward to seeing the article back at GA at some point :) Sohom (talk) 20:11, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

On 1 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cookie stuffing, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that you could be sentenced to serve time in prison for stuffing cookies? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cookie stuffing. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cookie stuffing), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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  • The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Sohom Datta,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

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Tech News: 2024-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
  • A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
  • Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [4][5]
  • Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [6]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [7][8]
  • New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [9]

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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

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Problems

  • Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [10][11]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [12][13]
  • Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [14]
  • A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [15]

Future changes

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  • Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [16]

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Discussion

Please reply to the message at the talk page of Filmfare Award Bangla for Best Supporting Actress. Sahajitbro (talk) 06:32, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

I have replied at the AFD expanding on my rationale. Sohom (talk) 22:30, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Kunee01 (18:28, 17 April 2024)

Write the history of wali dan nasani --Kunee01 (talk) 18:28, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@Kunee01 Feel free to add it yourself :) This is after all the encyclopedia that anyone can edit :) Sohom (talk) 20:59, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-17

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Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [18][19]

Future changes

  • This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [20]

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Talk:Yahoo! data breaches/GA1

Hi Sohom Dotta. I just started reviewing Talk:Yahoo! data breaches/GA2 when I noticed you had reviewed GA1 not too long ago and had expressed a willingness to re-review it after improvements had been made. I didn't mean to steal your thunder. You are welcome to jump in. Best. Schierbecker (talk) 18:22, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice, I'm a bit busy right now, but I'll follow the discussion and try to jump in and give insight as and when I can. Sohom (talk) 22:19, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Myres Johnson 256 (22:43, 24 April 2024)

Hello, how can I upload my autobiography --Myres Johnson 256 (talk) 22:43, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

@Myres Johnson 256 You really shouldn't be publishing your autobiography on Wikipedia. Wait until some editor writes about your independently. Sohom (talk) 19:34, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Boroline

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Boroline you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Arconning -- Arconning (talk) 16:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 May newsletter

The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

Problems

  • Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [30]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [31][32]

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Your GA nomination of Physics Wallah

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Physics Wallah you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of MSincccc -- MSincccc (talk) 08:23, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

@Sohom Datta Awaiting your response at the GA discussion page where I have left a few comments which I hope will be addressed soon. Regards MSincccc (talk) 15:33, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
I'll get to this in a bit (~today/tomorrow). Sohom (talk) 22:16, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C

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You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.

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Your GA nomination of Physics Wallah

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RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins

Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Boroline

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Go programming

Can you help me better understand how the modules work with Go and Github? I constantly get an error like this. Reading that thread doesn't really help me understand what causes the problem or how to fix it--I tried everything they suggested. The main problem for me is that I don't really understand how Go identifies which modules to download to a local directory, how it knows it has the "right" copy, etc. The documentation I looked at for Go modules is either too detailed or too general. For example, it put this in the go.mod file:

github.com/DavidTornheim/ybtools/v2 v2.0.0-20240505063049-1508c8717f87

The "v2.0.0-20240505063049-1508c8717f87" seems to be some version number of the code on Github or a hash # of some sort. How exactly did it come up with that number? If I could better understand the key steps Go uses when it runs a command like "go mod init" or "go mod tidy" when working with code stored on github, that might help. I need to understand the relationship between the original on github and the copy it downloaded, which will help me understand why the local copy is missing something it needs (or some path is incorrect).

I'm more used to "# include" statements of C, where the path is explicit. These implied paths are confusing. --David Tornheim (talk) 20:24, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@David Tornheim To my understanding Golang pins specific versions of dependencies using Github commit hashes (to prevent Supply chain attacks). The string github.com/DavidTornheim/ybtools/v2 v2.0.0-20240505063049-1508c8717f87 has multiple parts, github.com/DavidTornheim/ybtools denotes the repository, /v2 denotes to Golang that the v2 version of the module was specifically required. The rest of the string is a pseudo version number generated by Golang that denotes the specific commit/state of the module when the module was required. It's of the form v<base_version_prefix>-<timestamp>-<git_commit_id>. The base version prefix is the last version published in the repository (in this case 2.0.0), the timestamp corresponds to the timestamp of the last commit to the repository (i.e. 5 May 2024 etc) and the commit hash is 1508c8717f87. Google has published a pretty well specified doc about this at https://go.dev/doc/modules/version-numbers and https://go.dev/doc/modules/gomod-ref which are also pretty good resources on the topic :)
Wrt to your specific case, I think Golang objecting to/complaining about the fact that github.com/DavidTornheim/ybtools does not actually have a published v2 version as specified by the string. Sohom (talk) 20:52, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Thank you. That's helpful. I'll probably have a couple of more questions. Hopefully, I'll make some progress with the information you provided.--David Tornheim (talk) 22:35, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
@Sohom Datta: Unfortunately, I'm still having trouble. When I type:
go get github.com/DavidTornheim/yapperbot-frs
I get this error:
go: github.com/DavidTornheim/yapperbot-frs@upgrade (v0.0.0-20240505230953-00203c1cab87) requires github.com/DavidTornheim/yapperbot-frs@v0.0.0-20240505230953-00203c1cab87: parsing go.mod: go.mod:12: usage: require module/path v1.2.3
go.mod:13:2: usage: require module/path v1.2.3
I believe it is parsing: https://github.com/DavidTornheim/yapperbot-frs/blob/master/go.mod
But that file does not ask for v1.2.3 of anything (and not at line 12 or 13). I can't find anything in my code (or the original) that asks for v1.2.3. Is it trying to parse an older version of go.mod? If so, is there a reason it is not getting the newest version? Is there a way to look at v0.0.0-20240505230953-00203c1cab87?
--David Tornheim (talk) 00:35, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
@David Tornheim I don't think it's looking for v1.2.3, I think it cannot parse line 12 and 13 and is telling you to correct the lines 12 and 13 to be in the format require module/path v<any_version_number>. Based on looking at https://github.com/DavidTornheim/yapperbot-frs/blob/master/go.mod line 12 doesn't have any version number, and line 13 is getting tripped up because # is not considered a valid character (A comment string in go.mod would need to start with //) Sohom (talk) 00:53, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
@Sohom Datta: I changed the # to //, but the error is exactly the same. --David Tornheim (talk) 01:02, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
@David Tornheim Line 14 still doesn't conform to the require module/path v<any_version_number> format. Maybe you can switch that line for github.com/DavidTornheim/ybtools v0.0.0-20240505230558-e0c68ccf8803 (which is what Golang generates when I try to add ybtools to the fresh project). Sohom (talk) 01:06, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
That fixed it! Thanks so much for your help. If Go's error messages were a little more clear and specific--like your explanations--I probably could have figured it out on my own! --David Tornheim (talk) 01:20, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

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