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Please help to remedy piracy and harassment

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Status:    On hold
  • eowikt was filled by pirated content (copyright violation) from other wikis without atribution as well as from other online sources (PIV, ReVo, ...) between 2010 and 2020 by "Pablo Escobar" Requests_for_comment/Administrator_abuse_on_the_EO_Wiktionary and Requests for comment/Resolve massive copyright infringement on Wiktionary in Esperanto
  • copyright problems created by "Pablo Escobar"
    • example: [1] pirated from [2] -- more (Pablo is good at inventing words, but bad at writing definitions)
  • desperately poor quality of contributions by "Pablo Escobar"
  • my attempts to address the piracy and poor quality of the wiki in 2017 and 2018 attracted user "RG72" who attacked me 2018-10-20 for first time (after I had criticized the state of the wiki and proposed improvevent, but without attacking anyone, not "Pablo Escobar", and even less "RG72")
    Ĉu vi ne vidas diferencon inter krei kaj detrui?
    Don't you see the difference between to create and to destroy?
  • since then RG72 has always been rude to me
  • in 2021 account "Vami" appeared and harassed me for 3 months at the end of year Requests_for_comment/I_need_to_solve_the_problem_that_I_consider_important_in_the_eo.wiktionary.org_project#Two_months_of_harassment,_horrible_incivility,_trolling_and_false_accusations with the chief content "you are a vandal and you have destroyed this wiki" (actually, I invested much time into the opposite)
  • at that time "RG72" made a few rude posts too (example)
  • "RG72" is sysop at eowiki and usually not rude, but occasionally YES, if someone dares to criticize Russia (example: "Mi forigis paranojajn fantaziajxojn" "I removed paranoiaful fantasy"
  • Most likely "RG72" and "Vami" is the same person, due to same style (rudeness and accusations with "you are a vandal and you have destroyed this wiki")
  • Uzanta_diskuto%3ATaylor_49&diff=1185333&oldid=1184939 recent example of harassment by "RG72"
    Do kiam vi likvidos viajn fuŝojn? La artikolo edzo plu enhavas 16 "nekonatajn" lingvokodojn, vandalitajn de vi. Same en la aliaj artikoloj. Ĉu vi mem likvidos viajn vandalaĵojn aŭ tion devos plenumi iu alia? Ĉu vi komprenas ke vandalismo estas punenda per forbaro?
    So when will you annihilate your botchery? The article edzo still contains 16 "unknown" language codes, vandalized by you. Same in other articles. So will you annihilate your botchery yourself, or does anyone else have carry out this task? Are you aware that vandalism must be punished by ban?
  • after makig this threat, "RG72" applied for adminship at eowikt: kandi
  • vote stacking and canvassing: wikipedia -- wikt, support vote of "Vami" arrived only 15 hours after RG72's RFA, after Vami had been absent for more than 1 year -> either same person (-> sockpuppetry), or RG72 phoned (or similar) Vami and asked for the vote (-> meatpuppetry) (same for the account "Amikeco", also from Russia)
  • "RG72" also wrote 97% of an article about emself
  • in 2017, eowikt did not have any help pages (it had several pages in the Help: namespace, copied from German wiktionary, though, still in German), now it has such
  • in 2017, eowikt barely had a category structure (almost all categories were redirected or empty), now it has such
  • in 2017, eowikt did not have any templates or modules beyond most primitive ones (but 5 to 10 instances of every template as compenation), now it has such, with documentation in Esperanto and self-test, [8] [9] [10] [11] and many others
  • piracy violates WMF TOS
  • harassment violates WMF TOS and UCOC
  • "RG72" intends to ban me for personal reasons (maybe parts of my identity, maybe my attempts to clean out piracy, maybe some comment of mine criticizing Russia, maybe ...)

Taylor 49 (talk) 17:50, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(прошу прощения, что пишу на русском языке) Хочу дать несколько комментариев:
  • Я точно знаю, что участники RG72 и Amikeco являются разными людьми: я лично знаю Amikeco и много знаю про RG72. И хотя я лично не знаком с ним, но могу уверенно сказать, что это разные люди.
  • Я являюсь активным противником написания статей о себе (и несколько раз отвечал отказом о предложении написать статью про меня). Однако я внимательно изучил статью об участнике RG72 и могу сказать, что статья написана по авторитетным источникам и не содержит фактов восхваления самого участника. Я не поддерживаю его участие в данной статье, но я не вижу в этом признаков преследования или харасмента по отношению к участнику Taylor 49.
  • Я уверен, что вопросы пиратства или нарушения авторских прав в eowikt не имеет отношения к преследованию или харасменту по отношению к участнику Taylor 49.
VladimirPF (talk) 09:35, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
More harassment available:
anstataŭ klarigi siajn agojn elverŝis histeriajn fantaziojn
instead of explaining eir actions, ey poured hysteric fantasies
Se tia obseda detruado, politike motivitaj histerioj kaj vandalismo estas normo
If such obsessive destruction, politically motivated hystery and vandalism is the norm
... written at the occasion of a discussion to desysop RG72 at eo wikipedia (NOT started by me). Taylor 49 (talk) 21:39, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I categorically reject all Taylor79’s accusations and ask him to clarify that Wiktionary, Wikipedia, as well as other wikiprojects, were created so that participants would create, respectively, a dictionary, encyclopedia, etc., and not satisfy their painful passion for power , or throwing tantrums about their own political fantasies, sexual identity, etc.

A few years ago, I discovered that Taylor79 had arbitrarily renamed my article [12], as a result of which she lost Wikilinks to similar articles in other Wiktionaries, besides making serious mistakes - he wrote the proverb with a capital letter, and put a period at the end. When I asked him about the reasons for such a ridiculous, arbitrary and obviously wrong decision, he began to pour out his political fantasies about Russia, declaring that En Ruslando malsamopiniuloj ĉiam alfrontis ne nur forbaron, sed plej ofte ankaŭ malliberejon, torturon kaj mortigon. Mi ne forbaras vin nun ĉar mi ne estas tiel perfortema kiel vi, sed mi forlasas ĉi tiun fiiĝintan discuton. [13] (In Russia, people with different opinions always face not only blocking, but most often also imprisonment, torture and murder. I “don’t block you” only because I’m not as violent as you , but I leave this completely spoiled discussion).

Later, I also accidentally discovered that he had removed dozens of translations into other languages from another article of mine. When I asked about the reasons for such vandalism, Taylor79 replied that they had no place here, they should only be in articles about the Esperanto versions of these words. When asked why he didn’t move them to the corresponding articles in this case, Taylor79 replied that those interested could find the translations... in the history of the articles from which he deleted them. If this is not madness, then what is it?

At my insistence, he still moved these translations into the corresponding articles, but recently I discovered that dozens of them are reflected as belonging to languages \u200b\u200bwith unknown language codes. When I created these translations, I simultaneously created corresponding templates for all languages. However, Taylor79 is obsessed with deletion and endless, chaotic edits (Wiktionary history shows that the same templates and articles are edited by his robot endlessly and chaotically) When I asked what happened and why he continues to spoil articles created by other users, he fell into hysterics again: Bv paciencu, kaj ĉesu ataki min (la agresemo de via prezidanto estas pli ol sufiĉa, ĉu ne?) [14] (Please calm down and stop attacking me (your president’s aggressiveness is more than enough, isn’t it?).

Every time, faced with his hysterical statements, I answer the same thing: Mi sugestas al vi koncentriĝi je laboro, ne malŝpari tempon kaj fortojn por sentutila babilado kaj plendado (I advise you to concentrate on your work, not waste time and strength not useless chatter and complaints). I did this many times, but it was all to no avail - Taylor79 continues to attack me, now on other wikis, demanding that I be blocked due to differences in political views and regularly talking about his sexual identity, which, as I have repeatedly told him, he is not at all interested in the people who have gathered here to create a dictionary, encyclopedia, etc., and not to discuss anyone's personal life or political views.

Several years ago, Taylor79 was stripped of his status as a Wiktionary administrator by stewards precisely because of his endless conflicts with members, massive edits and deletions, which turned the project into his personal playground. Having lost his administrator status, he demanded that the Esperanto-Wiktionary be completely eliminated. I think this is enough to understand who we are dealing with.

I will add that his statements about “spreading Russian propaganda” are completely ridiculous, which is clear to anyone familiar with journalism. The examples he gives are interviews and reports, respectively, in the first case the point of view of the interviewee is stated, in the second - the events that the author of the report became a witness and/or participant in are described. It is impossible to find a report in any news project whose author does not reflect his own views, since an absolutely neutral text can only be created by an absolutely neutral person - and such people do not exist. However, these are the basics of journalism, which hardly need explanation. RG72 (talk) 05:16, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Repetitive accusations like " with his hysterical statements " brutally expose the personality of RG72 on their own, and do not need any reply or denial. Taylor 49 (talk) 18:38, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"In Russia, people with different opinions always face not only blocking, but most often also prison, torture and murder. I'm not blocking you only because I am not as prone to violence as you are, but I leave this completely spoiled discussion" [15]; “Please calm down and stop attacking me (your president’s aggressiveness is more than enough, isn’t it?)” [16], “Please stop telling me as if you are a KGB or NKVD employee, and I am your prisoner” [17] etc etc. And all this madness followed in response to comments related to the defacing of Wiktionary articles. If this is not hysteria, then what is it? RG72 (talk) 10:25, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Another (potentially hysterical) attack of user "RG72" against other users:
bunch of politically motivated fanatics and xenophobes
Also, RG72 has published blatant Russian propaganda on wikinews: terrorism, refugees welcome. Taylor 49 (talk) 22:15, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Taylor 49, I don't have the time to properly look into this at the moment, but...well, your latest edit here describes RG72's edit as "hysterical", and your previous edit in this section is a complaint of RG72 referring to you with the same word. If the personal attacks are two-way, the enforcement actions will end up being two-way as well. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 03:44, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Vermont: I used the word only one time, put it in brackets, and prefixed it by "potentially". So no, it is not the same level from both sides. Taylor 49 (talk) 21:18, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Another one:
bunch of bigots and xenophobes
The considerations of enforcement actions above are unfortunately purely theoretical given that 3+1/2 months of massive daily harassment did not result in any enforcement actions at all. Taylor 49 (talk) 19:51, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Misinformation on homosexuality in swahili wikipedia

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Status:    On hold

Hi, there seems to be a pretty egregious violation of Wikipedia’s rules over on Swahili Wikipedia by @Riccardo Riccioni, who is an administrator I believe. The page on homosexuality (ushoga in swahili), although mostly accurate information, is interspersed with unsubstantiated and irrelevant information, and highly opinionated statements. For example, at one point the article states: 

“watetezi wa ushoga wanataka hao vijana wapewe dawa za kusimamisha ubalehe ili baadaye iwe rahisi kuwafanyia upasuaji wa kubadili vyungo vya uzazi

English: advocates of homosexuality want young people to be given drugs to stop puberty so that later it will be easier to perform surgery to change the reproductive organs"

Not only is this a very opinionated statement, it is completely unrelated to homosexuality. Another example is: 

“mara nyingine ni kwamba mtu ameathiriwa na tukio ambalo amefanyiwa hasa utotoni au amekubali mwenyewe kujaribu kufanya hata akazoea kiasi cha kushindwa kujinasua

English: sometimes it is that a person has been affected by an event that happened to him especially in childhood or he has agreed to try it (homosexuality) out until he gets used to it to the point of being unable to break free."

Another example: 

"Binadamu, akiwa na akili na utashi, halazimiki wala hapaswi kufuata mielekeo yake yote, bali anatakiwa kuidhibiti, la sivyo ataharibika upande wa afya ya mwili na ya nafsi vilevile, mbali ya kuharibu maisha ya jamii.

English: Humankind, having intelligence and free will, is not forced nor should follow all of his inclinations, but must control them, otherwise he will be damaged in terms of physical and mental health, not to mention destroying social life."

Personal opinion and moral prescriptions don't have any place on Wikipedia.

The article also cites at several points Neil E. Whitehead as an authority on the psychology of homosexuality, who has not only been repeatedly discredited, but is not even a psychologist, and does not represent the general view amongst psychologists.

Those are a few examples. I saw this and took it upon myself to go and make corrections to these highly moralizing and factually dubious claims in the article. Upon making these changes, I got a message from Riccardo, an Italian, inexplicably accusing me of “ubeberu” (imperialism) by making these changes. He further stated that homosexuality is unacceptable and thus the article has to maintain the unsubstantiated claims and moralizing statements present in the article. Speakers of Swahili are intelligent enough to arrive at their own conclusions on social issues, I don't understand how presenting a purely neutral and opinion-free encyclopedic source is "imperialism". It is not as though I replaced the anti-gay moralizing with pro-gay moralizing. As an aside, he also quite condescendingly repeatedly referred to “us Tanzanians” and “you Americans” despite him not even being Tanzanian (he's Italian).

Swahili wikipedia doesn't really have the infrastructure to deal with these complains, so I was hoping that this could be dealt with here. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kisare (talk) 22:18, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kisare, thank you for reporting this. I will note that this isn't something stewards can deal with directly. I understand and entirely agree that this is a problem, but we are not an authority on local content decisions.
That said...I fail to see how this article conforms to any of Wikipedia's standards:
  • The third paragraph of the lede quotes and interprets the Bible and how 'souls' of opposite genders 'complement' each other.
  • Though the body of the article does include reliable sources' points about how homosexuality is not considered a mental illness, and how hundreds of animal species have been observed to be homoseuxal, among other things...it introduces these points and then immediately argues against them. And those arguments are unsourced, purely the author's personal, hateful opinion.
  • It includes lengthy, unsourced commentary about LGBT people's values and worth to society.
  • Includes bad-faith, rhetorical questions such as "If we allow people to do whatever they feel like, what will society be like?" to justify homophobic perspectives.
  • Equates homosexuality with rape.
  • Blatantly totalitarian statements in justifying homophobia: "it is necessary to protect the values of the society so that it can flourish against the desires that do not build it."
  • Argues that LGBT people seek to "destroy the very foundations of community life"
  • ...among many other problems.
And, the admin who reverted your attempts to fix this content is also the person who wrote most of this.
Basically, Kisare, you have two options:
  1. Make a global RfC. I don't recommend this option, it'll take a while and would require a lot of work gathering information about this and presenting it for broader community discussion.
  2. Wait for the U4C to be elected, and sent this to them for investigation. The U4C enforces the Universal Code of Conduct, and to me this seems to be a clear violation of section 3.3, specifically "imposing schemes on content intended to marginalize or ostracize" and "language aimed at vilifying, humiliating, inciting hatred against individuals or groups on the basis of who they are or their personal beliefs".
Let me know which one you're interested in, as I'd be happy to help. If you're not interested in pursuing this further, I'll make a note to report it to the U4C when the time comes. Best regards, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 02:08, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thanks for your help, I greatly appreciate it. I think the second option you provided is the best. It seems like the election completes in May? Once the U4C is elected, what will be the process of sending this to them for investigation? Best, Kisare (talk) 05:03, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

┌─────────────────────────────────┘
 @Riccardo Riccioni: Please explain your revert and link us to the apparent discussion the community had to keep this misinformation. The content on the page violates Pillar 2 & 4 and should be removed as a whole. --Min☠︎rax«¦talk¦» 05:19, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And if Google translate is accurate, what imperialism are you talking about? --Min☠︎rax«¦talk¦» 05:20, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also adding that the contents appear to be a significant violation of Pillar 1, deliberately using Wikipedia as an opinion soapbox. ArkHyena (talk) 06:24, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just adding that the translation of "ubeberu" as "imperialism" is correct. For those who are unfamiliar with Swahili, the official TUKI dictionary defines "ubeberu" as:
"Swahili: Ubepari uliokomaa na kuvuka mipaka ya nchi yake na kuingia nchi nyingine kwa madhumuni ya kuunyonya uchumi wa nchi hizo
English: Capitalism which grows and crosses the boundaries if its country and goes into other countries with the intention of exploiting the economy of those countries."
Swahili-English dictionaries also translate ubeberu as imperialism. There's no other meaning of that word. Kisare (talk) 06:44, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Minorax not sure if quoting en:Wikipedia:Five pillars is useful, as this is technically a local enwiki policy. But I agree with your assessment, the article seems to violate Neutral point of view (which is an official xwiki policy covering all Wikipedia projects) and wmf:UCoC#3.3 – Content vandalism and abuse of the projects („systematically manipulating content to favour specific interpretations of facts or points of view“). Johannnes89 (talk) 11:24, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Swahili Wikipedia has broadly similar guidelines to en:Wikipedia:Five pillars. See sw:Wikipedia:Mwongozo (Kumbuka). Regardless, as you say, the NPOV and UCoC apply universally across all Wikipedia projects. Kisare (talk) 07:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
By the way I would like to apologize to @Riccardo Riccioni for referring to him as a mzungu mwitalia ("a white Italian person"). I was aggravated by him accusing me of imperialism for removing his personal political and religious opinions from the article Ushoga, and was further aggravated by him acting like he's better than me because I was born and raised outside Tanzania, even though he wasn't born and raised in Tanzania either. However, I could've expressed those feelings in a more respectful way. That being said, all the aforementioned criticisms regarding the misinformation and proselytizing in the Ushoga article, and Riccardo's inappropriate response to my corrections, still remain. Kisare (talk) 01:02, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Kisare, I have no problem to forgive you for how you expressed your feelings. Moreover, I did not call you yourself imperialist, but I was accusing a general negative attitude about African way of thinking and living. As I said, my intention was not to refuse your contributions but require a prior dialogue respecting not my personal political and religious opinions but local culture which is very sensible to such question. Moreover, I have to repeat that I'm Tanzanian and bureaucrat of Swahili Wikipedia and tried to follow what agreed with fellow sysops. May be it would be better to inform you before reverting your changes, but I was discouraged by your previous response (or not response) to my messages. Peace to you! Riccardo Riccioni (talk) 10:10, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
==Homosexuality==
Dear Minorax, I'm here to answering your request of information about my work as bureaucrat and main contributor in Swahili Wikipedia. First of all, I'm proud of being Tanzanian and since 1997 not more Italian like user:Kisare insists to call me. I live in Tanzania for 40 years now and am very well inserted in this people. The expression "imperialism" is very common here in referring to efforts by foreign countries to change our culture and dominate us. Using it, I was not directly accusing Kisare and his contribution to the article, but his country, the USA. All the same, from the start of his contributing to our Wikipedia, he has shown not only competence and attention but also an attitude to dominate and impose his points instead of accepting discussion with us. After seeing that he doesn't like to answer my question, I left him go on in his changes, also when they are problematic. He said has Tanzanian ascent and is learning Swahili but this is not enough to know our culture and its convictions about homosexuality and related matters. This is not a reason to refuse true science, of course, but our perspective on today's Western civilization is very critical. We Swahili sysops discussed this question during a video meeting on January 20th, 3pm-4pm East African Time. All agreed on a common attitude. We don't refuse positive contributions, but the way Kisare did is not very good. For example, instead of asking me about the removal, or informing a local sysop, he at once denounced me to an external authority. Moreover, after my first answer to his denounce, inviting him to dialogue, he go on adding arguments to you against me and insisted in calling me "Italian" (the term he used to me is "Mzungu", "White man", that may be used as an insult, similar to "colonialist"). We in Swahili Wiki are not used to editing wars. We are peaceful people ready to reach agreement, but our history shows that we are very contrary to being imposed solutions from outside. Peace to you! --Riccardo Riccioni (talk) 10:37, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do know that in writing for an encyclopedia I have to be neutral, and I try to be so. The problem is that other peoples with another culture think that their vision is the only correct and do call it scientific, while the conclusions of their researches or their findings are very much directed by their culture (if not by interested funds). Riccardo Riccioni (talk) 14:41, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We wouldn't be here if you had written a well-sourced, neutral section about Tanzanian cultural views on homosexuality. The problem is the presentation. You wrote an article that actively seeks to proselytize readers, preaching to them from the Bible, presenting your ideas about how queer people are a threat to society. You actively argue with, and make personal value judgements about, the few reliable sources presented in the article. It isn't an encyclopedia article, and it isn't neutral. There are ways to write about contentious topics that you disagree with, and this isn't it. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 18:28, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is a clear violation of the principals.
sw:Special:Diff/1328553 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 15:46, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Requests for comment/Sysop abuse in the swahili Wikipedia 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 19:11, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It additionally seems this is not an issue just in the article on homosexuality. It appears that other articles, he also writes very opinionated, declarative statements on social issues as though they are fact. For example here, the article on utoaji mimba (abortion), he fails to neutrally describe religious views on abortion, and refers to people who get abortions as a muuaji (murderer, killer) who dishonor god, and says that contraception leads the way to mauaji ya halaiki (mass murder, genocide). Or here, the article on transgender people, in which he on several instances proselytized, and similarly undid people's changes when they attempted to remove such content. I will make corrections to these articles, but it seems this has been a pattern and I imagine this has occurred on several other articles as well that I'm not aware of. Kisare (talk) 00:01, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Activity of "LTA Pakkoruotsi" on eo wiktionary and other wikis

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The globally banned obsessive abuser "LTA Pakkoruotsi" AKA "LTA Nenoniel" [18] is still active:

The user suffers from following obsessions:

  • "pakkoruotsi" (obligatory Swedish in elementary schools in Finland)
  • baldness / alopecia (in Esperanto "Kalvulo", in Finnish "Kalju", in Swedish "Flintis")
  • d:Q5477226
  • d:Q29230
  • people whose name is similar to some vulgar/problematic word (for example Peter Rumpa)
  • history of the educational system in Finland (this is not inherently malicious, but can become a problem if large quantities of encyclopedic content are fed into wiktionary)

Please block the relevant IP ranges for at least 6 months, and activate a filter blocking (case insensitive, discarding possible [ | ]):

  • "hintti pervonen"
  • "gejo perversuleto"
  • "martti oiva kalevi ahtisaari"

Please delete and lock for 3 years [23]. Taylor 49 (talk) 19:08, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Processing a long queue of requested deletions at Galician Wiktionary

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The only administrator in the whole project is inactive since 2022. Most pages in gl:wikt:Categoría:Wiktionary:Páxinas para borrar have awaited for a year or two to be deleted; some examples: [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34]. It is evident no one is around to monitor the pending requests since at least 2022 AFAICT from the quick glance I made. Please empty the queue. Too Classy for This World (talk) 14:05, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done some of them, others are taking more time to check they are valid deletions MarcGarver (talk) 10:47, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Did a large batch, ~28 remain to review. — xaosflux Talk 15:41, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cullerdés, I see you are a very active contributor at the Galician Wiktionary. Could you help us review the queue, and at the same time would you consider running for an administrator rights on the project? --Base (talk) 01:41, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Scrutineering of enwiki admin election in late October

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Hello friends. I was wondering if the stewards might be willing to scrutineer and certify the results of enwiki's first admin elections, ending on Mon Oct 23, 2024? When in doubt about the details, may I suggest we just copy the enwiki arbitration committee elections? So for example, copying that, we would need 3 scrutineers who primary work at non-enwiki projects. Does this sound OK? Should we determine the 3 scrutineers now? Thanks a lot. Looking forward to your feedback. –Novem Linguae (talk) 10:14, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If the test is successful and enwiki decides to hold admin elections more frequently, I'm not sure Stewards have the capacity to support them, but I don't see an issue with supporting this trial run. I would volunteer as a scrutineer. Johannnes89 (talk) 19:26, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Same as Johannes, but I am also willing to volunteer as a scrutineer. EPIC (talk) 19:28, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you both for volunteering. If the trial is renewed later we will make sure to discuss further and come up with something scalable that doesn't tax steward bandwidth. Any third steward willing to help with this? –Novem Linguae (talk) 19:37, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am also willing to help. ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 20:53, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Amazing. Thank you all for the very quick response. See you on Oct 24. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:55, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I guess marking this as on hold as per above, although it does not seem like there is much to be done in the request itself as there are already enough steward volunteers for the task. --Base (talk) 01:42, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Johannnes89. @EPIC. @Yahya. Hello friends. The English Wikipedia administrator election just completed and is ready for scrutineering at your convenience. votewiki:Special:SecurePoll/list/1691. There are around 600 votes. I have created en:Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Results as the suggested location to place the results, which you may edit at your convenience. Is there an estimated amount of time that this process might take (days? weeks?)? That way I can communicate the correct timeframe to folks. Thank you very much for helping us out with this. Happy tallying. –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:13, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
600 votes shouldn’t take too long. Scrutineering might just take a couple of days if we don’t find anything that needs further investigation and a bit longer if we detect suspicious votes… I will work on it over the weekend. Johannnes89 (talk) 09:51, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Novem Linguae: Just wanted to note that I've finished going through the votes. With that being said, as noted above, this shouldn't take more than a couple of days. EPIC (talk) 21:55, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
+ I've finished going through the votes as well. ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 22:54, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Couple questions that I thought of when you get a chance. 1) What's a typical process for "going through votes"? Sorting by IP and looking for duplicates? 2) Do all 3 stewards go through all the votes, or do you divide up the 600 votes into like 200 votes per steward? 3) When you're done, does WMF T&S have to get involved to do the decryption? Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 01:36, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
1. I can’t speak for how other stewards go through the votes, but personally, I start by checking for duplicate cookies, then look for duplicate IPs, and finally glance over usernames and other details.
2. Yes, all three stewards review each vote. This approach has an advantage: if one steward misses something, another can catch it.
3. Yes, T&S needs to get involved. We’ve already completed our part and notified them. ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 09:27, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Awesome. Thanks for those details. If you completed your part and notified WMF T&S, then I think you can change this from on hold to complete. I will notify WMF T&S that they can proceed with decryption via the phab ticket, which I have found to be the fastest way to communicate with them (faster than email). Thank you very much to all three of you for the quick turnaround. I really appreciate your time! –Novem Linguae (talk) 17:00, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, unless you prefer that WMF T&S hit the decrypt button, then you want to post the results yourselves instead of WMF T&S? However you want to handle it :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 17:02, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, final question. Were any voting irregularities / sockpuppets found? –Novem Linguae (talk) 17:04, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nope, we didn't find any visible socking or signs of anyone using multiple accounts to vote, thus why this went relatively quick. Anyways, thank you - marking as done per above. Unfortunately the decryption still needs to be done by T&S since we do not have the decryption key. EPIC (talk) 17:07, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 I guess there's still one more step for the stewards. If we're copying the arbitration committee elections, they have the stewards sign the results to make them official. Are y'all OK with doing that once decryption is complete? –Novem Linguae (talk) 17:30, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me. EPIC (talk) 17:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
JSutherland (WMF) posted the results for us. @Johannnes89, if you can double check the results and sign the results page at your convenience please :) en:Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Results. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:01, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done. A sincere thank you to all three of you for your time. –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:27, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

is.wikisource Undeletion request 1/4

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Status:    In progress

This is the first of many undeletion requests for is.wikisource after an excessive deletion spree by Stefán Örn. This was posted to the local village pump at s:is:Wikiheimild:Potturinn#Afeyðing_síðna, where Stefán said there could have been mistakes, but proceeded not taking any action on any of the requested items or commenting on specific points. Stefáns point of view was to update things in accordance to the english wikisource, as mentioned on s:is:User talk:Snævar, but many things where deleted that fall outside of that definition. I only disagree with this overshoot of his originally stated intention, keeping templates in line with en.wikisource is fine by me. One of the few things me and Stefán can agree on is that the community is not large enough to make their own templates.

Comments on individual pages are indented. Any comments here on what was on the pages is as seen through dumps of is.wikisource prior to deletion and my own memory. Comments here have been translated from my original post on the local village pump, sometimes with added context.

Snið:StripWhitespace

Template, was an redirect to Template:Trim, was used on 7 pages.

Snið:Trim

History merge with current page, if possible, else delete current one and undelete old one. Template, was used on 7 pages, mostly through template:stripWhitespace. Was updated only a couple of days prior to deletion from english wikipedia, which is the source of the english wikisource template.

Wikiheimildspjall:Um verkefnið

Chatpage containing chat of former active users about the page, puts the history of the page into perspective. Will discuss the content page later.

Wikiheimild:Stjórnendur/Eldri umsóknir

Did contain former requests for adminship, tells a part of the story of the website, which can only be a good thing.

Wikiheimild:Merkisáfangar

Another history of the project erasure. Did contain milestones of the project, like which text was the 100th and so on. The same page on the icelandic wikipeedia sisterproject has been referenced several times by local media, indicating it´s importance. Did offer to keep the page up to date.

Snið:Óklárað

Try to history merge with Snið:Incomplete, else delete Snið:Incomplete and undelete old one as they are the same. I am aware and ok with the template ending up at Snið:Incomplete due to the merge. Contained an template for unfinished works. Was used on the pages Arnbjörg, Grasnytjar, Norsk æfintýri and Æfisaga Jóns Ólafssonar Indíafara. Was updated from english wikisource shortly before deletion.

Snið:Ambox

Try to history merge with current template, else delete current one and undelete old one. Was used by Snið:Óklárað. This family of templates (ambox, ombox, etc.) are commonly used for maintainance notices. Was newly created at the time of deletion and was up to date with the english wikisource.

Snið:Hrá mynd

Try to history merge with Snið:Raw image, else delete Snið:Raw image and undelete old one as they are the same. I am aware and ok with the template ending up at Snið:Raw image due to the merge. Template, from english wikisource, same as Template:Raw image. Was created after an discussion between Bjarki S and me, where he wanted a simpler way to link images. Has been used several times by three different users, but never on an permenent basis, and thus was unused at the time of deletion, but still useful. The underlying module, Module:RawImage exists.

Snið:X-smaller block

Try to history merge with current template, else delete current one and undelete old one. Used by Snið:Hrá mynd, also from english wikisource.--Snævar (talk) 01:13, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OAuth permissions

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Preferably permission requests should be submitted using the form from Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration.

After submitting this form, you will receive a token that your application will use to identify itself to MediaWiki. An OAuth administrator will need to approve your application before it can be authorized by other users. It is possible to request approval using {{oauthapprequest}}; please create a sub-section of this section.

A few recommendations and remarks:

  • Try to use as few grants as possible. Avoid grants that are not actually needed now.
  • Versions are of the form "major.minor.release" (the last two being optional) and increase as grant changes are needed.
  • Please provide a public RSA key (in PEM format) if possible; otherwise a (less secure) secret token will have to be used.
  • Use the JSON restrictions field to limit access of this consumer to IP addresses in those CIDR ranges.
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See also

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Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation

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