User talk:Artix Kreiger/Archive 2

Question

Excuse me Artix Kreiger, I'm the user who opened a global checkuser request about an almost certain abuser of proxies and sockpuppets 3 days ago. Okay, I opened it as an anonymous, and then I created an account, but the request is still as I left it. Meanwhile, another pair of IPs belonging to the same ranges have appeared making the same edits in the same pages... I thought such a report on meta.wikimedia would have been considered immediately, afterall it's about a user who's been using proxies since over a month ago and lately sock accounts too, and there's also a small possibility that the sockmaster is an old Italian registered user. Is the fact that this report is coming from an anonymous more significant that the content of the report itself, which I've just repeated? 151.64.168.168 17:17, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

you’ve asked the question to Ruslik0. He would give you a better answer. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 01:00, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Instead he seems to be ignoring me... May you tell me if I'm doing something wrong? Apart from the fact that I'm a new user I don't think I've given any reasons to be snobbed, I've only opened a checkuser request and provided enough information to deal with it easily. Will you please let me know if, on your opinion, it's just a matter of time or it's more likely that the request will be ignored? 151.64.191.128 17:01, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

no offense, but it got denied and it was gonna be that way. In the eyes of the stewards, you would have to be somewhat of an established user (with an account) in order to request. Otherwise, no one would know who you are. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 13:48, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

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

• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [1]
• There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [2]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [3][4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

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• A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [5][6]

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18:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-04

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

• Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [7][8]

Problems

• With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [9]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [10]

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23:55, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-04

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

• Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [11][12]

Problems

• With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [13]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [14]

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23:55, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

hi!

I'm this user (ther remover). I did it due to my retirement. It's as well as the many emails I receive, but not enough to read you them. It seems to me that I'll return only in the summer (around June). Thanks, 83.130.139.113 16:57, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

See here. Thanks, 83.130.139.113 16:57, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

hi 83.130.139.113! Glad to hear from you. Thanks for telling me. I appreciate it. I hope you enjoy your wiki break! Life is important! Hope to see you soon! --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 17:05, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! 83.130.139.113 17:13, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Re: User:Cosine02

Yes, it is my previous account. So what should I do? Should I request for global lock for User:cosine02 in order to avoid confusion? --Stang 06:21, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

@Stang:, you could also go to SRUC to forcibly take over the account. ----Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 13:01, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your help.--Stang 13:57, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

IP "votes" in RFL discussions

In the one you just backed out, the user was probably an LTA anyway, so no harm done.

Still, I tend to be lenient in allowing IP participation in RFL discussions, because as you'll see from the template at the top (and also in LPP) these discussions are not votes (or even !votes) in the usual way of looking at things. The policy governs the decision, and the decision is made by LangCom. The discussion is provided to help LangCom decide whether the request is within policy or not. But LangCom really does not judge these things by the number of !votes. StevenJ81 (talk) 14:55, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

@StevenJ81:, ah ok. I see, you weigh the merits of the benefits over costs. I understand. Also, I agree, it appeared to be an LTA or sorts because I was not impressed by the gung-ho attitude of supports. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 14:59, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Me, neither. It feels like possibly an IP of Assoc, who was just banned. But who knows? In any event, I'm most appreciative of your helping keep an eye on these things. (And I was just away for a while; help is always welcome.) StevenJ81 (talk) 15:30, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [15][16][17]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [18]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [19]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [20]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [21]

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for that fix. Unfortunately I turned off cross-wiki notifications and only visit here once a while. Thanks. –Ammarpad (talk) 00:55, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Template:SWMT-Members

Would you like to add yourself to the list? it since that you are also active to be one of the vandal fighter at here. SA 13 Bro (talk) 22:00, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

You should definitely go for it! hiàn 22:01, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

SA 13 Bro and Hiàn, added. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 22:19, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Quick translation request

Hi. "Village in China" = "Село у Кини" and "Village in Indonesia = "Село у Индонезији". --FiliP ██ 23:02, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Translation request

Hi. I'd translate into Galician Village in China as Aldeas da China and Village in Indonesia would be Aldeas de Indonesia. In Spanish, it'll be Pueblos de China and Pueblos de Indonesia. I hope it helps! --AMPERIO (talk) 11:46, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi AMPERIO, Thank you so much. Just wanted to make sure, if I wanted to say something like "village in x province of China", would it be "aldea en provincia da X de China"? (google translate haha) 22:27, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

In Galician it would be something like "aldeas na provincia X da China" (lit. villages in province x of China) or "aldeas na provincia chinesa X" (lit. villages in the chinese province of x) (forget that). In Spanish it'll be "pueblos en la provincia X de China". Please note that both aldeas and pueblos are in plural, for singular just take the s out. --AMPERIO (talk) 18:43, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Re.: Quickt Translation Request

[22] "Village in China" = "selo u Kini". If You want a stylish form, also is possible "selo u Kitaju", "vas u Kini", "vas u Kitaju"; "stan" can also be "selo" (village), but that is solely for shepherds' village in mountain. "Village in Indonesia" = "selo u Indoneziji" (stylish form "vas u Indoneziji"). Kubura (talk) 21:01, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

"village in China" = 中國其村 (Chinese Charater), Dṳ̆ng-guók gì chŏng (Foochow Romanized);

"village in Indonesia" = 印尼其村 (Chinese Charater), Éng-nà̤ gì chŏng (Foochow Romanized). - I am Davidzdh. 13:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

User:Davidzdh, is it the same in classical chinese? --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 17:00, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

In Classical Chinese, it should be 中國之村, 印尼之村. - I am Davidzdh. 02:43, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Reply: Quick Question for you

Hello. In Malay, "Village(s) in China" is translated as Kampung di China, "Village(s) in Indonesia" as Kampung di Indonesia and "Commune(s) in Morocco" would be Komun di Maghribi (not so sure about this one because I need to know its name in Arabic). I hope it helps. 26 Ramadan (talk) 04:36, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Q

Hello Artix, why you do that? --Alaa :)..! 04:11, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello Alaa, as I understand, oversight requests are usually best kept private and not really intended to draw attention. perhaps an email to stewards@wikimedia.org is good. But I have restored it. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 04:19, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

I just ask a question to clarify things. Thanks for clarification --Alaa :)..! 04:36, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

I have read the mail. Thanks --Alaa :)..! 04:41, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Translation request

Hello, I see you speak Nahuatlahtolli. I was wondering if you can translate "Village in China", "Commune in Morocco", and "village in Indonesia". It is for updating Wikidata. Thanks in advance. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 20:23, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Nahuatl is macrolanguage (NAH), in Mexico there are many Nahuatl languages, if you want this translates in Central Nahuatl (ISO code NHN), village is altepetl, commune is Altepecalpolli, and city is altepetl, Metropolitan Area is Altepenanyotl, Province is Hueyaltepetl, state is Tlahtohcayotl and country or nation is Tlacatiyan. Is you can in other Nahuatl languages, is very different. Regards.--Marrovi (talk) 20:30, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

ISO code nah is for macrolanguage, If you want to learn Nahuatl languages you must to visit Incubator Incubator:Category:Incubator:Nahuatl languages. Thanks.--Marrovi (talk) 20:37, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Marrovi, interesting though. I mean, in Central Nahuatl, is it altepetl China or Im missing something? --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 23:28, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

ML Translation request

Do you still need it? sorry was away for work for a bit. --Jyothis (talk) 23:08, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

L"need", no. but It would be nice. :) --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 01:33, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

lol ok, here it goes -

Village in China - ചൈനയിലെ ഗ്രാമം

village in Indonesia - ഇൻഡോനേഷ്യയിലെ ഗ്രാമം

ഗ്രാമം is Village. Hope this helps. --Jyothis (talk) 22:49, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Jyothis, thanks. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 15:55, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

NO Problem --Jyothis (talk) 00:41, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Malay pharase

• "village in China", = kampung di China
• "village in Indonesia", = kampung di Indonesia
• "commune in Morocco", = perkampungan di Morocco
• "populated place" in India. = tempat didiami di India Yosri (talk) 00:48, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Community ban proposal - User:Zsfgseg

Template:Discussion-top Zsfgseg (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA)

see also: Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Zsfgseg

This user was initially blocked for vandalizing AN/I. Since that block he has repeatedly evaded his block, wanting a second chance (which is always denied because (a) his registered socks share the same name, and (b) he goes right back to the same behavior that got him blocked). Even more recently, he's been resorting to pestering me on IRC, seeking an unblock (usually after one of his socks gets caught), but today he followed up an IRC PM with this post to my talk page.

It is clear to me that he flat-out does not get it, and his repeated communication with me is starting to border on harassment. I am seeking a community ban against him for these reasons. —Jeremy ^{(v^_^v Dittobori)} 02:03, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

• Support Ban There's no excuse for that behavior and it's obvious he's just here to screw around, play games and act a fool. I think he DOES get it: this person has no desire to edit but gets his jollies by playing this game. Kindzmarauli (talk) 05:51, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

• Support per above and his attempt to remove this discussion[23] -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 20:55, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
  • IP is now blocked. TFOWR 21:00, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

• Support – Just formally ban him already; he's virtually de facto banned, anyways, as no admin in their right mind would even consider unblocking. –MuZemike 21:15, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

• Support: Considered this yesterday, decided to sleep on it, no change of heart. Removing this discussion (per AnmaFinotera, above) suggests an ongoing wish to be destructive. Second chance comes after demonstrating an ability and desire to be constructive. TFOWR 10:21, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

• Support; better to make this formal for the sake of clarity, if not anything else - the behavior is not acceptable. Ncmvocalist (talk) 14:16, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

• Note: Another user has been blocked for attempting to remove this discussion. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 20:11, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support Ban completly unacceptable behavior, reinforced by this last bout of socking. Dreadstar ☥ 20:18, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

• Support ban. Although per MuZemike, he's basically de facto banned. But, repeated socking, inappropriate behavior, and that I haven't seen any constructive edits from any of the accounts or IPs are good enough reasons for me. Elockid ^(Talk) 20:36, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

• Note – I have blocked 71.249.0.0/17 for 24 hours his continued disruption and block evasion here and on WP:ANI. –MuZemike 20:38, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

...and again for 55. –MuZemike 01:51, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

• Support, obviously. ╟─TreasuryTag►presiding officer─╢ 20:50, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support ban – Clearly a lier who purposely wants another chance, just because the user wants to continue to vandalize. By the way, what do you mean with "community ban"? Heymid (talk) 20:53, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Comment. A community ban is a type of ban when you have been practically ostracized here. Like others said here, community-banned people have no chance being accepted again as normal WP editors, not after all the damage they have done. --Eaglestorm (talk) 15:19, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

• Support ban - from the IP evasion I've seen just today I'm happy for this to go ahead, and per the other supports above. S.G.^(GH) _ping! 23:14, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support ban - this kind of disruption warrants nothing other than this kind of remedy. Volunteer time cannot be wasted by behaviour like this and so it needs to simply be prevented--Cailil ^talk 23:58, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Consensus seems clear to me, I have tagged the account and added to the List of banned users. Kindzmarauli (talk) 03:57, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

If no one's willing to unblock him, it's unnecessary to go through this rigamarole.—Ryūlóng (竜龙)

Apologies for pimping this every chance I get, but for editors dealing with clean-up, this is necessary: per WP:3RR reverting an indef'd editor can result in a block for a good-faith editor. A community ban changes that. There is value in a community ban over an indef-block-with-no-admin-prepared-to-unblock. TFOWR 14:44, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

• Support ban He's just screwing around, Wikipedia is not his play-place. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 04:14, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support ban per all of the above. The IP Address blanking this section is evidently the same person, still willing to evade their ban and try to stop this process.   — Jeff G. ツ 14:37, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support Clearly his recent hijinx have verified the absolute necessity. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 22:03, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
• Strongest possible support. User is one of the most disruptive, attention-starved individuals I've encountered on this site - the username variations are proof of that since they're all variations on the same dull theme - and I've encountered my fair share. Further support for a possible rangeblock. PMDrive1061 (talk) 22:39, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
• Strong support per his history of vandalizeing TTTSNB's talk page as well as my own past experiences with him. His childish acts need to stop and a ban will alow for quicker action on any of his socks.--White Shadows ^{stood on the edge} 01:54, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
• Strong support - and if it is possible to construct a tight-enough rangeblock, I would recommend that too. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 15:17, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

In Central Nahuatl (nhn)

Hi, good mornimg (Mexico), altepetl in Central nahuatl (nhn) is city; for example: Altepetl Mexihco (Mexico City). Regards.--Marrovi (talk) 14:52, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

What about Altepetl China? --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 15:43, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

China is country, other China (town), is a populated settlement in State of Nuevo León, Mexico. I don't know about Altepetl China.--Marrovi (talk) 20:06, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Marrovi, would that phrase be good to use? "Village in China" es "Altepetl China"? bueno o no? --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 20:55, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes of course, Altepetl ipan China is Village in China.--Marrovi (talk) 21:03, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Reply from my email:

There was somebody else on Chinese Wikipedia has seriously violated the privacy policy when they access the CU and disclose the personal data to other users in the past, such as like IP addresses, and someone has complaints about the issue to WMF Office. For further more about the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information policy guidelines, feel free to inquire User:Jalexander-WMF. SA 13 Bro (talk) 02:01, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

@SA 13 Bro:, 我问了一次。他说 privacy policy不让谈们妁--Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 02:35, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

对, 隐私是机密性的, 不能随意让人知道的.

Yes, personal privacy is a confidentiality, cannot lets people know in anyway.

SA 13 Bro (talk) 02:57, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Response to translation request.

Hello Artix, you left a message on my talk page asking for a translation of three phrases into Scots. "village in China" translates into Scots as "clachan in Cheenae", "village in Indonesia" translates as "clachan in Indonesie". As for "commune in Morocco", it is written the same Scots. John Gordon Reid (talk) 05:02, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Response to translation request.

Hello Artix, you left a message on my talk page asking for a translation of three phrases into Ingush. "Village in China" — "Чинхойче ула юрт", "Commune in Morocco" — "Марокко ула коммуна", "village in Indonesia" — "ХӀиндонезе ула юрт". Adam-Yourist (talk) 09:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Response to translation request.

Hi Artix. I would translate in Minangkabau as follows: "Villages in China" = Kampuang di Tiongkok, "Villages in Indonesia" = Desa di Indonesia, and "Commune in Morocco" = Commune di Moroko. Regards, XoXo (talk) 07:24, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Following the discussion at SRG

zh.wikipedia.org is blocked in mainland China by the government, as a result many users from mainland China need to use proxy or VPN to access zhwiki. There are other methods to get around the block but not everyone knows about them. But as for the proxy or VPN usage, it's not uncommon for different individuals to get assigned to the same server, so that it would look like these accounts are editing from the same location or appearing to be controlled by the same person in a technical manner. -★- PlyrStar93. _{→Message me. ←} 01:15, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Plyrstar93, 中文是你的母语吗？ how extensive is the block of zhwiki? Are there any good VPN i could use then? I might need them soon. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 13:13, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Yeah I'm zh-n. The block is by DNS poisoning, which means the domain zh.wikipedia.org gets resolved into an invalid IP address. It's possible to visit zhwiki in mainland China by setting up other methods without using a proxy/VPN, but this can vary depending on the ISP used and you will most definitely need a VPN anyways if you need to visit certain other websites (and I would rather not talk about the exact methods in a place publicly visible). Speaking of "good VPN" service, it's pretty subjective and time-sensitive, because new "unauthorized" VPN servers are actively blocked by the government as soon as they become aware of them. On the other hand I don't need to use VPN at the moment since I'm not in China now, and I would not publicly recommend any VPN service. If you are traveling soon, we can talk privately and I'll see what I can do. -★- PlyrStar93. _{→Message me. ←} 16:15, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Artix, are you going back to China soon? SA 13 Bro (talk) 16:22, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

PlyrStar93, you're in the US right? SA 13 Bro, yes. very soon. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 16:41, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes. -★- PlyrStar93. _{→Message me. ←} 16:48, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

yeah. the US is "free" in a way with respect to the internet. Censorship is seen with a negative feeling. I dont know if I will edit zh.wikipedia though. I am zh-2.5-3. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 16:50, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

You're joking...

Why are you retiring? You're an extremely valued and helpful member of the community. hiàn 21:23, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-26

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Recent changes

• PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.

Problems

• When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [24][25]

Changes later this week

• Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [26]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:10, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey

Hi,

You get this message because you’ve previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey. I just wanted to let you know that this year’s survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until 11 November: Community Wishlist Survey 2019.

You can vote from November 16 to November 30. To keep the number of messages at a reasonable level, I won’t send out a separate reminder to you about that. /Johan (WMF) 11:25, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Extended to Dec: Wikipedia Asian Art Month with Metropolitan Museum of Art

Suzuri-bako, now in 11 languages!

I'd like to invite you to join Wikipedia Asian Art Month in the December extension of the sub-contest; if you write or translate just one article and include one of our images, you'll get a special Metropolitan Museum of Art postcard. And if you're one of the grand prize winners, you'll get a Met guidebook or Asian art publication.--Pharos (talk) 21:32, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia 20/Events/Uttar Pradesh

Greeting of day,

commemorate Wikipedia 20 with Project UP

Wikipedia turns 20 on 15 January 2021. This Wikipedia 20 Meta-Wiki page is an initial framework the global Wikimedia community can use to coordinate around the 20th birthday of Wikipedia. We are celebrating how humans made Wikipedia what it is, and only humans can help sustain and grow it. We are celebrating 20 years human!

All you need to do is to sign in as the participant here and observe the celebrations of event Wikipedia 20th celebration the most innate way you feel. The decent stuff will receive a token of appreciation. Y'll are RSVP in the event Wikipedia 20th celebration the most innate way you feel and Wikipedia 20/Events/Uttar Pradesh

Profound Regards,

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Organizer

Would you love to be a Volunteer Facilitator?

The African Narrative

Call For Volunteer Facilitators Across Africa

Dear Wikimedian,

The Africa Narrative is seeking volunteer facilitators in Egypt (two volunteers) and Senegal (two volunteers) for the AfroCreatives Wikiproject.

The AfroCreatives Wikiproject aims to support and mobilize creatives and professionals from the African creative sector, as well as enthusiasts more broadly, to contribute and enhance knowledge on Wikipedia about Africa’s creative economy. Its inaugural effort will target the film sectors of Egypt, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Senegal.

The Africa Narrative (TAN) is a non-profit that develops singular, high-impact initiatives in support of African creatives and the African cultural and creative industries with the aim to strengthen capacity in the continent’s creative economy and the global visibility of African cultural soft power.

All volunteers must have full professional proficiency in English. In Senegal, they must have native or full professional proficiency in French; in Egypt, they must have native or full professional proficiency in Arabic. Volunteer facilitators should have a vast knowledge about Wikimedia projects and experience with teaching new editors. All volunteers will be compensated.

Interested participants may sign up on the project's Meta page. You may also indicate your country and email if your Wikipedia account is not associated with any email address.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Africa_Narrative/Volunteers

You got this message because of your priceless contributions to Senegal related categories on Commons. We will be glad if you can share with or recommend an Egyptian or Senegalese Wikipedian as well.

Thank you.

Danidamiobi (talk) 12:04, 17 February 2022 (UTC)