User talk:Deadrat

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Wikimedia Travel Guide: Naming poll open

Hi there,

You are receiving this message because you voiced your opinion at the Request for Comment on the Wikimedia Travel Guide.

The proposed naming poll opened a few days ago and you can vote for as many of the proposed names as you wish, if you are eligible. Please see Travel Guide/Naming Process for full details on voting eligibility and how the final name will be selected. Voting will last for 14 days, and will terminate on 16 October at 06:59:59 UTC.

Thanks, Thehelpfulone 21:57, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Translation notification: Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Wikipeidia Education Program: Walaa post

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Translation notification: Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Wikipeidia Education Program: Walaa post

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Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, January 2013

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Translation notification: Template:OurProjects

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Meta translation coordinators‎, 00:39, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Translation notification: FDC portal/CentralNotice2013-1

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Translation notification: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Thank you letter

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The thank you letter has been had minor formatting changes and some changes to the text however the work is only minor and shouldn't :) Thank you again

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Meta translation coordinators‎, 02:28, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Translation notification: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Thank you letter

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Minor update to this translation with some changes in formatting. Should be fairly minor changes needed. Thanks guys :)

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Meta translation coordinators‎, 02:33, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, February 2013

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Meta translation coordinators‎, 04:25, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Translation notification: FDC portal/CentralNotice2013-2

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Meta translation coordinators‎, 13:44, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Translation notification: Turning off outdated skins

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Translation request

Greetings. I see you have experience translating pages here at Meta. If you are willing and able, Wikimedia LGBT, a proposed user group, is currently recruiting people to assist with page translations. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thank you for your consideration. --Another Believer (talk) 16:58, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decitions

The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• Letter on change.org

I'm notifying you because you participated in one of several relevant discussions. -Pete F (talk) 22:10, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Superprotect letter update

Hi Jayabharat,

Along with more hundreds of others, you recently signed Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer, which I wrote.

Today, we have 562 signatures here on Meta, and another 61 on change.org, for a total of 623 signatures. Volunteers have fully translated it into 16 languages, and begun other translations. This far exceeds my most optimistic hopes about how many might sign the letter -- I would have been pleased to gain 200 siguatures -- but new signatures continue to come.

I believe this is a significant moment for Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Very rarely have I seen large numbers of people from multiple language and project communities speak with a unified voice. As I understand it, we are unified in a desire for the Wikimedia Foundation to respect -- in actions, in addition to words -- the will of the community who has built the Wikimedia projects for the benefit of all humanity. I strongly believe it is possible to innovate and improve our software tools, together with the Wikimedia Foundation. But substantial changes are necessary in order for us to work together smoothly and productively. I believe this letter identifies important actions that will strongly support those changes.

Have you been discussing these issues in your local community? If so, I think we would all appreciate an update (on the letter's talk page) about how those discussions have gone, and what people are saying. If not, please be bold and start a discussoin on your Village Pump, or in any other venue your project uses -- and then leave a summary of what kind of response you get on the letter's talk page.

Finally, what do you think is the right time, and the right way, to deliver this letter? We could set a date, or establish a threshold of signatures. I have some ideas, but am open to suggestions.

Thank you for your engagement on this issue, and please stay in touch. -Pete F (talk) 18:12, 26 August 2014 (UTC)