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Blocking in the Incubator

Good afternoon! Why did you block me in Wikimedia Incubator for "long-term abuse"? I made a strictly conscientious contribution, clearing the wiki of language hijackers and vandals. Таёжный лес (talk) 16:03, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

I think you rather look like a language hijacker yourself. --MF-W 10:15, 21 March 2025 (UTC) I have asked User:Sotiale to give his opinion as another Incubator admin. --MF-W 17:07, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Reply MF-Warburg Allan Candido Guedes - ACG (talk) 14:58, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Why? I didn't make any changes to the content — I didn't write articles or add information into them. Таёжный лес (talk) 10:37, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Таёжный лес: I have unblocked you on Incubator. --MF-W 12:17, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Таёжный лес (talk) 14:32, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

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Wikiforum

Hello MF-Warburg, was Wikiforum a proposal to create a dedicated forum/discussion place for all Wikimedia projects? I wanted to contact you on this as you deleted the page and I want to make sure I am not suggesting an old proposal. I think a Wikiforum that allows discussion on Wikimedia projects can foster a stronger community. This is different from Wikimedia Forum, this would have dedicated forums to specific websites and specific topics. Also it would have its own custom software, based on MediaWiki and overall be optimized for a forum like Reddit. DotesConks (talk) 03:19, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

DotesConks: The page started with: >>Wikiforum is a basic forum extension for Mediawiki 1.4. It emulates basic forum features using Wiki system.<< At fr:Wikipédia:Wikiforum there is still basically the same page in French. --MF-W 14:18, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

@MF-Warburg Would my proposal be struck down as being the same as the previously proposed one? Wikiforum is a dedicated forum created by the Wikimedia foundation while the previous suggestion was just adding forum features to MediaWiki. DotesConks (talk) 18:11, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

The page was describing a MediaWiki extension, it was not a proposal for anything. --MF-W 19:19, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

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Requesting ProofreadPage imports

Good day. I would like to request the import of the three key MediaWiki templates for export to Minnan and Central Bikol Wikisource. There are works on there which are backed by Index: pages but are hard to navigate, and the main namespace works have lines of red text on each page boundary, which affects both the reading experience and search results. Doing this would greatly help us in porting and publishing more scanned works in their respective languages. Thank you very much. ColossalMemer (talk) 06:01, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

ColossalMemer: please discuss the necessity of these pages locally first. On bcl.wikisource, Filipinayzd is a local admin and can do this, if necessary. --MF-W 09:02, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

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Serbo-Croatian interface translation question

Dear MF-Warburg,

The Serbo-Croatian-speaking area has seven different interface translations:

• bs – Bosnian
• cnr – Montenegrin (could split eventually to cnr-cyrl and cnr-latn)
• hr – Croatian
• sh-cyrl – Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic
• sh-latn – Serbo-Croatian Latin
• sr-ec (renaming to: sr-cyrl) – Serbian Cyrillic (could split to sr-cyrl-ekavsk and sr-cyrl-ijekavsk)
• sr-el (renaming to: sr-latn) – Serbian Latin (could split to sr-latn-ekavsk and sr-latn-ijekavsk)

There is also an idea to split sh-cyrl and sh-latn with -ekavsk and -ijekavsk (Phabricator task). Translation in sh and sr is disabled as fallbacks exist.

However, this situation is not sustainable. We are kind of wasting resources and many messages are simply duplicated. For example, sh-latn mostly matches bs, and sh-cyrl matches sr-ec (with both codes having these fallbacks).

I would like to hear what is the stance of LangCom about this:

1. Do we want to centralize and integrate into sh macrolanguage code (with translation only in sh-cyrl-ekavsk, sh-cyrl-ijekavsk, sh-latn-ekavsk, sh-latn-ijekavsk)?
2. Do we want to decentralize and disintegrate the macrolanguage translation to variants (with translation in sh-cyrl and sh-latn disabled as fallbacks exist)?

Thank you in advance, Aca (talk) 14:14, 20 April 2025 (UTC)