User talk:Melos

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Scn wikipedia Talk
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IRC with nick Melos on #wikipedia-scn; #wikipedia-it

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IP block

See my post on CU list - :) Regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 10:29, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Shrek

I paid R60 to downloud shrek on my cell and it only cost R20 for the game, the problem is that I still can not downloud the game. Are the people that selling the game for mobile users crooks ???

Global Bot

Hello Melos! Could you add vec.wiki to the Global Bot list, please? Thanks a lot, --Marco 27 (msg) _{on it.wiki: user page — talk page} 14:45, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Anon only range block

Done.

Ciao, --M/ 20:43, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Eeeeeeee

Mi togli in WP:Utenti problematici/Dr Claudio/SP Le <!----- ----->? Che senso ha nascondere i miei utenti SP? --Dr Claudio 87.17.59.167 10:29, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Allora? Spicciati! 87.17.59.167 10:31, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Cazzo, te' voi mùvere? 87.17.59.167 15:43, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Mabuabsdd

[1] was abusively filed, without local discussion or information, no spamming involved, low level of cross-wiki problem. This is a family of users from a single elementary school, as you can easily see, they may be sharing the same computer in a class, and I have been managing their participation on Wikiversity, where they have been learning, besides wikitext, community norms and guidelines. Given the ages (probably seven or eight), communication has been slow, it takes time and is quite difficult to establish rapport with text.

Blocking them won't work without causing collateral damage and will require continual maintenance. They were, indeed, disruptive, but the disruption has slowed and communication had been opening up, as of yesterday. Mostly they had been respecting keeping their creative writing to user space. There was no problem needing blocking or locking at this point.

Please undo the global locks, unless you believe that policy requires them, in which case, let me know so that I can ask for 'crat action at Wikiversity to allow the education of these kids to continue. Thanks. --Abd 16:58, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

I filed NewPak2's SPI on English Wikipedia and had personally dealt with him on Simple Wikipedia. They impersonated a Wikinews admin as well as being disruptive elsewhere. I don't see how you can "educate" this sockpuppeteer. --Bsadowski1 05:52, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

This is a group of kids at an elementary school. One or more. They do all kinds of crazy things, but they only have a few minutes at a time, I think, on a class computer, my guess. At one point an age was revealed. Seven years old. The writing is consistent with that. (I have a seven-year old girl.) Now, is it possible to educate a bright seven-year old? And how would you know? Wikiversity can handle this, there. I can understand that the kid or kids don't have much to offer at, say Wikipedia. But Wikiversity is about education, and can introduce kids to cooperating with the community, even if just to keep their creative writing in user space or under some class, not in mainspace. You will not improve the behavior of these kids with with the block tools, unless it's done very carefully. Yes, they "impersonated" an admin at Wikiversity too. If you count a seven-year old, pretending to be a cop, a "cop impersonator." --Abd 14:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Akela3 → Akela

Hello, I am hu:user:Akela, from Huwiki. (Akela3 is my provisory name). For unified login (SUL-unif.) purpose I am requesting to usurp the username Akela on ScnWiki (SUL unification) from Akela3 ⇒ to Akela. I put this request here according to advice from w:meta:Steward requests/SUL requests#Akela. You find a confirmation link on my home talk page: w:hu:user_Talk:Akela#SUL (scnwiki). (This request was earlier placed also here and also here.) Thanks for Your help. Regards. Akela 10:56, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

In the meantime I found the SCN request page. I placed my request scn:Wikipedia:Canciu nnomu utenti/Richiestirinomina#Akela3 → Akela. Salut. Akela 13:07, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Removal of user talk page content at Wikiversity

Why did you remove content from my user talk page at Wikiversity? Why did you provide no reason for removing the talk page content? Did you read the talk page content that you removed? Why did you not explain your action in the Wikiversity chat channel when I asked you about this? --JWSurf 17:05, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

StewardScript

Hello Melos. I noticed you have StewardScript commented out in User:Melos/vector.js. I just rewrote StewardScript, so it's now compatible with the recent MediaWiki changes and has all the previous features (except instant checkuser, due to changes in MediaWiki's security). I updated the code in your JavaScript, so you just need to uncomment it if you're interested. —Pathoschild 00:04:38, 05 December 2011 (UTC)

Fundraising translation feedback

Hey Melos, I have a bit of a request to ask from you. We pulled down our banners nearly a fortnight ago for what was a highly successful international fundraiser and brought the curtain down on last years fundraiser. This week however we will be changing payment processors and during the testing of the new system it would be useful to use the time productively on on testing banner text.

To help us out with this I wonder if you would be willing to help us improve our italian text using This Link

Simply follow the simple instructions on that page and if you have any questions feel free to contact me on my talk page.

We are going to run the test on tuesday so if you dont see this message till 24 hours after it was sent you can ignore me :) Many Thanks though.

Jseddon (WMF) (talk) 18:07, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

User Check

Hi,

I saw your name among the guys who does the user check. I am wondering if there is a specific order to get those jobs done. Thanks.--Kazemita1 (talk) 07:59, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Hideaki > Slabua

Ciao, confermo la possibilità di usurpare Slabua in favore della successiva rinominazione di Hideaki a Slabua. Grazie in anticipo. Slabua (talk) 20:25, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Usurpazione account

Salve, vorrei unire alcuni account di altre Wiki al mio account globale, ma purtroppo non riesco a trovare (sempre che ci sia) un elenco dei burocrati locali. Gli account sono:

• Ptolemaios sulla Wiki finlandese
• Ptolemaios sulla Wiki ungherese
• Ptolemaios sulla Wiki norvegese
• Ptolemaios sulla Wiki turca
• Ptolemaios su Wikiversity tedesca.

Riesci fare qualcosa? Grazie in anticipo.--Ptolemaios (talk) 18:00, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Grazie --Ptolemaios (talk) 12:38, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Superprotect status

Dear Melos, since you are an administrator on a wiki from which no user participated in this discussion, I'd like to make sure you are aware of some recent events which may alter what the Wikimedia Foundation lets you do on your wiki: Superprotect.

• Request for comment: Requests for comment/Superprotect rights
• An open letter about its implementation: Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer

Peteforsyth 09:33, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

strange behaviour from an administrator

Salve Melos,

avevo creato una sintesi delle altre esperienze di reddito di cittadinanza nel mondo nell'articolo collegato, citando fonti esterne a wikipedia e indipendentemente verificabili (presenti già nella versione inglese), ma l'amministratore "ignisdelavega" l'ha rimossa in seguito alla breve discussione in cui avevo tentato di difendere un altro mio contributo (nell'articolo "reddito di base"), che rimandava agli articoli di wikipedia in altre lingue ma senza citarle come fonti in realtà, come "ignisdelavega" mi aveva accusato dopo aver rimosso i riferimenti. ovviamente sei tu l'unico che può giudicare a riguardo, grazie comunque in ogni caso.

cuanto te pagan?

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Global Rename

Hi, will you look at my request. Target user's edit count is zero and is not responding to Usurpation request, but still i have to wait for a month. Can you please do it now ? Hitch Hicking Across Sahara (talk) 15:03, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 31 December

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As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are beginning the transition to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that OTRS volunteers sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain their access. You are receiving this email because you have been identified as an OTRS volunteer and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015, you will lose your OTRS access. OTRS volunteers have a specific agreement available, if you have recently signed the general confidentiality agreement for another role (such as CheckUser or Oversight), you do not need to sign the general agreement again, but you will still need to sign the OTRS agreement.

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Blocked proxy

Hello, You blocked globally IP adresses of CyberGhost, for example 79.141.160.55. Those addresses are proxy for premium users of CyberGhost and many users use them. Can You reconsider if blocking this address for 3 months is necessery? Regards. Andrzej19 (talk) 10:21, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Special:CentralAuth/FixDefunktDomain

same as Special:CentralAuth/FixDefunktDomain

1. 42.116.195.28
2. 39.54.206.164
3. 39.51.70.126
4. 211.226.120.89
5. 83.228.0.80 --Jesus estw (talk) 05:30, 18 February 2016 (UTC)(Traditional Chinese)
6. 122.161.199.52 --Jesus estw (talk) 15:22, 18 February 2016 (UTC)@RadiX and Vituzzu: --Jesus estw (talk) 15:34, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Confirmation discussions

Dear Melos,

As you probably know, the confirmation discussions for Stewards have been closed. In order to determine the outcome of these discussions, you are invited to comment on Talk:Stewards/Confirm/2016 before scheduled closure of the confirmation section "one week after the appointment of the newly elected stewards" (Sunday 6th of March, 17:22 UTC), though the closing time might be extended at the ElectCom's discretion for an extra week if it is believed "further input is required before concluding". All stewards are welcome to comment, including those newly elected.

For those who ran for confirmation, consider revising comments regarding you, and replying to those where appropriate. Savh^ñ 08:01, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Richiesta di spiegazioni nomina ad amministratore temporaneo in una wiki locale (Wikiversità italiana) di Hippias

@Hippias: Ciao Melos ti volevo chiedere perché un tuo collega ha assegnato il flag di amministratore temporaneo a Hippias (vedi la pagina di richiesta del flag Steward requests/Permissions) e non permanente ( l'elezioni si trova qui v:Wikiversità:Amministratori/Elezioni/Hippias se puoi rispondimi su Wikiversità grazie --Samuele2002 (talk) 19:07, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

@Samuele2002: In questi casi essendo l'unico amministratore e che la comunità di it.wikiv non è tanto grande si preferisce assegnare il flag temporaneo. Di fatto ha tutte le funzioni tecniche dell'admin, l'unica differenza è che alla scadenza dei sei mesi bisogna chiedere la proroga altrimenti il flag verrà rimosso dagli steward. --Melos (talk) 21:06, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Grazie ma se si volesse assegnare il flag standard (per evitare anche di rifare spesso procedure di elezioni che si potrebbero evitare) cosa serve o come deve essere la comuità di it.Wikiversità? --Samuele2002 (talk) 19:07, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Ciao Melos, grazie per la spiegazione (e grazie anche a Samuele2002). Entro la fine del mese prevediamo di far partire altre due elezioni per amministratori, e tutto fa pensare che avranno esito positivo. Anche a loro quindi sarà assegnato un flag temporaneo? --Hippias (talk) 10:42, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

@Samuele2002 and Hippias: Non serve un elezione ma basta scrivere due righe su Wv con i supporti e chiedere la proroga su meta con il link della discussione locale. Magari per le prossime elezioni si possono assegnare flag temporanei con scadenza annuale. E' un passo obbligato per una wiki che era senza admin. Più in là si potrà valutare il flag regolare --Melos (talk) 13:39, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

OK grazie --Samuele2002 (talk) 18:03, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

otrs-it-l

Ciao, mi puoi confermare che il mio messaggio in otrs-it-l di qualche giorno fa è stato approvato e ha raggiunto la lista? (Se potessi aggiungere il mio indirizzo tiscali.it alla lista bianca sarebbe ottimo!) Nemo 12:31, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

No renaming between November 20 and November 27

Hi,

You’re getting this because you’re a steward or global renamer. The Community Tech team are working on cross-wiki watchlists. We need to add a couple of fields to the localuser table in centralauth database. In order to be able to do this, we’d need to run a script that will get in the way of renaming users. Our apologies – we realize this is getting in the way of your work.

We ask that you do not rename anyone between 00:00 November 20 (UTC) and 00:00 November 27 (UTC).

(UTC means that if you live in the Americas, it will be on the evening or afternoon of November 19 when the script starts running, and if you live in Oceania or eastern Asia, it can be closer midday on November 27 before we can be sure the script is no longer running.)

Phabricator task.

If there are any problems related to this, or you have any questions, please write me on my talk page. /Johan (WMF) (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:39, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Requisiti per assegnare il flag di Burocrate su una wiki senza burocrati (it.Wikiversità)

Ciao Melos sono sempre Samuele2002 ti avevo contattato tempo fa per la questione del flag di amministratore temporaneo di Hippias su Wikiversità in lingua italiana. Ma questa volta ti volevo chiedere nelle wiki che non hanno burocrati quali requisiti servono perché gli steward assegnino il flag di Burocrate? Te lo volevo chiedere perché avevamo gia fatto più di sei mesi fa una votazione per eleggere Hippias a burocrate ma era stata rifiutata dagli steward perché era troppo pivcola la wiki. Ora abbiamo 4 amministratori più di 70 modifiche al giorno e molti utenti attivi. Ma basta o serve qualche altro requisito? Grazie mille in anticipo :) --Samuele2002 (talk) 11:09, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

? --Samuele2002 (talk) 23:33, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

@Samuele2002: Per la questione burocrati in genere si valuta la comunità e il numero di richieste (es assegnazione bot) che attualmente visto il basso numero possono essere gestite dagli stew. In linea di massima puoi dare un'occhiata a questo --Melos (talk) 01:02, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Va bene grazie mille :) --Samuele2002 (talk) 06:38, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

SC2017

Hi Melos, a friendly reminder: Stewards/Confirm/2017/Melos. Cheers :) ✒ Bennylin 18:58, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your service as Steward

I wanted to leave a note of thanks. I am not familiar much with your work but I believe have done much within the past month. MechQuester (talk) 21:39, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

well, you might make it out of Confirmation with the tools. Glad to see you are willing to commit. MechQuester (talk) 21:38, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Re:Rosso

Qui sopra sono un niubbo, è tutto un po' troppo esoterico per me ;) figurati che vedo qui a sinistra un link "Planet Wikimedia"... brrr, che faccio? pigio? Grazie della sollecitudine! Certo il personaggio pare non stufarsi, e adesso rompe i cabasisi anche a quei poveracci degli ucraini, con tutto quello che hanno da pensare... --AttoRenato (talk) 22:24, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Vandalo indonesiano

Ciao, potresti dare un occhio alla richiesta Steward requests/Global#Global block for 103.47.132.x/103.47.134.x? La richiesta è del 21 marzo e ancora oggi il vandalo in questione continua imperterrito ad aggiungere bufale su svariate wiki. Grazie, Gpmat (talk) 08:15, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Rollbacker globale

Ciao Melos volevo chiederti un parere: da più di un anno sono membro del SWMT e faccio molti annullamenti di vandalismi in tante wiki e in molti casi mi ritrovo a dover annullare più modifiche vandaliche dello stesso ip/utente nella solita pagina. Per questo volevo sapere se secondo te è il momento per fare richiesta per l'assegnazione del flag di Global_rollback oppure se è meglio aspettare ancora qualche mese. P.s se può essere utile sono amministratore di it.wikiversity beta.wikiversity outreach wikimania2017 test e test2. questi sono i mie contributi globali. Grazie in anticipo! :) --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 17:16, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Ok grazie per la risposta. Allora in giornata faccio la richiesta. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 07:30, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Grazie mille :) --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 22:01, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

About "Xoser@diq.wikipedia"

Hello. Can you look at this topic? Xoser (talk) 02:09, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

About Xoser of diqwiki

Hi, please may you look at this: [2]

Xoser's contributions to Zazaki Wikipedia. They are split into three parts:

• 15 April 2017
• 19 Septemmber 2014
• 1 June 2010

2017, 2014 and 2010. All of Xoser's contributions are intermittent, not continuous. This user is not active and does nothing about stewardship of Zazaki Wikipedia. Already there are only three active users in Zazaki Wikipedia and two of them Asmen and Mirzali are sysops. And I'm one of most active users of the three users. So we don't need another sysop for Zazaki Wikipedia. Already it's a small wiki. How can three users be sysops? There are only three active users. It's unnecessary.

Two sysops (Asmen and Mirzali) and I, we are agreed about removal of Xoser's system operatoring. And community of Zazaki Wikipedia also agreed about it [3]. Vuzorg (talk) 14:34, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Please start a new local discussion --Melos (talk) 16:03, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

I understand, but already there is a consensus about removal of Xoser's sysopship on Zazaki wiki and so his sysopship was removed a few days ago. Do we really need a new local discussion? Vuzorg (talk) 16:29, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Vuzorg is right, I agree. --asmên 13:09, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

We started a new local discussion [4]. Vuzorg (talk) 19:15, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi. --Saqib (talk) 17:37, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

User:USAQuidditch

I've just come across USAQuidditch (talk · contribs) on Commons, where they are pretty obviously the same as Tamara787 (talk · contribs) that you previously globally blocked. Is there sufficient qualification for a global block, or should they be dealt with locally first? (P.S.: I'm not a regular on Meta, so please ping me in replies) Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 16:33, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535: Done, thank you! --Melos (talk) 20:05, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

188.32.123.134

View reason: 06:14, 21 April 2017: Melos (meta.wikimedia.org) globally blocked 188.32.123.134 (expires on 21 October 2017 at 06:14) (edits · IP check · whois) (Cross-wiki spam: spambot), Make reason anonymous only, will be done and it me. 78.46.181.13 10:55, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry I don't understand your request, can you make your request more clear please? Anyway from 188.32.123.134 there was massive spam creation --Melos (talk) 13:52, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Melos Without spam what user? Try me make Steward requests/Global and working stewards, Where here global block we re reasons:

Your IP address has been blocked on all wikis. The block was made by Melos (meta.wikimedia.org). The reason given is Cross-wiki spam: spambot.

• Start of block: 06:14, 21 April 2017

• Expiry of block: 06:14, 21 October 2017

Your current IP address is 188.32.123.134. Please include all above details in any queries you make. If you believe you were blocked by mistake, you can find additional information and instructions in the No open proxies global policy. Otherwise, to discuss the block please post a request for review on Meta-Wiki. 2A01:4F8:191:9296:E4C5:2BA3:901D:3260 15:02, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Locking non-spambots

Hi Melos. Please be a bit more careful in the future: I saw you locked a bunch of non-spambots as such. I've now unlocked them, but it shouldn't happen again of course... Trijnstel_talk 22:47, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

IP block mistake

Hello Melos,

Please unblock my IP address. I believe it was blocked by mistake, see below. Thank you Kind regards "Drlectin", Thorkild C. Bøg-Hansen, drlectin@hotmail.com

PS. As copied from my Discussion page: "Your IP address is in a range which has been blocked on all wikis. The block was made by Melos (meta.wikimedia.org). The reason given is Open proxy: Should you be affected by this block, please contact stewards@wikimedia.org. Start of block: 18. mar 2017, 18:53 Expiration of block: 18. mar 2018, 18:53 You can contact Melos to discuss the block. You cannot use the "E-mail til denne bruger" feature unless a valid email address is specified in your account preferences and you have not been blocked from using it. Your current IP address is 185.80.221.43, and the blocked range is 185.80.220.0/23. Please include all above details in any queries you make.

{{unblock|reason=Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host.}} Drlectin (talk) 19:41, 20 September 2017 (UTC)}}."

Sorry for late answer but i was busy in RL. This global block was not directed to you and I see RadiX have already set global IP block exempt that allows you to edit again. If you have any question don't hesitate to ask, regards --Melos (talk) 17:22, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Help design a new feature to stop harassing emails

Hi there,

The Anti-Harassment Tools team plans to start develop of a new feature to allow users to restrict emails from new accounts. This feature will allow an individual user to stop harassing emails from coming through the Special:EmailUser system from abusive sockpuppeting accounts.

We’re inviting you to join the discussion because you have experience dealing with abusive sockpuppeting accounts and you work across many wikis. We think that your insights will help us build a better feature.

You can leave comments on this discussion page or send an email to the Anti-Harassment Tools team.

It is important to hear from a broad range of people who are interested in the design of the tool, so we hope you join the discussion and let us know how it would work best for you.

For the Anti-Harassment Tools team SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 21:50, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Please let us know if you wish to opt-out of all massmessage mailings from the Anti-harassment tools team.

Return to scn.wiki after long absence

Hello Melos, I'm not sure if you remember me, I was one of the co-founders of scn.wiki back in Oct 2004, and the first sysop, I then had a very long break for a variety of personal reasons, but I now have plenty of time to re-dedicate to scn.wiki, which I've started doing the past week. I'm actually quite happy to be a normal user and just edit, but I now realise it would be useful to have admin rights so that I can return to doing stuff on the main page, like article of the week, etc. There is such minimal usage right now (apart from me and vandals), that I'm not sure how long it would take to have someone with authority logging in to make the change. I'm hoping you might be able to help me, thanks, pippu - (waarom? jus'b'coz!) 02:16, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

194.44.170.55

Hi, a new user Bibliotekar Rivne cannot edit ukwiki and sees the error that IP range 194.44.170.0/24 is blocked (and asked me for help). As far as I uderstood, user is trying to edit from public library. Can this block be removed? Thanks -- Ата ^(talk) 20:03, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

I have added a Global IP block exemption --Melos (talk) 11:59, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Translation Request

Do you know to say "village in China" in Sicilian language? I am about to update wikidata. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 04:29, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Emergency in KaWiki

Dear steward,
Please read my explanation thoroughly. It is about an inexorable situation in the Georgian Wikipedia, the long-established. Every attempt to solve the problem locally fails again and again. So, please, do not be indifferent.
The requests are extraordinary, so I do not write on a general page, but personally.
Best regards, Deu. 18:03, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

RfCu on wiki that has has checkusers

Hi. Is it against policy that I request checking some IP addresses and accounts here, although my native has 3 (three) check-users. They did investigate a problematic user, gave me (via email) results of their investigation, but didn't/won't publicly announce it. So he continues to "contribute", although he was confirmed puppeteer on Serbian and English Wikipedia. -- Bojan  Talk  03:43, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Un grazie e un libro sulla conoscenza libera per te

Wikimedia Italia

Gentile Melos,

oggi ti scrivo a nome dell'associazione Wikimedia Italia per ringraziarti del tempo che hai dedicato ai progetti Wikimedia.

Come piccolo omaggio avremmo piacere di spedirti una copia (tutta in carta riciclata) del libro di Carlo Piana, Open source, software libero e altre libertà. Fornisci un recapito per ricevere una copia del libro.

Pochi giorni fa il mondo ha festeggiato la giornata dell'amore per il software libero, ma ogni giorno è buono per ricordare le garanzie delle licenze libere e le centinaia di migliaia di persone che si sono unite per costruire questo bene comune della conoscenza. Speriamo che questo libro ti sia utile per apprezzare quanto hai fatto e per trasmettere la passione della conoscenza libera a una persona a te vicina.

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Grazie ancora e a presto,

Lorenzo Losa (msg) 15:15, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Codice pierpao

DsSrgTgpbJ281o Pierpao (talk) 15:34, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021

Greetings,

I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 26 June, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up under the appropriate section.

Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 14:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations, dear administrator!

Congratulations, Melos! You now have the rights of an administrator on Meta-Wiki. Please take a moment to read the Meta:Adminstrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat, and Meta:Requests for deletion, but also Talk:Spam blacklist and Talk:Interwiki map), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings, or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care. Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikimedia-adminconnect. You may find Meta:Admin handbook to be useful. Please also check or add your entry to the Template:List of administrators. You're also allowed to subscribe to the metawiki-admins private mailing list (subscription instructions on that page). Again, congratulations and welcome to the team.MF-W 07:00, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Testo candidatura in lingua italiana

Carissimo, ho tradotto per tutti gli altri candidati il loro testo. Non l'ho fatto per te, dal momento che essendo anche tu it-N, avrebbe avuto poco senso. Un saluto e un abbraccio -- M/ (talk) 10:59, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Ciao, grazie infinite. Fatto bene perché non l'ho volutamente fino ad ora tradotto in quanto sto facendo ancora alcune prove sull'i18n. Melos (talk) 14:13, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Congrats

Hi, Melos! Congrats for the selection. Nicely done! Julius 12345 (talk) 12:14, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

ticket followup

Hi Melos, would you take a look at ticket:2024033110004119, it is related to an issue you were already working on. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 16:41, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Suppression request

I sent a private message to you via IRC. At least, I hope I did; I haven't quite gotten the hang of this "IRC" thing yet. 🌺 Cremastra (talk) 22:03, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Great, thanks so much. 🌺 Cremastra (talk) 23:51, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Further information

Hello,
Could you tell me why the original account of this user was blocked? I have actually no access to the link put in the description.
Yours sincerely,
Èl-Gueuye-Noere (talk) 18:23, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Èl-Gueuye-Noere.

This user has been blocked for abusing of multiple accounts on multiple projects. Melos (talk) 22:12, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks a million! :) Èl-Gueuye-Noere (talk) 07:48, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Reminder to vote now to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter

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Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because you previously voted in the 2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) election.

This is a reminder that if you have not voted yet on the ratification of the final Wikimedia Movement Charter draft, please do so by July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC.

You can read the final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter in your language. Following that, check on whether you are eligible to vote. If you are eligible, cast your vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 15:24, 5 July 2024 (UTC)