User talk:Snowolf/2013

ciao

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Sono riuscito a trovare il comando nel file .bash_history dell'account di tool :-) grazie lo stesso :) --.snoopy.  16:10, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Grazie!

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Non a caso non ho messo link, anche se ne avrei a iosa. Desidero solo che resti "for the records", spero sia possibile. Ben ritrovato, comunque, grazie sempre di tutto, stammi bene e tanti auguri! :-) --Piero Montesacro 02:54, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Re:Vote validation

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Hello, Mr. Snowolf!

Oop's I'm sorry, I don't know before it. Cheers. Wagino 20100516 12:43, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Are you just checking I'm doing is correct? Nice to meet you. Wagino 20100516 12:50, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

I have removed the duplicates you mean. We apologize if an error occurs because this is my first experience in terms of checking the validity of the voters. Thanks. Wagino 20100516 12:59, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Checking of usernams

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Ciao, ti ringrazio per il consiglio, stavo cercando proprio quel Template ma non riuscivo a trovarlo... Rimedio subito! Buona fortuna per la tua elezione e buon lavoro! --Reder 00:59, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Synchbot request

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Hello Snowolf. Your request for global CSS and JavaScript on every wiki has been fulfilled (see the archived request & bot log). —Pathoschild 03:07:42, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations, Dear Steward!

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Hello Snowolf! On behalf of the stewards' election committee, congratulations on your appointment as a steward! Your permissions have now been set and you are able to start the work.

You have been added to the list of stewards and the stewards' chart. Please take a moment to check that your details are accurate and update them if necessary. In addition, please subscribe to checkuser-l, the private mailing list for Wikimedia checkusers, and stewards-l, the private list for stewards. In addition, you will be given access to the related private wikis, one for checkusers and the other solely for stewards, details of which will be provided.

If you use IRC, please contact an operator for access to #wikimedia-checkuser and #wikimedia-privacy. Please also idle in #wikimedia-stewards when you are available for duty.

Best of luck with your new tools; I am sure you will do a fantastic job. Please remember that your fellow stewards are always available if you need a second opinion, either via the mailing list or on IRC.

Useful links:

• Stewards policy
• Steward handbook
• Steward requests

On behalf of the election committee,

— [ Tanvir | Talk ] 01:26, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

This wasn't a self vote

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If you go and actually look at it, you can see that it was a reply to the person above that. I'm not stupid enough to vote for myself. That would be, well, stupid. Sorry for any confusion. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:49, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

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Could you lock the User:SomeoneBehindYou because of my allergy on Socks as I requested in the same request? --WizardOfOz ^talk 17:00, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

I do not lock or block a user's own accounts on request, but I have no issue with another steward performing said action. Sorry, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 17:05, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

OK, can do it localy there is no harm from that Account. --WizardOfOz ^talk 17:07, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Please :)

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Get sysop rights here - it will save you tagging stuff :) I've said for a long time that active stewards should have admin rights while they are around. I will support :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:15, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

I have done so now, I want to thank you for the suggestion and your support. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 01:24, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Synchbot request

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Hello Snowolf. Your request for global userpages, CSS and JavaScript on every wiki has been fulfilled (see the archived request & bot log). Kind regards, -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 16:06, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Response

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Hi dear friend. In response to this i want to say there is no violation of the CC-BY-SA license because i copy a javascript translating tool from En.wiki to other wikis. To use this translator you should copy this code into destination wiki. Regards--Elph (talk) 18:04, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

I wanted to link you the page I was referring to but always ended up failing to do so, I was referring to this one. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 18:13, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

oh sorry. my friend reza ask me to help him to translate brfa templates. for your info we are in wikifa rebuild template of brfa like Enwiki. --Elph (talk) 18:31, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

That's nice, I just think you should put a link on the talk page saying it's based on the one from enwiki with a link ;-) In general from what I understand one writes it in the edit summary, but given it's already there I think if you write it on the discussion page it should be okey :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 18:33, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

I agree with you. I'll do it. Thanks.--Elph (talk) 19:05, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Answering

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Hi, I understand you think I was ignoring what happened, but for sure I was ashamed about that; bringing it to my personal life, when something bad or tragic happens, I try not to think about it for some time and after give a solution, avoiding deciding fastly. It might be a different way to deal with problems, okay, I made a mistake and take charge of it. Earlier, I apologized in IRC, however as it's difficult to remember you were there, I need to apologize to you now, a true sorry. --Luckas ^msg 15:57, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

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Thanks a lot. I will try to do my best Bishnu Saikia (talk) 12:58, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations, Dear Administrator!

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An offering for our new administrator from your comrades... (our budget is smaller than Commons)

Snowolf, congratulations! You now have the rights of administrator on Meta. Please take a moment to read the Meta:Administrators 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.

A tip: add this page Meta:Administrators' discussion index to your watchlist, it tracks the latest activity to various sections of many of the important pages.

Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikimedia-admin @ irc.freenode.net. You may find Commons:Guide to adminship to be useful reading although it doesn't always completely apply here at Meta.

Please also check or add your entry to Meta:Administrators#List of administrators and the Template:List of administrators.

Tiptoety ^talk 01:21, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 01:22, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Yerpo @ hi.wiki

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I just found out by chance that I've been blocked indefinitely on Hindu wikipedia because of an "abusive user name" by you. Assuming that you did this as a global steward on request by the local community, I'd like to know more about details - there was no message on my talk page there and I can find no request on either Meta or your :hi talk page. If there was a community discussion, I wouldn't even know where to start looking for it among all those exotic Hindu characters. Could you please check in case it was a mistake? If nothing else, it looks bad in global account overviews. Thanks, — Yerpo ^Eh? 10:26, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

That's really weird. Trying to figure out why exactly that happened but in the meantime I've unblocked you as it's clearly a mistake. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 19:08, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Apparently it's a known and already reported bug. You were not the intended target of the global lock + suppression, a number of accounts with abusive usernames was. How on earth it ended up with you and a number of other local accounts getting suppressed, I really can't understand it, but it seems it's a bug. I've unsuppressed and unblocked the account, thank you so much for bringing the matter to my attention, as it not only got me to reverse the mistake on your account but also on a few others who were equally affected. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 20:48, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for your response. I was actually more worried that my username reminds people there of some Hindu demon or swear word. — Yerpo ^Eh? 07:33, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Account lock

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Hello!, مستخدم:Felgwely (WMF) is my wikimedia account, I'm Coordinator of Education Program in Egypt. You can ask Annie Lin about me. Thank you. --Faris knight (talk) 10:55, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Unlocked. We have referred the general process to Philippe, as it is less than pretty. billinghurst sDrewth 10:59, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

RFC/User rights on hi wiki

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Hi, in view of this RFC, some of my rights were also removed from sa.wiki and hi.wikt, kindly restore them as this RFC is over--Mayur ^{(talk•Email)} 17:34, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

I have restored your sysop flag on sawiki and hiwikt. I did not restore the 'crat flag on hiwikt. The project has no active admins, let alone 'crats and the circumstances of the hiwiki situation and RfC clearly show it's not wise to re-grant this flag, especially given there are no active admins there so there's no need for it in any case. Regards, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 19:39, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, but My bot Mayurbot had both bot admin and bot rights in hindi wiki as like User:MGA73bot@hiwiki, kindly restore those rights as the same was done for MGA73bot.Thanks in Advance!--Mayur ^{(talk•Email)} 06:37, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

It would be best if you would simply request it on the local community and then file a request on SRP, if not then simply file a request on SRP where it could be more properly handled. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 08:03, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Plzzzzz :)

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will you plzzzz unblock my ip address in English Wikipedia Special:Unblock/182.183.128.0/17 I know my behaviour is too bad but at that time i did not know rules and regulations of Wikipedia but now i have understood all rules and regulations of wikipedia i promise that this time i will not really create any problem with any page plzzzzzzzzzz this is request... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ali3452 (talk • contribs) 12:48, 22 March 2012 (UTC).

Hi, please contact the original blocking admin and checkuser by email on enwiki, en:Special:EmailUser/MuZemike to appeal your block. First, I'm not familiar with the circumstances of your block, second, it's a block made by a Checkuser from private informations to which I am not privy to. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 12:53, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

if you don't want to unblock then at least keep its expiry as of april 2012 i will be too thankful to you... Plzzzz replay on my talk page thanx —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ali3452 (talk • contribs) 12:55, 22 March 2012 (UTC.

I already replied above, please don't remove my comments from my own talk page. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 12:58, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

I can't contact when i want to email him/her you must have a valid authenticated e-mail address in your preferences to send e-mail to other users and my talk page access have been removed plzzzzzzzzz you unblock this..... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ali3452 (talk • contribs) 13:01, 22 March 2012 (UTC).

Yes, to email somebody you need to have an email address listed on your wiki account and authenticated, add one and authenticate it and it will work. As I wrote earlier, I cannot unblock you because I'm both not familiar with your situation and because the block was based on private informations from the Checkuser tool to which I am not privy to. If you want to appeal your block, email MuZemike thru the procedure listed above, but as it stands, en:WP:CIR issues starts to be pretty evident. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 13:05, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

But Many admins have unblocked this you can see the Block log when can't you unblock??? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ali3452 (talk • contribs) 13:09, 22 March 2012‎ (UTC).

There's not a single unblock there. And the fact that you seem unable to understand that you have to email MuZemike for a unblock which will never happen is only further proof of major en:WP:CIR issues. You are clearly not suited to contribute to the English Wikipedia, as your extensive pattern of abuse, block evasion and your inability to listen to simple instructions such as on here show. Please direct all further queries to en:Special:EmailUser/MuZemike as he's the blocking Checkuser. Regards, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 13:12, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Then leave it you have closed the disscussion then its useless to discuss it more you don't wanna unblock My IP — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ali3452 (talk)

Rollback

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Hello, Snowolf.

I think it's a good idea. Thank you very much for your interest in helping me, and your kindness. I am exporting Twinkle to each of the projects. Regards from Spanish Wikipedia! --invadinado _{(Tell me)} 18:49, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: [1]

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I've unhidden the username, although I doubt as to whether the user would want the account also unlocked - any opinion on this from your perspective? Wojciech Pędzich Talk 06:27, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

My thoughts exactly, glad you share my opinion. Willing to vanish was quite evident in the messages the user left, and if the will to return also shows up I am sure a clever way to manage this can be constructed. I will leave the account as it is - locked and unhidden. Thanks :) Wojciech Pędzich Talk 06:51, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

About Saint Johann adminship @ lez-wiki

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Hello. I would like to ask you to give the flag a technical administrator to Saint Johann. You took into account only the number of votes, but it better to see argumentation. First of all, see the last vote of user VasilievVV - it was only his editing at the project and I do not know how he could know that would benefit to the project, better than permanent users in the project. And let I'll translate some opinions about this candidate from this vote page:

Opinion 1 (from Migraghvi, recently elected Administrator): Юзер St.Johann однозначно необходим этому проекту, т.к. судя по его деятельности, он неплохо разбирается в вики-программировании. Поэтому я считаю все аргументы против него неактуальными. И призываю тех, кто проголосовал против, перевести свои голоса в "за". Лично я, если изберусь админом, не смогу так координировать работу по техническим параметрам так, как это делает St.Johann. Я буду в основном координировать само написание статей, учитывая нормы лезгинского языка. И пока не вижу никого, кто бы так эффективно пользовался языком вики-разметки, как это делает St.Johann. Migraghvi (обсуждение) 20:39, 31 Ибне 2012 (MSK)

Translate: User St.Johann definitely needs for this project, as I see by his work, he well understands in Wiki programming. So I think all the arguments against him irrelevant. And I encourage those who voted against him, transfer their votes to (section) "pro". Personally, if I become the administrator, I can not coordinate the technical parameters as it can St.Johann. Mainly I will coordinate work for writing articles, taking into account the norms of Lezghian language. And I do not see anybody who can so effectively use the wiki-markup language, as it does St.Johann. Migraghvi (Talk) 20:39, 31 March 2012 (MSK)

Opinion 2 (from User from Dag, recently elected Administrator): (I removed the discussion about another candidate) Опять-таки, во избежание всякого рода конфликтов и неприятностей было бы лучше если техническую поддержку осуществлял абсолютно нейтральный участник в лице St.Johann. Наша с Вами цель - сделать википедию качественной базой данных, а не площадкой для продвигания своих интересов. User from Dag (обсуждение) 13:09, 30 Ибне 2012 (MSK)

Translate: ...Again, to avoid any kind of conflicts and troubles it would be better if the technical support will be provided by totally neutral user as St.Johann. Our goal with you - to make high-quality database of Wikipedia, it's not a platform for promote your interests. User from Dag (Talk) 13:09, 30 March 2012 (MSK)

Also, see user's Ontoi contributions - he just voting here and even do not make edits in other articles. User Bouron also did only one edit as VasilievVV. So I ask to give technical admin Flag to user Saint Johann under my responsibility and responsibility of users Migraghvi and User from Dag.--Soul Train (talk) 09:18, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Couple of things to clear up: first, there's no such thing as a flag of "technical administrator". All administrators are the same flag-wise (temporary admin wasn't specifically requested and is voted on by the community regardless in the same manner, just requires less overall participation) and in the absence of a peculiar local policy, also they're all equal policy-wise; also, I did read all the rationales for support and opposes, I didn't simply "count the votes", however, missing local policies establishing a necessary amount of contributions, I am bound by what I find on the page, namely a strong opposition by a significant number of users mainly motivated by the fact that the user doesn't speak the language. Whether that should or shouldn't be a concern is not up to me to decide. To be blunt, there's no reason to disregard votes from new contributor on a brand new project and there's no basis in policy to weight user's votes differently. As long as the arguments are somewhat sane, if there's clearly no consensus to promote, my hands are tied. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 09:39, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Formally you are right, but the facts are: 1. User LNSA is the only user with contributions, but he is the author of scandal-known category Tslapashstan and (as I think) may be puppet of Lezgistxa, well, I can say that he is vandal too, as Lezgistxa. But even such a radical user as Lezgistxa, who have conflicts with Saint Johann, removed his vote to section "neutral" ("I change my position to this user and to abstain for this candidate"). 2. VasilievVV and Bouron make only one edit each. Who are all these people for the project? Even Lezgistxa, who write "Here's Lezghin Wikipedia and let write here in Lezgin, OK?", voted neutral, because he understands that without the technical features the project will be quite bad. :(--Soul Train (talk) 10:16, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

I just incorrectly wrote, I mean "temporary sysop", for 3 months. Not "technical".--Soul Train (talk) 10:23, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

deflag Shivanarayana

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For your convenience it:Discussioni_utente:Snowolf#Richiesta ;)--Shivanarayana (talk) 10:46, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Mail

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Regards. —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 21:52, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

LauraHale

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Done. Questo intervento su una voce largamente editata da Kasper2006 (ed il fatto che era quasi l'unico suo contributo) mi aveva indotto in errore. Grazie dell'avviso, --Gac 16:07, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Reminder re Berlin hackathon

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I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

Hope you can come!

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 01:56, 9 April 2012 (UTC) - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page at mediawiki.org.

Nice List...

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User:Snowolf/Tomtomn00 - You've made 2 mistakes, as I have not requested 2 of them rights. As it's your list... ~ ⇒TomTomN00 @ 16:27, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Could you please point out which of the entries are mistakes? Thanks, The Helpful One 16:30, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

1-) Email to Courcelles, I was asking for advice. 2-) Same with Fluffernutter. ~ ⇒TomTomN00 @ 16:32, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Tomtomn, while I cannot release the contents of your email without your permission (though I'd be happy to post it here for clarity, if you agree to that), it is a blatant falsehood to represent what you sent me as anything other than a request for rollback. Your email stated that you were requesting rollback rights back, and listed two reasons why you thought you should have the right returned. That was the entire contents of the email. No request for advice, simply a request for me to give you back rollback. Fluffernutter (talk) 16:38, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Just after checking through my sent items, I do remember that one, the advice one is still in the outbox... MS Outlook... ~ ⇒TomTomN00 @ 16:45, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

This is the second time I've had to correct you when you misrepresented your dealings with me. Please, it would make both our lives much easier if you'd just start telling the honest truth, rather than hoping you can slip in your preferred "truth" without me noticing. Fluffernutter (talk) 16:49, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

I don't think you get the point. Making lots of requests for rights is not good, and you still seem to be making them... πr² (t • c) 17:42, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Both admin characterized the emails you sent not as advice but as request for userrights. As I understand it, you've also sent similar emails to many more admins at the same time. I would advise you not to request userrights for a while. This list was prompted by the recent request on commons, to avoid wasting people's time in researching the matter in future should you request userrights somewhere. As it seems clear from the discussion above and discussions I've had with several admins who you've contacted (only two of which have been listed at their request or self-adding), you were not asking for advice but for userrights, as such I see nothing that needs to be changed to the list, tho of course should you find any inaccuracies you're free to edit the list yourself, it's a wiki page like any other, tho I would strongly advise you against misrepresenting your dealings with people, it doesn't do you any good and it's flat out wrong and against the wiki spirit. Focus on the encyclopedias, userrights will come when you need them. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 08:10, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Steward requests/Global

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Sorry, my total lack of attention.Érico ^msg 18:07, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

No problem :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 18:08, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Tagging pages for deletion

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Could you delete an other lot at http://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor%C3%ADa:Maga_Pagina_Nominado_Para_Bora, Thanks --World24 (talk) 19:39, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Done. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 07:42, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Template:Luxotool

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Hello Snowolf, with regards to this edit of yours, I was once told that whatismyipaddress.com isn't very reliable. Perhaps a link to https://www.projecthoneypot.org/ (like //www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_{{urlencode:{{{1|}}}}} IP info]) would be better? Kind regards, Mathonius (talk) 12:09, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

My intention w/ whatismyipaddress is to provide geolocation data and ip to hostname, the "proxy" and "static" part is a bit unreliable indeed, but the former two are okey, afaik. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 12:15, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Also, it has a rather nice function to check if the IP is on several blacklists. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 12:21, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Okay! Thanks for your explanation. Kind regards, Mathonius (talk) 12:26, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Extra news about Lezgi Wikipedia

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• Hello. My suspicions were confirmed. Lezgistha admitted that account LNSA belongs to him. My translation:

User:LNSA is my account, you can block (me) indefinitely, anyway I have no time for Wikipedia. Lezgistxa 23:16, 13 April 2012 (MSK)

Admin voting moved to Archive. I think that there is no doubt that user Saint Johann must be Admin of Lezgi Wikipedia. 8 pro, 3 oppose = 72,7%.--Soul Train (talk) 00:15, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

• Say something, please.--Soul Train (talk) 22:17, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

I keep meaning to mention this!

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I regret not supporting you as a steward - more than useful thanks. Al I can say is that we all make mistakes sometimes :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 17:15, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Awww, thanks, it means a lot. I fully understood why you and others felt not comfortable enough to support me tho :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 17:21, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Not nice

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Hello Snowolf you are a not nice

I know, I am known as Darth Snowolf. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 00:15, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Don't you mean known as Darth Snowolf to vandals and other unconstructive troublemakers? Heh heh. 82.33.215.26 14:44, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Breton Wikipedia

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Hello, there are other things that should be wiped out in Breton wikigeriadur Thanks. Bianchi-Bihan (talk) 05:41, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply, could you point me to the exact pages you need deleted? Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 03:05, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

From what I can see, there's only one page nominated for deletions on the Breton Wikipedia, at [2] which seems dodgy says "user request" but the requestor is a different user. I assume the matter has been handled since and closing this, do reply if that's not the caseSnowolf ^{How can I help?} 03:12, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Global rollback

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While the number of wikis I edit on is limited, the reason why I'd request this would be to able to do rollbacks on Meta since Meta has no local dedicated rollback permission. Do you think that would be a valid reason?--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:49, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I actually wanted to write to you about something else, but to address your question: no, I would not think that a global rollback request with the aim of using it on a single wiki would be appropriate in the framework of the GR policy. The policy specifically suggests that one has to make heavy use of revert functions across multiple wikis "For consideration, users must be demonstrably active in cross-wiki countervandalism or anti-spam activities (for example, as active members of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team) and make heavy use of revert on many wikis". If you necessitate of a rollback tool on metawiki, I would advise you to try and use TWINKLE (you can copy the relevant code from my global.js file, User:Snowolf/global.js) -- it's pretty effective :). I also wanted to poke you about your comments on the global lock request for Japan Football, to let you know that several stewards including myself have access to external tools that allow them to locally block a user on all the wikis they're active on with a single command, and hence the implementation of such a measure is not problematic aside of the obvious implication that there's no automatic block on wikis where the user is not currently registered on and that in doing so we would be blocking the user also on many wikis with established practices and policies, and while it should be within our powers to do so (it is in all effect a Global block implemented in a different manner from a global lock, but a global block nevertheless), it is not routinely used and should be used with great care. These are meant to be general remarks on the matter, and do not address the substance of the issue. Regards, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 02:58, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

1. I'm not sure how TW works on a wiki it's not designed for.
2. It's kinda tedious and non-transparent, but there's usually little grey area - either a user is a globally disruptive LTA/spammer or is only locally disruptive.--Jasper Deng (talk) 03:01, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

TW works fine if you use the modified version by PiRSquared17 that I'm using, it works without issues on almost all wikis, tho it only provides you with rollback, not with warnings. The code for inclusion would be:

 // TWINKLE
 importScriptURI('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:AzaToth/morebits.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
 // try
 importScriptURI('//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:PiRSquared17/twinkle.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 03:04, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Put it in my common.js, but apparently it doesn't work...--Jasper Deng (talk) 03:06, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

There was an issue with capitalization, you put it in Common.js as opposed to common.js xD, I've moved it to the correct title, purge cache and it should work :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 03:08, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Purge wasn't needed xD. Ugh. I'm so used to viewing MediaWiki where case in filenames don't matter. Thanks!--Jasper Deng (talk) 03:09, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Problem with images in Lez

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There's some promlem with Image thumbnailing, I think that only Meta-sysops can fix this bug. lez:Special:NewFiles--Soul Train (talk) 17:27, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm so sorry for the delayed reponse. I gave it a quick look a while ago, realized it was not something I could fix directly and meant to poke the devs in #wikimedia-tech about it, but forgot. I have done so now, and they're looking at what the issue is. I'll add info when I get it. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:56, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Should be fixed now, tho I would suggest that if possible, files be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 00:01, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

segnalo discussione

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qui. ciao --Salvo da Palermo (talk) 23:07, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Re:scn username changes

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Done. Igna was already done :P --Melos (talk) 08:45, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

User:Seb az86556

Can you see to his behavior. Deleting messages from his (1) (2) (3) and writes about violations in Lezgi Wikipedia although all non-free files were removed, just because he was offended by a warning, as I think.--Soul Train (talk) 15:10, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

There's a thread on Wikimedia Forum about this. Osiris (talk) 21:34, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Banned

Excuse me, sir. But why did you ban this IP Address from editing. I haven't edited anything in the English Wikipedia. And what is "Lovely" editing???? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 222.127.85.110 (talk • contribs) 10:31, 19 May 2012‎.

I don't see any current blocks for that IP address (222.127.85.110) on the English Wikipedia. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:36, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

I thought you banned my IP Address because when I wanted to edit an article and create an account, it said that you blocked the IP Address because of "Lovely" Editing. So I contacted you. So thank you!! Bilang.hezekiah (talk) 11:14, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

It is my IP address in the Polish Wiki which was recently banned. Better tell them that it was mine that was banned and it should be lifted. JMRAMOS0109 (talk) 11:24, 21 May 2012 (PST)

Stats

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Hello, I saw your statistics, it's a really great stuf. Could you do the same thing for wiktionaries please ? Otourly (talk) 13:28, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Desysop and tracking scripts

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You have a Message Here -- බිඟුවා ^{සාකච්ඡාව} 03:09, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Help Talk:Steward_requests/Permissions

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Hi Snowolf, can you help me with this?--AeroPsico (talk) 18:28, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Was drafting a reply earlier, but didn't have time to fact-check it so didn't post it. Basically off the top of my head there were not stewards before that, and rights on eswiki were assigned by local 'crats / devs I think. Logs are incomplete if enwiki is anything to go by (I remember us having a list of these rights on enwiki somewhere). While I my account dates from that era, I did not become significantly active until 2007. I would suggest asking somebody that was already around back then, they would know more about it I think. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 18:31, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Unblock because of Good Faith

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Please unblock TruPepitoM and/or 222.127.223.72 due to good faith and no intent before and in the future of vandalizing or spam AND it is surprisingly LINKED to my IP. Please add : after 222.127.223.72 to be specific.

Cratón (es.wiki)

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Ok. I have stopped. Thanks for the warn. ----Cratón (talk) 15:37, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Astrotroll

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Dear Snowolf, I think that 89.175.22.248 and 218.84.126.82 should also be on your list, because they are almost certainly sockpuppets of the Astrotroll. They have been active today.

• User contributions of 89.175.22.248
• User contributions of 218.84.126.82

Kind regards, --ErikvanB (talk) 01:30, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello, sorry for the late reply and thank you for reporting it. You should feel free to add them to the list yourself. I merely cloned the list from dewiki to deal with the crosswiki issues and track his proxies given they're so easy to block once spotted :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 15:41, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Global Rollbacker permissions

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Thank for your explanation about what I should do for getting the global rollbacker permission. I will wait to get more experience over the 300 reversion I have already in four Wiki.

I would like to note that you made a small mistake as you said “none of the wiki have entrusted him with the rollback rights”...I am entrusted with a Rollback Rights in the Portuguese Wikipedia.

Sincerely -- DARIO SEVERI (talk) 07:07, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi :) Hmm, you are quite right and that's not a minor mistake, it's a rather significant factual inaccuracy. Apparently the tool I used to check your permissions is not displaying your rollbacker flag. I am truly sorry. I will also ask the user who developed the tool to see if he can fix whatever is causing this. Kind regards, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 07:11, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Disabled user-rights on Hindi Wikipedia

Hi Snowolf, after the consensus of RfC, regarding the user-rights on Hindi Wikipedia, some major changes were made on hi Wiki. But I don't understand why rollbacker and filemover rights were disabled. Can you throw some light on it?--Bill william compton (talk) 12:28, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

I think what was done was a complete reset to the default userrights which do not include either of those userrights. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 15:44, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

How they can be reinstated?--Bill william compton (talk) 18:15, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

If the issue is still unresolved, I would contact Vituzzu as he was one of the stewards more closely involved with the RfC. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:48, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi Snowolf, sorry for extremely late reply. These features are still disabled on Hindi Wikipedia.--Bill william compton (talk) 07:25, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

How to globally TWINKLE

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Hi Snowolf,

Excuse the apparent rudeness you spoke about in your edit summary. I should've chosen my edit summary more carefully, there is no problem with using or copying my documentation, that's completely fine. If at all possible, however, I'd like to keep 2+ steps instructions in one place to avoid duplicated and/or outdated instructions. Having at least a link back to the documentation page would be recommended (since there is more there than just the 3 steps there, such as issue tracking, and maybe some other useful links and pieces of information, and users can check the latest version if something doesn't work as expected). If you prefer to copy those 3 steps into the main document for convenience, please do. –Krinkle^talk 13:59, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Nah it's okey as it is. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 15:45, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

On second reading this, I was hardly cordial or helpful in this matter. I'm sorry. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:43, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Gilaki socks

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Hi Snowolf,

With regards to this request, I think something fishy is going on at glk.wikipedia. After the discussion on Meta, two new accounts were created and they voted in support of the admin candidate:

• Giltam (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
• Atefi (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)

Also suspicious is Saberzadmirza (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser).

I suspect they may be sockpuppets and maybe they should be investigated. On the other hand, I'd rather not interfere with their local issues and even if they are socks there is still enough support for Varg as an admin. What would you advise? Mathonius (talk) 08:54, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Note: a local user has filed a CU request. Mathonius (talk) 12:07, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

I really don't have much time currently, so hopefully somebody else can look into this. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 12:53, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

No problem whatsoever! :) Billinghurst investigated them and they turn out to be unrelated. Mathonius (talk) 12:56, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Dear Snowolf. I plead you.

Hi snowolf. I beg your pardon; I write it using open proxy. I need anonymity. You want to block it, I accept your block. But, I plead with you to read it. Can I ask a favor of you? I feel crisis in kowiki. Although I don’t edit in kowiki, but indiscriminate IP and account block in kowiki is serious, I think. I do not know you perceive recent sockpuppet problem, User:Unypoly. I monitor it; I also agree he must be blocked in kowiki. He changes himself IP, account and then aggravates community troubles. However, now situation is not proper action. Admin in kowiki do block many account with suspicion. Editing pattern is only evidence. Of course, checkuser function is useless, cuz he switches his IP address. But the chance of victim is being increased if the method using. See kowiki blocking logs; ko:special:log/block. Five users are blocked, just one day. I express concern about wrong blocking or victim due to it. In former days, ko:User talk:영동우체국 is suspected. But, he asserts that he is not User:Unypoly. All users in kowiki don’t listen his voice, cuz he uses sockpuppet. However, I think that he wants to proof his innocence, but all users in kowiki don’t listen his mention, he uses sockpuppet. He also requests arbitration request. But, arbitration committee reject it cuz they are sure that he is User:Unypoly. I cannot be assured he is not user:unypoly. But, User:Unypoly can change his IP and accounts. He does not have to arbitration request. Return to topic, I hope that you express concern and worry about it to kowiki admin as a metawiki steward. What do you think about cases? I always concern it. --123.203.4.105 11:36, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I am currently outside of the country with limited time for Wikimedia-related issues, could you please direct your inquiry to any of my colleagues that's around? Many thanks, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 15:46, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi!

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I must ask, would it be applicable to move User:Snowolf/Tomtomn00 to User:Snowolf/Thine Antique Pen? Thanks! Thine Antique Pen (talk) 19:08, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Have you been renamed on 100% of the projects you were on?--Jasper Deng (talk) 20:07, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Nope, however I am renamed on most of projects where I requested them. I'm a fool... Thine Antique Pen (talk) 19:43, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Done. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:50, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Allegation against si:User:බිඟුවා

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Allegation against පරිශීලක :බිඟුවා What has happened? I'm waiting for your response. Almost 1 month gone. -- බිඟුවා ^{සාකච්ඡාව} 03:33, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I am sorry for the delayed reply. I thought other stewards would address the issues as I am currently out of the country for an extended period and I am hence virtually inactive on Wikimedia matters. I will ask again my colleagues to see if they can handle this matter. Regards, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:13, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

OK. I'm waiting. -- බිඟුවා ^{සාකච්ඡාව} 04:36, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Back. Not no answer from you BIG guys. Is that the way you consider small wiki Issue? i'm really disappointment about you & all BIG guys. Please finish this conversion. -- බිඟුවා ^{සාකච්ඡාව} 03:27, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

I was under the impression that another steward was handling this matter. As I recall, the consensus on our mailing list was not to reinstate you as sysop. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 16:18, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

It is OK guys! you can keep it. That makes active memeber is leaving wiki.no harm to English wiki which is active one & might be an absance for smaller wiki like si.wiki. Keep it up withh good Work. -- බිඟුවා ^{සාකච්ඡාව} 10:37, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that, the last thing we want is to cause anybody to leave any wiki, least of all small wikis where users are needed the most. I'm sad that you think the size of the wiki influenced our decision, that was not the case, I assure you. However, privacy violations of this kind are a most serious matter, and that was the only factor in our decision. I wish you best of luck in your endeavours, be they on siwiki, any other wikimedia projects, or elsewhere. Kind regards, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:41, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Lez-WP

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Hello, currently runs confirmation and also election of new (permanent) administrator (user Aslan4ik).--Soul Train (talk) 19:33, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Glad to hear, however I am out of the country and so somebody else will have to handle it, sorry :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:15, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

hai

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Butterflied_turkey_spam-kiosk.jpg so i heard u liek spam Ajraddatz (Talk) 05:44, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Lovely spam, wonderful spam! [Sadly/Luckily I am a vegetarian xD] Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 05:45, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Haha, definitely luckily in this case :-P Ajraddatz (Talk) 05:47, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Decadenza

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Sì non c'è problema, procedi pure, le regole vanno rispettate. --Biopresto

ask about globally TWINKLE

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I followed your instructions on User:Snowolf/How to globally TWINKLE, but when I test for it, I found that I can only use "Unlink" and "Last" of Twinkle, no other features (such as CSD), what's the issue? Thx. --Shujenchang (talk) 11:28, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Only rollback is available globally. Features such as CSD are too dependent on each single wiki's local configuration. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 15:11, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Thx for your reply. As a member of SWMT, I need to CSD spams I found on small wikis. Is there some way to enable the CSD tool automatically on these wikis, or I have to find and enable it manually on each wikis? --Shujenchang (talk) 12:39, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

You're looking for User:Hoo man/Scripts/Tagger :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 11:15, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Thx for your help :D --Shujenchang (talk) 15:40, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

mail

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Dear Snowolf, many thanks for your detailed advice, I really appreciate it - it is priceless and very informative! I'm really grateful that you took so much time to systematically gather all this. Chapeau bas! Pundit (talk) 07:58, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

User page image

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Hi Snowolf. Are you aware that not linking to the file description page of your user page image is a copyvio? --Leyo (talk) 19:52, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Indeed, that had not occurred to me. Thank you for bringing the matter to my attention, I will fix it ASAP. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 20:00, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

I believe the new version should be in compliance, tho I'm unsure about the exact wording that should be best used. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 21:00, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Import

Hi Snowolf, I'm from ca.wikiquote and I've become sysop there. yesterday I was trying to import a page but I can't. Can you hel me? What should I write in the first box? Thank you, -- Nknudsen · ✉ 09:32, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

I apologize for the very late reply. I'm not sure I follow, you're trying to do a transwiki import or a XML import? If it's the former as it seems likely, I assume that there might be a problem with the import sources not being configured, that is, to import pages the places to import them from have to be configured first, and this cannot be done by administrators. I don't know what you mean by first box tho, could you, if the problem is persisting, let me know what it says before this first box for example? Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:09, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Re: Inactivity as Global Sysop

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I would like to retain access as Global sysop if that is possible. I have been exceedingly busy the past few months, but I have time to spare for the next two to three months at least. Regards, Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 17:26, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Sure, thanks for replying! Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 17:33, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

CheckUser for suspected Sock puppetry - Help Required

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Hi Snowolf, I am Tahir Mahmood an Administrator on Urdu Wikipedia. We don't have a local CheckUser.

Can you please confirm the following as a Sock puppetry account of User:S.M.Samee (User has been blocked previously for the on English Wikipedia for the Same)

• User:S.M.Samee
• User:S.M.Samee (User is on Urdu Wikipedia)
• User:Sahlay (Suspected Sock puppetry)
• User:Sahlay (User is on Urdu Wikipedia) (Suspected Sock puppetry)

--Tahir mq (talk) 09:45, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

It would probably be best if you posted this over at SRCU as I rarely if ever do sock CUs, also you'd need to explain better the reasons for why this is specifically required on the Urdu wikipedia, ie evidence of abuse, double voting, etc.. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 11:13, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Snowwolf.--Tahir mq (talk) 11:18, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Please Help

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Please could review my request at Steward requests/Speedy deletions Thanks, --Zarienah (talk) 10:02, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Mass deletion of 91.207.4.242

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Hi, Are you sure that that was done correctly?
I read the Recent Changes log every day at scowiki, and mark spam pages for deletion.
I don't recognize this 91 user.
One of the pages he added was Template talk:Stub/Ainimal??
I wrote Template:Stub/Ainimal. I don't remember anyone creating Template talk.
Thanks, scowiki rollbacker Varlaam (talk) 16:37, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

The pages were added earlier this morning shortly before my mass deletion, I assure you it was done correctly. I went back and double checked and yes, that talk page was created by said user with spam content 22 minutes before my deletion. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 17:13, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much for investigating.

I will go back and have another look at the log.

Question: Do these people have some surreptitious way of creating things such that it does not get logged normally?

Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 08:50, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Uh it was logged normally I don't follow what you're trying to say. The page was normally created and then normally deleted, nothing unusual about that... Both events were logged, tho obviously the deletion of the page makes the page invisible in the user's contributions and elsewhere, etc.. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 02:13, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

zhwiki bot approval redirection

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Hello Snowolf, there is a discussion thread in the zhwiki Village Pump on recommendation for regulations to remove bots. As for your concern it seems more appropriate to ask the individual bureaucrats. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 99.238.22.159 (talk • contribs) 02:03, 9 December 2012.

Thanks a lot for notifying me, will read up on it :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 02:11, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar

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Thank you for the barnstar. It's a pleasure to help. --Dereckson (talk) 23:07, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome, it's nice to work with you :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:01, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

I just happened to notice :)

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It would be "interesting" to see the same stats for "old" stewards! Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:53, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Indeed it would be, however I have no easy way of generating these stats. With the stewards from this year, I can just use quentin's stats and distribute them over the time period since the 28th february. With stewards previously appointed, I have no easy way of coming up with the number of actions since last reconfirmation :( I could come up with global stats, but I'm not sure that they would have any particular significance and it would involved some additional calculations (mainly to deal with stewards who spent some time without the flag between two appointments). Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 12:58, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

At the moment my plan was to keep generating them until the next reconfirmation, then archive them and start with whoever gets elected then, etcetera. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 13:00, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Yes - fair enough. It is simply that I get used to the pattern of some people's behaviour - they appear around confirmation time, make a few actions and then are not seen again until the following year... It is actually good to see that the "new" ones seem to be actually active mostly. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:07, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I might run a one-off batch around confirmation time, as some of the preliminary data I found is... interesting, but no idea how to structure such a format. Quentinv57's tool offers me really great and clean stats (that is, while it doesn't include every logged steward actions, it at least doesn't include non-steward actions as some other tools do) but sadly no time format. Maybe we can try and persuade him to code a "by year" function in it, otherwise I might at least do the stats overall (that is, total number of actions / days in office) even if they're not that significant or manually count stats for the last year for the lower end of the spectrum (that is, stewards under 1 action per day). Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 13:12, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

blocking my IP adress by Snowolf

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Hi, I wish to know. Why my IP address was blocke on Wikipeadia? --37.190.37.56 22:44, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

You have evaded a lock I placed on your account to stop your crosswiki distruption and edit warring and continued the problematic activity with this IP address. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 22:45, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry, what wrong had did I done? Could You have some time? Could You explain it?

I was editing an article about microsoft poject titled "Windows Essentials" in different language' wikipedia pages. I din't know I had done anything wrong --37.190.37.56 22:53, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi. I believe Mathonius tried to engage with you on nlwiki and only when that appeared to fail I proceeded with the block. The issue is that you are removing content (such as the screenshot on mswiki), spamming several users, improperly capitalizing urls and other things. I have poked Mathonius if he has anything to add. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 22:56, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I checked out about wrong capitalisation from mrs. Codename Lisa from en-wiki. she told me next:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TheGovernor1 Hello. If you find a link that I broke by accident, please feel free to point me to it. But I double-checked and from where I am standing, it is you who break link by capitalizing them. They do look prettier but stop working in some web browsers which lack autocorrect function. Hyperlinks are arbitrary strings; they should not be beautified. The main problem with your edit is contributing link that are incompatible with MOS:COMPUTING#Website addresses. Your latest edit also violated MOS:PUNCT. (We don't use that kind of punctuation in Wikipedia.)]

Is it true?? I really didn't know this one, I sware! But, as You see, I didn't touch en-wiki after this anymore.

Also, I wanted to fix my wrong editions at other-language wiki, but checked out that I blocked.

Also, I wish to tell You that contributions de user Mathonius in cross-wiki are too aggressive. He reverts actual information I added to too old unactual information (from example, about the last product version and it' release date).

And, I wish to repeat, it's a big news for me about this one that Codename Lisa told me... I wish You will confirm or disprove it (express your opinion about this). Thank You, whaiting! --37.190.37.56 23:08, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Also, I wish to tell You about deleting intrawiki links to screenshots. I done these actions because of that screenshot is unactual. If the article is about Essentials (started in 2012, september) - Not about Live Essentials it needs to be an actual screenshot to the acrticle.

Besides, I didn't know it's wrong for wiki actions. Nobody told me about this. --37.190.37.56 23:26, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Why did You delete my edits with help'message to admins of ms-wiki?

Let me see if I follow. a) I reverted your messages spamming like 5-10 people as that is not appropriate, if you wish, contact one admin, not 17 :) b) the main issue above all else is that when somebody reverted your edits, you just kept on going, when somebody else did the same, ditto, etcetera. That is really not how we do things, we try to discuss things if somebody disagree with our edits c) capitalization in URLs doesn't even look prettier, it's bizarre. If you want, I can unlock your account but you have to be careful about these things and try to respond when people point out problems to you not just revert them on and on. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:36, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I don't agree with You that capitalisation isn't buetifull. For wiki readers its not hot or cold. But for wiki contributors it could be more comfortable: don't You agree with me that one of main tasks for wiki contributors is cheking that anybody added any spam in wiki. So it could be more comfortable to check that (for exmple) link "TheOfficialWebsite.Com" that "theofficialwebsite.com".... But, as I understand we must finish this theme because of that (or same) actions could broke links for some category users that using browsers that are not correct automatically these links....

So, let me see if I follow, is this style of reverts when a good main information reverted too - aggressive style?

Yeah, I check out my wrong sides. Thank You for discussion this. I wish you could unblock my IP with account. --37.190.37.56 23:49, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

And I wish also to cantact with you by close channels. Could You tell me your Skype?

Thank You! --37.190.37.56 23:49, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

The domain portion of a URI is case insensitive and should be written in lower-case, both because of convention and because of RFC 1738. Same goes for the host part in the HTTP scheme, see RFC 2616. The rest is actually case sensitive. I'm not sure what you mean by "aggressive style". When one is causing crosswiki distruption on multiple wikis and revert-warring, we tend to react firmly. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:57, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I have unlocked your account, hoping for the best Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:58, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I'd like to add a thing or two. On the Dutch Wikipedia (nl.wikipedia.org), not only the links and the interwiki's were changed, but also our apostrophe-sign. It is clear that this user lacked the knowledge that is required for editing the Dutch language articles. On top of that, his responses were very bold when it was pointed out to him that several of his changes to interwiki's and links to external sites caused them to stop from functioning, and that he disrupted our language. Excusing himself here by saying no-one told him is reversing the order of things. He did not bother to ask in the first place and when someone told him, his reaction was a rude and denying one. Not the behaviour of someone you would welcome to join your project. If I'm alowed to give some advise: it would be a wise thing for him to do if he would get acquainted with the way wikipedia works on his home-project, before starting to edit cross-wiki, in languages he does not understand. Wikiklaas (talk) 00:05, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Anybody's allowed to give some advice. In fact, that's very good advice. I'm sure things would go much more smoothly if the user edited a bit on the Russian Wikipedia before moving on to languages he doesn't fully understand. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 00:06, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

• You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia.

Editing from your IP address (37.190.37.56) has been blocked (disabled) on all Wikimedia wikis until 05:39, 17 December 2012 by Snowolf (meta.wikimedia.org) for the following reason.

Didn't You unblock anything?

• I'm talking about this aggressive style: 1, 2 and et. and etc.: reverting main data in article' infobox about actual last date and version of program. Do You think it ok? --TheGovernor1 (talk) 00:17, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Dear TheGoverner1, did you read my comment above? Wouldn't you think it would be a good idea for you to stop editing cross-wiki, but concentrate on getting to know the way Wikipedia works on you home project? Several users already judged your own edits and your own comments as "aggresive". Please stop complaining and try to find out how you can best cooperate with other users. From the edits you did so far, for example the ones in the interwiki's, it is clear that you lack a basic understanding of the technical stuff you need to know before editing these vital things. Wikiklaas (talk) 00:34, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

And what are the capital letters in URLs for? Even here you wrote http://En.Wikipedia.Org. That sort of thing. --ErikvanB (talk) 00:58, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Dear Snowolf, I see little improvement. Take a look at this for instance. --ErikvanB (talk) 01:22, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Yeah at some point you can't keep wasting the time of 5+ people that have to babysit every edit you make because you refuse to familiarize yourself with wikis on languages you know before going crosswiki. User is locked and IP is gblocked and I'm going to try and get some sleep. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 01:33, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Quite right. Thank you. --ErikvanB (talk) 01:37, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi.

I see there is a mention of me in this discussion, so, I thought perhaps it is in everyone's best interest if I clarified a few things. I reverted TheGoverner1 because his edit had multiple problems:

1. Broken interwiki links: e.g. fr:Windows Live Essentials was turned into fr:Windows Essentials and el:Πρόγραμμα εγκατάστασης του Windows Live was turned into el:Windows Essentials. At the time of my inspection, neither fr:Windows Essentials nor el:Windows Essentials worked. (Now, they work, but now they are what English Wikipedia regards illegitimate article forks.)
2. Broken hyperlinks: Some hyperlinks did not work. Some of my colleagues rejected my initial explanation (browser autocorrection) and supplied their own (DNS server, non-standard midway gateway, an overzealous/justified firewall/IDS/IPS, etc.) but the fact remains that some links had stopped working. I think that reason alone warrants a revert.
3. Violation of en:MOS:PUNCT: English Wikipedia does not use curly quotation; it is a minor issue in its own right but it is coupled with the above.
4. Violation of en:MOS:COMPUTING on hyperlinks: Again, another minor issue coupled with other issues. Many people do not like redirects. English Wikipedia acknowledges this aversion but does not agree with it. According to MOS:COMPUTING external redirects are fine. They should not be replaced when there are other benefits such as conciseness and print-friendliness attached to them.

Best regards,

Codename Lisa (talk) 01:41, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for commenting but don't worry, we got fed up too. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 01:43, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

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Wrote You there --TheGovernor1 (talk) 01:14, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

There's just no stopping you, is there? At least not by trying to apply common sense. Wikiklaas (talk) 01:32, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

did you block my account with IP for discussing questions?

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or anything else? I was trying to check out, how can I add an ctual information about the program in wikipedia (changing "Windows Live Essentials" to "Windows Essentials" in text, changing technical information to actual official and administrators revert it.) So I checked it out from edministrator, how I could do it if I can't creat new pages with this data (they think it is a double of an existing page. It's nonsense isn't it?)

I wish to check from You these questions if I couldn't do it with administration of wikisource. I wrote, trying to edit my question and chaced out that can't do it. Please, could you tell me?--37.190.37.56 01:45, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Please, could you tell me?--37.190.37.56 01:45, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

The main reason you were re-blocked was your lack of proficiency in the Wikipedia languages you attempted to edit in addition to resuming the disruption you were originally locked for.--Jasper Deng (talk) 01:47, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

I really don't understand what are you talking about, Mr. Jasper (especially in context aboout my "lack of proficiency in the Wikipedia languages you attempted to edit").

Please, could you tell me, Mr. Snowolf, Mr. Jasper? --37.190.37.56 01:45, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Mrs Codename Lisa forgot to tell that I didn't do anything (wrong) after I was noticed by her about my wrong actions. --37.190.37.56 12:48, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Mr. Snowolf, are You here? As You know, I'm not interested in unlocking before I will hear your opinion. So I'm whaiting. --37.190.37.56 15:28, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Let me try to explain then. "Lack of proficiency" means you obviously do not have the knowledge and/or the skills for the tasks you are trying to do. It showed:

A) when you were editing links. The interwiki's - links in the lower lefthand corner of your screen that enable you to navigate to other wiki's - should not be changed unless the page name in the corresponding wiki is changed (when the page is moved). In that case a bot will correct the situation quite soon and as a rule, there is no need to edit those links by hand. Certainly not if it's your first day of editing and you have no idea of what you are doing. You also edited links by capitalising letters, removing the "www."-part at the beginning or the slash at the end. Codename Lisa gave a thorough explanation why it is undesirable to capitalise parts of links just to make them look better. Removing parts of links means that you put extra load on the server that is connecting you to the page that the link points to. In general: there was no need for you to touch any of the links and every change you made was a bad one. That's called lack of proficiency.

B) when you were editing languages you are not familiar with. Both in the English and the Dutch wikipedia (I did not check the others for this) you added, replaced, or removed punctuation characters. That's a stupid thing to do if you can't speak, read or write the language. You run the risk of changing the meaning of words or the way they are displayed. In this case too, there was absolutely no reason why you should make these changes. Making meaningless or even bad changes is called lack of proficiency.

C) when you engaged with other people on their talk pages. Wikipedia is a project where we try to achieve things in cooperation. One of the skills you need for that is being able to discuss your goals and your errors. You very convincingly demonstrated that you were unable to do so. Engaging in a discussion is not barking at other people what they should do. It starts with stating the problem in a clear manner after which we tend to listen to what others say about it. If you can't do this, then that's called lack of proficiency.

D) when you edited crosswiki on the first day you were registered. You did not take the time to get acquainted with editing on your home project. And if you did so with a different user name, then you did not learn much. Without any basic knowledge, apart from how to handle a keyboard, you started doing your own private things in a worldwide project that's based on cooperation. And when your edits proved to be bad ones and were reverted, you did not ask for help or explanation but stubbornly reverted back. Time and over again. While you should have realised that anyone else on Wikipedia was more experienced than you were and people reverting your edits would have good reasons to do so. That is called lack of proficiency.

One of the effects of your amateurism was that several people had to babysit your every edit, as Snowolf pointed out above. That's wasting other people's time and when you promised to do better but just kept going on with your disruptive editing, that was a good enough reason for locking your account. You may of course be lucky enough to come back with a different user name, some time. My guess is that if you did not learn from this exercise and will still not be able to make valuable contributions in good cooperation, you will in no time be recognised as a pain in the ass for the second time. It is of course a very good recipy for getting locked in record time again. On the other hand, Wikipedia is not about refusing admittance to people who want to contribute. Actually, loads of users, registerd or anonymous ones, join every day without causing problems. They are maybe just a bit more carefull and eager to learn then you were. You could try that strategy when you join next time. Cheers, Wikiklaas (talk) 23:45, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikivoyage XML imports

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Hi, I have a bunch of important policy and policy discussion pages that I wanted to import from wts.wikivoyage-old.org to en.wikivoyage.org, but special:import is disabled on our wiki (and my bugzilla request looks to be going nowhere). In your capacity as a steward, would you be able to help with this? I have already downloaded the XML. --Peter ^Talk 19:25, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

You should request import userrights on SRP in the miscellaneous section. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 19:46, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Richiesta intervento

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Non so se è questo il posto giusto per fare una richiesta, ma cerco di spiegarti il problema wikivoyage in italiano conta praticamente due utenti attivi, entrambi amministratori che fanno il bello e il cattivo tempo spalleggiandosi fra di loro ignorando le mininime basi del consenso o dei pilastri di wikipedia, tenendo di fatto segregato un progetto che in futuro potrebbe diventare molto importante nella famiglia di wikimedia un esempio lampante lo puoi trovare nelle affermazioni fatte da gobbler,uno dei due, qui [3] l'altro è raoli, bloccato in source proprio per scarsa collaborativita 82.51.123.247 22:28, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Due osservazioni: se ci sono solo due utenti attivi e questi concordano tra loro, non e' forse consenso? e ricorda che i "pilastri di wikipedia" generalmente piu' vicini alla Costituzione Italiana, ossia non attuativi, che altro e che comunque sono limitati in efficacia a Wikipedia e non agli altri progetti. Ad ogni modo, non posso che segnalarti le Requests for comment come veicolo appropriato per una discussione sulla materia, se lo ritieni appropriato. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 22:59, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

No altri due utenti appena arrivati non concordano con loro e se dai un occhio alla conversazione che ti ho linkato vedrai quale è il tono delle discussioni, il mio inglese non è cosi buono da poter fare una richiesta articolata lo chiedo a te come steward che deve intervenire in tutte le wiki ma sopratutto come utente di lungo corso e con molta esperienza82.51.123.247 23:52, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Funny edit

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I don't want to seem angry or anything, but this edit made me laugh. :P Reverting a spammer ended up adding spam. πr² (t • c) 00:13, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Looool. Thanks for fixing my error :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:06, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

The chat

Where is the cha

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t? I'm not an english user, and I don't know about english chat. My catalan user is Usuari:SAVMAVGER. --SAVMAVGER (talk) 14:16, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't follow... Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 09:46, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Working on hunches I think he means IRC and catalan is his WP Project. Just my suspicion. 82.33.215.26 10:27, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Kolega2357-Bot@bxrwiki

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Can you give me a bot flag wait for a long time? Greeting! --Kolega2357 (talk) 09:36, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

I've commented on the request. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 09:46, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

Welcome.One users in Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

1. Creates pages of sabotage in the scope of Wikipedia and scope of Wikipedia Talk
2. Creates pages of sabotage in the scope of
   1. Talk
   2. File talk
3. Protects pages without any reason

Please Prevent him and drag him, the validity of the administrative --41.130.42.120 13:04, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Well put

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You know where - I'll add something later, just want to think before making an idiot of myself (if only others would do the same - or admit to mistakes) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:35, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks :) And I doubt that you'd make an idiot of yourself :) By the way, to reply in your same cryptic way, there's a certain thing happening here in a few days which I'm sure you're aware of and that would... shall we say, benefit from your active participation? :P Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 11:45, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks again and for the mail :) I've said something here just in case you miss it (so unlikely I know!). --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:02, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

I agree completely it should be opened up however "hell freezing over" is likely to happen before that I think... --Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:11, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

OTRS fiasco

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Time passes and nothing happens... It seems as though the OTRS admins have decided to "circle the wagons" and pretend that the Indians do not exist. I really do find it very worrying that part of the organisation dedicated to ensuring good communication happens has decided not to communicate with the community over issues that concern us. I have no idea what to do next - thoughts welcome. Regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 17:27, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

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Hi, Snowolf! Thanks for the shoutback! Jonathan Reiter jr

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User:TheGovernor1

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Hey! Why I couldn't enter this account? Is it still locked for me?? I just returned to my home (-ru) wiki project - ru:wiki as TheGovernor3 couldn't enter as TheGovernor 1 [I tried enter many times but it answers that I enter wrong password]. Because of this situation, my TheGovernor3 account was blocked for unlimit time because of "using second username to bypass global lock of username TheGovernor1". As our ru-checkuser DR (Dmitriy Rodionov) said to public and to me personally.

Could You check out, is it some mistake that username is still blocked or I need to go to the special metawiki section to ask to unblock my useraccount?

Please, Help me. Whaiting. Regards, --TheGovernor3 (talk) 22:17, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

There is no mistake, you are not supposed to edit any Wikimedia project, as you already know and have been told, see #blocking my IP adress by Snowolf particularly "Yeah at some point you can't keep wasting the time of 5+ people that have to babysit every edit you make because you refuse to familiarize yourself with wikis on languages you know before going crosswiki. User is locked and IP is gblocked and I'm going to try and get some sleep. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 01:33, 16 December 2012 (UTC)". I am now locking this account as well. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 22:36, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Can I causally point out that this user is now breaking Sockpuppetry rules? I have a feeling we have the next TailsMan67 here... 82.33.215.26 10:30, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Your navbox is now prettier

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You're welcome :D. AGK [•] 00:19, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I wish I could figure out a way to just use [[tools:]] but I can never figure it out :D Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 13:04, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Demotion to admin

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Congratulations in respect of Wikivoyage! --118.93.73.30 06:34, 31 January 2013 (UTC) _singaporeAlice 06:36, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, tho I've been struggling to find time for it lately, which is disappointing to me and likely same goes for those who we kind enough to lend me my support. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:47, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Your navbox is now protocol-relative

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You're welcome :P. πr² (t • c) 20:39, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:47, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Good day Sir.

I'd like to be sysop on wp-min (Minangkabau) (maybe just temporally sysop) to fix and contibute for that new wiki. How can I get a permission for the right? Please answer my question on my talk page on wiki-id. Thank's in advance.  Ę-oиė  >>>  ™ 06:02, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

You'd have file a request on SRP after having left a request/discussion open on the local wiki for say, a week. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 05:39, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Vote Checking

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Ah, thanks for that. How can I contribute to central vote checking? Vacation9 (talk) 13:30, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

The bot will periodically run and copy the new voters to Template:Stewards/Elections 2013/Voters/Check. Once there, they will be listed in the "needs checking" section, you can then validate them there (don't move them from that section tho): the bot will look there when it runs next and copy the confirmations on all the relevant pages! Thanks a lot for your hard work, and sorry that I had to revert it, but I thought it better for me to revert it than for you to find out in a few hours or so that all of your hard work has been written over by the bot :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 13:32, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I totally understand. Will do! Vacation9 (talk) 13:34, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Question

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Hi! Would you be able to review Steward_requests/Global#Global_unblock_for_24.236.235.74? Also, please check the deleted en.wiki article and compare it to the linked frwiki and anwiki ones (to remove hoax content). Thank you. πr² (t • c) 00:32, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Quentin has unblocked but I've now tracked down in the logs how the block developed, see the other page. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 02:11, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikicommons statistics

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Hi, is there any service inside wiki or outside of wiki located that shows any particular wikicommons media item viewed and downloaded statistics? Thank you. Orgio89 (talk) 03:51, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

I looked into this a bit, and I wasn't able to find anything, but I am really not much of a commons person, so I would advise you to ask on commons:Commons:Village pump :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:45, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Churning away

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http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Special:Log/newusers - it seems to be churning away at 2 a minute automatically generated user names from where? over 10,000 in a month - surely that does not equate to the number of previous ed names on wiktravel? and apparently hasnt been checked - any suggestions what is happening... or as to who or what can be done? sats (talk) 14:28, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Apologies - it seems to have been happening since November the 11th last year which means the autogenerated usernames should number now at 100,000 or so... I realise that like other wikivoyage faux pas of mine that there is probably a quite legitimate explanation of why it is happening - it looks sinister when watched from at least one perspective - maybe it is legit... sats (talk) 15:54, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

indeed - pointed out to me the process is part of http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login - further apologies for cluttering your talk page sats (talk) 16:18, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Don't apologize, my talk page is here for people to poke me :D I'm glad to hear you figured out the cause of the issue, indeed, thru global accounts users browsing wikivoyage will have an account automatically created there if they enter the site :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 18:55, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

sheesh there is the nub of the issue - since the november 11 to now the auto is endless - probably 100,000 + - you are saying if they enter the site, well thats more visits than there are articles, and the auto adder is going non-stop... I was trying to work out where on wikivoyage the phenomenon should be explained to placate those of the more paranoid persuasion - it was my guess that the wikimedia server has been slaving away to catchup... it would be good to get something maybe a bit more specific about things than the unified login help page - to explain what it is and how it works - any thoughts how to have an explanation at wikivoyage that gives a more specific explanation that is sufficient for all the levels of understanding of the average wikivoyager? sats (talk) 01:35, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

It does seem to me that some of the ex-Wikitravel users do not have SUL accounts - for example [4] only shows very few admins and crats. --Rschen7754 01:56, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

I suppose that begs the question then as to whether an encouragement or otherwise to suggest they broader their experiences across wikis, or encourage sul account users to share experiences more - like you 2 folks - to illustrate the benefits of cross wiki usage and watching... sats (talk) 11:08, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

In my opinion, it would be helpful to gain more experience with how Wikimedia sites operate in general. I recently became a crosswiki user and it's been a rather eye-opening experience, but it's not for everyone. Even encouraging people to vote in the steward elections would be helpful - as the stewards serve as the CU/OS of en.wikivoyage. The key is that at least soe should be aware of what is going on in other projects, because they're really not all that different from each other. There's been a bit much "well that won't work for us, because we're Wikivoyage!" when in reality, it works for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Commons, Meta, Wikidata, Wikisource, etc. In my experiences, whenever a WMF project loses touch with the other projects and looks too far inwardly is when it really goes downhill and starts making major mistakes - a lot of which is happening to my home wiki, the English Wikipedia, right now. --Rschen7754 23:09, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Sheesh - Its so big (wp en) its hard to know where the pulse is anymore... The internal logic and difference of the operational policy of wikivoyage seems to give the better experienced eds a sense we are different - but that shouldnt keep them from looking outward as well though... sats (talk) 23:44, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Just curious

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Greetings Steward.

I was just wondering what brought about that you need to have 600 edits before November 2012 to be able to vote in the Steward Elections? To cut a long story short I looked at Bletilla and since the user is so inactive as to not even answer all of the questions well that says it all really. I wanted to place a vote but seeing that I wasn't eligible was a downer to be honest, i'm not about to argue with concensus so I was just wondering the main reasons for the 600 rule as very little in terms of reasons comes to me. Many thanks. MIVP - (Can I Help?) - (HeadQuarters) 12:05, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Hmm I assume it's meant to hinder sockpuppet voting, or people making accounts just to vote; however it has been a rule for some years and I am not fully familiar with the history of the election rules, you might want to drop by User talk:DerHexer as he's the old and wise stateman around these parts :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:44, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Okay i've asked him. Just decided you were the first stop since i've seen you on En Wikipedia and my personal favourite Wiki WikiVoyage plus you were one of the stewards whom elects other stewards, kind of a top rung on the ladder yes? Anyway while i'm here can I ask you something else? Does This seem like a good policy on which to unblock people on? One of the EN WP Admins apparently has done a lot of unblocks per this and a user (ironically under the admin's watch under en:Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user) expressed a concern towards it. [5] I wanted to gain a Steward's opinion on the matter. Could you please give me an idea of your opinion on it? Thank you again. And thanks for giving me the opportunity to practice cross-wiki page linking with this question I suppose. Heh. MIVP - (Can I Help?) - (HeadQuarters) 15:03, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Some clarifications if I may: election committee members do not elect other stewards, the community does :) We merely help out with the smooth running of the elections and the administrative side of things. Regardless, all stewards are equal and being on the election committee merely means one has volunteered for it :)

You've specifically asked me for an opinion with my steward hat, so I will reply accordingly: all wikis are free to establish local policies dealing with virtually any subject provided it is not in conflict with global policies or WMF Board of Trustees resolutions. It is not for me as a steward to comment on whether a policy is or isn't wise, different wikis have different needs and practices. I also do not think it my place to express any comments on a specific user's application of the policy in question, that is a matter internal to the English Wikipedia and if you have specific complaints about an administrator's action I suggest that you contact them directly and discuss the matter. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 09:41, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

It's not that I personally see a problem in it, I simply wanted to get another opinion on it, so Stewards can't really give an opinion unless it clashes with WMF Policies? Well that's interesting, well anyway thank you kindly for replying with what you could. MIVP - (Can I Help?) - (HeadQuarters) 09:29, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Oppose reasons

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Hi Snowolf, and thanks for posting the election results. I wrote some oppose reasons because the bot had stalled, but then it started again and overwrote them! I'm not sure if you want to add them. This, that and the other (talk) 09:03, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

I think that generally the oppose reasons are added after by Pathoschild or some other older statesman of the steward group, I am not very much in favour of how it is done personally, namely that elected stewards have the oppose reasons written, when it's clear that the community doesn't really agree with them or else they wouldn't have been elected. In any case, the oppose reasons are supposed to be written only after the elections are closed. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 09:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

OK, well it doesn't actually say that anywhere :) This, that and the other (talk) 10:51, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Old stuff on SRM

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Hi. There was a discussion on archiving old non-speedy requests on SRM. Do you think the text you removed should be put in an archive? πr² (t • c) 12:03, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Some of those requests should be archived to /dev/null as far as I'm concerned but I have no particular objections to an archive, all I care about/am trying to do is not to have requests from november clogging up the page. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 12:07, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Global block

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Greetings Snowolf, I know you are at least somewhat familiar with my past, positive and negative so maybe I can appeal to your good graces. I have asked repeatedly for a global block but some keep insisting I must "earn" it and that global blocks aren't done by request. I don't think we have interacted negatively but perhaps you would be willing? My only other steps are to appeal to the WMF directly or to "earn" a block on enough sites to validate the need for a global. I am also going to send you a separate Email with some additional info I do not want to leave here. Kumioko (talk) 23:20, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

bxr-wiki

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I do understand the formal reason of why you do not give the permissions to Dagirov Umar in Chechen Wikipedia (He agreed that he was wrong in this situation with "canvassing" and regret it), but why do you hesitate with Gubin Mikhail in the Buryat Wikipedia? You saw all of his violations yourself!--Soul Train (talk) 13:33, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

• Once again he is spamming in the project, he have only 4 days, he can do something bad in this period. BLOСK HIM IMMEDIATELY! Why are you so slow?--Soul Train (talk) 14:07, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Test Wiki rights

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Hi, thanks for the admin rights on the Test Wiki; I've now tested what I needed to (no MediaWiki bugs after all). You can remove the admin rights if you'd like, or equally I don't mind them being kept in case I come across something else; your call. All the best. --xensyria^T 18:18, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

I don't think it matters if you keep them or not, provided you're not gonna pillage and torch the place :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 18:48, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, and I'll try my best to resist the temptation ;) --xensyria^T 18:55, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Chechen Wikipedia

Hello. Separatists came back. First of all, they blocked with no reason Dagirov Umar. Then, they deleted the request for adminship of Umar. I revert this edit, but, you understand that I have no rights there and they can block me in any moment even if I just reverting the obvious vandalism. Also, see the discussion in Steward requests/Miscellaneous.--Soul Train (talk) 08:05, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Ukrainian Wikivoyage

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Dear Snowolf! Could you please load to http://uk.wikivoyage.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Newarticletext the new article creation info from our current http://uk.wikivoyage.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD:Newarticletext template. Thank you. --Voll (talk) 09:53, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

I see Vogone's already done it :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 14:51, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Bot updates to fuzzied messages

Hello, can you run a bot like this for this problem here on Meta? Thanks, Nemo 11:39, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Not really. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 05:43, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi and Help

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Hi Snowolf, I was hoping if you would help me in a minor situation, Thank you. (68.33.8.192 20:49, 27 April 2013 (UTC))

Rotter Net.

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Hey, can you block the user "רוטר נט." on the Hebrew Wikivoyage? He violates copyright. Thanks, Dekel E (talk) 11:59, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Hmm I think this would be best handled by User:Matanya as he speaks the language and is also a steward :) What do you think? Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 12:05, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Maybe, but right now he corrupting the Wiki. Dekel E (talk) 12:10, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Policy page on ace.wiki

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Why you delete it? So we are not allowed to make a policy? -- Si Gam (talk) 11:24, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

You can make a page about how the sky is pink, but unless you get community approval for it, you can't claim it's a policy, like you falsely and deceptively have. The community can and does make policies. Believe it or not, you *are not* acewiki, and you are not its community. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 11:26, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

The policy is here. -- Si Gam (talk) 11:29, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

User:Kolega2357-Bot

sulutil:Kolega2357-Bot tells me that he's going around to different wikis and running his bot without the bot flag - typically he files a request and then does not wait for approval. I just blocked him off enwikivoyage for that, so it's not like the activity level of the wiki is at fault. What's done in these situations? --Rschen7754 08:20, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Request to get unblocked

Please forgive me for all the vandalism I have committed. This time, I promise to not to vandalize no more and please, believe me 'cause I am really, truly, genuinely honest this time. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.3.67.81 (talk)

It is my understanding that vandalism from this IP has been going on for over a year, am I correct in understanding this? Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 05:29, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Yeah. Please, just, unblock me. I promise to not to vandalize. I will try my best to be more careful and nice from now on. Just please, unblock me on Wikipedia. Please... — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.3.67.81 (talk)

Can you please unblock me? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.3.67.81 (talk)

Inter-wiki issue

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Why this inter-wiki issue is neglected by all Stewards? This is growing day by day. :( JKadavoor Jee 16:33, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Because a) nobody made relevant request to us b) it's not an interwiki issue c) it is far outside of the Stewards purview and role d) Stewards have no particular expertise in commons inclusion or deletion criteria, that's the a field where I would assume commons admins and community members are the experts. I should note as an expanded comment on point b), I fail to see how it is an interwiki issue, especially given if local wikis have some sort of objection to the content being used in articles they can use the local blacklist to stop that, or pass related policies and enforcement. It really, really has nothing to do with us. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 17:34, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I don't know whether it is an inter-wiki issue; but all I can see is admins in both sides are fighting to protect their interest. It seems Russavia, a crat on Commons is blocked at EN:Wiki. Similarly many admins and Signpost editors in EN:Wiki are blocked at Commons too. Note the message in Tony's talk page in EN:Wiki: "This user strongly encourages editors to upload image, video, and sound files onto the English Wikipedia, and not onto Commons, which has multiple structural and management issues, and a tangle of serious inter-jurisdictional problems. Your files are safer at the English Wikipedia." See this Signpost too.

I'm only a media contributor; not aware/involved in the internal politics of these wikis. So I let people like you to act or neglect. But if these conflicts affect us like the experience of this fellow contributor, we have no other way than simply quit. Here one admin attack that poor user overriding another admin only because he made a request at EN:Wiki which is a place he hates. :( JKadavoor Jee 02:58, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Bot BoulaurBot on OC wikipedia - WIKIDATA STUBS

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Hi, let the oc wikipedia community decide please. My unapproved bot had more than 40 000 page created not reverted by local community (french commune...) and 200 000 edits.

On wikidata approved bot: 34 000 edits.

The content of the articles is from wikidata using mainly the INFOBOX: a lot of stubs, some with more informations.

PLEASE let the local community decide

Boulaur (talk) 04:50, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure how editcountis assuages one's concerns about the creations of pages void of any information (a 'stub' generally has some information; plenty if not most of your creations contain no information whatsoever). I can't see how any wikimedia project would want or accept empty articles that add significantly to the maintenance work, especially of a fairly small project, and that offer 0 value. I am not sure why on earth you felt you had the right to randomly create 20k worthless pages without previous community approval and bot flag or why you felt this was a useful endeavor to begin with. I'm also not sure why you're dropping me a note here instead of trying to argue as to why these article creations were needed or useful in the discussion taking place on the local wiki itself, which you have obviously read or else wouldn't know I even commented. I suggest that you write there instead, so that the local community and the GS who applied the emergency block can read your arguments. I for one look forward with interest in understanding the rationale behind this, and will try to look at the arguments you will present with an open mind, as I always strive to do. It is genuinely puzzling to me why such creations are undertaken, when no value is added to the encyclopedia and instead the encyclopedia's value is clearly diminished, burying good articles with information in a enormous sea of worthless junk. Again, I would suggest that you make the case for why this junk is needed or useful on the local wiki, so that the local admins, community members and the global user who are looking at this can see it :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 13:44, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments despite you're not agree with me I'm happy to have send back. I will effectively explain these stubs creation on local wiki in occitan language; I will try to provide you a correct transcription of my arguments.

Boulaur (talk) 20:15, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Bot created stubs: Automatic creation of articles (traduccion of local wiki)

Hello,

you had seen (or not) that I create 12 000 articles en 8 days with Wikidata informations.

I think that for our small wikipedia we must create content linked with Wikidata informations because:

• We are not enough to improve the number of articles,
• The Wikidata informations are writed, improved and updated with the help of all the wikipedians,
• A red link give less informations than a minimalist article who give a minima interwikis and is improved without intervention if the Wikidata datas are changed.

Theses stubs creations don't seems to be a good idea for the users dcljr (d), Vogone (SWMT) and Snowolf ^{How can I help?} because:

• A small sampling of these stubs reveals that most are of very little value

If you can look a sample of the created articles and say me if:

• We can avoid to use Wikidata informations,
• We must delete the created articles / keep theses articles / create other articles

Boulaur (talk) 20:41, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-26

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27. [6]
• Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias. [7]
• The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333). [8]
• The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files. A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505). [9]
• After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18. [10]
• VisualEditor news:
  • A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
  • A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet. [11]
• It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis. [12]

Future software changes

• The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977). [13]
• Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25. [14]
• The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations. [15]
• The related changes special page will now include upload log entries. [16]
• It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations. [17]
• MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another. [18]
• The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary. [19]
• The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013. [20]

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18:13, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Grazie :) --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 19:08, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Di nulla :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 19:58, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-27

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
• On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace. [21]
• A JavaScript problem caused the "View history" and "Add topic" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196). [22]
• There was a short site outage on June 28.
• The automated Category:Pages with broken file links now includes broken file links inserted inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #50119). [23]
• The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area. [24]
• There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040). [25]
• The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it. [26]
• VisualEditor news:
  • Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
  • VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
  • In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
  • Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
  • TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
  • Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
  • Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015). [27]

Future software changes

• VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
• From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages (bug #49505). [28]
• The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9. [29]

Erratum

• Tech news #26 incorrectly reported that audio transcoding was added to TimedMediaHandler; it was actually statistics about audio transcoding that were added. [30]

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14:28, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

For a mother fucker like User:Kfk, an 8-hour blockage is far from enough.

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Personally, if I were a sysop, I would immediately block this kind of mother fucker indefinitely. We shouldn't show even the tiniest bit of mercy to barbaric vandalisers! — Wg. Cdr. Cédric, ECPP Wing 31, Crimson Squadron (talk) 08:37, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

There's no reason to use this sort of language. I applied an 8 hour block to stop the disruption while I investigated the issue. About 2 and a half minutes before your post I converted the 8 hour block into an indefinite one, having had the time to review the matter more carefully. I am not a local admin but a steward and as such I need to exercise the utmost care when acting in these sort of circumstances. Kind regards, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 08:48, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-28

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

• VisualEditor news:
  • VisualEditor deployment has been delayed by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
  • A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed. [31]
  • Several bugs that occurred on right–to–left wikis have been fixed last week (bug #49416, bug #49613, bug #50543).
• Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287). [32]
• Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners. [33]

Future software changes

• MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #8480). [34]
• It will now be possible to create empty MediaWiki: messages, for instance in order to disable them (bug #50124). [35]
• The Nearby feature will soon be enabled on Wikivoyage wikis again. [36]
• The Notifications extension messages will now include a direct link to diffs on wiki as well as in notification e-mails (bug #48183). [37]
• Table of contents will now use the HTML <div /> element instead of <table />, fixing a nine–year–old bug #658. [38]
• First mock–ups of a mobile Wikidata application have been published by Pragun Bhutani as part of his Google Summer of Code project. [39]
• A discussion on minimum documentation practices in MediaWiki code has been started and awaits comments from the community.

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18:40, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Editor @ ar.wiki

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Hello. I would like to inform you that I have granted you editor flag at the Arabic Wikipedia, all your edits there will be automatically marked as patrolled. Best regards.--Avocato (talk) 03:43, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. Thank you :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 20:09, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Account hijacking report

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Hi Snowolf, we've had our first (ever) report of a hijacked account on Wikivoyage, and don't have any procedure in place to deal with it. Is there a Wikimedia policy on how to respond? Thank you for your assistance. --Peter ^Talk 01:32, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello Peter,

honestly, there really isn't one. A checkuser, if there are edits since the alleged hacking happened, can tell whether it is plausible or not that it took place and any local admin can block the account if they believe it to be compromised based on MO or other indicators.

WMF technical stuff have no practical way of restoring access to hacked accounts, and to the best of my knowledge they routinely decline to act in these situations. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 09:10, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, I suppose if the user can provide a sufficient level of proof, I could perform a usermerge to a new account (so they can claim their contributions history). We have a process for that already. I'm surprised to hear that there isn't a way to reclaim one's account, though. If that's the case, what's the point of establishing a committed identity--just to be able to establish that a hijacked account should be blocked? --Peter ^Talk 16:55, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Well, that and to establish that the same person has regained control of the account, if that is possible. --Rschen7754 18:11, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

IP block

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Hello, I would like to know the reason why my IP has been blocked for edits on wikis, and I can do to get my contributor status. Sincerely.

Without knowing your IP, I can't possibly know what the block is for, sorry. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 19:55, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-29

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18. [40]
• The Disambiguator extension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174). To use it, add the __DISAMBIG__ code to disambiguation templates (see example). [41]
• The Universal Language Selector was added to all remaining wikis on July 9, finishing the process of replacing the Narayam and WebFonts extensions. [42]
• The CommonsDelinker bot is now on-line and operating again, after a password problem was fixed (bug #51016).
• VisualEditor news:
  • According to the schedule, VisualEditor will be available to all users on the English Wikipedia on July 15.
  • Users should add TemplateData to templates to prepare for VisualEditor. A tutorial is available.
  • Parameters marked as "required" in TemplateData are now auto-added when you add a template (bug #50747).
  • Warnings are now displayed in VisualEditor when users edit pages that are protected or have edit notices (bug #50415).
  • Many other bugs have been fixed in VisualEditor during the past two weeks.
• The Wikimedia technical report for June has been published, with a summary that can be translated.

Future software changes

• A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos. [43]
• The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed. [44]
• Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them. [45] [46]
• Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later. [47]
• Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22. [48]
• A new image gallery design has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
• An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [49]

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17:39, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-30

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 18. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 25. [50]
• A new version of the Flow Prototype can be tested on Wikimedia Labs. [51]
• VisualEditor news:
  • The schedule to add VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias has been changed: the new editor will be available for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias on July 24, and for all users on those wikis on July 29. [52]
  • A warning is now displayed if an edit made with VisualEditor matches an edit filter (bug #50472).
  • SpamBlacklist messages are also supported (bug #50826).
  • Users can now edit <nowiki>...</nowiki> blocks (bug #47678).
  • When a user types text at the end of a link, the link now expands to that text. [53]
• Freely-licensed fonts for the Cree, Inuktitut and Urdu languages were added to Universal Language Selector, fixing bug #42421 and bug #46693.
• A Wikidata search plugin for the Firefox web browser was released by Jeroen De Dauw and can be downloaded from the Mozilla add-ons website.

Future software changes

• The change of the Wikimedia image scaling system from ImageMagick to VipsScaler (announced in the previous issue) has been postponed until bug #51370 is fixed. [54]
• Administrators will no longer see an unblock link for autoblocked IP addresses on the contributions page (bug #46457). [55]
• A request for comments on site-wide CSS was started on MediaWiki.org. [56]

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21:11, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Apology

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Listen, I want to apologize for the comment that I made on my request for Global Rollback. It was entirely unwarranted, and at the time, I did not even know that you were a steward at the time. At this point in time, I've withdrawn my request for GR and will try again in a few weeks after I get some activity going. I hope that my comment didn't taint a relationship before it already began.

Also, thank you for correcting a link of my userpage on the Simple English Wiktionary. Razorflame 21:47, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

It happens, don't worry about it :) I'm sure you'll do fine in a few weeks :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:06, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

I really acted like an ass on my GR request, it's just that I didn't expect such vehement opposition on it because I've had the bit in the past...Razorflame 19:50, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes; not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 25. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 29, and on all Wikipedias on August 1. [57]
• Wikivoyage was offline for around 40 minutes on July 24. [58]
• Pywikipediabot moved their code from SVN to git; bot owners need to update their tools. [59]
• The Notifications and Thanks extensions were added to Meta-Wiki on July 26; other wikis will get them soon. [60]
• It is now possible to add edit summaries on Wikidata using the API; the feature will be added to user interface soon. [61]
• The software that resizes large PNG images on all wikis was changed on July 25. Resizing of PNG files bigger than 35 megapixels should be faster and more reliable now. [62]
• Three new webfonts (Gentium, Old Persian and Shapour) will be added to Universal Language Selector. [63], [64], [65]
• Special:MIMESearch, which gives a list of files by type, will be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis with MediaWiki version 1.22/wmf12 (bug #13438). [66]
• A mailing list to discuss multimedia features was started; users are encouraged to sign up.
• VisualEditor news:
  • On July 24, VisualEditor was added for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias; it will be added for all users on those wikis on July 29. [67]
  • A preference to completely disable VisualEditor while it is in beta phase was added on July 24. [68]
  • Many bugs were fixed in right-to-left languages. [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74]
  • It is possible again to scroll down in the template editing window (bug #51739).
  • VisualEditor now works with the FlaggedRevisions extension. (bug #49699)
  • If the user opens VisualEditor using a section edit link, the title of the section is added to the edit summary (bug #50872).
  • Invisible templates now can't be deleted by accident or on purpose (bug #51322).

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20:52, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

User:Snowolf/Thine Antique Pen

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Since Thine Antique Pen has moved on, would you mind courtesy blanking the above page? --Rschen7754 21:13, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Went ahead with this, I hope this is okay. --Rschen7754 23:17, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

RfC about wuuwiki on meta

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Requests_for_comment/Sysop_(Hercule&Stevenliuyi)_malicious_action_to_the_wuu_wikipedia

You had reverted Hercule's protection of his own desysop page...It seems that you forget to revert Stevenliuyi's protection of his own desysop page...-- 782（Talk） 10:48, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

I don't know if I commented at some point elsewhere on the matter at the time, I can't remember if I did, but I thought it was Hercule who protected both, and so I only reverted the action in direct COI rather than the more indirect one, preferring to have the matter handled at RfC instead. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 20:13, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• The previous version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22. [75]
• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29. [76]
• You can now use new styles of galleries. Please give feedback to User:Bawolff. [77]
• You can now visit a random page in a category, for example Special:RandomInCategory/Science. (25931) [78]
• You can now use the <wbr> HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. (52468) [79]
• Gadget authors: you can now use the wikipage.content hook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the document-ready event (for example using Ajax). (30713) [80]

Problems fixed

• There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (52200)
• Maintenance reports provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see details).
• There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (52077) [81]

VisualEditor news

• The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit ^beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in bugzilla.
• You can now edit references that are added inside a <references> block. (51741)
• You can now test on mediawiki.org new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the button for the <s> tag), lower text ( for <sub>), upper text ( for <sup>), underlined text ( for <u>), computer code ( for <code> and <tt>), math text ( for <math>), Egyptian hieroglyphs ( for <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language ( for lang="ar" dir="rtl"). (51609, 51612, 51611, 51590, 51610, 52352)
• You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser. [82]

Future

• Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites. [83]
• Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications. [84]
• Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on meta. [85]
• Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis. [86]
• The plan to use Solr for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead, Elasticsearch is now planned. [87]

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20:07, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Apologies

Sorry if I pissed you off at some point. I know it does not help - but I do not recall why. I suspect you were totally justified in being pissed as I can sometimes unintentionally be a cruel debater. My best guess was a debate over social sharing or visual editor features on wikis - I recognize in those debates I can come off as uncaring to some groups as the topic of some folks then leaving came up often. In any case, I apologize if my arguments offended, that was not my intention. --Varnent (talk)^(COI) 21:26, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for the late reply. It was on IRC at some office hours, I can't say that I recall the exact subject. I very much appreciated your statement above, even tho I didn't write anything at the time. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 20:16, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• Special:Listfiles can now display old versions of files a user has uploaded. A new link was also added (Special:AllMyFiles) that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (that haven't been deleted).
• There is now an Android application to contribute to translatewiki.net from mobile devices. [88]

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor now has a new toolbar with drop-down menus for advanced tools. [89]
• Many bugs were fixed, some related to copy-and-paste. [90]
• You can now move references, list of references, templates and other elements with the mouse ("drag-and-drop"). [91]
• You are invited to comment on designs for the interface to add references in VisualEditor.

Future

• Developers are looking for ideas of small technical projects that new developers could work on. Please add your ideas. [92]
• Developers are looking for wikis who would accept to try using secure links (HTTPS) for all users. [93]
• You can join an IRC discussion about "Beta features", a tool to try new features, on October 3. [94]
• You can join an IRC discussion about Flow, the new wiki discussion tool, on October 17.

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20:12, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• You can now choose which language to show for SVG files that contain several languages, using the "lang" option, like [[File:Gerrit_patchset_25838_test.svg|lang=de]] for the German layer of File:Gerrit patchset 25838 test.svg.
• Developers are looking for wiki communities to try the new search system. [95]

VisualEditor news

• You can now create and edit references inside media captions. [96]
• You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content. [97]
• When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center. [98] [99]

Future

• The new notifications system ("Echo") will be added to almost all wikis that don't already have it on October 22. It will notify you of changes and events that affect you. [100]
• MediaWiki 1.22wmf22 was added to test wikis on October 17. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 21 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 24 (calendar).
• The interface to reset your password will soon be changed. [101]

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09:30, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it. [102]

VisualEditor news

• On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the File, Help and Category spaces. [103]

Problems

• On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused *.wikimedia.org sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to wikimediafoundation.org for a few hours. [104]

Future

• MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
• In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us. [105]
• You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.

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09:58, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-44

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed. [106]

VisualEditor news

• You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it possible in the future. [107]

Problems

• There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.

Future

• Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2, the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.

JavaScript / Gadget developers

• Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be loaded by default. [108]
• Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in debug=true mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace. [109]

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10:48, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector (ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class "autonym" to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text. [110]

Problems

• There was a problem with Parsoid (the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues caused non-ASCII characters (including those with diacritics, like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page. [111]

Future

• The Beta Features tool is now available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test new features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this tool to all wikis on November 21. [112]
• MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 was added to test wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14 (calendar). [113]
• The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [114]
• The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference). [115]
• You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for {{REVISIONID}}, {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and similar functions, by writing for example {{REVISIONID:Apple}}. [116]
• In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites. [117]

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13:20, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

User talk:174.92.217.41

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Would you mind having a poke at this unblock request. I am not near my normal tools and cannot be sure about the range, though the inkling is west coast US, which would mean that if it is collateral damage that we are likely to need an account with IPBE. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:56, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14. [118]

Future

• MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
• The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to *.wikimedia.org, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding &srbackend=CirrusSearch to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21. [119]
• The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [120]

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08:59, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-47

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• The Beta Features announced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferences. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style. [121]
• Tools developers can now create tools that use the OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password. [122]

Problems

• Wikis that are currently testing CirrusSearch had problems with search results on November 18 from 16:00 to 20:00 UTC.

Future

• There will be no major code changes on the week of November 25 because many developers will be on holiday for Thanksgiving.
• The editing interface of Page: pages on Wikisource (working with the Proofread Page extension) will soon also work without JavaScript. [123]

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06:57, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

This newsletter is now posted using MediaWiki message delivery.

New features

• The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata. [124]
• JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster. [125]

VisualEditor

• You can now paste formatted content copied from external sources (not just as plain text) into VisualEditor; this includes copy/pasting from other VisualEditor windows. [126]
• You can now open VisualEditor by adding ?veaction=edit to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences. [127]
• Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page. [128]

Problems

• Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again. [129]

Future

• MediaWiki 1.23wmf6 was added to test wikis on December 5. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 10 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 12 (calendar).
• The old Etherpad tool (replaced by a new version) will be removed on December 30, 2013. You can still save old pads before that date using the old address: https://etherpad-old.wikimedia.org. [130]

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08:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• You can now see a legend on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist that explains the symbols used. [131]
• If your wiki is testing the new search tool ("CirrusSearch"), you can now test it by adding "New search" in your Beta features preferences. [132]

VisualEditor

• The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert". [133]
• You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net.
• The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula". [134]

Problems

• There was a problem with the "Create a book" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone. [135]
• The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week. [136] [137]
• Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot. [138]

Future

• MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar).
• You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example) [139]
• GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17. [140]
• A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it. [141] [142]

Other

• You can read the summary of the technical report for November 2013 to learn more about VisualEditor, Mobile and other features. [143]

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08:24, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi

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Are you okay? PiRSquared17 (talk) 04:44, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Hello PiR :) I am doing very well, I have however found little time for Wikimedia over the past months and I've decided to trim my userrights to focus on my duties as Steward and IRC-related things, in the hope of regaining an acceptable level of activity there :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 07:23, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm glad you're staying on as a steward at least :). Life sucks, there are too many other things to do :P Ajraddatz (Talk) 16:22, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you!

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I had already used that silly 'thank' button, but I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your contributions to the privacy policy discussion. I'm really worried about the proposed policy for various reasons, but I'm unable to express that properly (also for various reasons), so I'm very happy that you've expressed those concerns in such a good way. That's very valuable, and greatly appreciated! Mathonius (talk) 18:20, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words, and I'm glad others share my concerns. I would however suggest that if you can, you voice your own opinion there too: each of us have slightly different concerns, and the more varied and detailed opinions we can offer, the more the WMF is likely to understand why we feel this way. I can't say that I've been very encouraged by the WMF so far, when I initially posted comments on that page I got very discouraging replies from the counsel office. I just wish this process was led by the Community Advocacy team, because it seems to me that the lawyers lack the background in the movement to understand why this policy is so worrying to us, and that maybe people who have been volunteers on Wikimedia would better understand that. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 18:26, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendar).
• You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferences. [144]
• There was a bug where notifications were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites. [145] [146]
• You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login. [147]
• If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to change the JavaScript code. [148]
• You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript. [149] [150]
• All edits made through Flow, the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's contributions. You can test it on the Flow talk page on MediaWiki.org. [151] [152]
• You can test a visual tool that shows edits made to an article over time. It only works for English Wikipedia pages for now and is slow on long articles. [153]
• You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS. [154]
• Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a new main page for users without an account. [155]

Future software changes

• There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December 29) due to end-of-year holidays.
• When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons, pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed. [156] [157]
• New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their watchlist as soon as they create an account. [158] [159].
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions of a page that have been hidden. [160] [161]
• You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by using the Special:ExpandTemplates tool. [162] [163]

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08:22, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-01

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [164] [165]
• With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis. [166]

VisualEditor news

• Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5 <figure /> elements. Comments are welcome. [167]
• You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see this article as an example.

Problems

• On December 23, Wikimedia Labs was broken for 4 hours due to an NFS problem. [168]

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
• AbuseFilter log entries will be visible in CheckUser tool reports. [169] [170]
• It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [171] [172]
• It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [173] [174]

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08:40, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-02

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
• The old note-taking site (Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on the new site. [175]

Problems

• On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
• On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

Future software changes

• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6. [176]
• Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options. [177]
• Plural form rules for some languages will be changed. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [178] [179] [180]
• You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [181] [182]
• You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [183] [184]
• You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups. [185] [186]
• E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their From: line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Emailsender page. [187] [188]
• Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [189] [190]

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08:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-03

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

You can read a recent blog post about how Tech News is put together, translated and sent to you across wikis each week.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (calendar).
• Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [191]

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [192]
• You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [193] [194] [195]

Problems

• For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the Translate tool on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error. [196] [197]
• For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes

• Wikidata will be added to all Wikisource wikis on January 14. [198]
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the second search method for the English Wikipedia on January 13. On Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia, you will also be able to test it by adding it in your Beta Features options.
• You will soon be able to export page collections into other formats than PDF. [199]
• It will soon be possible to upload groups of photos from Flickr using UploadWizard. [200] [201]
• The Wikimedia Foundation has shared a multimedia vision for 2016. You are invited to comment. [202]

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09:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-04

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).
• You can now see relatively recent results on special pages like Special:DoubleRedirects, Special:UncategorizedPages or Special:WantedCategories. They were disabled before because they were very slow. The results are now updated once a month. [203]
• As of January 16, you can make and use guided tours on the Asturian, Farsi and Russian Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [204] [205]
• You can give comments on an idea to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [206]
• You can watch a video to learn how to report problems in Bugzilla. [207]

VisualEditor news

• In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
• You can now edit <gallery /> tags with a very basic tool. [208]
• You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [209]
• When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [210]
• When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [211] [212]
• The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [213]
• Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [214]

Problems

• There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [215]
• There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [216]
• On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours. [217]

Future software changes

Orange bar with new messages

• If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [218] [219]
• You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [220]
• You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [221]
• You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [222] [223]

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10:22, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Pending request at testwiki

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Hello,

sorry for asking that directly, as it not the standard way, but I thought it was necessary because I don't know how long it will take if I just do nothing but waiting.

I made a request here to get sysop rights on test wiki, and I wish it will be answered (positively, I hope) before my temporary sysop rights on fr-wikinews are revoked.

Could you have a look on it ?

Thank you.

Regards, Dr Brains (talk) 18:25, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello Dr Brains, I generally check on the permission page every now and then, but surely there's no issues with being reminded of requests :) I've gone ahead and granted you the rights there, I see no issues. Thank you for your work on LiveRC which I've personally used and found useful in the past :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 18:37, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Wow, that is a fast answer!

Thank you very much.

Dr Brains (talk) 18:38, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Withdrawn

Hi. In this regard, I would say that it was such an experience before. Sincerely, --►Cekli829 19:59, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

To do so was wrong then and it is wrong now, and the user who did so was not a member of the Election Committee. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 20:02, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I understand. ;) --►Cekli829 21:52, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video. [224]
• The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [225]
• The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [226]
• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

Problems

• On January 21, Universal Language Selector was turned off on all Wikimedia sites because it makes pages load slowly. If you want to use web fonts, or write in scripts that aren't on your keyboard, you need to add it as an option in your preferences. It will be turned back on when the issues are resolved. [227]
• For about 20 minutes on the same day, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes

• You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [228]

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09:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

About the block 217.129.60.168

This is the message I received. It can only be solved in Meta!

What I can say, if there is any chance of being unblocked, is that I'll try to be the most accurate possible in what I post, and won't post any controversial information. I didn't mean that Tel Aviv was in Palestine, anyway, I just meant what I said above, but the outcome was indeed controversial. Nupest 1:58, 30 January 2014.

The Tel Aviv stuff is completely out of discussion in your block. All your active accounts have been blocked because they were created by the same person (i.e you) that had been previously blocked for vandalism.--Jetstreamer Talk 02:12, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Again, your account is locked across all projects. The only place to appeal the lock is on meta (here).--Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 02:22, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Nupest 4:08, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
• Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all small wikis. [229] [230]
• The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [231] [232]
• You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [233]
• There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [234]
• Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [235]
• All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [236]

VisualEditor news

• You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [237]

Future software changes

• Edits and files hidden with the Oversight tool will be moved to the RevisionDelete system. The Oversight tool will then be removed from Wikimedia wikis. [238] [239] [240]
• For languages where not all sister projects exist, you will be able to link to other language projects using double interwikis (:ko:v, :v:ko, etc.). [241]
• It will soon be possible to use the GettingStarted tool on other wikis than the English Wikipedia. You can translate it on Translatewiki.net. [242]
• You will soon be able to include the Special:Contributions page into other pages. [243]
• You will be able to see where a file is used inside MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [244] [245]
• It will soon be possible to send MassMessage messages using the API. [246]
• You will soon see audio statistics on the Special:TimedMediaHandler page. [247]

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08:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Centralnotice-stew2014vote-vote-invitation/ce

Долийна Викимедиан фондан стюард харжар — 2014..

Hi. So it will be correctly. -- Дагиров Умар (talk) 18:22, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
• The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [248] [249] [250] [251] [252]
• You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [253]

VisualEditor news

• You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [254] [255]
• The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [256] [257] [258]

Problems

• On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [259]
• On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.

Future software changes

• Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [260] [261]
• You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [262]
• You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [263] [264]
• The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [265]
• Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [266] [267]
• It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [268]
• You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [269]
• You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [270] [271]
• If you have questions about Universal Language Selector, you can join an IRC meeting on February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode. [272]
• Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [273]
• bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest. [274]
• The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still work. [275]

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09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Centralnotice-stew2014vote-vote-invitation/az

Hi. Please fix. Best regards, --►Cekli829 19:55, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay, I am currently traveling. I implemented the requested fix, let me know if there are further issues. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 01:42, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry

Have I done something wrong? I'm sorry. Ana Gauna (talk) 10:59, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 20 (calendar).
• You can now use the list of active users again. [276] [277]
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [278]
• You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [279]
• You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [280]

Problems

• On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [281]
• On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [282]
• On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page loading due to database problems.
• There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13 and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache server problem.
• On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was due to problems with cache servers.

VisualEditor news

• The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. [283]
• You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [284]
• Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [285]
• You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [286] [287] [288]

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08:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Q re GS

Say stewards are not supposed to do the kind of edit we discussed yesterday; my question is, are global sysops expected/allowed to do such moves? I think it falls in their "routine maintenance" role. Do you agree? ~ DanielTom (talk) 22:02, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your very insightful reply. ~ DanielTom (talk) 10:47, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

I'm pretty horrible for timely replying to talk page request, I compose a reply, then have to close all tabs because Pale Moon got up to 268 tabs and is struggling and then forget to reply. I'm sorry I did not reply earlier: I don't know. Generally speaking global sysops are mainly around for speedy deletions, countervandalism and antispamming on wikis where local admins are not often (or ever) available to do so. I do not know (but I could be simply ignorant of such a situation) of a wiki where global sysops act as fully local admins, dealing with content issues and the like. To me that is a bit far of what global sysops were created for. I suggest that the situation is better solved by setting up quotes of the day in batches, week in advance. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 21:42, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

That's okay, thanks for your reply, and apologies for my impatience. ~ DanielTom (talk) 20:56, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Answer

Hello Snowolf, answering that request, I don't really know what diff I've to add for loggin. Can you please help me? Thank you so much, regrets. Rauletemunoz (talk) 00:31, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

"Make an edit to your userspace, while logged in. Please use "IRC cloak request" as the edit summary. Provide a diff link of the edit below.". You also have to sign on to IRC and type the following command: /msg MemoServ send wmfgc IRC cloak request. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 03:33, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 27 (calendar).
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) was added to the Italian Wikiquote and all Wikiversity projects. Users can now enable it in their Beta options. [289] [290]
• The Universal Language Selector was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis again. You can enable web fonts in your ULS options (see how).

VisualEditor news

• You will soon be able to add and edit __STATICREDIRECT__, __[NO]INDEX__ and __[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__ in the page settings menu. [291] [292] [293]
• You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [294] [295]
• You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [296] [297]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to use the <categorytree> tag again. [298]
• You will soon be able to post messages with the MassMessage tool in all talk namespaces. [299] [300]
• Notifications will soon work in all namespaces. [301][302][303]

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10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)