User talk:Udehb-WMF

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--Oscar_. (talk) 19:18, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello Benedict,

I am Gisele from Rwanda, I won a grant in Mois de contribution de la francophonie as organiser, I did not get the right as event organiser in order to create an Event ( using Event registration tool ). I requested but still now I don't get the response, So help me , Username ( Giseletuy ) .

Thank you. Giseletuy (talk) 13:47, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

You have a message from the admins and your reply is needed. Please check for the message on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_help_from_a_sysop_or_bureaucrat#Request_for_Organizer_Rights:_[Giseletuy] - Udehb-WMF (talk) 14:14, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Extension:CampaignEvents

hello Benedict, it was nice meeting you at the South Asia Open Community Call a few days ago. during the call you said to contact you if there was a request to install the extension CampaignEvents on a wiki. would you be able to tell us what we need to do to have it installed on Wikimedia Ukraine's wiki? Special:Version -- アンタナナ 11:50, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Yes please, you can find the steps on how to request the CampaignEvents extension for your wiki on the CampaignEvents deployment page. please feel free to reachout if you need anymore clarification or support. - Udehb-WMF (talk) 07:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

WMA Writing for Open Source event

Hello Benedict! I learned recently about the WMA - Writing for Open Source and Contributing to OS through Articles event, and shared it in the "open source" channel of the Write the Docs Slack. A couple people there were interested and are asking whether the event will be online, and whether it will be recorded. Are these details already known? It would be nice to add these sorts of details to the event page so that interested people can prepare for it :) Cheers, Waldyrious (talk) 12:55, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Waldyrious, thank you for sharing this. Yes the event is online(Zoom) and the link will be included on the page closer to the event date. The page was sort of still in its draft mode initially but now the registration have been enabled and all interested participants can register on the event page. Once again thank you for your interest in this. Udehb-WMF (talk) 14:15, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! I've relayed this info to the people who had asked. As for whether the event will be recorded — is that something that's known already, or is that going to be determined later as well? Waldyrious (talk) 13:26, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

yes the session will be recorded and uploaded on the event page afterwards - Udehb-WMF (talk) 14:56, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Input method

Dear Udehb,

You seem to have enabled Input methods. This tool allows to type special characters onwiki. While typing English, the main symptom is Colons (:) are replaced with Modifier Letter Triangular Colons (ː). Pressing Ctrl+M (Cmd+M on Mac) should you help switching to normal input. 🙂

-- Pols12 (talk) 16:44, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Pols12, can you help me confirm if its fixed? as i tried replacing the Modifier Letter Triangular Colon with regular Colon Udehb-WMF (talk) 10:28, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Indeed, this edit is fine, thank you! 🙂 -- Pols12 (talk) 15:17, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Internationalization

Some advice about editing translatable pages:

• Each empty line create a new unit: there is no need to add </translate> to close the unit. Since the following paragraph is a new unit, we can start tvar names at 1 again, we should not continue previous numbering.
• When you edit a paragraph, if you keep a significative content, please do not remove the unit marker (<!--T:xx-->). Else, already done translation are lost instead of being only tagged as “outdated”.
• Headings should be distinct units, including equal signs: we should not add translate tags inside heading syntax in most cases. That allows to make anchored links works through translations.
• We should avoid trailing spaces between end of content and closing translate tag.

Regards, -- Pols12 (talk) 17:08, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much @Pols12, this is really helpful Udehb-WMF (talk) 18:18, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Recent MassMessages

Hi, regarding your recent messages to those pages [1]: Please use the corresponding talk pages next time, unless you know for sure those pages act as notice- / discussion boards. Posting to pages which are just documenting policies or technical information (e.g. [2][3][4][5][6]) is just wrong and can easily anger community members who need to clean this up. I didn't check each page on each wiki, but I'm pretty sure 90% or more should have received the message on their talk page, the examples I gave were literally the first random links I clicked on after noticing your messages on dewiki which all went to the wrong place. Johannnes89 (talk) 20:21, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

And some of your messages failed entirely because you tried to post messages to the help namespace, e.g. [7][8] -> using each pages talk page instead would have prevented that. Johannnes89 (talk) 20:36, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so so much for this, it was indeed an honest mistake. Thank you @Johannnes89, I really appreciate you helping with this -Udehb-WMF (talk) 06:57, 4 April 2025 (UTC)