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Event organizer request for Art+Feminism Staff

Global user: User:Chrysanthemum123

Reason for request: I am a staff member of Art+Feminism and would like to request Event organizer status so I can create our 2025-2026 Programming page on Meta.

Criteria met:

• No active blocks: No active blocks confirmed
• Global edits: 653

Addendum to request

In addition to requesting Event organizer status for User:Chrysanthemum123, we are requesting Event organizer status for three other Art+Feminism staff members:

• User:XenoF
• User:MichaelaBlanc
• User:Celestinesucess

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chrysanthemum123 (talk)

Done @Chrysanthemum123: --Martin Urbanec (talk) 19:09, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Additional addendum to request, January 22, 2025

Thank you @Martin Urbanec: for granting our event organizer status request. We'd like to request event organizer status for one additional staff member, User:SolarPowerBB, if possible. Many thanks.

Pings only work if you sign your comments. @Martin Urbanec:. --TenWhile6 11:50, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Request for MassMessage sender user rights

Hello! My name is Mohammed Kamal-Deen Fuseini and I am currently volunteering as the Outreach and Partnership Manager for the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign. I will like to send mass messages to different users and hereby request the rights to be able to use the massmessage service. I look forward to your support and approval.

Best regards Dnshitobu (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

@Xaosflux and AramilFeraxa:, could you grant him mass message sender for two years. For the team, Project lead. Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 18:15, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Please point to a target list you will use. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:27, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

pinging @Dnshitobu, @ZI Jony: please answer xaosflux's question. TenWhile6 11:43, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Xaosflux amd TenWhile6, User:ZI Jony/Wiki Loves Ramadan/List and Distribution list/Non-Technical Village Pumps distribution list. Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 11:48, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @ZI Jony for pointing out the distribution page list. @Xaosflux Please let me know if you have further questions Dnshitobu (talk) 12:29, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Technical request on template

Sorry if this is not the best venue, I couldn't see a more appropriate location to post a technical request. Steward requests/Global has a subpage at Steward requests/Global/Archivefooter that is used to display links to the archived requests, but it is not working properly and the archiving bot is not archiving requests (e.g. Steward requests/Global/2025-w1 exists, but Steward requests/Global/2025-w2 does not). It appears that @Taavi: maintains the bot. Taavi, can you resolve this? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:55, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

• According to Special:PrefixIndex/Steward_requests/Global/2025-w it looks like the naming convention may have updated slightly, so it looks like the requests are being archived, just the index is missing? @Koavf: can you provide an example of a request that was not archived (the more recent the better). — xaosflux ^Talk 17:05, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

  As you can see at Steward requests/Global/2025-w1, that page has not been updated for 28 days (i.e. the end of 2024) and all of the requests were posted in 2024, so all of the requests that I have made this year are not visible in these archives, e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests/Global&oldid=28179466#Global_lock_for_Ali_8409759834954tet3. If that was archived somewhere, I don't know where it is. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:09, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

  • Update: it was in fact updated at Steward_requests/Global/2025-w04. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:10, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

    OK to confirm, the archiving is working, but Module:Archive list isn't outputting it to the list? — xaosflux ^Talk 18:00, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

    I can confirm what you wrote. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:05, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

    Itooks like this is a fork from w:en:Module:Archive list, which doesn't appear to support the leading zeros. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:00, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

• Doesn't look like the upstream version works for this either, I've changed it to use prefixindex; ping me if any problems. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:21, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

User:Shāntián Tàiláng, again.

I have requested a global block but I think a local block is also in order as they immediately imported the dispute here once they were blocked on Commons and nuisance pinged me while they were at it, showing no recognition whatsoever that they need to drop this and stop moving it from one wiki to another. As far as I can see every single edit that have ever made here was either regarding being blocked elsewhere or trying to get others to proxy for them on projects where they are blocked. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:56, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Blocked indef. They've made a few unrelated edits to their user page, so not quite every single edit, but close enough. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 19:21, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

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Template talk:Main Page/styles.css

Hi, can someone review this edit request? Thanks, —Matrix (_{user page} ^{(@ commons)} - _talk?) 19:01, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Done. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 19:21, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:نوفاك اتشمان3

نوفاك اتشمان3 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Velimir LTA. XReport --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 23:56, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Locked. TenWhile6 00:07, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:178.222.7.84

178.222.7.84 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Velimir LTA. XReport --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 00:12, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Done by XxB. TenWhile6 00:35, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

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hi im trying to edit wikipedia but it says i can only edit Meta. I just want to contact Oshwah. 208.184.20.114 01:02, 30 January 2025 (UTC)