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The 2016–17 Confirmation will begin on February 8, and will finish on February 28th.

The 2016–17 Steward Confirmations are a good opportunity to check if we are still happy with our current stewards. To make the process as smooth as possible, here is how things are organized.

To comment, please log in with an account that has edits (on any wiki) before February 1st 2016. During the 2016 Elections, please mention if you are comfortable or unhappy with the use of steward tools of any of the people listed below and why.

After the election, stewards (including the newly-elected ones) are invited to review the confirmation comments and to give their impression of the outcome (consensus to confirm/remove etc.) on Talk:Stewards/Confirm/2016 for every steward who stood for confirmation. Of course, they are not required to do this for every candidate and will be especially careful to do it regarding someone about whom they expressed strong opinions in the confirmation. Non-steward comments are welcome outside of the "Final Decision" section, subject to the usual expectations of civility. Confirmation discussions will last one week after the appointment of the newly elected stewards. This may be extended to two weeks for one or more confirmations at the discretion of the Election Committee if the committee believes further input is required before concluding. The Election Committee will close these discussions and implement the outcome (which also means making a decision in non-obvious cases).

All stewards elected before February 2016 will undergo this process.

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: en-N, fr-2
  • Personal info: Hello everyone. It's been a privilege to serve the community as a steward over the last two years, and I would be glad to continue on in this role with your approval. Over the last year I have focused on cross-wiki work, particularly counter-spam and vandalism removal. I have also been active answering requests on the steward requests pages and the OTRS queue. I still have time and energy to devote to steward work, and will remain active in this role over the next year if confirmed. Any questions / comments / concerns are welcomed and appreciated. Thanks, Ajraddatz (talk) 01:04, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: en, he-2
  • Personal info: It is again with pleasure that I note that the steward body has been able to support the Wikimedia family of projects. I once again request of you the privilege and opportunity to continue to serve Wikimedia as a steward. With my term on the m:Ombudsman commission coming to a close, I look forward to returning to checkuser and oversight duties together with permissions. As always, I appreciate your collective trust in allowing me this opportunity, and I hope to continue to be worthy of your trust in the coming year.

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: en-4, de
  • Personal info: It's been five years since I've been made a steward. Since then I've been more or less active, depending on my real life. While I was more active during my first years of services, I think I maintained a good level of activity in the more recent years. I'm daily available on IRC to help whenever help is needed. For urgent matters (like oversight requests), I'm available at really any time of the day by mail. In the past year, I served as a member of the Ombudsmen Commission and was asked if I'd like to serve for another term, which I'm now doing. I think I managed both roles adequately and got them not conflicted, which means there is no problem for me to do both jobs for another year if the community is willing to support me again. As always, if you've questions, just ask. I'm happy to answer them.

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Perhaps you should visit the user's page at SimpleWiki. Etamni |   10:25, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]


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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: id, en, jv, zh-3
  • Personal info: Hi all, sorry for not able to make the statements on time due to traveling to the states, and home just for the Chinese New Year yesterday. I still wishes to remain as an active stewards so that I could continue the work that I've done in the previous years. My statement and position has not changed from previous years, and that is to make the WMF projects to be as safe as possible from vandals, spammers, abusers. While this year saw a reduction of time I could committed to the steward tasks, but nonetheless I try to online at IRC and elsewhere as much as possible, so for this year I would also like your support for another year of serving this community. Salam. Bennylin 08:51, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Personal info: I have been a steward for about 5 years and would like to continue working with my fellow stews and handle crosswiki issues and tasks.

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: de, en-3, grc-3, la-3, es-1
  • Personal info: After a turbulent start in the ElectCom with different understandings of Steward confirmations, stewards together with WMF, global renamers, and many more supporters could accomplish the SUL finalization much smoother than expected (see lego’s presentation at Wikimania). Despite years of preparation and hundreds of helping hands (see my last confirmation statement), the forcible rename of millions of accounts as a unique invasive operation could have resulted in plenty of problems. I am proud to be part of the team that helped to avoid that (find the core team in an image on the right). After having accomplished one of my main goals as a steward since my first election in 2007 and with new duties at my jobs, I had to refocus my steward activities.

    I still do some CheckUser, global anti-vandalism, and similiar stuff but nowadays I’m more interested in helping my dear fellows to work in a healthy, fruitful environment. Therefore, I am also in close connection with the WMF for global ban discussions, and development of a global user merge tool (which unfortunately will very likely not be developed soonish, see phabricator task). Further, I helped prepare the first-ever real-life steward meeting at the Wikimedia Foundation’s and published a German summary. As far as I can see, such joint activities led to a closer relationship among stewards and better coordination. If confirmed I intend to continue these activities in addition to handling selective general steward requests.

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: pl, en-3, fr-2
  • Personal info: Hi! I am active in Wikimedia project as editor since 2013. This is my first confirmation, since I have been elected a year ago.

    During this term I was active mostly by answering for requests here, at meta (SRP, SRCU, SRGP, SRG) and via IRC (with spamming, LTA, vandals, etc.). I have not any 'steward specialisation', but I tried to be active where it was needed. I think this kind of stewardry is also important for the Wikimedias, so I would like to continue it.

    I'd love to serve to the community for another term. I'm open for discussions, questions, etc. Must say, I'm not satisfied with my activity level and I'll work on it this year, if confirmed. einsbor talk 14:42, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: de-n, en-3, it-1, fr-1
  • Personal info: Hello everyone, I have been a Wikimedian since 2008, active in the Small Wiki Monitoring Team since 2010 and have been global rollbacker and a global administrator until I got elected as a steward in early 2014. Furthermore I'm an administrator on Wikidata and casually active on various other projects.

    At some point in 2010 I started developing tools for common global vandalism fighter tasks. Due to my growing experience in these areas I later on got into the development of MediaWiki and MediaWiki extensions. Nowadays I volunteer to maintain two MediaWiki extensions related to steward tasks which are used on Wikimedia Wikis: CentralAuth and AbuseFilter. Besides, I'm working as a Wikidata developer for Wikimedia Germany.

    In the past year I was heavily involved with the SUL finalization, mostly helping out with technical things and with the coordination of that between the WMF and the stewards. Also I kept performing regular maintenance task and helped out in various areas.

    This year I plan to use my technical skills in order to help out with small tooling improvements for steward tasks. Also I will of course stay active in various fields of steward work. like I did during the past years. - Hoo man (talk) 01:50, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: en,ml,hi
  • Personal info: I took on the responsibility in 2010 and would like to continue for another term. For the past term, I was mostly available on IRC while I wasn't traveling for work, and have focussed on providing emergency support for fighting spammers and vandalism. Comments, questions and criticisms are always welcome as usual, as that helps me to be better in the future.

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  • Languages: fr, en-2, it-2
  • Personal info: Hi everyone, Wikimedian since 2008, I became in 2015 the second native french speaking steward and I would like to be able to continue supporting the global Wikimedia community and projects. During this year my main activity was on Global Rename Requests and (Global) Permissions Requests, I was also quite active for some x-wiki activities such as LTA or basic administrative actions on small wiki without any active sysop. I was also highly available on IRC to reply to various questions and requests. This year, I plan to continue this job and probably more, depending of the needs.

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: en-3, it, de-1, es-1, fr-1
  • Personal info: I am a Steward since 2006 and I'd like to continue this service. Even if not in the high activity, I follow the mailing list and monitor meta.wiki logs and RfP page. I also can be reached on meta user talk page, that is set to E-mail me when changed. I am also reachable on IRC as m7, usually in the afternoon CET, and a client sits for me in various channels when I am away. During the last year I visited the Wikimedia Foundation headquarter in San Francisco and there I met some fellow Stewards for a 3 day meeting.

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: es, en-2, fr-2, la-1 (can understand written an, ca, pt, it, gl, ext)
  • Personal info:

    Dear community,

    It is for me a pleasure to address you all again in which is my fourth steward confirmation, the first after my re-election last year, the third since I became a steward in 2010.

    This year, and as before, my activities were focused on providing assistance at the steward requests pages and dealing with cross-wiki issues such as vandalism and spam, and also have performed general cross-wiki maintenance. As a creature of habit myself, you can see I stick to the same activities I’ve been doing in my previous terms, with the addition that this year and with the implementation of the global rename tool, I’ve also handled some renaming and usurp requests. While not strictly related to my steward duties, I've also became active in MediaWiki development, uploading patches to gerrit, for fixing small bugs for wikis such as permissions and extension setup; which I think it is also a good way to assist the projects on a technical side. I'd like to thank those who helped me in getting started in that area. In general and to sum up, I think I’ve been reasonably active as steward this year too.

    Speaking as of incidents, I've recently performed a global bot flag cleanup on inactive global accounts according to the global bot policy, however and due to a mistake on my part, operators were not warned in advance before global bot flag removal. To fix that, I've sent notices later and a period of two weeks were given to operators to regain bot flags. I acknowledge my error and I'm sorry for any issue caused. Aside from this incident, I humbly think that I've performed my duties correctly.

    If the community pleases I’d love to serve the communities for another term in this role. Thank you for your time.

    Best regards,
    MarcoAurelio

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: fa, az, en-3, tr-2
  • Personal info: Dear Community, I have been steward since 2009 and I'm now standing for my sixth confirmation, In the past year I was mainly active in the field of fighting and inhibiting long-term abusers and spambots, I have been regularly available on IRC for emergency occasions, last year I was part of Election Committee which helped the community to choose new FDC and board members. Once again this year I would like to ask the community for support.

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: he, en
  • Personal info: Hello, I have been at the same activity level this year, mainly anti-vandalism/spam and rights requests, I have been involved in SUL, which went fairly well, and I plan to help more around this area this year. I'm on IRC regularly and try to be helpful. I'm planning to remain active this year. questions and comments are welcome. best Matanya (talk) 21:38, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: en
  • Personal info: Hello again. My name is Matt and in addition to having served as a Steward for the last few years, I am also an administrator and bureaucrat on the English Wikipedia and an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. It has again been a busy year for me on the projects and in real-life, but I hope the coming year will be quieter now that I have returned to the United States from abroad. In real life, I am a lawyer in Washington, DC, and a community member on the Wikimedia Foundation's Audit Committee and Wikimedia Washington, DC's Governance Committee. I was very happy to participate in the Steward meeting in San Francisco and get a broader view of the areas where Stewards are contributing. With the continued renaming implementation and the need for more complex actions related to manual account merges and (possible) usurpation requests, I believe I have skills and abilities to contribute to the community as a Steward and seek confirmation to pursue those and other central-auth tasks (e.g., new OAuth program), in addition to the other duties and responsibilities of Stewardship. Please feel free to approach me here or on my talk page with any questions or concerns you may have. Thank you. MBisanz talk 00:59, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: it, scn, en
  • Personal info: Hi, since 2010 I'm honored to help the community in the Steward role. In the last year I have given my little contribution and I'd like to do the same for another year if the community will want to confirm me again, especially in fighting spam and cross-wiki vandalism. Feel free to ask any question, I'm also often reachable via IRC in several Wikimedia channels. Thank you! --Melos (talk) 22:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Languages: en
  • Personal info: I'm usually 'passively' around (handling spambots mostly, and responding to requests particularly when no one is around). Besides watching the stream of unifications on IRC, I typically handle SRG, SRP, VR, and less often SRUC and SR/SUL.

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: de-N, en-3, fr-1, tet-1, la-1, es-1
  • Personal info: In my third year as a steward, I have, I think, maintained reasonable activity. My main focus was on requests on SRP; while also continuing to be a member of the SWMT and blocking and locking cross-wiki spambots and LTAs (some of them who move around Incubator & Meta became more noticeably active) I encountered. Recently I also have the impression that I am answering a higher number of tickets in the stewards OTRS queue (which was previously done mostly by a now-resigned steward). I also plan to be active in this year's Admin activity review, as in the previous years. I'll be happy to continue as a steward if the community still wants me to.

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  • Languages: bn, en-4, hi-2
  • Personal info: Hello, I'm Pmlineditor, and I've been a Wikimedian for ~7 years. This is my first confirmation after I was elected last year. I have been mainly working on dealing with crosswiki spambots / vandals and global renames.

    I was not as active as I would have liked last year and had relatively few actions related to some areas of steward work. I'm looking to work in these areas (for example, SRP) as well and being consistently active throughout the year. I am more confident with the CU tool than I was last year, so I will also handle CU requests if reconfirmed, while maintaining my activity in cross wiki antivandalism / antispam.

    I would like to maintain higher activity this year if confirmed. Thank you for your consideration. --Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 19:16, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: pl-N, en-4, ru-1.5, de-0.8
  • Personal info: I have served as a steward for three terms. I've never been as superactive as some of my fellows (although I hope that my organizational support has proven useful for stewards as a whole group). Yet, more recently, since I've been elected to the Board of Trustees, my activity dropped even as compared to myself in the previous year. The reasons are plenty: most importantly, being on the Board sucked out most of my bandwidth (it really is a time-consuming job), and some small bits of my enthusiasm and soul (I at least hope I traded them for something useful for the movement). Secondly, every time I wanted to do something as a steward, in the back of my head I had a thought that my action will be perceived as a Board action, rather than a functionary one. For that last reason, I think that Board members should hibernate their involvement in higher level rights (but this is a different discussion, and also an approach with many flaws). Anyway, I've decided that my being a steward at this point in time is not adding value for the movement. I'm not going anywhere, and whether on the Board or not, I'm going to support our cause - but at this moment I believe it is time to step down from stewardship. This message is basically an acknowledgement of this decision, and I'm not seeking a reconfirmation in the role. Pundit (talk) 19:59, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: en,fr-2,es-1
  • Personal info: This is my third confirmation as I was elected in 2013. During the year I've been reasonably active particularly with crosswiki spam and dealing with so-called spambots. I had expected to be more involved with renaming but since the appointment of a large number of Global Renamers this hasn't been necessary. I do, however, always keep a close eye on the noticeboards in the mornings (UTC) when there are less Stewards active to deal with anything urgent. I don't believe I've been involved in any major controversy and, if confirmed, I would expect to continue at broadly the same level of activity throughout 2016. I continue, as I wrote last year, to remain involved with my two home projects - en.wikipedia and en.wikibooks - as I believe it is important for all functionaries to continue to understand and be involved in the work of the projects.

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RadiX (formerly known as Ruy Pugliesi)

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  • Languages: pt, en-3, es-2, fr-2, gl-1, it-1, sk-1, sq-1, ms-1, hi-1
  • Personal info: Dear all, this is my first confirmation as a steward. I was elected in 28 February 2015, and it has been a pleasure to be part of this awesome team. :) I've used the steward tools for various purposes, and my main efforts in the past months has continued in anti-vandalism, long-term abuse and spambot management (I joined the Small Wiki Monitoring Team in November 2010). I am usually reachable via CVN channels whenever I'm on my computer, from ~16:00 (UTC) until early in the morning. Due to real life commitments, I always tend to be less active (or almost inactive) in June, and from September to November. However, my cross-wiki or average activity level over the remaining months is either pretty high or acceptable. I would like to see any input that could help me to improve as a volunteer, and I would also love to continue carrying on as a Steward - if I have your support, of course. Thanks for participating. RadiX 18:50, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Remove Remove, I don't feel comfortable at all supporting another term. The issues raised during RadiX's election were activity issues, then after his election he even managed to sign the confidentiality agreement five days late (official deadline was December 15), despite a for months ongoing talk page spam, and now in this confirmation statement it's basically promised to be absent for half of the next year as well (5 of 12 months), and that on a regular basis. I cannot support a steward who might not reply to issues for months, and there are enough other persons who can show a higher availability and fulfil these duties. --Vogone (talk) 14:25, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral Neutral, Trusted, helpful and friendly user but same concerns as Vogone. --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:29, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Dear colleagues, as I told before, I was moving house in November/December, and without regular internet access [my ISP took 53 days! in order to reactivate it] (Jalexander and GVarnum were emailed about this). This is the reason why I signed the confidentiality agreement some days later (I wouldn't sign it without reading the terms carefully). I plan to be quite active in this comming term (and to keep my current activity level); I am just telling you the months I would possibly have a lower availability according to my real life commitments (usually June, October and November). You can see from my logged actions page that my activity levels have basically remained the same during the other months. I'd like to continue carrying on as a Steward and handling LTA, spambots, cross-wiki abuses, and also responding to other stewards requests. I am always reacheable via irc, email or talk page though. Thanks, RadiX 14:45, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
MF-W, my ISP let me 53 days without regular access during these weeks. I've said that I plan to be quite during this year, and that is true. The months you have mentioned above are the ones when I would possibly have a lower availability. I can not predict the future, but I'd rather mention this as a possibility than saying nothing at all. I find it much better from an ethical point of view. ;) I don't think that activity is the only thing that matters, but since you mentioned it, I performed almost 3,000 steward actions in the past 11 months. I think this activity level is in line with or even higher than what a lot of my colleagues have done. Thanks, RadiX 16:37, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@MF-Warburg:, I meant to say "7 months a years". Sorry for my mistake. CasteloBrancomsg 20:58, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Blatant deceitful statement. This user just revealed non-public personal information on a local election page; oversighting was handled by Teles a few hours ago, he got a warning message and thus voted against Teles (see full conversation here) and me. RadiX 02:28, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Apologize, but i will not --DerekvG (talk) 22:07, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]


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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: en-3, ru-N
  • Personal info: This is my fifth confirmation since my election in the February 2011. I think that during the fifth year as a steward I became more active than in the previous year despite (or may be due to) concurrently serving as a member of WMF Election Committee and later in the year as a member of Scholarship Committee, and I believe that I still remain useful to the the Wikimedia Community. In the past year as before I have been answering userrights, bots rights and global rights requests. I have been working to help users to rename, merge or otherwise unite their accounts as well as to help with local administrative tasks including updating old local javascript code. I still have a lot of enthusiasm for this role and wish to continue to serve as a steward. I hope that the community will support me. Thank you.

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The problem is that when your request an account to be locked it is your responsibility to provide sufficient evidence that this should be done. You failed to do this. Just providing a link to a page on enwiki does not by itself constitute such evidence. Ruslik (talk) 20:21, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
On that page are all the other accounts that were globally locked, and you can look at their contributions and figure out why they were locked. What more could you ask for? --Rschen7754 01:16, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This is the question of priorities. Should I spend my time answering the vast majority of well articulated requests? Or should I spend my time trying to understand why some accounts should be locked and whether they should be locked at all when the requests' author failed to provide the necessary information? Ruslik (talk) 20:17, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If you don't have the time to look into something, or aren't familiar with it, then leave it for another steward. It's as simple as that. --Rschen7754 01:12, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
No, I will ask a question which is also very simple. Ruslik (talk) 17:33, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have twice received the administrator flag both times for 6 months. When I protested , the stewards explained to me that our society is too small to have a permanent administrator. At the end of the term , I was approached by Stewart and warned that if there is a desire to continue to work as an administrator , you must again pass a vote, and if I can convince the stewards , that our society is increased, then the flag will be available on an ongoing basis. Recently, You assigned administrator flag on a permanent basis to one participant, whose community is half of our. Having legitimate questions.
  1. What rules do you personally guided, and what rules governed the rest of the stewards?
  2. For you as a steward , there is such a thing as mere participants and selected participants? Thank you for attention,--AryanSogd 13:11, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry, I see no evidence that your community was larger. You had only four votes on 8 June. Ruslik (talk) 19:46, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    At the beginning of our dialogue , you have brought a link where the steward summing up said that the community is small, since the number of active participants 61. By the way, you yourself talked about this ibid. For this reason, Ibrahimjon did not get the bureaucrat flag. If I understand correctly, it is for you, the community - is the number of votes, and with five votes of the community may be obtained from the stewards the necessary tools on a regular basis!? Thank you.--AryanSogd 05:40, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Five votes is the threshold when I begin to consider the permanent adminship but it really depends on the quality of votes. For bureaucrats it is much larger: at least 15. Ruslik (talk) 17:18, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for your direct answer . A negative vote on changing positive Keep Keep up the good work! --AryanSogd 18:26, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]


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    Dear community,
    Serving in the capacity of steward during 2015, as my second consecutive year, has been a pleasure. Even though my activity has been sporadic, and has included some months of total inactivity, I still believe that, whenever I am connected, I am helpful. I quite appreciated meeting colleague stewards in October, and I am still involved and up to date in steward matters. Since I do not expect a significant increase in availability over the course of 2016, I would have no issue with resigning, should my activity not be sufficient, so please feel free to let me know what you think.

    Yours,

    Savhñ

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: ta-N, en-3
  • Personal info: Hello everyone, this is my second confirmation. I would like to continue as steward for another year with community approval. In the past year I have been active in most of the stewards fields, including global counter vandalism and spam work, handling SRP, SRG, SRGP, SRCU, SRUC requests, global rename, OTRS, etc. I would like to continue working in the same areas if confirmed. Questions/feedback's are most welcome. Thanks for your consideration. Regards--Shanmugamp7 (talk) 06:03, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: I have been incredibly happy to serve as a steward for 4 years, and it has been wonderful to work alongside so many dedicated people on the Steward team, the Global Sysop and SWMT teams as well as the Foundation side of things. Over the past 4 months I have struggled to find time for Steward matters due to a rise in obligations outside Wikimedia, and I have not been able to fulfill satisfactorily the duties you've entrusted me with. As such, I am not seeking another confirmation as Steward. I thank you for the support and trust that you have placed in me and hope to be able to come back and run for active duty again a some point in the future. I wish all the best to the other Stewards seeking confirmations as well as the candidates. Snowolf How can I help? 08:08, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement

<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: nl, en-3, fr-2, de-2
  • Personal info: I have been steward for two years. As I said in my election and in last year's confirmation, I didn't intend to be among the most active ones, I rather help out now and then e.g. when requested to do so. Though, as I was probably less active the past year than the year before, I considered resigning. However, in the course of this year I intend to evaluate/refocus my different fields of wiki and non-wiki activity. (Having recently become Wikimedia Belgium board member, that will require more time. Another aspect is changes in real life and uncertainty about how that will affect how much time I spend on wiki stuff.) So, by next year's confirmation I will either be a more involved and active steward or I will decide to resign in order to focus on other activities and responsibilities. However, if the community feels I should not be confirmed this time already, I would of course understand.

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logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement

<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: fi, en-2, sv-1
  • Personal info: Hi all, in 2015 I served my first year as a steward, and I would be glad if I could continue for another year. I'm an administrator on the Finnish Wikipedia, Meta-Wiki and Wikidata. On Finnish Wikipedia I'm also a checkuser and a member of the Arbitration Committee. I'm active on IRC, and member of the SWMT as well as the OTRS team. On my first year as a steward I mostly used my time in renaming users as part of SUL finalisation, granted/removed user rights and locked vandal accounts / spambots.

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logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement

<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: nl, li, en-4, de-1, fr-1, la-1
  • Personal info: Dear all, this was my first year as a steward. I would like to thank all the good people I worked with and who are doing an awesome job, for their work and for their kind and helpfull advice during my first year. The year started with the SUL finalisation in which all accounts became global. Over three million accounts were renamed. Several tens of thousands of manual renames made everything run as smoothly as possible. The global renamers did an awesome job. During my first months as steward I mainly worked on requests about the assignment of global accounts and the complex task of manually merging accounts. During the year I started working on (global) permissions and helping to answer requests for intervention against long term vandals and spam-bots. In October I meet with several other stewards in San Francisco, which was a great learning experience. I did not use checkuser or oversight tools. These requests are well handled by other stewards and I am very happy limiting myself to other steward functions. If there is an emergency I will ofcourse intervene. I believe I have been decently active and have made good use of the tools. I would love to continue helping as a steward in the coming year. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 06:18, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Remove Remove unfortunately. Overall activity is little for a "first year steward": Rather few global rename actions (6 between April and November); only started doing global blocks in December 2015 (and the vast majority was done on 1 day, 31 Jan 2016), same as for global locks where the activity is centered on a few days of mass-actions. Large gaps also in SRP activity. This combined with several mistakes / showing of little knowledge about policies etc. (here; visible in the same revision: granting of OS rights on a home wiki; [7]; execution of a non-existing request; recently here), leads me to oppose. --MF-W 14:28, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Dear MF-Warburg, thank you for the feedback. Rschen7754 asked for a specific response. Forgive me if this gets too long. With about 800 steward actions over the past 11 months, out of which 70 global renames, I think I have done the same as most active stewards. The 6 renames is probably not counting the 20+ local renames not logged on meta. I have listed them below. Local renames like "Kwork2" are merges of accounts, which only stewards can perform, and most do not. People experience a problem for months and we can solve this in minutes. For example here, here, here or a dozen other requests. You mention "large gaps in SRP activity". I made no permission actions in July and September. Though I renamed and gave global rights in July. In September I was less active on meta. Though I was online several times a day. At that time I was very busy on the Dutch Wikipedia, starting a local version of the writing week project. Our writing week on Denmark nearly doubled the new article production for two weeks, so you can imagine the potential and why I think this is important. Moreover local writing weeks create media attention and new editors. Writing week Amersfoort was mentioned in newspapers that were read by 100.000 people in the village of Amersfoort and lead to 4 new editors writing their first article (in 1 week!). Writing week North-Brabant was joined by the governor, who tweeted this picture of us at the wikimeet. Coming April writing week Brussels, will cooperate with 20 libraries. The Flemish minister for culture and the prime minister of Brussels capital region will both personally thank an online participant, to show appreciation of our Wikimedia volunteers. I will also invite other language versions to join us and have their volunteers meets the prime minister. Also in that period we came up with the WikiOwls to thank online volunteers, and started a cooperation with the Amsterdam Free University, and 3 other Universities in the country. So I was bit busy in September. Starting in October I had more time, and got slowly more active. As you can see I am currently active and intend to maintain this level of activity. Concerning the cases you mention: [8] The two weeks I mentioned 6 months ago in August was when I was indeed still getting to know SRP. I should not have mentioned two weeks as a period, but I have learned from this mistake and have shown this over the past 6 months. Though not a guideline I took advice from Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements, which I should not have. [9] The 5 days you mentioned as minimum period instead of the 7 days I used. I learned 7 days from the practise I observed on these requests. I like to be safe and when I see two practices I prefer to be safe and take the 7 days over 5 days. But ofcourse I learn from your example and advice and will certainly keep it in mind when making my own considerations. It is good to have feedback on these matters. [10] I believe we should help local communities. When an RFA is done and the only problem is that the local community cannot find meta, I think we can help. In this case I should have been a bit less pro-active and have adviced the community to make a request. The result we can agree was good, and I have taken your advice to heart to give better insight into my actions, like this case. [11] The recent case was an unclear reply from me to Vogone. I meant that I should have left specific rights to local admins as he pointed out. My mistake first in executing and then in writing caused unneeded confusion, which I regret. The result we can agree was good and the user was helped. Thank you. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 20:45, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      • I must admit I only got round now to fully read your lengthy reply. As Nemo bis below, I too fail to see the relevance of these actions involving Flemish and Belgian ministers for steward work. --MF-W 04:32, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Comment - I did more then 6 renames in April-October. More like 25. Merging accounts is not logged on meta. 6 meta logs, 11 commons, 2 fr.wiktionary, 4 de.wikipedia, 1 meta local (Mirwin), 1 pl.wikipedia, 1 en.wikipedia. Not mentioning the rejected renames. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 11:52, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove Remove While Taketa is undoubtedly a friendly Wikimedian and acts with good intention, I feel he is quite overchallenged with the steward role. His temper does not suit and makes many actions of him look as if he didn't think about them before. Making mistakes is a normal thing, especially with new and globally inexperienced stewards, but this frequency of mistakes suggests his strenghts lie somewhere else. Furthermore, I am opposed to the steward-OC double role. Controversial actions can always happen, even unexpectedly, and making people feel uncomfortable reporting possible issues with current OC members is certainly not what we want. I wish good luck for the future and thank for the service, --Vogone (talk) 14:29, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep I enjoy working with this user. He is never to proud to admit a mistake which is an important quality for every one with advanced user rights. I am sure he learned from his mistakes and he will do better in the future for sure. Active enough imho plus he always is a great help when someone needs stewards assistance. Natuur12 (talk) 16:01, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep--Vituzzu (talk) 16:43, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep, Taketa is a good steward. --6AND5 (talk) 16:49, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep! Ik waardeer zijn werk. --geo ») 17:01, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep. Taketa always seems open for feedback. He is a human being, not a overengeneered-bot exempted from making mistakes. :( RadiX 17:05, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep--BRP ever 17:34, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep I like the the way Taketa solve problems here.--Liridon (talk) 17:51, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep Greenday2 (talk) 18:17, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove Remove per MF-W and Vogone. -Mh7kJ (talk) 18:23, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Weak keep. Armbrust (talk) 19:29, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Undecided on this one. @Taketa:, could you respond to the specific issues above? --Rschen7754 19:30, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep. HakanIST (talk) 19:40, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep Miniapolis 23:42, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove Remove per MF-W and Vogone...Usually stews in their first year are very active and determined, you seem bored already...and also, i won't support users keeping both rights (Stewardship and Ombudsman)..if your activity levels for being a steward is so poor, I'm not sure how you will fare as an Ombudsman..--Stemoc 01:23, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep --Az1568 (talk) 03:07, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:41, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep --Hedwig in Washington (talk) 03:46, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove Remove On-and-off activity doesn't bother me, really. But when a first time appointed steward starts most common (and usually non controversial) steward actions after 10 months of appointment, then that's something serious. — T. 07:55, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • I started locking vandal accounts during my first month as steward in March 2015. Not after 10 months. I am not a vandal fighter but a content editor. I focussed on renames, user merges and (global) permissions. Our vandal fighters do a great job and I can be useful elsewhere. I noticed very large requests were being made in July, where a Japanese sock master created 20 accounts a day. So I helped and locked a dozen accounts in requests over the weeks. LTAs seem to be becoming more regular. I currently help in vandal fighting and have locked about 500 vandal accounts over the months. After two bot attacks in January in which over 1000 ips were involved, I helped block several hundred of the used ips. So in general I am not a vandal fighter. But when it is needed, I am there to help. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 08:17, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Taketa: I meant global blocks and your first global block was on December 13, 2015. If you consider global locks then your rates are also low. Such as, 7 in March, 1 in April, 1 in May, 15 in July, 1 in November — in average approximately 2.8 locks/month in first 9 months. You started locking continuously also in December 2015. I believe that you realize that the community usually expects more measurable activity from a steward before his first confirmation. I appreciate your content edits and understand that is the ultimate goal of the movement. Your help in jawikipedia is certainly appreciated, but I would like to see more in global scale which is also measurable. I hope you understand my point. — T. 09:31, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I have my habits and I slowly grow into a task. Usually I see requests come by as I work on content. However I was not a regular user of meta. after becoming a steward I visited meta specifically to check request pages and you can imagine this was new. Being late for almost all requests is not encouraging. I got a slow start as steward and only became more active after the steward meet at the end of October. It became more and more of a rythme and by December I was checking request pages a dozen times a day. I hope that clarifies my activity, and I can understand you read more into it, though I can state firmly that this confirmation has nothing to do with my activity. I simply had to become familiar with visiting meta more often than I was used to. The block/lock pages were not my priority. I ran into some situations where I noticed large requests could use extra help, so I helped. After I became more active, I ran into more of such requests. I understand your point in wanting to see measurable results. 800 steward actions and only 150 in the first 8 months I can imagine you consider little. However, I intend to continue on my current activity level, so if you want me to be active I can say I will be. All the best, Taketa (talk) 16:24, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]


logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement

<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: sv, en-3
  • Personal info: I have been a Steward for four year now so this is my fourth confirmation. My activity this year has been similar to previous years with a lot of spam-bots and cross-wiki vandalism. I can often be found on IRC for dealing with emergencies. With your support I would like to continue for another year. -- Tegel (Talk) 11:20, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement

<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: pt, en-3, es2
  • Personal info: Hello, everyone. This is going to be my fourth confirmation. I was elected in 2012 and I am still happy to help as a steward. 2015 was an important year for me as I finished my studies on College and started working. That forced me to save a little less time for stewardship. In spite of it, I am glad to help the little I can and would like to continue. Please, feel free to talk about ways of improving my activity as steward. Thanks for participating. Regards.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 14:25, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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For instance? I can't take any action when I have no idea what you are talking about.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 04:52, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Though I agree that a part of stewards' work depend on editing Meta, I am pretty sure that a large part of their work can be done without editing here. Actually, it is perfectly possible a hypothetical situation on which the most active steward could be the less active on Meta and, for that, this criteria wouldn't be a good one to measure activity in general. Thanks for participating.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 01:58, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
By edits I am referring to number of steward requests answered, but I also looked at the number of actions in the logs. More specifically, I only looked at those logs that correspond to steward request pages that had an bigger backlog in January 2016 than the rest. Edits that do not fall in that sort of criteria I consider trivial and I did not look at those, so I agree with that. The expected number of answers to said requests and actions are based on the activity of other stewards. As such I am saying that the activity on these fronts is lower than with other stewards.--Snaevar (talk) 15:00, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Snaevar: Thank you for your detailed explanation. Regarding the logs, I don't think I am that bad. We should maintain counters like this old one, which counts log actions and permit a better evaluation. Anyway, I am sad that I wasn't good enough in your opinion, but I'm not sure if removing me and raising a little bit the worload for others stewards is really the best approach. Thanks again for your thoughts.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 03:05, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree that editing on a specific project should be a criteria for approving a Steward and I don't think you read that in any page related with stewardship. Thanks anyway for your comment.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 01:52, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The retaliation/answer was fast. JSSX (talk) 21:38, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You just revealed the context of a private conversation, which was oversighted, and used that to insult an user. That was serious enough to use oversight tool. Facing a privacy violation, I had no other option than removing it and supressing per global rules. Trying to set up a situation is pointless on that clearcut case.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 22:01, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Lies. The other user is candidate for Checkuser tools. There is a complaint that candidate revealed personal information of other users on Facebook. This is something that the community of pt.Wiki should know. Your action, Teles, was made after my vote here. And everyone, in pt.Wiki, know that you are friends. I have no more to talk. JSSX (talk) 23:06, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I still defend the idea that a private conversation can't be narrated as that is violating an user's privacy.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 23:21, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]


logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement

<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: nl, en-4, de-1, fr-1
  • Personal info: Hi everyone! I'm active on the Wikimedia projects for 10 years now and serving as a steward since 2011. This will be my fourth confirmation round.

    Due to various reasons - such as my work as member of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee and in real life obligations (work, private life, etc) - I couldn't be as active last year as I sometimes wished, but I still feel I was reasonably active in 2015. Most of my edits and actions involve dealing with right changes, cross-wiki vandalism, sockpuppetry and spam. I'm also active with behind the scenes stuff, such as OTRS. I am reachable by all means. In 2015 I visited the WMF office in San Francisco with fourteen other stewards. The meeting was useful for me - both to meet the others and staff, but also for prioritizing stuff.

    I would like to continue for one more year on a higher activity level, if confirmed of course. Trijnsteltalk 17:34, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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<2016 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Languages: it, en, scn, able to understand a minimum of most of Neolatin languages
  • Personal info: I've been a steward for 4,5 years and I'm still fairly active. Dealing with the last year, pro(s): overall communication with WMF and tech guys has improved, some conflicts ended. Con(s): too many fellow stewards left. For the next year I'd like to lower my latency in answering via talkpage(s) (which is significantly longer than email/IRC ones) and to hold my current level of activity. Thank you! --Vituzzu (talk) 22:32, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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@Billinghurst: in Italy we have to be less tolerant of crap, we have too much of it ;-)--Shivanarayana (talk) 14:56, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]