Stryn

About user

Hi, I'm Stryn, a Wikimedist from Finland. I registered to my first Wikimedia project, the Finnish Wikipedia on 6th October, 2006 at 20.54.

I've been contributing actively to Wikimedia projects since 2009. During my first years I wrote mostly new articles and edited existing Wikipedia articles. Later I've been doing more other things, like translating newsletters, help pages and interface messages in Finnish; and anything related to technics as much as I have knowledge; and of course counter vandalism.

Nowadays I spend most of my time on Meta-Wiki and the Finnish Wikipedia.

User language

fi-N	Tämän käyttäjän äidinkieli on suomi.

en-2	This user has intermediate knowledge of English.

sv-1	Den här användaren har grundläggande kunskaper i svenska.

id-1	Pengguna ini memiliki pengetahuan dasar bahasa Indonesia.

et-0	See kasutaja ei valda eesti keelt.

About user rights and activities

On the Finnish Wikipedia I'm an administrator (January 2011–) and a CheckUser (May 2015–). user page.

On Meta-Wiki I'm an administrator (September 2014–).

I'm a steward of Wikimedia wikis (March 2015–) (before it I was a global sysop and a global rollbacker). I was a member of the Ombuds commission between February and June 2014.

On Wikidata I was an administrator between November 2012 and September 2024. I was an oversighter there between September 2013 and June 2014. I was one of the first administrators of the project.

On the Finnish Wikipedia I was a member of the Finnish Arbitration Committee between October 2013 and September 2017.

I work as OTRS-volunteer. I am also member of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team and I translate interface messages on Translatewiki and other messages on Meta as a tech ambassador.

I have attended some edithathons and other events in Finland led by Wikimedia Suomi. In 2016 I was in Wikimania in Italy and in 2019 in Sweden. I'm interested mostly about sports, music, technology and travelling. On IRC you can find me on libera.chat where I am under cloak user/stryn.

You can contact me by leaving a message on my talk page on Meta.

Userboxes

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IM	IRC-Nick: Stryn E-Mail: strynwiki at gmail dot com

Stryn elsewhere

Twitter: @StrynWM

Countries where I have visited

Finland (Q33) • I live here
Sweden (Q34) • visited many times, last time in 2020
Norway (Q20) • visited many times, last time in 2012
Denmark (Q35) • 1992, 2022
Estonia (Q191) • visited many times, last time in 2023
Latvia (Q211) • 2011, 2015, 2016, 2022
Italy (Q38) • 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021
Vatican City (Q237) • 2014, 2021

Hungary (Q28) • 2015, 2018
Russia (Q159) • 2016
Ukraine (Q212) • 2017
Croatia (Q224) • 2018
Germany (Q183) • 2018, 2024
France (Q142) • 2018, 2023
Spain (Q29) • 2018, 2023

Singapore (Q334) • 2019, 2022, 2024
Indonesia (Q252) • 2019, 2022, 2024
Qatar (Q846) • 2019
Czech Republic (Q213) • 2019
Slovakia (Q214) • 2019
Austria (Q40) • 2019, 2021
Poland (Q36) • 2022
Malaysia (Q833) • 2022, 2024
Thailand (Q869) • 2022
Monaco (Q235) • 2023

Tech/News/Latest

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Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.

Updates for editors

iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [1]
Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [2]
Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [3]
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the mediawiki_user_history dump, the anonymous field will be renamed to is_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [4]

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