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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This user is a member of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team.

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

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

Updates for editors

On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [1]
View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [2]

Updates for technical contributors

In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [3]
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [4]

Meetings and events

21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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