Fluffernutter

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Hello Fluffernutter, and welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). If you would like, feel free to ask me questions on my talk page. Happy editing!

A sandwich keychain for you

Ciao, thanks for subscribing to the VE newsletter! I'm guessing that you actually want to get the English language edition of the newsletter: therefore, unless you don't want me to, I'll move your request to the appropriate venue there. If you can contribute Spanish translations though, please let me know or follow the Translators'list so that you'll be able to help with those in the future. Thank you! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 17:10, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

@Elitre (WMF): Oh dear, yes, I was aiming for the English one. Thanks for double-checking for me! *cuddles her shiny new keychain* Fluffernutter (talk) 17:17, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

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What future IdeaLab campaigns would you like to see?

Hi there,

I’m Jethro, and I’m seeking your help in deciding topics for new IdeaLab campaigns that could be run starting next year. These campaigns aim to bring in proposals and solutions from communities that address a need or problem in Wikimedia projects. I'm interested in hearing your preferences and ideas for campaign topics!

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• Learn more about this consultation
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Future IdeaLab Campaigns results

Last December, I invited you to help determine future ideaLab campaigns by submitting and voting on different possible topics. I'm happy to announce the results of your participation, and encourage you to review them and our next steps for implementing those campaigns this year. Thank you to everyone who volunteered time to participate and submit ideas.

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I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 23:56, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikimujeres

Hola, saludos, quería confirmar que deseas colaborar con wikimujeres. mándame un email con tu teléfono y te añadimos al telegram del grupo para coordinarnos. Un abrazo! Gracias por tu paciencia ;-) Mboix (talk) 17:51, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

IRC

Greetings Fluffernutter, I just wanted to ask if you would be willing to unblock me on a couple of the IRC channels. Your the only group op I have any respect for anymore since RD and Barras just do whatever they want so I am not even going to bother talking to those two anymore. I don't want them all back because most of the channels are useless anyway, I just want access to #Wikidata, #Commons, #cvn-sw and #cvn-simplewikis. You can have all the rest, most of them are worthless anyway. I am still welcome in these channels by the communities but RD unilaterally blocked me because he doesn't care what the communities think. He is allowed to do whatever he wants and Barras won't do anything about it. I am hoping as one of the Global ops you would be willing to undo some of the blocks he did. Thanks in advance. Reguyla (talk) 00:30, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

I'm trying not to hound you about this but any thought on unblocking my IRC account since it shouldn't have been blocked in the first place? Since no one is talking to me I have just been using an alternate account and loitering, but I would really like to use my regular account. This stuff with banning me over BS is getting really, really old. My ENWP ban should never have been allowed and this IRC ban is just an extension of that absurd decision that literally hurts the project every single day to the tune of around 10, 000 edits a month that aren't getting done. Reguyla (talk) 03:25, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, replying to this slipped my mind since I rarely come over to Meta as Fluffernutter anymore, so thanks for the second poke. I'm not terribly involved in the day-to-day opping of the IRC channels anymore, but if memory serves there was some discussion within the past few months about whether specific channels like the ones you list wanted to opt you out of the gban for their channels (there's a setting that would let them do that, though I've completely blanked on what that setting is). Ops from at least one of those channels decided they did not want to override the global ban. Global ops pretty much can't overrule local op decisions (and group contacts - of which I am not one - would only do it in the most exceptional of circumstances), so there's not a lot I can tell you beyond "it's not in my power to do, sorry." Fluffernutter (talk) 14:48, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks for the reply. I do find it funny and unfortunate that RD has the power to globally block people whenever the mood suits him but no one has the authority to unblock and Barras won't do anything about RD so I guess that's that. Thanks, I guess that just proves that we need a code of conduct to cover the OPS conduct on IRC channels more than ever. It's absurd this all stems from a ban on ENWP that shouldn't be allowed and a few people who want me to stop talking about it because the violations of policy that got the ban to stick are embarrassing to some admins and Arbitrators. And people wonder why the sites are hurting for editors and stuff isn't getting done. Reguyla (talk) 15:40, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is accepting proposals until April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

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Over-qualified CSS selectors

My apologies that this message is just available in English.

Over-qualified CSS selectors of portals in Wikimedia skins have been changed. div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces or div#p-variants are now all removed of the div qualifier, as in for example it is #p-personal, #p-navigation …. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. Your gadgets or user styles seem to use them and you will have to update them. You can read more in phab:T252467. Johan (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:27, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in Universal Code of Conduct survey - WikiWomen's User Group

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As you know, the WMF Board of Trustees ratified the Universal Code of Conduct early in February. That's the beginning; the policy itself cannot be used if the enforcement pathways are not defined. The implementation and enforcement of the UCoC requires the continuous cooperation to define clear definitions of enforcement pathways and processes. This needs to be done in a way that does not contradict with the internal bylaws and codes of conduct currently in place, but rather to support them and complement their deficiencies, if any.

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