Kaldari

Welcome to Meta!

Hello Kaldari!, 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). Happy editing! — Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 11:27, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Candidates 46 and 47

What exactly is 4chan? Is this why candidates #46 and 47 are out of the table? The spesh man 02:28, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Fundraising Committee

Hi there! Thanks for volunteering to sit on the Fundraising committee. The work of the committee will be really valuable to making this year's annual giving campaign really effective. I've posted an overview to Fundraising 2010, and would love your thoughts on the talk page. I'm also going to try to set up an IRC meeting soon, and hope you'll join for that. Keep an eye Fundraising 2010/Committee for a couple of proposed times! Thanks again... Philippe (WMF) 18:26, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Meeting

Hi all,

I'd like to have a meeting on IRC this week to discuss the 2010-2011 annual appeal/fundraiser. This will be an "anyone is welcome" type meeting, open to the broad community. During this, Zack Exley and I will take you through our inital thoughts about the fundraiser and its organization, and ask you to join us in a discussion about the (massive) role of volunteers and chapters in this year's fundraiser.

Because of the vagaries of time zones, scheduling live meetings is hard. So, we'll have a couple of potential times, and we'll log and post the meeting for anyone who wasn't able to make it.

The meetings will be held Thursday, 12 August at 23:00 UTC (16:00 PDT) and Friday, 13 August at 16:30 UTC (09:30 PDT) in the #wikimedia-fundraising channel on the freenode network on IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-fundraising). You can access this using freenode's webclient, which is available at http://webchat.freenode.net/ or by using your favorite IRC client.

Hope to see you there! Philippe (WMF) 20:40, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Your RfA

Hi there!

I just closed your RfA as not successful as it fails 1) the contact criteria menioned by Kylu on the RfA and 2) the supporting percentage is below 75% which is the required percentage to pass a RfA. I think it might be more useful for you to request temporary adminrights for the duration of the fundraiser. Thanks for understanding. -Barras 21:20, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi there again. I've granted you the admin right per the temp RfA. It will be removed on 31 January 2011. -Barras 09:30, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Kaldari 00:42, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations, Dear Administrator!

Deutsch | English | español | français | italiano | 한국어 | Nederlands | português | Türkçe | русский | العربية | Tiếng Việt | edit

An offering for our new administrator from your comrades... (our budget is smaller than Commons)

Kaldari, congratulations! You now have the rights of administrator on Meta. Please take a moment to read the Meta:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat, and Meta:Requests for deletion, but also Talk:Spam blacklist and Talk:Interwiki map), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings, or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care.

A tip: add this page Meta:Administrators' discussion index to your watchlist, it tracks the latest activity to various sections of many of the important pages.

Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikimedia-admin @ irc.freenode.net. You may find Commons:Guide to adminship to be useful reading although it doesn't always completely apply here at Meta.

Please also check or add your entry to Meta:Administrators#List_of_administrators and the Template:List of administrators.

-Barras 23:37, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

editing the interface on enwiktionary

Hi. You made a recent change to [[en:wikt:mediawiki:Common.js]]. Your request for the global editinterface permission was so you could "edit Mediawiki namespace pages" on "smaller wikis". Enwikt has planty of active admins who could have made the change. I (personally; I'm not writing this as a representative of an enwikt consensus or anything) would appreciate your posting future edits to be made at [[en:wikt:WT:GP]] instead of making them (unless they're urgent) — or at least posting to the GP a notice that you had made the edits. (See also [[en:wikt:WT:GP#an_edit_to_Common.js]].) Thanks!—msh210@enwikt 18:45, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I quoted you on Wikiversity

FYI, [1] --Abd 23:06, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Unicode

Hi,

I just see that you are now Wikimedia's respresentative to Unicode. Congratulations.

What is your job there? For example, from time to time, on the french Wikisource, we found on our books character that are not in Unicode. Is that something that you can act?

Cdlt, VIGNERON * ^discut. 23:02, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your work elsewhere. It is really necessary and I hope you can make a difference. Ottava Rima (talk) 01:58, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem with File:Kaldari-shoulders-143px.png

Thank you for uploading File:Kaldari-shoulders-143px.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at this page. Thanks again for your cooperation. 77.184.146.157 22:33, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

CentralNotice upgrades

Hi. I'm trying to clean up/centralize CentralNotice-related pages and I came across this page. I like the general idea, but it's now a bit dated. What do you think of moving it to CentralNotice/Future or something of that nature? I've subpaged a few other pages and collected them in a neater format at CentralNotice. Let me know. --MZMcBride 17:25, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Simple English Wikipedia

You posted a note on simple talk asking if Simple English Wikipedia wished to participate in the SOPA "protest". The current state of discussion is 9 opposed and 8 in favor. I don't know the status of your implementation plans or who is the proper person to deliver a "decision" to you. But I thought that I should alert you to the discussion. Thanks, 98.141.198.236 16:11, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

CentralNotice/Calendar

hello, I've disabled this Pune Hackathon banner because it's not on the calendar. Per CentralNotice/Usage guidelines, please ask whoever told you to create it to add it to the calendar. Nobody's fault and nothing worth any drama here, and I'm not against this banner, but people must be given the opportunity to comment it at least for a day or so; or, given that we might be late, at least some hours. Thanks, Nemo 11:28, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

If the banner is country-specific, it makes sense to send a small note to the community mailing list (in this case, the India mailing list) so that proposed centralnotice banners can be discussed on wiki. As of now, the presence of another brand ("GNUnify") alongside Wikimedia Hackathon makes me uncomfortable. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 11:32, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Real quick

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=B12_0925_btPf_US is referencing a non-existent file (https://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/closewindow.png). Just throwing this here very quickly so I don't forget to investigate later. (And I'm also completely unsure whether fundraising banners are still your area.) --MZMcBride (talk) 16:38, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

This is still a problem. Helder 23:13, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

These banners should switch to using "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/20/CloseWindow19x19.png" (which will not disappear). Unfortunately, I'm not in charge of fundraising banners. You might want to ping User:Pgehres (WMF). Kaldari (talk) 05:46, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Easy Media Uploader

Thanks for your comment, I revised the proposal and left a follow comment here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Easy_Media_Uploader#Easy_Media_Uploader_vs._Add_Media_Wizard

I'd love to discuss this further with you.

Automatic Transliteration for Hakka

Hi Kaldari,

I had transliterated all these Chinese characters into Romanized Hakka. It was a big effort but was completed eventually. An application was subsequently made here. However since 19 October 2013, no one has been assigned the task of compiling it. Do you know who is in charge of assigning the bugzilla programming staff?

I fear that the request could be delayed or totally forgotten for years. Could you help contact the person(s) in charge ? please. This is very important for us on Hakka Wikipedia. --Hakka (talk) 12:46, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

@Hakka: Unfortunately, it looks like no one currently maintains the LanguageConverter code. I might be able to take a look at it after I get back from traveling (after Nov. 25). Kaldari (talk) 18:39, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Upcoming IdeaLab Events: IEG Proposal Clinics

Idea Lab

Idea Lab

Hello, Kaldari! We've added Events to IdeaLab, and you're invited :)

Upcoming events focus on turning ideas into Individual Engagement Grant proposals before the March 31 deadline. Need help or have questions about IEG? Join us at a Hangout:

• Thursday, 13 March 2014, 1600 UTC
• Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 1700 UTC
• Saturday, 29 March 2014, 1700 UTC

Hope to see you there!

This message was delivered automatically to IEG and IdeaLab participants. To unsubscribe from any future IEG reminders, remove your name from this list

Invitation to the CentralNotice-admins list

Hi! This bulk email is to let you know about a mailing list used to communicate bug reports and new features in CentralNotice, and to facilitate conversations between the admins. This message is being sent to you because you have the privileges to use the CentralNotice admin interface.

If you use CentralNotice to post or modify notices, please consider joining the list by visiting this page and subscribing yourself:

   https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/centralnotice-admins
   

Thanks,

Adam Wight (talk)

00:23, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Fundraising Tech,

Wikimedia Foundation

RefTool

Hi Kaldari, Gadget-refToolBar dosent work on urdu wikipedia, plz help fix the problem. Thanks --Muhammad Shuaib (talk) 18:13, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

zh:MediaWiki:Villagepump/en

Hi. As we used to consider messages with a language suffix other than "/zh-*" unnecessary and had those batch deleted, I have moved the page (and a few others) and removed the suffix also in the hope of users with other uselangs can at least see English. Could you kindly check if the way it is right now also works for you? Thanks. Jimmy Xu (talk) 22:25, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

They (especially some /ja and /pt-br ones) were getting stale and nobody seems to remember to update them. So at one time we went ahead to just purge them. I can understand the sidebar should at least have English, however for other parts I don't see the need for maintaining every languages locally (also since most messages have betawiki translations already). Jimmy Xu (talk) 00:49, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Please disregard, found out that doing this will break the display on uselang=zh. I have reverted the move and will leave this for now. Jimmy Xu (talk) 06:04, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

File:Brandon-pop-up-small.png

Hi, this file, uploaded by you, has no license information. Since it is currently unused, it will be deleted shortly, unless you are able to add correct licensing information (& preferably transfer it to commons). Savh^ñ 23:24, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

I see you added a license. Is it still needed, or can it either be moved to commons or deleted? Savh^ñ 23:48, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Kaldari. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/April 2015. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 08, 2015. Kind regards, Matanya (talk) 13:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Please fill out our Inspire campaign survey

Thank you for participating in the Wikimedia Inspire campaign during March 2015!

Please take our short survey and share your experience during the campaign.

Many thanks,

Jmorgan (WMF) (talk), on behalf of the IdeaLab team.

23:36, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

This message was delivered automatically to Inspire campaign participants. To unsubscribe from any future IdeaLab reminders, remove your name from this list

Emoji false positives with Tamil and some other Indic languages

As per my email, I have added your emoji filter here as Special:AbuseFilter/110. I am getting false positives with Tamil and Bhutan character sets and I would appreciate if you would be able to provide some advice to me about how to modify the filter to allow such characters. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 07:50, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Is that because they are pasting in text from another (non-Unicode) character encoding or because they are legitimately wanting to use those Unicode characters? If it's the first, we may need to disable the global filter on those wikis and use a local one instead that gives a better warning message specific to pasting in text. If it's the second, maybe we should exempt more characters or disable the filter entirely on those wikis. Kaldari (talk) 18:03, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Your global editinterface permissions

Hi Ryan. This is to inform you that your global edit interface rights are expiring soon. If you wish to have them renewed, please apply at Steward requests/Global permissions. Best regards. —MarcoAurelio 19:31, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi again. I've removed your temporary global-editinterface permissions from this account as they expired. If you need them back, feel free to apply again :-) Best regards, —MarcoAurelio 10:01, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Swwiki - discussion on article creation limitation

Hi Kaldari, I appreciate very much your feedback on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44894. I can read it but I can for some reason not log in and contribute. I asked durng teh last days several people (Nemo bis, SJ, Geg) to copy my comments there but nobody reacted.

I would like to bring to the attention of the phabricator group that we do in fact have a huge degree of consensus amongst our active editors. At the moment statistics [2] show 15 "active editors" (+5 edits) for last month; this however comes down to 8 who are Swahili speakers (maybe plus 1??); 2 accounts have been removed meanwhile as (identical) spammer, 4 have definitely no swahili knwoledge (Small Wiki Monitoring Team, wikimedia steward on countervandalism mision, some specialized interest renaming / moving topical articles, editing photo files - FOR WHICH WE ARE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL!), and 1 account doing a number of small corrections where I am not sure if he/she has language knowledge. Our 8 (9?) "+5 monthly edits" Swahili speakers - and thus able to participate in community discussions!- consist of 5 users=admins who have been developing this wikipedia for several years, plus 3-4 others. Of these "others" 2 (or3) have never reacted to any community discussion so far.

I see on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_configuration_changes that you have considered discussions on enwiki with 500 participants (cf 30,789 active editors in August), on dewiki with 47 participants (cf 5,756 active editors in August), on ptwiki with 63 participants (cf 1532 active editors in August). Are these not puny percentages compared to swwiki?? If you held the others to our standard you would have to request tens of thousands (enwiki), thousands (dewiki) or at least hundreds (ptwiki) in order to talk about consensus. So I do find it demeaning if some of the phabricator participants criticised that "only 6" participated on our May decision.

Amongst our steady 5 I expect Oliver to come up as soon as he is back online. I wrote to ALL THE OTHERS but by experience am doubtful about reaction. I think we do have a problem that all of you (and I am grateful that you do that job!) come from large wikipedias and just cannot imagine how a small wikipedia works. Of course the absolute number of spam and problematic entries is small (compared to other wikis). But if you try to manage this with just 4-5 people who are not daily and sometimes not even weekly present - there is a BIG problem. If anybody is interested in small wikis - I have done some statistics on African language wikipedias but do not want to bore you now [3], [4]. Kipala (talk) 18:38, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Restriction when attempting to participate in the Wishlist Survey

Hi Kaldari, a notification on my watchlist lead me to the Community Wishlist Survey. I saw a number of proposals that I wanted to support but when trying to support a second proposal (it was the imporve diffs proposal), it said that my edit was automatically disallowed under "antispam" and told me to contact an administrator. I assume it's because this is my first time on MetaWiki and was making a second edit in a short time. I'm not sure how you can help, but if you are able, I would very much like to continue supporting some of the proposals. Wugapodes (talk) 06:08, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

@Wugapodes: It should be fixed now. Please try it again. Kaldari (talk) 16:54, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

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!

Here’s how to participate:

• Learn more about this consultation
• Vote on and submit new campaign topics in the AllOurIdeas Survey
• Discuss campaign topics and ask questions on the IdeaLab talk page

Take care,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 03:34, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Wishlist survey - request to withdraw proposal

Please remove my proposal headed "Tell prospective users what Wikipedia is not for" from the "Editing" section of the wishlist survey, as it seems this is not a proposal that requires any development - the necessary facility already exists. Discussion will evidently be needed to decide whether and how to use it, but it is not something that is a competitor for development resources. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 14:21, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Sorry - wrong account. Now posted to Ryan Kaldari (WMF). JohnCD (talk) 16:58, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

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.

With great thanks,

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

Harassment workshop

Greetings! You are receiving this message because, at some point in the past, you have participated in a discussion around the topic of harassment. The Support and Safety team is holding a series of consultations gathering feedback on the best potential solutions to the problem. The next stage is a workshop where we hope to narrow the focus to individual actionable ideas and explore how to bring some of these ideas to life.

• Please join us at the Harassment workshop!

Best regards, the Support and Safety team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Use of import of navpop.css in global.css doesn't behave for popups.js in global.js

Hi Kaldari. I am here to be a polite PITA, especially as I saw that you did the last edit to enWP's navpop.css. And I will explain this backwards ...

When I have a local copy of navpop.css in my global.css I find that I have no issue working xwiki to utilise enWP's popups.js. Style works beautifully.

BUT when I try to import navpop.css using @import ... to the same file it imports fine, though the styling is dodgy for the background box and it is not framed nor has the background behind the popup text, it has a long list and it is transparent. I am next to clueless with styles, and cannot out figure what is wrong, nor how to give you a better diagnosis.

Can you help? Or suggest to me the place to flag this for help. It is an impediment to assist users to set up their global.js/css pages to work easily. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 06:27, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: I imagine it is a problem with the loading order. The imported styles and the local styles at MediaWiki:Gadget-navpop.css conflict, so load order will have a significant effect on what you actually end up seeing. I imagine if MediaWiki:Gadget-navpop.css is changed to import from English Wikipedia, it will solve the problem. Thus I have proposed this at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-navpop.css. Kaldari (talk) 22:20, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

The order is probably the issue, however, I am seeing problems when I do the double import of js/css [5] so it seems that the import of the css lags the display by navpops always, ie. style added to in global.css works, import of style from enWP through global.css fails for me, so I am not sure how that order differs or that it relates to the local mediawiki: file. I had previously tried direct import at enWS in common.js/.css files and had the same issue, so to me it is something about how @import and popups.js interact.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:49, 24 February 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.

• Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
• Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 15:56, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Kaldari. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/April 2016. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 08, 2016. Kind regards, Barras talk 15:24, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

@Barras: If you're only going to give 1 week, it would be a good idea to not do it during the Wikimedia Hackathon (or other major events) when many people are traveling. Kaldari (talk) 17:59, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

It's been for at least 5 years at the very same time this is happening. Actually, an (semi)active admin should know about this and be aware in any case. Also, it's not me who decided that this review happens on April 1, and October 1 every year, I just happened to be the one to do the work this time. -Barras talk 18:44, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

My account...

Hello, I am not able to login my original account User:Hiokdat. It comes out Fatal exception of type "Exception" whenever I try to login. Could you help me with it?--Hiokdat-2 (talk) 10:37, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Kaldari. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2016. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before October 18, 2016. Kind regards, MF-W 01:16, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Announcing a new mailing list for Meta-Wiki administrators

Hello!

As a regular administrator on Meta-Wiki, you're allowed to subscribe to the recently created metawiki-admins mailing list. This is a closed mailing list for announcements, asking for help and discussion between Meta-Wiki administrators. If you wish to subscribe, please fill the form at this page and then contact Savh or MarcoAurelio via Special:EmailUser using your administrator account so they can verify the authenticity of your request and address. You'll find more information on the mailing list description page. Should you have any doubts or questions, feel free to contact any of us. We hope that this tool is useful for all.

Best regards,
-- MarcoAurelio and Savh 12:31, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Mailing list administrators for metawiki-admins mailing list.

Message sent to members of Meta:Administrators/Mass-message list. Please see there to subscribe or unsubscribe from further mass messages directed to the whole group of administrators.

Copyright problem with File:Medium close button.png

Thank you for uploading File:Medium close button.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at this page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Jusjih (talk) 17:19, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem with File:Large close button 3.png

Thank you for uploading File:Large close button 3.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at this page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Jusjih (talk) 17:23, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Kaldari. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2017. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before October 08, 2017. Kind regards, MF-W 13:38, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Community engagement survey for the Iceland Conference 2018

Hello Kaldari, As your username is indicated in the list of the members of the Commons Photographers User Group, you are kindely invited to answer this survey in the order to shape the upcoming Iceland Conference 2018 and help the organizing team. Thanks! --Dyolf77 User Group page | Leave a message to the user group

Wiki Loves Food

Curd Rice

Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, we are going International. To make this event a grant success, your direction is key. Please sign up as a volunteer or sign up on behalf of your affiliate here.--Abhinav619 (talk) 16:16, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Timeless Newsletter • Issue 1

Newsletter • July 2018

Welcome to the first issue of the Timeless newsletter! This issue is being sent or forwarded to everyone who has at some point expressed an interest in the project, give or take, as well as a couple of other potentially relevant pages, so if you would like to continue (or start) receiving this newsletter directly, please sign up for further updates on the meta page.

The news:

The Timeless grant has been selected for funding, and the project is now underway!

While I've had a somewhat slow start working on the project for health reasons, I'm pleased to announce that everything described in the proposal is now either happening, or on its way to happening.

Current progress:

• The project now has a hub on Meta to serve as a directory for the various related pages, workboards, and local discussions and help pages. It's probably incomplete, especially with regards to specific language projects that might have local pages for Timeless, so if you know of others, please add them!
• Outreach: I've been talking to various people and groups directly about skinning, desktop/mobile interfaces, project management, specific component support, and other things, and have begun to compile a very shoddy list of skinning problems and random issues on mw.org based on this. Some of this may inform the direction of this project, or possibly this project will result in building a more proper list that can then be used for other things. We shall see.
• Some development - task triage, code review, bug fixing, and various rabbit holes involving ...overflows.

General plan for the future:

• Triage the rest of the workboard.
• Catch up with all the talkpages and other bug reports that have been left various other places that are not the project workboard
• Do all the bug fixes/features/other things!
• Some proposals aimed at Commons and Wikisource in particular (maybe, we'll see)

Essentially, the grant as written shall be carried out. This was the plan, and remains the plan. Timelines remain fuzzy, but while there have been some initial delays, I don't particularly expect the timeline for project as a whole to change a whole lot.

Also, for anyone at Wikimania right now: I am also at Wikimania. Come talk to me in person!

Thank you all for your interest and support thus far!

-— Isarra ༆ 12:23, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

This issue has been sent regardless of signup status. To receive future issues please add yourself on the massmessage list.

The Community Wishlist Survey

Hi,

You get this message because you’ve previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey. I just wanted to let you know that this year’s survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until 11 November: Community Wishlist Survey 2019.

You can vote from November 16 to November 30. To keep the number of messages at a reasonable level, I won’t send out a separate reminder to you about that. /Johan (WMF) 11:24, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Kaldari. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2018. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before December 31, 2024. Kind regards, Matiia (talk) 02:13, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Central notice adminship

Hi! For security reasons, the Foundation decided to remove the rights related to Central Notice adminship from regular Meta admins, so that only the special group "central notice administrators" still has them. Since you made CN-related actions in the last 12 months, WMF requested us Meta bureaucrats to add you to do this group, in order not to disturb your workflow. The announcement can be found here. Best regards --MF-W 10:43, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Kaldari. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/April 2019. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 11, 2019. Kind regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 21:53, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Kaldari. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2019. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before October 14, 2019. Kind regards, Matiia (talk) 23:08, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2020

Hello!

You are getting this message because you've previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey, in either the Wikisource or Wiktionary categories. I wanted to let you know that this year's survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until November 11. Unlike previous years, we are only accepting proposals for non-Wikipedia content projects with no dedicated teams (i.e., Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews). You can learn more on the survey page.

You can vote on proposals from November 20 to December 2. To keep the number of messages at a reasonable level, I won't send out a separate reminder to you about that. We look forward to your participation. Thank you! IFried (WMF) (talk) 18:52, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Kaldari. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/April 2020. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 09, 2020. Kind regards, MF-W 22:34, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

OSTP response

Thank you for your response to the OSTP consultation on open access! I noticed it's the only one mentioning "free license", although there are some which use less precise (or more abused) terms like "open <something> license" or even the dreaded "a Creative Commons license". Nemo 22:32, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Your thoughts on a Drafts namespace and maybe PageTriage for scowiki?

Hey Ryan! I hope you have been well. Have you talked to MJL about how to get a Drafts namespace on scowiki? Also do the installation instructions at mw:Extension:PageTriage#Installation end up with a content or non-content namespace per the Technical requirements? Thanks again! (ref; invite) Please talk to MJL about this first, because e.g. "Drafts" isn't a Scots word (but "Preliminary" is.) James Salsman (talk) 14:57, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

@James Salsman and MJL: I would be happy to set up a Drafts/Preliminary namespace if there is consensus for it on the Scots Wikipedia. As far as using PageTriage, you should know that it only handles deletion nominations correctly if the wiki has a deletion nomination process that is essentially identical to English Wikipedia's. Otherwise it will probably be buggy. Kaldari (talk) 15:46, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Update: "Preliminary" is not an appropriate name. Although it appears in the Dictionary of the Scots Language with eight supporting citations, it does not occur in any authentic Scots corpus. I remain strongly in favor of a Draft namespace. Native Scots speakers have suggested "Jottin" and "Scroll". Mercat Cross discussion (scowiki's village pump.) James Salsman (talk) 21:38, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

@James Salsman: OK, just let me know when a consensus has been reached. Kaldari (talk) 02:14, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Kaldari. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2020. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before October 11, 2020. Kind regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:40, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021: Invitation

The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on 30 November, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 December and 21 December.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:26, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.

In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.

We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

16:08, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Question

Hi there! Is there a way I can opt to get blocked globally? If so, where do I have to do it? --Xxlfussel (talk) 16:40, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

@Xxlfussel: You can request it at Steward requests/Global#Requests for global (un)lock and (un)hiding. Kaldari (talk) 20:45, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Kaldari. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/April 2021. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 10, 2021. Kind regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:48, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Notice of removal of adminship

Hello. I regret to inform you that, in accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and as a result of making less than 10 edits in the last 6 months, administrator rights have been removed from your account. The relevant part of the policy reads: "Users who have made fewer than ten edits in the six months immediately prior to the designated removal date (April 1 or October 1) are desysopped without notice." Please see Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2021 for details. You are free to re-apply for adminship again by submitting a new request for adminship. Kind regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:52, 9 October 2021 (UTC)