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Removal of global bot status
When will the results? - Steward requests/Bot status#Removal of global bot status --6AND5 (talk) 09:12, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
I've opened this RfC to ask if Meta-Wiki bureaucrats should be able to continue removing advanced permissions such as administrator and or bureaucrat. —MarcoAurelio 16:30, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
New administrator in hywiki, after 12 days
- moved to Stewards' noticeboard
Request for CentralNotice banner
Resolved. Hi all! I would some help to create a CentralNotice banner for the contest https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/Conoc%C3%A9_Argentina_a_trav%C3%A9s_de_sus_reservas_naturales planned by Wikimedia Argentina.
- Campaign :
- link: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/Conoc%C3%A9_Argentina_a_trav%C3%A9s_de_sus_reservas_naturales
- from 1 July to 1 August, 2015.
- logged-in and anonymous users.
- only in Argentina, only in Spanish projects.
- text1: ¡Conocé Argentina a través de sus reservas naturales! Participá de nuestro concurso de edición y fotografía.
--Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 14:52, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
- I'll take care of this. —MarcoAurelio 11:06, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Main Page in Hindi
- moved from SN by --MF-W 22:02, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
For Hindi language "Main Page" is going to "मुखपृष्ठ". Where it is showing Marathi language which uses same script. Earlier we used to use the work "मुख्य पृष्ठ" for Main Page but now it is "मुखपृष्ठ" everywhere. On wikidata, Wikimedia Commons it is corrected. I want it should be corrected here too. Since Hindi and Marathi language both are sharing same name for Main Page and if we click on Main Page then it will go to "मुखपृष्ठ" for both languages. So, these things should be done here:
- मुखपृष्ठ should show 2 options, one for Hindi and another for Marathi.
- Present मुखपृष्ठ should be moved to "मुखपृष्ठ (mr)" and Present मुख्य_पृष्ठ should be moved to "मुखपृष्ठ (hi)".
For more understating you can follow d:Wikidata:मुखपृष्ठ or commons:मुखपृष्ठ.☆★Sanjeev Kumar (talk) 18:51, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
- You are talking about meta-wiki? Right? Ruslik (talk) 19:51, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, I am talking about meta-wiki.☆★Sanjeev Kumar (talk) 09:46, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
- @संजीव कुमार: Which page at meta are you wishing to be edited? Normally such edits are not undertaken by stewards but by meta administrators and the means to get a change made is to edit the talk page of the page needing changing, explicitly state the change required and add the template {{edit protected}} as an alert. Probably worthwhile trying that approach first. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:50, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
- I wrote the steps explicitly. And writing again:
- First move the present page मुखपृष्ठ to मुखपृष्ठ (mr)
- In second step move the present page मुख्य_पृष्ठ -> मुखपृष्ठ (hi)
- Now, we have to edit मुखपृष्ठ which should have the text given bellow:
- I wrote the steps explicitly. And writing again:
- @संजीव कुमार: Which page at meta are you wishing to be edited? Normally such edits are not undertaken by stewards but by meta administrators and the means to get a change made is to edit the talk page of the page needing changing, explicitly state the change required and add the template {{edit protected}} as an alert. Probably worthwhile trying that approach first. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:50, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, I am talking about meta-wiki.☆★Sanjeev Kumar (talk) 09:46, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
- You are talking about meta-wiki? Right? Ruslik (talk) 19:51, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
मुखपृष्ठ is the Marathi and Hindi name for Main Page.
- The Marathi main page is located at Wikidata:मुखपृष्ठ (mr)
- The Hindi main page is located at Wikidata:मुखपृष्ठ (hi)
- This is same as it is on wikidata. I was not aware, where this thing should be posted so, I posted it here.☆★Sanjeev Kumar (talk) 13:26, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
- I'm gonna leave this to meta sysop who can understand Hindi and Marathi language. If noone from among meta sysop can handle this, I will action this 2-6 days from now.--AldNonymousBicara? 13:32, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
- I just notice this now those 2 pages have same name with same spelling, is it fine just adding (mr)/(hi) as suffix to differentiate?--AldNonymousBicara? 12:09, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
- I'm gonna leave this to meta sysop who can understand Hindi and Marathi language. If noone from among meta sysop can handle this, I will action this 2-6 days from now.--AldNonymousBicara? 13:32, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
- This is same as it is on wikidata. I was not aware, where this thing should be posted so, I posted it here.☆★Sanjeev Kumar (talk) 13:26, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
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I also asked you to add suffix (hi)/(mr). but we have to add it for both languages. And Main Page should be like "indistinguible" page which have 2 links. Or, if you can change the move permission of those pages, then I can do this job.☆★Sanjeev Kumar (talk) 19:12, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Mjbmr
Hey, this user was blocked indefinitely in 28 March 2011 because of "Abusing multiple accounts: CU-block -using socks to impersonate fawiki admin" and after three years and this promise this user got unblocked in 25 July 2014 [1]. But He used User:Zack90 when (s)he was blocked (Special:Diff/3276089) and voted for Mjbmr adminship after unblock (Special:PermaLink/12061240) which is obviously violation of sockpuppet policy (User:Zack90 is sock of Mjbmr w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mjbmr/Archive). Amir (talk) 16:39, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
- So you suggest us to block a sock based on enwiki's inconclusive CU results? That would mean we act like enwiki and block the user per DUCK-test. That's something we will hardly do here, especially without any hard evidence. -Barras talk 12:08, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
- Furthermore, blocks are usually used as preventative measurement and not punitive as it would most like be here the case. -Barras talk 12:13, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
- Probably we can do a xwiki Checkuser to find more evidences if it is true. Also @Mjbmr: for his statement. By the way, this user may be a meatpuppet (this still violates the sock policy).--GZWDer (talk) 15:26, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
...can be deleted, as the file is no longer functional and has been deleted on en:. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 14:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Done--Vituzzu (talk) 15:17, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Request for CentralNotice banner for Libertad de panorama en Europa en 2015
Hi, we have been discussing the Freedom of Panorama in Europe in 2015 campaign in the Wikipedia in Spanish and there is wide support for starting the campaign immediately instead of waiting until July 2nd, as planned for other projects.
This is the campaign:
- link: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Libertad_de_panorama_en_Europa_en_2015
- dates: Until July 8th 2015, starting as soon as possible.
- projects: Wikipedia
- language: es
- users: anonymous and logged in
- Geolocation:Spain
We would like to rotate the two banners shown in this thread, but if that is not feasible for technical or practical reasons, there is a slight preference for using the one with white lettering over a dark background. Please let me know if more information or input is needed. --XanaG (talk) 20:03, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
- If you intend just to limit just the banner to eswiki, maybe es:MediaWiki:Sitenotice would be better. It cannot be geolocalized though. Perhaps if other projects would like to complaint about this EP proposal, we can arrange a global banner, with translations. @Jalexander: what do you think? Best regards. —MarcoAurelio 13:21, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
- As far as I understood, language communities were about to protest individually. The German language community's signature campaign for instance already ended by now, its CN banner has been visible to all users with German as their interface language. Vogone (talk) 13:55, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
- Hi MarcoAurelio and Vogone, thanks for the comments. At first I was also considering using a site notice in es.wikipedia, but then I noticed the German campaign in central notice and I thought that was the appropriate way to procceed. We have not discussed geolocation earlier (I have just brought up the subject), but I think it is best at this stage to target the campaign to those who can take some sort of direct action, since those banners are purposefully intrusive. --XanaG (talk) 18:55, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
@XanaG and Yeza: Si nos resulta más cómodo, puedo activar un CN para todos los proyectos en español hasta que se active el banner global que creo que desde commons se pretende hacer. Necesito que me proporcionéis el código CSS del banner o los banners (@-jem- and Laura Fiorucci: saben cómo hacerlo) y el texto que se desea mostrar. Una vez hecho, paso el código al sistema y lo activo. Un saludo. —MarcoAurelio 07:48, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
- @MarcoAurelio:, since there were no objections in eswiki to using es:MediaWiki:Sitenotice we decided to go that way until the main campaign begins. Thanks for all the advice! --XanaG (talk) 22:15, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Template:Authority control
How an we fix the unresolved issue discussed here? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:30, 29 June 2015 (UTC)