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The 2017-18 Confirmation will begin on 8 February, and will finish on 28 February.

The 2017-18 Steward Confirmations are an opportunity for the Wikimedia community to comment on the performance of existing stewards. To make the process as smooth as possible, the confirmations are organized as follows.

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  • Personal info: Hello everyone. I've been a steward for three years now, and with your permission I would like to continue in that role for another year. I've maintained a reasonable level of activity since being elected, and you can view a breakdown of my activity this year at this page. Most of my work in this role deals with responding to cross-wiki abuse, assigning local permissions through Meta-Wiki, and participating in discussions with the group as a whole. If confirmed, I will continue to be active in these areas. Outside of the steward role, I am still an active member of the Wikidata community, and I occasionally write some articles on the English Wikipedia. As always, if you have any questions, I would be glad to answer them. Thanks, – Ajraddatz (talk) 07:18, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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See: the procedure of voting at the Administrator User: Jaloliddin Madaminov. https://tg.wiktionary.org/ Violation of the voting of the administrator Dagir99 and User: Fight M users registered 12.01.2017 and 13.01.2017??? No answer to this question from Ajraddatz? See Дархост ба унвони мудир/Jaloliddin Madaminov--Шухрат Саъдиев (talk) 08:09, 25 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]


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  • Personal info: As per previous years, I would like to express my gratitude for the community's continued trust in my contributions, and I would like to continue in this role for the upcoming year. While not the most active steward, I believe I contribute value in almost all steward areas, especially in discussions and decisions which may not always be visible on-wiki due to privacy issues. While I have reduced my Wikimedia-wide activities this past year (having voluntarily relinquished Oversight on the Commons) I think that the experience I bring from various janitorial positions across the projects will continue to help the corpus of Stewards in the coming year. Thank you. -- Avi (talk) 16:30, 16 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hello all! It's been a great time since I've been made a steward back in 2011. I've since then been usually around. In the past year, I suffered from serious health issues from which I currently try to recover. That is the reason why I was not really active in the last term. I'm currently not sure how much my activity levels will rise. I already dropped a few rights in November last year and I guess it's simply about time to also drop my steward rights. I really enjoyed the time and I'd certainly love to keep my rights, but I'm currently not really helpful and have no clue when I will be able to return to some more stable activity. After thinking a long time about it, I decided to not seek confirmation this year. I will, however, try to stick around. -Barras talk 13:27, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hello again all, and Happy Chinese New Year! I'm here to ask for your support for another year of stewardship. I'm mostly working with blocking spambots, and also sometimes requests via IRC every now and then need immediate response. Also I've started helping with steward's tickets starting last year. In 2017, there will be some major changes in my personal life, but I'm still aiming to be more active month-per-month basis from last year. Thank you. Bennylin 11:45, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: I have been a steward for over 6 years now and have had many good experiences with the current/past stewards and would like to continue to do so. Although I haven't been active as I used to be, I am still around to deal with people who use the wiki to vandalize, spam, and the other kinds of abuse. I look forward to working with the current and future stewards this year.

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  • Personal info: It feels a bit strange to look at Stewards and realize that you are now the oldest still active steward since M7 left close to his tenth anniversary. Although I usually only have little free time left after mostly very long working days (at Wikimedia Deutschland), I still try to be as present as possible as a steward, be it onwiki or in chats, and try to help wherever I can (for example, once again in the Election Committee). In particular that means to be available on IRC (also to restart bots which I co-maintain on ToolLabs), on the mailing lists, and on OTRS or Skype, where users who were affected by some of my global range blocks ask for support. Most of these blocks are caused by a long-term troll that I've grown to handle well, which also explains my high and constant activity on loginwiki and the huge amount of accounts I've locked.

    Unfortunately, I'm not as active anymore in cross-wiki vandal fighting on smaller wikis or handling global rename requests (in fact, I stopped the latter after I spent much time helping to establish it), but I'm still happy that the SUL finalization, realized collaboratively with the Wikimedia Foundation, continues to make new tools possible and our work more effective. My good connection to the Wikimedia Foundation is, so I like to think, in many ways quite valuable to the steward group. Therefore I try to attend as many monthly calls with the Foundation as possible, where I contribute my experience, mainly on the topic of global bans with which I became quite experienced in the last couple of months. Some of the banned users also directly attacked me and have even denounced me to my former employee. I find it highly important that we convey very clearly, that vandalism and personal attacks are unacceptable. I also gave a presentation on that topic at the German WikiCon (German slides), as well as a presentation introducing metawiki to the broader German community (German slides), as I also understand the steward role as a bridge between the local and global communities.

    I want to continue serving to the same extent, helping my dear fellows as well as my local community with global matters, and would be very glad to celebrate my tenth anniversary as a steward this December. Thanks for your patience, and please feel free to ask questions.

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  • Personal info: This is my second confimation and I am ready to serve as steward for next year. I really appreciate the community trust and I never abused it. I'm mainly active at permissions and checkuser requests and I want to continue work on this particular area. This year I've been scrutineer in two local ArbCom elections. I know, that I am not the most active among stewards, but I think my input is valuable and helpful for the community. I'm always open for to the point criticism. Thank you in advance for your opinions, einsbor talk 10:59, 23 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hello everyone, I have been serving as steward for three years by now. I have helped out in various areas, often with a technical focus during these three years.

    I have been a Wikimedian since 2008, active in the Small Wiki Monitoring Team since 2010 and have been global rollbacker and a global administrator until I got elected as a steward in early 2014. Furthermore I'm an administrator on Wikidata and casually active on various other projects.

    Nowadays I volunteer by helping to maintain MediaWiki extensions related to global administration and steward tasks, also I have access to the Wikimedia foundation's servers which I also occasionally use to support steward actions. Besides, I'm working as a Wikidata developer for Wikimedia Germany.

    In the upcoming year, I plan to continue working on incoming requests and by supporting my fellow stewards with technical matters as needed. - Hoo man (talk) 21:45, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hello my fellow Wikimedians! It has been a pleasure and a privilege to serve this community this far and I would certainly love to continue for another term. As in the past, my focus for the past year has been emergency support for fighting spammers and vandalism and have been around in IRC as much as I could for the community. Please keep the feedback loop flowing and would love to improve as we fly.

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  • Personal info: Hello everyone,

    I have been steward for two years and I would be glad to continue to serve the Wikimedia community in 2017. My activity this year was slightly the same than the last 2 years. I was mainly involved in global renames requests and permissions requests, and also cross-wiki spam and LTA (Long Term Abuse) fight. In 2017, I plan to be as active and available as I was in 2016.

    Thank you for your confidence,

    Linedwell (talk) 13:05, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hello. Over the last year, I have continued to work the areas where I've traditionally been active in the global community, such as renames and SRP. I also helped out in a modest extent with global locks and checkuser, which are areas I would like to expand upon in the coming year. And I've remained active with my home project as an administrator and oversighter.

    One aspirational goal I have is to work to find a way to better coordinate local project activities with global functions. For example, a number of local projects are very good with identifying abusive usernames and sockpuppetry, but there remains a gap between the local blocking of those accounts and a global response (e.g., identifying if the locally-blocked sock is doing similarly problematic conduct on other projects). I don't have a good answer to this problem (and it is a problem that stewards cannot, and should not, solve on their own), but I hope to work with others on it.

    I recognize that I am not the most active or technically-savvy steward, but I believe I can still assist with steward duties. I think that one of the positive attributes I bring to the role is a willingness to listen to feedback from others and learn new tasks. Please feel free to approach me here or on my talk page with any questions or concerns you may have. Thank you. MBisanz talk 20:18, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Languages: de-N, en-3, fr-2, la-2, tet-1, es-1
  • Personal info: It was already my fourth year as a steward. My main focus of (steward) activity again was on right requests (SRP), and blocking and locking of spambots, cross-wiki vandals & abusers, and the handling of OTRS requests. Since some time I am also much more active on IRC again and handle requests that come up there. I'll be happy to continue as a steward for a further year if the community still wants me to.

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  • Languages: es, en-2, fr-2, la-1 (can understand written an, ca, pt, it, gl, ext)
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    Hello all,

    This year I have continued been active in the areas I used to be active as well in the past, focusing on on-wiki steward requests of all kinds such as permissions or counter vandalism and/or spam activities. I have also given a hand on global rename requests and have patrolled the edit filter logs to detect and stop the recurring spam bots that try to damage our sites inserting spam across the projects, which is a very time-consuming activity and for which there is not a technical solution to prevent them from even attempting to spam yet, but to set, watch and fine tune edit filters and spam blacklist rules.

    I have also tried to provide support to the communities when requested and have continued providing minor technical support to them when requested by them as well. A general overview of my on-wiki steward activity can be seen in my personal log. I have also participated on mailing lists and on-wiki discussions as well.

    I still feel I can give a hand in the steward duties and therefore I would like to ask for your support for another term.

    Thank you,
    MarcoAurelio 12:24, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Dear Community, it has been great please and honor for me to serve our community, like past years I was mainly active in the field of fighting and long-term abusers and spambots, I was regularly available on IRC for emergency occasions and monitoring Small wikis and helping urgent requests. I would like to serve another year to help out different projects. Mardetanha talk 14:52, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I have been active like past years but this year I felt we need to focus more on off-wiki actions and introduce my our projects to more people in Iran, which caused minor reductions in on-wiki actions/edits but I did my best to help as much as I could in steward related activities Mardetanha talk 21:45, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
sure I am Mardetanha talk 00:16, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Keep in that case, assuming you've learned from your mistake. Please however be more careful when asking others to "at least have decency to accept it was wrong of [the other person] to do this". Savhñ 01:01, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]


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  • Personal info: That was my first year as steward. The goal I set for myself in the beginning was to help as much as I can learning the tools and rules on the way. This has been achieved. I was mainly active in global renaming, user rights and helping small wikis with CheckUser duties. I will keep trying to help with Long Term Abusers and be more active with OTRS requests masti <talk> 20:31, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hello, I have been at the same activity level this year, mainly anti-vandalism/spam and rights requests, I have been working on tooling for stewards, and I hope this work will show its fruits this year. I'm on IRC regularly and try to be helpful. I'm planning to remain active this year. questions and comments are welcome. best Matanya (talk) 00:46, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Unfortunately I'm quite busy in real life. I leave to decide the community if my "5" action are useful yet for the project. Thank you --Melos (talk) 14:26, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: I'm usually 'passively' around (handling spambots mostly, and responding to requests particularly when no one is around). Besides watching the stream of unifications on IRC, I typically handle SRG, SRP, VR, and less often SRUC and SR/SUL.

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  • Personal info: Hey folks, I've been serving as steward since the last election and this is my first confirmation. Over the year, I have been familiarize myself with the tool set and tried to focus on the job at SR specially in SRP and SRG as I promised to do in my actual statement according to stewards policy. As of January 28, I've 1526 CentralAuth actions, 96 global IP blocks actions and 99 userright changed log, all can be found in here. You can also check my activity graph and CheckUser statistics on loginwiki. I’m fairly present in multiple IRC channels including #cvn-sw, #wikimedia-gs, #wikimedia-admin & #wikimedia-stewards under the nick NahidSultan or Lord_Voldemort. If confirmed I would like to continue helping the community as a steward. Thank you very much for your time to read this and your feedback.

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  • Personal info: Hi everyone. 2016 was my 2nd year as a steward, and unfortunately, I had significant periods of inactivity, especially in the 2nd half of the year. Last year, I had health issues in September-October, and once I'd gotten better, I was too busy with real life commitments that had been delayed. I was originally not planning to ask for confirmation (hence the late submission of the statement), but I think that I can be more useful this year, barring any exceptional circumstances. I don't expect to be the most active steward, but I will try to help out whenever I can, and definitely more than I did last year. At the moment, I only have admin rights in one project, so the majority of my time on Wikimedia projects can be dedicated to steward work. If I cannot maintain activity this year, I'll definitely not be asking for a further extension. I mainly work on handling spambots and LTAs, via global (b)locking and CU on login.wiki. I would like to continue helping in these areas if the community is willing to reconfirm me. --Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 18:13, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: I have completed three terms as a steward. I'm happy to continue if people want me to. Despite best intentions it's been a relatively quiet year for me but I do think I've maintained an acceptable level of activity, mostly in anti-spam work. In May 2016 two of my close relatives spent a long period in hospital, one eventually dying, which impacted the time I had to work on-wiki throughout the summer. I'm now back to having more time available and am generally available and watching the noticeboards in the mornings (GMT) for urgent requests and issues. QuiteUnusual (talk) 10:43, 16 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Dear colleagues, this is my second confirmation as a steward, and I can say for sure that it has been a pleasure to be part of this awesome team. I was elected back in 2015 (I am the user who used to go by the name "Ruy Pugliesi").

    I have used the steward toolkit for various purposes, although my main effort has continued in the anti-vandalism/sockpuppetry, long-term abuse and spambot management threads (I joined the Small Wiki Monitoring Team in 2010). Apart from that, I have a reasonable bit of action in other different activities: renaming accounts, granting/removing user rights, checkusering/oversighting in small wikis etc. I am reachable via IRC whenever I'm on my laptop, and my availability time to take care of the requests is usually from ~16:00 (UTC) until early in the morning, but it may vary from time to time.

    Once again, I would be thrilled to read your comments as well as any input that could help me to improve as a volunteer. If I have your support, I would like to continue serving Wikimedia community in the steward role. Thanks for participating. RadiX

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  • Personal info: There has been a really long time since I became a steward. Though these six years passed like a blink of an eye for me. I think that I have been fairly active in almost all areas of stewards' responsibility although my activity shifted from year to year. In the past year I was as always active in the user right management (especially bots) but in addition became more active in the global lock/block requests. I also occasionally replied to checkuser requests, renamed users and was involved in updating the old javascript across many Wikimedia projects. I still think that I and my services will be useful for the Wikimedia community. So, here I politely ask for a re-confirmation and hope that this will be granted. Thank you!

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  • Personal info:
    I've been a steward for 3 years and I would like to continue if the community still trusts me to do so. Clearing spambots has mostly kept me busy over the last year, but I have also assisted with the various noticeboards and attending requests on IRC and OTRS. I also continue helping as part of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team and I assist with the global rename requests.

    As most of us, I maintain a RL which can see rather unexpected activity patterns; I will try however, as I did this past year, to continue my activities in what I feel is a useful contribution to the steward team. Please let me know if you have any concerns (and note this can be done all year long on my talk page as well).

    Sincerely,

    Savhñ

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  • Personal info: Hello everyone, this is my third confirmation. I have been fairly active throughout the past year in most of the steward fields, although my activity level slightly decreased compared to the previous years. I would like to continue for yet another year if the community agrees. Questions and feedback are most welcome. Thank you for your consideration. Regards --Shanmugamp7 (talk) 05:30, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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    Hi,

    I have served now two terms as a steward, and I would be happy to continue for another term. My cross-wiki activity has dropped a little since the previous term, but I'm still active in many wikis and IRC and I read my mail every day. I consider my home wikis the Finnish Wikipedia, Meta-Wiki and Wikidata, all of which I'm an administrator.

    Thank you for your consideration. --Stryn (talk) 19:33, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: I have now been a Steward for five years now so this is my fifth confirmation. My activity this year has been similar to previous years with a lot of spam-bots and cross-wiki vandalism. I can often be found on IRC for dealing with emergencies. With your support I would like to continue for another year. -- Tegel (Talk) 22:35, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hi, everyone. This is going to be my fifth confirmation. I keep working on cross-wiki vandalism control, spam, and detecting long-term abuse. I would like to keep having the privilege of serving community for another year. I had two big losses this year. One of them was the death of my mother. I started editing because of her and her lost also partially carried my will of editing away. I could keep participating as a Steward and that still makes me feel useful. Thanks for participating.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 17:13, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hi everyone,

    Due to personal circumstances (such as accepting a full-time job and the loss of two dear family members) I wasn't as active as steward as I sometimes wished. Therefore I thought a lot about whether I want to continue with this volunteer work in 2017, since the situation in my private life hasn't changed that much. But I decided to give it a shot and continue for one more year. I care about the wikis too much and I believe I'm still active enough. Plus as a steward I also believe I provide valuable insights, at least to some.

    What I do: work involving right changes, cross-wiki vandalism, sockpuppetry and spam. I'm an admin on three major wikis, a CU on two and I'm an OTRS agent. I'm far from perfect, which means I'm always open for feedback. Since Shanel left us in 2012 I'm the only female steward, though perhaps it's now the last time I have to say this.

    Thanks for your consideration.

    Yours, Trijnsteltalk 14:53, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Each year I try to write down a yearly balance of stewards' activity/my own activity. I'll start with cons: this year we lost/we are about to lose some important fellow steward. This brought (IMHO) to weakening our ability to work as a team. And, as a consequence, to react to non-ordinary challenges we have to face. Also, we still lacks of some technical instrument like better ways to handle spam or the ability to whitelist IPs caught in global blocks (this will truly reduce my personal workload). As pros: I don't know if it was a consequence of global renaming requests or wikidata moving a large number of users to global projects but I feel like the overall wiki* community is getting more and more aware of global roles/issues/activities. Also, I think we are reacting in the right way to an Internet which is moving to mobile platforms though this still is a challenge. This year I was able to have a fair level of timely responses though I hope I'll be able to find a way to improve block messages using ad hoc localized templates. I seek confirmation because I think I can still be somehow useful to the project(s), I use to give precedence to substance over form, though I accept recalls to do not completely ignore the first one. I just hope we will have the strength and commitment to accept new challenges without ignoring them. My main working areas will remain lta "management", open proxies/botnets detection and checkusering.

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