User talk:علاء/Archive 13

Global lock request

Hi Alaa, I saw that you marked this request as done, but the accounts have not been locked. Could you please check it again? Thank you. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 03:58, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello Rachmat04. I apologize for this unintended mistake. Now all are locked. Best --Alaa :)..! 08:59, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your assistance! Kind regards, ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 05:23, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Global unlock for spesific IP address

Hi Alaa, my friend from Balinese community just noticed me that you block him at this spesific IP address. Can you removed the block so we can ask him to create a wiki account. Thanks. Sincerely, Joseagush (talk) 00:57, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello Joseagush, unfortunately this IP range can't be unblocked now, as it was engaged in huge cross-wiki vandalism, and as you read that the block will end on 11 March 2022, (For more information, please see stalktoy/114.4.0.0/16. So you can:

• Unblock this range on banwiki, as you've sysop flag. Go to Kusus:Kontribusi_pengguna/114.4.0.0/16 then choose (status lokal). Or,
• (Preferred) Create account to your friend through Kusus:Buat akun.

After the account created, he'll nor be affected by mentioned block, as it's on "anonymous only". Best --Alaa :)..! 18:10, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Fulfilling global block request

Thanks for fulfilling my global block request for an IP. I was honestly a little afraid that they're only supposed to be globally blocked if the IP has edited on multiple other Wikis. Blaze Wolf (talk) 18:33, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Also, I noticed that it says you are experiencing "real world stress" at the moment. Hope you get better. I probably won't encounter you much outside of Meta since my main Wiki I edit on is enWiki and you have stated (or at least, implied) that you mainly edit on Arabic Wikipedia and it's counterpart (Arabic Wikibooks, Arabic Wikisource, etc), however I hope you keep up the good work wherever you may prefer to edit. Blaze Wolf (talk) 18:39, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Blaze Wolf! You are welcome at any time . Sorry for late replay --Alaa :)..! 21:32, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #21

Welcome to the twenty-first newsletter from the Growth team!

New project: Positive reinforcement

Mockup of the Impact module, redesigned to add Positive reinforcement.

• The Growth team started a new project: Positive reinforcement. We want newcomers to understand there is an interest in regularly editing Wikipedia, and we want to improve new editor retention.
• We asked users from Arabic, Bangla, Czech and French Wikipedia about their feedback. Some people participated at mediawiki.org as well.
• We summarized the initial feedback gathered from these community discussions, along with how we plan to iterate based on that feedback.
• The first Positive Reinforcement idea is a redesign of the impact module: incorporating stats, graphs, and other contribution information. This idea received the widest support, and we plan to start our work based on the design illustrated on the side.
• Please let us know what you think of this project, in any language.

For mentors

• We have worked on two new features, to inform them about the mentorship:
  • In the Mentor module, we now provide more information about the public nature of the mentors/newcomer relationship and the fact that talk pages are public.
  • We now allow newcomers to opt-in and opt-out of mentorship.

Scaling

• "Add a link" available at more wikis ― Add a link feature has been deployed to more wikis: Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure locally how this feature works.
• "Add an image" available at more wikis ― Add an image feature will be deployed to more wikis: Greek Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. These communities will be able to configure locally how this feature works. [1]

Suggested edits

• Selecting topics ― We have created an "AND" filter to the list of topics at Special:Homepage. This way, newcomers can decide to select very specific topics ("Transportation" AND "Asia") or to have a broader selection ("Transportation" OR "Asia"). At the moment this feature is tested at pilot wikis.
• Changes for Add a link ― We have built several improvements that came from community discussion and from data analysis. They will be available soon at the wikis.
  • Algorithm improvements ― The algorithm now avoids recommending links in sections that usually don't have links and for first names. Also, it now limits each article to only having three link suggestions by default (limited to the highest accuracy suggestions of all the available ones in the article).
  • User experience improvements ― We added a confirmation dialog when a user exits out of suggestion mode prior to making changes. We also improved post-edit dialog experience and allow newcomers to browse through task suggestions from the post-edit dialog.
  • Community configuration ― We allow communities to set a maximum number of links per article via Special:EditGrowthConfig.
  • Future change for Add a link feature ― We will suggest underlinked articles in priority. [2]
• Patrolling suggested edits ― Some users at Arabic Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, and Russian Wikipedia told us that "Add a link" and "Add an image" edits can be challenging to patrol. We are now brainstorming improvements to help address this challenge. We have already some ideas and we started some work to address this challenge. If you have any thoughts to add about the challenges of reviewing these tasks or how we should improve these tasks further, please let us know, in any language.

Community configuration

Communities can configure how the features work, using Special:EditGrowthConfig.

• Communities can set the maximum number of "add an image" suggested tasks a newcomer can complete daily. [3]
• Future change: allow communities to customize the "add a link" quality gate threshold easily, using Special:EditGrowthConfig. [4]

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Badehmasare

Greetings, I hope you are better This user has made a very good unblock request on UTRS. I've copied it to EN:User talk:Badehmasare. However, he is globally locked as an LTA. The question is, then, is this a sock of an LTA or was he locked for a cross-wiki rampage at the time of his block on ENWIKI? The things he wrote on ENWIKI were uncharacteristic, so compromised account? Are we being lied to? Thanks. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 08:33, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello Deepfriedokra, thanks. Hope you are doing well! In fact, I can't remember this user, but after digging in his account data and logs, I remember that this conversation was one of main reason to lock this account globally. Also, based on loginwiki and arwiki CU logs, the check reason "Sock of User:أليكس" (Please see CA). I can't find anything more of that. So, maybe the "unlock" process should pass through Requests for comment, like /Global unlock for Ezekiel53746. Best --Alaa :)..! 21:31, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Was socking. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 06:51, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Block of /28 range

The /28 range 2600:1000:0:0:0:0:0:0/28 is not an open proxy, it's a dynamic mobile network belonging to en:Verizon Wireless. Even if anon. only, the sheer collateral on that range is a lot. Wizzito (talk) 09:03, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello Wizzito, thank you and sorry for late. This range already unblocked on 25 May 2022 per your clarification. Best --Alaa :)..! 16:08, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

I was blocked

Hello @Alaa thank you for your good work on Wikidata and Wikipedia. Your profile inspires people like us and sorry for your stress, may you find relief soon from it.

I was blocked indefinitely. This is the block I.D (This block (ID #37121) has been set to expire: infinite.

  I don't have a multiple account and we will never intentionally want to vandalise Wikidata. It is our home where we keep our valuable records. We can only protect it. We are only organising a training for new participants to start using Wikidata and contributing to free knowledge. We are sorry if we went over board with our training. I can assure you we are not sock puppets but participants who are enthusiastic about Wikipedia, Wikidata.

We were doing a training using Faith Oyedepo as an example on how to create statements and items on Wikidata. When i opened the articles and i started working on the article i expected the participants will watch what i was doing instead they were also imputing data at the same time with me. When i realised what they were doing, it was a little late. i had to explain to them you don't work on the same article. I guess thorough investigations should be made. This is over a week now and the training is still ongoing. The enthusiastic participants are getting frustrated and worried. They seem not to understand why they are blocked. Please kindly help. I have written to @Jasper Deng but no response from him either. This is the list of people that were blocked

  1.Jerome1506 2.Perperment22 3.dupsylondon3 4.Oladamglobal 5.Salvadoryetty 6.Olubukunmi 7.Arowosola60 8. Philgbemio 9. Jerachin24 10 Busybee1812. They all are participants in the training. I have written to @DannyS712 and he said i can only be unblocked if a checkuser approves of it. You can check my profile you will see that i am as Wikipedia friendly and i will use anything i can in my power to protect it from being vandalised. Our stories and histories are documented on it and we cannot afford any form of disruption either. I am very sorry sir. I would appreciated if we all unblocked sir. Thank you for your understanding

  Our meta page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGlam_Awareness_for_Librarians_in_Lagos_State

Semmy1960 (talk) 12:15, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

FYI: Wikidata talk:Requests for checkuser/Case/2timilex. Best --Alaa :)..! 20:20, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Editing from app blocked

Hi Aalaa, a message on global block displayed to me while editing from Wikipedia application where you stated that I'm using an open proxy. It said IP address withing the range 197.210.77.165, 197.210.0.0/16 are blocked. Can you please unblock my IP, thanks for your understanding. Musaddam Idriss (talk) 07:21, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello Musaddam Idriss, this global block for "anonymous only", so you should not be affected if you are login using your personal account. This block based on this request. You can request "unblock" on SRG. Best --Alaa :)..! 13:10, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. Musaddam Idriss (talk) 13:35, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Request

Hi! I'm writing to you since you already gave a global block to the user I'm referring in this request. Sorry for writing directly, but my request is there since a month and the user is active and collecting bans in several wikis. Thank you in advance! GC85 (talk) 15:44, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Hello @GC85, Done. Best --Alaa :)..! 23:21, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

False positive

Hello. I think we have a false positive on global filter 171 in french wikipedia. For exemple : here. The false positive is "Thamyris" with line 294 of the filter. Supertoff (talk) 05:39, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Supertoff, fixed. Thanks --Alaa :)..! 08:57, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

broken page on meta

hello @علاء this archive page is broken, thanks. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 07:55, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Sakura emad, it's broken because it exceeds the post-transclusion template inclusion size. For more information, please read this (similar case). Best --Alaa :)..! 09:04, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

A little request

Hi Alaa, I hope you're doing well.

I am sorry to contact you via your user talk page. I need to ask you for a favor, a little bit of an urgency, to ban the accounts from the requests here:

• Steward requests/Global#Global lock
• Steward requests/Global/2022-w36#Global lock for Marzuki vixii

The latter request has been marked as done, but after I checked, the accounts were not banned at all. I contacted the steward who marked it but there was no response from them.

I appreciate your help. Best, ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 04:59, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Rachmat04, Done, but this can't be hidden because "The global account has over 1,000 edits". Best --Alaa :)..! 09:13, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Page protection request

Hi Alaa, I hope you're having a great time. I have a little favor to ask, it's about the page of the Fulfulde Wikimedians User Group on Meta, a group which I founded and chairs it. I noticed unusual edits/manipulation of the texts at some points or rather called it Vandalism on the page. That's why I'm reaching out to you in order to help us put a protection template on the page so that to avoid similar attempts by intruders in the future. Thank you. Musaddam Idriss (talk) 15:55, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #22

Welcome to the twenty-second newsletter from the Growth team.

Ongoing projects and explorations

The new impact module is part of the Positive Reinforcement project. The image displays the mockup for mobile we used for user testing.

We are continuing our work on our new project, Positive Reinforcement. User testing of initial Positive Reinforcement designs was just completed. Interviews were conducted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. The outcome has been published on the Positive Reinforcement page. We are now utilizing user testing feedback along with prior community feedback to iterate and improve designs.

We are exploring the idea of a Copy Edit structured task. We have tested copy edits in Wikipedia articles for arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, eswiki (Growth pilot-wikis) and enwiki with two different methods: LanguageTool and Hunspell. We will share more details here and on the associated Copy Edit page once the evaluation is complete.

Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia (in English).

Experiments analysis

Add a Link Experiment Analysis has been published. The most important points are:

• Newcomers who get the Add a Link structured task are more likely to be activated (i.e. make a constructive first article edit).
• They are also more likely to be retained (i.e. come back and make another constructive article edit on a different day).
• The feature also increases edit volume (i.e. the number of constructive edits made across the first couple weeks), while at the same time improving edit quality (i.e. the likelihood that the newcomer's edits aren't reverted).

Newcomer task edit type analysis has been published.

• Communities had expressed concern that newcomers whose initial edits were structured tasks wouldn’t go on to learn how to complete more difficult tasks. The Growth team data scientist conducted a Newcomer task edit type analysis to see if this was indeed the case.
• Results from analysis indicate that this likely isn’t a significant concern. More than 70% of users who start with the easy task "Add a link" also make another task type. Read the full analysis and methodology here.

News for mentors

A new system for the mentors list

The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will sign up, edit their mentor description and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. This new system will make the development of new features for mentors much easier.

At the moment, the mentor list is a simple page anyone can edit, unless it’s protected. With the new page, mentors will be able to edit only their own description, while administrators will be able to edit the entire mentors' list if needed.

The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors. [5][6]

Mentors will be informed about the next steps soon, by a message posted on the talk page of existing Mentor lists.

Learn more about this new structured page on mediawiki.org.

A tip for mentors

Did you know that mentors can filter their mentees' changes at Special:MentorDashboard (and star the ones that require attention)? This feature helps to keep an eye on newcomers' edits, helping mentors to fix minor details, and encourage them if necessary.

And did you know that mentors have special filters to highlight their mentees' edits at Special:RecentChanges? Look for the following filters in RecentChanges: Your starred mentees, Your unstarred mentees.

Other improvements

Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the coming weeks:

• While we now offer some options for mentors to take a break, the option to quit mentoring was not easy to find. This will be improved. [7]
• Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to discover their mentees' pending edits. [8]
• Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved. [9]

Recent changes and fixed bugs

• We moved to a new Image Suggestions API. This new API will allow us to deploy Add an Image to more wikis. [10]
• Starting September 19, a few more wikis now offer Add an image to newcomers. These wikis are Greek Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia. [11]
• Add an image has been disabled for a few days due to technical issue. "Add an image" added a blank line instead of an image. This has been fixed. [12]
• In order to know if Special:EditGrowthConfig is used by communities, we now instrument page loads and saves of configuration. [13]

Have a question? A suggestion?

Please let us know! You can also read our FAQ page.

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Growth team newsletter #23

Welcome to the twenty-third newsletter from the Growth team]]

Positive reinforcement: an improved impact module to test

The goal of the Growth team is to encourage newcomers to try editing for the first time, and encourage them to keep editing. We want to increase newcomers' motivation by showing them how impactful their edits are.

Newcomers have access to an impact module; you can find yours at Special:Impact. The revised impact module provides new editors with more context about their impact. It will display the number of edits, the number of thanks received, the last time they edited, the number of consecutive days they edited, and the number of views for the articles they edited.

This module will soon be available at our pilot wikis starting December 1. You can already test this new module at Beta Wikipedia. For safety reasons, do not use your regular account and password at Beta wiki. Create a new, specific account for this wiki, with a different password.

Structured tasks: improvements based on patroller feedback

After the deployment of Structured tasks, we received feedback from various communities regarding how patrollers of recent changes were feeling overwhelmed by an increase in edits to check, and how some edits were poor quality or of poor relevance.

We made several improvements based on the feedback we received. Several points of improvement have already been addressed:

• Patroller fatigue:
  • By default, newcomers can complete up to 25 "add a link" tasks and 25 "add an image" tasks per day. If patrollers are overburdened, each community can use Special:EditGrowthConfig to lower that limit.

• Quality of edits: what constitutes a "quality edit" is not a well defined concept. We initiated a discussion and summarized our findings. We also worked on the following improvements:
  • Add a Link
    • Underlinked articles are now prioritized, so it's less likely that newcomers are adding links to articles that are already have a lot of links.
    • The confidence score was increased, so suggestions are more likely to be accurate.
    • The default number of suggested links per article has been lowered to 3. This can be changed at Special:EditGrowthConfig. Communities can also exclude articles containing certain templates or categories from being suggested.
  • Add an Image
    • Lists will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
    • Disambiguation pages will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
    • We have many further improvements we plan to make to "add an image" in early 2023. [14]

The Positive Reinforcement project will also address some of the concerns around encouraging newcomers to progress to higher value edits. The Growth team will soon work on strategies geared at "Leveling up" newcomers so they progress from easy to more difficult tasks.

Recent changes

• All Wikipedias now have the same onboarding experience. Previously, at a few wikis, 20% of new accounts didn't get the Growth features when they created their account. These 20% of new accounts were used as a control group, in order to know if the Growth features were changing newcomers' behavior. Experiments have shown that Growth features improve activation and retention, and as we want to provide the same onboarding experience at all Wikipedias, we have decided to remove the control groups. We will utilize control groups when testing new features, and German Wikipedia keeps a control group at their request. [15]
• The quality score for "add a link" suggestions will change. We will suggest less links for each article, but they will be more accurate. We will first deploy it at our pilot wikis, and then to all other wikis where this feature is available. [16][17]
• Growth's features FAQ has been updated and expanded. This page centralizes all the information about Growth features. We invite you to read it, and, if you can, to translate it.

News for mentors

• All Wikipedias can now setup and manage a mentorship program in an easier way.
  • We changed the process to make it more reliable, easier to improve and easier to use.
  • Wikipedias where mentorship hasn't been enabled yet can turn mentorship on following a new process. When done, mentors can sign-up by visiting Special:MentorDashboard.
  • Wikipedias where the list of mentors already existed have been converted to the new system.
  • A new special page — Special:ManageMentors — now displays the list of mentors. This page can be transcluded on any other page. There are also new processes to signup as a mentor or to quit mentorship, and we improved community mentorship management.
• The Mentor dashboard's "Your mentees" module will have a new footer, called "Recent changes by your mentees". This footer will include a link to Recent changes, where mentors can see only edits made by their own mentees. [18]

Deployments

• Add a link has been deployed to a 5th round of wikis. [19]

Improving this newsletter

We plan to have a more regular newsletter, every two months. We also want to know if the current format suits you! Let us know what you like, what you like less and your suggestions of improvements: leave us a comment, in your preferred language.

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