User talk:علاء/Archive 6

مرحبا

مرحبا أخي وكل عام وانت بخير. أرغب في استعادة صلاحياتي فهل أرسل لك بريدا أم يكفي الطلب هنا. مع تحياتي---مصعب (talk) 19:30, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

مرحبًا @مصعب: وأنت بألف خير، عذرًا أنا بالخارج حاليًا، ولكن لاستعادة الصلاحية رجاءً قدم طلب في طلبات البيروقراطيين، فهم يمكنهم منح الصلاحية محليًا ولا علاقة للميتا بالموضوع. الميتا مرتبطة بإزالة الصلاحية فقط، وذلك لأنَّ إمكانية إزالة البيروقراطيين لصلاحية إداري غير مفعلة لدينا. تحياتي --Alaa :)..! 19:35, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

أعلم أخي ولكن أنا راسلتك لكونك بيروقراط محلي وراسلتك هنا كونك أنشط في الميتا. هل يمكنك أن تشير لي في نقاشك/نقاشي عند عودتك كي أقدم طلب؟--مصعب (talk) 19:40, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

مرحبا أخي. عذرا على المراسلة هنا ولكن أرسلت لك رسائل بالخاص أرجو أن تطلع عليها لأني قدمت الطلب وانتظر ردك--مصعب (talk) 09:12, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello alaa, I want to talk you abot User:Taamu. He is administrator of Ossetian Wikipedia. Before 2008 Samachablo (South Ossetia) is occupied by Russia, it is territory of Georgia. Two georgian user were talked him about him, but he deleted my edit about maps, and territory of Georgia has Map of ,,South Ossetia. And he said Tskhinvali (city of Georgia) is capital of South Ossetia, help me please! Goodbye!--ჯეო (talk) 19:49, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Call for submissions for the Community Growth space at Wikimania 2019

Welcome to a special newsletter from the Growth team! This special newsletter is not about Wikimedia Foundation Growth team projects. Instead, it is a call for submissions for the Community Growth space at Wikimania 2019. We think that many people who receive this newsletter may have something valuable to contribute to this space at Wikimania. We haven't translated the newsletter, because Wikimania's language is English.

Please see below for the message from the organizers of the Community Growth space at Wikimania.

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Wikimania 2019 is organized into 19 “spaces”, which are all accepting proposals for sessions. This message comes from the team organizing the Community Growth space.

Since you are interested b Growth team projects, and potentially involved in welcoming newcomers initiatives on your wiki, we would like to invite you to submit a proposal to the Community Growth space because of the actions you’ve done around newcomers on wikis. The deadline for submission is June 1. See below for Community Growth submission topics and session formats. Topics and sessions have to be in English.

In the Community Growth space, we will come together for discussions, presentations, and workshops that address these questions:

• What is and is not working around attracting and retaining newcomers?
• How should Wikimedia activities evolve to help communities grow and flourish?
• How should our technology and culture evolve to help new populations to come online, participate and become community members?

Recommended topics: please see this link for the list for the list of recommended topics. If you do not plan to submit a proposal, you can also suggest additional topics here. If your topic does not fit into our space, remember that there are 18 other spaces that could welcome you sharing your knowledge and perspective.

Types of session. We prefer sessions that are participatory, interactive, promote conversations, and give a voice to parts of our movement that are heard less often. Please see this link for the list of recommended session formats.

Poster submissions. Posters are also a good way to introduce a topic, or show some results of an action. Please consider submitting one!

More information about the Community Growth space, topics, and submission formats is available on the proposal page.

Please submit your proposal. The reviews will happen at the beginning of June.

If you have questions about Wikimania in general, please ask them on the Wikimania wiki.

On behalf of the Community Growth leadership team, Trizek (WMF), 11:45, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Growth team updates #8

Welcome to the eighth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

May was a busy month, and we apologize for a slightly late newsletter.

General news

• The Growth team will begin to work with the Arabic Wikipedia community as a new target wiki. This is in addition to Korean, Czech, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• Several members of the Growth team attended Wikimedia Hackathon. To see what we worked on and learned, read this update (in English).
• Wikimania 2019 is coming up in August. The conference will include a "Community Growth" space, for sessions about how our communities expand through software and programs.

Early results from newcomer homepage release

A newcomer homepage on Czech Wikipedia (displayed in English language)

• The newcomer homepage was deployed in Czech and Korean Wikipedias on May 6 for desktop users. It is deployed in an A/B test, so that half of newcomers have access to the homepage and half do not. They access it by clicking on their username in their personal tools along the top of the window.
• After about a month of usage, we see a few interesting trends. We think that the usage is going well so far, as we continue to work on the feature
  • About half of users who visit the homepage click on a link or button.
  • About half of users visit the homepage more than once, with about a fifth of users visiting on multiple days.
  • Users are interacting with all the different modules on the page -- there is no clear favorite.
  • Users have been asking questions to their mentors -- but not on the help desk.

Next steps for homepage

Mockup of mobile newcomer homepage

• Because we are seeing good reactions to the homepage from the first users, we are prioritizing work that helps more users find their homepage:
  • Mobile homepage: the team is currently building the mobile version of the homepage. We tested this design with five users, giving us confidence that the design is strong.
  • Features to aid discovery: only a minority of newcomers who have a homepage will find their homepage on their own. The team is designing features that help newcomers learn where to find their homepage. The most important feature will point to the homepage link using a GuidedTour.
• User tests showed that the most important thing to add to the homepage are clear task recommendations to help newcomers get started with editing right away. This is the module that we will be working on next.

Future of team in the next year

• The Growth team has been working since September 2018, and we're now planning for the work we'll be doing for the next fiscal year, which begins in July.
• Though we have not yet developed a feature that clearly increases growth in our target wikis, we believe that the features we have been developing have high potential to increase growth if we continue to work on them.
• Therefore, the team will continue to work on the features we have started, and we will develop related features that improve the overall newcomer experience. These features may include:
  • Improvements to how newcomers can build their user pages and develop their on-wiki identity. See initial notes here.
  • Improvements to how newcomers receive notifications on-wiki and through email, so that they quickly find out if other users are contacting them.
  • Processes that help newcomers get awards or recognition for good work.
  • Ways for newcomers to see the activity on the wiki and find others who share their interests.
• We will start discussions with communities to help us define these ideas before we work on them.

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09:02, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

طلب تقديم تغذية راجعة: توصيات آلية بفقرات من مقالات

(Hello. Reaching out to you as you're among the "tech ambassadors" for this language. We'd really appreciate your help this week, and also you spreading the word to other experienced editors willing to lend a hand!)

يعكف فريق أبحاث ويكيميديا على تصمبم لوغاريتم جديد يتولى آليا تزكية فقرات للمحررين كي يضيفوها إلى المقالات. يستعين هذا اللوغاريتم بتعلم الآلة ليقترح فقرات قد تكون ذات صلة بالمقالة لأن المقالات الأخرى التي تتناول ذات الموضوع تحتوي على مثل هذه الفقرات. تزكية الفقرات متاح حاليا على مواقع ويكيبيديا باللغات الإنجليزية والإسبانية واليابانية والروسية والعربية والفرنسية. نبحث حاليا عن محررين من ذوي الخبرة مثلكم لفحص هذه التوصيات وتقديم تغذية راجعة تساعدنا في تحسين مستواها! لو كانت التوصيات مفيدة، سوف نستخدمها في أدوات مخصصة للمحررين الذين يرغبون في توسيع نطاق تناول المقالات البذرة.

لقد صممنا تطبيق للاختبار يسمح لكم بالتجول بين توصيات المفقرات. بعد تجربة الأداة على بعض المقالات بلغتك/لغاتك، يرجى تقديم تغذية راجعة على صفحة النقاش المخصصة للتغذية الراجعة متناولا مستوى جودة التوصيات. يمكنك أيضا تقديم تغذية راجعة سريعة مستخدما الأداة نفسها.

لو كنت مهتما بالمساعدة، يرجى الاطلاع على التعليمات وبدء العمل!

شكرا لكم،

جونوثان مورغان و دييغو سايز-ترامبر، فريق أبحاث مؤسسة ويكيميديا --08:36, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Steward requests/Checkuser

There have 12 requests wait the stewards to do!--MCC214#ex umbra in solem 06:27, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello @MCC214: as you see I put {{user stress}}! but I'll try to deal with SRC requests from time to time until I back again with my activity --Alaa :)..! 08:49, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Regarding requesting for ip block exemption

Hi, I wanted to know if there is any specific way to request for a ip block exemption or any tecnical detail I need to add with the request ?

Thank You--Ra1han (talk) 18:14, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

You should apply on SRGP --Alaa :)..! 13:17, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

I am blocked on wikipedia

I cannot edit on wikipedia, it says that you have blocked my ip adress until 28 september 2019.

Growth team updates #9

Welcome to the ninth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Opening Growth features to more wikis

The Growth team has existed for about one year. During that time, we have developed several features that we think can help increase retention. Though we are still gathering data to detect scientifically whether the features increase retention, we think that some of the features are ready to be deployed on more wikis that want to experiment with them. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible.

Then, go through the checklist to start the process of getting these features:

• Help panel: allow newcomers to find help and ask questions while they edit.
• Welcome survey: learn what topics and types of edits newcomers are interested in.
• EditorJourney: learn what workflows newcomers go through on their first day.

General news

Indicator that encourages users to look at their Notifications for responses to their questions

• A new quarter of the year has started, and the team has set our goals for the next three months. The most important goals are:
  • Newcomer homepage: increase activity through a task recommendations module. Now that we have seen several weeks of positive activity on the newcomer homepage, we think that the most important thing to add is a way for newcomers to find tasks to work on. The challenge will be recommending the right kind of tasks at the right point of their journey.
  • Newcomer homepage: increase feature discovery rate by 100%. Right now, only 20% - 30% of newcomers ever visit their homepage. We want to double that number by making sure all newcomers know how to find it.
  • Help panel: increase usefulness through improvements to affordance, search, and UX flow. We have looked closely at data and anecdotes from the usage of the help panel, and we plan to pursue specific improvements to increase its effectiveness (see accompanying image of a feature that helps newcomers find responses to their questions).
• Wikimania is coming up next month, which includes a "Community Growth" space. We hope to see people from all communities there to talk about how to bring newcomers into our movement.
• We have started to deploy features to our team's fourth target wiki: Arabic Wikipedia. That wiki is the biggest one we target, it has a high percentage of mobile users, and also is our first right-to-left language. This will help us make sure that our features are valuable for as many types of users as possible.

Mobile homepage and early analysis

Button to help newcomers find their homepage from their empty Contributions page

• The mobile version of the newcomer homepage was deployed to Czech, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Now, newcomers can access their homepage from both desktop and mobile devices.
• We have published our first set of data about the performance of the newcomer homepage. In summary, we are happy with the homepage's performance so far. We see about half of visitors clicking on something, and the majority of them returning to the homepage multiple times.
• Because we see positive usage of the homepage, we will deploy several small features in the next two weeks that help more newcomers discover their homepage (see accompanying image of a feature that helps newcomers discover their homepage from their empty Contributions page).
• As listed in our goals above, we'll be starting to focus on adding task recommendations to the newcomer homepage. We'll be publishing early thoughts on this feature so that community members can give their thoughts and advice.

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14:26, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Best wishes

I am sorry to hear that you are under stress. I hope that you will be okay. --Pine (✉) 00:56, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks @Pine:, hope this stress will finish soon. Best --Alaa :)..! 13:16, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

arwiki abusefilter

Hello, just noticed AbuseFilter parser error for filter 91: Unrecognized variable basepagename at character 361 while browsing LogStash. Seems to be a local error. Can you have a look, please? Sorry to hear you're under stress! --Martin Urbanec (talk) 22:46, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Affects also 130 AbuseFilter parser error for filter 130: Unrecognized variable basepagename at character 256. and 122 AbuseFilter parser error for filter 122: Unrecognized variable basepagename at character 308.. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 22:49, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi @Martin Urbanec: Alaa just ping me to reply. I'm abuse filter editor in arwiki. And I think I can help. The problem is that when I check the filters for errors, it results no errors. And it says that the filter works 100%. Can you tell me where did you find the error log of the filters (URL maybe)?. About basepagename, this a variable created to get the page title of user page like this (user:ASammour/test -> ASammour). This variable is very important for many filters to detect mass vandalism happen in arwiki from time to time. Best.--ASammour (talk) 16:52, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. This message was from LogStash, which is an interface that allows authorized users to view logs from Wikimedia wikis. I can give you a link, but you won't be able to access it anyway. If the filter works (tried that, seems it does), it's probably caused by something else. Thanks for your time. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:32, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello @Martin Urbanec: Do you mind giving you permanent Abusefilter editor permission on arwiki? --Alaa :)..! 20:09, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello, in case the community wants me to help them with abusefilters or would otherwise benefit from me having the permissions, then yes, I'll be more than happy to help (just ping me when you'd need anything AF-related). I don't really need the permission, it turned out to be a bug in AF extension (see phab:T214674). --Martin Urbanec (talk) 20:12, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Admin

Hi, I requested administrator access for permanently, not only for 6 months in Zazaki Wikipedia. The community voted it as permanently, achieved consensus to make me admin permanently. Because there is no active admin in Zazaki Wikipedia. May you correct it please?. Best regards. Vuzorg (talk) 10:10, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello @Vuzorg:. I can't found any things about permanent/temporary on your nomination, and we don't give permanent adminship in communities with less than 50 active users and 2 sysops (inactive). Also, it's your first nomination --Alaa :)..! 13:15, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Yes, but as you say there is a little community in Zazaki Wikipedia and there are two inactive sysops, so there needs to be an active sysop. The period of 6 months is really short to gather all users again to vote on sysopship. It may be 1 year at least. Can't i get it for one year at least? Vuzorg (talk) 20:43, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Exert yourself

Hello Alaa, I am from zhwiki and I see that account was globally locked by you and enwiki sysop told me you may have run a xwiki checkuser on him. For another sock of IGBA was found at zhwiki, I come here to ask if you could give me some information about IGBA, thanks.--Hamish 19:11, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

@Hamish: I think Alaa should have done that global lock due to my SRG report here. Since one more sock is being found, I think a sleeper check will be worthwhile should more locks be needed. I think I'll file a SRCU request and could Alaa respond there. Thanks very much. --Cohaf (talk) 19:21, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

@Cohaf:Appreciate.--Hamish 19:28, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

@Hamish:Filed, I skipped local discussion as this is way too xwiki already. --Cohaf (talk) 19:30, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Steward requests/Checkuser#坦帕灣光芒460@zh.wikipedia and Steward requests/Checkuser#Naughtycaique@zh.wikipedia

My request is very simple,only check their relationship and block their IP/IP(s).--MCC214#ex umbra in solem 06:31, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Email and other things

Replied to your email. Also, check your phone whenever you get up :) TonyBallioni (talk) 03:22, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni: done both. Thanks a lot --Alaa :)..! 11:20, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Regarding 2FA request

Thank you علاء. --Gpkp (talk) 17:20, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

@Gpkp: Welcome --Alaa :)..! 17:21, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Growth team updates #10

Welcome to the tenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

General news

• Growth team features are now fully deployed in Arabic Wikipedia and Basque Wikipedia (along with Czech, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias). If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible. Then, go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.
• We have deployed features that help newcomers find their newcomer homepage. These features were successful, and more than doubled the number of newcomers who find their homepage. In Czech Wikipedia, 72% of newcomers visit their homepage and in Korean Wikipedia, 49% of newcomers visit their homepage.
• You can now join the Growth discussion space on the Wikimedia Space. This space has been created during Wikimania, to coordinate initiatives around welcoming newcomers. Please come and say hello!

Growth at Wikimania

Opening panel in the Community Growth space

• Several members of the Growth team attended Wikimania in Stockholm. We helped organize a conference track around Community Growth, presented about our team's work, and had many conversations with community members from around the world.
• Here are the most important links:
  • Notes and learnings from Wikimania
  • Video of Growth team presentation about our work and learnings from the past year
  • Slides from Growth team presentation
• These are some of our topline notes:
  • Alignment on newcomer retention: It seems like Wikimania attendees generally believe that newcomer retention is an important problem.
  • Connecting offline to online: Enthusiasm for ideas that connect our features better to offline events, such as making homepage mentors correspond to offline mentors.
  • Mentor dashboard: Experienced users requested a dashboard with which they could monitor newcomers who may need help.

Newcomer tasks -- feedback needed!

Mockup of newcomer tasks

• The Growth team's main project right now is newcomer tasks, which will suggest easy edits for newcomers. It will be built as a new module for the newcomer homepage.
• We hope that this project will help newcomers build their skills before attempting more difficult edits, such as creating new articles or adding images.
• These are the three main challenges we've been working on:
  • Where to find the tasks? After considering many different sources for tasks, we've decided to start by using maintenance templates, which are applied by editors on most wikis, and including tasks like copy editing, adding links, and adding references.
  • How to match to interests? Research shows that users are more likely to work on articles that are related to their interests. We are currently prototyping methods to ask newcomers their interests and then find articles that match.
  • How to guide the newcomer? Once a newcomer has selected a recommended article, they will need guidance on how to complete the edit. We have decided to use the help panel to provide that guidance while the newcomer edits.
• We are currently engineering on this feature, and we recently published notes from user tests that give mostly positive feedback.
• You can explore the design for newcomer tasks in these interactive mockups. We hope to hear from you about your thoughts on the project talk page. Do you think this could be helpful for newcomers? What are we missing?

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18:49, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Growth team updates #11

Welcome to the eleventh newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

General news

• Expanding to more wikis: the team is preparing to deploy Growth features to Ukrainian and Hungarian Wikipedias. Wikis that already have the features are Czech, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Basque Wikipedias. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible. Then you can go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.
• Mentor training: we tried out our first training for mentors with the Czech community, so that experienced users can build skills that help them retain newcomers.
• The guide for mentors has been updated. Translations are welcomed!

Help panel results

Mockup of guidance while doing a suggested edit, using the help panel

The help panel was first deployed to newcomers in January 2019, and we have now finished analyzing data to determine its impact. A brief summary is below, and more in-depth information can be found here (in English).

• In summary, although we have seen a good amount of usage of the help panel, the help panel has not shown an increase in activation (whether a user makes their first edit) or retention (whether a user returns to edit again).
• This is a disappointing result, and our team has discussed potential reasons for the result and ideas for the future. Although we have many ideas for how to improve the help panel, we have decided to keep our attention on the newcomer homepage and newcomer tasks projects for the coming months.
• We'll be using the help panel as part of the newcomer tasks project: using it to guide newcomers while they complete suggested edits.
• We welcome questions and thoughts about this on the project's talk page.

Newcomer tasks deployment

Mockup of topic matching in newcomer tasks

• The first version of the newcomer tasks workflow (V1.0) will be deployed in the next weeks on our 4 priority wikis. This version will suggest articles to edit based on maintenance templates. In this first version, we expect many newcomers to initiate the workflow, but not many to select articles to edit or complete edits. We expect future versions of the feature to increase those behaviors.
• We're excited about this project because the majority of newcomers visit their newcomer homepage, and this will be the first element of the homepage that clearly asks the newcomer to start editing.
• These are the next two versions of the feature, which are already being planned:
  • V1.1 (topic matching): will allow newcomers to choose topics of interest (such as Art, Music, Sports, or Technology) to personalize their suggestions. After evaluating several approaches, we have decided to use a new ORES model built by the WMF Scoring team. The model will automatically identify the topic area of each article. We expect this to increase how often newcomers select articles to edit.
  • V1.2 (guidance): once newcomers arrive on an article to edit, we will use the help panel to provide guidance about how to complete the editing task. We expect this to increase how many newcomers actually complete productive edits.
• The project page includes links to the designs of the workflow, and we welcome questions and thoughts on the talk page.

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15:02, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello, friend! Can you give EVinente's sysop on ptwikinews and approve the request in Stewards/Permissions? Thx. Micael D. (talk) 14:47, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello @Micael D.: done --Alaa :)..!

Thanks! Micael D. (talk) 19:43, 23 November 2019 (UTC)