User talk:علاء/Archive 7

Arabic edit-a-thon articles

Hello there! Sorry to bother you, I just want to ask a little help. Do you think I used the correct place for this message on arwiki? Because I am not sure but I asked the edit-a-thon participants to use (just in case) their sandboxes, therefore I need help from a native speaker. Thanks for your answer and have a good day! Bencemac (talk) 10:13, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello @Bencemac:. Hope you are doing well, and you are welcomed at any time . I moved the sandboxes to article namespace and I did few general edits on it. The page you posted in it usually for new users questions and unfortunately it's often full of spam that we are trying to remove it from time to time, so please next time post your request on Miscellaneous village pump, so users can deal with your request as fast as they can. And of course, if you need any help on Arabic language or arwiki you can reach me directly. Thanks for your effort. Best --Alaa :)..! 17:14, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Dear Alaa, thank you very much! I will use the suggested place next time. The students will be surely very happy and satisfied. :) It was my pleasure to support your language. Have a nice day! Bencemac (talk) 17:33, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Welcome . @Bencemac: I also assure you that the arwiki community is happy with your efforts as well --Alaa :)..! 17:36, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

طلب استثناء من منع الآيبي

السلام عليكم: هل يمكن مساعدتي في الحصول على استثناء من منع الآيبي. ولك جزيل الشكر. ملاحظة: المنع موجود عند تشغيل بيانات الهاتف فقط، وعند الاتصال عبر الواي فاي لا يوجد منع. شكرا مرة ثانية. --أبو هشام (talk) 20:02, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

مرحبًا @أبو هشام: تم منحك الاستثناء العالمي. إذا كُنت ما زالت تواجه أي منع أيضًا، بالتالي أنت بحاجة لاستثناء محلي. تحياتي --Alaa :)..! 11:28, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

مرحبا علاء لا زال المنع موجودا. تحياتي لك. --أبو هشام (talk) 10:29, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

مرحبًا @أبو هشام: المفروض أن تكون حُلت الآن مع الاستثناء المحلي؟ --Alaa :)..! 12:53, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Opinion about my global rename for help

Hi, Alaa . I hope you well. Can you help me or handle my Global rename case. mostly I'm active on English Wikipedia. I wanted to using pseudonym name because I'm feel not safe on Wikipedia. Some of time I'm nomination / AFD vote participate on en Wikipedia after than some people threat me. I strongly decided that i needed to change my name. Thanks--Nahal^(T) 16:49, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Note

Please do not edit through protection as you did on nv.wiki. Stephen has likely passed away. You should know that by now. Seb az86556 (talk) 11:16, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Seb az86556: Thanks for explanation, and sorry to hear that! and sorry that I don't know he passed away. About (Please do not edit through protection) sorry, but I'm steward and my edits on nwiki related to Admin activity review --Alaa :)..! 11:19, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

I understand, no problem. You should really ask on his talkpage on wiktionary and hear what other people say. He's a sysop there, too. Stephen disappeared totally/everywhere on Feb 9 last year and has not responded to anyone. I really do fear the worst. We actually have a policy for nv which says after a year, but I kinda let it slip hoping he'd show up again. For now, you can de-admin him on nv, and if he shows up again, Iʼll advocate for his getting the rights back. Seb az86556 (talk) 11:25, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

@Seb az86556: please put a link to nwiki policy on this page for necessary. Thanks --Alaa :)..! 11:31, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

It was an agreement between me, Stephen, and Arizona86002. I don't think we documented that officially. Since I'm (sadly) the only one left, let's just go back to you guys at meta handling it. It seems that once I'm gone, the lights will be out pretty much forever anyways. Seb az86556 (talk) 11:38, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for replay @Seb az86556:. Can you help us by translation /Notice to communities and /Notice to inactive right holders to nv.? It'll help us for future notices. Thanks on advance --Alaa :)..! 12:36, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

منع دائم عالميًا

على الرغم من أنني لدي العديد من المهام، ولكن بسبب هذه المشكلة (بسبب مشكلة عدم القدرة على رفع الصور)؛ أريد أن أغادر (أعتزل) كومنز تمامًا؛ لذلك أريد منع حسابي هذا وحسابي في ويكيبديا (راجع صفحتي محليًا) عالميًا بشكل دائم --ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 18:00, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

مرحبًا ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2، عذرًا ولكن لا يتم إغلاق الحسابات عالميًا بناءً على طلب المستخدمين (الاستقالة أو الاعتزال أو غيرها)، وذلك حسب سياسة الإغلاق العالمية، حيثُ تُوضح أسباب معينة فقط لاستعمال الإغلاق. تحياتي --Alaa :)..! 17:20, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Please review

Hi. Can you please take a look at Special:GlobalRenameQueue/request/58847 please? Thanks. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:59, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello @MarcoAurelio: reviewed (rejected), as it's still unacceptable (advertising for a company). This request related to Persian not Arabic. --Alaa :)..! 17:18, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. I cannot read those characters so I was not sure if it was ar or fa. Thankfully you sorted it out. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 18:31, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Ali al Suleiman

Hello, my colleague @Azurfrog: found another sock today : Alomari-Ali. Kind regards, -Bédévore (talk) 18:29, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Bédévore: Thanks a lot! I locked the account globally, and blocked it on arwiki also. I checked it on loginwiki, and I found another sock (not on frwiki). Thanks --Alaa :)..! 19:10, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Sorry!

Hello friend, I apologize for quoting you and then withdrawing the order! I was thinking about becoming an admin interface, but I'm very busy at the time. Sorry :). Micael D. (talk) 18:42, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Micael D.: don't mind, hope you are well. When you have time you can re-apply. Best and you can ping me anytime --Alaa :)..! 21:19, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Growth team updates #12

Welcome to the twelfth 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

• A training for mentors has been published. The training was first tried with the Czech community, and went well.
• Growth team features have been deployed to Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Armenian Wikipedias. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together whether your wiki is eligible. Then you can go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.

Productive edits from newcomer tasks

We deployed the basic workflow for newcomer tasks to our target wikis on November 20, and the early results are exciting.

Suggested edits by type of edit.
Graph captions (top to bottom):
■ Copyedits
■ Add links
■ Expand article
■ Add reference
■ Advanced edits

• About 1.5% of newcomers who visit their homepage complete the workflow and save a suggested edit. So far, this has amounted to over 450 edits, on all wikis, coming from both desktop and mobile users.
• When we look at the edits that newcomers make, we see that they are largely positive! We are pleased to see that this feature does not appear to encourage vandals.
  • 75% of the edits are productive and unreverted.
  • 95% of the edits appear to be in good faith.
• Most of the edits include copyedits and adding links, with some newcomers also adding content and references. Copyedits are suggested most strongly.
• Click here to learn more specifics about the results so far.

Topic matching deployed

The results from our user tests showed us that newcomers are likely to do more suggested edits if they can choose articles related to a topic that they're interested in, such as "science", "music", or "sports".

• On January 21, we deployed topic matching on our pilot wikis. Newcomers are now using it. We expect it to cause more newcomers to try suggested edits, and to keep making more of them.
• In the coming weeks, we will be making improvements to the accuracy of the algorithm used to topic matching, which is part of the ORES project.

Next steps for newcomer tasks

Prototype of how the help panel will "peek" from the bottom of the page to offer guidance on mobile.

Because we are seeing positive results from newcomer tasks, the Growth team plans to concentrate our efforts on improving the workflow and encouraging more newcomers to use it.

• Guidance: next, we will be using the help panel to provide guidance to newcomers as they do suggested edits, and to prompt them to do another edit after completing their first one. In user tests for this feature, demo videos were one of the favorite features, and we will think about how these might be added.
• Starting the workflow: only about 20% of newcomer who visit their homepage begin the newcomer tasks workflow. We are going to be trying out different layouts of the homepage to encourage more newcomers to try newcomer tasks.
• Additional task types: we are researching methods to recommend more specific tasks to newcomers, such as specific links to add, or images that could be added to articles from Commons.

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17:39, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Question

Hi. First of all, thanks for tracking cross-wiki spams. I had a question regarding this: have you seen w:simple:Special:Contribs/Ahmadqatari? Are those page creations spamming as well? Thanks. Ahmad^talk 17:16, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Ahmad252:. Thanks for help, you can found more about this user here. We nuked all of articles created by this user as it are articles about non-notable users. Thanks for remind me about this user. Hope if @TonyBallioni, Praxidicae, and Vermont: can help in articles of enwiki and simple wiki. Best --Alaa :)..! 17:27, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, I'll read the report. Please let me know if I can be of help. Ahmad^talk 17:33, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

I did ask Vermont but he was too busy and directed me to AN. I did asked in IRC where apparently HakanIST said those articles are okay (i.e. notable). I did put out some into RFD, Ahmad252 might want to give opinions there (In simple). Going forward we need a way to manage their creations as it seems problematic.

As an side note, do you still need the indef semi protection? Thanks for locking all the accounts still.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 17:35, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Q

Can you tell me anything about 2607:FB90:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 ? I'm tracing a user who's making fake articles on rappers/singers, who's active on that range. TonyBallioni, you dropped a block on that range a few months ago--anything exciting? Thanks, Drmies (talk) 22:23, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Drmies this is the T-Mobile IPv6 range that’s pretty much been consistently globally or locally blocked for the last few years. It has a few LTAs on it, but it’s probably the same person you were thinking of when you blocked it previously. Also, hi Ala’a :) TonyBallioni (talk) 22:44, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Haha, should have checked the block log. I wonder what he did to attract a global block. Drmies (talk) 22:53, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Moving to other projects to evade our block! TonyBallioni (talk) 23:14, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Drmies:, I see that TonyBallioni summarized this range issue. (Based on lwcu) Until now there's more than 100 accounts globally locked on this range with a lot of abusive usernames. Also, a lot of these accounts already blocked on multiple projects. I don't know if there's specific information you want to know, so please if there's, probably you can write it on CUwiki and ping me, then I'll give you all info. you want to fight abuse/spam..etc --Alaa :)..! 13:52, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Alaa--thank you so much. No, Tony's answer pretty much covers what I needed to know. I appreciate all you do for our beautiful project. Drmies (talk) 16:40, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Friendly space policies edits

@علاء: I have noticed your changes on Friendly Space Policies page which affect the title of the policy. When I choose to substitute "friendly" with "welcoming," it was because the definition is more about "welcoming everyone regardless of differences." Was your change based on an opinion I am not familiar with somewhere? Let's reach an agreement about this, as the article will require further edits as well as further edits in other pages on Meta. Your efforts are much appreciated, and looking forward to cooperate with you within the organization communications translators group. Haytham ^{Abulela talk} 17:44, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

مرحبًا @Haytham abulela: وأهلًا بك في صفحة نقاشي، وشُكرًا لمجهودك في ترجمات العديد من الصفحات. كونك عربي فالأفضل أن نتحدث باللغة العربية ليسهل علينا فهم المقصود، ولكن يمكنك الكتابة باللغة التي تُفضل. بالنسبة لترجمة "سياسة المساحة المرحبة" أو "سياسة البيئة الودية"، فكوننا نعمل مؤخرًا في ويكيبيديا العربية بالتعاون مع عددٍ من الزملاء على تحسين سياسات وإرشادات ويكيبيديا العربية (قُمنا بالأمس بتحديث قالب:سياسات وإرشادات ويكيبيديا) ستجد أننا اعتمدنا "سياسة البيئة الودية" وذلك عبر نقاشٍ حصل خارج ويكيبيديا، وتضمن النقاش طرح كافة الترجمات الموجودة والمُعتمدة عالميًا، وأيضًا بالاعتماد على معاجم عربية تخصصية، وخصوصًا ترجمة (Friendly space policy) تعتبر جوهرية كون يعتمد الكثيرين عليها خصوصًا في النشاطات العربية على أرض الواقع.

أظن أنهُ لا خلاف على تغيير (المساحة) إلى (البيئة) كونها تُوضح المعنى الصحيح والأفضل، ورُبما الخلاف فقط حول (المرحبة) أو (الودية) مع العلم كانت هُناك طروحاتٌ أُخرى معتمدة على معاجمٍ عربية مثل (الصديقة) أو (الرحوبة) أو (الودودة) وغيرها. يُوحي مُصطلج المرحبة بأنَّ السياسة خاصة بالترحيب والحفاوة بالتعامل مع المستخدمين، ولكن المقصود هو وجود بيئة لطيفة حول المستخدمين وتجنب الإزعاج والتحرش وغيرها، وكان الحل الأمثل استعمال مُصطلح الوديّة، فهذه السياسة غير مرتبطة بالترحيب بقدر أن تكون البيئة إيجابية وسليمة للموجودين وخالية من أي إشكال قد يضر بالأفراد.

إذا أردت يمكنني الإشارة للزملاء الذين شاركوا بالنقاش، ونُكمل النقاش هنا في صفحة نقاشي أو في ميدان اللغويات. تحياتي وشُكرًا مجددًا --Alaa :)..! 18:07, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

مرحبًا @علاء:

منذ أنني أعلم أنك ناشط على ويكيبيديا العربية، كان ظني أن التعديل بناء على نقاش أو إجماع على ويكبيديا العربية. لقد حاولت منذ انضمامي للحركة المساهمة في ويكيبيديا العربية إلا أن التجربة كانت غير مشجعة بالمرة في ذلك الوقت، لهذا السبب ابتعدت عنها وركزت جهدي قدر المستطاع على ترجمات ميتا وميدياويكي.

هل تعتزم تنقيح ذات المقالة؟ إن كان الأمر كذلك، يمكنني الامتناع عن تعديل ذات الصفحة وتركيز جهدي على تعديل المقالات الأخرى التي تستعين بذات الترجمة القديمة.

شكرًا جزيلًا على سرعة الرد وأتمنى لك دوام التوفيق.

Haytham ^{Abulela talk} 18:29, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Ali al Suleiman

Hello Alaa, I've found another sockpuppet this morning : Farazdaqpoet. Kind regards, Bédévore (talk) 07:27, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Bédévore:. Thanks, and Locked by Sotiale. I added this new accounts here. --Alaa :)..! 10:03, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Langcom change

Hi! Now that I got a bit of extra time, I just wanted to thank you for reverting the change to my language selection on the LangCom page. I had somehow managed to log out without realizing it. I appreciate what you did :) -Yupik (talk) 09:43, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Yupik:. I think that probably you log out, so I put question marks on the edit summary. Don't mind, and thanks --Alaa :)..! 18:35, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

+1 for Case 1

User:Fakhreddin74. Already locked, just for documentation. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 14:52, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Camouflaged Mirage: Thanks and added. (FYI Bédévore) --Alaa :)..! 14:59, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Alaa, one more User:Omarbinabdalaziz per this. Thanks. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:12, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@Camouflaged Mirage: Thanks. 2 accounts added --Alaa :)..! 14:28, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Translation of "Depicts" in Wikimedia Commons

عزيزي علاء، يوجد في العدد الجديد من نشرة الأخبار التقنية بند يتناول سمة جديدة لإضافة وسوم إلى الملفات على موقع كومنز. الكلمة المختارة بالإنجليزية هي (Depicts) التي لم أجد لها ترجمة على الموقع. لقد ترجمتها إلى "واصفات". هل ترى أنها مناسبة أو هل لديك مقابل مستخدم بالفعل على مشاريع ويكيميديا؟ Haytham ^{Abulela talk} 20:48, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

مرحبًا هيثم، أجد أنَّ أحد الزملاء قد استعمل كلمة (يصور) في ويكي بيانات وصفًا للخاصية، ولكن برأيي رُبما تفهم هُنا بشكلٍ خاطئ، ويجب أن نتفق بدايةً أنَّ (Depicts) هي فعل، وبالتالي حسب مصدر (مصدر آخر وآخر) يُمكننا أن نُسميها توصيفها أو التوصيف أفضل من تصويرها أو التصوير، وأيضًا لاحظت أنَّ الفارسية في ويكي بيانات اعتمدوا (توصیف‌ها). فما رأيك؟ تحياتي --Alaa :)..! 04:40, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

مرحبًا، يبدو من الجملة أنها اسم لا فعل. الجملة تقول (These tags are called depicts.) كما أن شرح السمة على كومنز كما هو مبين هنا يشير إلى أنها قد تكون جملة كاملة لا مجرد كلمات. Haytham ^{Abulela talk} 04:15, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Please update your signature

Hello Alaa, could you please change your signature as I have done here? It is visually the same, it is just currently your signature produces Special:LintErrors. Thank you! --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 05:08, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello @TheSandDoctor: done at same second when you sent this talk page message. Thanks a lot --Alaa :)..! 05:09, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Perfect. Thank you! --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 05:10, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

--Alaa :)..! 05:10, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Sign at SRGP

Hey, can you check you sign here? Thanks --MrJaroslavik (talk) 07:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello @MrJaroslavik: Thanks COPY/PASTE issue --Alaa :)..! 07:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

طلب

مرحبا أخي علاء، من فضلك هل يمكنك إزالة جميع الصلاحيات في المشاريع التالية إذ من المتوقع لن أنشط فيها مجددا:

• ar.wiktionary.org : autopatrolled, rollbacker
• ar.wikibooks.org : rollbacker
• ar.wikisource.org: autopatrolled, patroller, rollbacker
• ar.wikiversity.org : rollbacker
• ar.wikiquote.org : rollbacker

وشكرا --Omar2040 (talk) 23:23, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

مرحبًا بالعزيز @Omar2040: كُل عام وأنت بخير. نعم يمكنني إزالتها في المشاريع التي أملك صلاحية إداري فيها، وذلك تجنبًا للخلاف مع أي إداري محلي. أي يمكنني إزالتها في (ويكي كتب، ويكي مصدر)، أما المشاريع الأخرى فيمكنني الطلب مباشرةً مع بعض الزملاء إزالتها. ولكن قبل هل يمكنك توضيح لي السبب؟ وما الضرر من وجود الصلاحيات حتى لو كنت لن تستعملها؟ تحياتي --Alaa :)..! 06:26, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

وأنت أيضا كل عام وأنت بألف خير في الحقيقة قلت بدل ما أقدم طلب في كل ويكي أقدم طلب واحد في الميتا وبما أنك مضيف يعرف اللغة العربية أرسلت لك الطلب، أما بخصوص السبب فلن أنشط مجددا في تلك المشاريع هذا ما أتوقعه والأمر شخصي فقط إذا لا أرغب أن تكون لي صلاحية دون العمل بها، هذا كل شيء وشكرا لك --Omar2040 (talk) 10:50, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

شكرًا للتوضيح @Omar2040:، ولكن حقًا أرغب شخصيًا في إبقاء الصلاحيات معك، فحملك لهذه الصلاحيات ضروري وربما تحتاجك أو نحتاج مساعدتك فيها في أوقاتٍ ما، وبرأيي بما أنه لا ضرر من وجودها، وأرجو أن تقبل طلبي الشخصي طبعًا. تحياتي --Alaa :)..! 12:12, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

حسنا أخي علاء، بما بما أنه لا ضرر من وجودها في حالة عدم النشاط فلا بأس بالإبقاء على جميع الصلاحيات، في حالة وجود الوقت سأحاول المساهمة، شكرا جزيلا على الرد، ودمت بألف خير --Omar2040 (talk) 19:58, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Lamar1100

I ran into this user on Enwiki whilst patrolling drafts, and he seems to have been globally locked by you under the rationale "Long-term abuse". For reference purposes, which long-term abuser was this account associated with?

Thank you, Passengerpigeon (talk) 08:40, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Passengerpigeon: this account related to cross wiki hoaxer, and lock request made via IRC. Thanks --Alaa :)..! 14:46, 26 April 2020 (UTC)