DAlangi (WMF)

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Hey Derick!

I am so happy to see you working with the WMF. Congratulation! I did not get time to apply for this offer, as I see my friend there why can't I be happy? I also encourage your commitment to the african community. Go ahead! --BamLifa (talk) 11:21, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot BamLifa. I'm grateful! --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 21:35, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Yay!!

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The title says it all. Woo! -- ArielGlenn (talk) 06:02, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks a lot :) --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 20:42, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Ops!!! Please login with your user account!

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your change is still causing havoc. You might want to ask ops to flush the caching of that. I get the pop up on every single page here. Multichill (talk) 17:45, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Sorry about the inconvenience. I've reverted the change. The cache gets flushed automatically in 5mins. Sorry! --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 17:47, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Multichill: Issue has now been resolved. Sorry about the inconveniences. ✅ --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 18:08, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Your recent JS changes

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Hello,

As you are likey aware, your recent change to javascript caused all users to see a dialog box appear unexpectedly. In light of this, Can I recommend you test changes in another environment first? You also may want to consider adding an indication of what triggered it. Finally, I noticed you had 'Ops!' in the notice, Did you mean 'Oops!'? Thanks, RhinosF1 (talk) 17:49, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting. I already reverted the change and using a different approach in solving the problem. Sorry about the mess. --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 17:52, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

RhinosF1: Issue has now been resolved. Sorry about the inconveniences. ✅ --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 18:09, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

default gadgets

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Hi DAlangi (WMF), are these entires:

wrcAddNewIndividual[ResourceLoader|default|targets=desktop,mobile]|wrcAddNewIndividual.js
wrcAddNewGroup[ResourceLoader|default|targets=desktop,mobile]|wrcAddNewGroup.js

literally only used to be the target of the buttons on this page: Connect?

If so, can we change them to sto being default and just tie the script to the button link? — xaosflux ^Talk 18:42, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

FYI, we recently were able to do something similar on enwiki (c.f. w:en:MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js#convert_to_Snippets/Load_JS_and_CSS_by_URL?) by using newer functionality. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:44, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi xaosflux, yes I think they're used only on the Connect portal. I'll look at the link you shared and try to understand what was done. Or do you want to go ahead and tie the script to the buttons? --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 10:39, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, since it is also on all of those "pencil" links, not going to migrate it for now. Would be a good candidate for <templatescripts> if it ever launches. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:32, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 17:33, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Isaacandy userpage edit

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I notice that you did a minor edit to the userpage of User:Isaacandy, who has since been blocked for spamming on the English and Malay Wikipedias. There is also currently a discussion open regarding the user's problematic (self-promotional) activities here on Meta-Wiki. Since you made the edit using your staff account, I'd like to know: Does the Wikimedia Foundation have any particular association with the individual in question? I assume the answer is no, and the use of the staff account was just a mistake (or just for convenience), but I just want to be sure.

Thanks. --Yair rand (talk) 06:07, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@Yair rand: Can no longer see the content of the edit(s), seems the page as been deleted (by ~Riley). Before I begin answering the questions, let me apologize, sorry to break any rules or violate any policy. I had no idea this user had been blocked from editing on several wikis and also, the edit was made just for convenience (in this case I guess) - if I see the revision of the edit (which has been unfortunately deleted as at now), I would have known the reason I made the edit. Also, in my view, I'm not sure if the WMF has any particular association with the individual, none that I'm aware of. Thank you 🙂 --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 10:00, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Don't worry, you weren't breaking any rules, I just wanted to know if there was some official function I was missing. :) Thanks for the clarification. --Yair rand (talk) 17:00, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi

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I'm new here and looking for support. I requested a new wiki idea.

Ty. Seikopo (talk) 16:46, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi Seikopo, welcome to Wikimedia. I don't understand your request, can you throw more lights? --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 12:09, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Typo?

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Hello Derick. I hope that you're okay. I was wondering if it'd be possible to add a space after the colons (:) in the edit summaries left by the tool y'all use in Module:Affiliate Indicators? I guess it's MediaWiki:Gadget-wadpAIUForm.js but I can't find where to tweak that myself. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 12:05, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi awesome MarcoAurelio ☺️. I'm okay, world is busy but I'm trying. I'll that, thanks for the suggestion. I'll include it in my work for today & I'll do it for all the scripts. Regards! --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 12:09, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words and for accepting the suggestion. All the best & stay safe. Regards. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 12:19, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm trying to stay safe daily. I've applied your suggestions to the scripts. Edit summaries should be fine now, see example edit. --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 15:56, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you :-) —MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:00, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Strange notifications

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Hello, can you please take a look at this: [[Talk:Wikimedians for Sustainable Development#[Final Notice] Notification of Affiliate Expiration - Renewal pending submission of reporting]]. It seems that something has gone wrong. Also, adding [ ] to headers does not seem to work great when trying to link to them, so perhaps that could be changed to ( )? ♥Ainali ^talk_{contributions} 20:57, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for reaching out, Dumisani responded on the affiliate talk page. Please have a look and let us know. --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 19:36, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Affiliate report due for .... 2021??

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Hi Dlangi, you posted [[metawiki:Talk:Les_sans_pagEs#[Third_Reminder]_Notification_of_Affiliate_Expiration_-_Renewal_pending_submission_of_reporting|this]] on our UG discussion page. How can the report be due when 2021 is not even finished ? I am a little puzzled. Nattes à chat (talk) 09:45, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

This is absolute non-sense. I already submitted the report about year 2020 months ago. It is duely listed in the report page. This is the link to the report [1]. And Nattes à Chat sent the email to the list to announce it.

Certainly, you do not expect us to report on our activities related to year 2021 in January 2021, right ? So we accordingly reported our activities for year 2020 and we followed the process exactly as it is described. It is true we were a couple of months late (report published in May, but it is not easy to report as quickly as January for activities closing in December). In any cases, there is no way we are out of compliance. Anthere (talk) 12:05, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Good day @Nattes à chat: & @Anthere:. Thank you for this enquiry. Your organization was recognized in January 2020. Your 2020 report does not cover the month of January 2021. If you wish to change your reporting period from Feb - Jan, to a new reporting period of Jan - Dec, please send us an email to wadportalwikimedia.org, so that we can have an official record of this change. Upon receipt we will be able to update your reporting period so that your next report is due 31 Dec 2021. Best -- DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 12:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

So... let me make sure I understand well Dumi... you suggest that... our report will be due on the 31st of December for the activity period covering Jan 1st till Dec 31st ? I suggest you made a mistake here. No organization can reasonably provide an activity report the very last day of an activity period. Not only the last day is not very serious, but this is holidays season. Would you think possible that WMF provides the annual report of all its activity on the 30th of June every year ? Impossible. This will never happened and this only calls for a report to be ALWAYS late. Can you propose a more reasonable deadline for submitting a report ? Thank you Anthere (talk) 16:34, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi DNdubane, after all the unpaid work we have done as volunteers, all these strategy coc meetings in the midst of a pandemia could you not consider an exeption? I think we could do with a favour there given the quality of our report. At least please give us a little more time before declaring us "non compliant". And please update the date of the reporting without having us yet to do another mail. The foundation is supposed to support us not flood us with unecessary admin work. Nattes à chat (talk) 16:39, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Good day @Nattes à chat: & @Anthere:. I think we are not on the same page, so let me clarify. If you send us an email to update your reporting period, we would do the following:

1 - Consider the report you submitted as complete for the year 2020.

2 - Move your organization back to "compliant" immediately.

3 - Your reporting period would end December 31, 2021. As a user group, you get 30 days to complete and submit your report after the date your reporting period ends. This means your report would actually be due on the 30 Jan 2022, after which if not submitted then and only then would your organization be market as "non-compliant".

I trust the above is more clearer now. Please don't forget to send the email so that we can have an official record of this change. -- DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

This is clearer. Thank you. Incidently, I must say I am very proud of our report Les sans pagEs/Report 2020. Anthere (talk) 17:38, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, I sent the mail but I find the whole process extremely unfriendly for UG who are small and without paid staff to do the work. We do a lot everyday and one month of delay after the end of the reporting period is just too short a delay. If this is going to be an inclusive movement, the WMF should make a difference between organisations that have paid staff available and those woh do not. Nattes à chat (talk) 16:55, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

@Nattes à chat:, we are very much alive to this fact. Hence compliance monitoring is done on a case-by-case basis and where an organization is unable to meet the reporting deadline or has to change the reporting period, were able to accommodate as required instead of simply taking away recognition. The new system we are using is automated and will be able to give you advanced reminders well before time and you can always chat-us up where support is needed. Best regards --DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 17:09, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Script duplicating "User" each time is used

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Hi! I hope that everything is good. I updated some infos for Wikimedia Stewards User Group and this happened. Would it be possible for the script not to duplicate User: prefixes each time it is used? Thanks! Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:56, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi MarcoAurelio, you're correct and I've spotted the mistake in the code. I have a fix ready but I don't have the rights I usually had editing the scripts but I'll be granted back to me soon.

Once the rights are back, I'll update the code and everything should be fine again. Sorry about the inconvenience. --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 10:44, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

This has been resolved a while ago @MarcoAurelio. Thanks! -- DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 14:47, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

File:WMF-Request for proposal-Nov 2021.pdf

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Hi! Could you please provide a source and a license for that file you uploaded? Maybe {{WMF-staff-upload}}? Thank you. Best regards. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 17:55, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi MarcoAurelio, thank you very much! I've added the template you proposed. Happy New Year 2022 and I wish you all the best. --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 10:31, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:32, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

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Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.

We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:17, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Re:(Initial Review) Notification of Affiliate Expiration - Renewal pending submission of reporting

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The annual report of the group of Wikimedians of Peru User Group for 2021 was sent on February 7, 2022 through the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal. This report also appears in the existing reports section of the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal. The list of all the previous reports can be found on the page of the Wikimedistas de Perú user group.

Can you please indicate if there is another page in the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal where I should send the report?

Best regards --Ovruni (talk) 23:39, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Ovruni, thank you very much for writing. There are some regression bugs I'm trying to fix recently that made the system a bit confused and noisy and I'm very sorry it affect Peru.

I've fixed this and marked your affiliate correctly. Please do let me know if you find any glitches and I'll fix them ASAP. Thank you very much. Regards! -- DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 11:32, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Kazakh UG

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Hello, I have already added a report for the Kazakh UG (KAZ) twice, but this page still says that "Pending report" for the UG and status is Report past due. Can you explain what is the issue? Mehman 97 10:02, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Mehman97, sorry for the late response. I was sick & away but I'm back now. I've reviewed your report and marked as required. Let me know if you have any questions. -- DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 14:45, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Derick, thank you for everything and I hope everything is fine with you, I wish you a speedy recovery. Manav later explained to me what the problem was. Mehman 97 16:11, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

@DAlangi (WMF), can we have a look at this again? DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 08:00, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

GLAM Macedonia

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Hello. I hope this post finds you well. I was just going through the page on reports and I think there is a mistake or a big of some kind. GLAM Macedonia has published on time all the monthly and annual reports. Yet, the page says 'Report past due'. Can you please fix it? Thank you in advance. 13:18, 5 April 2022 (UTC)MacedonianBoy (talk)

Hi @MacedonianBoy, sorry for the late response. I was out sick. I've just checked GLAM Macedonia and the system says it's compliant and I do see the latest report has been submitted. NOTE that the reporting portal has an option for submitting a monthly activity report. You can make use of that reporting timeline instead. --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 14:51, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedistas de Bolivia UG

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Hi, there! We at Wikimedistas de Bolivia had a small mishap and couldn't deliver our report on time. It's ready now, and I was wondering if it is you who I have to bother to get it changed. If not, please, be nice and point me in the right direction. We need this requisite for the Summit. Thank you in advance! alhen ^{Did you call?} 22:24, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Alhen, I'll tag @DNdubane (WMF) to have a look at this. Thank you very much! Cheers! -- DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 18:24, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Done :-) DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 07:59, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you both! =) alhen ^{Did you call?} 03:32, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Quirk with Module:Activities Reports/Affiliate Information

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Hi, Derick,

I noticed a quirk with Module:Activities Reports/Affiliate Information. I think that each time the module saves information, it is prepending User: to each & every user. Here is one example from line 5 of the file:

primary_contact1 = 'User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:User:zache',

I do not know if this is affecting anything, but I suspect this is undesirable. Peaceray (talk) 17:04, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Peaceray, thank you very much for reporting. This is undesirable behavior and I'll fix it. Thank you! DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 13:15, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

I think this issue was resolved @Peaceray. Let me know if we still have but from my end, it was fixed a long time ago. Thanks again for reporting. -- DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 21:51, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Looks okay to me! Peaceray (talk) 22:08, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for confirming @Peaceray. I appreciate. -- DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 23:00, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

WikiClassics UG report

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Hi, I want to inform you that I saw your message in the talk page of the UG about the yearly report. We are fully aware that our report is due, but May and June are the worst months for both of us first contacts. Last year we even forgot to send it, assuming the other person did so.

The draft is ongoing here and we have content to put there, we even started before the deadline and your reminder as you can see from the history. We just don't have time to write it down now.

Is it fine if we postpone it to the second half of July? Everything will be simpler at that moment. Alexmar983 (talk) 21:18, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Alexmar983, I'll Cc @DNdubane (WMF) to take this on moving forward. Thanks! -- DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 10:59, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

as promised to you and DNdubane (WMF), we are finally relaxed now. We will refine the report by the end of the month, hoping by the end of this week. Thanks and sorry but May and June are the worst possible months usually for us.--Alexmar983 (talk) 17:46, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Alexmar983:, That is perfectly fine. If your organization would like to change reporting period to something else other than June, you can always do so. Simply email wadportalwikimedia.org, and we will be able to assit. -DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 10:54, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

done as promised.Not sure if we should change the date. it might be ok for the next first contacts who will are planning to renew. It was simply terrible for us current ones.

We will refine and validate during the next day before sending on the mailing list, but the link is stable and can be inserted in the table.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:08, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedia Venezuela/Reportes/2021

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Hi, @DAlangi (WMF)

Just to note the 2021 Wikimedia Venezuela report is ready, can you update the status of the chapter? Best, Galahad (sasageyo!)^(esvoy) 18:50, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the update @Galahad. I'll defer this to @DNdubane (WMF) who is in charge of this. Thanks! -- DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 18:55, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Galahad:, thanks for submitting the latest activities report for your organization. Please also submit the latest financial report, so that we can update your organization's compliance status. --DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 20:52, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello @DNdubane (WMF). Due to the pandemic and the economic situation of the country, the chapter has not received any funding. Therefore, there is no financial report.

Also, the activities we carried out during those two years did not generate expenses.

We need to be up to date with the activity report in order to receive funds to hold the Wikimania event in Venezuela. Galahad (sasageyo!)^(esvoy) 21:34, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

The best way to handle this, is to add a section in your report with the explanation that you provided here. Then submit a url to that section in the financial report form. That will be enough for us to update the compliance status. --DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 21:54, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

@DNdubane (WMF) done! Thanks, Galahad (sasageyo!)^(esvoy) 22:20, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Excellent! -- DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 22:27, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/Reports

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Hi DNdubane,

I see that in the past you updated this page: will you be doing this again anytime soon? Or is there another page with up to date information on affiliates that are meeting the activity requirements? Thanks! Ciell (talk) 11:11, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Cc @DNdubane (WMF) for visibility as this came to my talk page instead of his. Also, I missed it for a while, sorry about that. -- DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 21:47, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikimédia Magyarország

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Dear Derick, you changed the chapter name on the Organizational Informations page from Wikimédia Magyarország to Wikimedia Hungary with the comment "Move to actual affiliate name.". The official (legally and by the WMF recognized) name of the chapter is Wikimédia Magyarország, and we would like to use this form, while Wikimedia Hungary is the English translation. This case is similar with many other chapters, such as Wikimedia Österreich (instead of Wikimedia Austria), Wikimedia Deutschland (instead of Wikimedia Germany) etc. Could you please move the name back to the officially recognized one? Thank you and have a nice day, Samat (talk) 08:47, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi ☺️, I've directed your request to the senior M&E staff that is in charge of such requests @Samat, so please, @DNdubane (WMF) will direct us on how to navigate this. Thank you! -- DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 16:47, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Samat ☺️, I've discussed this with @DNdubane (WMF) internally and this request has been treated. Can you please confirm with me if that's the case? So I can resolve this topic? Thanks! --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 21:46, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Dear @DAlangi (WMF), thank you for your kind help and contribution. You can close this topic as resolved ☺️. Kind regards, Samat (talk) 20:46, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

You're welcome @Samat. I'm glad I could be of help. --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 21:10, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Past report

Hi @DAlangi (WMF),

Yesterday we saw a notification about our report. However, we delivered that report on September 21, 2023. It even has an English translation. Could you check the situation? Best, Galahad (sasageyo!)^(esvoy) 23:09, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

cc'ing @DNdubane (WMF) too Galahad (sasageyo!)^(esvoy) 16:12, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@Galahad, thanks for bringing this to our attention. We are working on resolving a bug in our notification gadget. We will resolve all multiple notifications and update the compliance tables shortly. --DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 08:39, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

@DNdubane (WMF): In the last few days I have received a flurry of messages regarding my already published report. I have to understand that the situation is not yet resolved, but if it is a test it is not the right way to do it. Galahad (sasageyo!)^(esvoy) 16:42, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

West Bengal Wikimedians User Group annual report past due ????

Hello, you and @DNdubane (WMF): has sent three messages in total in last two days that our organization is currently past due on its required annual reporting past due in 2023-03-15. On the contrary, we have already submitted the annual activity report on 2023-03-16. But we have been placed under "Report past due" in the Reports portal. As far as we understand, our next reporting time is within 2024-03-15 which is two months from now. I have also asked the questions here and pinged you but you didn't respond and sent us another notification. Can you please clarify what is wrong going on here? -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 14:32, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bodhisattwa, as noted on my talkpage, thanks for your patience. We are working to resolve a bug in our notification gadget. I will update the compliance status as soon as we have that resolved. Best regards --DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 08:41, 9 January 2024 (UTC)