User talk:Lofty abyss/Archive

Welcome to Meta!

Hello Mentifisto, and welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). If you would like, feel free to ask me questions on my talk page. Happy editing! --Mardetanha ^talk 14:07, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

--Mardetanha ^talk 14:07, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Mardetanha. -- Mentifisto 14:45, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

hey

Just dropped by to say hi ... hi. ;) Ched Davis 20:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Hey! :-D -- Mentifisto 21:31, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

New sysop

Congrats for your election. Please, include your name on this list. Best regards, Alex Pereira ^falaê 18:20, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Congrats - Huib talk 18:53, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Mentifisto 19:08, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Good morning! Thanks for protecting our pages in Hellenic Wikipedia! Happy New Year! --Ttzavaras 01:24, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome! Happy New Year to you too. :-) -- Mentifisto 01:48, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

welcome!

congrats on Global Rollback! :) James (T|C) 17:10, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. :-) -- Mentifisto 18:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

answer

Hello. In pl.wiki I received rollback automaticly. And now I'm trying here. Greetings, Matvilho 17:52, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

• O.K. thanks for advice ;-). Matvilho 17:53, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Blocked

Hey -- you permanently blocked due to spamming. I don't know what I did, but I don't think it was spamming. I wouldn't even know how to spam. If I did spam, it was a result of trying to familiarize myself with mediawiki and was not intentional. May I be unblocked, please? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.250.214.6 (talk) 14:42, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Were you CollegeRepublicans on mediawiki.org? If so, the edits you made were indeed indicative of spam, as the username itself implies (and it was also all off-topic, as the site is about documenting the software wikis run on). I appreciate the fact it wasn't intentional but I suggest registering another username (ideally personal, and not representative of any group) and perhaps use the various sandboxes around the wikis to familiarize yourself with the software. Regards, -- Mentifisto 22:28, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Global sysop

Your request for global sysop has been granted. Good luck! - Andre Engels 21:55, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Mentifisto 22:28, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much

Hi this is सरोज कुमार ढकाल . A newly temp admin right granted newikibooks user .I am currently translating the essential pages as you have advised me . I am very much grateful for your guidance and hope you will guide me in future and help me figure out new things ..thanks and regards --सरोज कुमार ढकाल 20:23, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Wikimania in Gdańsk - Instytut Sztuki "Wyspa"

Oh, hi there!

Thanks for your message, I hope I haven't bored you too much then! :D Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the stay in Gdańsk despite the glitches and the heat. :)

As for me, I will add the credits and upload my presentations in the close future. :] And regarding you, are you a heavy inter-project user? Maybe my partner for a presentation, Przykuta, would like to talk with you then. :) Some of his ideas regard a co-operation among the projects.

Best Regards from Warsaw!

aegis maelstrom δ 18:37, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

bug report

Hello Mentifisto. Your Mentibot added wrong interwiki links to de:Alessandro. Just for notice, allready corrected. --CatMan61 09:54, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

same problem on de:Alexander Iwanow --CatMan61 10:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

replied here. -- Mentifisto 11:17, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Mentibot @ pl.wiki

Your bot flag has been granted. masti <dyskusja> 21:27, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Bot status on it.wiki

Granted on it.wiki. Bye. --Roberto Segnali all'Indiano 19:00, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

hr:wiki

Mentifisto, please do not use your sysop or rollback tools on hr:wiki. Regards :-)) --Roberta F. 00:27, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Ah, I apologize, wasn't aware of that page. Global sysop isn't enabled on hr, but considering that vote the wiki may also be opted out from rollback... (I'm seeing what could be done). -- Mentifisto 00:45, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations for your election !

Well, I think the headline is explicit enough !! VonTasha 17:53, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

+1, Congratulations man! Jalexander 18:40, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! :-) -- Mentifisto 05:12, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Personal Tools covers tabs

Hi, you posted on my talk page regarding my problem that "Personal Tools" covers the first two tabs at the top right of the page. Specifically it covers "View the user page" and "Discussion about the content page" on your talk page. It covers "View the content page" and "Discussion about the content page" on other pages. I have tried various skins but they all seem to have disadvantages. Is there any way to move the "Personal Tools" so it doesn't cover the tabs? (I have figured out how to access the "Personal Tools" and "Preferences" so thanks for that!) Best wishes, Mattisse 17:07, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Please see User talk:Mattisse where I have uploaded a screen shot" File:Capture-Mattisse.PNG and described the problem.

Thanks, Mattisse 21:04, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Your instructions worked and the bar is gone. Regards, Mattisse 20:50, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi

we work cloesly together with the artist Andreas Hofer who now calles himself Andy Hope 1930. He requested that his old page Andreas Hofer is substituted by a new page Andy Hope 1930. The link was deleted unfortunately although requested by the person the page is about.

Can I try another time without you deleting the linking? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.188.187.42 (talk) 14:53, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I'm not sure what you're referring to. The history of the page has some deletions by User:R'n'B (although that is only to fix the move). If you're referring to the modification my bot made, on the other hand, it is due to the German Wikipedia still having his name as Andreas_Hofer_(Künstler). -- Mentifisto 10:56, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Your RfB

Ping. Good luck! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 10:44, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

That was quick. Thanks! -- Mentifisto 10:51, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Mentibot, interwiki sorting order

your bot don't know that ltg: is a valid interwiki: diff. please fix, update or tell developers. --Akkakk 11:54, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

It might have been a temporary glitch. I'll keep an eye on it. -- Mentifisto 13:17, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedia nomail list

Please add me to this list (Krivitsky MC@ruwiki). I can't, the page is locked. Krivitsky MC 12:39, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Done. -- Mentifisto 13:17, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Teles is not conected

Hi, Mentifisto. I think I will have to accept what was proposed by you here. I tried to usurp "Teles" on el.wiki but I got no response after a month. You said that I should state that I'm not "Teles" on el.wiki. Exactly where do you suggest I should put this statement?” T_ele^s (T_{alk @ C S}) 04:47, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

On the Greek wikis perhaps, since the local communities would be interested in the clarification. Or on Meta (if all your userpages point here, like mine do), maybe. I don't think it would be a problem in the long run; Teles on elwiki hasn't edited in years and probably won't. -- Mentifisto 21:40, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

I left a clarification on all Greek wikis. This message on el.wiki and a message like this on all the others. I think it is enough, isn't it? Thanks for your attention.” T_ele^s (T_{alk @ C S}) 22:52, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I'm sure it's enough (apologies for the late reply). -- Mentifisto 02:13, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Page undelete

Hi mentifisto

I'm not sure why exactly, but my userpage here at meta was deleted some time ago by Abigor. He gave RTV as the reason, despite the fact I never requested RTV, either here or at en.wikipedia. Regardless, can I have it undeleted? Thanks Manning 07:29, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Nevermind, I found the 'requests for undeletion' page. Cheers Manning 08:08, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Too late

LOL thanks. Didn´t saw the date just the helpme template. It can be possible that others that I´m going trough are also too old. But thanks :D --WizardOfOz ^talk 22:02, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

No problem! :-)

(It seems these helpme requests are only being handled now because the category was recently added to Special:RecentChanges.) -- Mentifisto 22:08, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Ah thats why i saw it above! --WizardOfOz ^talk 22:10, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

My bad, sorry! ;-) Trijnstel 22:19, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

NP :D It shows only that I´m willing to help... even if those who requested are inactive LOL --WizardOfOz ^talk 22:22, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Is it allowed in Wikipedia?

To keep in the pages of wiki Administrator's personnel thesis? at http://sd.wikipedia.org ? Other problem is We call Computer as same in English, but admin forcibly used his word Ganpukar of Computer. I have proof that thousands of published books called it Computer not Ganpukar. If some one oppose him he started abusive language. That is the reason sd.wikipedia.org never got attraction to Sindhi community. Plz check record there. Other things are he locked CSS due to that on the same site there are lot of font styles appeared there. He is not able to set commonCSS or Monocss. We are in trouble to work in our local Sindhi language. I don't know where to say for this problem. Record history says all the situation there. I appeal plz warn him to follow en.wikipedia.org rules, other wise he will continue use his personnel details and personnel promoted articles there. Dear I am sorry If u r not right person to say all about this, Plz suggest me where I can raise this issue. My sd.wikipedia.org ID is same. His thesis is not a violetion? http://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/ماحولياتي_انتظام_ڪاڻ_اُپُگِرَهِي_عَڪس_ضماءُ_۽_درجه_بنديءَ_جي_طريقن_جو_اَڀياس

Alixafar 01:09, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

(Please stop messaging everyone, as several individuals have already given you an answer.) -- Mentifisto 10:54, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

StewardScript

Hello Mentifisto. I just rewrote StewardScript, so it's now compatible with the recent MediaWiki changes and has all the previous features (except instant checkuser, due to changes in MediaWiki's security). I noticed you're using Krinkle's partial rewrite (which only has the menu so far) in User:Mentifisto/vector.js. I updated the usage instructions if you're interested. —Pathoschild 00:16:22, 05 December 2011 (UTC)

Rights

Thank you :). Przemub 10:05, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for your translations too! -- Mentifisto 10:09, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Username changes

Hello Mentifisto. Could you please deal with this request?--Avocato (talk) 12:22, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Globally locked user requesting unblock on en-wiki

Hi Mentifisto. Iamthemuffinman, a user whose account you globally locked in August, has finally posted a decent unblock request under his en-wiki account. I'm inclined to grant him one last chance, but I haven't been able to locate the original rationale for the lock (I'm something of a stranger to Meta, and may have missed it) and I'm concerned that unblocking him may have wider implications. Please could you give me a brief run-down of the decision to implement a global lock, and offer a recommendation as to whether it's sensible or not to free up his en-wiki account again? Much obliged, Yunshui (talk) 13:59, 16 October 2012 (UTC) best place to contact me is my en-wiki talkpage here.

Bot inactivity @ it.wiki

Dear Mentifisto, your Mentibot had no edits on it.wiki for last 12 months. If you have objections, please answer on my talk, otherwise your bot will be deflagged in 7 days. Best regards, --93.37.83.27 15:45, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Interwiki on it.wiki

Hi, by 30 January 2013 interwikies in it.wiki are managed by wikidata so please stop your bot in it.wiki.--Dega180 (talk) 09:01, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

It's been stopped - thanks for informing me. -- Mentifisto 00:19, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Stewardship

An image that is partially in focus, but mostly out of focus in varying degrees.

Please notice that I asked three questions of each candidate at Stewards/Elections 2013/Questions

1. Do you look forward to being an active catalyst for consensus-building, especially in small wiki contexts?
2. Do you see your role as a passive bystander with a few tools?
3. Are you able to make balanced guesses about why, when and how "it is better not to reach than to go too far"?

As you know, you are identified as a steward at simple:Wikipedia:Administrators#List of Administrators. In this context, it is timely and meaningful to pose the same questions. --Ansei (talk) 19:06, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

These questions are not a complaint. They are forward looking and open-ended. Is it not appropriate and useful to ask such questions from time to time? Is it not reasonable to ask experienced stewards the same kinds of questions which are presented to steward candidates? --Ansei (talk) 02:19, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

With regards to going too far, I don't think I usually do, as I'm more of an observer in complex scenarios than a participant (which I guess also means I'm not actually an active catalyst, although hopefully not merely a bystander). -- Mentifisto 19:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. You try to be prudent? --Ansei (talk) 00:25, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Sure, but it would not be so prudent to widely proclaim my prudence! ;-) -- Mentifisto 03:29, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Verify

Can you verify [1]? πr² (t • c) 21:40, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

The last line ("fittex ivvota") doesn't sound as good as the text in the previous revision, but the other changes seem sensible. -- Mentifisto 19:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Is the last translation (fittex ivvota) wrong or does it just sound worse? (BTW, are you a native speaker of mt?) πr² (t • c) 03:39, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

It may just sound weird and informal, with "Jekk jogħġbok ivvota" being a more straightforward "please vote", but I'm not sure (I am technically but have mostly spoken, not written it, so I might not be correct - mt:Diskussjoni utent:Chrisportelli usually translates regularly, if you'd like to check with him). -- Mentifisto 04:00, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Khm, khm

Sorry, but why am I blocked????? --Vitez Hirald from wikipedia.rs.

I am also blocked for 7 days without any purpose. I understand that a lot of people has same IP adress, but it isn't fair to block all of them. wikipedia.rs I expect that you will unblock our accounts. --Milosh990 (talk) 20:50, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Please request an IP block exempt on the local project if you still can't edit. I can't see any blocks on your accounts, so I'd suggest sending a message to stewardswikimedia.org with your IP if the problem persists. -- Mentifisto 19:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Please help

I´m Partynia and have a global account at all wiki projects. All of them work (auomatic log in) but the meta account doesn´t work. I even cannot log in manually, because it says, the password is wrong. (It isn´t, because it works on all other projects). when I ask to send me an email with my password, it says, the emailadress is wrong. Here is my SUL Info. Who can help me? Please answer on my disk (german account) Thanx. Partynia --178.26.64.20 06:33, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Bureaucrat discussion

Hello. A bureaucrat discussion has been opened to decide the outcome of this request for de-adminship. It is opened for more than three days now and it has only received one comment so far. If you could please pass by and leave your comments over there it would be really appreciated. Best regards.

— Delivered via Global message delivery on behalf of MarcoAurelio, 15:20, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Your comment was fair enough, I guess. It would be nice if you could confirm that you've read my comments on that protection, assuming that's what you're talking of.[2] [3] More important than the responsibilities I may be freed of, however: now that you commented on the specific case, given that you say to avoid "appearance of a conflict of interest" and you're so sure that "sysop tools were indeed utilized as an involved participant" in a case where it was hard to find even a single administrator to do mere "traffic police" work, you may want to add your thoughts on the general matter and for instance MarcoAurelio's point. I still have to develop an opinion on the matter, for instance. Regards, Nemo 12:18, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Renaming information request

You have been identified as someone who does a large number of renames. If you could visit Rename practices and explain your renaming practices and policy, we would appreciate the effort. We are making this request to help us better understand local renaming practices as we work towards SUL finalization. Thank you for your time and feel free to contact me if you have any questions. MBisanz ^talk 23:09, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Forced user renames coming soon for SUL

Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to translate and review the notification that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages m:Rename practices and m:Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 16:52, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Forced user renames coming soon for SUL

Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to translate and review the notification that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages m:Rename practices and m:Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 16:52, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

IP Adress blocked

Hello! I would really like to know why my IP Adress (89.144.192.37.) was banned here, without any warning from you. Veleius (talk) 22:08, 1 June 2013 (UTC), Wikipedia.de

Your English Wikipedia functionary access

Hi Mentifisto. I've tried to contact you by e-mail and on your English Wikipedia talk page, but you haven't replied. I'm therefore trying here as a last resort, in case you check Meta more frequently. Please read these e-mails when you're next online. Thank you. For the Arbitration Committee, AGK [•] 21:33, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Never mind, I see you've just replied. Thanks! AGK [•] 21:36, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Fixed

[4]: Just FYI, it's www.wikidata, not wikidatawiki. Vogone talk 23:18, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

I don't think it's recognized in the database as that... Pathoschild's magicredirect simply states "Could not find a wiki with a domain or database name like "www.wikidata"." -- Mentifisto 17:53, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

That's true but if you take a look at how Template:Sr-request works, you'll see why "www.wikidata" is correct in this case. :) Vogone talk 21:12, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

I thought that template was supposed to make it easier to process requests. Having to manually re-type the wiki's database in magicredirect doesn't. :-P -- Mentifisto 03:44, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

WMUK Train the Trainer

Hi, I sent you an email with the subject "Training the Trainers Cardiff" on Monday. I'm not sure if you missed it or it went into you spam folder. Can you locate it and give me a reply when you have a chance. Thank you! -- Katie Chan (WMUK) (talk) 14:46, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Bot flag on ruwiki

Dear Botowner!

On behalf of bureaucrats from the Russian Wikipedia I want to notify you, that we are discussing removal of the bot flag from your bot on ru.wikipedia: See lthis. We nominated all bots removal that were inactive for the last year: If you have any future plans for running the bot or want to keep this flag for some other reasons, please, tell us: at this discussion. You can also contact me directly via my user talk - ru:User talk:Rubin16.

If you have no objections or we don't receive any response for a week, we will remove bot flag. Thanks a lot for your previous contributions! rubin16 (talk) 19:39, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Inactive bot on Japanese Wikipedia

Lofty abyss/Archiveさん、こんにちは。

ウィキペディア日本語版であなたの管理するBotが1年間以上稼働していません。

もし、Botフラグを維持されたいのであれば1か月以内に最低1度だけBotを動かしてください。このまま1か月稼働しなければあなたのBotはフラグ除去申請が提出されます。

Hi Lofty abyss/Archive,

I noticed that your bot on japanese Wikipedia has been inactive for more than a year. If you wish to keep its bot flag, please use once within a month. If you no longer need it, the bot flag will be removed.

Regards, -- Banku on ja.wikipedia 06:22, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Rename issue

Would you undo this rename so that we can do this rename as a global rename? MBisanz ^talk 11:35, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Don't think it can be done now that the original username was re-created. -- Mentifisto 18:47, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

An important message about renaming users

Dear Mentifisto,

I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.

Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.

Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 18:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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Superprotect letter update

Hi Mentifisto,

Along with more hundreds of others, you recently signed Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer, which I wrote.

Today, we have 562 signatures here on Meta, and another 61 on change.org, for a total of 623 signatures. Volunteers have fully translated it into 16 languages, and begun other translations. This far exceeds my most optimistic hopes about how many might sign the letter -- I would have been pleased to gain 200 siguatures -- but new signatures continue to come.

I believe this is a significant moment for Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Very rarely have I seen large numbers of people from multiple language and project communities speak with a unified voice. As I understand it, we are unified in a desire for the Wikimedia Foundation to respect -- in actions, in addition to words -- the will of the community who has built the Wikimedia projects for the benefit of all humanity. I strongly believe it is possible to innovate and improve our software tools, together with the Wikimedia Foundation. But substantial changes are necessary in order for us to work together smoothly and productively. I believe this letter identifies important actions that will strongly support those changes.

Have you been discussing these issues in your local community? If so, I think we would all appreciate an update (on the letter's talk page) about how those discussions have gone, and what people are saying. If not, please be bold and start a discussoin on your Village Pump, or in any other venue your project uses -- and then leave a summary of what kind of response you get on the letter's talk page.

Finally, what do you think is the right time, and the right way, to deliver this letter? We could set a date, or establish a threshold of signatures. I have some ideas, but am open to suggestions.

Thank you for your engagement on this issue, and please stay in touch. -Pete F (talk) 18:14, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to the CentralNotice-admins list

Hi! This bulk email is to let you know about a mailing list used to communicate bug reports and new features in CentralNotice, and to facilitate conversations between the admins. This message is being sent to you because you have the privileges to use the CentralNotice admin interface.

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Thanks,

Adam Wight (talk)

00:23, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Fundraising Tech,

Wikimedia Foundation

Log in problems

Helle Mentifisto. I can see that you still have to rename my previous username Søren1997 12 wikis. It's like a problem since I can not log on before it's done. I for følgene voce when I try to come: "Logon unsuccessful. Your account is currently being renamed or merged. View the status" These are:da.wikisource.org, dk.wikimedia.org, en.wikivoyage.org, et.wikipedia.org, ku.wikipedia.org, la.wikipedia.org, test.wikipedia.org, tr.wiktionary.org, tt.wikipedia.org, ty.wikipedia.org, xmf.wikipedia.org and zea.wikipedia.org. Greetings Sorenhk via IP --37.75.167.217 20:56, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

I assume it's fine now? -- Mentifisto 21:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. everything works now :) --Sorenhk (talk) 22:30, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Denver Stevenson

Hi. Reagarding the Denver Stevenson account that you recently globally locked for spamming, they came to my attention because they recreated the userpage of someone I had previously "soft" blocked for simialar, though less serious issues. In looking through their contribs I see they did this to more than one deleted userpage. So, I guess what I am asking is do you think there is cause to run a checkuser on the account to see if it is linked to these others? And if so is that somehting you could do as a steward or would it need to be done by local en.wp CUs? Beeblebrox (talk) 21:23, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

I've done so at loginwiki which found Menezes Ramados, Oval Joe, Rin Tin Tin Ticker, Stockerwell, The true foreign rope - as linked accounts which didn't yet edit. -- Mentifisto 21:28, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Did you...

...really send me an email?

Bfpage (talk) 09:38, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

I did, as I thought it was off-topic to Wikipedia. -- Mentifisto 01:53, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Am I bad

  Bfpage |leave a message  13:20, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Updated scripts

Hi Mentifisto. I edited your global.js and monobook.js to update you to the latest versions of ajax sysop, force ltr, and StewardScript. The new versions are compatible with the latest MediaWiki changes and reside on the Wikimedia Tool Labs for easier updates. I also updated deprecated functions and removed a manual global.js import (that happens automatically now with global user pages). Let me know if anything breaks. :) —Pathoschild 03:27, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Haitian wikipedia

Would you like to make me an administrator for this wikpedia. There are none. It would be nice if I did not have to bother you to block a truly disruptive editor.

  Bfpage |leave a message  14:45, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Typically people post a nominal (if there isn't a community) request on the local noticeboard and then make a request on SRP after a week. -- Mentifisto 13:22, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Global CSS/JS migration

Hello Mentifisto. You have global scripts and styles in User:Mentifisto/global.js and User:Mentifisto/global.css, which you import using your local CSS/JS pages. Since August 2014, your global.js and global.css pages are loaded automatically on all wikis. Since you already import them yourself, you may experience script errors or tools being added twice. Do you want me to fix this by removing the imports from your local pages using Synchbot (without changing any other content)? —Pathoschild 20:14, 05 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes, please. :-) -- Mentifisto 14:27, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Done! You can see the list of changes on your archive page. —Pathoschild 03:52, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 15 December

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As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are beginning the transition to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

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Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. The general confidentiality agreement is now ready, and the OTRS agreement will be ready after 22 September 2015. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

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Thank you,
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Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 31 December

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are beginning the transition to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that OTRS volunteers sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain their access. You are receiving this email because you have been identified as an OTRS volunteer and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015, you will lose your OTRS access. OTRS volunteers have a specific agreement available, if you have recently signed the general confidentiality agreement for another role (such as CheckUser or Oversight), you do not need to sign the general agreement again, but you will still need to sign the OTRS agreement.

Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

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Thank you,
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Reminder: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 15 December

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

I wanted to follow-up on an message I sent you in September regarding the need for you to sign a confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) in order to maintain your access from Wikimedia to nonpublic information.

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) to retain their access. You are receiving this message because you have access to nonpublic information and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015, you will lose your access to nonpublic information.

Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

If you have any questions or experience any problems while signing the new agreement, please visit this talk page or email me (gvarnumwikimedia.org). Again, please sign this confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) to retain your access to nonpublic information. If you do not wish to retain this access, please let me know and we will forward your request to the appropriate individuals.

Thank you,
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Confirmation discussions

Dear Mentifisto,

As you probably know, the confirmation discussions for Stewards have been closed. In order to determine the outcome of these discussions, you are invited to comment on Talk:Stewards/Confirm/2016 before scheduled closure of the confirmation section "one week after the appointment of the newly elected stewards" (Sunday 6th of March, 17:22 UTC), though the closing time might be extended at the ElectCom's discretion for an extra week if it is believed "further input is required before concluding". All stewards are welcome to comment, including those newly elected.

For those who ran for confirmation, consider revising comments regarding you, and replying to those where appropriate. Savh^ñ 08:01, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello

Hello. I want to change my username. Can I?--Garik.Kh (talk) 12:58, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Notice of removal of adminship

Hello,

I regret to inform you that, in accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and as a result of your inactivity, administrator rights have been removed from your account. Please see Meta:Administrators/Removal/April 2016 for details. Kind regards, Barras talk 15:25, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

No renaming between November 20 and November 27

Hi,

You’re getting this because you’re a steward or global renamer. The Community Tech team are working on cross-wiki watchlists. We need to add a couple of fields to the localuser table in centralauth database. In order to be able to do this, we’d need to run a script that will get in the way of renaming users. Our apologies – we realize this is getting in the way of your work.

We ask that you do not rename anyone between 00:00 November 20 (UTC) and 00:00 November 27 (UTC).

(UTC means that if you live in the Americas, it will be on the evening or afternoon of November 19 when the script starts running, and if you live in Oceania or eastern Asia, it can be closer midday on November 27 before we can be sure the script is no longer running.)

Phabricator task.

If there are any problems related to this, or you have any questions, please write me on my talk page. /Johan (WMF) (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:39, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Help design a new feature to stop harassing emails

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The Anti-Harassment Tools team plans to start develop of a new feature to allow users to restrict emails from new accounts. This feature will allow an individual user to stop harassing emails from coming through the Special:EmailUser system from abusive sockpuppeting accounts.

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It is important to hear from a broad range of people who are interested in the design of the tool, so we hope you join the discussion and let us know how it would work best for you.

For the Anti-Harassment Tools team SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 21:50, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

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IRC

Hi. Hope that you're okay. There's a problem with your IRC nick joining restricted channels without NickServ/Cloack authentication. If you could please fix that when you've got time? Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 21:59, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Bot activity on the Dutch Wikipedia

Dear,

Your bot account hasn't made any edits on the Dutch Wikipedia for at least three years. In accordance with the local bot policy the bot flag will be removed in three months. To avoid losing the bot flag, you can confirm you want to retain the bot flag by going to this page.

With kind regards, Kippenvlees1 (talk) 18:53, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Emergency in KaWiki

Dear steward,
Please read my explanation thoroughly. It is about an inexorable situation in the Georgian Wikipedia, the long-established. Every attempt to solve the problem locally fails again and again. So, please, do not be indifferent.
The requests are extraordinary, so I do not write on a general page, but personally.
Best regards, Deu. 18:04, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

help me

Talk:IRC/Channels. thanks. דגש חזק (talk) 23:06, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Spambot?

This account has been created on 5 projects, with quite human behaviour (created on de.wiki, autocreated on en.wiki) for a spambot. Besides the fact that the username is in CamelCase (which isn't something one can add much value to), is there any other indication that this is a spambot? As I stated previously when discussing the lock of RodrigoactBernardino on IRC, I have rarely come across spambots with more than 4 accounts (meta, mediawiki, loginwiki and the target wiki), and I don't believe that a CamelCase username is, on itself, sufficient to determine it to be a spambot. Savh^ñ 13:59, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

So, you never found a bot with more than 4 accounts? If that is a certainty then I'll follow such a threshold (well, for a day). What is exactly 'human' about accounts originating anywhere and being autocreated anywhere else, though? Is it certain that spambots always register on a single wiki? I haven't noticed that, but it'd be much easier to target just them then if that was so. Also, if you have concerns about accounts with no edits being suspected of being spambots, as I suggested in my second statement recently, I recommend a wider discussion to see if generally none of them should be locked, and perhaps only those with edits or AF (ideally CU results also show all such like they show edits) (or SBL) triggers are locked, which I wouldn't be averse to. -- Lofty abyss 18:46, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Amongst other things, human accounts are more likely to navigate various of the better known Wikimedia wiki's (such as this user on de.wiki and en.wiki), whilst it wouldn't seem very logical to see an account first being created on the Xhosa wikikpedia and then on the Icelandic Wikiquote. Together with other indications, that could support the theory that it is a spambot. I have no concerns with accounts with no edits or filter triggers being locked when it can be with sufficient certainty determined that they are a spambot, but I had doubts about how justified your suspicions were. Since however you're no longer a steward, I think there's no point in continuing this discussion. Please however do remain active (and not just minimally) on the wiki's where you have been entrusted with advanced permissions, or - if you're no longer interested or unable to use them - be fair to the community that trusted you to use them and eventually resign those permissions. Savh^ñ 21:05, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Message

Hi Lofty abyss!

We, renamers, have a small doubt about the rename process (technique) and, as you has been renamed, maybe can help us. Just tell me: you received any message (email, notification, or another) from me when I rename your account? Tks! Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 14:03, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Yes, the system did do so automatically, thanks for doing so. -- Lofty abyss 00:35, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

LPP/kiu needs update

As changes applied for 12 days. --125.36.185.11 02:21, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Meta:Requests for adminship/Lofty abyss

Welcome :).
MarcoAurelio will email you soon in order to add you to the metawiki admin mailing list. Matiia (talk) 06:37, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Lofty abyss 06:42, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

@Matiia: My MO is kinda different. If Lofty abyss is indeed interested he can subscribe himself and confirm his address emailing me via Special:EmailUser, as stated in the listinfo page.

@Lofty abyss: Congratulations & welcome back.

—MarcoAurelio (talk) 07:30, 21 July 2019 (UTC)