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Thank You

Latest comment: 4 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Ok just delete my account and the name now, dont make me mad here

⊗_⊗ (talk) 11:44, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Accounts, once registered, cannot be deleted. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:46, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

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What you were looking for

Latest comment: 4 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

See https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/meta/scripts/pathoschild.stewardscript.js loaded from User:MarcoAurelio/common.js--Sakretsu (炸裂) 15:37, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

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Growth team newsletter #13

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Welcome to the thirteenth 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.

Join the conversation: structured tasks

Sketch of an idea for a structured workflow for adding links to an article. The goal is to help newcomers edit at high volume.

We are looking for community input on a new project to make it easy for newcomers to make real article edits.

In our previous newsletter, we talked about the productive edits coming from the newcomer tasks feature. Those good results have continued: about 900 newcomers made over 5,000 suggested edits so far. We've learned that newcomers are interested in receiving suggested edits.

Now, we are thinking about how to supply them a feed of easy edits that will help more of them be successful quickly. We have a new idea called "structured tasks". This would aim to break down edits into steps that are easy for newcomers and easy on mobile devices.

In the past, certain kinds of editing tasks have been structured. For instance, adding categories through HotCat. Now, we are thinking about how to structure the editing of articles. The goal is to allow newcomers can make large content additions, especially from their mobile devices.

Please visit the project page and respond to the discussion questions listed on the talk page. You are welcome to show this project to others in your community. You can help by translating the materials to your language so that more voices can join in. We will be having this conversation until June 18.

Expanding to more wikis

We have expanded to six new wikis, and are looking for more interested communities.

In the last two months, we deployed Growth features to six new wikis: Ukrainian, Serbian, Hungarian, Armenian, and Basque Wikipedias, and French Wiktionary. Newcomers from these wikis have already contributed over 600 edits through Growth features.

We want to expand to more wikis in the coming months, and we are looking for interested communities. French Wikipedia already agreed and will be the next one to join the experiment. We will contact several other wikis in the coming weeks to offer them to participate.

Do you think the Growth Team features would be a good addition to your wiki? Please see this translatable summary of Growth features. You can share with your communities and start a discussion. Then, please contact us to begin the process!

Other updates

39 topics are now available for newcomer tasks

Work continues on improving newcomer tasks and the homepage.

In March, we deployed an upgrade to the topic matching in newcomer tasks. The current version offers 39 different topics using new ORES models.
In April, we completed an A/B test of two homepage configurations. We learned that more newcomers will attempt suggested edits if the module is made more prominent. We are implementing those learnings in our next test. See the full results here.
We are currently working on guidance for newcomer tasks. It will use the help panel to guide newcomers through completing easy edits.
Our next step is to create new configurations of the homepage. The goal is to encourage more newcomers to begin doing suggested edits.

As usual, we are still welcoming your feedback and questions about our features. Please contact us on the project talk page!

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14:29, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

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Global rename of user alainpainchaud

Latest comment: 4 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

In my opinion, I have been blocked clearly because of a misunderstanding. I request to change username globaly so I can continue to contribute --AlainPainchaud (talk) 03:17, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

@AlainPainchaud: Sorry but we can not unblock your account at fr.wikipedia.org. You'll need to convince their administrators over there according to the fr.wikipedia.org procedures. A user name change does not lift blocks by the way, so even if we renamed the block at fr.wikipedia will continue to be active. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 08:33, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

The administrators at fr.wikipedia.org blocked everything, including my capacity to contact them. So, this is not only a block, it is like a "revenge" or "something abusive". I waited more than 2 months now for them to be less angry after me. No, they are still blocking me. Can you talk to them for me, as I can not do it. Or create a new account for me: user: Hotbread1203 PW: send me a temporary PW by email at: alainpainchaud@hotmail.com ? I will take care of changing my IP address. —AlainPainchaud (talk) 08:33, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

@AlainPainchaud I am sorry but I cannot create any accounts for you. That'd be fr:Wikipédia:Faux-nez#Contournement de blocage. If your talk page access was disabled and you cannot appeal your block at your talk page over there, my advice would be that you contact the French Wikipedia Arbitration Committtee following the instructions at fr:Wikipédia:Comité d'arbitrage/Mailing-list. If they also refuse to hear your appeal or remove your block, there's nothing we at Meta can do to help. Sorry, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 08:44, 20 May 2020 (UTC)