WMIN edit

Can you tell why did you supported here? Vaibhav Talk 13:18, 2 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Hi vibhi, our personal conflicts are different than National level matters, India chapter can do a lot of things for Wikimedia India Movement.They have many potential members, I hope they will also give their attention on Delhi community.I just gave my view as a Grant advisory committee member. Let see their this year Activities if they can better we don't require Delhi city Chapter--Mayur (talkEmail) 13:22, 2 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
Lets see, hope they will not disappoint. Vaibhav Talk 13:24, 2 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Translator, We need you! edit

Dear Mayur,

You have helped us in previous years with translations and for that we are most grateful. Now we turn towards the 2011/12 fundraiser. It may seem forever away, but work has already begun getting everything ready to go. This year we want to have landing pages covering as many countries in as many languages as possible.

Right now, we want to figure out who is interested in translating for the fundraiser. This year we're hoping to have more of a solidified "core" group of translators that we can count on to have work done by a few key dates, but we'd also welcome help from people who are willing to just help out when they can.

If you would be interested please take a look at this little sign-up survey and fill it out http://survey.wikimedia.org/index.php?sid=13638&newtest=Y&lang=en. With that we can start building a list of people and filling any gaps in the languages we serve.

Many Thanks

Joseph Seddon (User:Jseddon (WMF))

Production Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Jseddon (WMF) 00:45, 9 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Looks like someone got fascinated.. edit

..by your signature, here. ;) — Tanvir | Talk ] 11:58, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Many thanks to him for not copying it as it is. :)--Mayur (talkEmail) 15:58, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Re: steward election edit

Hello Mayur, to begin with thanks to you there are two questions left. I already thought of some kind of specialized edit protection but why don't you additionally restrict the edit of that page to sysops? I guess there are more people like me wondering about this page being not (obviously) protected. It would surely reduce the amount of filter messages ;-) Additionally, is there a way to opt-out the bot generated messagen on my user (talk) page? I can't read Hindi, and I even can't see the characters. Regards a×pdeHello! 15:28, 24 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

My answer is as following-
AWB is a very risky tool, any user can make a 5000 edit in one min by it.So we at Hindi wikipedia had a admin who was blocked due to sock-puppetry so if i set this page to sysop level then he may edit his name there and can run bot edits.So we protected that page through filter so that only crat can edit that page.We put a message system when anybody edit that page which shows that "Ask any crat for Approval".My POV on this is to revoke AWB automated applications to non-bot account by default, so that any vandal mayn't make thousand of edits through it.
Additionally, is there a way to opt-out the bot generated messagen on my user (talk) page?
Yeah such operation can be performed easily by bot scripts or by AWB however I am unable to understand what you are asking regarding this?--Mayur (talkEmail) 17:04, 24 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I know, with the filter you can select editors on a personal level, but that isn't obvious at first sight. So I suggest to have both, the filter + protection [edit=sysop], just to signal "this page is protected" to the majority.
Regarding this EPanditBot and this Lucia Bot edits, I don't need those messages, I even can't read those messages, can I opt-out somehow? Regards a×pdeHello! 09:04, 25 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
if we do both filter and page protection to sysop level, it will confuse any sysop that why he isn't able to edit.So it may create double confusion.
Secondly if you want to clean bot generated messages from your global talk pages you may request it to global bots (ex. Pathochild).He shall remove all messages from your respective talk pages.--Mayur (talkEmail) 09:26, 25 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Personal attacks edit

Hello, be aware that personal attackes like "a well planed group effort" and other silly accusations won't bring you anywhere but only worsen the situation. Nobody is proposing to punish you and the RfC is not against you, so please stay calm. Nemo 15:57, 10 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

WM PH Grant request edit

Hi, I'm Namayan, WM PH Treasurer, I'm working on our grant request Grants:WM_PH/Philippine_WikiCon_2012 and Grants:WM_PH/GLAM_2012 may be you can go over it, and we would be glad to answer your comments about it. Great thanks.-- Namayan 15:01, 27 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

The first wiki-concert edit

Hi, Please express your opinion on the Grants:WM UA/Free Vocal Music concert, as the wiki-concert is planned on May, 15, and we need to know the GAC decision at least a day in advance. Thank you. --Perohanych (talk) 21:16, 11 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Request for comments edit

Hi Mayur, I'd like to solicit your comment on our pending grants:

-- Roel (talk) 06:06, 15 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Iberoconf 2013 edit

Dear Mayur, I'd like to ask for your comments on our pending grant for Iberoconf 2013. Thanks in advance, --ProtoplasmaKid (WM-MX) (talk) 16:10, 20 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Automatic reminder to participate in GAC activities edit

Dear Mayur,

As you know, the Grant Advisory Committee (GAC) has a standard of participation commitment. It appears you have not made any contributions to grant proposal discussions in the past three months. If you're no longer able to devote time to helping with grant prpoposal evaluation, we understand -- just let us know, please; if you are still interested, please do engage with some of the open grant proposals in the coming two weeks. If you don't, your GAC membership will automatically expire.

If you have any questions, or think this automated message is mistaken, please contact the grants team at grants AT wikimedia DOT org. Thanks! GrantsBot (talk) 00:54, 21 September 2013 (UTC)Reply

C alias on hiwiki edit

Hi Mayur, at Requests for comment/Wikimedia Commons you said that you would propose that hiwiki changes it's namespace aliases for Category: from C: to CAT:. I looked at the configuration today, and it is still C:. Was it proposed and failed on hiwiki? John Vandenberg (talk) 10:51, 6 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi again, see bugzilla:4676#c17. Should I ask the Hindi Wikipedia community? John Vandenberg (talk) 11:06, 1 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hi Mayur, to help I have done an analysis of the current Hindi Wikipedia dump file hiwiki-20140117-pages-meta-history.xml. The alias 'C:' is not used anywhere currently, and it was only used by you, as far as I can see. I did a fgrep on '[[C:', '[[c:', '[[:C:', and '[[:c:', which I think covers all possible usage syntax.
You used it here July 2011 but removed one minute later here, because it puts the page into the category rather than links to the category.
Then you used it on hi:404 त्रुटि, August 2011 and it was removed by a bot on Feb 2013.
In December 2013, there are two false positives here and here, both removed one minute later[1][2].
John Vandenberg (talk) 04:37, 2 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:Rintis edit

Hi Mayur,I would like to inform you that grant proposal of Wikipedia:Rintis is approved by WMF! I also would like to thank you for all of your kind support, they are all significant for the project. We will work hard to make sure that the project can be finished successfully and give a big impact to the community. Thank you again! --Ricky Setiawan (talk) 11:13, 15 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

Superprotect status edit

Dear Mayur, since you are an administrator on a wiki from which no user participated in this discussion, I'd like to make sure you are aware of some recent events which may alter what the Wikimedia Foundation lets you do on your wiki: Superprotect.

Peteforsyth 09:32, 12 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better? edit

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Inspire Campaign on content curation & review edit

 

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Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021 edit

Greetings SWMT member,

I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 10 July, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up your name under the appropriate section.

Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 03:21, 3 June 2021 (UTC)Reply