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Help wanted for global templates

You have shown support for global templates in the past. Staff of the Wikimedia Foundation view this change as big. We need to convince the Wikimedia Foundation to start working on this. We have to reassure them there is sufficient support by local project communities.

You can help move this forward.

Please do setup a page on the local projects you are (most) active on in the language of the project. Tell your fellow editors why you believe global templates are necessary. Follow the local project decision process to come to a discussion outcome as support or not. There is plenty of time for discussion. Please reach a conclusion before the end of April 2021.

Please translate the coordinating page on meta to languages you are proficient in. Gathering_support_from_local_projects_for_global_templates

Please add a line to this meta page with a link to a discussion page on your local project(s).

The goal is to have the Wikimedia Foundation include a program to develop infrastructure for global templates in their 2021/2022 Annual Plan. The Wikimedia Foundation will decide on the Annual Plan in May/June this year.

The aim is to have several dozen local project communities to show support, and little concerns, issues or objections. Of course, any project can continue to use their local templates.

When you have questions about this initiative you can reach me at adhuikeshoven.org or + 31 6 40293574, and also on Telegram and Signal. You can also raise questions on the talk page on meta. Maybe some people would like to discuss this initiative in a meeting. Please let me know whether you would like to join a Zoom meeting in February.

Regards,

Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 15:40, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Userskript bearbeiten (Links zu Toolforge)

Tach, Steinsplitter, ich schreibe dir hier direkt, weil Du der einzige deutschsprachige Interface-Admin zu sein scheinst (und ich immer nicht weiß, wo ich solche Anfragen allgemein anzubringen habe).

Es geht um das Skript User:Perhelion/userstatus.js. Perhelion ist leider seit über einem Jahr inaktiv und reagiert auch nicht. (Vergleiche auch seine Commons-Disk., inklusive Deadministrationsinfo; angeblich hat er sich im September 2020 ([offwiki?] noch einmal gemeldet, siehe im DE-Wiki.) Jedenfalls sollten im Skript einige URLs umgestellt werden. Es scheinen zwar alle weiterhin zu funktionieren, aber die Weiterleitung dauert immer sehr lange. (Während ich das hier schreibe: Oder liegt das gar nicht daran?). Ich meine folgende URL (die jeweils noch einen nutzer- und projektspezifischen Teil angehängt bekommen):

• https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/userpages/ → https://meta.toolforge.org/userpages/
• https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/stalktoy/ → https://meta.toolforge.org/stalktoy/
• https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/globalgroups/ → https://meta.toolforge.org/globalgroups/
• https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/crossactivity/ → https://meta2.toolforge.org/crossactivity/ (meta2 statt meta!)

Schwierig finde ich, wie man mit //tools.wmflabs.org/supercount/ umgehen soll. Das leitet inzwischen auf https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec weiter, was aber selbst auch noch verlinkt wird, und die zwei Links stehen dann in der Skriptausgabe (auf Nutzerseiten oben direkt unter dem Benutzernamen) direkt nebeneinander. Es wird auch gar nicht (mehr?) direkt auf den Usercount verlinkt (so was wie ein Anker), so dass ersteres eigentlich überflüssig ist. (Die allgemeine Benennung „XTools“ für den zweiten Link ist aber auch leicht irreführend). Das wäre dann aber wohl eine Entscheidung, die der eigentliche Skriptautor treffen müsste, oder? — Speravir (talk) – 19:36, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

MediaWiki:OSM.js

Hallöchen!

In der dt. Wikipedia hab ich das folgende Problemchen durch einen Hack gelöst. Möglicherweise haben andere Wikis das selbe Problem. Beschrieben ist das in de:Portal_Diskussion:Astronomie#Koordinaten_von_Sternen Die Frage ist nun, reicht der Hack oder wie kann man da eine Erweiterung dieses Javascript-Codes beantragen? Die Diskussionsseite scheint ja verwaist zu sein, jedenfalls keine Reaktion auf eine Anfrage von der plWP. --Wurgl (talk) 22:23, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Discussion about CentralNotice Adminship inactivity and membership

Hello Steinsplitter. There's an ongoing discussion happening on Meta:Babel that proposes changes to existing Meta:Central notice administrators practices. In particular: membership duration and inactivity. As a current volunteer central notice administrator, your participation in the discussion would be appreciated. Thank you, --MarcoAurelio (via MassMessage) (talk) 10:45, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

CentralNotice/Request/List

Hi Steinsplitter,

For some reason, your bot is not updating the list anymore. Could you maybe check? Thanks! Ciell (talk) 15:15, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

If you do have time, I think it would be very much appreciated if I could be repaired. I removed it, but it was a very handy tool to quickly see what requests were in need of attention. Ciell (talk) 18:47, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

@Ciell: Hi, Sorry for the delay. This is fixed now. Best --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:20, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you!! Ciell (talk) 17:01, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

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)

Call For Volunteer Facilitators Across Africa

The African Narrative

Dear Wikimedian,

The Africa Narrative is seeking volunteer facilitators in Egypt (two volunteers) and Senegal (two volunteers) for the AfroCreatives Wikiproject.

The AfroCreatives Wikiproject aims to support and mobilize creatives and professionals from the African creative sector, as well as enthusiasts more broadly, to contribute and enhance knowledge on Wikipedia about Africa’s creative economy. Its inaugural effort will target the film sectors of Egypt, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Senegal.

The Africa Narrative (TAN) is a non-profit that develops singular, high-impact initiatives in support of African creatives and the African cultural and creative industries with the aim to strengthen capacity in the continent’s creative economy and the global visibility of African cultural soft power.

All volunteers must have full professional proficiency in English. In Senegal, they must have native or full professional proficiency in French; in Egypt, they must have native or full professional proficiency in Arabic. Volunteer facilitators should have a vast knowledge about Wikimedia projects and experience with teaching new editors. All volunteers will be compensated.

Interested participants may sign up on the project's Meta page. You may also indicate your country and email if your Wikipedia account is not associated with any email address.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Africa_Narrative/Volunteers

We will be glad if you can share with or recommend an Egyptian or Senegalese Wikipedian as well.

Thank you.

Danidamiobi (talk) 11:45, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Help

Greetings @Steinsplitter,

I am both an Interface and regular admin on Tumbuka Wikipedia (Verify).

I discovered you are a global admin.

How do I change my wikis logo (which is in English) and replace it with one in my language found here.

Any suggestions or directions?

Your quick help, guide or action will be highly appreciated.

Thank you. Tumbuka Arch (talk) 15:49, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Q55284473 and Q98274906

Hello Steinsplitter, since you are active on Data, just to inform there are 2 items. Would you take a look? Thanks. Lotje (talk) 15:19, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship (April 2023)

Hello Steinsplitter,

Pursuant Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/April 2023. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 09, 2023.

Kind regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:22, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Global renamers/Stats

Hi Steinsplitter, sorry for the trouble. I noticed that your bot updates the global renamers stats. I kindly ask you, when you've some time, to please remove the number of renames performed by the single renamer. If you need an explanation, I'm happy to provide it, but you can find everything in the last threads on the mailing list. If someone wants the number, just for stats, they could use xTools. The page can be view as a ranking, and this is bad, because in the recent years we saw a lot of speedy processed renames, also wrongly, and the stats could be seen like a "competition". Obviously, we actually need the last performed renames for inactivity purpose, so the page is very useful, and I thank you for keeping it updated! Many thanks again and wish you a nice day :) Superpes15 (talk) 11:18, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

On which mailing list? Is there community consensus to do so? Steinsplitter (talk) 11:57, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello Steinsplitter, the bot has stopped updating the page (Global renamers/Stats) since September 2023. Is there a specific reason? If you could please re-start it. --Alaa :)..! 20:27, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Picture rotated by SteinsplitterBot

Hello Steinsplitter. Your bot seems to have had a strange effect on the English Wikipedia article en:Dean of the United States House of Representatives. Please see the comments at en:Talk:Dean of the United States House of Representatives#portrait is rotated?. BarrelProof (talk) 00:00, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

globalusagecount's webservice is down

No webservice The URL you have requested, https://globalusagecount.toolforge.org/?lang=en&file=Air+Force+Ensign+of+India.svg, is not currently serviced.

If it is gone away, then we need to remove it from the globalusage section at Commons.

 — billinghurst sDrewth 21:15, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Your feedback is requested

Hello Steinsplitter, We are conducting a poll of global renamers and stewards regarding some future toolings related to some rename requests. Your feedback is requested at the poll on VRT WIKI. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 00:18, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Does your bot still work?

Asked your rotatingbot a number of times to rotate my images, but after days I do not see results. Before no problems, sometimes it worked even in minutes. Stunteltje (talk) 13:54, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

why am I blocked?

For some reason, I have drawn an automated block on Mediawiki. I am trying to post a problem I am having with my own wiki. Can the block be lifted and prevented from happening again? ArchATempAcct (talk) 21:48, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Please elaborate. Steinsplitter (talk) 14:58, 19 November 2024 (UTC)