Uncle G

SANDBOT

Hi, as for your bot, please consider to utilize Template:Sandbox. It contains some useful links. Thank you. --Aphaia++ 01:23, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

• Done. I've also increased the frequency to every 12 hours. Uncle G 10:50:59, 2005-08-23 (UTC)

Help:Searching

I unprotected it, since it's been a month. Who 03:44, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Dead links

Your addition of {{Ph:{{PAGENAME}}}} to Template:H:f Help creates many dead links, cryptically labelled. It would be nice if you could create (possibly empty) pages for these templates.--Patrick 01:12, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

• I'll put that on the to-do list. Uncle G 02:45, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
• They should all exist, now. Uncle G 03:19, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks.--Patrick 09:50, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

"Ph:Reverting" is still missing.--TJFrazier 02:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

w:en:

Please do not change w:en: to w: in help pages. If, for example, the German Wikibooks uses a copy of the page (because there is no translation yet), w: links to the German Wikipedia.--Patrick 08:53, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

• That sounds like a highly improbable hypothetical to me. Do you have any actual examples of a non-English project using the English help pages? Uncle G 23:31, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

It is very common that no translation of a help page is available. Sometimes the English page is copied, in particular pages like Help:Variable and Help:Namespace, to check the local names, etc.--Patrick 09:58, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Superprotect status

Dear Uncle G, 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.

• Request for comment: Requests for comment/Superprotect rights
• An open letter about its implementation: Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer

Peteforsyth 09:52, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Uncle G. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Uncle G~metawiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

04:15, 18 March 2015 (UTC)