User talk:Xaosflux/Archive3

Quarry question (inactive admins)

Hey,

I used to help meta crats with quarry:query/43505, and the actor migration broke everything. I don't recall how they mitigated it in Oct 2019.

I see you have quarry:query/40716, so maybe can you help me with changing the logics? Thanks! — regards, Revi 15:58, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

@-revi: wow that's a mouthful of a query you got there :D I should be able to look in to this in the next few days. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:04, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Nevermind, it looks like they've found the 'mitigation' they used for Oct 2019. Thanks for (attempting to) taking a look! :) — regards, Revi 17:16, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Outreach Wiki is not allowing to submit a page with Twitter search link

Hi,

My name is Sailesh, I work with the education team at Wikimedia Foundation, and I received your contact from Quiddity. I am creating some pages for the team and one of the navigation box need to have this link: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23EduWiki&src=typed_query&f=live, but outreach Wiki is not allowing me to publish the page. Can you please help me in this? Best! -SPatnaik (WMF) (talk) 12:46, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

@SPatnaik (WMF): I can try, can you give me the direct link to the page you are trying to update? — xaosflux ^Talk 14:07, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Replied at outreachwiki:User talk:Xaosflux. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:21, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

A note

Hello Abuse Filter helper, we had recently have a new group Abuse filter maintainer which allows the same level of access with additional rights to edit the filters yourself among other things. If you are interested after reading the documentation, do apply at SRGP. Thanks.Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 08:57, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

NB: I knew you applied, but feel bad informing others not informing you :)Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 08:57, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

User rename

Hello, can you help me rename my username / direct me to how to do this? Thank you in advance!

@Collideatx: the "short answer" is just fill out this request form: Special:GlobalRenameRequest, and it will be reviewed. For more information you can read here: Changing username. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:36, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Help

Hi, We have some problem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js. It's not work correct. Can you changes copy to en.wikipedia.org, and paste to diq.wikipedia.org? Xorasan ^{talk★contribs} 04:56, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

@Xorasan: you would need a steward for this, Steward requests/Miscellaneous may be able to help. Another option would be to promote one of your admins to "interface admin" so you can self-service. After a discussion on your local wiki, that can be requested at Steward_requests/Permissions#Interface_administrator_access. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:11, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Side affects of blocks

Hi @Pigsonthewing: wanted to follow up on some things you mentioned on your talk page, if you have a moment? You mentioned that you were not able to use Special:UrlShortener while site blocked - that part is a bit understandable, but I'll look in to some options about it. You also mentioned a problem with the The Wikipedia Library. Can you provide some more information on that? I can see situations where someone might be blocked here, but should still be able to use that and will look in to some options. Thank you for any feedback if you are open to providing any! — xaosflux ^Talk 14:07, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

See [1] and [2]. Although I can now edit here, the unblock has not propagated, so I'm still unable to use it: At the former page, I am told "It looks like you have an active block on your account on at least one Wikimedia project. If you meet the other criteria you may still be permitted access to the Library Bundle - please contact us." The latter refers, inaccurately to the requirement as "You are not currently blocked from editing Wikipedia". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:49, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: If you log out and back in your eligibility should refresh and give you access once again, please let me know if that's not the case. Good catch on the page wording - I've filed T255649, we'll get that reworded to be more accurate. Just for the record, this kind of block is one that we would still grant you access during if you had needed to contact us. We're primarily interested in removing access from folks with blocks related to content issues such as copyright violations, or indefinite/site blocks. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 08:39, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

The latter is the problem of trying to use technical tools to solve social issues. Why should I have to contact anyone, to ask for a solution to an issue, on a different project, caused by a bad block? And yes, logging out and back in solved the issue - but theer was nothing to tell me that. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:26, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

I created phab:T255690 - as the application is errantly denying unblocked users. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:56, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Question

I'd like to recommend a standing non-standard snow close on w:Wikipedia talk:WikiLoop Battlefield. EllenCT (talk) 04:34, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

@EllenCT: not sure why you are me about this on meta-wiki - I have no opinion really on that, only provided technical insight. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:26, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

YGM

Minorax (talk) 01:47, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

User:Unknownfauser

Hello, since you nominated the page for deletion, I had moved the offending remarks to a non-global user subpage per Special:diff/20483052. Subsequently I restored this page to the current non offending look. Hope you are okay with this. I am sort of involved by !voting but I see no further participation so I boldly moved it. I am of course required to revert if you contest. Sorry for any trouble caused. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 17:31, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

@Camouflaged Mirage: seems fine, I added NOINDEX to it, to avoid it being a search result for the the other usernames on the page - and removed the no longer relevant NOGLOBAL. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:56, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Oops, missed that, thanks for correcting. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 11:41, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

E-mail confirmation

Hi Xaosflux, I think you may help me. I registered my account in August, but I forgot to confirm my e-mail address. I've found the confirmation e-mail right now but, when I tried confirming it, a message told me it's expired. What can I do to have my e-mail address confirmed? Is it possible for a sysop like you allow me to confirm it for example by sending me a new confirmation code? Thank you for what you'll be able to do for me Xaosflux. Junghiano (talk) 17:54, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

@Junghiano: as you are able to log on, you should be able to reset the process by going to Special:Preferences. Remove your email address, save the settings, then just add it again and re-save. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:56, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

It worked! Thank you very much! Junghiano (talk) 22:05, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021: Invitation

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18:25, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

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16:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Request for filter help

Hello, Xaosflux, and Happy New Year!

We could use help with Filter 22 at Wikivoyage. Please have a look here, and also share any thoughts you have in the comments.

Thanks so much!

Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:37, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Billinghurst has taken care of the immediate issue, but do keep this issue in mind. We have been facing a consistent onslaught of vandalism and can definitely use extra help to prevent vandals from editing in the first place, and when they do, whenever there is sparse coverage of admins. Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:26, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Ikan Kekek: feel free to ping me again if needed (was out this morning). — xaosflux ^Talk 16:56, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Sure thing. Thanks. Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:36, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

test.wikipedia desysop

Hi, could you please desysop this user [3]? They are globally locked. --Rschen7754 21:33, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Rschen7754: Done — xaosflux ^Talk 21:36, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

International Women Day

So... I disagree with one of your actions and I would like to ask you to reconsider. If you do not want to reconsider, I would like to ask you to explain exactly why you made that decision (I recognise that there might be something I am missing and that your decision is a good one. But right now, I do not get it). But please, either revert what you did, or explain why the change.

The change you made : you set up the the Central Notice Banner for Woman Day at low priority and 2 max impressions. Why ?

If I summarize

1. diversity, and in particular gender diversity, is a priority of Strategy 2030. So I take it our efforts toward the events next week is something that could be supported
2. to avoid multiplication of banner requests, many groups working on Gender Gap this year made the effort to actually COLLABORATE to create a global landing page (Gender gap/International Women's Day) where all gender gap activities related to 8th of March would be listed. We could have had separate pages and make dozen of requests. We worked together to avoid such a situation. Perhaps we should have done dozen of banners instead ?
3. activities are not something someone can decide to join at the last minute. This requires a bit of anticipation and planning. So editors need to be aware of what will happen right now. Not on March 8th. We need the banner operating properly right now. Not only on March 8th
4. the banner is limited in time. Only 10 days. It is not a big drain on readers attention

So what is the argument to set that banner to low priority ?

Thank you in advance for your answer.

Anthere (talk) 20:30, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

@Ciell: @Rosiestep: @Cftoro (WMCL): @Kiraface: @Eric Luth (WMSE): @Pharos: @Alicia Fagerving (WMSE): @Nattes à chat: @Camelia.boban:

I want to express my support for this banner and request that it not be categorized as a low priority. This was a collaborative effort to highlight the various initiatives around Gender Gap work. --Kiraface (talk) 20:44, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

@Anthere: I think you are reading the logs incorrectly. Here are the entries that I made:

Timestamp	User	Action	Campaign	Summary	 
	
2021-03-05 22:01:51	Xaosflux (A/OS) (talk)	modified	InternationalWomensDayMonth	revisit after monday	 
 	Campaign mixins: Changed from {"impressionDiet":{"cookieName":"IWD","maximumSeen":2,"restartCycleDelay":172800,"skipInitial":0}} to {"impressionDiet":{"cookieName":"IWD","maximumSeen":2,"restartCycleDelay":86400,"skipInitial":0}}

	2021-03-05 19:24:32	Xaosflux (A/OS) (talk)	modified	InternationalWomensDayMonth	2x/day/user is a bit much, double recycle time	 
 	Campaign mixins: Changed from {"impressionDiet":{"cookieName":"IWD","maximumSeen":2,"restartCycleDelay":86400,"skipInitial":0}} to {"impressionDiet":{"cookieName":"IWD","maximumSeen":2,"restartCycleDelay":172800,"skipInitial":0}}

As you can see, the only thing I did was to adjust the restartCycleDelay, then change it back after a discussion. If you have any other questions about my administrative actions please let me know. For other discussion about this banner please follow up at CentralNotice/Request/Int._Womens_day_2021. (Same discussion forum referral for: User:Kiraface). — xaosflux ^Talk 23:18, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer; I go read the other page. Anthere (talk)

this banner is definitely not « low priority » especially during the month of March. Nattes à chat (talk) 09:25, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

@Nattes à chat: I had nothing to do with the "priority" setting on that. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:25, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

2 factor authentication

Hello Xaosflux, will you please help me activating the 2 factor authentication on my account. --Hulged ⟨†alk⟩ 12:50, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

@Hulged: if you really want to you can follow up at Steward_requests/Global_permissions#Requests_for_2_Factor_Auth_tester_permissions; you may be denied as you have active blocks on your homewiki. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:29, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Xaosflux. Then I'll apply after I'll get unblocked. --Hulged ⟨†alk⟩ 15:46, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

"where deprecated parameters are being pushed"

Apologies, I didn't notice that article_text was depreciated. Is there a performance issue with that though? Leaderboard (talk) 20:30, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

@Leaderboard: server performance - no, they are currently aliased. As officially depreciated cleanup could remove them in the future - but the terms are mostly incorrect for the variable contents and they can confuse other administrators so should be avoided. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:21, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

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Request for adminship.

Hello Xaosflux, Hope you are doing well. Actually I have made a request for adminship at Request for permissions 8 days ago for KS Wikipedia. The request was put on hold till 29 June. Now the hold time is completed I want to know about the request progress. Thankyou and Happy Editing. Iflaq (talk) 12:28, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

@Iflaq: the hold period has elapsed, I suspect a steward will likely close this out in the next 24 hours. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:05, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

I left a note on the request. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:06, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Xaosflux Thankyou for your help. Iflaq (talk) 14:40, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

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Twinkle related Query!

Hello Sir, Hope you are doing well. I guess you are well versed with java script. Can you help me to get twinkle on Ks Wikipedia. We are struggling to keep the project organised. Hope to hear from you soon. Thankyou and Happy Editing Iflaq (talk) 14:39, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

@Iflaq: hello, for assistance preparing a localization for Twinkle on kswiki please see Wikipedia:Twinkle#Use_on_other_wikis, you may also ask over at w:en:Wikipedia talk:Twinkle. You may be interested in looking at User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal, a single-user-supported global version that editors could fork or import. Notably, most parts of twinkle rely heavily on specifically named templates and local project pages -- so a lot of localization is needed to fork to a new language. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:19, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Q

HI, I want to ask about how to request for the autoprotolled permission on meta and what is requirement of it, thanks Jonathan5566 (talk) 03:00, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@Jonathan5566: just drop a request over at Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. We don't require much, if you are creating pages here that are are fine and have been around it is normally just given. I see you have been around, but I'm zh-0 so I can't tell if your recent creations are good or not - but another admin should be able to review. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 09:57, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. Jonathan5566 (talk) 10:29, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Discussion about CentralNotice Adminship inactivity and membership

Hello Xaosflux. 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)

Congratulations, Dear Bureaucrat!

English | português | edit

An offering for our new bureaucrat from your comrades...

Congratulations, Xaosflux! You now have the rights of bureaucrat on Meta-Wiki. Please take a moment to read the Meta:Bureaucrats page and watchlist related pages (in particular Meta:Requests for adminship, but also Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat), before launching yourself into user rights changes. You may find these pages to be useful reading. On Meta-Wiki, the majority of the actions of bureaucrats can be reversed by the other bureucrats, except for administrator and bureaucrat status which can only be removed by a steward. You may also consider adding the page Meta:Administrators' discussion index to your watchlist, as it tracks the latest activity to various sections of many of the important pages. Again, congratulations and welcome to the team. --MF-W 13:46, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations from me too. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:59, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank on page to be deleted

Hi! I saw you thanked for my edit on Template talk:Template parameter usage—and deleted the page right after that. I got an email about the thank, but no on-wiki notification: notifications and alerts disappear when the corresponding page gets deleted (if there’s any). I’m not sure what the solution could be, but please be aware that those who don’t get emails about thanks will never notice your such thanks. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 13:49, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: hmm seems like a bug (in that the otherwise successfully generated notification is being deleted when it maybe shouldn't be). — xaosflux ^Talk 14:20, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

No, it’s (intended to be) a feature. I found phab:T93673 about it (I haven’t read through the whole conversation, but the description already explains the idea behind this behavior). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 14:39, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

My edits

Moved to User talk:217.117.125.83#My edits. 217.117.125.83 12:09, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

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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.

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Question

Hi this is CT-971 can you please direct me to someone who can about how to become an admin or if you know could you tell me. Thanks: CT-971 (16:49, 11 January 2022 (UTC))

• @CT-971: to become an admin on the Meta-Wiki, you will need a showing of community support here: Meta:Requests for adminship; however as your account appears to be very newly registered with almost no global contributions (c.f. Special:CentralAuth/CT-971) there is no chance that the community will support such a request. The good news is that most activities on WMF wiki's don't require any administrator access, especially the core activities of adding and improving knowledge content for readers. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 16:53, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

  Thanks for letting me know. :) CT-971 (talk) 16:54, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Question and Advice

Do you think that it would be wise to delete pages that no one uses anymore and if you do can you please direct me to someone that I can bring this up to because I have been to a lot of pages that have not been viewed in five to six years.

       Thanks: CT-971

@CT-971: hello. First, please use a signature when making talk posts. As far as your question, it depends. Some pages are kept as historical records of things, so will be kept forever. See Meta:Deletion policy for information on deletion here on the meta-wiki, including why we may delete things and the processes that can be used to request various types of deletions. In general it isn't really a good use of time to go search for pages that might not be useful and start deletion discussions on them - instead only focus on pages that have significant problems. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:37, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

I'm a noob CT-971 (talk) 15:39, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

@CT-971: I understand, which is why I don't recommend you work on searching the meta-wiki for potential deletion candidates. In general, maintenance and management of the meta-wiki is handled by more experienced contributors, a better place to start is likely in one of the content projects in your native language such as one of the Wikipedias or Wiktionaries. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:51, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Ok but I want to be just like you. :) CT-971 (talk) 15:59, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

@CT-971: my primary contributions are to the English Wikipedia, to learn more about how to start on that project a good launching point it: w:en:Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:01, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks CT-971 (talk) 16:02, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

About deletion Meta:Translate extension/ru with reason "not a translation"

Hi! You recently deleted page Meta:Translate extension/ru by request from @NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh (restored now). But this request should be applied to the separate element Translations:Meta:Translate extension/18/ru, not to the whole translated page. Alas, the templates put down in the translation elements are transcluded on the main page, and this can lead to confusion. Please be careful in the future! Best wishes ;) Kaganer (talk) 07:49, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

@Kaganer: thanks for the catch, translation vandalism is quite a pain. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:53, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

@Kaganer and NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh: This issue can be worked around: I always use the wikitext {{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Translations|{{speedy|not a translation}}}} in such cases, so that the template appears on the Translations-namespace page, but not the real translated page. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 01:02, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: If only SWViewer allows that when tagging. Thank you anyway. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 10:03, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Checking In

I think that you remember me but I will not make assumptions. I did the adventure in Wikipedia what should I do now.

         Thanks --CT-971 (talk) 19:37, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

@CT-971: w:en:Wikipedia:A primer for newcomers is a good overview, then you can start getting to editing. You could improve content, or add new content. A good place to ask more follow up questions on how to get started is w:en:Wikipedia:Teahouse. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:57, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Special:Diff/22623102

Hello. You closed this section but seems like you missed out Acebot. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 10:27, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

@Minorax: thank you for the note, I'll go process that (removal, no response from operator) and note it on the archive. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:40, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Help, please

In trying to edit an article for publication, I can't remember how to give a full reference just once and then a short <ref> afterwards. Could you recommend someone who would be willing to help? The article is in my WP Sandbox. Thank you for your time. Stay Safe and Well!!! Shir-El too 09:45, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

@Shir-El too: this is the Meta-Wiki, a project about managing other projects. It sounds like you would like help on the English Wikipedia (enwiki). Here are some pointers: (a) The most important thing is that you use a reference, so even just typing ref, typing out everything you know about the reference, and closing it is a great start. (b) Most of the enwiki editing tools have an "insert reference" button that will give you a wizard to help. (c) A long set of directions can be found here: w:en:Wikipedia:Citing sources. Finally, for general help on enwiki you can follow up here: w:en:Wikipedia:Teahouse. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 11:12, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Truly: many thanks. Stay Safe and Well!!! Shir-El too 19:07, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Deleting my talk page

Hi, Xaosflux. User:Kadıköylü added a warning message to my talk page about the guidelines that basically belong to the Turkish Wikipedia. As User:Kadıköylü has mentioned the guideline, specifically about the talk page, it is in force on the Turkish Wikipedia, not Meta-Wiki. I think that should be deleted because it is independent of the content here. FYI, 1997kB. --Victor Trevor (talk) 16:21, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

@Victor Trevor, you have changed Styyx's explanations. Please do not ping me again. Kadıköylü (talk) 16:26, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

@Victor Trevor: the deletion policy doesn't cover that, it is fine for you to leave the page blank or put something else on it. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:44, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Template:Humor

Hi Xaosflux. I think that people meant to merge Template:Humor/fr into Template:Humor and then redirect Template:Humor/fr to Template:Humor. --Tartafs (talk) 15:04, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

See Meta:Requests_for_deletion#Template:Humour. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:11, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Abuse log

Why my edit on my own page had been selected as an abuse log?--Noman☆ (talk)•(contribs) 19:39, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

@আবদুল্লাহ আল নোমান আবদুল্লাহ that is safe to ignore, there is a system called the 'abuse filter' but it isn't really just about "abuse". This just indicates that the edit you made might need to be checked by someone else to see if it is problematic. Your edit seems OK, I suggest you remove your "class number" as it is can be problematic to advertise too much personal information about yourself. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:48, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Special:Redirect/logid/47203934

Following up the above grant of patroller group by you on my previous request: it expired today as was scheduled, could you make a re-grant? I believe I'm doing alright and am fairly active and having the right(s) on a couple of other wikis, I think it'd be handy. Thanks, —Svārtava (t/u) • 16:12, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

@Svartava : Done — xaosflux ^Talk 02:45, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Question

It appears that you are a high trusted user and I am asking you if you will be a global sysop or a steward in the future. 197.207.204.73 12:07, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

I might, I already volunteer for several things and would want to make sure I have time to commit to anything extra. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 14:13, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

I hope to see you a steward in the 2023 steward elections. 197.207.204.73 14:50, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

+sysop on cuwiki?

Hi. I've got a request in for +sysop on cuwiki, can you handle that? I actually only need pagemover, but I've been told pagemover doesn't exist there, so just ask for sysop. RoySmith (talk) 19:48, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, I was looking at the wrong crat list. RoySmith (talk) 19:51, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

@RoySmith sorry, I'm not on that project, go to Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat on there and you can see who can help you. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:51, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Global bot approval request for Dušan Kreheľ (bot)

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Email

I have emailed you — it is somewhat time sensitive — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 06:02, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

@TheresNoTime received, thank you. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:26, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

@TheresNoTime here goes nothing! — xaosflux ^Talk 01:31, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Good luck!! I think you'll make a great steward! — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 18:54, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Congrats! — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 00:41, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@TheresNoTime thanks for the push! — xaosflux ^Talk 00:44, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Oh PS, you might consider joining IRC if you're not already — it's very helpful for real-time collaboration with your fellow stewards (and provides a good way for communities to get in touch in an emergency) — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 00:48, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Bot clarification

Hi xaosflux, it was not the intention that my bot would run at Special:PrefixIndex/User:Leaderbot/ on Meta - I plan to run it in mainspace (Global statistics). Would this be allowed? Leaderboard (talk) 05:33, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

@Leaderboard I can amend that, can you create the main page for this, then will everything the bot does be a subpage? — xaosflux ^Talk 11:00, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

That is the main place I expect my bot to run indeed. One possible extension would be the bot sending rank updates to users that explicitly ask the bot, but I can have that run without the bot flag anyway. I've created the main page as requested. Leaderboard (talk) 13:10, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

@Leaderboard sounds fine on both, I've noted at Meta:Requests for bot status/Leaderbot (main point was that this isn't a general bot at this time that is expected to be making edits all over the projects). — xaosflux ^Talk 14:07, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Help

I completely lost faith in sr.wiki admins, I won't beg anyone. May I explain myself here? (it would be looong) KrleNS (talk) 00:12, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Replied at Wikimedia_Forum#Help. As I'm not active on srwiki, there isn't anything I can personally do about this. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:20, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Modification of MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition

Hey - as you're about and an IA, could you remove the default loading property of the addMe gadget? I believe it's conflicting with AddMe-v2 and preventing the wishlist survey "Support" buttons from working (I've 'confirmed' this by disabling the addMe gadget in my preferences, but leaving addMe-v2 enabled — the button then works as expected) — TheresNoTime-WMF (talk • they/them) 18:26, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

@TheresNoTime-WMF done for now, is v2 going to perm replace v1? — xaosflux ^Talk 19:09, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Sorry I was away while all of this went down! Yes, v2 is set to replace v1. I highly doubt there's any conflicts or issue having both enabled simulatenously, but at this point it's probably easier to go ahead and complete the migration (which here on Meta mostly entails a single edit to Probox). I'll take care of this in the coming days/week. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 15:26, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

FWIW they work, if you are on their page - they don't work if you are on the page they are transcluded on right now. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:09, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

@TheresNoTime-WMF FWIW, it still doesn't seem to work. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:20, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

@User:MusikAnimal (WMF) - FYI. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:22, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

I think it's working now.. — TheresNoTime-WMF (talk • they/them) 19:46, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Ping

Hi. I've sent you a wikimail. Posting here per your email notice. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 14:06, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio Thank you, received and replied. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:17, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

I've sent a wikimail too. Pinging on talk as requested. Martin Urbanec (talk) 00:27, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@Martin Urbanec thank you, replied. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:47, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Congrats

Congratulations on being election steward! AlPaD (talk) 08:00, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Hello, first of all I would like to congratulate you on being elected steward. I hope that as you keep the steward tool, you will always do well the responsibility that the Wikimedia community has entrusted to you. Again, thank you for volunteering and congratulations! Tryvix ^t 11:36, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Congratulations on becoming a Steward. Terasail^[✉️] 17:04, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

About greek admins

From what I've looked a bit here at your discussions, it seems there's not much you can do. However, the Greek Wikipedia, is under the wikimedia foundation, is subject to the terms of the foundation, the administrators are obliged to comply with the guidelines and policies of the wp, don't they?. So, I want to send a memo, where I'm going to document the problem of management in the Greek bp. Can you tell me where to send it? 130.43.66.45 01:38, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

if you think my username will facilitate my request, I'll be happy to write it down. I contribute to greek wp, since 2012 i am not a new one, who don't know the policy and guidelines. Thank you, very much.

Largely projects with active communities, such as elwiki with >1000 active users self govern. All users are subject to the foundation:Terms of Use and foundation:Privacy policy - and those are some of the few matters the foundation will likely get involved in, they most likely would never get involved in a breach of some community "guideline", or even a local community's "policy" (only the global policies that they control). What they will also almost never get involved in is anything related to content, or a communities ability to decide who may not participate on a project (e.g. local blocks and bans). If there truly is a major defect of a project's leadership the global community can step in via the RFC process here. See Requests for comment and its linked policy for information on that process. That page has some links to other RFC where contributors are seeking redress against the entire adminship of one project or another. It is very rare that local governance would get overridden - some sort of overthrow of all of a project's admins would generally need a strong showing of support from a sizable number of community members from that project (basically such a community would need to come together to enact a recall policy, then recall their admins). I don't know your situation, but if the situation is that you are blocked from elwiki and they don't want to unblock you, there isn't much that is going to happen - we have over 800 other projects that you could contribute to if you would like to try something different. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:35, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Tips for processing SRP requests

Hi! Thanks for processing some SRP requests! As that might not be immediately obvious, I'd like to note that there's a guideline for determining length of permission grants: the MVR. Of course, there are times where there are reasons to deviate from it, but generally, such deviations should be explained in the closing comment. Also, we generally use a {{systmp}} template which generates a closing comment with useful information. If you have any questions, feel free to let me or any other steward know – I'll be happy to answer. Have a great day, Martin Urbanec (talk) 13:03, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

@Martin Urbanec thanks, looks like 3mo was recommended over 6mo for that one, I don't think we should claw it back though - based it a bit off of their other similar access on other projects. Will keep MVR more in mind for future ones. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:12, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Absolutely, I wasn't suggesting to shorten the duration granted. My message was meant to be purely informative. Martin Urbanec (talk) 20:04, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Email

Hi Xaosflux, I sent you an email. I'm pinging you here, as requested in the form. Have a nice day :) Superpes15 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

@Superpes15 hi I already did that, do I need to create my own request similar to that old one? — xaosflux ^Talk 13:49, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi, nope, a general request for everyone will surely be create in some hours :P Superpes15 (talk) 16:31, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Violation of local policy?

Can you please explain this? Bnwiki is not global sysop wiki. You should contact with a local sysop in this case. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 18:06, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

@Yahya thank you checking on this. This was meant to be a suppression, not a revdel, as there are no local suppressors it was handled via a steward;s request. I have corrected that. As it was the most recent edit, I also reverted it and let the requester know that if they wanted to make that edit they would need to resubmit it. Please let me know if you have any other concerns on this matter, my apologies for the confusion. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:26, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

No problem. Have a good day! —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 18:35, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Email

Hello. Welcome abroad. I have emailed you. It is very sensitive. Thanks.--Jusjih (talk) 20:43, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

@Jusjih replied. — xaosflux ^Talk 21:18, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Again, please.--Jusjih (talk) 00:08, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

An email sent

Hi Xaosflux, you have an email from me. Best, Martin Urbanec (talk) 23:59, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

@Martin Urbanec please see reply. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 01:18, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Question about undoing a global rename

Hi, would you please take a look at this to see if something needs to be done. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. --Alalch E. (talk) 15:46, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

@Alalch E. it appears you have already contacted the renamer that handled that, and should give them time to reply. If no reply comes, you can request an undo here: Steward requests/Username changes. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:52, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks!Alalch E. (talk) 15:52, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks and Question

Hi @Xaosflux, thanks for adding confirmed to my work account. fwiw, I have to switch to my volunteer account when marking changes on DCW related pages for translation. Is it possible that a TA flag is added to my work account for a temporary time period? Perhaps until the DCW's Leadership plan is out. I felt that going through a long route for RfA would be uncalled for. This is just to make sure that my volunteer contributions do not get mixed up with this work account. Regards, ─ Aafi @ DCW (^talk) 18:44, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

@TheAafi (DCW) it will be best to file the RfTA, there is no minimum time on that, so it may get closed quickly. Be sure to mention this is an alt account and your prior RfTA at Meta:Requests for translation adminship/TheAafi. If you only need it for a fixed period, please specify. They are indefinite by default, subject to activity requirements. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:15, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

@Xaosflux, this is actually helpful. We are a community-driven movement, so yeah. I have filed the TA'ship request. ─ Aafi @ DCW (^talk) 19:34, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

CU removal

Hi Xaosflux, is this [4] just temporary or should CheckUser policy/Users with CheckUser access#Ukrainian Wikipedia be updated? Johannnes89 (talk) 11:56, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

@Johannnes89 that page is just informative, so feel free to update it. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:51, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Help II

Hey Xaosflux, Question, I C/P my personal links (function setupPortalLinks) from en to User:FlightTime/common.js, but they don't show up live links or dead. Can you enlighten me :P Thanx, (No rush) - FlightTime (open channel) 18:25, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

@FlightTime: you appear to have defined a function, but you never called the function. On the other project you seem to be doing it via this line:

$.when( mw.loader.using(['mediawiki.util']), $.ready ).done( setupPortalLinks );

— xaosflux ^Talk 18:53, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, I'll mess around with it :) - FlightTime (open channel)

I probably did it wrong, but I can't get it to work. - FlightTime (open channel) 01:41, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

You appear to have added the trigger, but removed the definition. Honestly, if you don't understand the code that you are entering on to that page you probably shouldn't use it -- even a single character wrong can cause unexpected results. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:35, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Regarding harassment by administrators

Andriy.v and Submajstro. Who openly persecute me and monitor my contribution to the Ukrainian-language section. How about this? Andriy.v received two warnings for such actions last year, but today there are quite a few active administrators who would adequately react to their actions. Actually, both are discussing me here at the same time, accusations are being made in my direction. And both administrators don't even know about the harassment Бучач-Львів from Wikidata. I am asking such stewards to issue a warning to both admins due to their excessive involvement with me as an editor. Thank you. Jphwra (talk) 19:32, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

@Jphwra I can't speak for everyone, however the role of stewards is not to "issue warnings" to users on projects with active communities, especially very large communities such as that at Wikidata. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:47, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

no, no, here we are talking about the Ukrainian Wikipedia and the bad attitude of the two administrators. Please warn them about the inadmissibility of abuse. Thank you. Jphwra (talk) 20:54, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

@Jphwra ukwiki has over 40 admins and local crats, it is not our place to police their behavior. Please do not follow up with me about this directly anymore; if you think that entire project is defective open an RFC. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:57, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Global bot flag request for Lingua Libre Bot

Apologies for sending this message solely in English. Please help translate to your language.

Hello,

This is a notice pursuant the global bot policy, to inform you that Lingua Libre Bot is requesting approval to operate as a global bot.

The discussion can be found at Steward requests/Bot status in Meta-Wiki. All Wikimedia Community members can participate in the discussion if they so wish.

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #125 is out: Wikimania digest, CoSMo language, GFpedia demo, CCKS keynote

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we recap what happened at our sessions at Wikimania 2023, we talk about some new updates regarding our Natural Language Generation special interest group (NLG SIG), and we briefly speak about Denny's most recent keynote speech.

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:35, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

User:Minorax/$ wanted

Hello. Possible for you to re-run this and add the number of links to that page in parenthesis? --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 01:39, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

@Minorax User:Minorax/$ wanted updated, think that is what you wanted. — xaosflux ^Talk 08:18, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Yep. Thank you. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 08:21, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Good day. Could you re-run this again? --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 12:44, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

@Minorax was this just pages on Special:Wantedpages that started with a "$"? — xaosflux ^Talk 14:21, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Yeap. --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 14:22, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Done @Minorax new dump placed at User:Minorax/$ wanted. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:17, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #126 is out: Let's start building morphological paradigms!

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, Denny proposes a call for action for creating morphological paradigms on Wikifunctions.

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #127 is out: Renderers and parsers for types

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, Denny introduces a discussion about how to represent integers on Wikifunctions and its related challenges.

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Test admin flags

Hi, could you remove both my admin flags on testwiki and test2wiki? And grant me permanent 2FA if it hasn't already been done? Rschen7754 22:50, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

@Rschen7754 Done and Done, and you are already a member of the global 2FA-testers group (note, even removing the group doesn't turn off your 2FA, the group is only used when enrolling). — xaosflux ^Talk 18:48, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Please Help

Hi, I am unfortunately writing this while breaking Wikipedia rules because I have been unjustly banned for offense that I did not commit. I am new Wikipedia editor that started to edit 2-3 days ago and I got in a edit war which I did not was a thing or illegal at that time which made me banned for 48 hours, ban applied to my account and ip address which I completely agree with. I was being childish but then my account was completely banned by some other admin for sock puppeting which I had no idea what it was at that time. I am saying this with my completely honestly I have never been banned on wikipedia before and not seriously edited anything before, I have done some minor edits some years ago back never got any warning or messages and didn’t read any rules at that time. I say this with all my integrity yet I got banned for sockpuppeting, also I was doing editing at that time from different country so there is no way that administrator somehow thought with the logic that same ip used wiki couple of years ago and it must be sockpuppeting. Due to that I wrote at this admin’s talk page how he treated me unjustly he removed my replies and banned my IP too, while this time look I knew you were sockpuppetting and his other admin friends that I appointed sided with him. Please help me I really want to edit wikipedia pages more but if I have gotten unjustly banned because of this I will stop because there is no guarantee it will not happen again.

Thanks 5.44.39.222 20:15, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

sorry forgot to mention my username is Easing3220 5.44.39.222 20:16, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

@Easing3220: your account is not globally locked, you should be able to log on to other projects. For help with appealing your block on the English Wikipedia, please see the directions on this page: w:en:Wikipedia:Appealing a block. Please take special care to not disrupt any other projects, including the meta-wiki, that could result in additional sanctions. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:01, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #128 is out: Serializers and deserializers for types

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, Denny introduces a discussion about how to make types easier to use, by discussing serializers and deserializers, and their role in Wikifunctions.

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 16:47, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #129 is out: Arguments made easier

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss the recent improvements that made it easy to reference arguments in functions.

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:58, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

enwiki block

HelloXoasflux. Can you please help me get unblocked in Wikipedia? I tried every told solution to get either unblocked or the reasons behind this. Wikimedia has the worst communication model or pattern that I no longer can maintain patience and tolerance now onwards. Thinks. 2409:4081:9C14:F777:0:0:CC4A:F607 22:15, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

If you are unable to edit on enwiki, you may file an unblock request using this tool: https://utrs-beta.wmflabs.org/ meta-wiki is not a block appeal venue for other projects, please do not continue asking about that here. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:25, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

As noted above "please do not continue asking about that here"
Thank you Xoasflux. I made an apeal there which is awaiting administrators take at present. I don't know why Wikipedia don't give this useful link in it's blocked user help pages. I kept wandering and was stuck badly in redirects and none sense links and kept following like chasing a speed running dog to catch and crash each time. You gave me one and working link , I'm grateful for it. Hope I get a chance to come back and combat with some destroyer admins. Thank you. Please never mind if I seek any help again in future though chances are rare as I will be blocked again in texting in your talk page by third admin as per my history. They don't know what helpfully is and perform thier cruelty to the fullest of deleting words and blocking the writer or the user without informing and within any discussion on alteration or removing. They just don't listen what help a needy or a sufferer can expect form such destroyer butcher gangs. If I were the Supreme decision maker here I woudn't tolerate their open murder like acts on words morever I would either replace whole killer culture of work in Wikipedia or would fire them all with offering life sentence to each of not to edit Wikipedia ever. I hate destroyers and unhelpful people. I choose to give water to save my sick enemy when there is the need,no matter if that enemy is going to kill me after being well after getting my help. Compassion and mercy has no condition to apply for showing and saving whoever is requesting us in thier tough time for help. Thank you. You are a good person. Keep it up if someone like me comes to you in future. Help matters before any hate. 2409:4081:9C14:F777:0:0:CC4A:F607 04:57, 24 October 2023 (UTC) Hello Xoasflux.I failed in another attempt of getting unblocked.It is okay as I shouldn't stress out on what I can't control and I will never try again to log in or requesting help in this case in Wikipedia.I see here I mean in meta.wikimedia.org I am able to write though here too I had been blocked in past and wasn't able to write like I am writing right now. I want a help from you for using this opportunity of being able to write for this website only if I am allowed. But here I don't know what a writer can do to help in any kind of growth of the owners of this website and how this website is serving people world wide. So please can you let me know what, how and why I can do something good for everyone for this website [meta.wikimedia.org] with an stable and block and delete proof position to work from. I am a writer who needs work but I just had taken oath to never to do writing for en.wikipedia.org again so only I asked it with condition of wanting delete and block proof position first. It is necessary for me, I will not do anything even when I am offered huge money against doing anything here as my mental peace, happiness, integrity, self confidence and self respect are not for sale at to anyone and at any cost however I had donated all these to Wikipedia for free to make them worst and self hazardous for a while as the biggest mistake of my life. But I am committed to regain them and heal them to make them as healthy as they were before entering Wikipedia's terror territory. Xoasflux I know people avoid long messages to read but I promise this message will prove to be last message of mine. I will never send again. Thank you and awaiting your short reply to guide or to reject. I am unable to write any other user who would reply except one friend user of mine in Wikipedia. 2409:4081:9410:D369:0:0:260D:78A0 08:31, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #130 is out: Running on WebAssembly

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss our decision of rewriting the evaluator encapsulation service, in order to make it run on WebAssembly.

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:31, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #131 is out: Python on WebAssembly; Improved Object selector; Next volunteer's corner

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In this issue, we discuss our latest technical improvements on Wikifunctions.

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Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on November 13, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:16, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #132 is out: Wikifunctions, the library of functions that anyone can use and edit

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we finally announce that Wikifunctions is on general availability, and that functions can be run also by non-logged in users!

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Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on November 13, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 09:50, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Knock, knock

Hi Xaosflux, should we be listed in RfA @Kani Beat:'s adminship and checkuser request? I remember it while I look my contributions. Thanks. --Uncitoyen^talk 19:57, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

@Uncitoyen no, those don't really "start" until the user transcludes them. However, feel free to nominate them for a deletion discussion if you would like. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:41, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. --Uncitoyen^talk 20:44, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Discord servers

if the discord servers are unofficial then how do they even get their own pages? Radon difluoride (talk) 20:48, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

@Radon difluoride pretty much anything of use can have a page; they are unofficial in that they are not owned or controlled by the Wikimedia foundation. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:49, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Ah ok Radon difluoride (talk) 01:31, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

How to unlock my Bot called "Amazigh Bot"

Hi @Xaosflux, my bot called Amazigh Bot is globally locked and I don't know how to fix this problem, could you help me with some guidance to unlock it --Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk) 20:15, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@Lhoussine AIT TAYFST I think you were already answered about this via email. You will need to contact ca@, the information is available on this page: Help:Compromised_accounts. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:29, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@Xaosflux Yes I get an answer on email, thank you --Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk) 20:34, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #133 is out: What types next?

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss which new types of functions should we support and the latest changes to the software.

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Email

Hello. I have emailed you. Thanks.--Jusjih (talk) 02:07, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jusjih received. Those messages are quite aged, thus the current situation. If you personally want to proceed alone you are of course welcome to. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:33, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #134 is out: Welcome, Grace and Miguel! Appointing Functioneers now by community

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we present two new members of the team, we discuss the latest changes in software, and we announce that Functioneer right will be now assigned by the community.

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Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on December 4, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:01, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Date Format of Template:Wikimedia birthday entry

Link to that Template: link

Currently in this template, the date format is fixed to j xg Y. This is not how dates are written in all languages. In this case, can adding a translation tag solve the problem? I noticed that you are a Translation administrator and I think you can help me solve this problem. If I have any misunderstanding, please tell me. If you can help with the problem, please do so as well. Thanks, LaMagiaaa (talk) 13:45, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

@LaMagiaaa to the best of knowledge, no that would not fix it. Translation will change the labels, but not the format. You could change the base template to include another parameter for output parameter to change the format. That would need to be carefully planned for how you would implement it. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:07, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #135 is out: Announcing Wikifunctions on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. Looking for feedback on the Function page proposal

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we present the latest blogpost about us on WMF blog, and we invite you to share your feedback at the Wikifunctions' Project chat on the new proposed designs for the Function page.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 19:06, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #136 is out: Looking back at 2023

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we look back at all the accomplishments that we achieved in 2023 and we thank you all for your help in achieving them. Also, we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

This will be the last newsletter for 2023, so see you again in 2024!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 11:49, 15 December 2023 (UTC)