I have declared talk page bankruptcy! All old messages deleted. :) --brion (talk) 21:00, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
How to get in touch with me
Feel free to leave me messages here about articles and such on Wikipedia, but if you need to prod me about a tech issue I might not see your message here. You'll get a speedier response if you track me down elsewhere...
- Most software issues should get added to our bug tracker.
Even if you grab ahold of me another way, it's going to be easier for me to keep track of it if it's in here! - IRC chat - you'll often find me in #mediawiki or #wikimedia-tech during work hours
- direct e-mail... if you're really sure :)
Contents
- 1 How to get in touch with me
- 2 Images
- 3 Random obesrvation
- 4 Russian Spelling for Your Name
- 5 ref is too imprecise
- 6 Substituting surname
- 7 Quick bar
- 8 Renames
- 9 Lossless image compression and website optimization
- 10 File copyright problem with File:Fourth_test_file_investigating_bug_-_do_not_delete.png
- 11 Pie for you!
- 12 Lossless image compression/conversion
- 13 impact on fr.wp renamming file on commons
- 14 Vandalism bug
- 15 Sequence of files (bug test)
- 16 Merry Christmas!
- 17 Bureaucrat discussion for Juliancolton RfB
- 18 Categories
- 19 SF Meetup #11
- 20 Ask for protection, how?
- 21 Add a "public interest" clause to Oversight
- 22 Bug 20246
- 23 Major flaw in New Features
- 24 Usability
- 25 Saluton!
- 26 Quoted on, um, BRION
- 27 Login unification - odd snag with Japanese WP
- 28 I herd u can
- 29 Plans?
- 30 Unable to delete particular revision, blocked by interwiki shortcut
- 31 hi!
- 32 Problems with my Wikipedia name
- 33 The Great American Wiknic
- 34 Your opinion would be appreciated
- 35 A kitten for you!
- 36 Orphaned non-free image File:Fifa world cup org.jpg
- 37 Reasons To Delete J1c3d (Y-DNA)
- 38 User:Stinky New User
- 39 Re: External link icon bug
- 40 Oversize upload
- 41 Request for uninvolved admin to review page deletion discussion
- 42 Your user page
- 43 Thank you for your recent work with portals !!!
- 44 proper semantic constructs
- 45 meta:Press kit/Wikimedia People/Officers/Brion Vibber
- 46 MSU Interview
- 47 San Francisco Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon
- 48 MathJax review
- 49 A barnstar for you!
- 50 You're invited: San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2!
- 51 San Francisco Wiknic 2012
- 52 Today is the Day
- 53 testing testing
- 54 how can i get account user:goosy
- 55 Proposed deletion of Starfighter
- 56 Wikipedia:Editor review/TheGeneralUser (2) Your review is required and will be greatly appreciated :)
- 57 You're invited! - Wiki Loves Monuments - San Francisco Events
- 58 Invitation to join the Ten Year Society
- 59 You're invited! Ada Lovelace Day San Francisco
- 60 You're invited! Ada Lovelace Day San Francisco
- 61 Wikipedia skins
- 62 Deletion of a block log entry
- 63 Quotes about MediaWiki
- 64 From VPR: TOC labels
- 65 Contents (hide)
- 66 Edit-a-thon tomorrow (Saturday) in Oakland
- 67 Wikimedia Foundation employee salaries
- 68 Crat statement draft
- 69 Mail awaits you.
- 70 MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject California/List of California-related topics
- 71 Women's history editathon
- 72 Template:Related portals2
- 73 Wiknic 2013
- 74 Forced user renames coming soon for SUL
- 75 You're invited...
- 76 Already this time of the year !
- 77 Wanted by PETA
- 78 A barnstar for you!
- 79 "Deletion means deletion"
- 80 Wikimedia Code Review Access
- 81 You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon
- 82 Request for a complete export of one article and related pages.
- 83 service oriented architecture
- 84 MfD nomination of Portal:Literature/Mobile redesign attempt
- 85 A barnstar for you!
- 86 You're invited! WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley
- 87 June is already here !
- 88 Wikimania discussion
- 89 An important message about renaming users
- 90 You're invited! Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco
- 91 Block quotes on mobile
- 92 Recent changes app
- 93 PEGJS
- 94 SF edit-a-thons on March 7 and 8
- 95 Samuel Clemens listed at Redirects for discussion
- 96 Once more!
- 97 Workshopping bureaucrat activity requirements
- 98 FYI: bureaucrat discussion opened
- 99 Community & Bureaucrat based desysoping proposal
- 100 Implementation of Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Bureaucrat activity requirements
Images
hi Brion VIBBER,
I wanna be an uploader. What should I do to be a?-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 09:59, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Random obesrvation
Is it just me, or do server problems occur in bundles? Seems like we've had server trouble every day since MJ's death. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 02:11, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
- My random observation is that you, sir, are now a double talk page bankrupt! ;> Just FYI I asked Lar to take care of that "uploader" userrights issue I queried you about a while back [1]. He suggested I drop you a courtesy note. best regards, –xenotalk 02:13, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Russian Spelling for Your Name
Dear Brion,
I'd like to ask you about correct spelling of your name in Russian.
As far as I remember it was your yourself who spelled your name as "Брион Вибур".
However, it look like "Брайон Виббер" would be more correct one. Could you please advise? Thanks! Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 19:54, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
- I would like to note that according to modern Anglo-Russian transcription rules for names, it should probably be "Брайон Виббер", with two "б"'s in Vibber (see ru:Англо-русская практическая транскрипция). --Tetromino (talk) 21:06, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
ref is too imprecise
I tried to use the ref element to integrate footnotes. However, there seems to be no possibility to indicate if the footnote references to the sentence in front of the ref element or the paragraph in front of it. In example:
- This is a first sentence. This is a second sentence.<ref>Miller (2009), p. 7.</ref>
Instead, it should be as follows:
- This is a first sentence. <ref text="Miller (2009), p. 7.">This is a second sentence.</ref>
Now, it is clear, that Miller is based on the second sentence only. Is there any possibility, to indicate that? If not, it should be programmed, because it opens new possibilities, e.g. mouse-ever effects when having the mouse pointer over a sentence. Then, a pop-up box could show "Miller (2009), p. 7". Furthermore, it is much more helpful for future editors to know, if sentence 1 has a reference already and can be relied on. Bugzilla didn't help to find a solution for this problem so far. Can you help to find a solution? 78.53.37.113 (talk) 10:28, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
- As the top of the talk page says, you probably want to file a bug in Wikimedia's bug tracker: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org --MZMcBride (talk) 03:14, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
- I already did that, but the topic is not discussed there anymore, although it is a very necessary bug. 78.53.43.218 (talk) 21:07, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Substituting surname
Any idea how you can {{subst: a surname in the page title to DEFAULTSORT sort the categories? Its just I have a large batch of German politicians to transwiki and I want to do it more quickly. So basically when you create the page it automatically places e.g Fritz Baier as Baier, Fritz in the categories. If not I gather there is a bot that can default sort the categories by surname and fix it afterwards?
I'd imagine it is something like {subst:PAGENAME} but with a little programming to read the last word of the title and place it first. It would save a great deal of time anyway. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
- Brion -- Dr. Blofeld asked me this question, and I suggested that it could be done, except that it appears that the string functions are disabled. Is that the case, and if so, why? My guess is that they would suck up too much CPU power on Wikimedia's end... Thanks, Mikaey, Devil's advocate 01:23, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Quick bar
Hi. I'm left handed and I've only noticed that cologne blue and classic or one other has the option to change the quickbar from left to right and fixed or moveable. Given that I mostly use modern and occasionally mono, would it be possible to be able to add the quickbar option for modern so the navigation bar can be moved to the right hand side. I think you should give people this option for all skins givne that some people are left handed and might find it more natural to have it on the otherside. I also think there should be a shrinkable option on the nav bars like we have with big templates for instance as if we could conveniently shrink the task while reading or at least have the option to this would ease useability I think. Also for the task bar on modern does it have to be so wide? There is at least a centimetre gap, it could be trimmed easily by 1-2 centimetres. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:41, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
- I'll pass it on to the usability team working on the skin updates, thanks for the feedback! Note we're considering actually using sidebars on both sides for some extra navigation tools, but that's still a ways away. --brion (talk) 18:17, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Renames
So, you don't mind if we try a quarter-million rename, then, since the limit is not invoked? Just triple checking. -- Avi (talk) 00:02, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
test test... test test...
Welcome and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page User talk:Brion VIBBER worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you.
Lossless image compression and website optimization
Have a look at yahoo's smush it. It can losslessly compress images (that are greater than 1kb)...it can save you guys quite a few bytes in bandwidth.
Looking at the mediawiki svn branch, I can see that most images can be losslessly compressed. Is there any reason you haven't compressed these images...or do you simply need some help^.^.Smallman12q (talk) 18:57, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
- 1.13 is pretty old; we've been more aggressively recompressing things in more recent work. --brion (talk) 20:38, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
File copyright problem with File:Fourth_test_file_investigating_bug_-_do_not_delete.png
Thank you for uploading File:Fourth_test_file_investigating_bug_-_do_not_delete.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Chris G Bot (talk) 00:19, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Pie for you!
Have a Pie! | ||
You are hereby awarded ONE PIE for all you've done for Wikipedia and the WMF. Best of luck in your future endeavors! |
ArakunemTalk 14:07, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
Lossless image compression/conversion
Hi, I was wondering if there are any plans to compress the images in the mediawiki trunk? Some images can be losslessly compressed by 20% such as the document.png to File:Document.png.Smallman12q (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:52, 3 October 2009 (UTC).
impact on fr.wp renamming file on commons
Bonsoir, Il semble que sur la wikipédia francophone nous avons le même problème que la wikipédia anglophone avait. Par exemple:
Mais il est curieux de voir que [4] fonctionne.
Merci de ton aide.
Regards, Otourly (talk) 18:38, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, the Commons file redirects seem to be working on English sites (Wikipedia, Wikinews, etc) but not in other languages (checked French and German). Might be something incorrectly using the local namespace name in queries or cache lookups... --brion (talk) 19:21, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Vandalism bug
If you can't see vandalism on Maya civilization then please log out, delete coockies, give google search to access this article. Also see talk page of article. How this vandalism went unnoticed for such a long time? 117.98.79.156 (talk) 15:29, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Sequence of files (bug test)
There is a sequence of file redirects with (do not delete) in the file name, which date from September. Is it now OK to delete these redirects?
- File:Third test file investigating bug - do not delete.png
- File:Second test file investigating bug - do not delete.png
- File:Test file investigating bug - do not delete.png
— This, that, and the other (talk) 06:19, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
December21st2012Freak Happy Holidays! 00:15, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Bureaucrat discussion for Juliancolton RfB
A bureaucrat discussion has been opened in order to determine the consensus in this request for adminship. Please come participate. ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:01, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
Categories
Hi, Brion, and Happy New Year's (& Decade) to you! I have brought this to Tim Starling's attention, too. Constantly when a new edit is being made to any article lately that has categories, the category box at the bottom of the page comes into contact (and sometimes conflict) with either a template or some other various print that is nearby (see The Beatles for example). Since around last early-mid December, this has been happening often, maybe something to do with the article's change in parameters. So far, as I know, nothing has become of this situation. If you could please have a look into this, and possibly resolve this problem once and for all. Thanks Brion! Best, --Discographer (talk) 13:53, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
SF Meetup #11
In the area? You're invited to | |
San Francisco Meetup # 11 | |
Date: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | |
Time: 15:00 (3PM) | |
Place: WMFoundation offices | |
prev: Meetup 10 - next: Meetup 12 |
This is posted to the groups by request. Please sign up on the Invite list for future announcements. Thanks. --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 23:45, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Ask for protection, how?
Dear adminstrator, one of users of Persian wiki has insult me in my English talk page (in Persian language). How can I ask for protection of my User page and talk page and all sub pages against that I.P address? I have some valuable photos in my pages I dont want let him/her to damage them. Regards Pournick (talk) 00:55, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
Add a "public interest" clause to Oversight
A proposal to add a "public interest" clause to Wikipedia:Oversight has started at Wikipedia_talk:Oversight#Proposal_for_new_.27public_interest.27_clause. SilkTork *YES! 10:40, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Bug 20246
Hi. Bug 20246 ("Install Extension:Transliterator on fr and en.wiktionary") has been sitting around since August, and you posted a comment on it saying "Assigning to myself for review." quite a long time ago. Is this going to get done any time soon? Are you even still doing work on bugs since you stepped down from being WMF CTO? If not, where does this go from here? Thanks in advance. --Yair rand (talk) 00:44, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Major flaw in New Features
Hi Brion, I've had to go back to Take Me Back from New Features because New Features does not accept the wiki "dot" when editing templates which separates titles. Please try it yourself, and you will find I'm (unfortunately) correct. Best, --Discographer (talk) 22:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Usability
Not sure how quickly you would see this, so just fyi. Thanks 7 00:52, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Saluton!
Bona vin tagon! :D - UtherSRG (talk) 14:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Quoted on, um, BRION
Hey Brion. Just a quick note to say that I've chopped up your recent comment on phoebe's blog to make a nice little item (well, I think so anyway) for next week's BRION report in the Signpost. Inevitably, this meant shortening areas slightly, and I'd be grateful if you might check to make sure I haven't misrepresented your thoughts or if you have any suggestions about their presentation. Thanks, - Jarry1250 [Humorous? Discuss.] 18:54, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Login unification - odd snag with Japanese WP
Brion: Sorry to bother you about this (please redirect me if appropriate), but my login unification was unsuccessful for reasons I don't understand, and the Help page on this suggests contacting a beaurocrat or steward. The holdout is the Japanese wikipedia (I'm confident that I never logged in there), where there's a userpage that looks like it was copied from an old version of my English wikipedia userpage. My English WP password doesn't work there. When I click the "send me a new password" button, I don't get anything in my email Inbox. Any suggestions on how I can finally unify my login worldwide (thus removing a nagging reminder in my Preferences)? -- Scray (talk) 05:29, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
I herd u can
Hi. I heard you are the former "Chief Techincal Officer of Wikimedia" and you are good at wikicodes, so i am asking you a question that has been [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Transcluding_onlyinclude_and_includeonly_tags unanswered on wikimedia for a quite long time. I hope you know the answer. To make it easier to see, i am posting the problem here too:
- short question
Is there a way to let a template include <includeonly><onlyinclude>{{{date}}}</onlyinclude></includeonly>
when transcluded?
- longer explaination for question
I'll try to explain it with this table:
Page name: | Template(in this case: "template:update") | Page between(in this case: "update page") | Final page(in this case: "item page") |
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use: | add a notice to "update page" | show information about the update, and when transcluded show the date of it only |
Only have the text between the onlyinclude tags included |
This is because at the RuneScape Wiki i am trying to automate the update date. Because there is always a link to the update page on the item page, and the update page has the date on it, i want the update page to have an additional note with the date entered(between onlyinclude tags) and i don't want it to appear on the update page itself(between includeonly tags). All update pages have the template:Update on it, with the parameter {{{date}}} so I want template:update to add <includeonly><onlyinclude>{{{date}}}</onlyinclude></includeonly>
to the update page so that when the item page has {{#time:j F Y|{{Update:(updatename)}}}}
on it, it shows the date in "dd month yy" automatically without needing to add that yourself.
I hope you can help me. Joeytje50 (talk) 17:56, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Plans?
I've read that you are a lead designer. I wonder whether there is anywhere we can see your design ideas for the Wikipedia, and possibly contribute to them? I didn't see anything about that on your user page (I aim to promote a sticky note system).-Tesseract2(talk) 19:50, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Unable to delete particular revision, blocked by interwiki shortcut
Hi there. Your Commons page points here; though you might be interested in this weird glitch. Kind regards. Rehman 10:17, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
hi!
how come there's no article about you?
you have been in the news [7].
89.216.196.129 (talk) 13:32, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Problems with my Wikipedia name
Hello. :)
I cannot edit the page User:ℜepress/vector.css. I think the problem is my name. Quote: "Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact name." Can you change my name to "Repress"? – ℜepress (talk) 14:12, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
The Great American Wiknic
Hi there! In the past, you've expressed an interest in local meetups of Wikipedians. Well, here's your chance! On Saturday, June 25, we'll be joining Wikipedians in cities all over the country for the first annual Great American Wiknic -- the picnic that anyone can edit! We'll meet up at a park in SF -- hopefully in the sun -- all other details are still in deliberation!
If this sounds fun, please add your name to the list: Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Wiknic and add that page to your watchlist. (And of course, feel free to edit that page with your ideas, questions, etc.) I look forward to wiknicking with you! -Pete (talk) 00:28, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Your opinion would be appreciated
As a member of WikiProject Countries, I'm seeking your opinion on a possible issue identified at List of sovereign states. If you have some spare moments, please contribute a comment at the Discussion of criteria. Best regards, Nightw 04:52, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
A funny kitten coming from JanPaul123 and demonstrate the WikiLove functionality (plus, you deserve a kitten).
Hashar (talk) 20:29, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Yay kittens! --brion (talk) 20:41, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Fifa world cup org.jpg
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Reasons To Delete J1c3d (Y-DNA)
- Articles that cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources, including neologisms, original theories and conclusions, and articles that are themselves hoaxes (but not articles describing notable hoaxes)
- Articles for which thorough attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed
- Categories representing overcategorization
JohnLloydScharf (talk) 02:31, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
The hold on editing has been taken off without explanation, to my knowledge, as of this moment, without justification.
JohnLloydScharf (talk) 00:42, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
The one who took this off the edit hold did so without reading the talk page.
JohnLloydScharf (talk) 01:17, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
I refer to the article for J1c3d Y-DNA haplogroup as is indicated in the very first section of my User talk page.
Please see:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Haplogroup_J1c3d_(Y-DNA)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_J1c3d_(Y-DNA)
JohnLloydScharf (talk) 02:17, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
User:Stinky New User
Just saw this come across the user creation log and wanted to confirm that it is indeed you. Cheers! TNXMan 16:01, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
- Sure is! See bugzilla:30226 for the bug I found while creating it. ;) --brion (talk) 23:49, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
Re: External link icon bug
Hi Brion, I hope you don't mind the reply here. That would be the classic monobook skin. Hope this helps. :) -- WikHead (talk) 18:50, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps I should add, that when I view the raw HTML source of a page, I see no <img src=, or anything else that would indicate that an image is supposed to be loading into the blank space. -- WikHead (talk) 19:11, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
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- Great, thanks for the reply! If the new plan is to remove the icon, I really don't mind that so much. What's weird to me however, is seeing the (space) tail-padding before the punctuation. If the padding was removed, I'd be just as happy. :) -- WikHead (talk) 21:09, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
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Oversize upload
Hi. Can you upload this 1592 dictionary PDF (alternatively) to Commons:File:Hieronymus Megiser - Dictionarium quatuor linguarum.pdf? The problem is it's 125M size. --Sporti (talk) 09:26, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
- I can't -- I need to ask server people to do those kinds of uploads for me too. It's not a fun situation, and hopefully we'll get the chunked upload system going soon so we can all do these ourselves... --brion (talk) 19:36, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Request for uninvolved admin to review page deletion discussion
Hello, I was wondering if you could lend a hand. I am currently in a discussion about a page deletion for the article Big Brother Australia 2012 and as an uninvolved administrator, I was wondering if you were able to review the discussion? Thank you. Bbmaniac (talk) 10:42, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Your user page
I killed some of the ancient content on your user page. It could use a bit of sprucing, though. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 21:08, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks... I gotta spend more editing time on this wiki. :D --brion (talk) 21:11, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your recent work with portals !!!
Thanks so much for your help with portal coding, especially {{Related portals2}}. Much appreciated. ;) Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 06:03, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- I agree. However, can you please fix {{Related portals2}} so that the contents float in the center of the section they are in instead of left aligning? I can't seem to figure out how to get it to do that. something somewhere in the code is preventing everything I try. Thanks! ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 08:27, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
proper semantic constructs
I'm sure you're busy. If you or one of the people you work with has time, we could use some input on improving the generated markup in things like navboxes. This is mostly about the new class=hlist in common.css (and bits of common.js). Things like {{flatlist}} and {{plainlist}} (and class=plainlist), too. And see Horizontal lists have got class in the Signpost.
In a nutshell, I'm looking at this as something that will end-up folded into MediaWiki itself and made available to all projects and external wikis. Part of this may involve (wishful) tweaks to wiki-text syntax ;) Alarbus (talk) 01:40, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
meta:Press kit/Wikimedia People/Officers/Brion Vibber
You are invited to join the discussion at meta:Talk:Press kit/Wikimedia People/Officers/Brion Vibber#Incomplete. -- Trevj (talk) 16:17, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
MSU Interview
Dear Brion VIBBER,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
- Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
- Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
- All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
- All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
- The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk)23:23, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
San Francisco Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon
San Francisco Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon! Who should come? You should. Really. |
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MathJax review
I'm not sure you are checking for replies to your posts, so: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#mathJax_progress. Nageh (talk) 14:44, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar | |
Hey Brion! Thanks for your years of dedication and hard work in improving and making Wikipedia as best as ever! :) TheGeneralUser (talk) 23:15, 30 April 2012 (UTC) |
You're invited: San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2!
San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2! You are invited! | |
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The San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2 will be held on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco. Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us! This event will be specifically geared around encouraging women to learn how to edit and contribute to Wikipedia. Workshops on copy-editing, article creation, and sourcing will be hosted. Bring a friend! Come one, come all! |
San Francisco Wiknic 2012
San Francisco Wiknic at Golden Gate Park | ||
You are invited to the second Great American Wikinic taking place in Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco, on Saturday, June 23, 2012. We're still looking for input on planning activities, and thematic overtones. List your add yourself to the attendees list, and edit the picnic as you like. —Max Klein {chat} 18:35, 21 May 2012 (UTC) | ||
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Today is the Day
Dankon Brion, Sanon! ;) --FoeNyx (talk) 05:32, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
My toast for you
Hurray! it is the time for celebration...
Mi deziras al vi feliĉan Brion Vibber Tago.
Here is my toast for you...(Well.. I had an early dinner!)
I hope you have a great day today...
Yours Kindly
→VanischenuTM
11:01, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
- awwww thanks :)
testing testing
just a test — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.131.73.17 (talk) 09:24, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
how can i get account user:goosy
I'm goosy@zhwiki, In this wiki(en), I forgot my password, and no email. I can't attached accounts to Unified login. can you help me?
- My SUL info
- User Goosy contributions is nothing in enwiki.
thank you. --182.134.64.249 (talk) 01:22, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Starfighter
The article Starfighter has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- article on a word made up by some editor, unsourced after several years
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Wikipedia:Editor review/TheGeneralUser (2) Your review is required and will be greatly appreciated :)
Hi Brion VIBBER ! I have started my second editor review at Wikipedia:Editor review/TheGeneralUser (2). I will be greatly delighted, thankful and valued to have your review for me regarding my editing and possible candidate for Adminship. As you are a experienced and long term Wikipedian so i have asked for your kind review. Take your time to review my editing and give the best review that you can :). Feel free to ask me any questions you would like to on the review page itself. It will be a great honor to have you review me for which I will truly feel appreciated and helpful! I always work to improve Wikipedia and make it a more better place to be for Everyone :). Regards and Happy Editing! TheGeneralUser (talk) 19:05, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
You're invited! - Wiki Loves Monuments - San Francisco Events
Hi! As part of Wiki Loves Monuments, we're organizing two photo events in the San Francisco Bay Area and one in Yosemite National Park. We hope you can come out and participate! Feel free to contact User:Almonroth with questions or concerns.
There are three events planned:
- September 15, Saturday - A bike ride along San Francisco's waterfront
- September 22-23rd, Saturday-Sunday - Wiki Takes Yosemite
- September 29, Saturday - A sunset and harvest moon bridges, palace, boats and tower tour
We look forward to seeing you there!
You are receiving this message because you signed up on the SF Bay Area event listing, or have attended an event in the Bay Area. To remove yourself, please go here. EdwardsBot (talk) 00:41, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Invitation to join the Ten Year Society
Dear Brion,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more. I'm currently inviting people whose names that I recognize from around the project, please feel free to invite anyone else you like.
Best regards, -- Hex [t/c] 11:23, 27 September 2012 (UTC).
You're invited! Ada Lovelace Day San Francisco
You're invited! Ada Lovelace Day San Francisco
October 16 - Ada Lovelace Day Celebration - You are invited! |
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Come celebrate Ada Lovelace Day at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco on October 16! This event, hosted by the Ada Initiative, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation. It'll be a meet up style event, though you are welcome to bring a laptop and edit about women in STEM if you wish. Come mix, mingle and celebrate the legacy of the world's first computer programmer.
The event is October 16, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, everyone is welcome! You must RSVP here - see you there! |
Wikipedia skins
Hi Brion, I learn there are plans to throw out some of the old skins. Please, please please invent some new ones. I actually think editors should have the option to design their own skin to their modifications in their preferences but if not at least introduce a number of inspiring new skins which are graphically more impressive than the current ones. Presentation and graphics I think is very important and can radically alter how the website looks and is perceived. The current ones I find bland and uninspiring. Any chance you could do something in regards to this?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:16, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
- Most of the new design work is focused on mobile -- we can iterate quickly there without breaking things -- but we plan to expand that work back to the desktop as well. Keep watching. :) --brion (talk) 01:17, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of a block log entry
Hey, I was hoping you could answer a question. Is it possible to delete a block log entry of an editor?
For some background, look at this discussion. I then did some poking around on my own and found this brief discussion from 2008, which is what led me to you.
Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:12, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
- Generally there's no reason to remove log entries, though it is physically possible; see Wikipedia:Revision deletion#Log redaction. --brion (talk) 01:16, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, I read that. It's too bad, though, because in cases of pure mistake (like this one), it would be nice not to have the block on the log, even though the unblock entry with the reason is also there. I'm just sympathetic to the user who would have liked it removed. Thanks for coming over and responding.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:23, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Quotes about MediaWiki
I'm doing research for Wikiquote, if anyone knows of interesting or pithy quotes about q:MediaWiki, please let me know at q:Talk:MediaWiki, it would be most appreciated! Thank you, — Cirt (talk) 17:25, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
From VPR: TOC labels
Just had a thought. Sometimes you want to quickly identify the status of something in a process - say, the completion amount of a particular day at AFD. So you go to that page's AFD log and there's a great big table of contents. Short of scrolling down the page there's no way to know what the status is of each item in that TOC. My suggestion: a magic word that allows the appending of text to the display of a heading in a TOC. Something like this:
== First thing {{TOCLABEL:closed}}== Text == Second thing {{TOCLABEL:open}}== Text == Third thing {{TOCLABEL:reopened}}== Text
which would render something like:
Contents (hide)
- 1 First thing (closed)
- 2 Second thing (open)
- 3 Third thing (reopened)
Wouldn't that be kind of handy? There would likely be all sorts of uses. The technique might need to be restricted to use outside article space only, though, I think. .:YellowPegasus:. (talk • contribs) 20:00, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Edit-a-thon tomorrow (Saturday) in Oakland
Hi, I hope you will be joining us tomorrow afternoon at the Edit-a-thon at Tech Liminal, in Oakland. We'll be working on articles relating to women and democracy (and anything else that interests you). It's sponsored by the California League of Women Voters, Tech Liminal, and me.
If this is the first you are hearing of this event, my apologies for the last-minute notice! I announced it on the San Francisco email list and by a banner on your watchlist, but I neglected to look at the San Francisco invitation list until this evening. If you can't make it this time, I hope to see you at a similar event soon! -Pete (talk) 04:41, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation employee salaries
You are invited to comment here. Nirvana2013 (talk) 09:24, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Crat statement draft
Hi Following the drama at BN, I'm trying to come up with a statement all Crats could agree to. Please take a look, below. I am quite content to do this onwiki -we have always worked transparently, except where secrecy is essential (ie RTV). I think we should be able to wordsmith a statement acceptable to all, and I think it's an important thing to do.
- In my opinion, this issue has come about through an unfortunate proliferation of documentation: policy, guideline, how-to etc
- I am not convinced that there is community consensus on all of the points encapsulated in those various pages
- I am unhappy at what may be described as some or all of: inconsistencies, inaccuracies or lack of clarity in that documentation
- I do not believe that any of the issues we have faced have been caused by Crats trying to widen their powers
- I would like to see the issues clarified, based on consensus, and for the documentation to be updated accordingly
- I'd like to thank Griot-de for generously withdrawing the rename request
Signed [crat sig] Lmk what you think. Many thanks, --Dweller (talk) 10:39, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Mail awaits you.
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{YGM}} template.
--ukexpat (talk) 14:45, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject California/List of California-related topics, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject California/List of California-related topics and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject California/List of California-related topics during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:01, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Women's history editathon
Hey - Sorry for the late notice, but since you have yourself tagged as living in the Bay Area, I thought you might appreciate notification that we’re having an event Saturday! It’ll be held at Hoyt Hall, an all-women's house of the Berkeley Student Cooperative from 3 to 6 pm tomorrow. The main event page is here. Anyone is welcome to show up, but we’re expecting a significant number of people to come who have literally never edited Wikipedia before. If you’re an experienced Wikipedian who would be able to provide useful help to some of the newbies, your presence would be especially appreciated (and it might be a good idea for you to show up at 2 or 2:30 instead of three. Thanks, Kevin Gorman (talk) 02:00, 6 April 2013 (UTC) I’m AWB’ing this message to all Wikipedians who have tagged themselves in the bay area. I’m sorry if the message isn’t of interest to you; feel free to delete it. I’ll be unlikely to send future messages in a similar way, but if really don’t want to receive future messages of this sort, please let me know.
Template:Related portals2
Hey, I love this template but I would like to alter the images. Where does this pull the images from? I could simply change that location in the portals I am using. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 06:28, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
- It pulls them via Template:Related portal item which pulls them via Template:Portal image which checks for filenames in templates of the form Template:Portal/Images/Film etc. You can change those little templates to change which image shows up for the given category. --brion (talk) 13:17, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Wiknic 2013
Wiknic 2013
Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland
Theme: Hyperlocal list-making
This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!
Location and Directions
- Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
- Nearest BART: 19th Street
- Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
- Street parking abounds
Forced user renames coming soon for SUL
Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to translate and review the notification that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages m:Rename practices and m:Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 13:05, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
You're invited...
to two upcoming Bay Area events:
- Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
- Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.
I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 18:51, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
Already this time of the year !
Saluton, Brion ! Happy day ! Gratulon ! Dankon ! -- FoeNyx (talk) 14:52, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Wanted by PETA
You have just been added to PETA's watchlist for killing too many server kitties. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.6.22.11 (talk) 05:22, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Admin's Barnstar | |
Great job sir! Crab rangoons (talk) 19:08, 8 August 2013 (UTC) |
"Deletion means deletion"
Hi!
Is this comment from 2007 still accurate? Or would it be correct to say that the content is just hidden? Are there copies of deleted content on Wikimedia Dumps?
(I'm asking because of a new discussion on Portuguese Wikipedia, about the terminology used in our deletion policy to describe what happens to "deleted pages") Helder 22:29, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
- In principle this remains true (that the archives of deleted pages in the database are not meant as permanent storage and could be cleared out from time to time), but in practice we haven't cleared out the deletion archives in a long time as people expect things to remain undeletable.
- Data dumps don't include the deleted pages -- but of course if you grab an old dump from between the creation and the deletion of a page, you'd find the at-the-time-not-deleted item in there.
- Note that since '07 we've also introduced "revision deletion" or hiding, which allows striking out of particular parts of a revision's metadata (content, author username, comment). Again, the data remains in the database on the site, but isn't included in data dumps.
- So, while in theory just about all deleted stuff could be recovered from Wikimedia Foundation's servers if required (some things get really-really-totally-perma-deleted-for-reals like child porn...) if Wikimedia shut down and Wikipedia had to be reinstated from public data dumps, those deleted items would not be available to the 'new' site.
- --brion (talk) 14:02, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia Code Review Access
Hi! I was told to go and contribute to the new repositories on Code Review. Since the only reason I was on that repository in the first place was to work on the Metro app, I would like to be able to access the Metro project on Code Review. Thank you very much! APerson (talk!) 03:41, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon
Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - You are invited! | |
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Hi Brion VIBBER! The first Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 in San Francisco. Any editors interested in the intersection of feminism and art are welcome. Wikipedians of all experience levels are invited! Experienced editors will be on hand to help new editors. SarahStierch (talk) 08:50, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hello Brion: I have been politely asked to "read the archives" before editing on a contentious article and realize this is going to take a while and require lots of notes. :) I decided to setup a personal Wikimedia-on-a-stick so I can work locally (much faster, I live in a rural area and have a somewhat slower connection) but the history limit on export is an issue since there are a lot more than 1000 edits. I saw you were able to do this before here and was hoping you would be willing to do it again maybe? The page is Morgellons and I would like to have the whole set of article + article history/diffs + talk + talk history/diffs + talk archives (11) + talk archives history/diffs. Is that possible? Thanks in advance either way.
{{imaginary-smiley|pleading-with-big-sad-puppy-dog-eyes}} :)
F6697 FORMERLY 66.97.209.215 TALK 04:24, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
service oriented architecture
Greetings $editor, I see from your $signpostProfileArticle that you have an interest in service-oriented architectures! :-) I'm trying to help a group of COI-encumbered PhDs re-write the SORCER article (NPOV), which is a service-oriented architecture based on the Jini/JVM substrate, used by the USAF (plus French and rumour has it Chinese and Russians and possibly Brits/Aussies) to speed up the automated mechanical-design-and-analysis of radical new aerospace structures. Interesting stuff, but could use another set of eyeballs to help translate from the jargon-debt they've built up during classified and quasi-governmental projects involving this software, since the previous millenium. Do you have any interest in helping, and are you available? And if so, how strong is your wikiImmuneSystem when it comes to surviving TLDR?
p.s. I'd also like to give you an earful about WP:FLOW and VizEd and the general push for wiki2.0 sorts of things. But I promise to refrain, if you'd prefer not to hear it. :-) Hope this helps, and thanks for improving wikipedia. Please leave me a talkback / if you respon' / cannot have no watchlist / as just an anon'. Danke. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 17:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Portal:Literature/Mobile redesign attempt
Portal:Literature/Mobile redesign attempt, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Literature/Mobile redesign attempt and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Literature/Mobile redesign attempt during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Sven Manguard Wha? 20:02, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar | |
For collaboration on a technical book explaining the software that runs Wikipedia. Bides time (talk) 18:11, 20 February 2014 (UTC) |
You're invited! WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, April 5 - WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley - You are invited! |
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The University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting our first edit-a-thon, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, on April 5! This event, focused on engaging women to contribute to Wikipedia, will feature a brief Wikipedia policy and tips overview, followed by a fast-paced energetic edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history! The event is April 5, from 1-5 PM, at the Berkeley Center for New Media Commons at Moffitt Library. You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 23:13, 13 March 2014 (UTC) |
June is already here !
Saluton, Brion ! Happy day ! Gratulon ! Dankon ! -- FoeNyx (talk) 09:03, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Wikimania discussion
Hello Brion, I have something I would like to discuss with you about using apps to contribute multimedia content to Wikipedia. Could we please meet up and have a brief discussion today at Wikimania? Please feel free to call or text me on my cell phone: +44 7792906335 or email: yu.wan05alumni.imperial.ac.uk Thank you! Regards, Francis --Computor (talk) 08:42, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
An important message about renaming users
Dear Brion VIBBER,
I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.
As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.
Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.
The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.
Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.
In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.
Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.
Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 18:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
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You're invited! Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco
You are invited! → Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco → Saturday, October 11, 2014, from 1-5 PM |
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The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meet, create and improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. Please bring your laptop. The venue: Wikimedia Foundation offices (149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105) – Google Maps view You must RSVP here — see you there! --Rosiestep (talk) 03:44, 26 September 2014 (UTC) |
Block quotes on mobile
Hi Brion, I just added your mobile gadget. Thank you for creating it.
I'm having trouble working out what to do with block quotes that are formatted to be narrower than usual. These can look good on desktop/laptop, because they avoid long lines of text and give us more white space. But on mobile, they're sometimes reduced to one or two letters per line.
For example, see the block quote toward the end of the Prisons in England subsection in the Background section of Marshalsea on mobile.
Would it be possible to have the mobile version reformat these, so that we don't have to remove or widen them? SlimVirgin (talk) 17:44, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Recent changes app
Hello Brion,
I'm an editor from the Catalan Wikipedia and I write small programs as a hobby (Python bots and some PHP and JavaScript). Recently I had the idea of making a Recent-changes-patrolling app where you could easily mark as patrolled or revert the recent changes. I had the idea of putting each unpatrolled edit in a "card" that you could swipe left to revert and right to mark as patrolled (something like Tinder or Swipable-Cards). The problem is I don't know where to start. I've never programmed an app before (but I would like to learn how to do it) and I don't know if is there a way to go multi-platform easily. I'm asking you this because you and User talk:Yuvipanda are the main contributors of the Wikipedia app.
I wouldn't like to annoy, please feel free to say "Sorry, but I can't help you"
Thanks in advance,
Gerardduenas (talk) 20:09, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
PEGJS
Saluton! Mi vidis, ke vi scipovas pegjs. Mi havas tiun problemon:
tzwd!34!346 sdfw!212!54 rews!325!321 wdr!345!32
Mi volas tiun parsi, ke en la listo la tokenoj ne estu disigitaj en karakteroj, sed en vorto kaj tu entjeroj. Jen mi havas tiun:
list = ((spaceNL* bareword spaceNL*)* spaceNL*)
token = value:bareword separator line:integer separator offset:integer spaceNL*{ return value, line, offset; }
integer "integer" = digits:$[0-9]+ { return parseInt(digits, 10); }
bareword = cs:barewordChar+
barewordChar = '\\' chr:barewordMeta { return chr } / !barewordMeta chr:. { return chr }
barewordMeta = [$"';&<>\n()\[*?|` ]
space = " " / "\t"
spaceNL = space / "\n"
separator = "!"
Kiel povas mi helpi tiun?
Szalakóta (talk) 18:57, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
SF edit-a-thons on March 7 and 8
ArtAndFeminism (3/7) and International Women's Day (3/8)! | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, In celebration of WikiWomen's History Month, the SF Bay Area Wikipedia community has two events in early March -- please consider attending! First, we have an ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon, which will take place at the Kadist Art Foundation from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday, March 7. We'll be one of many sites worldwide participating in this edit-a-thon on March 7th. So join us as we help improve Wikipedia's coverage of women artists and their works! Second, we will be celebrating International Women's Day with the International Women's Day edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 8 from 1pm to 5pm at the Wikimedia Foundation. Our editing focus will be on women, of course! I hope to see you there! Rosiestep (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about SF meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Samuel Clemens listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Samuel Clemens. Since you had some involvement with the Samuel Clemens redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Mr. Guye (talk) 03:14, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Once more!
Saluton, Brion! It's already this time of the year: your day! Gratulon & Dankon ! -- FoeNyx (talk) 21:16, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Workshopping bureaucrat activity requirements
- (Message to all bureaucrats)
There is an ongoing discussion about implementing some kind of standards for administrative and bureaucrat activity levels; and activity requirements for bureaucrats have been explored several times in the past. I've prepared a draft addition to Wikipedia:Bureaucrats that would require at least one bureaucratic action every five years to retain the bureaucrat permission.
In the past, I've been hesitant of such proposals but I believe that if the bureaucrat group as a whole is seen to be actively engaged, the community may be more willing to grant additional tasks to the position.
Please let me know your thoughts. I'm not sure if this actually applies to any of us, but if you have not acted as a bureaucrat in over five years, you might consider requesting removal of the permission or otherwise signalling that you intend to return to bureaucrat activity. –xenotalk 14:22, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
FYI: bureaucrat discussion opened
- Message to most bureaucrats
A bureaucrat chat has been opened by Maxim at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rich Farmbrough 2/Bureaucrat discussion.
Wikipedia:Bureaucrat discussion suggests notifying bureaucrats on their talk page as well as BN, hence this courtesy note. –xenotalk 16:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
Community & Bureaucrat based desysoping proposal
A discussion is taking place regarding a proposal to create a community and bureaucrat based desysoping committee. The proposal would modify the position of bureaucrat. Your input is encouraged. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators/RfC for BARC - a community desysoping process. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 19:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Implementation of Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Bureaucrat activity requirements
Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years.
“ | Bureaucrats are expected to exercise the duties granted by their role while remaining cognizant of relevant community standards concerning their tasks. In addition to the "Inactive bureaucrat accounts" requirements, if a bureaucrat does not participate in bureaucrat activity[1] for over three years, their bureaucrat permissions may be removed. The user must be notified on their talk page and by email one month before the removal, and again and a few days prior to the removal. If the user does not return to bureaucrat activity, another bureaucrat may request the removal of permissions at meta:Steward requests/Permissions. Permissions removed for not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements may be re-obtained through a new request for bureaucratship.
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To assist with the implementation of this requirement, please see Wikipedia:Bureaucrat activity. Modeled after Wikipedia:Inactive administrators and similar to that process, the log page will be created on 1 September 2015. Bureaucrats who have not met the activity requirements as of that date will be notified by email (where possible) and on their talk page to advise of the pending removal.
If the notified user does not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, they will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFB. Removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon the affected user in any way.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. –xenotalk
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- From what I understand (User talk:WJBscribe/Archive 32#Bureaucrat discussion notification), your account has bureaucrat privileges for technical reasons. Are they still required? Should we except this account from the log page? –xenotalk 22:24, 17 August 2015 (UTC)