Prayer for Ukraine
I took this pic in 2009. It was on the German MP yesterday, with this song from 1885, in English Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:25, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Listening to the charity concert mentioned here. I created the articles of the composer and the soprano. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:46, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Now, you can also listen on YouTube, and more music, the piece by Anna Korsun begins after about one hour, and the voices call "Freiheit!" (freedom, instead of "Freude", joy). Music every day, pictured in songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:17, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
St. Patrick's Day, more music and today's sunset --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:36, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
on Bach's birthday: the places where I sang his Dona nobis pacem --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
on the Main page, finally + new flowers --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:45, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Bach's No. 1 today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:45, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
Sunday flowers and sounds, don't miss the extraordinary marriage of the beginnings of the theme of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, and Prayer for Ukraine - here! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:37, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
exquisite voice today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:51, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
two people on DYK, both connected to Oper Frankfurt, and don't miss yesterday's video of Pink Floyd given to me! - Technical question: where does the extra line below this header come from? It wasn't there last month, and it isn't there in preview. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:23, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Main Page history/2022 April 13: the TFA is hard to overlook, but there are also peace prayers, a soprano and a theatre manager, - if you don't find them try here --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:19, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
rich in music and memories --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:27, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
Music for Easter --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:48, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
dance and singing, peace doves and icecream --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:07, 23 April 2022 (UTC) updated with a more prominent link to how to listen to the concert: Freiheit! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:08, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
another Ukraine day today: Maks Levin DYK, expanding Kyiv Symphony Orchestra (have tickets), and creating Anthony Robin Schneider, the bass who could be heard opening the singing in Beethoven's Ninth twice on 10 March 2022, live in Frankfurt, Germany, and recorded in Auckland, New Zealand, singing "Freiheit!" (freedom) instead of "Freude" (joy), in a tradition started after the Fall of the Wall. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:39, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Dove sono (Where are those happy moments ...?) - concert with Kyiv orchestra and Aleksey Semenenko (quite a story!) tonight --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:46, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
... and now you can listen: Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Luigi Gaggero & Diana Tishchenko (violin) / Kulturpalast Dresden (25 April 2022 on YouTube (that's 25 April in Dresden, a different violinist, but the same program) - ours pictured here --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:35, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your post in the crat chat for Tamzin! - I have the quirky DYK today, which is rare, and I don't quite know why music for peace was deemed quirky. - I took and picked the blue-and-yellow pic last year for May. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:57, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
serious --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:58, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
two songs today: Hey Hey Rise Up! (written by friends) and Glauben können wie du, sung by the person I have on DYK today, right below the other. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:45, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
today performances in Ukraine - for Ukraine - for peace, at the bottom an imaginary set of eight DYK - and more May pics--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:04, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
today more pics, and should this woman have an article? - or only her sons? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:15, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
today Melody (not by me), and more pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
my choir in Idstein performed an evensong (pictured), two years and two months after the last! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:39, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
more music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:35, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
today saw my pic of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra on the Main page - blue for you --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:36, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
June music
Related: that Ukrainian peace music is now "on", with the conductor! - Pentecost (on last Sunday and Monday in Germany) brought a harvest of great music in two church services (one with me singing in choir) and two concerts with my brother in the orchestra, - four pictures I took besides the symphonic one. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:51, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
Bureaucrat Chat
Your input is requested at the freshly-created bureaucrat chat. Useight (talk) 03:02, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-18
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Tamzin
RE the crat chat. Consider if instead she'd said "desyssop any Biden supporter". The howls would be never ending and people wouldn't think of promoting her. This is because of the blatant left wing bias wiki has. Anyone even remotely thinking of using their tools in such a bigoted manner should in no way be admin. And promoting such a person, left or right wing, is downright sickening. Seven Pandas (talk) 20:33, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I am glad that you oppose bigotry. I think most of the participants in that RfA would agree with you that the “desysop Trump supporters” comment was troubling. However, most of the participants also feel that the positive aspects of the candidate outweighed the negative, and ultimately as bureaucrats we have to follow the consensus of those participants as best as we can determine it. 28bytes (talk) 20:53, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I vehemently disagree. She's willing to use her tools to foment her political agenda. If that's not tool abuse I don't know what is. If she gets the tools, I'm leaving wiki for good, and that's not a threat, that's a guarantee. One day she'll do something to make you all regret this. Seven Pandas (talk) 21:26, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Tamzin: only fair I notify her of this. Seven Pandas (talk) 21:27, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I’ve redacted part of your comment. You cannot go around calling editors bigots because they disagree with you politically. I’m sorry if you feel so uncomfortable about there being an admin whose politics strongly differs from yours that you wish to leave, but there are of course other outlets available if you prefer editing in an environment more closely aligned to your perspective. 28bytes (talk) 21:45, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Seven Pandas:
She's willing to use her tools to foment her political agenda.
Please provide evidence for that or strike it. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 21:56, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
She's willing to use her tools to foment her political agenda
This is a completely baseless accusation. I hate to sound like a broken record, and stick my nose into various pages saying the same thing, but it is untrue and needs pushback wherever it pops up. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:57, 2 May 2022 (UTC) (p.s. sorry, didn't realize Tamzin was back, and the new reply thingy doesn't give edit conflict notices)- I don't need to she provided the proof herself. And you assumed I'm a Trumper but I'm vehemently not. You all should not have done that. It is what she herself said that I object to. As it's clear wiki is beyond redemption, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ASeven_Pandas&type=revision&diff=1085869391&oldid=1031910638 |see this].Seven Pandas (talk) 22:06, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I don't think anybody called you a Trumper on this page, or even implied that you were one. I did suggest that if you found the editing environment here uncomfortable for political reasons (which is, I would think, a reasonable interpretation of your statement that you find the site to have
"blatant left wing bias"
) then there are other options for you. I hope you are able to find an environment without the bias you feel exists here. 28bytes (talk) 22:15, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I don't think anybody called you a Trumper on this page, or even implied that you were one. I did suggest that if you found the editing environment here uncomfortable for political reasons (which is, I would think, a reasonable interpretation of your statement that you find the site to have
- I don't need to she provided the proof herself. And you assumed I'm a Trumper but I'm vehemently not. You all should not have done that. It is what she herself said that I object to. As it's clear wiki is beyond redemption, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ASeven_Pandas&type=revision&diff=1085869391&oldid=1031910638 |see this].Seven Pandas (talk) 22:06, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Tamzin: only fair I notify her of this. Seven Pandas (talk) 21:27, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I vehemently disagree. She's willing to use her tools to foment her political agenda. If that's not tool abuse I don't know what is. If she gets the tools, I'm leaving wiki for good, and that's not a threat, that's a guarantee. One day she'll do something to make you all regret this. Seven Pandas (talk) 21:26, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your thanks
Bishzilla was delighted to be thanked for her superclerking for once; generally she gets told off, not least by me.[6][7] But we all need encouragement, I guess! Bishonen | tålk 22:33, 2 May 2022 (UTC).
- Tonight over dinner I got to watch a bunny trespass in my back yard and start munching on dandelion stalks, and it was every bit as relaxing to watch as a favorite TV show. I wouldn't have dreamed of shooing the bunny away any more than I would shooing a 'zilla away from the Cratz-Only Zone for chowing down on verbal dandelions. 28bytes (talk) 00:34, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-19
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
Error in creating wikipedia page
Hi Sir,
Today I was going to create a page on Wikipedia but unfortunately it was not created. It is saying that only administrator can create it. So i have contacted you. Please help me to create this page : Anshu Dikshant
I have all the reference links related to this name. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paruljoshi490 (talk • contribs) 08:08, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) Indeffed as meatpuppet. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 10:11, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-20
18:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Snail
At first I thought this little guy was an acorn. 28bytes (talk) 17:05, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-21
00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 May 2022
- From the team: A changing of the guard
- News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
- Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
- In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
- Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
- Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
- Featured content: Featured Content of April
- Interview: Wikipedia's pride
- Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
- Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
- Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
- News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
- News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
- From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
- Humour: A new crossword
Tech News: 2022-22
20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
- The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.
Tech News: 2022-23
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Tech News: 2022-24
16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)