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Bot activity in Turkish Wikinews

Status: In progress

Over in the Turkish Wikinews, GrondinBot has created thousands of empty "daily" project pages and categories, and apparently will continue to do so forever into the future, despite the fact that the wiki has almost no editing community left and no admins, the bot was seemingly only explicitly approved to maintain interwiki links, and the users who were involved in the approval process (AFAICT) have not edited the wiki for about 5–8 years. See n:fr:User talk:Grondin#Daily pages, where I challenged the bot's operator on the necessity and validity of this bot work and was completely unsuccessful (the discussion includes more links to evidence — although to understand all of it, it would help if you read French as well as Turkish [I read neither]). I believe the work this bot does is no longer needed on that wiki and that the vast majority of pages it has created there should be deleted. Steward opinions on this? I posted a comment nearly identical to this one on the wiki's equivalent of the VP two weeks ago, and have gotten no response. - dcljr (talk) 20:46, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You argument is basically that trwikinews is dead and should be closed. Ruslik (talk) 20:07, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Um, no, my argument is that the wiki has no real editing community and no admins, but has a bot that will be filling the wiki up forever with useless, empty pages. The bot should be stopped and the worthless pages deleted, but the wiki can sit there inactive forever, as far as I'm concerned. Inactivity is not a valid reason for closure, anyway. - dcljr (talk) 05:30, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well, IMO, "no real editing community and no admins" are sufficient to close a wiki and bring them back to the incubator, but langcom won't buy my arguments, so... back to the discussion, if there is no community as you describe and there is no objection for few weeks (or a month), I guess bot can be blocked (to stop them). Deleting the debris will take more time than I want to, so if someone wants to do it, they should do it after getting temporary adminship. — regards, Revi 05:45, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Despite the fact that no one has commented on my n:tr:VP post (mentioned above), I know that won't be sufficient evidence for some people that the bot is no longer needed there. So I have notified several users on that wiki directly on their talk pages (namely, a handful of users who have edited in the main namespace in the last 30 days, as well as the three I linked to in my comment above who seemed to have something to do with getting the bot approved in the first place, years ago), pointing them to the VP discussion about the bot. We'll see if anyone comments, and if so, what they have to say. - dcljr (talk) 22:00, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK, well, I have not been able to drum up any discussion at all on that wiki about the bot activity there in the intervening 2 months. I have notified the bot's owner about this and again asked him to stop the bot's work on that wiki. - dcljr (talk) 00:56, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ajapaik web (testing)

Status: In progress

Application name: Ajapaik web (testing) [1.0] (consumers for this tool)
Publisher: Zache (user information · other consumers by this publisher)
Consumer key: a53e9e6380cc9ae53f6214bd5ba353c2
OAuth admins: review/manage this application.

This is for developing Ajapaik in virtual machine. There is also "Ajapaik web localhost" by me where i failed to copypaste correct url to callback URL and that request can be deleted. --Zache (talk) 11:06, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Per phab:T201166 I changed the callback url to staging.ajapaik.ee so it is now pointing to public web with https. Original request can be closed). --Zache (talk) 07:34, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Global block for 46.72.0.0/16

Status: In progress

46.72.0.0/16 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • CA • ST • lwcheckuser)

Proxy server status confirmed by administrator. Contribs for this IP range is enough for indefinite cross-wiki block (46.72.24.21 caught on Italian Wikipedia as Tor exit node, and 46.72.0.0/16 caught on Russian Wikipedia as IP for block evasions and 46.72.0.0/16 caught on Japanese Wikipedia as Tor exit node). ZimmermannKKK (talk) 13:01, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ZimmermannKKK: SRG is a more appropriate venue for global block requests. PiRSquared17 (talk) 13:45, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@PiRSquared17: not in use. Must be autoconfirmed, but I am not autoconfirmed. I'll purge this flag before of approval of another Steward. This is a question of life and death. ZimmermannKKK (talk) 19:59, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Vituzzu: action required! 46.72.24.21 17:20, 14 August 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Pending speedy deletion requests on nahwiktionary

Status: On hold

Please check wikt:nah:Neneuhcāyōtl:Para borrar en breve (edit: 28 subcats, 42 pages ATOW. 18:58, 13 August 2018 (UTC)). The only administator there has not been active in the last year (edits, logs). CC User:Marrovi as the author of most (all?) of those requests. Kind regards, Peter Bowman (talk) 18:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done, the "only administrator" you mentioned as well seems to be the author of most of these articles. I suppose it's best to wait until he returns. In the meantime, a ping (@Frank C. Müller:) should suffice. Regards, --Vogone (talk) 00:45, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

He really is the only one right now, no need to quote. I agree with you, though - it looked to me like he had left the project, but now I see he's still active elsewhere. Would it make sense to put this request on hold for one week or two until he responds? Peter Bowman (talk) 12:43, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you prefer, sure. I used quotation marks just to make it clear that I referred to someone whom you had previously mentioned. I am sorry if this has been misunderstood. Kind regards, —Vogone (talk) 15:11, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Thanks for pinging me and informing me via my german Wikipedia-user-page!

Yes, I still am an admin at the nahuatl Wiktionary, and I think even I still am a bureaucrat. But I retired from this project in about 2014. In the years between 2011 and 2013 except Marrovi I was nearly the only active user in the nahuatl wiktionary.

In contrast to me Marrovi is a native nahuatl speaker, and he was a studious author in many of our projects.

But also he is a bit special, and in the meantime he is blocked on many projects. On the one hand he edits a lot, but on the other hand he often ignores the rules and even the manifold advice of his co-authors, and he nearly never explains or justifies his actions.

In the nahuatl Wiktionary I had established a certain system in building the Wiktionary and representing the language. Marrovi was adding a lot of words, and I nearly always had to correct or complete his entries. I could accept his knowledge of the language, and he accepted my way of structuring the language in the Wiktionary.

But we only were two! And we stayed only two! After three years of activity I began to doubt, if it was so meaningfull to write a dictionary with only two authors: one who thinks, he knows how to write a Wiktionary, but without any deeper knowledge of the nahuatl language, and one native language speaker who not actually is able to contribute as a member of a team, of a community, which has certain rules. So I gave it up and concentrated on german Wikipedia, Commons, and german Wiktionary.

I had a look on Marrovi's deletion requests (Neneuhcayotl:Para borrar en breve). Obviously he tries to reorganize the nahuatl wiktionary. I don't know if his intention is meaningfull or includes a methodical plan, and - pardon me - I have no desire to clarify this. I guess, Marrovi nowadays is the only human user in the nahuatl wiktionary, and I also guess, this is a rather dangerous situation.

So, I actually don't know, what do do!

gruß, fcm. --Frank C. Müller (talk) 11:26, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @Frank C. Müller:, thank you for your comments (and thanks @Vogone: for reaching him on dewiki, I should have done that in the first place!). I have advised Marrovi to specify the sources he based his edits on, hoping it's a starting point to work on. mfG, Peter Bowman (talk) 11:03, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I show you my photographs about my works and meetings at the University of Warsaw, in Poland [1], at UNAM (my mother university) and in Wikipedia about the Nahuatl languages, because now you can prove that I'm not an ordinary user as you were led to believe, many years of work guarantee me, is bother for me that you get ripped off. See you.--Marrovi (talk) 01:27, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Working with native nahuatl speakers and high international researchers in nahuatl language.
University of Warsaw
University of Warsaw
University of Warsaw
Lecumberri palace.
Wikimania 2015
Wikimania 2015

Your questions have been answered, can you read my answer in my user talk, they never make a message on my user talk, about questions. Obviusly I need help with a new changes over the Nahuatl languages. --Marrovi (talk) 12:05, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Frank C. Müller, Are you understand Nahuatl languages? What is dangerous situation? No is the same Classical Nahuatl to Central Nahuatl or Huasteca Nahuatl, the words are differents, by this reason is neccesary to delete many articles. The Nahuatl laguages convention was the next month at INALI Institute; the standard alphabet for Nahuan languages is now A, B, CH, E, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, U, W, X, Y. Now they are making researchs about linguistic seasons, to connect ideas between comunities and to know the idioms or variants. --Marrovi (talk) 12:04, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Nahuatl variants are a rich heritage for Mexico, Now I have a standard language (Nawatlahtolli), but we have got many Nahuan languages very interesting as Tetelcingo Nahuatl, Mecayapan Nahuatl, Pipil, Durango Nahuatl, Huasteca Nahuatl, Tlaxcala Nahuatl, Texcoco Nahuatl (all languages are diferents) as soon as Hochdeusch (Deutsch), Bavarian, Palatine, Low German, Swebisch, Swiss or Tirol.

Obviously I try to reorganize the nahuatl wiktionary, because this Mexican language is the most studied in the Americas with Maya, Quechua and Guarani. I'm to studied Nahuan languages by 15 years ago with Native people and Nahuatl institutes, as other persons, I know and I speak this language, but I am not Native speaker.--Marrovi (talk) 12:29, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia projects are not atractive projects by indigenous communities, is very complicated but is the reality, User:Tepoxteco is only the Nahuatl Native speaker in Wikipedia projects.--Marrovi (talk) 12:55, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I continue here.

@Marrovi: Thanks for your comment! You asked me "What is dangerous situation?": Dangerous is a wiki-project with only one user. Normally the wiki-projects are based on a community of many co-authors with a mutual supervision. This is the structural base of our quality. But a project with only one author has actually no supervision at all, and hence no proved quality. The quality is not proved: that's the danger.

@Peter Bowman: Where did you advise Marrovi to specify the sources?

gruß, fcm. --Frank C. Müller (talk) 12:47, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Frank C. Müller: I gave him my advice on eswiktionary, and his original request for help (several pending speedy deletions on nahwikt) is here. Regards, Peter Bowman (talk) 14:55, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Peter Bowman: Thanks for the links!

It's a bit complicated to keep together in mind all these edits in all these projects, all of them concerning the nahuatl languages and their representations in the different wiktionaries!

gruß, fcm. --Frank C. Müller (talk) 18:10, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Frank C Müller invented many words in different nahua spellings, it's a chaos to eliminate that incorrect material in nahwictionary.--Marrovi (talk) 04:19, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Large pagina merge at nl-wiki

Status: In progress

Dear stewards, Per this request I kindly request that you merge two page history's. Leftovers from a mess created by Masti who seems to be unable to understand how to clean up the mess/what is aksked of him. I kindly request that you merge the page history of nl:Overleg gebruiker:MoiraMoira/OverlegArchief51 with the page history of nl:Overleg gebruiker:MoiraMoira. “Overleg gebruiker:MoiraMoira” should be the target page and “Overleg gebruiker:MoiraMoira/OverlegArchief51” the “source” page.

As a local sysop I concluded that the original request made by Jeroen N to our local administrators has merit and should be fulfilled. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them.

Regards, Natuur12 (talk) 20:30, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Upload XML on Punjabi Wikisource

Status: In progress

We need this feature to import templates into Punjabi Wikisource.

Discussion: here

--Gurlal Maan (talk) 10:59, 15 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It is not clear what you are requesting? Ruslik (talk) 21:00, 15 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Gurlal Maan: do you know if this is a MediaWiki feature that needs to be enabled on your wiki (i.e., currently no one can do this, so a configuration setting will need to be changed to allow it), or whether the feature is already enabled but there are simply no users on your wiki who have the correct "user rights" to perform the action? If it's the former, then I think you need to submit a "task" at the Phabricator to request this configuration change. (See mw:Phabricator/Help for general info and Requesting wiki configuration changes for more specific instructions about submitting this kind of task.) If it's the latter (a user-rights change), then I guess this is indeed the correct page to ask a steward to grant those rights. Just clarify what you need. - dcljr (talk) 00:02, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Small correction: User rights have to be requested at SRP and require prior community consensus on your wiki. --Vogone (talk) 00:13, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Import has already been enabled (see phab:T185982). So you don’t need any additional permission or configuration; simply go to s:pa:Special:Import and select the page to import. (It requires admin, importer or transwiki importer rights, but you are already an admin.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 11:52, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Special:Import has already enabled but on this page there is no option to upload XML (templates) file. On bengali wikisource there is a option in special:import to upload XML files. I request to add or enable this option in s:pa:Special:Import-Gurlal Maan (talk) 15:35, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Gurlal Maan: And do you really need it? The currently available import options also include importing templates used on the page to import. While I think it’s more convenient to skip the download and upload of the XML file, it’s also safer from Wikimedia’s point of view, as it can be used to import only from other WMF wikis. Currently import from XML is only available for members of the importers group (search for “importupload” on s:pa:Special:ListGroupRights), so if you need it indeed, you can either request importer rights or request to have this right given to administrators too (of course backed with community consensus in either case; I don’t know whether the one linked above will be accepted by the bureaucrats/developers, as it’s not specifically about the change you will ask for). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:13, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Importupload is, as I said on SRP, 'super duper hyper' sensitive right. It probably won't be granted to sysop by default. — regards, Revi 06:11, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Deletion needed on hi.wikibooks

Status: In progress

I have tagged some pages for speedy deletion. None of these pages is part of textbook. Nearly all are articles published somewhere else and copied here, possibly in copyvio. They all represent a particular view, i.e. favoring Hindi language and condemning others. Kindly take immediate action. ----SM7^--talk-- 08:54, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is there some kind of standard duration for holding such requests? --SM7^--talk-- 10:13, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

User:1997kB, I believe you can understand Hindi. It is, therefore, requested that please confirm the status of tagged pages whether they are 'out of scope' or not on a project which is meant to be a place for collaboratively writing textbooks. --SM7^--talk-- 13:22, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Those are alot of pages. I'll give a review in some free time. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 13:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I read some of the the pages. The information is completely biased and is not neutral.-BRP^ever 14:45, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Finally checked them, while I couldn't found copyvio's, but most of articles are completely biased and needs to be deleted or rewritten from scratch. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 10:21, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mass deletion @ Somali

Status: In progress

useless/empty year-pages by

66.90.190.250
2600:387:A:9:0:0:0:AF
2600:387:A:5:0:0:0:88
124.105.29.184
~~46.20.59.11~~ done by @Tegel: - thanks. 71.223.2.213 22:06, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
187.49.254.14
186.3.210.197
~~66.90.190.251~~ done by @Tegel: - thanks. 71.223.2.213 22:06, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

174.26.212.176 03:08, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Tegel: can you do the rest of them as well please? 184.101.156.213 23:50, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello? Anybody?? 174.26.221.162 16:21, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously? NOBODY cares??? 174.26.221.162 16:01, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Problems at Cebuano Wikipedia

Status: In progress

An bunch of usernames with some hoax stations such as DWXX, DYXX or DZXX name which is attempting to create all articles which is hoax stations. Should please nuke all pages created by long-term abuser, Bertrand101 please see the LTA page for details. 64.113.165.126 17:03, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update sitenotice on strategy.wikimedia.org

Status: In progress

Several years ago, when we closed strategywiki, we added a sitenotice to point to the 2016 strategy consultation. I would like to suggest that we update the sitenotice to include a link to m:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20. However, I also think that since I've been out of the Wikimedia strategy business for almost a decade now, we should probably get Nicole to weigh in. ----Philippe (talk) 01:14, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 An bunch of usernames with some hoax stations such as DWXX, DYXX or DZXX name which is attempting to create all articles which is hoax stations. Should please nuke all pages created by long-term abuser, Bertrand101 please see [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Bertrand101|the LTA page]] for details. [[Special:Contributions/64.113.165.126|64.113.165.126]] 17:03, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
+=== Update sitenotice on strategy.wikimedia.org ===
+{{Status|}}
+Several years ago, when we closed strategywiki, we added a sitenotice to point to the 2016 strategy consultation.  I would like to suggest that we update the sitenotice to include a link to [[m:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20]].  However, I also think that since I've been out of the Wikimedia strategy business for almost a decade now, we should probably get [[User:Nicole_Ebber_(WMDE)|Nicole]] to weigh in. --[[User:Philippe|--Philippe]] ([[User talk:Philippe|talk]]) 01:14, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
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