Wikimedia:Village pump

Welcome to the Outreach Wiki's village pump. This page has two functions: This is where general outreach-related discussions can be held. Click here to open up a new topic. You can also use this page to request administrator assistance with vandalism or other incidents needing action. Please be as specific as possible, including the name of the user or IP causing problems, the page name, and your signature. You may also find an administrator in #wikimedia-outreach connect at freenode. You can access the chat by clicking the "connect" link and entering a nickname and CAPTCHA, or you can access it from your IRC client by joining #wikimedia-outreach.
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The Outreach Wiki is relatively small, so let's try and keep administrative tasks to a minimum, by keeping as many questions as possible on this page. (Suggested "rule": unless we have more than 15 cases in a short while, we can do without any extra tools such as administrative pages.)

Deletion of Outreach team

I noticed that the page Outreach team was recently deleted, as outdated. However, there are two individuals who added their names to the list within the last month, and others last fall. While I agree that there was little clarity about the purpose of the page, it seems that deletion without seeking to engage the people who have signed up may be premature. I am interested in knowing others who are interested in Wikimedia outreach, and I suspect others on the list are as well.

Any problem if I restore the page, perhaps with a note at the top about its history? -Pete (talk) 18:52, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Surely it should be restored and made into a redirect to whatever replaced it, right? Blue Rasberry (talk) 02:12, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

I've restored, any help in making sense of the page would be most welcome. -Pete (talk) 09:27, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Deleting unhelpful pages.

Hi,

• Is there live on Mars? is not really helping outreach. Perhaps it should be deleted?
• Ditto for Santa fe indian school, which appears to be copy&pasted from here.

I realise this is a small wikipedia - we'd rather keep it lean, instead of creating complex processes for deletion &c. Bobrayner (talk) 15:31, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

The first page was nonsense and the second was a copy of an English Wikipedia page. I deleted them both. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:38, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Groovy; thanks. Bobrayner (talk) 16:52, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

The easy come easy go nature of this wiki makes me love it even more --Guerillero 17:36, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Fixing double redirects with Thehelpfulbot

Hi all,

I'm planning to run Thehelpfulbot here to run on a crontab to fix double redirects, see Special:Contributions/Thehelpfulbot for what it does - it's trusted pywikipedia code and the bot has been running on the English Wikipedia for years.

Thanks, The Helpful One 15:02, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

A crat needs to flag it as a bot. Mono (talk) 00:14, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Flagged. The Helpful One 00:18, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Best practices

Hello. I noticed that the Best practices page was declared historical as of this week. The tag suggests to go here for discussion, but it seems that no discussion took place. I would like to restore this page to active. While it hasn't had a substantial number of edits in recent months, I believe that recent discussions regarding a space to organize general how-tos and best practices (often compared to how things are set up in GLAM) points to the need for this page to remain. In fact, we have a promising guide that should be added there now. Thanks. HstryQT (talk) 01:41, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Despite its significant value and importance to anyone organizing an event, no resources have been funneled into the project from volunteers or the WMF for a long time. I also noted that most, if not all, of the content was relocated to Meta. The lack of activity on Outreach Wiki does not disqualify its usefulness, but it is simply not being given any attention. I am open to reviving it because I feel it is valuable, but it should be decided whether its home is here or on Meta. --Mono (talk) 15:24, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Translate

Can you please install Translate and Narayam extension in outreach wiki ? This will help bookshelf documents to be translated very easily -- Naveenpf (talk) 14:55, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Unhelpful page deletion

Page List of topics hasn't been edited since it's creation and it has no real reason I can see on outreach. I would also suggest moving the page to a different title.Shaun9876 (talk) 18:29, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

I deleted the page. It had one non-substantial edit. Feel free to create a new page with whatever different title you like and with whatever content you think would be useful. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:42, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

What do I do?

What is this place.--Deathlaser (talk) 19:29, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

This is the village pump, where you may ask questions or make comments about anything related to Wikimedia projects. If you have a question about Wikimedia outreach we can discuss it here; for other Wikimedia concerns someone would direct you to whatever forum is appropriate. Thanks for visiting. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:40, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Account Creation Improvement Project - inactive but still creating accounts

I recently clicked a New user page through Outreach:ACIP link and when I got to Account Creation Improvement Project it indicated the project was inactive and retained for historical purposes. How is an inactive project still creating new accounts? Rather confusing... Monty845 (talk) 03:42, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Good question. I see that this project is listed in the sidebar under "Projects". The discussion page is closed and it says to redirect all queries to the village pump. The project is inactive and it has the inactive template on it, but I cannot find a historical record of how it ended and whether any of its tasks have been assumed by another project. It is not immediately obvious what its tasks were.

I confirm that it is confusing as you say and I am not sure what to do about it. I would like to think that the project creators should wrap it up with some conclusive statement but I am not sure that I want to get involved in this. What are your ideas? Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:49, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Bug with imported pages

I don't know why but this wiki is presenting a strange behaviour (bug?) with respect to user contributions. See for instance the history page of Template:Other languages: for some of the registered contributors there are links "(talk|contribs)‎", while for others, just (talk); and when we click on their names we're directed to their contributions list, as if they were IPs. My edit on that page is also not recognized as mine anymore, as well as others I had done that year (a bug ticked was opened for this matter). Is there a script that an admin could run to fix these issues? Capmo (talk) 17:15, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Oh never mind, on Bugzilla they explained me that these strange behaviors are related to a known bug associated with pages imported from other wikis (as was the case with Template:Other languages). Capmo (talk) 05:39, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting back in. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:13, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Spam, blocks, and due process

Hi all,
Obviously, this wiki doesn't have all the detailed process and policy that you might see somewhere like en.wikipedia.org, but... I just thought it would be a good idea to invite discussion. Lately I've found some spammers; usually they make a single edit which creates a new page full of blatant spam, so I delete that, and then I block them for a week. Autoblocks probably a good idea too, considering that the accounts are effectively throwaway accounts. But what does everyone else think?

• Should the block period be longer or shorter?
• If we ever reach a situation where a block is controversial or borderline, is this page the best place to discuss it? Or shall we cross that bridge when we get to it?
• If we ever get editors who are in the grey area (ie. a mixture of spam and nonspam edits &c), perhaps it's a good idea to start using user talkpages?
• Perhaps we need an actual blocking policy? Doesn't need to be much, just a few sentences will do.

All comments/criticism welcome... bobrayner (talk) 19:58, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Bobrayner. I usually lock for indefinite accounts made ​​solely to spam. I think it's the best thing to do.Érico ^msg 23:13, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

I notice that the general practice on Outreach is to block spammers after a single spam post. In the rare cases where I find spammers I am more generous and give one warning. I think here at Village Pump is a reasonable place to discuss controversial or borderline blocks but I hope those discussions are rare. Pine^✉ 06:52, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Blocking after one spam post is fine here. There is not enough traffic here to counsel people. Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:29, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

I agreed with Bluerasberry.Érico Wouters ^msg 21:26, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

OK, I guess if somethings blatant spam then I'll block after one post. I guess they can always appeal or send an apology if they want a second chance. Pine^✉ 07:51, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

+1 --Guerillero 03:53, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

I just blocked Blogait17 for inserting nonsense. I included blocking email and talk page access, and an autoblock of the IP. Is that the normal procedure here? Blocking the IP was checked by default but I'm not fond of indeffing IPs since a legitimate user might get blocked. What do other people think? I'm open to any constructive comments about how we should handle things like this on our small wiki here. --Pine^✉ 08:59, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Almost all editors will be using an IP which will sooner or later get allocated to somebody else, so I think indef blocks of IPs are a really bad idea for a first offence. (If the IP gets misused for months, then indef should be back on the table). With talkpage access, I could go either way. If somebody's spamming or saying something offensive, we shouldn't let them use their talkpage as a platform, but nonsense is not such a big deal. bobrayner (talk) 11:41, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

It looks like Blogait17 was actually posting spam rather than mere nonsense. Selling in-game currency for MMORPGs. bobrayner (talk) 11:44, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

I wasn't sure that I wanted to call it spam since it didn't include links, but maybe I'm not familiar enough with MMPORGs to understand what was being sold. I'll remove the IP block. --Pine^✉ 19:58, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Having blocked a second user for a similar offense, I think I've come up with a better catch-all term for this sort of stuff: "off-topic junk". --Pine^✉ 07:29, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

I suppose that presumes tolerance for "on-topic junk", but I can live with that. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:15, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Note to admins or other users in good standing in case anyone else wants to do peer review, I would appreciate a second opinion about my block of User:Likely1239p. The user wasn't posting spam but it was certainly off topic and seemed to include copyvios. If this was ENWP I would probably have deleted the page but warned instead of done an outright block. Here on Outeach we seem to be far quicker to block. Would admins or anyone else in good standing on Outreach like to comment on what our practice on Outreach should be in cases like this? Thanks, --Pine^✉ 20:37, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I normally don't come here to edit (Mainly lurk around here), but I do vandal revision at EN Wiki and I agree, this place blocks much faster than almost any other wiki. The block you did seems fine if it had a copyvio on it (I'm not an admin here nor on ENWP so I can't see the deleted page). I probably would have done a warning and asked for deletion unless it was a blatant copyvio. §haun 9∞76 ^༆ 22:09, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Shaun. Just a note that on this wiki there seem to be some bots that post semi-random off-topic noise. They're often easy to spot and the admins and stewards tend to block those on first sight. Fortunately we don't have a lot of ambiguous gray cases on this wiki. --Pine^✉ 02:19, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck works best here. Mono (talk) 19:13, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

To deal with the potential problems caused by autoblock mentioned above but still discourage spammers to go away, instead of disabling autoblock I'm blocking for 6 months with autoblock enabled for our most recent typical off-topic content creator. This seems like a good middle ground between disabling autoblock which would allow further account creation from the same IP, and enabling autoblock with an indef block which is more likely to eventually block someone who is trying to make an appropriate post. What do others think about implementing this as or something similar as the standard practice here? --Pine^✉ 07:21, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

WMF US and Canada Education Program

"The Wikimedia Foundation formed a Working Group in May 2012 to propose a future structure for the United States and Canada Education Programs. The Working Group, through in-person meetings and task force work, now proposes that the United States and Canada Education Program be operated as a Thematic Organization operating as a fully independent non-profit entity. This request for comment asks whether there is community support for the creation of such a new non-profit organization..."

FYI, read more and comment at w:Wikipedia:Education_Working_Group/RfC --mikeu ^talk 03:22, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

I approached a museum about releasing low-resolution images of copyrighted work into the PD. Now I need help with licensing legalese.

I approached the Hawai`i State Art Museum / Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (the latter runs the former) about releasing "some small, low-resolution images of Ray Yoshida's work into a format that could be uploaded to Wikicommons".

I was hoping that they would look at the links that I sent about licensing, & perhaps load the images themselves. However, I think that I probably overloaded them with hyperlinks, & they instead sent me a "Photographic Material Request" form.

While I am competent in many disciplines, I freely admit that I am lost when it comes to licensing. I hope that someone in the GLAM-Wikimedia collaborative can help me to proceed from here.

Mahalo! Peaceray (talk) 04:50, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

• Hi Peaceray. I believe that you should contact the Wikimedia Commons OTRS team. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS. --Pine^✉ 22:32, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Aloha Pine. Thanks, I see there are some guidelines there that I can use in my communication with the museum. Peaceray (talk) 04:22, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Close and move to Meta

At this time, there isn't nearly as much happening here as there used to be. The administrative burden outweighs the value in having a separate project. I propose we shut down this wiki, lock it like Strategy, and move everything to Meta. Thoughts? Mono (talk) 19:28, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

• I like having this wiki separate from Meta. I am thinking and hoping that the classroom extension that is currently on ENWP will eventually move here to support all language wikis. I find that the administrative burden is minimal, and I'm here on a regular basis. Also, I think this website is friendlier and easier for newbies and other educators and GLAM people to navigate as compared to needing to search through Meta to find what they need. Finally, I think there's a non-obvious security-related advantage to having this as a separate wiki that I'd rather not describe in here but would be happy to talk with you about in private. --Pine^✉ 22:04, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

• I think this wiki serves an important function. Part of the low activity here seems (to me) to be that outreach related wiki pages are scattered across a number of places such as WP and Commons. If anything I think we should encourage the consolidation and growth of those materials here. I'm not sure I see the administrative burden. --mikeu ^talk 15:36, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Nieuwe bestuursleden gezocht - Algemene Ledenvergadering 23 maart 2013 Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland

Dit Nederlandstalige bericht is geplaatst in De Kroeg of soortgelijke pagina op de projecten Wikipedia, WikiWoordenboek, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wikinews, Commons, Wikidata, Outreach in de bestaande taalversies Nederlands, Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch en Zeeuws van deze projecten.
Dit bericht is in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor mensen die in Nederland wonen.
Voel je vrij om dit Nederlandstalige bericht te vertalen in het Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch of Zeeuws.
De Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland ondersteunt onder andere het werk van de vrijwilligers die op Wikipedia of een van de zusterprojecten daarvan actief zijn. De vereniging houdt op 23 maart 2013 de jaarvergadering. Het zittende bestuur legt verantwoording af met jaarverslag en jaarrekening over het jaar 2012. De zittende bestuursleden zijn allen benoemd voor de periode van een jaar welke termijn afloopt met de komende jaarvergadering. Een aantal zittende bestuursleden zal zich herkiesbaar stellen. De vereniging zoekt nieuwe bestuursleden en werft met name onder jullie, degenen die actief bijdragen aan een of meer Wikimedia projecten en goede contacten hebben met overige leden van de gemeenschap. Wil jij meebepalen welke richting de vereniging opgaat, of ken je iemand die daar uitgesproken ideeën over heeft, schroom dan niet daarover contact op te nemen met voorzitter AT wmnederland DOT nl of om jezelf voorstellen op de Algemene Ledenvergadering van 23 maart 2013. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 15:16, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Naming of articles in Ukrainian

On this site there is an article — Best practices in assigning Wikipedia articles as coursework to students.

I decided to make a Ukrainian translation of the article and created it with the name: Best practices in assigning Wikipedia articles as coursework to students/uk

Then I decided to rename the article and moved it to Завдання студентам писати статті до Вікіпедії — передовий досвід with a redirect from Best practices in assigning Wikipedia articles as coursework to students/uk

After that User Ktr101 moved page Завдання студентам писати статті до Вікіпедії — передовий досвід to Targetting students to write articles on Wikipedia — best practices with no redirect from deleted Завдання студентам писати статті до Вікіпедії — передовий досвід !

I just encountered, that there was no link between article in English: Best practices in assigning Wikipedia articles as coursework to students and in Ukrainian Targetting students to write articles on Wikipedia — best practices and fixed the error.

My questions are:

1. If it is possible to use Cyrillic letters in the names of articles on this site?
2. If there are any rules on naming the articles on this website?

--Perohanych (talk) 16:37, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I am so sorry about that. For your first question, I thought you were writing it from Ukranian and trying to translate it into English, and would be working over time. In response to your second question, as long as you don't spam a name, not that I know of. I already restored the redirect that I suppressed, and if you want, I'll go ahead and move it back for you. Again, sorry about that, and I am more than willing to correct that mistake if you want. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 18:58, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

So, as far as I understand, there is no restrictions to use Cyrillic in titles of articles. I moved back Targetting students to write articles on Wikipedia — best practices to Завдання студентам писати статті до Вікіпедії — передовий досвід. So it is possible to delete the Targetting students to write articles on Wikipedia — best practices, as it contains a redirect, and there are no links to it. --Perohanych (talk) 10:08, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Done! Again, sorry about that, and feel free to ask if you ever need help. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 21:07, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Sysop request

This is a formal request to unprotect Using Wikipedia (Bookshelf). As an admin, I unprotected it seeing that it was not necessary to protect it. Now, Ktr101 has seen fit to protect it citing 'a number of reasons.' While being entirely unhelpful, Ktr101's actions reflect the attitude of a wikilord - one who enjoys sending the peasants running around for permissions that he controls. There is no stated reason for that page's protection, so it should be unprotected. Mono (talk) 22:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

I should have explained myself better when I wrote that. I reverted your unprotection because Hannibal protected it for a reason, and probably should remain that way, especially in light of the drive-by vandalism that we have been getting lately. I'm all for allowing autoconfirmed status on it, but I also would like the input of another user or two before going that route. I am not going to address your false accusations, as they are your opinion, but I am open to debate on the protection issue. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 22:32, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick response. Hannibal was a contractor; he no longer works at the WMF, but I'm pretty sure Bookshelf has come to a standstill. I believe that page was part of the Bookshelf workflow and its protection was procedural for what reason I do not know. In case you couldn't tell, the wikilord reference was a joke. Mono (talk) 22:39, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I have lessened the protection level. In terms of the "joke," I am not convinced that you meant it as such, as you just said something that could be construed as an insult on a communal page while talking about something that I did, two days after I removed your administrator rights. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:38, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

FYI regarding disputes

Just a note that I'm aware of the discussions chiefly involving Ktr101 and Mono. I am deliberately staying uninvolved in that discussion at this time. I'm willing to referee as an uninvolved administrator if there's a request for that to happen from the parties. Otherwise, I plan to stay out of that discussion. --Pine^✉ 20:36, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

There will be no need for that; it's clear that my time spent arguing here is pointless. Mono (talk) 19:51, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Changes to www.wikimedia.org

FYI, there were some changes to www.wikimedia.org and this wiki has been mentioned at m:Talk:Www.wikimedia.org template#Adding Wikimedia Labs. --Nemo 23:04, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Jaarplan en begroting 2014 Wikimedia Nederland

Dit Nederlandstalige bericht is geplaatst in De Kroeg of soortgelijke pagina op de projecten Wikipedia, WikiWoordenboek, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wikinews, Commons, Wikidata, Outreach in de bestaande taalversies Nederlands, Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch en Zeeuws van deze projecten.
Dit bericht is in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor mensen die in Nederland wonen.
Voel je vrij om dit Nederlandstalige bericht te vertalen in het Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch of Zeeuws.
De Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland ondersteunt onder andere het werk van de vrijwilligers die op Wikipedia of een van de zusterprojecten daarvan actief zijn.
Heb jij ideeën over wat Wikimedia Nederland wel of niet zou moeten doen? Wil jij invloed uitoefenen op wat Wikimedia Nederland wel of niet doet en waar Wikimedia Nederland geld aan uit geeft?
Een half jaar geleden is het jaarplan en de begroting van Wikimedia Nederland (WMNL) voor het jaar 2013 vastgesteld door de Algemene Ledenvergadering (ALV). Op basis daarvan is een subsidie aangevraagd bij de Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) van de Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) middels een proposal form. De board van de WMF heeft de aanvraag gedeeltelijk toegekend in overeenstemming met de aanbeveling van de FDC.
Over een half jaar, dat is voor 1 oktober 2013, dient WMNL een proposal form bij de FDC in te dienen voor het jaar 2014. Net als vorig jaar wil WMNL dat doen op basis van een door de leden tijdens een ALV vastgesteld jaarplan en begroting. Tijdens de ALV van 23 maart 2013 is de volgende motie vastgesteld: "Het begrotingsproces dient zoveel mogelijk open en transparant te verlopen. Leden worden, zowel aan aan het begin van als gedurende het proces om tot een ontwerpbegroting te komen, om hun input gevraagd en actief betrokken," zie daarvoor ook de concept-notulen van de ALV 23 maart 2013. Op WikiZaterdag 4 mei 2013 presenteren de onderzoekers van Motivaction de resultaten van een survey gehouden onder gebruikers van Wikipedia. Dat onderzoek en de discussie daarover zal mede input zijn voor jaarplan 2014. Kom ook, en discussieer mee!
De pagina jaarplan 2014 op de wiki van de vereniging staat open voor ieders bijdragen met ideeën over wat WMNL wel of niet zou moeten doen in het jaar 2014. Wat wil jij bijdragen aan het bereiken van de missie van de Wikimedia beweging? Hoe kan de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland jou daar bij ondersteunen? Laat daar van je horen. 82.170.139.167 10:12, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Translations via Extension:Translate

Hi. I've tagged for translation Main page, I think it also should be done with plenty of other pages at this wiki (stable ones sure to not force translators to do a lot of nonsense work). If you not oppose it I can do tagging a bit more. Also It will be nice if somebody (obviously a 'crat) will grant me a translation admin flag that allow me to mark pages for translation after tagging (I have such flags at metawiki and wikidata). Thanks for the answer in advance. --Base (talk) 18:14, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Sure, done. Thehelpfulone 19:12, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. If someonw will decide that i do smth controversial - please write in my talk page but i hope i will not do :) --Base (talk) 19:19, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Babel templates vs Extension:Babel

Hi. I propose to delete all these 100s of templates and move all babel-stuff to extension babel - it will prevent creating new senseless templates for all languages (up to 6 per language) and will allow to clean up wiki from existing ones. anyway, IMO, at least unused templates should be deleted (as {{User pt-5}}). Before moving to extension fully (if community will really decide it) or even if not bug as bugzilla:46489 (but obviously for this wiki) should be filed (it will allow the extension to categorize the same as templates do). What is a bit bad in this proposal - if community decides to do a full move then user-pages should be edited (manually or if someone will code - via bot). --Base (talk) 20:09, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

No need to delete templates, I've created MediaWiki:Babel-template in a way that makes them unused for those using babel; for thee others, I doubt we care, there's no need to find someone by language in categories and so on here unlike Meta or Commons. --Nemo 01:12, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

So even unused babel-templates, in your opinion, should be kept? Well, I think to have opportunity to find ones that speak a language is good even in such wikis as this one (for example to ask for translation of something or reviewing existing translation) and templates have this functionality - that's why I want extension to be not worse than templates are. --Base (talk) 15:24, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

If they aren't being used, I see no reason to keep them, especially if there is redundancy. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 03:01, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Sidebar/fr

If you all (especially fr-N ones) don't mind I will move translations to individual pages and delete this one. It is outdated now and seems it will be all the time since nobody cares to update it. --Base (talk) 15:10, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Sidebar/vi the same. --Base (talk) 09:42, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

I went ahead and deleted them, since it has been many days and you seem to have finished them all. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 02:47, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

user:Outreachwiki

I've banned this user although i havent found valid blocking reason for it within default reasons. Sorry if it's a mediawiki sofware or somestrange wmf actions. Anyway it should explain what it is. --Base (talk) 17:55, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

I'd say that was a good block. --Rschen7754 01:31, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

I am fine with it. Good transparency. Romaine (talk) 07:20, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Can we protect the "Translate" extension?

Following the clusterfuck of issues that I had with 115.67.4.93 (talk · contribs)'s edits, is there any way that we can set it up so that IP's cannot access this extension, because I spent a good half an hour trying to figure out how to clean up their edits on the extension (I also realized at the last minute that I could nuke the page, so that helped). Kevin Rutherford (talk) 03:48, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps, some sort of editfilters… But there are also anons that do useful stuff via the Extension so I'm not sure it should be done. --Base (talk) 11:59, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

They could register, although it isn't a huge problem that needs action any time soon, but it is a huge and complicated pain to fix. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 22:37, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Well, vandals have no problems with registration too. This huge set of spambots in here is a good example. --Base (talk) 22:21, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

I talked with another user before about whether it would be worth it to prevent registration here unless you're elsewhere, and it would knock down our spam problem a lot if it could be done successfully. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 23:06, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Translation#This_page

Take a look, please. --Base (talk) 11:57, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Template:Activities

Template:Activities, it's talk and translations: delete or historical interests? --Base (talk) 12:03, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Historical works, since it would allow for the history to be preserved if someone decides to restart it again. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 22:40, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Sprekers gevraagd voor Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland, Wikipediadag 2013

Voor zaterdag 2 november aanstaande hebben we onze jaarlijkse Wikimedia Conferentie gepland, onder de naam Wikipediadag. De Wikipediadag is een eendaags evenement voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in wiki’s en Wikimedia-projecten, zoals de online encyclopedie Wikipedia. De conferentie vindt plaats in Utrecht. We hopen net als voorgaande jaren boeiende sprekers te krijgen op tal van Wikipedia-gebieden. Voorgestelde thema's zijn: vrouwen & Wikipedia, samenwerken aan Wikipedia (lezers, bewerkers en moderatoren), vakgebieden: experts over hun vakgebied & Wikipedia, De achterkant van Wikipedia: techniek en portals, en Vrije licenties & ontwikkelingen in het auteursrecht. Het programma biedt mogelijkheden voor uiteenlopende initiatieven en ook voor korte bliksemsessies.

Wij nodigen iedereen met een interessant idee voor een presentatie, discussie, workshop, poster voor de postersessie of iets anders van harte uit om een voorstel in te sturen. De voertaal tijdens de conferentie is Nederlands, maar ook presentaties in het Engels zijn welkom.

Lees verder op http://www.wikimediaconferentie.nl/oproep-voor-sprekers/ Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 19:43, 17 June 2013 (UTC)