User talk:Billinghurst

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• av:Обсуждение шаблона:Link GA
• fy:Berjocht oerlis:Link GA
• hif:Template ke baat:Link GA
• gu:ઢાંચાની ચર્ચા:Link GA
• gu:ઢાંચાની ચર્ચા:Link FA
• krc:Шаблонну сюзюу:Link FA
• is:Sniðaspjall:Tengill GG
• koi:Обсуждение шаблона:Link FA
• an:Descusión plantilla:Destacato
• roa-rup:Template talk:Link FA
• yi:מוסטער רעדן:Link GA
• lbe:Шаблондалиясса ихтилат:Link FA
• za:模板讨论:Link FA
• az:Şablon müzakirəsi:Link FL
• war:Hiruhimangraw hiton batakan:Link GA
• war:Hiruhimangraw hiton batakan:Link FA
• ur:تبادلۂ خیال سانچہ:Link GA
• ur:تبادلۂ خیال سانچہ:Link FA
• ur:تبادلۂ خیال سانچہ:Link FL
• ay:Plantilla discusión:Link FA
• ks:فرما بَحَژ:Link FA
• lt:Šablono aptarimas:Link GA
• lt:Šablono aptarimas:Link FA
• ch:Template talk:Link FA
• diq:Şablon vaten:Link GA
• diq:Şablon vaten:Link FA
• ta:வார்ப்புரு பேச்சு:Link GA
• ta:வார்ப்புரு பேச்சு:Link FA
• rn:Template talk:Link FA
• arz:قالب:لينك مقاله جيده
• arz:قالب:Link GA
• arz:نقاش القالب:لينك مقاله جيده
• li:Euverlèk sjabloon:Link FA
• fiu-vro:Näüdüse arotus:Link FA
• bxr:Загбар хэлэлсэхэ:Link GA
• bxr:Загбар хэлэлсэхэ:Link FA
• ro:Discuție Format:Legătură AB
• ro:Discuție Format:Legătură AC
• he:שיחת תבנית:Link GA
• ko:틀토론:Link GA
• ko:틀토론:Link FA
• th:คุยเรื่องแม่แบบ:Link GA
• ja:Template‐ノート:Link GA
• ja:Template‐ノート:Link FA
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-- Magioladitis (talk) 11:10, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Done for the smaller communities, and left {{delete|orphaned talk page}} for the larger communities to manage.

Blocked

Why am I blocked?

I've done nothing and wanted to edit a wiki page for the first time.

Then i saw this:

" Deine IP-Adresse befindet sich in einem Bereich, der auf allen Wikis gesperrt ist.

Die Sperre wurde durchgeführt von Billinghurst (meta.wikimedia.org). Der angegebene Grund ist hosting on leaseweb.de; convert to softblock as users/VPN on range.

Beginn der Sperre: 13:48, 24. Mär. 2014 Ablauf der Sperre: 15:38, 22. Okt. 2017 Du kannst Billinghurst kontaktieren, um die Sperre zu diskutieren. Du kannst nicht die Funktion „E-Mail an diesen Benutzer“ benutzen, bis du eine gültige E-Mail-Adresse in deinen Benutzerkonteneinstellungen angegeben hast und du nicht daran gehindert wirst, diese Funktion zu verwenden. Deine aktuelle IP-Adresse ist 178.162.208.141 und der gesperrte Bereich ist 178.162.128.0/17. Bitte beziehe alle obigen Einzelheiten in all deinen Anfragen ein. "

Could you correct that?

THX— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 178.162.208.141 (talk)

It is a block that was added by another steward due to spam activity. I have previously softened the block so that users logged into their Wikimedia accounts can edit. If you do not have an account then you can create one at Special:CreateAccount.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:13, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Essay service/moving spammer back on Commons

Can you take a look at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Shirleyedna? I dealt with this same spam service as a CU 2+ years ago, and then on and off since. I was working on it earlier this year with Elcobbola and Herby, but neither looks to be active on Commons right now. The CU always came up with very spammy India ranges. I can't remember cross-wiki details. INeverCry 09:41, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

I cannot say anything about any detail or location. I can say trust your judgment and your memory. I started the nascent filter c:Special:AbuseFilter/145 which is set to track a couple of phrases. I have started a page at cuwiki (couldn't find one) and I have set a @Trijnstel:.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:31, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Seen and replied there as well. Trijnstel_talk 14:37, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Andrew, and thanks @Trijnstel: for handling the acct on Commons. It's so much faster and easier to bring this to people who know what they're doing. This spam service has usually been pretty clever: to get around spam filters on Commons, they upload images, and then come back and add spammy links to the descriptions. I never recorded the earlier essay-writing accts, but some of the moving spam accts can be seen at c:Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/BBBMoving. INeverCry 19:05, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #184

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
  • Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
  • Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
  • Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
  • Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
  • Newest WikiProjects: Education
  • Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
  • Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
• Development
  • Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
  • Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
  • Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
  • Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
  • Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
  • Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Reminder: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 15 December

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

I wanted to follow-up on an message I sent you in September regarding the need for you to sign a confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) in order to maintain your access from Wikimedia to nonpublic information.

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) to retain their access. You are receiving this message because you have access to nonpublic information and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015, you will lose your access to nonpublic information.

Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

If you have any questions or experience any problems while signing the new agreement, please visit this talk page or email me (gvarnumwikimedia.org). Again, please sign this confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) to retain your access to nonpublic information. If you do not wish to retain this access, please let me know and we will forward your request to the appropriate individuals.

Thank you,
Gregory Varnum (User:GVarnum-WMF), Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 20:17, 16 November 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Filter 46

Another title: Татарников Александер (diezel . sun). Now our friend has used an account: Сабир8 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date ^{(alt • mw)} • CA • gblock • xwiki blocks • SC • lwcheckuser) Regards.--Syum90 (talk) 11:04, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Now our other friend

Title: w:tw:Davad Ramezani Regards.--Syum90 (talk) 14:46, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

@Syum90: Thanks. I have updated the title blacklist regex for the user for the variation that you have shown; and removed the lead letter for the abuse filter to grab other variations that he may attempt.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:24, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Another title

Javad Ȑamezani. Regards.--Syum90 (talk) 16:32, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

The filter detected the addition of a link, but not the page creation.--Syum90 (talk) 16:52, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

wikimedia commons photo BLOCK QUESTION

As a beginner wishing to upload for the November photo contest "windows", I've encountered your block page, but have no idea how to use it, or what it's for.

BEGINNERS MIND is a helpful perspective. A few instructions might be in order?

Many thanks!

~eric. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.44.109.225 (talk)

It is a block that another placed, and I softened. To edit you will need to login to your Wikimedia account. If you do not currently have an account then you can create one at Special:CreateAccount  — billinghurst sDrewth 13:21, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Selfie Shoes Vandal

Hi Billinghurst, I see you have some level of involvement/understanding related to Title blacklist. I'm unsure of its scope and syntax, so I hope you might be able to assist with blacklisting new user accounts and files which simultaneously contain "selfie" and "shoe(s)" in response to several months of abuse from Fritella (aka the selfie shoes vandal). For additional reference see here and Checkuser-l from ca. 30. September/1. October. This primarily impacts the Commons, if there is a local (rather than meta) step to take, please let me know. Thanks, Эlcobbola _talk 16:39, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

@Elcobbola: Done Special:Diff/14727462. For files you are better to add them locally to c:Mediawiki:Titleblacklist as it is only new account names that have global only effect, for the obvious reasons of SUL.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:51, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Help

Can you help me with bad transclude.--Bacria Andrei Catalin (talk) 11:42, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Done I have transcluded the page, though not fully knowing the setup, and not the time to look further, it will do for Ruslan's viewing.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:51, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you!--Bacria Andrei Catalin (talk) 11:56, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #185

Wikidata weekly summary #114

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
  • Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
  • More mixin’, more matches
  • Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
  • Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
  • Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
  • Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
  • Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
  • MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
  • What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
  • You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
  • Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
  • Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
• Development
  • Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
  • Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
  • Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
  • Decreased size of html of item pages
  • Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
  • More work on making the search on mobile work
  • Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
  • Fixing size of table of content on mobile
  • Prevented merging of items which link to each other
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:28, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

My school's ip address is blocked.

I don't know why our ip address is blocked, I was just going to make a wiki account, and it said that our ip address was blocked on July 12, 2013, and it expires on September 12, 2017. I don't know if it was someone in our school that did something bad, but it isn't really fair to the rest of the students. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.31.101.3 (talk)

as the text "Caught by a global block?" above says please take unblock requests to SRG. FWIW if it was a 5yr block and my name is against it, my action will have to have softened a block by another steward. It would usually allow you to create an account locally via special:createaccount  — billinghurst sDrewth 21:13, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #186

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Koavf
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
  • Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
  • Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
  • Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
  • WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
  • Workshop i Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
  • New daily report on Mix'n'match
  • Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
  • French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
  • New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
  • A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
  • Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
  • Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
  • example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
• Development
  • Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
  • Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
  • Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
  • Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
  • Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:02, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

URGENT: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 15 December

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

I wanted to follow-up on an message I sent you in September regarding the need for you to sign a confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) in order to maintain your access from Wikimedia to nonpublic information.

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) to retain their access. You are receiving this message because you have access to nonpublic information and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015, you will lose your access to nonpublic information.

Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

If you have any questions or experience any problems while signing the new agreement, please visit this talk page or email me (gvarnumwikimedia.org). Again, please sign this confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) to retain your access to nonpublic information. If you do not wish to retain this access, please let me know and we will forward your request to the appropriate individuals.

Thank you,
Gregory Varnum (User:GVarnum-WMF), Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 22:12, 1 December 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

I notice a long time cross wiki abuse

see here: Steward requests/Global#Global block for cross wiki Japanese characters added abuse. it's a cross wiki vandalism only IP, please block him immediately because this mad man add lots of no meanful Japanese characters in hundreds of wiki project again and again, he was even blocked in his native language's wp. in addition, please set zh-classical:二〇一五年 and hak:2015-ngièn semi-protected, he very like to vandal these articles.--122.90.107.89 14:37, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Berechtigungsfehler

Guten Tag!

Überrascht von obiger Nachricht darf ich folgendes festhalten:

Mein Name: Michael [redacted]

Ersuche daher um Aufhebung der Sperre. Wollte ursprünglich ein Konto bei Wikipedia eröffnen und zur Unterstützung monatlich eine Spende per Dauerauftrag bei meiner Bank veranlassen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen!

Michael [redacted] — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.106.243.140 (talk)

Hello Michael. I am not sure of the message that you are trying to pass on. I would like to suggest that you email stewardswikimedia.org and give a full explanation, and hopefully some links to the matter. We will get one of our Germans-peaking stewards to assist you.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:56, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Also please do not put name and contact details onto the internet. It is a bad idea and a security risk.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:57, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

What future IdeaLab campaigns would you like to see?

Hi there,

I’m Jethro, and I’m seeking your help in deciding topics for new IdeaLab campaigns that could be run starting next year. These campaigns aim to bring in proposals and solutions from communities that address a need or problem in Wikimedia projects. I'm interested in hearing your preferences and ideas for campaign topics!

Here’s how to participate:

• Learn more about this consultation
• Vote on and submit new campaign topics in the AllOurIdeas Survey
• Discuss campaign topics and ask questions on the IdeaLab talk page

Take care,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 03:33, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Warum gesperrt?

Du hast mich gesperrt. Beginn der Sperre: 13:48, 24. Mär. 2014 Warum? 178.162.216.30 10:48, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

I don't know your account name to be able to comment whether you are locked. I can see that there is a soft block on the IP range, and if you wish to edit you will need to login to your wikimedia account. If you don't have an account, then please create one at Special:CreateAccount.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:51, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Global bans policy

Most people commenting & voting on Global bans are from Wikipedia, and/or from wikis where the to-be-banned person is already indef-blocked (by virtue of sheer editor numbers, & the required motivation behind requesting that someone be globally banned). Currently, it's very easy for admins from said wikis with an agenda (e.g. who want to silence their critics) to gang up and pile on votes to have their targets banned from projects they have never even edited in. This shouldn't be allowed. Wouldn't the principle "one wiki, one vote" be more reasonable & democratic wiki-wise? What do you think? ~ DanielTom (talk) 01:44, 6 December 2015 (UTC)