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How come my comment to this blog hasn't shown up? Rich Farmbrough 20:48 21 March 2016 (GMT).

@Ed Erhart (WMF): Rich Farmbrough 21:30 21 March 2016 (GMT).

Hi Rich Farmbrough, sorry for the delay—I never got that ping (I even just doublechecked). Unfortunately, I can't tell you why your comment hasn't shown up as I can't find it. If we moderated the comment, it would still be in our recycle bin (and it isn't). There is a chance that you tripped the auto spam filter, but that's a lot of comments to scroll through, as we get a lot of spam. Would you like to submit the comment again? Let me know when you do and I'll be sure it gets through. Best, Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 22:04, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

I submitted a second (shorter) attempt earlier today. I will notify you if I try a third time. Rich Farmbrough 22:07 5 April 2016 (GMT).

On the completion suggester post, right? I have no record of the comment—even after going through six pages of spam comments from the last seven hours. The most recent comment I have from a Rich Farmbrough was on 10 March 2015, which was actually manually unspammed. Can you try using a different email address, perhaps? I'm really sorry that this is happening to you—I can honestly say that this has not occurred before and that I don't know what's happening. Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 03:48, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

@Ed Erhart (WMF): I had forgotten that... I said that WMF might not have standing in the upcoming NSA case...

Comment posted for reference it is:

Kyrgystan has taken readers direct to Kyrgyzstan since 2002, so it is perhaps not the best example!

On a tangential note, one can leave a comment using Wordpress, Twitter or Facebook identities, why not using OAuth (Wikipedia identity)?

And should the license be upgraded to CC BY-SA-4.0?

All the best, Rich Farmbrough 12:56 6 April 2016 (GMT).

Oh, one more thing, the very top comment to the NSA blog entry is click/link-spam, recycling the last paragraph of my earlier comment. Rich Farmbrough 13:23 6 April 2016 (GMT).

Found it, and it was in spam—I'm a little disappointed that a search for "Rich Farmbrough" didn't bring it up, but "Farmbrough" and "Kyrgyzstan" did. As I don't have a whitelist, I've instead added "Farmbrough" to a list that gets auto-moderated, meaning that it should go into a "pending" queue that I will get notifications from. If this doesn't work when you comment next, please ping me directly on my talk page with a keyword or two from your comment and I will approve it manually.

My best guess is that something long before my time caused one of your comments to be marked as spam (you've been having to be unspammed since at least 2012), so now the system automatically bins it. I've approved one other comment of yours to the unique devices post, and I trashed the shorter version of your Kyrgyzstan comment. Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 18:40, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, Rich Farmbrough 00:32 7 April 2016 (GMT).

WikiProject Language samples

Hi, I want to propose a new Project:

The goal of the WikiProject Language samples is to add an audio speech sample to each Wikipedia article about a languages. Therefore I propose to record the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in as many languages as possible. I already got more than 60 recordings and they are already used in the german Wikipedia.
Take a look and support if you like the idea. -- MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 19:24, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Anxiously awaiting TLH and JBO, but for the commonscat. Be..anyone (talk) 10:26, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Pursuing and disturbing with Vadgt

Hi Wikipedians. I have problem with user Vadgt. He disturbed me about Armenian Wikipedia in my Meta discussion page (see 1, 2, 3). Please, help me for solving this issue. Meta is not Armenian Wikipedia. And Wikieditors must not pursue. --Arman musikyan (talk) 05:56, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Translatable page

Hi folks! I'm right now trying to edit a draft to the WF's official blog. I would like to make that draft translatable for easily translate, but I just can't. I know one should use the tag <translate> and </translate>. I tried, but it just don't works for me. Can someone explain it to me?--Sahaquiel9102 (talk) 17:22, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

@Sahaquiel9102: Hey Sahaquiel. I've had a difficult time with the translation tags as well in the past, but maybe I can still help here a bit. Can you point me to your draft? I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 21:27, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

@I JethroBT (WMF): Hi! I tried to make the draft translatable but it wasn't possible. The draft was already published in the blog. Finally I separated the languages with submenus. --Sahaquiel9102 (talk) 02:23, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Addition to the interwiki map

Hi,

I am asked to get some user feedback on the proposal to add Vikidia to the Interwiki map. Would you let a word about it ? Thanks ! Astirmays (talk) 19:42, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Follow-up to Talk:Interwiki_map#Vikidia, the procedure is intentionally low profile and slow (weeks or months). Be..anyone (talk) 05:22, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata problem?

If you are on fr.wikipedia.org and search for 'Ficinus', the results from Wikidata at the bottom include a link to www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11741307, a location in Poland. Although the Wikidata French translation for Location is indeed Lieu (www.wikidata.org/wiki/Translations:Wikidata:List_of_properties/Geographical_feature/42/fr), the search results are labelled 'Location à Pologne'. Why 'Location' instead of 'Lieu'? Urhixidur (talk) 20:42, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

i18n on WikiData is tricky, a better place for your question might be the WikiData project chat. Be..anyone (talk) 05:39, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

We should modify the layout of the donatons page

We should merge the matching gifts page with the donations page. The current layout of the donation page is pretty ugly considering we are asking for money and linking the two could substantially increase the amount of donations the WMF receives. I have edited here for years and I didn't even know about the matching funds page until today. Reguyla (talk) 20:08, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

I see there is also Ways to Give that could also be somehow worked into that, which not only has a link to matching gifts but also a bunch of other stuff as well. This page isn't as attractive as it could be either IMO. Are we really still taking bitcoins? I'm surprised this doesn't list Linden. Reguyla (talk) 20:31, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Pinging Pcoombe (WMF) and Khorn (WMF). I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 21:30, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks I JethroBT (WMF), may I recommend something a little cleaner like this page. Reguyla (talk) 23:01, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

@Reguyla: Thanks for the feedback! In common with many fundraisers we've found that every link we add to the donation page and the banners reduces the number of people completing a donation. So for that reason we do try and keep extra links to a minimum. We do inform people about the opportunity for matching their gift on the Thank You page after they have made a donation, and also in the email receipt that we send.

As for Ways to Give, that really is just there to cover the whole variety of methods people can use to donate. We don't get a huge amount of traffic on that page, although in the next few months I hope to do some experiments with it. And yes, we still accept bitcoin, it's not my preferred method but some people definitely like it! Peter Coombe (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 20:12, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

@Pcoombe (WMF): Thanks for the quick response. No worries, it's just a suggestion. I do think it's kinda funny that the Thank you page is more attractive than the request for donation page. Reguyla (talk) 20:33, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed user

Rights not yet see requests for Requests for comment. --BasBibi (talk) 04:34, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

This is apparently about Extended confirmed users on enwiki, but what's the problem here on Meta? –Be..anyone (talk) 05:57, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

WMF licensing policy, copyvio and vandalism in closed Wikipedias

wmf:Resolution:Licensing policy is in force since 2007-03-23 and asks for clean-up until 2008-03-27. Eight years later:

ListFiles	Count
mo:Special:ListFiles	31
ng:Special:ListFiles	1
cho:Special:ListFiles	2
mh:Special:ListFiles	2
ii:Special:ListFiles	3

Several possible file copyvios and several vandalised files exist in these Wikipedias. Easiest way would be to simply remove the 39 local files - there are more than 30 000 000 files in Commons to choose from. 91.9.115.36 13:12, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Most seem unfree, but a few ones do not seem so. ii:文件:XichangShi.png has a GFDL-self license, mh:File:Breadfruit.JPG is a “Picture taken by Kowloonese on the island of Hawai’i” so I'd ask Kowloonese (which is barely active, but not completely gone) for a proper license, etc. After moving to commons all those that can be moved, yes. I think the local files should be removed. Platonides (talk) 14:24, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Re ii: the tag on ii:File:XichangShi.png, uploaded 2006, is GDFL-self(!). That might be a false claim. The map does not highlight Xichang Shi, for which even Chinese Wikipedia uses another file, but highlights en:Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and adds a small dot, maybe for the Shi. commons:File:Liangshan.png seems to be the source and is contained in commons:Category:Locator maps of Sichuan. It shows the Prefecture, not the Shi. All lines and the file dimensions match, except for white text and dot. Re mh: The Bredfruit.JPG, uploaded 2007, is marked by the software to be a duplicate of commons:File:Artocarpus altilis.jpg. 91.9.115.36 17:50, 8 April 2016 (UTC)