User talk:K6ka/Archives/2019/May

Latest comment: 5 years ago by MediaWiki message delivery in topic The Signpost: 31 May 2019

Happy birthday!

Was just passing by. Have a good one! Pilaz (talk) 22:32, 2 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Hey

What's up — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.255.195.133 (talk) 12:59, 3 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2019 special circular

 
Administrators must secure their accounts

The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.

View additional information

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:59, 4 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

— Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery (talkcontribs) 22:22, 3 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

  Arbitration

  • In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
  • Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

  Miscellaneous


This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2019)

Hello, K6ka.

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Production logo

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16:27, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2019)

 
Sashimi at a restaurant
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Sashimi

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00:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Call for submissions for the Community Growth space at Wikimania 2019

Welcome to a special newsletter from the Growth team! This special newsletter is not about Wikimedia Foundation Growth team projects. Instead, it is a call for submissions for the Community Growth space at Wikimania 2019. We think that many people who receive this newsletter may have something valuable to contribute to this space at Wikimania. We haven't translated the newsletter, because Wikimania's language is English.

Please see below for the message from the organizers of the Community Growth space at Wikimania.

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Wikimania 2019 is organized into 19 “spaces”, which are all accepting proposals for sessions. This message comes from the team organizing the Community Growth space.

Since you are interested b Growth team projects, and potentially involved in welcoming newcomers initiatives on your wiki, we would like to invite you to submit a proposal to the Community Growth space because of the actions you’ve done around newcomers on wikis. The deadline for submission is June 1. See below for Community Growth submission topics and session formats. Topics and sessions have to be in English.

In the Community Growth space, we will come together for discussions, presentations, and workshops that address these questions:

  • What is and is not working around attracting and retaining newcomers?
  • How should Wikimedia activities evolve to help communities grow and flourish?
  • How should our technology and culture evolve to help new populations to come online, participate and become community members?

Recommended topics: please see this link for the list for the list of recommended topics. If you do not plan to submit a proposal, you can also suggest additional topics here. If your topic does not fit into our space, remember that there are 18 other spaces that could welcome you sharing your knowledge and perspective.

Types of session. We prefer sessions that are participatory, interactive, promote conversations, and give a voice to parts of our movement that are heard less often. Please see this link for the list of recommended session formats.

Poster submissions. Posters are also a good way to introduce a topic, or show some results of an action. Please consider submitting one!

More information about the Community Growth space, topics, and submission formats is available on the proposal page.

Please submit your proposal. The reviews will happen at the beginning of June.

If you have questions about Wikimania in general, please ask them on the Wikimania wiki.

On behalf of the Community Growth leadership team, Trizek (WMF), 11:44, 16 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Hello K6ka

Hello K6ka You can add my edits to this page Thanks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Anontools/ipv6

you cann see my edit in sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Anontools/ipv6/sandbox — Preceding unsigned comment added by AAMINE1965 (talkcontribs) 21:56, 16 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

AAMINE1965, please file an edit request for the template explaining why you want to make your changes. You can do this by editing the page in question and then clicking on "Submit an edit request". —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 02:04, 17 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Hi k6ka

Have some Flax seed. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:39, 17 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2019)

 
Ancient Greek letters painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup
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Letter (alphabet)

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13:03, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Iammuktisubedi

I am reviewing the unblock request of Iammuktisubedi, and I was wondering what objections, if any, you might have to unblocking them. They state that they were making nonsense edits to get past the 30/500 block. 331dot (talk) 13:16, 24 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

@331dot: I have no particular objections, trusting your judgement should you choose to unblock. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 03:15, 25 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2019)

Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Josephine Bornebusch

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15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Wainathan Cligne

Hi. I saw that you put a welcome message on new user Wainathan Cligne's Talk page. This user's only edits so far have been to insert an unreferenced assertion into the article West Side Story (2020 film) *three times*. I reverted and asked for a source (btw, no such thing has been announced, so no sources will be found to confirm the assertion), and the editor has edit warred to continue to make the change in the article without any ref. Can you help, please? -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:14, 25 May 2019 (UTC)!Reply

@Ssilvers: I left them a {{Uw-unsourced1}}. I welcomed them because they appeared on WP:CHUS to ask for a username change, which I granted (I usually issue a welcome message if I see their talk page is a redlink). —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:09, 25 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. I hope they learn about WP:V, WP:EDIT WAR and WP:CIVIL! -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:10, 25 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Wainathan Cligne is continuing to edit war and make personal attacks on editors. Would you please take a look? -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:27, 30 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
I have left them another message on their talk page. However, it may be worth at least starting a thread on the talk page of the article and invite them to leave an explanation there, since they wrote a pretty lengthy edit summary here, so they do seem willing to talk. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 00:50, 30 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Now he is making the same changes using an anonymous sockpuppet. -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:14, 30 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Looks like someone else blocked them. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 10:35, 30 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 31 May 2019