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• Thursday, 13 March 2014, 1600 UTC
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Back?

Are you back or just checking in? PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:25, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey, just checking in, still far too busy IRL at present to be able to be back regularly unfortunately! Thehelpfulone 22:11, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Rosetta barnstar

		The Meta-Wiki Rosetta barnstar 2013
		For being among the top 40 Meta-Wiki translators in 2013, with over 500 translation units edits! Well, not many of those actual translations I guess, but let's call translation admin work a subclass. ;) If I knew all the Wikimedia languages I'd also compliment you for how spot-on your translations are, but I must leave that to your language colleagues. :) Cheers, Nemo 21:51, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

@Nemo bis:, thanks, yes I wonder how much of this was helped by good old AWB! Thehelpfulone 21:52, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Please test the new feature Special:PageMigration

As a Google Summer of Code Intern, I have been working on the Mass Migration tools project for Wikimedia. We are now ready with a minimal working product. The tool helps translators and translation administrators import the old translations into the Translate Extension.

An instance of the same has been set up on labs. You can find some useful instructions on the main page.

Please test the tool and report bugs/suggestions using the link provided on the main page itself. You can have a look at the tracking bug to check already reported bugs.

Looking forward to hearing from you! Cheers. BPositive (talk) 14:33, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Re:Meta:Requests for translation adminship/Fabsouza1

Thank you very much. If I'm granted with the flag, I'll do the best work that I can. Best regards. - Fabsouza1 (talk) 14:17, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

@Fabsouza1: You're most welcome! Presuming you're granted the flag, I can put you in contact with some of the existing translation admins here on Meta - I've been away for sometime so am still getting back into the swing of things, but I imagine we've still got a lot of stuff that needs converting from the old translation system, for example. Thehelpfulone 14:20, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

@Thehelpfulone: I've been working on these migrations there in the MediaWiki site. So hard, but very good views at the end of process. - Fabsouza1 (talk) 14:35, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

This is just to say...

We miss you! Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 00:00, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Aww, thanks! Well I've got more free time now that it's the summer so I should be around more often, and I'll also be at Wikimania this year - I hope to see you there? Thehelpfulone 00:01, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Absolutely! :) Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 00:12, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

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Thank you :)

Thank you, Thehelpfulone, for working with me on {{template:navigation}}. I've made the same tweaks over at Outreach wiki for consistency. I really really appreciate your persistence in getting this updated and improving it in the process. Anna Koval (WMF) (talk) 16:08, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

An important message about renaming users

Dear Thehelpfulone,

I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.

Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.

Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 18:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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Wikimedia-l moderation

There is an e-mail in the moderation queue of the Wikimedia-l mailing list that requires your attention. (And another one that would welcome your input.) Thanks, odder (talk) 13:45, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

The e-mail that I sent to Wikimedia-l is this one. I just got an automated reply from the moderators:

Your request to the Wikimedia-l mailing list

    Posting of your message titled "Help fund a macro lens for a
Commons contributor"

has been rejected by the list moderator.  The moderator gave the
following reason for rejecting your request:

"Your message was deemed inappropriate by the moderator."

Any questions or comments should be directed to the list administrator
at:

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I would like to know why my e-mail was deemed inappropriate and was rejected. odder (talk) 15:22, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello

Saw your edits in the RC feed in #wikimedia-otrs and was glad to see a username from way back :P, so I had to stop by and say hello to a fellow OTRS agent, really good to see you're around :) Cheers, Mlpearc (open channel) 05:42, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Mlpearc! It's great to see you around too, I hope you've been keeping well - as you've probably noticed from my editing activity I've been busy! Thehelpfulone 20:29, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Updated scripts

Hi Thehelpfulone. I edited your global.js to update you to the latest version of force ltr, which is compatible with the latest MediaWiki changes and resides on the Wikimedia Tool Labs for easier updates. I noticed the script was disabled, so I left it disabled. If you decide to try out the new version, let me know if anything breaks. :) —Pathoschild 00:37, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

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