User talk:Eloquence

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bs.wiki

Hallo Erik. Wir haben vor kurzem auf der bs.wiki den Sichterstatus eingeführt. Komischerweise zeigt die Software aber keine Rufzeichen wie ich es von der de.wiki gewohnt bin.
The following groups have been added to bswiki:

'bswiki' => array(
'patroller' => array( 'patrol' => true ),
'autopatrolled' => array( 'autopatrol' => true ),
'rollbacker' => array( 'rollback' => true ),
),  

Also, the Bureaucrats are the only ones able to assign or unassign these groups.
Patrolled, Autopatrolled und Rollback wurden auf true gesetzt. Sind bei der Mediawikisoftware noch irgendwelche Änderungen nötig? Falls es zu zeitaufwendig ist und du keine Zeit hast, vielleicht könntest mir wen sagen der es machen könnte? Ansonsten falls es nur paar Klicks sind, darf ich dich bitten? :)) THX im Voraus. --Seha 15:06, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Fuer FlaggedRevs-Fragen am besten User:Voice of All kontaktieren. Er ist der Hauptentwickler der Extension.--Eloquence 01:03, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Danke! --Seha 18:39, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Entschuldige dass ich nochmals störe aber VoA reagiert nicht, gibt es noch wen? --Seha 06:48, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Bug 19280: PDF generator license terms should reflect dual license

You may be interested in bugzilla:19280. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:42, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Opt-out aus dem Licensing update

Hallo Erik, auf Commons ist ein opt-out aus dem Licensing update diskutiert worden, das momentan implementiert wird. Ich habe bereits auf Wikimedia_Forum#Opting_out_of_the_licensing_update nachgefragt, ob das überhaupt zulässig ist, da ich in der Entscheidung der Foundation keine Hinweise auf ein opt-out gefunden habe. Ich würde mich freuen, wenn du mir das beantworten könntest. Danke und beste Grüße, --ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 13:43, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Email

I just dropped you an email (to the address listed on your user page). This is just in case you missed it, which you probably didn't, but hey... Jarry1250 08:44, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

User page on en:

Semi-protect it ? 41.145.124.178 07:31, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :-). --Eloquence 01:55, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello,

In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2009. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before 2009-10-9. Kind regards, —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 15:12, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

File upload without licence

Hi. Could you add the license to the files that you have uploaded to meta. Thanks.Crochet.david 07:41, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Which files are you referring to? Files uploaded when the upload form had a "I agree to license under GFDL" checkbox can be assumed to be under GFDL.--Eloquence 19:14, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

This file.Crochet.david 20:08, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Usurped ja:User:Eloquence

Hello, Eloquence! I am ja:User:Kanjy, a bureaucrat of Japanese Wikipedia. As per your request, I usurped ja:User:Eloquence, which had been taken by an abuser. Cheers! --Kanjy 07:24, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. :-) --Eloquence 01:24, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Credo

Hi Erik, How do I ping Credo? Regards, SunCreator 04:05, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, it's now done :) SunCreator 00:30, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

HTML question

Good day to you. Myself (User:Kumioko from the English Wikipedia) and a couple of other editors (at least a couple that I know of) are attempting to do various things within wikipedia and I was informed that you were the one to pose an HTML question too. We would like to be able to build things that contain multiple input boxes, which is currently not possible. In my case I am in the beginning stages of creating an article creator that would allow users (particularly inexperienced ones) with creating article relating to military biographies. Another editor is attempting a similar task for diseases (he is the one I got the idea from). IN my case I would like to pose a series of questions such as What is the name of the person for the article they are creating, when they were born, where they were born etc so that after 10 to 15 questions they can create a basic article with the information of the individual. Please let me know what you think of the idea and if possible a way to accomplish it. --138.162.8.58 16:18, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

"Researcher" User Permissions on en.wiki

Hello Erik, I was curious about obtaining the "researcher" user permission on en.wiki in order to support my academic work. I contacted user DarTar, seemingly the only permission to obtain the permission, and he pointed me your way. My en.wiki user-page should be sufficient to show my good intentions. I have developed an anti-vandalism tool for Wikipedia and have academic publications on the topic (including one upcoming at WikiSym). Thanks, -AW, 98.225.152.76 13:16, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Hello there,

it's a bit silly for WMF to be a bottleneck for these requests, so I've started a discussion about developing a community process for granting this set of permissions, at w:Wikipedia talk:Research. I'd prefer to put your request on hold until we've figured this out, and use you as a guinea pig - sorry for the inconvenience.--Eloquence 02:27, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, west.andrew.g

Reports, here and on wmf:

Hello Erik, thanks for your comments. I agree that duplication isn't useful, and simply want more and more detailed summaries and visualizations of what we are up to. By that I mean what all Wikimedians are doing, not just the Foundation. So I find it productive to put energy into consolidating that information; among other things it puts the Foundation's work in perspective and keeps it from becoming isolated. If we were only to publish WMF reports in a single language on a locked website, that might lead to chapters to doing the same, which wouldn't make for a very connected wikiverse.

You are right that we need more translation of important reports. I will see what I can do to get the Gardner Report and the similarly regular and extensive WM:DE reports translated for a start. –SJ · talk | translate 03:55, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Quantitative study of pending changes

As there is a lack of data regarding the risks / benefits of pending changes I have proposed a trail here. Any feedback? [1] --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:06, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

PD-Art Template

Hi Erik, Would you be so kind as to look over my comments at Commons:Template_talk:PD-Art#Correction_of_false_statement_on_this_template to see if I have my facts and assumptions correct. It relates to a contribution you made to the PD-Art debate on Commons and as this template is linked to a huge number of files I believe it is particularly important that the text is scrupulously accurate. 9carney 21:30, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Input Box Height

Dear Erik, About Input Box Height I really want to change the height of inputbox，I only know to change the width， can you help me？Can you send it to my email.I am from China，my hotmail is jackerda@hotmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.75.29.150 (talk • contribs) 05:27, 9 December 2010

I came here to ask the same thing, really - if it is possible to use an inputbox (to search, or whatever) with a different size or font - I discovered that HTML allows it by changing font, e.g. <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" STYLE="width:400; height:150; font-size: 5em">, however it does not appear to be possible to pass such information through mw:Extension:InputBox, as far as I can tell? Chzz 23:06, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Test bed for the ReaderFeedback extension

Hi. Your comments would be helpful in the discussion here. Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ 10:26, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposals for more female editors

Aren't you in a conflict of interest when you remove proposals which, if approved, would be more work for you? Can we agree to keep all the proposals visible with specific rationales for and against? I realized after we spoke that in response to the California Chapter grant proposal you stated that you lacked confidence in my ability, which is specifically in contradiction with your statement that you are confident that I can accomplish the necessary work. Whichever end of that spectrum is true, I am certain that Yaron Koren is the more efficient and experienced choice to upgrade the Quiz Extension to GIFT. James Salsman 21:04, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

James, having read your proposals that were removed, they all seem either unrelated to being welcoming to female editors, or easily misinterpreted as being offensive along gender lines. Please don't assume conflict of interest! The talk page seems to be a better place for discussion of those and other controversial proposals. –SJ · talk | translate 21:38, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

SJ, it is one thing to say that they seem unrelated, but specific rationales have been stated and linked to for all of them, both on the Gendergap list and/or the talk page. So far, there has been no discussion addressing those reasons. When Erik deleted the proposals he didn't like, he did so with a vague edit summary without any specific reasons, and referring to a talk page discussion which didn't even mention some of the items he deleted, and which objected most strongly to some of the items which he did not delete. I intend to restore all of them in a tabular format so we can keep track of the rationales both for and against each. Which proposal(s) are you saying can be misinterpreted as being offensive? James Salsman 22:15, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm not discounting the value of your intellectual approach, James. You have an unusual mind which may surface sides of a problem most people are unlikely to see. At the same time, you also tend to jump to conclusions with a high degree of confidence and specificity. I don't think the highly specific items that you added to the list are helpful to others who are trying to address the issue of female participation -- they will be seen as confusing, unrelated, and will lead to people discounting the page as pointless (as Ironholds did). If you wish for that to continue, by all means add them back -- the result will be that it will become James Salsman's page, and people will ignore it. On the other hand, if you want to influence people's perspective, I suggest taking a more step-by-step approach, and focusing on the discussion page on larger themes such as the relationship between gender, income, and access to technology, and implications this may have for growth especially in developing countries, without prescribing highly specific solutions.--Eloquence 01:27, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Why do you say that ideas associated with my name will be ignored? Fred B. spent a lot of effort trying to attribute all of the ideas -- including others' -- to me too,[2][3] and I would really like to understand the dynamic here, or avoid it altogether and go back to (my substantially more successful, so far) practice of editing meta as an IP. I agree there needs to be a better way to clearly explain how all of the proposals relate to support for women, but I have explained these things in detail before. It's interesting to me that Ironholds brought up the restrictions on UK charities' political activity because helping the UK chapter to attain charitable status is one of the main reasons I proposed low stakes assessment content questions a year and a half ago.[4] In accordance with Carol's wishes to brainstorm first and cull the wheat from the chaff later I do intend to restore visibility of all the proposals. With luck I will do a better job summarizing the rationales instead of just linking to explanations elsewhere. James Salsman 04:47, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

• To poke my head in, the problems WMUK is having with charitable status are actually unrelated to any political activities. Engaging in political activities would, however, rather shut the door to some degree :P. Ironholds 10:56, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Spanish edition

Hi, Erik. I´ve been expelled from the Spanish edition unfairly. Many of my articles have been deleted because of alleged plagiarism, which is false and it can be proved. I started collaborating with wikipedia several years ago, and at the beginning I didn´t know the rules very well. Unwittingly, I made some mistakes with references and I was correcting them when Ecemaml (the administrator´s name) expelled me. There are many complaints about this administrator, even a blog about him, but nobody does anything. In general, thousands of good/correct articles are deleted. Others, are admitted in different editions (English, French, etc) and deleted from the Spanish one, alleging "lack of relevance". The rest of administrators obey Ecemaml´s commands and they don´t say a word. I think that wikipedia´s spirit should be inclusive. Could you please intervene? Thank you. --81.9.232.137 16:06, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Extension:InputBox

Hi Elquence . I want to ask you about Extension:InputBox , is there is a way to change the color of its button . --Mohamed Ouda 21:28, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Game

A discussion about improving Wikipedia's help documentation inspired an idea--tutorials would be best if they were interactive and immersive. The thought of a learning-teaching game came up, one based on a real interface with realistic 'missions'. Would you be interested in providing some feedback or helping work on it, or know some editors who might? The idea is just getting started and any assistance with the help/policy side, the experienced-editor side, or the coding/game-making side would be great. Cheers, Ocaasi 04:05, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the links, Erik

Been a long-time fan of your work, I think this is one of the first times I've bumped into each other directly, so-- good work! We should be telling you and Sue that all the time, but being human, we focus too much on the "needs improvement" side of things.

Do we know where this text came from? Did Anthere write it ex nihilo or is it based on some other document? --Alecmconroy 04:53, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikilove

Hi Eric,

This is rather trivial, but since the announcement gave some light to the Wikilove page on the prototype site, there is an IP who in the past few days has been trying (three times so far) to insert an unrelated russian link to the demo page. You may want to consider semi-protecting, at least for a bit.

Regards, Popo le Chien 07:16, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Translator, We need you!

Dear Eloquence,

You have helped us in previous years with translations and for that we are most grateful. Now we turn towards the 2011/12 fundraiser. It may seem forever away, but work has already begun getting everything ready to go. This year we want to have landing pages covering as many countries in as many languages as possible.

Right now, we want to figure out who is interested in translating for the fundraiser. This year we're hoping to have more of a solidified "core" group of translators that we can count on to have work done by a few key dates, but we'd also welcome help from people who are willing to just help out when they can.

If you would be interested please take a look at this little sign-up survey and fill it out http://survey.wikimedia.org/index.php?sid=13638&newtest=Y&lang=en. With that we can start building a list of people and filling any gaps in the languages we serve.

Many Thanks

Joseph Seddon (User:Jseddon (WMF))

Production Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Jseddon (WMF) 00:49, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

for those links. Add more whenever you want :-) Sue Gardner 20:39, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Flagged Revisions

Bitte mit der Diskussion nochmal befassen, bevor das Update live geht. Es liegen Datenschutzbedenken vor. --Matthiasb 10:56, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello,

In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2011. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before October 10, 2011. Kind regards, vvv^t 17:04, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Coding challenges centralnotice

Just pointing out that the banner texts for the coding challenges mention "Wikipedia" coders, and the CentralNotice/Calendar says that the banner will run for all projects, including non-Wikipedia projects, in case you want to fix this, by either changing it to {PROJECTNAME} or "Wikimedia", or change it to not run on non-Wikipedia projects... --Yair rand 79.182.206.55 08:21, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Coding challenge idea

I think the first coding challenge should be writing a translation queue/update system that doesn't suck. ;-) --MZMcBride 02:10, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Who could leave a kind note...

Hi! I have noticed that vi-wiki host quite a few unused non-free files and I asked them twice to delete it. So far there is no response. I really do not know who to ask. Perhaps you or someone else from the office could leave a kind note and inform them that it is important to clean up non-free files? --MGA73 12:16, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

I asked them again with backup from User:PeterSymonds and got a positive response here. So it seems that your assistance is not needed :-) --MGA73 10:07, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

English Wikipedia filter for detection of new WikiLove messages

It would be nice if you could respond to en:Wikipedia talk:Edit filter#Filter 423 - WikiLove. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:29, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

I've generally found that e-mail is the best way to reach Erik (erik/wikimedia.org). If there's no response, you can assume silence is consensus. :-) --MZMcBride 17:21, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Is it allowed in Wikipedia?

To keep in the pages of wiki Administrator's personnel thesis? at http://sd.wikipedia.org ? Other problem is We call Computer as same in English, but admin forcibly used his word Ganpukar of Computer. I have proof that thousands of published books called it Computer not Ganpukar. If some one oppose him he started abusive language. That is the reason sd.wikipedia.org never got attraction to Sindhi community. Plz check record there. Other things are he locked CSS due to that on the same site there are lot of font styles appeared there. He is not able to set commonCSS or Monocss. We are in trouble to work in our local Sindhi language. I don't know where to say for this problem. Record history says all the situation there. I appeal plz warn him to follow en.wikipedia.org rules, other wise he will continue use his personnel details and personnel promoted articles there. Dear I am sorry If u r not right person to say all about this, Plz suggest me where I can raise this issue. My sd.wikipedia.org ID is same. His thesis is not a violetion? http://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/ماحولياتي_انتظام_ڪاڻ_اُپُگِرَهِي_عَڪس_ضماءُ_۽_درجه_بنديءَ_جي_طريقن_جو_اَڀياس Alixafar 00:06, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Online journal and textbook access

Hi. Are you the best WMF contact for a discussion about getting some JSTOR (or similar) access for active editors? This discussion involving some of en.WP's best and most productive editors would welcome input from WMF. It has also spun off slightly onto Mr Wales' en.WP talk page. --Anthonyhcole 01:23, 29 November 2011 (UTC) (Best to contact me at my en.WP talk page or simply enter one of those conversations.)

Anmerkungen zur aktuellen Autoren-Umfrage

Hallo Eloquence; da ich trotz einigen Suchens noch keine Stelle gefunden habe, an der mehr oder weniger "offiziell" Feedback zur aktuellen Umfrage abgegeben werden kann, weder in der englischen noch in der deutschen Wikipedia noch hier auf Meta, und die Umfrage selber leider auch keine Option bietet, am Ende einen frei formulierten zusätzlichen Kommentar zu geben, wende ich mich mal an dich. Und zwar mit einem Hinweis auf de:Wikipedia:Café#Neue_Autoren-Umfrage, wo ich ein paar Kommentare zu gewissen Details der Umfrage, die ich als problematisch oder schwierig zu beantworten empfand, niedergeschrieben habe - in der Hoffnung, so irgendwie die Verantwortlichen zu erreichen :-). Am meisten gestört haben mich eigentlich die beiden Punkte, die ich dort zuletzt nenne. Gestumblindi 21:31, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Hallo Gestumblindi, die bei WMF für die Umfrage verantwortliche Person ist Mani Pande, unter mpande at wikimedia dot org erreichbar. Ich habe sie auf die Diskussion hingewiesen, allerdings wäre eine Übersetzung ins Deutsche wahrscheinlich sehr hilfreich.-Eloquence 21:52, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Vielen Dank für die schnelle Reaktion! Du meinst wohl "ins Englische" ;-) - werde ich gerne noch machen, allerdings vielleicht nicht mehr heute. Gestumblindi 22:56, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Support wanted to solidify graphic initiatives and SVG innovation

(erik at wikimedia dog org not responding )

Dear Erik,

I've been for 6 years the architect-coordinator and a leading graphist & mapmaker of the +6 Graphic Labs and about one hundred graphists, who edited or created more than 12.000 images including +5.000 maps for wikipedia over the last 6 years. I'm now returning to active involvement, coordination, and R&D monitoring for images edition on wikipedia. My interest for graphics start with the following fact: articles are made of both textual and graphic contents. But I'm quite stuck to see there is no graphic team pushing for graphic innovation neither at the WM level, nor at the strategic wiki level. On the other hand, there are some tremendous visions and opportunities open to us on the graphic, SVG and mapmaking sides. The capabilities of SVG are underused, a web 2.0 online collaborative GIS mapmaking is need and proposed (see : http://Sharemap.org : the webmaster create it for Wikipedia and Wikimedia commons), images on commons should not be duplicated for translations but multi-linguistic layers should be used with online translation, thus easing our work on commons and enlarging WM's reach, etc.

These directions and others are several heavy projects specific to the graphic edition side that I overviewed and coordinated for this last 6 years. Also, I gathered a team of skilled programmers and graphists. Briana Laugher and Philippe Beaudete advised me to contact you for supports. I'm indeed interested to know... To push SVG, maps & graphic innovation :

• can the wikimedia foundation actively support and solidify these projects ? so we can ACT NOW.
  • how ?
  • a call to developpers to support the initiative (effective ?)
  • some founding.
• the OSM-Wikipedia collaboration got 15.000US$
  • Are the 20.000US$ of the Greenspun project explicitly donated to improve SVG still available
  • and who should I contact to find solid supports/funding to push these innovations ?

We are looking for contacts, scholarship, programmers to solidly support these projects.

Hoping your support for this graphic side of wikipedia, Regards,
--Hugo Lopez (Hugo.Lpz on gmail) 21:58, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi Hugo,

I responded via e-mail.--Eloquence (talk) 23:00, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

San Francisco Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon

San Francisco Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon! Who should come? You should. Really.
	The San Francisco Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon will be held on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at the the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco! Participate in editing subjects about women's history and beyond! Workshops will also be hosted. New and experienced editors of any gender are welcome! We look forward to seeing you there!

Web site not loading

Hi. The following pages are not loading for me:

• http://intelligentdesigns.net/
• http://intelligentdesigns.net/blog/

Thought you might want to look into this if you weren't already aware. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:37, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Please translate the page Closing projects policy

Hello Eloquence,

You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to English on Meta. A new page, Closing projects policy is available for translation. Please translate it.

The priority of this page is low.

spam spam spam

Thank you!

Meta staff

IPv6 rumors

Hello, there seems to be some rumors and unclear statements around that Wikimedia intends to implement IPv6 either temporarily or permanently for the World IPv6 launch thingy on June 6. I would appreciate if you clarify that indeed it's not getting implemented on production wikis. While the switch is unavoidable in the long run, doing it without proper announcements with a loooot of time to prepare for it, by fixing the hundreds of scripts, bots, tools that would be broken by the IPv6 implementation and properly explaining to admins across all wikis how to do IPv6 blocks and rangeblocks. I assume that indeed, we're not doing anything on the production servers this June, but it would be great to have this confirmed and the rumors quashed. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 02:12, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Regardless of the answer, mw:Roadmap#MediaWiki_Core needs clarification.--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:28, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

I have to agree with Snowolf. Without proper information this could do more harm than good. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:42, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi there,

we're using IPv6 Day as a motivation to get us closer to full production deployment, but it's not a "come hell or high water" permanent deployment date. We're planning to do some limited production testing at the Berlin Hackathon and on IPv6 Day, but we'll only keep it enabled if the issues are manageable. Please note known critical issues that we can help with in Bugzilla, as blockers for bugzilla:35540. I'll share some more detailed notes in the next couple of days once the team has had a chance to weigh in. --Eloquence (talk) 00:46, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

I read: "If it works, it's permanent. If not, it's temporary."--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:26, 24 May 2012 (UTC)