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would you mind if I suggest you as meta admin? I saw that you did a lot of vandal reverting lately. --Elian 23:59, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you delete Snobbopedian?

User:Kate/Amusing IRC channel quotes

Your Request for the AMWs Deletion[edit]

Dear Mindspillage,

I do not understand why you want the AMW deleted. Who wants an encyclopedia with porn in it and things of the likes. That is the main goal. Would you want your kid to see a site like Wikipedia that is supposed to be educational in nature, turned into a site which features Images that are worthy of being showcased on the Spice channel, or something like that? I don't think so.

24.159.141.61 23:27, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hugs[edit]

I thought I'd be cunning for once and change protocols. Here are your daily hugs.*hugs* ;-) notafish }<';> 16:42, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. And wait till I go do it on en:, *then* you can say adios to your reputation. :-) notafish }<';> 22:25, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Protected help pages[edit]

Please let me know when you decide to unprotect Help:Searching again. There are several errors on the page that need fixing. Uncle G 03:23, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

unprotected, vandalism ceased. «»Who¿?en 03:48, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]


Jimbo wants to hear from me? Cool[edit]

Gadzooks! Jimbo wants to hear from me? Wow, is that an honour? Yeah, I'll send him an email. Cheers for letting me know dude --Wonderfool 22:25, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hang on a second, where is said that Jimbo wants to hear from me? --Wonderfool 22:26, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Advice?[edit]

Hmmm, so what do you advise that I write? I mean, talking to Jimbo I've gotta be very choosy about the wording. Should I use grandiloquent words, or keep it simple? Will he be angry at me? Or curious? Do you advise that I explain my actions, or apologize (I'm pretty good at fake apologies)? Or try to defend myself, saying that a score of bad edits in 3000 should just be reverted? Thanks for taking the time out to converse (even if it is a cheeky plan to stop my from "vandalising" pages for a while --Wonderfool 22:37, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good deed[edit]

Hello Kat,
I just wanted to let you know how much pain I've had to draft a decent letter/email in English announcing the creation of Wikipen. I don't know if I succeeded but at least, it is there : http://en.wikipen.org/wiki/User:Aurevilly/Presentation_letter Since I dont want to be ridiculous as to sent such letter announcing a literary project, full of spelling mistakes and such, could you be as nice as making some necessary copy/edits ? FYI, when that letter is done, it is expected to be sent (email or snail mail I don't know yet, to entities that I've began to list at http://en.wikipen.org/wiki/Wikipen:Let_them_know Anyhow, thanks for any help you can provide. Cheers, villy ♦✎ 09:12, 6 January 2006 (UTC) (PS: I've made the same request to Sj and Amgine).[reply]

RfA[edit]

Thanks for voting!
Thanks for voting on my RfA; I'm happy to annouce I was promoted!. I look forward to being able to do more good work for Meta, and if there is anything I can do for you, let me know.

Again, thanks! Essjay Talk • Contact 20:03, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for whitelisting[edit]

I'd appreciate it you would review the debate over whitelisting a site you added to the blacklist recently. Thanks in advance for your time. uriah923 21:02, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

*POKE*[edit]

You're it! *runs away* Linuxbeak 18:37, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cow[edit]

You're milk. - Aaron Brenneman 01:00, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is Spam blacklisting all that ever happens on meta?[edit]

Its all I ever hear about.

I am sure that you agree that using the spam blacklist to censor out criticism of Wikipedia is wrong, and that a forum that was used by Daniel Brandt to expose Chase as Seigenthaler's libeller belongs in the Daniel Brandt, Chase and Seigenthaler bio controversy articles, and given that this forum is purely for criticism of Wikipedia, it also belongs in that article. Adding it to the spam blacklist so as to resolve a dispute about whether or not they want to list that accurate, sourced information that that was the first place to expose Chase as Seigenthaler's libeller is wrong. And pretending that it is not offering criticism, when Andrew Orlowski, Larry Sanger and Daniel Brandt, as well as half of Wikipedia's admins, all post there, is just ludicruous. Please can you see to having the site removed from the spam blacklist? It was never used to spam, and does not belong there. 59.167.131.8 21:01, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps if the site were offering high-quality criticism instead of being primarily a forum for trolling and conspiracy theories, and its members were not engaging in ridiculous behavior regarding it on and off the wiki (I've gotten several notices spamming it on IRC already), your request would be more thoughtfully looked over. If you think that "half of Wikipedia's admins" post there, you are simply wrong; a few have tried, but most give up on it as a waste of time. I don't see any reason to remove it. We link to plenty of legitimate criticism; this site is simply another non-notable forum, which per en.wikipedia's external links guidelines, we prefer not to include, and the continual disruption of it is more trouble than it's worth. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 21:23, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The point is this: It was never, not once, used to spam. It is not a commercial site, is not for profit, and has no advertisements. It was only ever placed in articles where it would be an appropriate link, and a correct link to place. Whilst you might debate whether it is notable enough to list as an external link in Criticism of Wikipedia, it most certainly belongs in the Daniel Brandt article and in all of the Seigenthaler-related articles, simply as a reference, because that was where the case was first exposed by Daniel Brandt. Now, if you want to start adding references to the spam blacklist, then you are misusing the list. But, of course, this kind of thing has happened before, hasn't it? I seem to recall a year ago when I was trying to correct an article how all of a sudden half of my 100 or so references were added to the spam blacklist, meaning that I could not add them back, and since someone was vandalising the page that meant that the whole article was wiped. They then said it was all "original research" since they'd listed all of the sources in the spam blacklist. This kind of censorship happens quite a bit, doesn't it? You just don't want people to know the truth. 59.167.131.8 17:16, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How can I help with the info-en queue on OTRS[edit]

Hello. I am an admin over on enWiki, and am interested in helping out with Info-EN for OTRS. I have experience in dealing with front end consumers in a call center environment, and have responded to customer emails before, and feel I would be able to assist. Let me know either here on Meta (I will try to remind my self to check in here, but if you could just nudge me at w:User talk:Admrboltz, would be appreciated. And I promise to use a spell checker ;). Admrboltz 06:44, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to help too, if you think I'm qualified to do so. It's probably faster to contact me also on en:User talk:ESkog or on IRC. ESkog 02:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WoW[edit]

Please block User:Willy's on wheels. He is making lots of vandalism. -m:User:Dbmag9 (not logged in)

Translation combination boxes[edit]

The following text has been copied from Meta:Babel#Translation_combination_boxes. As an active translators, it may be of any interest to you:

Hi, Sabine worked on new boxes for translators. They aim at giving information about translation combination: say, I can translate from English to French, from Italian to Spanish, and so on. It would help us to know who can translate what, in what, to streamline the translation process. The boxes do not provide information about your level (wether you are a professional translator or not, for example); you may write something about this point in your user page (very useful as well). A few boxes are available, be bold and create those you need :) Be aware we use ISO 639-3 codes for languages (fra and not fr, eng and not en, ...).

Please see "Translator in the following language combinations" and pick up templates for your user page!
This message was pasted on several User talk pages of active translators.

Thank you :)

jd ৸ 02:04, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS template updates.[edit]

I've added Jareth's rv sentence to OTRS/en/vandalism_(offensive) and OTRS/en/vandalism/hacked!. Please update it and have a look at her OTRS/en/Not a foo at OTRS/en#Proposed_template_deletions. -- Jeandré, 2006-08-20t17:10z

Wikizine[edit]

Hi,

I am user:Walter from Wikizine. I offer you, like all the other candidates, the opportunity to send me statement of around 300 words that I will send to the subscribers of wikizine. For more information see Wikizine/election 2006.

Greetings, Walter 22:12, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS: yes, I know, I have send this to you before by email. But for reasons I do not wish to explain here in detail I think in this case is useful that I can prove that I have asked you this. Because of that this second message.

Board of Trustees elections[edit]

Hello!

The Wikipedia Signpost, a community-newspaper in the English Wikipedia, is covering the Board of Trustees elections and will be featuring each of the candidates in next week's issue. As such, we would appreciate it if you would take some time to answer a few interview questions. Each candidate will be asked the same questions; by no means, though, feel obligated to answer any (or even) all of them, though we would greatly appreciate it if you did.

Some of the questions may be a bit redundant to the candidate information you have filled out already. This is both for convenience and for giving you the opportunity to expand on some of them a bit. However, we ask that you keep all responses brief, limiting them to no more than one or two paragraphs each.

You may leave replies to my English Wikipedia talk page, my meta talk page, or email them to me. I would appreciate it if responses are in on or before this Saturday, August 26; please have them in at the latest on Sunday the 27th in order for them to be included in Monday's issue.

As always, the Signpost reserves the right to re-distribute the questions and replies, shorten any responses if necessary, and take any other editorial action deemed appropriate.

Thanks again for your time, and please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions! Flcelloguy (A note?) 00:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Your name:
  2. Your username most commonly used:
  3. Your current geographic location, along with your age:
  4. Projects with significant contributions (please both name the language and project, and link to your contributions)
  5. Do you have any rights (i.e. admin, bureaucrat) or positions (i.e. dispute resolution, CheckUser, etc.) on any of those projects? If so, which ones? When did you get elected or promoted for each one?
  6. Do you hold any universal rights (i.e. steward, etc.) for Wikimedia Projects? If so, since when?
  7. When did you first start contributing to Wikimedia projects? Why and how did you initially join?
  8. Briefly describe your career ("real-life"). How do you think this will help you be a successful Board member?
  9. Of all the candidates right now, why do you stand out from the field? What makes you the best candidate?
  10. A knowledge of several languages has been cited as a key requirement for a Board member. Do you speak any other languages other than English? Why do you think language is or isn't critical to the Board?
  11. What do you expect to do while serving on the Board? What are your expectations?
  12. What can you bring to the Board? What can you contribute to the Wikimedia Foundation?
  13. Describe the one issue that you think is most pressing and pertinent to the Foundation right now, and how you would approach the situation.
  14. What is your vision of the Board in the Foundation heirarchy? How do you feel about the current leadership?
  15. As a Board member, you will be serving as a representative of the communities. Do you think you can represent the community and understand its concerns? Why?
  16. What do you think of the Wikimedia Foundation and its mission in general? If you could change one thing about the running of the Foundation, what would you change?
  17. If elected, can and will you devote the appropriate time and other resources needed to serve on the Board?
  18. Have you ever attended Wikimania or any other meetup? What role do you think these meetups play?
  19. Please list (and link) any other pages where you have gotten questions and comments pertaining to the Board elections; we are compiling all of the questions and would appreciate this.
  20. What would you say to a potential voter who is undecided right now?
  21. Is there anything else you would like to mention?


Thanks again.

Board of Trustees elections[edit]

Hello! This is just a friendly reminder that responses to the "interview" questions for the Wikipedia Signpost are due soon. The important message and questions were left on your meta talk page. If you have not already done so, please kindly take a look at them, and we would appreciate your reply as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Board meeting[edit]

Hi! The new Board member is expected to attend a Board meeting in Frankfurt 20-23 October, so you are highly expected to aim to keep these dates free or book time off work in case you are successful in your bid to be on the Board. Jon Harald Søby 14:54, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spam Blacklist[edit]

Recently you added a domain to the spam black list. [1] At the time this prevented its addition to wikipedia pages. However, a recent experiment shows that it can now be added without being flagged.[2] Has there been a change or is this normal? Sorry for my ignorance in this area. 128.104.98.191 18:52, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and now a request[edit]

First, thanks very much for unblocking. Now on an unfortunately related note: there appears to be an issue of impersonation of a Wikipedia user here. Both Gastrich and certain anti-Gastrich people commented that Usenetpostsdotcom might not be the same "Uncle Davey" user who was that user on .en, I emailed Davey through his Wikipedia email who confimred that it was not him and then made a a new account Theox see here. I would tentatively suggested that Usenetpostsdotcom be blocked here as an impersonator and disruptive user and checkuser performed (possibly between projects) to find out who is impersonating Davey here. I'm very much not a friend of Davey (you will note that the real Davey is in fact supporting Gastrich here) but this is obviously unacceptable. JoshuaZ 03:27, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Forwarded. Also, could you maybe point me to where I would find a reasonably active Steward to talk about the checkuser with? JoshuaZ 03:40, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Also I ran into some errors when I tried sending them to you. You should have two distinct emails possibly with some of them sent multiple times or something close to that. JoshuaZ 03:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Also, sending an email abotu a related concern directly to you if you don't mind. JoshuaZ 03:50, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I emailed Rdsmith4 as you suggested. JoshuaZ 04:10, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Rdsmith hasn't replied to my email or made any indication that a checkuser was performed. A pointer about who else to talk to/what to do would be good. Ideally before all the checkuser data gets stale. JoshuaZ 02:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS template[edit]

I've created a new template for the permissions-en queue at OTRS/permissions-en/specific-article-and-statement, for the cases where people need to specify both what they're releasing and how they're releasing it. If there's a problem with it or if I need to be going through a more complex procedure to get that added, please let me know. Thanks, Robth 06:56, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS[edit]

I'm willing to join the OTRS but I have to contact you first, I signed up for the mailing list, I'm a admin in the english wiki, es-2, it-1, pt-1, and I know enough about copyrights. Any more info needed, you can contact me on my en talk page or via email. Thanks JAranda | watz sup 05:26, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spam Blacklist[edit]

Hi Mindspillage - a while back you added this entry [3]. There appears to be a way around this by using the following URL: home.clara.net/heureka - is it possible to add this to the blacklist too? Thanks, Gsd2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gsd2000)

OTRS Volunteer[edit]

Hi Mindspillage, I'm interested in helping out with the OTRS. I've been an administrator on the English Wikipedia and on Wikimedia Commons for a while, and I think I have all the necessary qualifications. Feel free to email me or leave a message over at en:User:Mdd4696. Thanks. ~MDD4696 05:31, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish OTRS templates[edit]

Hello, mind lending a hand?

I've added a few OTRS templates at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/es

  • es-Borrado de cuenta For people requesting account deletion
  • es-¿Puedo escribir sobre X? For people requesting we add some article or are sending us text for inclusion on wikipedia
  • es-¿Porqué borraron mi artículo? People asking why their articles got deleted
  • es-¿Sobre cual artículo comentas? People email us, but they don't mention which article is being discussed, and therefore we request more information

Also, I'd like to point a change on a title:

  • es-Autor reclamando sus derechos should be changed to es-Solicitud más específica de permiso since the content of the template is we asking for a more clear and

specific statement, it's not about him claiming his rights.

How would I get those added to the info-es options list? drini ☎ 23:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Personal attacks from User:Yaroslav Zolotaryov[edit]

Hello Mindspillage,

Knowing you from the en.wiki, I thought you would be able to help me on meta as well :)

There is currently a rather animated project close vote going on (Proposals_for_closing_projects#Close_Siberian_wikipedia). The main protagonist of this wikipedian, is making personal attacks on just about every person trying to support the closure, resorting on foul language and ethnic slurs. Mild examples include "Muscovite flashmob", "Lie and propaganda from anonimous troll", "you tell lies and propaganda", "troll accusations", "You know only those thing which Russian Nationalists told you." and so on.

I can't claim I'm familiar with meta policy (if there is one specific), but for my limited experience on en.wiki, these are rather serious offenses, and a warning might be in order, or maybe some more measures...

Incidentally, can you or one of your fellow admins keep an eye on the vote, especially when the closing will be driving nigh? The vote (especially the "oppose" vote) is plagued with anons and socks, and even with banned users such as Bonaparte.

Thanks in advance for everything,

Grafikm fr 13:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To my count, about 20 of 52 voters against Siberian wiki use similiar insults against me, so I have more cause to complain of personal attacks. --Yaroslav Zolotaryov 15:05, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
For example, one of them, Kuban Kazak, use term "xenophobic vandals" about 40 persons, who vote against closure of sibwiki, while we do not use word "Vandal" for everybody. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Close_Siberian_wikipedia#Further_comments --Yaroslav Zolotaryov 07:22, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mindspillage,

Please make the same measures against those, who insult me in this vote. As to anonyms, maybe it is the opposite part who created them --Yaroslav Zolotaryov 14:54, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

access to OTRS[edit]

As part of the fundraising committee BradP and mav were talking about the problem of cleaning up the OTRS donations queue or subqueue by fundcom volunteers (I am the Chair, pro tem if you are not aware). Brad thought that donations should be a separate queue and fundcom volunteers (myself and jeremy tobacman have volunteered so far) are going to work on cleaning out the queue except for things that have to go to staff (such as donation refund requests or technical legal questions that I cannot answer with simple information). We are not sure of the protocol to become members as right now only mav can get onto OTRS. Am I asking the right person this question, Kate? Thanks in advance for your help. Alex756 18:52, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested in joining the OTRS subcommittee[edit]

I understand that you're the person to talk to about volunteering to participate with the OTRS subcom, and so I thought I'd offer. I've been an admin on enwiki for about 6 months, I'm fluent in English and German (though my participation on dewiki is quite minimal), and I have quite an extensive history of dealing with upset individuals on Wikipedia (and over time have become quite good at it.) Anyway, I believe I meet all of the given criteria, and I'd love to help out in any way I can. You can contact me by email or at w:en:User talk:AmiDaniel. Thanks. AmiDaniel 10:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS/tr[edit]

Heyyo Mindspillage, Could you please add the translation to OTRS system for answering info-tr emails? It is thetranslation of "empty answer" template. Thanks in advance. :) --Dbl2010 18:21, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Off topic PS: You may want to remove the last line of your biography. --Dbl2010 18:21, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I got it done by Jeluf. Thanks anyways. --Dbl2010 07:12, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

more OTRS ... :\[edit]

When you get a little less busy, could you add User:Drini/OTRS stuff to info-es ? It's been copyedited. drini ☎ 17:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Foundation access?[edit]

Hi. When you have a chance could you take a look at Request_for_an_account_on_the_Foundation_wiki#Jkelly? User:Aphaia, understandably, has no idea whether I am a crazy person or not, and so has deferred judgement to you (or Mike Snow, another user who also probably wouldn't know me). Thanks. Jkelly 21:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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