User talk:Thehelpfulone

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Thanks for your help, it's really appreciated :-} axp_de^Hello! 10:49, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for your note the helpful one. I am rather trying to collect more detailed info on chapters projects and capacity -- a little bit more elaborate than what is found on the main chapters page. Thanks again for your note. --Melamrawy (WMF) 16:50, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks again Thehelpfulone --that was helpful indeed ;) --Melamrawy (WMF) 16:56, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

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Congratulations THO, Keep up the good work.;) Theo10011 22:03, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

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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 00:59, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

help,,

thanks for the criticism.. I want to propose a plan selayar (sly) wikipedia enlightenment please, thank you zQheert 15:09, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Translations

Hello. This extension is driving me mad. It seems to depend on the Job Queue and thus changes are not inmediate. I've tried to edit the Guideline page because the translation tags are wrongly placed thus breaking ==Sections== as well templates. Ie: it'd be better to: {{template|<translate>Text to translate.</translate>}} rather than wrapping the whole translate tags all over the template. I editconflicted, then received a weird message and now my edit is not even in the history. Weird. Thanks —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 11:05, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

And, by the way, I'm receiving comments on IRC asking not to use the translation extension. I am frankly tempted to; given that the guidelines are the same of 2011 and it's easier to manage. Best regards. —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 11:33, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Links to new translation to recover by adding them to the new pages instead of copying the old ones: [1] [2] [3]. Thanks, Nemo 13:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Re: Babel

Done, Thanks for your work.--M.Gedawy ^Talk 01:12, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks for your cooperation. --M.Gedawy ^Talk 09:54, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Click...

As per your nickname, you 'are helpful. Thanks. Wojciech Pędzich Talk 11:42, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Watchers Toolserver

Can you please add me to Toolserver/watcher. Thanks, --Kangaroopowah 05:30, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Oops, didnt see the notice to leave it on the talkpage. My bad. Thanks though. --Kangaroopowah 05:10, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

"agreement"

Ok. I don't want to be that guy, but may I ask where, why and when? - I'm a member of the commitee too, and I was never consulted about it. In fact, the consensus at other places went in the contrary. I'm not going to undo it, assume good faith and think that at least three electcom members agreed to that but I'm rather dissapointed that we're making changes to policy and election rules, within minutes, on IRC chatrooms or other closed ways without informing everybody involved. On the other hand, thanks for your valuable help in this year's elections & in general. Best regards. —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 06:21, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello Thehelpfulone. Tanvir has already explained me the details by email after seeing this. Best regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 15:32, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Steward

Please, see here. Willy Weazley 15:26, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello Willy, you can see the explanation here. — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 15:46, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes, apologies Willy, the eligibility tool does not seem to be working correctly. Best Regards, The Helpful One 15:47, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Responding to your ping on IRC

Hi Thehelpfulone! Yes, please, I would love for you to help with the staff and contractors page. You're right that Jay has been the primary keeper of the page, but the official keeper is probably Gayle Karen Young, the Wikimedia Foundation's Chief Talent and Culture Officer. I don't think she has a meta page yet, but you can find her on enWP here. But you don't need to check in with her unless you want to -- I know she'd be thrilled to have your help. There are probably additional JDs that we are behind in posting, so if you don't mind, she may ask you for help in future too :-) Thanks Sue Gardner 21:27, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi Sue, thanks for your reply. Yes, I believe that whilst she joined meta in November last year, she hasn't made any edits as of yet. I'll be happy to get in touch with her if I have any questions. I notice that she doesn't have an account on the Foundation Wiki itself, I imagine this will need to be created if she needs to be the official keeper of it? The Helpful One 21:38, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi Thehelpfulone! I'm delighted to meet you! I would LOVE help on the staff and contractors page. It's sort of terrible. I do have a Foundation Wiki account - name change now that I'm officially an employee of the Foundation. What do you envision? Would you like to have this conversation via email? (It's still easier for me to track conversations and open projects that way as I ramp up to being accustomed to all the moving organizational pieces.) My email address is gyoung@wikimedia.org. Gyoung 01:07, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Bot

(Español) La edición de tu bot fué defectuosa. Por favor revisala.

Así mismo, te pediría que no vuelvas a editar en mi página de usuario, gracias.--HombreDHojalata 20:43, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. Regards. --HombreDHojalata 20:55, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

[4] :-) —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 16:18, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Thehelpfulone. You have new messages at Hazard-SJ's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

 Hazard-SJ  ±  03:23, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks :)

Thanks for reminding me :) --Millosh (talk) 21:09, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Duplicated text on Wikidata/pt

Hey, Helpful. There is duplicated text here. You may have a ready translation to that part, so I didn't touch it (I notice it is being done by translation interface. Another reason for not touching it). Tell me if you need help with translations. Cheers.‴ T_ele^s (T _{@ L C S}) 06:57, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Great! In case that I want to change a little bit of that part, can I just edit or should I use another interface?‴ T_ele^s (T _{@ L C S}) 22:10, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Oh... I thought that error would only appear when trying to delete it. In case I want to fix that text a little, what should I do?‴ T_ele^s (T _{@ L C S}) 04:50, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Category:Wikimedia Foundation staff

This seems like something you'd be interested in: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=3622891#Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_staff>. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:55, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata translate tags

Hello, your tagging of this page is wrong: specifically, the headers are broken. See the tutorial; mw:Help:Extension:Translate/Page translation administration, in development, explains in more detail the reasons. Thanks, Nemo 20:56, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Thehelpfulbot on es.wikipedia

Hello, Thehelpfulone.

If you want to use your bot on Wikipedia in Spanish, you have to request an authorization here.

Regards, and thanks for the interest in helping this project by running a bot. --invadinado _{(Tell me)} 09:17, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your helpful edits and categorization around Meta lately! I appreciate it! :) Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 22:42, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Crat flag

...has been granted (as you already know :) ). Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 15:59, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, and thank you to everyone who voted in my RFB. The Helpful One 16:01, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Thehelpfulbot on frwiki

Hello,

Your bot is running on frwiki, but you didn't create the bot user page, so I initialized it with the standard template. Feel free to edit it, as long as you give a link to contact you :) You can request the bot status on fr:Wikipédia:Bot/Statut if you plan to use it regularly.

Regards,

Orlodrim (talk) 01:46, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

autopatroller

I just saw it on my watchlist. Thanks : ) - Jc37 (talk) 19:55, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

No problem

And welcome to Meta! Although you removed yourself from the SPCom members list, I believe we're splitting it up into "Members" and "People who want to help out", so please do stay if you're not eligible to be a member.  :-) The Helpful One 19:57, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you.

You may not have seen my comments which I removed before removing myself from the members' list.

What rubbed me the wrong way was: I was trying to ascertain things (to try to give better/more helpful suggestions), only to have someone try what looked an awful lot like an end run to me. "If you don't like the questions someone is asking, try to isolate (or better excise) the questioner(s)."

I'm not saying that's what happened (and in the past I've had great respect for snowolf and others there), but the whole thing left a rather bad taste in my mouth after that.

We're all volunteers here, and I think perhaps, it might behoove a few to recall that. And holding prejudice against readers versus "number of edits"... meh.

Anyway, thanks again. And to be clear, my experience with you has always been positive as I recall, and that continues today : )

I wish you well : ) - Jc37 (talk) 20:13, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

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I think you might need to narrow the scope of the redirects your bot is "fixing". [5] Not all of these are necessary. Killiondude (talk) 23:00, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

I've narrowed it as much as possible, the script cannot differentiate between which ones on a page to fix and which ones not to (as far as I know) - each page that it is now running on is on that has a link to one of the namespaces that is going to be deleted - if there are other links that it fixes there's nothing I can do about that unfortunately - but it will be in the same edit so I'm limiting any excess unnecessary edits. I know that this is usually a task that we say don't fix but as we're deleting the namespaces, all these links must be fixed first (if we get a few changes that aren't essential, then I think we need to just let them happen.) :) The Helpful One 23:03, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Links to other help pages

Replacing {{H:f}} with {{languages}} you remove the links to other help pages. Please restore these links. One way (at least on the English language help pages) is to simply revert your replacement of {{H:f}} by {{languages}}. I modified Template:H:f Help to use {{languages}} [6].--Patrick (talk) 09:23, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Slovenian help pages

Hello THO, the work is almost finished, apart from the slightly difficult ones, although there seems to be more. However, there is a problem with the Slovenian pages. Transcluding {{H:f}} on those pages doesn't add {{Languages}}, see for example this page. Do you know how to fix that? Kind regards, Mathonius (talk) 02:26, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Closed - why?

I'd like you to explain on what basis you closed those requests e.g. http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ATranslation%2FTranslation_requests%2FWMF%2FHome&diff=3622612&oldid=3555709? I don't see any presedant discussion at Transcom nor translators-l. Rather volunteers wonders what are going on the list. --Aphaia (talk) 19:23, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

OK, Resolved, but you guys would have better to leave a note or include a link to the explanation what you were doing. --Aphaia (talk) 19:34, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For the help preparing for the Terms of Use deployment. Couldn't have done it without you! Philippe (WMF) (talk) 21:19, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Awww... thanks! :) The Helpful One 22:05, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Publishing help

Hello! Could you please publish the Finnish versions of the ToU/Introduction and ToU/Banner on WMF wiki? They are ready since I don't think anyone bothers to proofread them. Links: [7] and [8]. Thanks in advance! --Pxos (talk) 19:34, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Here [9] after line 132, there are two instances of the word "sitoudut". The second should be removed altogether. --Pxos (talk) 20:29, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, so is the version at Terms of use/fi correct? If so I'll just sync from that to fix any other errors there may be. :) The Helpful One 20:32, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, since you asked, it isn't. Parts of it are not so well translated, and it would be nice if someone (other than me) could go through the bloody thing and fix the minor errors in a consistent way. A good point, thanks for mentioning it. Let's put this on hold, so that it can be synced once and for good at a later date. --Pxos (talk) 20:44, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Great, thanks, once you've done it or someone else has done it, please just drop me a note and I'll sync it. The Helpful One 20:45, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

RfCU closure

Hi THO, thanks for closing the latest RfCU. While I'm probably nitpicking, for future reference, it should probably be made explicitly clear that CheckUser/oversight requests are an automatic fail if the candidate fails to gain 25 support votes and 70% approval. It's no big deal, but I read your closure as almost discretionary, so I thought I'd bring it up. :-) Cheers, PeterSymonds (talk) 06:50, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Peter. I did read Oversight policy#Access before closing the RfCU but I went for the it is clear the community... as opposed to the numbers game so that the user wasn't totally discouraged from applying in the future providing he returns to normal levels of activity. I'll be sure to use a mixture of the numbers and advice from now on to make sure there are no misunderstandings as to how I closed it! :-D The Helpful One 11:08, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

TYVM!

		MediaWiki Bug Squad Barnstar
		Just echoing the "tireless contributor" bit from above. Thank you! ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:24, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

What a lovely new barnstar! You're welcome. :) The Helpful One 15:00, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Asturian translation

Hi! I am translating the Terms of Use, but it is a big amount of data, so it will take me a bit more time. I have got fully translated Terms of Use/Introduction and Terms of Use-Summary, so they are ready to publish. Meanwhile, I am translating other minor text strings, but I cannot translate this: Translate-workflow-states. ¿How could I do it? ¿Should I submit you the translations? or ¿Is there a place where I can do it? Thanks in advance! --Esbardu (talk) 23:17, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, thank you so much for translating! I'll publish the two that are ready for publishing and I completely understand that it will take some time for the larger Terms of Use. Yes, if you could leave a copy of the translations of the Translate-workflow-states here on my talk page then I'll also publish those, unfortunately you need to be an admin at the moment to be able to translate that, we're looking into getting that fixed (a bug has been filed). The Helpful One 23:44, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Here are the sentences:

• In progress --> En progresu
• Needs updating --> Necesita anovase
• Updating --> Anovando
• Proofreading --> Corrixendo
• Ready --> Llistu
• Published --> Publicáu

--Esbardu (talk) 23:52, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you again, I've published both of the translations that you've already done and I've published those Translate-workflow-states too. Please let me know when you've completed the Terms of Use and I'll publish that too. The Helpful One 00:02, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Ok! --Esbardu (talk) 00:06, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Of course, go with it! I'm about to finish with the translation of the Terms of Use, I'll warn you when I finish. Regards! --Esbardu (talk) 12:01, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi again! I've got this issues ready for publishing: Terms of Use, Wikimedia maintenance notice and Fundraising 2012/Translation/Isaac appeal. Please sync them when you have time. The next question is: It it possible to translate the new Terms of Use? Where should I do it? Big thanks in advance! Regards --Esbardu (talk) 18:01, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikimania2014

Completely didn't realise about that. Shows how long its been since I logged into meta. Is there a nice non controversial way of blocking that account? I'm not a staff member anymore but I just kinda assumed that it would have been locked out like everything else. Seddon (talk) 00:41, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

No problem at all, I'll request that your account is globally locked - essentially it means that you can't log in across all of the wikis (and you're logged out if you're already logged in). It's non-controversial because it's used for a lot of staff and if you do return back to the Foundation, then it's a simple job to unlock it again. The Helpful One 00:44, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

I can lock that account if you don't mind. MBisanz ^talk 00:46, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

That would be grand. I don't want to run the risk of further accidental edits. Seddon (talk) 00:53, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

 Done MBisanz ^talk 01:06, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Deletion

Please delete these two pages: [10] and [11]. I believe that there is no need to have all variants of Serbian. The default variant is enough. micki 08:16, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikimania 2013 wiki

Thanks for offering to help with the meta side of Wikimania 2013 stuff. How should I go about asking for the new conference wiki to be set up? Deryck C. 16:13, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Deryck - already ahead of you! I submitted a bug this morning, <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36477>, once it's set up I'll request some rights (crat/admin) to be able to hand them out to whoever needs them. The Helpful One 16:15, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Synchbot request

Hello Thehelpfulone. Your request for user pages and global JavaScript on every wiki has been fulfilled (see the archived request & bot log). —Pathoschild 19:26, 06 May 2012 (UTC)

Protection of Wikimedia News

I don't think this is necessary. Not only has there not been a lot of anon vandalism, several users from other projects have made legitimate edits to the page in the past without logging in (example), and I see no reason to prevent this. I suggest you undo the page protection. - dcljr (talk) 20:04, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi! I didn't go back as far as that so didn't see the constructive IPs edits (I saw some unconstructive ones from a non-autoconfirmed account too). Reverted. The Helpful One 20:09, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. As for wm2011:, you're right: it wasn't locked yet. I was going by the change that was made to the sitematrix, but that was reverted today for some reason (it's no longer marked as "closed"). Oddly, though, the wiki now does appear to be locked. Not sure what's going on... - dcljr (talk) 02:13, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

No problem. I don't think the wiki's been locked, it's just that you might have been logged out (I certainly was for some reason), http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attendees/en&action=edit can still be edited if you are logged in - IP editing is disabled on there by default. When https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36571 is marked as RESOLVED FIXED, then we can be sure the wiki is locked. :) The Helpful One 13:48, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Sigh... You're right again. - dcljr (talk) 00:07, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Done. - dcljr (talk) 05:41, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

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Settings changes

Hello Thehelpfulone. I'm waiting your temp password to perform your request. Please send me a mail here. Regards, -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 08:26, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Galician translations

Some Galician translations are ready to be moved to Wikimedia wiki. Can you please do it for me? Thank you so much! --Toliño ^{Fala aquí comigo} 15:49, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Published, thank you for translating the pages! :) The Helpful One 17:32, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Terms of use/ja

It's now ready, with User:Miya's help off wiki. Could you publish it on wmf wiki? --whym (talk) 15:41, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Pages you deleted

I am a user of Japanese Wikipedia. w:ja:User:Frozen-mikan

Japanese pages you deleted has gone missing. We are very confused.

Can you find the missing pages back? --Frozen-mikan (talk) 15:45, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm not quite sure I understand -- all of those pages were simply redirects, the pages have all had their links updates and you can see them at Template:H:f Help/ja. Is there a particular page you were looking for? All the pages have been moved to the /ja subpages within the Help: namespace, so for example for help on searching, you would go to Help:Searching/ja instead of ヘルプ:検索. Hope this helps, The Helpful One 15:49, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I am very sad. In your way, someone must be to find a broken link in the Japanese Wikipedia. Although I do not want to do, that I will do. So goodbye. --Frozen-mikan (talk) 16:52, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, please could you provide me with the page where the links have broken? I'll look into fixing them for you on the Japanese Wikipedia. The Helpful One 16:55, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

I noticed the same problem and compiled a list of pages with the broken interwiki links caused by these deletions (or moves without leaving redirects) for jawiki. And then Frozen-mikan started replacing the broken links with the new targets. So for the case of Japanese, it's getting solved.

However, as far as I can see, other language wikis have also (historically?) referred to meta help pages, causing many similar broken interwiki links to the meta help pages. I briefly checked the situation in frwiki and found that there are more than 400 such broken links. (see a link around the top of w:fr:Aide:Préférences, for example).

Do we want to (re-)create all the redirects from the old names (like Aide:Préférences) to the new names (like Help:Preferences/fr) on metawiki, in order to fix this kind of broken interlanguage links for all existing languages? That seems to be a reasonable way to solve it, at least less time-consuming than visiting all relevant wikis, finding broken links, and replacing them with the new links.--whym (talk) 12:14, 22 May 2012 (UTC)