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Meta-Wiki has a small active community. When a normal user requires the assistance of an administrator or bureaucrat for some particular task, it is not always easy to find one. This page helps users find one when they need one; asking specific admins directly via their talk pages is one way to elicit a fast response. It is only for assistance required at Meta-Wiki, help for other wikis needs to be requested at those wikis.

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(as of 08 May 2024)

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(as of 08 May 2024)

• Proposal to amend Meta-Wiki's inactivity policy (April 11, 2023).

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Requesting upload rights

Hello, I would like to request upload rights in order to upload graphs and screenshots related to research projects. I created a {{WMF-staff-upload}} template for this purpose. If there is a better licensing template to use, let me know. (FWIW, I'm an admin on Commons via my volunteer account, so I won't be uploading any copyvios.) I realize that I could upload most of these images to Commons instead, but many of them are only useful within the context of research project reports here on meta. Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 01:55, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

• unqualified support, few have a stronger understanding of what is appropriate here vs. Commons than Kaldari. Process note, I'm unclear on whether you need to make a request at . meta: requests for adminship#Other access Pete F (talk) 04:34, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

  This is the correct page to request uploader rights. PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:56, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose - Just use Commons, those images won't be out of scope because they will be used here. Images there will get proper maintenance and surveillance. We're trying to get rid of all local images here where possible. I won't support increasing the number of local uploads. —MarcoAurelio 17:47, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose per MarcoAurelio, there are more than enough local images already; it is not uncommon for Commons to host images which are used by e.g. just some wikiprojects. --Base (talk) 19:00, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose What MarcoAurelio said. We have discouraged local uploads here for a long time I think. Theo10011 (talk) 16:08, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
• Comment @Kaldari:, given the above comments, could you show us an example or two of what files you would prefer to upload here, rather than on Commons, and/or describe your reasoning for putting them only on Meta? -Pete F (talk) 22:42, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
  • @Peteforsyth: The graphs at Research:Tech support satisfaction poll#Results are what I had in mind. I don't mind uploading them to Commons, but they seem more appropriate as local uploads since they have no use outside of the survey reports. Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 18:23, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
    • Thanks for explaining. To clarify my support vote, I have no strong opinion about whether such files should go on Meta or on Commons, but I don't think a technical obstacle to a reasonable and knowledgeable volunteer or WMF staff member is a useful enforcement mechanism. I would encourage those of you who care strongly about this to continue discussing, and ideally to write up a clear and concise guideline, with indications of the consensus achieved. -Pete F (talk) 19:29, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
      • The comment of yours above seems to me that you're suggesting to disregard our opinions because they don't suit you all, which if true, is worrying. The discussion is already happening here, and if the job is not being done is because the files ain't uploaded to Commons where they should be if they're appropriately licensed and credited (I see they already are so what's the problem?). There are some files here that we might need to store locally because of the disputed GFDL-presumed status, but anything else should be moved to Commons, and as Theo said, we've been discouraging local uploads since a long time already. Best regards. —MarcoAurelio 01:10, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Request for CentralNotice banner

Hi all! I would some help to create a CentralNotice banner for the one phote contest WikiTour planned by Wikimedia Argentina.

We want to try this campaign:

• • link: http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/wikitour/
  • from December 10th to January 10th, 2016.
  • logged-in and anonymous users.
  • only in Argentina, only in Spanish projects.
  • text1: ¡Participá de WikiTour 2015!
  • text2: WikiTour es el concurso de fotografías en el que podés participar con imágenes y con experiencias de tus viajes.

--Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 19:26, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

@Giselle Bordoy WMAR: Listo (ejemplo). Matiia (talk) 00:42, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi Matiia, can we delay this banner until december 10th? Thanks a lot! --Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 13:13, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Done. Matiia (talk) 14:44, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Matiia --Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 18:51, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Mass Message Sender Right

Please I would like to request for a mass messenger sender right to enable me distribute the Education Newsletter as a member of the Education newsletter team.Regard--Rberchie (talk) 18:21, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Is there a list of the members of the education newsletter team?that would be superglorious.-MF-W 22:32, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

@Selsharbaty (WMF): Please can you provide the list requested by MF-W so we can be granted the Mass Message Sender right? Regards.--Rberchie (talk) 07:37, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I have just added a list of the approved newsletter leaders here, which surely includes Rberchie. I hope that helps. Thank you! --Selsharbaty (WMF) (talk) 08:47, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi MF-W. Is there any update on this? We are planning to publish the newsletter by the end of this month. Thank you! --Selsharbaty (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Done. --MF-W 12:34, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

• Request the Mass Message Sender Right to deliver various regional collaboration projects and activities in Asia. Including East and Southeast Asian Seasonal Newsletter and Wikipedia Asian Month. Thanks --AddisWang (talk) 15:14, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

  For the record, this was granted a month ago and then the section was dearchived. PiRSquared17 (talk) 23:25, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

• Hello everyone, I would like to request for a mass messenger sender right to distribute the Education Newsletter as a member of the Education Newsletter team.

Regards-- Sailesh Patnaik ^{(Talk2Me|Contribs)} 09:57, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Done--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 10:25, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Request for CentralNotice banner

Hi all! I would some help to create a CentralNotice banner for the one Wikiproject planned by Wikimedia Argentina.

We want to try this campaign:

• link: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Mujeres
• from December 1th to December 31th, 2015.
• logged-in and anonymous users.
• only in AR, CH, COL, VEN, BO, PE, PAR, UR, MX, EC, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panamá, Honduras. Only in Spanish projects.
• text1: ¡Disminuyamos la brecha de género en Wikipedia!
• text2: Participá del Wikiproyecto Mujeres

Regards! --Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 15:18, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Done. Matiia (talk) 15:45, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Request for CentralNotice banner

Hi all! I would some help to create a CentralNotice banner for the one Wikiproject planned by Wikimedia Argentina.

We want to try this campaign:

• link: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/Desaf%C3%ADos_de_edici%C3%B3n_WMAR
• from December 1th to December 31th, 2015.
• logged-in and anonymous users.
• only in AR, CL, CO, MX, PE, UY, ES, VE, BO. Only in Spanish projects.
• text1: ¡Participá del wikidesafío de diciembre!
• text2: Contribuí en la generación de nuevos artículos de Wikipedia.

Regards! --Giselle Bordoy WMAR (talk) 18:15, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Done. Matiia (talk) 19:55, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Move Soft redirect/be-x-old to Soft redirect/be-tarask with suppress redirect

Please help to move Soft redirect/be-x-old to Soft redirect/be-tarask with suppressing redirect. Unfortunately, 'suppressredirect' right is not given to translation admins...

Proposed process:

1. unmark Soft redirect (remove from translation) on Special:PageTranslation
2. move to Soft redirect/be-tarask with suppressing redirect
3. revert last edit in Soft redirect and mark for translation again

--Kaganer (talk) 12:59, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Done--Syum90 (talk) 13:23, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Change CentralNotice

@PiRSquared17 and Matiia:

In the context of Commons:European_Science_Photo_Competition_2015 there is a Centralnotice that was set centrally. We've found that the design and the wording of the banner and the landing page do not make easily aware to the readers that the contest is also run in Greece. We had asked for another banner to replace the global one, but while it seems that it is active (?), the previous one (global) is also active and has priority. Please stop the common centralnotice and make sure that the one we asked is visible. We have only 5 days left until the end of the contest... -Geraki ^T_L 11:13, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Geraki, I have removed Greece from the banner for actively participating countries and raised priority for the Greek one (as well as extended its time to the very end). Could you check whether it's ok now? --Base (talk) 11:56, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Base, many thanks, it works! -Geraki ^T_L 11:58, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Cool, no problem, looks that it's Done then. --Base (talk) 12:52, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Hiding edit

Can you hide this and this edit, please? It contains non-public information, which I do not want to be displayed. --Ochilov (talk) 01:41, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

@Ochilov: Hi. I hid (revdel'd) the content of those two revisions. You can contact an oversighter if you would like them to be completely suppressed, although it may be unnecessary. Next time, please email the oversighters instead of posting publicly. Thank you. PiRSquared17 (talk) 04:54, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

PiRSquared17, thank you very much! --Ochilov (talk) 10:22, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Change CentralNotice, part two

Could someone please fix the grammar error in the CentralNotice for Asian Month? The banner reads "The Wikipedia Asian Month is ending soon, please report your contributions before it ends." Note the comma splice; the comma needs to be replaced with a semicolon, or the sentence needs to be split into two sentences. Nyttend (talk) 21:54, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Would a period or semicolon be better? PiRSquared17 (talk) 22:52, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Doesn't matter, as long as it's grammatical. I'd use a semicolon more, but others have told me that I use them more than most people do. Nyttend (talk) 23:20, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Request for CentralNotice banner

Hello. The Wikimedians of Colombia user group needs your kind help with a CentralNotice banner for colombian users.

The information is the following:

• link: http://wikimediacolombia.org/vacaciones/
• dates: from today (or the closest possible date) until January 31th, 2016
• logged-in and anonymous users
• only in CO (Colombia). Only in Spanish projects + Commons.
• text1: ¡Participa en Wikivacaciones 2015!
• text2: Gana premios saliendo de vacaciones por Colombia y ayudando al conocimiento libre.
• image: File:Wikivacaciones.png

Thanks in advance for the help! --Racso ^¿¿¿??? 01:48, 4 December 2015 (UTC)