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Request for mass message sender right in Meta

I am from Bangla Wikipedia and part of the technical team for the recently launched Signpost on our wiki. As a member of the editorial board, I am requesting MassMessage sender rights for myself and for the Chief Editor, User:খাত্তাব হাসান, to facilitate the distribution of this newsletter across our community.

Thank you for considering our request.

Best regards, R1F4T (talk) 16:49, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Do you really need Global Mass Message Sender, as opposed to local rights, for this? * Pppery * _{it has begun} 19:47, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Noting that I declined Steward requests/Permissions#R1F4T@bnwikipedia as a request for local mass message sender rights, as bnwiki has no local mass message sender group, thus likely why this request came. EPIC (talk) 20:40, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Please link to an target list you have built. — xaosflux ^Talk 21:02, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

​I have renamed the section, and Rifat and I request that right to automatically send news to Bengali sister projects (Village pump or similar page). খাত্তাব হাসান (talk) 08:04, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

link for targeted list :https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AR1F4T%2Fsignpost-targetlist# R1F4T (talk) 12:03, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

And here R1F4T (talk) 12:22, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Event organizer request for Art+Feminism Staff

Global user: User:Chrysanthemum123

Reason for request: I am a staff member of Art+Feminism and would like to request Event organizer status so I can create our 2025-2026 Programming page on Meta.

Criteria met:

• No active blocks: No active blocks confirmed
• Global edits: 653

Addendum to request

In addition to requesting Event organizer status for User:Chrysanthemum123, we are requesting Event organizer status for three other Art+Feminism staff members:

• User:XenoF
• User:MichaelaBlanc
• User:Celestinesucess

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chrysanthemum123 (talk)

Done @Chrysanthemum123: --Martin Urbanec (talk) 19:09, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Additional addendum to request, January 22, 2025

Thank you @Martin Urbanec: for granting our event organizer status request. We'd like to request event organizer status for one additional staff member, User:SolarPowerBB, if possible. Many thanks.

Request for MassMessage sender user rights

Hello! My name is Mohammed Kamal-Deen Fuseini and I am currently volunteering as the Outreach and Partnership Manager for the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign. I will like to send mass messages to different users and hereby request the rights to be able to use the massmessage service. I look forward to your support and approval.

Best regards Dnshitobu (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

@Xaosflux and AramilFeraxa:, could you grant him mass message sender for two years. For the team, Project lead. Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 18:15, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Please point to a target list you will use. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:27, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

old rfc

Is there someone uninvolved that can look at closure for Meta:Requests for comment/Change to WMF staff user rights policy? It is a year old. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:00, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Also Requests for comment/GFDL to CC License Migration of files (matter is resolved).

Requests for comment/Untrue block reason demage my reputation (closed by non-admin, also, please add date=20160212090500 in the template.)

Talk:Requests_for_comment/Large-scale_errors_at_Malagasy_Wiktionary#Outcome is probably not an admin matter. Possibly the RfC can be closed too. e 14:01, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

{{Section resolved|Someone closed (no consensus) — xaosflux Talk 14:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)}}

The other 3 still need to be dealt with. e 14:38, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Those are global RFC's and not part of my request, this seciton does not need to be expanded to more things - especially things that aren't normally handed by local admins. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:47, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Please remove MMS and TA

Hi, please remove MMS and TA permissions from the following WMDE accounts:

• Special:UserRights/Michael Schönitzer (WMDE)
• Special:UserRights/Max Klemm (WMDE)

Both no longer work for WMDE. Thanks and best regards! Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 15:31, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

 Partly done MMS removed. Michaels TA needs to be removed by a crat. TenWhile6 15:32, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Done — xaosflux ^Talk 15:49, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

@Johannes Richter (WMDE) can these accounts be globally locked? In the past this was done for other ex-WMDE employees. See the account list. Apparently WMF Trust and Safety regularly reviews the lists of their staff. Requests for locks can be done at Steward requests/Global. e 16:29, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

I guess a user who holds steward permissions with his voluntary account knows very well how to request locks at SRG. SCNR. --TenWhile6 17:42, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Wasn't aware of that, but apparently he doesn't have time to do it himself.

In any case, it's better that an official WMDE account is told about the WMF Trust and Safety approach. e 18:22, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

WMDE knows how the WMF is handling their accounts, but takes a different approach. Note that I'm not responsible for handling WMDE accounts in general. I just submitted this request for two former members of my team to make sure there are no inactive WMDE accounts with such permissions. Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 18:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Who is in charge at WMDE? e 18:58, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:49, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Opt out the Simple English Wikipedia from global filter 131

As the section title says, on the Simple English Wikipedia we have filter 48 that now disallows new and anonymous users from blanking articles. Because of this, I would suggest modifying the last line of filter 131 (!equals_to_any(wiki_name, "dewiki", "nlwiki", "simplewiki")). Thank you. Codename Noreste (talk) 17:01, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

@Codename Noreste, Done --M/ (talk) 18:27, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. M/ (talk) 18:27, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:90.170.26.174

90.170.26.174 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --Jet Pilot (talk) 19:01, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Done TenWhile6 19:02, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. TenWhile6 19:07, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Request for page deletion + block

Hi, not sure I'm in the right place, but I want to request deletion of a userpage, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rosy99966, which is used for advertising escort services (via the link there) and, I suppose, a block of the user. Bishonen (talk) 21:48, 21 January 2025 (UTC).

@Bishonen, deleted, thanks for reporting. Please use {{Speedy|advertisement}} next time if you want to request quick deletion. Best regards, TenWhile6 21:51, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. TenWhile6 21:51, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning Khalifah Islam

• Khalifah Islam (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA)

Vandalism. —MdsShakil (talk) 14:01, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Done - locked. TenWhile6 14:05, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

and blocked. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 14:05, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. TenWhile6 14:06, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:171.253.240.175

171.253.240.175 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --Jet Pilot (talk) 18:48, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Done. AramilFeraxa (Talk) 18:48, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. AramilFeraxa (Talk) 18:49, 22 January 2025 (UTC)