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Insults/Publishing of incorrect personal information on a RfC page

• Please remove 1Goldberg2's attack on another user on a Requests for comment/Global ban for 1Goldberg2 page. --Sleeps-Darkly (talk) 07:44, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
• Comment That’s definitely a trans-misogynist harassment and gross violation of the WM:CIV policy. And by the way, today is Transgender Day of Remembrance – a day to remember those who have been murdered as a result of transphobic violence and hate. – Mrakia 08:57, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

  Also a violation of the Terms of Service per the Terms of Use officially prohibits in engaging on certain activities such as harassment, stalking, violating the privacy of others or threatening other editors, among others. (from Meta:Civility) SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 09:11, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

  I agree that this is blatantly inappropriate; however, it is difficult to revdel this now due to the number of subsequent edits, including responses to the message. I've applied the start-redacted content-end template for now. ~~~~
  User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 17:00, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

  Thank you! Also the user User:Valentin Sapiens/Special:CentralAuth/Valentin Sapiens (see the block reason on ruwiki) on the same page is a sock of a globally locked Special:CentralAuth/Раммон/Special:CentralAuth/Кадош. Can you take a look and remove the comment from a globally locked user? Thanks. --Sleeps-Darkly (talk) 19:14, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

  Removed by Base – [1]. – Mrakia 21:06, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

  Though the content has since been removed, I have left a conduct note on 1Goldberg2's talk page due to the edit's clear violation of our civility policy. Best, Vermont (talk) 04:21, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:47, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Move page Movement Charter/Drafting Committee

Hi,

I'd like to archive (or at least move) this page, to start a new page with information on the 15 chosen/appointed members of the MCDC. If I am correct there is no specific noticeboard for Translation administrators? Ciell (talk) 20:42, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

@Ciell 1. What title do you want this page moved to? 2. The move can only be done by system administrators since it would require over 500 pages to be moved. 3. You were probably looking for Meta talk:Babylon. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:41, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the questions.

1) I was thinking something along the lines of Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Profile. 2) I understand this, yes. The MovStrat team has requested the members of the MCDC, that now have been chosen/appointed, to introduce themselves on this page, and we are preparing a set of principles and communications about the MCDC. This would make this page even more outdated then it already is, since the elections are over. We can of course just change the text and do a complete revision of the whole page, but I think for historical reference it may be good to keep the page history and all the translations in one place. But let me first get some more clarity in this from @KVaidla (WMF) and get back to you. 3) I am not sure what I should read on the specific talkpage you mentioned? I got a Mediawiki warning that I could not move the page (which is understandable), but there was no link on the page were I could discuss or request the move. Ciell (talk) 09:11, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Hey @Ciell, I see @Pols12 created phab:T296150 about this (it needs a Phabricator ticket, because the page has too many subpages).

Can you confirm (ideally, on the task ) that "Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Profile" is the new desired title? I want to avoid having to move the page more than once, as it's not really a cheap operation (which is why it needs sysadmin's supervision).

Thanks, Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:56, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Martin, and yes: please hold the request. I have sent an email to Kaarel, and asked him how he proposes to handle this. We will reply on the task if a move is still desired, or if not I'll just close the task. Ciell (talk) 14:46, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

I have open T296150 for your request: requests to sysadmin happen on Phabricator.

The third item of 1234qwer1234qwer4 was an answer to your question about “specific noticeboard”. Officially, you’re on the right page, but I think like 1234qwer1234qwer4 that Babylon talk page is more appropriate to talk about translatable page issues. -- Pols12 (talk) 12:57, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

@Pols12 Maybe this information could be added to the information page? It now only reads : "You do not have permission to manage translatable pages, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Translation administrators."

A link to a discussion page could be helpful. Ciell (talk) 14:54, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

• @Pols12 Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I understand, the above request, as it is currently phrased and discussed, seems to imply moving all the subpages within the name space of Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/XX. This may include, for example, moving the Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Candidates page, which includes 700 translation subpages in over a dozen language. As someone who has been creating and curating these pages, however, this is not the request and it is not a useful move. Instead, I would look for moving only the individual page named Movement Charter/Drafting Committee (with its translations), in order to replace it with newer content. Do you think that would be possible? --Abbad (WMF) (talk) 11:06, 22 November 2021 (UTC).

  Don’t worry, there is no technical need to move subpages along with the translatable page, and I don’t think this was the Ciell request. But you do well to point this issue: sysadmin who will handle this request (probably Martin) must know whether to move subpages. -- Pols12 (talk) 23:11, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

@Pols12 Thank you for this reassurance, I just wanted to make sure! Should we be following on this move on Phabricator? Anything else I can/should do at the moment? --Abbad (WMF) (talk) 13:33, 29 November 2021 (UTC).

@Abbad (WMF) Someone (not necessarily you) needs to define the final new name and report it at the Phabricator task, so a sysadmin can do the rename. Martin Urbanec (talk) 13:52, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

@Martin Urbanec Thank you for clarifying! I'll check with Ciell and reply there --Abbad (WMF) (talk) 14:02, 29 November 2021 (UTC).

MassMessage senders

Hello, I am Korean Wikipedia user. I want to get MassMessage senders permission. I want to inform Korean Wikipedia users. Although the contribution here is small, it has more than 4300 contributions on Korean Wikipedia. This article has Google Translate working-Jyoo1011 (talk) 10:28, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

@Jyoo1011 Are you wanting to just message users on kowiki alone, then maybe a local kowiki request might be better, let's hear from @Sotiale or @-revi. Thanks. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:33, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

TBH... I'm not sure what I should check. This request doesn't imply anything other than that Jyoo1011 wants mass message sender flag. There is no indication of what this user wants other users to know, they have no idea how it will be used in the future. --Sotiale (talk) 13:42, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

@Jyoo1011 Per ^^^, please give us a list of recipients for your MMS as well as a sample message you want to send. Thanks. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:08, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

@Jyoo1011 Final ping. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:00, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

History merge for Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

Hello, Given Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal has been created from its (now) /old subpage, and Talk:Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal has been created from a duplicate in Template namespace, can you proceed to these two different history merges, please? (No opposition from duplicates’ author.) Pols12 (talk) 12:00, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Someone should also history merge Template:Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/temp/styles.css to Template:Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/styles.css, Template:Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/MRL to Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/MRL, Template:Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/Organizations Information to Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/Organizations Information, Template talk:Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/Organizations Information to Talk:Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/Organizations Information, Template:Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/Formerly Active Affiliates to Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/Formerly Active Affiliates, Template:Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/MRL to Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/MRL, Template:Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/MRL/List Of All Countries to Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/MRL/List Of All Countries, and Template:Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/MRL/List Of All Wikimedia Affiliates to Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/MRL/List Of All Wikimedia Affiliates. This mess should be cleaned up everywhere, not just in the obvious places. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:13, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Done by @DAlangi (WMF)? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:36, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

It appears that you merged just the talk page histories, but should also merge the history of all the other pages mentioned in my previous comment. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 02:01, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

asking for global mass message

I had global massmessage sender from April 2018 to November 2020 while I was publishing The Signpost. The EiC needs me to return as a backup publisher so I'm asking for this userright back. Chris Troutman (talk) 22:55, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Done — xaosflux ^Talk 23:56, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

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Block request

User: Healthcarebeauty123 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA)

Reason: User spamming on Meta, Species and Wikidata. See Global user contributions. —Bruce1ee^talk 07:21, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Now spamming Wikinews. —Bruce1ee^talk 07:31, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Done @Bruce1ee I locked the account, but note that SRG would be the correct page to post this request – this page is used to request attention from Meta's administrators/bureaucrats. Thanks! Martin Urbanec (talk) 07:32, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll use SRG in future for global requests. —Bruce1ee^talk 07:36, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Given that the user has been spamming on Meta as well, requesting here would not be unreasonable (if done at SRG at the same time at least). ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:37, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

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Former staff

Could a bureaucrat please remove Ravan's translationadmin tools? She no longer works for the Wikimedia Foundation and her account was subsequently globally locked. It can be uncontroversially re-granted if re-activated and required, anyway. Thank you. Sgd. —Hasley 01:26, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Done — xaosflux ^Talk 02:17, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

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