Stewards/Confirm/2014/MF-Warburg

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MF-Warburg

logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement

English:

• Languages: de-N, en-3, fr-1, tet-1, la-1, es-1
• Personal info: After I was elected last year, I was, I think, quite active in steward areas. I handled requests on all steward requests pages, but especially right requests, global blocks and locks, SUL conflict solving and username changes. I'm also still active in the SWMT, blocking and locking spambots and vandals out of my own initiative or per requests on IRC. Although I have recently for real-life reasons not been able to be online on IRC as frequently as before anymore, I'm still available there and belong to those stewards who run the stewardbot project (soon on Labs, yes, yes). I'm also involved in the Admin activity review and stewards' OTRS queue.

español:

• Idiomas: de-N, en-3, fr-1, tet-1, la-1, es-1
• Información personal: translation needed

русский:

• Языки: de-N, en-3, fr-1, tet-1, la-1, es-1
• Личная информация: После избрания меня стюардом в прошлом году, я был, как мне кажется, достаточно активен в исполнении своих обязанностей. Я рассматривал все запросы к стюардам, но главным образом я работал над запросами на получение прав, наложением глобальных блокировок, разрешением проблем с глобальными учётными записями и переименованием аккаунтов пользователей. Также я по-прежнему активен в проекте по патрулированию малых вики, блокирую спам-ботов по собственной инициативе или согласно запросам на IRC-канале. Хотя в последнее время в связи с важными обстоятельствами я не могу появляться на IRC так же часто, как раньше, я всё ещё доступен там, и отношусь к числу стюардов, которые занимаются управлением проектом "Stewardbots" (скоро будет доступен и на Wikimedia Labs, да-да). Я также принимал участие в пересмотре правил по активности администраторов и очереди команды стюардов в рамках службы OTRS.

Deutsch:

• Sprachen: de-N, en-3, fr-1, tet-1, la-1, es-1
• Informationen zur Person: Nach meiner Wahl im letzten Jahr war ich, so meine ich doch, im Steward-Bereich recht aktiv. Ich habe mich um Anfragen auf allen "steward-requests"-Seiten gekümmert, aber vor allem um Rechte-Änderungen, globale Sperren, Auflösung von SUL-Problemen und Benutzernamensänderungen. Ich bin auch immer noch im SWMT aktiv, sperre Spambots und Vandalen wenn ich sie selbst antreffe, oder wenn andere es im IRC (z.B. Kanal #wikimedia-stewards) melden. Obwohl ich seit einiger Zeit aus privaten Gründen nicht mehr so häufig wie früher im IRC sein kann, bin ich dort immer noch verfügbar und gehöre zu den Stewards, die das stewardbot-Projekt betreiben (bald natürlich auf Labs...). Ich bin auch bei der Admin activity review und in der OTRS-Queue der Stewards aktiv.

Comments about MF-Warburg

• Keep Akzeptabel. Vogone talk 18:00, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep very active, does invaluable work on the inactivity review process, no concerns whatsoever. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 18:28, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep because. --Rschen7754 18:29, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep. -Mh7kJ (talk) 18:36, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Of course! Ajraddatz (Talk) 18:36, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Yes! --Alan ^(talk) 18:37, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep. Very active user who is involved in (almost) every steward area and does a good work with the tools. LlamaAl (talk) 18:39, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep, agreeing with all comments above mine. Of course! PiRSquared17 (talk) 18:40, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep. Érico Wouters ^msg 18:42, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep per above messages John F. Lewis (talk) 18:45, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep, duh. TCN7JM 18:50, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep JurgenNL (talk) 18:52, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep MoiraMoira (talk) 18:57, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep, abuse. --Stryn (talk) 19:43, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Remove I don't trust him. --►Cekli829 20:01, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

  May I ask why? PiRSquared17 (talk) 23:12, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

  I think that this mistake decision were. --►Cekli829 19:12, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

  @Cekli829: do you know that the "translator" group is only needed if you are going to translate in the MediaWiki namespace? Even though you previously had "translator" privileges, you have 0 edits to the MediaWiki ns. In addition, your nomination and replies to questions did not indicate that you understood that "translator" rights are only for MediaWiki namespace translations. Your answer to a question asking for examples of pages you would use it to translate did not include any MW ns pages. Sorry, but I think MF-W did not make a mistake here; In fact, I think I would have done the same in this situation. Since most messages are on translatewiki.net, where you are already a translator, I really do not see the need for this right. Is there a specific message or group of messages in the MediaWiki namespace of incubator.wikimedia.org that you want to translate? I also think do not think it is good to judge a user based on a single incident such as this. PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:44, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

  OK. Have you been able to convince me. I agree with you. --►Cekli829 06:09, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

• Keep--Vituzzu (talk) 20:18, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep — TBloemink _talk 20:57, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Obviously just symbolical Keep... ;-) — Danny B. 22:10, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Remove Rarely active on cu-l, and one of those few emails made it sound like spambot-related reports to the list are annoying to him. Spambot activity is a serious problem, and stewards shouldn't be discouraging the reporting of spambots and their ranges, directly or indirectly, or ignoring them. INeverCry 22:48, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

  I wrote to cu-l once after a day on which you had flooded it with dozens of mails about spambots data; and asked for ways to be able to better sort such e-mails etc. That is because 1.) I often access my e-mail from mobile phone and then can't go to lock the spambots you mail about anyway; 2.) I have found it to be rather pointless to lock most of the spambots, as most of them are of such a configuration that they make exactly one edit and never do anything else again. This I have found to be so after I have checkusered and locked lots of spambots & blocked their IPs since I became a steward. I still do such actions, but many locks are actually of little use. --MF-W 23:04, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

  Dozens? That's not true. I may have posted a few emails and got responses, but I've never posted more than 3 or 4 emails to that list in one day. You're the only steward who posted such an email, and you rarely post or respond there at all. The tone of your email wasn't exactly respectful or considerate either. As for spambots, if you're saying locking IPs/ranges is of little use, you're wrong. I've seen many times when ranges are spammy cross-wiki and over long periods of time. Also, if these get locked, how would you know how many spambot creations that stops? I've even seen quite a few ranges/IPs where spambot activity has continued after blocks and locks have expired. Spambots are going to use available proxies wherever they can be found, so why not lock IPs and ranges with repeated abuse? INeverCry 23:28, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

  It's not possible to lock IPs. I still think blocking abused IPs is of use. --MF-W 23:32, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

  Wow, I said lock instead of block. You scored a point. INeverCry 23:44, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

  Are you sure you think a steward should be removed based on a single disagreement? I think MF-W's dedication to fighting spam is well established, regardless of whatever disagreement on CU-l you two might have had... Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:37, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

  I do a huge ammount of work with spambots, and I didn't appreciate having my posting to cu-l about it ridiculed and made to look less important by this steward. INeverCry 23:44, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

  I understand that you do a lot of work with spambots and that you didn't appreciate MF-W's comments, but if I may offer you a word of advice, I've often not appreciated comments directed at me by others, including other stewards, fellow enwiki admins, and whatnot, but that doesn't mean that they were any less suited for the job :) The yearly confirmations are a good occasion to offer constructive criticism to stewards, and we all welcome that, but I think you might be throwing out the baby out with the bathwater here :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:49, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

  Having someone make me feel unwelcome on an email list for checkusers by complaining about my emails, and then to have this backed up with an untrue and dismissive response like the one above is concerning to me. INeverCry 23:57, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

• Keep --Kolega2357 (talk) 23:14, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep 10000000% per Vogone. Southparkfan 23:16, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep of course--DangSunM (talk) 23:30, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep but please be mindful of INeverCry's criticism here. I really hope you're not brushing them off as "abusive" (to everyone else - "abusive" is a common SWMT joke that perhaps should be credited to this candidate).--Jasper Deng (talk) 23:33, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

  I have no intention or reason whatsoever to think that constructive criticism of actions of me or of things I wrote is abusive. It's hard however to put up with comments that claim that I am somehow opposed to fighting spambots when I have locked, CUd, blocked the IPs & deleted the contribs of many of them. --MF-W 19:22, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

• Keep – one of the few sane people here. ~ DanielTom (talk) 00:16, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep -- Avi (talk) 00:54, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep  — billinghurst sDrewth 03:00, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep MBisanz ^talk 03:30, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Glaisher [talk] 05:03, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep without a doubt. His work as a steward and LangCom member is phenomenal. This, that and the other (talk) 06:49, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Wiki13 _talk 11:00, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Steinsplitter (talk) 13:02, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 15:25, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Pundit (talk) 16:09, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep IW 16:33, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --FriedrickMILBarbarossa (talk) 17:55, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Abd (talk) 18:21, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Remove per INeverCry, --Golden_burg111 18:24, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Dekel E (talk) 19:29, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Risker (talk) 03:03, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep —레비Revi 07:06, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Wim b / [ t ] 11:55, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
• Remove -- too busy to answer simple questions [1] (as we know from Steggalfiisch: this is not the only example of inappropriate avoidance behavior) --Schmei (talk) 12:19, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

  Sorry about that, I simply forgot to answer there. --MF-W 19:22, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

• Keep -- Wagino 20100516 (talk) 12:18, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep And I hope you'll return to your activity of first months because last months weren't as good. --Base (talk) 12:35, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Guycn2 (talk) 18:06, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep. AGK [•] 18:46, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep--Jusjih (talk) 21:11, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep the good work ! :) -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 23:54, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 06:08, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep. Best regards, --Midnight Gambler (talk) 11:55, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Defender (talk) 18:28, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep proved to be useful, thanks for your help the past year Trijnstel_talk 18:41, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Armbrust (talk) 05:31, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep. For all I know, we've found a good solution for the CU-l issue, though I understand some of INeverCry's concerns. Anyway, I think it's a great pleasure working with you. Keep up the good work! Mathonius (talk) 12:13, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Oh yeah! Elfix 18:19, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 22:03, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep--Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:45, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Should be okay. Jianhui67 ^{talk★contribs} 12:23, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep, excellent work. QuiteUnusual (talk) 10:14, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep I love you all~~ ✒ Bennylin 13:30, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Sargoth (talk) 15:36, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Stepro (talk) 22:19, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep — Arkanosis ^✉ 11:57, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Nolispanmo (talk) 12:07, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --AmaryllisGardener (talk) 13:56, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
• Na ich weiß ja nicht … manchmal etwas allzu wild, gell? :-P Na gut, gerade so noch Keep ;-) —DerHexer (Talk) 17:22, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
• top --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 17:40, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Emergency doc (talk) 22:46, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep, good luck! In fact ( contact ) 04:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Holder (talk) 06:19, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep -- Marcus Cyron (talk) 16:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Hazard SJ 03:11, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep -jkb- 20:39, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep —DoRD talk 15:01, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --denny (talk) 17:43, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep -FASTILY 09:19, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep -- Zyephyrus (talk) 10:46, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep. Consistently active steward. Jafeluv (talk) 13:30, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep--MZaplotnik ^(contribs) 22:14, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep --Igor Windsor (talk) 10:24, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep - Hoo man (talk) 15:19, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep Shisha-Tom 16:32, 28 February 2014 (UTC)