User talk:Barkeep49

Watchlist Expiry project page

Hello,

During the Community Whishlist survey 2019, you have voted for the Watchlist item Expiration wish.

Community Tech has created the Watchlist Expiry project page to work on this feature, and is looking for your feedback about the open questions they have.

Regards, IFried_(WMF), 15:51, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Barkeep49! The Community Tech team has posted an April update to the Watchlist Expiry project, and we would love your feedback. The update includes new mockups, which show how users can determine watch status when viewing/editing watched pages or the watchlist. We invite you to check out the update and share your feedback on the project talk page. Thank you! --IFried (WMF) (talk) 19:29, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021: Invitation

The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on 30 November, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 December and 21 December.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:25, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

This is Wikipedia editors' to correct a mistakes Small22 (talk) 00:35, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.

In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.

We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

16:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

You've been nominated!

Hi greetings, you've been nominated for Merchandise Giveaways. Thank you--Path slopu (talk) 16:32, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Path slopu. I really appreciate it and am thankful you took the time to do this. It was really kind and thoughtful of you. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:39, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

DiscussionTools

Hi, Barkeep49,

The Editing team has scheduled a major update to mw:Extension:DiscussionTools (the new Reply tool) for next week's deployment train. Since you invoke the feature from a script (I do, too), you're probably going to see that update next week, before it's officially released in the mw:Beta Feature system. The new update will use a similar system for starting a ==New discussion==. As before, full-page wikitext editing will not be affected. There is more information on the project page at mw:Talk pages project/New discussion.

You don't need to do anything about this, but if you encounter problems next week, please ping me or leave a note on the talk page for the project. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:00, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

@Whatamidoing (WMF): thanks for the notice. I'm excited to get this new functionality. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 22:02, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

It should (if all goes well) appear on Thursday at enwiki, and here at Meta-Wiki on Wednesday. It won't be enabled for non-script-based users until the following week (again, if all goes well), so please be quick to report bugs. There will only be about 50 editors testing during those first few days, and if we find anything seriously wrong, the team will want to delay the release in Beta Features. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:31, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

#WPWPCampaign2021: Learning and evaluation

Hello Barkeep49,

Many thanks for participating in the WPWP campaign.

We are glad about the level of participation, this year and we are excited to inform you that over 900 volunteers around the world added photos to more than 250,000 articles in 298 languages Wikipedia. This year, we surpassed the 2020 edition's milestone by over 170%.

We are in the process of evaluating the WPWP campaign this year and we need your help. We'd love to get your feedback. Your feedback will allow us to better meet your expectations for the campaign in the next editions.

Please complete a brief survey so that we may learn about your participation in the campaign, strengths, challenges and your expectations. This information will enable us to improve the next editions of the Campaign.

Follow this link to the Survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeL9BORQ94GtN6mjS4-U77N7-BIuxDGl1cmhwKzKSijc9lrcA/viewform

Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeL9BORQ94GtN6mjS4-U77N7-BIuxDGl1cmhwKzKSijc9lrcA/viewform

Thank you in advance for taking this survey.

Kind regards,
Tulsi Bhagat ^{[ contribs | talk ]}
Communication Manager, WPWP Campaign
-- Message sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:04, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Please delete my account

Why do you this to me. Please delete my account. My mental health and physical health has already been destroyed by this site. This whole site is designed to harass people. Please let me be and delete my account. I don't want to be harassed anymore. I want to have my life back again. --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 23:06, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

@MyMoloboaccount: Delete an account is technically not possible. Stang 23:09, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

I have right to be forgotten. I want my life back which was taken by this site and harassers. I want my life back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten --MyMoloboaccount (talk) 23:23, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

that's for the EN wiki. Closing things I can think of is Courtesy vanishing, but due to Wikipedia's copyright guidelines, an account cannot be "deleted". AstatineEnjoyer (talk) 16:15, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Join Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2022

Hello Barkeep49,

Thank you for participating in the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign last year.

We are glad to inform you that this year's edition started on 1 July, 2022. You are invited to participate in the campaign again to help improve the quality of Wikipedia articles with photos and contextual images. For more information about the campaign and how to participate, please visit the campaign page here.

If you have any questions or query please feel free to contact the organizing team, leave a message at the campaign's talkpage or send an email to wpwpcampaigngmail.com.

Kind regards, --Ammarpad (talk) 21:27, 5 July 2022 (UTC) (On behalf of the Organizing Team, WPWP Campaign 2022).

I have to send my proposal before 8 December in order the campaign committee to consider my proposal Small22 (talk) 00:42, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Proposal

For some reason it won't let me respond to the proposal, but: That's exactly what I'm talking about, thanks [ping removed].

The idea that people on phone have their own section because of the limits of the app are annoying to admins and to people who revert and warn, as they don't know for sure if the vandal hears them. AstatineEnjoyer (talk) 16:16, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Reminder to vote now to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter

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You are receiving this message because you previously voted in the 2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) election.

This is a reminder that if you have not voted yet on the ratification of the final Wikimedia Movement Charter draft, please do so by July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC.

You can read the final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter in your language. Following that, check on whether you are eligible to vote. If you are eligible, cast your vote on SecurePoll.

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Answers to all community questions by Nadzik – BoT elections 2024

Hey! I am letting you know that per my prior commitment, I answered all of the questions that were asked by the community to the Board of Trustees candidates in this year's elections.

I am contacting you, as you are one of the community members who asked a question in this process, thank you for your engagement! You can read my answers on this page. Nadzik (talk) 09:03, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

U4C extension period

Regarding [1] - it seems that this was added as a note for Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Cases/2024/Missbrauch von Adminfunktionen im deutschsprachigen Wiktionary (which was indeed filed on November 4 and had its acceptance period extended). When it was closed the note was not removed, thus why I removed it. Since the case has been closed and a decision has been made, shouldn't it indeed be outdated (and removed) by now? EPIC (talk) 21:42, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Apologies. Yes. You're correct. I misread what you removed. Barkeep49 (talk) 21:52, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Committee/Cases/Administrative_abuse_on_plwiki

Hey! I am just noting that the case was brought up by a Polish user concerning Polish Wikipedia. I am sure that it was just a small omission (after all: pt is close to pl). I took liberty of translating the message to Polish, but didn't want to post it for U4C. Here it is:

"Nie doszło do systemowego problemu, a plwiki ma działający Komitet Arbitrażowy, nie mamy więc jurysdykcji w tym projekcie. Z przykrością przyjmujemy informację, że wnioskodawca stracił wiarę w działanie KA, ale nie mamy podstaw do podjęcia działań w tej konkretnej sprawie."

Cheers! Nadzik (talk) 18:15, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

You've got mail!

BZPN (talk) 11:07, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

@BZPN for me there are only 2 cases where the U4C can accept an appeal from a project with an ArbCom. First if the ArbCom's scope does not include the topic being appealed. This change is set to be formalized in the current review of the Enforcement Guidelines and Charter. Second if there is systemic failure. I don't think either of these apply in this case. Other members of the U4C might have different opinions. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 14:48, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

YGM

Lemonaka (talk) 08:57, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Check your Email

Yuri (talk) 05:58, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

@Yuri apologies for not acknowledging the email. I've sent it to our official queue for processing which I will go do now. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 14:24, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Barkeep49,

I've responded to the official email. However, although I followed up with another message requesting confirmation, I haven’t received a reply.

Could you please confirm whether you received my email and if it included everything you requested? Yuri (talk) 10:15, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Question about case

Hi. Is there a certain way to comment or reply to people in cases? I looked through the main page but couldn't find anything about it. I don't want to over comment or put them in the wrong places though. --Adamant1 (talk) 23:56, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

@Adamant1 thanks for asking. In general I would advise addressing your remarks to the U4C in this section even if what you are responding to is what someone else wrote. Barkeep49 (talk) 00:00, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. I'll try to do it that way going forward. --Adamant1 (talk) 00:05, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Request for Fair Review and Lifting of Ban

Dear Barkeep49,

I hope you’re doing well. I am writing to you personally with deep respect to kindly ask for a fair review of the ban placed on my account.

I am an Arabic-speaking contributor who joined the English Wikipedia with honest intentions: to contribute constructively by translating verified and meaningful content from Arabic Wikipedia into English. My goal has always been to support cross-cultural knowledge sharing and not to engage in any form of disruptive editing.

Unfortunately, I was accused of having a conflict of interest, even though all I did was translate existing, valid articles from Arabic Wikipedia. When I was told these articles did not exist, I provided direct links and sources to show they were indeed present. You kindly acknowledged the mistake and apologized, which I appreciate sincerely.

Later, I was banned based on the use of translation tools in my communication. As someone who is not a native English speaker, I rely on translation tools to communicate and participate accurately. This is not to deceive or bypass any rules, but simply to overcome language barriers.

I also submitted a complaint regarding the repeated unfair treatment, but it was rejected—again by the same admin involved in the original issue. This makes me feel like I haven’t been given a fair and neutral opportunity to defend myself.

All my contributions are constructive and in line with Wikipedia’s standards. I have not vandalized or added misleading content. My edit history and user talk page clearly show this. I believe I have been treated unfairly and all I ask for is the chance to return and continue contributing in a positive, respectful manner.

Please reconsider my situation—or kindly refer my case to another uninvolved and neutral administrator for a fresh review.

Thank you for your time and consideration. علي بدر العتيبي (talk) 09:05, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

@علي بدر العتيبي thanks for reaching out. I do not generally do appeals work on English Wikipedia and any appeal would need to be done on your user talk on English Wikipedia. I understand your frustration about your use of translation tools, but English Wikipedia expects people to be able to communicate and contribute based on their own English proficiency. That is different than a place like Meta where English serves more as a "common" language and translation tools can help them communicate with others who might not also be fluent in English. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 14:28, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Why?

Hi Barkeep49, excuse me, but I don't understand why you reverted my edits. The complaint is against me. Can't I defend myself? What did I do wrong? Jalu (talk) 17:19, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

@Jaluj we're asking for discord images to be emailed rather than posted. If you'd like to add back your text (referencing the images) that would be fine. Please let me know if you have any more questions that I can help with. Barkeep49 (talk) 19:42, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Trwiki Ucoc

• Hi, is the case still on hold? I don’t want to hurry things up but I am concerned that the amount of unfairly blocked people Will rise.--38.172.49.90 07:13, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

  We are working towards a resolution. This is a place where unfortunately our small numbers have prevented work from getting done. I think ultimately I am going to end up writing something for internal voting but I haven't had time to do so (in part because of u4c work, in part because of the election, and in part because of reduced wiki time). Barkeep49 (talk) 16:45, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

  Thank you for your trasparency. 31.143.239.249 10:13, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Information

Hi, with respect to your post on Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Cases/2025/Hiwiki community disruption by a non local administrator#Decline votes, I would like to inform you that some information has been added to the case, which was earlier missing (as the newly mentioned content was not visible in the app, but is found to be visible in the browser). Thanks. 2405:201:4030:701A:A467:9BB7:3629:CDBA 17:54, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

This doesn't change that I don't think we have authority here, that the stewards do. Barkeep49 (talk) 18:09, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Notice of expiration of your sysop right

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Test

Test

Barkeep49 (talk) 15:59, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Question

Hi. Is there a way to email the committee through the normal on site email system without having to reveal my private email address in the process? I can't seem to find a link to do it anywhere. Thanks. --Adamant1 (talk) 01:15, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

@Adamant1 emailing through the site does reveal your email so that people can reply. But also yes you can do it through Special:EmailUser/U4C. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:07, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

ויקיפדיה עברית

היי בר, הוספתי פידבק לדיון שפתחת במזנון.. חשוב שהצוות יקרא אותו כדי להבין כיצד דברים התנהלו, אבל אני לא יודעת היכן לכתוב. אודה לך מאד אם תעביר את הטקסט לאן שצריך.

La Nave Partirà (talk) 07:39, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

(La Nave) La Nave Partirà (talk) 07:39, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Done Barkeep49 (talk) 15:19, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Question

Hi. Any chance there's a timeline for when you expect something to be done with my case either way? I'm kind of burnt out on the project at this point given the whole thing with A.Savin and am going to be pretty busy in real life in a few weeks anyway. So I'd like to at least know where it's at if nothing else. I don't expect you guys to abort the case just because of how long it's been open or anything but the amount of time it's taken to deal with is a little ridiculous and hasn't really helped things. It's just needlessly stress that makes me more likely to act out. I don't see why the final warning can't be followed and then you guys can get involved in the future if there's actually a need for it. I'd really like to move on from this whole thing at some point if I can though. Thanks. --Adamant1 (talk) 17:16, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

What a reasonable question. I'm sorry we haven't moved forward. I think we have some broad agreement as to a next step it's just someone to do the work of implementing. Let me see what I can find out for you. Barkeep49 (talk) 01:05, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

@Barkeep49: Any chance of an update? This whole thing is stressing me out quit a lot the further it goes on and just leading to more issues on Commons. I get that you guys want me to cut the bad behavior but that's a lot harder to do with the U4C case open and me not knowing if or when I'm going to be indefed over it. --Adamant1 (talk) 05:54, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Did my appeal for U4C reach you?

Hello Barkeep49, Yesterday I mailed the U4C committee my appeal about my block from hewiki, in accordance to the committee's decision. Please let me know if the mail has reached its destination. My gmail adress is a bit goofey, so my emails sometimes end up in the spam folder - please make sure that it didn't happen. The subject line says "An appeal about my permanenet block from hewiki - IthamarEshpar". Thanks, IthamarEshpar איתמראשפר (talk) 07:18, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I can confirm we did get it. I haven't had time to do the initial screen so I left it unacknowledged at this time. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:39, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, Barkeep49. I know it's a long document, please take your time. Are you the only one who's handling the appeals? איתמראשפר (talk) 07:55, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Local logs

Is there a reason why the removal of user rights as an enforcement here on Meta isn't reflected in the local logs? Surely that's an oversight and not intentional. It seems appropriate that there should be more of a local record than a mismatch between the user's rights log and their current rights. GMG^talk 13:08, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

That is not great. For me the net balance still weighs in favor of Stewards carrying out U4C decisions, rather than asking local crats. I think in situations like the one on Commons where the U4C has made a decision that has mixed reactions, asking a local crat to take a position they know will earn enmity among their fellow community members is unfair and from a U4C perspective crats/admins actively refusing to implement a rights change (rather than silently doing nothing) would escalate problems even if the U4C just turns to the Stewards then. I would rather the U4C not spread and crate conflict any more than necessary. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:24, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

I was thinking more of whether this could work out as a phab thing. But I don't really phab. So I'm not an expert. GMG^talk 15:28, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh gotcha. Hmm that's an intriguing idea - the U4C has been asked the last two years around "wishlist" items relating to tech and the like and we could perhaps add this to next year's list. Thanks for the idea, let me see what other think. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:34, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Without some kind of fix, we're setting ourselves up for some confusing situations, especially as these actions become older. In the instance I was looking into, I was only able to clumsily find out what happened because I already knew there was ongoing drama on Meta. A permalink in the local log also serves a transparency function, remembering that probably most users are not at all aware that Meta or U4C even exist. GMG^talk 15:41, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@GreenMeansGo: I agree because CU/OS changes are all on Meta and not reflected on local wikis, but see phab:T6055, which has been open since 2005 ... Sdrqaz (talk) 16:43, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

To my earlier point that is exactly the kind of phab ticket the U4C might be able to draw WMF resources to when we're next asked about it. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:59, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

bias

I am thinking of filing a complaint with the Wikimedia Foundation Universal Code of Conduct for bias and ultranationalism. What do you recommend? جودت (talk) 18:04, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

@جودت Ultanationalism will be easier to make a case for than bias. I would recommend having strong evidence, explained as simply as possible, of that ultranationalism. You can then follow the instructions at Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Cases to file your case. If you have other questions please don't hesitate to ask. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:02, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

@Barkeep49 I opened a discussion in the Hebrew Wikipedia to change the name of an article from “Allegations of Genocide in Gaza” to “Gaza Genocide,” and I began to notice bias. Someone told me that the UN, which confirmed this, is anti-Semitic, and that the two Israeli organizations that confirmed the genocide are far-left. Another said that Jews do not accept this, and that the explanation of the article changes according to the language, although the truth does not change with the change of peoples and languages. Some also say that a court ruling must be issued, although this is not required. There are many and varied sources that confirm this, even within Israel. As I mentioned, there are two Israeli organizations that confirmed this. There is also a politician, the leader of the Israeli Democratic Party, who said: “Israel is killing children in Gaza as a hobby.” There are other Israeli politicians who have made statements that consider the actions of the Israeli government to be war crimes. There is a lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel for genocide, which was supported by several countries. There are statements by senior politicians from various countries describing Israel’s actions as genocide. There is explicit bias and ultranationalism in the Hebrew Wikipedia, although I tried to discuss it with them. It seems that there are users who have political ideas that support the directions of the Israeli government led by Netanyahu. There are Who turned this discussion into a place for spreading hate speech when someone said, "I don't pity the people of Gaza!" I opened a discussion on the Hebrew Wikipedia to change the name of an article because it was biased, and I didn't come to hear such nonsense! Wikimedia projects are committed to the principles of neutrality and cooperation. جودت (talk) 17:43, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Regarding the hewiki case request

Hello Barkeep49, The local appeals committee of hewiki has finished responding to all the editors who have appealed so far. Can you please update us regarding the status of the appeals to the U4C instance and regarding the next stage in your handling of the case request? Thanks, Sofiblum (talk) 19:10, 29 October 2025 (UTC)