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Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 - your lightning talk

Dear Mehman,

last Tuesday we held an orientation session on lightning talks for the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 and I think I missed you - sorry not to have been able to say hi on that occasion. Good news is - for your reference, the recording of the presentation part may be found here.

Please remember to upload your slides to Commons by the end of day nearest Tuesday, September 23. We strongly encourage you to use this template. We also kindly ask that the presentation be uploaded to the Commons category Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 presentations.

CEE you in a few days! Wojciech Pędzich Talk 14:23, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Administrator's code of conduct reconsideration

Good morning, Mr. Mehman, I am an inter-linguistic Wikipedian with about 36,000 edits for 10 years since 2015, but did not access the Georgian project until the end of last year. I compiled several hundreds of localized data and redirection links for the Oscar Film festivals and organized by years in the Wikidata and several languages' projects this summer, including submitting the commonly used abbreviation terms with redirection for the available articles in the same pattern without making any change directly to the articles. I double-checked the Georgian news media resources to assure the terms have been used by local journalists for example before submitting about 40 redirection links in the Georgian Wikipedia on June 26.

I can surely accept the different opinions that my edit submissions might not be approved due to my linguistic ability not up to the standard and hence subject to be rejected or deleted, but then without notice nor any warning, you instantly put an half-year ban on my account in the name of "G1 დესტრუქციული მოქმედება" (Destructive action) and set the complete website-wide blocks ever since, including:

1. Access to my own empty Talk/User pages of no content, preventing me from making an appeal, issuing a statement or an explanation.
2. Access to the discussion pages of any administration boards, preventing me from submitting an inquiry.
3. Access to the Wikipedia's internal email system, preventing me from using the communication feature to contact for help.

Since all my access channels of contact and communication in the project was denied immediately without a notification afterwards, it seems that the above critical measures of decision without solution has violated the existing Universal User Code of Conduct of Wikimedia, therefore hereby humbly suggest your excellency reconsider to remove the unnecessary ban properly in accordance with the Good Faith policy of Wikipedia. Thank you for the attention and hope you have a great day. Sincerely -- Mickie-Mickie (talk) 05:52, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello hello. Thanks for writing and explaining. Let's start from the beginning:

1. When I block someone, it's based on the Georgian Wikipedia rules. I don't check a user's contributions to other Wikimedia projects, as that's not make a sense and I'm guided by the individual's local contributions. So thank you for citing your global contribution;
2. You created dozens of articles that weren't in Georgian, but rather disastrous machine translations. This is affecting the quality and depth of Wikipedia's content. We're trying to improve Wikipedia's depth, but you're making it worse;
3. I can unblock you only if you don't continue your previous behavior, and I recommend you refrain from editing Wikipedia if you don't know the language of that WP. Otherwise, I won't be able to help you, and you can contact the UCoC committee.

Best, — Mehman 10:27, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Good morning, Thanks for your reply, but I have to beg to differ for the following unfortunate reasons:

1. I have not "created dozens of articles", but the redirection links with the index by year for the referred Oscar ceremony articles, because the current naming pattern is followed by the ordinal numbers, which is less commonly familiar to the general public and cinema fans, so an additional index of redirects can be helpful for the users who only know its year to search for information. Those auxiliary redirects can be easily deleted with the existing procedure if deemed as unnecessary, As I had never touched the original articles, they could not be so dangerous as "affecting the quality and depth of Wikipedia's content" over all.
2. I researched several naming patterns already been used by Georgian news reports in comparison, before adopting the one used in Tbilissi, so I am pretty sure that it was "in Georgian" language, not some random "machine translations", though I fully respect your opinion to call my works as "disastrous", since it is possible that the journalist could make errors sometimes, and there are also different usages and dialects in Georgian regions. However in Wikipedia, we should maintain the "good faith" principle with reasonable discussion to resolve the issue, not jump into conclusion with the guilty presumption to aim for the personal attack in denial of justice instantly.
3. If my submission did not "improve the Wikipedia's depth", but "making it worse", hereby apologize and will surely be more careful. Under such a circumstance, I certainly will not involve much in the Georgian project as you can imagine, hence relax as there is nothing to worry about, but please correct the appealing ban in question due to the inconsistency against the Wikimedia policy to avoid the unnecessary future concerns. Thank you for the attention and hope you have a great day. Sincerely -- Mickie-Mickie (talk) 15:52, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Updates from Capacity Exchange (CapX)!

Hello Mehman,

My name is Joris Darlington Quarshie, and I am an Outreach Facilitator for the Capacity Exchange (CapX) — a platform for finding and connecting with peers to exchange knowledge and skills on a global level.

CapX is a community-built tool, designed by and for the Wikimedia Movement, to make it easier for Wikimedians across the world to find and connect, collaborate, and exchange skills and knowledge with peers.

If you don't know it yet, I invite you to access capx.toolforge.org and create your user profile with your Wikimedia account. But, if you already have a profile, I invite you to check out the new features and possibilities we just launched. I am sure you will be delighted.

CapX's new version incorporates valuable community feedback gathered over the past months, including the Organization Profile - a feature for Wikimedia affiliates, initiatives, or community groups to create their own CapX presence (see here how to create yours).

Explore CapX's new features

→ Access: capx.toolforge.org
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→ Navigate CapX's User Guide and Frequently Asked Questions
→ Share your profile on Meta by adding the predefinition {{CapacityExchange}} to your userpage.
→ Visit our Meta Page for all documentation on the project

Please, let me know if you think your community would enjoy a presentation, workshop demonstration, or feedback session. I would be happy to support you on that. Just reach out, and we can schedule the best date and time together.

Best regards,

Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:39, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

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Join us for “Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages”!

Hello Mehman,

We’re excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange Translat-a-thon.

Together with Language Diversity Hub, the Capacity Exchange (CapX) team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
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• Date: December 6, 2025
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We invite you and your community to join the Capacity Exchange (CapX), a Wikimedia community-built platform for connecting, collaborating, and exchanging skills with peers across the movement.

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With warm regards,
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Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:55, 13 November 2025 (UTC)