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Congratulations

Congratulations on being elected as a steward! Your dedication and commitment to the community have been recognized, and I'm confident you'll excel in your new role. Wishing you all the best as you embark on this important journey of service and stewardship. – DreamRimmer (talk) 06:33, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words @DreamRimmer. ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 06:52, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Congrats

Hi, Yahya! Congrats for the selection. Nicely done! Julius 12345 (talk) 12:15, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the kind words! ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 12:18, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Report vandalism

Hello!

First of all, I want to congratulate you on winning the steward election! Wish you good work and more motivation :)

I would like to ask where I can report acts of vandalism? For example, a vandal created a page or a group of vandals damaged the page with numerous edits. If I don’t have administrator rights to delete a page or I don’t have rollback rights to roll back all edits at once, and there are no active admins or other members with higher rights on this wiki, what can I do? To whom and where can I report such acts of vandalism?

Thank you! Nurtenge (talk) 16:07, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Nurtenge, If your wiki lacks active admins and requires a block or page deletion, please report it to GSR. For instances of cross-wiki spamming/vandalism, you can request an account lock or global block (for IP) through SRG or #wikimedia-stewards^connect. You can use User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal for easy reporting. Also, TwinkleGlobal will help you to revert multiple edits at once. Thank you for the message :) ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 16:29, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

2023-24 Annual Activity Report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

Hello Yahya!

We are sending you this message as you have signed up as a general member of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. We are pleased to inform you that the user group has submitted its annual activity report for 2023-24. We will be very happy to receive your feedback about our activities from the last year on the talk page of the report.

Thanks and regards,
Bodhisattwa
(sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:58, 21 March 2024 (UTC))
(on behalf of the Representative Members of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)

Email Response Time

Hello, what is the typical response time for emails sent to the Wikimedia Steward team? LittleStar Lies (talk) 17:44, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

It depends on the topic, some are hours, some are months. Do you have a ticket number? — xaosflux ^Talk 17:48, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Yup, I have the ticket number but prefer not to share it here publicly as I'm already working on reducing my digital footprint on Wikipedia. Is there any way to expedite the process? LittleStar Lies (talk) 17:53, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Has your problem been solved? ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 14:51, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

No, I haven't received any response so far, apart from the ticket number. By the way, I also replied to that email with the ticket number. LittleStar Lies (talk) 15:01, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

• FYI: lock evading account, see ticket:2024041610000775. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:41, 20 April 2024 (UTC)`

Still missing deletions

You deleted something there and again still missed more, see w:lld:Categoria:Deleteme. 83.30.189.187 09:11, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirtieth newsletter covering March and April 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 13, 14 and 15.

User group news

• * Upcoming user group meeting 19 May

Other news

• Wikipedia Signpost highlighted five papers about climate change editing. (SDG 13)
• On Wikidata, a model for documenting green house gas emissions has been created. (SDG 13)
• An update from the Wikipedian in Residence at the Environment Protection Authority in Victoria, Australia.
• WikiAcción Perú organized a training session: "Climate Change Actions and Wikimedia Movement" (SDG 13)
• WikiForHumanRights organized a session: "Adding Sustainability Perspectives to Wikivoyage"

Events

• Wiki Loves Earth, the international photo contest of protected nature, starts in May. (SDG 14 & 15)
• Wiki For Climate Change 2024 - Maghreb region starts in May. (SDG 13)

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Question about vanishing you did

I left a message on enwp [1]. Dennis Brown (talk) 10:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirtyfirst newsletter, covering May 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 13, 14 and 15.

User group news

• Upcoming: User group meeting, 16 June
• Mini report from the Wikimedia Summit 2024
• User group representative interviewed by Wikipediapodden at Wikimedia Summit (commons)
• Minutes from user group meeting in May

Other news

• Reflecting _Women For Sustainability Africa Arts + Feminism #Her Voice Campaign 2023
• Macedonia report: Climate change and GLAM (SDG 13)
• Biodiversity Heritage Library April monthly highlights (SDG 14 & 15)
• WikiProject Biodiversity featured in Nature Africa (SDG 14 & 15)
• Wikimedia UK releases a video about their climate focus (SDG 13)

Events

• Wiki Loves Earth, the international photo contest of protected nature, continues in some countries. (SDG 14 & 15)

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ticket to check

Hello Yahya, when you have a moment please see ticket:2024062610007406. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 13:45, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

@Xaosflux Hi, please check my comment there. ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 14:43, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, see note there. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:52, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 14:59, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Rollbacker possibilities

Hello! I am a rollbacker from Kazakh Wikipedia.

Rollbackers and other users who can rollback changes can rollback only the last user's changes on Kazakh Wikipedia. That is, for example, if one vandal made changes, then the second vandal immediately made changes, then rollbackers and other users who can rollback changes cannot rollback all the changes made by both vandals. They can only rollback the most recent user's changes. This is extremely inconvenient, because for example in the English Wikipedia rollbackers and other users who can rollback changes can rollback all the changes made by both or more users.

Who can I contact about this issue so that we can have this opportunity? -- Nurtenge (talk) 13:57, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi, this is how the rollback feature works, and it operates in the same way across all Wikimedia projects. According to Wikipedia:Rollback, "The MediaWiki rollback user right provides users with a button that will revert, with a single click, the last edit to a given page, along with any consecutive previous edits made by the same editor to that page."

You can use this user script to restore a specific revision from the page history. ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 15:05, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

That is, no one can revert all the changes made by two or more users with one edit, right? I also often see in other Wikimedia projects that when rollbacking edits, users can write the reason for the rollback. We can't do it in Kazakh Wikipedia too -- Nurtenge (talk) 12:05, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, by default, no one can revert all changes made by two or more users with a single edit. However, this can be done using certain user scripts. Additionally, users cannot specify a rollback reason by default, but this also can be done using scripts. ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 12:12, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

I got you. Thanks a lot! -- Nurtenge (talk) 12:23, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirtysecond newsletter, covering June 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

User group news

• User group vote on the adoption of the Movement Charter (closes 7 July 23.59 UTC)
• Upcoming user group meeting 21 July
• User group meeting held in June - minutes
• The group was featured in the latest WikiAfrica Hour: #36: Does the Wikimedia movement contribute to the SDGs?

Other news

• Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: How WikiProject COVID-19 and other Wikimedia initiatives counter health disinformation (SDG 3)
• Environment Centre Northern Territory Wikipedian in Residence (SDG 15)
• With AI can we increase transparency of companies' carbon footprints (in Swedish). Op-ed that mentions that the greenhouse gas emissions of the top 150 companies on the Stockholm stock exchange has been uploaded to Wikidata. The model is documented on WikiProject Climate Change on Wikidata. (SDG 13)
• Another Year in Review: Where is Wikimedia in the Climate Crisis? Seeing the impact of Wikimedia Projects (SDG 13)
• 46 scholars, self-advocates bring knowledge to Wikipedia’s disability healthcare content (SDG 3)
• Wikimedia Sverige publishes their 2023 climate impact report (in Swedish) (SDG 13)
• WikiProject Govdirectory has started weekly collaboration on countries (SDG 16)

Events

• Wikimedia chapters and groups organise the first Sharks and Rays Wikimarathon (29 June, but edits in the weeks after are welcome) (SDG 14)

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Join Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2024

Hello Yahya,

Thank you for participating in the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign in one of our previous editions.

The 2024 edition has just started. We are glad to invite you to participate in the campaign again this year to help improve the quality of Wikipedia articles with photos and other media files. For more information, please visit the campaign page here.

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

Kind regards, --Ammar 14:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC) (For Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2024 Organizers)

Reminder to vote now to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Dear Wikimedian,

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.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 15:24, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Globally locked

Why am I globally locked? 103.183.68.6 10:11, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

@Yahya Please let me know why I got global locked. 103.183.68.6 10:16, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

CEE Newsletter - July 2024 Issue Now Available!

Good morning,

We're excited to announce the release of the July 2024 issue of the CEE Newsletter! Once again we have captivating stories, community highlights, and collaborative achievements from across the Central and Eastern Europe region in the Wikimedia movement.

In This Issue:

• International Updates: Stay informed with the "Wikimedia International Update Corner", covering key developments, events and initiatives in the international Wikimedia space for 2024.
• CEE in the News: Discover notable mentions of CEE region activities in "This month in Education" and "This month in GLAM" newsletters.
• Reader's Digest: Catch up on the latest insights and stories from around the globe with the "Reader’s Digest".
• Open calls and consultations: Voice your opinion! These topics are open to discussion. Also, please take a look at the open calls and apply!
• Updates from Communities: Learn about the successful second quarter of Wikimedia MKD and the first half of 2024 of Wikimedia Ukraine, read more about the Third Ionian Wikithon 2024, review activities in the past months of the Wikimedia Serbia, read the report from the event in the Buffer Zone on Cyprus, discover the new area of focus for Wikimedia Poland, and many more community updates.

We hope you enjoy this issue and find inspiration in the diverse stories and impactful work being done by our CEE communities. Thank you for being a part of our journey toward promoting free knowledge and collaboration.

You can read the full newsletter here. We hope you enjoy the inspiring stories and achievements showcased by our vibrant CEE communities.

Happy reading!

Toni Ristovski on behalf of the CEE Newsletter team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:30, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty third newsletter, covering July 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 5, 10, 13, and 16.

User group news

• User group meeting held in July, minutes
• Next user group meeting will be 18 August

Other news

• Climate change editahon and workshop in Macedonia (SDG 13)
• WikiForHumanRights in Nigeria 2024 Campaign Virtual Launch (SDG 10&16)
• What we Learned from Wiki Women In Red @8 Campaign 2023 Women for Sustainability Africa (SDG 5)
• Ghanaian Wikipedians set to educate students on Open Climate (SDG 13)
• Using Wikipedia as a Tool for Climate Action (SDG 13)

Events

• 5th August, m:Event:Wiki-Green_Conference_2024 Wiki-Green Conference (SDG 13)
• 7-10 August, Wikimania - All SDG related sessions
• 7-9 November, Justicia climática, voces indígenas y plataformas Wikimedia (SDG 13)

Participate

• Share an example of a successful WikiProject or topical collaboration in this on-wiki survey

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IPBE

Hi, Thanks for giving me the exemption. However I still can't edit ru:Привидение, которое не возвращается. Any idea why? Yann (talk) 12:15, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

@Yann GIPBE does not override local IP blocks. Your IP might be blocked locally on ruwiki. In this case, you will also need a local IPBE on ruwiki. ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 18:18, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Global interface editors/Requests

Hello! Do we have something like Global sysops/Requests where I could suggest interface changes in projects where there are no interface administrators? Nurtenge (talk) 11:00, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

@Nurtenge, You can make this request at Steward requests/Miscellaneous. Global sysops or stewards will process it. ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 11:14, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you -- Nurtenge (talk) 12:20, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - August 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty fourth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDGs 5, 11, 15, and 16.

User group news

• Next user group meeting, 15 September, will be focused on starting to develop a strategy for the group. If you cannot attend, you can leave your input on the ideas page.
• User group meeting held in August (minutes)

Other news

• Report from WikiProject International Botanical Congress 2024 (SDG 15)
• Meeting for Writing on Femenist Strikes and Wiki for Peace Camp St. Imier (SDG 5 & 16)
• Biodiversity Heritage Library report (SDG 15)
• Wikimania had a lot of SDG related sessions and you can watch them back now

Events

• Wiki Loves Monuments starts in September (SDG 11)

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tt:Анна Бобровская

Dear Yahya, this is to let you know that I have reverted you deletion of this page on the local wiki per Meta-Wiki decisions on what's SPAM can't override local wiki-community decisions. Showing cross-wiki SPAM or steward action as reasons is irrelevant in these cases. In the future please avoid deleting local content in any wiki without discussions with local community. Thank you for understanding. Regards, ttWP admin en:Farhad Fatkullin - Frhdkazan (talk) 14:28, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Frhdkazan, I am well aware of where stewards can act and where they cannot. However, in this particular case, it seems I made a mistake. Generally, I do not delete pages unless they are clearly vandalism or spam. Thanks for noticing, and I apologize for the inconvenience I caused. But do you have any reason for not restoring the whole page history and only the last revision? ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 15:35, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing and showing me my mistaken partial history restoration. I would be grateful if you can restore the rest. This was the first time when I was restoring a page myself after a long while, and I might have done something wrong.

Thank you for the Steward policy link. I'll read it critically before making my Meta-request to stop stewards, global admins, rollbackers & what not from systemically engaging in cultural imperialism by unfoundedly marking local content for speedy-deletion or even deleting it without discussions with locals first. I am quite confident the same can be said by other language communities from among Wikimedia Language Diversity, but generally we are too busy to notice or pay much attention to this abuse, as we are concentrating own limited resources to more urgent tasks, than fighting abuse by well-wishing Meta-folks from larger wikis. Frhdkazan (talk) 18:36, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

@Frhdkazan I can see that you have successfully restored the rest of the revisions.

We stewards, along with other global groups like global sysops and global rollbackers, are here to help small wikis where there is no community or only a small one. We act only when we find clear vandalism or spam, and when global policies permit us to act in these specific cases.

We protect your projects when you and other local sysops are not around. Mistakes can happen, but cases like this are very rare. However, you can't call us ‘abusers’ or label our actions as cultural imperialism. We are not imposing our culture on your projects. Please be respectful in discussions.

Regarding the article you mentioned, I have already said it was not ‘clearly a spam article,’ and I agreed that this needed to be handled by the local community. I probably misunderstood, and I apologize for that. So why the rude message again? Why should we refrain from taking action on other projects as well? ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 20:05, 8 September 2024 (UTC)