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This section was archived on a request by: Johannnes89 (talk) 07:41, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Minor question

Is there a page somewhere- maybe here, maybe on governance wiki- that provides a log of past office actions made by the WMF? Edward-Woodrow (talk) 12:05, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

@Edward-Woodrow nothing complete and authoritative that I'm aware of. You can follow up on this at foundation:Policy talk:Office actions. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:20, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Done: foundation:Policy talk:Office actions#From metawiki. Edward-Woodrow (talk) 12:30, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Fa.wikipedia.org

Fawiki status is become worse need admin review, the wiki's always been like any site/forum Islamic republic. not of our world

Stewards are well worse than sysops

Long story short it is like Iranian government compromised version of wild west Baratiiman (talk) 05:32, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

I'm sad to hear that. Since I do not speak the language I can't help but from what I have seen the admins seems to be nice. I have tried to make sure all files have a license but the progress is slow. Right now there are 1110 files that most likely do not have a license fa:کاربر:MGA73/NoLicense. But the same problem exist on many wikis.

I think for a review some examples would be needed. And if possible a link to a local discussion where the problem was tried to be resolved. --MGA73 (talk) 08:17, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

There is an open topic since november 2022 in teahouse https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D9%82%D9%87%D9%88%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87/%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C#%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%B9%DB%8C%D8%AA_%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%AA_%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C/%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%82_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85_%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%AA_%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA Baratiiman (talk) 11:54, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

This page needs fixing

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Findings/Nigeria I tried to fix it but kept running into filters. 96.31.192.217 16:33, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Done. Thank you. --M/ (talk) 17:08, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

API deprecation

I'm curious as to why WIKI has messed with their API thereby breaking the 'Redactle-Unlimited' game for millions of people around the world? I'm not sure if this is the place for this but...? Beccib23 (talk) 01:13, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

@Beccib23 It looks like this has been fixed by the creator. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 02:52, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

As a semantic thing, "wiki" is just a collection of documents that are editable. I only mention this because if you confuse "wiki" with Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, you'll eventually get some answers that are confusing or that don't address your questions. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:51, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, it is back but still has some kinks. Also, I meant Wikipedia when I used 'wiki' I didn't know that there is a difference? Beccib23 (talk) 21:21, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Totally understandable. Wikiepdia is one example of a wiki. For instance, this is a different wiki that we are on now: Meta-Wiki. See w:en:wiki for more. This is not necessarily the best place to get feedback on API issues, but I'm not sure what the ideal venue is. We have phab: for bugs and requests and there's also a dedicated wiki just for MediaWiki software, which is also an option. I hope you have good luck on figuring out the issues. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:04, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi there,

I understand your frustration. The Wikimedia Foundation recently made some changes to their API, which unfortunately broke the Redactle-Unlimited game. The foundation has said they are working on a fix, but it's unclear when it will be available.

Meanwhile, there are some other games you can play that are similar to Redactle-Unlimited. One option is to try the original Radical game, which is still available. Another option is to try the game Quordle, a word guessing game similar to Wordle. Waqarmir12 (talk) 07:26, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

CentralNotice

Hi,
Where can CentralNotice be tested online? What to do for that? Thanks. ―Eihel (talk) 10:29, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

@Eihel in production we sometimes test by assigning a campaign to only a closed wiki. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:05, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

BackupWiki

This will be a place to backup severely and hard-to-reversely vandalized pages from other wikis. Faster than Thunder (talk) 07:07, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

fa.wiktionary.org

wikitionary farsi has 0 present admins and 400 of page delete requests. Baratiiman (talk) 13:40, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

@Baratiiman: You don't have a true, admin list and You look Administrators' noticeboard. Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 18:08, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

they were talking about fawiktionary not fawikipedia, there is indeed no active sysop at fawiktionary [1] and a long backlog of deletion requests [2] Johannnes89 (talk) 09:56, 15 August 2023 (UTC)