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150 spam ?

Status:    In progress

All 150 contributions/articles on Studio 54 Network (here in "simple english" for example) appear to be spam ? --Arroser (talk) 12:25, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

@Arroser: Simple Wikipedia has local sysops, GS or Stewards can't help you. simple:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard--𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 19:27, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

@WikiBayer: : Simple english was only an example, to have links on the article, on the others WP. The real problem is not only this language, but the 150 articles i think. --Arroser (talk) 19:30, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Could you please link articles that are at global sysop-enabled wikis then? THanks! Martin Urbanec (talk) 19:31, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

OK Wikidata d:Q39841 Article created by Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino. Article are in ak:Radio_Studio_54_Network bm:Radio_Studio_54_Network ca:Radio_Studio_54_Network and more.𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 19:37, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

I think we should delete these pages. The content is 1 line + Links. This is not Useful for the projects. Please more opinions. --𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 19:01, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

@WikiBayer I agree Martin Urbanec (talk) 11:02, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

.:@WikiBayer I agree as well. EstrellaSuecia (talk) 17:06, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

If we are talking Radio Studio 54 Network (Q39841) then really shouldn't they be raised with the individual wikis. It is not up to this place to determine the notability nor whether pages that have been considered a reasonable addition for 8+ years after they were created. That has not been our role previously, and without some broader discussion through an RFC I don't think that we should act. Different from asking stewards or GS to act as administrators at these wikis where a legitimate conversation has taken place.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:01, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

billinghurst the problem i'm seeing is that this is a massive crosswiki borderline hoax :/ Praxidicae (talk) 00:20, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

@Praxidicae: The item is visible at so many major wikis so who are we at this wiki to make that determination with the scope that we have been granted by the communities in our rights allocation. The processes for deletion of out of scope material is set to belong to local wikis. If the major wikis went about their investigations and came to their determinations, then these determinations flowed out to the wikis, then we have the scope to act. Tell/show me where it is in scope for this forum to be the instigator for such actions. Yes, it means more work, yes it is a PITA, but once we start that slippery slope of granting ourselves the power, then … No thanks, let us act within scope.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:38, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Sorry I wasn't advocating for doing anything, it was just a comment in general. Praxidicae (talk) 00:50, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

@billinghurst Quote "The item is visible at so many major wikis ... The processes for deletion of out of scope material"

I don't see that as "Out of Scope". One line and the web links is not useful content. Pages with useful content should not be deleted by GS, but pages like in the akWP can, in my opinion, be deleted using Reason "Crosswiki Spam/no useful content". --𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 13:21, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

I am making zero judgment on the articles. I am talking about the community specified roles of global sysops and stewards.

Out of scope for global sysops and stewards to speedy delete 8 year old articles. Out of scope for Steward requests/Miscellaneous to determine local wikis deletion processes. If you were doing works added today, maybe. Works added in 2012 should go through due process at the wikis. These wikis, they own their issues, we don't. Don't start making this role to be more than we have been elected to do.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:09, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletions on suwiki

Status:    In progress

• Please clean su:Kategori:Artikel_anu_kudu_dihapus. Thanks! Bencemac (talk) 06:44, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

  ^moved from GSR since its been there a while --DannyS712 (talk) 01:23, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

  Mentioning suwiki admins A2613 and RXerself as they've have been recently active over there. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:57, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

  @Mssetiadi: I see that you are active, can you please address this matter. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:19, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

  @RXerself and Mssetiadi: Is there issues having the current suWP administrators undertake the maintenance tasks? Please would you be able to sort this out otherwise global sysops will just have to do it with less understanding of the issues than you.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:54, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

  Can I suggest asking on their suwiki talk pages? Not all users have notifications enabled globally. ~~~~
  User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 10:01, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Help with a long-term spammer requested

In recent weeks, :slwiki has been a target of a relentless spam campaign involving more or less convoluted links to some junk book ("Threelogy") and to what appears to be a collection of files mentioning Katyn massacre. Judging by spam blacklists and other mentions on Meta, it's a cross-wiki issue. The spammer(s) use(s) different IPs each time and different ways to link (old diffs from various wikis, archive.is pages etc.), sometimes edit-warring with admins who revert, and it's been impossible to permanently block this activity. This has been going on for months, but now it's ramped up a few notches. Just earlier, the attempts got so persistent that :slwiki's abuse filter got throttled! Can someone help? — Yerpo ^Eh? 13:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

@Yerpo: I'm not a global sysop, but I am extremely familiar with this spammer. The person behind the spam is a cross-wiki vandal, sockpuppetteer and harasser who has been permanently banned by the Wikimedia Foundation from editing any Wikimedia site. More information can be found at w:en:WP:LTA/GRP. As the edits of this person are subject to revert at sight, and as the edits are inherently disruptive, I believe that global sysops may help you block and delete nonsense created by this prolific vandal. I believe you can make requests to GSs here to deal with the vandal's disruption through protection of pages, deletion of added vandalism and blocking of IPs, especially as the vandal abuses open proxies to revert-war with vandal fighters till protection is applied. JavaHurricane 02:36, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

@JavaHurricane: I had a feeling that the issue was this big, yes, but I couldn't find any discussions here, so thank you for pointing it out to me. Actually, :slwiki has plenty of admins and deleting/reverting this trash and blocking is not technically a problem, but it's rather draining, so I was hoping for some advice on how to prevent it, or possibly some more efficient global filter/block. Reading the rest, I have a hunch that it isn't technically feasible, though, so if anybody from the small wiki monitoring team or any other global sysop would keep an eye on :slwiki to help reverting at least, we'd be grateful (even if we're not so small). The person's current obsessions are boxing and Katyn massacre/Stalin. — Yerpo ^Eh? 05:56, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Also read w:pl:WP:CHICAGO (use Google Translate if you don't know Polish). He's been going on like this on a lot of WMF sites, in particular simple.wikipedia. He's gone on with the Katyn massacre on the English Wikivoyage, but we put in a filter that prevents the word "katyn" to be typed. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 11:24, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

This page is generally not for full-fledged discussions. The header suggests "Formal or controversial requests can be filed at Steward requests/Miscellaneous", so I'll be moving this there. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 00:52, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

@Yerpo: I have introduced w:sl:special:abusefilter/5 simple and targeted and left it in detect only—it will only be a start recipe. Feel welcome to turn it on for disallow when you feel comfortable that there are low false p+ves. The issue is going to be that when they are stopped, that they are just likely to adjust their behaviour to something a little different. About the only way that I have managed to truly scare them away is to set these filters to block, which here at meta I set to 2hr blocks, so it places an immediate inhibitor, and they don't get to probe the filter to work their way around it. Adding blocking to AF requires a consensus of your community to activate that component of AF and to have it activated via a phabricator site request.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:49, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Import template used by twinkle from enwiki

Status:    In progress

We recently imported a direct version of Twinkle gadget from enwiki to our local kswiki. However, we have not imported all templates used by two twinkle. I request you to kindly import templates from en:Category:Templates used by Twinkle to ks wikipedia kindly don't import the templates that are already present as most of them have been translated. I know this may be hectic, If this twinkle is discouraged for small wikis like kswiki, Then can you kindly install Global twinkles as a gadget. I will leave the change upto you as you are more experienced than me. Thankyou. --Iflaq (talk) 05:40, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

@Iflaq: If there is only one or two people going to use this, then it would be better for you to install it through your special:MyPage/global.js per the instructions at User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal. We can set it up as a global gadget if there are going to be plentiful users. Running the English version is not the best idea.  — billinghurst sDrewth 15:20, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

FWIW There are a massive 848 templates at enWP in play with Twinkle and that is just crazy. Seems gross overkill, and setting a rod for your back, to coin a phrase.  — billinghurst sDrewth 15:23, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Billinghurst, Thankyou for your advice. Can you please create Global twinkle as a Gadget for our wiki. Since the enwiki needs many templates which are not present and translated it seems odd to use it. I will be importing and localising them one by one till then we can ise global twinkle as a Gadget. Thankyou. Iflaq (talk) 03:20, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

TwinkleGlobal is a cross-wiki script. It doesn't require any local templates. And it doesn't follow any local administrative process. So it's better to install twinkle from enwiki then localize it. Xiplus (talk) 07:38, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

The key point is how many functions do you want to use? For example, if you don't need to tag articles with Cleanup Tempaltes, you don't need to import those templates. Xiplus (talk) 07:43, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

If i get it right Xiplus, You are suggesting to Import and translate Enwiki Twinkle not Global Twinkle ? If so it would be better if someone can import all templates from the enwiki and the we will translate them according to our needs. Though some of them may not be used currently but can be used in future. Thankyou. Iflaq (talk) 11:58, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

How is the AFD process on kswiki? I can't find any related pages. I think there is no such process on kswiki, so you should not import AFD-related templates. Xiplus (talk) 12:46, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your guidance Xiplus. So the question Iflaq which functions are you're wanting to have Twinkle using at your wiki? Maybe Xiplus can guide you on the required components for you wiki, as it seems that all the functionality of Twinkle is not required on a less complex wiki.  — billinghurst sDrewth 13:59, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

The function (component) list is here. Xiplus (talk) 15:14, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Sure Xiplus, Billinghurst got it. I have created a page that depicts our need ks:User:Iflaq/Research. Is there a way to import these templates faster than manually importing them one by one. Iflaq (talk) 05:06, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Edit Interface of fa.wikibooks.org

Status:    In progress

I raised the issue on the VP and no one opposed it: fa:b:Special:Permalink/113740#تغییرات_رابط_کاربر

Please see b:fa:بحث_مدیاویکی:Common.js#Request_for_changes_moved_from_meta for the requested chnages.

My previous request was archived unsuccessfully: Steward_requests/Miscellaneous/2021-10#Edit_Interface_of_fa.wikibooks.org

Please note that the proposed changes have been taken from the English Wikibooks. If the English Wikibooks can have them, then Farsi Wikibooks can have them too. I'm not a regular editor of that project. I was asked to take care for this change, and I did that as a favour. I am a volunteer and not going to invest more time to look for better solutions. So, let's just copy&paste what I have prepared so far. I miss the old days when you could simply ask a local admin to edit the interface :(

Thanks, 4nn1l2 (talk) 03:53, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Request for mass deletion of Fair Use images

Can someone please delete just over a hundred unused FU files on cy-wikipedia please? Many thanks! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 15:30, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

@Llywelyn2000: Hello, cywiki has 15 sysops (including you) able to do this. I'm not understanding the reason for this request, since stewards perform actions only when there is no local users able to do something. stanglavine ^msg 15:58, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

I've been through 'Special pages': we can mass delete an user's files, but there's no mass deletion of files in the above category, unless the tool has been translated wrongly. Can you give me the link please? Llywelyn2000 (talk) 06:15, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

@Llywelyn2000: there is no such special software function. Some user scripts have batch-delete helper functions, such as Twinkle - but you would need to localize it for your project first. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:41, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

@Llywelyn2000: I use this script for mass delete, but you'll need install it yourself. As xaosflux said, there is no native MediaWiki function for this, just gadgets and scripts. stanglavine ^msg 12:58, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi both, and thanks for your time on this! If you have time to delete, I'd be very grateful, otherwise it's gonna take me yonks to get my head round this! Thanks! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 16:45, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

It's not a matter of time: It's a matter of rule. We do not enter an wiki where there are active admins. Even more so when the wiki is not an GS wiki. Period. — regards, Revi 23:46, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Request change content MediaWiki page

Status:    In progress

Please replace voy:vi:MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-show with content below:

{{#invoke:documentation|main|_content={{ {{#invoke:documentation|contentTitle}}}}|{{#ifexist:{{FULLPAGENAME}}/tài liệu|{{FULLPAGENAME}}/tài liệu|{{NAMESPACE}}:{{BASEPAGENAME}}/tài liệu}}}}
<span id="code"></span>

Because default "/doc" subpage in vi is "/tài liệu", if "/doc" is used, it will have no effect on loading the document subpage's content. Flyplanevn27 (talk) 11:01, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Add zhwikivoyage to global bots

Status:    Done

2 weeks and no objections: [1] --Rschen7754 15:19, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Done --Martin Urbanec (talk) 16:56, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

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