User talk:Ladsgroup

Please provide feedback on suggested improvements to the Code of Conduct
Thanks to everyone who’s helped work on the Code of Conduct so far.

People have brought up issues they feel were missed when working on "Unacceptable behavior" and "Report a problem". Consultants have also suggested changes in these same sections.

These are important sections, so please take a look at the proposed changes. I apologize that this feedback arrived later than planned, but I think this will create a better document.

If you prefer to give your opinion privately, feedback via e-mail is welcome at conduct-discussion@undefinedwikimedia.org.

Thanks. Mattflaschen-WMF via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:18, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Please participate in discussion on updated "Marginalized and underrepresented groups" text
Thanks for participating in the earlier discussion on Talk:Code of Conduct/Draft. There was some support and some issues were raised. I've attempted to propose a better draft to address the issues.

Please participate at Talk:Code of Conduct/Draft. Thanks. User:Mattflaschen-WMF via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:40, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Hey, User:EpochFail. I'm so proud of this barnstar because it's from you, my the best teacher and one of roles models that always been there to help me. I don't give up as you thought me :) Ladsgroup (talk) 01:46, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

thank you
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 * You are very welcome. Thank you for your contribution on medical articles. Ladsgroup (talk) 15:18, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

OOjs UI
Am I correct that this change: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=640095512&diff=778525484 is not the same as the changes you were making at fawiki? (I'm planning to start a simple help page here for gadget/script owners, and I don't want to tell them that there's only one problem that needs fixing if there are two [or more].)

(Please ping me.) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:29, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hey, User:Whatamidoing (WMF): It's not related to the OOUI change, it's related to another change. Ladsgroup (talk) 07:11, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Which change is it, then? (The edit summary on this diff says that it's about OOUI.)  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:18, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I've written OOjs UI/Fixing scripts and gadgets in the hope that it will be helpful. Please "be bold" in improving it.   Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:34, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * User:Whatamidoing (WMF): Thanks, It looks great but we need to wait to see if MatmaRex's patch gets merged or not. If it gets merged, we don't need to do anything. Ladsgroup (talk) 02:15, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I'm being overly pessimistic, but I've been operating under the assumption that this patch would give us fewer, smaller problems rather than no problems at all. I would be happy to be proven wrong.  :-)  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 04:22, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
 * You are right, we still would have problems but that will be definitely way less than what we would have if we didn't do it. The patch is merged now \o/ Ladsgroup (talk) 13:28, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

How is this going for you? Did anything break again? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:29, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't know if Matma Rex's change got deployed in Persian Wikipedia or not but nothing is broken so far. Ladsgroup (talk) 00:16, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * The deployment train had some problems. I don't think that this new code has reached your home wiki yet, but it maybe-possibly-hopefully might happen later today.  Please ping me if you see anything breaking.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:32, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * The deployment train got resolved late last week. Tar Lócesilion has suggested that the documentation be expanded, and James F has started doing that.  Unless you ping me with unexpected problems, then I think we're ready to send this to plwiki (exactly like we did with fawiki) soon.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:45, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you for the barnstar. It's an honor to be helpful Ladsgroup (talk) 17:37, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey. Hope that you're okay. Just to avoid the off-topic on Phab: thanks for the work y'all are doing regarding. I am glad that is going forward. Best regards, &mdash;MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:36, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
 * User:MarcoAurelio. Thanks for the kind words. I hope I can get it to users soon. Ladsgroup (talk) 13:39, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Need your help in disabling a gadget
Hola Amir, Would it be possible for you to disable the user feedback gadget on MediaWiki.org as we realized that we no longer need it. You can leave a comment on this Phabricator task when done. Thanks, I will much appreciate it! Srish 22:35, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Done Ladsgroup (talk) 05:38, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Great to see your name
It's been great to see your name on the Talk pages project talk pages...hope you're doing okay ^ _ ^ PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 23:21, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Also, a much delayed and deserved "thank you!" for the URL shortener! @Whatamidoing (WMF) can attest, I use it everyday. PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 23:27, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't know if you can run stats on who uses the URL shortener the most, but I'm convinced that Peter is your biggest fan.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:54, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * @PPelberg (WMF)@Whatamidoing (WMF) Thank you for the kind words and thank you for building the Reply tool, I already refuse to use the old horrible way. I'm good (lots of things to do but that's the usual :D) . And for the URL shortener, Kunal did most of the work, I just pushed it out (and Ed did a lot to improve it). There are lots of great people in the movement that I couldn't get 1/100 of things I'm currently doing without them. Ladsgroup (talk) 16:36, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, well, if you have the opportunity, please share with Kunal how much I've been appreciating the tool. I'm glad to hear things are going okay for you. If as you're using the Reply Tool/talk pages new thoughts/ideas strikes you, I hope you'll continue to let us know. PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 16:54, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with MediaWiki and Wikitech communities
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the technical communities in Wikimedia. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!


 * Round 1 - Feb 25, 4:00 pm UTC
 * Round 2 - Mar 4, 4:00 am UTC
 * Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/MediaWiki and Wikitech

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:37, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

The Inuka Team: We need your help.
Hello Ladsgroup,

Thank you so much for all the work you do in translating pages marked for translation. It is great to have you doing so much work to ensure that knowledge is available in other languages. Once again, we will need your help in translating the pages below to the language you know:


 * Inuka team
 * Wikipedia for KaiOS
 * Wikipedia Preview
 * Wikipedia for KaiOS FAQ

Please, don't feel pressured to finish all the translation; it is okay to translate some of the pages.

UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 02:59, 3 March 2021 (UTC)


 * @UOzurumba (WMF) Hello, KaiOS is barely used in Persian-speaking countries. What's the point of spending my volunteer time translating something that's not useful for its readers? Ladsgroup (talk) 17:53, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * @Ladsgroup Yes, KaiOS is barely used in Persian-speaking countries. However, the knowledge from the project can inspire anyone from any part of the world. It is okay if you have so much to do with your volunteer time or feel it is a waste of time. You are not under obligation to translate. So feel free to decline. Thank you so much for the feedback. UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 10:07, 4 March 2021 (UTC)