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 * Please create a subpage under Project:Requests/User rights/ with your user name as the page title and then transclude it to the bottom of this section.

Requests for renames

 * Information on how renames work is available on Wikipedia. Archives: 2014 (Previous years).

'''Local renames by bureaucrats are no longer possible. Please place new requests at Steward requests/Username changes.''' __NOINDEX__

Electric Wombat → Crow
Rename as part of SUL consolidation. Confirmation of ownership HERE - Electric Wombat (talk) 17:42, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Please forward your request to Steward requests/Username changes.--Jasper Deng (talk) 05:26, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

RunabRunab → Runab
I have the SUL for Runab (home plwiki) but still have conflicts on mediawiki.org. There's one problem. Here account Runab (not my) has a six edition (last: 13.01.2013 ). Is it change on create new account for Runab from mediawiki.org, so I could end create my SUL account? - RunabRunab (talk) 17:00, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Please forward your request to Steward requests/Username changes.--Jasper Deng (talk) 05:26, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Other requests and requests for comments

 * Archives: Other requests and Requests for Comments

Change Abuse filter block lengths to 3 months for IPs only
I tried enabling automatic blocking for Special:AbuseFilter/28 but I forgot that this wiki hasn't configured $wgAbuseFilterAnonBlockDuration to be a finite duration yet. I think this would require at least some form of consensus. I am proposing 3 months because that is what I usually use for blocks of those spambots.--Jasper Deng (talk) 18:41, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 months is definitely better than infinite. There's quite a huge gap however from this and, say, the 24 hours of autoblock; you may want to consider if few weeks actually suffice, for such IPs (are they even static?). If you think 3 months is best, let's go for it for now. --Nemo 09:16, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Personally I think 1 month should be all that's necessary on automatic blocks. If an IP is seen to get automatically blocked more than once, a manual, longer block can be implemented. 3 months is just a bit long as far as automatic blocks go in my opinion. Whatever works best for everyone else is fine for me though. --GeorgeBarnick (talk) 18:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Support either 3 months or 1 month (don't care which). I had this same idea myself before I even saw this here. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:50, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I've opened 70828. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:04, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ by Reedy. Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:29, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * We now have an example of a block to a "normal" IP which almost 3 months later blocked a good faith user: Special:AbuseFilter/24. Perhaps we should reduce to 1 month, as most people above seemed to be content with? Or we need to make sure that blocking filters don't block home/consumer dynamic IPs. --Nemo 07:24, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Delete user request
User: T816424

Please delete user account T816424 as created in error.

Apologies for the trouble. Thanks
 * We cannot and will not delete user accounts, for technical reasons.--Jasper Deng (talk) 20:17, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, it theoretically could be done, right? Leucosticte (talk) 18:27, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Technically it would be possible, but there is no reason to do so. And sysadmin is a usergroup "to perform actions for technical reasons". And i see no technical reason to do anything here :) --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 07:54, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * ❌ see answer of Jasper Deng --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 06:21, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Import w:fr:Aide:Pywikipedia/interwiki.py
This page is a (partially) translated version of Manual:Pywikibot/interwiki.py. Could you import it as Manual:Pywikibot/interwiki.py/fr? We don't need it anymore on Wikipedia, but it could still be useful for other projects. Thanks, Orlodrim (talk) 01:19, 1 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Could one of you do this? Manual:Pywikibot/interwiki.py doesn't use the Translate extension so this shouldn't really be a problem, afaics. Thanks, --Glaisher (talk) 07:54, 17 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Orlodrim. Here you go: Manual:Pywikibot/interwiki.py/fr. I only sort of fucked it up, nothing a quick page move couldn't fix... I've done much worse with the import tool. :-) Let me know if you wanted templates. (Thanks for the ping, Glaisher!) --MZMcBride (talk) 23:43, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Perfect, thanks. No additional templates are needed. Orlodrim (talk) 00:02, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ then, thanks for response :) --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 08:22, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Remove/reduce protection in How to contribute/Translations‎
It isn't possible to update and create new translations to the page. Thanks, Eran (talk) 20:08, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, the protection reason seems to be still actual, maybe can revisit this. (Protected "How to contribute/Translations": Excessive vandalism: High visibility page linked from the footer of all Wikimedia projects, https://www.mediawiki.org/?diff=next&oldid=1018668 (how to semiprotect recursively?), and a cascading protection is nly possible for full (only-admin) protection. The protection will expire 31 May 2015. --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 07:27, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * We could try removing the protection. Shirayuki, is it still necessary? --Nemo 09:46, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The protection should be removed per Translations talk:How to contribute/26/fr. --Shirayuki (talk) 13:11, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅, thanks for confirming. --Nemo 13:21, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * now everything works fine (at least from my point of view)--Robby (talk) 13:46, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Request block of User:Eye Compagny
Please block Special:Contributions/Eye Compagny for vandalism (see contributions) and unwanted username. It is a misspelling of a Dutch company called Eye Company. After being blocked on the Dutch Wikipedia for unwanted username, the user started vandalising here. After a short while the user stopped. However I don't think the user is planning on doing anything helpful for this project. Mbch331 (talk) 14:13, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ❌ -> "User account "Eye Compagny" is not registered." Can you check the username please? :) --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 14:24, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, made a small typo. It's Eye compagny (with a small c instead of capital C). Mbch331 (talk) 15:06, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ -> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&user=&page=User:Eye+compagny --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 15:15, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Special:Log/liquidthreads
Please remember to watch this log: LQT vandalism is not visible in contributions and has no rollback/undo button. When you see LQT vandalism by a user or IP, remember to check both their contributions and logs. Should we ad monitoring of this log to some IRC channel? --Nemo 11:03, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Remove adminship from old WMF staff accounts
Purpose removing adminship from:

These users are no longer working for WMF and thus their office accounts are locked. So no reason for keeping their adminship. They can still use their adminship of their personal accounts e.g. .--GZWDer (talk) 11:13, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi. It looks like Jalexander-WMF took care of this. --MZMcBride (talk) 13:05, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Delete "coder" and "svnadmins" group
As Extension:CodeReview was migrated, coders and SVN admins have no rights related to CodeReview, though coders still have autopatrol right. Purpose to move all coders to "autoreview" user group, and then delete these two groups from MediaWiki.org.--GZWDer (talk) 11:19, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi GZWDer. I think the "coder" user group is now gone from this wiki. "SVN admins" still exists. Please file a task in Phabricator to remove that user group. --MZMcBride (talk) 13:07, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Import a few b:en:User:Ivan Shmakov, b:ru:User:Ivan Shmakov subpages
Unless I be mistaken, the documentation for MediaWiki-related software is well within the scope of this wiki. Among such packages I was loosely working on last year (and hopefully will get back to somewhat later) are:
 * MediaWiki-API2 – a fork of the [//metacpan.org/release/MediaWiki-API MediaWiki-API] MediaWiki API interface for Perl;
 * a few command-line tools (including  and  ) employing this interface.

I have a couple of reasons to prefer this wiki rather than Wikibooks for working on the documentation for these packages. (One of the reasons being, obviously, Extension:Translate.) If it indeed fits the scope of the project, could someone please import the respective subpages (see below) from English Wikibooks into my “user space” here? (I will then request removal of these pages from the former location.)
 * b:en:Special:PrefixIndex/User:Ivan Shmakov/MediaWiki-API2 CPAN distribution
 * b:en:Special:PrefixIndex/User:Ivan Shmakov/Command-line MediaWiki tools

One another package of such a kind is MW – a modular MediaWiki interface for GNU Emacs, whose documentation in Russian is now available from b:ru:Участник:Ivan Shmakov/MediaWiki как система управления редакциями. Curiously, does it make sense to move it here as well, or will it be, in essence, necessary to start this page anew in order to utilize Extension:Translate?

Anything else I should consider?

Thanks in advance.

— Ivan Shmakov (d ▞ c) 17:50, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Editing my user page has been identified as spam
Can an admin take a look at it? Thanks! --Axil42 (talk) 08:53, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Was it identified automatically or deleted by an admin? What is the exact error message you get? --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 09:18, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The user page and the talk page have not been deleted.--Syum90 (talk) 09:30, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Resolved by billinghurst.--Syum90 (talk) 11:12, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

I had the same issue. This is what it said:

This edit has been identified as spam. If it is not spam, contact an administrator. However, if you attempt this edit again, your account or IP address will be automatically blocked by the abuse filter. Warning: This action has been automatically identified as harmful.

Could someone help me out? Achildofyhwh (talk) 00:38, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I think, that talking about god and Jesus isn't the right topic for mediawiki.org. And promoting your website on your userpage without having any other contributions smells like ads, so please understand, that this edits on your user page were blocked correctly by abuse filter. Best, --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 05:23, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Request for unblock: alextif
Hello. My account was blocked with my previous username : alextif. How can I have access to it, or was attached in it. Thanks.
 * There is no registered (and therefor, no blocked) user with the username alextifin this wiki. Please check the spelling. Btw. Registering a new account to bypass a block of a previous account isn't allowed and will result in a block of the new account. --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 17:20, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Delete Help:Logging in/sq
Not translated.--Syum90 (talk) 07:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ by .--Syum90 (talk) 10:04, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Request for comment: Participate in Code of conduct process
Please participate in the ongoing work to develop a code of conduct, at Talk:Code of conduct for technical spaces/Draft. Thanks. Mattflaschen-WMF (talk) 04:09, 7 October 2015 (UTC)