User talk:Siebrand

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LiquidThreads translation in Czech

Somebody's asking what the state of LiquidThreads' translation into Czech is. Do you happen to have any statistics handy? Andrew Garrett 12:43, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

100% per translatewiki.net stats. siebrand 14:48, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Support Desk

Siebrand, there are a lot of queries going unanswered on the Support Desk's miscellaneous page - including mine. Would you mind if you either had a go at them yourself or attract someone else's attention to it? Thanks. TLPG HOME YACK 00:08, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, no time to look into those at the moment. siebrand 00:50, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Rename user accounts

Hi!

Could you rename my user accounts here, at translatewiki and at yiwiktionary (where you are bureaucrat), as requested on en.wikipedia? Thanks Helder 11:46, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

You're a global user. Renaming would detach from the global user. Are you sure you want that done? siebrand 06:58, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes. I'm trying to get a global account in the new name. (for more detail, see also my request on Meta). Helder 09:14, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

User helder.wiki already exists. Your user cannot be renamed. siebrand 09:37, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

It is also mine. It was created by accident when I came here logged in from pt.wikibooks (as explained in the link above to MetaWiki). Helder 18:27, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

PS: The same happened at fr.wv and it could be renamed normally, as said here. Helder 23:40, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

The renaming was done by Emufarmers. Thanks. Helder 01:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

MediaWiki r87510 - Code Review

Hello Siedbrand, you commented yesterday the MediaWiki r87510 - Code Review. But I don't know how to answer to your comment, I am a new commiter.. Could you explain me ? You asked "Can you please clarify why you add new code to the 1.16 branch, instead of adding it to trunk, and then branching it? " I thought that I have no commit access to the trunk. Tim told me that I have access to the extensions and branches. Could I commit in trunk/extensions/ ? Thank you to give me some help. Have a nice day ! Faure.thomas 06:49, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

You *can* commit to trunk/extensions, but you cannot commit in other folders in trunk/ (for example phase3). New code should be added to trunk/... first, and only then be branched. If that does not happen, no history is retained for the files you have added.

I propose that you rename the extension in the 1_16 branch to an extension in trunk, and then branch it (in both 1_16 and 1_17 if you like). From then on, you should continue developing it in trunk, and backport (MFT - merge from trunk) whatever needs backporting. If you have a branch-specific fix, that should of course be applied to one or more branches only.

More clear? siebrand 08:35, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

ok it's very clear. just another technical question : how to answer to a comment in the code review ? Thx. Faure.thomas 09:00, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

You are not able to reply there? AFAIK anyone should be... siebrand 09:07, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

ok,sorry. In fact I can... Faure.thomas 09:11, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Great :). siebrand 09:16, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

"You should not be using $wgAjaxExportList..." how to do ?

re-hello Siebrand, I uploaded a new extension this afternoon, but the bot ^demon tell me : "You should not be using $wgAjaxExportList anymore, that interface is deprecated and likely to disappear in the not-so-distant future. The appropriate way nowadays is to expose an API module to do the work you want. " in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/87537#c16620

Could you give me some example of code without using $wgAjaxExportList . What are the new methods used ?

Thanks for your help. Faure.thomas 20:26, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

I do not know. Please just ask that question on CR. Demon is usually very friendly and helpful in his replies. siebrand 10:22, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

validate r87811

hello Siedbrand, could you please validate my revision r87811 ? I think I refix it, Thanks a lot and have a nice day ! Faure.thomas 10:00, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Looks fine. siebrand 10:45, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

NewUserMessage

Hello Siebrand.

If you could do something to solve this bug, that would really be appreciated. I'm not sure it will take a lot of time to add some delay before a user got welcomed, but it will really save a lot of time of stewards that should everytime oversight things locally when an abusive username is created (and most of times we forget to do it and it stays on public lists).

I'm about to send the same message to Nad.

Thanks a lot. Quentinv57 14:30, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

There's no way to have a hook execute a while after it is triggered, so this cannot be done. siebrand 00:03, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

We must find an alternative to this, because it's a waste of time to be forced to give oneself oversight access on all projects where the user talk page has been created (vandals know it and target those wikis, so sometimes we have to change this bits on three different projects to oversight everything). We have a button to oversight things globally, but this does not suppress the user and user talk pages as well. By the way, do you think it will be possible to do this change on the CentralAuth extension ?

I think I will offer those communities a bot script compatible with the extension you wrote, ie using exactly the same MediaWiki messages, so it could be easily moveable. The only way to add a small delay before welcoming is to use a bot, if not doable by any extension.

To stop the extension, should I open a new thread on Bugzilla or simply edit a MediaWiki message ?

Thanks by advance. Quentinv57 17:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Extensions are usually enabled after

Community consensus. I'd suggest finding that before making a request to disable. I for one disagree with the proposed direction and favour prompt user information over a clean talk page of blocked users. siebrand 19:12, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

User:White Cat → User:とある白い猫

I am globally requesting rename for SUL purposes the change of my user name to とある白い猫. Thanks! (both accounts are mine) -- Cat ^chi? 20:12, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Google AdSense - Hiding the Ads for certain usergroups

Hi there!

Is there a way to hide the ads for certain usergroups? I want to offer the possibility to get rid of the ads for all donators of my wiki. NobbZ (talk) 15:12, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Not as a current features. siebrand (talk) 21:20, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Is there a chance, that this feature will be in a future version? NobbZ (talk) 09:52, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

If you provide the patch, I'm sure it is :). siebrand (talk) 05:06, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

I don't know much about PHP, and my knowledge about the necessary internals of MW is much smaller... I think I will discuss this issue with a friend of mine... Thanks anyway. NobbZ (talk) 13:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

User:HTFFanBrandon04 on this wiki continuing his disruption as BrandonSkyPimenta on translatewiki.net

FYI, I've blocked this user on this wiki for his lack of maturity. Little more than just one hour after I protected his talk page, he's moved on to translatewiki.net to cause similar disruption. Jasper Deng (talk) 03:29, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

He also owns the account BrandonSkyPimenta on Wikimedia, it seems (it's blocked indef on enwiki). πr² (t • c) 03:33, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Oh geez. I'm blocking his alternate account too. Jasper Deng (talk) 03:35, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I referred the user back to where ever he's been blocked. siebrand (talk) 06:31, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Translation features are not for user pages?

Is there a technical reason why translation features are not for user pages? I can't think of a reason why we would want to exclude any page from translation. Is there some benefit to be gained by broadly excluding some types of pages from being translated? Maybe to discourage volunteers from allocating effort to them (I can't think of any reason to do that)? Badon (talk) 00:36, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

No, yes, yes. siebrand (talk) 12:17, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

How to make GoogleAdsense 2 display ads on content pages only

This post by Siebrand was moved on 2012-08-28. You can find it at Extension talk:Google AdSense/Archive 2/Flow export#c-87.163.99.34-2012-08-28T16:47:00.000Z-How_to_make_GoogleAdsense_2_display_ads_on_content_pages_only. siebrand (talk) 20:54, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Code maintenance and statistics about the use of wfMsg functions

Dropping a link here: I wondered if you ever used [1] [2] aka WfMsg statistics and if it's useful for your recent/future work. Nemo 23:26, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

See Talk:WfMsg statistics. I ran it a few days ago, and was most interested in aggregate stats that the page currently also displays. The script doesn't produce those numbers, and I didn't have the time to look into it further. Most of my maintenance is based on grep or search results from my IDE. siebrand (talk) 07:09, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Manual:$wgExtensionCredits#descriptionmsg

I added some guidelines after your comments on gerrit:24145 and some observation. Nemo 11:37, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Very helpful, as ever. Thanks. 2602:304:5E8C:8679:A076:5BED:91D6:E134 17:15, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Issue in CommonsDelinker with text description of images

Hello, Siebrand. I see an issue with CommonsDelinker, when text description of images uses some template. Please see, for example this edit - diff. You can see, that it was deleted first string of template "книга" ("book" in Russian), but it was remained all parameters of this template ( |автор = Qulu Kəngərli, |заглавие = Qara Yanvar Şəhidləri). Please, take a look at this issue. Sorry if it's duplicate issue, I didn't found the CommonsDelinker bugtracker. Movses (talk) 09:03, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Google AdSense 2 Download Error

Hi Siebrand,

trying to download the extension provides this error: "Invalid response from Extension Distributor remote client."

Best regards from Berlin,

Werner Heuser tuxmobil.org 92.78.111.72 17:03, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Downloads are working now. 92.78.105.33 16:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Developer_access request

Hi Siebrand, Could you please consider my Developer access request. --Teju2friends (talk) 18:02, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Google AdSense 2: 120x600 SkyScraper Ads show up partly only

Hi Siebrand,

thank you for this extension. I try to use it with a Google AdSense SkyScraper 120x600 ad unit. But such ads are truncated to a 120x120 ad. Vertical banners 120x240 are working fine. My sites are the Repair4Laptop Wiki and the Repair4MobilePhone Wiki. Currently I have the ad code reverted to 120x240 to avoid Googles penalties. BTW: the ad code contains:

/* <![CDATA[ */ ... /* ]]> */

When using this part of the code some time ago I got a request from Google to remove this code, and was banned from advertising for several months.

Best regards,

Werner 92.78.105.33 16:14, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

It's been designed for one single use case: Displaying a single text ad at the bottom of the toolbar. I'm open to accepting patches, but I will not be doing any development on this extension. siebrand (talk) 13:41, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

I'm able to use the 120x600 skyscraper on my sites (see http://nick-black.com and http://sprezzos.com) by the following addendum to my config:

$wgGoogleAdSenseWidth = 120;

$wgGoogleAdSenseHeight = 600;

hope this helps! Sosodank (talk) 14:45, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

dvwiki, webfonts and looking to an updated script

Gday Siebrand. Starting with you as I would appreciate some guidance. If you are not the correct person for this conversation, then would you please direct me appropriately, or prod the right person

User:Glacious is a crat at dvwiki and approached me about needing a new thaana script at their wiki, posting an example at http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/59/36216922.jpg Comments
<Glacious> spot the font difference?
<Glacious>the one from the wiki is old/historic type
<Glacious>it is the default font named MV_Boli when south asian fonts are installed on windows
I have pointed Glacious to Extension:Webfonts and a requirement for a bugzilla request, which is being done. I an not a webfonts sort of guy, so is there a reputable source for these, and how do we appropriately verify one is suitable for MW? Thanks.

• bugzilla:42855 — billinghurst sDrewth 06:06, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you sDrewth, for raising the issue to Siebrand. I have already logged it in bugzilla:42855

Appreciate your help.

Regards, Glacious (talk) 06:07, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

We can have any required discussion in bugzilla. Be aware that the issue was marked a duplicate, and that the main issue is bugzilla:42812. siebrand (talk) 13:29, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Google Adsense 2: Also allow google adsense search box?

Hi, Would it be possible to allow your google adsense 2 extension to output the good adsense search box? The few extensions that are available for google search are really old and do not work. Would be awesome to be able to place the google adsense search box in the sidebar in a easy manner. Thanks 175.239.233.157 20:01, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

I'd accept patches, but I'm not expecting to do any feature development. siebrand (talk) 13:36, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Android Wikipedia app

Hi Siebrand,

Do you know if there are any plans for the main Android branch to include a widget for displaying featured content?

Regards,   — C M B J   15:48, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

No idea whatsoever. Best ask the Android app development team. siebrand (talk) 07:49, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Do you know any contact information for them by chance? I don't recall figuring out any way to get in touch.   — C M B J   13:52, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Please see Wikimedia Mobile engineering siebrand (talk) 14:43, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Default translation source language

Someone suggested to me that source language has to be English for the Translate extension. Is that true? Or is it fixed for a given wiki? This tends to be frustrating on Meta - I don't want to use a mediocre translation-into-english as my source text when there's an excellent one in the actual original :) Sj (talk) 00:16, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Nice to hear from you, Samuel. I hope you are well.

This feature request is documented as bugzilla:35489. At this point in time, we are not giving priority to developing it within Wikimedia. We would however welcome gladly volunteer contributed features, and review contributed code swiftly. So please do feel free to rattle the volunteer cages ;). siebrand (talk) 11:07, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the link! Adding it to the queue of interesting challenges for newcomers. Sj (talk) 14:41, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Possibly something worth considering for the Code-In? Sj (talk) 23:20, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

That's not a bad idea... It kind of depends on the feature set that we have in mind for it. siebrand (talk) 09:02, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

#explode

Hi Siebrand. I tried to use the #explode function on Wikipedia, but it couldn't extract the content from the template, probably because the correspondent template does not exist on the project. Can you tell me what is the code for this function and how to create the template? I suppose that something similar like the "if" function should be done. Best regards. Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 06:48, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

I think that's an unsupported string function. What gave you the idea that this parser function is supposed to work? 94.211.89.149 07:14, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

I'd like to use it in order to read specific words from a title of a page (e.g. from "Canis Minor" to extract only "Canis" as first or "Minor" as second word). Since it is listed and explained on this Wiki, I thought it can be used on the Wikimedia projects as well. Best. Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 09:25, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

I do not think this feature is available on wikimedia wikis. siebrand (talk) 15:05, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

A Suggestion

I'm mostly active on English Wiktionary, where I asked [3] if anyone was interested in creating an alternative input method for polytonic Greek using w:Beta Code. It was suggested that I mention this to someone working on Milkshake. All of the information about communication here seems to be geared toward complaints and problem-solving, with no mention of how to make a simple suggestion- so I hope I'm doing this right.

Basically, Beta Code is an encoding system for polytonic Greek that has the advantage of not requiring any characters beyond the basic ASCII set that everyone already has on their keyboards. I think a great input method could me created based on the user typing Beta Code into some interface element, with polytonic Greek characters as the output. The only even slightly tricky part is that Beta Code and wikitext use many of the same characters, so the Beta code input would have to be kept separate. Although Beta Code itself (as far as I know) only covers the Greek polytonic script (and to a lesser extent Hebrew and Coptic), a similar approach could be used for most alphabetic scripts and syllabaries.

As for permission to use it, Beta Code seems to be very widely used in multiple independent projects, such as the Perseus Digital Library, so it must be relatively unrestricted.

At any rate, I just wanted to bring the idea to someone's attention, in case it might be helpful. I have no idea how- or if- it might fit with what's already being developed.

Thanks for your time. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:38, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Have a look at the following link: https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime

At the bottom of the page, there are links for developers, including a video tutorial.

Thanks! siebrand (talk) 07:20, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Translation of language names directly within the interwiki sidebar

Hi, possibly this thread is relevant or of interest: en:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Translation of language names. I thought I'd seen this function mentioned somewhere in the Universal Language Selector pages, but I cannot find it now (and possibly was mis-remembering). That's all :) Quiddity (talk) 00:14, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/35871/ siebrand (talk) 07:00, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Much <3 Quiddity (talk) 19:09, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

How to be a coder?

Hi, there seem to be some pywikipediabot bugs that I can fix myself. User:Xqt isn't active right now, and he/she doesn't respond to my bug reports. Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 13:07, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Awesome. Welcome! :)

Please read Manual:Pywikipediabot/Development#Development and follow the steps that are documented there.

Cheers! siebrand (talk) 13:31, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

I already know about creation bots, and it's actually running on commons.

What I'm wondering is that how to make changes to them, as pyrev:11610 reported in User talk:Xqt#Bug. Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 14:05, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

See the link I pointed out to you. You should request commit access. siebrand (talk) 10:54, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your hint. I've send my email. Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 11:10, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Is there any easier way? I've already have a wikitech account (Wikitech:User:Zhuyifei1999). Requesting a new one may conflict with the older one (http://svn.wikimedia.org/users.php). Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 11:13, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

As far as I know there is no easier way, as Subversion is a legacy system, not integrated into Labs and Gerrit. Siebrand 14:19, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Requesting your attention

I have updated ULS discussion thread Talk:Universal Language Selector/2013#c-Mahitgar-2013-06-12T09:43:00.000Z-feature_to_make_content_language_input_default with some ULS input user response related study data from mr-wikipedia.We request your kind attention to the same.

Warm regards Mahitgar (talk) 13:45, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Help needed

Hi Siebrand! Seems like you forgot to mention the source of your image here. Could you please have a look? Thanks a bunch! :-)) --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 00:48, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

The image page states clearly "This file has been extracted from an original image in The New Student's Reference Work: File:LA2-NSRW-1-0009.jpg." siebrand (talk) 10:13, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Indian keyboards

Hey Siebrand, would you have any insights to share on tablet support for editing on Indian languages, on this thread [4]. Thanks! Erik Zachte (talk) 14:26, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Hoi Erik. Een turbulente Wikimania en vakantie hebben mijn antwoord vertraagd...

We've developed Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector to make things easier. Currently we support web fonts and input methods for most language from India. Within the current WMF fiscal year, we also expect to add en:Virtual keyboard support in the extension. No detailed planning for delivery or features is available yet. Bug reports and ideas in bugzilla: are highly appreciated. siebrand (talk) 12:49, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Question on Evaluation portal that it'd be great to have your feedback on.

Hi Siebrand! There is a question on the Evaluation portal that you might be able to contribute to about hack-a-thon evaluation. We hope you can participate, and spread the word to anyone you might know who would be interested. Get involved, here. :D SarahStierch (talk) 19:24, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

An e-mail

Hi Siebrand. I sent you an e-mail on 8 November regarding Sorani Kurdish date formats. I was wondering if you had received it or whether it has been caught by a spam filter? This, that and the other (talk) 09:39, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

It's there. siebrand (talk) 05:50, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Ah, good. I was trying to be politely circumlocutory, but maybe I will need to be a little more direct: do you think you could please reply to it? This, that and the other (talk) 09:07, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Wrong edit to Template:Languages

Your edit to Template:Languages was broken: The closing tag is on a completely wrong place (still inside the {{Languages/Lang }} invocation, inside its second argument). And honestly, I have no idea why add the autonym class only to those two language names (which is probably what you intended to do) instead of the whole language box. Mormegil (talk) 16:43, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Fixed. Only those two language names caused font downloading. siebrand (talk) 17:38, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Review and Deploy Wikicaptcha

Hello, I have been a frequent contributor to mediawiki.....and as a part of contribution process is looking for project for upcoming Google Summer Of Code 2014 ........as mentoined in bug 32695 and prototype developed by Pginer my idea for the project is: ""Develop a captcha service with wikimedia commons images this captcha service will comprise of some custom question with random keyword 1 and 2 .......upon selection of random keyword 1, a question will be generated along with images fetched from commons database,also there will be few images from another keyword 2 which will show some images which will be not related to the question we can also take help of image annotations as mentioned here (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vitraux_de_la_basilique_Notre-Dame,_Genève_23.jpg)."" I therefore request you all to place comment into my idea regarding the project as i am really interested to work for this challenging but amazing project :) . Eagerly Waiting for your reply. AalekhN (talk) 18:08, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

GSOC 2014

Hello,

I have been actively involved in Development of Multilingual, usable and effective captchas for GSOC 2014.But currently it seems that there is no technical and primary mentor for the project. Therefore I Request you Sir to please become a part of this project as primary technical mentor.

There won't be an issue of guidance to newbie since i have already made out extensive research on the project.

The link to the proposal is: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AalekhN/GSoC_proposal_2014

Also is there any other project you are working as primary mentor in which i can apply?

Optimistically Waiting for your reply as it might help me just be a part of a great project. AalekhN (talk) 16:25, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Unfortunately I'm not available as mentor for this project. siebrand (talk) 11:43, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Extension localisation

Is Manual:Developing extensions#Localisation still current, what with the new JSON implementations of l10n? This, that and the other (talk) 06:23, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Needs updating. Have added it to my list. Thanks! siebrand (talk) 07:22, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Someone has updated this but left the {{outdated}} tag. Could you please check whether it is now up-to-date and correct? This, that and the other (talk) 07:42, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

I've reviewed and corrected the updates, and removed {{Outdated }}. Thanks! siebrand (talk) 08:06, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your attention to the GraphViz extension re-write. At times I wondered if the code review process would ever complete. Your occasional nudge to other users really helped. It is merged now and I've completed the corresponding documentation update (mw:Extension:GraphViz). Thanks again! Welterkj (talk) 23:08, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome! siebrand (talk) 08:55, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

google adsense extension bug

Hey, I'm using the latest mediawiki 1.23 with your adsense extension but the adsense box doesn't always stay open.

If you go to this website http://www.vgmpf.com/ the adsense box is closed, but how do I make it always stay open? GrassMan (talk) 22:21, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, I've abandoned the AdSense extension. Patches will be reviewed. siebrand (talk) 09:54, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for participating in the Translathon

The Community Engagement team would like to thank you for being an active translator of VisualEditor related-messages for the Translation Sprint during Wikimania (August 6-10, 2014). Keep up the good work!

Elitre (WMF) (talk) 13:59, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

An important message about renaming users

Dear User talk:Siebrand/An important message about renaming users,

I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.

Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.

Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 18:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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Barnstar of extensive consulting

I hereby award you this barnstar for being the most active +1'er and -1'er in gerrit that we know of. :) Nemo 23:14, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

I second this! Ricordisamoa 02:42, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. siebrand (talk) 14:55, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

how to talk with u

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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solve my problem. Pranay78998 (talk) 20:32, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

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Re: phabricator:T131516

I like being able to have translated content, but the Translate extension is pretty bad.

It's my sense that any time anyone tries to criticize this extension, a small group of people who are closely involved with the extension (Nemo, Nike, and you, mostly) immediately get very defensive. Suddenly the conversation is about pitting people who want full multilingual/i18n support against everyone else. The reality is, of course, a lot more nuanced.

Currently, even very experienced wikitext editors have a lot of difficulty using the Translate extension. The extension takes an already challenging task (editing basic wikitext) and adds several layers of complexity, including difficult syntax and unexpected behavior.

There's nothing wrong with being frustrated by a frustrating feature. MZMcBride (talk) 01:36, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

T64725

Hi, is it possible to do the same thing that [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMW883bcb5a0bebcf2663ae1cecf58b59eeb0a7c138 you've done] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64725 here] Helmoony (talk) 20:14, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

Special:History/Content Translation

Hello. Why did you need to move the page when the mentions in the text almost all use the capitalised version? Also, there is meta:Best practices for Content Translation events. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 13:33, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Google AdSense - Issue with variables

Google AdSense has an issue with misspelled variables on line 41-42 in file GoogleAdSense.class.php:

google_language = \"$GoogleAdSenseLang\";
google_encoding = \"$GoogleAdSenseEncoding\";

It should be:

google_language = \"$wgGoogleAdSenseLang\";
google_encoding = \"$wgGoogleAdSenseEncoding\";

So the letters "wg" are missing and the variables remain undefined! --WikiForMen (talk) 05:31, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

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