User talk:Ferien/Archives/2023/January

Request successful...

Hello Ferien,

your request for bureaucratship was successful. In accordance with the rules this community has, I have therefore awarded you the flag. I am sure you will use it wisely. Don't be afraid to take unpopular decisions, as with every decisions you take some people will not like the way you decided. Anyway, congrats to the new "hat"... Eptalon (talk) 11:24, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Eptalon :) And I will certainly take your advice, as well as the comments that were made opposing my request. --Ferien (talk) 11:29, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Yep, I am sure you will be an awesome 'crat. Let's keep simplewiki going as long as we can!-- BRP ^ever 11:33, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks BRPever :) --Ferien (talk) 11:50, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Congrats! Now you must tell us, do pineapples belong on Pizza? --Tsugaru let's talk! :) 02:48, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

I've never liked the sound of it but when I've had it before, it's always been great, so yes, pineapples do belong on pizza :) --Ferien (talk) 07:17, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

(:--Tsugaru let's talk! :) 03:25, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Wish

Ferien WISHING YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023. 😎🤗🥳 YIEWI talk 18:23, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi YIEWI, thanks for the message. I hope you are having a great 2023 so far! --Ferien (talk) 11:31, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Block on recent user

I appreciate your immediate action on a suddenly new-created account block but you could have particularly added the cause of the block "Bad name" along with "Vandalism-only account". Can you explain? Dibyojyoti^{let's chat} 11:28, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi DRC-B5, that account had created a bad page at Noyyal River and I thought that that page along with the username showed the account was clearly not here to contribute and was a vandalism-only account. I could have added about a bad username in the block reason but that wasn't the only reason I blocked the account, it was a combination of the two issues. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 11:30, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Uh now that's make sense. You deleted the page which makes me confused about the person with bad name doesn't have the contributions and has been blocked because of Vandalism. Great work. Dibyojyoti^{let's chat} 11:33, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Vandalism

hello, I want to report the vandalism that User Hoyanova is doing on the page Davide Lo Surdo. 91.80.12.159 (talk) 16:26, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

They simply added a delete tag but the article wasn't eligible for deletion under our quick deletion policy.That isn't vandalism, and it was only one edit that I had already reviewed. --Ferien (talk) 16:28, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

when i created the page, i asked to the [[User:InfernoGaming46]] if the page was good for Wikipedia and he told me yes.

Lo Surdo won an award and it does meet the notability criteria.

After this, the user fixed it with simple english. I suppose the page is good. 91.80.12.159 (talk) 16:31, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Please note that discussion here will not affect whether the page is deleted or not. All discussion regarding the subject's notability should be posted to the RfD, at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2023/Davide Lo Surdo. Thank you. --Ferien (talk) 16:38, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

User:Ferien I am sorry for disturb but i would like to ask you something.

i read the notability criteria “Has performed music for a work of media that is notable, e.g. a theme for a network television show, performance in a television show” and lo surdo played on DBCNEWS which is a notable television program from Bangladesh [1] which it also has a page on en wikipedia.

does this meet the notability criteria? let me know so i will add it on his page. thanks in advance 91.80.0.39 (talk) 18:52, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

hello, it’s okay. i just added some new content about international tours now. could you kindly watch it and see if they are okay? Thanks 91.80.12.159 (talk) 16:48, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-02

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Zakia Khudadadi Please be bold and help translate this article! Zakia Khudadadi also spelt as Zakia Khodadadi (Pashto: ذکیه خدادادی; born 29 September 1998) is an Afghan parataekwondo practitioner. She is the first Afghan female taekwondo practitioner. She rose to prominence after winning the African International Parataekwondo Championship in 2016 at the age of 18. She represented Afghanistan at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. She was initially denied the opportunity to compete at her maiden Paralympics due to the Taliban takeover but she was later allowed by the International Paralympic Committee to compete in the event after being safely evacuated from Afghanistan. She was able to compete and became the first Afghan female Paralympic competitor to compete at the Paralympics after 17 years since Mareena Karim's participation at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. She also officially became the first Afghan female sportsperson to participate in an international sporting event after the Taliban takeover. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:57, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Evolution

OK, I'll step back from this page. It's open to you to get someone suitable from En wiki to review the page in question. I know the literature, and the last version I edited has nothing unusual in it, and is a sound account. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:01, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Macdonald-ross, I'll review the edit again later on, but I believe that there were a couple of copyedits along with an unnecessary change from British to American English. I'll let you know what changes I'm considering keeping from that edit on the talk page. --Ferien (talk) 20:28, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

The only controversial edits I made on the page were spelling changes, mainly because there was not standardized British or American spelling on the page. Both were used, no preference was given anywhere.

All the other edits were simple copy edits for clarity, correctness, grammar, etc. I've never had any issues with my copy edits on the regular wiki. No content was changed or modified. 71.11.5.2 (talk) 21:04, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

71.11.5.2, most of your changes were retained. As far as I can tell, the article was mostly in British English before, and you generally changed it to American English. It should stay as British. Lights and freedom (talk) 21:48, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [2]
• Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
• You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [3]
• A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [4]
• Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [5]
• You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [6]

Changes later this week

• Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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I'm not

Mariofan88 I made the user name because I love mario Mariofan2023 (talk) 21:36, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Ok... --Ferien (talk) 21:37, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

A Boards Fez for you!

	The Outstanding Barnstar
	for your outstanding contributions on the project. your hard works on admin areas, for Tireless works against vandalism and defending the project against any harmful behaviors, providing better & safer & library like space for readers, for your kindness and Civility, I present you this Barnstar. sorry i missed your RFB, I know you will be an excellent bureaucrat as you're an excellent admin now.

🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 19:11, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Wow, thank you Sakura emad! :) --Ferien (talk) 19:39, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

IRC

How can I access for IRC? Can you tell me the steps as I am facing difficulties on accessing it. --Dibyojyoti^{let's chat} 16:58, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

DRC-B5, hi. The steps for registering a nickname on IRC are shown here and you can log onto IRC by going onto https://web.libera.chat. There is no need to enter a channel name, simply connect entering a nick without a password. You will need the password once you have registered. You are welcome to email me or message me on IRC if you need any more help, by using /msg Ferien (Your message here) --Ferien (talk) 17:18, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-03

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Léopoldville riots Please be bold and help translate this article! The Léopoldville riots were an outbreak of civil disorder in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) in the Belgian Congo which took place in January 1959 and which were an important moment for the Congolese independence movement. The rioting occurred when members of the Alliance des Bakongo (ABAKO) political party were not allowed to assemble for a protest and colonial authorities reacted harshly. The exact death toll is not known, but at least 49 people were killed and total casualties may have been as high as 500. Following these riots, a round table conference was organized in Brussels to negotiate the terms of Congo's independence, The Congo received its independence on 30 June 1960, becoming the Republic of the Congo. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:38, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

User:Matthew Bugg

I know this user is already blocked, although the user started to abuse their own talk page so I listed up again for WP:VIP to request TPA removal. MathXplore (talk) 17:27, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Sorry MathXplore, I should have noticed that. I've just revoked their talk page access. Thanks for letting me know. --Ferien (talk) 17:28, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• The URLs in "last" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [7]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
• Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Wikipedia talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Wikipedia: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [8]
• On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [9]
• The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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Tech News: 2023-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [10]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
• If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [11][12]
• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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Bot

hello @Ferien-san i have a bot that i want to run it on simplewiki; i use the bot to balance/add categories on articles corresponding with english wikipedia i've already used it on three projects (check its contributions) is it possible to get approval on simplewiki to perform some tasks? 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 19:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi Sakura emad, there has been a consensus in the past not to use bots to add categories on this project. However, if there are other tasks you want to run, you can post a request on WT:BOTS, to allow other bureaucrats to comment. Thanks :) --Ferien (talk) 21:11, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

oh i see, categorization was my only purpose, thanks ^_^ 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 22:00, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Off-wiki discussion

Can we have some time for this? If so, come to IRC.--Dibyojyoti^{let's chat} 16:19, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

DRC-B5, I'm available. You can PM me like you did before or you can join #wikipedia-simple ^connect. --Ferien (talk) 16:20, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown

What happened at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown? Why is there a redlink to an RfD for that page? Lights and freedom (talk) 18:38, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

When an administrator is about to delete a page, these options all come up. There is a redlink to an RfD on that page because when an RfD closes with a consensus to delete, a dropdown option is given to delete because of an RfD. The current year has to be substituted as well as the RfD linked to the page of that name, (shown as {{FULLPAGENAME}}), that is why there is an RfD there saying Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2023/MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown. --Ferien (talk) 18:44, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I understand now. Lights and freedom (talk) 18:45, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [13]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

Future changes

• Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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