User talk:Brooke Vibber: Difference between revisions

[[Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians|This user is too busy working for Wikipedia to edit Wikipedia]]. Brion VIBBER has not edited Wikipedia since October 17, 2016. As a result, any requests made here may not receive a response. If you are seeking assistance, you may need to approach someone else.

I have declared talk page bankruptcy! All old messages deleted. :) --brion (talk) 21:00, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How to get in touch with me

Feel free to leave me messages here about articles and such on Wikipedia, but if you need to prod me about a tech issue I might not see your message here. You'll get a speedier response if you track me down elsewhere...

Most software issues should get added to our bug tracker.
Even if you grab ahold of me another way, it's going to be easier for me to keep track of it if it's in here!
IRC chat - you'll often find me in #mediawiki or #wikimedia-tech during work hours
direct e-mail... if you're really sure :)

Images

hi Brion VIBBER,

I wanna be an uploader. What should I do to be a?-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 09:59, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wait until your account is autoconfirmed. --brion (talk) 21:00, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Random obesrvation

Is it just me, or do server problems occur in bundles? Seems like we've had server trouble every day since MJ's death. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 02:11, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My random observation is that you, sir, are now a double talk page bankrupt! ;> Just FYI I asked Lar to take care of that "uploader" userrights issue I queried you about a while back [1]. He suggested I drop you a courtesy note. best regards, –xeno^talk 02:13, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Just to follow up, I removed the permission (Heather hasn't been editing since November 2008), but if you disagree with that feel free to ask me to put it back or do so yourself. ++Lar: t/c 00:50, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It sure does seem like that sometimes. :) --brion (talk) 18:20, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Russian Spelling for Your Name

Dear Brion,

I'd like to ask you about correct spelling of your name in Russian.

As far as I remember it was your yourself who spelled your name as "Брион Вибур".

However, it look like "Брайон Виббер" would be more correct one. Could you please advise? Thanks! Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 19:54, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to note that according to modern Anglo-Russian transcription rules for names, it should probably be "Брайон Виббер", with two "б"'s in Vibber (see ru:Англо-русская практическая транскрипция). --Tetromino (talk) 21:06, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Виббер sounds ok to me; for 'Brion' just use whatever's standard transcription for 'Brian', as it's pronounced the same. --brion (talk) 18:18, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ref is too imprecise

I tried to use the ref element to integrate footnotes. However, there seems to be no possibility to indicate if the footnote references to the sentence in front of the ref element or the paragraph in front of it. In example:

This is a first sentence. This is a second sentence.<ref>Miller (2009), p. 7.</ref>

Instead, it should be as follows:

This is a first sentence. <ref text="Miller (2009), p. 7.">This is a second sentence.</ref>

Now, it is clear, that Miller is based on the second sentence only. Is there any possibility, to indicate that? If not, it should be programmed, because it opens new possibilities, e.g. mouse-ever effects when having the mouse pointer over a sentence. Then, a pop-up box could show "Miller (2009), p. 7". Furthermore, it is much more helpful for future editors to know, if sentence 1 has a reference already and can be relied on. Bugzilla didn't help to find a solution for this problem so far. Can you help to find a solution? 78.53.37.113 (talk) 10:28, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As the top of the talk page says, you probably want to file a bug in Wikimedia's bug tracker: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org --MZMcBride (talk) 03:14, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I already did that, but the topic is not discussed there anymore, although it is a very necessary bug. 78.53.43.218 (talk) 21:07, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Substituting surname

Any idea how you can {{subst: a surname in the page title to DEFAULTSORT sort the categories? Its just I have a large batch of German politicians to transwiki and I want to do it more quickly. So basically when you create the page it automatically places e.g Fritz Baier as Baier, Fritz in the categories. If not I gather there is a bot that can default sort the categories by surname and fix it afterwards?

I'd imagine it is something like {subst:PAGENAME} but with a little programming to read the last word of the title and place it first. It would save a great deal of time anyway. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Brion -- Dr. Blofeld asked me this question, and I suggested that it could be done, except that it appears that the string functions are disabled. Is that the case, and if so, why? My guess is that they would suck up too much CPU power on Wikimedia's end... Thanks, Mikaey, Devil's advocate 01:23, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Quick bar

Hi. I'm left handed and I've only noticed that cologne blue and classic or one other has the option to change the quickbar from left to right and fixed or moveable. Given that I mostly use modern and occasionally mono, would it be possible to be able to add the quickbar option for modern so the navigation bar can be moved to the right hand side. I think you should give people this option for all skins givne that some people are left handed and might find it more natural to have it on the otherside. I also think there should be a shrinkable option on the nav bars like we have with big templates for instance as if we could conveniently shrink the task while reading or at least have the option to this would ease useability I think. Also for the task bar on modern does it have to be so wide? There is at least a centimetre gap, it could be trimmed easily by 1-2 centimetres. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:41, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll pass it on to the usability team working on the skin updates, thanks for the feedback! Note we're considering actually using sidebars on both sides for some extra navigation tools, but that's still a ways away. --brion (talk) 18:17, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Renames

So, you don't mind if we try a quarter-million rename, then, since the limit is not invoked? Just triple checking. -- Avi (talk) 00:02, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

test test... test test...

Welcome and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page User talk:Brion VIBBER worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you.

Lossless image compression and website optimization

Have a look at yahoo's smush it. It can losslessly compress images (that are greater than 1kb)...it can save you guys quite a few bytes in bandwidth.

Looking at the mediawiki svn branch, I can see that most images can be losslessly compressed. Is there any reason you haven't compressed these images...or do you simply need some help^.^.Smallman12q (talk) 18:57, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

1.13 is pretty old; we've been more aggressively recompressing things in more recent work. --brion (talk) 20:38, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:Fourth_test_file_investigating_bug_-_do_not_delete.png

File Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading File:Fourth_test_file_investigating_bug_-_do_not_delete.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Chris G Bot (talk) 00:19, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pie for you!

		Have a Pie!
		You are hereby awarded ONE PIE for all you've done for Wikipedia and the WMF. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

Arakunem^Talk 14:07, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nom nom nom -- thanks! --brion (talk) 17:09, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lossless image compression/conversion

Hi, I was wondering if there are any plans to compress the images in the mediawiki trunk? Some images can be losslessly compressed by 20% such as the document.png to File:Document.png.Smallman12q (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:52, 3 October 2009 (UTC).[reply]

impact on fr.wp renamming file on commons

Resolved

Bonsoir, Il semble que sur la wikipédia francophone nous avons le même problème que la wikipédia anglophone avait. Par exemple:

Mais il est curieux de voir que [4] fonctionne.

Merci de ton aide.

Regards, Otourly (talk) 18:38, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

De plus [5] est devenu incohérent. Otourly (talk) 18:42, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the Commons file redirects seem to be working on English sites (Wikipedia, Wikinews, etc) but not in other languages (checked French and German). Might be something incorrectly using the local namespace name in queries or cache lookups... --brion (talk) 19:21, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sticking this in bugzilla:21026 to track -- hopefully an easy fix. --brion (talk) 19:27, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

...and fix is deployed. Thanks for the bug report! --brion (talk) 20:29, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

and thank you for [6] Otourly (talk) 20:42, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism bug

If you can't see vandalism on Maya civilization then please log out, delete coockies, give google search to access this article. Also see talk page of article. How this vandalism went unnoticed for such a long time? 117.98.79.156 (talk) 15:29, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sequence of files (bug test)

There is a sequence of file redirects with (do not delete) in the file name, which date from September. Is it now OK to delete these redirects?

— This, that, and the other (talk) 06:19, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!

December21st2012Freak ^{Happy Holidays!} is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

December21st2012Freak ^{Happy Holidays!} 00:15, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat discussion for Juliancolton RfB

A bureaucrat discussion has been opened in order to determine the consensus in this request for adminship. Please come participate. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:01, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SF Meetup #11

In the area? You're invited to
San Francisco Meetup # 11

	Date: Saturday, February 6th, 2010
	Time: 15:00 (3PM)
	Place: WMFoundation offices
prev: Meetup 10 - next: Meetup 12

This is posted to the groups by request. Please sign up on the Invite list for future announcements. Thanks. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 23:45, 4 February 2010 (UTC) [reply]

Ask for protection, how?

Dear adminstrator, one of users of Persian wiki has insult me in my English talk page (in Persian language). How can I ask for protection of my User page and talk page and all sub pages against that I.P address? I have some valuable photos in my pages I dont want let him/her to damage them. Regards Pournick (talk) 00:55, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Add a "public interest" clause to Oversight

A proposal to add a "public interest" clause to Wikipedia:Oversight has started at Wikipedia_talk:Oversight#Proposal_for_new_.27public_interest.27_clause. SilkTork *^YES! 10:40, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bug 20246

Hi. Bug 20246 ("Install Extension:Transliterator on fr and en.wiktionary") has been sitting around since August, and you posted a comment on it saying "Assigning to myself for review." quite a long time ago. Is this going to get done any time soon? Are you even still doing work on bugs since you stepped down from being WMF CTO? If not, where does this go from here? Thanks in advance. --Yair rand (talk) 00:44, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Major flaw in New Features

Hi Brion, I've had to go back to Take Me Back from New Features because New Features does not accept the wiki "dot" when editing templates which separates titles. Please try it yourself, and you will find I'm (unfortunately) correct. Best, --Discographer (talk) 22:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Usability

Not sure how quickly you would see this, so just fyi. Thanks 7 00:52, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Saluton!

Bona vin tagon! :D - UtherSRG (talk) 14:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dankegon! :) --brion (talk) 16:36, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Quoted on, um, BRION

Hey Brion. Just a quick note to say that I've chopped up your recent comment on phoebe's blog to make a nice little item (well, I think so anyway) for next week's BRION report in the Signpost. Inevitably, this meant shortening areas slightly, and I'd be grateful if you might check to make sure I haven't misrepresented your thoughts or if you have any suggestions about their presentation. Thanks, - Jarry1250 ^{[Humorous? Discuss.]} 18:54, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Login unification - odd snag with Japanese WP

Brion: Sorry to bother you about this (please redirect me if appropriate), but my login unification was unsuccessful for reasons I don't understand, and the Help page on this suggests contacting a beaurocrat or steward. The holdout is the Japanese wikipedia (I'm confident that I never logged in there), where there's a userpage that looks like it was copied from an old version of my English wikipedia userpage. My English WP password doesn't work there. When I click the "send me a new password" button, I don't get anything in my email Inbox. Any suggestions on how I can finally unify my login worldwide (thus removing a nagging reminder in my Preferences)? -- Scray (talk) 05:29, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I herd u can

Hi. I heard you are the former "Chief Techincal Officer of Wikimedia" and you are good at wikicodes, so i am asking you a question that has been [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Transcluding_onlyinclude_and_includeonly_tags unanswered on wikimedia for a quite long time. I hope you know the answer. To make it easier to see, i am posting the problem here too:

short question

Is there a way to let a template include <includeonly><onlyinclude>{{{date}}}</onlyinclude></includeonly> when transcluded?

longer explaination for question

I'll try to explain it with this table:

Page name:	Template(in this case: "template:update")	Page between(in this case: "update page")	Final page(in this case: "item page")
use:	add a notice to "update page"	show information about the update, and when transcluded show the date of it only	Only have the text between the onlyinclude tags included

This is because at the RuneScape Wiki i am trying to automate the update date. Because there is always a link to the update page on the item page, and the update page has the date on it, i want the update page to have an additional note with the date entered(between onlyinclude tags) and i don't want it to appear on the update page itself(between includeonly tags). All update pages have the template:Update on it, with the parameter {{{date}}} so I want template:update to add <includeonly><onlyinclude>{{{date}}}</onlyinclude></includeonly> to the update page so that when the item page has {{#time:j F Y|{{Update:(updatename)}}}} on it, it shows the date in "dd month yy" automatically without needing to add that yourself.

I hope you can help me. Joeytje50 (talk) 17:56, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Plans?

I've read that you are a lead designer. I wonder whether there is anywhere we can see your design ideas for the Wikipedia, and possibly contribute to them? I didn't see anything about that on your user page (I aim to promote a sticky note system).-Tesseract²(talk) 19:50, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to delete particular revision, blocked by interwiki shortcut

Hi there. Your Commons page points here; though you might be interested in this weird glitch. Kind regards. Reh man 10:17, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

hi!

how come there's no article about you?

you have been in the news [7].

89.216.196.129 (talk) 13:32, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with my Wikipedia name

Hello. :)
I cannot edit the page User:ℜepress/vector.css. I think the problem is my name. Quote: "Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact name." Can you change my name to "Repress"? – ℜepress (talk) 14:12, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Great American Wiknic

Hi there! In the past, you've expressed an interest in local meetups of Wikipedians. Well, here's your chance! On Saturday, June 25, we'll be joining Wikipedians in cities all over the country for the first annual Great American Wiknic -- the picnic that anyone can edit! We'll meet up at a park in SF -- hopefully in the sun -- all other details are still in deliberation!

If this sounds fun, please add your name to the list: Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Wiknic and add that page to your watchlist. (And of course, feel free to edit that page with your ideas, questions, etc.) I look forward to wiknicking with you! -Pete (talk) 00:28, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your opinion would be appreciated

As a member of WikiProject Countries, I'm seeking your opinion on a possible issue identified at List of sovereign states. If you have some spare moments, please contribute a comment at the Discussion of criteria. Best regards, Nightw 04:52, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

A funny kitten coming from JanPaul123 and demonstrate the WikiLove functionality (plus, you deserve a kitten).

Hashar (talk) 20:29, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yay kittens! --brion (talk) 20:41, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to clean it up or put it somewhere else :-) Hashar (talk) 06:18, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Fifa world cup org.jpg

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Reasons To Delete J1c3d (Y-DNA)

Articles that cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources, including neologisms, original theories and conclusions, and articles that are themselves hoaxes (but not articles describing notable hoaxes)
Articles for which thorough attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed
Categories representing overcategorization

JohnLloydScharf (talk) 02:31, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The hold on editing has been taken off without explanation, to my knowledge, as of this moment, without justification.
JohnLloydScharf (talk) 00:42, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The one who took this off the edit hold did so without reading the talk page.
JohnLloydScharf (talk) 01:17, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I refer to the article for J1c3d Y-DNA haplogroup as is indicated in the very first section of my User talk page.
Please see:

JohnLloydScharf (talk) 02:17, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User:Stinky New User

Just saw this come across the user creation log and wanted to confirm that it is indeed you. Cheers! TN X Man 16:01, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure is! See bugzilla:30226 for the bug I found while creating it. ;) --brion (talk) 23:49, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re: External link icon bug

Hi Brion, I hope you don't mind the reply here. That would be the classic monobook skin. Hope this helps. :) -- WikHead (talk) 18:50, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps I should add, that when I view the raw HTML source of a page, I see no <img src=, or anything else that would indicate that an image is supposed to be loading into the blank space. -- WikHead (talk) 19:11, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok... you actually shouldn't see an <img> or anything as it's added in the CSS stylesheets -- so that's normal. :) I'll see if we can narrow down the bug checks on Monobook skin, thanks! --brion (talk) 20:59, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks for the reply! If the new plan is to remove the icon, I really don't mind that so much. What's weird to me however, is seeing the (space) tail-padding before the punctuation. If the padding was removed, I'd be just as happy. :) -- WikHead (talk) 21:09, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oversize upload

Hi. Can you upload this 1592 dictionary PDF (alternatively) to Commons:File:Hieronymus Megiser - Dictionarium quatuor linguarum.pdf? The problem is it's 125M size. --Sporti (talk) 09:26, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I can't -- I need to ask server people to do those kinds of uploads for me too. It's not a fun situation, and hopefully we'll get the chunked upload system going soon so we can all do these ourselves... --brion (talk) 19:36, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

So does soon mean I should wait or file a bug report?--Sporti (talk) 16:12, 12 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File a bug. --brion (talk) 19:50, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Request for uninvolved admin to review page deletion discussion

Hello, I was wondering if you could lend a hand. I am currently in a discussion about a page deletion for the article Big Brother Australia 2012 and as an uninvolved administrator, I was wondering if you were able to review the discussion? Thank you. Bbmaniac (talk) 10:42, 18 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your user page

I killed some of the ancient content on your user page. It could use a bit of sprucing, though. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 21:08, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks... I gotta spend more editing time on this wiki. :D --brion (talk) 21:11, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your recent work with portals !!!

Thanks so much for your help with portal coding, especially {{Related portals2}}. Much appreciated. ;) Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 06:03, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. However, can you please fix {{Related portals2}} so that the contents float in the center of the section they are in instead of left aligning? I can't seem to figure out how to get it to do that. something somewhere in the code is preventing everything I try. Thanks! ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 08:27, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ideally that would be nice! Not sure offhand how though; I think I tried something basic like setting text-align: center.... possibly using inline-block instead of floats would resolve this. --brion (talk) 18:36, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

proper semantic constructs

Template talk:Navbox#Another hlist construct to consider

I'm sure you're busy. If you or one of the people you work with has time, we could use some input on improving the generated markup in things like navboxes. This is mostly about the new class=hlist in common.css (and bits of common.js). Things like {{flatlist}} and {{plainlist}} (and class=plainlist), too. And see Horizontal lists have got class in the Signpost.

In a nutshell, I'm looking at this as something that will end-up folded into MediaWiki itself and made available to all projects and external wikis. Part of this may involve (wishful) tweaks to wiki-text syntax ;) Alarbus (talk) 01:40, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

meta:Press kit/Wikimedia People/Officers/Brion Vibber

You are invited to join the discussion at meta:Talk:Press kit/Wikimedia People/Officers/Brion Vibber#Incomplete. -- Trevj (talk) 16:17, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MSU Interview

Dear Brion VIBBER,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk)23:23, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

San Francisco Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon

San Francisco Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon! Who should come? You should. Really.
	The San Francisco Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon will be held on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at the the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco! Participate in editing subjects about women's history and beyond! Workshops will also be hosted. New and experienced editors of any gender are welcome! We look forward to seeing you there!

MathJax review

I'm not sure you are checking for replies to your posts, so: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#mathJax_progress. Nageh (talk) 14:44, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Hey Brion! Thanks for your years of dedication and hard work in improving and making Wikipedia as best as ever! :) TheGeneralUser (talk) 23:15, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :D --brion (talk) 23:28, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited: San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2!

San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2! You are invited!
	The San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2 will be held on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco. Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us! This event will be specifically geared around encouraging women to learn how to edit and contribute to Wikipedia. Workshops on copy-editing, article creation, and sourcing will be hosted. Bring a friend! Come one, come all! EdwardsBot (talk) 23:26, 22 May 2012 (UTC) · Unsubscribe[reply]

San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2! You are invited!

The San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2 will be held on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco. Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us! This event will be specifically geared around encouraging women to learn how to edit and contribute to Wikipedia. Workshops on copy-editing, article creation, and sourcing will be hosted. Bring a friend! Come one, come all!

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San Francisco Wiknic 2012

	San Francisco Wiknic at Golden Gate Park
	You are invited to the second Great American Wikinic taking place in Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco, on Saturday, June 23, 2012. We're still looking for input on planning activities, and thematic overtones. List your add yourself to the attendees list, and edit the picnic as you like. —Max Klein {chat} 18:35, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Today is the Day

Dankon Brion, Sanon! ;) --FoeNyx (talk) 05:32, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My toast for you

Happy Brion Vibber Day

Hurray! it is the time for celebration...
Mi deziras al vi feliĉan Brion Vibber Tago.
Here is my toast for you...(Well.. I had an early dinner!)
I hope you have a great day today...
Yours Kindly
→Vanischenu^TM
11:01, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

awwww thanks :)

testing testing

just a test — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.131.73.17 (talk) 09:24, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

how can i get account user:goosy

I'm goosy@zhwiki, In this wiki(en), I forgot my password, and no email. I can't attached accounts to Unified login. can you help me?

My SUL info
User Goosy contributions is nothing in enwiki.

thank you. --182.134.64.249 (talk) 01:22, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Starfighter

The article Starfighter has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

article on a word made up by some editor, unsourced after several years

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.

I've seconded it. -- Trevj (talk) 11:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Editor review/TheGeneralUser (2) Your review is required and will be greatly appreciated :)

Hi Brion VIBBER ! I have started my second editor review at Wikipedia:Editor review/TheGeneralUser (2). I will be greatly delighted, thankful and valued to have your review for me regarding my editing and possible candidate for Adminship. As you are a experienced and long term Wikipedian so i have asked for your kind review. Take your time to review my editing and give the best review that you can :). Feel free to ask me any questions you would like to on the review page itself. It will be a great honor to have you review me for which I will truly feel appreciated and helpful! I always work to improve Wikipedia and make it a more better place to be for Everyone :). Regards and Happy Editing! TheGeneralUser (talk) 19:05, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited! - Wiki Loves Monuments - San Francisco Events

Hi! As part of Wiki Loves Monuments, we're organizing two photo events in the San Francisco Bay Area and one in Yosemite National Park. We hope you can come out and participate! Feel free to contact User:Almonroth with questions or concerns.

There are three events planned:

September 15, Saturday - A bike ride along San Francisco's waterfront
September 22-23rd, Saturday-Sunday - Wiki Takes Yosemite
September 29, Saturday - A sunset and harvest moon bridges, palace, boats and tower tour

We look forward to seeing you there!

You are receiving this message because you signed up on the SF Bay Area event listing, or have attended an event in the Bay Area. To remove yourself, please go here. EdwardsBot (talk) 00:41, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society

Dear Brion,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more. I'm currently inviting people whose names that I recognize from around the project, please feel free to invite anyone else you like.

Best regards, -- Hex [^t/_c] 11:23, 27 September 2012 (UTC).[reply]

You're invited! Ada Lovelace Day San Francisco

October 16 - Ada Lovelace Day Celebration - You are invited!
	Come celebrate Ada Lovelace Day at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco on October 16! This event, hosted by the Ada Initiative, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation. It'll be a meet up style event, though you are welcome to bring a laptop and edit about women in STEM if you wish. Come mix, mingle and celebrate the legacy of the world's first computer programmer. The event is October 16, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, everyone is welcome! You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 19:53, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

October 16 - Ada Lovelace Day Celebration - You are invited!

Come celebrate Ada Lovelace Day at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco on October 16! This event, hosted by the Ada Initiative, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation. It'll be a meet up style event, though you are welcome to bring a laptop and edit about women in STEM if you wish. Come mix, mingle and celebrate the legacy of the world's first computer programmer.

The event is October 16, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, everyone is welcome!

You must RSVP here - see you there!
SarahStierch (talk) 19:53, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia skins

Hi Brion, I learn there are plans to throw out some of the old skins. Please, please please invent some new ones. I actually think editors should have the option to design their own skin to their modifications in their preferences but if not at least introduce a number of inspiring new skins which are graphically more impressive than the current ones. Presentation and graphics I think is very important and can radically alter how the website looks and is perceived. The current ones I find bland and uninspiring. Any chance you could do something in regards to this?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:16, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the new design work is focused on mobile -- we can iterate quickly there without breaking things -- but we plan to expand that work back to the desktop as well. Keep watching. :) --brion (talk) 01:17, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of a block log entry

Hey, I was hoping you could answer a question. Is it possible to delete a block log entry of an editor?

For some background, look at this discussion. I then did some poking around on my own and found this brief discussion from 2008, which is what led me to you.

Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:12, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Generally there's no reason to remove log entries, though it is physically possible; see Wikipedia:Revision deletion#Log redaction. --brion (talk) 01:16, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I read that. It's too bad, though, because in cases of pure mistake (like this one), it would be nice not to have the block on the log, even though the unblock entry with the reason is also there. I'm just sympathetic to the user who would have liked it removed. Thanks for coming over and responding.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:23, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quotes about MediaWiki

I'm doing research for Wikiquote, if anyone knows of interesting or pithy quotes about q:MediaWiki, please let me know at q:Talk:MediaWiki, it would be most appreciated! Thank you, — Cirt (talk) 17:25, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

From VPR: TOC labels

Just had a thought. Sometimes you want to quickly identify the status of something in a process - say, the completion amount of a particular day at AFD. So you go to that page's AFD log and there's a great big table of contents. Short of scrolling down the page there's no way to know what the status is of each item in that TOC. My suggestion: a magic word that allows the appending of text to the display of a heading in a TOC. Something like this:

== First thing {{TOCLABEL:closed}}==
Text

== Second thing {{TOCLABEL:open}}==
Text

== Third thing {{TOCLABEL:reopened}}==
Text

which would render something like:

Contents (hide)

1 First thing (closed)

2 Second thing (open)

3 Third thing (reopened)

Wouldn't that be kind of handy? There would likely be all sorts of uses. The technique might need to be restricted to use outside article space only, though, I think. .:YellowPegasus:. (talk • contribs) 20:00, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edit-a-thon tomorrow (Saturday) in Oakland

Hi, I hope you will be joining us tomorrow afternoon at the Edit-a-thon at Tech Liminal, in Oakland. We'll be working on articles relating to women and democracy (and anything else that interests you). It's sponsored by the California League of Women Voters, Tech Liminal, and me.

If this is the first you are hearing of this event, my apologies for the last-minute notice! I announced it on the San Francisco email list and by a banner on your watchlist, but I neglected to look at the San Francisco invitation list until this evening. If you can't make it this time, I hope to see you at a similar event soon! -Pete (talk) 04:41, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation employee salaries

You are invited to comment here. Nirvana2013 (talk) 09:24, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Crat statement draft

Hi Following the drama at BN, I'm trying to come up with a statement all Crats could agree to. Please take a look, below. I am quite content to do this onwiki -we have always worked transparently, except where secrecy is essential (ie RTV). I think we should be able to wordsmith a statement acceptable to all, and I think it's an important thing to do.

In my opinion, this issue has come about through an unfortunate proliferation of documentation: policy, guideline, how-to etc
I am not convinced that there is community consensus on all of the points encapsulated in those various pages
I am unhappy at what may be described as some or all of: inconsistencies, inaccuracies or lack of clarity in that documentation
I do not believe that any of the issues we have faced have been caused by Crats trying to widen their powers
I would like to see the issues clarified, based on consensus, and for the documentation to be updated accordingly
I'd like to thank Griot-de for generously withdrawing the rename request

Signed [crat sig] Lmk what you think. Many thanks, --Dweller (talk) 10:39, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mail awaits you.

Hello, Brooke Vibber. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

--ukexpat (talk) 14:45, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject California/List of California-related topics

Wikipedia:WikiProject California/List of California-related topics, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject California/List of California-related topics and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject California/List of California-related topics during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:01, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Women's history editathon

Hey - Sorry for the late notice, but since you have yourself tagged as living in the Bay Area, I thought you might appreciate notification that we’re having an event Saturday! It’ll be held at Hoyt Hall, an all-women's house of the Berkeley Student Cooperative from 3 to 6 pm tomorrow. The main event page is here. Anyone is welcome to show up, but we’re expecting a significant number of people to come who have literally never edited Wikipedia before. If you’re an experienced Wikipedian who would be able to provide useful help to some of the newbies, your presence would be especially appreciated (and it might be a good idea for you to show up at 2 or 2:30 instead of three. Thanks, Kevin Gorman (talk) 02:00, 6 April 2013 (UTC) I’m AWB’ing this message to all Wikipedians who have tagged themselves in the bay area. I’m sorry if the message isn’t of interest to you; feel free to delete it. I’ll be unlikely to send future messages in a similar way, but if really don’t want to receive future messages of this sort, please let me know. [reply]

Template:Related portals2

Hey, I love this template but I would like to alter the images. Where does this pull the images from? I could simply change that location in the portals I am using. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 06:28, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It pulls them via Template:Related portal item which pulls them via Template:Portal image which checks for filenames in templates of the form Template:Portal/Images/Film etc. You can change those little templates to change which image shows up for the given category. --brion (talk) 13:17, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

thank you very much! --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 15:25, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wiknic 2013

Wiknic 2013
Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland
Theme: Hyperlocal list-making

This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

Location and Directions

Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
- Nearest BART: 19th Street
- Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
- Street parking abounds

EdwardsBot (talk) 04:47, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Forced user renames coming soon for SUL

Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to translate and review the notification that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages m:Rename practices and m:Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 13:05, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited...

to two upcoming Bay Area events:

Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.

I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 18:51, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Already this time of the year !

Saluton, Brion ! Happy day ! Gratulon ! Dankon ! -- FoeNyx (talk) 14:52, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dankon :D --brion (talk) 16:30, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wanted by PETA

You have just been added to PETA's watchlist for killing too many server kitties. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.6.22.11 (talk) 05:22, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Great job sir! Crab rangoons (talk) 19:08, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Deletion means deletion"

Hi!

Is this comment from 2007 still accurate? Or would it be correct to say that the content is just hidden? Are there copies of deleted content on Wikimedia Dumps?

(I'm asking because of a new discussion on Portuguese Wikipedia, about the terminology used in our deletion policy to describe what happens to "deleted pages") Helder 22:29, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In principle this remains true (that the archives of deleted pages in the database are not meant as permanent storage and could be cleared out from time to time), but in practice we haven't cleared out the deletion archives in a long time as people expect things to remain undeletable.

Data dumps don't include the deleted pages -- but of course if you grab an old dump from between the creation and the deletion of a page, you'd find the at-the-time-not-deleted item in there.

Note that since '07 we've also introduced "revision deletion" or hiding, which allows striking out of particular parts of a revision's metadata (content, author username, comment). Again, the data remains in the database on the site, but isn't included in data dumps.

So, while in theory just about all deleted stuff could be recovered from Wikimedia Foundation's servers if required (some things get really-really-totally-perma-deleted-for-reals like child porn...) if Wikimedia shut down and Wikipedia had to be reinstated from public data dumps, those deleted items would not be available to the 'new' site.

--brion (talk) 14:02, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Code Review Access

Hi! I was told to go and contribute to the new repositories on Code Review. Since the only reason I was on that repository in the first place was to work on the Metro app, I would like to be able to access the Metro project on Code Review. Thank you very much! APerson (talk!) 03:41, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon

Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - You are invited!
File:Csaky madonna.jpg	Hi Brooke Vibber! The first Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 in San Francisco. Any editors interested in the intersection of feminism and art are welcome. Wikipedians of all experience levels are invited! Experienced editors will be on hand to help new editors. Bring a friend and a laptop! Come one, come all! Learn more here! SarahStierch (talk) 08:50, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - You are invited!

File:Csaky madonna.jpg

Hi Brooke Vibber! The first Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 in San Francisco.

Any editors interested in the intersection of feminism and art are welcome. Wikipedians of all experience levels are invited! Experienced editors will be on hand to help new editors.
Bring a friend and a laptop! Come one, come all! Learn more here!

SarahStierch (talk) 08:50, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Request for a complete export of one article and related pages.

Hello Brion: I have been politely asked to "read the archives" before editing on a contentious article and realize this is going to take a while and require lots of notes. :) I decided to setup a personal Wikimedia-on-a-stick so I can work locally (much faster, I live in a rural area and have a somewhat slower connection) but the history limit on export is an issue since there are a lot more than 1000 edits. I saw you were able to do this before here and was hoping you would be willing to do it again maybe? The page is Morgellons and I would like to have the whole set of article + article history/diffs + talk + talk history/diffs + talk archives (11) + talk archives history/diffs. Is that possible? Thanks in advance either way.

{{imaginary-smiley|pleading-with-big-sad-puppy-dog-eyes}} :)

F6697^{FORMERLY 66.97.209.215}_TALK 04:24, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

service oriented architecture

Greetings $editor, I see from your $signpostProfileArticle that you have an interest in service-oriented architectures! :-) I'm trying to help a group of COI-encumbered PhDs re-write the SORCER article (NPOV), which is a service-oriented architecture based on the Jini/JVM substrate, used by the USAF (plus French and rumour has it Chinese and Russians and possibly Brits/Aussies) to speed up the automated mechanical-design-and-analysis of radical new aerospace structures. Interesting stuff, but could use another set of eyeballs to help translate from the jargon-debt they've built up during classified and quasi-governmental projects involving this software, since the previous millenium. Do you have any interest in helping, and are you available? And if so, how strong is your wikiImmuneSystem when it comes to surviving TLDR?

p.s. I'd also like to give you an earful about WP:FLOW and VizEd and the general push for wiki2.0 sorts of things. But I promise to refrain, if you'd prefer not to hear it. :-) Hope this helps, and thanks for improving wikipedia. Please leave me a talkback / if you respon' / cannot have no watchlist / as just an anon'. Danke. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 17:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Portal:Literature/Mobile redesign attempt

Portal:Literature/Mobile redesign attempt, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Literature/Mobile redesign attempt and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Literature/Mobile redesign attempt during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Sven Manguard Wha? 20:02, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For collaboration on a technical book explaining the software that runs Wikipedia. Bides time (talk) 18:11, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited! WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley

Saturday, April 5 - WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley - You are invited!
	The University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting our first edit-a-thon, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, on April 5! This event, focused on engaging women to contribute to Wikipedia, will feature a brief Wikipedia policy and tips overview, followed by a fast-paced energetic edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history! The event is April 5, from 1-5 PM, at the Berkeley Center for New Media Commons at Moffitt Library. You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 23:13, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Saturday, April 5 - WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley - You are invited!

The University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting our first edit-a-thon, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, on April 5! This event, focused on engaging women to contribute to Wikipedia, will feature a brief Wikipedia policy and tips overview, followed by a fast-paced energetic edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history!

The event is April 5, from 1-5 PM, at the Berkeley Center for New Media Commons at Moffitt Library.

You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 23:13, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

June is already here !

Saluton, Brion ! Happy day ! Gratulon ! Dankon ! -- FoeNyx (talk) 09:03, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania discussion

Hello Brion, I have something I would like to discuss with you about using apps to contribute multimedia content to Wikipedia. Could we please meet up and have a brief discussion today at Wikimania? Please feel free to call or text me on my cell phone: +44 7792906335 or email: yu.wan05alumni.imperial.ac.uk Thank you! Regards, Francis --Computor (talk) 08:42, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

An important message about renaming users

Dear Brion VIBBER,

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)[reply]

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You're invited! Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco

You are invited! → Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco → Saturday, October 11, 2014, from 1-5 PM
	The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meet, create and improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. Please bring your laptop. The venue: Wikimedia Foundation offices (149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105) – Google Maps view You must RSVP here — see you there! --Rosiestep (talk) 03:44, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited! → Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco → Saturday, October 11, 2014, from 1-5 PM

The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival.

Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meet, create and improve articles about literature and writers.

All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. Please bring your laptop.

The venue: Wikimedia Foundation offices (149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105) – Google Maps view

You must RSVP here — see you there! --Rosiestep (talk) 03:44, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Block quotes on mobile

Hi Brion, I just added your mobile gadget. Thank you for creating it.

I'm having trouble working out what to do with block quotes that are formatted to be narrower than usual. These can look good on desktop/laptop, because they avoid long lines of text and give us more white space. But on mobile, they're sometimes reduced to one or two letters per line.

For example, see the block quote toward the end of the Prisons in England subsection in the Background section of Marshalsea on mobile.

Would it be possible to have the mobile version reformat these, so that we don't have to remove or widen them? SlimVirgin ^(talk) 17:44, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Recent changes app

Hello Brion,

I'm an editor from the Catalan Wikipedia and I write small programs as a hobby (Python bots and some PHP and JavaScript). Recently I had the idea of making a Recent-changes-patrolling app where you could easily mark as patrolled or revert the recent changes. I had the idea of putting each unpatrolled edit in a "card" that you could swipe left to revert and right to mark as patrolled (something like Tinder or Swipable-Cards). The problem is I don't know where to start. I've never programmed an app before (but I would like to learn how to do it) and I don't know if is there a way to go multi-platform easily. I'm asking you this because you and User talk:Yuvipanda are the main contributors of the Wikipedia app.

I wouldn't like to annoy, please feel free to say "Sorry, but I can't help you"

Thanks in advance,

Gerardduenas (talk) 20:09, 21 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

PEGJS

Saluton! Mi vidis, ke vi scipovas pegjs. Mi havas tiun problemon:

tzwd!34!346
sdfw!212!54
rews!325!321
wdr!345!32

Mi volas tiun parsi, ke en la listo la tokenoj ne estu disigitaj en karakteroj, sed en vorto kaj tu entjeroj. Jen mi havas tiun:

list
= ((spaceNL* bareword spaceNL*)* spaceNL*)

token
= value:bareword separator 
  line:integer separator 
  offset:integer spaceNL*{
 return value, line, offset; }

integer "integer"
 = digits:$[0-9]+ { return parseInt(digits, 10); }

bareword
= cs:barewordChar+

barewordChar
= '\\' chr:barewordMeta { return chr }
/ !barewordMeta chr:.   { return chr }

barewordMeta = [$"';&<>\n()\[*?|` ]

space
= " " / "\t"

spaceNL
= space / "\n"

separator
= "!"

Kiel povas mi helpi tiun?

Szalakóta (talk) 18:57, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

SF edit-a-thons on March 7 and 8

ArtAndFeminism (3/7) and International Women's Day (3/8)!
Dear fellow Wikipedian, In celebration of WikiWomen's History Month, the SF Bay Area Wikipedia community has two events in early March -- please consider attending! First, we have an ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon, which will take place at the Kadist Art Foundation from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday, March 7. We'll be one of many sites worldwide participating in this edit-a-thon on March 7th. So join us as we help improve Wikipedia's coverage of women artists and their works! Second, we will be celebrating International Women's Day with the International Women's Day edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 8 from 1pm to 5pm at the Wikimedia Foundation. Our editing focus will be on women, of course! I hope to see you there! Rosiestep (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply] To opt out of future mailings about SF meetups, please remove your name from this list.

ArtAndFeminism (3/7) and International Women's Day (3/8)!

Dear fellow Wikipedian,

In celebration of WikiWomen's History Month, the SF Bay Area Wikipedia community has two events in early March -- please consider attending!

First, we have an ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon, which will take place at the Kadist Art Foundation from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday, March 7. We'll be one of many sites worldwide participating in this edit-a-thon on March 7th. So join us as we help improve Wikipedia's coverage of women artists and their works!

Second, we will be celebrating International Women's Day with the International Women's Day edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 8 from 1pm to 5pm at the Wikimedia Foundation. Our editing focus will be on women, of course!

I hope to see you there! Rosiestep (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Samuel Clemens listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Samuel Clemens. Since you had some involvement with the Samuel Clemens redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Mr. Guye (talk) 03:14, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Once more!

Saluton, Brion! It's already this time of the year: your day! Gratulon & Dankon ! -- FoeNyx (talk) 21:16, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Workshopping bureaucrat activity requirements

(Message to all bureaucrats)

There is an ongoing discussion about implementing some kind of standards for administrative and bureaucrat activity levels; and activity requirements for bureaucrats have been explored several times in the past. I've prepared a draft addition to Wikipedia:Bureaucrats that would require at least one bureaucratic action every five years to retain the bureaucrat permission.

In the past, I've been hesitant of such proposals but I believe that if the bureaucrat group as a whole is seen to be actively engaged, the community may be more willing to grant additional tasks to the position.

Please let me know your thoughts. I'm not sure if this actually applies to any of us, but if you have not acted as a bureaucrat in over five years, you might consider requesting removal of the permission or otherwise signalling that you intend to return to bureaucrat activity. –xeno^talk 14:22, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FYI: bureaucrat discussion opened

Message to most bureaucrats

A bureaucrat chat has been opened by Maxim at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rich Farmbrough 2/Bureaucrat discussion.

Wikipedia:Bureaucrat discussion suggests notifying bureaucrats on their talk page as well as BN, hence this courtesy note. –xeno^talk 16:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Community & Bureaucrat based desysoping proposal

A discussion is taking place regarding a proposal to create a community and bureaucrat based desysoping committee. The proposal would modify the position of bureaucrat. Your input is encouraged. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators/RfC for BARC - a community desysoping process. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 19:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Implementation of Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Bureaucrat activity requirements

Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years.

“

Bureaucrats are expected to exercise the duties granted by their role while remaining cognizant of relevant community standards concerning their tasks. In addition to the "Inactive bureaucrat accounts" requirements, if a bureaucrat does not participate in bureaucrat activity^[1] for over three years, their bureaucrat permissions may be removed. The user must be notified on their talk page and by email one month before the removal, and again and a few days prior to the removal. If the user does not return to bureaucrat activity, another bureaucrat may request the removal of permissions at meta:Steward requests/Permissions. Permissions removed for not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements may be re-obtained through a new request for bureaucratship.

^ Bureaucrat activity is widely construed and includes acting or commenting as a bureaucrat at any venue including WP:BN/RFA/RFB/RFBAG/BRFA and responding to requests in their capacity as a global renamer or subscriber to the bureaucrats' mailing list or signalling that they remain actively engaged and available for bureacrat tasks.

”

To assist with the implementation of this requirement, please see Wikipedia:Bureaucrat activity. Modeled after Wikipedia:Inactive administrators and similar to that process, the log page will be created on 1 September 2015. Bureaucrats who have not met the activity requirements as of that date will be notified by email (where possible) and on their talk page to advise of the pending removal.

If the notified user does not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, they will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFB. Removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon the affected user in any way.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. –xeno^talk

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

From what I understand (User talk:WJBscribe/Archive 32#Bureaucrat discussion notification), your account has bureaucrat privileges for technical reasons. Are they still required? Should we except this account from the log page? –xeno^talk 22:24, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:51, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of pending suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements

Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years. As a result of this discussion, your bureaucrat permissions may be removed if you do not return to bureaucrat activity within the next month. If you do not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, you will need to request reinstatement at RFB. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past bureaucrat efforts. –xeno^talk 21:05, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of imminent suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements

Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years. As a result of this discussion, your bureaucrat permissions may be removed if you do not return to bureaucrat activity within the next few days. If you do not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, you will need to request reinstatement at RFB. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past bureaucrat efforts. –xeno^talk 14:43, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements

Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years. As a result of this discussion, your bureaucrat permissions have been removed by a Steward. If you wish to request reinstatement, you may do so at WP:RFB. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past bureaucrat efforts. –xeno^talk 06:14, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tri Kronoj (ludo)

En la esperanta vikipedio estas artikolo eo:Tri Kronoj (ludo), en kiu estas 14 dosieroj alsxutitaj antaux novembro 2002. La dosieroj TriKronoj10.jpg gxis TriKronoj14.jpg konservigxis, sed dosieroj TriKronoj1.jpg gxis TriKronoj9.jpg sxajnas al mi netroveblaj. La [meta-alsxuto-protokolo] informas ke estis vi kiu alsxutis la 14 dosierojn je 2002-01-29. Cxu vi havas ideon kie la dosieroj povus esti kasxitaj? En la nuna situacio la artikolo Tri Kronoj (ludo) aspektas katastrofe fusxe - tiel ne povus resti. Antauxdankas pro via komento ThomasPusch (talk) 13:28, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Thanks for being awesome. Legoktm (talk) 22:14, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Being sane and reasonable

	Futurist award
	B. A big thank you for being able to put into words and sense answers to questions that I have. To questions that I try to have and never can get out in a lucid fashion. You are our resident futurist, and our Pushkin of technology. Thanks for being here, and all that you do. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:07, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bay Area WikiSalon series kickoff, April 27

Please join us in San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area will gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. We have two brief presentations lined up for our kickoff event in downtown San Francisco:

The Nueva Upper School recently hosted the first ever high school Wikipedia edit-a-thon. We will hear what interests them about Wikipedia, what they have learned so far, and what they hope to achieve.
Photojournalist Kris Schreier Lyseggen, author of The Women of San Quentin: The Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons, will tell us about her work and how she researched the topic.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.

For further details, see here: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, April 2016

We hope to see you -- and until then, happy editing! - Pete, Ben & Wayne

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series on May 25

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2016

See you soon! Pete F, Ben Creasy, and Checkingfax via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:15, 9 May 2016 (UTC) | Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the SF Meetups notice.[reply]

Missing

Hi. You are now listed as missing. Should you ever return or choose not to be listed, you are welcome to remove your name. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:41, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have:

A brief report on Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Publice Library, coordinated by Merrilee:
What topics might we cover in a follow up?

Find out more about resources your public library provides to help with editing (hint, it's more than just books!)

Special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
Join in on an in person Wikidojo!
Are you curious how your peers approach writing a Wikipedia article? This exercise, pioneered by Wikipedians Nikola Kalchev and Vassia Atanassova in 2015 and conducted in many places around the world, will help us all - from first-time wiki users to veteran Wikipedians - share ideas, while building an article together. If you have ideas (relating to Bay Area history, ideally) about a new article we could build (stubs and short existing articles are fine), please submit them ahead of time to coordinator Pete Forsyth. (User talk page or email is fine.)

Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016

See you soon! Pete F, Ben, Stephen and Checkingfax | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:07, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

REMINDER/invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m.

Please join us in downtown San Francisco tonight!

If you cannot join in person or want to view portions later:

We will have:

Light snacks, and time to mingle
A brief report on the Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Public Library, that was coordinated by Wiki editor Merrilee
A special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
Join in on a brief in person Wikidojo!
Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!

Please register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjLRrSTlEkGOPTQ-h6A0WvSFI4ZmIUl6jEHp_RYas-E/viewform and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.

For further details, see: Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016

See you tonight! Pete F, Ben, Stephen and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:48, 29 June 2016 (UTC) | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice)[reply]

Late breaking invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, July 27 (Wednesday) - change of venue - tonight

Please join us in the Mission at Noisebridge (one time change of venue)!

We hope you can join us today, Wednesday, from 6 p.m. on, at our July Bay Area WikiSalon. This month only, we are going to be at Noisebridge, a hackerspace/makerspace 1.5 blocks from the 16th & Mission BART station (see the link for directions). Some of us will be working on the Wikipedia article on basic income. All info here. Some good news - we do not have to be as strict about advance RSVP at Noisebridge, so bring spontaneous guests! (Registering ahead of time is still helpful, as always, as it will help us plan ahead.)

Come and hang out, have some light snacks. Wi-Fi is available, so please bring your editing device if you plan to edit.

Also, Pete just published a writeup of the Wikidojo exercise we did last month. Your comments welcome, if he missed anything! http://wikistrategies.net/ghost-town-royals-wikidojo

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. Mark you calendars now.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend.

See you soon! Pete F, Ben Creasy, Stephen and Wayne | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:05, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, August 31

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Hi folks,

We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

Former EFF intern Marta Belcher will discuss crowdsourcing her Stanford Law School graduation speech using a wiki. The "WikiSpeech" was the subject of prominent national media attention in 2015, and more than half of her classmates contributed to writing and editing the commencement address via a wiki.

Please note: You should register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, August 2016

See you soon! Pete F, Ben, Stephen and Checkingfax | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:05, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tonight: Live and archived links for Bay Area WikiSalon

Bay Area WikiSalon, Wednesday, August 31:

If you cannot join us in person tonight, we are streaming (and later archiving) the presentation by former EFF intern Marta Belcher. We expect her to be live starting between 6:30 or 6:45 p.m. PDT and talking and taking questions for about 30 minutes thereafter.

Here is the YouTube stream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t8V79s2-og
Here is the link to join the Hangout on Air: https://hangouts.google.com/call/ezrol7dafjfwxfh2ilpkjyxoaue

You can search for it on the Commons and YouTube later too.

Wayne, Pete, Ben, and Stephen

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:50, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, Brion VIBBER. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
This message was sent to the administrators' mass message list. To opt-out of future messages, please remove yourself from the list. 17:48, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, September 28

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Hi folks,

We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no formal agenda to allow people to freely share ideas and perhaps learn about Wikipedia through hands-on editing. Co-organizer Ben Creasy will be looking at election-related articles to enhance the information available in the upcoming November elections.

Co-organizer Stephen LaPorte has suggested doing an upload-a-thon for Wiki Loves Monuments. Niki, the California coordinator for WLM will be in attendance. WLM is an annual event and the official dealine is Friday the 30th for submissions to count towards awards.

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, or a stool and do your own thing.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, September 2016. Mark your calendars now for the 3rd Wednesday in October, the 26th, when we will have a brief presentation.

See you soon! Pete F, Ben, Stephen and Checkingfax | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:34, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited to a Wednesday evening event in SF

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Hi folks,

Please copy and share this on other talk pages. We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather at the Wikimedia Foundation lounge to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no meaty agenda this month, but we will allow a brief period for:

Open mic for anybody who attended WikiConference North America 2016 in San Diego last week and wants to share their takeaway
Question & answer
Open mic for announcements
Maybe a focus on some topical election article editing with Ben?

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, a stool or counter and do your own thing.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, October 2016.

PS: Mark your calendars ahead now for the 3rd Wednesday in November, the 30th (the week after Thanksgiving), at 6 p.m. when our WikiSalon will host a super awesome top secret mystery guest mingling in our midst. We will announce specifics at the upcoming WikiSalon.

See you soon! Pete F, Ben, Stephen, Jacob, and Checkingfax | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:51, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Brooke Vibber.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Brion VIBBER. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page.

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Everybody is invited to the November 30 Bay Area WikiSalon

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Details and RSVP here.

See you soon! Pete F, Ben Creasy, and Checkingfax | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:54, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bay Area WikiSalon series: Everybody is invited this Wednesday evening at 6

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki and open-source enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

Before and after the brief presentation we allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks.

In addition, this month we will have:

a brief presentation from User:Cullen328 (Jim Heaphy) about the Wikipedia Teahouse
spontaneous lightning talks from the floor
community announcements from the floor

For details and to RSVP see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, December 2016

See you soon! Ben Creasy and Checkingfax | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

+++++
P.S. Any help spreading the word through social media or other avenues is most welcome! We plan to announce this on various sites and invite various groups; if you would like to join in, check our meta planning page, and please note any announcements you are sending out: meta:Monthly WikiSalon in San Francisco#Announcements and promotion

Please feel free to add to, refine, reorganize or edit the above linked page: it is a wiki!

We need more helpers and organizers, so if you see a need, please jump in, or talk to us about it! You can add your username to the meta page where appropriate, or create a new role!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:44, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder invitation to the December Bay Area WikiSalon

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Hi, everybody.

We are excited to remind you of the ninth in the Bay Area WikiSalon series that is coming up this Wednesday evening at 6 p.m.

Details (RSVP suggested) here (RSVP helps us know how much food and drink to bring in)

What is a WikiSalon? A monthly safe and inclusive meatspace event conducted in organized chaos and we all clean up the mess afterwards. Livestream links for the presentation are available during presentation months, and will be forthcoming for those of you that cannot attend. December is a presentation month.

Hope to see you there! Wayne (and Ben) - co-organizers
Any last minute questions or suggestions? Please ping or email Ben or me. | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:10, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Archived link for December Bay Area WikiSalon

Hi, y'all. In case you missed it and want to watch the archive reel; the topic was The Wikipedia Teahouse and the presenter was well respected Wikimedian Jim Heaphy [[User:Cullen328]]

Archive link (also includes intro, announcements, and a lightning talk)

Details about Bay Area WikiSalon for December here

The full title of Jim's presentation was: Welcoming and Helping New Editors: A Month at the Wikipedia Teahouse: an overview of the Teahouse and an analysis of over 300 Teahouse conversations during the month of August, 2016

Jim gave a longer version of this presentation in October at WikiConference North America 2016 in San Diego, California.

Cheers! Co-organizer Checkingfax - and co-organizer Ben Creasy | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

PS: Mark your calendars now for Sunday, January 15 at 2 p.m. which will be Wikipedia's 16th Birthday party hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon! Details to follow soon. If you want to help plan it, get in touch with us ASAP!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:43, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited to a birthday bash to Celebrate Wikipedia's 16th Birthday!

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Wikipedia Day 16 SF is a fun Birthday bash and edit-a-thon on Sunday, January 15, 2017, hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon at the Wikimedia Foundation's Chip Deubner Lounge in the South of Market Street business district.

For details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Meetup/SF/Wikipedia Day 2017

The San Francisco gathering is one of a number of Wikipedia Day celebrations worldwide.

See you soon! Ben Creasy, Checkingfax and Slaporte | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this notice)

PS: We need volunteers to help make this a fun and worthwhile event. Please add your name to the Project page, and what you can offer. It is a wiki, so please make direct edits to the page.

Bay Area WikiSalon usually meets the last Wednesday evening of every month as an inclusive and safe place to collaborate, mingle, munch and learn about new projects and ideas.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:52, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder invitation to the Wikipedia Day 16 birthday bash & edit-a-thon

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Wikipedia Day 16 SF is a fun Birthday bash and edit-a-thon on Sunday, January 15, 2017, hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon at the Wikimedia Foundation's Chip Deubner Lounge in the South of Market Street business district and everybody is invited!

Details and RSVP here

See you Sunday! Ben Creasy, Checkingfax and Slaporte

PS: We still need more volunteers to help make this a fun and worthwhile event. Please add what you can offer and your name to the Project page or Talk about it. It is a wiki, so please make direct edits to the Project page. The event is already growing due to volunteers that have stepped up so far.

Bay Area WikiSalon meets one evening of every month as an inclusive and safe place to collaborate, mingle, munch or learn about new projects and ideas.

Note: the previous invitation had a bum wikilink. Sorry! | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this notice) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:43, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Permission to use figure in a book.

Dear Brion,

I am working with Prof. Steven LaValle to help obtain permissions for borrowing figures or pictures in his upcoming book Virtual Reality, to be published by Cambridge University Press. The book is online here:

http://vr.cs.uiuc.edu/

We are hoping to include the picture of yours (https:/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Bump-map-demo-full.png/400px-Bump-map-demo-full.png) in this book (Chapter 7, Figure 7.9). Could we please have your permission for this? Thank you.

Please contact me at awarkoczewski@yahoo.com

Sincerely,

Adam Warkoczewski — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.25.191.254 (talk) 11:09, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

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Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for February 22

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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

Please note: You should RSVP here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, February 2017

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Bay Area WikiSalon February reminder

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 6 p.m.

For details and to RSVP: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, February 2017

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Your invitation: Bay Area WikiSalon series at Noisebridge

Please join us in San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. This month we are meeting at Noisebridge makerspace/hackerspace in the Mission near 16th Street BART (temporary change of venue). The good news is this means that you can bring spontaneous guests if you forget to RSVP!

If possible, please RSVP as it helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in. For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, March 2017

See you soon! Co-coordinators Ben Creasy and Wayne
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Reminder: Tonight is Bay Area WikiSalon at Noisebridge

Please join us in San Francisco!

Details and to RSVP: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, March 2017 (optional, but helpful for food and special needs accommodations)

We are meeting at Noisebridge makerspace/hackerspace (temporary venue change) near 16th ST BART in SF.

See you soon! Co-coordinators Ben Creasy and Wayne
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Wednesday night you are invited! Bay Area WikiSalon

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather for the Bay Area WikiSalon series to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. We will have some announcements and lightning talks from the floor, and a breakout session. This is our one year anniversary, so there will be cake!

Please RSVP here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in.

See you soon! Ben Creasy and Wayne
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Everybody is invited to the May 31 Bay Area WikiSalon series!

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. This month we are taking it on the road to Noisebridge makerspace/hackerspace!

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. There will be periodic guided tours of Noisebridge. You can stay late, on your own! YeeHaw!

For details and to RSVP, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2017

See you soon! Ben Creasy and Wayne
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The Bay Area WikiSalon is an unSalon this month!

Please stay where you are for an unSalon!

We are taking July off! Please gather your thoughts for changes that you would like to see in the next 10 months and present them at our July 26 WikiSalon.

Ordinarily, the last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the Bay Area WikiSalon series to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We normally allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend.

Mark your calendars now for Wednesday, July 26 at 6 p.m.! The venue will be the Noisebridge hackerspace/makerspace on Mission Street in San Francisco.

Sincerely, Ben Creasy and Wayne | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:44, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Black Woman is God Edit-a-Thon in San Francisco, July 22

You're invited to The Black Woman is God Edit-a-Thon at SOMArts in San Francisco on Saturday July 22, 1-4 pm. It'll be at 934 Brannan Street (between 8th & 9th). Everyone is welcome to join this editing event, held in conjunction with The Black Woman is God exhibition to raise the online visibility of Black women artists and challenge the gaps in art history that erase or minimize Black women’s contributions as artists, activists and social change-makers. (Message requested by Dreamyshade and delivered on 14:23, 9 July 2017 (UTC). You can subscribe/unsubscribe to San Francisco event talk page notices here.)[reply]

Invitation to Admin confidence survey

Hello,

Beginning in September 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tool team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing and mitigating things like sockpuppetry, vandalism, and harassment.

The survey should only take 5 minutes, and your individual response will not be made public. This survey will be integral for our team to determine how to better support administrators.

To take the survey sign up here and we will send you a link to the form.

We really appreciate your input!

Please let us know if you wish to opt-out of all massmessage mailings from the Anti-harassment tools team.

For the Anti-harassment tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 19:52, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What is Talk Page Theatre? Come find out!

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Come find out what "Talk Page Theatre" is all about! The last Wednesday evening of every other month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. We will be at the NEW Wikimedia Foundation offices! w00t!!!

Please note: You should RSVP here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, November 2017

See you soon! Ben Creasy, Nikikana, and Wayne | ( Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice ) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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SFMOMA Edit-a-Thon in San Francisco, March 8

You're invited to an Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon at SFMOMA in San Francisco on Thursday March 8, 5-9 pm. It'll be at 151 Third Street, 2nd floor, free to the public. Everyone is welcome to participate in an evening of communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, art, and feminism. (This message is from User:Dreamyshade. You can subscribe/unsubscribe to San Francisco event talk page notices here.)
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Help making a button work

Hi Brion, maybe you remember me from the Seattle meetup a while back. Anyway, I have a tech-ish question. I've been fiddling with this and can't make it do what I really want User:Bri/SignpostCreateTest. It is currently coded as a workaround to create Page1, Page2 or Page3 in the Wikipedia namespace when the user clicks a button, then I will probably go back and move the new page to userspace for content development. Ideally I'd like the buttons to create a new subpage in the userspace of the person who clicks. Is this doable? I've tried using the REVISIONUSER magic word with various wrapping code, but couldn't get it to work in a HTTP link. ☆ Bri (talk) 04:24, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bay Area WikiSalon invitation!

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for announcements, informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Bring a friend! Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. This months focus is images!

We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).

For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

See you soon! Ben Creasy, Nikikana, Stephen, and Wayne | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:22, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

UPDATE! Bay Area WikiSalon moved to June 6!

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Our apologies, but we are rescheduling to Wednesday, June 6 at 6:00 p.m. due to a WMF host scheduling conflict.

For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

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REMINDER: Bay Area WikiSalon is Wednesday, June 6

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When: Wednesday, June 6 at 6:00 p.m.

For details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

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Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for July 25!

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the Bay Area WikiSalon series to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for announcements, informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Bring a friend! Kid/family friendly. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. This months focus is reliable sources!

We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).

For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, July 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

See you soon! Avik (User:Quantumavik), Lodewijk (User:Effeietsanders), Ben Creasy (User:Ben Creasy), Stephen (User:Slaporte), and Wayne (User:Checkingfax)
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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Poked the page. --brion (talk) 22:06, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for September 26!

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the Bay Area WikiSalon series to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).

Details and RSVP here (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

Last call for RSVPs for Wednesday evening

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Hey, folks. Reminder: Wednesday evening at 6 is the Bay Area WikiSalon series.

Details and RSVP here (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

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You are cordially invited to Stanford University to celebrate Wikipedia's birthday

Join us in celebrating Wikipedia's 18th birthday at Stanford University!

I am delighted to invite you to the 2019 Wikipedia Day party at Stanford, which will be held on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, at 5:00-8:30pm.

There will be pizza, cake, and refreshments; both newcomers and experienced Wikimedians are welcome! We will have a beginner track with tutorials, and an advanced track with presentations, lightning talks, and tips and tricks. Admission is free, and you do NOT have to be a Stanford University student to attend.

Details and RSVP here • register here

See you soon! All the best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c)
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ArbCom 2019 special circular

Administrators must secure their accounts

The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.

Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email
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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:02, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Brooke Vibber,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.

Best regards, Urhixidur (talk) 16:35, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Article creation by unregistered users

Hello! I've commented on this article: Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-12-05/Page creation restrictions#Consequences. It is about a technical solution you implemented, many years ago, on the English Wikipedia, and that is being considered on the Portuguese Wikipedia too.

Can you please help me there?--MisterSanderson (talk) 16:16, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are cordially invited to the SPIE Photonics West edit-a-thon on 02.02.2020

Join us for the SPIE Photonics West edit-a-thon this Sunday, 02.02.2020!

I am delighted to invite you to the SPIE Photonics West 2020 edit-a-thon, at Park Central Hotel (Franciscan I, 3rd Level / 50 Third Street / San Francisco, California), on Sunday, February 2, 2020, at 5:00-7:00pm.

Newcomers and experienced Wikimedians are welcome to participate alongside SPIE conference attendees. Admission is free. Training will be provided.

Details and sign-in here

See you soon! All the best, --Rosiestep (talk) 06:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

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@Brion VIBBER: How is it possible that you are too busy to edit Wikipedia due to working for Wikipedia? Firestar464 (talk) 04:00, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Articles using British English titles

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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:07, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Brion Vibber Day!

Hey Brion,
thank you very much for your work and the endless time you gave, to make Wikipedia and Sisters possible, as we can use it now. You build the base for senceful life for many volunteers and create one of the biggest Things in human mankind. Feel happy you did it :) . Regards from East-Germany, Conny (talk) 05:41, 1 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Invitation to join the Twenty Year Society

Dear Brooke Vibber,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Twenty Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for twenty years or more.

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