Wikiversity:Request custodian action/Archive/24

Moving mainspace pages into a project

Binomial coefficients is a long and advanced page that gets about 3 pageviews per day. Combinatorics is only a stub of a project that also gets about three pages per day. The situation on Wikiversity was so bad that I made several contributions on this topic on Wikibooks (see b:Probability/Conditional Probability and b:Probability/Combinatorics.) I also have a lot of images on commons (see for example most of the images on c:Category:Counting colored circles) and c:Category:Combinations_(combinatorics).)

My plan is to develop Combinatorics as a project (meaning that it will be a short mainspace page on top of several subpages.) My two questions are:

1. Should move the contents of Binomial coefficients into Combinatorics?
2. If so, should I break Binomial coefficients up into two or three smaller subpages? I would think that our readers would prefer short articles that are well-linked to similar topics ... but I have absolutely no evidence to support that position.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 13:34, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

I don't know enough about the subject to answer question 1. But see Wikipedia:Chunking (psychology) for the answer to question 2. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:38, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. I will make Combinatorics a top project page, and maybe "chunk" Binomial coefficients later. Since Binomial coefficients is advanced, there is less reason to chunk it. IMHO, proper "chunking" takes a lot of work because each "chunk" should come out of a well written node that directs with carefully written abstracts. But I have no doubt that the topic of Combinatorics deserves to be either a wikibook or a WV-project. Some of those topics have puzzled me since high school.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 16:51, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Abuse 23 on Computer Networks/Introduction

Hello,

When I tried to publish my change I received an error saying my changes were potentially harmful, and to report it if I disagreed. The only change I am making is adding more "Readings" which are links to Wikipedia pages (IPv4, IPv6, and Subnetwork).

-- Rprobotics (discuss • contribs) 18:01, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

@Rprobotics: Welcome to Wikiversity! I don't see anything wrong with your edits, but the filter it is triggering isn't ours. It's a global filter. I can only suggest that they are limiting linking by new accounts. Try working on a few more non-linking edits and give it a few days for your account to be "auto confirmed". -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 19:53, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

unable to publish my page

hello, when I click on 'publish' an error message pops up. I don't understand the reason. best regards (The preceding unsigned comment was added by Raoulpaleoeuro (talk • contribs) )

@Raoulpaleoeuro: Try putting your content at User:Raoulpaleoeuro/Sandbox, then come back here and tell me that you've done it by starting off a post below mine comment "::{{Ping|Koavf}}". —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:25, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

@Raoulpaleoeuro: New users aren't allowed to create pages with external links. Please learn more about Wikiversity and contribute to existing pages before linking to new external content. Let us know what additional questions you have. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:26, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

LTA

Can you please block the range 184.96.128.0/17 or protect my talk page for vandalism? It's being abused by an LTA who has been at it since 2007. Wizzito (discuss • contribs) 18:01, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Protected. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 18:14, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Need help after importing a complicated template from Wikipedia

My understanding from Special:Log/Guy_vandegrift (16:49, 5 March 2022) is that I have a lot of pages to enter into . And, I need to add the prefix "w:" to any links that must be redirected back to WP. Is that correct? If so, it's a good thing I am retired and have time to do it ;-) --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 17:08, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

@Guy vandegrift You'll need to test the templates to make them functional. How much editing is required depends on the template. "w:" prefixes may be appropriate, or perhaps creating an equivalent page here that has local information or a soft redirect to Wikipedia may also work. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:07, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Is it possible to revert this action? When I saw all the templates involved, I decided to instead place a permalink to the Wikipedia article that had almost what I wanted to create. I am willing to go through with the move if you believe that importing this template is for the good of the WV community.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 01:52, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

@Guy vandegrift: It's possible to revert, but I suspect not easy. I would first look at the history of the imported templates. If they have been imported before, you would need to revert back to the previous import. If they weren't imported before, you can delete. But if they aren't being used, there's not really an advantage either way.

Having the current version of Wikipedia templates may be a good thing. We just need to figure out if anything else was broken in the process and try to correct it. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 14:57, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

I am logging my efforts at User:Guy vandegrift/AAAListen. I chose this name so it appears at the to of my subpage list. I even made a weird talk page at User talk:Guy vandegrift/AAAListen --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 15:16, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Issues like this are what make me very hesitant to import any templates, especially from en.wp: they are far too complex and then they end up drifting out of sync and not working the same. It's a huge mess. If and when we finally have universal templates, then this will be resolved, but until then, I recommend against importing templates unless it's really necessary. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:11, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Is this a lint error?

I ask this question because in a draft I like to strike text before deleting it. For example, I might write the following and tentatively delete it by striking it. for example:

I think $x=y$ is an equation.

I also like to avoid lint errors, even in drafts. Consider the two cases:

• Case 1 is labeled as a lint error (misnested tag s) because it contains a line break:

<s>I think <math>x=y</math> is

an equation.</s>

• Case 2 is not labeled a lint error:

<s>I think <math>x=y</math> is an equation.</s>

My concern is that Case 2 might be a lint error that is not captured by your lintHint system. Is it a lint error?--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 20:35, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

See W3Schools: HTML Block and Inline Elements. Paragraphs are blocks. Most formatting is inline. You must end inline elements before ending the block. You can use <br> to insert line breaks within a block. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 21:07, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Understanding error "New User Created Page with External Link"

Hello. I tried editing my user profile and got the following error "New User Created Page with External Link". I was doing this with colleagues who were doing the same thing but did not receive that error, and I'm unsure of what I am doing wrong. The warning/error message directed me to this page and it seems like I'm supposed to post my question here? Thanks in advance for any guidance anyone can provide in understanding what I should be doing differently. --Zach April 22, 2022, 18:06 UTC

@Zdcohen: Welcome! Wikiversity has issues with spam and vandalism and has had to restrict edit rights for new users. Your account has no edit history, so you aren't able to create pages with links yet. I'm not sure which colleagues you were working with, as no other new users have created pages today. The page you were trying to create has been added for you. You should be able to edit it now. Let us know whenever you have any questions. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 18:44, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks so much! I'm very new to Wiki editing and am working with colleagues at Helping Give Away Psychological Science (have lots of reading to do to educate myself on Wiki's protocols before editing pages but was trying to set up my User page as a start). Thanks for your help! Should I delete this back-and-forth now that it's resolved? (I imagine the answer to that might be in some of this things I'll be reading...) -- User:Zdcohen 07:15, 27 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]

@Zdcohen: In general, wiki conversations are forever. We archive them, but we typically don't delete them unless they are malicious, vandalism, created by blocked or banned editors, or are about something that no longer exists. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 00:21, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi! I am reading here for my own edification as well as reporting an issue (below). I read @Zdcohen:'s question as an offer to "delete" (= make not visible on the current version of the page) the thread here as a way of "tidying up" or marking it "closed." Is there an etiquette or protocol for that? Or just leave it for The Custodians? Big thanks!!! Eyoungstrom (discuss • contribs) 23:42, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

@Eyoungstrom Anyone can hide something from the current version of the page. If you notice something, please address it. If there is something that should never be seen (inappropriate private, libelous, or extremely offensive content), let us know and we can delete the revision so it isn't visible to non-custodians.

And I know you have nothing better to do :), but you're involved enough at Wikiversity that you might want to consider Curator or Custodian status so you can help address these more advanced issues directly. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:48, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspicious looking account and inappropriate posts

Hi -- we are getting some malicious edits added to one of the pages we have been working on. Here's the link to one of the diff pages in history [1]. "Educated Camel" appears to have made two edits anywhere, per global, and both bad faith and poor taste. Thanks for your assistance! Eyoungstrom (discuss • contribs) 23:22, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

@Eyoungstrom Blocked. It looks like Hope has the malicious edits addressed, but check history just to make sure. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:42, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks!!! Much appreciated! Eyoungstrom (discuss • contribs) 14:54, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi! We have more inappropriate trolls on our pages... Detective Moose added a comment on [1]. Thank you for your help! Hope Holloway (discuss • contribs) 23:33, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

@Eyoungstrom, @Hope Holloway: Also blocked. If you want, we can change the protection on these pages to only allow confirmed users. That requires 10 edits and four days of history to edit. There is a way we can manually confirm users (start of a new semester, for example). If you want to go this route, it will be easier if Eyoungstrom is a curator or custodian. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 00:29, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello - we noticed another malicious edit on one of our pages in progress this morning. Here is a link to the page history where the edit in question took place [2]. "Cameron 4 studying" appears to have made the edit, which has since been removed. Thank you for your continued assistance! Parodda (discuss • contribs) 15:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

@Parodda Now blocked. One option we have is to protect these pages by only allowing autoconfirmed users. This prevents drive-by vandalism, but it also would prevent new students from working on the page(s). Just something to consider. Also, would really like to see / add @Eyoungstrom as a Wikiversity:Curator so you have someone who is familiar with the project that can add or remove protection as needed. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:28, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

@Dave Braunschweig Thank you for blocking. I agree, it would be nice to have @Eyoungstrom or someone in the HGAPS group as a curator to make these clean ups easier. Can we nominate him or does he need to be nominated by someone who is already a curator? Ncharamut (discuss • contribs) 14:26, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

@Ncharamut You can nominate him. Just make sure he agrees / is willing first. Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:25, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

@Dave Braunschweig Thank you for that information. I will check with him. Ncharamut (discuss • contribs) 14:37, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

New subpage creation blocked by automod

Greetings. I've recently been revamping the Python Concepts course, with the most recent overhaul being Python Concepts/Introduction and Setup. For the sake of organization, I'm moving the installation instructions to sub-subpages depending on the operating system (e.g. Python Concepts/Introduction and Setup/Windows Installation). However, I've been blocked from creating the page because... drumroll please... it contains an external link to download Python. At first it tells you that you can submit it anyway by pressing create again, but after a second captcha, it just gave me the blocked message with no option to force-submit. Here is a pastebin of the page I'm trying to create, what are my steps forward to get this (and eventually other) pages published? Cheers. -- hjk321 (discuss • contribs) 13:03, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

@Hjk321: Please give it a few days. You need a few edits and a few days to automatically confirm your account. You can also try creating pages without links, but if that doesn't work yet, just give it some time and you'll be all set. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:23, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Regarding contributions by IP user 61.223.203.225

Hello, I am LuciferianThomas, zhwikiversity (temp)sysop/custodian and zhwiki rollbacker. I am here to notify the enwikiversity custodians about the IP user 61.223.203.225, who lately has been blocked by our abuse filter at zhwikiversity and can be identified as w:WP:LTA/X43. Their edits and page creations often include purely made-up content way past the line of original research and should be reviewed. Please help in looking into their behavior in enwikiversity and delete&block if needed. With regards, LuciferianThomas 11:43, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

@LuciferianThomas Done, thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 21:33, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Reviews for Inactivity

Hi everyone,

An option for dealing with inactivity apart from the way your currently doing it is to have a set policy on inactivity. With a local policy sysops can be assessed for inactivity, given an appropriate warning of potential desysop, and then if not responded to you can then go to the stewards for the removal of rights. I developed this policy on Wikispecies here which permits a simple and easy way to do this. After voting on the one today I thought you may be interested in this option. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 02:19, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

To see it in action this was my most recent case now archived at Meta it includes all the diffs and links appropriate so you can see all of it from here. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 16:48, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Note: the current policy states that "The maximum time period of inactivity without community review for holders of advanced administrative rights is two years per the MediaWiki Global policy described at Admin activity review. After that time a Steward will remove the rights." --mikeu ^talk 17:58, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Survey

• Support 5 edits and 5 actions within 12 months makes sense to me. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:23, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
• Support -yes, the above sounds reasonable to me. --mikeu ^talk 03:05, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

I have written up a policy that can do this and put it in draft form here, please note the bottom part will be a separate template and is de-wikified for draft purposes. Let me know what you think, Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 03:23, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

• Support 5 edits and 5 actions within 12 months makes also sense to me. I am not a custodian in the german Wikiversity but I contribute to that language due to my work at a german university. Is this decision making about inactive curators performed simultaneously in other languages? Differences in decision making between language could cause problems for multiple languages editing. In my authoring activities I used icons in Sustainable Developement Goals in the english Wikiversity. In translation efforts into the german language I caused additional Wiki Commons administrator activities due to fact that german administration decisions had different licencing constraints for images. So it was to make icons visible in German wikiversity. Inconsistency in curator decision making, might have an impact on multilanguage authoring. Activities spending efforts in use-cases and applications of Wikiversity learning resources like Wiki2Reveal might also be regarded as a relevant curator activities for the community even if it is not an measuable as countable administrative action or activity. --Bert Niehaus (discuss • contribs) 21:19, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

I recently in my role at Wikispecies performed our inactivity assessments of admins, one eventually lost his rights over this. However an important point. I felt that our particular local policy on this was too harsh on translation admins. Hence I made a request via RfC to exempt translation admins from normal admin inactivity review. Reasons were several fold but included the reality that many of those translating pages, a valuable service, who have admin privelages for this function are only on any given wiki for short periods of time, then they move on to another wiki. Hence there are often, understandable, reasons for significant periods of apparent inactivity on one wiki. Hence my own view is in the end to deal with our own site based sysops in regards to inactivity and leave the translation admins to a more case by case assessment as needed. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 23:33, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

So let me summarize a few things:

• (Vulnerability) Inactive admin accounts might create a security risk and highjacking those account (as Dave Braunschweig already mentioned) could create a hugh workload on admins to fix that especially when these accounts are used in conjunction with bots. That abuse will increase the workload for the active admins even more. That risk should be mitigated/reduced.
• (Undesired Side Effects of Counts) If we assess the 5 activity policy for admins that want to keep their administration rights, it could lead to undesired admin activities that are performed just for the sake of getting the 5 admin activities performed. Especially deleting pages, blocking users, ... do require careful and sound handling of cases and should not be driven by admin activity counts - feels a bit strange to argue against "counts" as a mathematician and computer scientist ;-) .
• (Admin Activity Counts) We all might appreciate the value of Wikiversity admins that support the community in educational settings at university and schools and use their admin rights with care and responsibility even if they do not reach the 5 admin action threshold. I think these counts are helpful to identify cause of inactivity and it might be the case that they were not needed anymore as Mikael mentioned for WikiJournal. I think we all would grant Mikael Häggström again the rights if constraints come up that he requires those rights for maintaining WikiJournal pages.
• (Rights and Responsibility) Nevertheless this discussion here triggered awareness about the fact, that additional rights are provided with a responsibility to support the Wikiversity community with those access to the additional adminitrative tools.
• (Inactive and no Response) As you see below there are some Curators and Custodians that responded to the inactive account discussion some did not. For those who did not respond to this or did not take part in a discussion they might be no longer interested in the admin rights. Of course it is better to state that additional rights are no longer required. Anyway this discussion created awareness of the fact that priviliges should be granted if needed and disabled if possible. That should not have an impact on the possibility to join the team of curator and custodians later on the we should be open them. If curators want to disable their additional rights, then I guess we all would appreciate their security and vulnerability awareness.
• (IT perspective) From an IT perspective I would suggest to allow people to disable some or all their own rights as curators/custodians for a period of time for private reasons and during that defined time span they cannot enable the custodian/curator rights anymore themselves. If the need to they must contact the admins again and ask for it. This approach has many advantages. Admins that are aware of the security risks and they know that they will not require the custodian rights for specific time (e.g. for 9 month due to a medical treatment) they can disable that for that time span and they will not be able to restore the admin rights before the end of the time span. This decreases the vulnerability for those accounts and does not force the admin to publicly discuss e.g. the medical treatment in a discussion about inactivity. Furthermore other admins can see that this curator/custodian is currently not available for admin activities and is aware about the vulnerability of admin accounts. By this mean we all can distinguish "lost interest" from "other reasons of inactivity" of security aware admins and custodians. This suggestion is not applicable to Wikiversity admins only. If we all think that makes sense then it could be shared to the admins of other Wikis (Wikipedia, Wikispecies, WikiBooks, ...) as well.

Personal Conclusion: This discussion here was valuable for community health and community vulnerability. I personally would like to keep my additional rights, if possible. --Bert Niehaus (discuss • contribs) 08:31, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

• Support 5 edits and 5 actions within 12 months but equally I would support a higher requirement of 10 edits and 10 actions over 12 months. Re-applying for lost permissions should not be an onerous task. --Green Giant (discuss • contribs) 01:39, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

• Support 5 & 5 actions over 12m is a reasonable low bar. We have a pretty reasonable process for re-applying for admin rights if someone returns after a period of lower activity. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 03:31, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Inactive Administrators

Making note of curators and custodians who have fewer than five edits and/or fewer than five administrative actions in the last 12 months, giving them an opportunity to comment.

• Bert Niehaus (Talk) – Deletes • Imports • Moves • Protects • Contribs I personally came into the curator role due to access to import features that are not publicly available for all Wikiversity authors. This step to see the administrative perspective allowed me insights in custodian actions. For me personally it was very helpful. Created test cases for import mechanism like from Wikipedia to Wikiversity (see Wikipedia2Wikiversity) to convert wikipedia article into learning resources or to convert wikiversity articles into slides for lecture to allow individual annotation to Wikiversity contents on slides e.g. in lectures without modification of the sources in Wikiversity (see Wiki2Reveal. In general the workflow from testing use cases, analysis of custodian actions, inter wiki operation, vulnerability assessment of custodian and curator features and its requirements and constraints cannot be performed with a quick shot, because tools must have a good usablility and must be of benefit for authors in wikiversity and on the other hand it is relevant that these tools do not create a vulnerability of the core principles of openess, higher maintenance efforts for custodians and administrators or other technically facilitated options that could violate the neutral point of view of a huge amount of articles and learning resources in Wikiversity and could endanger a community driven, participatory approaches of development of learning resources and have them available as a common good. Furthermore I try to derive mechanisms at the interface to international agencies that have on the one hand a respect for regulations and the mandate of these organisation and on the other hand allow also to have participatory elements of capacity building and user-driven innovation outside the organisations that require the openness and NPOV in the Wiki to evolve in a community based way. As an example I worked on Sustainable Development Goals and on Capacity Building within Wikiversity. I understand that inactivity of Curators and Custodians require a kind of measurement to trigger actions so I supported the approach above. The consideration from a different angle might also lead to the conclusion, that custodian actions and activities do not lead to a measurable digital footprint of these activity. Anyway if we decide to remove my curator status due to the missing activity, then it is ok for me. You can be sure that I support the way forward independent of my curator status. To create a test environment like Wikipedia2Wikiversity create measurable import actions for me as a curator does not make sense to me. I appreciate the decision making process you all perform here and the option to explain activities. Thank you all for supporting the Wikiversity concept as Open Educational Resources. --Bert Niehaus (discuss • contribs) 09:04, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
• CQ (Talk) – Blocks • Deletes • Imports • Moves • Protects • Contribs

Hi folks. UPDATE 02:04, 26 February 2020 (UTC) - I'm still alive and breathing in the human sense, but I'm very precariously perched on a tiny twig in Internet terms. I enthusiastically support the Wikiverse and grass-roots digital democracy but realize that our ideals and values matter less each passing year. Love is still the answer, though. Feel free to edit, delete, revert any of my stuff. I'll be watching from afar and may emerge again when conditions favor my online presence. CQ (discuss • contribs)

• HappyCamper (Talk) – Blocks • Deletes • Imports • Moves • Protects • Contribs Hi, I am checking in to say hello. This risk of inactive custodians suddenly being hacked and doing damage to Wikiversity is not zero unfortunately, but it is minimal. --HappyCamper (discuss • contribs) 11:11, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
• Juandev (Talk) – Blocks • Deletes • Imports • Moves • Protects • Contribs Hey, I think I left Wikiversity after conflicts on its contents (cs.wv) in around 2013. Then from 2017, I have started to organize off-wiki content creation events. As I came back into the research in my real life, I visit Czech Wikiversity more often and use it in my studies. I may also work on the research of Wikiversity itself, which may bring me also to English Wikiversity. But I am not sure if I can help here in the future. There are quite a lot of non-paied activities around me and I have to choose those which fit to my needs. Using rights on en.wv seems to be complicated if you don't follow its development don't read discussions, etc. I can delete obvious vandalism, but as I am not tracking the recent changes I would rarely do it. So I leave the decision on the newly adopted policy. --Juandev (discuss • contribs) 09:42, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
• Lbeaumont (Talk) – Deletes • Imports • Moves • Protects • Contribs What problem is being solved here? I continue to do my best to make constructive contributions to Wikiversity, including creating these learning resources. Cardiac surgery slowed me down earlier this year, yet I persist! I appreciate having curator privileges and they can be useful. What would be gained by taking action to remove privileges that I have never abused?
  • the major issue in regards to inactivity is a safety issue. The tools are capable of doing things that would be undesirable in hacked account, and inactive accounts are an easier target for this. Hence determining if accounts are at risk of this is important. Also Global Sysops have rules/ policies on their interventions and the number of local sysops available is a part of this. It is therefore important to know how many sysops are actually active. It is a part of receiving these rights that they will be monitored. I am just responding to your what is being solved here question. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 18:18, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
    • If the goal is to identify inactive accounts then the suggested filter has poor specificity, as evidenced by the number of contributions I have made over the past weeks, months, and years. If the goal is account security, then I suggest adopting security procedures, such as multi-factor authentication.
      • Just answering your questions here, I am not making a call on this, part of it is admin actions, ie does a user need the tools. This is determined by the logs of admin actions, such as blocks, merges, deletions, patrolling etc. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 21:53, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
• Leighblackall (Talk) – Blocks • Deletes • Imports • Moves • Protects • Contribs - I'm still here, about to work more in submitting articles in WikiJournalHumanities, as well as in Wikidata. I mainly ever used the Move feature anyway, or deleting pages of my own once moved. I would appreciate retaining the privileges also. Leighblackall (discuss • contribs) 00:58, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
• Mikael Häggström (Talk) – Deletes • Imports • Moves • Protects • Contribs - Although I occasionally use the move or delete page feature for maintenance of WikiJournal, the structure of its pages are now relatively established, so I don't think curatorship is essential for me, since I think I will only use those features perhaps 2 to 5 times per year. Mikael Häggström (discuss • contribs) 19:17, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
• SB Johnny (Talk) – Blocks • Deletes • Imports • Moves • Protects • Contribs - Hi All. I've mostly been spending my online time involved in US politics the last couple years. Hoping to play around a bit with the bloom clock this year and it's nice to be able to see deleted pages (someone nuked a bunch of the worksheet type pages a while back). --SB_Johnny ^talk 10:36, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:22, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Result

This thread has been sitting here unclosed for a while. While there wasn't much participation, there also wasn't any clear opposition to the proposal of requiring 5 edits and 5 actions within the last 12 months. I suggest it be closed with that result, and the policy updated accordingly (c.f. User:Faendalimas/Wikiversity Advanced Rights Review). --DannyS712 (discuss • contribs) 23:43, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Follow Up

The recent addition of Eyoungstrom to the Wikiversity:Support staff page encouraged me to revisit the decision above. I have updated the support staff page, removing inactive members. The following did not have five edits and five actions within the last 12 months:

• CQ
• Faendalimas
• HappyCamper
• Juandev
• Leighblackall
• RadiX
• SB Johnny

I will leave a notice on their talk pages, encouraging them to participate. However, recognizing that most of them have moved on to other interests, I will request that stewards remove their administrative rights if these users are still inactive 30 days from now.

Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:36, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Y Done -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 21:01, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Error: I was blocked from when adding new page

My fault I’m sure because I did not read the correct documentation on formatting before attempting to add a page for the Lasso tool in the Adobe Illustrator page, but wanted to make sure I pointed out it was simply a mistake on my part and not of malice in any form. (The preceding unsigned comment was added by InvasiveME (talk • contribs) )

@InvasiveME: This is just an automated response if you haven't had your account for a certain amount of time or made a certain number of edits, then this will be here. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:12, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Inappropriate username

Reporting Mr. Wet Poopy Diaper Ass for inappropriate username and account used purely for vandalism.[3][4] OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:28, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Posting to global lock by stewards. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:20, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Another inappropriate username

Dinglefart McDeluxe — vandalism-only account. FlyingAce (discuss • contribs) 03:48, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Done. Hasley talk 04:04, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Trying to create an article with an external link

I have been attempting to create a new article (just in my sandbox for now) but keep hitting the AbuseFilter rule: New User Created Page with External Link.

I waited a few days until my account was Autoconfirmed, but I still get the same message.

The article I am writing requires me to include external links as references.

Do I have to wait a bit longer or can someone confirm my account?

Thanks, Dom walden (discuss • contribs) 18:14, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

You have to have [x] edits and [y] days. I can't recall the exact amount, but it's very modest. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:54, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

@Dom walden Welcome to Wikiversity! Create the article first. Add links later. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 19:48, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

@Koavf @Dave Braunschweig I was able to work something out. Thank you both! Dom walden (discuss • contribs) 19:01, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Please block IP

Special:Contributions/203.92.95.162 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:55, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Y Done —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 12:12, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Requesting block of User:MissesJeezer69

User has two contributions, both include page-blanking and one is self-professed vandalism. —Collin (Bobamnertiopsis)^{t c} 16:38, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Y Done -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 18:45, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Web Technologies/2021-2022

• Special:PrefixIndex/Web Technologies/2021-2022 is continually being checked using https://copyvios.toolforge.org/

Web Technologies/2021-2022/Laboratory 10 appears to be part of an ongoing course being taught in Romania. It is a subpage of a project that is suffering from deletions over both quality and copyvio issues. The first step is to communicate with the current author(s) and get a timeline for how this material will be used. This timeline will allow us to ensure that Wikiversity's efforts to "fix" these quality and copy-vio problems do not harm actual students. -Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 23:24, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

• First question: @Alexandru.munteanu98: Is this an ongoing course? NOTE: I sent them an email and received notice that due to w:Great Union Day, we are not likely to get a response until after Monday 5 December. --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 03:33, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

• I don't know if I can do anything here. I'm not familiar with Wikiversity and its policies. I just happened to spot the copyvio. Styyx (discuss • contribs) 11:58, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

• Status I am in email contact with the instructors and a week has passed since their holiday ended. Apparently all is OK.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 20:13, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

• Update User:Alexandru.munteanu98 continues to work on the project and its subpages, which can be found at Special:PrefixIndex/Web Technologies/2021-2022. I will leave another note on their talkpage. If anybody has knowledge of free online copyvio websites, please let me know because it would be better if whoever found the copyvios was willing to replace them with links instead of simply deleting the material from an ongoing course.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 23:25, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

  I believe the tool Styx used to find this copyvio was Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which is tailored for identifying copyright issues in Wikimedia projects. Once a page has been identified as containing copyright violations, doing Google searches for representative hunks of text (in quotes) can sometimes identify additional sources, but you need to be careful to ignore pages which copied content from the wiki. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 00:14, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

• I found and hopefully fixed a copyvio on Web Technologies/2021-2022/Laboratory 12. See this from copyvios.toolforge.org and this wikiversity page dif. I never found copyright law sufficiently interesting to learn, so I hope this makes the page legit. --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 02:10, 13 December 2022 (UTC) UPDATE: All subpages in this project are free from copyvio. The current set of subpages is {{1-7,9-10,12}}--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 06:24, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Added Lab 13 to the list of checked pages (Labs 8, 11 don't exist.)--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 16:39, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Exclude User talk and Draft talk pages from search indexing

Pages in the User and Draft namespaces are already excluded from indexing, but their associated talk pages are not. To resolve this, could someone with the appropriate permissions please add the following lines to the bottom of MediaWiki:Robots.txt:

Disallow: /wiki/User_talk:
Disallow: /wiki/User_talk%3A
Disallow: /wiki/Draft_talk:
Disallow: /wiki/Draft_talk%3A

Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 04:40, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Y Done -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 20:29, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

x-wiki LTA abuse in enwikiversity

Hello, I am LuciferianThomas, reverter and SPI clerk at zhwikipedia and sysop at zhwikiversity. I am here to give a notice regarding the IP range 2402:7500:910::/44 to be x-wiki LTA Xayahrainie43 (w:en:WP:LTA/X43, w:zh:LTA:X43), as also in a previous report on this page (see archives). The IP is continuing its made up content here in enwikiversity, please review and block the range accordingly. Thanks with regards, LuciferianThomas 13:05, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

I will remove Draft:Quasi-minimal prime (with Special:PrefixIndex/Draft:Quasi-minimal prime.) Earlier, I moved is effort to draftspace and placed a {{prod}} on the page (which he removed, and continued adding material). --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 16:44, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Edit history says that users User:彤蜜妡璃647 (globally locked) and User:TechActus were the primary logged-in contributors to these pages.

Riesel conjectures and Siepinski conjectures were also major editing targets of these users, and may need some attention. I'm not certain whether the content on these pages is legitimate or not.

Given the editing patterns described on the Wikipedia LTA page, this may also be User:Simures. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 22:39, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

I also cannot ascertain the legitimacy (correctness) of the pages. But it certainly has no educational value. I am currently operating under the assumption that stuff like this is permitted in draft space. I deleted the page because the editor removed my {{prod}} template and failed to respond to the following message I left on the talk page: == We can't let you use too much space == the message was: Drafts are supposed to be attempts to create a page that is useful for students. This page is OK, but an endless amount of subpages might be a problem. If you have any questions, place them on this page. Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 17:07, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Y Done Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 13:52, 31 December 2022 (UTC)