Wikipedia:Vidumbizgano vya chikaya/Archive 4
Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE
lembaPer the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Request for Interface Adminship for User:Anthonymunthali44
lembaUser User:Anthonymunthali44 is a native speaker here and has helped a lot in shaping this wiki. They are already a regular sysop here and they do know and understand policies about Interface Adminiship. They are aware about what this does. Tumbuka Arch★★★ 17:38, 11 Febuluwale 2023 (UTC)
Agree (kuzomelezga)
lemba- Support I am the other interface admin and I strongly support his interface adminship. Tumbuka Arch★★★ 17:38, 11 Febuluwale 2023 (UTC)
Disagree (kususka)
lembaResults (vyakulondezga)
lembaEditing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:
- The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
- They are beginning a new project, Edit check.
Talk pages project
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.
An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.
New Project: Edit Check
The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Chapiska vyakusintha". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) (pakuchezgela) 23:24, 22 Febuluwale 2023 (UTC)
Your wiki will be in read only soon
lembaRead this message in another language • Please help translate to your language
The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
All traffic will switch on 1 March. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 1 March 2023.
- If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
- Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
- We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
- GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: We are back!
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Please help translate to your language
Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the third edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2023. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!
ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk) 07:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
Request for Regular Sysop for User:CubanoBoi
lembaUser User:CubanoBoi has helped alot shaping and fixing this wiki. Their regular sysop will be helpful if granted as they will be able to fight spam, vandals and fix broken protected pages. ---Tumbuka Arch★★★ 00:07, 4 Malichi 2023 (UTC)
Agree (kuzomelezga)
lemba- Support I am the other interface admin and I strongly support his regular adminship. Tumbuka Arch★★★ 00:07, 4 Malichi 2023 (UTC)
Disagree (kususka)
lembaResults (vyakulondezga)
lembaRequest for temporary sysop for User:Caro de Segeda
lembaMU CHITUMBUKA
Munthu uyu wakhala wakuvwila wiki yino kwa nyengo itali, ndipo antheula, pala wangapasika ufulu wakukhala Admin, iye wangativwila chomene pano ku nkhani yama Templates na vyakuovwila vinyake.
ENGLISH
User User:Caro de Segeda has been contributing in this wiki for nearly two years now and is very helpful. The temporary sysop right will be helpful as they will be able to fix broken templates by importing some templates and modules from other wikis. We are not many active users here, we are only 4 who edit here. So this will come handy as other editors will be focusing on creating articles, while others will be dealing with templates, etc. --- Tumbuka Arch★★★ 17:30, 10 Malichi 2023 (UTC)
Agree (kuzomelezga)
lemba- Strong Support I am a sysop here and this will be very helpful. -- Tumbuka Arch★★★ 17:30, 10 Malichi 2023 (UTC)
- support as said above CubanoBoi (pakuchezgela) 18:18, 17 Malichi 2023 (UTC)
Disagree (kususka)
lembaResults (vyakulondezga)
lembaComments (Maganizo)
lemba@User:Caro de Segeda is blocked on two projects. The first is swwiki where they have 22 edits and the reason is Block translation, article Engelbert Pigal and on anwiki where they do have 59 edits, and the block is due to multiple accounts. The blocks on those wikis are true due to their misconducts against Wikipedia policies. But coming to this wiki, the user Caro has been very helpful. We have worked side by side building this wiki from scratch. In 2022, there were only 580 articles, with no any infobox templates nor any better templates, but now we have 9,000+ articles and have worked, translated and created most of the templates into native language. Therefore, if Caro becomes a sysop they would easily delete a page without leaving a redirect behind, import templates, watchout for vandals, etc. They are very trusted here. --- Tumbuka Arch★★★ 18:21, 17 Malichi 2023 (UTC)
Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions
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REQUEST FOR THE EXTENSION OF REGULAR AND INTERFACE ADMIN
lembaen: Would like to request extension of Interface and regular sysop to continue protecting the wiki and perform other duties.
Please drop your thoughts below in appropriate section. Thank you..
tum: Nkhukhumba kupempha kuti sysop yilutilire kuvikilira na kucita milimo yinyake.
Lembani maghanoghano ghinu mu chigaŵa chakwenelera. Yewo chomene
Tumbuka Arch★★★ 13:17, 8 Epulelo 2023 (UTC)
Agree (kuzomelezga)
lemba- He has done a great job here and he speaks the language. --Caro de Segeda (pakuchezgela) 18:43, 13 Epulelo 2023 (UTC)
- as stated above CubanoBoi (pakuchezgela) 15:56, 15 Epulelo 2023 (UTC)
Disagree (kususka)
lembaComments (Maganizo)
lembaResults (vyakulondezga)
lembaYour wiki will be in read-only soon
lembaRead this message in another language • Please help translate to your language
The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
All traffic will switch on 26 April. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 26 April 2023.
- If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
- Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
- We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
- GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process
lembaHello,
As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:
- Community members in good standing
- Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
- Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
- Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
- Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
- Confidently able to communicate in English
The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.
The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocproject
wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.
Best regards,
en: User Di45Q would like to be a sysop here. They will be helping with moves, deletes, imports and other issues that require advanced rights. They will be walkedthrough where they will be new.
tum: Mgwiliski Di45Q wakukhumba kukhala wakuonelela pa wikipedia yino. Uyo wakusuksa chonde walembe pasi apa maganizo ghake. ---Tumbuka Arch★★★ 12:53, 28 Epulelo 2023 (UTC)
Agree (kuzomelezga)
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