User talk:Hashar

Out of curiosity, why the links to the table images for the elements? :) -- Schnee 12:14 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * For easier importing into fr.wiki me thinks. BTW Hashar please credit whoever made the image here when you upload that image to fr.wiki. --mav 11:31 26 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

I got an answer from Brion on wikitech, but then he dropped the ball. jbo: is still broken. Can you at least install the language file so that the namespaces work? -phma 13:54, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism in progress
The Klingon Wikipedia badly needs your help. Can you permanently block tlh:lo'wI':Kevin baas (not to be confused with the admin on English Wikipedia)? This vandal is wreaking havoc on Klingon Wikipedia and using the aliases of English Wikipedia administators. → Jarlaxle Artemis   21:55, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)


 * I just figured out that the vandal's IP address is 203.172.255.253 . →  Jarlaxle Artemis   03:01, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

interwiking with robot: "fi" is not after "es" and before "fr"
Hello! I noticed you or your robot is doing interwiking in estonian wiki. that's nice, but could you configure it bit more, as Finnish (Suomi) should not be after Spanish (España) and other languages which language code starts with "e" and before French (Francais). It is way later, somewhere after Slovenian and before Svedish (Svenska).

I have in my work page (et:Kasutaja:TarmoK) copy of "correct" order of language codes i found some other wiki page, if you want to have look. There is also Interwiki linke sorter page created, which can be good to look at. Regards --TarmoK 16:18, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

LanguageXx.php wiping

 * "I am going to wipe the various Languages files available on meta"

Read that on wikitech-l. Just wanted to assure myself that "wiping" means replacing the "file content" with a standard message saying something like "They are not up to date and we (developers) prefers to use the special:allmessages from wikipedia". It should not be necessary to delete any pages, since many of the article histories are important historical references. I also think you will find it unneccessary to touch m:LanguageNn.php. --Dittaeva 12:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject France
Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk)  14:51, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

MMORPG article
Hi Hashar,

Sorry if I've screwed up your discussion page :P but we're attempting to get GA status for the MMORPG article and one of the recommendations was the provision of fair-use rationales for each of the images related to the article. Since you've posted the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EverQuest_-_The_Temple_of_Solusek_Ro.jpg

it would be beneficial for the article if when you found time that you provided a fair-use rationale for it. Thanking you in advance :).

--Rambutaan 01:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:EverQuest - Erudin Library.jpg)
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:EverQuest - The Temple of Solusek Ro.jpg
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Loading a flat file
I'm trying to load a single massive flat file into Wiktionary:Wikisaurus pages. The file is a flat file that can be read by any computer. The headword is the first word in the file. Each synonym is comma delimited, and headwords are delimited by a hard carriage return. The synonyms are in alphabetical order. We'd need the file to make each line (hard carriage return delimited) into it's own page and each synonym would need to be wrapped in wiki code.

My question is, While i know it can be done, is it worth the time and effort? (we're talking an increase of about 30.000 root words [pages] and over 2.4 million synonyms) How would I go about doing it? deepsack (talk) 20:03, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:BigTable implementation
I have nominated bigtable implementation for renaming to bigtable implementations. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Cyber cobra (talk) 00:22, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:EverQuest - East Commonlands tunnel.jpg
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Fair use rationale for File:EverQuest - East Commonlands tunnel.jpg
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Thanks!
Thanks ever so much for that lovely barnstar. Makes your day, that does. JFW &#124; T@lk  21:11, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks too!
I appreciate the barnstar very much - thank you for your kindness! Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 17:57, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:EverQuest - East Commonlands tunnel.jpg
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MSU Interview
Dear Hashar,

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) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 22:46, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Meta
Uh ! Tu veux dire ce site sur lequel nous avons passé plus d'un an à 3 (Brion, moi et un troll uniquement) et que tout le monde voit aujourd'hui comme un pur lieu de bazar ? :) Anthere (talk)

Inactive bot on nds.wp
Hello Hashar,

Your bot Hashar is flagged with the 'bot' user-right on nds.wp. It has formerly been active with maintaining interwiki links. Thank you for your work! After the deployment of Wikidata there is no need for interwiki bots anymore. If you plan to use your bot for tasks other than interwiki maintenance in the future, please go to your bot's local nds.wp userpage and state what kind of tasks your bot will do in the future. Otherwise the bot flag of your account will be removed one month from now. If you don't plan to use your bot account on nds.wp anymore you don't have to do anything. If you want to keep your bot flag to do other tasks but don't plan to start with these tasks immediately please post a road map on your nds.wp userpage. If you signal interest in keeping your bot flag but fail to take up activity in the time until three months from now, your bot flag will also be removed. Thank you for your understanding. --:Slomox:: &gt;&lt; 10:13, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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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) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

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)

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
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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.
 * 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
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Invitation to Admin confidence survey
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ArbCom 2019 special circular
   

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:15, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

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)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users
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You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement
22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions have been removed.

Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux  Talk 02:20, 1 January 2023 (UTC)