User talk:Michael Snow/Archive (Sep 2016-Nov 2021)

Bots or other automation
I noticed that the Germany municipality pages have something that sucks in the most recent population figures automatically and wondered if we could do something similar with the French communes in order to not have to update them constantly.

Also, is there anyone with administrative rights (and therefore the right to use bots) that might be interested in helping me standardize the French commune stubs. I have often been accused of being a bot myself since the work I do is largely bot-worthy. That would free me up to improve the articles in more significant ways.

Ksnow (talk) 23:19, 10 November 2016 (UTC)Ksnow

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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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)

Request for Comments on use of certain files not copyrighted in the US
Hello,

There is an ongoing discussion about the use of files on Wikipedia that are not protected by copyright in the US because there is no copyright relations between the US and the country of publication. You commented in a 2012 discussion on the same topic that resulted in no consensus. You are invited to share your views in the ongoing discussion. AHeneen (talk) 21:20, 3 January 2017 (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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Wikipedia:Stability listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Stability. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Stability redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Thryduulf (talk) 09:34, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Déblocage de compte
Bonjour à tous,

Mon compte a été bloqué sur Wikipedia français par abus de pouvoir de la part de personnes caractérielles et intolérantes vis à vis d'informations qui ne vont pas dans le sens de leurs opinions. Comment faire pour débloquer mon compte et mettre un terme à ce genre d'abus de pouvoir ? Merci d'intervenir.

--J.C EVEN (talk) 19:43, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

French Open
Don't you think Nadal's 11th title deserves a front-page mention? Ksnow (talk) 17:27, 12 June 2018 (UTC)Ksnow

Thanks for sending me the link to the instructions on In the News. When I checked, the results of the French Open were ready for posting, but they never made it to the front page. It's true that the Trump summit was bigger news, but I think it's too bad the process took so long.50.35.80.53 (talk) 01:53, 21 June 2018 (UTC)Ksnow

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 02:18, 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 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Article creation by unregistered users
Hello! I've commented on your article: Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-12-05/Page creation restrictions. Can you please help me there?--MisterSanderson (talk) 20:44, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:14, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Several of the flag icons are broken
I can't figure out what is wrong with them (so far I have seen Austria, Netherlands, and Slovakia), but they show up correctly when you hover over the broken icon. Example at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_US_Open_–_Men%27s_Doubles#Seeds. 50.54.140.241 (talk) 23:51, 29 August 2019 (UTC)Ksnow

"The Opera Corpus" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect The Opera Corpus. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 10 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Thryduulf (talk) 21:42, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

FAR for Seattle
I have nominated Seattle for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. (t · c)  buidhe  02:27, 24 April 2021 (UTC)