User talk:RobLa/Archive 1

Hi, I was just wondering how you generated that list of adjacent counties for all 50 states? Did you use a program to generate the list? Thanks.

Hi, just a quick not that I have transferred ψ10 from your account to that of Hephaestos (on WikiMoney) for doing the electoral maps. --snoyes 08:49, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

"I like cuddling and long walks on the beach, and bathe on at least a semi-annual basis." You could be describing me there. I just wanted to let you know you made me laugh. :) fabiform | talk 05:12, 7 Feb 2004 (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)


 * Done. -- RobLa 21:15, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

January 15 Seattle meetup
Just wanted to let you know we are planning another Seattle meetup on January 15, 2005. We're trying to get a sense of who will attend, so please drop by that page & leave a note. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:49, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Main namespace cleanup
In an effort to clean up the main namespace, I've moved your old userpage to User:RobLa/old, as there's some edit history you might want to keep. Otherwise just delete it. --fvw *  12:14, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)

Schulze Method
Dear Robla, you asked (1 Aug 2005): "Markus, why did you remove this link?" I removed that link because at that time, when it was added, that article, to which this link referred, didn't yet work. Markus Schulze 1 Aug 2005

U.S. presidential elections
Hi there:

I appreciate you chiming in on the minimum PV % issue, even though you undercut my side. Anyway, I was wondering if you'd like to weigh in on some issues:


 * Should there be some sort of cutoff for an individual to be displayed in the elections results tables (on the individual pages)? (This applies only to people who get 0 electoral votes; everyone who gets an electoral vote should be included.) If so, should it be a minimum PV %age?  If so, what should that minimum %age be?
 * How many decimal places should appear in the PV %age?
 * Should we break out "write-ins" if they exceed the minimum PV %age?
 * Do you know of a better, more accurate source than Leip's Atlas for sourcing the PV information?

Also, if you know of any other users who might want to weigh in, please contact them or let me know so that I can contact them.

Basically, I'd just really, really like to get some standards established for the results tables.

Any help you can give would be appreciated.

— DLJessup (talk) 13:43, 25 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry to reply to myself, but I've just created a section for this discussion on Talk:U.S. presidential election, 2004. If you'd like to reply there, that'd be excellent.


 * — DLJessup (talk) 13:55, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, RobLa, for your comments. I found what you and NoSeptember had to say enlightening.

— DLJessup (talk) 21:47, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Palouse
Rob, in the Palouse article you say: "Washington, Idaho, and Oregon," but, in the list of "counties" in the Palouse, no Oregon counties are listed. How can that be? WikiDon 16:48, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

User categorization
Greetings, RobLa! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Washington and removing your name from the Wikipedians/Washington page. The page will be deleted when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedians/Washington page? Thanks!!

To add your name to the category, please use the tag   to ensure proper sorting.

For more information, please see User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- Roby Wayne  Talk •  Hist 04:29, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Meetup?
Meetup/Seattle3. Interested? -- Jmabel | Talk 23:36, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Meetup/Seattle3 could sure use your comments on location: so far we have no clear consensus. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:01, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Voting system is featured
Finally, voting system has become a featured article!

I want to thank you for the work you've done on the article over time. I see you've been editing this article ever since 2002, when you helped create the original version of the article. So it's your featured article too. Nice work!  r  speer 20:05, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Social Choice and Individual Values
See reply there. Thomasmeeks 12:11, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Yep. I read Pareto efficiency yesterday with acceptance, then puzzlement & disbelief. Fortunately a source complete with p. number was given at the bottom.  I just happened to have the book on my shelf and corrected the last sentence of the lead (with a "no" and "strictly preferred").  Not the first time either.    Multiply that by many millions, many readers, & Wiki ethics, and you see some remarkable results.  BW, Thomasmeeks 20:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Meetups, events, local chapters
Hi Rob,

There's currently some renewed discussion about whether and how to set up [a] US wikimedia chapter[s]. Among other things this could help better organize meetups, gatherings at large events and cons, and local outreach. I'm notifying people who have been actively involved in local meetups; if you are interested, there is a quiet mailing-list and a meta-page on the topic... both of which could use input and ideas. +sj + 17:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

The Joe Lieberman article
Hi there.

You seem to be a "cooler head." I'm fine with the alterations you made to make the article fair to both sides, including changing some of my language. LionO seems to be intent on removing true and relevant facts from the article. I ask for help in trying to keep the facts in, even though LionO seems to want nothing incovenient to JL in the article. If you look at his first round of edits, they were outrageous. This time, they were less so, until he just removed facts again.

Thanks,

-KP 04:28, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

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Meetup
Looks like Meetup/Seattle4 will be happening September 9, 2006. - Jmabel | Talk 01:47, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

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Reversion of 2004 US presidential election
You're right, I'm sorry for the reversion. I did not realize that the faithless elector made a typo. Since the issue has already been solved I see no need to explain it anywhere. But please next time you see this show some civility! Do not command people around! Tell me what I've done wrong on my talk page. C mon 08:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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Tortuous Practices
(anonymous convo deleted by RobLa 05:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC))


 * Ummm..ok. I don't work at Real anymore, and have nothing to do with this. -- RobLa 05:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

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Seattle meetup 5
Hi RobLa, I see that you've attended the Seattle meetup 3 back in 2006. I hope that you can make it to the next one on June 19! Bestchai (talk) 22:04, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Your user page
I found your old user page while checking out some old deleted contributions. I have history merged it, so that all edits are in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham 87 11:23, 18 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry about the messed-up template before. Graham 87 06:19, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Invitation to Meetup/Seattle6, a focus group
Hello. I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington (Seattle campus), and my group is reaching out to Wikipedians in the Puget Sound area. We're hosting a focus group designed to gather information on what Wikipedians would like to know about each other when interacting on Wikipedia. Our end goal is to create an embedded application that helps people quickly know more about others' history and activity on Wikipedia, and we feel our design will be much more useful if it's based on insights of users like you.

I'm hoping that the chance to help out local researchers, to engage in lively face-to-face discussion with other Seattle Wikipedians, and to contribute to Wikipedia in a new way will entice you to join us. The session lasts 2 hours and snacks are provided. Sessions will be held on UW Seattle campus - directions will be sent after registration. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated!

Willing and able to help us out? RSVP here. Want to know more? Visit our user talk page. Please help us contact other local Wikipedians, too! Commprac01 (talk) 00:51, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Mention of your JSON Widget
Greetings RobLa, I mentioned one of your past experiments, here and I was wondering if you have worked on that project at all recently, or whether you know of any other open-source projects that implement your idea. Also, do you have any Wikibooks that you've written? dr.ef.tymac (talk) 01:32, 16 June 2009 (UTC)


 * No, I haven't....events overtook my ability to stay on top of it. I've thought about the project quite a bit in the past few years, but nothing that has manifested itself as actual code.


 * A couple places to dig:
 * jqgrid - this looks the most promising of the jsonwidget-ish things I've seen to date, but I've only investigated at a surface level
 * I'd generally look through the form tools here: http://jquerylist.com/


 * Good luck! -- RobLa (talk) 06:41, 17 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Excellent links, thanks for the leads. dr.ef.tymac (talk) 23:53, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Employee Engagement and Enablement
I went ahead and tagged Employee Engagement and Enablement for speedy. They removed your advert tag quickly. It appears to be pretty obvious advertising for this Hay group. Gigs (talk) 21:27, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Recent uploads
Your recent uploads, like File:PendingRevisions-add-remove-article.svg, are going to be deleted if you don't specify an appropriate license. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:06, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Reply at Wikibooks
I'm letting you know that I've replied at b:Wikibooks:Reading room/Technical Assistance in response to your post on flagged revisions. -- Adrignola (talk) 00:18, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you here....
The discussion about pending changes has spread out so widely that I am not sure whether this question has been answered before. If it has, can you please point me to the discussion? If it hasn't, then could you please respond? I'm asking this from the perspective of a checkuser and oversighter. Thanks. And thank you for all of your work on this specific project; regardless of the outcome, you have done a fine job under very challenging circumstances. Risker (talk) 21:18, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Flagged revs labs
Hello. I replied concerning the new icon to avoid confusion with search.

Also, I was bold and edited this MediaWiki message : MediaWiki:Revreview-edited. Having "?" as a link title is unhelpful. It is discouraged both by accessibility and usability guidelines. We recommend an explicit link title, sufficient to describe the purpose of the link. So I was bold and made an edit right away.

However, I believe you might want to rework it. I probably did that in an unusual way. Once we agree on a final version, we will have to change it a translatewiki I guess. Yours, Dodoïste (talk) 01:54, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Reply
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Help Croatian grammar
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ArbCom Election RFC courtesy notice
A request for comment that may interest you is currently in progress at Requests for comment/2010 ArbCom election voting procedure. If you have already participated, then please disregard this notice and my apologies. A Horse called Man 18:47, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Test pls ignore
test test - 76.104.247.13 (talk) 19:17, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Flagged Rews Ka
Dear Rob, sorry to disturb you here, on meta and via Email, but I really don't know how to get in touch with you or those, who can enable flagged revs (The Bugzilla request (N24976) is already 4 months old.) I noticed your notice on several wikis, and that's why I'm contacting you. The main idea of it a request to enable the Flagged Revs extension. Maybe you will be so kind to enable it for the Georgian wikipedia? Thank you beforehand!--Gaeser (talk) 14:39, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

1340s redraft
Hi Rob, sorry for the delay in getting back to you about the 1340s redraft. The reason it's not in mainspace yet is because much of it is incomplete: I still have many areas to expand, citations to verify and libraries to research. It's far from ready to be integrated into the main article at 1340s, and until it is it's more manageable and best to keep it in userspace. I have the intention of seeing this through as the experimental new style of decade artciles, but at the moment I would not be able to give this the attention it deserves. When I am able to devote more time to it in a few months I will be ready to move it to articlespace.

I hope this answers your question. Regards, --Grimhelm (talk) 20:13, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Please export this!
hello,

I see you are the only importer. I hope you can also export articles; here are the articles. Thank you!-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 11:00, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

How to get a wiki using FlaggedRevs to look like the PC Trial here
Back when the PC Trial was still going on, I loved the implementation of FlaggedRevs here. Unfortunately, it looks like FlaggedRevs out of the box doesn't look much like the PC Trial. I tried copying the settings from here but on my wiki it looks like those settings are missing a couple of system messages. If you could offer any advise on this issue and other ways that I may need to configure FlaggedRevs to look like the PC Trial, I'd greatly appreciate it.

For this implementation, I don't really need a full reviewing functionality (i.e. quality, accuracy, all of that), just basically Pending Changes protection across several pages I'll be creating so that only authorized users can make new changes viewable by default (i.e. approve changes). I'm sure you're going to tell me I'm using a nuclear warhead to kill a fly. Still, help is appreciated if you have the time. Feel free to reply here and place a talkback template on my page, or simply reply there. Thank you in advance for your assistance!--PolicyReformer (talk) 04:11, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Still having issues configuring this of course. Since you're not logged in to my wiki, I'm guessing you won't see the FlaggedRevs issue I'm talking about.  Uploaded [a picture] on that wiki so you can take a look.  And just for a chuckle, check the timestamps between these two posts to determine how long it took me to enable image uploads on the wiki.PolicyReformer (talk) 04:39, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:42, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
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January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects
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MSU Interview
Dear RobLa,

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 35.9.34.167 (talk) 20:54, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

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Template:Pending changes
Hi, I see that you've been a contributor at Template:Pending changes, and I was wondering if you'd be willing to give me some input on something. I'm proposing a few changes at WP:Pending changes/Adjwilley, where I've modified the table quite a bit. I was hoping you could have a look at it, and perhaps set me straight where I've made mistakes. I've documented the changes I've made on the talk page, and we can also talk about it there. Thanks. ~Adjwilley (talk) 01:47, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Heh
I didn't notice you've been working for the WMF for two+ years now. I was implementing the latest Pending Changes RfC close when I saw your name come up on an interface message. You missed my failed RfA, it was mildly amusing in a punch-in-the-gut sort of way. Anyway I'm looking for the message on the protection interface that says "Pending changes (?) (do not use on articles per RFC result)". We've got consensus to turn PC level 1 only back on on December 1, so if you could find that and update it to say something like "do not use 'everyone except Reviewers' option" instead then I'd appreciate it. Gigs (talk) 02:06, 29 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Gigs, good to hear from you. I'm confused as to what you'd like me to do here, and I'm not sure I'm the person to do it anyway.  Are you looking for someone to say something on behalf of the WMF, or as an admin, or something else? -- RobLa (talk) 05:26, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * If you know what interface file that message is in, you could edit it as an admin, you have editinterface rights. I'm having trouble even finding where it's at. Gigs (talk) 18:48, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks like someone updated it (possibly you). Thanks. Gigs (talk) 20:48, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

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According to Google
Dear RobLa,

According to Google, Alexander Hamilton's born on January 11, 1775 (age 49). --Amaris Monteon (talk) 17:36, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of World for deletion
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Electowidget
Hey RobLa, I know you from electorama. I read Electowidget but I couldn't understand if that widget supports complicated voting systems such as Meek STV? Does it support Schulze STV or any other proportional Condorcet method? We want to choose a suitable voting system for the Persian Wikipedia ArbCom elections as you can see here. Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 19:29, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Hi Rob
Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their party. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fred J. Martin, Jr. (talk • contribs) 23:49, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

December 2015
Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from pages you have created yourself, as you did with User:Fred J. Martin, Jr. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Contest this speedy deletion, which appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you.  Velella  Velella Talk 10:34, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I did reply on the page that was linked to. Note, I fixed your links when I added this comment.  I summaried the discussion, and moved the detail to User talk:Fred J. Martin, Jr./2015-12-06 newbie cruft, since those messages were really only useful if Fred takes interest in becoming a Wikilawyer himself. -- RobLa (talk) 19:25, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I'll also note that Fred created the first version of the User:Fred J. Martin, Jr. page. I only swooped in when I saw it was put up for G11 Speedy Deletion. -- RobLa (talk) 19:27, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

User:Fred J. Martin, Jr
It is very unclear what you are doing at the above page. This is structured as a user page and since you are not the user any edits might be construed as vandalism. However, I suspect that this is simply in the wrong place and should be at Draft:Fred J. Martin, Jr. If you agree then you can move the article yourself, or, if it is not clear how move works, I would be happy to do it if you reply here. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk 17:34, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm trying to ease Fred into editing Wikipedia while at the same time 1) avoiding having his user page inexplicitly disappear or be plastered with warning billboards, 2) give people some idea of who he is if/when he does make new edits on his own time, 3) make him feel like editing Wikipedia is actually worth his time and 4) without making mentoring him my full time job. Would it be ok to leave the stub I put there until a time that I actually have time to get together with him to make a proper user page? -- RobLa (talk) 19:16, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Much much better just to start it as a proper draft using article for creation process. That way it is protected for a reasonable time against deletion and you, or anybody else for that matter can work on it leisure. At present it looks very much as though you and User:Fred J. Martin, Jr are one and the same person. This is a practice which is seriously deprecated on Wikipedia so it would be better to do things the right way. Using what appears to be a user page to construct an article is very much the wrong way.  Velella  Velella Talk 22:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, you're right. We should abandon the pre-2007 techniques I'm using to quickly create a user page for a new user.  Editing Wikipedia was fun pre-2007, but I'm obviously too much of a romantic.  We should abandon deprecated practices, and aspire to teach our modern techniques of sternly reprimanding everyone about policy adherence, since that clearly will make Wikipedia a higher quality product.  Long live Nupedia! -- RobLa (talk) 19:21, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Notification about disabling the Wikipedia collections tool
Thank you for using the collections feature in Wikipedia beta! Due to technical and moderation issues, we will be turning off this experimental feature. Your collections will be available for viewing and export until March 1st. If you would like to save your collection as links on a special Wikipedia page, please fill out the following [ http://goo.gl/forms/ZyYQm6uu7e form]. If you are interested in giving your feedback about Wikipedia Collections please do so here.

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Jkatz (WMF) (talk) 23:51, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Question about Imports
Hello, I saw that you are an importer. I was wondering if you are able to import infobox from another wiki. Winterysteppe (talk) 19:12, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

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) 20:32, 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
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg 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.
 * 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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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

I noticed you program in JavaScript...
The JavaScript WikiProject is now up and running. We organize and develop JavaScript articles, navigation aids, and user scripts.

Scripts undergoing development, and the state of JavaScript on Wikipedia, are discussed on the talk page.

For an overview of JavaScript coverage on Wikipedia, see Draft:Outline of JavaScript and Index of JavaScript-related articles. For everything on user scripts, see User:The Transhumanist/Outline of scripts.

The WikiProject also organizes every resource it can find about JavaScript out there, such as articles, books, tutorials, etc. See our growing Reference library.

If you would like to join the JavaScript WikiProject, feel free to add your name to the participants list.

Hope to see you there! The Transhumanist 15:21, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Import and translate and deal with links
Hi, a little how-to question. I found you on my quest to learn more on importing articles. Any advise? I have to import and translate this article from the https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommet_de_la_Terre = Earth Summits in English - to the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Summits which is a redirect to just 1 of the Earth Summmits, which is wrong. The french article is well documented - several pages long. Is there any tool that helps? Thy --SvenAERTS (talk) 16:29, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Request for Importers access
Hello, I have created a discussion to request importer access. As one of the only current importers, your input at Wikipedia talk:Requests for page importation is welcome as you may have special insight to add. Thank you, — xaosflux  Talk 16:16, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for December 14
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Import flag
Hi RobLa, do you still require the  account flag that was added in 2010 related to a WMF project? It does not appear that you ever had the need to use it. Thanks for your follow up, — xaosflux  Talk 17:58, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * nope, I don't need "importer" anymore (and I don't remember what our plan was in 2010). Thanks for asking. -- RobLa (talk) 02:03, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of California's 10th congressional district election, 2018 for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article California's 10th congressional district election, 2018 is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/California's 10th congressional district election, 2018 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Bearcat (talk) 17:37, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Effects of different voting systems under similar circumstances


A tag has been placed on Effects of different voting systems under similar circumstances requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 23:39, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

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 02:01, 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)

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society
Dear ,

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) 19:47, 6 June 2019 (UTC)