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Can I join your NPP training class?
[edit]Hi DreamRimmer, I recently got my NPP rights and made some mistakes with tagging. I saw on the NPP school page that you are available as a trainer in the Indian Standard Time zone. I am eager to learn and improve so I can get back to NPP. Would you be willing to train me? Charlie (talk) 03:17, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- @CharlieMehta, thanks for reaching out! I will set up your training page and will ping you there sometime today or tomorrow. – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:29, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- @DreamRimmer thank you. Charlie (talk) 10:45, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hey @CharlieMehta, sorry about the delay in your training. I got caught up with something, but I'll make sure to set up your training page tomorrow. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have reduced the pace of my NPP reviews and eagerly look forward to finishing this training with your assistance. Charlie (talk) 17:35, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- @DreamRimmer thank you. I am on to it. Charlie (talk) 11:59, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hey @CharlieMehta, sorry about the delay in your training. I got caught up with something, but I'll make sure to set up your training page tomorrow. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- @DreamRimmer thank you. Charlie (talk) 10:45, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
alternate account
[edit]In replying to this discussion, I wanted to see what it was that you claimed to have done. Surprisingly Special:Contributions/DreamRimmer showed nothing. So I looked at your userpage. No mention of alternate or other user accounts that you use. I even looked at the Special:Contributions/BaranBOT; nothing there either.
To learn what it was that you have done, I had to do a search for "Premier Atlas of the World" and then, one-by-one, look at the histories of the articles listed in the search results until I discovered one history that showed a recent edit by User:DreamRimmer Alt.
Editors should not have to do what I had to do in order to discover what you did. Please link to your alternate account(s) from your user page.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:28, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Trappist the monk, I have already mentioned these accounts here when I created them. I am sorry if you had trouble finding them. I'll make sure to add them to my user page now so that folkscan easily spot them. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:46, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. Nothing links to User:DreamRimmer/Discloser except this discussion so finding it would have been equally problematic; see Special:WhatLinksHere/User:DreamRimmer/Discloser. Did you really mean to use 'Discloser' (a person who discloses) instead of 'Disclosure' (3. That which is disclosed; a previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.)?
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 15:47, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- I have now added this to my user page.
The third line is just a note, posted on the same day.(I was talking about the third point on the User:DreamRimmer/Discloser page.) – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:05, 18 July 2024 (UTC)- Umm, what? You said that you
have already mentioned these accounts here when I created them.
I noted that[nothing] links to User:DreamRimmer/Discloser except this discussion so finding it would have been equally problematic
. You then replyI have now added this to my user page.
Not obvious because at this writing there has only been one edit to your user page today and still only this discussion links to User:DreamRimmer/Discloser. What do you really mean by this post? How is what you said there different from what you said at this post? - —Trappist the monk (talk) 16:40, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Trappist the monk, sorry for the confusion. What I meant was that I mentioned my bot and my alt account on a subpage when I created them. When you mentioned having trouble finding that alt account, I said that I have now added that account to my userpage.
- Both of my accounts are now listed on my userpage, so this subpage is no longer necessary, and you can ignore it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:57, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Roger that; thank you.
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 17:14, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Umm, what? You said that you
- I have now added this to my user page.
Review
[edit]Hi, Can you please review my pages Emagadhagan ,Jama (film),14 (film),Monisha Blessy Monhiroe (talk) 15:22, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Monhiroe, thank you for creating these articles. I have gone ahead and marked Emagadhagan and Jama (film) as reviewed. 14 (film) was already reviewed. I didn't review the last one because I usually don't review biographies upon request. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:37, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you Monhiroe (talk) 15:39, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Request review
[edit]Hi
I have worked on a new article around a show that releases tomorrow.
It is called Bahishkarana. It is a Telugu language show.
Request you to have a look into it.
Thank you Filmy World (talk) 18:04, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
July thanks
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Thank you for improving article quality in July! - Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:16, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 July 2024
[edit]- Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
- News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
- Obituary: JamesR
- Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
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[edit]MediaWiki message delivery 00:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Renames for outrageously libelous usernames
[edit]I asked about this at WP:BN a while ago and everyone just kind of shrugged and said "not our jurisdiction". Well, I see that you are processing a bunch of rename requests, so I figure I will ask you directly: what's the deal with these usernames?
<-- See HTML note here with a few of them I found using SQL (e.g. "JIMBOWALES IS A NECRO-BESTIA-PEDOPHILIAC
"), spanning the wide toilet language-ethnic slur continuum, et cetera. Is there anything we can do about this crap? jp×g🗯️ 10:05, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- @JPxG, I haven't come across these types of usernames while processing rename requests. Global renamers can't really do much about them. Outrageously libelous usernames can be hide locked, so I think hide locking is the best solution for those cases. However, just having a swear word or slur in a username isn't necessarily libelous. Generally, if a username has text that would qualify for oversight, it should be hide locked. I'm not sure if any of the mentioned usernames meet this criteria, so it would be best to ask the stewards. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:22, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hmm. What the heck is a hide lock -- is there a page for that somewhere? I guess I will go mosey towards the stews then... jp×g🗯️ 13:24, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Locking and suppressing. See meta:Steward requests/Global#Requests for global (un)lock and (un)hiding. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:31, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hmm. What the heck is a hide lock -- is there a page for that somewhere? I guess I will go mosey towards the stews then... jp×g🗯️ 13:24, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Don't the oversighters also have a hide username button ? Or am I hallucinating ? Sohom (talk) 13:40, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- They do, and we do as admins, but it's only for actions (edit, pagemove, etc). I can even revdel a name from an action done to it, I'm pretty sure (e.g. I can edit the block log entry to not show the user's name) -- but none of this actually changes the name of the account, so User:JPxG IS A NECRO-BESTIA-PEDOPHILIAC will still show up in Special:ListUsers and the user creation log et cetera. jp×g🗯️ 13:45, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=5417192 has the username deleted. But then if you go to the user's page they are still blocked. It's just... the log entry is defaced? God, this is so inane and cursed. Yeah, so -- I think it has to be something central. jp×g🗯️ 13:54, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Stewards have the
centralauth-suppress
right to suppress or hide global accounts, while Oversighters have thehideuser
right to block or unblock a username, hiding or unhiding it from the public. I don't thinkhideuser
is for suppressing a user account, or maybe it is for suppressing a local account. However, since these are global accounts, thecentralauth-suppress
right is the one that can do this. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:51, 23 July 2024 (UTC)- Yeah, I'm not sure how
hideuser
interacts withcentralauth-suppress
, maybe there is some weird interaction that restricts this right to only stewards (and I really don't wanna setup CentralAuth locally to test it out) Sohom (talk) 14:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'm not sure how
- They do, and we do as admins, but it's only for actions (edit, pagemove, etc). I can even revdel a name from an action done to it, I'm pretty sure (e.g. I can edit the block log entry to not show the user's name) -- but none of this actually changes the name of the account, so User:JPxG IS A NECRO-BESTIA-PEDOPHILIAC will still show up in Special:ListUsers and the user creation log et cetera. jp×g🗯️ 13:45, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-31
[edit]MediaWiki message delivery 23:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
DCWC August update
[edit]The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for a month, and we've already seen some momentous improvement in the quality of many articles about underrepresented subjects! So far, our top-scoring participants are:
Magentic Manifestations (submissions) – 338 points, mainly from nine good articles. He's a contender for the "most submissions for a single country" specialty award, with nine submissions for India.
Arconning (submissions) – 305 points, including from six seasonally-appropriate Olympics-related good articles.
Generalissima (submissions) – 290 points, the bulk from her featured article about Greenlandic interpreter Qalaherriaq and two China-related good articles.
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) – 245 points, mostly from the achievement of bringing Genghis Khan to featured status.
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) – 144 points from three good articles, including two about Kiribati elections, and four reviews of good article nominees.
Looking for ways to climb up the leaderboard yourself? Help out your fellow participants by answering a few review requests, particularly the older entries. Several more nominations needing attention are listed at eligible reviews, and highlighed entries receive a 1.5× multiplier! The coordinators would like to extend a special thanks to Thebiguglyalien (submissions) for his commitment to keeping these review pages up to date.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Ixtal (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 14:24, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Collab
[edit]Hey, interested in any collab for GA or FA? — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:41, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- IAU designated constellations is something I'm working on for FL. Got it PRed. I'm not sure if it's up your alley, but lemme know if you wanna collab with that or any other article. Thanks. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:44, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- @The Herald, I am definitely interested, but I am currently tied up with some real-life stuff. I will be back to regular editing after 25 August. If that timing works for you, I can join then. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:42, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Yea, sure. I'll be going for a holiday next week and will be back by August 20ish. So it's okay. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 12:22, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- @The Herald, I am definitely interested, but I am currently tied up with some real-life stuff. I will be back to regular editing after 25 August. If that timing works for you, I can join then. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:42, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-32
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A barnstar for you!
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
Thanks for your efforts for reviewing articles on request and helping new users to overcome their difficulties. BhikhariInformer (talk) 10:31, 6 August 2024 (UTC) |
- Thank you! @BhikhariInformer – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:43, 6 August 2024 (UTC)