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Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC
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Hello everyone,
The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732896000>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#29_November_2024>.
This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.
Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers, Srishti 19:54, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
November music
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greetings from a trip -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:14, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
back home: what do you think about Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:19, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- As someone who knows little about music and especially classical music, I can appreciate how difficult some of his pieces are to play. Yourself? Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:39, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- (I didn't mean the music - sadly: of course not - but how a user new to a certain topic that I'm not supposed to mention is treated. I was new to it in 2012.) - I uploaded pics of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang Hevenu shalom aleichem at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:01, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Palestine-Israel articles 5 arbitration case opened
You offered a statement in an arbitration enforcement referral. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 5. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 5/Evidence. Please add your evidence by 23:59, 14 December 2024 (UTC), which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 5/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Party Guide/Introduction. For the Arbitration Committee, SilverLocust 💬 06:14, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Invitation to provide feedback
Hello talk page watchers. Inspired by Worm That Turned's re-RfA where he noted administrators don't get a lot of feedback or suggestions for improvement, I have decided to solicit feedback.I hope you will consider taking a few moments to fill out my feedback form. Clicking on the link will load the questions and create a new section on my user talk. Thanks for your consideration. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:33, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- 1.5 stars, spammed my watchlist with feedback requests. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:39, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- I thought about doing it via MMS rather than manually but my guess is that would have also spammed it. Sorry for the flood on your watchlist but knowing how big your watchlist is it'll be knocked off the visible top in like the next hour. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:41, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- It's already halfway down, so it shouldn't be much longer. Busy day, can tell everyone is back at work after the long holiday weekend. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:46, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- I thought about doing it via MMS rather than manually but my guess is that would have also spammed it. Sorry for the flood on your watchlist but knowing how big your watchlist is it'll be knocked off the visible top in like the next hour. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:41, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- I have a positive opinion of you. I'm not sure why. It's just a general feeling of satisfaction when I see your username cross my watchlist. Jehochman Talk 01:19, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Feedback from Buidhe
- Thing(s) I would like Barkeep to continue doing — although I don't really follow admin stuff too much, I do believe that you are a net positive as admin and therefore hope you do not resign
- Thing(s) I wish would Barkeep would stop/ things I wish Barkeep would do differently — although I am skeptical of the firewall that arbcom tries to place between conduct and content issues, if you are going to wade into content issues (such as whether some country has a "right to exist" or not) it's important to be informed about the content in question—see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive344#Nableezy where I hope you took into consideration the criticism of the assumption you made going in
- (Optional) Questions I have for Barkeep
- (Optional) Other feedback I want Barkeep to know
- Thanks Buidhe for the feedback. To your second point I do take it seriously and it's why I started by asking questions while also being transparent about my thinking behind it and then listening seriously to the answers. So I agree with your point and will endeavor to do it even better in the future. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:35, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
- Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.
Technical news
- Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
- An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.
Feedback from RoySmith
My apologies for blowing off the 4 question format, but I just want to say that when you were on arbcom, you always struck me as one of the few adults in the room. I get why you left, but I hope you'll go back once you've got the U4C thing out of your system. RoySmith (talk) 16:47, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your feedback Roy.
got the U4C thing out of your system
is an amusing way to hear that work of mine described, though I do appreciate what I perceive as the background thought: the U4C is a distraction from the core work we do on enwiki. Making that statement true is a major reason I've done this work for closing in on 4 years now. So I'm not sure I'm going to ever get it out of my system but I hope to reach a point where I feel like I will have done what I set out to do. I am also really enjoying not having the constraints of being an Arb - for instance I've once again had headspace to do content work when I've had the time and I love doing content work. Producing high quality content is why we're all here and so returning to those roots is really important to me. However, I did take satisfaction in the work I did as an arb and there are things about that work I miss, so I could see myself standing for election again someday. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:23, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Feedback from Clovermoss
- Thing(s) I would like Barkeep to continue doing
- Thing(s) I wish would Barkeep would stop/ things I wish Barkeep would do differently
- (Optional) Questions I have for Barkeep
- (Optional) Other feedback I want Barkeep to know
- I think barkeep should do whatever they feel like doing and I trust them. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 21:07, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Feedback from Floq
- Pros
- I think we tend to generally agree on the important things, and when we do disagree, you're wrong in reasonable, thoughtful ways. :)
- Protecting enwiki from U4C or C4C or U4U or whatever the hell it is.
- Cons
- I'm not on your list of people who could recall you?? That hurts.
- Your automatic feedback form autofills the section as "Feedback from Barkeep49" unless you remember to change it.
- Overall score
- 95% (98% if you add me to the recall list)
--Floquenbeam (talk) 22:15, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks Floq for the feedback. I have no idea why I didn't include you on this list. I am pleased to have this be an exception to me being wrong in a thoughtful way. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 23:55, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Feedback from Risker
I think Clovermoss has it right: keep doing what you're doing, as long as you're getting a level of satisfaction from doing it. I'm happy to see you taking your extensive experience from English Wikipedia to a global level, and I hope that you bring back what you learn from working with global teams to share here on Enwiki. I think our project benefits greatly from this kind of diverse perspective and, as you are a good communicator, there's a reasonable hope that such messages will sink in to a few more people. We do tend to be quite insular on this project, although we'll make exceptions for Commons and Wikidata. I like seeing that you're puttering in the broad range of admin/functionary tasks, including SPI and XfD.
I'm really happy to see you returning into the content sphere, and am inspired to work much harder at doing that, too.
The one thing I would suggest is pacing yourself. It's hard to do when you're working on things that you feel are important/time-sensitive/valuable, but burnout is a real thing. Personally, I'm in favour of reading cheap trashy novels and long drives to see people I like or go places that are interesting, but I'm sure you have your own ways of bleeding off frustration. Risker (talk) 00:22, 4 December 2024 (UTC)