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Violation of "Biographies of Living People" guidelines on Turkish Wikipedia

Status:    Not done

Greetings Stewards, I tried to solve it within the Turkish Wikipedia due process, but it was unsuccessful. So I had to bring it here. I wish to draw attention to an issue regarding an article that appears to violate the guidelines outlined in Turkish Wikipedia's tr:VP:YİB and the broader principles established by Wikimedia Foundation on the subject of biographies of living people. The article in question portrays an individual as if he is a fictional character named "Sabri the Flying Man," whereas the person, in reality, is a living individual, who does not endorse this title. The article uses sarcasm to deride the person's alleged assertion of possessing the power to fly. The article does not cite any reliable sources for using this title. The justification is mostly the social media usage of the term, which is not sufficient to use a potentially derogatory title for a living individual. Furthermore, the person in question is a member of specific protected groups, including being part of an ethnic minority in Turkey and having undergone mental health treatment. It is imperative to adhere to the directives set forth by the Wikimedia Foundation, emphasizing that living people should be described with respect, and dignity and in a manner they would find acceptable. This concern extends beyond the specific article in question, as it underscores the importance of upholding fundamental principles. I kindly request the Wikimedia Foundation Stewards to thoroughly investigate this issue and address the violation of guidelines related to biographies of living persons. --TheJoyfulTentmaker (talk) 17:43, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

@TheJoyfulTentmaker: Stewards and other global groups act by consensus and in an emergency, or perform anti-vandalism compliance maintenance only. They must either prove an emergency or a consensus to intervene in local processes. If you are of the opinion that WMF guidelines have been violated, you can also contact WMF. See Trust and Safety --𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 08:53, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Tomfaulkner... and promoting web + business

Status:    Done

User:Tomfaulkner88, User:Tomfaulkner95 and User:Tomfaulkner887 create / edit with the purpose of promoting a business and website across the wikimedia projects. I already took action in ta.wiki. Eg: i want to grow my business and my webistes i wnat o help people who are suffring from eye disorder--AntanO 10:51, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Should be added to SRG bc lock evasion. Hide on Rosé t 10:56, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Could you do? AntanO 10:57, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Already done by other users. Hide on Rosé t 11:02, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Account(s) handled, pages deleted on projects in the GS-wiki set. — xaosflux Talk 11:15, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

FlaggedRevs User rights for GS

Status:    Done

I am proposing to add sysop level FlaggedRevs user rights (autoreview, stablesettings, movestable, review, unreviewedpages) on the FlaggedRevs wiki to the global sysop user group. I think this would be un-controversial since the rights is already in the sysop group by default. —MdsShakil (talk) 16:31, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

make sense. 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 16:42, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
autoreview is not bundled with the sysop group on some GS wikis including fawikinews and elwikinews. They manage that as a separate user right. It isn't something that can be "turned off", so this could lead to issues if a GS becomes a content contributor to one of these projects but has not yet achieved the requirements required for autoreview rights locally. I'm fine with adding the remaining FlaggedRevs user rights to the GS toolkit. 94rain Talk 17:19, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
@MdsShakil GS already contains movestable. Have you had issues with that permission? — xaosflux Talk 19:08, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
@Xaosflux Haven't tried this, but recently I had an issue related with 'review' permission. Later, it was found that the GS set does not have this permission. —MdsShakil (talk) 19:18, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
@MdsShakil I'm inclined to add stablesettings, review, unreviewedpages - is there a usecase that needs autoreview? — xaosflux Talk 11:00, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
@Xaosflux I don't see the autoreview usecase from an administrative point of view. Although I don't know the detailed technical information of the autoreview permission. —MdsShakil (talk) 12:52, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Done stablesettings, review, unreviewedpages added to the GS kit. — xaosflux Talk 14:27, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Random Ban on Wikipedia DE - but I do not have an account on DE Wiki

Status:    Done

Hi there! I went to use the Wikipedia Library today and found that I was randomly banned from Wikipedia DE. When I go to DE Wikipedia, it says I do not have an account and there is no reason listed in the ban. I do not remember accessing the German Wikipedia at any point as I do not speak German in the slightest! I am assuming this is a bot error. I spoke to the IRC channel for bans for the English Wiki and they suggested that I post here. I also tried to enter the German Wiki IRC channel but could not connect.

Here is the information from the ban page (translated): 

   Blocking Administrator: 'Doc Taxon
   Reason: no reason given
   Start of the lock: 19:04, 15. Jan. 2024
   End of lock: unlimited
   IP-address: 77.101.245.119
   Lock concerning: 'Ittybittykittycommitte'
   (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Beitr%C3%A4ge/Ittybittykittycommittee)
   Block ID: ’2625614

I also sent an email to the email listed here, but I do not know if it is current.

Here is a link to the page in question: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:Ittybittykittycommittee&action=edit

Any help would be most welcome and appreciated. xx — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ittybittykittycommittee (talk)

@Doc Taxon: fyi. I assume this was a local account suppression directed against some abusive user names, though looking at Special:CentralAuth/Ittybittykittycommittee this particular block seems like a mistake. --Johannnes89 (talk) 21:15, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
@Johannnes89: Yes, you're completely right. The account is unblocked now. @Ittybittykittycommittee: I apologize for any inconvenience, it was a mistake. Kind regards, Doc Taxon (talk) 21:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick response, marking this as done. --Johannnes89 (talk) 22:29, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

"Read Wikipedia in your language" section

Status:    Requires a Phabricator ticket

There is a typo in the "Read Wikipedia in your language" section of the multilingual Wikipedia page. The Euskara Wikipedia (in the "100,000+ articles" category) is labelled as "Ingelesa". --Joofjoof (talk) 01:41, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

@User:Joofjoof We can't help you. Please make a https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ request--𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 14:26, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Removing ReferenceTooltips default on some wikis

Status:    Done

Hello admins. I'm software developer for Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team and we recently released the ReferencePreviews feature on all wikis to allow a stable and consistent way to preview references. In the aftermath we recommend to disable the ReferenceTooltips gadget as a default on all wikis. Both features will still work and ReferencePreviews disables itself if a user decides to chose ReferenceTooltips as a gadget.

All relevant wikis have been contacted already to do that change themself and some already did so. But we also identified a group of wikis with less active communities where we would like to drive that change more actively if there's no response to our announcement. See WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews.

As suggested somewhere else, I would kindly ask someone with the corresponding rights to do that change for us on theses wikis. The wikis in question can be found in the list on this task T355312. As an alternative I could still offer that I do the change with my account if I get temporary permissions to do so.

Thanks in advance and kind regards -- Christoph Jauera (WMDE) (talk) 09:57, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

See also Steward_requests/Global_permissions#Temporary_global_interface_admin_rights_for_Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE). @Christoph Jauera (WMDE) especially for the larger projects with their own intadmins that are not GS-WIKI's (e.g. mswiki) - it doesn't appear that they have opted in on your request page here: Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Reference_Previews_to_become_the_default_for_previewing_references_on_more_wikis. - in fact it doesn't appear that any projects has opted in there. Was this discussed elsewhere? — xaosflux Talk 10:58, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
As far as I know all of the affected projects have been notified via mass message [1] -> [2][3] (example [4] + a couple of months ago [5]) and invited to give feedback on the page you linked. Johannnes89 (talk) 12:47, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
I have now removed these in a few GSwikis.
Standard gadgets affect all users. The problem is, in most smaller projects there are no users with the rights to do this and if there are, it is not said that the relevant users are watching tech news or phabricator. Often the gadget definition was just created years ago by other projects without the local community knowing what they were doing. It is unlikely that the communities have consciously kept the gadget. Should a community, this can be actively discussed, and we can set it back to default. 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 19:49, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
@WikiBayer for small wiki's - not really objecting here, I wouldn't expect their non-community to show up and participate in the discussion. — xaosflux Talk 23:28, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
Hey @Xaosflux, we've got two approaches at the moment:
  • Bigger wikis were merely informed by us that there's this new feature, and we encouraged them to change the gadget to un-default. The opt-in list you are referring to is only for those bigger wikis, in case they want us to remove the default flag for them, but no wikis requested this.
  • The small wikis we identified got informed that we will change the setting for them, but we gave them a few weeks to say no to this, which one wiki did. Here is the list of the wikis where we were planning to perform this change on. Are there any wikis in particular where you would have objections? We defined "small wikis" as "wikis with less than 4 interface admins". What constitutes a "small wiki" for you?
Thanks again -- Christoph Jauera (WMDE) (talk) 15:44, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
For this purpose, all wiki's not on the included portion of this list: Special:WikiSets/7 (e.g. not mswiki). — xaosflux Talk 16:31, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks, this makes a lot of sense. We updated the list on the task accordingly and will get in contact with the wikis removed so that they are encouraged to change the default themselves if they agree.
We would appreciate if anyone could take care of the remaining wikis. - See task T355312.
Best regards -- Christoph Jauera (WMDE) (talk) 08:55, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Unblock BaseBot@bs.wikinews

Status:    Done

Hi, please unblock my bot on Bosnian Wikinews per the discussion above. The bot was blocked over a decade ago for running without a bot flag. At the moment there are no local administrators in the wiki. --Base (talk) 11:19, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

@Base assuming if you do want to bot edit there again you will get a flag first? — xaosflux Talk 11:34, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
@Xaosflux, assuming it would require mass-editing, yes :) --Base (talk) 12:12, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
I think they know how to use a bot by now since this bot was blocked 10 years ago, there are no administrators or local votes against it, I will unblock it. However, if there are any subsequent concerns from the community, which I think is unlikely, I will reverse the unblock. --𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 12:45, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
+1 was going to as well. — xaosflux Talk 15:04, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Done For archive. —MdsShakil (talk) 05:48, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

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