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Could you grand me, please, translation administrator rights?
To be able to edit wiki projects, and do cross-translations.
I have experience of translating of english articles into ukrainian and vice versa.
My recent contribution to the Meta-wiki pages can be find below:
With the best regards,
Hedgehog the Great (talk) 17:06, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose Do you even understand what you are requesting? Skill in translation has very little to do with translation admin rights. * Pppery * it has begun 18:25, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Pppery The ability to edit and translate articles, without other subsidiary problems.
- "Skill in translation has very little to do with translation admin rights."
- But what has much than?.. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 19:33, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Apparently you don't. * Pppery * it has begun 19:58, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- What are you hoping to do with the rights? Leaderboard (talk) 18:34, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- To have ability to edit pages at other projects. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 19:23, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- You mean on say MediaWiki (I.e outside thus project)? Leaderboard (talk) 19:46, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, form other project: Meitei_script. I'm about this one page: Meta:Translation_administrators/mni. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 20:00, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Hedgehog the Great: But for that, just edit that other project? Translationadmin is normally used when you want to prepare a page on a certain wiki for translation, and used by us admins when we need to delete a page containing translations. Leaderboard (talk) 05:24, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- I need VPN usage for editing and translating, and admin rights give the possibility to have exeption for user to work with other projects. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 07:42, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Hedgehog the Great: This is still quite confusing - this sounds like something that requires wikipedia:WP:IPBE instead? Leaderboard (talk) 07:43, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Exactly. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 07:51, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Hedgehog the Great: Then apply for that instead? Leaderboard (talk) 07:59, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh, I've applied a few times: [1], [2], [3], but my attempts were futile.
- Details Hedgehog the Great (talk) 08:07, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Leaderboard Such attempts ended with conversation on the page. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 08:11, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Hedgehog the Great: "see your multiple declined VRT tickets" - I don't know what is in them (@Xaosflux may know more), but that isn't good. Regardless this is an obvious Oppose, because it isn't like you will be able to do what you are looking to do with the translationadmin right. There's probably a language barrier somewhere though. Leaderboard (talk) 08:16, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- >> "see your multiple declined VRT tickets" - I don't know what is in them
- I don't know either, presumably: "the request for local IP-address".
- >> "(@Xaosflux may know more), but that isn't good."
- I don't think they know more, the user didn't reply the question:
- " You haven't unswered the question. What the official reason for me to be blocked?" [4] (i.e. not been able to obtain IP exemption)
- But that's surely isn't good. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 08:26, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose per Pppery. User clearly does not know what they're requesting. --SHB2000 (t • c) 22:36, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose TA ist not needed for the mentioned purpose. --Ameisenigel (talk) 08:19, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- IP exemption and ability to edit and do translation on other projects in private mode, without sharing my credentials. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 08:30, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- TA give a necessary rights fo such purpose. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 08:32, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose requester has no idea what they are asking for, discussion above somehow suggests requester thinks this would somehow give them an ipblock exemption that they have already been repeatedly denied; additionally - is blocked on their primary content project for disruption. — xaosflux Talk 09:24, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Xaosflux >> "ipblock exemption that they have already been repeatedly denied"
- What are official reasoning of such multiple denies? Hedgehog the Great (talk) 09:41, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Xaosflux "additionally - is blocked on their primary content project for disruption"
- For what kind of disruption?.. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 09:42, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- You'd need to ask them for details, their block reasoning is available on your block log there. — xaosflux Talk 14:42, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Xaosflux Some administrators wisely blocked me in order not to have any controversy with me...
- So, I need IP block exemption to apply for Arbitration court, at Ukrainian side, to be able to defend myself, this account, and my editions.
- The first one block was applied by @Yakudza for, as I remember, trying to create and defend this article: Риття, but @RajatonRakkaus had it's own view on the subject. Block was applied for one day.
- Another block was applied for my other edits, links to some of which can be found in the discussion, following link of blocking message (but that's in ukrainian). Block applied the third/fourth administrator, who seems didn't even want to involve in the porblem. The dialog in short can be expressed as: "We don't wan't read this, we just want to get rid of you. And we just want to block you."
- And I was blocked for infinit time at https://uk.wikipedia.org/ . So where can send my appeal?.. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 15:31, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose as per concerns raised above. --Stïnger (会話) 11:54, 31 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]
- Mr. @Stïnger, what prerequisits are expected for IP block exemption or for Translation Administrator?.. Hedgehog the Great (talk) 15:01, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I'd like to request translation adminship. I mostly contribute to Chinese translations, mainly in Tech News, recently in Wishlist. I've learned some basics by seeing staff prepare Tech News and various announcements. I don't usually write page/content that needs translations, but I often help fix translation markups, and I would like to mark them for translation right after the fix. I'm also willing to generally mark other pages if needed. As required per Meta:Translation administrators, here's Web2Cit. --Cookai🍪 (💬talk) 18:58, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am requesting translation adminship to help translate content between English and Persian. As an active member of the Iranian Wikimedians User Group, I need this access to keep our pages updated in both languages. Currently, asking other admins to mark pages for translation takes considerable time, and having this access would allow me to manage translations more efficiently. --Darafsh (talk) 17:33, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Support trusted user - sounds good to me! Ternera (talk) 21:41, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- please prepare a page for translation following Meta:Internationalization guidelines as required per Meta:Translation administrators to demonstrate your practical experience with the translation syntax in your request for translation adminship. --Johannnes89 (talk) 05:04, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Johannnes89 I just created a page with translation syntax: Event:Wikipedia Asian Month Introduction Darafsh (talk) 11:34, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Darafsh thanks for preparing the page! Please read the linked guidelines again and adjust the page:
- Don't set translation units (
<!--T:1-->
) manually, that's what translation admins do using Special:PageTranslation. What you need to do instead is setting <translate>
tags at the appropriate places, they will be responsible for later automatically creating translation units.
- Please pay special attention to links and other special elements that need translation variables, so that the link itself doesn't show up when users are translating the page (instead they usually see something like
$1
)
- Johannnes89 (talk) 12:32, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose No response in almost a week. --SHB2000 (t • c) 00:31, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @SHB2000 Hi, I was looking for an opportunity to create a relevant page. Darafsh (talk) 11:38, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose There is nearly everything wrong with the markup of the prepared page --Ameisenigel (talk) 08:17, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Requests for CentralNotice adminship
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Not ending before 30 August 2024 05:38 (UTC)
This is for Global reminder bot (for both local Meta and global right expiry reminders). Initially it will not operate with a bot flag, but as the bot grows, it may use a bot flag to write the database at Global reminder bot/database.
Note that the bot already has a bot flag for another task. --Leaderboard (talk) 05:38, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Support per nom. --SHB2000 (t • c) 08:03, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 11:17, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Stïnger (会話) 00:37, 26 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]
- So who exactly will be notified when exactly by this bot about what? --MF-W 18:22, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @MF-Warburg: I've replied to you at incubator:Incubator:Administrators#User:Leaderbot. On Meta-Wiki, I expect this to impact rights such as IPBE and massmessage on local, and all global rights that require renewal such as AFM and GIE. "When exactly" - approximately a week before the right expires (and only once). Leaderboard (talk) 06:59, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- We get a lot of WMF staff on this project, any way to easily filter our usernames that contain "WMF"? Our volunteers don't manage these. — xaosflux Talk 14:19, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Hi @Xaosflux: that's a good point, but while I can handle that as well, wouldn't it still be useful to notify the WMF users as well? Worst they ignore it, but I could see them wanting to renew (eg using the office policy) just like volunteers. Leaderboard (talk) 14:50, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- In short, it's not a volunteer concern. Their access is managed by other paid IT staffers, who are responsible for their own access management processes - and they certainly should not be told to go to the "default_global" venue for renewals. Perhaps a regex excludeuser list? — xaosflux Talk 15:02, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Xaosflux While I don't agree with the reasoning, this is something I can indeed adjust the bot to exclude all WMF accounts entirely. Leaderboard (talk) 16:09, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Leaderboard do you disagree about the part where I said that sending them to the SRGP page is inappropriate? We would always deny them there and tell them to see their manager. — xaosflux Talk 16:30, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Xaosflux: Not about that, I disagreed with your reasoning that it's not something for us to bother at all (i.e, my viewpoint was that it's harmless to notify them just like anyone else, but maybe with a slightly modified message). That being said, I've adjusted the script so that it ignores anyone with the substring "WMF" in their username. Leaderboard (talk) 16:32, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Xaosflux: can this be approved? If you require more time, that's fine - just let me know. Leaderboard (talk) 14:23, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- What if someone does not want to get notified?. – Ammarpad (talk) 15:15, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Ammarpad: As the main page says, that user can simply place their name in Global reminder bot/Exclusion. Leaderboard (talk) 16:08, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not ending before 4 September 2024 16:27 (UTC)
- Follow on from phab:T372024 - while developers are working on options to convert to a system user, we should flag this as a bot to avoid flooding certain recent changes/watchlist updates when it is used here. — xaosflux Talk 16:28, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- To be fair, I think it's better to have its locks/renames show up on RC? That's what we would do with if anyone else renamed, and I'm not sure why this should be any different (other than the fact that it normally focuses on accounts with zero edits). Leaderboard (talk) 17:01, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- If people want this, no big deal - we've had complaints (usually when the job gets stuck and then does a bunch). — xaosflux Talk 17:58, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose per Leaderboard. I would rather have locks and renames show up on RecentChanges than not. --SHB2000 (t • c) 01:12, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for notes so far, opposes are welcome. Very likely this account will be changed to a "system account", but that is distinct from if it should assert "bot" on its actions. — xaosflux Talk 13:44, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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