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I was just wondering how feasible it would be to change the policy for banning edits to a certain page.

Would it be possible to alter some of the settings to still allow basic punctuation, grammar, and spelling edits to pages that get temporarily locked down? I don't know about anybody else, but I get OCD about seeing some of those errors on pages that are currently barred from edits.

Perhaps restrict what characters people can actually use at that time (such as basic punctuation, and letters used specifically for pre/suf-fixes).

I dunno, just a random question.

I request a username change because in the network and someone used it and did not want aconteciesen confusion existed. Managers changed it, but I noticed recently that there is still a userpage retaining my previous username, despite that I was created a page with my new name https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Recortavidas. I was referring to Wikipedia, and they suggested the possibility of eliminating this page or rename it, but obviously I have no permission to do, so I make here the query: is it possible that they could remove my old user page, or, not possible renaming? Maybe even re-routed to my existing account. I would appreciate a positive response, it took several days with this problem. If this query should not be here, grateful to inform me where I apply my request.

Solicite un cambio de nombre de usuario debido a que en la red ya existía alguien que lo utilizaba y no quería que aconteciesen confusiones. Los administradores lo cambiaron, pero me percate hace poco que todavía existe una página de usuario que conserva mi anterior nombre de usuario, a pesar de que se me fue creada una página con mi nuevo nombre https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Recortavidas. Estuve consultando por Wikipedia, y me recomendaron la posibilidad de eliminar esta página o renombrarla, pero, obviamente, yo no tengo el permiso pertinente, así que hago aquí la consulta: ¿es posible que pudiesen eliminar mi anterior página de usuario, o, de no ser posible, renombrarla? Quizás incluso re-direccionar a mi actual cuenta. Agradecería una respuesta positiva, pues llevo bastantes días con este problema. Si esta consulta no debe hacerse aquí, agradecería que me informaran donde debo solicitar mi petición.

Bet Scissorhands (verificar SUL · CentralAuth) · contribuciones · 01:35 2 ago 2014 (UTC)

Hi, my name is Alec Thornton, with a user name ‘Axfan2002’. For some reason my following IP address, along with my contributions, have been blocked, as described below. Can you please unblock me and include my updates to the ‘Urban agriculture’ Wikipedia article? Below, is all this information that I have found regarding the block:

Your IP address has been blocked on all wikis. The block was made by Vituzzu (meta.wikimedia.org). The reason given is Open proxy. • Start of block: 14:48, 22 October 2012 • Expiry of block: 14:48, 22 October 2017 Your current IP address is 66.85.174.82.

I made the following contributions: • 05:43, 8 August 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,112)‎ . . Urban agriculture ‎ (Adding information from published sources)

Could you please unblock me and accept my contributions/edits to the 'Urban agriculture' wikipedia article? Thank you, Alec.

Currently Grants:IEG/* holds a massive amount of ideas for individual engagement grants, and this table links to grants as Grants:<Name of grantee>/<Name of grant>.

While I understand that Grants: is an existing namespace already, I would like to suggest creating an Idea: namespace for people to dump their software, tools, outreach, and the like ideas and to develop them together, before (if at all) requesting a grant. This could ease maintenance, and some unsuccessful grant applications would remain as an idea which could continue to evolve (and encourage community discussion) or be submitted for another grant.

This suggestion comes from the thought of having a readable page name and not limiting a specific idea to a specific grants program. This may simplify things, somewhat.

What do you think? --Gryllida 09:56, 22 August 2014 (UTC) Reply

There's an incubator for rough ideas, at Grants:IdeaLab (See Grants:IdeaLab/Ideas/Show for the dozens of current ideas). (I guess you already know about that though, as I see you're already listed at Grants:IdeaLab/People!) I believe the idea is for people to collaborate (and find collaborators) there, before either making an official application for grant, or alternatively deciding that official support isn't required. I can see how splitting that list by itself into a new namespace might be somewhat useful, but I'm not sure how complicated the repercussions are for adding a new namespace (technically in the long-run, and socially), and whether it would be worth it overall. Possibly just creating more redirects, and writing clearer instructions on the existing pages, would suffice?

Plus there's the issue of "merging all brainstorming into a single location, versus placing it wherever is most appropriate". Eg. some people might prefer to collate outreach ideas at the Outreach: wiki. Eg.2. there's also Research:Labs2/Ideas (found via search, but I'm not familiar with it).

I'll ping Siko who might be able to give better insights. HTH. Quiddity (talk) 19:13, 22 August 2014 (UTC) Reply

We already have such a namespace, it's called the main namespace. --Nemo 09:20, 23 August 2014 (UTC) Reply

The entire wiki should be an idea lab then. Why put things to Grants:IEG/* instead of using * and adding relevant categories to the page?

Should Category:IdeaLab/Ideas/Active be a Category:Active or Category:Active ideas or Category:Ideas in the first place? --Gryllida 07:03, 24 August 2014 (UTC) Reply

07:29, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi everyone. My colleagues and I at the WMF have been planning the run a Global South User survey during the fall of 2014. You may take a look at the background, goals, and target countries and languages at the survey page. You may also take a look at the questions, and help translate them if you know any of the target languages. Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! --HaithamS (WMF) (talk) 16:33, 16 September 2014 (UTC) Reply

@HaithamS (WMF):, would you like to share your survey plans on wikimedia-l? I noticed this announcement just by coincidence. Or did you announce it on other mailing lists? --Jcornelius (talk) 11:37, 17 September 2014 (UTC) Reply

Global rename is not really a global user right. I think the place user requests for this flag should be changed to Meta:Requests for adminship.--GZWDer (talk) 05:17, 17 September 2014 (UTC) Reply

Not relevant: it has global effects and belongs to SRGP. Besides, even "steward" used to be a "local" group; maybe global rename will at some point need to become a global group. --Nemo 06:26, 17 September 2014 (UTC) Reply

Factual correction: The local steward group is still in use. The "global effect" logic is also not clear to me, as CN admin and massmessage sender rights are also not to be requested on a "Global permissions" page. Vogone (talk) 08:56, 17 September 2014 (UTC) Reply

I didn't say it isn't, but it's also global now. CN doesn't make edits/actions and massmessage only does edits any unregistered user could make. Global rename is in fact an escalation of privileges traditionally held locally by no less than bureaucrats... the distinction may be a bit fuzzy and it's not set in stone, but it's sufficiently clear to warrant SRGP I think. --Nemo 09:01, 17 September 2014 (UTC) Reply

it's about the lack of the edit option in main entries (languages) and the subordinates (etymology 1, 2, etc.)
which basically means we are now forced to open the entire page every time we need to make a little change somewhere.
for new users it's annoying, for active users it's just mind crippling (and I'm being polite).

take the example "a " in the Spanish Wiktionary. there are 18 entries with up to 5 etymologies each... now picture an active user, who's already trying not to forget a big list of things to do... and then he has to work around this?

the topic is recurrent, but we always give up because the whole Spanish Wiktionary bases on the Template:XX-ES, and there is apparently no way to add an edit option to it.

does somebody have the time to look into it? we would be grateful!

--Ninud (talk) 11:27, 17 September 2014 (UTC) Reply

If you want to be able to edit the pages, you'll have to write only section titles with the templates. You can't write the sections in templates (with <h3> or ===) if you want to edit the pages.

We used to have the same issue on fr: (and with every sections!), this is what we did:

So I suggest you do this:

PS : using one template for all languages helps for migrating from the old layout, and it also means that only one template is required for every language (this is written in Lua, with a list of languages behind, see wikt:fr:Modèle:langue, wikt:fr:Module:langues and wikt:fr:Module:langues/data). Darkdadaah (talk) 15:16, 17 September 2014 (UTC) Reply

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