Thank you, Pi zero. It has been fun to work together with you, co-authors, reviewers, and people who made minor fixes. Also, with those who read, without any way to know who they are. Happy New Year! Look forward to the next years writing together. --Gryllida (talk) 20:57, 1 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi. I've promoted you to Bureaucrat. Had to look back to my own promotion in 2013 to see what sort of notice had been been given to me on that occasion. There doesn't seem to be any tradition for crats similar to the mop-and-bucket for admins, tho. So: congratulations. :-) --Pi zero (talk) 14:47, 22 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, Pi zero. Appreciate the nomination, and the notification. (I also was, and am, available on live chat -- in addition to the wiki -- for assistance and discussions.) Gryllida (talk) 00:18, 23 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hi Bddpaux, it sends you email notifications about new article submissions - either to the 'develop' or 'review' or 'published' queues. You can choose a set of categories (eg 'Australia' or 'Politics') to limit the tracking only to these categories and not to all of them. Gryllida (talk) 21:51, 18 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion
...that you've been around recently.....Hi! It'd be great if we had more than 1 'Crat on this project. Your thoughts? There has been some voting at Requests for Permissions.--Bddpaux (talk) 02:25, 26 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
Great! Maybe it's me, but I didn't see your vote anywhere? Do you think we have enough supporting votes to give me (and others) 'Crat privs?--Bddpaux (talk) 14:57, 27 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
I think it is fair to say all the bureaucrat votes have either reached 14 days or been long past that line. It would be a good idea to set a time limit for future nominations. Also I think it’s time to close Cspurrier's removal vote. --Green Giant (talk) 01:47, 30 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
Yep....it's been a while now. I think action is due. Historically, the adding of bits has been all over the map in terms of times. We should (soon, with some kind of consensus, of course) look at time limits or minimum times or something of that ilk. I recently closed an RfP that'd bubbled for over a year. Seems a wee bit silly to me.--Bddpaux (talk) 02:37, 30 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 1 month ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi Gryllida. I was wondering if you'd be willing to stand for ArbCom this year? If you don't wish to nominate yourself, I would be happy to nominate you. •–•07:51, 29 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
OK. So there is probably a User List page or something, that gives me the buttons to press in order to make that happen??--Bddpaux (talk) 19:40, 1 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Bddpaux: The additional rights are listed at Special:UserGroupRights. The main page you would use would be to change local rights at Special:UserRights. Enter the name of the user you want to change rights for. Tick or untick the relevant tick boxes, write the reason, and save. Then close the discussion and inform the user on their talk page. --Green Giant (talk) 20:01, 1 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Even for OR.....it's a bit further out than I care for........but it was well sourced/documented and is a good addition to the project. Cheers!--Bddpaux (talk) 20:03, 11 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
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Hello. As a reviewer, this note is just to let you know we are implementing a trial from February 1 to April 30 to encourage more articles to be published per the outcome of a current proposal. The minimum requirements for article length will be one paragraph of at least a hundred words. At the end of the trial the requirements will return to normal (3 paragraphs etc) and there will be an evaluation discussion about the trial. Happy reviewing! [24Cr][talk] 23:14, 31 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hello. As a reviewer, this note is just to let you know we are implementing a trial from July 4 to October 4 to enable more articles to be reviewed per the outcome of a current proposal. The freshness window is being extended to about five to seven days. At the end of the trial the window will continue to be at 5-7 days while we discuss whether to adopt the change permanently or not. Happy reviewing! [24Cr][talk] 17:36, 4 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
I had sent an email to BRS some time early December after the first message here, via Special:EmailUser, and got no response. Commented on the vote/discussion thing.
Perhaps we could come together and create a WhatsApp Jami or Tox group for all people who have some sort of privileges at Wikinews (doesn't matter which - reviewer, sysop, autoconfirmed etc)? That'd be useful in the case everyone involved actually commits to installing the instant messaging app on all their devices, and enabling notifications.
(I'm not sure how that'd be better than email, or wiki messages. Perhaps wiki messages do not generate a notification to people who do not log in to the site. I log in about once a week for example, as my Firefox is in Private Browsing by default. There was some time when it wasn't, but then I wouldn't go to the wiki site every day, as I had other things to do. But that -- 'it does not show notifications' -- is true about Jami and Tox as well; the only difference being that they have a tray icon and start on startup and auto-login, which the wiki doesn't. Hm.)
Is there a way to have a tray icon for the wiki on desktop, or an {Android, iOS, Maemo, Sailfish} app, that logs into the wiki automatically and shows a counter, and generates a notification, each time there is a new notification in Special:Notifications on any of the sister wikis? Gryllida (talk) 20:51, 3 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 1 year ago5 comments5 people in discussion
Dear Mr/Ms Administrator;
I have been trying to post a message in the Water cooler but it keeps preventing me from doing so as it would flag it as a spam. Please could you help me post the message there?
This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: cs-spam-simple News gen (talk) 11:22, 4 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
@News gen: the automatically blocked edits contained words / phrases used by spammers / spambots on this wiki in the past. This DOES NOT mean you are a spammer; just that you tried to use similar character strings. I won’t list them but characters such as the AT symbol could be part of a spam email address for example. [24Cr][talk] 18:20, 12 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
Hi Bddpaux, I see now that you already did it. Apologies for my slow response, and many thanks for closing the deadmin request and actioning it.
For future reference: I would suggest to put link to the deadmin discussion into the summary box when performing the action of removing this user right. Then it may be clearer that the action is backed by the said discussion and consensus, and easier to locate the discussion if needed.
Latest comment: 3 months ago6 comments2 people in discussion
Hello Gryllida, I saw your mention of Ibot on IRC and decided to try it out. I like the idea, and things were working fine...until the "Copy/paste the headline and URL here" part. I pasted this (headline in one message, URL in the next), but Ibot was unresponsive. A second attempt produced the same results. Heavy Water (talk) 00:24, 5 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
lbot does not count the lines or identify which part is an URL or a title, sorry.
Note, I will try to fix this in a future release. How would you like it to be implemented? Would you suggest that lbot continues after two lines have been sent assuming one of them is an URL and another is the headline? Or perhaps write «When done please write "next"» reminder about a minute after the previous prompt? Gryllida (talk) 04:54, 6 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
Ohh, I see. If the instructions included, say, "Put the URL in one line, then the headline in the next" the bot wouldn't have to actually determine which is a URL, and it (should) be foolproof. The reminder could also be helpful (I forgot). Heavy Water (talk) 05:16, 6 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
"PROMPT: At any time, please write 'next' to continue. Now, write 'next'." I think this is what confused me; "at any time" could mean only "Whenever you're ready, please write next on this step". Heavy Water (talk) 05:23, 6 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi. I wanted to let you know the article you recently reviewed was at least partially AI generated. Given the author's name, it may have been ChatGPT. I do not know how your own iBot project compares or how it works. I do think it is something we will need to discuss in some forum. Cheers, SVTCobra06:12, 6 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 1 year ago4 comments2 people in discussion
I intend to take steps to de-admin someone (they are OK with it)... but for the life of me, I can't remember the actual steps needed to make that happen. I probably need to start at Wikinews:Administrators. I am uncertain if I have ever taken someone's keys away here before. Can you advise, please?--Bddpaux (talk) 20:39, 30 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
If I'm granted a bot flag it would be nice to know if the sxw-files are to be deleted or not. If they are deleted I will skip them. If they are to be kept I will fix them with my bot.
.sxw. Craig Spurrier said at the DR in the early years the Print Ed was written in LibreOffice, and "the open-source tools available for editing PDFs were few and had major limitations. Providing the SXW file was a way to provide an editable source file for it." Heavy Water (talk) 00:01, 26 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Looks like this is not a proprietary format. Perhaps some contributors will find it useful as the print edition is allowed to be edited (please correct me if I'm wrong) while distributing in pdf format effectively makes the content read-only and means it is harder to make a derivative. I would be delighted to have these in docx format maybe these days but see no harm in keeping the old ones around. If this is the case, utilizing the bot to categorize them correctly would be nice. Gryllida (talk) 00:16, 26 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
LibreOffice, for example, currently supports the editing of PDFs. (I should note all of these appear to have been created before LibreOffice was in 2010 — but it's thus obvious Cspurrier meant OpenOffice.) I agree there's no harm done by keeping them. Heavy Water (talk) 01:12, 26 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Hi Gryllida! Yes the bot request need no further action. The SXW are not needed but I fixed most of them so I will not save much time if they are deleted. So if you do not feel comfortable deleting the files you can close the DR as keep. --MGA73 (talk) 13:51, 26 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 months ago5 comments2 people in discussion
Hi Gryllida, good to see you're back. I sent you an email around mid-November asking if you're still able to post to the Facebook page, and if so if you could post an acknowledgement of the situation with it. Could you look into this when you've time, please? Thanks. Heavy Water (talk) 17:18, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
Hi, do you mean "Hi all, we have spam in our Stories section, we are investigating. Unfortunately we have to go through the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and it may take several weeks. Sorry for the inconvenience" message? Gryllida (talk) 23:20, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
Can see only button to 'Create a fundraiser' or reply to DMs. I think I don't have access to create a new post. If there's a volunteer interested happy to do screen sharing and show you what features are available to me, maybe I am not looking in the right place... Gryllida (talk) 00:14, 15 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
CheatCodes4ever: I suggest you ask at WN:Admin action alerts to direct your request toward all admins and probably get a faster response. I'm not an admin, but I don't think it would be acceptable to move one account's user page to another even if they're operated by the same person (it seems whether these are operated by the same person ought to be indicated anyway). Heavy Water (talk) 16:39, 22 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 months ago8 comments2 people in discussion
Hello, I am new to Wikinews. I see that you're an administrator who has last contributed in December, I've tried to contact more recent participants since last Wednesday but have not had any luck so far. The issue is that I see Wikinews is time-sensitive, and I would really appreciate for my first article to at least be reviewed before it is marked as stale and deleted. It's here and was submitted on Saturday, though I have been trying to line up a review for it since last Wednesday. Can you please review it – or if not, can you please approve Asheiou's RfP here as an admin so that they can have the opportunity to review it? Thank you, --Habst (talk) 16:06, 21 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi @Gryllida, I have unfortunately not really had time for newswriting lately, though I am active on enwiki where I write primarily about athletics. Thanks for your offer -- I will keep that in mind when I have the motivation and time to write again. --Habst (talk) 11:56, 27 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi @Habst I appreciate you getting back to me. I would like to ask you a few questions about how you write articles on the English Wikipedia.
Do you use visual editor or source editor?
Does it have a button to 'save and keep editing'?
Do you usually spend around 20-30 minutes a day writing or do you make little edits which take a shorter time?
In your personal time, do you read news about the 'Athletics' topic or do you only read encyclopedic materials?
How do you collaborate with other contributors? Do you use IRC live chat?
Do you program something related to your activity on English Wikipedia, or install advanced tools (those not enabled by default)? What are they?
2. It doesn't have a button to do that specifically AFAIK, but you can preview and keep editing, or you can save to a draft and then click edit again to keep editing.
3. Combination of both. I think long-form / prose writing is healthy but it unfortunately takes more time.
4. I read / listen to a lot of news sites and message boards.
5. I tried to start a Discord / Matrix group but it hasn't really taken off yet. So I mostly communicate on-wiki.
6. Yes to both questions. I use dozens of tools, too many to list. But you can see my scripts at w:User:Habst/common.js and at my user page.
In my scripts on enwiki or global (don't remember which) there is "instantSave", you might find it relevant to point 1 and 2, just (I didn't figure out how to switch to the old editor here on this wiki). I will check out your scripts thanks.
Can I ping you if there is a new draft about athletics here? Only athletics or any sport? Maybe it will be once or twice a year and your help would be very welcomed.
I know I'm requesting those closures earlier than two weeks after the self-noms, but I just saw a suggestion of an early close in one of them. George Ho (talk) 16:17, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Acagastya asked (at their talk page) for you to press some buttons so I can re-connect with my email account over there. I've totally lost my password for that account and imagine I have ten million emails.--Bddpaux (talk) 02:44, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Nice to meet you. What are your favourite topics and regions?
A few points:
We had a "main reviewer" on duty usually, or a few,who could review anything. I was not one of them. I don't tolerate US politics or sports. I also usually,for last 10 years, unable to review anything that is not very short. My contribution was mainly elaborating how to improve a draft to make it more likely to pass a review. (Speaking in modern terms from water cooler, I was and am able to function as a pre-reviewer, but not as a full reviewer unless the story is in my focus area. My focus areas include Australia region, and science-and-technology topic.)
This year my activity reduced due to my personal circumstances.
I reviewed one draft this week and I will try to gradually increase my activity in the next several weeks.
Hope it helps and I am happy to help you further in case you have additional questions or suggestions.
@Gryllida Hi, you mentioned you are reasonably active on IRC. Where? I could ping you if there is a science/tech article (I might write on soon by the way) or a short article if we just quickly need an admin/reviewer, and if you are available you could help. It would be nice to not need to wait 3-4 weeks for anything to happen... Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 23:14, 25 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 2 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I was just probably being a bit ornery that day! Ha! That paragraph just hit me as having an odd tempo to it, really. Probably the name of the spacecraft itself.--Bddpaux (talk) 18:53, 3 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 2 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion
I would love to review this article, but the notes were sent to Scoop -- I cannot access my WN email account. That is a major problem. This has to be rectified.--Bddpaux (talk) 18:19, 5 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
I have been trying to reach Acagastya for two weeks to get access to the mail server now.
Apologies for the delay. He provided me access but I did not setup my access to it from all my devices. One of my devices died and we have this situation now.
Internally we should have a Wikinewsie/wn-reporters wiki. We had one before. It could be good to put cell numbers of key users with privileged access into such an internal wiki one day. Would you agree?
Latest comment: 2 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
In written form this may come across as snitty (so please don't take it that way) -- but as a Reviewer (Editor), I don't think one really needs to be familiar with a topic to review/publish an article appertaining... one just needs to know the rules about what does/doesn't work around here. Don't want to scold you for not reviewing something, while I am busily not reviewing it myself -- I am just curious about your thinking.--Bddpaux (talk) 00:30, 17 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Bddpaux I find myself more successful in digging sources, for hours at times, for some topics but not for others. Weather and crime events, and local news, are in the former category. I find it unfortunately very difficult to work outside of this small list of topics. I don't, for example, know, nor can remember quickly, that WHO has a chairperson or some structure in it that votes on things; I can easily misuse or misplace their names. Reviewing a story with new vocabulary takes me two or three times as much time (which is my current environment comes in blocks of 5 minutes, rather often not a whole free hour, not to mention two, due the surrounding noise.) I don't know whether that's normal or not. It would be interesting for me to know whether other reviewers have such stronger and weaker topics also, or not. I am happy to clarify as desired. Gryllida (talk) 10:32, 17 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
News or article is delayed from publishing till now, why?
3. To use the file in a wiki, copy this text into a page:
File:Art Outreach - Portrait Study Drawing by Igwe Imo miracle.jpgA portrait study drawing by Igwe Imo miracle during the Art Outreach organized by Creative Arts Solution Foundation curated by Olusola David, Ayibiowu on 8th May 2024. A visual arts students from Lagos City Senior College.Sabo, Yaba, Lagos.
6. To use the file in a wiki, copy this text into a page:
File:Art Outreach - Reptail Drawing by Balogun Abdullahi.jpgArt Outreach Reptail Drawing by Balogun Abdullahi during the Art Outreach organized by Creative Arts Solution Foundation curated by Olusola David, Ayibiowu on 8th May 2024. A science students
If you install sip (linphone home page has a 'sign up' link in page footer and app is free/libre/open source) you can call me to get immediate attention. Not even needed to talk just to make a buzz. This is breaking news and it needs quick attention. Gryllida (talk) 18:42, 9 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
This VRTS who is presently handling the VRT doesn’t seem to understand the Approval from Lagos State Government that covers all the Art Outreach drawings that was submitted
I have sent a freely license letterhead from the Creative Arts Foundation.
Please, this is urgent, intervene in the license issue with vRT permission. Because l sent all the license documents and permission to use all the drawings. Till now the VRT is insisting on refusing the license of drwawings. What can I do? EduEditorsNG (talk) 06:29, 12 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
You need to contact the students and them to sign a document like this.
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I hereby affirm that I, name, am the creator of the attached drawings, and have legal authority in my capacity to release the copyright of that work.
I agree to publish the above-mentioned content under the free license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.
I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites.
I am aware that I always retain the copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
I appreciate your support. I will work on the Declarations of consent for all enquirers above that you sent to me. Please let me know if parental consent may or may not is required. EduEditorsNG (talk) 21:44, 13 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
From: Eniola Daniel.
To The : VRTS
Wikimedia Commons.
Dear/Madam,
Declaration of consent for all enquiries:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
I hereby affirm that I, Eniola Daniel l am the creator of the attached drawings,
and have legal authority in my capacity to release the copyright of that work.
I agree to publish the aboyve-mentioned content under the free license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.
I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites.
I am aware that I always retain the copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
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Please, l need two active Wikimedians to join our Wikimedians of Art Outreach Users group. Very urgent. Please help me to recommend two active editors for our User Group?
Can you update the sitenotice (the banner at the top of all pages that currently says "Wikinews is written by people like you..." to point to the open poll and encourage people to discuss and vote on it? It is an urgent vote on a long-standing project.
w:Thunderbird, please test for both receiving and sending emails
once working please let me know and send screenshot of your settings to @Michael.C.Wright as he got email access ages ago but is not able to send emails
Latest comment: 4 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Recently you said this at WN:AAA[1]: Thank you for your help AramilFeraxa. For Michael.C.Wright's reference, I am a local sysop and I may be able to assist quickly, I only need clearer instructions what needs to be done and up to two days to respond. Seems like a non urgent issue and I had no idea what steps are needed. If anything is needed in future a request can be made here with specific instructions.
Are you suggesting that I did not give local admins an opportunity to take action on the request? I initially made the request at AAA six days ago, explicitly so that any admin, whether global or local (yourself included), could respond. However, no local admin addressed it until after a global sysop stepped in to assist.
It is counter-productive to ask global sysops to step back when local admins are not addressing the workload. We have been requesting assistance from local admins since July[2]] to make necessary edits to edit-protected pages for the upgrade project, and those tasks still remain unfinished.
If your schedule does not permit making the edits yourself, could you consider temporarily removing or downgrading the edit protection on the listed[3] pages? That would allow me to complete the changes and move the project forward.
It isn't Wikipedia, if it is not vandalism then waiting more than six days is fine. I would have seen the message eventually. Possibly on a weekend.
I am not sure how I am supposed to follow the page. I managed to subscribe to receive notifications about recent changes by joining 'en.wikinews' live chat on Wikimedia IRC network. There is a bot that outputs each recent change. However, this is too much for me to read on my busier days. It would be nice if there was a way to receive notifications of new edits on-wiki, with each notification being given a priority (for example, messages which ping me or are on my personal talk page or are on AAA are 'very high'; messages or edits to articles I watch are 'high'; everything else is 'average'). I haven't seen any way how this can be achieved. So my responses are spotty for now and I welcome any assistance in the setup.
For the above reason, highlighting me or leaving me a message could help. (I'm two weeks behind on my echo notifications, but yet this is going to likely be something that I read among first items on my list when I am less busy.)
I don't know what you want me to do. One option is to downgrade protection. What is the other option? What edits can I possibly make myself? The link in "downgrading the edit protection on the listed[3] page" contains a long discussion and does not include a list of pages I can immediately act on.
Comment Looking at the older discussions at WN:Requests for permissions/Bureaucrat, the general length seems to have been about two weeks.
Gryllida (talk) 15:15, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
