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Adminship

Hi Legoktm! Are you by any chance interested in running for adminship? I noticed you while patrolling CAT:CSD and from my quick look it seems you are more than ready. If you like I can do a more in-depth review of your contribs, and if everything looks good, I can nominate you. Let me know what you think. Best — Mr. Stradivarius 09:48, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Go for it Lego. You've got my support.—cyberpower _{Limited Access} 14:06, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I had already talked to a few other editors about doing an RfA rather soon, I guess I'll go poke them again. Though if you do have some free time and are willing to take a look, I would appreciate it :)

And thanks Cyber :) Legoktm (talk) 18:56, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Just to let you know, the kerfluffle about username policy would lead to an "oppose" from me right now (✉→BWilkins←✎) 19:56, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Kerflufle about username policy? When?—cyberpower _Online 22:21, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

See above. He answered a helpme totally wrong, got a new editor totally mixed up ... they ended up filing an RFC/N which meant a lot more work for others. Basics like the username policy are, like, basic. (✉→BWilkins←✎) 23:48, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Admins aren't expected to be perfect... I wonder how many admins are aware that email addresses are no longer permitted. --Rschen7754 00:14, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Just going to footnote that even though I've been an admin for over 7 years, I still have to glance over policies a lot of the time (especially considering that several came well after I passed RFA). What matters more is how an admin responds to a mistake, in my book. As long as they have proved themselves reasonably competent, we don't expect perfection; we expect admins to be teachable. --Rschen7754 08:08, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, admins who don't learn from their mistakes are what are bad. Everyone makes mistakes, basic, complex, large, small... it's a wiki. We fix them, we learn, we move on, and we do not bite people for honest mistakes when they are acting in good faith, even if they broke the entire site. It's only if they don't learn that it becomes an issue, which is why it's also good to see a potential candidate make mistakes ahead of time so we have some idea if that's going to happen when it can really matter. -— Isarra ༆ 08:45, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Hence the words "right now" at the end of my sentence. (✉→BWilkins←✎) 10:09, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

And yet the matter in question was already handled, and relatively well, I'd say. -— Isarra ༆ 18:07, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

@Bwilkins: I'm sorry a mistake like that would lead to an oppose from you. I wasn't aware that my mistake led to more work by others, if there's anyway I can reduce that please let me know. At least one positive thing came out of all of that, I spent a good amount of time reading and re-reading the username policy the other day, so I can safely say I won't make a mistake like that again :) Legoktm (talk) 07:54, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

• Hi! You've got mail. :) — Mr. Stradivarius 11:40, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

  Hello again. Did you have a think about what I said in that email? Let me know what conclusion you come to. Best — Mr. Stradivarius 08:30, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

  Sorry, I've been a bit busy IRL. Responded back. Legoktm (talk) 12:31, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Hegins

• Hegins, Pennsylvania

Hello, when you say not available to anyone else, does this mean, no one can view them? Sorry I'm still new at this, just making sure. Do I need another reference? Thanks for the input. βrỴḇṛỹ1999 (talk) 10:28, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Ok I figured it out, I believe you were meaning, that my reference just went to the home page, but then you had to search from there. I figured it out. βrỴḇṛỹ1999 (talk) 10:48, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Yup, thanks for fixing it :) Legoktm (talk) 12:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

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Question

What's Wikimedia I? A google search didn't turn up anything for me. Also the noticeboard is designed to support English Misplaced Pages requests for WMF attention/collaboration, not Wikimedia in whole. Biosthmors (talk) 05:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

• It's the Wikimedia mailing list, see this for more info. Legoktm (talk) 05:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
• If it's only for the english Misplaced Pages, would you propose also having one on every other language and project that the WMF community liaisons would need to follow as well? -— Isarra ༆ 07:17, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #43

• Development
  • Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Misplaced Pages ( )
  • Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
  • Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
  • Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
  • Working on property parser function for the client
  • Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
  • Resumed work on linked data interface
  • References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
  • Several minor user interface fixes
  • Styling of the user interface for statements
  • Selenium tests for references
  • Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
  • Worked on puppet
• Discussions/Press
  • Abuse filter guidelines
  • Policy on properties
  • First external tool for output in RDF: and
  • Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
• Events
  • We’ve set the date for the next office hours
  • upcoming: FOSDEM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
  • Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Misplaced Pages for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
• Open Tasks for You
  • Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
  • Hack on one of these