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Import gadgets from enwiktionary to fawiktionary

Status: In progress

Hello, I was fixing on the fa:hello, and during the comparing between the hello and the fa:hello, I see Show/Hide Toggles for header Template:trans-top in fawiktionary is disable.

In Template:trans-top because the following two gadgets is enable for everyone by default, Toggles in header of Template:trans-top is displayed.

I have a request that a admin import MediaWiki:Gadget-VisibilityToggles.js and MediaWiki:Gadget-defaultVisibilityToggles.js to MediaWiki:Gadget-VisibilityToggles.js and MediaWiki:Gadget-defaultVisibilityToggles.js , and so add required configs for definitions these two gadget from en:definition to fa:definition.

Beginneruser (Talk) 22:53, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Help me?! Beginneruser (Talk) 22:12, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(non-steward comment) Please ask @Ahmad252 for help, since fawikt has local interface admin. Stang 22:24, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Stang,

I make a request import in this topic, But because all admin in this project are not very active, Me create a request in Meta.

Please if you have access help to me. Beginneruser (Talk) 22:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I add new topic in user talk page of Ahmad252, I wait a week for to answer me. Beginneruser (Talk) 21:13, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Beginneruser: Just a quick message to let you know we've seen this 🙂 if you don't hear back from Ahmad252, a global interface administrator can take a look at this if there is sufficient local consensus — TNT (talk • she/her) 20:39, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My sincere apologies for the delay. For some reason, I didn't get an email notification until after TheresNoTime's ping. I'll check right away. Thanks for your patience and for notifying me! Ahmad^talk 21:02, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Ahmad252, @Stang

Ahmad help me in wikt:fa:Special:PermaLink/844777 and wikt:fa:Special:PermaLink/844763

Pleas close and archive my request. Beginneruser (Talk) 23:22, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @TheresNoTime,

Ahmad252 answered me

Thanks. Beginneruser (Talk) 00:08, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@TheresNoTime and @Stang Hi again

I have a request

I already joined to Small wiki toolkits teams and me created a main page template for fa.wiktionary similar fr.wiktionary, Now i want add this template to main page but user interface administrator (@Ahmad252) of fa.wiktionary did not answer me.

You can help to me for adding the main page template to main page of fa.wiktionary. Beginneruser (Talk) 18:11, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@TheresNoTime Please help me. Beginneruser (Talk) 06:22, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"fake namespace" at mhrwiki

Status: In progress

Moved from GSR.

Please nuke w:mhr:Special:PrefixIndex/Викиувер: OOS/No useful content. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 19:02, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to be an improvised namespace for a Wikinews subproject. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:48, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any policy or consensus on this matter? NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 19:56, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

alswiki has a similar project. I suppose there was consensus given the number of pages, but not sure if that's sufficient to request the namespace to be actually created on Phabricator. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:02, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

According to w:mhr:Category:Викиувер, some of them were even created in Wikipedia namespace. I can't find any discussions that mention Викиувер; would you mind asking some local users (in Russian)? NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 20:23, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:31, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nearly three weeks have passed. Given that this page is only for non-controversial requests, those article can probably be left there for now. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 15:54, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder whether this is sufficient to create a Phab task. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:32, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

They should definitely be imported to Incubator, but, given that no comments were left at the discussion you started, it is likely that they will continue creating such articles. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 21:15, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Moving this from GSR to SRM for further consideration, since this is no longer a simple request. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 00:01, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks. Pinging users who are active at mhrwiki recently: @Frhdkazan and VolnyiLev. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 00:25, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I think they can be moved to existing namespace for now. It can be something like 'Wikipedia/wikinews/PAGENAME'. From there, community can decided what to do with those. Right now, I don't think we need a new namespace, and it's not up to us to decide that anyway. The community should get a consensus for a new namespace to be created.--BRP^ever 00:36, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose the fact the namespace is de facto used is some kind of consensus. I don't think WP namespace is really appropriate for them though (only a few are currently located there, more likely on accident). ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 09:50, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion requests at tkwiki

Status: In progress

Hello, in tkwiki needs the page tk:К:Википедия:Статьи с источниками из Викиданных deletion. Also it needs to be put out from Templates (or Modules). Because it makes problems in template like in tk:Nýu-Ýork şäheri. TayfunEt. (talk) 09:27, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Styyx is a local sysop. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 02:28, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

1234qwer1234qwer4 I had deleted the template last midnight. The second problem however, isn't something I can resolve. The infobox used on tk:Nýu-Ýork şäheri is tk:Şablon:IN, created by a former sysop and probably based on something on ruwiki. I don't know why, but whenever the infobox is used, "К:Википедия:Статьи с источниками из Викиданных" seems to pop up at a few parameters (1, 2, 3) and sometimes none at all (1). Google translate say that it's a category, but it ends up inside the infobox, not at the end of the article. ~Styyx^{Talk? ^-^} 09:47, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Styyx, this comes from tk:Module:Sources. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 00:14, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Crap, stuff that is even more technical? ~Styyx^{Talk? ^-^} 00:17, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You only need to change the part where the category is attempted to be included. I changed the namespace prefix for now so it doesn't show up as a redlink within the infobox at least. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 12:53, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Policy tags

I noticed that a relative newbie, who seems to have recently asked the Stewards to unblock them on their home wiki, also added Template:Global policy to some pages here at Meta-Wiki, including the Stewards policy. This seems like a bad idea, but maybe this one actually is a global policy? Global policy doesn't exist, so I can't find a definition. Some other pages with this tag, like Requests for comment/Policy, also include a link to an RFC or other formal decision about the page's status. What do you think? WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:42, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Revert cross-wiki edits and block crosswiki single track account

Status: Not done

Bùi Trần Mạnh Thông [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits] is currently erasing all information about Vietnam being a part of The East Asian cultural sphere, across multiple wikis. I believe that these edits are not in good faith, partly because of the removal of citations to articles discussing the subject in peer-reviewed journals. The user is replacing these with an opinion article that, as far as I see, does not reach the same standard of reliableness.
Citations partly removed from enwp article, supporting Vietnam as a part of The East Asian cultural sphere:

Yang, Edward (2015). Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History. w:en:Cambridge University Press. pp. 67–92. ISBN 9781139161855. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139161855.
Lowe, Roy; Yasuhara, Yoshihito (2016). "Higher learning in ancient Korea, Japan and Vietnam: The East Asian cultural sphere and the Imperial Chinese". The Origins of Higher Learning. w:en:Routledge. ISBN 9781315728551.

Citation added to viwp article:

http://redsvn.net/van-hoa-viet-nam-mang-thuoc-tinh-dong-a-hay-dong-nam-a2/

At the very least, these changes needs to be discussed before removing the information across several wikis, as it (as stated) has citations to back up the claims across several of these wikis. --Adjoka (talk) 11:48, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The block has been instated as of 12:00 (UTC). Manual revert in progess. --Adjoka (talk) 13:13, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Converting redundant to notdone since bot doesn't seem to understand redundant. — regards, Revi 07:39, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion request on viwikiquote

Status: In progress

Please help delete all the pages that are in this category, they are the ones that need to be speedily deleted. Unfortunately, viwikiquote doesn't have any admins except the Abuse filter. Thanks a lot -- MagicalNight97 (talk) 12:38, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @MagicalNight97, thanks for your request! I reviewed some of the pages.

In case you're interested in acquiring adminship at vi.wikiquote, you can do that by making a request at q:vi:Wikiquote:Bảo quản viên (and after a week, ask a steward to evaluate the request at SRP). This will let you to delete similar pages yourself, without having to wait for a steward or a global sysop.

Best, Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:11, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Import gadgets from enwiktionary to fawiktionary

"fake namespace" at mhrwiki

Deletion requests at tkwiki

Policy tags

Revert cross-wiki edits and block crosswiki single track account

Deletion request on viwikiquote

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