Has anyone else got this weird message, a pseudo-phishing attack?
I love how they call me an "active administrator", when I don't really
edit terribly much anymore, let alone administrate very much.
Nick
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From: Saynotoarbcomclique <wikifreedomfighter(a)googlemail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:34 PM
Subject: Wikipedia e-mail
To: Zanimum <nicholasmoreau(a)gmail.com>
Dear active administrator,
As an advanced user here at wikipedia, I am sure you are familiar with
the corruption and bureaucracy that exists at every level, with the
site effectively being run by a clique of editors who are only looking
out for their own interests. Heck, maybe you are one of them!
Hopefully though you are not, and would be willing to help us restore
fairness and integrity to the project...
We are currently expanding our portfolio of administrator accounts and
perhaps you could consider sharing yours with us - to do so will take
you only two minutes: change the password (if desired) and then reply
to this email with your login details. We'll do the rest!
Thank you for your time and consideration, and naturally do not
hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Kind Regards,
The Wikipedia Freedom Fighters
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Hello,
though I always admire Wikiversity and other community members'
sincere interest and effort,
the RfC "Remove Founder flag" looks to me too rush and poorly
designed. The page appears now
a sort of poll that page has never been designed so (btw: I'm the one
who initiated that page on meta,
but it is another story). Even if it is a right thing for us to have
such a vote, since Founder flag is concerned
with all WMF wikis, not only of Wikiversity, should it be designed as
careful as other global right related ones,
like global sysop or stewards? Otherwise, it would be seen as poor
overreaction people might not take it serious,
and hate to even respond. Rushness won't give out any goodness.
Cheers,
--
KIZU Naoko
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese)
Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD
As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update.
This week we've seen a lot of helpful testing from at least 15 people,
and we'd love to see more before launch.
To participate, start here:
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
To see what we've changed this week, there's a list here:
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Flagged_Protection_upd…
To see the upcoming work, it's listed in our tracker, under Current and
Backlog:
http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/46157
There will likely be more work than that before launch as user feedback
comes in; we just added a number of items based on tester feedback. But
if this week's feedback is any guide, we don't appear to have much major
work remaining.
We expect to release again next week, and each week thereafter until
this goes live on the English Wikipedia.
William
Began!
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language_issues
If you have any further suggestions or comments, they are very welcome.
Please use either the
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Portuguese_language_issues#English>English
or
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Portuguese_language_issues#Portugu.C3.A…>Portuguese
sections of the
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Portuguese_language_issues>talk
page for debate.
Thank you all so very much.
Sincerely,
Virgilio A. P. Machado
At 23:41 24-03-2010, you wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Virgilio A. P.
>Machado <vam(a)fct.unl.pt> wrote: > Mark, > > A
>page in the Portuguese Wikipedia could shut
>out > the community at large. A bilingual page
>would be > very hard to pull off. As far as I
>can tell, > non-Portuguese discussions are not
>welcomed there. > > I looked at Meta and saw no
>place for a page like > that. Could you be more
>specific? > > That's why I brought the question
>to the list: I > really don't know where a
>discussion like that > could take place within
>the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. > >
>Going back to my initial posting: > > «Perhaps
>the question is not the creation of a > new
>version of Wikipedia, but to make the >
>Portuguese Wikipedia appealing to all readers
>and > writers (editors) of the Portuguese
>language. > There might be solutions and
>proposals to address > this problem which have
>been kept from seeing the > light of day, for
>untold reasons. > > It might be worthwhile to
>open a page where the > discussion could be
>centralized.» > > Like Chad pointed out, even
>within this > discussion, there have been posts
>suggesting > several helpful rules and technical
>approaches. > Solutions from different projects
>could be > brought together and would be
>available for all > those where they might be
>useful. This would make > the discussion less
>specific to the Portuguese > Wikipedia but more
>valuable to the Wikimedia > community. Even with
>that broader scope I don't > know where to
>start. If there's not already a > place like
>that, where would it appropriate to create
>one? > > Sincerely, > > Virgilio A. P.
>Machado > > > At 17:44 24-03-2010, you
>wrote: >>I think there are two options: Meta and
>pt.wp itself. My personal opinion is >>that it
>does not need to be bilingual, but that is of
>course up to you. >> >>On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at
>5:17 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado
><vam(a)fct.unl.pt>wrote: >> >> > Thanks Chad. I
>know that, but what kind of page (what title)?
>Where? >> > Would it be alright to be
>bilingual? >> > >> > Sincerely, >> > >> >
>Virgilio A. P. Machado >> > >> > >> > At 23:25
>23-03-2010, you wrote: >> > >It requires you to
>take initiative to start the page and try to
>draw >> > >others into a discussion. You don't
>need anyone's permission to do >> > >that. Also,
>I think it was (briefly) glossed over before,
>but there >> > >/is/ the Language Converter code
>in MediaWiki that could be >> > >leveraged to
>help some here. I don't think it's necessarily a
>magic >> > >bullet, but it's worth exploring. I
>know nothing in Portuguese, so I >> > >don't
>really grasp how widespread the discrepancies
>are, but I >> > >assume there's rules to
>describe them. Social solutions are
>also >> > >helpful, like the aforementioned
>American/British and Cyrillic/Latin >> > >issues
>mentioned earlier in the thread. A combination
>of social and >> > >technical solutions might
>just help bring some closure to
>this >> > >issue.
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> > For lack of anywhere else, start it up at
>[[Portuguese language issues]] or something. I'm
>not a regular metapedian, so there might be a
>better place--I just can't think of a *specific*
>place offhand. -Chad
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Hello,
at moment there are some problems with the Wikiversity and Jimbo Wales.
To centralize the discussion I have created a page on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikiversity/Problems
I hope that that the persons belong to this problem involve in the
discussion.
Viele Grüße
Jan Luca Naumann
Admin on de.wikiversity