MJL

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Better late than never! Nihlus 21:05, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Nihlus, lmao thank you! ;D ―MJL -Talk-^☖ 21:07, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Your signature

Just an FYI but you may want to change your signature to –<span style="font-family:CG Times">[[w:User:MJL|<span style="color:black">MJL</span>]] [[w:User talk:MJL|‐'''Talk'''‐]]<sup>[[w:WP:CONN|☖]]</sup></span> if you want to point the links to enwiki. Take out the w: if you want them to point to Meta pages. Nihlus 22:08, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Nihlus, ah. Thank you. It's all fixed now. Now, all that is left to do is apply it to all the different Wiki's~! Many thanks, –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 22:14, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Interwiki redirect

You can use this code to make a soft interwiki redirect to your enwiki user page: {{Interwiki redirect|en:User:MJL}}. -★- PlyrStar93 _{→Message me. ←} 16:30, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

PlyrStar93, ah; Thank you! That is precisely what I was looking for!! –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 16:35, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikisource:News: April 2019 Edition

The monthly newsletter from English Wikisource monthly newsletter; Wikisource:News, which seeks to be informative of Wikimedia's entire multilingual Wikisource community.

• From the Editors: Volume 3 confirmed
• Xover nominated to be admin
• Administrator confirmations for April 2019
• Wikisource — A Wikipedia project
• WikiProject Spotlight: WikiProject Validate

Read this issue of Wikisource:News · Discussion · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 05:41, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Note to self

this –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 15:57, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

Request

Hey! Can you check out my latest project proposal?---> Wikihistoric Arep Ticous 17:51, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

@Arepticous: Wow that is so funny you caught me at the exact moment I was finishing up the fifth version of my userpage. Could you explain for me the differences between this proposal and Wikisource, though? I'm a bit confused on that front. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:55, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikihistoric is a free historical handbook made for distribution archaeological knowledge. It contains historical facts, articles, and all the other things. Arep Ticous 17:58, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

@Arepticous: So like an w:almanac? Where would the facts be sourced to? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 18:01, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Yes... like the almanac... What do you mean by where the facts would be sourced to? Arep Ticous 09:50, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

@Arepticous: Where would contributors get the historical facts for the project? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 15:14, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Books, wikipedia... Arep Ticous 17:36, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

@Arepticous: I'm sorry if my questions make you feel discouraged... I don't intend for that to be the case. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 18:09, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

WikiDirect

Hello again MJL! can you check out this new proposal? its called WikiDirect. I got this idea right after Wikihistoric, can you maybe take a look and give me your opinion? Arep Ticous 05:46, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Belated holiday greetings

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Belated Merry Christmas and happy new year.
↠Pine (✉) 23:13, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Wikisource Pagelist Widget - First Iteration Feedback

Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce that Wikisource Pagelist Widget is now available on Beta Wikisource. We need your help in testing the widget and providing feedback.

You can test the widget by editing the following Index page on Beta Wikisource:

https://en.wikisource.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Index:War_and_Peace.djvu

There is a new ‘Preview pagelist’ button under the pagelist field. Click it to get a preview, and then click on any page number in the preview to open the widget.

You can also create a fresh Index Page for any other PDF or DjVu from Wikimedia Commons and test it.

We need your feedback on the following questions:

• What is your general opinion about the Pagelist Widget?
• Is it obvious how to use the widget? If not, what is difficult to understand?
• What other changes would you like to suggest in order to improve the widget further?

Please provide your feedback on the Project Talk Page on Meta-Wiki.

P.S. - The widget doesn’t work on Local Uploads in Beta Wikisource as of now (due to phab:T257807).

Regards

SGill (WMF) (talk)

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:51, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Scots mainpage

Hi MJL, I think there's some rather egregious vandalism on the Scots Wikipedia main page. I'm on mobile at the moment so can't fix it myself even if I tried. Could you take a look? Wugapodes (talk) 02:27, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Wugapodes yeah, I will protect the main page now. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 02:29, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Scots main page banner & idea

Hello, Wasn't sure where to put this, because I can't speak Scots, but if you were going to add a banner to the main page about the recent fiasco, it might be worth having a link to a separate page with a couple FAQs (linking to the RfC, explaining how we are trying to resolve the issue) as well as to the RfC directly. (I mentioned this on Discord but wasn't sure if you saw so figured I'd put it on Meta for the record.) I can draft an FAQ page here on Meta in my userspace if you think it would be helpful. Regards, Giraffer (talk) 17:35, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

@Giraffer: Please do! –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:40, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

On it now! Giraffer (talk) 17:41, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Request

Hi MJL. First, I would like to apologise for referring to you as she instead of they. You gendered yourself on Reddit, and I only learned today that you have more specific preferences.

In any case, would you please try to obtain community consensus before collapsing/archiving conversations to which I have contributed? You've done this almost ten times now. How would you feel if I had done the same to you? James Salsman (talk) 04:09, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

@James Salsman: You are mistaken if you believe I had a hand in collapsing/archiving your comments. That was SnowFire, then it was Zoozaz1. However, I do fully agree with their decision to hide them as they were clearly off-topic non-sequiturs on American politics. People are trying to discuss specific matters, and you are sort of trying to set a different agenda here.
Either way, I had not noticed you had misgendered me. If that was the case, I guess I am a little surprised considering my preferred pronouns are on my global user page. Still, I won't hold it against you and thank you for being kind enough to apologize for it. That seriously means a lot. :) –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 07:52, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Do you ever suppose I may be trying to help you out of this mess? [1]? James Salsman (talk) 05:46, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

@James Salsman: Nope, and you aren't qualified to help. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 06:19, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

The omwt barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For doing as well as anyone would be expected to do under the conditions you found yourself in, even if the less patient among us found it slightly lacking in a few respects. James Salsman (talk) 04:56, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Requests for comment/Global ban of James Salsman

Hi MJL, I just wanted to let you know that en:WP:OUT redirects to en:Wikipedia:Alternative outlets. It appears that you were looking for en:WP:OUTING (which could be piped to still be the same text). I was going to fix it for you, but thought that I best just leave you a note about it. Best, TheSandDoctor ^Talk 17:51, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

en:WP:DOX is also an alternative redirect to WP:OUTING if you preferred for flow. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 17:52, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: Oof, rookie mistake. I'll fix it; thank you! –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 19:04, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

You're welcome! I'm happy to help --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 19:27, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

IRC

Can you join again? Need some clarification --DannyS712 (talk) 03:50, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

User:Cliverbot

I saw, that you're operating a bot on wikidata, that has not been approved and that does not provide any information about its task. This appears to be in violation of wikidata:WD:Bots policy. It looks like your bot is somehow related to Requests for comment/Large scale language inaccuracies on the Scots Wikipedia. I didn't request it to be blocked, but please request the Botflag over here as soon as possible. Thank you very much -- Dr.üsenfieber (talk) 23:37, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

You've got mail

--DannyS712 (talk) 18:48, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

@DannyS712: responded. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:21, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, already read it DannyS712 (talk) 20:22, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Mail

Naleksuh (talk) 20:11, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

@Naleksuh: responded. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:21, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Worried

MJL, honestly, as an uninvolved editor in this matter, I'm concerned as to why you need to "chase" Nomad from there to there and to here. You don't need to chase someone who opposed your proposal with a fairly reasonable rationale to their talk page... --Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 13:24, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

@Jeromi Mikhael: There is no chasing anyone. I was trying to explain, in a more private setting, that Nomad should seek to ban the sock puppet sleeper accounts. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 16:33, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Understood, thanks. --Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 22:41, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikisource OCR

Hello, I have an account at the german Wikisource and would like to publish books in the font Fraktur, which have lost their copyright due to age. Most of the old german books were set in this font. I have already scanned the books as *.pdf and would need OCR now. Now I have read about your proposal. Since I am not a developer, I hardly understand anything of the text and also not the linked pages like Phabricator. Therefore I would like to ask:

1. Does your request only refer to the english Wikisource, but also to the german one?
2. Are you asking for software that provides OCR for Wikisource users who have already scanned the book? If so, that is what I am looking for and I would like to say thank you for the proposal.
3. In your proposal you write: "Who would benefit: Any Wikisource contributor working from a scanned text without a pre-existing OCR layer." I do not understand "OCR layer". Does that mean that the user has already scanned the book but has not yet done OCR?
4. Would the software support the Font Fraktur?
5. Is this software used online or installed locally on the computer of the Wikisource users?
6. Would the use of the software require an account at a third party such as Google, Apple or Facebook?
7. If the software is used online, how would this work? Could I simply upload a *.pdf and then download the result of the OCR? Or is this more complex and do I need special or even developer knowledge to operate it? Would the software run on Wikimedia server?
8. Maybe more people would sign your proposal if it was not only understandable for developers.

I would be happy about an answer.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.150.170.95 (talk) 05:34, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

I am looking for any new OCR tool which works across languages. Something that would help a user read a pdf (or similar) and automatically have the text extracted from it. Does that make more sense? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 15:37, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Global templates

Hi!

I'm writing this because some time ago you supported the Wikitemplates proposal.

That proposal appears to be inactive, but I wrote a very similar and more detailed proposal called Global templates.

Can you please read the proposal (it's translated to several langauges!), and if it sounds good, to support it by adding your signature at the page mw:Global templates/Discuss?

Thank you! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:29, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Ad:Requests for comment/Global ban for Kubura/wikis

Ad:Requests for comment/Global ban for Kubura/wikis

Hi. If you don't mind me asking, did you fetch that list from anywhere in this site? From time to time, Meta users pick the wrong Village Pump address on plwiktionary as in this case: wikt:pl:Special:Diff/7471765. Wikisłownik:Bar became a disambig page a few years ago, the notice for this particular matter should have landed here. I wonder if there is another "master" list that we need to update. By the way, there has never been a Kubura user active on plwikt, the notice should have targeted Kubura2 instead (the same applies at least to eswikt, too). Kind regards, Peter Bowman (talk) 10:06, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

@Peter Bowman: I got it from Wikidata. Also, I forgot about the second account when we were drafting the message. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 16:42, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I think you need to see this Kubura response from here [2]? People should see this, as that is his defence. Kanikosen (talk) 19:27, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

@Kanikosen: Yeah, it's pretty bigoted to say that Sakretsu can't act impartially because they're Italian. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 21:48, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021: Invitation

The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on 30 November, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 December and 21 December.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:25, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.

In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.

We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

16:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Wiki of Functions followup

Hi there, I'm a researcher for the Wikilambda project. Last month we held a naming contest and I'm following up with those who voted to see if you might be willing to provide some feedback to help guide the project.

This would be a 45 minute conversation about your past experience with other Wikimedia projects and thoughts about the future of this new initiative. I'm hoping to gather a wide range of perspectives so I'd be interested in your opinion regardless of whether you plan to have further involvement.

As a way of saying thanks, the research team is offering a $35 gift card (in your local currency) for participation. We could chat by phone or through a website for audio conferencing.

If you're interested just pick a time slot from this calendar link:
https://wikilambda-voter.youcanbook.me

Hope to hear from you soon!

// jeff (design researcher) (talk) 17:40, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Share your feedback on the OCR improvements!

Hello, everyone! We (the team responsible for the Community Wishlist Survey) have just launched the project for OCR improvements! With this project, we aim to improve the experience of using OCR tools on Wikisource. Please refer to our project page, which provides a full summary of the project and the main problem areas that we have identified.

We would then love if you could answer the questions below. Your feedback is incredibly important to us and it will directly impact the choices we make. Thank you in advance, and we look forward to reading your feedback!

SGrabarczuk (WMF) 17:48, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Wednesday July 28: Wikispore Day Unconference

Wikispore Day 0, the picnic that partially inspired Wikispore.

Wikispore Day 1, last year

The second anniversary of Wikispore Day, observed on July 28, 2020, marks twenty-four months from the conceptual sprouting of the Wikispore idea from the Strategy Wiknic in NYC, which was held on July 14, 2019.

You are invited to participate in a virtual unconference for this year!

Wednesday July 28:

• Main Unconference (more details at wikispore:Wikispore Day)

• 12:00–2:00 pm (New York City time)
• (16:00–18:00 UTC/GMT, 18:00–20:00 Berlin)

• Social Hour

• 6:00-7:00 (New York City time)

Since Wikispore is probably the only Wikimedia project to be born at a picnic, you are encouraged to participate from a socially-distanced green space outdooors if possible.

• Register on Eventbrite
• Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vsg-mxiw-hij --Pharos (talk) 18:40, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikisporadic Newsletter: August 2021

Wikisporadic, an Occasional Newsletter for our Germinating Community.

• The Wikipore Day Unconference was held in July, with about 20 participants - see etherpad. A suggested path forward is the "movement tactic" of regular collaborations, like a Spore of the Month or a Feature of the Fortnight.
• Some newer proposed projects at Wikispore: STARDIT (using mw:Extension:Cargo), Works Spore, WikiCite. (Comment on their talk pages!)
• On Saturday August 14, there will be a Wikimania lightning talk on Wikispore and Innovating Free Knowledge at 18:10 - 18:20 UTC, followed a few minutes later by an unconference group session for Wikimedians Innovating New Genres.

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for the Wikisporadic Newsletter by adding or removing your name from this list.)

Feedback on any of these items is welcomed at your friendly Wikispore Greenhouse!

--Pharos 19:48, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Pharos: Feedback given. :) –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 01:40, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

I wanted to take a moment and thank you for your support and very kind words. Operator873 ^connect 21:37, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

UCoC enforcement

I just wanted to say I hope you aren't taking any of this personally. I am fairly outraged by some provisions of the enforcement guidelines, but I do appreciate that you have been pretty much the only person to respond to these concerns. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:34, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

@Beeblebrox: Don't worry, I'm not taking any of it personally! I'm looking to get more info about the training, so I had to stop responding for a bit. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 04:35, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Cool. That is certainly a big part of the issue some people have here, there's substantial grey areas. I am struggling to think of who would even be qualified to give training on how to enforce a brand-new global policy. "Block people who are being jerks" is already standard procedure on most projects anyway. Beeblebrox (talk) 04:43, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

UCOC enforcement after April 2022?

Hi, and thanks for volunteering to draft the UCOC enforcement guidelines. On 20 April 2022, the Board of Trustees announced that they would refine the UCOC enforcement guidelines. If you don't mind me asking, what's the progress on that so far? Has the Drafting Committee been reconvened? Have they began new discussions? Adrianmn1110 (talk) 19:09, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

@Adrianmn1110: Per this prior announcement a Revisions Committee composed of members of both drafting committee has been formed. I can't really reveal more than that at the moment (partially because I missed the last meeting sadly). –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 16:19, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for revealing as much as you reasonably can. Good day. Adrianmn1110 (talk) 08:28, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikisporadic Newsletter: September 2022

Wikispore lunch in Berlin

Wikisporadic, an Occasional Newsletter for our Germinating Community.

• Oral knowledge We held a session on oral knowledge and Wikispore as part of Options Space at Wikimedia Summit 2022 in Berlin, looking at options with several African affiliates to link out to cultural topics from Wikipedia(s). Some African communities are already doing oral knowledge documentation like the Nigerian community working on oral history as well as the growing Mozambican community working on oral history documentation in Makhuwa language. This is a way to provide more sources as well as digitize some oral parts of their history.
• Wikidata integration There is a plan to install the new UnlinkedWikibase extension, advancing the vision of Wikisprout and full Wikidata integration such as use in infoboxes.
• Movement strategy Using the Cargo and related extensions on Wikispore, work is underway to create a demo of Movement Strategy activities, adapting Baserow data from Wikimedia Summit.
• Halloween event As a Wikidata 10th Birthday event, there is hope to collaborate at the end of October with Wiki Cemeteries User Group on Grave Spore (see discussion), for maps and in-depth coverage of individual graves.

Participate: Comment on stories and ideas in this Newsletter, Join Wikispore on Telegram, Join Wikispore mailing list

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