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is.wikisource Undeletion request 1/4

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This is the first of many undeletion requests for is.wikisource after an excessive deletion spree by Stefán Örn. This was posted to the local village pump at s:is:Wikiheimild:Potturinn#Afeyðing_síðna, where Stefán said there could have been mistakes, but proceeded not taking any action on any of the requested items or commenting on specific points. Stefáns point of view was to update things in accordance to the english wikisource, as mentioned on s:is:User talk:Snævar, but many things where deleted that fall outside of that definition. I only disagree with this overshoot of his originally stated intention, keeping templates in line with en.wikisource is fine by me. One of the few things me and Stefán can agree on is that the community is not large enough to make their own templates.

Comments on individual pages are indented. Any comments here on what was on the pages is as seen through dumps of is.wikisource prior to deletion and my own memory. Comments here have been translated from my original post on the local village pump, sometimes with added context.

Snið:StripWhitespace

Template, was an redirect to Template:Trim, was used on 7 pages.

Snið:Trim

History merge with current page, if possible, else delete current one and undelete old one. Template, was used on 7 pages, mostly through template:stripWhitespace. Was updated only a couple of days prior to deletion from english wikipedia, which is the source of the english wikisource template.

Wikiheimildspjall:Um verkefnið

Chatpage containing chat of former active users about the page, puts the history of the page into perspective. Will discuss the content page later.

Wikiheimild:Stjórnendur/Eldri umsóknir

Did contain former requests for adminship, tells a part of the story of the website, which can only be a good thing.

Wikiheimild:Merkisáfangar

Another history of the project erasure. Did contain milestones of the project, like which text was the 100th and so on. The same page on the icelandic wikipeedia sisterproject has been referenced several times by local media, indicating it´s importance. Did offer to keep the page up to date.

Snið:Óklárað

Try to history merge with Snið:Incomplete, else delete Snið:Incomplete and undelete old one as they are the same. I am aware and ok with the template ending up at Snið:Incomplete due to the merge. Contained an template for unfinished works. Was used on the pages Arnbjörg, Grasnytjar, Norsk æfintýri and Æfisaga Jóns Ólafssonar Indíafara. Was updated from english wikisource shortly before deletion.

Snið:Ambox

Try to history merge with current template, else delete current one and undelete old one. Was used by Snið:Óklárað. This family of templates (ambox, ombox, etc.) are commonly used for maintainance notices. Was newly created at the time of deletion and was up to date with the english wikisource.

Snið:Hrá mynd

Try to history merge with Snið:Raw image, else delete Snið:Raw image and undelete old one as they are the same. I am aware and ok with the template ending up at Snið:Raw image due to the merge. Template, from english wikisource, same as Template:Raw image. Was created after an discussion between Bjarki S and me, where he wanted a simpler way to link images. Has been used several times by three different users, but never on an permenent basis, and thus was unused at the time of deletion, but still useful. The underlying module, Module:RawImage exists.

Snið:X-smaller block

Try to history merge with current template, else delete current one and undelete old one. Used by Snið:Hrá mynd, also from english wikisource.--Snævar (talk) 01:13, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interface admin request on siwiki

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Hello, our MediaWiki:Common.css is outdated & we currently don't have any Interface administrators. Anyone can update it please. Currently it's causing lots of problems. Thank you! --IDB.S (talk) 15:22, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@IDB.S if you specify what exactly do you want to get updated any global sysop or steward can make changes on your behalf. Johannnes89 (talk) 15:53, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Johannnes89, need to update the code like this en:MediaWiki:Common.css.
(Current file in Si Wiki is causing problems in Dark mode too...) --IDB.S (talk) 17:35, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Copying the entire common.css from enwiki to siwiki certainly isn't the right answer here. We could just disable siwiki common.css, reverting that project to default. @Lee: you are the only admin on siwiki, any opinion on this? — xaosflux Talk 17:44, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For an example of a project with default, see one of the newer projects such as moswiki. — xaosflux Talk 17:52, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Lee is also the author of the current revision as per Steward requests/Miscellaneous/2022-05#Common.css_change_on_si.Wikipedia. Although it seems like all the previous versions are indeed copies of the English Wikipedia styles. I guess as long as siwiki also copies all the other infrastructure from enwiki this does make sense, but one might want to have styles that are specific to Sinhala. --Base (talk) 20:44, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Base is right it always Synchronized with the English Wikipedia version. The current file is sometime forcing the existing new styles to it's old version.
Hey, so anyone can tell me why the page name is still visible even in the Main Page. I think it also because of the Common.css file. --IDB.S (talk) 02:39, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't have time to go through the new code yet. But since we are using a layout quite similar to English Wikipedia, usually we can use the CSS available on enwiki. If I remember correct I tested the effects on my account before requesting the replace. Please make sure the same this time too. -- Lee (talk) 04:44, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaning up unused files

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Hi! This is not an ordinary request to do something but a suggestion for a project to clean up in unused files. In the RFC from 2016 "Disable local uploads on smaller wikis" someone wrote that "Smaller wikis are typically a graveyard of copyrighted content".

Files can only be hosted on a wiki if they meet the requirements in wmf:Resolution:Licensing_policy so all unused non-free files and files without a license or source/author should be fixed or deleted.

There are 868 wikis and it is almost impossible for one person to check them all. So I made a list in User:MGA73/UnusedFiles with the 320 wikis that have unused files.

My idea is that if someone would like to help check they go to a random wiki and check the files:

  • If the files are good they move them to Commons or ignore them
  • If the files are bad they fix them, delete them or tag them with no license etc.
  • Once a wiki is checked the wiki is removed from the list

The format of the list is this:

Wiki Files
https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UnusedFiles 574
https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UnusedFiles 67
https://ang.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:UnusedFiles 1
https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UnusedFiles 6

But it can be changed if anyone have a better idea.

Depending on how many would like to help it could take weeks or months to complete. So if there is a better place for this notice let me know. --MGA73 (talk) 12:11, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also made a list of files that are also on Commons if someone like to clean up those: c:User:MGA73/CommonsDupes
But if you prefer to keep this page clean you are welcome to close this request and put it to the archive. If any one would like to work on this they can just "bookmark" the post in the archive. --MGA73 (talk) 18:12, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete user subpage

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Dear Stewards, I would like to request the deletion of the following user subpage on the Czech Wiktionary: https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/U%C5%BEivatel:Dan_Polansky/U%C5%BEivatel_Palu

The page is clearly outside the scope of the project and appears to be a case of long-term personal harassment. The user Dan Polansky has been in ongoing conflict with me and uses this page to compile an extensive and biased catalogue of supposed violations and misbehaviors on my part. This kind of behavior resembles systematic personal targeting rather than a good-faith attempt to resolve issues.

Among other things, the page reveals my identity (IP adresses etc.) without consent, misrepresents various actions in the worst possible light, and seems intended to ostracize and stigmatize me within the editing community. The tone and content are more reminiscent of a surveillance dossier than a user page on a dictionary project — disturbingly similar to practices of intelligence agencies.

In the past, the same user created similar “files” on nearly all active colleagues, but removed them only after some of them objected: https://cs.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Diskuse_s_u%C5%BEivatelem:Dan_Polansky&diff=prev&oldid=1262249

I requested deletion of the page at the administrators' noticeboard, but the request has been ignored (a common problem is that administrators have not responded to requests regarding wiki-etiquette for several years): https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikislovn%C3%ADk:N%C3%A1st%C4%9Bnka_spr%C3%A1vc%C5%AF/Archiv13#Smaz%C3%A1n%C3%AD_str%C3%A1nky_mimo_z%C3%A1b%C4%9Br_projektu

Meanwhile, the user contributes minimally to the main namespace and often engages in combative debates about others' actions rather than building content. One example (of many) of a low-quality entry created by him is here: https://cs.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ko%C4%8Di%C4%8D%C3%A1rna&oldid=1258240

He has also received several permanent bans on the English Wiktionary for disruptive behavior, raising concerns about a pattern of conduct.

Given all this, I respectfully request that this page be removed. Maybe after that, at least the user will direct his energy more towards writing content, rather than endless disputes, discussions, and controversies.

Thank you for your time and attention. Sincerely, --Palu (talk) 06:11, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Palu has a long history of on-wiki misrepresentations (making untrue statements), intentional or otherwise. Therefore, the above statements have to be taken with a grain of salt. The purpose of the page he wants to have deleted is to show beyond reasonable doubt that his long-term disruptive behavior would actually justify an indefinite block, although I do not support such a measure (it would be too harsh; one-year blocks for Palu-like editors should handle the issue reasonably well and I actually think that an unconditional prohibition of reverts for Palu is all that is required).
The Czech Wiktionary has three human admins, at least one of them somewhat active, User:Tchoř. I am fairly certain that he saw the page. He did not delete the page. Moreover, he did not contact me on my talk page with a proposal to delete the page or change its scope.
While the community of editors of the Czech Wiktionary is small, it does exist. The main discussion forum is Wikt:cs: Wikislovník:Pod lípou. Palu had the option to propose to the editors in that forum to have that page deleted. From what I remember, he did not start a discussion there with this proposal. Sure enough, making the proposal would make the page temporarily more prominent, but once it would be deleted, that would no longer matter.
My understanding is that the projects are treated with something like a principle of devolution (is that the term?). Therefore, the local project handles matters first, and if that fails, higher instances are considered, such as Meta. Moreover, interventions from people mastering the language would seem preferable? If so, perhaps steward User:Martin Urbanec (a native Czech speaker) would want to have a look at the issue, and perhaps advise me in the Czech Wiktionary how to best proceed concerning the page. He would clarify the following questions: is such a page inappropriate in principle? If it is appropriate in principle, is the scope too large for the purpose, which is to prevent harm from a long-term highly disruptive editor? Which changes to the page should be made to make it acceptable and fit to purpose? --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:10, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As for the serious allegation that I inappropriately revealed Palu's "identity", I only made statements that follow from revelations that Palu made online himself and did not try to hide. For instance, Wikipedia:cs: Wikipedista:Palu states: "Dříve používané účty: Nador, 62.24.89.211, 85.132.158.238, 86.49.11.246." (Former used accounts: [...]). It is my understanding that especially when Palu makes such an overt disclosure of his other user accounts (including IP addresses), I am not in the wrong to use that information in efforts to substantiate claims of long-term misconduct. For instance, I proved that two of the IP addresses were used in remote past to create a false impression of a greater support for a position than actual. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:18, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dear steward,

There are three administrators on the Czech Wiktionary, but they focus exclusively on technical maintenance tasks. When it comes to user disputes, they have been inactive for years.

I did not start a deletion request "under the linden tree" (the community noticeboard), because this is not a matter for community consensus. It is a case of harassment, which is governed by global Wikimedia policies, not local popularity contests. This page is simply out of scope for the project. It contradicts the ideals of collaboration and constructive contribution, replacing them with harassment and the systematic gathering of compromising information.

Dan Polansky claims that he only used information I disclosed myself. In reality, he published several of my IP addresses before I even knew such information was shown on cs.wikipedia. See, for example:

https://cs.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=U%C5%BEivatel:Dan_Polansky/U%C5%BEivatel_Palu&diff=prev&oldid=1331130

https://cs.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Diskuse_s_u%C5%BEivatelem:Dan_Polansky/U%C5%BEivatel_Palu&oldid=1331113

I have repeatedly asked him not to publish such information, as shown here:

https://cs.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?diff=1331118

Aside from myself, at least one other community member has tried to get the page deleted:

https://cs.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=U%C5%BEivatel:Dan_Polansky/U%C5%BEivatel_Palu&diff=prev&oldid=1331078

https://cs.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=U%C5%BEivatel:Dan_Polansky/U%C5%BEivatel_Palu&diff=prev&oldid=1332091

https://cs.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=U%C5%BEivatel:Dan_Polansky/U%C5%BEivatel_Palu&diff=prev&oldid=1334083

Dan claims the page is to justify a block, but it is full of subjective interpretations, personal attacks, and speculations. This is clearly against the spirit of Wikiquette.

Creating such "files" about other users (especially for "just in case") is toxic behavior. If such a documentation were needed, it should be done once, with a clear and limited purpose, such as a formal proposal to the community for action—not as a running project, built and updated out of personal obsession or malice, as he has done previously with other users as well.

This particular page is also clearly motivated by retaliation. After Mr. Polansky returned from a block on en.wiktionary, I tried—openly and initially with goodwill—to encourage more cooperative behavior, and later - when I was no succesful - I filed a formal proposal for administrative action. Unfortunately, nothing helped. His hostility and egocentric behavior have only continued.

While it is true that some tensions arose reciprocally—particularly after I submitted a formal proposal to limit Mr. Polansky’s disruptive behavior following his return from a block on the English Wiktionary—I did so transparently and through proper community channels. In contrast, his response has been to compile a unilateral and ever-expanding personal dossier, mixing private data, subjective commentary, and open hostility—going as far back as my earliest contributions many years ago. This is not dispute resolution; it is retaliation and long-term harassment.

The argument that "this should be handled locally" is just a cover for inaction—especially in a project with one semi-active admin, two inactive ones, and no functioning community governance.

I stand by my position: this kind of personal harassment and surveillance has no place on Wikimedia projects. I respectfully request that the page be deleted.

Sincerely, --Palu (talk) 06:56, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To save/preserve steward attention, I will keep my response to a bare minimum. I invite stewards to have a conversation with me in English on my talk page in the Czech Wiktionary, ask me questions, ask me for substantiation, have a conversation about policies, evidence, proper way of handling editors like Palu, admissible ways of collecting evidence of misconduct, etc. My failure to single out untrue or misleading statements above is not to be construed as me agreeing with the above.
But let me add that I opened a discussion about that page in an analogue of Beer parlour/Village pump, at Wiktionary:cs: Wikislovník:Pod lípou#Paluův požadavek na Metě na smazání stránky to see whether there could be consensus for deleting the page collecting evidence of long-term misconduct, including fraud. I submit to the consensus of the Czech Wiktionary editors in this matter. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:42, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If there is a disagreement about whether this page should exist or not, and if it is difficult to resolve this locally due to long-term tensions, I would like to ask whether any form of neutral arbitration or mediation is available. The conduct of the user towards me has become increasingly aggressive over time, which makes it hard to participate in these discussions in good faith. If there's a recommended process for addressing personal disputes or harassment on Meta (or elsewhere), I would appreciate any guidance. --Palu (talk) 07:26, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The problem seems not difficult to resolve in principle:
1) A Czech Wiktionary administrator can delete the page. This did not happen, even after the administration notice board was notified and after a Beer parlour/Village pump discussion was opened.
2) A Czech Wiktionary administrator can ask me to agree to deletion of the page as a voluntary action on my part. This did not happen. (Admins must know of the page as per above.)
3) Czech editors (administrators or not) in the Czech Wiktionary can express their wish to have the page deleted. Palu and Mykhal apparently want to have the page deleted, while Dan Polansky (me) and Kusurija oppose; Pyprilescu suggested the page should not be deleted since it is in user space, from what I understood from an edit summary (I may be wrong here). No other editor took any discernible position.
4) Administrators from Czech Wikipedia could play an advisory role, review the page, and make a recommendation, without having the technical (or other) authority to delete the page. This could lead to argument and counterargument discovery concerning the existence and scope of this kind of a page. Since these administrators are (almost?) always Czech native speakers, they would be particularly apt in assessing the Czech content without relying on machine translation. This (or similar) would have some precedent in the Czech Wiktionary: there was external input from Czech Wikipedia editors into a desysopping of a former administator in the Czech Wiktionary, resulting in desysopping. One can wonder whether this kind of external pressure is a bad thing. But I struggle to see anything wrong in input that is not binding, in input that presents a joint attempt at rational analysis and discussion.
5) Any other editors (English-speaking, German-speaking) could try to convince me to have the page deleted or its scope reduced. If they bring about compelling arguments, I can in principle agree to their proposal. My English and German are solid enough for the purpose. Such a discussion would probably be not about specific content but rather about principles and putative rules to apply to this case. I think I would not see this as undue interference; in general, I welcome attempts at rational and civil discussion about a range of matters. Theoretically, members of the rational universe should be able to figure things out regardless of language and culture, although this enlightenment idealism may be somewhat unrealistic.
--Dan Polansky (talk) 10:07, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
With active administrators on the project, I wouldn't expect a Steward to intervene unless there was a fundamental breach of, for example, the Terms of Use, and the local administrators could not act in a timely manner. That isn't the case here and this should be resolved either by a local admin or by consensus of the community which a Steward could act on if a local admin was unavailable. MarcGarver (talk) 10:52, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dear,
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I would like to add a few important contextual remarks regarding the local situation on the Czech Wiktionary.
The community on cs.wiktionary is very small and consists of only a handful of users. Among these few, two users have for a long time engaged in what I experience as persistent harassment, including through discussion manipulation, stalking, and targeted provocations. The currently active administrators are largely focused on technical maintenance (such as deleting empty categories or fixing formatting) and avoid engaging in interpersonal or behavioral issues entirely — which means there is no realistic pathway for community resolution or enforcement of behavior guidelines.
Given this situation, it is highly unlikely that any local "consensus" could be reached, especially on a page that serves as an instrument of harassment rather than a collaborative resource. The claim that I did not initiate a community discussion ignores the reality that the local community structure is dysfunctional for resolving such conflicts, especially when the harassment is perpetrated by entrenched users who dominate the discourse space.
This situation makes it impossible to apply the usual assumption that problems should be handled locally first. Instead, I respectfully ask the stewards to consider the global Wikimedia standards that prohibit user harassment, outing, and the creation of attack pages — particularly when no legitimate project-related purpose can justify their existence.
Thank you for your understanding.
Sincerely, --Palu (talk) 21:07, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For context, the local environment on cs.wiktionary can be discouraging for contributors trying to address systemic gaps. In a recent case, user Dan Polansky responded to a good-faith page edit with the following:
"Titi opraváři hovadin, zlí příštipkáři a jiná chamraď." = "These nitpickers, malicious pettifoggers, and other scum."
(diff; Mr. Polansky was referring to me and Mykhal.)
Statements like this contribute to a hostile atmosphere and discourage collaboration. I believe this illustrates a broader issue with community tone and how some contributors are being treated unevenly. --Palu (talk) 21:21, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As for "Titi opraváři hovadin, zlí příštipkáři a jiná chamraď", 1) the above translation is inaccurate; 2) I removed that statement soon after I made it as suboptimal; 3) the statement was provoked by an all too typical antecedent provocation by Palu. The statement was referring to a general pattern of behavior one too often finds in Czechia, a certain kind of petty nastiness. The page that Palu wants to have deleted substantiates repeated harassment of me by Palu, including insulting labels. My experience is that when one is repeatedly insulted, harassed and provoked, the behavior gets worse. That said, if a local administrator temporarily blocks me for that statement, even if I removed the statement shortly after I made it, it would seem acceptable; when one makes a mistake, there can be consequences. --Dan Polansky (talk) 05:08, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Activity of "LTA Pakkoruotsi" AKA "LTA Nenoniel"

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Please delete and lock forever 3 pages https://eo.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Suvilaulu&curid=155791&action=history https://eo.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Suvivirsi&curid=155790&action=history https://eo.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Den_blomstertid_nu_kommer&curid=155789&action=history : out of project scope, already covered at wikipedia, re-creation of deleted pages, and ban https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/Speciala%C4%B5o:Kontribuoj/109.240.0.0/16 for 6 months : block evasion, harassment, long-term cross-wiki abuse, LTA Pakkoruotsi. one list of sockpuppets and IP:s Taylor 49 (talk) 11:02, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • My comment about the pages: Coming from en.Wiktionary, my understanding is that short or one-word song names/titles (especially of very popular or folk songs, etc.) are often preferred to be kept. One of these proposed pages have an entry at en.Wiktionary as well: wikt:suvivirsi. Other song names (especially those which are phrases) are not as meaningful to keep in a dictionary (on enwiktionary, an exception is phrasal names of national anthems like wikt:God Save the King) and there are infinite number of these along with many songs being recognized by multiple phrase-based names. So I have deleted "Den blomstertid nu kommer" but I am disinclined to delete the others as simply out of scope. – Svārtava (tɕ) 05:18, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @User:Svartava Well I see. There is en:wikt:suvivirsi (controversial) but not (yet) en:wikt:Suvivirsi and not en:wikt:Suvilaulu either and there is en:wikt:yesterday but not en:wikt:Yesterday and not en:wikt:Scarborough Fair. Less conclusive to me. Anyway, the block evasion is independent of the scope-status of the two lemma pages. Taylor 49 (talk) 17:14, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Taylor 49: I agree that in this case the out of scope or not part is not as transparent - ultimately though I think entries for "words" that can potentially be useful and which readers can look up are useful. For example I see the point of including "Hatikvah" or "Marseillaise" in a dictionary more than having an entry for "Yesterday" and defining it as a song or some other work's title. Names of a lot of works would potentially be seen as out of scope of a dictionary but we do have an entry for "New Testament".
    And also, since this line is a bit blurry, keeping something which is on the side towards being out of scope as encyclopedic material, is not a harm by itself (in the above cases, the pages are properly formatted dictionary entries as well).
    I didn't comment on the block evasion part, but I would still be hesitant to act because this still feels like stepping into potentially contentuous matters related to content as the matter isn't clear cut vandalism or so, and it is possible that the community might have no policy like en:WP:REVERTBAN that advices deleting a page just because it was created in evasion of a block. – Svārtava (tɕ) 20:51, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @User:Svartava: Indeed eo wikt has very litte own policies, and no explicit own policy "delete pages created by a blocked user". Still this is an LTA who abusively pinged me just 30 minutes ago https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grundskola_i_Finland&action=history and captured another block earlier today https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Kontribuoj/193.210.192.103 on wikipedia. Taylor 49 (talk) 21:01, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    One must not ping other users unnecessarily, nevertheless I dare to ping User:Tegel who probably knows this LTA a bit better. Taylor 49 (talk) 11:15, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't think this request can be called uncontroversial if there is this discussion since days. Therefore this is out of the scope of GS/R. I would recommend to move this request to SRM. TenWhile6 06:56, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mass stub/machine-translations

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Nikolai Kurbatov (talk · contribs · CA) has been mass-creating machine-translated stubs across many wikis. Can you review to see if any actions is necessary? Thank you! --Ferien (talk) 09:10, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OAuth permissions

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Preferably permission requests should be submitted using the form from Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration.

After submitting this form, you will receive a token that your application will use to identify itself to MediaWiki. An OAuth administrator will need to approve your application before it can be authorized by other users. It is possible to request approval using {{oauthapprequest}}; please create a sub-section of this section.

A few recommendations and remarks:

  • Try to use as few grants as possible. Avoid grants that are not actually needed now.
  • Versions are of the form "major.minor.release" (the last two being optional) and increase as grant changes are needed.
  • Please provide a public RSA key (in PEM format) if possible; otherwise a (less secure) secret token will have to be used.
  • Use the JSON restrictions field to limit access of this consumer to IP addresses in those CIDR ranges.
  • You can use a project ID to restrict the consumer to a single project on this site (use "*" for all projects).
  • The email address provided must match that of your account (which must have been confirmed).

See also

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Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation

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