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incubator: wiki/Wy/bs

Hi @MF-Warburg could you please direct me to the original proposal for opening wiki/Wy/bs as I would love to know more about it and current status/prospects. I see that no other language from SEE has even initiated incubation of Wikivoyage, so I would like to contribute to development of this instance if there is any healthy basis and good reason for doing that (as we are post-war region, it can also be super-problematic). I am active on most SouthEastEurope Wikipedias and multiple multi-lingual projects as Wikimedian commited to education, outreach, diversity and GLAM work (no die-hard, many edits, single instance Wikipedian). I also started an initiative that could help invite other people https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ExPatYUGOdiasporas. Best wishes --Zblace (talk) 09:11, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello! There is no formal request for that project. The only article that has ever been created is Wy/bs/Bosna i Hercegovina from 2016. The Main Page, as you can see, is completely broken and, to be honest, it would be best to delete this all as abandoned. The Wy/bs page itself was created by a long-term abuser also in 2016 who created a lot of such pages without ever having an intent to start these projects. --MF-W {a, b} 14:35, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

@MF-Warburg ok that sounds like no healthy basis :-) I agree deletion is best.

I also wrote another related forward looking question and asking here: Would it be possible to Incubate test wiki with content in macro - poly-centric languages like ISO 639:hbs and have content contributed by all with adequate semantic data and meta info attached + displayed? What is the best pathway to go towards this? --Zblace (talk) 05:37, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

User:Zblace: In principle this is possible. It would be good to discuss it first of course. Especially for hbs, the relation to the existing shwiki and shwiktionary should be clear. If you have an idea for such a project, you can make a meta request (or ask on m:Talk:Langcom first), so Langcom can discuss it. I'm not quite sure what you mean about the semantic data - use of the language in Wikidata? --MF-W {a, b} 16:38, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

@MF-Warburg OK - will ask and then if OK advance to formulate request. As for semantic data I am only as of recentlychearing that linked data will be used also on other wiki projects beyond Commons (and its connection to Wikidata), so I am hopeful of that being useful. -- Zblace (talk) 04:40, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

I just realized SR was not much better than BS. --Zblace (talk) 14:28, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

User:Zblace: Well, at least it has a few more pages :P – It is an unfortunate, but unavoidable thing that test-projects are started in Incubator all the time which are then abandoned. Many are started by just one person, while for approval, inevitably a group of several editors will be needed. But maybe you'll be able to reuse some of the elements. --MF-W {a, b} 04:21, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Hm...yes but very few more (mostly sceleton articles)... Would it be possible for this one to move from SR into HBS as it anyway includes SR standard also...no? -- Zblace (talk) 14:26, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

User:Zblace: That's certainly possible. You might also be interested in this comment from User:Amire80 who says that given the state of the software, it might be most feasible to have one project in Cyrillic (using the code sr) and one in Latin-script. -- MF-W {a, b} 20:01, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

I do not have anything against Cyrilic-SR and Latin-HBS being separate instances until there is a better tech in place (maybe also some of the tensions will difuse in time). For now just starting to experiment on test incubator would be useful and amount of content will not be huge quickly anyway anytime soon. --Zblace (talk) 20:14, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

How does one retract request for test-admin status? --Zblace (talk) 15:14, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

It's already marked as not done, you don't need to do anything more. -- MF-W {a, b} 12:44, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:17, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Unable to create any new article

I am unable to create any new article in Wp/omp test wiki. While trying to create so, the process is automatically blocked. But I can edit the existing articles in the Wp/omp. What is the problem behind this? Can it be fixed? Haoreima (talk) 15:59, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

That's because it is an extinct language and these are not eligible for new projects. --MF-W {a, b} 16:39, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

But I can create new article in Wp/enm a few minutes ago. Why? Isn't enm the same thing as Omp? Haoreima (talk) 16:40, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Yes. But it's exempt because it already had so many articles. Same as grc. This is a very awkward temporary solution however. --MF-W {a, b} 16:48, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

To the best of my knowledge, omp has more articles than enm. What about it? Haoreima (talk) 16:50, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

As a bureaucrat of incubator, could you do something? Please do something, Sir! Haoreima (talk) 01:44, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Maybe it’s possible to let test wikis in extinct languages that have content to exist in the incubator and just not allow creating new ones? That being said, omp wp has quite a few articles. -Gifnk dlm 2020 Happy New Year 🎄❄️⛄️🎇 (talk) 11:58, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Tyap Wikipedia

Hi MF-Warburg, how are you? I am writing to you in order to ask what does the wiki in Tyap need to be approved? We have three people working on it everyday, the MediaWiki messages have already been translated and the number of articles growws each day. Is there anything else we need to do? Thanks in advance. --Caro de Segeda (talk) 21:29, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Category issue in Marhsallese Wiktionary

I just created new category Wt/mh/Jemānāe, then cause all entries linked to the Jemānāe category, I thought it may cause by template Wt/mh/NUMBEROFARTICLES, I edited the template many times to resolve the issue but neither are work (see the template's edit history).

How to make all entries unlist Jemānāe category, I saw other project with "Template" category are no problem.

I am working to Marshallese Wiktionary, added new entries at least 2 of day.

Note the Marshallese word Jemānāe is meaning "template", I has been added the Marshallese word to English Wiktionary, to speculate the word English meaning to extend that would be to the meaning. If you find accurately name than Jemānāe, please let's to me know. ☆ ☀Wea☁ther ☂ Top☃ Wiz❄ard ☆ 16:36, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Caro de Segeda solved the issue. ☆ ☀Wea☁ther ☂ Top☃ Wiz❄ard ☆ 17:02, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Revived Languages on Incubator

What are the current terms regarding revived languages with valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 codes to have a test on Incubator? Other than Wikisource. If possible can you link me what it says also. MichaelDMelvin23 (talk) 15:20, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Marshallese Wikipedia

Hi! I would like to ask you why did you delete the pages created by CreeperYeeter for the Marshallese Wikipedia. Is there any issue? I would also like to take this opportunity to ask you what does the wiki in Tyap need to be approved? Thanks in advance. --Caro de Segeda (talk) 07:21, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

He is a long-term abuser who doesn't actually speak Marshallese. Tyap is under discussion in Langcom currently. --MF-W {a, b} 13:47, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Caro de Segeda (talk) 14:25, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Wp/blk/ဝေင်ꩻဖောင်ꩻလောင်ႏ

Please delete this Wp/blk/ဝေင်ꩻဖောင်ꩻလောင်ႏ page, because this Wp/blk/ဝေင်ꩻဖောင်ꩻလောင်ႏ page is already somewhere else, thanks.--Music writer Dr.Intobesa of Japanese idol NMB48 and BNK48. (talk) 10:24, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

What do you mean? You can redirect the page to have it refer to the correct page or you can use {{delete}} to request a deletion. --MF-W {a, b} 14:35, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Moving pages as a test admin

Hi, would it be okay for me to move pages without creating redirects outside of my test wiki? (For now, I would use the right on Wn/nan pages in the Help namespace). - Xbspiro (talk) 17:55, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Please feel free to do so. --MF-W {a, b} 19:53, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Please review

Hello. I blocked the account Ckxkxkxkdk due to vandalism. See e.g. this deleted page, although there's colorfull language on the rest of his contributions mixed with apparently good contributions. Please let me know if you want this investigated further. Best regards, --MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:50, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

User:MarcoAurelio: thanks for noticing this and blocking the account. This is a known troll (the combination of languages he alleges to speak change all the time and are highly unlikely, those are machine translations). If you have some time for a sockpuppet investigation, that would be cool! --MF-W {a, b} 23:41, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Kabardian Wiktionary

Dear Mr. Warburg! All our team was very happy to see on the Incubator Main Page that the Kabardian Wiktionary might soon get its own site... Then, suddenly, about two weeks ago, the Kabardian Wiktionary was removed from the list. Could I kindly ask you what the reason behind this removal was? Was it because of the temporary inactivity of several of our editors, or was it a result of sanctions? They mysteriously coincided. We are working at remedying the situation with editors - we have been hit hard by Covid... If it is a result of sanctions, I would kindly ask that you reconsider. Over their history, the Circassians have suffered no less than than the Ukrainians... First the 100-year war with Russia, then the banishment of many Circassions from their homeland in 1864. A large part of the Circassion populaton lives even today in Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Germany and the US... I am an American Citizen. Asiyat Bijo is a Kabardian teacher in Turkey. You can read about the sitatuion in Wikipedia... I would like to know if there is any way we can remedy this situation and get the Kabardian Wiktionary reinstated as a candidate for its own site?--Rhdkabardian (talk) 13:31, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Just see the history of the page...: [1] --MF-W {a, b} 23:39, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Dear Mr Warburg! Thank you for pointing out the explanation. I had previously been unable to find it. I am very happy it wasn't sanctions! I will try to encourage our editors to increase their activity in the upcoming months!))--Rhdkabardian (talk) 13:00, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Dear Mr. Warburg!

We are unable to continue our work on the Kabardian Wikipedia because we are constantly getting a message that the Metadata doesn`t correspond to the Dictionary Entry. Is this serious, or will it go away soon? Is there anything we can do to fix it? We can also not send messages from the Kabardian site since it always generates an error "Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)" upon send. We thank you in advance for any assistance you can give!)) Rhdkabardian (talk) 10:21, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Welcome Template & and Mediawiki Subpage

Hello Warburg! Hope you are well. I have translated the welcome template into Bengali here. Please move it to the template namespace. And make a subpage for the sandbox with the name Mediawiki:sidebar-sandbox/bn. The content will be- খেলাঘর

If there is time after all this work, I hope you will comment on the Bengali Wikiquote (Wq/bn). Thank you! ~ Khattab ^{e. t. c...} 08:35, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

User:খাত্তাব_হাসান: Both of these things are done. Best regards --MF-W {a, b} 17:48, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Request for Campidanese (sro) qualification

We need some help

The Wikipedia project in Sardu campidanesu - Lìngua sarda campidanesa - Lingua Campidanese (Wp/sro) [2] has already many pages and many categories, but it has a problem: the portal of translatewiki [3] contains an error, because there is the writing sro: Logudorese Sardinian, sardu logudoresu. Logudorese (src) is another language of Sardinia and has its own portal on translatewiki [4], where there is the error that refers to Campidanese; but Logudorese does not yet have a wikipedia project (Wp/src).

Campidanese is not an enabled language [5] and a request is now made to enable it. Thanks in advance for your attention. --Fausta Samaritani (talk) 19:27, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

For this issue to be fixed, you need to ask on translatewiki.net, which I see you have already done. I cannot do anything in this regard. --MF-W {a, b} 19:48, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Import

I ask if it is possible to import the page sc:Mogoresu ([6]) from sc:wikipedia in the wiki project in Campadinese (Wp/sro).--Fausta Samaritani (talk) 07:30, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes, that would be possible. --MF-W {a, b} 11:13, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Is this import reserved for an administrator, or can a user do it?--Fausta Samaritani (talk) 09:30, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Administrators can do it, see I:Import requests. --MF-W {a, b} 11:47, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Gràtzie pa l'aggiuddu tóiu. Danke für deine Hilfe ...

... und die Aufräumarbeit eben auf der sassaresischen Testwiki. Ärgerlich solch ein Vandalentum. Gut, dass es Helfer wie dich gibt, MF-Warburg. :) --Jun Misugi (talk) 14:14, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Bengali Wikiquote

Hello. Would you please give your opinion on Bengali Wikiquote (Wq/bn). I think the test-wiki is [active enough (see catanalysis) and is ready to get it’s own domain. What do you think? T@hmid (T@lk) 06:52, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Wp/sro e Wp/sdc

On Wp/sdc (Sassarese language) we waiting for decisions of the Language Committee [7]. On Wp/sro (Campidanese language) we are advanced with the translation, thanks to the help of an expert linguist, and on [8] (translatewiki.net) we already have portal in Campidanese. We not have the possibility to use Sassarese language on Wp/sro [9]. Thank you for your attention--Fausta Samaritani (talk) 16:22, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for helping me rule out the wrong format I really don't understand Newly Added Features J.zht (talk) 19:29, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Blocking LTAs

Some LTAs sometimes reform in the future, like me. You should only prevent emailing and editing the LTA's talk page if they are likely to abuse these features. Thanks! Faster than Thunder (talk) 22:11, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

What makes you assume I don't block LTAs who are likely to abuse these features? --MF-W {a, b} 22:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

I don't assume that, I just wonder why your LTA blocks all have email and talk page editing disabled. Faster than Thunder (talk) 23:25, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

So why don't you simply ask about them instead of coming at me with some weird "advice"? --MF-W {a, b} 23:38, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

JhsBot

Jon Harald Sơby, has made, in the last 24 hours, almost 1800 edits with his JhsBot, on Wp/sdc. The page list that appears on the page [10] has been completely changed, creating confusion and preventing an easy search of our pages. I asked Jon Harald Sơby to delete all the edits made with JhsBot. Grateful for an answer Fausta Samaritani (talk) 02:06, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

I see you already clarified this with him. --MF-W {a, b} 14:17, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Request for approval of Gungbe Wikiquote (Wq/guw)

Hello, Could you please look into the approval of Gungbe Wikiquote. Kindly let me know what you think of it. Thanks.--Samatics (talk) 07:23, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

HELP

Greetings @MF-Warburg

Can you please help me with steps, advice or guides on how to make a Wiktionary in my language available. I have been working on it for few months, with another native speaker. We already have a wikipedia of the same language (tumwiki) and I am a sysop there. This Wiktionary will be so helpful when available.

Please help.

Here is our Wiktionary main page.

Thank you.

Tumbuka Arch (talk) 06:23, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello Tumbuka Arch! Congratulations on starting the Wt/tum test-project here in Incubator. As far as I can see, so far you made 36 edits and Anthonymunthali44 made 2. For approving a test-project so that it can become its own wiki outside of the Incubator, the Language Committee wants there to be at least several regular contributors who have edited over some months and created a sizeable number of articles/entries. Also, it is required that the MediaWiki interface be translated more completely into Tumbuka (see here for details: the most important messages, currently at 73,51%, need to be translated completely). --MF-W {a, b} 12:07, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Wy/nb pages

Some months ago, you reverted some edits to Wy/nb so now it's kept as a redirect to Wy/no, plus you deleted some pages with Wy/nb prefix, but one month ago someone re-created two pages Wy/nb/Hovedside and Wy/nb/forente stater, should both be deleted again, or should Wy/nb be restored as a sane test project info page? (PS: there's a meta RFL for Wy/nb available). Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:44, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

I just deleted the request, as it was created by a locked LTA without any substance. For the rest, I would trust the judgement of User:Jon Harald Søby. --MF-W {a, b} 11:34, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

moving pages

hello @MF-Warburg-san, i got this message while moving pages without leaving a redirect "As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes."

as a test wiki administrator i didn't think that there should be a limit for what i am doing, because at least wiki administrators are trusted with their tasks. Sakura emad (talk) 23:06, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Invitation

		Test-administrator
		Hi dear, MF-Warburg! I invite you to join this discussion. Sincerely, Patriot Kor (talk) 08:55, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Incomplete import of nawiki content

I see only 237 main-namespace pages from the Nauruan Wikipedia got imported to here (having titles ranging from "Chris Pine" to "Equitorial Guinea"), but 2158 main-namespace pages (ranging from "+61" to "日本") were deleted from the wiki. Looks like something went seriously wrong with the importing. No? (Also, while all 38 "Talk:" pages got here, none of the pages in the other prefixed namespaces — "Category:", "Template:", etc. — did.) - dcljr (talk) 01:22, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

I'm not yet done. --MF-W {a, b} 07:58, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Hmm. OK, but wouldn't it be better to finish importing the pages to here before deleting them on the wiki (I mean, in the future)? Surely there's no benefit to doing it the other way 'round…? - dcljr (talk) 10:25, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

It would be, but it's impossible, as the Incubator extension blocks even the importing of pages to that prefix while the wiki is still open. --MF-W {a, b} 10:26, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

User:Dcljr: everything should be imported now. --MF-W {a, b} 15:13, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Adminship for wp/mvf

Hello @MF-Warburg, it seems like the incubator of mongolian wikipedia in traditional script lacking active development and group of people including me are willing to actively contribute to it, especially in the user interface and translation. Is it possible to add me into the adminship? I have seen that wp/ase already have vertical-lr UI interface. We would really want to see this incubator as well like that. Anand.orkhon (talk) 10:38, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

I already see some vertical content on Wp/mvf/Sedvüüd. I am not sure what you are requesting here. Something related to the vertical script or something related to becoming a test-admin? --MF-W {a, b} 10:42, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

It's about changing the whole interface into vertical direction as they did it in https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase. I have looked up on how to make edit to user interface, and it says that only admins can do so. So I'm asking if it is possible for you to change it or if not, can you make me or one of our colleagues a test-admin. Anand.orkhon (talk) 09:58, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Please discuss the requested change on I:AN. I am not knowledgable about these settings. --MF-W {a, b} 14:49, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Template:Test wiki/core (Edit request /proposal)

[[oldwikisource:{{{oldwikisource}}}|Wikisource]] · [[betawikiversity:{{{betawikiversity}}}|Wikiversity]] -- ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 19:47, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Use betawikiversity=Main page

Example Wikiversity

-- ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 19:49, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

User:ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ: What exactly should be changed and why? --MF-W {a, b} 14:47, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

In the info page (for example Wp/syl), section (You can search for other projects in this language) Wikisource and Wikiversity doesn't link to the specific language edition (for example betawikiversity:ꠝꠥꠟ_ꠙꠣꠔꠣ or Wikiversity for Sylheti language edition). It can be fixed from Template:Test wiki/core. Another example from meta active test project link works fine and direct to specific language edition. -- ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 01:34, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Montenegrin Wikimedia Incubator

Hello. I want to contribute to the Wikimedia Incubator for Montenegrin, but the creation of new test articles in the Incubator is disabled. I am not discussing the eligibility of a Wikipedia in Montenegrin, only the possibility of creating new test articles in the Incubator since one of the premises in the 5th request for Montenegrin is that it needs to have active contribution, but we cannot contribute when the creation of new test articles in the Incubator is disabled. Can you enable the creation of new test articles in the Wp/cnr/Početna stranica? Thank you in advance. Blu145 (talk) 20:15, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

@MF-Warburg should I ask this somewhere else or? Blu145 (talk) 14:36, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Attention

Hey @MF-Warburg, drawing your attention to the page Requests for permission. –TANBIRUZZAMAN (💬) 06:29, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Are u gna help me fix it 209.205.149.192 21:55, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Light at the end of the tunnel barnstar

ꠘꠣꠝ | MF-Warburg

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ꠁꠎꠣꠔ ꠙꠥꠞꠥꠡ꠆ꠇꠣꠞ ꠙꠣꠅꠞꠣꠁꠘ꠆ꠔꠞ ꠟꠤꠡ꠆ꠐꠤ

Thank you for your dedicated efforts in overseeing Wikimedia Incubator. Your contributions are greatly appreciated! Many thanks! --ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 08:04, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! -- MF-W {a, b} 11:24, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Kanuri Wikipedia in incubator

Hello@MF-Warburg hope u are doing great. Can u pls link translate wiki to our site (knc) best regards Umargana1 (talk) 20:18, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't exactly understand what you're asking of me. --MF-W {a, b} 23:26, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

I assume this has something to do with this page. - dcljr (talk) 01:21, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes am requesting to be enable (knc) on translate wiki Umargana1 (talk) 07:24, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

You can request this on translatewiki:Support. --MF-W {a, b} 10:11, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

ok thank you Umargana1 (talk) 12:35, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year 2024!

ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠃꠁꠇꠤꠈꠛꠞ

🎉 Wishing you a Fantastic Year Ahead! 🎉

As we step into the fresh pages of 2024, I wanted to send out a massive shoutout to all the amazing editors, contributors, reviewers, administrators, and Langcom members who make this platform what it is.

Your dedication to Wikimedia Incubator is what keeps it thriving. Here's to another year of breaking stories, collaborative efforts, and expanding our knowledge base.

May your 2024 be filled with exciting news, fruitful collaborations, and a multitude of successful projects. Thank you for your hard work, and let's make this year even more fantastic together!

Happy New Year! 🎊

Sylheti Wikinews Family

--ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 00:10, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/NeechalBOT

Hi @MF-Warburg, I have observed that contributions from this bot is not consistently marked with a strikethrough, as is the standard practice for bot edits. Could you please check this glitch? Thank you in advanced! --ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 14:07, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

What do you mean by "strikethrough"? And thanks for your new year's wishes. --MF-W {a, b} 21:04, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

I mean it shouldn't be counted as a normal user. For example JhsBot. Bots, and users with less than 10 edits, should be struck out or discounted, but this one is not struck out or discounted in Wt/tcy. -- ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 03:10, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Ah. This is because the account is operating without a bot flag. --MF-W {a, b} 14:08, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

RTL

Hi! It's been a long time :) I got a question about directionality on Incubator Plus. I know it should be possible, but I have no idea how. Maybe you have the answer? [11] Thank you for any help :) --OWTB (talk) 13:17, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi OWTB, nice to hear from you! I'm not really an export on RTL problems, but probably the best solution would be to get the language into MediaWiki (probably by translating the interface on translatewiki.net). Otherwise, people will probably have to use the div tags or create a template for that purpose. Maybe mw:Directionality support has some further tips. --MF-W {a, b} 23:30, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your reaction. I'll look into it :) --OWTB (talk) 07:58, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Deleted pages

Hi! I noticed your bot deleted the pages Wp/yua/Náhuatl t'aan, Wp/yua/Káastelan t'aan, Wp/yua/Ki', Wp/yua/Aymara, Wp/qug/Chucha, Wp/qug/Ishkay putuna pankayuk, Wp/lzz/lat/P'ort'ali:T'ek'niği, Wp/btm/Marlene Dietrich, Wp/khw/مجارستان, Wp/jje/T under the summary "Test project moved to subdomain". I think this was a mistake, as these wikis are not approved. 26agcp (talk) 09:49, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Sorry for the inconvenience. I restored the pages. This happened because they were wrongly sorted into Category:Wp/tly. --MF-W {a, b} 13:02, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Request For Kusaal Wikipedia

Hi @MF-Warburg, I submitted this request in July 2023 and I am following up to know if there is any updates or if there is something the community should do at this time. Many thanks for all the support! Shahadusadik (talk) 13:10, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

“amu” is an ISO 693-3 code for Amuzgo, although Wikimedia Incubator thinks “amu” isn’t an ISO-693 code, please fix?

Hello, I am contacting you about a problem with a language’s iso 693-3 code, which I hope you can fix. Amuzgo is an Oto-Manguean language spoken in the Costa Chica region of the Mexican states of Guerreroand Oaxaca by about 44,000 speakers. According to Wikipedia, the Iso 693-3 code is “amu” (I also tried the 2 other dialects which didn’t work.)

Please fix this, thank you. Akaison (talk) 16:03, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello Akaison. As far as I can see, Wp/amu can be edited and you have already done so. So I'm not sure what the problem is. --MF-W {a, b} 10:21, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Wp/sms/

Hey! Thanks for the help with the IP vandal. Unfortunately they're back vandalizing the Skolt Sámi incubator project again under a different IP address. I apologize for having to bother you with this. :/ - Yupik (talk) 00:10, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

And apparently the cuwp with the same IP address. -Yupik (talk) 00:13, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Yupik: reverted and I put a range block on the IPs. Feel free to revert them yourself as well, and if you want, you could certainly also become a test.administrator for Wp/sms. --MF-W {a, b} 13:47, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! And yeah, I probably should try to become one eventually. I'll wait though til I clear my plate of some of the stuff I have on it now :) - Yupik (talk) 19:19, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Neo Wikipedia

Hi MF-Warburg., how are you? I would like to ask you for your help regarding the Neo Wikipedia. Somehow I cannot edit pages for this project here, even though the language has its own ISO code (neu). Could you please help me? Jon Gua (talk) 05:52, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi, could you please help me with the abovementioned issu? Jon Gua (talk) 06:41, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi again. I still cannot write in the Neo Wikipedia project, could you please tell me what the issue is and how can it be solved? --Jon Gua (talk) 06:29, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Report

Hello, please check this IP for repeated vandalism: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/216.186.51.108 Thanks. Ternera (talk) 16:01, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Blocked, thanks. --MF-W {a, b} 18:05, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Missing pages after import

Hello, thank you much for importing from incubator, but some pages are missing, for example Praha (probable L-T). See https://cs.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD:V%C5%A1echny_str%C3%A1nky - some letters are missing. The namespace Kategorie (Category) is also missing. BTW: I already wrote it to other talk page. LiMr (talk) 08:36, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Running a bot without bot flag

Can you clarify on whether that requires explicit approval? For reference: this is for meta:Global_reminder_bot, and I expect it to edit this wiki once or twice a day or so. Thanks in advance, and please ping me in a reply. Leaderboard (talk) 18:58, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

User:Leaderboard: it does not harm to make a proposal before simply starting to run a bot. In this case it seems like a bot flag would be counterproductive, as the point of the bot's edits would be to be seen. --MF-W {a, b} 20:02, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

I made the proposal 3 days back; is there a certain amount of time (like a week) I need to wait or can I start running the bot? Leaderboard (talk) 11:29, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

This is just a quick ping to the request - please let me know if there's something else I need to do. I'm watching the bots page but I haven't seen any comment yet. Leaderboard (talk) 15:26, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Please don't be impatient. --MF-W {a, b} 00:05, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

On User:林詩朗

Hello, MF-Warburg, I hope you're having a lovely day.

I noticed the user mentioned in the title of this topic has been creating pages with the test wiki|status=tocreate template, but the Category:Incubator:Test_wikis/status/tocreate is not very explicit on how to deal with these cases (the edits seem to be in good faith).

I noticed the following pages have been created:

• Wt/hne
• Wb/gbm
• Wb/bnn
• Wp/kfa
• Wt/trp
• Wy/kip
• Wp/gno
• Wt/srb
• Wt/kmz
• Wb/tts
• Wp/syn
• Wp/cld
• Wp/yud
• (there are probably more but these are only from August)

None of them has received any edits since their creation. If this is considered vandalism, I'll delete the pages, but since I'm not aware of any policy regarding this, I thought I'd ask someone first

Thank you in advance and best regards, Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 15:50, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

This is unwanted, as it can lead to the wrong impression that someone speaking the language actually is interested in the project. Feel free to delete and warn the user. I suppose this should also be documented somewhere. --MF-W {a, b} 07:06, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Right! I'll delete the pages, warn the user and document it on the Community Portal, thank you! Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 13:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

With documenting, I thought about a place like the Category:Incubator:Test wikis/status/tocreate mentioned by you. -- MF-W {a, b} 13:28, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Oh, you mean Category:Incubator:Test_wikis/status/tocreate? (I'll also remove the Tl template from my initial message because it seems to put your userpage on this category) Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 13:47, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

That could also have been my mistake, as I mentioned the page but wrote [[Category instead of [[:Category. --MF-W {a, b} 13:51, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Oh, I see :D. I'll add some documenting there then, I've noticed this has happened in the past too (some of the test pages I deleted had already been deleted in the past by StevenJ81 for the same reason)

Best regards, Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 13:57, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, @MF-Warburg, sorry for coming here again, but it came to my notice that the earlier mentioned user did not stop creating those pages, even though I warned him to stop twice. What should be the procedure? I haven't blocked him yet because it all seems to be in good faith, although he has ignored me both times I warned him.

Best regards, Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 19:30, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Then a block is justified. The "translations" also look untrustworthy, considering the range of languages they cover. I suspect this is a long-term abuser (LTA) who has shown this behaviour on multiple accounts already. -- MF-W {a, b} 17:00, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

I see. Thank you for your instructions! Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 20:28, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Importing of mywikisource finished?

Regarding this edit: Are you sure about that? Because the wiki's main page still says don't edit the wiki. - dcljr (talk) 02:59, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

I am sure. --MF-W {a, b} 11:42, 14 October 2024 (UTC)