User talk:Cactusisme/Archive 1

This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

special:diff/9639362

I suggest avoiding user page edits like this one. I can understand QD/RFD tagging to user pages, but these edits are not urgently needed. If you think an update is needed, please consider making suggestions to the user page owner. MathXplore (talk) 11:59, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ok Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 11:59, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Maine Page

A user that you recently welcomed is now CU-blocked and locked. I suggest you read w:Wikipedia:Welcoming_committee#Welcoming_etiquette and carefully choose who you are going to welcome in the future. MathXplore (talk) 12:02, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thought his changes were genuine. I will closely investigate next time. Thanks Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 12:07, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Clearing VIPs

I suggest you allow that to our admins. Other non-admins who did that were usually warned. MathXplore (talk) 00:34, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I saw others doing it so I thought I could. Sorry Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 00:35, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Kagerorevice

Hi, there is no need to add {{blocked user}} to a blocked user's user page, especially if the user didn't have a user page before or if the user page is innocuous. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 04:24, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks for the information Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 04:25, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock requests

Hi, Cactus. I noticed that you removed an unblock request from a user talk page. You were right that the request was not appropriate, but please leave unblock requests for the admins to handle. A couple of reasons for this are:

If an admin sees the bad request, they can decide whether to block access to the talk page. If you remove the request, admins might not see that talk page access should be removed.
When someone who is not an admin removes an unblock request, that can be seen as interfering with the user's communication with admins (even though it's bad communication). In general, it's better to avoid doing any kind of maintenance on someone else's user or user talk page.

Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:56, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 oh okay Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 09:35, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not simple article about a lemur

Thank you for changing Wikipedia. We welcome all changes, but we can have only changes that are in simple English, and your new changes to "Raffles' banded langur" were not simple. Please see Wikipedia:How to write Simple English pages so you can write more simply in the future. Thank you.

Did you make any attempt to simplify this article? If this is what people wanted, they could just go to the English Wikipedia article. Or to ChatGPT, because that seems to be where you got most of the text from. 2601:644:9083:5730:E518:F4F5:F71B:6C1E (talk) 18:27, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

These are also not simple: Imperial Oil and Sturm, Ruger & Co., maybe other articles you've created. 2601:644:9083:5730:E518:F4F5:F71B:6C1E (talk) 18:31, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I would try to Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 05:19, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-29

The winner this Translation of the week is

en:Adumu

Please be bold and help translate this article!

Adumu, is a type of dance that the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania practice. Young Maasai warriors generally perform the energetic and acrobatic dance at ceremonial occasions including weddings, religious rites, and other significant cultural events. The Adumu dance is characterized by a sequence of jumps performed by the dancers, who stand in a circle and alternately jump while keeping their bodies as straight and upright as possible. In addition to wearing vividly colored shúkàs (clothes) and beaded jewelry, the dancers are typically clad in traditional Maasai costume. Traditional Maasai songs and chants are also performed during the dance.

(Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)

About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:15, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News survey

Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

Recent changes

Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes

Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [1]
Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. You can also get other news from the Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin.

MediaWiki message delivery 01:31, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Marking posts as resolved/done/notdone

Hi Cactusisme, We don't generally mark posts as resolved/done/notdone - Plenty of admins watch WP:Simple talk and will action things that need to be actioned, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 11:20, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh okay Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 11:23, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

marking resolutions

Please stop marking things as done, resolved, on hold, etc. on Simple talk and other administrative pages. You can't know if someone will have something else to say in a discussion. The only place an individual editor can determine that is on their own talk page. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:34, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted them Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 11:35, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

marking resolutions

Please stop marking things as done, resolved, on hold, etc. on Simple talk and other administrative pages. You can't know if someone will have something else to say in a discussion. The only place an individual editor can determine that is on their own talk page. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:34, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted them Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 11:35, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010 why did you undo my archiving? Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 12:33, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Respectfully Cactus that's a lie as I deleted them. I undid your archiving to make this comment, Thanks. –Davey2010^Talk 12:33, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010 I deleted the ones in admin noticeboard, thats what I meant Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 12:35, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please simplify!

Snakehead (fish) has so many complex words. 2607:F140:6000:806A:ADD0:326C:1307:7523 (talk) 19:06, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 00:00, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]