User talk:Ilyanep
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Wikipedia's tagline[edit]Hi. I noticed that you participated in a 2005/2006 discussion and straw poll on whether or not the tagline at the top of all Wikipedia articles should be changed from "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" to "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". I don't know if you're still interested in this issue or not, but this exact change has been proposed once again, this time at the Village pump, and there is currently an RFC (Request for Comment) on the subject where it is being discussed. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 18:12, 13 May 2010 (UTC) Test Test Test[edit]Blah Blah Blah. – Ilyanep (Talk) 20:53, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
WP Holidays in the Signpost[edit]"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject Holidays for a Signpost article to be published at the end of November. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Also, if you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 22:20, 13 November 2010 (UTC) File:WikiProjectHolidaysCategories.PNG listed for deletion[edit]A file that you uploaded or altered, File:WikiProjectHolidaysCategories.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kelly hi! 08:12, 29 December 2010 (UTC) Кто-то использует «моё» имя участника в другой Вики([edit]Привет! Я был бы вам очень благодарен если б вы помогли мне решить маленькую проблемку. Кто-то занял мою учётную запись в английской версии википедии, но не использует её (неактивен). Просто я захожу на англ. вики очень часто и отсутствие учётной записи ограничивает мои возможности в просмотре страниц и т.д. Вот учётная запись которую кто-то занял, но не использует User:Dimant. Я также зарегистрирован в ру-вики Участник:Dimant. Заранее спасибо)--95.135.216.189 (talk) 20:12, 5 January 2011 (UTC) Nomination of Cursor (typewriters) for deletion[edit]A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Cursor (typewriters) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cursor (typewriters) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Oddbodz (talk) 19:07, 9 June 2011 (UTC) Happy Birthday (2011)[edit]
Does this happen to be related to your efforts of starting a Computer Vision WikiProject or is it coincidental? Judging by your university affiliation I'd guess the latter, but could you have a look at it anyway? Cheers, —Ruud 02:13, 11 October 2011 (UTC) Computer vision stubs[edit]Hi, while stub-sorting I've now come across 4 of your unsourced stubs which give no context and seem little more than dictionary definitions within a specialised field. Please slow down and give them some sources and context, rather than creating more such stubs. Thanks. PamD 22:03, 26 November 2011 (UTC) Hello, Ilyanep. You have new messages at PamD's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. MSU Interview[edit]Dear IIyanep, My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you. Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you. Sincerely, Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 22:55, 15 February 2012 (UTC) Happy Birthday (2012)[edit]
Pkunk and Global Account[edit]Dear Ilyanep, I'm a user on Hungarian Wikipedia, my username is Pkunk. I tried to migrate the user to Global, but there's a problem with my username in English Wikipedia. Maybe it's because a long ago I tried to register this name also on en.wikipedia @ 20 May 2006 but this was unsuccessful, I never could log in into en.wikipedia with the password I set in the registering process. Please help me to fix this problem or advise what to do. BR --217.197.182.23 (talk) 15:05, 24 October 2012 (UTC) (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Pkunk) То же самое случилось с русской википедией: я попробовал регистрировать участник Pkunk, но без успеха: участник Pkunk существует, но не могу входить с ним, не принимает пароль, и.т.д. Я обращаюсь к вам как бюрократу. Может быть, задавать вопрос на странице "Запросы к бюрократам" ? Спасибо заранее, hu:User:Pkunk (217.197.182.23 (talk) 06:48, 26 October 2012 (UTC)) Crat statement draft[edit]Hi Following the drama at BN, I'm trying to come up with a statement all Crats could agree to. Please take a look, below. I am quite content to do this onwiki -we have always worked transparently, except where secrecy is essential (ie RTV). I think we should be able to wordsmith a statement acceptable to all, and I think it's an important thing to do.
Signed [crat sig] Lmk what you think. Many thanks, --Dweller (talk) 10:56, 7 January 2013 (UTC) Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to translate and review the notification that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages m:Rename practices and m:Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 13:05, 3 May 2013 (UTC) Just to let you know -- Missing Wikipedians[edit]You have been mentioned at Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians. XOttawahitech (talk) 01:47, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Happy adminship anniversary!!![edit]Happy bureaucratship anniversary!![edit]An important message about renaming users[edit]Dear Ilyanep, I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat. As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully. Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects. The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed. Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now. In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename. Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities. Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 18:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC) --This message was sent using MassMessage. Was there an error? Report it! Workshopping bureaucrat activity requirements[edit]
There is an ongoing discussion about implementing some kind of standards for administrative and bureaucrat activity levels; and activity requirements for bureaucrats have been explored several times in the past. I've prepared a draft addition to Wikipedia:Bureaucrats that would require at least one bureaucratic action every five years to retain the bureaucrat permission. In the past, I've been hesitant of such proposals but I believe that if the bureaucrat group as a whole is seen to be actively engaged, the community may be more willing to grant additional tasks to the position. Please let me know your thoughts. I'm not sure if this actually applies to any of us, but if you have not acted as a bureaucrat in over five years, you might consider requesting removal of the permission or otherwise signalling that you intend to return to bureaucrat activity. –xenotalk 14:22, 30 June 2015 (UTC) FYI: bureaucrat discussion opened[edit]
A bureaucrat chat has been opened by Maxim at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rich Farmbrough 2/Bureaucrat discussion. Wikipedia:Bureaucrat discussion suggests notifying bureaucrats on their talk page as well as BN, hence this courtesy note. –xenotalk 16:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC) Bureaucrat discussion notification[edit]I would welcome input from other bureaucrats in relation to the outcome of this RfA. Community & Bureaucrat based desysoping proposal[edit]A discussion is taking place regarding a proposal to create a community and bureaucrat based desysoping committee. The proposal would modify the position of bureaucrat. Your input is encouraged. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators/RfC for BARC - a community desysoping process. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 19:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC) Bureaucrat discussion notification (Liz)[edit]I would welcome input from other bureaucrats in relation to the outcome of this RfA. Implementation of Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Bureaucrat activity requirements[edit]Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years.
To assist with the implementation of this requirement, please see Wikipedia:Bureaucrat activity. Modeled after Wikipedia:Inactive administrators and similar to that process, the log page will be created on 1 September 2015. Bureaucrats who have not met the activity requirements as of that date will be notified by email (where possible) and on their talk page to advise of the pending removal. If the notified user does not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, they will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFB. Removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon the affected user in any way. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. –xenotalk MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 17 August 2015 (UTC) Hi, Notification of pending suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements[edit]Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years. As a result of this discussion, your bureaucrat permissions may be removed if you do not return to bureaucrat activity within the next month. If you do not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, you will need to request reinstatement at RFB. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past bureaucrat efforts. –xenotalk 21:05, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements[edit]Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years. As a result of this discussion, your bureaucrat permissions have been removed by a Steward. If you wish to request reinstatement, you may do so at WP:RFB. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past bureaucrat efforts. –xenotalk 06:16, 31 December 2015 (UTC) Extended confirmed protection[edit]Hello, Ilyanep. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy. Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas. In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:
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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:15, 4 May 2019 (UTC) Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)[edit]ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community. Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised. We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered. For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC) Congratulations!![edit]
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