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Demande de droit d'organisateur d'événement: [El Hadji Thioune]

Username: [El Hadji Thioune]

Reason for Request: [je veux des droits pour pouvoir organiser des événements dans mon pays, le Sénégal, car je fais parti de la communauté wikimedia Sénégal.]

Criteria Met:

• No active blocks: [je confirme que je n'ai pas de blocs actifs.]
• Global edits: [Indiquez votre nombre d'éditions globales, qui peuvent être trouvées à Special:CentralAuth.]
• Additional Criteria: [Personnel affilié, bénéficiaire d'une subvention, ou intérêt pour l'organisation.]

El Hadji Thioune (talk) 16:46, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Comment @El Hadji Thioune, it is required at least some minimal editing abilities, unless you're editing under another account, your edits are really low and mainly in automated projects. --M/ (talk) 13:32, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

AKKEMT_MCM

How to make that work for the Software AKKEMT (talk) 21:35, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Please say your request again in different words. — xaosflux ^Talk 21:51, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Demande de droits d'organisateur d'événements|Gbehlon

• Username: [Gbehlon]
• Reason for Request: [je viens demander avec permission le droit de pouvoir organiser des événements dans mon pays le Bénin. En effet je suis un contributeur Wikimedia du user group wikimedia Fon affilié à Wikimedia Bénin user group.]
• Criteria Met:
• No active blocks: [je confirme que je suis actif et non bloqué.]
• Global edits: [Indiquez votre nombre d'éditions globales, qui peuvent être trouvées à Special:CentralAuth.]

Additional Criteria: [Personnel affilié, bénéficiaire d'une subvention, ou intérêt pour l'organisation.]

Gbehlon (talk) 13:41, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Bonjour, Gbehlon, j'ai nettoyé la syntaxe de votre message. --SHB2000 (t • c) 22:37, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Continued discussion about special:abusefilter/131 being set to just disallow

The prior discussion is located here, which was archived despite having no further replies.

The warning does not make sense if the changes on various wikis in question (which are mostly blanking or disruptive changes in articles) are going to be prevented anyway. As Leaderboard said Should that not be done by the disallow template? and on en.wikibooks, the disallow template (wikibooks:MediaWiki:abusefilter-disallowed) explicitly tells users what to do (and we try not to have warning + disallow filters), I agree with them as the disallow template provides information on reporting an FP on any wiki, and some wikis do not use a custom warning and/or disallow template.

One more question: is the blanking tag (in addition to being set to disallow) necessary? Thanks. Codename Noreste 🤔 La Suma 19:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Comment 1. The global disallow abusefilter message is a global system message, it can be modified by each wiki for their wiki, it cannot be set at this wiki for all wikis. 2. Custom messages at metawiki for a disallow will only be presented on hits on metawiki, the system is not designed to allow custom messages to flow out to other wikis, (and if they did they are only going to be in the language of the message (English) anyway.) The system even has a message for that mediawiki:abusefilter-edit-notallowed-global-custom-msg3. The actual filter is an older global filter and was in place when the filters were targeting small and medium wikis. 4. If an abusefilter is problematic at a wiki, we have the ability to modify it in a number of ways, and that can also include excluding certain wikis, or types of wikis. 5. Tags are a separate issue, and some people use them and some people do not. If a particular tag is not useful then float the conversation in a specific sense, rather than a vague sense, as how do we respond to that?

To the filters hits I looked back over a day and a half, I am seeing a lot of IP hits, and only a few username hits, and those against usernames were definitely vandalism. If there are specific user cases of problems with the filter then please identify the specifics and we can look at those. I am not seeing a particular requirement for help from an admin here, general discussions occur elsewhere.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:22, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

So do we need it to be set to both warn and disallow+tag, not just disallow+tag straightforward? Codename Noreste 🤔 La Suma 22:54, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

I agree the filter should be pruned from warn+disallow+tag to just disallow - the others are redundant and in some cases misleading. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 15:06, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Done, also did some clean-up and added global_user_editcount < 100 so we're more than sure it doesn't trip on SWMT members, which was the main problem with this filter. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 15:46, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

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Event organizer for Africany

Global user: Africany (talk • contribs • global contributions • CentralAuth • block log)

Reason for request: [Votre explication de la nécessité d'avoir des droits d'organisateur.]

Criteria met:

• No active blocks: [Confirmer qu'il n'y a pas de blocs actifs.]
• Global edits: [Indiquez votre nombre d'éditions globales, qui peuvent être trouvées à Special:CentralAuth.]
• Additional Criteria: [bénéficiaire d'une subvention,.]

Additional information:

[Toute autre information pertinente.] --Africany (talk) 18:46, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Done --M/ (talk) 19:20, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

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Wiki Loves for Rural Works

Global user: Cnyirahabihirwe12345

Reason for request: I am asking the right of being event organizer for differents projects in my Community

Criteria met:

• No active blocks: [I Confirm that there is no active blocks.]
• Global edits: [My global edits on Cnyirahabihirwe123 are 3,246: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Cnyirahabihirwe123.]]

[My global edits On Cnyirahabihirwe12345 are 70: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Cnyirahabihirwe12345.]]

• Additional Criteria:I am project idea and leader Wiki Loves For rural project and grant recipient, this interested initiative will be implemented for the 1st phase in Rwanda, and it will be implemented in other countries for next phases.

[I had the right of event Organizer, but recently I loose my password of Cnyirahabihirwe123 and after trying restoring it in vain , the only solution possible was to create another account and start from zero, but now I have 70 contribution on the Cnyirahabihirwe12345 in 34 days and I keep contributing. That is why I provided my Global contribution of 2 accounts.

I would be very happy if you grant the Right of being event Organizer , so then I can follow day to day this new initiative I developed during my training journey of 12 weeks "Topic for impact ORGANISOR LAB COUSES 2023: Gender and Climate change" .] --Cnyirahabihirwe12345 (talk) 19:12, 11 May 2024 (UTC)]

@Cnyirahabihirwe12345, sorry you went into troubles with your password/login. Please be sure to read this help page. Never mind, your request is valid anyway.

Done --M/ (talk) 19:23, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

@M7,

Thank you very much for this positive response, I am very happy of being event organizer,

As for my password, we tried all possible with the help of different admin and it didn't work. there was no email address attached on my account, this was the big issue. That is way I created a new account.

Thank you

Cnyirahabihirwe12345 (talk) 08:14, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

@Cnyirahabihirwe12345, I've written to one of the meta.wiki CU @Superpes15, if there is a way to help, he will do that and then contact you. Do you actually read the contact email that is shown on your user page(s)? --M/ (talk) 08:32, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

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@M7,Amazing !thank you for asking @Superpes15 to try recovering my password, I will be very happy to work on my first Username and keep contributing there! Let me wait ,once done he will let me know.

I have never receive email on my user page Cnyirahabihirwe123, because there is no email on my page, I've forgotten to add at the time I was signing up to Wikimedia,

Cnyirahabihirwe12345 (talk) 08:48, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning 49.237.13.144

• 49.237.13.144 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA)

Vandalism. —MdsShakil (talk) 13:12, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Done. AramilFeraxa (Write to me!) 14:16, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

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