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This section was archived on a request by: — xaosflux ^Talk 15:44, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

About the Chinook Jargon Wikipedia (incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/chn)

Chinook Jargon (chinuk wawa) Wikipedia has somehow been of the most active wikis on the Incubator for the past few months, with three active (with more than 10 edits in the past month) contributors: Jon Gua, ISO 369-3 nds, and myself. Apparently that is enough contributors for a language to be made official and added to Wikipedia. There are about 200 pages on the entire wiki, which is only about as big as the smallest Wikipedias. However, this wiki has been growing ridiculously rapidly, and the pages are longer than those found in most wikipedias of its size (compare Inupiaq Wikipedia). We're even trying to create plugins for the wiki and translate the interface on translatewiki.net. Chinook Jargon Wikipedia has one of only a few location map templates on the Incubator that actually (kind of) works.
hayu masi pus mayka nanich ukuk tʼsəm!! POSSUM chowg (talk) 20:32, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

How do i contact wikimedia foundation Fa.wikibooks.org sysop is compromised

Fa.wikibooks.org sysop is holding the website hostage

he just perma banned me for sock puppetry and all i did was moving a book to its subpage https://fa.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%98%D9%87:%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7/Baratiiman&target=Baratiiman&offset=20240420171347 Baratiiman (talk) 18:06, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Please don't fork discussions; closed at Steward_requests/Miscellaneous/2024-04#Fa.wikibooks.org_sysop_doing_whatever_he_wants. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:51, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — xaosflux ^Talk 15:51, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Why Wikivoyage is terrible

I was banned from Wikivoyage for a year for writing about my own country's politics. Not even criticizing them, just explaining the current situation. The article was locked for a month, and then a sysop with a history of being overly cautious decided to ban me for "promoting a political agenda." I appealed the decision, but another sysop, who had a personal grudge against me, upheld the ban. 70.68.168.129 15:17, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Was it travel-related content? —Justin (koavf)TCM 15:18, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

@—Justin (koavf)TCM Yes, the content was about a trip to British Columbia. I came across an article on Wikivoyage about the area, but it didn't mention anything about an AMBER Alert system or how to respond in case of an emergency. This is particularly concerning because I have children traveling with me. I'm wondering if Wikivoyage is up-to-date with their information or if there are better resources out there for planning a safe and informed trip. 70.68.168.129 15:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

You have one perspective, it seems like the rest of the community disagrees with your perspective. Wikis work on a consensus model - if your view is not supported by others, it won't be implemented. Nothing further to discuss here. – Ajraddatz (talk) 16:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Article of all racial slur as featured article on mobile app

Somehow, an article that's all just the hard-r n-slur is the featured article on the explore page of the Wikipedia mobile app. I'm unsure if it's vandalism or a hack, so I'm reporting it to here. The issue needs to be dealt with ASAP. Sedecpikem (talk) 15:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

@Sedecpikem please provide the exact URL of the page you referring to and we can try to direct you to the correct project to follow this up with. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:43, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telopea_speciosissima?wprov=sfti1#

It was this article. It's normal, but the preview card thing on the mobile app explore feed only had the hard-r n-slur in all caps repeated. Sedecpikem (talk) 16:04, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Looks like it was vandalized, but the vandalism has been reverted. It may take a bit of time for the preview card to be updated - if you check back now I imagine it will look normal. – Ajraddatz (talk) 16:27, 10 April 2024 (UTC)