User talk:Sebmol

Thanks
Hey Seb, I know it's early days, but I just thought I'd give you a barnstar anyways (Wikiversity's first) to thank you for all your tireless work. You deserve this already :-). Cormaggio 15:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Nice color
don't you think ? Guillom 15:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Bureaucratship
Hi Sebastian, I nominated you for bureaucratship - I think you'd be great for the job. Cormaggio 17:13, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey there
I see you've listed yourself as willing to mentor me. How do I indicate you on the page? Still willing to do it, I hope! Thanks for the opportunity to serve Wikiversity! Atrivedi
 * Just write it next to the name of the mentor you accept. -- sebmol ? 09:41, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Approach
I've noticed that in a number of your posts, you have emphasized that this project is rather young - thanks for having this spirit at heart! Generally speaking, I think I agree with your philosophy and perspective too. Admittingly, in the back of my mind, I am a bit worried. I really hope we don't fall into the trap of codifying too much. --HappyCamper 07:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks /Parser functions?
Thanks for the welcome. In response, yes I am aware of the parser function, but have limited awareness of how they work. I created the template as part of my work on this little experiment, which is basically something I've copied from the Italian wikipedia. Perhaps you might want to take a look at it. If any of it is any good perhaps it can be used on the Main Page? Thanks again, and let me know if there's anything specific I can help with. - Trevor MacInnis 14:54, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Huhu
Na jetzt muß ich doch auch mal schauen, wie es hier so ist... ;) --Cascari 18:22, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

import process update
See the note from SBJohnny on this talk page about import of pages from Wikibooks.

interwiki links in red
I have seen this happen twice: one Wikiversity page suddenly starts displaying all interwiki links in red. The first time I saw it was last week, it lasted about a day. This page just did the same thing today. --JWSchmidt 18:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

"Joining us again"
Hi Sebastien, I fully anticipated to be back to normal this week, but things will remain chaotic, I'm afraid, until after the weekend (back home again Monday evening). From then on, I very much look forward to joining you all again on IRC and wiki :-) Cormaggio 14:30, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Sebbot
Hi Seb - I granted bot status for User:Sebbot - sorry it's taken me this long, and I hope it hasn't inconvenienced you in the meantime. Cormaggio 10:10, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Free Online Uni
Thanks for moving that; I was wondering if we might want to do that. The Jade Knight 22:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

community-approved
You are now a community-approved custodian and Wikiversity's first community-approved bureaucrat! Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt 16:35, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Research Guidelines
Hey - I'd be grateful if you could have a browse round Research Guidelines on beta (haven't figured out interwiki links on WV yet). Thanks - Xenon 19:49, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Wherebot
I think everything is ready at Wikiversity for Wherebot. There is now an example of how this might work at Wikiversity; see User:Wherebot. If you have any questions for user Where, maybe you could put them here ("wherebot for Wikiversity" thread at Wikipedia). --JWSchmidt 16:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Edit
I do not know what you mean. I pointed out the location of the bussiness school..---Hillgentleman|User talk:hillgentleman 16:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh I forgot
What do you think of my new articles. Please reply on my talk page on how I can improve them.

Football (soccer)

UFO research

Digestive system

Student Galaxy 17:27, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Custodianship
I want you to be my mentor for Custodianship. It says I need one. Student Galaxy 20:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

semicircles?
Looks like you got away with it. The buttons remind me of the dome in the logo...now I wish the buttons were full semicircles!. --JWSchmidt 01:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Bots/Status
I've asked Hagerman to help us out by running his bot on Wikiversity (It's a pretty neat bot that marks comments with Unsigned). I was hoping you could drop by that page to approve/ decline /flag the bot so we can get it running. User:JWSchmidt and I will be happy to monito its performance. Cheers. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 04:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

candidate for probationary custodianship
Please consider this candidate: Candidates for Custodianship/J.Steinbock. Thanks. --JWSchmidt 14:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

"Rounded" corners
This discussion has been moved to MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css where it should always have been. guillom 14:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

who is online
for the status thing i'd imagine one could make an rc-bot that changes the status as soon as the user makes an edit and times out 15 minutes after the last one


 * Problem with that is -- what about people who are here for courses? It's fine for active editors, not for learning participants. I've thought a bit about that approach too. Historybuff 17:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

sitenotice
Could you update the sitenotice at beta.wikiversity.org? Thanks. --JWSchmidt 16:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

renaming user
Hello. I'm drini. I got impersonated past weeks by User:Drini here on this wiki. I'm kindly requesting your help getting back my name renaming Drini to something else (inird, xyz, etc), and then changing this username (Drinisteward) back to drini. I've made a small edit on meta confirming my identity:. I'm a steward, I could make the rename myself, but since this project has local bureaucrats, it's better if you (or cormaggio) could help me on this.

I'll appreciate the help (I'm also dropping a note on cormaggio, so make sure you don't rename users twice ;) Drinisteward 14:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Happy Birthday Sebmol!


From Cormaggio talk 11:36, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Missing custodian template
Thought I'd have a go after the IRC chat last night!

User:Chrisfow/sandbox

Chrisfow 13:18, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

probationary custodian request
As discussed at Requests for Custodianship I am willing to mentor User:Remi0o and he is willing to put up with me. If you agree, please make Remi0o a probationary custodian. --JWSchmidt 21:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Cormaggio messes up: Part 47
Hi Sebmol, in archiving Announcements, I've messed up the layout of Template:Announcements/Community_bulletin_board, which in turn messes up the Community portal. Do you know how we can keep them in two separate columns - or do you have any other suggestions? Thanks. Cormaggio talk 11:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi Sebmol! Thanks for the buttons. I will do my best with them :-) --HappyCamper 02:32, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Adding a button to the editing toolbar thing
Do you think you could add a button that when you press it give you a simple layout of a simple table maybe? That'd be cool. :) Maybe it could have options too where it gives you parameters for certain properties of the tables. It would just be a faster way to do it so someone doesn't have to exactly look it up. Heh. Thanks. --Devourer09 15:04, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Custodianship on Beta Wikiversity
Hi! I have posted you a messsage on beta Wikiversity. I decided to let you know here since you check this site often. Greetings, Azimski 20:31, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

the babel template
check my talk page, is it only me or are en-3 templates displaying that wikimedia france link? i'm not sure it should be there (didn't like it there, myself, but if it is supposed to be..). capi talk 15:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Please change my name
Changing_username. --Edmund the King of the Woods! 14:52, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Offer
Hi, Sebmol, I have a humble request for you. Would you be willing to mentor me as a probationary custodian? I'm willing to help out all I can - and really just need someone to get me going and a solid reference point should I encounter situations where I'm not too sure what to do (although this shouldn't happen to much after reading the guide and being well versed in Wikimedia projects). I run my own private installation of MediaWiki so the technical aspects shouldn't be a problem. It would be great if I could learn from someone obviously experienced and with the project's best interests at heart. Cheers, --Pumpmeup 06:08, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

MichaelFrey Bot
Seb, would you mind taking a look at Bots/Status? Michael asked me to take a look at it, but I've no idea what to look for. :-) It seems ok - in use on Wikibooks and de.wv - is that valid criteria for turning on a bot locally? Cormaggio talk 20:27, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Username Change
Is there a chance if you could take a look at Changing username I've placed a request for my username to be changed. Imperial What do you want? 08:30, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

beta.wikiversity bot
Please see: http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/User_talk:White_Cat#bot -- Cat chi? 18:42, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

My wish
I read your post, but I am very busy at the moment. I have a response on my to-do list. --McCormack 13:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

usurping request on beta.wikiversity
I would like to take over User:Yuyu (no edits) on beta.wikiversity. I'm using Yuyu on most of the project, en as a sysop in zh.wikipedia. --Yuyu 18:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Rename request
Please, rename kisbes on the beta wikiversity to balasyum. --Kisbes 17:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Custodial flag for Remi
ping, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 16:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

ping
ping --mikeu talk 05:29, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

ArchiveBot
Is there any way to get ArchiveBot to count as a signature? The Jade Knight (d'viser) 04:28, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation follow-up
Crats: I messaged a couple of you previously about this but just noticed there was a specific note to message all crats on Changing_username and due to the delay thought I'd better do again:  I'm following up on my request from December at Changing_username, no action has been taken. mikeu mentioned back in January that there was a technical problem with some of the tools and I see that mentioned on the Changing Username page now too. Reviewing the problem myself though, I am not clear on why this administrative issue is really a problem. I can see why it might be in some cases but not allowing clearly valid requests to go through without a pro forma check seems silly. For the life of me, I cannot see what these two tools would tell you for information about a user that you can't get nearly as easily through other means, particularly when we're talking about accounts that haven't edited in years in most cases and even then very little. I know there are only four of you, but the request ahead of mine has been sitting since July. That user and I are both Sysops on other projects and are both trying usurp accounts that appear to be clearly dead. I've actually been waiting before taking a more active role here until my account was fully unified and it looks like you could use a bit of help. Cheers! --BewareofDoug 03:02, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

User rename request
Would you please check the username page for my request on changing userame? C.I. 17:05, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

What happened to Archive bot?
I tried to apply using the archive request template, but when I looked at Archivebot, it seems that it has only ever archived 1100 edits. Is this Bot broken?

fyi
Community_Review/Abd --mikeu talk 18:02, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

missing bureaucrat noticeboard on beta.wikiversity
This message was supposed to be posted at http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/User_talk:Sebmol

Hi. You are listed as a bureaucrat on that wiki, but so is at least one other person. To contact a bureaucrat, in order to usurp accounts and similar, users have to send duplicate messages, rather than post at a single place. Please create a bureaucrat noticeboard of some sort and list it at meta:Index of pages where renaming can be requested. If it already exists, please list it there! Thank you. --Joy-temporary 11:30, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

User rename requests open
I've reviewed the standing renaming requests at WV:Changing username and have commented with recommendations, for all but one of them. I'm notifying all three active 'crats of this, because simple renaming requests should not be delayed. I have not yet reviewed the usurpation requests. Thanks. --Abd 18:56, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Forced user renames coming soon for SUL
Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Single+User+Login+finalisation+announcement%2FPersonal+announcement&filter=&action=page 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 Rename practices and Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 13:08, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Custodianship
Hello Sebmol, Can you help me become a custodian. Please give me a comment on my talk page, Please talk on Draubb or Candidates for Custodianship/Draubb. Bye! Draubb (discuss • contribs) 00:42, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

ArchiveBot broken
ArchiveBot, which you operate on your system, has not run since April of this year. Sebmol, can you advise us? Are you monitoring your Talk page? --Abd (discuss • contribs) 14:12, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, fyi - I've requested usurpation of the bot's username here - F ASTILY 09:34, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Problem with unified account
Hi. I am registered in pl.wikipedia.org with the username Zink. I tried to create the unified account, but the page said that the en.wikiversity.org was the mother wiki for my account, and asked me to enter the password for it. I'm not registered here, but in fact there is an account here with the same name, which does not belong to me, thus I cannot provide the password. But the unified account page won't let me go further without that. I have written to one of the Polish Wikipedia bureaucrats, but haven't got any answer for a week now. Can you help me? I'm not particularly interested in taking over someone else's account, but I would like to complete the unified account conversion procedure.

An important message about renaming users
Dear Sebmol,

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)

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Candidates for Custodianship/Dave Braunschweig
As a bureaucrat, please close this discussion. It's been two weeks. Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:15, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Your admin status
Hello. I'm a steward. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc.) was adopted by community consensus recently. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on wikis with no inactivity policy. You meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for 2 years) on enwikiversity, where you are a bureaucrat and administrator. Since that wiki does not have its own administrators' rights review process, the global one applies. If you want to keep your rights, you should inform the community of the wiki about the fact that the stewards have sent you this information about your inactivity. If the community has a discussion about it and then wants you to keep your rights, please contact the stewards at m:Stewards' noticeboard, and link to the discussion of the local community, where they express their wish to continue to maintain the rights, and demonstrate a continued requirement to maintain these rights. We stewards will evaluate the responses. If there is no response at all after approximately one month, we will proceed to remove your administrative rights. In cases of doubt, we will evaluate the responses and will refer a decision back to the local community for their comment and review. If you have any questions, please contact us on m:Stewards' noticeboard. Best regards, Rschen7754 21:05, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called ArchiveBot (usurped). To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name ArchiveBot (usurped)~enwikiversity that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:28, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikiversity:Bots
There is a current discussion about changes to the Bots policy. As a bot operator we would welcome your input at Wikiversity_talk:Bots. --mikeu talk 15:00, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello, we've noticed that the bot that you operate has been inactive since 2006. The bot flag has been temporarily removed for inactivity per changes in the Bots policy. The flag will restored if we notice that the bot has resumed productive activity, or if you request restoration from a bureaucrat. The community does not consider it a big deal to re-grant this right to a trusted contributor. Thank you for the bot contributions that you have made in the past, and we hope that you will consider becoming active again. --mikeu talk 17:15, 23 January 2016 (UTC)