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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2016)

History of the constellations, Ursa Minor constellation map
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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

User Name Change Stuck

Today is the forth day I can't log in because my username change failed (MB) to complete. Are you sure this hasn't been forgotten? I have no way myself to know what is going on and am totally in the dark. I hope someone is working on resolving this. I am a little surprised it is taking so long. 174.126.250.222 (talk) 17:32, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've pinged the sysadmin again, and opened a thread at Phabricator here. Sorry that it's taking so long. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 18:27, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the help. It's been another 28 hours or so and nothing has happened. I was hoping there would be some immediate intervention to get this fixed like when calling a help desk if you can't log in to your account at a bank or somewhere like that. But I guess that since this is affecting only one user, it's just not a priority issue. At least I can watch the Phabricator thread you opened and see it is still there awaiting action. 199.104.138.6 (talk) 22:05, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
(sorry for the intrusion) I've raised the priority of the task to highest and I hope that someone addresses the issue shortly to finish the rename of your account, letting you log in again. MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:22, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed, I was able to log on today. MB 20:42, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2016)

One of many icons associated with The Sims
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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2016)

Archaeological record example: a section of the Papyrus of Ani showing cursive hieroglyphs
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The Signpost: 18 August 2016

Global rename chase up + query

Hi K6ka, hope you are doing well. I see that the problem with the global renaming process over at meta. However, I just wanted to chase up when my username change would take place, as its gone past the holding date and no objections have been put forward, and what would happen after it takes place. Do I get an email letting me know that I've been renamed? Also, will I be automatically logged out from my computer because of it? Thanks! Class455 (talk) 22:58, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Class455fan1: It'll be processed once Cyberpower678 (or another renamer that's willing to do usurpation requests) sees it. When your account is being renamed, you will be logged out of your account, and cannot log in. You can monitor the rename progress at m:Special:GlobalRenameProgress. Once it is complete, you will have to log in to your account using your new username. Lastly, all global renames are logged at m:Special:Log/gblrename. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:01, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for the warm welcome! The Zappaz (talk) 17:52, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2016)

Heraldic Badge of the Spanish West Indies
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User talk pages exist with no corresponding registered uers

(You made some of the page moves alluded to in this comment, so that's why I'm asking you about this.)

There are several user_talk pages on gomwiki that don't correspond to any registered user (for details, please see gom:Topic:T9fhvkd5eobmee0y). Most of them obviously are the result of user renames, since evidence of the renaming can still be seen on the Incubator (where the content of gomwiki was before the standalone wiki was created in June 2015), but two cases are unlike the others: there is no evidence (that I can find) that the usernames "Velipranvindra" and "Velipravindr" ever existed on the Incubator, whereas user_talk pages for both exist on gomwiki (but no registered user accounts). The similar username "Velipravindra" exists on gomwiki and Incubator (with contributions to Meta and Commons, as well), but I have no evidence, beyond mere similarity, that these are all the same user.

So, my two questions for you are:

  1. For most of the cases: Why were the user_talk pages moved on the Incubator (and, in almost every case, also on enwiki) but not on gomwiki? Might this be indicative of a problem that will continue to happen in the future?
  2. For the other two cases: What do you think is going on with "Velipranvindra" and "Velipravindr"?

Unfortunately, the situation has been somewhat "complicated" by the conversion (in March 2016) to "Flow" talk pages, but as you can see from the existence of the "/Archive_1" subpages, user_talk pages for most of these non-users (supposedly) existed before the Flow conversion.

I look forward to any insights you can give me about this. - dcljr (talk) 01:34, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Dcljr: Flow definitely seems a bit... effy? I actually know very little about Flow as none of the wikis I frequent use it.
In response to your first question: No idea, really. I don't know the process in which a wiki is moved out of the Incubator. What I do know is that, by default, when we rename users, their user and user talk pages, along with any subpages, are automatically moved to the new username, and a redirect is left behind. The global renames are logged at m:Special:Log/gblrename, while the local rename jobs are logged at the Special:Log/renameuser on the local wiki in question. Wouldn't know if the logs or redirect pages or anything in the mixture of confusion are transferred over. I do know that, if the wiki isn't connected to the SUL system, global accounts aren't automatically created on that wiki, and thus global renames would not affect it. Could that be the case?
As for your second question, I can find no evidence that the user accounts "Velipranvindra" and "Velipravindr" ever existed anywhere in the first place.
If this gets technical, you may want to start a thread at Phabricator where people who know the technical ins-and-outs of the system can give you a more helpful answer. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 01:53, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Banned on IRC

Hey, k6ka. I was wondering why I (Gestrid-mobile) was banned on IRC. I believe the channel was #wikipedia-en. If I'm not mistaken, you are a Chanop, are you not? -- Gestrid (talk) 23:53, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Gestrid: No, I'm not a chanop so I can't help you there. To find a list of chanops for #wikipedia-en, do /msg ChanServ access #wikipedia-en list and look for users with the +o flag. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 01:27, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2016)

The Holy Family with God the Father and the Holy Spirit by Carlo Dolci
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