User talk:TBCtableEX

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Please see this request on Community noticeboard
Hi FireBarrier101,

FYI: Please see the above linked thread on Community noticeboard for a request to add a forward-enabled interwiki link on snapwiki.

Cheers,

Dmehus (talk) 16:16, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * --MrJaroslavik (talk) 18:44, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Meta translation administrator
Hi again FireBarrier101,

I've noted you're actively translating existing Meta pages (into multiple languages, no less, which is impressive and wonderful to see). Meta currently has no translation administrators, which isn't necessarily a big deal actually since those tools are incorporated into the administrator toolkit. Nevertheless, that role provides access to useful translation administration tools and, as part of my outreach efforts as a Meta administrator, am currently reaching out to our most active translators who seem to be experienced with the Translate extension doing translations. It will, among other things, allow you to mark updated content pages for translation, and it will also allow you to prepare untranslated pages for translation using various special pages. It won't allow you to delete translated subpages or mark/prepare pages protected at administrator level of page protection, but is nonetheless useful. Having talked it over with my administrator colleague, I/we thought you'd be a really good fit for the role, and could find these tools useful in your translations. :)

If you're interested, let me know by way of a reply to this message and ping me to grab my attention, and I'll grant that user right to you. If you do end up taking me up on the offer, a couple guidelines that I used when I was a translation administrator:
 * 1) Check Special:Contributions/FuzzyBot after marking an updated page for translation or preparing a page for translation, to see when the system maintenance bot account has completed your request, so as not to add too many requests for the   to process; and,
 * 2) Don't mark the noticeboards or talk pages for translation, given how frequently they are updated.

Anyway, thanks again, and look forward to hearing back from you on this. :)

Cheers,

Dmehus (talk) 21:10, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hmm... sure, grant the rights, why not? 01:13, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅. Thanks for volunteering. Yeah, you're quite active with translations, so thought these tools would be helpful. If you have any questions regarding the tools, other than those two points above, let me know. Dmehus (talk) 01:56, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Interested in continuing as a ?
Hi again FireBarrier101,

I see you're active doing some translations, and perhaps you've even marked one or two pages or updated pages for translation with your translation administrator tools since then. Anyway, since the split of the  and   user rights into two groups, previous autopatrolled users lost the ability to patrol. After discussing with, we agreed that it makes sense to reach out to a few of the previous patrolling users who were either somewhat active or very active in roughly the past three months. You were one of those users. Would you be interested in continuing with that ability as a patroller? Please indicate your acceptance by way of a reply, with a ping to me so I am notified, and I'll switch you from  to , and update you on our initial patroller guidelines. :)

Thanks,

Dmehus (talk) 22:06, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll take rights 08:33, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅, great, glad to have you back aboard as a patroller. Look forward to your user talk page momentarily for the current  guidelines and best practices. Dmehus (talk) 13:40, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Patroller granted - 2020-09-3
Hi, FireBarrier101. An administrator on Meta has granted you the  user group permission, which gives you the ability to   recent changes and new pages of other Miraheze users (both registered and anonymous) who are  not either autopatrolled or an administrator. In addition, this group also means that your edits are, so other patrollers or administrators don't have to patrol your edits. You should also be aware that the granting of this user group is at the discretion of Meta administrators, so different administrators will have slightly different criteria for granting. Likewise, just as it is a discretionary appointment, revocation is also at the discretion of Meta administrators and, again, each will have their own criteria for revocation.

In the medium-term, plans are in the works to develop a Meta Patrollers School, likely led by one or two active administrators, that will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines for patrollers and answers to commonly asked questions.

Nevertheless, the following are some of the main guidelines for patrolling. If you follow these guidelines completely, it is unlikely your patroller user group should ever be revoked. In technical terms, even when you find content that requires deletion by an administrator or otherwise requires remediation, undoing, reverting, or rolling back (if you are also a, of course), you should always first mark as patrolled any revisions regardless of whether that content is destined to remain extant to the page or even on Meta entirely.


 * 1) When patrolling talk pages, user talk pages, and noticeboards (in Main and Meta namespaces), you should first check to see whether the user properly signed their posts using four tildes . If they have not, you should add unsigned by substitution, where username is the user's username or IP address and the timestamp is the full timestamp from the diff page. As a best practice, you should also link to the diff in your edit summary, so other administrators and patrollers can easily tie your modification to the original edit being modified. To speed up this process, you can copy the   user script from line 5 of this page into either your (a) common.js or (b) global.js page (the latter applying globally on all Miraheze wikis);
 * 2) When patrolling the noticeboards, ask yourself whether this topic is on the correct noticeboard. If it is not, you should move it to the correct noticeboard, by either undoing the edit or manually removing the topic (if there have been intervening edits), again linking to the original noticeboard of the topic and the new noticeboard where it was moved in your edit summary. On the new noticeboard, you would simply paste in the topic (including the section header), linking to the diff page as in the first step. An example edit summary might be , where  ######  represents the numeric revision ID of the originally posted topic;
 * 3) Also when patrolling the noticeboards and talk pages (including user talk pages), as a best practice, take care to kindly fix any formatting mistakes (such as excess line breaks or incorrect wiki code), per WP:LISTGAP;
 * 4) If something requires deletion, you can add delete to the top of the page in question, taking care to follow the instructions on that template page;
 * 5) If you come across a user who repeatedly makes the same mistakes, send them a guidance note on their user talk page, informing of the steps need to edit and post constructively on Meta; and, finally,
 * 6) If in doubt whether something requires remediation or not, patrol it, and then ask any administrator via their user talk page or at Administrators' noticeboard if any further action needs to be taken.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you! --Dmehus (talk) 13:41, 3 September 2020 (UTC)