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Please modify that filter's conditions for performance (page_id as the first, user_rights as the last):
page_id == 0 &
!equals_to_any(page_namespace, 2, 3, 14, 1198) &
new_size < 100 &
!added_lines irlike "\{\{(?:interwiki|soft)[\s_]*redirect|#redirect" &
!contains_any(user_rights, "autoconfirmed", "edit-legal")
Thank you. Codename Noreste (talk) 02:43, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
- Ping @Martin Urbanec (WMF) to please help with this. Thank you! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:26, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
Done Thanks for the suggestion, @Codename Noreste and @Quiddity (WMF) for the ping! Martin Urbanec (WMF) (talk) 18:54, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
Forcing WMF employees to use Salesforce Inc is an ethical violation
Apparently (post deleted by the author) WMF has been, and still is, forcing WMF employees to use an enshittified non-FOSS, non-community-controlled communicator Slack owned by a 100-billion dollar US corporation Salesforce, Inc. for internal communication in relation to WMF work activities. If correct, then this is an ethical violation that is completely unacceptable. We are not here to subsidise the concentration of power in the hands of authoritarian undemocratic organisations like Salesforce Inc.
According to the current consensus in the article Salesforce, Inc., it even looks like Salesforce Inc. is supporting democratic backsliding in the United States: In October 2025, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff declared his avid support of Donald Trump and urged him to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco ... That same month, Salesforce pitched the Trump administration on ways that Salesforce's AI tools could help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) triple its staff to support the administration's mass deportation campaign.
Should the Wikimedia community accept that WMF employees are forced to support democratic backsliding in the United States? The answer is obvious: No!
The #TyrannyOfConvenience ("I can click without thinking and it works") is not an excuse for forcing Salesforce Inc/Slack on WMF employees. From a practical point of view, the matrix protocol, which is being switched to by the International Criminal Court via ZenDiS, is available to all French civil servants in Tchap chat and Visio videoconferencing, and is being used by the United Nations International Computing Centre, has plenty of FOSS server software and client software available, and for situations that need high levels of confidentiality, is very likely more secure than Slack, because security by obscurity is discouraged and not recommended by standards bodies. There are non-Element Creations Ltd (Q58821126)-run matrix-protocol servers listed at https://servers.joinmatrix.org, and WMF techies could quite easily run a matrix homeserver with account creation restricted to WMF Board/employees only; this would allow self-managed communication both internally to WMF and externally, just like email.
@Laurentius: and other Board members: Could you please tell us when the WMF is planning for a transition from Slack to an ethically acceptable communicator such as one using the matrix protocol? Boud (talk) 09:17, 17 May 2026 (UTC) (edit: clarify that a Fediverse post was deleted Boud (talk) 15:24, 17 May 2026 (UTC))
- See also the relevant discussion en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Forcing_WMF_employees_to_use_Salesforce_Inc_is_an_ethical_violation. SCP-2000 (talk) 11:06, 26 May 2026 (UTC)
Request to remove admin rights from Brooke Vibber (WMF)
Please remove administrator rights from Brooke Vibber (WMF) (talk · contribs); they no longer work for the Wikimedia Foundation. Thank you. Codename Noreste (talk) 20:01, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
- Done. Thanks. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:20, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Section 7.3. is not being rendered in wikitext.
- Current page
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7.3 Questions</tr> ===
- What should be like…
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In short, section title cannot be split over linebreaks(Enter). Remove the extra line from the page, and the section will finally become a section. :)
Do not copypaste the above code snippet: I had to replace <translate> with <tr>, to suppress Translate extension claiming there is "translation unit markers in unexpected position". — regards, Revi 07:52, 28 August 2026 (UTC)
Request for translation admin rights
Hi, as a global sysop I often encounter translation vandalism. I can't delete pages like Home/tl which are rests of this vandalism. I like to have the rights to clean such pages completely. Thank you, NDG (talk) 17:59, 12 October 2026 (UTC)
- Done - Per policy. Also, many thanks for your efforts here and elsewhere. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 09:40, 13 October 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot! NDG (talk) 09:42, 13 October 2026 (UTC)