Re: [Wikimedia-l] [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-03-31 Thread Rehman Abubakr
Hello, Congratulations to Serhio, Amir, and the rest of the team, for the relatively smooth transition. A quick comment: I noticed that the favicon is still showing the old version. Is that due to an update lag, accidental omission, or is it intentional? Yours truly, Rehman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Feature from Community Tech: Enhanced Password Reset

2020-05-11 Thread Rehman Abubakr
This is a really useful feature, thank you. I hope https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153454 would also be considered sometime in the near future. It's not directly related, but related to password security. Tldr, if I use abc123 as my password, I would get my normal admin account. But if I us

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2020 Wikimania Scholarships now open

2020-03-09 Thread Rehman Abubakr
I too have cancelled all personal/work/wiki travel plans. The risks are far too great. A single infection at the conference, depending on who/where, has the potential to cause significant damage to the Movement. I understand the sheer effort that has already been put, but I strongly hope the F

[Wikimedia-l] Winners of the international WLE contest

2019-12-02 Thread Rehman Abubakr
(crosspost) Yours truly, Rehman A. From: Wikilovesearth on behalf of Єлизавета Чеховська Sent: 03 December 2019 01:08 To: wikilovesea...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikilovesearth] Winners of the international WLE contest Hi! We are happy to reveal thi

[Wikimedia-l] Conclusion of Wiki Loves Earth 2019 in Sri Lanka

2019-08-14 Thread Rehman Abubakr
s, to get this successfully completed. Feel free to reach out to me for any questions or comments. Yours truly, Rehman Abubakr (Roy)<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman> Admin (English Wikipedia, Commons), Contributor (Wikidata, Meta), OTRS agent User:Rehman<https://en.wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Some goodbye to all

2019-06-20 Thread Rehman Abubakr
are an amazing person with a very warm heart. Cheer up, and don't cling on darker thoughts. It troubles no one other than the person clinging to it. Goodnight from here. Yours truly, Rehman Abubakr (Roy)<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman> OTRS agent, Admin (Engli

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-24 Thread Rehman Abubakr
any solid milestones you could focus on each day. You open a random backlog, and there's an endless ocean of work which if you attend 1 or 1 requests, it doesn't really matter to the contributor itself. More like starting to mop a vast room-less floor. Yours truly, Rehman Abu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadline announcements

2018-10-15 Thread Rehman Abubakr
Hello Pine, Since we're on the topic of mailing list norms, may I also suggest that we please do not copy the entire mailing list for any one-to-one well wishes as well? Example: "Congrats" messages to various topics like project completed, new affiliate, edit count, or whatsoever. Certain t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to deal with spam subscription to mailing list

2018-05-11 Thread Rehman Abubakr
Yep, a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Possible_spambots_targeting_Wikimedia_mailing_lists Yours truly, Rehman From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of Gnangarra Sent: 09 May 2018 15:58 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wik

[Wikimedia-l] All mails going to Spam for Live users?

2017-07-01 Thread Rehman Abubakr
Hi, All emails from Wikimedia-l started to automatically drop into my Spam folder as of a few days ago. I use an "@live.com" email address (from Microsoft Outlook). Anyone else facing this? Thanks and regards, User:Rehman

[Wikimedia-l] Unified Wikimania wiki

2016-10-22 Thread Rehman Abubakr
(cross-posting to Wikimania-l and Wikimedia-l) Hi, As earlier discussions on this topic received relatively little response from the community, I'm sending this email to let you know about the new topic posted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Wikimania_wikis, with regards to hav