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This message was sent to all administrators following arecent motion. Thank you for your attention. For theArbitration Committee,Cameron1159802:40, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they arerequired to "have strong passwords andfollow appropriate personal security practices." We haveupdated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular,two-factor authentication remains anoptional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron1159821:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an adminwill still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working onbetter tools to help.

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We havetwo suggested ways this identity could work.We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You canlet us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

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		The Template Barnstar
		For all your work making DYK work. Thanks. --evrik (talk)20:14, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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		For over 100 article reviews during 2021. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk)08:22, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Maile66! On behalf of theBirthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy 16th anniversary of the day you madeyour first edit and became a Wikipedian! Please accept the belated invitation below we meant to have offered you last year.Chris Troutman (talk)19:09, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Maile66,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join theFifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards,Chris Troutman (talk)19:09, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I added the icon to my user page— Maile (talk)21:41, 25 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Windows 11 you can do this by right-clicking the taskbar, then clicking Taskbar Settings. From here you can disable widgets

@SL93: Have you by any chance seenSealioning? Just saying ... life is too short to respond to someone who does this.— Maile (talk)12:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From theBirthday Committee,Ezra Cricket (talk)00:04, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

	The Master of Salad Award
	Awarded to Maile66 for staying strong, Popeye-strong, even in the face of UTTER LACK OF NOTABILITY. That's how we're going to win this war! ;)Drmies (talk)13:10, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I proudly accept the award. If your ESP is working, you should now be seeing me taking my bows.— Maile (talk)13:15, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was driving to work but I think I felt something--then again maybe I've been playingTonight's the Night too often. How's it going Maile? Still here after all these years, I see: thank you for that. Ima go see what other AfDs you been in, just to mess with you. Take care!Drmies (talk)14:37, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maile, it may be the Dutchman in me, but when I look atHofstra University rape hoax I'm tempted to delete this on the spot as a BLP violation!Drmies (talk)14:39, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome to look through my edits of anything, as far as I'm concerned. I have no idea what you are getting at here. But there have been a lot of AFDs ... just within the last 12 months. The thing about AFD is, like all of Wikipedia, anybody can join in, regardless if they know WP's complicated, and often conflicting, guidelines on anythig and anybody. And you can often find a WP guideline to justify any direction of something.— Maile (talk)16:18, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just joking, my friend--but I'm glad I saw that Hofstra thing. You run into these old things and you wonder how they got written up in the first place, and how they managed to stay around. How long do you think our project will last?Drmies (talk)16:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The overall Wikipedia project? I believe it will out-live me. Judging from theDeceased Wikipedians/2024, Jimbo Wales dreamed up a doozie of international connections when he created Wikipedia. We all have become an international family.— Maile (talk)20:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The New Page Reviewer's Bronze Award
		This award is given in recognition to Maile66 for conducting 1,668 article reviews in 2024. Thank you so much for all your excellent work. Keep it up!Hey man im josh (talk)18:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Maile66. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have atemporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with thetemporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

• When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern:~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
• All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
• A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with thetemporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
• As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
  • There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
  • There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.

Temporary account IP viewer user right

• Administrators may grant thetemporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet thecriteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. atWP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators arenot permitted to assign the right without a request.
• Administrators willautomatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted theAccess to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy viaSpecial:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.

Impact for administrators

• It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects theautoblock option.
• It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
• Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. OnSpecial:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should useSpecial:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

• Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access isgenerally not allowed (e.g.~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
• Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g.~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward3RR, but notHey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
• SeeWikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

• It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via theUser Info card, available inPreferences →Appearance →Advanced options →Enable theuser info card
  • This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
• Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
• Similarly,Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
• The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

• How to use Special:IPContributions
• How automatic IP reveal works
• How to use IP Info
• How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

• For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation atWikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

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Thank you!— Maile (talk)16:59, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello,

Thank you for your help with the Murtz Jaffer page. Do you know what else I can do to help with the deletion notice being removed?

No other ideas at the moment. However, I would like to remind you to sign all your edits, including talk page messages. Good luck!— Maile (talk)02:39, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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