On[1], you're right: Idecided 18 months ago never to look at, use or comment on that product, and since then I've never clicked a link to it intentionally, and only a handful times by mistake. Whenever it appears somewhere, I just move my discussion to another page, or refrain from commenting. In the worst case, one can use email, or use any other space where editing has not yet been forbidden (including ns0 /Talk subpages as we used to do before the introduction of namespaces). --Nemo09:50, 14 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi Matthiasb,

Along with more hundreds of others, you recently signedLetter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer, which I wrote.

Today, we have 562 signatures here on Meta, and another 61 onchange.org, for a total of 623 signatures. Volunteers have fully translated it into 16 languages, and begun other translations. This far exceeds my most optimistic hopes about how many might sign the letter -- I would have been pleased to gain 200 siguatures -- but new signatures continue to come.

I believe this is a significant moment for Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Very rarely have I seen large numbers of people from multiple language and project communities speak with a unified voice. As I understand it, we are unified in a desire for the Wikimedia Foundation to respect -- in actions, in addition to words -- the will of the community who has built the Wikimedia projects for the benefit of all humanity. I strongly believe it is possible to innovate and improve our software tools, together with the Wikimedia Foundation. But substantial changes are necessary in order for us to work together smoothly and productively. I believe this letter identifies important actions that will strongly support those changes.

Have you been discussing these issues in your local community? If so, I think we would all appreciate an update (onthe letter's talk page) about how those discussions have gone, and what people are saying. If not, pleasebe bold and start a discussoin on your Village Pump, or in any other venue your project uses -- and then leave a summary of what kind of response you get on the letter's talk page.

Finally, what do you think is the right time, and the right way, to deliver this letter? We could set a date, or establish a threshold of signatures. I have some ideas, but am open to suggestions.

Thank you for your engagement on this issue, and please stay in touch. -Pete F (talk)18:11, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Dear Matthiasb, since you are an administrator on a wiki from which no user participated in this discussion, I'd like to make sure you are aware of some recent events which may alter what the Wikimedia Foundation lets you do on your wiki:Superprotect.

• Request for comment:Requests for comment/Superprotect rights
• An open letter about its implementation:Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer

Peteforsyth09:32, 12 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi,

You get this message because you’ve previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey. I just wanted to let you know that this year’s survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until 11 November:Community Wishlist Survey 2019.

You can vote from November 16 to November 30. To keep the number of messages at a reasonable level, I won’t send out a separate reminder to you about that. /Johan (WMF)11:24, 30 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hi,

this isLina andEline from theTechnical Wishes product team atWikimedia Deutschland. We hope this message finds you well!

We are currently working on a solution to help Wikimedians easilyreuse references with different details – a problem related to severalCommunity Wishlist Survey wishes (partially) supported by you (e.g.1,2,3,4).

We want to invite you to a user testing session. During the session, you can test a prototype for Visual Editor and provide your feedback. Sessions will take 30–45 minutes,compensation is available. If you are interested, pleasesign up here (privacy policy).

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