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Toronto Wikipedia Day 2025 Reminder

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Sun Jan 19: Toronto Wikipedia Day 2025 Reminder

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A barnstar for you!

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The Real Life Barnstar
You did a good job with your wiki rabbit holes presentation. I learned a few things! Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 16:13, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks so much, Clovermoss. It was great to see you and also so many other cool people there! Risker (talk) 05:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

January 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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The Invisible Barnstar
This award is given in recognition to Risker for accumulating at least 5 points during the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:39, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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BoT election 2025

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Hi Risker. Very, very few users have the in-depth, all round experience and institutional memory that you do. Very few have been so engaged on various committees. I once thought I did, but the interest waned somewhat in 2020. I still follow a few things though and write the occasional article, but I've been pretty much put out to pasture by the new generations. I've often wondered how you maintain the enthusiasm I so much admire. The one place you never went was the BoT - I guess you have your reasons although I would have thought you would be a shoe-in for it. Anyways, looking at the lineup for this year's scramble for the two community seats, while the contenders all mean well, it's more like a modern quest for takers for Arbcom (where you are still dearly missed). I'm sure though that you will turn out to vote, so if you do, here's my take on it, and I make no apology for canvassing. Warm regards, Chris. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:47, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Kudpung, thanks for your very kind words, and for stopping by on my talk page. I think probably my "longevity" can be attributed to the fact that I don't stay in one task too long, and after I've been off in "global Wikimedia" land for a bit, I make sure to reground myself in my home project. The one thing I have always really liked about Wikipedia (and the global roles I've taken on) has been that there's always something different to try or do. At the same time, I still fix typos and grammar errors when I see them, just as I did with my very first contributions. Yes, there have been many who have approached me over the course of several years to put my name forward for the Board of Trustees. Little known fact: I was in fact a candidate for an "expertise" seat back in 2015, but I am the first to admit I wasn't qualified for the proposed seat, and the candidate ultimately selected didn't really work out. It was a very strange time in Wikimedia-land, let's just leave it at that. My decision not to run this year has to do with things outside of the Wikimedia world, and until some of those things stabilize I am not in a position to make that commitment, although I don't rule out something down the road if I'm still around.

My preference is to work on time-limited projects with specific goals (as nebulous as some of those goals may seem), and I think the teams I have worked on have had made some significant contributions to the Wikimedia family. Working on those global committees and task forces and working groups has reinforced to me how critical collaboration is for our success. I've had the opportunity to work with a lot of really fine Wikimedians from many projects (as well as affiliates and the WMF), and have learned a lot about how the Wikimedia world works outside of English Wikipedia. I try to bring those lessons home to this project and share that knowledge. I sometimes fantasize about taking a chainsaw to our extremely overwrought policies, because I believe our overkill in this area has a chilling effect on policy development on other projects.

Thanks for sharing your views on the current WMF Board of Trustees candidates. Myself, I am hoping to see a successful candidate coming out of Africa or Asia in particular; I think the challenge in the past has been getting enough voters to coalesce around one or two of those candidates to result in their success. While I'm pretty sure that, no matter what, there is likely to be a successful candidate from English projects (which I'll note have the most diverse and globalized editorial base of any project), it would sure be nice to see someone from a region that hasn't had their feet under the table before. Risker (talk) 04:04, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for a long and lovely reply! I've not got around all the nooks and crannies of the movement as much as you have, living where I do makes it a bit awkward (and unable to sit in a plane for more than a couple of hours these days and that's why I didn't even fly down to Singapore although I could have driven there - I haven't been out of Asia now since Esino Lario), but I've been around long enough to know what works and what doesn't, and to realise how much I, and I'm sure many others appreciate your work. Your quip with the chainsaw echoes my thoughts entirely, and some of it is exactly at the root of the problems at NPP which has been my hobby horse here for nearly 20 years. Our MoS itself would make any E-in-C of a newspaper of record blanche in horror. There's a PhD thesis out there just waiting to be written on Wikipedia's Policies and Guidelines. Our notability rules alone are over 5 hours of reading for a well educated native English reader! (I know because I did it in a bored moment not so long ago, just to prove a point).
The WMF ignores, perhaps not deliberately, that we volunteers also have the skill sets - and better ones too - than the salaried devs who can can write good code, agreed, but they don't know enough about addressing the various audiences desire for compelling UX and UI design. Instead, they imagine what's needed and spend fortunes on it without it having any measurable impact at all. And that's one of the reasons why a robust BoT is needed and someone who can stimulate some positive action there. Above all, many of us would like to see a board that is more accessible and mostly populated by our peers.
I do share your thoughts about Africa and Asia but IMO the current line up falls short of the really required quals and global knowledge. IMO there are almost certainly other opportunities for them to acquire important roles without needing to be on the Board right now. Do enjoy your trip to Nairobi, (it's been decades since I was last in Africa). Take care. Chris. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:08, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
See now, here's where we differ in candidate assessment. There are at least two candidates, one from Africa and one from Asia, who I personally am aware have solid experience on global Wikimedia task forces and/or committees; it's just that you probably haven't heard their names as often as the candidates you prefer, as both of them make most of their contributions on projects or in areas other than English Wikipedia. I'm still looking at other candidates; I agree that there are several with insufficient experience - but there always are. Risker (talk) 06:54, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't disagree with you at all. I saw those candidates and one from Europe. I am biased however, because the en.Wiki realises most of the money and probably has the most urgent software needs (both editors and other audiences) before processes such as NPP (arguably the most essential of all the backroom operations) get out of control. Therefore we need partners who have not just a bunch of PhDs amongst them but who understand our systems and priorities rather than rubber-stamping the Foundation's high speed expansionism and spending. Also, previous compositions from the non-community contingent have not always been particularly friendly towards the volunteers. Somehow this decades old gaping chasm between the WMF and the volunteer communities has to be bridged, and the BoT is the only organism that could do it officially and effectively if they wanted to. I'll be happy if both of my candidates make the shortlist. People who can "give real thoughtful guidance and oversight" — Jimbo Wales. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:43, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

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The Admin Elections barnstar
Thank you very much for being a discussion phase monitor at WP:AELECT2. Considering that we basically had 16 RFAs going at one time, it was quite smooth and drama free. Great job. –Novem Linguae (talk) 13:05, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. You are invited to participate in the debrief phase if you want to talk a bit about being a monitor and how monitoring went from your perspective. –Novem Linguae (talk) 13:07, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations

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I think you're a fantastic choice for Wikimedia Laureate. :) Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 16:58, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats, Risker! A solid choice; well deserved. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 20:53, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! Such well-deserved recognition! --Rosiestep (talk) 22:56, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations

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It was amazing to meet you and I am glad to see what you’ve achieved. You inspire me and congratulations 🥰

Chris - Uganda 🇺🇬 Owobusingye (talk) 17:26, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thank you, Owobusingye. It was very good to meet you. We talked about some guidance for members of the Uganda-based Wikimedia user group to work toward adminship on English Wikipedia, and I have responded at the talk page section on the user group's Meta page, having gathered the thoughts of a few other administrators about good advice for prospective admins. Risker (talk) 21:49, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IPBE for Mitte27

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Hello. This is a continuation of this topic. The user, who requested an IPBE, was special:centralauth/Mitte27, a very experienced user of ru-, ukwiki, WD and Commons. His problem still not solved, as he says today in ruwiki's Discord chat, could you check him and give him IPBE? He already has one in ukwiki. MBH (talk) 06:37, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello MBH, and thanks for your message. Yes, IPBE grants are a little behind, as I do a lot of them and have just returned from Wikimania. I've granted IP block exemption to Mitte for six months, and will be happy to review further once I return from traveling for a family matter. Risker (talk) 06:47, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I also has one more wish. One year ago I gathered some statistics using my bot, in ru- and enwiki. It was planned to save result tables to ruwiki, but due to bot error result table for enwiki was saved in enwiki with a Russian-language title. The page was planned for Wikipedia: namespace in ruwiki, but, because "Википедия:" isn't a namespace title in enwiki, a page appeared in enwiki's main (article) namespace. Page was located by admin, deleted and this admin blocked my bot indefinitely due to one this edit, like I was some sort of vandal. I requested unblock, but request was declined due to reasons I can't understand (I understand text in this reason, but doesn't understand logic). Could you unblock my bot account? This block notification in my bot's metadata is frustrating for me and sufficient reason for unblock, in my opinion, is that I have no intention to edit enwiki from that account, so there are no reasons to forbid this using block. It was one mistaken edit. MBH (talk) 20:44, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiClub Toronto Meetup

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Hello! It looks like you’ve shown interest in WikiClub Toronto meetups in the past. Our next meetup is scheduled for September 21, 2025, in Downtown Toronto. You can find more information here: Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/2025 Sept 21. Have a great day! SophieWMCA (talk) 18:49, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IP block exemption request

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Hi Risker,

Sorry to bug you... I sent in a request to renew my IP block exemption to checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org on September 6 (it expires in about a week and I'll be travelling at that point) and haven't heard back from the checkuser team. You've helped me in the past with similar exemptions, so I thought I'd check if you can help me once again. —Joeyconnick (talk) 18:53, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, extended for 2 years. Sorry for the delay. Risker (talk) 18:58, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your (very speedy!) help. 😀 —Joeyconnick (talk) 19:03, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A chocolate heart for you!

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Chocolate!
This sweet little picture looked like someone should appreciate it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:56, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh my. That was scrumptious with a nice cup of Kenyan tea. Thank you for the chocolate...and for reassuring me that at least a few people read my comments. Hope you're doing well! Risker (talk) 05:14, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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