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Meta-Wiki has a small active community. When a normal user requires the assistance of an administrator or bureaucrat for some particular task, it is not always easy to find one. This page helps users find one when they need one; asking specific admins directly via their talk pages is one way to elicit a fast response. It is only for assistance required at Meta-Wiki, help for other wikis needs to be requested at those wikis.

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• To report vandalism on Meta: please click here. For immediate assistance, join #wikimedia-meta^connect and use !admin@meta to notify administrators.
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See also: Stewards' noticeboard, Access to nonpublic personal data policy noticeboard, Category:Meta-Wiki policies, Category:Global policies

General requests for: help from a Meta sysop or bureaucrat · deletion (speedy deletions: local · multilingual) · URL blacklisting · new languages · interwiki map

Personal requests for: username changes · permissions (global) · bot status · adminship on Meta · CheckUser information (local) · local administrator help

Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation

Meta-Wiki maintenance announcements [edit]

General maintenance announcements:

(as of 28 October 2025)

• Assistance with Meta-Wiki maintenance is always welcome.
• Many files awaiting review for basic {{information}}, source and license.

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(as of 28 October 2025)

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(Last updated: 2025-08-27)

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Report concerning User:~2025-30135-26

~2025-30135-26 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism. Also vandalized other wikis. XReport --NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 19:35, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Locked by stewards. Ternera (talk) 13:24, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Mohammadrezarezaei1347

Mohammadrezarezaei1347 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Spam-only account. XReport --NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 07:40, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Done Ternera (talk) 13:22, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

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Page title translations with line breaks

Please modify filter 301 (or create a new one) to also prevent inserting page title translations with newlines. The conditions should be something along the lines of:

page_namespace == 1198
& !("autopatrol" in user_rights)  /* Or sysop-and/or-bot-only? */
& page_title contains "/Page display title/"
& new_wikitext contains "\n"
/* translate_target_language is null for translation documentation pages */
& !(page_title rlike "/qqq$")

There are currently about 70 pages that need fixing. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 08:16, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Creating a new filter seems to be the better choice, given 301's customized message. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 08:28, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

@NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh Does this affect only page display titles? – Phương Linh (T · C · CA · L · B) 03:06, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

@Hide on Rosé: Fixed. For some reason, I forgot to add the most crucial condition when making this request. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 03:09, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Done – Phương Linh (T · C · CA · L · B) 03:10, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Isn't this excessive to disallow non-autopatrolled users from adding line breaks to page title translations? Should I reduce this to non-autoconfirmed to match filter 301? Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 04:21, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Thương Linh

Thương Linh (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism. x-wiki XReport --NDG (talk) 15:31, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Done – DreamRimmer ■ 15:34, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

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Revdel request

Please revdel this edition. Contains inappropriate (and inflammatory) messages towards some members of the group. Thanks in advance, Lord Ravager (talk) 02:43, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2025-30331-37

~2025-30331-37 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --NDG (talk) 09:09, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Done – DreamRimmer ■ 09:29, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Somchai sonmuenwai

Somchai sonmuenwai (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: x-wiki-spam XReport --NDG (talk) 11:58, 28 October 2025 (UTC)