User talk:Barras

Welcome!

Hello Barras, and welcome to Test Wikipedia, a wiki designed for testing of software, among other things.

Some good links include:

• Sandbox
• What test wiki is
• What test wiki is not
• Requests for permissions, renames and others
• Talk:Main Page
• Wikipedia:Administrators
• Wikipedia:Bureaucrats

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page. Thanks. Érico ^msg 00:03, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

I always keep wondering why people make such rather useless edits. But hey-ho. -Barras talk 04:32, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Did not like the welcome Érico ^msg 20:47, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Just a guess, but no, I don't think he really appreciated it. xD Trijnstel (talk) 21:08, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Welcome Barras! If you have any questions feel free to ask me too! :) Elfix (talk) 20:53, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Stop being such a nooob. Matanya (talk) 20:59, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi Barras, we are all here for you. Please don't worry about anything. The wiki can be a big and daunting place. PeterSymonds (talk) 21:11, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

You guys make me curious now if it would be abusive when I'd block you all. I mean, I've the excuse that I'm apparently a noob and so I don't know what I'm doing. Yeah, I may try that to see what will happen. -Barras talk 21:19, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Abuse! PeterSymonds (talk) 07:09, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Rights

One is an anti-abuse test, nothing else thinks for effectiveness, in addition to its usefulness after watching send it to stop working. I request to be reinstated my permission, will not happen again, and that is not a sandbox.--Deivismaster (talk) 20:38, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

It's not an admin sandbox for abuse filter testing.Jasper Deng (talk) 20:39, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

You stopped all non-admins from editing this site. I think there are now more than enough people who will strongly disagree with you having any kinds of rights here. -Barras talk 20:42, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

An important message about renaming users

Dear Barras,

I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.

Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.

Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 18:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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How we will see unregistered users

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 admin will 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 on better tools to help.

If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.

We have two 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 can let 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.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:19, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Please remove sysop from JWheeler-WMF (talk · contribs)

Hello! No longer WMF. Thanks! ~2025-26777-51 (talk) 18:20, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done - thanks for the notice. -Barras talk 19:16, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi

Can you take at my WP:RFP? Plutus (talk) 06:12, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Request for Guidance - Academic Research Demo at Wikipedia Conference

Hi Barras,

I hope this message finds you well. My name is Hamid, and I'm a senior studying Information Science at Cornell University. I'm reaching out to seek your guidance on creating a temporary test environment for an academic demonstration.

Context: Professor Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (faculty page: Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil | Cornell Bowers) will be presenting ConvoWizard, a conversation analysis tool, at the Wikipedia Conference this Saturday. The research project (documented at Research:ConvoWizard: Understanding the Effects of Providing Interlocutors with Information about the Trajectory of their Ongoing Conversations - Meta-Wiki) aims to help Wikipedia editors better understand conversation dynamics on talk pages.

The Issue: I attempted to create a test talk page (Talk:Iamhamidrezaee - Test Wikipedia) for our demonstration, but it was deleted. I completely understand this violated standard Wikipedia policies, and I should have consulted with administrators first.

What We Need: We need a legitimate way to demonstrate the tool's functionality during our presentation. Ideally, this would involve:

- A clearly marked test/sandbox environment that wouldn't interfere with Wikipedia's normal operations

- Something that could remain active through Sunday (just for the conference weekend)

- Your guidance on the proper procedure to request such temporary testing space

Our Commitment:

- We will clearly label any test pages as temporary and research-related

- We will promptly remove any test materials after the conference

- We will comply with all Wikipedia policies and guidelines you advise

Could you please advise on the appropriate process for setting up a legitimate test environment for this academic presentation? If there's a formal request process or if we need approval from specific administrators, we're happy to follow those procedures.

Thank you for your time and consideration. Please feel free to contact me (hr328@cornell.edu) or Professor Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (cd326@cornell.edu) if you need any additional information about the research project.

Best regards,

Hamid Iamhamidrezaee (talk) 15:57, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello.

I restored the page and moved it to your personal sandbox, see User:Iamhamidrezaee/sandbox. However, this is actually not what this project is made for (which is why I deleted the page in the first place).

I think it would make more sense to keep such pages in your own userspace and have them deleted, once you're done. Regards, -Barras talk 09:34, 17 October 2025 (UTC)