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This page is a central location for communication between custodians.

• Join us on irc channel #wikiversity-en or on skype to coordinate activities in real time.
• View recent changes in real time on irc channel #en.wikiversity.
• Request pages be imported.
• Please look at Special:Unwatchedpages and add some pages that are of interest to you to your watch list.
• Please review the archives for past discussions.

Contents 1 Unblock request watcher 2 Candidates for speedy deletion 3 transwiki from wikipedia 4 template @wikipedia 5 Open Proxies 6 Japanese copyvio 7 Twitter 8 vandalism 9 Semiprotection, please 10 Serial vandalism

[edit] Unblock request watcher

If we're going to be using these sorts of rangeblocks, I think we should talk to commons:User:Bryan about setting up a category watching bot to bump unblock requests on a page all custodians can add to their watchlists. I suspect the Moulton situation will be with us for a while, and if so we should have a good method of sniffing out unblock requests. Checkusers will in most cases be able to see if the requests are from Moulton. --SB_Johnny ^talk 18:10, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I agree that a bot would be desirable. I did not see any mention of category watching for the bots run by Bryan... For now, custodians should check Category:Requests for unblock. Please note, that we also need to make sure that the user_talk pages of blocked ips have a template with instructions on how to use the unblock request. --mikeu ^talk 13:28, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I am running tests for an unblock request watcher bot. User:Mu301Bot checks for pages listed in Category:Requests for unblock and edits User:Mu301Bot/Requests for unblock if a page has been added to or removed from the category since the last time the bot checked. No edits are made to the userpage if the category has not changed. If you watchlist that userpage you can tell if there are any outstanding requests by looking for a number greater than 0 in the edit summary, and then click on the page to read the username. [1] Any questions or comments about the way this works? --mikeu ^talk 14:40, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Update: the bot is now checking every hour, at 10 min. past the hour. --mikeu ^talk 15:12, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

See User talk:Mu301Bot/Requests for unblock for more information and to discuss. --mikeu ^talk 17:02, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

The testing phase of the request watcher is now complete and custodians should watchlist User:Mu301Bot/Requests for unblock. --mikeu ^talk 17:13, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Candidates for speedy deletion

I ran a bot to search for pages that only contain {{whas}} or {{we}} and then tag them for speedy deletion. Please have a look at the list at User:Mu301Bot/Candidates for speedy deletion. Most of these were originally created with just the template or were test edits that were blanked and tagged. But, I did find one page where an anon blanked some content, and it was later templated with expand. I'm looking for other custodians to review the selection of pages. --mikeu ^talk 23:44, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

I now have a bot updating User:Mu301Bot/Candidates_for_speedy_deletion and User:Mu301Bot/Contested_candidates_for_deletion once per day. Custodians are requested to watchlist these pages to keep up with requests. Please also let me know if this is of use or something that we should have another method for. --mikeu ^talk 17:13, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] transwiki from wikipedia

FYI: there is a w:Template:TransWikiversity that adds pages to w:Category:Articles to be transwikied to Wikiversity. Also, please note, that there is a w:Template:copy to Wikiversity and (an uncreated) w:Category:Copy to Wikiversity. Please watchlist Wikiversity:Import to keep an eye out for wikipedia articles that are out of scope there, but might be of interest to wv. We might want to mention these templates and categories at wp to alert them that there might be some articles that would be out of scope for wp, but within our project. --mikeu ^talk 14:35, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

I think we should try to get a wikiversity-transwiki option listed on w:Wikipedia:No original research/noticeboard as well (new page to me!)... I'll leave a note on the talk. --SB_Johnny ^talk 19:11, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

I've suggested a merge of the two templates at Wikipedia talk:Templates for deletion. --mikeu ^talk 16:22, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

The template to use on wikipedia is w:Template:Copy to Wikiversity which adds articles to w:Category:Copy to Wikiversity. --mikeu ^talk 13:30, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] template @wikipedia

I've created a new category at w:Category:Wikiversity templates and tried to add all the wv related templates to it. If we want to attract editors or import content from wp we really should try to get more organized about coordinating things there. --mikeu ^talk 16:48, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Open Proxies

I'd like to remind everyone of a long neglected page at Wikiversity:Open Proxies. We also have {{openproxy}} which should be used on the user talk page of the blocked ip. There has been some recent activity by custodians to block these open proxies. Not all of them have the template on the talk page. I'd suggest we request a bot to go through the logs and template the talk pages of blocked ips that lack the template. We might also want to look into setting up a page like meta:Meta:Open_proxy_detection which is updated by a bot. --mikeu ^talk 13:19, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese copyvio

It seems we have bulk uploading of copyrighted popular japanese song lyrics from User:Okanosato. (now blocked for 6 months) I think I've deleted all the copyright material, but please also see: Special:PrefixIndex/User:Okanosato. Mostly it consists of sports scores. Also, a wikipedia sysop who reads the language has informed me that the talk page posts from this user appear to be Google translated and not from a native speaker of the language. There has been no response from requests by custodians to discuss these issues. see questions from custodians dating back to March at User_talk:Okanosato and last Sept. - Oct. [2] --mikeu ^talk 12:48, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

This has been an ongoing problem, please also see: Wikiversity:Requests_for_Deletion/Archives/4#Japanese_poetry_copyvio_-_DELETED and Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/September_2008#Japan_high_school_songs --mikeu ^talk 12:43, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Twitter

We have created a Wikiversity twitter account. If you would like to contribute, let us know. Once we have a few tweets, we can promote more widely. See: Twitter. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 13:55, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] vandalism

We've had some grawp-like vandalism.

• 72.208.168.143 (talk | email | contribs | stats)
• 86.163.165.85 (talk | email | contribs | stats)

Please watch for further activity. --mikeu ^talk 02:24, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Semiprotection, please

My userspace, recent low level trolling. Durova 19:13, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected your userpage and user talk for 6 months. Let us know if/when you want that changed. --SB_Johnny ^talk 22:38, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Serial vandalism

We had a multiple vandalism from 68.52.42.38 (talk | email | contribs | stats) I have to tell that there was an effort to undo these vandalisms from the same/another user from the same IP address, but in order to stop the potential vandal I blocked this IP for 1 day. We'll see what happens. Please keep your eye on our friend and act if necessary. --Gbaor 10:53, 15 December 2009 (UTC)