User talk:Kyelewis~enwikinews

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whoops

Sorry, I mis-read which direction you were the moving the pages and blocked you! Thanks for the clear-up help; sorry I wasn't around earlier to block the vandal sooner. Dan100 (Talk) 10:56, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

No problems - i'm used to seeing wiki-spam, though as the only spammed wiki that I usually deal with, the EveryDNS FAQ wiki, doesn't have image upload capacity, i'm not used to seeing goatse-style pictures around. *Welcomes himself to WikiNews*. I kinda like the place. Kyelewis 11:03, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikinews radio

Hi Kye,

thanks for your support with the WNN. I hope we can move the functionality of your wiki into Wikinews itself soon. In that regard, I have two requests:

• Could you add the following note in boldface on the wiki frontpage: This wiki is used purely to demonstrate and test the processes and technology that will be used for Wikinews Network. Please put only a minimal amount of information on this wiki; activity should take place on http://en.wikinews.org/ if at all possible. Thank you!
• Are you interested in helping to get the broadcasting features you added into MediaWiki properly? I'm a CVS admin, so I'd be happy to give you access, but we'd have to agree on the implementation strategy first (with the other developers as well).
  • The best setup would probably be as an extension. Extensions can implement special pages, see e.g. the Makesysop extension and the BoardVote extension. The "hooks" concept is documented here.
  • I'm not quite sure what the best strategy would be to put additional preferences in an extension, but I'm sure it's possible somehow, perhaps on the special page itself. Is there a specific reason to have the broadcast password separate from the regular user password? You say it's not as secure as a wiki login password, what is the reason for that?
  • The main reason to have it as an extension is that it won't be relevant for most MediaWiki installations and should only be enabled for Wikinews. If it can't be made into an extension at all, a global $wgBroadcastSupport option that, when disabled, hides all the relevant functionality would be a requirement. But it would be difficult to get that into the main development branch.

I'd be interested in your thoughts. Thanks,--Eloquence 18:31, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Future talk 2

Hello, I would like to invite you to attend our second future talk, it will be held on Monday, August 1 at 21:00 UTC. It will be held on the Wikinews IRC channel #wikinews For more information please see the page on meta The main topics will be audio Wikinews, WNN and portals/neighborhoods It would be great if you will be able to attend. --Cspurrier 15:42, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Kyelewis. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Kyelewis~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

23:17, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

06:33, 21 April 2015 (UTC)