@Liuxinyu970226 Could you please explain your comment above?

In T213901#4917941, @Liuxinyu970226 wrote:

@Doostdar and @Mardetanha LGTM to you both? Because, in my memories, some Iranian "public domain" or CC BY(-SA) websites are also problemic due to illegal forking from US states' governments.

Side note reported.

@Framawiki Confirmed. Thank you.

In T211464#4918526, @Jdforrester-WMF wrote:

Uploads-via-URL for Commons are already restricted to a pretty small set of users (sysop, extended-uploader, bot, and Image-reviewer).

In T214741#4913032, @Ammarpad wrote:

You seem to be contradicting yourself here. I reiterated that non-admin cannot edit/create any page mediawiki namespaces, but you claim you did.

In T214741#4911659, @Ammarpad wrote:

I can't edit, neither create the page or similar pages,

@Ammarpad Please try to do some translations on Wikidata yourself: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&action=page&group=agg-Interface_messages&language=ha&filter=%21translated

I couldn't upload https://media.mehrnews.com/d/2018/12/15/4/2984492.jpg from mehrnews.com (link to the gallery page).

OK, I found out what had happened.

پوب is wrong. بوپ is correct.

In T211827#4856171, @MusikAnimal wrote:

Topviews now has yearly data for 2017 and 2018: https://tools.wmflabs.org/topviews/?project=zh.wikipedia.org&date=2018 and I'll be adding 2016 shortly.

In T211827#4852637, @MusikAnimal wrote:

The file produced by Tbayer's query is too big to upload to Phabricator, apparently, so I've attached each requested wiki below. All credit goes to Tbayer and Milimetric for collecting this data! I just ran the query they wrote :)

In T212830#4852555, @Aklapper wrote:

Which editor is this about? What is the full, complete error message (except for IP addresses)?

Results are out: ویکی‌پدیا:انتخابات هیئت نظارت/دور نهم/نتایج

@jrbs Please enlighten us whether or not the election was encrypted. I personally think that encryption is NOT a must for fawiki elections.

@Huji As far as I know the election was not encrypted, so scrutineers can also tally the results. Am I right?

@alanajjar and @revi, we need you to look at the list of voters carefully after voting period ends. As admins of the election, you can see the IP address and user-agent information of voters. You should be vigilant of any suspicious activity, and strike votes if necessary. We, coordinators, may also ask you to strike some votes in exceptional situations (such as votes by blocked users). Then, you should tally the results by visiting https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll (last item), give us the results to publish them at Persian Wikipedia, and finally, you should certify the results by signing at the results page (example). There is also a verbose guide page at the English Wikipedia. Thank you very much for your service.

In T207560#4705281, @jrbs wrote:

I will say that it would be ideal to get more lead time in future for these elections, since we have to move things around to make time for it. :)

We will make sure to have at least one week for configuring the SecurePoll in the future.

@jrbs The right to edit the election should also be given to the scrutineers. Huji and I will remove ourselves as admins of the election before voting starts, but scrutineers will obviously keep the right.

I have already contacted @jrbs asking him to create an account for @revi on votewiki as the scrutineer of the elections and to unblock my own account there. I will serve as the coordinator and I need to double check everything myself. Last year, when I was partially absent, vote page was in a mess (at least in the first day of voting period).

@Framawiki Yes, that should be sufficient, because I want to upload images such as https://media.farsnews.com/media/Uploaded/Files/Images/1397/05/04/13970504000761636682395024930715_75278_PhotoT.jpg Thank you.

I have no idea how many proposals you will have for each category, but you are right; alternative voting systems are not an optimal choice when there are dozens of candidates because they can overwhelm the voters. In my opinion, UI is not an issue at all. I was advocating better voting systems.

Use OpaVote if you want a reasonable voting system. Learn from Stack Exchange.

@01tonythomas, I'm in!

I just sent a mail to @Haritha28 and asked her to explain what mentoring involves and what exactly I am supposed to do. If I find myself qualified enough to take part in this project, I will be more than happy to help you.

@Mdann52 Let me ping Matthew.

I'm not sure but it may be because of some Internet filtering problems in Iran. Last month a great deal of users reported that they cannot see the Commons files within the Persian Wikipedia. The whole website was allegedly inaccessible too. Some users speculated that this problem might have something to do with the Wiki Loves Monument contest!