User talk:Mindmatrix
Editor of the Week
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User:Buster7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
- Mindmatrix is a self described audidactic meaning he is self-taught. With a steady edit history since 2005, he has created 648 pages basically focussed on his effort to improve Canada related info. The article Canadian Dental Care Plan is a good example. Additional work on many science, technology and cultural articles is also prevalent. With over 189000 edits and a whopping 80% to mainspace, his two decade-long career is praiseworthy. This nomination was seconded by User:QuicoleJR
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| Mindmatrix |
| Editor of the Week for the week beginning January 19, 2025 |
| A self described audidactic Wikipedia editor (meaning he is self-taught) with a steady edit history since 2005. He has created over 650 pages basically focussed on his effort to improve Canada related info. The remote but informative article Canadian Dental Care Plan is a good example. Additional work on many science, technology and cultural articles is also prevalent. With over 189000 edits and a whopping 80% to mainspace, his two decade-long career is praiseworthy. |
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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster7 Chat 22:47, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Buster7: Thanks for the recognition! Mindmatrix 14:33, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 29 § Category:Recreation by period
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A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 29 § Category:Recreation by period on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –Aidan721 (talk) 23:29, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for January 30
[edit]An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Menno Versteeg, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page First Nations.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:54, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
Request to Add Mary Ladd to the We Wai Kai Nation Entry
[edit]Hello Mindmatrix,
I would like to request an edit to the **Notable We Wai Kai Nation people** section of the We Wai Kai Nation Wikipedia page.
- Please add the following text:**
- Mary Ladd – Writer and editor known for her contributions to Indigenous heritage, cancer narratives, and culinary writing. She authored *The Wig Diaries*, illustrated by Don Asmussen, and has written extensively on Indigenous topics in cultural and culinary contexts.*
- This text should be inserted under the existing notable people list, after Chief Billy Assu.**
Here are sources to verify her background:
- Jones, Kevin L. (2019). "[SF writer laughs at cancer with 'Wig Diaries,' a guide for grown-ups](https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/sf-writer-laughs-at-cancer-with-wig-diaries-a-guide-for-grown-ups)". *The San Francisco Chronicle.* - KQED. "[New book chronicles life of those living with long COVID](https://www.kqed.org/news/11968196/new-book-chronicles-life-of-those-living-with-long-covid)". - Alta Journal. "[Author profile: Mary Ladd](https://www.altaonline.com/author/960155/maryladd/)". - The Writers Grotto. "[Profile: Mary Ladd](https://www.writersgrotto.org/people/mary-ladd)". - Local News Matters. "[Tribute to Don Asmussen](https://localnewsmatters.org/2021/12/21/local-writers-honor-the-life-of-san-francisco-chronicle-cartoonist-don-asmussen/)".
This addition will help recognize notable We Wai Kai Nation members in cultural and literary fields.
Please let me know if any revisions are needed. Thank you for your time and assistance!
Best, 148.64.99.251 (talk) 18:43, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Fiber optics
[edit]Hi Mindmatrix, I noticed the excellent job you did keeping an eye on Fiber optics article a while back: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiber-optic_communication&diff=prev&oldid=1269806250 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiber-optic_communication&diff=prev&oldid=1270900979
and in case you contributed to the article, or otherwise care about it, feel free to check the message I have just left on the talk page. 188.66.35.75 (talk) 09:38, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
"Issues in Toronto, Ontario" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Issues in Toronto, Ontario has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 2 § Issues in Toronto, Ontario until a consensus is reached. A1Cafel (talk) 03:25, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
Guide to temporary accounts
[edit]Hello, Mindmatrix. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.
Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.
How do temporary accounts work?
- When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern:
~2025-12345-67(a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5). - All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
- A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
- As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
- There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
- There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.
Temporary account IP viewer user right
- Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
- Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.
Impact for administrators
- It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
- It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
- Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).
Rules about IP information disclosure
- Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
- Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g.
~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR
, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67) - See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.
Useful tools for patrollers
- It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options →
Enable the user info card
- This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
- Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
- Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
- The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.
Videos
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How to use Special:IPContributions
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How to use User Info
Further information and discussion
- For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.
Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
edit was not minor?
[edit]with this edit, you marked it as minor. but it reverts an edit that may be seen as a slight improvement, so your edit reverting it is probably not minor? Acrions (talk) 18:08, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
- I used the automated rollback function, which marks all its edits as minor. Additionally, the edit I reverted removed a number of useful links and the hatnote linking to Open access (disambiguation). Mindmatrix 20:36, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
- if rollback marks its edits as minor, then you probably shouldn't use it to make edits that aren't minor. i agree that the edit was likely not useful, but you probably should have instead just reverted it. Acrions (talk) 21:05, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Acrions: The edit had all the hallmarks of vandalism:
- an IP editor
- no edit summary
- deletion of hatnote
- deletion of links in the introduction
- Such edits are common and almost always vandalism. Rollback was the appropriate action here. By the way, "should have instead just reverted it" is exactly what I did - that is the purpose of the rollback button used by admins. If I deem an edit needs manual reversion, I do so; you can verify this by inspecting my contributions (I mark manual reversions with "revert - " followed by an explanation, for example this and this.) Mindmatrix 00:07, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
- oh, ok! Acrions (talk) 00:38, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Acrions: The edit had all the hallmarks of vandalism:
- if rollback marks its edits as minor, then you probably shouldn't use it to make edits that aren't minor. i agree that the edit was likely not useful, but you probably should have instead just reverted it. Acrions (talk) 21:05, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
[edit] | Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Mindmatrix! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 15:35, 4 December 2025 (UTC) |  |
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Merry Christmas!
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