User talk:Mykola7

September 2019

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at American black duck. Dawnseeker2000 15:39, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Way to WP:BITE :3 F4U (they /it) 00:47, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed

Dear Mykola7, I sent you an email. I would appreciate your help. Thank you. PurpleBuffalo (talk) 12:28, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hi, just wanted to say thank you for changing my username. JayAmber (talk) 16:22, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Some baklava for you!

Thank you for changing my username! Interbeing_GOCE (talk) 00:12, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your request

Done.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:00, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Mykola7 (talk) 00:06, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary checkuser privileges for 2024 Arbitration Committee election scrutineers

On recommendation of the Electoral Commission, temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted to stewards EPIC (talk · contribs), Mykola7 (talk · contribs), and Johannnes89 (talk · contribs), solely for the purpose of their acting as scrutineers in the 2024 Arbitration Committee election. For the Arbitration Committee, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 17:13, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Temporary checkuser privileges for 2024 Arbitration Committee election scrutineers

Seasonal greetings!

Hello Mykola7: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 19:46, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Thank you! Happy Holidays to you too!🎄 --❄️Mykola❄️ 21:04, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sock inquiry

Hi, you blocked Lwlvlad931 on December 20, 2024, at uk.wiki. Earlier on November 16, 2024, Q-bit array blocked Spectra321578 apparently as a sock of Lwlvlad931 on ru.wiki. I am trying to find out if there are additional accounts/socks. Can you help? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:09, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. There was one more account – Xboxswqhje. I didn’t find any other accounts in UkWiki. ❄️Mykola❄️ 11:24, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That account has not made any contributions to en.wiki. Perhaps there are others at ru.wiki and Q-bit array will let us (me) know here. Thanks very much.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:29, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary checkuser privileges for 2025 Arbitration Committee election scrutineers

On recommendation of the Electoral Commission, temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted to stewards EPIC (talk · contribs), Mykola7 (talk · contribs), and XXBlackburnXx (talk · contribs), solely for the purpose of their acting as scrutineers in the 2025 Arbitration Committee election.

For the Arbitration Committee,
Daniel (talk) 19:50, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Temporary checkuser privileges for 2025 Arbitration Committee election scrutineers

Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, Mykola7. 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?

Editing from a temporary account

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

How to enable IP Reveal

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

How to use Special:IPContributions
How automatic IP reveal works
How to use IP Info
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) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]