CaliBen

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Speedy deletion nomination of Jamii:Wiki Africa Challenge Arusha

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Jamii:Wiki Africa Challenge Arusha requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Hello KAP03, I meant to start the page on Swahili Wikipedia. Please delete the page here. Sorry for inconveniences. --CaliBen (talk) 09:48, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

July 2021

Wikipedia's technical logs indicate that this user account has been or may be used abusively. It has been blocked indefinitely from editing to prevent abuse.

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Drmies (talk) 17:31, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello Drmies, may you please clarify more about this. I recently tried adding photos on English Wikipedia under the WPWP campaign. Did I violate any rule? --CaliBen (talk) 17:45, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

• Yeah. There's an enormous number of accounts doing the same thing, from the same IP addresses. This is very odd. Drmies (talk) 17:46, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

We share laptops to support each other in learning to contribute in the Wikimedia projects. Currently, there is a campaign for adding photos to Wikipedia pages. I have not made any edits with my username in the recent few days so other users have been using the laptop to edit. Is this a problem? --CaliBen (talk) 17:56, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello Drmies, I realize and apologize for the violations that have been taking place due to the participation in this campaign. It was not intended for the mistakes and violations to take place. I request for my account to be unblocked as this will never happen again. --CaliBen (talk) 18:18, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

CaliBen, I need to hear what the background is of this campaign, and how we have so many accounts from the same range. I need you to have a look at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard##WPWP_#WPWPARK, and at this. Because this has raised many eyebrows. Drmies (talk) 18:19, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Drmies, the link to the campaign page is [1] you can find more details about the campaign there. Editors use this tool [2] to find Wikipedia pages from different languages with no images and they add images from the related Wikidata items having photos. I have communicated with the users to stop adding the photos not to cause further problems through the campaign. --CaliBen (talk) 18:34, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

CaliBen (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I have communicated with all the users who were sharing with me this laptop to stop editing as lots of mistakes are made. No more contributions based on adding images will be made from all the user accounts that used this IP address. The accounts are not for the same person, they are from different people but sharing the laptop as there are limited laptops to use. CaliBen (talk) 19:09, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Accept reason:

CaliBen, I hope you followed the links and have an idea of what the problems on en-wiki were with those massive edits by huge numbers of accounts. I also hope you will inform the organizers that communication is key: if I had known anything more than I did, things would have gone differently. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 19:01, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Admin: please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard##WPWP_#WPWPARK. And I'll just say this: CU evidence is clear but does not prove that ALL the accounts I blocked are the same person. If you believe this user is honest and of good faith, feel free to unblock. Drmies (talk) 20:21, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you —CaliBen (talk) 19:15, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello Drmies, I hope you are doing great! I have been waiting to be unblocked for quite a while. Since, I am still blocked I thought of kindly asking you if there is any further step I have to take to be unblocked. Thanks --CaliBen (talk) 10:39, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Oh my dear CaliBen, I am so sorry--I wish you had let me know earlier since this is entirely my fault: there was one more screen for me to click through. It's taken care of now: please accept my apologies. Drmies (talk) 14:15, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Hello Drmies, It is okay, apology accepted --CaliBen (talk) 11:21, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Are you good

Hy Dfoho (talk) 17:21, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
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• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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AfroCine: 2021 Months of African Cinema Contest Winners

Greetings!

After successfully completing the 2021 Months of African Cinema Global Contest on 30 November 2021, we are happy to announce the winners in the contest!

Over 4,000 articles were created across 17 language Wikipedias, surpassing all expectations and placing the contest firmly as one of the most successful article-writing contests on Wikipedia. A big thank you to you and every single person who created articles during the period of the contest for making this happen!

All our winners have now been announced and you can check the complete list here. We'd still be contacting everyone who has won something separately to send over their prizes. Thank you so much for being part of this global event! –Jamie Tubers (talk) 21:31, 24 April 2022 (UTC)