User talk:Maxim

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Hope you're doing well

Miss chatting with you. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:47, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

what was Maxim like?? LotionDungeon206 (talk) 15:44, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
Oh gosh. What a surprisingly hard question. He was an old school Wikipedian which for me means that he had a very different relationship than people who joined since it became more respected. He has a sly? (best word I can think of) sense of humor. He is incredibly thoughtful and unafraid to just do the work. That captures maybe only the teenest fraction of what he is like, but hopefully is of some help. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:57, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
I feel like the middle of that is you trying to say that I'm a troll but being far too polite to say anything like that. :-) For what it's worth, I don't deny having done some light trolling over the years... Maxim (talk) 11:59, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
So I can totally see how it reads that way. But no that's not what I was trying to say. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 14:52, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Happy to hear from you, Maxim ! Sdrqaz (talk) 22:11, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, Maxim. 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

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 → Tick 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

Further information and discussion

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, Maxim. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:14, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas

You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:16, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Mohammed Ferrat

Why did you delete Mohammed Ferrat page? He was known fraudster and supposedly died in very strange circumstances. LotionDungeon206 (talk) 15:42, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

For reference, the page was at Mohammed Samir Ferrat and I deleted it 17 years ago following a proposed deletion. There were two separate deletion tags on it: the main one was for the reason "Not notable; {{Notability}}-tagged since July 2008. Also unreferenced, tagged since May 2008.", and there was an endorsement with the reason "A case of WP:ONEEVENT". The best course of action, if you want an article, would be to try the articles for creation process to create a new draft. That said, you would need to establish notability through multiple independent reliable secondary sources that significantly cover the subject, although what I've noticed on the subject, through a quick glance, seems to be conspiracy stuff related to TWA Flight 800. Maxim (talk) 11:53, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

You may be eligible to vote in the U4C election

I am contacting you because you previously voted in elections related to the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). You may be eligible to vote in the current U4C election, which is open now and closes on 2 June 2026. You can find out more about the candidates and the election on the election page on Meta, and from there you can access the vote itself. Your participation in these elections is important to the governance of Wikimedia communities, and your time spent learning about the candidates and voting is appreciated.

-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk)

Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:35, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Happy Bureaucratship Anniversary!

  Wishing Maxim a very happy bureaucratship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! ☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 05:08, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Happy Bureaucratship Anniversary!

DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:44, 1 June 2026 (UTC)