Stryn

About user

Hi, I'm Stryn, a Wikimedist from Finland. I registered to my first Wikimedia project, the Finnish Wikipedia on 6th October, 2006 at 20.54.

I've been contributing actively since 2009. During my first years I wrote mostly new articles and contributed content to Wikipedia. Later I've been doing more other things, like translating newsletters, help pages and interface messages in Finnish; and anything related to technics as much as I have knowledge; and of course counter vandalism.

I spend most of my time on Meta-Wiki and the Finnish Wikipedia, Wikidata comes as third. These three projects I count as my "home wikis", after all I have advanced user rights in all of these wikis.

User language

fi-N	Tämän käyttäjän äidinkieli on suomi.

en-2	This user has intermediate knowledge of English.

sv-1	Den här användaren har grundläggande kunskaper i svenska.

id-1	Pengguna ini memiliki pengetahuan dasar bahasa Indonesia.

et-0	See kasutaja ei valda eesti keelt.

About user rights and activities

On the Finnish Wikipedia I'm an administrator (January 2011–) and a CheckUser (May 2015–). I was a member of the Finnish Arbitration Committee between October 2013 and September 2017. (user page)

On Meta-Wiki I'm an administrator (September 2014–).

On Wikidata I'm an administrator (November 2012–). I was an oversighter between September 2013 and June 2014.

I'm a steward of Wikimedia wikis (March 2015–) (before it I was a global sysop and a global rollbacker). I was a member of the Ombuds commission between February and June 2014.

I work as OTRS-volunteer. I am also member of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team and I translate interface messages on Translatewiki and other messages on Meta as a tech ambassador.

I have attended some edithathons and other events in Finland led by Wikimedia Suomi. In 2016 I was in Wikimania in Italy and in 2019 in Sweden. I'm interested mostly about sports, music, technology and travelling. On IRC you can find me on libera.chat where I am under cloak user/stryn.

You can contact me by leaving a message on my talk page on Meta.

Userboxes

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IM	IRC-Nick: Stryn E-Mail: strynwiki at gmail dot com

Stryn elsewhere

Twitter: @StrynWM

Countries where I have visited

Finland (Q33) • I live here
Sweden (Q34) • visited many times, last time in 2020
Norway (Q20) • visited many times, last time in 2012
Denmark (Q35) • 1992, 2022
Estonia (Q191) • visited many times, last time in 2023
Latvia (Q211) • 2011, 2015, 2016, 2022
Italy (Q38) • 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021
Vatican City (Q237) • 2014, 2021

Hungary (Q28) • 2015, 2018
Russia (Q159) • 2016
Ukraine (Q212) • 2017
Croatia (Q224) • 2018
Germany (Q183) • 2018
France (Q142) • 2018, 2023
Spain (Q29) • 2018, 2023

Singapore (Q334) • 2019, 2022
Indonesia (Q252) • 2019, 2022
Qatar (Q846) • 2019
Czech Republic (Q213) • 2019
Slovakia (Q214) • 2019
Austria (Q40) • 2019, 2021
Poland (Q36) • 2022
Malaysia (Q833) • 2022
Thailand (Q869) • 2022
Monaco (Q235) • 2023

Tech/News/Latest

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [1]
Seven new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [2]
- a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [3]
- a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [4]
- a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [5]
- a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [6]
- a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [7]
- a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [8]
You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [9]
Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [11][12]

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My photos

Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy (2014)
Hotel Torni in Tampere, Finland (2015)
Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, Hungary (2015)
Daugava river in Riga, Latvia (2016)
Town Hall in Esino Lario, Italy (2016)
St. Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine (2017)
Kadriorg park in Tallinn, Estonia (2017)
Croatian National Theater in Zagreb, Croatia (2018)