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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 to Wikimedia projects since 2009. During my first years I wrote mostly new articles and edited existing Wikipedia articles. 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.

Nowadays I spend most of my time on Meta-Wiki and the Finnish Wikipedia.

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 või tal on selle mõistmisega suuri raskusi.

About user rights and activities

On the Finnish Wikipedia I'm an administrator (January 2011–). user page.

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

I was a steward of Wikimedia wikis (March 2015–September 2025) (before it I was a global sysop and a global rollbacker). I was a member of the Ombuds commission between February and June 2014. Now I'm just a global rollbacker.

On Wikidata I was an administrator between November 2012 and September 2024. I was an oversighter there between September 2013 and June 2014. I was one of the first administrators of the project.

On the Finnish Wikipedia I was a member of the Finnish Arbitration Committee between October 2013 and September 2017, and a CheckUser between May 2015 and April 2026.

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

This user is an administrator on Meta-Wiki. (verify) Category:Meta-Wiki administrators

This user is an administrator on the Finnish Wikipedia. (verify·CA)

This user is a member of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team.

Category:Small Wiki Monitoring Team

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

Stryn elsewhere

Twitter: @StrynWM Category:Twitter users

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, 2025
Vatican City (Q237) • 2014, 2021
Hungary (Q28) • 2015, 2018
Russia (Q159) • 2016

Ukraine (Q212) • 2017
Croatia (Q224) • 2018
Germany (Q183) • 2018, 2024
France (Q142) • 2018, 2023
Spain (Q29) • 2018, 2023
Singapore (Q334) • 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025
Indonesia (Q252) • 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026
Qatar (Q846) • 2019
Czech Republic (Q213) • 2019
Slovakia (Q214) • 2019

Austria (Q40) • 2019, 2021
Poland (Q36) • 2022
Malaysia (Q833) • 2022, 2024, 2025
Thailand (Q869) • 2022
Monaco (Q235) • 2023
Netherlands (Q55) • 2025
Belgium (Q31) • 2025
Luxembourg (Q32) • 2025
Switzerland (Q39) • 2025
Turkey (Q43) • 2025
Vietnam (Q881) • 2025

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.

Weekly highlight

Experienced editors are invited to test the Article guidance feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available. Also, after reviewing the outlines, please provide feedback on the project talk page. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video explaining the feature.

Updates for editors

On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel page to create new pages with custom content models, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights for the status of your wiki.
The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

Starting later this week, Abuse filter editors who have the Improved Syntax Highlighting beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors.
Tools and bots that access the Notifications API (action=query&meta=notifications) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications.
Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia).
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki