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Thank you for the map File:ElectoralCollege2020_with_results.svg! Can you color in PA because it's been called for Biden? Jehochman Talk 14:17, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
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...for whipping that up. Boy, I love programmers. (I have to, 'cause my son is one.) Beyond My Ken ( talk) 03:55, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
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17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi ACN, perhaps you can add some insight to phab:T209899, maybe we have some help pages to update as well. — xaosflux Talk 02:32, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, I wanted to please follow up on the copyright issue to inquire whether it has been resolved now. Your help is greatly appreciated Sarah UN17 ( talk) 06:47, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I can see on the talk page that the copyright permission has been provided. The article page is still showing copyright issue, kindly assist with the next steps that are needed /info/en/?search=Draft:World_Cities_Day Sarah UN17 ( talk) 09:58, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 02:33, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
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An immense thank you for your work in creating and maintaining User:AntiCompositeBot/ASNBlock. That we've gotten better in dealing with proxies and datacenters is one of the big ways we've managed to cut down in abuse over the years. The other day, out of curiosity, I tried to access Wikipedia from an Azure instance and found that it had been blocked only weeks earlier, by me, using this tool. This tool has facilitated thousands of useful blocks, and I deeply appreciate your time spent on it. Keep up the good work. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 00:40, 25 December 2020 (UTC) |
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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
Hi ACN, hope you're well. I was wondering whether it is possible to create a new subpage of User:AntiCompositeBot/ASNBlock listing IP ranges that are currently blocked but whose blocks will expire soon (say, within 30 days). And if it's possible, how much work would it be? Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 10:22, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Does the tool Hyphenator convert always to ISBN-13, despite the fact, that older books only have ISBN-10? Grimes2 ( talk) 10:56, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for clearing out copyrighted images that are copyvios, especially at Commons. Hopefully your backlog gets wiped out very soon. Keep up the great work :) MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 19:25, 16 February 2021 (UTC) |
Khus199 ( talk) 11:11, 18 February 2021 (UTC) hello. I want backlinks from my website. Ca yyou please visit my website and give backlinks in favour?
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authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
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Extended Date/Time Format.
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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect
File:My blood is full of aiplanes.jpg. The discussion will occur at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 April 27#File:My blood is full of aiplanes.jpg until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion.
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talk)
04:55, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Can you please move the page Julie Chen to Julie Chen Moonves? She has recently been signing off with this name and using it publicly. Thank you. PedigreeWWEFigz87V2 ( talk) 19:59, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
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.error
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MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead.
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15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello! Are both
https://torrentfreak.com/photographer-sues-imgur-for-failing-to-remove-copyrighted-photos-140929/ and
https://petapixel.com/2015/05/27/photographer-suing-pinterest-in-federal-court-over-repeated-copyright-infringement/ reliable sources? I'm planning to add a section at
Imgur about copyright infringement.
JWilz12345 (
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Contrib's.)
05:38, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
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any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.
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16:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the map File:ElectoralCollege2020_with_results.svg! Can you color in PA because it's been called for Biden? Jehochman Talk 14:17, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
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15:36, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
...for whipping that up. Boy, I love programmers. (I have to, 'cause my son is one.) Beyond My Ken ( talk) 03:55, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
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17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi ACN, perhaps you can add some insight to phab:T209899, maybe we have some help pages to update as well. — xaosflux Talk 02:32, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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17:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, I wanted to please follow up on the copyright issue to inquire whether it has been resolved now. Your help is greatly appreciated Sarah UN17 ( talk) 06:47, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I can see on the talk page that the copyright permission has been provided. The article page is still showing copyright issue, kindly assist with the next steps that are needed /info/en/?search=Draft:World_Cities_Day Sarah UN17 ( talk) 09:58, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 02:33, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
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As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! -- DannyS712 ( talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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{{citation needed}}
template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added.
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar |
An immense thank you for your work in creating and maintaining User:AntiCompositeBot/ASNBlock. That we've gotten better in dealing with proxies and datacenters is one of the big ways we've managed to cut down in abuse over the years. The other day, out of curiosity, I tried to access Wikipedia from an Azure instance and found that it had been blocked only weeks earlier, by me, using this tool. This tool has facilitated thousands of useful blocks, and I deeply appreciate your time spent on it. Keep up the good work. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 00:40, 25 December 2020 (UTC) |
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021! |
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021! |
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AntiCompositeNumber,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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01:37, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
Hi ACN, hope you're well. I was wondering whether it is possible to create a new subpage of User:AntiCompositeBot/ASNBlock listing IP ranges that are currently blocked but whose blocks will expire soon (say, within 30 days). And if it's possible, how much work would it be? Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 10:22, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
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to watch
will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database.
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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Does the tool Hyphenator convert always to ISBN-13, despite the fact, that older books only have ISBN-10? Grimes2 ( talk) 10:56, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
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post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
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1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55
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wgPageName
without first assigning it a value or using mw.config.get('wgPageName')
instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use mw.config
instead. Some
global interface editors or local
interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See
phab:T72470 for more.As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! -- DannyS712 ( talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for clearing out copyrighted images that are copyvios, especially at Commons. Hopefully your backlog gets wiped out very soon. Keep up the great work :) MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 19:25, 16 February 2021 (UTC) |
Khus199 ( talk) 11:11, 18 February 2021 (UTC) hello. I want backlinks from my website. Ca yyou please visit my website and give backlinks in favour?
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delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at
Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
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JOINS
will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can
post on Phabricator or on
Wikitech.
PAWS and other ways to do
SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later.
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wg*
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irc.wikimedia.org
and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern
EventStreams.
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17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
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delete-redirect
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2010-12-XX
instead of 2010-12
for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12
could be confused with 2010-2012
instead of December 2010
. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the
Extended Date/Time Format.
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oversight
will be renamed suppress
. This is for
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21:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect
File:My blood is full of aiplanes.jpg. The discussion will occur at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 April 27#File:My blood is full of aiplanes.jpg until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion.
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talk)
04:55, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Can you please move the page Julie Chen to Julie Chen Moonves? She has recently been signing off with this name and using it publicly. Thank you. PedigreeWWEFigz87V2 ( talk) 19:59, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
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.error
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and .success
do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in
MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead.
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oversight
will be renamed to suppress
. This is for
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15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello! Are both
https://torrentfreak.com/photographer-sues-imgur-for-failing-to-remove-copyrighted-photos-140929/ and
https://petapixel.com/2015/05/27/photographer-suing-pinterest-in-federal-court-over-repeated-copyright-infringement/ reliable sources? I'm planning to add a section at
Imgur about copyright infringement.
JWilz12345 (
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Contrib's.)
05:38, 17 May 2021 (UTC)