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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Hello friend. You're the maintainer of
coverme, right? I tried to use it this morning and it seems like it is timing out. I get Wikimedia Toolforge Error. Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again later.
after a couple minutes. Might need fixing when you get a chance. Thanks and enjoy your vacation! –
Novem Linguae (
talk)
16:15, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
User:WhatamIdoing/Possibly underlinked medicine articles from Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 85#Early idea is going to be empty very soon. Could you give me a new list from Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa and Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink? It can go in the same page. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:45, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello Legoktm, the bot seems to have stopped applying edit protection to TFAs? JennyOz ( talk) 04:40, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Legoktm,
I think the bot needs to be restarted or get a tune-up. It's not just the report I use, it looks like it overslept. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 03:45, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 05:47, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 15:35, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
While investigating why User:B-bot hadn't tagged a particular unused nonfree image - it doesn't matter which one, it turned out to be something completely unrelated - I looked into the query HaleBot uses to update this page (which B-bot uses as a source).
It's not listing any files that are in use in any mainspace, rather than ones that aren't used in the main namespace in particular; and, more problematically, it's not listing files that have any file redirects, whether or not any of those redirects are in use.
In practice, the first isn't much of an issue, since there's at least one bot that removes such uses. The second, though, is; it's causing unused unfree files not to be tagged or deleted, sometimes for a long time. I've looked into two in particular as a sanity check - File:15 (Phatfish album - cover art).jpg (with redirect File:15 cover.jpg) was likely last removed from an article in June 2023, and File:Whitney Houston – One of Those Days.jpg (with redirects File:Houston onethosedays.jpg and File:Whitney Houston - One of Those Days.jpg) was likely last removed in October 2022. I'm seeing nearly 500 such images, comparing quarry:query/80400 to Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused non-free files.
Anyway, my question to you is, are these omissions intentional? It's ok if so, it just means I've got to take this up with User:B instead, and he's mostly inactive. — Cryptic 22:16, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
Hey,
I just wanted to give this a bump as I think it fell off your talk page during a period when you were inactive. I think I've figured out a fix for Legobot incorrectly matching the {{ rfctop}} tag, the details are here in the archive. There's one broken regex that I've suggested a fix for, but I don't have git installed on any of my devices at the moment so couldn't make a pull request for it.
Happy to discuss though, if you get a moment to check it out. :) Sideswipe9th ( talk) 04:04, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
?(?!\s+(top|bottom))
, these are on lines 147, 149, 190, 205, 206, and 240. I know Enterprisy's 2019 pull requests to prevent Legobot matching on {{
rfc top}} and {{
rfc bottom}} tags modified all 8 regexes that currently contain this negative lookahead (the line numbers changed between the 2019 pull requests and today, but the regexes themselves haven't). I have manually tested with a regex debugger and I am confident that making my suggested replacement for all 8 of those regexes will have the same effect as the 2019 pull request, plus it will also prevent those regexes from matching on the {{
rfctop}} and {{
rfcbottom}} tags. I am also confident that this will not stop Legobot from correctly matching on a {{
rfc}} tag, with or without an |rfcid=
parameter.Hello, Legoktm,
I just thought I'd let you know that Wikipedia:Database reports/Empty categories hasn't been updated since February 18th. I do have that alternative source for empty categories but in case this is a problem with HaleBot, I thought I'd alert you. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 02:08, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
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.
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:21, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Template editor/sandbox, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Template editor/sandbox and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Template editor/sandbox during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Awesome Aasim 22:47, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Hello friend. You're the maintainer of
coverme, right? I tried to use it this morning and it seems like it is timing out. I get Wikimedia Toolforge Error. Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again later.
after a couple minutes. Might need fixing when you get a chance. Thanks and enjoy your vacation! –
Novem Linguae (
talk)
16:15, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
User:WhatamIdoing/Possibly underlinked medicine articles from Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 85#Early idea is going to be empty very soon. Could you give me a new list from Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa and Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink? It can go in the same page. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:45, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello Legoktm, the bot seems to have stopped applying edit protection to TFAs? JennyOz ( talk) 04:40, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Legoktm,
I think the bot needs to be restarted or get a tune-up. It's not just the report I use, it looks like it overslept. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 03:45, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 05:47, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
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
Changes later this week
filter
property can now be used in HTML style
attributes in wikitext.
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MediaWiki message delivery 15:35, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
While investigating why User:B-bot hadn't tagged a particular unused nonfree image - it doesn't matter which one, it turned out to be something completely unrelated - I looked into the query HaleBot uses to update this page (which B-bot uses as a source).
It's not listing any files that are in use in any mainspace, rather than ones that aren't used in the main namespace in particular; and, more problematically, it's not listing files that have any file redirects, whether or not any of those redirects are in use.
In practice, the first isn't much of an issue, since there's at least one bot that removes such uses. The second, though, is; it's causing unused unfree files not to be tagged or deleted, sometimes for a long time. I've looked into two in particular as a sanity check - File:15 (Phatfish album - cover art).jpg (with redirect File:15 cover.jpg) was likely last removed from an article in June 2023, and File:Whitney Houston – One of Those Days.jpg (with redirects File:Houston onethosedays.jpg and File:Whitney Houston - One of Those Days.jpg) was likely last removed in October 2022. I'm seeing nearly 500 such images, comparing quarry:query/80400 to Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused non-free files.
Anyway, my question to you is, are these omissions intentional? It's ok if so, it just means I've got to take this up with User:B instead, and he's mostly inactive. — Cryptic 22:16, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
Hey,
I just wanted to give this a bump as I think it fell off your talk page during a period when you were inactive. I think I've figured out a fix for Legobot incorrectly matching the {{ rfctop}} tag, the details are here in the archive. There's one broken regex that I've suggested a fix for, but I don't have git installed on any of my devices at the moment so couldn't make a pull request for it.
Happy to discuss though, if you get a moment to check it out. :) Sideswipe9th ( talk) 04:04, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
?(?!\s+(top|bottom))
, these are on lines 147, 149, 190, 205, 206, and 240. I know Enterprisy's 2019 pull requests to prevent Legobot matching on {{
rfc top}} and {{
rfc bottom}} tags modified all 8 regexes that currently contain this negative lookahead (the line numbers changed between the 2019 pull requests and today, but the regexes themselves haven't). I have manually tested with a regex debugger and I am confident that making my suggested replacement for all 8 of those regexes will have the same effect as the 2019 pull request, plus it will also prevent those regexes from matching on the {{
rfctop}} and {{
rfcbottom}} tags. I am also confident that this will not stop Legobot from correctly matching on a {{
rfc}} tag, with or without an |rfcid=
parameter.Hello, Legoktm,
I just thought I'd let you know that Wikipedia:Database reports/Empty categories hasn't been updated since February 18th. I do have that alternative source for empty categories but in case this is a problem with HaleBot, I thought I'd alert you. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 02:08, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
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
wgGlobalGroups
now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups")))
.
[23]Changes later this week
Future changes
changetags
) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in
this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
MediaWiki message delivery 19:21, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Template editor/sandbox, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Template editor/sandbox and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Template editor/sandbox during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Awesome Aasim 22:47, 27 February 2024 (UTC)