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MediaWiki message delivery 00:21, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi
You should close this AfD too. Panam2014 ( talk) 14:31, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Could I ask you to reconsider your close of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kherson Oblast (Russia)? Discussion was still ongoing and there did not appear to be a clear consensus at the point you closed it, and if it needed to be closed at that point, should've been closed as "no consensus" (but ideally, relisted to get a more clear consensus). Elli ( talk | contribs) 07:11, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Please don't do as the user above requests; I think your decision is correct. I was coming here to ask what should be done about the rash of single-purpose accounts participating in that AfD, some of whom are also posting counterfactual material on other articles relating to the war in Ukraine. GenevieveDEon ( talk) 09:43, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Note: As an uninvolved admin, I endorse this close. BD2412 T 18:30, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Kherson Oblast (Russia). Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. — kashmīrī TALK 21:19, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
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14:07, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi @ Legoktm: How goes it? I was wondering how you managed to come to a no-consensus decision on the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allison Kopf when there was raw reading saw four deletes, two keeps and userfy request. It seems quite reasonable to consider deletion in that state, considering the state of the references? scope_creep Talk — Preceding undated comment added 04:54, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for closing the long winded, complex discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2022_September_29#Most_massive. I was wondering about your finding of a consensus to retarget the two redirects with "object" while finding no consensus for "most massive". To me, there was no consensus between retargeting or deletion across the board for all 3 redirects, but unanimous consensus against the status quo. A finding of no consensus for the "object" redirects would not change the outcome, as they should be retargeted as an improvement over the current target pending future discussion. I already boldly retargeted "most massive" to the target that garnered the most support given the universal disagreement with the status quo, per WP:NCRET (and analogous to WP:NOGOODOPTIONS for page moves). So, I request you take another look at your close and consider revising it as no consensus, or comment on what tipped the scales for the "object" redirects, for instance, was Crouch's weak delete vote enough to push "most massive" into no consensus territory? If so, it would suggest the weakest possible consensus for the other redirects being discussed. Among those favoring retargeting, there was not universal agreement about the best target, with some users favoring the top of Orders of magnitude (mass) rather than a section of it, and Jay expressly objecting to targeting a section at that page. Arguably, considering the targets proposed by those favoring retargeting, there was more agreement for "Most massive" than the other two redirects for which you found consensus. Cheers, Mdewman6 ( talk) 00:00, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Legoktm,
I didn't know until I looked at this bot's User page that you also oversaw this bot's activities so you are probably familiar with how it works. Is there a chance that we might see another bot (maybe BernsteinBot2.0 or LegoktmBot) taking over some of its responsibilities? I know a bot isn't created in a day, I'm just wondering if I can hope for a replacement eventually. Thanks for any clue you can provide! Liz Read! Talk! 01:34, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Can I have a URL to authorize the application? I translated a report from python and I would like to test it. 0x Deadbeef→∞ 11:33, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
~/.dbreps.toml
).~/replica.my.cnf
and add a local='true'
key (see
docs). Then open a tunnel for mysql with ssh -N dev.toolforge.org -L 3306:enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud:3306
.cargo run -- --report="<title>"
will kick off the specific report you are testing, but it'll just print the results instead of saving to the wiki.
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi -- I know you've stopped maintaining Legobot, at least as far as the GAN functionality is concerned. ChristieBot, a bot I originally started working on for other reasons has morphed into having the ability to write WP:GAN by iterating over the {{ GA nominee}} transclusions. There's a discussion at WT:GAN about the use of ChristieBot to generate alternative sorted lists to WP:GAN, but I think it would make more sense now to have ChristieBot write the page itself, and take over that function from Legobot. Do you have any reason to think that's a bad idea? Or any other input? Legobot's GA functions have been enormous time-savers over the years, and I don't want to sound like I'm ungrateful or unaware how immensely useful the bot has been. But if you're really unable to maintain it, I think it would be good to have that function pass to another bot. I'm about to post some suggested RfC text in the WT:GAN discussion, so please comment there if you're interested. And am I right in thinking that it would be easy and harmless to stop Legobot from writing WP:GAN every 20 minutes? That is, removing that functionality wouldn't break anything else? Thanks -- Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 17:12, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
How did the NYC group's WikiWednesday go? Did I miss anything interesting or relevant? Wish I could have been there! – Clockwork Soul 14:51, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:21, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi
You should close this AfD too. Panam2014 ( talk) 14:31, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Could I ask you to reconsider your close of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kherson Oblast (Russia)? Discussion was still ongoing and there did not appear to be a clear consensus at the point you closed it, and if it needed to be closed at that point, should've been closed as "no consensus" (but ideally, relisted to get a more clear consensus). Elli ( talk | contribs) 07:11, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Please don't do as the user above requests; I think your decision is correct. I was coming here to ask what should be done about the rash of single-purpose accounts participating in that AfD, some of whom are also posting counterfactual material on other articles relating to the war in Ukraine. GenevieveDEon ( talk) 09:43, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Note: As an uninvolved admin, I endorse this close. BD2412 T 18:30, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Kherson Oblast (Russia). Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. — kashmīrī TALK 21:19, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
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14:07, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi @ Legoktm: How goes it? I was wondering how you managed to come to a no-consensus decision on the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allison Kopf when there was raw reading saw four deletes, two keeps and userfy request. It seems quite reasonable to consider deletion in that state, considering the state of the references? scope_creep Talk — Preceding undated comment added 04:54, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for closing the long winded, complex discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2022_September_29#Most_massive. I was wondering about your finding of a consensus to retarget the two redirects with "object" while finding no consensus for "most massive". To me, there was no consensus between retargeting or deletion across the board for all 3 redirects, but unanimous consensus against the status quo. A finding of no consensus for the "object" redirects would not change the outcome, as they should be retargeted as an improvement over the current target pending future discussion. I already boldly retargeted "most massive" to the target that garnered the most support given the universal disagreement with the status quo, per WP:NCRET (and analogous to WP:NOGOODOPTIONS for page moves). So, I request you take another look at your close and consider revising it as no consensus, or comment on what tipped the scales for the "object" redirects, for instance, was Crouch's weak delete vote enough to push "most massive" into no consensus territory? If so, it would suggest the weakest possible consensus for the other redirects being discussed. Among those favoring retargeting, there was not universal agreement about the best target, with some users favoring the top of Orders of magnitude (mass) rather than a section of it, and Jay expressly objecting to targeting a section at that page. Arguably, considering the targets proposed by those favoring retargeting, there was more agreement for "Most massive" than the other two redirects for which you found consensus. Cheers, Mdewman6 ( talk) 00:00, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Legoktm,
I didn't know until I looked at this bot's User page that you also oversaw this bot's activities so you are probably familiar with how it works. Is there a chance that we might see another bot (maybe BernsteinBot2.0 or LegoktmBot) taking over some of its responsibilities? I know a bot isn't created in a day, I'm just wondering if I can hope for a replacement eventually. Thanks for any clue you can provide! Liz Read! Talk! 01:34, 12 October 2022 (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
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mw.loadJsonData()
to load data from JSON pages.
[8]
require( "strict" )
to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "
Module:No globals" on most wikis.
[9]Future changes
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Can I have a URL to authorize the application? I translated a report from python and I would like to test it. 0x Deadbeef→∞ 11:33, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
~/.dbreps.toml
).~/replica.my.cnf
and add a local='true'
key (see
docs). Then open a tunnel for mysql with ssh -N dev.toolforge.org -L 3306:enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud:3306
.cargo run -- --report="<title>"
will kick off the specific report you are testing, but it'll just print the results instead of saving to the wiki.
Legoktm (
talk)
03:26, 23 October 2022 (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.
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi -- I know you've stopped maintaining Legobot, at least as far as the GAN functionality is concerned. ChristieBot, a bot I originally started working on for other reasons has morphed into having the ability to write WP:GAN by iterating over the {{ GA nominee}} transclusions. There's a discussion at WT:GAN about the use of ChristieBot to generate alternative sorted lists to WP:GAN, but I think it would make more sense now to have ChristieBot write the page itself, and take over that function from Legobot. Do you have any reason to think that's a bad idea? Or any other input? Legobot's GA functions have been enormous time-savers over the years, and I don't want to sound like I'm ungrateful or unaware how immensely useful the bot has been. But if you're really unable to maintain it, I think it would be good to have that function pass to another bot. I'm about to post some suggested RfC text in the WT:GAN discussion, so please comment there if you're interested. And am I right in thinking that it would be easy and harmless to stop Legobot from writing WP:GAN every 20 minutes? That is, removing that functionality wouldn't break anything else? Thanks -- Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 17:12, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
How did the NYC group's WikiWednesday go? Did I miss anything interesting or relevant? Wish I could have been there! – Clockwork Soul 14:51, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
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