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I mentioned you at meta:2015 Community Wishlist Survey#Simple math in tables (just in case you don't get email notifications from meta). Ryan Kaldari (WMF) ( talk) 03:06, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
About: replace otd link with oldid in Template:Article history. Forgive a naif for not knowing these. Juan Riley ( talk) 01:45, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
For making multiple "On this day" entries possible on
Template:Article history in response to requests, and for apparently doing all sorts of other technical stuff that most of us couldn't dream of understanding
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Thank you for your support of student editors on this page. Also thanks for fixing the talk page where they inserted their intended changes. I will encourage them to address other issues that might help it be ranked as B-Class rather than C-class. On my own review it seems that the biggest question will be whether it reasonably covers the topic area. Does a change in class status arise from consensus on the talk page? Marentette ( talk) 23:09, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current
Arbitration Committee election. The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia
arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose
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arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to
review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on
the voting page. For the Election committee,
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17:32, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current
Arbitration Committee election. The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia
arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose
site bans,
topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The
arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to
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16:46, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello.
We might have a problem. Microsoft Visual Studio § Editions feature grid is entirely copyright violation. I only noticed after editing it a bit.
And by the way, how are you? Are you planning to leave Wikipedia?
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
04:22, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Might be missing something here, but shouldn't Draftify be untagging articles with {{ userspace draft}} when it adds {{ AFC submission}}, as I did with this edit? Thanks for your work. — Earwig talk 23:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hey, this is just a launch of inappropriate behavior from another editor. I came over to a friends house to help her write an article. Ever since PRehse tried to make it advertising alone so I went in and helped her change things to turn it. We deleted his code showing it to be an Advert. He went back and changed it to showing it an advert much like CAA /info/en/?search=Creative_Artists_Agency
I put quotes etc and took it out again. PRehse seemed then got mad at me for taking out his "advert" code. Then he moved to delete it b/c of my edits to try to fix the advert wording.
Look, the lady's daughter was changed by the company. She feels strongly and will be devastated at losing all of this "hard work" on her part.
I'm just trying to help. Whatever you can do to help would be great. Along with her and the community I think the page will improve greatly but deletion of the page is just a malicious move on PRehse part for not getting his way.
I will have editors come and improve it but it needs to be taken off the deletion list.
Thanks buddy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Comoncents85 ( talk • contribs) 05:12, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
As an administrator, it would seem apparent that you have a greater breadth of knowledge in regards to dealing with other administrators; I'm hoping to appeal the topic ban that you assisted in laying out nearly three years ago, and I'd appreciate any sort of guidance you could give me in relation to going about that. I was given a pretty lengthy ban for that one extended argument that took place on the ARTPOP talk page (ergo, a period of six months had to elapse before I was able to appeal) and, now that the six month period expired over two years ago and I have proceeded in my editing career for nearly three years with the ban in place, I think it's high time I put forth case in order to get it lifted. If you have any suggestions or advice, I'd appreciate it. Reece Leonard ( talk) 05:29, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello.
I have recently nominated an article for speedy deletion per WP:A10, "Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic". Permanent link But the old article has changed ever since. ( Permalink of duplicate revision, permalink of changes afterwards) I fear the attending admin might think I am crazy. Here is a diff that proves the creation has been a recent copy and paste action: [1]
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
00:39, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Renew PC? -- George Ho ( talk) 00:10, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
To whom it may concern. I happened to be reading about Mexico on Wikipedia and when I reached The Nation economy episode, the writer indicates being The nation in the Americas having a disparity of having the least number of rich people toward the largest poor population of poor people AFTER Chile....Wow!!! This observation is way off reality. Chile currently has a population less than 20 millions with a large, educated Middle Class ...Actually the best economy in South America...with decreasing level of population considered below poverty levels . Whoever wrote that misrepresentative article needs to evaluate, assess Chile, as it is now, Respectfully, A reader who has been educated in Chile Living now in the USA Regards. Chuck — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.167.103.237 ( talk) 03:37, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Just noticed your self revert, and allow me to register an Oh, no! I tried to find where GeoffreyT2000 complained about it, but couldn't find anything. Is there something/anything I can do to help fix the problem? Paine 19:18, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Are you sure Special:Diff/684367972 was a good idea? IMO, {{ redr}} is really meant for when there's more than one Rcat, and it seems cleaner without the blank line,and we know that Redr can be used for from one to seven rcats. Can you give me a hint as to what GeoffreyT2000 objected? Then maybe I can give a neutral opener to the discussion and perhaps neutralize their objection later in my rationale. Paine 01:50, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi! Can I steal some of your time? I have a js related problem at Wikidata, and I know you're a helpful guy :) The problem in short. I have this script, that does a lot of cool things at Wikidata. Including automatic birth/death date adding (very boring task to be done manually).
It has some problems with some dates, specifically Latvian and Russian (most probably some more languages, that don't use normal Latin script). It recognises only year, but it should recognise full date. You can take a look at
this page (after installing script) - section "Auto-detected birth/death dates:". The first one should be "1910. gada 2. septembrī" or something like that. It recognises "1980. gada 19. august", because augustā begins with august and in regex there isn't word ending match. The regex is right, tested it in external tester, so I assume there is some problem with month table. The code starts with wdUsefulprocessExtract : function ( t ) {
, and ends (I suppose) with // try years only
. It would be very good to resolve this, so that I and some colleagues can do better work :) Oh, and some comments about regex is also welcome, I assume, there is much more better ways to use OR without if ( m == null ) {
--
Edgars2007 (
talk/
contribs)
09:52, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
\b
in JavaScript
has no idea about Unicode. For example, "décembre" is treated as three words: "d", "é", and "cembre". —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
11:42, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
[a-zA-Z0-9_]
.) —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
11:45, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
\b
, the script was missing the case where the month was at the end of the string. I've added an explicit check for this now, so it should work again. The script will still miss the cases where the month is right at the start of the string, and where the month is the only thing in the string, but I doubt these are actually used in any articles. (If they are, let me know and I'll add the logic for them.) —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
12:51, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
Regarding [2]. 78.26 ( spin me / revolutions) 14:52, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Stradivarius: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America 1000 20:26, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Strad. Thank you again for your nomination and advice. I feel I have temporarily used up all my fine words at the RfA so for now I will simply wish you very happy holidays. BethNaught ( talk) 20:50, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
And may all your holidays be merry and bright . . . Thanks for all your help in 2015. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 19:54, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for your kind nomination. Thank you for your sage advice. Thank you for your continued support. You are a shining example of what makes this place work. 78.26 ( spin me / revolutions) 23:42, 23 December 2015 (UTC) |
Hello Mr. Stradivarius: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Esquivalience t 00:12, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy new year... |
This is a new developing story. Request of undeletion submitted because significant new information has come to light since a deletion that would justify recreating the deleted page;
Please read the submission again on Miss Iraq page and consider the news articles and references before deleting. All articles and references are originating from 18th December 2015 to 30th December 2015 because Miss Iraq 2015 was held for the first time in 43 years on 19 December 2015.
Besides several international references provided below and on the submitted article, refer to the Iraq's Ministry of Culture website below:
http://crd.gov.iq/pgDetails.aspx?NID=1936
Other international articles: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/22/middleeast/miss-iraq-pageant/ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/28/miss-iraq-beauty-pageant-marred-by-death-threats http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/world/middleeast/miss-iraq.html?_r=0 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mycah-hazel/why-miss-iraq-2015-is-a-v_b_8851830.html http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-pageant-moment-you-probably-missed-589787715794 http://time.com/4157202/miss-iraq-threats-2015/ http://www.elle.com/culture/news/a32822/miss-iraq-crowned/ http://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/a51219/miss-iraq-crowned/ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2015/12/250824.htm
Hbeaulandk ( talk) 12:08, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Mr. Stradivarius,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Liz
Read!
Talk!
21:39, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Mr. Stradivarius
Over the last two months, we have reached consensus on Help talk:IPA for English about several changes:
The Module:IPAc-en/phonemes should be updated in order to reflect these changes. I have tested the changes on Module:IPAc-en/phonemes-testcases which is used by Template:IPAc-en/sandbox. I have taken care to conserve full backwards compatibility so any code that is being used now will continue producing a valid result. So basically, you can just copy Module:IPAc-en/phonemes-testcases over to Module:IPAc-en/phonemes.
For a more thorough overview of the changes and the consensus, please see User:J. 'mach' wust/sandbox#Template:IPAc-en/sandbox.
Thanks -- mach 🙈🙉🙊 12:59, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
/ʊ/ that can be reduced to /ə/ as in the 2nd 'u' in 'beautiful'
be simplified to /ʊ/ 2nd 'u' in 'beautiful'
? Also, the usual procedure for requesting edits to protected pages is by using an
edit request on the talk page. That would be better than just asking me, as I might not always be around to check things, and it will give other users the chance to comment on your requested changes. Best —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
16:07, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
/ʊ/ or /ə/ 2nd 'u' in 'curriculum'
– I had forgotten that the word curriculum is a better example word since a number of dictionaries use a transcription like /ˈbjuːtifl/ for the word beautiful
Help:IPA conventions for English#Reduced vowels.Mr Stradivarius,I don't know if you are the person to contact or not. I recently found out a friend of mine had passed away.I looked him up on wikipedia and found a long biography of him half true, half of the man he portrayed. Don't know how important this is to wikipedia but just thought I would check. The person I am talking about is Dan hagerty from the movie gentle Ben. You can contact me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.151.110.236 ( talk) 19:27, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Need your skills here. You're gonna have to label/note all of them and put very generic ones as low confidence. Thank you! -- QEDK ( T 📖 C) 20:08, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I'm asking your help because you last edited Template:Progress box (in May), stating convert to use Module:Progress box.
The progress box is no longer showing the counts for the monthly sub-cats of Category:Monthly clean up category (Categories for discussion) counter; see e.g. the page Jan 2016.
Hoping that you can fix this or pass it on to someone else who can. – Fayenatic L ondon 13:53, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
|count=subcats
parameter. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
11:33, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I reverted your edit at Module:Hatnote because when I looked at my sandbox (where I keep tables using Module:Sports table), they all displayed an error message that there was and error in Module:Main on line 51 where a function in Hatnote-module is called. Thought you should know the reason for my revert. Qed237 (talk) 23:37, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
findNamespaceId
wasn't being used in
Module:Hatnote itself any more, it was still being used by
Module:Main. Really Module:Main should be updated to not fail so horribly if that function isn't available, but for the moment I've just restored the function to
Module:Hatnote. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
23:39, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
You might recall this discussion on my talk page. If you're still willing to nominate, I'm willing to be nominated. Besides DYK and anti-vandalism, I'm beginning to see that I could be of use to WikiProject Women where I've become more active. After we discussed this, I got another FA and two FLs to my credit. What do you think? Please be honest. — Maile ( talk) 13:51, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hawkeye7 RfA Appreciation award |
Thank you for participating in and supporting my RfA. It was very much appreciated. Hawkeye7 ( talk) 20:39, 1 February 2016 (UTC) |
Hi there
I made a COI edit request on /info/en/?search=Talk:George_Institute_for_Global_Health#Update_and_new_information on 4 January 2016. Looking at the page history you made changes to that page some time ago. Are you able to review my edit request? Sorry if this isn't the right process, new contributor!
Ktr183 ( talk) 02:07, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can you please make the old location wikilink in Template:Uw-draftmoved not redirect? It's annoying to have both links go to the same page and it kinda defeats the purpose. Anarchyte ( work | talk) 08:44, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Most IP edits have been reverted. Extend PC? -- George Ho ( talk) 10:23, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Mr. Stradivarius! You've been interested in redirect categorization and the This is a redirect template in the past, so I wanted to let you know that there is a discussion at Template talk:This is a redirect#One parameter that might interest you. Good faith! Paine 21:00, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi there
Thanks so much for your feedback on my COI edit request to George Institute for Global Health on 5 Feb 2016. I've submitted a new revision in response to your points on the talk page, please let me know if you'd like to see anything else!
Ktr183 ( talk) 10:48, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello, sorry for the unsolicited invasion of your talk-page, but you seem to be a recurring name on the module pages.
I'm sprucing up a smaller independent wiki and am playing around with the idea of having some random facts pulled onto the main page, to this end, I've been making a list of facts on a project page and using labelled section transclusion as a means to mark them individually. I believe the next step is to use a Module such as Module:Random to pull one (or a few of these) to the front page dynamically. The theory is sound in my mind, but I've never added a module to mediawiki before. I assume I'll need a Lua extension. Could you please recommend the best one to use? Are there any more dependencies to get Module:Random to work?
Thank you very much for your time!
Alex J Fox( Talk)( Contribs) 18:45, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Note, however, that you can simulate random numbers in pure template code if you don't want to install any extensions. For a quasi-random number from 1 to 10 you could use something like {{#expr: ({{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod 10) + 1}}
(output: 3). If your wiki doesn't get many edits then you could do the same thing with the current time in
Unix time: {{#expr: ({{#time:U}} mod 10) + 1}}
(output: 6). Using
Module:Random will give you better randomness and means that you don't have to keep track of how many items you want to rotate through. (To rotate through 11 items in the template code above you need mod 11
, and to rotate through 12 items you need mod 12
, etc.) Using pure template code will probably be a lot easier to get working, though.
Also, whichever of these you use, you may need to purge your main page for the changes to show up, depending on how you have your caching set up. Let me know if there's anything else you need to know, and I'll be happy to help. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:20, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi there
Sorry to invade your Talk page again but thanks so much for your feedback on my COI edit request to George Institute for Global Health on 5 Feb 2016. I submitted a new revision on 22 Feb in response to your points, please let me know if you'd like to see anything else!
Ktr183 ( talk) 07:02, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
So many IP edits have not been accepted. Upgrade to semi or renew pending changes? -- George Ho ( talk) 05:53, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
[3] - in what way can less than 7 hours be regarded as a "reasonable time" given that Wikipedia is edited by editors who live in all locations of the globe? A minimum period of 24 hours is surely essential. Please unblank the request, ideally for a 24 hour period, so that I can read it and the reasons for its rejection. Tiptoethrutheminefield ( talk) 00:36, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi there
Thanks for your feedback to my request on George Institute for Global Health and I'm so sorry for those issues. Obviously I'm still learning what is acceptable and what isn't, but I definitely want to and will comply with all the rules. I've stripped the proposed text right back to basics, please let me know what else I should do.
Ktr183 ( talk) 06:02, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I don't want to load the question too much, so simply: Am I doing this right? Please. fredgandt 01:45, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
I reverted it because you are suppose to name the file specifically, "ROBLOX studio 2016" is way to general
Thanks,
Pastorma ( talk) 01:20, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
At Template:WikiProject_India/sandbox I've added WikiProject Telangana earlier, but couldn't add WikiProject Visakhapatnam.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:30, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I'm confused by the docs at
mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#frame:newChild which indicates that it's possible to test what would normally be #invoked within the console. Can you help me understand please? The current mess I'm learning on is at
Module:User:Fred_Gandt/sandbox - if you could add the required code to make p.params(frame)
work as if it were invoked when called from the console, that'd really help. I realise I can change the code to not use frame, but that starts getting way off point for testing, especially when I get around to trying more complex things.
fredgandt
01:02, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
=p.params{args={"pre"}}
preprocess
, etc. Your other option is to use
frame:newChild to make a proper frame object, and then pass that into your function. That would work something like this:local cf = mw.getCurrentFrame()
local frame = cf:newChild{args={"pre"}}
=p.params(frame)
local cf = mw.getCurrentFrame()
local frame = cf:newChild{args={"pre"}}
mw.log(p.params(frame))
=p.params(mw.getCurrentFrame():newChild{args={"pre"}})
if #args then x end
won't work as expected. E.g. this comes out as "foo":if 0 then
mw.log('foo')
else
mw.log('bar')
end
"zero in Lua is a truthy value"<-- that however doesn't help at all! >.<
Please see WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:2605:E000:364F:4000:C4A8:F108:65C2:367F reported by User:Winterysteppe (Result: Semi). You semiprotected for two days. Since there is a BLP issue, would you consider a longer period? Such as three months? Whether Frank Sinatra, Jr. had a second son ought not to be sourced to a unfamiliar web site that shows the scan of a page from a court decision. We don't like to use raw court papers, except to expand or corroborate something already known from a regular source. If my recollection of the policy is correct then the IPv6's last edit has the correct version of the article. There was a 2012 interview of Sinatra Jr. in the Guardian where he denies having a second son. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 04:22, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi,
I notice that the page has been locked till 6th April 2016. The changes done by me included change of the profile picture and removal of slanderous content which made fun of the person concerned.
Though I see multiple changes there after done by others, I want to request the page to be reinstated to the changes I did. Thanks for reading and considering the request.
Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Superfan32389 ( talk • contribs) 05:26, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi I commenced the not inconsiderable task of joining your community today with a view to editing, and before I have even gained confidence and launched an inaugural edit, I understand I am blocked.
This user is currently blocked. The latest block log entry is provided below for reference:
00:26, 26 April 2015 Mr. Stradivarius (talk | contribs) blocked 195.147.0.0/18 (talk) with an expiration time of 1 year (anon. only) (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sardanaphalus)
Please advise if this is an issue with the IP address or another User ghosting. I would be grateful if you could remove the block so that I might practice and eventually publish. I have as you can see created the account. I look forward to your response. Superangulon210 ( talk) 17:22, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with Lua back in November. I've finally gotten around to creating the module I had in mind. Feel free to check it out:
The slightly edited Template:Infobox zodiac/sandbox invokes Module:Zodiac date. Results can be seen at my sandbox.
I have a discrepancy when I try to invoke it from the special sandbox invocation page. If it strikes your interest, you could weigh in on my question. Jc3s5h ( talk) 19:44, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello! I can't remember whether I told you that the latest set of updates for Japanese language support in the visual editor finally landed. The devs seem to believe that it's all working now, and that the visual editor could safely be offered as an option to all editors there. That won't happen during (at least) the next few weeks because of other things that are distracting me, but if you have any feedback, and in particular if you become aware of any problems or unnatural-feeling behaviors with the IME, please {{ ping}} me. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:12, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Do you remember what Module:Protection banner/banner was for? Is there any reason to keep it around? Jackmcbarn ( talk) 17:47, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi again. I will lead with a request that if you would prefer I stop turning to you for help in this respect, please state so freely, I will understand.
That said: I wonder if you could take a look at the two Modules I've pushed into service ( Editing advice and NUMBEROF ), and give basic feedback on my apparent grasp of Lua or my lack thereof?
Any other feedback welcome. fredgandt 21:30, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
{{{1}}}
, {{{2}}}
, etc., but if you used frame:getParent().args
in
Module:Editing advice instead of frame.args
then you could avoid passing through any parameters in
Template:Editing advice, and just use ipairs
in the module to iterate through the numerical arguments.{{subst:editing advice|bananas=5}}
then you would have a bananas
parameter to deal with - so your current loop of for key, value in pairs(frame.args) do ... end
would stop working. You could fix this by checking explicitly for args.about
, then args.section
, and then using ipairs for the page arguments. It's also generally better practice to specify things like this explicitly, as it helps prevent bugs from unexpected values caused by future refactorings. And it would also be more efficient, as instead of checking for keys of "about" and "section" on every iteration of your loop, you can just check them once before the loop starts.frame:getParent().args
rather than passing the arguments through manually is a lot faster, as it makes the template page much simpler for PHP to parse.nil
), and then to just pass an args
table around, rather than passing the frame object to a lot of different functions. This keeps the code cleaner, I think, and it helps to avoid bugs later on in processing where you assume that arguments have been trimmed but actually they haven't. I usually use
Module:Arguments for this, as it uses metatables to do awesome things like automatically trim arguments, but still only fetch them from the frame object if they are actually accessed.{{foo|== Some heading ==}}
won't necessarily produce a section heading, and neither will <!-- == Another heading == -->
or <nowiki>== Another heading ==</nowiki>
(even assuming that you add line breaks before the first equals signs). Simple parsing attempts might be good enough for most uses, but you should be aware that they won't be perfect.haystack = mw.title.new(page)
, I would use "title" or "page" - the haystack is the actual page text, not the title object.frame:getParent().args
is very handy to know about. Definitely a more direct approach; and stuff like
Module:Arguments (I'm a big fan of not reinventing the wheel) will be handy.
frame
in local functions without passing it around as an argument. I almost copied it to a local (global in JS) var, but wasn't sure if that would really be the right thing to do. What is?
fredgandt
21:16, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi again. Sorry to bother you with this, but hopefully you'll understand my reasoning.
{{ Multiple issues}} had an edit request which I responded to. Due to a disagreeable exchange, I have stepped away from the discussion as I feel my presence will only antagonise the requester.
{{ Multiple issues 2}} was created to sidestep the discussion and "substantially duplicates" {{ Multiple issues}} on "only one page" so I tagged it for speedy deletion with {{ Db-t3}}.
The creator has removed the tag, and I have reasons to believe my attention in any regard will not be well received, so I'm passing the buck. Tag! You're it! Sorry, but you're my Yoda (lucky you). fredgandt 23:17, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
{{rfc|tech}}
on there and ask at
WP:VPT for people to have a look. Having a few more technically-knowledgeable people chime in should help steer this towards a stronger consensus. Myself, I have to go out now, but I might have a look when I get back. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
03:22, 2 April 2016 (UTC)Hi again!
Thanks once more for your previous help with expressing a random number without lua.
I just wanted to run one more thing by you, when I use the mod function with something like {{#expr: ({{#time:U}} mod 10) that any occurrence of the same function on the page will always return the same result. Is there anyway I could use this for example, 3 times on the same page and get 3 different results each time yet still keep the number between 1 and 10 (for example). Would this require the lua functionality?
Thank you once again! Alex J Fox( Talk)( Contribs) 16:19, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I am reading the wikibook Scribunto An Introduction. It is a great resource. Thank you for your contributions to this book. I noticed that many of the chapters listed on the outline are not added yet. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Scribunto:_An_Introduction Do you have any more information about this book, and when these chapters might be added? I am using this book as a resource for learning how to use Lua to create queries in my wiki. Thank you. Wikipersistence ( talk) 21:30, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
print
function). You can read
the version for Lua 5.0 online for free. Scribunto uses Lua 5.1, but it only differs from Lua 5.0 in a few details (e.g. the length operator, #
). And if you have any questions about Lua or Scribunto, a good place to ask is at
Wikipedia talk:Lua, which is watched by a lot of the Lua coders on Wikipedia, and some other Wikimedia wikis as well. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
23:14, 20 April 2016 (UTC)Thanks very much for the reply, and especially for directing me to the Wikipedia talk:Lua page. That page has a lot of very helpful information, I'll go through it again, and I will certainly ask a question there. I appreciate the help! Wikipersistence ( talk) 04:57, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Hey Mr. Stradivarius. I don't know if you saw my ping at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Implementing Help:Maintenance template removal, but you seem to be the key person to talk to for any change to this module. The discussion has been going for two weeks with 27 participants other than me and unanimous support. To implement, it seems we need a new parameter in the module to pass the intended link through to various maintenance templates that use ambox (or possibly other article message templates). It should appear after all other content in the templates, after a line break (more detail at the pump discussion). Can you help? If not, can you recommend who I might talk to? Thanks!-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 13:48, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
|removalnotice=
parameter which allows you to output the template removal notice by using |removalnotice=yes
. You can check out the results in
my sandbox. Actually, ambox has an |info=
parameter which could have been used to add the text in the right position (very helpfully left undocumented by me and previous {{
ambox}} editors, mea culpa). However, seeing as this is going to be a standard message for all banner templates, I thought it would be best to add the actual wording to the module so that people don't have to type it out every time. I also considered turning it on by default and requiring |removalnotice=no
to turn it off, but I rejected that idea after looking at all the other templates that transclude {{
ambox}} - there are a lot that this notice would make no sense with. Let me know if the example in my sandbox looks good, and if everything is ok I'll add the code to the module proper. Best —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
13:34, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Two thing: Can we add in the prefixed bullet that's always been part of the proposal, maybe with {{
*}}
? The other is that it does not appear from the sandbox that the message is being added to the Multiple issues template (an important location for it to work, since many maintenance templates are only seen through it). Thanks again!--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
15:37, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
|removalnotice=yes
to templates that use ambox. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
02:33, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
|text=
parameter rather than |fix=
, |date=
, etc., and at the moment the message only appears for messages that use the latter style of parameters. It would be possible make the message appear after {{
text}} parameters as well, but I'm not sure how much sense that would make. If {{
multiple issues}} is the only template that needs it, it might be best just to add it manually as part of the |text=
parameter in that template. Also, multiple issues already uses bullet points for the various maintenance templates it contains, so using a bullet for the message as well might be confusing - adding the message manually would allow you to style it differently from the other messages. And come to think of it, the message text might need tweaking too, as it would be referring to multiple templates. As for the whitespace, putting the message inline after the date is probably the most reliable way of saving the space. It might be possible to keep the message on a separate line and bunch it up against the preceding line, but you probably wouldn't save all that much space, and you would have to test it carefully to make sure it doesn't make the text overlap on any of the major browsers. I've made an example of how it might be inlined in my sandbox. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
04:58, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
Thanks again for your prompt help at CFD. I have nominated the additional categories at WP:CFDS; you're of course very welcome to check these.
I spotted some further potential housekeeping issues.
The contents of Category:Protected redirects must be getting the category from a different module related to template:This is a redirect. Should this also be renamed to "Wikipedia fully-protected redirects"? Also, {{redr|protected}} is putting e.g. Halo Waypoint into Category:Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages and Category:Wikipedia protected pages as well as Category:Protected redirects; would the last one not be sufficient?
Template:Wiktionary redirect is also putting pages into Category:Protected soft redirects. Is that now automatic, not needing a parameter to be typed, for pages which are in fact protected?
Where Wiktionary and normal redirects appear in Category:Wikipedia protected pages because they have an additional protection template, e.g. Innit which has {{pp-protected|small=yes}}{{wiktionary redirect}}, is it OK to manually remove the protection template as unnecessary? – Fayenatic L ondon 12:20, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Stradivarius!
I hope this message finds you well. I am contacting you today because you are the deletion admin on a wiki page that i attempted to submit in 2014 for the Director/Prod Giovanni Zelko, GiovanniZelko, and I would like to request that the page be recreated. After reviewing the forum discussing its deletion as well as the progress of Zelko's career since the page's deletion-which i believe has progressed well and now merits the page, I would like to ask you how to proceed in successfully getting this page back up (im not familiar with the procedure and find the guidelines a bit confusing)?
Thank you very much. I look forward to your response. Folasade.aremu ( talk) 08:11, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Could I have your opinion, from a programmer's point of view, of Module:Infobox/dates please? It is designed to take a date inside {{ start date}} or {{ end date}} and repackage it, omitting the year if it's repeated. I.e.
{{#invoke:Infobox/dates|dates|{{Start date|2016|04|21}}|{{End date|2016|04|28}}}}
gives April 21
April 28, 2016 — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk)
08:44, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
<span>...</span>
tags with special class attributes.
Template:Start date uses <span class="bday dtstart published updated">YYYY-MM-DD</span>
, if I'm reading all of those padlefts correctly. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
06:25, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, my page was deleted and I want to get it back, is there a way? Since I was new, I did not know that I had to give authentic references. Can you help? Parwaaz hasan ( talk) 15:16, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
Has the implementation of
LuaSQL on enwiki been discussed at all, or have we an already implemented DB (like) application? Accessible and manipulable data storage of Modules...
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
00:43, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
02:39, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
__index
function in the metatable will be run whenever the key for that table is nil
. For example:local my_table = {}
local my_metatable = {}
setmetatable(my_table, my_metatable) -- my_metatable is now the metatable for my_table
mw.log(my_table.foo) -- nil
mw.log(my_table.bar) -- nil
my_metatable.__index = function(t, key) -- this function is run when my_table[key] is accessed and would otherwise give a result of nil
return 7
end
mw.log(my_table.foo) -- 7
mw.log(my_table.bar) -- 7
my_table.foo = 42
mw.log(my_table.foo) -- 42
mw.log(my_table.bar) -- 7
local my_table = setmetatable({}, {
__index = function (t, key)
return 7
end
})
mw.log(my_table.foo) -- 7
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
16:01, 15 May 2016 (UTC)Hi again. I wonder if you would mind taking a look at Module:User:Fred Gandt/sandbox which is being demonstrated at User:Fred Gandt/sandbox/article and will hopefully assist in modernising Wikipedia:Motto of the day per discussion at Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day#Proposal: automate Motto of the day?
It's got all the functionality I aimed to get, but am pretty certain the code will be painfully naive; there's bound to be better ways to do everything I've done.
Your feedback would be greatly appreciated (when and/or if you have the time), and in the long run will benefit the development of the MOTD.
You may be interested enough to develop a metamodule from the idea of this pseudo-DB? I'm way too early on in the learning process to consider trying that yet.
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
06:56, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
return {
{
wikitext = [=[Foo [[Foo]] Foo]=],
date = '2015-01-01',
},
{
wikitext = [=[Bar [[Bar]] Blacksheep]=],
date = '2015-01-03'
},
-- ...
}
Thinking some more about this, do we actually need to store the date in the first place? If MOTD want to go fully automatic as they are saying, surely the date it was previously approved for is irrelevant now? I know that there are special mottos for things like Halloween and Christmas, but you could associate those mottos with their event by putting them in submodules or subtables, or by using a tagging system - the date isn't really necessary. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 11:35, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
22:20, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
06:34, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
08:27, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
12:41, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
|text=
is called. i.e. {{#invoke:Sandbox/Fred Gandt/sandbox|get|request=date|text=Bar Bar Blacksheep}}
which gives us Script error: The function "get" does not exist.
, instead of iterating text.
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
15:28, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
12:56, 22 May 2016 (UTC)Hello there my friend. Long time. You once helped me arrange items in my toolbox on the left. I'm wondering if you could help me add a commons uploads link so I can easily see what a user has uploaded. I often have such a need with spammers. Many thanks for any help you can offer. Best, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 20:24, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
What was your total time investment on this one? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 20:42, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, please could you stop changing the date format in MRV discuss instances. You're causing rogue dates to appear below the template, as shown here: {{MRVdiscuss|date=21 May 2016}}. I'm not sure why, but until it is fixed, the format has to be YYYY MMM DD. Thanks — Amakuru ( talk) 11:56, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Strad, I doubt that you'll want to get involved in this, as busy as you are, but see the two edits by user Yzyzyz1979 (I'm not linking so as not to ping these folks) and the reverts for incomprehensibility by David Gerard. The posting editor has unsuccessfully tried to make a DR request and clues suggest that he speaks Japanese. Just in case you might be interested, no reply to me needed. Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 20:06, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can you expand on why you lowered the protection on that template editors? They do not have the power to edit user JS/CSS, and therefore shouldn't be able to edit the template either IMO... Legoktm ( talk) 07:16, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
At User:Mr. Stradivarius/gadgets/Draftify, you said that only administrators can suppress redirects. This is actually false, as bots, global rollbackers, and now page movers can suppress redirects too. Can you please update your "Draftify" gadget page to account for this? This means that the "Leave a redirect behind" box is allowed to be unchecked by bots, global rollbackers, and page movers too. 24.205.16.208 ( talk) 22:58, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
If you have the chance, would you please review the edit request at: MediaWiki talk:Scribunto-doc-page-show? Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 17:45, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
Usually from what I've seen, templates that would be very intricate are backed by Lua modules, usually ones at an identical protection level, or higher. Is there a precedence for modules to make calls to templates, and more specifically, templates at a lower protection level? Or is it bad practice?
I was thinking that {{ No article text}} might be a good candidate for Luafication, except that it makes calls to other templates. I'm still pondering a refactor at the moment to fix the 3 cases I suggested on its talk page. Thanks — Andy W. ( talk · ctb) 16:54, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
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I mentioned you at meta:2015 Community Wishlist Survey#Simple math in tables (just in case you don't get email notifications from meta). Ryan Kaldari (WMF) ( talk) 03:06, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
About: replace otd link with oldid in Template:Article history. Forgive a naif for not knowing these. Juan Riley ( talk) 01:45, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for your support of student editors on this page. Also thanks for fixing the talk page where they inserted their intended changes. I will encourage them to address other issues that might help it be ranked as B-Class rather than C-class. On my own review it seems that the biggest question will be whether it reasonably covers the topic area. Does a change in class status arise from consensus on the talk page? Marentette ( talk) 23:09, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hello.
We might have a problem. Microsoft Visual Studio § Editions feature grid is entirely copyright violation. I only noticed after editing it a bit.
And by the way, how are you? Are you planning to leave Wikipedia?
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
04:22, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Might be missing something here, but shouldn't Draftify be untagging articles with {{ userspace draft}} when it adds {{ AFC submission}}, as I did with this edit? Thanks for your work. — Earwig talk 23:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hey, this is just a launch of inappropriate behavior from another editor. I came over to a friends house to help her write an article. Ever since PRehse tried to make it advertising alone so I went in and helped her change things to turn it. We deleted his code showing it to be an Advert. He went back and changed it to showing it an advert much like CAA /info/en/?search=Creative_Artists_Agency
I put quotes etc and took it out again. PRehse seemed then got mad at me for taking out his "advert" code. Then he moved to delete it b/c of my edits to try to fix the advert wording.
Look, the lady's daughter was changed by the company. She feels strongly and will be devastated at losing all of this "hard work" on her part.
I'm just trying to help. Whatever you can do to help would be great. Along with her and the community I think the page will improve greatly but deletion of the page is just a malicious move on PRehse part for not getting his way.
I will have editors come and improve it but it needs to be taken off the deletion list.
Thanks buddy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Comoncents85 ( talk • contribs) 05:12, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
As an administrator, it would seem apparent that you have a greater breadth of knowledge in regards to dealing with other administrators; I'm hoping to appeal the topic ban that you assisted in laying out nearly three years ago, and I'd appreciate any sort of guidance you could give me in relation to going about that. I was given a pretty lengthy ban for that one extended argument that took place on the ARTPOP talk page (ergo, a period of six months had to elapse before I was able to appeal) and, now that the six month period expired over two years ago and I have proceeded in my editing career for nearly three years with the ban in place, I think it's high time I put forth case in order to get it lifted. If you have any suggestions or advice, I'd appreciate it. Reece Leonard ( talk) 05:29, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello.
I have recently nominated an article for speedy deletion per WP:A10, "Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic". Permanent link But the old article has changed ever since. ( Permalink of duplicate revision, permalink of changes afterwards) I fear the attending admin might think I am crazy. Here is a diff that proves the creation has been a recent copy and paste action: [1]
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
00:39, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Renew PC? -- George Ho ( talk) 00:10, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
To whom it may concern. I happened to be reading about Mexico on Wikipedia and when I reached The Nation economy episode, the writer indicates being The nation in the Americas having a disparity of having the least number of rich people toward the largest poor population of poor people AFTER Chile....Wow!!! This observation is way off reality. Chile currently has a population less than 20 millions with a large, educated Middle Class ...Actually the best economy in South America...with decreasing level of population considered below poverty levels . Whoever wrote that misrepresentative article needs to evaluate, assess Chile, as it is now, Respectfully, A reader who has been educated in Chile Living now in the USA Regards. Chuck — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.167.103.237 ( talk) 03:37, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Just noticed your self revert, and allow me to register an Oh, no! I tried to find where GeoffreyT2000 complained about it, but couldn't find anything. Is there something/anything I can do to help fix the problem? Paine 19:18, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Are you sure Special:Diff/684367972 was a good idea? IMO, {{ redr}} is really meant for when there's more than one Rcat, and it seems cleaner without the blank line,and we know that Redr can be used for from one to seven rcats. Can you give me a hint as to what GeoffreyT2000 objected? Then maybe I can give a neutral opener to the discussion and perhaps neutralize their objection later in my rationale. Paine 01:50, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi! Can I steal some of your time? I have a js related problem at Wikidata, and I know you're a helpful guy :) The problem in short. I have this script, that does a lot of cool things at Wikidata. Including automatic birth/death date adding (very boring task to be done manually).
It has some problems with some dates, specifically Latvian and Russian (most probably some more languages, that don't use normal Latin script). It recognises only year, but it should recognise full date. You can take a look at
this page (after installing script) - section "Auto-detected birth/death dates:". The first one should be "1910. gada 2. septembrī" or something like that. It recognises "1980. gada 19. august", because augustā begins with august and in regex there isn't word ending match. The regex is right, tested it in external tester, so I assume there is some problem with month table. The code starts with wdUsefulprocessExtract : function ( t ) {
, and ends (I suppose) with // try years only
. It would be very good to resolve this, so that I and some colleagues can do better work :) Oh, and some comments about regex is also welcome, I assume, there is much more better ways to use OR without if ( m == null ) {
--
Edgars2007 (
talk/
contribs)
09:52, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
\b
in JavaScript
has no idea about Unicode. For example, "décembre" is treated as three words: "d", "é", and "cembre". —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
11:42, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
[a-zA-Z0-9_]
.) —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
11:45, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
\b
, the script was missing the case where the month was at the end of the string. I've added an explicit check for this now, so it should work again. The script will still miss the cases where the month is right at the start of the string, and where the month is the only thing in the string, but I doubt these are actually used in any articles. (If they are, let me know and I'll add the logic for them.) —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
12:51, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
Regarding [2]. 78.26 ( spin me / revolutions) 14:52, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Stradivarius: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America 1000 20:26, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Strad. Thank you again for your nomination and advice. I feel I have temporarily used up all my fine words at the RfA so for now I will simply wish you very happy holidays. BethNaught ( talk) 20:50, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
And may all your holidays be merry and bright . . . Thanks for all your help in 2015. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 19:54, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for your kind nomination. Thank you for your sage advice. Thank you for your continued support. You are a shining example of what makes this place work. 78.26 ( spin me / revolutions) 23:42, 23 December 2015 (UTC) |
Hello Mr. Stradivarius: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Esquivalience t 00:12, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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This is a new developing story. Request of undeletion submitted because significant new information has come to light since a deletion that would justify recreating the deleted page;
Please read the submission again on Miss Iraq page and consider the news articles and references before deleting. All articles and references are originating from 18th December 2015 to 30th December 2015 because Miss Iraq 2015 was held for the first time in 43 years on 19 December 2015.
Besides several international references provided below and on the submitted article, refer to the Iraq's Ministry of Culture website below:
http://crd.gov.iq/pgDetails.aspx?NID=1936
Other international articles: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/22/middleeast/miss-iraq-pageant/ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/28/miss-iraq-beauty-pageant-marred-by-death-threats http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/world/middleeast/miss-iraq.html?_r=0 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mycah-hazel/why-miss-iraq-2015-is-a-v_b_8851830.html http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-pageant-moment-you-probably-missed-589787715794 http://time.com/4157202/miss-iraq-threats-2015/ http://www.elle.com/culture/news/a32822/miss-iraq-crowned/ http://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/a51219/miss-iraq-crowned/ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2015/12/250824.htm
Hbeaulandk ( talk) 12:08, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Mr. Stradivarius,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Liz
Read!
Talk!
21:39, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Mr. Stradivarius
Over the last two months, we have reached consensus on Help talk:IPA for English about several changes:
The Module:IPAc-en/phonemes should be updated in order to reflect these changes. I have tested the changes on Module:IPAc-en/phonemes-testcases which is used by Template:IPAc-en/sandbox. I have taken care to conserve full backwards compatibility so any code that is being used now will continue producing a valid result. So basically, you can just copy Module:IPAc-en/phonemes-testcases over to Module:IPAc-en/phonemes.
For a more thorough overview of the changes and the consensus, please see User:J. 'mach' wust/sandbox#Template:IPAc-en/sandbox.
Thanks -- mach 🙈🙉🙊 12:59, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
/ʊ/ that can be reduced to /ə/ as in the 2nd 'u' in 'beautiful'
be simplified to /ʊ/ 2nd 'u' in 'beautiful'
? Also, the usual procedure for requesting edits to protected pages is by using an
edit request on the talk page. That would be better than just asking me, as I might not always be around to check things, and it will give other users the chance to comment on your requested changes. Best —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
16:07, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
/ʊ/ or /ə/ 2nd 'u' in 'curriculum'
– I had forgotten that the word curriculum is a better example word since a number of dictionaries use a transcription like /ˈbjuːtifl/ for the word beautiful
Help:IPA conventions for English#Reduced vowels.Mr Stradivarius,I don't know if you are the person to contact or not. I recently found out a friend of mine had passed away.I looked him up on wikipedia and found a long biography of him half true, half of the man he portrayed. Don't know how important this is to wikipedia but just thought I would check. The person I am talking about is Dan hagerty from the movie gentle Ben. You can contact me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.151.110.236 ( talk) 19:27, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Need your skills here. You're gonna have to label/note all of them and put very generic ones as low confidence. Thank you! -- QEDK ( T 📖 C) 20:08, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I'm asking your help because you last edited Template:Progress box (in May), stating convert to use Module:Progress box.
The progress box is no longer showing the counts for the monthly sub-cats of Category:Monthly clean up category (Categories for discussion) counter; see e.g. the page Jan 2016.
Hoping that you can fix this or pass it on to someone else who can. – Fayenatic L ondon 13:53, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
|count=subcats
parameter. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
11:33, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I reverted your edit at Module:Hatnote because when I looked at my sandbox (where I keep tables using Module:Sports table), they all displayed an error message that there was and error in Module:Main on line 51 where a function in Hatnote-module is called. Thought you should know the reason for my revert. Qed237 (talk) 23:37, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
findNamespaceId
wasn't being used in
Module:Hatnote itself any more, it was still being used by
Module:Main. Really Module:Main should be updated to not fail so horribly if that function isn't available, but for the moment I've just restored the function to
Module:Hatnote. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
23:39, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
You might recall this discussion on my talk page. If you're still willing to nominate, I'm willing to be nominated. Besides DYK and anti-vandalism, I'm beginning to see that I could be of use to WikiProject Women where I've become more active. After we discussed this, I got another FA and two FLs to my credit. What do you think? Please be honest. — Maile ( talk) 13:51, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hawkeye7 RfA Appreciation award |
Thank you for participating in and supporting my RfA. It was very much appreciated. Hawkeye7 ( talk) 20:39, 1 February 2016 (UTC) |
Hi there
I made a COI edit request on /info/en/?search=Talk:George_Institute_for_Global_Health#Update_and_new_information on 4 January 2016. Looking at the page history you made changes to that page some time ago. Are you able to review my edit request? Sorry if this isn't the right process, new contributor!
Ktr183 ( talk) 02:07, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can you please make the old location wikilink in Template:Uw-draftmoved not redirect? It's annoying to have both links go to the same page and it kinda defeats the purpose. Anarchyte ( work | talk) 08:44, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Most IP edits have been reverted. Extend PC? -- George Ho ( talk) 10:23, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Mr. Stradivarius! You've been interested in redirect categorization and the This is a redirect template in the past, so I wanted to let you know that there is a discussion at Template talk:This is a redirect#One parameter that might interest you. Good faith! Paine 21:00, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi there
Thanks so much for your feedback on my COI edit request to George Institute for Global Health on 5 Feb 2016. I've submitted a new revision in response to your points on the talk page, please let me know if you'd like to see anything else!
Ktr183 ( talk) 10:48, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello, sorry for the unsolicited invasion of your talk-page, but you seem to be a recurring name on the module pages.
I'm sprucing up a smaller independent wiki and am playing around with the idea of having some random facts pulled onto the main page, to this end, I've been making a list of facts on a project page and using labelled section transclusion as a means to mark them individually. I believe the next step is to use a Module such as Module:Random to pull one (or a few of these) to the front page dynamically. The theory is sound in my mind, but I've never added a module to mediawiki before. I assume I'll need a Lua extension. Could you please recommend the best one to use? Are there any more dependencies to get Module:Random to work?
Thank you very much for your time!
Alex J Fox( Talk)( Contribs) 18:45, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Note, however, that you can simulate random numbers in pure template code if you don't want to install any extensions. For a quasi-random number from 1 to 10 you could use something like {{#expr: ({{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod 10) + 1}}
(output: 3). If your wiki doesn't get many edits then you could do the same thing with the current time in
Unix time: {{#expr: ({{#time:U}} mod 10) + 1}}
(output: 6). Using
Module:Random will give you better randomness and means that you don't have to keep track of how many items you want to rotate through. (To rotate through 11 items in the template code above you need mod 11
, and to rotate through 12 items you need mod 12
, etc.) Using pure template code will probably be a lot easier to get working, though.
Also, whichever of these you use, you may need to purge your main page for the changes to show up, depending on how you have your caching set up. Let me know if there's anything else you need to know, and I'll be happy to help. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:20, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi there
Sorry to invade your Talk page again but thanks so much for your feedback on my COI edit request to George Institute for Global Health on 5 Feb 2016. I submitted a new revision on 22 Feb in response to your points, please let me know if you'd like to see anything else!
Ktr183 ( talk) 07:02, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
So many IP edits have not been accepted. Upgrade to semi or renew pending changes? -- George Ho ( talk) 05:53, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
[3] - in what way can less than 7 hours be regarded as a "reasonable time" given that Wikipedia is edited by editors who live in all locations of the globe? A minimum period of 24 hours is surely essential. Please unblank the request, ideally for a 24 hour period, so that I can read it and the reasons for its rejection. Tiptoethrutheminefield ( talk) 00:36, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi there
Thanks for your feedback to my request on George Institute for Global Health and I'm so sorry for those issues. Obviously I'm still learning what is acceptable and what isn't, but I definitely want to and will comply with all the rules. I've stripped the proposed text right back to basics, please let me know what else I should do.
Ktr183 ( talk) 06:02, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I don't want to load the question too much, so simply: Am I doing this right? Please. fredgandt 01:45, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
I reverted it because you are suppose to name the file specifically, "ROBLOX studio 2016" is way to general
Thanks,
Pastorma ( talk) 01:20, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
At Template:WikiProject_India/sandbox I've added WikiProject Telangana earlier, but couldn't add WikiProject Visakhapatnam.-- Vin09 (talk) 06:30, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I'm confused by the docs at
mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#frame:newChild which indicates that it's possible to test what would normally be #invoked within the console. Can you help me understand please? The current mess I'm learning on is at
Module:User:Fred_Gandt/sandbox - if you could add the required code to make p.params(frame)
work as if it were invoked when called from the console, that'd really help. I realise I can change the code to not use frame, but that starts getting way off point for testing, especially when I get around to trying more complex things.
fredgandt
01:02, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
=p.params{args={"pre"}}
preprocess
, etc. Your other option is to use
frame:newChild to make a proper frame object, and then pass that into your function. That would work something like this:local cf = mw.getCurrentFrame()
local frame = cf:newChild{args={"pre"}}
=p.params(frame)
local cf = mw.getCurrentFrame()
local frame = cf:newChild{args={"pre"}}
mw.log(p.params(frame))
=p.params(mw.getCurrentFrame():newChild{args={"pre"}})
if #args then x end
won't work as expected. E.g. this comes out as "foo":if 0 then
mw.log('foo')
else
mw.log('bar')
end
"zero in Lua is a truthy value"<-- that however doesn't help at all! >.<
Please see WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:2605:E000:364F:4000:C4A8:F108:65C2:367F reported by User:Winterysteppe (Result: Semi). You semiprotected for two days. Since there is a BLP issue, would you consider a longer period? Such as three months? Whether Frank Sinatra, Jr. had a second son ought not to be sourced to a unfamiliar web site that shows the scan of a page from a court decision. We don't like to use raw court papers, except to expand or corroborate something already known from a regular source. If my recollection of the policy is correct then the IPv6's last edit has the correct version of the article. There was a 2012 interview of Sinatra Jr. in the Guardian where he denies having a second son. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 04:22, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi,
I notice that the page has been locked till 6th April 2016. The changes done by me included change of the profile picture and removal of slanderous content which made fun of the person concerned.
Though I see multiple changes there after done by others, I want to request the page to be reinstated to the changes I did. Thanks for reading and considering the request.
Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Superfan32389 ( talk • contribs) 05:26, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi I commenced the not inconsiderable task of joining your community today with a view to editing, and before I have even gained confidence and launched an inaugural edit, I understand I am blocked.
This user is currently blocked. The latest block log entry is provided below for reference:
00:26, 26 April 2015 Mr. Stradivarius (talk | contribs) blocked 195.147.0.0/18 (talk) with an expiration time of 1 year (anon. only) (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sardanaphalus)
Please advise if this is an issue with the IP address or another User ghosting. I would be grateful if you could remove the block so that I might practice and eventually publish. I have as you can see created the account. I look forward to your response. Superangulon210 ( talk) 17:22, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with Lua back in November. I've finally gotten around to creating the module I had in mind. Feel free to check it out:
The slightly edited Template:Infobox zodiac/sandbox invokes Module:Zodiac date. Results can be seen at my sandbox.
I have a discrepancy when I try to invoke it from the special sandbox invocation page. If it strikes your interest, you could weigh in on my question. Jc3s5h ( talk) 19:44, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello! I can't remember whether I told you that the latest set of updates for Japanese language support in the visual editor finally landed. The devs seem to believe that it's all working now, and that the visual editor could safely be offered as an option to all editors there. That won't happen during (at least) the next few weeks because of other things that are distracting me, but if you have any feedback, and in particular if you become aware of any problems or unnatural-feeling behaviors with the IME, please {{ ping}} me. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:12, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Do you remember what Module:Protection banner/banner was for? Is there any reason to keep it around? Jackmcbarn ( talk) 17:47, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi again. I will lead with a request that if you would prefer I stop turning to you for help in this respect, please state so freely, I will understand.
That said: I wonder if you could take a look at the two Modules I've pushed into service ( Editing advice and NUMBEROF ), and give basic feedback on my apparent grasp of Lua or my lack thereof?
Any other feedback welcome. fredgandt 21:30, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
{{{1}}}
, {{{2}}}
, etc., but if you used frame:getParent().args
in
Module:Editing advice instead of frame.args
then you could avoid passing through any parameters in
Template:Editing advice, and just use ipairs
in the module to iterate through the numerical arguments.{{subst:editing advice|bananas=5}}
then you would have a bananas
parameter to deal with - so your current loop of for key, value in pairs(frame.args) do ... end
would stop working. You could fix this by checking explicitly for args.about
, then args.section
, and then using ipairs for the page arguments. It's also generally better practice to specify things like this explicitly, as it helps prevent bugs from unexpected values caused by future refactorings. And it would also be more efficient, as instead of checking for keys of "about" and "section" on every iteration of your loop, you can just check them once before the loop starts.frame:getParent().args
rather than passing the arguments through manually is a lot faster, as it makes the template page much simpler for PHP to parse.nil
), and then to just pass an args
table around, rather than passing the frame object to a lot of different functions. This keeps the code cleaner, I think, and it helps to avoid bugs later on in processing where you assume that arguments have been trimmed but actually they haven't. I usually use
Module:Arguments for this, as it uses metatables to do awesome things like automatically trim arguments, but still only fetch them from the frame object if they are actually accessed.{{foo|== Some heading ==}}
won't necessarily produce a section heading, and neither will <!-- == Another heading == -->
or <nowiki>== Another heading ==</nowiki>
(even assuming that you add line breaks before the first equals signs). Simple parsing attempts might be good enough for most uses, but you should be aware that they won't be perfect.haystack = mw.title.new(page)
, I would use "title" or "page" - the haystack is the actual page text, not the title object.frame:getParent().args
is very handy to know about. Definitely a more direct approach; and stuff like
Module:Arguments (I'm a big fan of not reinventing the wheel) will be handy.
frame
in local functions without passing it around as an argument. I almost copied it to a local (global in JS) var, but wasn't sure if that would really be the right thing to do. What is?
fredgandt
21:16, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi again. Sorry to bother you with this, but hopefully you'll understand my reasoning.
{{ Multiple issues}} had an edit request which I responded to. Due to a disagreeable exchange, I have stepped away from the discussion as I feel my presence will only antagonise the requester.
{{ Multiple issues 2}} was created to sidestep the discussion and "substantially duplicates" {{ Multiple issues}} on "only one page" so I tagged it for speedy deletion with {{ Db-t3}}.
The creator has removed the tag, and I have reasons to believe my attention in any regard will not be well received, so I'm passing the buck. Tag! You're it! Sorry, but you're my Yoda (lucky you). fredgandt 23:17, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
{{rfc|tech}}
on there and ask at
WP:VPT for people to have a look. Having a few more technically-knowledgeable people chime in should help steer this towards a stronger consensus. Myself, I have to go out now, but I might have a look when I get back. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
03:22, 2 April 2016 (UTC)Hi again!
Thanks once more for your previous help with expressing a random number without lua.
I just wanted to run one more thing by you, when I use the mod function with something like {{#expr: ({{#time:U}} mod 10) that any occurrence of the same function on the page will always return the same result. Is there anyway I could use this for example, 3 times on the same page and get 3 different results each time yet still keep the number between 1 and 10 (for example). Would this require the lua functionality?
Thank you once again! Alex J Fox( Talk)( Contribs) 16:19, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I am reading the wikibook Scribunto An Introduction. It is a great resource. Thank you for your contributions to this book. I noticed that many of the chapters listed on the outline are not added yet. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Scribunto:_An_Introduction Do you have any more information about this book, and when these chapters might be added? I am using this book as a resource for learning how to use Lua to create queries in my wiki. Thank you. Wikipersistence ( talk) 21:30, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
print
function). You can read
the version for Lua 5.0 online for free. Scribunto uses Lua 5.1, but it only differs from Lua 5.0 in a few details (e.g. the length operator, #
). And if you have any questions about Lua or Scribunto, a good place to ask is at
Wikipedia talk:Lua, which is watched by a lot of the Lua coders on Wikipedia, and some other Wikimedia wikis as well. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
23:14, 20 April 2016 (UTC)Thanks very much for the reply, and especially for directing me to the Wikipedia talk:Lua page. That page has a lot of very helpful information, I'll go through it again, and I will certainly ask a question there. I appreciate the help! Wikipersistence ( talk) 04:57, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Hey Mr. Stradivarius. I don't know if you saw my ping at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Implementing Help:Maintenance template removal, but you seem to be the key person to talk to for any change to this module. The discussion has been going for two weeks with 27 participants other than me and unanimous support. To implement, it seems we need a new parameter in the module to pass the intended link through to various maintenance templates that use ambox (or possibly other article message templates). It should appear after all other content in the templates, after a line break (more detail at the pump discussion). Can you help? If not, can you recommend who I might talk to? Thanks!-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 13:48, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
|removalnotice=
parameter which allows you to output the template removal notice by using |removalnotice=yes
. You can check out the results in
my sandbox. Actually, ambox has an |info=
parameter which could have been used to add the text in the right position (very helpfully left undocumented by me and previous {{
ambox}} editors, mea culpa). However, seeing as this is going to be a standard message for all banner templates, I thought it would be best to add the actual wording to the module so that people don't have to type it out every time. I also considered turning it on by default and requiring |removalnotice=no
to turn it off, but I rejected that idea after looking at all the other templates that transclude {{
ambox}} - there are a lot that this notice would make no sense with. Let me know if the example in my sandbox looks good, and if everything is ok I'll add the code to the module proper. Best —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
13:34, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Two thing: Can we add in the prefixed bullet that's always been part of the proposal, maybe with {{
*}}
? The other is that it does not appear from the sandbox that the message is being added to the Multiple issues template (an important location for it to work, since many maintenance templates are only seen through it). Thanks again!--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
15:37, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
|removalnotice=yes
to templates that use ambox. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
02:33, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
|text=
parameter rather than |fix=
, |date=
, etc., and at the moment the message only appears for messages that use the latter style of parameters. It would be possible make the message appear after {{
text}} parameters as well, but I'm not sure how much sense that would make. If {{
multiple issues}} is the only template that needs it, it might be best just to add it manually as part of the |text=
parameter in that template. Also, multiple issues already uses bullet points for the various maintenance templates it contains, so using a bullet for the message as well might be confusing - adding the message manually would allow you to style it differently from the other messages. And come to think of it, the message text might need tweaking too, as it would be referring to multiple templates. As for the whitespace, putting the message inline after the date is probably the most reliable way of saving the space. It might be possible to keep the message on a separate line and bunch it up against the preceding line, but you probably wouldn't save all that much space, and you would have to test it carefully to make sure it doesn't make the text overlap on any of the major browsers. I've made an example of how it might be inlined in my sandbox. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
04:58, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
Thanks again for your prompt help at CFD. I have nominated the additional categories at WP:CFDS; you're of course very welcome to check these.
I spotted some further potential housekeeping issues.
The contents of Category:Protected redirects must be getting the category from a different module related to template:This is a redirect. Should this also be renamed to "Wikipedia fully-protected redirects"? Also, {{redr|protected}} is putting e.g. Halo Waypoint into Category:Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages and Category:Wikipedia protected pages as well as Category:Protected redirects; would the last one not be sufficient?
Template:Wiktionary redirect is also putting pages into Category:Protected soft redirects. Is that now automatic, not needing a parameter to be typed, for pages which are in fact protected?
Where Wiktionary and normal redirects appear in Category:Wikipedia protected pages because they have an additional protection template, e.g. Innit which has {{pp-protected|small=yes}}{{wiktionary redirect}}, is it OK to manually remove the protection template as unnecessary? – Fayenatic L ondon 12:20, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Stradivarius!
I hope this message finds you well. I am contacting you today because you are the deletion admin on a wiki page that i attempted to submit in 2014 for the Director/Prod Giovanni Zelko, GiovanniZelko, and I would like to request that the page be recreated. After reviewing the forum discussing its deletion as well as the progress of Zelko's career since the page's deletion-which i believe has progressed well and now merits the page, I would like to ask you how to proceed in successfully getting this page back up (im not familiar with the procedure and find the guidelines a bit confusing)?
Thank you very much. I look forward to your response. Folasade.aremu ( talk) 08:11, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Could I have your opinion, from a programmer's point of view, of Module:Infobox/dates please? It is designed to take a date inside {{ start date}} or {{ end date}} and repackage it, omitting the year if it's repeated. I.e.
{{#invoke:Infobox/dates|dates|{{Start date|2016|04|21}}|{{End date|2016|04|28}}}}
gives April 21
April 28, 2016 — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk)
08:44, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
<span>...</span>
tags with special class attributes.
Template:Start date uses <span class="bday dtstart published updated">YYYY-MM-DD</span>
, if I'm reading all of those padlefts correctly. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
06:25, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, my page was deleted and I want to get it back, is there a way? Since I was new, I did not know that I had to give authentic references. Can you help? Parwaaz hasan ( talk) 15:16, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
Has the implementation of
LuaSQL on enwiki been discussed at all, or have we an already implemented DB (like) application? Accessible and manipulable data storage of Modules...
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
00:43, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
02:39, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
__index
function in the metatable will be run whenever the key for that table is nil
. For example:local my_table = {}
local my_metatable = {}
setmetatable(my_table, my_metatable) -- my_metatable is now the metatable for my_table
mw.log(my_table.foo) -- nil
mw.log(my_table.bar) -- nil
my_metatable.__index = function(t, key) -- this function is run when my_table[key] is accessed and would otherwise give a result of nil
return 7
end
mw.log(my_table.foo) -- 7
mw.log(my_table.bar) -- 7
my_table.foo = 42
mw.log(my_table.foo) -- 42
mw.log(my_table.bar) -- 7
local my_table = setmetatable({}, {
__index = function (t, key)
return 7
end
})
mw.log(my_table.foo) -- 7
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
16:01, 15 May 2016 (UTC)Hi again. I wonder if you would mind taking a look at Module:User:Fred Gandt/sandbox which is being demonstrated at User:Fred Gandt/sandbox/article and will hopefully assist in modernising Wikipedia:Motto of the day per discussion at Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day#Proposal: automate Motto of the day?
It's got all the functionality I aimed to get, but am pretty certain the code will be painfully naive; there's bound to be better ways to do everything I've done.
Your feedback would be greatly appreciated (when and/or if you have the time), and in the long run will benefit the development of the MOTD.
You may be interested enough to develop a metamodule from the idea of this pseudo-DB? I'm way too early on in the learning process to consider trying that yet.
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
06:56, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
return {
{
wikitext = [=[Foo [[Foo]] Foo]=],
date = '2015-01-01',
},
{
wikitext = [=[Bar [[Bar]] Blacksheep]=],
date = '2015-01-03'
},
-- ...
}
Thinking some more about this, do we actually need to store the date in the first place? If MOTD want to go fully automatic as they are saying, surely the date it was previously approved for is irrelevant now? I know that there are special mottos for things like Halloween and Christmas, but you could associate those mottos with their event by putting them in submodules or subtables, or by using a tagging system - the date isn't really necessary. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 11:35, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
22:20, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
06:34, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
08:27, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
12:41, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
|text=
is called. i.e. {{#invoke:Sandbox/Fred Gandt/sandbox|get|request=date|text=Bar Bar Blacksheep}}
which gives us Script error: The function "get" does not exist.
, instead of iterating text.
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
15:28, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
12:56, 22 May 2016 (UTC)Hello there my friend. Long time. You once helped me arrange items in my toolbox on the left. I'm wondering if you could help me add a commons uploads link so I can easily see what a user has uploaded. I often have such a need with spammers. Many thanks for any help you can offer. Best, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 20:24, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
What was your total time investment on this one? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 20:42, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, please could you stop changing the date format in MRV discuss instances. You're causing rogue dates to appear below the template, as shown here: {{MRVdiscuss|date=21 May 2016}}. I'm not sure why, but until it is fixed, the format has to be YYYY MMM DD. Thanks — Amakuru ( talk) 11:56, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Strad, I doubt that you'll want to get involved in this, as busy as you are, but see the two edits by user Yzyzyz1979 (I'm not linking so as not to ping these folks) and the reverts for incomprehensibility by David Gerard. The posting editor has unsuccessfully tried to make a DR request and clues suggest that he speaks Japanese. Just in case you might be interested, no reply to me needed. Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 20:06, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can you expand on why you lowered the protection on that template editors? They do not have the power to edit user JS/CSS, and therefore shouldn't be able to edit the template either IMO... Legoktm ( talk) 07:16, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
At User:Mr. Stradivarius/gadgets/Draftify, you said that only administrators can suppress redirects. This is actually false, as bots, global rollbackers, and now page movers can suppress redirects too. Can you please update your "Draftify" gadget page to account for this? This means that the "Leave a redirect behind" box is allowed to be unchecked by bots, global rollbackers, and page movers too. 24.205.16.208 ( talk) 22:58, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
If you have the chance, would you please review the edit request at: MediaWiki talk:Scribunto-doc-page-show? Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 17:45, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
Usually from what I've seen, templates that would be very intricate are backed by Lua modules, usually ones at an identical protection level, or higher. Is there a precedence for modules to make calls to templates, and more specifically, templates at a lower protection level? Or is it bad practice?
I was thinking that {{ No article text}} might be a good candidate for Luafication, except that it makes calls to other templates. I'm still pondering a refactor at the moment to fix the 3 cases I suggested on its talk page. Thanks — Andy W. ( talk · ctb) 16:54, 3 June 2016 (UTC)