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The user continues his fight - Emperor of China. Xx236 ( talk) 05:42, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
This vandalism-only account that you previously blocked is active again. Would you please block it? -- Ssilvers ( talk) 06:44, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Since you've been around foreveeerrrr I thought you'd maybe know the answer to this - Has anyone given any thought to adding the ability to protect pages from edits from IP ranges? Often IP ranges are too big to block but the targeted IP hopper focuses on certain articles/pages that would be normally be left unprotected. Blocking certain IP ranges from editing certain pages would reduce collateral damage and leave productive IPs free to edit. -- NeilN talk to me 20:18, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
There's a glitch on User:MusikBot/StaleDrafts/Report where if it's a category draft, it doesn't link it under the "Mainspace" column but instead adds the page to the category. [6] [7]. Anarchyte ( work | talk) 08:46, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
Reminder. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 03:14, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
I am a relative new active Wikipedian. I also use Wikipedia to teach undergrads and profs about the power of crowdsourcing open knowledge. I also study social media and have been studying twerking videos to learn more about the "social" consequences of it. Editing the twerking entry has been facscinating. I saw your note about the page being semi-protected and wondered if you could share your insights into the page as an editor. Could I interview you by phone about it? or via talk page. Not sure where you are or what time zone. Could do this by Skype as well. Thanks!
PS I am interested in the gender gap among editors and editing in particular and have noticed some issues while editing twerking. sheridanford 16:42, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
{{ping|Example}}
and when you hit save it will look like @
Example: and trigger a notification to that user.For your signature, it appears you still are having trouble with it. I see
here you attempted to write what I assume is your real name, followed by a date stamp. All you need to do is type ~~~~ (four tildes) at the end of your comment. Note I said "four" tildes, not five, which is what I think you're doing. There is also a little button in your editing toolbar you can click on to insert your signature, it looks like this: Again sorry the wiki talk system is so crappy! And also sorry I can not assist you with your research on twerking. All the best —
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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
User talk:58.166.99.234 is Mary Kember...again. Changed Simon Diamond to living in New South Wales....sound familiar? Somehow her name persisted on his infobox as his spouse for some time. I don't know how anyone missed it, but I removed it...again. Crash Under ride 16:46, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
User:WhatCulture Pro Wrestling....do I need to say more? Crash Under ride 19:18, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
GMA Network Inc. is a company and I would suggest to put a semi protected to this page for disruptive editing to this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kazaro ( talk • contribs) 08:43, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
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The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. ( T138966)
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It would appear that User talk:Jdchapman15 is Justin Chapman and has edited the Chapman article recently. I had to clean it up, ya know, remove external links from the body of the text, type stuff. Just a heads up. Crash Under ride 00:24, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hello to our truly awesome GA Cup competitors! Thursday, June 30 saw the end of the 2016 GA Cup. It was a huge success. In the final, our five competitors reviewed an astonishing 207 articles, the most in any GA Cup final thus far. We continue to reach our goals and make a substantial impact in how quickly articles are reviewed for GA status. On March 1, the start of this competition, the article longest in the queue had languished there since June 26, 2015 [21]; in the July 1, 2016 list, the average wait length is just four months [22]. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for their enthusiasm, and for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success. Remember that most articles can't even be considered for FA status unless it's been passed to GA first, so our efforts have created hundreds of potentials FAs. That is, as they say, a big deal. The final this time represented a real horse race between our 1st and 2nd place winners. First-time competitor (who had won all previous rounds) Sainsf earned an impressive 1456 points with 91 articles reviewed during the final. Close behind, in second place was Carbrera, also a first-time competitor, reviewed the most articles (94). Their enthusiasm was a treat to witness. Congrats to you both! The competition went relatively smoothly, with very little drama this time. We had to clarify one rule: in order for the points to count, you must mark your reviews as completed; it's not up to the judges to ensure that all reviews are completed by the end of a round. We were strict about adhering to this clarification, especially at the end of the final. We intend on stressing it in the stated rules for our next competition, which will be announced soon, so watch out for it. We also intend on applying for a grant through Wikimedia to include gift certificates for our winners, to further incentivize the GA Cup. MrWooHoo should receive special recognition for acting as our main judge, and for stepping in for the rest of the judges when real-life busyness took over. He reviewed the majority of the submissions during our final round. Thanks for your hard work, and for the hard work of all our judges. We look forward to the next competition. Again, thanks to all our competitors, and congrats to our winners. Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal! Quick random Pageview API question – is there a way to "force" the bar-chart format version (or any graph format version, really) to take the y-axis scale to "zero"? Right now, it looks like it sets the "minimum" value for the y-axis to roughly the minimum number of page views over the displayed time range. But it would be useful in at least some cases to set the y-axis minimum to "zero" for display purposes... -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 07:40, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2016-06-12&end=2016-07-01&pages=The_Lying_Game_(TV_series)|The_Lying_Game_(book_series)– and I couldn't figure out how to get the link to display properly on the Talk page. But I was able to do it above... Also, I had never noticed the "Permalink" button before this discussion. It's possible that both of these things would have helped me in The Lying Game RM posting... Oh well! -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 19:14, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
%7C
when you click the link. This is OK and won't confuse the Pageviews tool because pipe characters can never been in page name, for instance
/info/en/?search=|. I realize this is not clear to anyone. Maybe I should encode the pipe character in the URL of the tool, but then it might be unclear how to manually append pages. Eh... no happy medium, I suppose! About the Permalink, I'm struggling to get that and the other buttons ("Chart type", etc.) to be more prominent. They used to be at the bottom and no one ever saw them —
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19:34, 2 July 2016 (UTC)( ←) @ IJBall: Try it out here. Does this look good? I didn't add the logic to automatically start at zero, instead showing a simple option as you recommended. I also wasn't sure what the best wording would be. I figure people will see "Begin at zero", click it, and hopefully figure out what it does. "Show y-axis starting at zero" is simply too long — MusikAnimal talk 19:48, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi MuskiAnimal: There seems to be a glitch at the TAFI Schedule page. Squeegee was selected as a weekly article, which is denoted at Wikipedia talk:Today's articles for improvement § The TAFI article for Week 30 of 2016, but the schedule page for the entry has some errors. So, bringing this to your attention. Also, thanks for your contributions to TAFI and elsewhere. North America 1000 14:37, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello how to see my mainspace edits ? Can I get rollback right now? What is my mainspace edit couns ? NepaliKeto62 Talk to me 12:58, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hello as stated by you I am fond of helping others in your User page I am requesting you to create a bot for me. Please help me. NepaliKeto62 Talk to me 13:54, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Musik, a rolling report of "FPP/EPP expiring in the next 24 hours" or the like may be useful. The bot would only need to update a report page so it would be low-impact. Another (more ambitious) route may be to look for protection changes where (new level > old level)&&(new expiration < old expiration) - and have it talk page the new protector when it is getting ready to expire maybe....I'm still brain stroming - any thoughts? — xaosflux Talk 02:13, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
I saw ur bot makes comments on permission pages telling no. Of user edits. This can be a breakthrough technology. U can give the public a code which wherever placed will show that users edit count. And u can instruct the bot to tell the no of edits of the user at that place where the code is. Now such edit counter exists on wiki till now. But u can develop this breakthrough tech. Just an idea. Thanks. Ping me pls -- Varun ☎ 15:35, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
{{tlu|User:MusikBot/editstats|edits|0}}
which would return the number of edits in the mainspace (0 is the namespace number for the mainspace), as opposed to say {{tlu|User:MusikBot/editstats|nonautomated_edits|0}}
which would show the nonautomated edits in the mainspace, or even {{tlu|User:MusikBot/editstats|articles}}
to show the number of articles you've created. You could then transclude these into your {{
service award progress}} template and it would work. AND I just realized that if I have MusikBot write to it's own userspace (subpages within User:MusikBot), then I may not need prior approval. I will ask the bot approvers about this, because I do like your idea! —
MusikAnimal
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16:51, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
thnx all Varun ☎ 05:09, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
Hey, can "Pages are not protected pre-emptively." be linked to WP:NO-PREEMPT? -- NeilN talk to me 15:53, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello I know you are a bot operator. This account is also bot of my original account Nepali keto62. I created this account and I can give program to this bot but where should I give the program. In user page or somewhere else ???? Please reply with answer. Nepalibot62 Talk to me 13:20, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
An ear of
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15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
sir, please make my userpage as semi protected. Niezwmxa Boro 13:15, 12 July 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Niezwmxa Boro ( talk • contribs)
Hello, you blocked 188.32.96.255 for "block evasion". Now this Russian IP is doing language adding (pov pushing) on nl-wiki where I am admin. Can you help me by telling the account since we have several cross wiki pov-pushers from that region also (and crosswiki) active on nl-wiki so I can get into this and if needed also take measures on nl-wiki. Thanx in advance for your help. I now see you blocked the range even so it is not so static. MoiraMoira ( talk) 10:59, 12 July 2016 (UTC) (nl-wiki admin and global sysop)
Hi i was designing something for my userpage it looks like given below. If u see its code it offers alarm clock facility using Template:Alarm clock a calendar using Template:Calendar and a Digital clock using User:Anakin101/digiclock They all have parameters. I dont need all but when i transclude this from one of my subpages, I wont some basic parameters available like alarm parameter and time zone offset parameter. So what is the code ill need to write on the subpage that shall be transcluded to offer the 2 parameters. Thanks and regards VarunFEB2003 ( talk) 13:35, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hello MusikAnimal, just a quick thanks for your thoughtful and constructive comments at the current 30/500 RfC. The discussion would probably be a lot more heated without them, and it's important to provide editors with as much information as possible. GermanJoe ( talk) 14:25, 17 July 2016 (UTC) |
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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
VarunFEB2003 ( talk) 12:41, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Dear MusikAnimal,
I have just created a new suggestion at the Talk-page of Pageviews Analysis at Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki. User User:Samwalton9, who is an administrator at the English Wikipedia, suggested me to also notify you hereof. If you could perhaps know a way to take this further?
Kind regards,
( Verheyen Vincent ( talk) 23:00, 18 July 2016 (UTC)).
Hello MusikAnimal,
First, I would like to thank you for granting my request for Pending Changes Reviewer rights.
Next, I visited the Pageviews Analysis Tool. It looks great! In addition to the change mentioned by a prior visitor to your talkpage here, about scaling the y-axis so that only integer values of the number of views are displayed, I noticed something odd about the logarithmic scale option for line charts. In the settings, logarithmic scale can be chosen every time, or whenever the Pageviews analysis tool considers it to be appropriate. (I don't know what your criteria for determining when logarithmic scaling is appropriate, although I am curious!) I am seeing examples where the tool chooses logarithmic scale even when it is not appropriate. Specifically, whenever there are zero pageviews in a day, the logarithmic chart displays no value at all for that day. I understand why that happens, because log(1) = 0 for one page view, but log(0) is undefined for zero pageviews. When that is the case, with zero page views during the time interval queried, shouldn't the y-axis display base 10 numbers only?
I will make a note of this on the Pageviews Analysis talk page, and provide an example there. FeralOink ( talk) 01:00, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
The X! tools tool Articles created and Edit count maintained by you are not working as of 13:44:40 19 July 2014. Please look into the issue. Examples screenshots:
Regards, KCVelaga ☚╣✉╠☛ 13:53, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
Can you tell me where I went wrong at User:Music1201/introNotice.js. Instead of inserting the edit notice to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals), it inserts it on every page. How do I fix it? Thanks. — Music1201 talk 00:05, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
if (mw.config.get('Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)') !== -1); {
with if (mw.config.get( 'wgPageName' ) === 'Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)') {
$( '.mw-editsection, #ca-edit' ).find( 'a' ).each( function ( i, el ) {
with $( '.mw-editsection, #ca-addsection, #ca-edit' ).find( 'a' ).each( function ( i, el ) {
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NQ
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02:08, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
...which redirect to an article, treated the same as they were in the Stat.Grok era?
Dear MusikAnimal,
First of all --> great tool! Thanks!
I've asked a question on the village pump about a year ago: [49]
And was wondering whether still pageviews are counted separately for the different urls, such that
sum(daily_pageviews) across all urls which end up displaying a specific article, is indeed the sum of pageviews for that day.
(i.e. we're not counting any page view twice).
On the wikipedia page of this tool it seems to suggest this is the case: "However, you can see how often a targeted redirect to a section of a page or a shortcut to a project or Help page (or a section thereof) is used by entering the shortcut."
Cheers, MichaelWhite1982 ( talk) 15:39, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal, I was wondering if you might know how to fix a problem concerning a link in the Olympic category. I was working on an Olympic golf page, and I noticed that the "GolfAt2016SummerOlympics" header is actually taking us to the Triathlon page, instead of the Golf page. This is a strange problem and I don't know why it is doing that. Can you or someone else possibly repair the problem for us? Thanks. Johnsmith2116 ( talk) 09:23, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Is this WAI? Yes, the user is not on the CheckPage, but the message is being repeated. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 17:01, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Wednesday June 29, 6-8:30pm: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA | |
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Join us for an evening of social Wikipedia editing at the Museum of Modern Art Library's second annual Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon, during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to LGBT art, culture and history. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. Also featuring a lightning talk by CUNY students at the La Guardia and Wagner Archives on a project to document local 1980s HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia. Experienced Wikipedians will be on-hand to assist throughout the day. Please bring your laptop and power cord; we will have library resources, WiFi, and a list of suggested topics on hand.
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The user continues his fight - Emperor of China. Xx236 ( talk) 05:42, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
This vandalism-only account that you previously blocked is active again. Would you please block it? -- Ssilvers ( talk) 06:44, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Since you've been around foreveeerrrr I thought you'd maybe know the answer to this - Has anyone given any thought to adding the ability to protect pages from edits from IP ranges? Often IP ranges are too big to block but the targeted IP hopper focuses on certain articles/pages that would be normally be left unprotected. Blocking certain IP ranges from editing certain pages would reduce collateral damage and leave productive IPs free to edit. -- NeilN talk to me 20:18, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
There's a glitch on User:MusikBot/StaleDrafts/Report where if it's a category draft, it doesn't link it under the "Mainspace" column but instead adds the page to the category. [6] [7]. Anarchyte ( work | talk) 08:46, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
Reminder. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 03:14, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
I am a relative new active Wikipedian. I also use Wikipedia to teach undergrads and profs about the power of crowdsourcing open knowledge. I also study social media and have been studying twerking videos to learn more about the "social" consequences of it. Editing the twerking entry has been facscinating. I saw your note about the page being semi-protected and wondered if you could share your insights into the page as an editor. Could I interview you by phone about it? or via talk page. Not sure where you are or what time zone. Could do this by Skype as well. Thanks!
PS I am interested in the gender gap among editors and editing in particular and have noticed some issues while editing twerking. sheridanford 16:42, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
{{ping|Example}}
and when you hit save it will look like @
Example: and trigger a notification to that user.For your signature, it appears you still are having trouble with it. I see
here you attempted to write what I assume is your real name, followed by a date stamp. All you need to do is type ~~~~ (four tildes) at the end of your comment. Note I said "four" tildes, not five, which is what I think you're doing. There is also a little button in your editing toolbar you can click on to insert your signature, it looks like this: Again sorry the wiki talk system is so crappy! And also sorry I can not assist you with your research on twerking. All the best —
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18:50, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
User talk:58.166.99.234 is Mary Kember...again. Changed Simon Diamond to living in New South Wales....sound familiar? Somehow her name persisted on his infobox as his spouse for some time. I don't know how anyone missed it, but I removed it...again. Crash Under ride 16:46, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
User:WhatCulture Pro Wrestling....do I need to say more? Crash Under ride 19:18, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
GMA Network Inc. is a company and I would suggest to put a semi protected to this page for disruptive editing to this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kazaro ( talk • contribs) 08:43, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
Editing News #2—2016 Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
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The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. ( T138966)
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It would appear that User talk:Jdchapman15 is Justin Chapman and has edited the Chapman article recently. I had to clean it up, ya know, remove external links from the body of the text, type stuff. Just a heads up. Crash Under ride 00:24, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hello to our truly awesome GA Cup competitors! Thursday, June 30 saw the end of the 2016 GA Cup. It was a huge success. In the final, our five competitors reviewed an astonishing 207 articles, the most in any GA Cup final thus far. We continue to reach our goals and make a substantial impact in how quickly articles are reviewed for GA status. On March 1, the start of this competition, the article longest in the queue had languished there since June 26, 2015 [21]; in the July 1, 2016 list, the average wait length is just four months [22]. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for their enthusiasm, and for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success. Remember that most articles can't even be considered for FA status unless it's been passed to GA first, so our efforts have created hundreds of potentials FAs. That is, as they say, a big deal. The final this time represented a real horse race between our 1st and 2nd place winners. First-time competitor (who had won all previous rounds) Sainsf earned an impressive 1456 points with 91 articles reviewed during the final. Close behind, in second place was Carbrera, also a first-time competitor, reviewed the most articles (94). Their enthusiasm was a treat to witness. Congrats to you both! The competition went relatively smoothly, with very little drama this time. We had to clarify one rule: in order for the points to count, you must mark your reviews as completed; it's not up to the judges to ensure that all reviews are completed by the end of a round. We were strict about adhering to this clarification, especially at the end of the final. We intend on stressing it in the stated rules for our next competition, which will be announced soon, so watch out for it. We also intend on applying for a grant through Wikimedia to include gift certificates for our winners, to further incentivize the GA Cup. MrWooHoo should receive special recognition for acting as our main judge, and for stepping in for the rest of the judges when real-life busyness took over. He reviewed the majority of the submissions during our final round. Thanks for your hard work, and for the hard work of all our judges. We look forward to the next competition. Again, thanks to all our competitors, and congrats to our winners. Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal! Quick random Pageview API question – is there a way to "force" the bar-chart format version (or any graph format version, really) to take the y-axis scale to "zero"? Right now, it looks like it sets the "minimum" value for the y-axis to roughly the minimum number of page views over the displayed time range. But it would be useful in at least some cases to set the y-axis minimum to "zero" for display purposes... -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 07:40, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2016-06-12&end=2016-07-01&pages=The_Lying_Game_(TV_series)|The_Lying_Game_(book_series)– and I couldn't figure out how to get the link to display properly on the Talk page. But I was able to do it above... Also, I had never noticed the "Permalink" button before this discussion. It's possible that both of these things would have helped me in The Lying Game RM posting... Oh well! -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 19:14, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
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when you click the link. This is OK and won't confuse the Pageviews tool because pipe characters can never been in page name, for instance
/info/en/?search=|. I realize this is not clear to anyone. Maybe I should encode the pipe character in the URL of the tool, but then it might be unclear how to manually append pages. Eh... no happy medium, I suppose! About the Permalink, I'm struggling to get that and the other buttons ("Chart type", etc.) to be more prominent. They used to be at the bottom and no one ever saw them —
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19:34, 2 July 2016 (UTC)( ←) @ IJBall: Try it out here. Does this look good? I didn't add the logic to automatically start at zero, instead showing a simple option as you recommended. I also wasn't sure what the best wording would be. I figure people will see "Begin at zero", click it, and hopefully figure out what it does. "Show y-axis starting at zero" is simply too long — MusikAnimal talk 19:48, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi MuskiAnimal: There seems to be a glitch at the TAFI Schedule page. Squeegee was selected as a weekly article, which is denoted at Wikipedia talk:Today's articles for improvement § The TAFI article for Week 30 of 2016, but the schedule page for the entry has some errors. So, bringing this to your attention. Also, thanks for your contributions to TAFI and elsewhere. North America 1000 14:37, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello how to see my mainspace edits ? Can I get rollback right now? What is my mainspace edit couns ? NepaliKeto62 Talk to me 12:58, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hello as stated by you I am fond of helping others in your User page I am requesting you to create a bot for me. Please help me. NepaliKeto62 Talk to me 13:54, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Musik, a rolling report of "FPP/EPP expiring in the next 24 hours" or the like may be useful. The bot would only need to update a report page so it would be low-impact. Another (more ambitious) route may be to look for protection changes where (new level > old level)&&(new expiration < old expiration) - and have it talk page the new protector when it is getting ready to expire maybe....I'm still brain stroming - any thoughts? — xaosflux Talk 02:13, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
I saw ur bot makes comments on permission pages telling no. Of user edits. This can be a breakthrough technology. U can give the public a code which wherever placed will show that users edit count. And u can instruct the bot to tell the no of edits of the user at that place where the code is. Now such edit counter exists on wiki till now. But u can develop this breakthrough tech. Just an idea. Thanks. Ping me pls -- Varun ☎ 15:35, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
{{tlu|User:MusikBot/editstats|edits|0}}
which would return the number of edits in the mainspace (0 is the namespace number for the mainspace), as opposed to say {{tlu|User:MusikBot/editstats|nonautomated_edits|0}}
which would show the nonautomated edits in the mainspace, or even {{tlu|User:MusikBot/editstats|articles}}
to show the number of articles you've created. You could then transclude these into your {{
service award progress}} template and it would work. AND I just realized that if I have MusikBot write to it's own userspace (subpages within User:MusikBot), then I may not need prior approval. I will ask the bot approvers about this, because I do like your idea! —
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thnx all Varun ☎ 05:09, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
Hey, can "Pages are not protected pre-emptively." be linked to WP:NO-PREEMPT? -- NeilN talk to me 15:53, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello I know you are a bot operator. This account is also bot of my original account Nepali keto62. I created this account and I can give program to this bot but where should I give the program. In user page or somewhere else ???? Please reply with answer. Nepalibot62 Talk to me 13:20, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
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sir, please make my userpage as semi protected. Niezwmxa Boro 13:15, 12 July 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Niezwmxa Boro ( talk • contribs)
Hello, you blocked 188.32.96.255 for "block evasion". Now this Russian IP is doing language adding (pov pushing) on nl-wiki where I am admin. Can you help me by telling the account since we have several cross wiki pov-pushers from that region also (and crosswiki) active on nl-wiki so I can get into this and if needed also take measures on nl-wiki. Thanx in advance for your help. I now see you blocked the range even so it is not so static. MoiraMoira ( talk) 10:59, 12 July 2016 (UTC) (nl-wiki admin and global sysop)
Hi i was designing something for my userpage it looks like given below. If u see its code it offers alarm clock facility using Template:Alarm clock a calendar using Template:Calendar and a Digital clock using User:Anakin101/digiclock They all have parameters. I dont need all but when i transclude this from one of my subpages, I wont some basic parameters available like alarm parameter and time zone offset parameter. So what is the code ill need to write on the subpage that shall be transcluded to offer the 2 parameters. Thanks and regards VarunFEB2003 ( talk) 13:35, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
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VarunFEB2003 ( talk) 12:41, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Dear MusikAnimal,
I have just created a new suggestion at the Talk-page of Pageviews Analysis at Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki. User User:Samwalton9, who is an administrator at the English Wikipedia, suggested me to also notify you hereof. If you could perhaps know a way to take this further?
Kind regards,
( Verheyen Vincent ( talk) 23:00, 18 July 2016 (UTC)).
Hello MusikAnimal,
First, I would like to thank you for granting my request for Pending Changes Reviewer rights.
Next, I visited the Pageviews Analysis Tool. It looks great! In addition to the change mentioned by a prior visitor to your talkpage here, about scaling the y-axis so that only integer values of the number of views are displayed, I noticed something odd about the logarithmic scale option for line charts. In the settings, logarithmic scale can be chosen every time, or whenever the Pageviews analysis tool considers it to be appropriate. (I don't know what your criteria for determining when logarithmic scaling is appropriate, although I am curious!) I am seeing examples where the tool chooses logarithmic scale even when it is not appropriate. Specifically, whenever there are zero pageviews in a day, the logarithmic chart displays no value at all for that day. I understand why that happens, because log(1) = 0 for one page view, but log(0) is undefined for zero pageviews. When that is the case, with zero page views during the time interval queried, shouldn't the y-axis display base 10 numbers only?
I will make a note of this on the Pageviews Analysis talk page, and provide an example there. FeralOink ( talk) 01:00, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
The X! tools tool Articles created and Edit count maintained by you are not working as of 13:44:40 19 July 2014. Please look into the issue. Examples screenshots:
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Can you tell me where I went wrong at User:Music1201/introNotice.js. Instead of inserting the edit notice to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals), it inserts it on every page. How do I fix it? Thanks. — Music1201 talk 00:05, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
if (mw.config.get('Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)') !== -1); {
with if (mw.config.get( 'wgPageName' ) === 'Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)') {
$( '.mw-editsection, #ca-edit' ).find( 'a' ).each( function ( i, el ) {
with $( '.mw-editsection, #ca-addsection, #ca-edit' ).find( 'a' ).each( function ( i, el ) {
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02:08, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
...which redirect to an article, treated the same as they were in the Stat.Grok era?
Dear MusikAnimal,
First of all --> great tool! Thanks!
I've asked a question on the village pump about a year ago: [49]
And was wondering whether still pageviews are counted separately for the different urls, such that
sum(daily_pageviews) across all urls which end up displaying a specific article, is indeed the sum of pageviews for that day.
(i.e. we're not counting any page view twice).
On the wikipedia page of this tool it seems to suggest this is the case: "However, you can see how often a targeted redirect to a section of a page or a shortcut to a project or Help page (or a section thereof) is used by entering the shortcut."
Cheers, MichaelWhite1982 ( talk) 15:39, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal, I was wondering if you might know how to fix a problem concerning a link in the Olympic category. I was working on an Olympic golf page, and I noticed that the "GolfAt2016SummerOlympics" header is actually taking us to the Triathlon page, instead of the Golf page. This is a strange problem and I don't know why it is doing that. Can you or someone else possibly repair the problem for us? Thanks. Johnsmith2116 ( talk) 09:23, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Is this WAI? Yes, the user is not on the CheckPage, but the message is being repeated. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 17:01, 21 July 2016 (UTC)