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See [1] [2] [3]. I used a script ( User:Amorymeltzer/scripts#qrfpp.js) to pc-protect those pages and it added these templates. MusikBot then removed them because it believed the pages are not protected. Could you take a look at that? Regards So Why 11:16, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
{{pp|small=yes}}
was added and the Lua magic did the rest. —
MusikAnimal
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16:36, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal! I of course use this script to assign permissions and make life easier at WP:PERM, but I noticed that the summary when assigning such permissions just includes a bare URL to the permalink instead of encapsulating it in a wiki link. I think that if you modified how you formatted the reason parameter (see below) in your function, summaries would look much more neat and clean...
reason: '+' + permissionNames[permission] + '; ' + summary + '; ' + permaLink + tagLine,
reason: '+' + permissionNames[permission] + '; ' + summary + '; ' + '([[' + permaLink + '|permalink]]) ' + tagLine,
It's of course up to you; after all, it's your code... but I figured I'd send my thoughts along and see what you think. :-) Let me know... Cheers ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 09:00, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
permaLink = '[[Special:PermaLink/' + revId + '#User:' + userName + ']]';
topermaLink = '[[Special:PermaLink/' + revId + '#User:' + userName + '|permalink]]';
This is rather cheeky of me, but would you mind terribly if I had a go at a bot for this (assuming it gains consensus)? I've been meaning to get my head around the bot approval process for a while and start looking at automatable tasks, and this seems as good an opportunity as any. GoldenRing ( talk) 09:21, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
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18:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
A typical Finnish
school meal lunch, served free of charge to all pupils.
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About
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it made me think extended
confirmed is so old?
It doesn't matter
but the RFC was held
in 2016.
Thanks for your efforts
with adding protection to
often-used templates.
isaacl ( talk) 20:41, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
My only reason
for sending you a message
was to fix the date.
I have no concerns
about your plans not to use
extended confirmed.
isaacl ( talk) 06:10, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello to you both
I am a talk page stalker
Haikus are quite fun!
-- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:54, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Dear MusikAnimal,
Sorry to disturb you! I've been trying to translate the page 'Aeons' ( ga) from Irish into English, and have been blocked by the abuse filter for translations. The reason it is giving is that the translation 'contains 100% of unmodified text', which seems strange to me as I have done what I think is a complete translation. I wonder if it may have something to do with the fact that no automatic machine translation took place at the start when I clicked 'translate article'. If you would be able to advise or help me, that would be very much appreciated - and thank you very much for your time!
-- AdamLibh ( talk) 23:16, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
@ MusikAnimal: That's fantastic news, and very generous of you - thank you very very much! I apologise for the lack of haiku or rhyme - next time, I'll have to try a bit harder!
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17:12, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:DannyS712 test/remind me.js.
I hear you like verse.
I wrote you some earlier.
Hope you enjoyed it!
DannyS712 ( talk) 07:24, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi there. A while back you helped me with some SQL queries and I hope you can do so again. I tried to create a query that attempts to find deletions of a certain type and outputs both the time the page was deleted and the time it was created. Since the only way I know how to find the creation time is to look for the earliest revision in the revision (or archive) table, I tried to query that one that the same time for the earliest revision where the page id was involved. Unfortunately, the query times out and is killed but I have no clue why. Could you take a look and help? Regards So Why 08:10, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
(sorry for the repost, this got archived without a reply, so I assumed you just didn't see it. So Why 18:34, 5 February 2019 (UTC))
logging_logindex
might be better (though the EXPLAIN results still look unpromising). Also, at current you shouldn't need to JOIN on user
since you can grab that from log_user_text
or ar_user_text
. This will eventually not work (
phab:T167246). On that note, I don't think log_comment
works anymore (
phab:T166733), at least for comments made after October 25, 2018. You will need to JOIN on comment
with log_comment_id = comment_id
, and SELECT comment_text
. I'll take a stab at the query when I have time. Hope this helps, —
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talk
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You've been so kind to help in the past, but are you able to enable the edit filter for our Interstate Highway friend? I believe it's 646. – Fredddie ™ 19:13, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
Sent it yesterday, no hurry. Just wondering if it was spam-filtered. Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 00:41, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, i'm requesting for rollback permission. I have been undoing possible vandalism edits and i want to help protect Wikipedia articles. I do not intend to vandalize. I just want to help Wikipedia. Seby1541 ( talk) 06:22, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Pondicherry is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry.
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Hi MusikAnimal, I have submitted a request at WP:RFP/AWB but nobody reviewed it yet. Can you please review it? (I've contacted other admins but all of them told me to wait or that they're inexperienced in PERMS) GN-z11 ☎ ★ 12:42, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
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18:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, can you protect the Josh Okogie page? Thanks. - KH-1 ( talk) 05:25, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hey MusikAnimal, I now have to go through extra hurdles to use the tool. I have to sign in and it doesn't populate the IP I'm checking in the box; I have to paste it in. Why are you making lazy me work harder?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:41, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
Mixian rice noodles being cooked on a
gas stove at a noodle restaurant in Kunming, Yunnan, China
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23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Hey. I saw this edit and was wondering if there was a way to eliminate the duplicate "using responseHelper" in the summary. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 00:38, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
var ad = " (using [[User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper|responseHelper]])";
$("#wpSummary").val($("#wpSummary").val().replace(vanity, '; ') + (response.summary + value).trim() + ad);
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Saw you were pretty active over at Wikipedia:Database reports. Might I be able to ask you a couple of questions about reports? -- Zackmann ( Talk to me/ What I been doing) 23:13, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
SELECT tl_title, COUNT(*)
FROM page
JOIN templatelinks t1 ON page_title = t1.tl_title
AND page_namespace = t1.tl_namespace
WHERE t1.tl_namespace = 10
AND NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM templatelinks t2
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)
HAVING COUNT(*) > 5000
NOT EXISTS (...)
clause I think is the key part of your query. Don't expect this to go any bit fast. To spot-check your query, you could first revise it to look at a single template that you know doesn't invoke the module (that way it will go very fast), and see if you get a result. If that works, extend it to look for all highly-transcluded templates. Hope this helps. —
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Now it makes alot more sense... lol. -- Zackmann ( Talk to me/ What I been doing) 23:44, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
A
cheeseburger at a restaurant
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21:16, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
Hey, can you please revdel this. Thanx, - FlightTime Phone ( open channel) 03:39, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
This module should be restored to full protection: it was erroneously included by me in my list of pages to semi-protect. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 03:30, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
On the bright side, this slip-up inspired me to make an edit request to Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items. This means I have five pending edit requests open at the same time, is that a record of some sort? {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 03:56, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
You left the move protection level at templateeditor. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 05:23, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
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I reverted an offensive edit by User:186.11.14.74
¿Can you remove the page revision from the public archives, please?
Thanks.
Se by 15 41 20:35, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Wanted posters in Japan, 2004
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Hi. I saw that you sent the most recent admin newsletter. We failed to include Mr. Stradivarius having their IAdmin rights removed (for inactivity reasons). Is it okay if I do an AWB run and add that, or should it be reported next month? See Special:PermanentLink/885587867#Inactive interface administrators 2019-02-28. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 21:23, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal. I understand you have access to the Sooper Seekrit True Filter Performance Data(TM). Is it possible to find out which filter(s) caused this to happen? 169 seconds is scary. Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 00:24, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
global_user_groups
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user_rights
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global_user_groups
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Zippers with common teeth variations: metal teeth (top), coil teeth and plastic teeth
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Dooney Boys (gang) was creation-protected
here, the summary was
Repeatedly recreated: See
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Pal, the Christchurch mosque shootings page is being constantly edited even after being given a semi-protection on the page. Shouldn't it be given a higher security since I think it's a pretty sensitive issue. Cheers. AlkhatamInsyallah ( talk) 14:33, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
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Many of the internal
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Hey there, proxy check is not working for me. I click on the link, and I'm asked to pick the wiki (usually it defaults to en.wiki), but the drop-down doesn't work and I am unable to select any wiki. I'll ping SQL just in case they're around somewhere, but they appear to be on break. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:03, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
Lady Gaga playing a
keytar, which is a type of
keyboard instrument
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Hey, MusikAnimal. I was at an edit-a-thon recently, and while I was there, I ran into CLo (WMF) ( talk · contribs), who told me that partial blocks have been implemented to a point where they can be deployed. This made me wonder whether the English Wikipedia had any interest in adopting this new feature. We'd probably need to hold some kind of community RfC to discuss this – I was thinking about modelling it off of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Extended confirmed protection policy. Do you have any thoughts on whether we should start moving forward? Mz7 ( talk) 22:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
I believe partial blocks was chiefly invented to help fight harassment (hence why the AHT team took it on :). However, to share my quick 2c: For me, I'd mostly use it to block users and IP ranges from editing specific pages, instead of having to protect them, should I see there are other unrelated constructive editors to those pages. This could be for edit wars, every day vandalism, discretionary sanctions, etc. There are/were some edit filters we used for this that will become obsolete thanks to partial blocks. Of course, admins would need to give thought to whether the user(s) are likely to extend disruption to other pages after being partially blocked, in which case a full site block might be warranted from the get-go. But the possibility of more granular, per-page blocks, in itself, is quite exciting :) — MusikAnimal talk 23:48, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
In general, I see partial blocks as a means to prevent general disruption under the philosophy of using the least inflicting but effective administrative action, including the preventive, not punitive mentality. I'm somewhat disagree with TonyBallioni; If enabled and limited to B, I see a lot of IAR uses, because it doesn't make sense to cause collateral damage when you don't have to. We do basically the same thing with AbuseFilter now, and none of have complained -- and why would they? We block the bad, not the good :) If I can't use partial blocks for general vandalism / long-term abuse, when say there are a LOT of good edits in range, except to a few articles, I'd just create a filter. This is very much sub-par because it'd unnecessarily be slowing down editing for everyone. The partial blocks double as the better solution because you'd get the record-keeping via the block log, which in this scenario I think would be more acceptable than using it to record editing restrictions on established editors. Anyway, we can save the debate for the actual RfC :) — MusikAnimal talk 04:15, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
record editing restrictionsto exclude enforcing editing restrictions? ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 20:08, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Your one day page protection of " Equinox" has turned out to be insufficient and the article is now being discussed at WP:ANI#Pushing outdated or irrelevant sources at "Equinox" Jc3s5h ( talk) 12:16, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
Popcornduff ( talk) 14:56, 29 March 2019 (UTC) Hey, about your Rollback confirmation script... you might be interested in this bug report. Cheers! Popcornduff ( talk) 14:56, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hello MA. Today I've been finding all sorts of articles in Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates so your bot may be down. I know you might already be aware of this but I wanted to let you know just in case. Cheers. MarnetteD| Talk 03:56, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
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The interior of a
gym in The Netherlands, around 1900
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{{moarbocks|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
However, you should read the
guide to appealing for bocks first.
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Various
dairy products: milk, feta cheese, yogurt and parmesan cheese (clockwise from upper-left)
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User:MusikBot/PermClerk/Report refers to User:MusikBot/PermClerk/Error log, which hasn't been edited in over a month. It says that you should be contacted if the issue can't be resolved, so I wanted to let you know that the task wasn't working. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:59, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
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I was stunned upon looking at this user page for the first time. Thank you. InvalidOS talk 19:26, 16 April 2019 (UTC) |
It appears that your bot is frequently removing {{ pp-vandalism}} from articles quoting the justification that the article is no longer protected. My reading of the documentation of {{ pp-vandalism}} is that the template automatically picks up the relevant protection level and reacts accordingly, and that it doesn't display the icon if the article is not currently protected. Many pages go though frequent cycles of protection, expiry of protection, renewed vandalism, and reimposition of protection, so wouldn't it be sensible to disable the bot from removing the template? I assume that the design to remove the template dates back to when the template didn't auto-detect the protection status? -- David Biddulph ( talk) 18:50, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
You made this edit on behalf of an IP; unfortunately, the file in question seems to be copyvio (see Commons) and has already been removed from the article once (by me). It may be necessary to undo that edit. I'm sorry. HLHJ ( talk) 03:55, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
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Gunilla Persson in 2013
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Hey Musik, looking for next steps. Over in the Discord server, a Croatian editor was concerned that the Wiki stats in the lead of Croatian Wikipedia were out of date. Once I dug in and understood where the data came from, I found Acebot has not edited since April 15. I left a message with Ace111 but no response and they don't seem to be editing. Since this is mainspace visible data, I'm not sure how big a concern it is to restore this bot functionality and get the template's data back up to date. I believe Acebot's code is in github. How long would be appropriate before looking into replacement? -- ferret ( talk) 18:10, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, MA! Are you the person to talk to about a possible change in wording in the Twinkle user warnings? It's about the "disruptive editing" tag: the wording that comes up under that tag would be more appropriately called "edit warring". That's usually not what we are looking for when we want to warn someone to stop their disruptive editing. Thanks for any advice - or a referral to whoever does maintain Twinkle! -- MelanieN ( talk) 21:56, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
Would it be possible to unprotect Vardan Poghosyan so the article can be redirected to Vardan Grigorievich Pogosyan? Thanks, S.A. Julio ( talk) 12:40, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.
Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.
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Bonjour MusikAnimal.
You may not know if this meets the reliable sourcing criteria but 12 months ago on June 18 a Floridian rapper had been assassinated at the tender age of 20. But on that website his ethnicity was made out of Jamaican Italian Egyptian German and Indian ancestries.
Main article said that his race was purely Jamaican but no he also had those four. Please reply back bout this as soon as possible.
In case if you get confused this is the person in question who I'm talking about: Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy better known as XXXTentacion.
Cheers,
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Sashimi at a restaurant
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Hello MusikAnimal, i am from ckbwiki. I founded this gadget from here and followed the instructions to create it on ckbwiki. But i have some problem now; first, i translated the terms to my language, but i didn't see the result on the dropdown menus! Second, when i hover to the any <li>, the second <ul> appeared on that <ul> instead of next to the <ul>. What should i do to fix them? Thanks! ئارام بکر ( talk) 22:00, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
left
to right
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I request you to have protected this article Bepanah Pyaar because this article is many IP user try to make unhelpful changes so I request you sir accept my request and protect this article at least 1 month, Thank you. Goodd-002 (chatme) 18:44, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
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An IP back in 2011 (!) added some most definitely BLP violating statements. Would you mind performing a revdel from the creation of the page to my reversion of the IP's comment. Thanks, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 20:06, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Do you remember when someone vandalized my sandbox along with AJ1399's and Saritra's? The user has started vandalizing again after the protection for our sandboxes expired. Also, new accounts that impersonate us have been made. They include QlDb602, OIDb602, AJ1391, and Sarltra. Can you please block those accounts and protect our sandboxes again, perhaps indefinitely so the vandalizer cannot edit them anymore? Thanks!
QIDb602 ( talk) 05:22, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello MusikAnimal,
Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
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Hello MusikAnimal, I'm from ckbwiki. I have a problem with that gadget; when i go to any talk page, the View history tab was missing and not appeared in More or Page dropdown! (This problem at ckbwiki) Can you help me? Thanks! -- ئارام بکر ( talk) 01:15, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
So ya, all those IRC pings I never got around to speaking to you...is it possible to have your bot report all declined permission requests in the past 90 days, instead of just the ones for that permission? It would be extremely helpful for me, especially since I recognize users left right and center there who previously have applied and then have to dig. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 04:29, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
This user has had 1 request for rollback declined in the past 90 days ([1]), and 2 requests for other permissions ([2][3]).How does that sound?
I will look into the errors. I switched the bot to use the XTools API instead of running queries on its own, which should be safe, but apparently not :( Thanks for letting me know, — MusikAnimal talk 01:39, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. I was looking through the code and notice that you evaluate !!templates[permission]
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Hello MusikAnimal,
More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.
Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.
The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.
NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.
Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.
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School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
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I was looking through your implementation of the GeonoticeSync task for MusikBot II. You appear to unescape the HTML of the parsed wikitext of the geonotice. This would allow any HTML tag to go through the processing unaltered, unless MediaWiki does something to it. This should logically apply to <script>
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I would like you to remove protection on Kendrick Norton as it is not needed, thanks!! Scribbley ( talk) 23:35, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
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20:12, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. I've got a suspicion that my email reply didn't send properly yesterday. Rather than repeat all of it, I'll just say: yes. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:31, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
Legal status of cannabis possession for non-medical use (2018)
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Hello there! A user by this name recently created an account on MicroWiki. I just wanted to check if this is you, or somebody impersonating you. 86.185.143.224 ( talk) 21:33, 12 July 2019 (UTC) 86.185.143.224 ( talk) 21:33, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
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PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi
MusikAnimal! At
m:user:קיין ומוויסנדיק פּרעפֿערענצן/global.js I made some disperate attempts to add an additional link to the interface, first at Wikidata only.
Feom
Pythagoras I can get
d:Q10261. At that Wikidata page I would like to add a clickable link
reasonator: Q10261 to some skins. I have seen this working three years before. Now I could neither find the link in the Vector nor in the Monobook skin.
In a further step the script
m:user:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js
user:Yair rand could be modified to include the Reasonator link and making it available in the proper language at any wikipedia and other projects linked to Wikidata.
Thanks for your help in advance! Best regards and greetings from Munich, Germany
no bias — קיין אומוויסנדיק פּרעפֿערענצן — keyn umvisndik preferentsn
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18:39, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
The
Montsoreau Flea Market is the largest
flea market in the Loire Valley, France
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Would you be willing to file a BRFA similar to this one for the AWB Check page for the AFC participant list? The main thing I've been struggling with in the last year or two has been keeping on top of inactives; the Dispenser activity tool died and it's a pain to quarry the list of users and then manually check those that haven't edited in months. Primefac ( talk) 13:46, 21 July 2019 (UTC) (please do not ping on reply)
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13:07, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey! Today I noticed
this error reported by your bot. Even without further info, I guess it's because the abuse_filter_log.afl_log_id
column is being dropped in production (refs
T226851), since it's always been empty. I believe the bot has to be updated, and ideally also any other tool explicitly mentioning the field in a query. Do you know if there's a way to grep code on toolforge? Thanks, --
Daimona Eaytoy
(Talk)
16:27, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
abuse_filter_log
view on Toolforge is missing entirely:MariaDB [enwiki_p]> DESCRIBE itwiki_p.abuse_filter_log; ERROR 1356 (HY000): View 'itwiki_p.abuse_filter_log' references invalid table(s) or column(s) or function(s) or definer/invoker of view lack rights to use them
I think only the Toolforge admins can do such global searches across all of Toolforge (at least because some files aren't world-readable). They've done this for me before, I just asked in #wikimedia-cloud connect. — MusikAnimal talk 21:12, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
A
butter churn used for
butter churning in Nepal
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Yeah! Well done! And thank you :-) -- atdt ( talk) 02:24, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
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The human body has several
organs.
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13:24, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry, I'm very new to Wiki. just wanted to make some changes to those sentences that in my opinion don't cover the whole truth. Now, I just added under the previous lines some remarks backed up by many respected sources. Sorry again, David David Leonhard Bowman 20:08, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi, Can you please remove my Extand Confirmed flag? I do not need it anymore! الرشيد ( talk) 10:53, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
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15:21, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
I saw your contributions on the abuse filter for images and was wondering if you could help me with my issue. I run a fairly large wiki software page and am struggling with image spam. Would you be able to help me create a filter that prevents certain images? ~~
Thank you, I will ask on there! — Preceding unsigned comment added by STITCH+COFFEE ( talk • contribs) 20:36, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
STITCH+COFFEE ( talk) 21:31, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Good morning, MA. I don't feel like posting to functionaries-l, but what cool tool and where is it? My local hardware store? As a friend of the inventor, do I get a discount?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:34, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
I recently edited a page (about Louis Aguirre-news anchor, talk show host, etc.) but received a message saying it didn't stay on there because I didn't have a source. I said who Louis is the godfather of. My source is my dad, who is the godson to Louis Aguirre. I guess I don't have any proof unless you want to ask him personally. Thanks. Lmart64 ( talk) 01:05, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi, since you were the organizer of WAM, I would like to ask you to be the organizer this year. If you would like to be an organizer this year, please write you nickname on these pages: 1, 2. Thank you! Regards, Patriccck ( talk) 14:07, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Howdy! Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/AutoWikiBrowser/Administrator instructions is a bit confusing. It appears that the good old CheckPage is still in use, but the admin instructions send the admin off to Special:UserRights. I'm wondering if you started with a copy of instructions from elsewhere and then forgot to finish off your copyediting? If not - and a user right now has to be assigned - would you mind making it clear which right is required? -- kingboyk ( talk) 18:09, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal! I have a potential issue going on with my edit filter ( filter 51). I was patrolling the new user log earlier and blocked Ifuckpigs due to an obvious UPOL violation. I took a look at the edit filter logs and noticed that my filter didn't flag the username creation as a hit, even though "fuck" is definitely a condition to look for with "createaccount" actions. I went further and tested the filter (along with some possible changes while troubleshooting) to discover that it doesn't flag the action as a positive hit. What's even more disturbing is that I made a small change to the filter on August 8 that shouldn't have made any impact to the "createaccount" conditions. However, since then, only one "createaccount" action has been recorded as a positive hit... and absolutely nothing since then. I'm puzzled... I had plenty of hits between August 2 and August 8 (the time that I made changes to the log before the potential incidental change), then nothing ever since. What did I mess up? Did something change in the logs that I need to update my filter to look for? A link to the edit history of the filter is here. Can you take a look and see what might be going on? If you have questions about the filter, let me know and I'll be happy to answer them. Just ping me in your responses here so that I'm notified. :-) Thanks a million! :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 05:06, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
irlike
and ccnorm
/norm
, and that would greatly simplify your filter. Hope this helps, —
MusikAnimal
talk
03:01, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
user_rights
isn't available either, which we definitely need. This sounds like a bug. I'm going to comment on the task, too. —
MusikAnimal
talk
03:40, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Me again - I do apologise. I'm using your most excellent RequestHelper script. At WP:UAA, the investigation process can take a while, and more than once by the time I've finished another admin has acted. This kind of "race" is a bit of waste of admin time. At WP:AIV we have a "(Checking)" response - could we get the same at UAA? -- kingboyk ( talk) 22:37, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
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As I have no clue what's going on with regards to users posting "fantasy climate data", but apparently you do, I'm just leaving this here - User:RockoftheRazze33. Came up on WP:UAA/BOT earlier. -- kingboyk ( talk) 00:53, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you consider adding WP:REFUND to the pages RequestHelper supports? The layout is pretty much similar to UAA and RFPP. Regards So Why 16:28, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Hey MusikAnimal. MusikBot isn't actioning my TAFI approvals. Any idea why? — JJMC89 ( T· C) 08:39, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi again, MusikAnimal! I hope you don't mind if I come to you with another weird finding that I'm seeing with edit filters... Bear with me here as I list the steps on how to reproduce exactly what I'm seeing:
You'll see that no edits by that user match the filter at all, yet the conditions in the "stringy" variable (which is a string of all content to look for in edits) should clearly match three of them.
Now do this:
You'll see the proper results that should be found - three edits by that LTA now show as matching the conditions in the filter.
It seems like "Checkuser" is now a reserved word that we can't use in edit filters now? That's the only conclusion that I could draw from what I found... It used to work just fine, but (again), it seems like those changes detailed on phab that went into effect earlier this month have modified things in this regard. If you reviewed the changes made to the edit filter while going through the steps I listed above, you'll see that adding an escape character anywhere within the word "checkuser" (Example: "Ch\eckuser") resolves the problem and that portion of the edit filter runs and flags matching edits as it should. What are your thoughts on this? What changed? What does that reserved word do now (Assuming that I'm correct with my thoughts here)? This took me some time to narrow down in my debugging and troubleshooting, but alas, this is what I've found to be the culprit, and there's no other logical explanation I can come up with....
I appreciate your time answering my messages here; it means a lot to me, and I can't thank you enough for your pair of eyes and your input. :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 14:25, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
norm
or ccnorm
with this filter. I think it would make the regular expressions significantly less complex and easier to debug. There are also some free external tools to help with debugging regex; I especially like
regex101, where I can create
unit tests. Best of luck, —
MusikAnimal
talk
14:41, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hi MusikAnimal, Can you disallow or ban Dr Kay from intervening in my Nakorotubu district's article. I had included quotations and references but he still insists that the reason for wiping my article off is for lack of references and unintelligent work. Now, he is demanding that if I want to continue, I should start from scratch and manually type my article again as I cannot retrieve my previous work.
Saqiwa 5/09/19 ( Saqiwa ( talk) 11:29, 5 September 2019 (UTC))
Hi
I'm just wondering why this bot sometimes comes and makes edits like this one, to apply semi-protection to the POTD template transcluded on the main page that day? Generally this has no effect, as the "POTD protected" template is cascade protected for the duration of its run on the main page, thus can't be vandalised at that time. And afterwards, when the POTD has finished on the main page, this template is no longer used anyway and is deleted within a month by a bot. Is there a reason why MusikAnimal bot is picking this up? — Amakuru ( talk) 21:34, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
Template:POTD protected/
to the exclusion list. That begs the question though: should
Template:POTD and its subpages be subject to protection, since I assume they are the unprotected variant? They currently are also on the exclusion list. Anyway, the bot should probably check for cascade protection. I believe the thought was redundancy is okay in the interest of preventing disruption, should the cascade protection be removed. —
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22:28, 5 September 2019 (UTC)News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).
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vegetable soup prepared using udon noodles
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Good evening, MusikAnimal,
I apologize for making an edit so quickly on the Anti-Defamation League. I'm a huge fan of Pewdiepie, so naturally when is saw that ADL was apparently attacking his channel I had to act. Again, I apologize for jumping to quickly to a conclusion.
Have a good night Thanks 70.117.21.40 ( talk) 23:43, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
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See [1] [2] [3]. I used a script ( User:Amorymeltzer/scripts#qrfpp.js) to pc-protect those pages and it added these templates. MusikBot then removed them because it believed the pages are not protected. Could you take a look at that? Regards So Why 11:16, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
{{pp|small=yes}}
was added and the Lua magic did the rest. —
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16:36, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal! I of course use this script to assign permissions and make life easier at WP:PERM, but I noticed that the summary when assigning such permissions just includes a bare URL to the permalink instead of encapsulating it in a wiki link. I think that if you modified how you formatted the reason parameter (see below) in your function, summaries would look much more neat and clean...
reason: '+' + permissionNames[permission] + '; ' + summary + '; ' + permaLink + tagLine,
reason: '+' + permissionNames[permission] + '; ' + summary + '; ' + '([[' + permaLink + '|permalink]]) ' + tagLine,
It's of course up to you; after all, it's your code... but I figured I'd send my thoughts along and see what you think. :-) Let me know... Cheers ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 09:00, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
permaLink = '[[Special:PermaLink/' + revId + '#User:' + userName + ']]';
topermaLink = '[[Special:PermaLink/' + revId + '#User:' + userName + '|permalink]]';
This is rather cheeky of me, but would you mind terribly if I had a go at a bot for this (assuming it gains consensus)? I've been meaning to get my head around the bot approval process for a while and start looking at automatable tasks, and this seems as good an opportunity as any. GoldenRing ( talk) 09:21, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
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18:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
A typical Finnish
school meal lunch, served free of charge to all pupils.
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About
this edit:
it made me think extended
confirmed is so old?
It doesn't matter
but the RFC was held
in 2016.
Thanks for your efforts
with adding protection to
often-used templates.
isaacl ( talk) 20:41, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
My only reason
for sending you a message
was to fix the date.
I have no concerns
about your plans not to use
extended confirmed.
isaacl ( talk) 06:10, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello to you both
I am a talk page stalker
Haikus are quite fun!
-- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:54, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Dear MusikAnimal,
Sorry to disturb you! I've been trying to translate the page 'Aeons' ( ga) from Irish into English, and have been blocked by the abuse filter for translations. The reason it is giving is that the translation 'contains 100% of unmodified text', which seems strange to me as I have done what I think is a complete translation. I wonder if it may have something to do with the fact that no automatic machine translation took place at the start when I clicked 'translate article'. If you would be able to advise or help me, that would be very much appreciated - and thank you very much for your time!
-- AdamLibh ( talk) 23:16, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
@ MusikAnimal: That's fantastic news, and very generous of you - thank you very very much! I apologise for the lack of haiku or rhyme - next time, I'll have to try a bit harder!
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You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:DannyS712 test/remind me.js.
I hear you like verse.
I wrote you some earlier.
Hope you enjoyed it!
DannyS712 ( talk) 07:24, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi there. A while back you helped me with some SQL queries and I hope you can do so again. I tried to create a query that attempts to find deletions of a certain type and outputs both the time the page was deleted and the time it was created. Since the only way I know how to find the creation time is to look for the earliest revision in the revision (or archive) table, I tried to query that one that the same time for the earliest revision where the page id was involved. Unfortunately, the query times out and is killed but I have no clue why. Could you take a look and help? Regards So Why 08:10, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
(sorry for the repost, this got archived without a reply, so I assumed you just didn't see it. So Why 18:34, 5 February 2019 (UTC))
logging_logindex
might be better (though the EXPLAIN results still look unpromising). Also, at current you shouldn't need to JOIN on user
since you can grab that from log_user_text
or ar_user_text
. This will eventually not work (
phab:T167246). On that note, I don't think log_comment
works anymore (
phab:T166733), at least for comments made after October 25, 2018. You will need to JOIN on comment
with log_comment_id = comment_id
, and SELECT comment_text
. I'll take a stab at the query when I have time. Hope this helps, —
MusikAnimal
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18:44, 5 February 2019 (UTC)Hello MusikAnimal: An invitation for you to check out the Sustainability Initiative, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia projects. If you're interested, please consider adding your name to the list of supporters, which serves to express and denote the community's support of the initiative. Thanks for your consideration! North America 1000 10:31, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
You've been so kind to help in the past, but are you able to enable the edit filter for our Interstate Highway friend? I believe it's 646. – Fredddie ™ 19:13, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
Sent it yesterday, no hurry. Just wondering if it was spam-filtered. Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 00:41, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, i'm requesting for rollback permission. I have been undoing possible vandalism edits and i want to help protect Wikipedia articles. I do not intend to vandalize. I just want to help Wikipedia. Seby1541 ( talk) 06:22, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Pondicherry is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry.
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Hi MusikAnimal, I have submitted a request at WP:RFP/AWB but nobody reviewed it yet. Can you please review it? (I've contacted other admins but all of them told me to wait or that they're inexperienced in PERMS) GN-z11 ☎ ★ 12:42, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, can you protect the Josh Okogie page? Thanks. - KH-1 ( talk) 05:25, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hey MusikAnimal, I now have to go through extra hurdles to use the tool. I have to sign in and it doesn't populate the IP I'm checking in the box; I have to paste it in. Why are you making lazy me work harder?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:41, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
Mixian rice noodles being cooked on a
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Hey. I saw this edit and was wondering if there was a way to eliminate the duplicate "using responseHelper" in the summary. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 00:38, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
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SELECT tl_title, COUNT(*)
FROM page
JOIN templatelinks t1 ON page_title = t1.tl_title
AND page_namespace = t1.tl_namespace
WHERE t1.tl_namespace = 10
AND NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1
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)
HAVING COUNT(*) > 5000
NOT EXISTS (...)
clause I think is the key part of your query. Don't expect this to go any bit fast. To spot-check your query, you could first revise it to look at a single template that you know doesn't invoke the module (that way it will go very fast), and see if you get a result. If that works, extend it to look for all highly-transcluded templates. Hope this helps. —
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Now it makes alot more sense... lol. -- Zackmann ( Talk to me/ What I been doing) 23:44, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
A
cheeseburger at a restaurant
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21:16, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
Hey, can you please revdel this. Thanx, - FlightTime Phone ( open channel) 03:39, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
This module should be restored to full protection: it was erroneously included by me in my list of pages to semi-protect. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 03:30, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
On the bright side, this slip-up inspired me to make an edit request to Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items. This means I have five pending edit requests open at the same time, is that a record of some sort? {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 03:56, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
You left the move protection level at templateeditor. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 05:23, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
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I reverted an offensive edit by User:186.11.14.74
¿Can you remove the page revision from the public archives, please?
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Wanted posters in Japan, 2004
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Hi. I saw that you sent the most recent admin newsletter. We failed to include Mr. Stradivarius having their IAdmin rights removed (for inactivity reasons). Is it okay if I do an AWB run and add that, or should it be reported next month? See Special:PermanentLink/885587867#Inactive interface administrators 2019-02-28. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 21:23, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal. I understand you have access to the Sooper Seekrit True Filter Performance Data(TM). Is it possible to find out which filter(s) caused this to happen? 169 seconds is scary. Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 00:24, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
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Zippers with common teeth variations: metal teeth (top), coil teeth and plastic teeth
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Pal, the Christchurch mosque shootings page is being constantly edited even after being given a semi-protection on the page. Shouldn't it be given a higher security since I think it's a pretty sensitive issue. Cheers. AlkhatamInsyallah ( talk) 14:33, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hey there, proxy check is not working for me. I click on the link, and I'm asked to pick the wiki (usually it defaults to en.wiki), but the drop-down doesn't work and I am unable to select any wiki. I'll ping SQL just in case they're around somewhere, but they appear to be on break. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:03, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
Lady Gaga playing a
keytar, which is a type of
keyboard instrument
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Hey, MusikAnimal. I was at an edit-a-thon recently, and while I was there, I ran into CLo (WMF) ( talk · contribs), who told me that partial blocks have been implemented to a point where they can be deployed. This made me wonder whether the English Wikipedia had any interest in adopting this new feature. We'd probably need to hold some kind of community RfC to discuss this – I was thinking about modelling it off of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Extended confirmed protection policy. Do you have any thoughts on whether we should start moving forward? Mz7 ( talk) 22:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
I believe partial blocks was chiefly invented to help fight harassment (hence why the AHT team took it on :). However, to share my quick 2c: For me, I'd mostly use it to block users and IP ranges from editing specific pages, instead of having to protect them, should I see there are other unrelated constructive editors to those pages. This could be for edit wars, every day vandalism, discretionary sanctions, etc. There are/were some edit filters we used for this that will become obsolete thanks to partial blocks. Of course, admins would need to give thought to whether the user(s) are likely to extend disruption to other pages after being partially blocked, in which case a full site block might be warranted from the get-go. But the possibility of more granular, per-page blocks, in itself, is quite exciting :) — MusikAnimal talk 23:48, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
In general, I see partial blocks as a means to prevent general disruption under the philosophy of using the least inflicting but effective administrative action, including the preventive, not punitive mentality. I'm somewhat disagree with TonyBallioni; If enabled and limited to B, I see a lot of IAR uses, because it doesn't make sense to cause collateral damage when you don't have to. We do basically the same thing with AbuseFilter now, and none of have complained -- and why would they? We block the bad, not the good :) If I can't use partial blocks for general vandalism / long-term abuse, when say there are a LOT of good edits in range, except to a few articles, I'd just create a filter. This is very much sub-par because it'd unnecessarily be slowing down editing for everyone. The partial blocks double as the better solution because you'd get the record-keeping via the block log, which in this scenario I think would be more acceptable than using it to record editing restrictions on established editors. Anyway, we can save the debate for the actual RfC :) — MusikAnimal talk 04:15, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
record editing restrictionsto exclude enforcing editing restrictions? ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 20:08, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Your one day page protection of " Equinox" has turned out to be insufficient and the article is now being discussed at WP:ANI#Pushing outdated or irrelevant sources at "Equinox" Jc3s5h ( talk) 12:16, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hello MA. Today I've been finding all sorts of articles in Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates so your bot may be down. I know you might already be aware of this but I wanted to let you know just in case. Cheers. MarnetteD| Talk 03:56, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
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Various
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It appears that your bot is frequently removing {{ pp-vandalism}} from articles quoting the justification that the article is no longer protected. My reading of the documentation of {{ pp-vandalism}} is that the template automatically picks up the relevant protection level and reacts accordingly, and that it doesn't display the icon if the article is not currently protected. Many pages go though frequent cycles of protection, expiry of protection, renewed vandalism, and reimposition of protection, so wouldn't it be sensible to disable the bot from removing the template? I assume that the design to remove the template dates back to when the template didn't auto-detect the protection status? -- David Biddulph ( talk) 18:50, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
You made this edit on behalf of an IP; unfortunately, the file in question seems to be copyvio (see Commons) and has already been removed from the article once (by me). It may be necessary to undo that edit. I'm sorry. HLHJ ( talk) 03:55, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
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Gunilla Persson in 2013
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Hey Musik, looking for next steps. Over in the Discord server, a Croatian editor was concerned that the Wiki stats in the lead of Croatian Wikipedia were out of date. Once I dug in and understood where the data came from, I found Acebot has not edited since April 15. I left a message with Ace111 but no response and they don't seem to be editing. Since this is mainspace visible data, I'm not sure how big a concern it is to restore this bot functionality and get the template's data back up to date. I believe Acebot's code is in github. How long would be appropriate before looking into replacement? -- ferret ( talk) 18:10, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, MA! Are you the person to talk to about a possible change in wording in the Twinkle user warnings? It's about the "disruptive editing" tag: the wording that comes up under that tag would be more appropriately called "edit warring". That's usually not what we are looking for when we want to warn someone to stop their disruptive editing. Thanks for any advice - or a referral to whoever does maintain Twinkle! -- MelanieN ( talk) 21:56, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
Would it be possible to unprotect Vardan Poghosyan so the article can be redirected to Vardan Grigorievich Pogosyan? Thanks, S.A. Julio ( talk) 12:40, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.
Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.
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Wondering how long before this tool is fixed?
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Bonjour MusikAnimal.
You may not know if this meets the reliable sourcing criteria but 12 months ago on June 18 a Floridian rapper had been assassinated at the tender age of 20. But on that website his ethnicity was made out of Jamaican Italian Egyptian German and Indian ancestries.
Main article said that his race was purely Jamaican but no he also had those four. Please reply back bout this as soon as possible.
In case if you get confused this is the person in question who I'm talking about: Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy better known as XXXTentacion.
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Hello MusikAnimal, i am from ckbwiki. I founded this gadget from here and followed the instructions to create it on ckbwiki. But i have some problem now; first, i translated the terms to my language, but i didn't see the result on the dropdown menus! Second, when i hover to the any <li>, the second <ul> appeared on that <ul> instead of next to the <ul>. What should i do to fix them? Thanks! ئارام بکر ( talk) 22:00, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
left
to right
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I request you to have protected this article Bepanah Pyaar because this article is many IP user try to make unhelpful changes so I request you sir accept my request and protect this article at least 1 month, Thank you. Goodd-002 (chatme) 18:44, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
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An IP back in 2011 (!) added some most definitely BLP violating statements. Would you mind performing a revdel from the creation of the page to my reversion of the IP's comment. Thanks, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 20:06, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Do you remember when someone vandalized my sandbox along with AJ1399's and Saritra's? The user has started vandalizing again after the protection for our sandboxes expired. Also, new accounts that impersonate us have been made. They include QlDb602, OIDb602, AJ1391, and Sarltra. Can you please block those accounts and protect our sandboxes again, perhaps indefinitely so the vandalizer cannot edit them anymore? Thanks!
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Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
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Hello MusikAnimal, I'm from ckbwiki. I have a problem with that gadget; when i go to any talk page, the View history tab was missing and not appeared in More or Page dropdown! (This problem at ckbwiki) Can you help me? Thanks! -- ئارام بکر ( talk) 01:15, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
So ya, all those IRC pings I never got around to speaking to you...is it possible to have your bot report all declined permission requests in the past 90 days, instead of just the ones for that permission? It would be extremely helpful for me, especially since I recognize users left right and center there who previously have applied and then have to dig. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 04:29, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
This user has had 1 request for rollback declined in the past 90 days ([1]), and 2 requests for other permissions ([2][3]).How does that sound?
I will look into the errors. I switched the bot to use the XTools API instead of running queries on its own, which should be safe, but apparently not :( Thanks for letting me know, — MusikAnimal talk 01:39, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. I was looking through the code and notice that you evaluate !!templates[permission]
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More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.
Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.
The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.
NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.
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I was looking through your implementation of the GeonoticeSync task for MusikBot II. You appear to unescape the HTML of the parsed wikitext of the geonotice. This would allow any HTML tag to go through the processing unaltered, unless MediaWiki does something to it. This should logically apply to <script>
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I would like you to remove protection on Kendrick Norton as it is not needed, thanks!! Scribbley ( talk) 23:35, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
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20:12, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. I've got a suspicion that my email reply didn't send properly yesterday. Rather than repeat all of it, I'll just say: yes. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:31, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hello there! A user by this name recently created an account on MicroWiki. I just wanted to check if this is you, or somebody impersonating you. 86.185.143.224 ( talk) 21:33, 12 July 2019 (UTC) 86.185.143.224 ( talk) 21:33, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hi
MusikAnimal! At
m:user:קיין ומוויסנדיק פּרעפֿערענצן/global.js I made some disperate attempts to add an additional link to the interface, first at Wikidata only.
Feom
Pythagoras I can get
d:Q10261. At that Wikidata page I would like to add a clickable link
reasonator: Q10261 to some skins. I have seen this working three years before. Now I could neither find the link in the Vector nor in the Monobook skin.
In a further step the script
m:user:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js
user:Yair rand could be modified to include the Reasonator link and making it available in the proper language at any wikipedia and other projects linked to Wikidata.
Thanks for your help in advance! Best regards and greetings from Munich, Germany
no bias — קיין אומוויסנדיק פּרעפֿערענצן — keyn umvisndik preferentsn
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The
Montsoreau Flea Market is the largest
flea market in the Loire Valley, France
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Hey! Today I noticed
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abuse_filter_log
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I think only the Toolforge admins can do such global searches across all of Toolforge (at least because some files aren't world-readable). They've done this for me before, I just asked in #wikimedia-cloud connect. — MusikAnimal talk 21:12, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
A
butter churn used for
butter churning in Nepal
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The human body has several
organs.
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Hi! Sorry, I'm very new to Wiki. just wanted to make some changes to those sentences that in my opinion don't cover the whole truth. Now, I just added under the previous lines some remarks backed up by many respected sources. Sorry again, David David Leonhard Bowman 20:08, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi, Can you please remove my Extand Confirmed flag? I do not need it anymore! الرشيد ( talk) 10:53, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
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18:19, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for making this script, It's helping me to edit Wikipedia at night. Rashedulemon ( talk) 18:00, 15 August 2019 (UTC) |
Dear user, I, with Willbb234, are a attempting to revive the Wikiproject Requested Articles, of which you are a member. If you wish to be a part of our effort, feel free to add your signature in it's talk page. Best regards, Eni vak (speak) 16:31, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
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15:21, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
I saw your contributions on the abuse filter for images and was wondering if you could help me with my issue. I run a fairly large wiki software page and am struggling with image spam. Would you be able to help me create a filter that prevents certain images? ~~
Thank you, I will ask on there! — Preceding unsigned comment added by STITCH+COFFEE ( talk • contribs) 20:36, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
STITCH+COFFEE ( talk) 21:31, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Good morning, MA. I don't feel like posting to functionaries-l, but what cool tool and where is it? My local hardware store? As a friend of the inventor, do I get a discount?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:34, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
I recently edited a page (about Louis Aguirre-news anchor, talk show host, etc.) but received a message saying it didn't stay on there because I didn't have a source. I said who Louis is the godfather of. My source is my dad, who is the godson to Louis Aguirre. I guess I don't have any proof unless you want to ask him personally. Thanks. Lmart64 ( talk) 01:05, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi, since you were the organizer of WAM, I would like to ask you to be the organizer this year. If you would like to be an organizer this year, please write you nickname on these pages: 1, 2. Thank you! Regards, Patriccck ( talk) 14:07, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
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Howdy! Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/AutoWikiBrowser/Administrator instructions is a bit confusing. It appears that the good old CheckPage is still in use, but the admin instructions send the admin off to Special:UserRights. I'm wondering if you started with a copy of instructions from elsewhere and then forgot to finish off your copyediting? If not - and a user right now has to be assigned - would you mind making it clear which right is required? -- kingboyk ( talk) 18:09, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal! I have a potential issue going on with my edit filter ( filter 51). I was patrolling the new user log earlier and blocked Ifuckpigs due to an obvious UPOL violation. I took a look at the edit filter logs and noticed that my filter didn't flag the username creation as a hit, even though "fuck" is definitely a condition to look for with "createaccount" actions. I went further and tested the filter (along with some possible changes while troubleshooting) to discover that it doesn't flag the action as a positive hit. What's even more disturbing is that I made a small change to the filter on August 8 that shouldn't have made any impact to the "createaccount" conditions. However, since then, only one "createaccount" action has been recorded as a positive hit... and absolutely nothing since then. I'm puzzled... I had plenty of hits between August 2 and August 8 (the time that I made changes to the log before the potential incidental change), then nothing ever since. What did I mess up? Did something change in the logs that I need to update my filter to look for? A link to the edit history of the filter is here. Can you take a look and see what might be going on? If you have questions about the filter, let me know and I'll be happy to answer them. Just ping me in your responses here so that I'm notified. :-) Thanks a million! :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 05:06, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
irlike
and ccnorm
/norm
, and that would greatly simplify your filter. Hope this helps, —
MusikAnimal
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03:01, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
user_rights
isn't available either, which we definitely need. This sounds like a bug. I'm going to comment on the task, too. —
MusikAnimal
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03:40, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Me again - I do apologise. I'm using your most excellent RequestHelper script. At WP:UAA, the investigation process can take a while, and more than once by the time I've finished another admin has acted. This kind of "race" is a bit of waste of admin time. At WP:AIV we have a "(Checking)" response - could we get the same at UAA? -- kingboyk ( talk) 22:37, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
August 28, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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As I have no clue what's going on with regards to users posting "fantasy climate data", but apparently you do, I'm just leaving this here - User:RockoftheRazze33. Came up on WP:UAA/BOT earlier. -- kingboyk ( talk) 00:53, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you consider adding WP:REFUND to the pages RequestHelper supports? The layout is pretty much similar to UAA and RFPP. Regards So Why 16:28, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Hey MusikAnimal. MusikBot isn't actioning my TAFI approvals. Any idea why? — JJMC89 ( T· C) 08:39, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi again, MusikAnimal! I hope you don't mind if I come to you with another weird finding that I'm seeing with edit filters... Bear with me here as I list the steps on how to reproduce exactly what I'm seeing:
You'll see that no edits by that user match the filter at all, yet the conditions in the "stringy" variable (which is a string of all content to look for in edits) should clearly match three of them.
Now do this:
You'll see the proper results that should be found - three edits by that LTA now show as matching the conditions in the filter.
It seems like "Checkuser" is now a reserved word that we can't use in edit filters now? That's the only conclusion that I could draw from what I found... It used to work just fine, but (again), it seems like those changes detailed on phab that went into effect earlier this month have modified things in this regard. If you reviewed the changes made to the edit filter while going through the steps I listed above, you'll see that adding an escape character anywhere within the word "checkuser" (Example: "Ch\eckuser") resolves the problem and that portion of the edit filter runs and flags matching edits as it should. What are your thoughts on this? What changed? What does that reserved word do now (Assuming that I'm correct with my thoughts here)? This took me some time to narrow down in my debugging and troubleshooting, but alas, this is what I've found to be the culprit, and there's no other logical explanation I can come up with....
I appreciate your time answering my messages here; it means a lot to me, and I can't thank you enough for your pair of eyes and your input. :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 14:25, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
norm
or ccnorm
with this filter. I think it would make the regular expressions significantly less complex and easier to debug. There are also some free external tools to help with debugging regex; I especially like
regex101, where I can create
unit tests. Best of luck, —
MusikAnimal
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14:41, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
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09:07, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Sept 7, 12:30pm: Met Fashion Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for Met Fashion Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side. Together, we'll expand Wikipedia:WikiProject Fashion topics for basic clothing types that can be illustrated by the Met collection, and also past Costume Institute exhibitions! It's the last weekend for Camp: Notes on Fashion, and we will have an intro talk to the exhibit by a guest from the Costume Institute, and participants will then be able to visit it on their own. Galleries will be open this evening until 9 pm. With refreshments, and there will be a wiki-cake! Open to everyone at all levels of experience, wiki instructional workshop and one-on-one support will be provided.
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Hi MusikAnimal, Can you disallow or ban Dr Kay from intervening in my Nakorotubu district's article. I had included quotations and references but he still insists that the reason for wiping my article off is for lack of references and unintelligent work. Now, he is demanding that if I want to continue, I should start from scratch and manually type my article again as I cannot retrieve my previous work.
Saqiwa 5/09/19 ( Saqiwa ( talk) 11:29, 5 September 2019 (UTC))
Hi
I'm just wondering why this bot sometimes comes and makes edits like this one, to apply semi-protection to the POTD template transcluded on the main page that day? Generally this has no effect, as the "POTD protected" template is cascade protected for the duration of its run on the main page, thus can't be vandalised at that time. And afterwards, when the POTD has finished on the main page, this template is no longer used anyway and is deleted within a month by a bot. Is there a reason why MusikAnimal bot is picking this up? — Amakuru ( talk) 21:34, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
Template:POTD protected/
to the exclusion list. That begs the question though: should
Template:POTD and its subpages be subject to protection, since I assume they are the unprotected variant? They currently are also on the exclusion list. Anyway, the bot should probably check for cascade protection. I believe the thought was redundancy is okay in the interest of preventing disruption, should the cascade protection be removed. —
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22:28, 5 September 2019 (UTC)News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).
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Good evening, MusikAnimal,
I apologize for making an edit so quickly on the Anti-Defamation League. I'm a huge fan of Pewdiepie, so naturally when is saw that ADL was apparently attacking his channel I had to act. Again, I apologize for jumping to quickly to a conclusion.
Have a good night Thanks 70.117.21.40 ( talk) 23:43, 10 September 2019 (UTC)