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Hello MusikAnimal,
Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
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Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.
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Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.
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For the development of your many scripts, especially those that help admins in their work. I have come to rely upon them and find them invaluable. Thank you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 01:05, 13 September 2019 (UTC) |
Hello MusikAnimal, I would appreciate you to guide me through getting an article posted - its a biography of someone. Thanks in advance. Chasebalo ( talk) 07:14, 12 September 2019 (UTC) Chasebalo ( talk) 07:14, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
but, can you kindly help out as to Wikipedia:Page_Curation/Suggested_improvements#49._Notifying_creators_of_tags?
No expert but looks like it will need some changes over [1] ( delivery of t/p message is currently set as conditional, subject to a note) and accordingly, here.
Also, I have pointed out another problem over here .... ∯WBG converse 11:15, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
An example of a
miniature book:
The United States History and Presidents in a Nutshell, published circa 1904
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It didn't do the midnight update for DYK, and DYKUpdateBot was also down at the same time, so I suspect both got hit by the same problem. I've made the update at Template talk:Did you know by hand, so we're set there for now. Thought you'd want to know. BlueMoonset ( talk) 01:20, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Animation illustrating the discovery history of
satellite galaxies of the Milky Way over the last 100 years. The classical satellite galaxies are in blue (labeled with their names),
SDSS-discoveries are in red, and more recent discoveries (mostly with
DES) are in green.
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Hi Musik
i'd like to know how your bot checking user mainspace edit ? i mean i want to check my mainspace edits can your bot update individuals edits of users like me ?
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Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Hi, why was
this geonotice rejected?
User:MusikBot II/GeonoticeSync/Report says Failed for unknown reasons. Check the
error log
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Was looking through some of these today, we have multiple gadgets with imports. Some are x-wiki imports that haven't been touched at their "source" in years, some are actually to userland. Thinking about at LEAST putting some sort of user-land-imported-warning notice on the gadgets descriptions... — xaosflux Talk 20:41, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
The U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Josephus Daniels (CG-27) maneuvers around an island as it passes through the
Strait of Magellan en route to Punte Arenas, Chile, on 1 July 1990, during exercise "Unitas XXXI", a combined exercise involving the naval forces of the United States and nine South American nations.
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Look at this edit:
MusikBot added this text (emphasis mine):
::{{comment|Automated comment}} This user has had 1 request for rollback declined in the past 90 days ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PermaLink/907942788#User:99721829Max]). <!-- mbsig --><span style="font-family:sans-serif">— <b>[[User:MusikBot|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikBot</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></b></span><!-- mbdate --> 17:50, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
The bolded link should be HTTPS. Please change how this works, for security. Your bot is great, thank you!
Or, in haiku, for fun:
insecure, its link was, too
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23:55, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
You probably aren't aware just how useful your bot(s) and scripts actually are to those of us admins who regularly work the PERM requests. As one of the long-term regulars at PERM, I can't imagine being without them today. I just have one request at this stage: Would it be possible to also automate the 'not done' response to send a message to the applicant containing the rationale for non-approval? I'm thinking in terms of the window that is already used for the 'accorded' feature. Such a message could be something like: "Thank you for applying for the 'xxxx' user right. I'm sorry to inform you that the right has not been accorded at this time because [admin comment to be inserted here]. However, do keep up the good work and don't hesitate to apply again when the reasons have been addressed". Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:10, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
How can i leave a reference? It is fact and should be added. Sorry for not providing substantial proof. Nononodo ( talk) 17:42, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Understood. Thank you for clarifying — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nononodo ( talk • contribs) 08:37, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hey there, I just got a friendly note from you explaining that you had reverted one of my recent contributions "because it did not appear constructive." I appreciate you taking the time to explain this to me, because I would otherwise have certainly changed it back again, and think myself virtuous for doing so.
In fact, I'm fairly sure I WAS being constructive. The edit in question is to the subhead title in the article about North Dakota GOP Senator Kevin Kramer. The subhead is clearly about the senator's (fawning) relationship with Donald Trump. A vandal changed the subhead to title to read "Donald Duck" instead of "Donald Trump" as a joke. Now, I actually think that's a pretty solid joke, and I would normally have chuckled and left it alone. But I decided uncharacteristically to take a moment to fix the title to what it obviously should read: "Donald Trump," the real-life president, who is more likely to feature in a US senator's biography than a fictional cartoon duck.
I say all this because I assume you are an editor in good faith, and not a funny jokester, who probably assumed that I was playing around with a controversial political figure's wikipedia page for lolz. So I thought you ought to know that somebody did do exactly that, but it wasn't me, and you've put it back to the joke version. Thanks, and have a good day!
96.245.124.79 ( talk) 03:50, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Please adjust the page protection settings on the following pages. As discussed at there is clear community consensus that ECP should not apply for "high risk templates" and nothing under WP:ECP supports such protection to this/these template(s) (example: "by request" is insufficient).
Thank you.
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Would you be so kind as to review these? You seem to have skipped over them:
Thanks! Buffs ( talk) 16:24, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
There's some overlap between the BS that was happening there and the Augusto Pinochet article. One vandal copied the entire Pinera article into the Pinochet article. Is this where it started? Drmies ( talk) 03:56, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
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I see you archived this before I saw your reply. Thanks for looking into it. I realise you are busy - any idea of a time frame? It could give the admin the dropdown choice of:
Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 02:30, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
exp
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importScript('User:SD0001/userRightsManager.js');
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<includeonly>{{safesubst:<noinclude />require subst|template=New Page Reviewer declined|1=</includeonly>[[File:Wikipedia New page reviewer.svg|right|80px]] Hi {{safesubst:<noinclude />BASEPAGENAME}}. Thank you for your request for "<code>{{safesubst:<noinclude />int:Group-patroller}}</code>" user group. Unfortunately it has not been granted at this time. Please check back at PERM for the administator's reason(s) - you may be able to apply again when the requirements have been satisfied. <!-- Template:New Page Reviewer granted --> ~~<noinclude />~~<includeonly>}}</includeonly><noinclude> {{documentation}} </noinclude>
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 06:33, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
Hey MusikAnimal, I was looking through the logs of all ECP pages. I'm not seeing that the logs have been updated for the pages you put under ECP. Am I missing something? Shouldn't they be logged?
In the big picture of things, I know this is a highly manual and unnecessarily tedious process I wish could be MUCH more automated. Until that happens, I think we still need to do this. If you could please add yours to the relevant year's/years' log, it would be appreciated. Buffs ( talk) 15:43, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
...due to all the unnecessary kerfuffle around it, I and many other admins never use it, that "additional kerfuffle" is intentional and serves to dissuade flippant application of ECP. It is not a flaw, but a feature intended to provide clear oversight and application. Buffs ( talk) 15:04, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
All sanctions and page restrictions must be logged by the administrator who applied the sanction or page restriction. I did not do this, to my recollection. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The 30/500 restriction existed before the protections were applied, they just were manually enforced. Eventually we used the edit filter (which is where I came in), and once ECP was implemented I helped apply it to the already-sanctioned articles. I was trying to help my colleagues. If I knew I was going to be hounded about this years later, I wouldn't have done it. I am not trying to be stubborn, I just have yet to see why I am being singled out. I take it you are not a fan of ECP. You may be interested to know that at least in terms of preemptive protection, I'm not either (the templates were a different matter, as you already know). My bot populates User:MusikBot/ECPMonitor/Report, which is transcluded at WP:AN so people can monitor its usage. I doubt this changes your opinion of my actions, but I thought I'd share it anyway. Thanks for your understanding, — MusikAnimal talk 17:59, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello MusikAnimal,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
There are now 803 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Hi, just wanted to tell you that your bot kind of messed up reporting the unprivating of filter 31 in this edit. Just though may want to know! ‑‑ Trialpears ( talk) 20:23, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Hey musik, sorry to bother you. Is there any chance of having an 'all time daily' option for the Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Backlog_chart? While the weekly data does suffice for the all-time chart, it doesn't quite reflect the day-to-day grind that NPP is, and I would prefer to have at least the option of having the daily data in an all time chart if it isn't too much trouble. — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here)( click me!) 04:52, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello M. Your bot seems to have stopped removing pp templates as the Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates is filling up each time I log back on to the 'pedia. Best regards. MarnetteD| Talk 19:25, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
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The
Coleco Gemini video game console, a console clone of the Atari 2600 produced by
Coleco in 1983
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Hi MA, wondering if filter 994 could possibly be modified to detect pages similar to Template:Please leave this line alone (Wajahat Sami). This one did not trip the filter, but appears to be exactly what the filter is intended to catch. Home Lander ( talk) 21:32, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
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Howdy hello! Appreciate the defense of my talk page, could you perhaps add some semi-protection for a few days? I added a request at RFPP, but since you're active and around, thought I'd ask ya, RFPP is sometimes a bit slow. Thanks! Captain Eek Edits Ho Cap'n! ⚓ 22:29, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
The
National Museum is a Czech museum institution intended to systematically establish, prepare, and publicly exhibit natural scientific and historical collections. It was founded in 1818 and is located in Prague.
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20:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
I just added semi-protection to the article for the repeated LTA abuse to it. If you were leaving the article unprotected on purpose to leave it as a honey pot, please feel free to undo the protection I applied. Just figured I'd let you know about it just in case. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 01:59, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
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User:FlightTime Public, I don't need that on this account. Thanx, -
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Would it be possible to restore the page Pokémon anime in India to my userspace at User:Suffusion of Yellow/Filter bug , if it's not a copvio/attack/etc. I simply can't figure out what's going on with filter log there. See my comments at WP:EF/FP/R#NonsensicalSystem. Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 18:43, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
{{Db-empty}}
to an empty page. Would restoring the page help with debugging, considering that wouldn't restore the missing info in AbuseLog? I can still do it, but we'd need to re-add create protection, and avoid inviting all those editors to your userspace (which they may find through their own
Special:Contribs).Also, mind you this offer is sitll on the table :) — MusikAnimal talk 18:56, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
prop=revisions
dump or something.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk)
19:05, 22 November 2019 (UTC)old_size
and new_size
are 0. Except, null edits aren't supposed to trip the filter at all. So it's not as severe a bug as I thought, but still a bug. I'm going to be away for a few days, but will file a phab when I get back if it's not a duplicate. Thanks!
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talk)
22:36, 22 November 2019 (UTC)Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
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The steam hammer is a type of
hammer
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16:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello, would you be willing to semi-protect Template:IPA vowels/table, Template:IPA pulmonic consonants/table, Template:IPA non-pulmonic consonants/table, and Template:IPA co-articulated consonants/table? They are transcluded through their parent templates, which are semi-protected, and are used in hundreds of pages. I'm asking you since you have semi-protected related templates. Thanks. Nardog ( talk) 13:39, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
There seems to be a circular issue with Jack Posobiec's page involving multiple users (some of whom have been rightly banned for disruptive editing). Per the talk page discussion, there are neutrality issues and WP:Coatrack issues. The circular issue arises when someone tries to change it to a version that fixes the coatrack issues and write it as if it's a biography of a living person. When this happens, the article is reverted to a version which is a coatrack with a lead that appears like a tabloid write-up. When that version reappears, it invariably becomes vandalized. Afterward, either a cleaner version that takes care of the coatrack and BLP issues is restored, or the older version with all of the issues is restored. You can see from the edit log that there is a lot of activity.
What would be the best way to move forward to avoid edit-warring, and to end up with a page which is written with NPOV and BLP policies in mind and is also not a coatrack? I don't want to simply revert it to a functional version such as this one only to have it end up in its current state again minutes later. I thought I'd ask you since you've made edits recently and have been here a while and have made substantial contributions to Wikipedia. I always prefer to defer to those more experienced than I when facing a problem I can't resolve alone. Than you very much for your time. Ihuntrocks ( talk) 16:43, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. For MoreMenu, I was wondering if it would be possible to include Special:Log/suppress (Suppression log) in the "User" → "User logs..." menu of MoreMenu in the event that the user in question is an oversighter and the user using MoreMenu is also an oversighter (similar to how it works for CheckUser). I sometimes like to look over my suppression log to make sure I didn't miss anything, and sometimes it could be helpful to look at other oversighters' logs, e.g. if they need a second opinion. If this is a nontrivial task, no worries at all—in any case, I also wanted to thank you for writing such a useful tool. Mz7 ( talk) 08:33, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Hi. Since you participated in the preliminary discussions, I thought I should let you know that I've opened an RfC at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers/Redirect autopatrol#RfC on autopatrolling redirects. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 01:35, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
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magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns ""
(empty string). When you read a page it returns "-"
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Hello MusikAnimal: Sorry to bother you, but MusikBot does not appear to be updating the Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Schedule page at this time. So, letting you know in hopes that a fix can be worked out. North America 1000 06:57, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
|article=
parameter coming before |class=
. I could fix the bot, but I hope I don't need to! Also pinging
JJMC89 who
asked about this almost 3 months ago. Sorry for taking so long to look into it!That said, I don't see any issue with the Schedule page. Could you elaborate? — MusikAnimal talk 18:30, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Module:Random TAFI was moved, and now the bot's putting script errors on WT:TAFI#Scheduled weeks - Evad37 [ talk 12:28, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
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16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
You recently blocked the user THE WICKIPEDIA COMMUNITY IS EXPECTED THAT CREDINKIYA IS HERE AND THEYRE NOT SOCKPUPS! for being a "Vandalism-only account". However, looking at their few contributions, they only seem to be positive, anti-vandalism edits. In one case, they reverted vandalism/bad good-faith editing, but you reverted it back.
Why was this user banned? Was this mistaken?
DemonDays64 ( talk) 04:34, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
Somewhat of a heads up... I've been working on moving the AWB checkpage format to JSON (I think I wrote most of the code quite a while ago now), and it mostly works Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON, but isn't in use by AWB just yet...
At some point, are you able to update MusikBot II to work with that page instead? I suspect... It'll make your code quite a bit simpler, not having to parse out javascript, instead just reading/writing JSON...
Thanks!
Reedy ( talk) 13:11, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
A
ballet leap performed with modern, non-classical form in a contemporary ballet
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Is it possible to get MusikBot help at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist? Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 03:38, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
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Damon Runyon's short story
"Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the
hot Tom and Jerry
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well MA. MarnetteD| Talk 20:58, 17 December 2019 (UTC) |
Hi, I just wanted to thank you again for getting MoreMenu to work on IE for me. Also, thanks for all the effort you put in to update the gadget. I really like that it's customizable and I was especially glad to see how Watch and Unwatch work; as you probably know, on the old dropdown menus, these had for a lonnnng time turned into annoying two-step processes. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 09:45, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
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1 | Rosguill ( talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Onel5969 ( talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | JTtheOG ( talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Arthistorian1977 ( talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | DannyS712 ( talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA ( talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven ( talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Boleyn ( talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Ymblanter ( talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Cwmhiraeth ( talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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Hi MusikAnimal. The GeonoticeSync task appears to not be syncing since December 9–13. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 07:46, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a
Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year!
CAPTAIN RAJU
(T)
23:20, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi I am curious about some stats. I check siteviews for swwiki , https://tools.wmflabs.org/siteviews/?platform=all-access&source=pageviews&agent=user&range=latest-20&sites=sw.wikipedia.org
I find some days where views top 100,000. I am curious to see what made this high number. I check several dates, eg 15/02/2019 here> https://tools.wmflabs.org/topviews/?project=sw.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&date=2019-02-15&excludes=.
This day looks in topviews absolutely average, no articles drawing lots of views. Where does the extraordinary pageview total come from? Appreciate help to understand. Kipala ( talk) 19:03, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi MusikAnimal, and Merry Christmas. There is a problem with the "Userviews" tool. What's wrong? Verdelunar ( talk) 17:36, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
When
cooking with alcohol to prepare a
flambé, alcohol is ignited
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user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if
Javascript is not working in your browser.
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Carole of the Bells by
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Hello, I'm participated to the page Brachydaktylie. It has about 180 paheviews a day. At 11th of December it were 2500. How can this be explaned? Was this a machine? https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=de.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-12-02&end=2019-12-22&pages=Brachydaktylie Schrauber5 ( talk) 21:12, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Just in case: I've sent you an email from my ( -revi) usual email address. Gisado ( talk) 14:52, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
– 2020 is a
leap year –
news article.
– Background color is Classic Blue (
#0F4C81), Pantone's
2020 Color of the year
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the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpretedrather than
reasonably construed.
The pilot in command of an aircraft is the person aboard who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight. This would be the
captain in a typical two- or three-pilot aircrew, or "pilot" if there is only one certificated and qualified pilot at the controls of an aircraft.
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Various
computer hardware components within a desktop computer
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<ref follow="…">
to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead.
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:40, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
I'm curious if there is a tool or if (volunteer) you might be interested in it: some sort of way to see/query a specific IPv6 /64 range (or arbitrary, or IPv4, or...) to see what contributions have been made to user talk pages, so that I can search for previous warnings. The case is mostly motivated by a /64 lookup. Thoughts? -- Izno ( talk) 15:28, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
ip_changes
table. See
phab:T146628 in regards to the block log stuff.That said, you could conceivably make a tool that does prefix searches (e.g. talk pages like 192.168.1.*
), which might be better than nothing. —
MusikAnimal
talk
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A
prayer meeting and hymn singing
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get help to do so.
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Should this statement be removed Please sign and date your entries by inserting ~~~~
at the end. I'm not sure, but doesn't {{
Talk header preload/preload}} already automatically add the tides to the end of the thread ? Just wondering. -
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19:11, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
I understand you are working on a fix for this problem of wrong links to this page. It shows presently 17 links to the article I created, however it actually lists them as a Farrand disambiguation page of 4 items. Since you are working to solve this I will check on it later, that probably by THEN will have 20 items and articles that will link to the article I created on Farrand & Votey Organ Company.-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 12:00, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Can I suggest an addition to User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js relating to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist? Once a user is autopatrolled, they no longer need to be listed, and the script can automatically remove the user. Example (untested) code below. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:27, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
Call the function:
// silently add user to MMS list
if (permission === 'New page reviewer') addToMMSList();
// silently remove from redirect whitelist
else if (permission === 'Autopatrolled') updateWhiteList();
Add the function: (note that line numbers reflect 2 lines added above)
add: 'User talk:' + userName
});
}
function updateWhiteList() {
api.( 'Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist', function ( revision ) {
var newContent = revision.content.replace( '* {{user2|' + userName + '}}\n', '' );
return {
text: newContent,
summary: 'Remove ' + userName + ', now autopatrolled' + tagLine,
minor: true
};
});
}
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Hello MusikAnimal! First, Congratulations! English Wikipedia reached 6,000,000 articles! Now, I want to know about Dark Mode ( mw:Extension:DarkMode). Why this feature is not available yet? Please tell me more about adding it. Thank you! ⇒ Aram Talk 13:18, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
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wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.
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The
The Dapper Dans are a
barbershop quartet that performs at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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A user recently put a racial slur on my talk page. It was reverted, but I would like the single revision deleted for good under the premise of it really shouldn't be able to be found anywhere. Thanks, Willsome429 ( say hey or see my edits!) 16:15, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
The
Pyramid Texts are the oldest known corpus of ancient Egyptian
religious texts dating to the
Old Kingdom.
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Whenever I press cancel, it rollbacks the edit. Is there something wrong with the script. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk 14:39, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello MusikAnimal,
The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
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Please unprotect WP:Sandbox2 so I can tag it as WP:G2. Thanks! PorkchopGMX ( talk with me - what i've done) 13:47, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
FYI: Your 2014 edit to this template caused it to call {{ lc}} which I don't think is what you wanted. I think you meant to use the lc: magic word. Back in 2014, what you did may have worked, but today it doesn't, so I fixed it. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 21:19, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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As a user who has expressed an interest in the Wikipedia:The future of NPP and AfC, you are invited to join a discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Rethinking_draft_space. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 08:06, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello, MA. I think MusikBot is undercounting active filters.
User:MusikBot/FilterMonitor/Count says there are 198 active filters, but
(await $.get("
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=abusefilters&abfshow=enabled&abflimit=500&format=json")).query.abusefilters.length
says there are 224. Changes from filters >= 1000
aren't being reported. Perhaps there's a hard-coded limit somewhere?
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk)
20:32, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
MusikBot is indeed a genius bot. He Changed Category:Year of birth missing to Category:Year of birth missing (living people). I appreciate for its work. TheBirdsShedTears ( talk) 09:07, 27 February 2020 (UTC) TheBirdsShedTears ( talk) 09:07, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
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A steward now, I see! Excellent! You'll be great. Have some frog cakes! Bishonen | tålk 12:20, 2 March 2020 (UTC).
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Eat Lipstick, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.
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Hello MusikAnimal, Can you help us for archiving discussion(s) by using User:MusikBot on our project ( ckbwiki)? Or please suggest a bot to me. I want to talk with the bot's author. Thanks! ⇒ Aram Talk 19:43, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
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Actually, it was my mistake that was compounded by MusikBot II. In {{ Commons and category}}, I mistakenly invoked Module:Commons link/sandbox instead of Module:Commons link. I corrected this mistake, but in the meanwhile, MusikBot II indefinitely protected Module:Commons link/sandbox, allowing only confirmed users. Sandboxes should be editable by everyone, right?
Could you undo the protection of Module:Commons link/sandbox? Sorry for the trouble! — hike395 ( talk) 21:15, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello MusikAnimal. The tool copyvios doesn't work, and you name is in the list s maintenance people. Could you check it? Thanks a lot in advance. -- Nachosan ( talk) 23:51, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Can you please globally lock 93.143.66.255 ( talk · contribs)? This self-confessing Muslim Bosnian has just threatened to kill me on my IDwiki talk page. Thanks. Flix11 ( talk) 02:36, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Can you redact all the user talk page attacks committed by Dead instead ( talk · contribs), including mine? This vandal called me stupid for fighting against him. And please also redact Special:Diff/947400433 when the IP above called me ghetto. Thanks. Flix11 ( talk) 03:25, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
At Talk:Ozerki_(Historic_district_in_Saint_Petersburg)#Map is of Africa, not Saint Petersburg I have noted a problem that it was suggested at Wiktionary you may be able to fix, which would be good. Are you in fact able to help? 15:03, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
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Stay safe, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the cleanup, but I feel that this is called for:
Smash!
You've been
squished by a whale!
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something really silly.
for your editing of multiple very highly used modules and templates by accident after importing via upload. I guess April fools is as good a time as any? -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:39, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
import/upload
on my global watchlist and I knew you didn't have the local rights - were any errors visible to anyone? If no one noticed before it was over, then that may not be warranted, but lets wait and see if anyone starts to complain (then again,
Wikipedia:Global rights policy#Stewards says Stewards should not use their global rights to perform tasks that could be performed by local usersand the imports and associated chaos could have been done by one of our two local importers; per Wikipedia:Global rights policy#Removal of rights -
A user who abuses their global rights by knowingly or recklessly using their global rights on the English Wikipedia in contravention of this policy should be reported to meta:Stewards' noticeboard or #wikimedia-stewards immediately, where the stewards will determine whether an emergency removal of tools is required.- lets see if anyone calls for emergency destewardship before deciding. Could be considered reckless...) -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:50, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi. I saw you just import uploaded a number of revisions (that appear to have been originally from enwiki???). From what I can see, you were only able to do that because of your global rights as a steward - is this use of steward rights allowed? Just wondering -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:18, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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06:26, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Rebestalic
I have come to ask about the statistics churner at https://tools.wmflabs.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org; I believe you created it (along with two friends, how awesome)
Is there a way to find weekly results rather than daily or monthly results? If so, that would make life so much easier when trying to gather data for Top 25 Reports as I wouldn't need to bother more experienced Top 25 authors to help
Now, after reading a bit of your user page (I hope that doesn't make me seem like a stalker), I see you're from NYC--well, that's fantastic because Andrew Cuomo showed up on last week's Top 25 😂
Thank you (and keep loving music because you're not alone), Rebestalic [dubious—discuss] 05:20, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
You are no stalker by reading my userpage, that's why it's there :) Indeed, I am a proud New Yorker. Neat to see my governor in the Top 25, though given current events this doesn't surprise me! Best, — MusikAnimal talk 19:51, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal,
I have a question for you about MusikBot. I know there is Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Approved/March 2020 for a record of editors who have received permissions they have requested. Is there a similar list for editors whose requests have been denied? I know that if an editor has requested rights repeatedly, MusikBot posts that fact but I can't find a location where it would get the information, I can't find any archived requests that have been denied or any lists that keep track of this. If this information exists somewhere, could you tell me where to look? Much appreciated! Liz Read! Talk! 01:24, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
I think you may want to consider revoking talk page access here?: [74]? Patient Zero talk 18:44, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi - MusikBot's recent edit at Maathai Supermarkets was "removing as page is not edit-protected" - but the log shows it as being protected until 2 May 2020 - I'm sure there is some explanation?? - Arjayay ( talk) 17:52, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
|action=move
if you wanted the correct icon, or just use {{
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Hey, long time no see. Thanks for adding the graphs and tables to the article. They're very useful. epicgenius ( talk) 16:13, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, I thought might be interested in knowing that I created a new bot framework in Node.js - see mwn. Mostly written on the MWBot as a foundation with some enhancements copied from mw.Api, added some original improvements like automated retry on maxlag and expired token errors, and finally bundled in my own libApi.js functions. Your contributions would be welcome! See issues for a list of open tasks if you like. SD0001 ( talk) 20:06, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
PS: just remembered you're from New York. Being particularly badly-hit, this indeed must be difficult time for you folks. Even my brother is in NYC holed up all alone in a studio apartment all day. Stay safe. SD0001 ( talk) 20:32, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Dear MusikAnimal,
I saw your name in the list of Wikipedia administrators willing to provide copies of deleted articles. Both your Wikipedia name and your user page suggest that you will be open to my request to view a deleted article on a musician. The subject of the article was Menno van Delft and his name was also the title of the article.
I understand you need a reason for my request. Basically it is that I am astounded that the article has disappeared and that I can see no reason for this disappearance. The Dutch, German, Polish and Russian articles on him seem perfectly fine to me and they are still there. My personal interest, apart from the fact that I am a music buff, is that I am the author of the picture that was used in the article ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menno_van_Delft_2019.jpg) (it also is used in the Dutch and Polish articles) and that I hate to see my work disappear without knowing the reason why.
I hope you can help me. If I can, I am prefectly willing to help restore the article. But as I am not its original author, I don’t know if I’ll be up to the task. I can only promise I’ll try. Polla ta deina ( talk) 15:30, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Polla ta deina ( talk) 15:30, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.
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You appear to be a very trusted and experienced user. I think you would make a great candidate for beurocrat! You should try! Jcoolbro ( talk) 13:22, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for taking the time to participate in the user feedback round for our desktop improvements prototype. This feedback is super valuable to us and is currently being used to determine our next steps. We have published a report gathering the main takeaways from the feedback and highlighting the changes we’ll make based on this feedback. Please take a look and give us your thoughts on the talk page of the report. To learn more about the project overall and the other features we’re planning on building in the future, check out the main project page.
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Hello, MusikAnimal! :)
Can you help me a bit with some filters? I'm an interface and normal admin at SqQuote and SqWiki and I'm trying to adjust some of EnWiki filters for our projects but I'm not that good with the regex syntax. I needed to get 5 filters in total and Xaosflux already helped me out with 1 of them. You can see our discussion here to learn more if you're interested. I need help with Abuse Filter #29 - New user removing speedy deletion templates, to make it work with our SD templates. If I give you those, can you help me a bit with it? :) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 18:27, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
user_editcount < 50 &
removed_lines irlike "{{\s*(delete|grise)\s*(\||}})" &
!(added_lines irlike "{{\s*(delete|grise)\s*(\||}})")
page_namespace = 0
to equals_to_any(page_namespace, 0, 4, 5)
(adding whatever namespace IDs). Or just remove that line entirely if you want it to apply to all namespaces.
mw:Extension:AbuseFilter/Rules format documents the syntax and available variables in AbuseFilter, if that helps. Best, —
MusikAnimal
talk
19:05, 2 April 2020 (UTC)Thank you! And what about Abuse Filter #231 - Long string of characters containing no spaces? I get what I need to do for the filter to work on all NS now (thanks to you). Other than that, should I change anything else? I ask because I'm not sure what the last line there serves for. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 19:21, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Also, I'm taking the liberty to ask for the final filter I need help with so you can answer for both inquiries when you do have time. :) I need one filter to fight profanities. Filters are the best way to do this, no? I'd like it if we had a Mediawiki page we can add text to and it would automatically block that text used anywhere on the project. I'm 80% sure a page like that doesn't exist so filters it is. :P You have a lot of filters against this kind of vandalism. What do you suggest me to get? Also, definitely I'd need the most help in this one because of the nature of the filter itself: It needs to be able to filter different variations of the same word. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 05:16, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
bad_word := ...
) with a list of profane Albanian words, separated by pipe characters. So bad_word := "foo|bar|baz";
would disallow the addition of the words "foo", "bar" and "baz" (case insensitive). Keep in mind these could be part of a larger, constructive word. You can get around this by using the \b
word boundary token. So let's assume "foo" is a bad word, but "food" is a good word. Your regex should look like "foo\b|bar|baz"
, such that "foo" doesn't match "food". Hope this makes sense, —
MusikAnimal
talk
20:51, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
user_editcount < 50
with !("sysop" in user_groups)
(I assume your crats are also admins). You could check for any number of specific groups with something like !contains_any(user_groups, "sysop", "bureaucrat")
. I quickly looked at your filter implementations and they look good to me, and appear to correctly working too. You can't delete filters like you can a page. Instead, you just mark them as deleted so they don't pollute the list at
Special:AbuseFilter. Hope this helps! Sounds like you have everything you need, but as a FYI, we have many AbuseFilter experts at
WP:EFN, and
mw:Extension talk:AbuseFilter also has many watchers. I of course don't mind helping at all, but you may get quicker replies at those venues. Best, —
MusikAnimal
talk
16:25, 13 April 2020 (UTC)Thank you for replying! :)) The reason I didn't write anywhere else was because I was at the end of my problem, if you understand what I mean.
Final question: Is there a way to group similar words together at our 6th filter? The list just keeps getting larger and larger if I put every possible variation of a word/expression. If I'm not wrong, I've seen some of your anti-vandalism filters work by groups like that.
PS: I've seen you're from New York. I really hope these hard times will be over soon for all of you. Stay safe! - Klein Muçi ( talk) 16:52, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
ab[cde]
will match "abc", "abd", and "abe". Just remember the more complex the regular expression, the harder it may become to maintain. Also note that without word boundaries some other words are inherently matched. For instance pordh|pordhe|pordhë
could just be pordh
because the other two include "pordh". These two tricks should trim down your list some.Thank you for the kind words. Fortunately, New Yorkers are tough. We will be fine :) — MusikAnimal talk 21:30, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello MusikAnimal: Something I noticed, at Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Schedule, MusikBot did not select an article for week 17, so it's all red-linked on the page. If you could look into this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your consideration, North America 1000 00:46, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hey MusikAnimal, I was curious why you imported a bunch of templates/modules on April 1? Especially since it appears they were imported from Wikipedia, given that's the interwiki prefix that was used for the usernames. I noticed this after importing some of these templates/modules to another wiki and looked through the changes only to see most of them had no actual changes and some interesting edit summaries. Thanks! 「 ディノ奴 千?!」 ☎ Dinoguy1000 02:50, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Template:Uw-copyright-org has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 03:10, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
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Trace elements are less than 1% combined (and each less than 0.1%).
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Hi MusikAnimal. Some help please. A recent edit to the Norfolk Coast Path by Jonathan.barber includes a map of the path. On the commons page he's added that he has third pary permission to use it. I'm not sure about copyrights. Can you take a look please. Thanks Northmetpit ( talk) 13:38, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal,
despite the IP-adress, I am a long term contributor with account in the German Wikipedia. I use the edit counter since a very long time and am always happy to see how many people read my (mainly politics-related) articles ;-) Hence, thank you very much for it.
To the hard facts: I have some ideas for improvements. Firstly, in the German version which is directly linked (though with a very small font) under each article on the very end of the page as "Abrufstatistik", the first item appearing directly below the graph on the counter page is "Seitenaufrufe", which roughly means "page impressions" or "single reads". Random Example: CIA. As you can see, in this article this is about 14.000 - but: There is no reference time span provided to which this number is related. For me it is easy to calculate that it is the whole month, but by a newbie or persons not having any clue about the popularity of the WP, this may easily be wrongly interpreted as the "Overall Count" since whenever. Hence, it would make great sense to provide the reference time span directly behind the term "Seitenaufrufe" or so. I understand that this might be not as easy due to the fact that the user can change the time span.
Second and more signifcant to me: It would be great to have an "Overall viewing count" since day 1 of the article - shown as a standard without having to modify the chooseable time ranges. This creation date might also be provided, e.g.: "Since the creation of this article on 12-10-2004, it was accessed 26.736.925 times." This is of course not of great practical value, but would give an (no question) astonishing impression to each viewer and particularly to the article authors, because I think this would generally make for an impressive number - further signifying the relevance of the WP, but also giving the authors some joy ;-) And to be honest: For the hundreds of hours of work put into it, the sense of achievement (from other folks than other WP authors who often just complain and critize) an author gets is awfully low, namely and typically zero ;-) I assume that the summing up over years can not be carried out each time the counter is accessed - maybe this might be solved by doing it only once a day (or even less often) and caching this result, or similar. The number needs not be exact to the per mil during the whole day, I might add ;-) Just my 2 cents - otherwise, a great tool. Thanks again. 217.7.150.122 ( talk) 07:58, 1 May 2020 (UTC) Edit, some time later: Just saw that the counter has an earliest chooseable date somewhere in 2015, hence my "whole count" idea is - hm - probably impossible. My above example 'CIA' has one million since then. 217.7.150.122 ( talk) 08:36, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hello MusikAnimal, I would appreciate you to guide me through getting an article posted - its a biography of someone. Thanks in advance. Chasebalo ( talk) 07:14, 12 September 2019 (UTC) Chasebalo ( talk) 07:14, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
but, can you kindly help out as to Wikipedia:Page_Curation/Suggested_improvements#49._Notifying_creators_of_tags?
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It didn't do the midnight update for DYK, and DYKUpdateBot was also down at the same time, so I suspect both got hit by the same problem. I've made the update at Template talk:Did you know by hand, so we're set there for now. Thought you'd want to know. BlueMoonset ( talk) 01:20, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
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Was looking through some of these today, we have multiple gadgets with imports. Some are x-wiki imports that haven't been touched at their "source" in years, some are actually to userland. Thinking about at LEAST putting some sort of user-land-imported-warning notice on the gadgets descriptions... — xaosflux Talk 20:41, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
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You probably aren't aware just how useful your bot(s) and scripts actually are to those of us admins who regularly work the PERM requests. As one of the long-term regulars at PERM, I can't imagine being without them today. I just have one request at this stage: Would it be possible to also automate the 'not done' response to send a message to the applicant containing the rationale for non-approval? I'm thinking in terms of the window that is already used for the 'accorded' feature. Such a message could be something like: "Thank you for applying for the 'xxxx' user right. I'm sorry to inform you that the right has not been accorded at this time because [admin comment to be inserted here]. However, do keep up the good work and don't hesitate to apply again when the reasons have been addressed". Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:10, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
How can i leave a reference? It is fact and should be added. Sorry for not providing substantial proof. Nononodo ( talk) 17:42, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hey there, I just got a friendly note from you explaining that you had reverted one of my recent contributions "because it did not appear constructive." I appreciate you taking the time to explain this to me, because I would otherwise have certainly changed it back again, and think myself virtuous for doing so.
In fact, I'm fairly sure I WAS being constructive. The edit in question is to the subhead title in the article about North Dakota GOP Senator Kevin Kramer. The subhead is clearly about the senator's (fawning) relationship with Donald Trump. A vandal changed the subhead to title to read "Donald Duck" instead of "Donald Trump" as a joke. Now, I actually think that's a pretty solid joke, and I would normally have chuckled and left it alone. But I decided uncharacteristically to take a moment to fix the title to what it obviously should read: "Donald Trump," the real-life president, who is more likely to feature in a US senator's biography than a fictional cartoon duck.
I say all this because I assume you are an editor in good faith, and not a funny jokester, who probably assumed that I was playing around with a controversial political figure's wikipedia page for lolz. So I thought you ought to know that somebody did do exactly that, but it wasn't me, and you've put it back to the joke version. Thanks, and have a good day!
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Please adjust the page protection settings on the following pages. As discussed at there is clear community consensus that ECP should not apply for "high risk templates" and nothing under WP:ECP supports such protection to this/these template(s) (example: "by request" is insufficient).
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Would you be so kind as to review these? You seem to have skipped over them:
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There's some overlap between the BS that was happening there and the Augusto Pinochet article. One vandal copied the entire Pinera article into the Pinochet article. Is this where it started? Drmies ( talk) 03:56, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
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I see you archived this before I saw your reply. Thanks for looking into it. I realise you are busy - any idea of a time frame? It could give the admin the dropdown choice of:
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Hey MusikAnimal, I was looking through the logs of all ECP pages. I'm not seeing that the logs have been updated for the pages you put under ECP. Am I missing something? Shouldn't they be logged?
In the big picture of things, I know this is a highly manual and unnecessarily tedious process I wish could be MUCH more automated. Until that happens, I think we still need to do this. If you could please add yours to the relevant year's/years' log, it would be appreciated. Buffs ( talk) 15:43, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
...due to all the unnecessary kerfuffle around it, I and many other admins never use it, that "additional kerfuffle" is intentional and serves to dissuade flippant application of ECP. It is not a flaw, but a feature intended to provide clear oversight and application. Buffs ( talk) 15:04, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
All sanctions and page restrictions must be logged by the administrator who applied the sanction or page restriction. I did not do this, to my recollection. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The 30/500 restriction existed before the protections were applied, they just were manually enforced. Eventually we used the edit filter (which is where I came in), and once ECP was implemented I helped apply it to the already-sanctioned articles. I was trying to help my colleagues. If I knew I was going to be hounded about this years later, I wouldn't have done it. I am not trying to be stubborn, I just have yet to see why I am being singled out. I take it you are not a fan of ECP. You may be interested to know that at least in terms of preemptive protection, I'm not either (the templates were a different matter, as you already know). My bot populates User:MusikBot/ECPMonitor/Report, which is transcluded at WP:AN so people can monitor its usage. I doubt this changes your opinion of my actions, but I thought I'd share it anyway. Thanks for your understanding, — MusikAnimal talk 17:59, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, just wanted to tell you that your bot kind of messed up reporting the unprivating of filter 31 in this edit. Just though may want to know! ‑‑ Trialpears ( talk) 20:23, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Hey musik, sorry to bother you. Is there any chance of having an 'all time daily' option for the Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Backlog_chart? While the weekly data does suffice for the all-time chart, it doesn't quite reflect the day-to-day grind that NPP is, and I would prefer to have at least the option of having the daily data in an all time chart if it isn't too much trouble. — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here)( click me!) 04:52, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello M. Your bot seems to have stopped removing pp templates as the Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates is filling up each time I log back on to the 'pedia. Best regards. MarnetteD| Talk 19:25, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hi MA, wondering if filter 994 could possibly be modified to detect pages similar to Template:Please leave this line alone (Wajahat Sami). This one did not trip the filter, but appears to be exactly what the filter is intended to catch. Home Lander ( talk) 21:32, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
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Howdy hello! Appreciate the defense of my talk page, could you perhaps add some semi-protection for a few days? I added a request at RFPP, but since you're active and around, thought I'd ask ya, RFPP is sometimes a bit slow. Thanks! Captain Eek Edits Ho Cap'n! ⚓ 22:29, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
The
National Museum is a Czech museum institution intended to systematically establish, prepare, and publicly exhibit natural scientific and historical collections. It was founded in 1818 and is located in Prague.
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I just added semi-protection to the article for the repeated LTA abuse to it. If you were leaving the article unprotected on purpose to leave it as a honey pot, please feel free to undo the protection I applied. Just figured I'd let you know about it just in case. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 01:59, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hey Musik, would you please remove filemover
from my public account
User:FlightTime Public, I don't need that on this account. Thanx, -
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open channel)
17:55, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Would it be possible to restore the page Pokémon anime in India to my userspace at User:Suffusion of Yellow/Filter bug , if it's not a copvio/attack/etc. I simply can't figure out what's going on with filter log there. See my comments at WP:EF/FP/R#NonsensicalSystem. Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 18:43, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
{{Db-empty}}
to an empty page. Would restoring the page help with debugging, considering that wouldn't restore the missing info in AbuseLog? I can still do it, but we'd need to re-add create protection, and avoid inviting all those editors to your userspace (which they may find through their own
Special:Contribs).Also, mind you this offer is sitll on the table :) — MusikAnimal talk 18:56, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
prop=revisions
dump or something.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk)
19:05, 22 November 2019 (UTC)old_size
and new_size
are 0. Except, null edits aren't supposed to trip the filter at all. So it's not as severe a bug as I thought, but still a bug. I'm going to be away for a few days, but will file a phab when I get back if it's not a duplicate. Thanks!
Suffusion of Yellow (
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22:36, 22 November 2019 (UTC)Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
Thank you!
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The steam hammer is a type of
hammer
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16:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello, would you be willing to semi-protect Template:IPA vowels/table, Template:IPA pulmonic consonants/table, Template:IPA non-pulmonic consonants/table, and Template:IPA co-articulated consonants/table? They are transcluded through their parent templates, which are semi-protected, and are used in hundreds of pages. I'm asking you since you have semi-protected related templates. Thanks. Nardog ( talk) 13:39, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
There seems to be a circular issue with Jack Posobiec's page involving multiple users (some of whom have been rightly banned for disruptive editing). Per the talk page discussion, there are neutrality issues and WP:Coatrack issues. The circular issue arises when someone tries to change it to a version that fixes the coatrack issues and write it as if it's a biography of a living person. When this happens, the article is reverted to a version which is a coatrack with a lead that appears like a tabloid write-up. When that version reappears, it invariably becomes vandalized. Afterward, either a cleaner version that takes care of the coatrack and BLP issues is restored, or the older version with all of the issues is restored. You can see from the edit log that there is a lot of activity.
What would be the best way to move forward to avoid edit-warring, and to end up with a page which is written with NPOV and BLP policies in mind and is also not a coatrack? I don't want to simply revert it to a functional version such as this one only to have it end up in its current state again minutes later. I thought I'd ask you since you've made edits recently and have been here a while and have made substantial contributions to Wikipedia. I always prefer to defer to those more experienced than I when facing a problem I can't resolve alone. Than you very much for your time. Ihuntrocks ( talk) 16:43, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. For MoreMenu, I was wondering if it would be possible to include Special:Log/suppress (Suppression log) in the "User" → "User logs..." menu of MoreMenu in the event that the user in question is an oversighter and the user using MoreMenu is also an oversighter (similar to how it works for CheckUser). I sometimes like to look over my suppression log to make sure I didn't miss anything, and sometimes it could be helpful to look at other oversighters' logs, e.g. if they need a second opinion. If this is a nontrivial task, no worries at all—in any case, I also wanted to thank you for writing such a useful tool. Mz7 ( talk) 08:33, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Hi. Since you participated in the preliminary discussions, I thought I should let you know that I've opened an RfC at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers/Redirect autopatrol#RfC on autopatrolling redirects. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 01:35, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
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magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns ""
(empty string). When you read a page it returns "-"
(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.
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Hello MusikAnimal: Sorry to bother you, but MusikBot does not appear to be updating the Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Schedule page at this time. So, letting you know in hopes that a fix can be worked out. North America 1000 06:57, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
|article=
parameter coming before |class=
. I could fix the bot, but I hope I don't need to! Also pinging
JJMC89 who
asked about this almost 3 months ago. Sorry for taking so long to look into it!That said, I don't see any issue with the Schedule page. Could you elaborate? — MusikAnimal talk 18:30, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Module:Random TAFI was moved, and now the bot's putting script errors on WT:TAFI#Scheduled weeks - Evad37 [ talk 12:28, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
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16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
You recently blocked the user THE WICKIPEDIA COMMUNITY IS EXPECTED THAT CREDINKIYA IS HERE AND THEYRE NOT SOCKPUPS! for being a "Vandalism-only account". However, looking at their few contributions, they only seem to be positive, anti-vandalism edits. In one case, they reverted vandalism/bad good-faith editing, but you reverted it back.
Why was this user banned? Was this mistaken?
DemonDays64 ( talk) 04:34, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
Somewhat of a heads up... I've been working on moving the AWB checkpage format to JSON (I think I wrote most of the code quite a while ago now), and it mostly works Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON, but isn't in use by AWB just yet...
At some point, are you able to update MusikBot II to work with that page instead? I suspect... It'll make your code quite a bit simpler, not having to parse out javascript, instead just reading/writing JSON...
Thanks!
Reedy ( talk) 13:11, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
A
ballet leap performed with modern, non-classical form in a contemporary ballet
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Is it possible to get MusikBot help at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist? Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 03:38, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
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Damon Runyon's short story
"Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the
hot Tom and Jerry
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well MA. MarnetteD| Talk 20:58, 17 December 2019 (UTC) |
Hi, I just wanted to thank you again for getting MoreMenu to work on IE for me. Also, thanks for all the effort you put in to update the gadget. I really like that it's customizable and I was especially glad to see how Watch and Unwatch work; as you probably know, on the old dropdown menus, these had for a lonnnng time turned into annoying two-step processes. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 09:45, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
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1 | Rosguill ( talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Onel5969 ( talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | JTtheOG ( talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Arthistorian1977 ( talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | DannyS712 ( talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA ( talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven ( talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Boleyn ( talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Ymblanter ( talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Cwmhiraeth ( talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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Hi MusikAnimal. The GeonoticeSync task appears to not be syncing since December 9–13. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 07:46, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a
Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year!
CAPTAIN RAJU
(T)
23:20, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi I am curious about some stats. I check siteviews for swwiki , https://tools.wmflabs.org/siteviews/?platform=all-access&source=pageviews&agent=user&range=latest-20&sites=sw.wikipedia.org
I find some days where views top 100,000. I am curious to see what made this high number. I check several dates, eg 15/02/2019 here> https://tools.wmflabs.org/topviews/?project=sw.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&date=2019-02-15&excludes=.
This day looks in topviews absolutely average, no articles drawing lots of views. Where does the extraordinary pageview total come from? Appreciate help to understand. Kipala ( talk) 19:03, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi MusikAnimal, and Merry Christmas. There is a problem with the "Userviews" tool. What's wrong? Verdelunar ( talk) 17:36, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
When
cooking with alcohol to prepare a
flambé, alcohol is ignited
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user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if
Javascript is not working in your browser.
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Carole of the Bells by
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Hello, I'm participated to the page Brachydaktylie. It has about 180 paheviews a day. At 11th of December it were 2500. How can this be explaned? Was this a machine? https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=de.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-12-02&end=2019-12-22&pages=Brachydaktylie Schrauber5 ( talk) 21:12, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Just in case: I've sent you an email from my ( -revi) usual email address. Gisado ( talk) 14:52, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
– 2020 is a
leap year –
news article.
– Background color is Classic Blue (
#0F4C81), Pantone's
2020 Color of the year
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the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpretedrather than
reasonably construed.
The pilot in command of an aircraft is the person aboard who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight. This would be the
captain in a typical two- or three-pilot aircrew, or "pilot" if there is only one certificated and qualified pilot at the controls of an aircraft.
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Various
computer hardware components within a desktop computer
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to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead.
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I'm curious if there is a tool or if (volunteer) you might be interested in it: some sort of way to see/query a specific IPv6 /64 range (or arbitrary, or IPv4, or...) to see what contributions have been made to user talk pages, so that I can search for previous warnings. The case is mostly motivated by a /64 lookup. Thoughts? -- Izno ( talk) 15:28, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
ip_changes
table. See
phab:T146628 in regards to the block log stuff.That said, you could conceivably make a tool that does prefix searches (e.g. talk pages like 192.168.1.*
), which might be better than nothing. —
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talk
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A
prayer meeting and hymn singing
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Should this statement be removed Please sign and date your entries by inserting ~~~~
at the end. I'm not sure, but doesn't {{
Talk header preload/preload}} already automatically add the tides to the end of the thread ? Just wondering. -
FlightTime (
open channel)
19:11, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
I understand you are working on a fix for this problem of wrong links to this page. It shows presently 17 links to the article I created, however it actually lists them as a Farrand disambiguation page of 4 items. Since you are working to solve this I will check on it later, that probably by THEN will have 20 items and articles that will link to the article I created on Farrand & Votey Organ Company.-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 12:00, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Can I suggest an addition to User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js relating to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist? Once a user is autopatrolled, they no longer need to be listed, and the script can automatically remove the user. Example (untested) code below. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:27, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
Call the function:
// silently add user to MMS list
if (permission === 'New page reviewer') addToMMSList();
// silently remove from redirect whitelist
else if (permission === 'Autopatrolled') updateWhiteList();
Add the function: (note that line numbers reflect 2 lines added above)
add: 'User talk:' + userName
});
}
function updateWhiteList() {
api.( 'Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist', function ( revision ) {
var newContent = revision.content.replace( '* {{user2|' + userName + '}}\n', '' );
return {
text: newContent,
summary: 'Remove ' + userName + ', now autopatrolled' + tagLine,
minor: true
};
});
}
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Hello MusikAnimal! First, Congratulations! English Wikipedia reached 6,000,000 articles! Now, I want to know about Dark Mode ( mw:Extension:DarkMode). Why this feature is not available yet? Please tell me more about adding it. Thank you! ⇒ Aram Talk 13:18, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
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wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
The
The Dapper Dans are a
barbershop quartet that performs at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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A user recently put a racial slur on my talk page. It was reverted, but I would like the single revision deleted for good under the premise of it really shouldn't be able to be found anywhere. Thanks, Willsome429 ( say hey or see my edits!) 16:15, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
The
Pyramid Texts are the oldest known corpus of ancient Egyptian
religious texts dating to the
Old Kingdom.
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Whenever I press cancel, it rollbacks the edit. Is there something wrong with the script. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk 14:39, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
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Please unprotect WP:Sandbox2 so I can tag it as WP:G2. Thanks! PorkchopGMX ( talk with me - what i've done) 13:47, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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As a user who has expressed an interest in the Wikipedia:The future of NPP and AfC, you are invited to join a discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Rethinking_draft_space. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 08:06, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello, MA. I think MusikBot is undercounting active filters.
User:MusikBot/FilterMonitor/Count says there are 198 active filters, but
(await $.get("
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=abusefilters&abfshow=enabled&abflimit=500&format=json")).query.abusefilters.length
says there are 224. Changes from filters >= 1000
aren't being reported. Perhaps there's a hard-coded limit somewhere?
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk)
20:32, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
MusikBot is indeed a genius bot. He Changed Category:Year of birth missing to Category:Year of birth missing (living people). I appreciate for its work. TheBirdsShedTears ( talk) 09:07, 27 February 2020 (UTC) TheBirdsShedTears ( talk) 09:07, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
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A
company is a legal entity made up of an association of people, be they natural, legal, or a mixture of both, for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.
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A steward now, I see! Excellent! You'll be great. Have some frog cakes! Bishonen | tålk 12:20, 2 March 2020 (UTC).
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Actually, it was my mistake that was compounded by MusikBot II. In {{ Commons and category}}, I mistakenly invoked Module:Commons link/sandbox instead of Module:Commons link. I corrected this mistake, but in the meanwhile, MusikBot II indefinitely protected Module:Commons link/sandbox, allowing only confirmed users. Sandboxes should be editable by everyone, right?
Could you undo the protection of Module:Commons link/sandbox? Sorry for the trouble! — hike395 ( talk) 21:15, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello MusikAnimal. The tool copyvios doesn't work, and you name is in the list s maintenance people. Could you check it? Thanks a lot in advance. -- Nachosan ( talk) 23:51, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Can you please globally lock 93.143.66.255 ( talk · contribs)? This self-confessing Muslim Bosnian has just threatened to kill me on my IDwiki talk page. Thanks. Flix11 ( talk) 02:36, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Can you redact all the user talk page attacks committed by Dead instead ( talk · contribs), including mine? This vandal called me stupid for fighting against him. And please also redact Special:Diff/947400433 when the IP above called me ghetto. Thanks. Flix11 ( talk) 03:25, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
At Talk:Ozerki_(Historic_district_in_Saint_Petersburg)#Map is of Africa, not Saint Petersburg I have noted a problem that it was suggested at Wiktionary you may be able to fix, which would be good. Are you in fact able to help? 15:03, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for the cleanup, but I feel that this is called for:
Smash!
You've been
squished by a whale!
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something really silly.
for your editing of multiple very highly used modules and templates by accident after importing via upload. I guess April fools is as good a time as any? -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:39, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
import/upload
on my global watchlist and I knew you didn't have the local rights - were any errors visible to anyone? If no one noticed before it was over, then that may not be warranted, but lets wait and see if anyone starts to complain (then again,
Wikipedia:Global rights policy#Stewards says Stewards should not use their global rights to perform tasks that could be performed by local usersand the imports and associated chaos could have been done by one of our two local importers; per Wikipedia:Global rights policy#Removal of rights -
A user who abuses their global rights by knowingly or recklessly using their global rights on the English Wikipedia in contravention of this policy should be reported to meta:Stewards' noticeboard or #wikimedia-stewards immediately, where the stewards will determine whether an emergency removal of tools is required.- lets see if anyone calls for emergency destewardship before deciding. Could be considered reckless...) -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:50, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi. I saw you just import uploaded a number of revisions (that appear to have been originally from enwiki???). From what I can see, you were only able to do that because of your global rights as a steward - is this use of steward rights allowed? Just wondering -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:18, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
on
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06:26, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Rebestalic
I have come to ask about the statistics churner at https://tools.wmflabs.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org; I believe you created it (along with two friends, how awesome)
Is there a way to find weekly results rather than daily or monthly results? If so, that would make life so much easier when trying to gather data for Top 25 Reports as I wouldn't need to bother more experienced Top 25 authors to help
Now, after reading a bit of your user page (I hope that doesn't make me seem like a stalker), I see you're from NYC--well, that's fantastic because Andrew Cuomo showed up on last week's Top 25 😂
Thank you (and keep loving music because you're not alone), Rebestalic [dubious—discuss] 05:20, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
You are no stalker by reading my userpage, that's why it's there :) Indeed, I am a proud New Yorker. Neat to see my governor in the Top 25, though given current events this doesn't surprise me! Best, — MusikAnimal talk 19:51, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal,
I have a question for you about MusikBot. I know there is Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Approved/March 2020 for a record of editors who have received permissions they have requested. Is there a similar list for editors whose requests have been denied? I know that if an editor has requested rights repeatedly, MusikBot posts that fact but I can't find a location where it would get the information, I can't find any archived requests that have been denied or any lists that keep track of this. If this information exists somewhere, could you tell me where to look? Much appreciated! Liz Read! Talk! 01:24, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
I think you may want to consider revoking talk page access here?: [74]? Patient Zero talk 18:44, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi - MusikBot's recent edit at Maathai Supermarkets was "removing as page is not edit-protected" - but the log shows it as being protected until 2 May 2020 - I'm sure there is some explanation?? - Arjayay ( talk) 17:52, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
|action=move
if you wanted the correct icon, or just use {{
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Hey, long time no see. Thanks for adding the graphs and tables to the article. They're very useful. epicgenius ( talk) 16:13, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, I thought might be interested in knowing that I created a new bot framework in Node.js - see mwn. Mostly written on the MWBot as a foundation with some enhancements copied from mw.Api, added some original improvements like automated retry on maxlag and expired token errors, and finally bundled in my own libApi.js functions. Your contributions would be welcome! See issues for a list of open tasks if you like. SD0001 ( talk) 20:06, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
PS: just remembered you're from New York. Being particularly badly-hit, this indeed must be difficult time for you folks. Even my brother is in NYC holed up all alone in a studio apartment all day. Stay safe. SD0001 ( talk) 20:32, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Dear MusikAnimal,
I saw your name in the list of Wikipedia administrators willing to provide copies of deleted articles. Both your Wikipedia name and your user page suggest that you will be open to my request to view a deleted article on a musician. The subject of the article was Menno van Delft and his name was also the title of the article.
I understand you need a reason for my request. Basically it is that I am astounded that the article has disappeared and that I can see no reason for this disappearance. The Dutch, German, Polish and Russian articles on him seem perfectly fine to me and they are still there. My personal interest, apart from the fact that I am a music buff, is that I am the author of the picture that was used in the article ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menno_van_Delft_2019.jpg) (it also is used in the Dutch and Polish articles) and that I hate to see my work disappear without knowing the reason why.
I hope you can help me. If I can, I am prefectly willing to help restore the article. But as I am not its original author, I don’t know if I’ll be up to the task. I can only promise I’ll try. Polla ta deina ( talk) 15:30, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Polla ta deina ( talk) 15:30, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
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You appear to be a very trusted and experienced user. I think you would make a great candidate for beurocrat! You should try! Jcoolbro ( talk) 13:22, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for taking the time to participate in the user feedback round for our desktop improvements prototype. This feedback is super valuable to us and is currently being used to determine our next steps. We have published a report gathering the main takeaways from the feedback and highlighting the changes we’ll make based on this feedback. Please take a look and give us your thoughts on the talk page of the report. To learn more about the project overall and the other features we’re planning on building in the future, check out the main project page.
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Hello, MusikAnimal! :)
Can you help me a bit with some filters? I'm an interface and normal admin at SqQuote and SqWiki and I'm trying to adjust some of EnWiki filters for our projects but I'm not that good with the regex syntax. I needed to get 5 filters in total and Xaosflux already helped me out with 1 of them. You can see our discussion here to learn more if you're interested. I need help with Abuse Filter #29 - New user removing speedy deletion templates, to make it work with our SD templates. If I give you those, can you help me a bit with it? :) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 18:27, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
user_editcount < 50 &
removed_lines irlike "{{\s*(delete|grise)\s*(\||}})" &
!(added_lines irlike "{{\s*(delete|grise)\s*(\||}})")
page_namespace = 0
to equals_to_any(page_namespace, 0, 4, 5)
(adding whatever namespace IDs). Or just remove that line entirely if you want it to apply to all namespaces.
mw:Extension:AbuseFilter/Rules format documents the syntax and available variables in AbuseFilter, if that helps. Best, —
MusikAnimal
talk
19:05, 2 April 2020 (UTC)Thank you! And what about Abuse Filter #231 - Long string of characters containing no spaces? I get what I need to do for the filter to work on all NS now (thanks to you). Other than that, should I change anything else? I ask because I'm not sure what the last line there serves for. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 19:21, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Also, I'm taking the liberty to ask for the final filter I need help with so you can answer for both inquiries when you do have time. :) I need one filter to fight profanities. Filters are the best way to do this, no? I'd like it if we had a Mediawiki page we can add text to and it would automatically block that text used anywhere on the project. I'm 80% sure a page like that doesn't exist so filters it is. :P You have a lot of filters against this kind of vandalism. What do you suggest me to get? Also, definitely I'd need the most help in this one because of the nature of the filter itself: It needs to be able to filter different variations of the same word. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 05:16, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
bad_word := ...
) with a list of profane Albanian words, separated by pipe characters. So bad_word := "foo|bar|baz";
would disallow the addition of the words "foo", "bar" and "baz" (case insensitive). Keep in mind these could be part of a larger, constructive word. You can get around this by using the \b
word boundary token. So let's assume "foo" is a bad word, but "food" is a good word. Your regex should look like "foo\b|bar|baz"
, such that "foo" doesn't match "food". Hope this makes sense, —
MusikAnimal
talk
20:51, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
user_editcount < 50
with !("sysop" in user_groups)
(I assume your crats are also admins). You could check for any number of specific groups with something like !contains_any(user_groups, "sysop", "bureaucrat")
. I quickly looked at your filter implementations and they look good to me, and appear to correctly working too. You can't delete filters like you can a page. Instead, you just mark them as deleted so they don't pollute the list at
Special:AbuseFilter. Hope this helps! Sounds like you have everything you need, but as a FYI, we have many AbuseFilter experts at
WP:EFN, and
mw:Extension talk:AbuseFilter also has many watchers. I of course don't mind helping at all, but you may get quicker replies at those venues. Best, —
MusikAnimal
talk
16:25, 13 April 2020 (UTC)Thank you for replying! :)) The reason I didn't write anywhere else was because I was at the end of my problem, if you understand what I mean.
Final question: Is there a way to group similar words together at our 6th filter? The list just keeps getting larger and larger if I put every possible variation of a word/expression. If I'm not wrong, I've seen some of your anti-vandalism filters work by groups like that.
PS: I've seen you're from New York. I really hope these hard times will be over soon for all of you. Stay safe! - Klein Muçi ( talk) 16:52, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
ab[cde]
will match "abc", "abd", and "abe". Just remember the more complex the regular expression, the harder it may become to maintain. Also note that without word boundaries some other words are inherently matched. For instance pordh|pordhe|pordhë
could just be pordh
because the other two include "pordh". These two tricks should trim down your list some.Thank you for the kind words. Fortunately, New Yorkers are tough. We will be fine :) — MusikAnimal talk 21:30, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello MusikAnimal: Something I noticed, at Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Schedule, MusikBot did not select an article for week 17, so it's all red-linked on the page. If you could look into this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your consideration, North America 1000 00:46, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hey MusikAnimal, I was curious why you imported a bunch of templates/modules on April 1? Especially since it appears they were imported from Wikipedia, given that's the interwiki prefix that was used for the usernames. I noticed this after importing some of these templates/modules to another wiki and looked through the changes only to see most of them had no actual changes and some interesting edit summaries. Thanks! 「 ディノ奴 千?!」 ☎ Dinoguy1000 02:50, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Template:Uw-copyright-org has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 03:10, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi MusikAnimal. Some help please. A recent edit to the Norfolk Coast Path by Jonathan.barber includes a map of the path. On the commons page he's added that he has third pary permission to use it. I'm not sure about copyrights. Can you take a look please. Thanks Northmetpit ( talk) 13:38, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal,
despite the IP-adress, I am a long term contributor with account in the German Wikipedia. I use the edit counter since a very long time and am always happy to see how many people read my (mainly politics-related) articles ;-) Hence, thank you very much for it.
To the hard facts: I have some ideas for improvements. Firstly, in the German version which is directly linked (though with a very small font) under each article on the very end of the page as "Abrufstatistik", the first item appearing directly below the graph on the counter page is "Seitenaufrufe", which roughly means "page impressions" or "single reads". Random Example: CIA. As you can see, in this article this is about 14.000 - but: There is no reference time span provided to which this number is related. For me it is easy to calculate that it is the whole month, but by a newbie or persons not having any clue about the popularity of the WP, this may easily be wrongly interpreted as the "Overall Count" since whenever. Hence, it would make great sense to provide the reference time span directly behind the term "Seitenaufrufe" or so. I understand that this might be not as easy due to the fact that the user can change the time span.
Second and more signifcant to me: It would be great to have an "Overall viewing count" since day 1 of the article - shown as a standard without having to modify the chooseable time ranges. This creation date might also be provided, e.g.: "Since the creation of this article on 12-10-2004, it was accessed 26.736.925 times." This is of course not of great practical value, but would give an (no question) astonishing impression to each viewer and particularly to the article authors, because I think this would generally make for an impressive number - further signifying the relevance of the WP, but also giving the authors some joy ;-) And to be honest: For the hundreds of hours of work put into it, the sense of achievement (from other folks than other WP authors who often just complain and critize) an author gets is awfully low, namely and typically zero ;-) I assume that the summing up over years can not be carried out each time the counter is accessed - maybe this might be solved by doing it only once a day (or even less often) and caching this result, or similar. The number needs not be exact to the per mil during the whole day, I might add ;-) Just my 2 cents - otherwise, a great tool. Thanks again. 217.7.150.122 ( talk) 07:58, 1 May 2020 (UTC) Edit, some time later: Just saw that the counter has an earliest chooseable date somewhere in 2015, hence my "whole count" idea is - hm - probably impossible. My above example 'CIA' has one million since then. 217.7.150.122 ( talk) 08:36, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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Morebits.date
class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using getUTCMonthName
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with Date
objects, those have been deprecated and should
be updated.Hope everyone stays safe. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)