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The beach promenade in
Kühlungsborn, Germany runs along the
coast of the Baltic Sea.
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My page is not appearing on Google search. Sham Kumar Monger ( talk) 14:18, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Can I get you to remove the protection you put on Template:Taxonbar/Link. It has barely a handful of trasclusions and is certainly not highly visible any longer. Thank you, — Uzume ( talk) 19:02, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
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Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19 (May 9) | |
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Hello, I'd understand if this would be infeasible, but would you be able to have an edit count report generated for Ronhjones, who passed away last year (as I recently found out)? I can't get the XTools to generate one because he made so many edits. I'd be most interested in the top ten or so pages edited in the first few namespaces (i.e. main/talk, user/user talk, Wikipedia/Wikipedia talk), but the yearly/monthly edit counts would be interesting too. Thanks! Graham 87 14:58, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
The original map by John Snow showing the
clusters of
cholera cases in the London
epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using
human geography.
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mw.config.exists()
or mw.user.tokens.exists()
. You can use exists()
or get()
to check one at a time instead.
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20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
Is it legal to report a sockpuppetry investigation after 3 weeks+ from the time when it was done? Eg: sockpuppetry was done on 24th April but today is 12th May. Dinopce ( talk) 08:26, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello M. I hope you are well. When you have a moment would you please take a look at this thread User talk:Anarchyte#FYI. After I posted it I realized that A might have thought that your bot would remove the template. I haven't seen any redirect PP templates removed by that bot so I don't know if it is set up to get those or not so I thought I would double check with you. Best regards and stay safe. MarnetteD| Talk 02:35, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in 2018
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17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
I must inquire,
to you, dear sire,
concerning
this,
if possible is,
to add a function,
so that instead of removal,
we have correction.
This would be of great help o'erall.
Regarding the poetry: Since you so kindly propose / this idea, I dare not oppose RandomCanadian ( talk | contribs) 21:54, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
Can the bot be programmed not to edit war with human editors? I kept trying to restore some discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Template editor but the bot was too quick for me. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 14:05, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
{{done}}
to {{tl|done}}
, or simply make a comment so that the bot knows discussion is ongoing. You could do this in the same edit that you use to restore the discussion. Detecting edit wars would be nice but this is a lot of work and would probably be error prone. Apologies for any headaches. —
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23:30, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Abu Nuwas drawn by
Khalil Gibran in 1916
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14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
An
invention is a unique or
novel
device, method, composition or process, and the invention process is a process within an overall
engineering and product development process.
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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Can admin of this bot please update my edit count at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback, which is wrongly listed? Krishna Murthy DL ( talk) 07:46, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
I am in receipt of your kind favor of the latest instant. -- Deep fried okra (schalte ein) 13:44, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
PvtHudson Backup 3.5 appears to be a sock of User:PvtHudson Backup 3.0. Could you please block. --Stay safe, ◊PRAHLAD balaji ( M•T•A• C) This message was left at 14:41, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Anna Holmlund in 2015 at the FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 Finals
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<b/>
is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr
can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in
a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in
Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references />
or <ref />
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[25]WikidataPageBanner
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21:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
This should be easy (I hope), but when rights are assigned temporarily can the tool write it like " Done Granted till DD-MM-YYYY." That would be quite helpful. -- qedk ( t 愛 c) 15:25, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
The Panama Canal is an example of a
ship canal.
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test the new features on the
Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.– Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
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Hello MusikAnimal,
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
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William Mariner was an Englishman who lived in Tonga from 29 November 1806 to (probably) 8 November 1810. He later published Tonga Islands, an account of his experiences that is now one of the major sources of information on Tonga before it was significantly influenced by European culture and Christianity. Pictured is Mariner in Tongan attire.
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MusikBot II blocked. Request for Auto Wiki Browser the web browser on Android — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hassan Kibiti ( talk • contribs)
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18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:Sjones23#Re: WikiProject Anime category scheme. — Goszei ( talk) 07:59, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Apelles painting Campaspe, an artwork by
Willem van Haecht, circa 1630, depicting people surrounded by
fine art
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RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page! 47.227.95.73 ( talk) 15:19, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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It was brought up that Twinkle doesn't respect MOS:ORDER when adding deletion or protection tags to pages. I gave it a whirl for TW, but realized that MusikBot II was probably doing the same thing. Not exactly an urgent concern, but in theory she probably should too. I expanded Twinkle's string to check for hatnotes if you're curious; it seems to work but is getting a bit unwieldy. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 15:12, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
|small=yes
, the placement within the wikitext is less important since visually it's always at the top-right. For this reason I'm not sure it's worth the complexity to implement this logic for the FixPP task, but perhaps it is for Twinkle since it has an option to use the full-width variant. You might also want to check for manual hatnotes, as with :''For so-and-so, see [[Foobar]]''
. I imagine an all-encompassing regular expression would be unwieldy, for sure! Regards, —
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talk
15:50, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
{{pp}}
(as opposed to {{pp|small=yes}}
). Twinkle let's you do the former, while MusikBot II always adds |small=yes
so that the reading experience is unaffected.
MOS:ORDER I can assume is about visual ordering; with a screen reader I shouldn't have to go through a series of deletion/maintenance templates to then finally find the hatnote which tells me I'm on the wrong page. One might argue there's value in being consistent within the wikitext too, but it seems like a trivial matters, as you say, and full-width protection banners are rarely used as it is. —
MusikAnimal
talk
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The phrase "
omakase" is most commonly used when dining at Japanese restaurants where the customer leaves it up to the chef to select and serve seasonal specialties. Pictured is omakase at a restaurant.
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16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Printable version
link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway.
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19:11, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
◊PRAHLAD balaji ( M•T•A• C) This message was left at 17:14, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
I wonder why Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Approved/August 2020 ( perma) has already been created by MusikBot. Obviously not a fatal error, I just stumbled on it. Nardog ( talk) 16:03, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal,
the automatic removal of incorrect protection templates makes it hard to deal with vandalism such as at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Code page 875, of which Wikipedia currently receives a lot.
Special:Diff/969944700 is a temporary and hopefully uncontroversial measure until a solution is found.
Best regards,
~ ToBeFree (
talk)
09:27, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi, we're doing a research regarding Stocks prediction and we want to use Wikipedia statistics as you provide, but we need data per minute. Do you know if we can get this information? How many users access a specific page per minute or hour.
Thanks so much! Matan 85.64.2.190 ( talk) 14:05, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
The enwiki_p replag is at about 75 hours and climbing right now thanks to phab:T254462. That's caused MusikBot to not notice a user rights change Special:Diff/970374232, causing minor confusion. You might want to add something to handle this. -- AntiCompositeNumber ( talk) 23:35, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I want to recreate Joy Rianne Goedkoop, a page you deleted. As I don’t know it will be a similar page, can I see the page content of the deleted page? SportsOlympic ( talk) 17:49, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Joy Rianne Goedkoop (born 5 November 1993) is a Dutch female artistic gymnast and part of the national team. She participated at the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and at the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. [1]
Jackmcbarn ( talk) 04:08, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
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The MusikBot Database reports/Stale drafts, lists drafts, that have already been saved from G13, such as Draft:Hamish Michael Techie3 ( talk) 12:48, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you are able to increase the time limit the MusikBot is set to remove protection icons from unprotected pages by a couple minutes or so? Currently, the time limit is set to a very short amount of time. As you can see on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society, the MusikBot comes in and immediately removes the protection icon set my the LTA account and makes it very difficult to rollback their edits across their many AfD's that they vandalized. If you can increase the time limit the bot can function off of, that'll be ideal. But if not, then no worries. Thank you. ɴᴋᴏɴ21 ❯❯❯ talk 18:19, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an example of a
New World crop, a crop native to the
New World (mostly
the Americas) before
1492 CE and not found anywhere else at that time.
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identifier is now searchButton
. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in
T255953. This was previously mentioned in
issue 27.counter
to prevent large archives was changed.
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Abraham Ortelius's
world map, from the
Typus Orbis Terrarum ("Theatre of the Orb of the World") atlas, first published in 1564
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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, hope you're doing well. I moved Arya Linux (OS) (an unsourced page created by other user) to draftspace using the MoveToDraft scrip, but after the page redirect was deleted under R2 it appeared on my article creations list [70]. Is there any way to remove this from the list? Thanks TheBirdsShedTears ( talk) 17:00, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
August 16, 3pm: Great American Wiknic | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our annual summer Great American Wiknic, this year being held virtually. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! Featuring artist-Wikimedian Sara Clugage's "Picnics: An Outside History" for a cultural exploration of picnicking, knowledge and society during the national panel in the first part. We encourage you to call in for the second part from a local park or natural site and share it on the video stream, as well as sharing your favorite picnic grub or other special foods with us. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. The Wiknic is taking the place of "WikiWednesday" this month, so we will also include salon and knowledge-sharing workshop aspects.
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An
act is a division or unit of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, and musical theatre. Pictured is a visual representation of the
three-act structure.
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Can you teach your bot not to tell blocked users "if you do not resume editing ..." - which may come across as little empathy ;) - Tell me how you solve it, because I face a similar problem. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:38, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
Delivery is the process of transporting goods from a source location to a predefined destination. Pictured is a man delivering charcoal by bicycle in Uganda.
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MusikAnimal, it looks like MusikBot is down. Its last edit was at 20:00, 25 August 2020 (UTC), which means, among other things, it has missed two updates on the DYK nominations page. (I've done manual edits to make up for the lack both times.)
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Skurfing as a sport has two common forms: "water skurfing" and "street skurfing". Pictured is an example of water skurfing, water skiing on a surfboard.
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Hello MusikAnimal! The amazing MusikBot is refusing to subscribe me to new filters :( It says "08:23 <MusikBot> Your IRC nick must be identified to subscribe to filters. See https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration", but I'm sure that I am identified. It is even continuing to honor my previous filter subscriptions. Can you see what is up? I was trying to subscribe to filter 1082, which I just created. Thanks! ST47 ( talk) 12:25, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
/msg nickserv ACC ST47
and indeed it suggests you are logged in. Could you try again? Sorry, this is really hard to debug. I can confirm I'm able to subscribe to filters. —
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I thought all restrictions were removed?? I have never posted anything that wasn't true, Any amendments were either factual or removing bias Hollandnigel ( talk) 23:22, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
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The
history of Asian art includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions. Pictured is Buddhist Temple in the Mountains, 11th century, China, ink on silk, by
Li Cheng.
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I need protection on Wikipedia page Mr.chinmayroy ( talk) 05:56, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, MusikAnimal,
I don't know if you've noticed but this daily report has recently been blank. I wanted to let you know that it's not a problem with MusikBot but a change in editor behavior. Some editors are getting ahead of the report and tagging stale drafts in the 24 hours between when the drafts are eligible but before the report gets posted. I noticed this change earlier in the month and it's not one editor but a variety of editors. I'm not sure of why this change happened but I wanted to let you know in case you thought it was a problem with the bot. Liz Read! Talk! 00:35, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
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Who is the chor club of India?? It shows east bengal..
May I know why?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.163.72.15 ( talk) 12:32, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I was about to report you an issue with MB II and Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates until I saw you are an interface admin. The report is at the noticeboard to give you the full picture. Since September 19 the bot only removes pages from 0 to ete (before this request it only removed pages from 0 to aho). Like with AHollender, ThePenguin contacted other editors that are active and can remove the templates without problem. The user pages listed at IAN, however, are inactive and whose protection problem is mostly solved by an "includeonly" tag (or replacing "pp-template" with "pp-protected" in those pages that are truly protected). Although the current number of pages is low, it was because ThePenguin and I have been removing those templates since this problem started, but it would be better if the bot worked as intended. Thansk for your attention. (CC) Tbhotch ™ 02:16, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi. FYI: Please see Special:Diff/980565255, bot removed my request in error. -- CptViraj ( talk) 08:25, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hi MusikAnimal. WP:TAFIN hasn't been been maintained since the end of July. Would you take a look? — JJMC89 ( T· C) 22:44, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal
There seems to be something odd happening with the User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector task.
Over the last few months, I have watched the task protecting several templates which I have deployed, all in accordance with User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector/config. Thanks for your good work in automating this task.
However, something odd is happening with Template:YYYY in nationality sport category header and its two sub-templates /outer core and /inner core.
I began deploying them widely around mid-September, and on 17 Sept, the bot helpfully semi-protected Template:YYYY in nationality sport category header: [92]
A few days later, the transclusion count passed 5,000 ... but the protection level has not been upgraded to templateeditor, as it should be per the config.
I assumed that this was some side-effect of the huge lag on the replication servers as they were reconfigured, and that everything would sort itself out in a few days. But the lag cleared last week (around 22 or 23 Sept, AFAICR) ... yet the protection has not been upgraded.
The transclusion count https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=YYYY_in_nationality_sport_category_header is currently showing 9,976, and it has been showing over 7,000 for several days. So I expected the bot to act, but it hasn't.
This is an intricate template with 2 sub-templates, and over 10,000 categories are now wholly reliant on it, so I think needs the higher protection. I can easily list it at WP:RFPP, but I just wanted to check with you what the score is with the bot. Have I misunderstood its config? Or has it somehow failed to recover yet from the great lag?
Thanks, -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 09:03, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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Many species can
live at high altitudes. For example, the
Himalayan pika lives at altitudes up to 4,200 m (13,800 ft).
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Hello can you help me to protect my article and give me some information how i can correct my article as good way — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acafix2 ( talk • contribs) 11:20, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
108.49.100.163 ( talk) 22:48, 18 October 2020 (UTC) One year ago, I noticed you reverted my changes to Line Haddad's page because I was just giving her full birthdate based on what I found about her on the Olympic Sport Reference website. I was not trying to vandalize the page or anything; I was just trying to give more information that people should know about.
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Hi, why did this edit take so long to be broadcast to watchlists? Had the bot crashed? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 21:29, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Darn you! You beat me to it by mere seconds! ;-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 01:46, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, why is MusikBot II protecting template /doc pages? Example. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 19:21, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
ignore_offset
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<noinclude>...</noinclude>
at
Template:Infobox station and
Template:Infobox station/sandbox means that it shouldn't be transcluded to any articles at all. Something strange is going on. --
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Institutions and organizations of the United Nations, an intergovernmental
organization
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Template:Talk header preload has been nominated for merging with Template:Usercomment. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:01, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
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standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people.( American Politics 2 Arbitration case).
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You have locked it with wrong information it’s headquarter is located in US, please make this account protected after marking correct information Tayyabkk1 ( talk) 06:10, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
I need you to unlock the falafel page as it has bias and inaccurate information — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reinhearted ( talk • contribs) 03:50, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello, can you help me for protecting Isyana Sarasvati article? Yemimas29 ( talk) 06:32, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I think your bot does the G13 database report. WP:G13 actually seems to only count human edits, although your query will count any edit. There's a few discussions scattered around various pages about a bot run that caused a lot of pages to be omitted from the G13 eligible cats. I wrote a Quarry which filters out bot edits ( here), and it says ~1017 currently eligible for G13 (~1250 from tomorrow), although Wikipedia:Database reports/Stale drafts says there is a backlog of 0 ( bot query). I was wondeering if it may be a good idea to update that with the bot check from mine, so it excludes bot edits on the report? ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 17:53, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
An example of
Chinese folklore is
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, a Chinese folk tale. Pictured is a depiction in the tale of the reunion of the couple of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd on the bridge of magpies. The artwork displayed is in the Long Corridor of the
Summer Palace in Beijing.
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I didn't want to close it because of not taking risk (and apparently there's not a malfunctioning). Could you check its error log? Thanks.-- Ahmetlii ( talk) 18:21, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
An illustration of the Pre-Columbian abacus, the
Nepohualtzintzin, one of the many
pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans.
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In
macroeconomics, an
industry is a branch of an
economy that
produces a closely related set of
raw materials,
goods, or
services. Pictured is a cement factory in Malmö, Sweden, which is a part of the manufacturing industry.
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in 2013 Spanish singer
Julio Iglesias was celebrated for being the artist in
Latin music with the most records sold in history.
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Hi MusikAnimal. Your bot, MusikBot II, seems to be inappropriately protecting a subpage of a template: Template:Service awards/compose/sandbox. It has already been unprotected once, by request at RFPP, but the bot has protected it again. I'm trying to figure out why the bot would be protecting a template subpage as a "high-risk template" when it only has 22 transclusions. My guess is that the bot is programmed to protect template subpages when they are transcluded in the main template, because many templates are constructed in such a way where various elements are defined in subpages and the main template transcludes all of those subpages to create the final template. Therefore, if the main template is a high-risk template, then any template subpages that are transcluded to it should also be considered high-risk templates.
I worry that this might be too simplistic of an algorithm, and it will result in the inappropriate protection of many pages. For instance, in the case of Template:Service awards/compose/sandbox, it is true that Template:Service awards appears in the list of pages that transclude that subpage. However, tracing the path of that transclusion shows that it truly is a benign sandbox that should not be protected:
I realize that in order to avoid this error, your bot would need to investigate the "lineage" of transclusion from all subpages that are transcluded to a high-risk template, to understand if they are really part of that template, or if they are wrapped in noinclude tags are some point. And that is likely not a trivial task. However, until that can be done, I wonder if your bot should really be attempting to protect template subpages at all...
I'll unprotect this subpage for now, but I expect the bot will probably re-protect it at some point. ‑Scottywong | [express] || 16:46, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
using the sandbox page to give an example of what the template looks like for people that are viewing the template page itselfProviding the template copy on the template page directly is very rare, and the practice is most-often (maybe even 'standard') to provide an example in the context of the documentation block, or (much more rarely) to re-embed the template example directly in the template itself (I bumped into a few of these {{ ds/alert}} way). -- Izno ( talk) 20:54, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
exclusions
list, or specify a regular expression in the regex_exclusions
. See documentation at
User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector. I've no reservation against excluding service award sandboxes, if you want, but I would argue against excluding all template sandboxes. —
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This is not a problem with the bot. The /compose/sandbox template was being erroneously called by the main template until Special:Diff/991794151 * Pppery * it has begun... 03:37, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement was moved to Wikipedia:Articles for improvement per Special:PermaLink/989870710#Requested move 23 October 2020. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 19:31, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi @ MusikAnimal, JJMC89, and Sdkb: Thanks for the notification here. From spot-checking various pages, subpages (e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2020/48/1) and templates, things appear to be in order, in that the new project title is being used. However, I did notice that, for example, when editing the Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2020/48 page, the following is in place:
{{/1}} is the '''[[Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement|TAFI]]''' article for week {{SUBPAGENAME}} in the year 2019. It is currently [[Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/{{#time:o}}/{{CURRENTWEEK}}|week {{CURRENTWEEK}}]]{{#ifeq:{{CURRENTYEAR}}|2020|| in the year {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}.
Notice how the old project name continues to be used. If I'm not mistaken, it appears that MusikBot automatically generates these pages. If this is the case, it would likely be best to 1) change the links such as "[[Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement|TAFI]]" and others so that it goes directly to the main page without redirecting, and 2) update the script for links/pages that are generated to match everything else, so it's all consistent. North America 1000 06:10, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
@ MusikAnimal and Sdkb:Still having some problems at the Schedule page. For example, see this diff, scroll down to the Christmas ham entry, and then notice how the page titles are still the old "Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement". The result is red links instead of images and image captions. The [edit picture selection] and [edit caption] links go to the new project pages that I just added information for, but on the Schedule page, the old page name is being displayed. North America 1000 16:37, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Some traditional foods in
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Hello MusikAnimal,
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
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4 | Onel5969 ( talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | JTtheOG ( talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | Mcampany ( talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven ( talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Mccapra ( talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Hughesdarren ( talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
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5th Calipha Is Not Our Islamic Calipha Kindly Change It Otherwise Remove It Because It Gives Negative Impact On Islam.Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.36.152.221 ( talk) 19:22, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
He claims to be a caliph but he is not, there is no such thing as ahmadiyya muslim, Islam is only one and only anyone can join it just do read Quran if you want to learn about Islam, we welcome all our brothers and sisters to read quran freely and learn about our religion and culture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.152.101.6 ( talk) 19:47, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hey Musik! Wanted to follow up on this from VPT if you have time. I couldn't get the span method to work (see reply there). Any ideas? ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 11:26, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Sdkb and MusikAnimal: Just a heads up to those involved, Template:AFI/Collaborations of the day is goofed up, with a big red link atop, because it has not been configured with the new project name. It seems that the bot is involved with this, so posting here. North America 1000 06:27, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
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You have no permission to add or remove any information from any tribe history as you did. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pashtoonyad ( talk • contribs) 23:39, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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Might want to revoke their talkpage access.-- MONGO ( talk) 19:22, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
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Dear MusikAnimal, I recently drafted my first article for Wikipedia, and when it was deleted almost at once, I was referred to a list of Users who could help reinstate the deleted draft for me. I clicked on your name more or less at random (though as a musician myself I was drawn to it). So I was trying to follow the directions carefully, and thought I was creating a draft that I would be able to come back to and keep working on before actually submitting it for review. But it seems to have gotten deleted before I could even get to the next step with it. It's not a vanity or promotion piece, and there's quite a bit more to do in terms of sourcing and documentation. Any help you might be able to give me would be much appreciated. All best wishes to you. Joseph1772 ( talk) 16:17, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi, why is MusikBot II protecting template sandboxes, specifically Template:WPBannerMeta/core/sandbox? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 00:06, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Note also the bot links to the
documentation in the protection summary, which reads …template sandboxes are sometimes erroneously called by non-sandbox template … The fix in this situation is to not transclude the sandbox.
I assume the same holds true here. We could adjust the bot's config to ignore sandboxes, but in my opinion sandboxes should not be transcluded for large-scale testing like this. Instead you can use "Preview page with this template" feature to test your changes; or if feasible (not so much in this case), simply implement the sandbox code directly into the caller template, which has the same impact on the job queue and is just as easy to revert. —
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Is there any way to get a list of previous range blocks that affected a particular IP or some (sub)set of a range? Or a task hiding somewhere on Phab? -- Izno ( talk) 21:18, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
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Dear MusikAnimal, I recently updated Javed Jabbar's page based on his request. He had mentioned to me that the information is misleading and sent me a detailed write up on himself along with the link to his website. It seems to be reverted back.
Can you please help me update it? Please see below his draft:
Javed Jabbar ( Urdu: جاوید جبار ) ( www.javedjabbar.net) has distinctions in diverse fields. He is a public intellectual who resides in Karachi, Pakistan and contributes to leading think tanks, research centres, public forums on a range of subjects. He has received numerous international and national honours for his services and achievements.
He is the husband of Shabnam Jabbar, an independent entrepreneur, designer and home-maker. They have two children: Mehreen Jabbar, the award-winning director of TV plays and cinema films; Barrister Kamal Kadeer Jabbar who specializes in banking and financial law and is a partner in Keystone Law, Dubai. His grandson is Zaka Zahir Jabbar who is exploring the marvels of school education.
Javed Jabbar's 15th book "Pathways --- selected writings 2010-2015" won the UBL Literature Prize for the Best English non-fiction book at the 9th Karachi Literature Festival 2017. His 16th book " What is Pakistaniat?" is prescribed in leading education and training institutions.
He devotes substantial working time to voluntary work for several public service organizations. He is presently the Chairman, and co-founder (with economist Dr. Hafiz Pasha in 1995) of the Social Policy & Development Centre, (SPDC, www.spdc.org.pk) Karachi, one of Asia's most reputed independent research centres and think tanks. SPDC has 700 publications to date. He is the founding chairman of the South Asian Media Association, Colombo, 1992.
He is present Chairperson and co-founder (1994) of SPO ( Strengthening Participatory Organization,( www.spopk.org ) which works in the development sector at the grass-roots level across Pakistan. He is present Chairman and co-founder of SOS Children's Villages of Sindh,( founded 1982 ) and Member, Board of Governors of SOS Pakistan which cares for hundreds of orphaned and abandoned children and provides vocational training to youth. He is founding president since 1985 of, Baanhn Beli ( www.bannhnbeli.org), the pioneer public service organization of Tharparkar, and also works in other parts of Sindh. He is founding Chairman, Publican Alumni Trust (since 2010) which operates a reputed school for students from low-income families in Korangi, Karachi. Javed Jabbar is Chairman, Advisory Council, Malir University of Science and Technology, Karachi and Member, Board of Directors, National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA).
From his school years at Cantonment Public School , Karachi , St Patrick's College and the University of Karachi 1963-66, and thereafter, he has founded or been elected to lead a large number of initiatives and organizations in Pakistan and in overseas countries.
He is a former Senator and has served in 3 Federal Cabinets as Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Science and Technology, Petroleum and Natural Resources, and Adviser to the Chief Executive of Pakistan on National Affairs. He has represented Pakistan at major UN conferences. New laws and policies initiated by him have introduced major reforms in different sectors, particularly the inception of private TV and radio channels and freedom of information. Among several conflict management and conflict resolution initiatives he is associated with, he is a Member since 1992 of the longest-running, quiet, non-media-reported Pakistan-India Track II Dialogue known as the Neemrana Initiative, suspended since 2015 .
He was elected global Vice President of IUCN ( www.iucn.org) for 8 years, 2004-2012 in the world's oldest and largest environment organization comprising over 130 countries. In 2019, he was invited to serve on an honorary basis as Adviser to the National Curriculum Council.
In the past 10 years, he has been appointed by the Supreme Court and High Courts as amicus curiae and to serve as mediator to ( successfully ) resolve media conflicts, and as Member of the Media Commission, 2013 whose landmark report was written by him. He frequently writes on a range of subjects, including national history, current affairs and political economy for leading journals.
He has received numerous national and international awards and recognition for his work in diverse fields such as writing, film-making, voluntary service, environment. The cinema film "Ramchand Pakistani" (2008) of which he was the writer and producer --- and which was directed by his daughter Mehreen Jabbar --- won several international awards in Europe and Asia. In 1976, Pakistan's first -- and so far, only -- English language cinema film "Beyond the Last Mountain" (Urdu version: " Musafir ") which he wrote, produced and directed was screened to laudatory reviews at several international film festivals. He has written and directed dozens of popular and award-winning TV commercials and documentaries .
In December 2019, at Adasia 2019 in Lahore the Asian Federation of Advertising Associations inducted him into its Hall of Fame for his distinctive contributions to mass communications. In February 2020, the All Pakistan Newspapers' Society presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015, the Pakistan Society of Advertisers presented its first Lifetime Achievement Award to him.
The Human Rights Society of Pakistan presented him with a Gold Medal for outstanding public service .He is a visiting professor at leading institutions in Pakistan and overseas.
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Cooked
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Javed Jabbar wiki page
I am family friend of javed Jabbar who has requested me to help update the page with information about him. Can you please help me update with accurate information?
Zenfixer ( talk) 09:30, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi MusikAnimal - you blocked the above as a spam user earlier, you might want to consider talk page access as they just published the spam there (I reverted back to your notice) JW 1961 Talk 18:56, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello, on my application for Pending Changes Reviwer renewal (I had a 3 month trial) you (or a bot of yours) marked mine as already done because I had the role already. I was reapplying so I could get the rank indefinitely, so can you maybe take the comment off? Helpthepeople9 chat? 17:32, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey, would you mind considering not removing protection templates from Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard/sandbox (assuming MusikBot has an exclusion list)? The sandbox should generally match the mainspace page, otherwise there might be an issue when copying back. I think keeping the protection template there is worth it, though I don't have too strong of an opinion here. Elliot321 ( talk | contribs) 04:00, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
{{bots|deny=MusikBot II}}
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This IP range [155] needs a full block, not just from that one page. Thank you. Crossroads -talk- 21:47, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. On 12 January 2021 you blocked
182.64.0.0/16 (
talk ·
contribs) from editing the namespaces User, User talk and Template with an expiration time of 6 months
182.64.12.201 (
talk ·
contribs) has, today, created 3 draft articles - all with deliberate errors
Draft:Gagalheri is a retitling of
Kailashpur with the same population figures and reference - initially it claimed it is in
Harit Pradesh - a proposed, but non-existent state, which I changed before I smelt a rat.
Draft:Buggawala claims it is the non-existant
Buggawala district and has 2 references - both about totally different places - the dot on the map is also outside the claimed state.
Draft:Mohand Saharanpur reuses one of those references about another village, claims it is the non-existent state of
Saharanpur which is actually a district in Uttar Pradesh, not Uttarakhand, as shown on the map.
I don't know what vandalism caused the 6 month block, but it looks as if they are using Draft articles to try and circumvent that block -
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Hello Sir, I had made a request for rollback permission at WP:RFP/R on 25th of Jan but there is no progress related to that request. I request you to kindly look into this matter. Thankyou Peerzada Mohammad Iflaq ( talk) 20:03, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
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My page is not appearing on Google search. Sham Kumar Monger ( talk) 14:18, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Can I get you to remove the protection you put on Template:Taxonbar/Link. It has barely a handful of trasclusions and is certainly not highly visible any longer. Thank you, — Uzume ( talk) 19:02, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, I'd understand if this would be infeasible, but would you be able to have an edit count report generated for Ronhjones, who passed away last year (as I recently found out)? I can't get the XTools to generate one because he made so many edits. I'd be most interested in the top ten or so pages edited in the first few namespaces (i.e. main/talk, user/user talk, Wikipedia/Wikipedia talk), but the yearly/monthly edit counts would be interesting too. Thanks! Graham 87 14:58, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
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epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using
human geography.
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Is it legal to report a sockpuppetry investigation after 3 weeks+ from the time when it was done? Eg: sockpuppetry was done on 24th April but today is 12th May. Dinopce ( talk) 08:26, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
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Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in 2018
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I must inquire,
to you, dear sire,
concerning
this,
if possible is,
to add a function,
so that instead of removal,
we have correction.
This would be of great help o'erall.
Regarding the poetry: Since you so kindly propose / this idea, I dare not oppose RandomCanadian ( talk | contribs) 21:54, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
Can the bot be programmed not to edit war with human editors? I kept trying to restore some discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Template editor but the bot was too quick for me. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 14:05, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
{{done}}
to {{tl|done}}
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Abu Nuwas drawn by
Khalil Gibran in 1916
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An
invention is a unique or
novel
device, method, composition or process, and the invention process is a process within an overall
engineering and product development process.
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Can admin of this bot please update my edit count at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback, which is wrongly listed? Krishna Murthy DL ( talk) 07:46, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
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Anna Holmlund in 2015 at the FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 Finals
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This should be easy (I hope), but when rights are assigned temporarily can the tool write it like " Done Granted till DD-MM-YYYY." That would be quite helpful. -- qedk ( t 愛 c) 15:25, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
The Panama Canal is an example of a
ship canal.
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William Mariner was an Englishman who lived in Tonga from 29 November 1806 to (probably) 8 November 1810. He later published Tonga Islands, an account of his experiences that is now one of the major sources of information on Tonga before it was significantly influenced by European culture and Christianity. Pictured is Mariner in Tongan attire.
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Apelles painting Campaspe, an artwork by
Willem van Haecht, circa 1630, depicting people surrounded by
fine art
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all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page! 47.227.95.73 ( talk) 15:19, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
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Hello, MusikAnimal.
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It was brought up that Twinkle doesn't respect MOS:ORDER when adding deletion or protection tags to pages. I gave it a whirl for TW, but realized that MusikBot II was probably doing the same thing. Not exactly an urgent concern, but in theory she probably should too. I expanded Twinkle's string to check for hatnotes if you're curious; it seems to work but is getting a bit unwieldy. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 15:12, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
|small=yes
, the placement within the wikitext is less important since visually it's always at the top-right. For this reason I'm not sure it's worth the complexity to implement this logic for the FixPP task, but perhaps it is for Twinkle since it has an option to use the full-width variant. You might also want to check for manual hatnotes, as with :''For so-and-so, see [[Foobar]]''
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{{pp}}
(as opposed to {{pp|small=yes}}
). Twinkle let's you do the former, while MusikBot II always adds |small=yes
so that the reading experience is unaffected.
MOS:ORDER I can assume is about visual ordering; with a screen reader I shouldn't have to go through a series of deletion/maintenance templates to then finally find the hatnote which tells me I'm on the wrong page. One might argue there's value in being consistent within the wikitext too, but it seems like a trivial matters, as you say, and full-width protection banners are rarely used as it is. —
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The phrase "
omakase" is most commonly used when dining at Japanese restaurants where the customer leaves it up to the chef to select and serve seasonal specialties. Pictured is omakase at a restaurant.
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Hello, MusikAnimal.
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◊PRAHLAD balaji ( M•T•A• C) This message was left at 17:14, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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I wonder why Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Approved/August 2020 ( perma) has already been created by MusikBot. Obviously not a fatal error, I just stumbled on it. Nardog ( talk) 16:03, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal,
the automatic removal of incorrect protection templates makes it hard to deal with vandalism such as at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Code page 875, of which Wikipedia currently receives a lot.
Special:Diff/969944700 is a temporary and hopefully uncontroversial measure until a solution is found.
Best regards,
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09:27, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi, we're doing a research regarding Stocks prediction and we want to use Wikipedia statistics as you provide, but we need data per minute. Do you know if we can get this information? How many users access a specific page per minute or hour.
Thanks so much! Matan 85.64.2.190 ( talk) 14:05, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
The enwiki_p replag is at about 75 hours and climbing right now thanks to phab:T254462. That's caused MusikBot to not notice a user rights change Special:Diff/970374232, causing minor confusion. You might want to add something to handle this. -- AntiCompositeNumber ( talk) 23:35, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I want to recreate Joy Rianne Goedkoop, a page you deleted. As I don’t know it will be a similar page, can I see the page content of the deleted page? SportsOlympic ( talk) 17:49, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Joy Rianne Goedkoop (born 5 November 1993) is a Dutch female artistic gymnast and part of the national team. She participated at the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and at the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. [1]
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The MusikBot Database reports/Stale drafts, lists drafts, that have already been saved from G13, such as Draft:Hamish Michael Techie3 ( talk) 12:48, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you are able to increase the time limit the MusikBot is set to remove protection icons from unprotected pages by a couple minutes or so? Currently, the time limit is set to a very short amount of time. As you can see on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society, the MusikBot comes in and immediately removes the protection icon set my the LTA account and makes it very difficult to rollback their edits across their many AfD's that they vandalized. If you can increase the time limit the bot can function off of, that'll be ideal. But if not, then no worries. Thank you. ɴᴋᴏɴ21 ❯❯❯ talk 18:19, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an example of a
New World crop, a crop native to the
New World (mostly
the Americas) before
1492 CE and not found anywhere else at that time.
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Abraham Ortelius's
world map, from the
Typus Orbis Terrarum ("Theatre of the Orb of the World") atlas, first published in 1564
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Hi, hope you're doing well. I moved Arya Linux (OS) (an unsourced page created by other user) to draftspace using the MoveToDraft scrip, but after the page redirect was deleted under R2 it appeared on my article creations list [70]. Is there any way to remove this from the list? Thanks TheBirdsShedTears ( talk) 17:00, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
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An
act is a division or unit of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, and musical theatre. Pictured is a visual representation of the
three-act structure.
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Can you teach your bot not to tell blocked users "if you do not resume editing ..." - which may come across as little empathy ;) - Tell me how you solve it, because I face a similar problem. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:38, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
Delivery is the process of transporting goods from a source location to a predefined destination. Pictured is a man delivering charcoal by bicycle in Uganda.
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Are the authorship stats ( example) accessible via the xtools API? If not, it would be great if it could be added. In theory, it would enable tools to place deletion notices and the like on the talk pages of the correct editors (though in practice not really because of arrrgh, CSP ...) SD0001 ( talk) 05:31, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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MusikAnimal, it looks like MusikBot is down. Its last edit was at 20:00, 25 August 2020 (UTC), which means, among other things, it has missed two updates on the DYK nominations page. (I've done manual edits to make up for the lack both times.)
Interestingly, DYKUpdateBot was also down for its 00:00, 26 August 2020 (UTC) edits, so it may be that whatever prevented MusikBot from running then also prevented DYKUpdateBot from running; Shubinator had to restart his bot, and I imagine you'll have to restart yours as well. Best of luck, and thanks for the bot! BlueMoonset ( talk) 01:43, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Skurfing as a sport has two common forms: "water skurfing" and "street skurfing". Pictured is an example of water skurfing, water skiing on a surfboard.
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Hello MusikAnimal! The amazing MusikBot is refusing to subscribe me to new filters :( It says "08:23 <MusikBot> Your IRC nick must be identified to subscribe to filters. See https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration", but I'm sure that I am identified. It is even continuing to honor my previous filter subscriptions. Can you see what is up? I was trying to subscribe to filter 1082, which I just created. Thanks! ST47 ( talk) 12:25, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
/msg nickserv ACC ST47
and indeed it suggests you are logged in. Could you try again? Sorry, this is really hard to debug. I can confirm I'm able to subscribe to filters. —
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I thought all restrictions were removed?? I have never posted anything that wasn't true, Any amendments were either factual or removing bias Hollandnigel ( talk) 23:22, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
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The
history of Asian art includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions. Pictured is Buddhist Temple in the Mountains, 11th century, China, ink on silk, by
Li Cheng.
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I need protection on Wikipedia page Mr.chinmayroy ( talk) 05:56, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, MusikAnimal,
I don't know if you've noticed but this daily report has recently been blank. I wanted to let you know that it's not a problem with MusikBot but a change in editor behavior. Some editors are getting ahead of the report and tagging stale drafts in the 24 hours between when the drafts are eligible but before the report gets posted. I noticed this change earlier in the month and it's not one editor but a variety of editors. I'm not sure of why this change happened but I wanted to let you know in case you thought it was a problem with the bot. Liz Read! Talk! 00:35, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
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Who is the chor club of India?? It shows east bengal..
May I know why?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.163.72.15 ( talk) 12:32, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I was about to report you an issue with MB II and Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates until I saw you are an interface admin. The report is at the noticeboard to give you the full picture. Since September 19 the bot only removes pages from 0 to ete (before this request it only removed pages from 0 to aho). Like with AHollender, ThePenguin contacted other editors that are active and can remove the templates without problem. The user pages listed at IAN, however, are inactive and whose protection problem is mostly solved by an "includeonly" tag (or replacing "pp-template" with "pp-protected" in those pages that are truly protected). Although the current number of pages is low, it was because ThePenguin and I have been removing those templates since this problem started, but it would be better if the bot worked as intended. Thansk for your attention. (CC) Tbhotch ™ 02:16, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi. FYI: Please see Special:Diff/980565255, bot removed my request in error. -- CptViraj ( talk) 08:25, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hi MusikAnimal. WP:TAFIN hasn't been been maintained since the end of July. Would you take a look? — JJMC89 ( T· C) 22:44, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal
There seems to be something odd happening with the User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector task.
Over the last few months, I have watched the task protecting several templates which I have deployed, all in accordance with User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector/config. Thanks for your good work in automating this task.
However, something odd is happening with Template:YYYY in nationality sport category header and its two sub-templates /outer core and /inner core.
I began deploying them widely around mid-September, and on 17 Sept, the bot helpfully semi-protected Template:YYYY in nationality sport category header: [92]
A few days later, the transclusion count passed 5,000 ... but the protection level has not been upgraded to templateeditor, as it should be per the config.
I assumed that this was some side-effect of the huge lag on the replication servers as they were reconfigured, and that everything would sort itself out in a few days. But the lag cleared last week (around 22 or 23 Sept, AFAICR) ... yet the protection has not been upgraded.
The transclusion count https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=YYYY_in_nationality_sport_category_header is currently showing 9,976, and it has been showing over 7,000 for several days. So I expected the bot to act, but it hasn't.
This is an intricate template with 2 sub-templates, and over 10,000 categories are now wholly reliant on it, so I think needs the higher protection. I can easily list it at WP:RFPP, but I just wanted to check with you what the score is with the bot. Have I misunderstood its config? Or has it somehow failed to recover yet from the great lag?
Thanks, -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 09:03, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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Many species can
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Hello can you help me to protect my article and give me some information how i can correct my article as good way — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acafix2 ( talk • contribs) 11:20, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
108.49.100.163 ( talk) 22:48, 18 October 2020 (UTC) One year ago, I noticed you reverted my changes to Line Haddad's page because I was just giving her full birthdate based on what I found about her on the Olympic Sport Reference website. I was not trying to vandalize the page or anything; I was just trying to give more information that people should know about.
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Hi, why did this edit take so long to be broadcast to watchlists? Had the bot crashed? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 21:29, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Darn you! You beat me to it by mere seconds! ;-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 01:46, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, why is MusikBot II protecting template /doc pages? Example. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 19:21, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
ignore_offset
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<noinclude>...</noinclude>
at
Template:Infobox station and
Template:Infobox station/sandbox means that it shouldn't be transcluded to any articles at all. Something strange is going on. --
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Institutions and organizations of the United Nations, an intergovernmental
organization
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Template:Talk header preload has been nominated for merging with Template:Usercomment. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:01, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
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You have locked it with wrong information it’s headquarter is located in US, please make this account protected after marking correct information Tayyabkk1 ( talk) 06:10, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
I need you to unlock the falafel page as it has bias and inaccurate information — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reinhearted ( talk • contribs) 03:50, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello, can you help me for protecting Isyana Sarasvati article? Yemimas29 ( talk) 06:32, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I think your bot does the G13 database report. WP:G13 actually seems to only count human edits, although your query will count any edit. There's a few discussions scattered around various pages about a bot run that caused a lot of pages to be omitted from the G13 eligible cats. I wrote a Quarry which filters out bot edits ( here), and it says ~1017 currently eligible for G13 (~1250 from tomorrow), although Wikipedia:Database reports/Stale drafts says there is a backlog of 0 ( bot query). I was wondeering if it may be a good idea to update that with the bot check from mine, so it excludes bot edits on the report? ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 17:53, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
An example of
Chinese folklore is
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, a Chinese folk tale. Pictured is a depiction in the tale of the reunion of the couple of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd on the bridge of magpies. The artwork displayed is in the Long Corridor of the
Summer Palace in Beijing.
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I didn't want to close it because of not taking risk (and apparently there's not a malfunctioning). Could you check its error log? Thanks.-- Ahmetlii ( talk) 18:21, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
An illustration of the Pre-Columbian abacus, the
Nepohualtzintzin, one of the many
pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans.
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In
macroeconomics, an
industry is a branch of an
economy that
produces a closely related set of
raw materials,
goods, or
services. Pictured is a cement factory in Malmö, Sweden, which is a part of the manufacturing industry.
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in 2013 Spanish singer
Julio Iglesias was celebrated for being the artist in
Latin music with the most records sold in history.
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Hi MusikAnimal. Your bot, MusikBot II, seems to be inappropriately protecting a subpage of a template: Template:Service awards/compose/sandbox. It has already been unprotected once, by request at RFPP, but the bot has protected it again. I'm trying to figure out why the bot would be protecting a template subpage as a "high-risk template" when it only has 22 transclusions. My guess is that the bot is programmed to protect template subpages when they are transcluded in the main template, because many templates are constructed in such a way where various elements are defined in subpages and the main template transcludes all of those subpages to create the final template. Therefore, if the main template is a high-risk template, then any template subpages that are transcluded to it should also be considered high-risk templates.
I worry that this might be too simplistic of an algorithm, and it will result in the inappropriate protection of many pages. For instance, in the case of Template:Service awards/compose/sandbox, it is true that Template:Service awards appears in the list of pages that transclude that subpage. However, tracing the path of that transclusion shows that it truly is a benign sandbox that should not be protected:
I realize that in order to avoid this error, your bot would need to investigate the "lineage" of transclusion from all subpages that are transcluded to a high-risk template, to understand if they are really part of that template, or if they are wrapped in noinclude tags are some point. And that is likely not a trivial task. However, until that can be done, I wonder if your bot should really be attempting to protect template subpages at all...
I'll unprotect this subpage for now, but I expect the bot will probably re-protect it at some point. ‑Scottywong | [express] || 16:46, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
using the sandbox page to give an example of what the template looks like for people that are viewing the template page itselfProviding the template copy on the template page directly is very rare, and the practice is most-often (maybe even 'standard') to provide an example in the context of the documentation block, or (much more rarely) to re-embed the template example directly in the template itself (I bumped into a few of these {{ ds/alert}} way). -- Izno ( talk) 20:54, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
exclusions
list, or specify a regular expression in the regex_exclusions
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User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector. I've no reservation against excluding service award sandboxes, if you want, but I would argue against excluding all template sandboxes. —
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This is not a problem with the bot. The /compose/sandbox template was being erroneously called by the main template until Special:Diff/991794151 * Pppery * it has begun... 03:37, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement was moved to Wikipedia:Articles for improvement per Special:PermaLink/989870710#Requested move 23 October 2020. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 19:31, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi @ MusikAnimal, JJMC89, and Sdkb: Thanks for the notification here. From spot-checking various pages, subpages (e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2020/48/1) and templates, things appear to be in order, in that the new project title is being used. However, I did notice that, for example, when editing the Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2020/48 page, the following is in place:
{{/1}} is the '''[[Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement|TAFI]]''' article for week {{SUBPAGENAME}} in the year 2019. It is currently [[Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/{{#time:o}}/{{CURRENTWEEK}}|week {{CURRENTWEEK}}]]{{#ifeq:{{CURRENTYEAR}}|2020|| in the year {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}.
Notice how the old project name continues to be used. If I'm not mistaken, it appears that MusikBot automatically generates these pages. If this is the case, it would likely be best to 1) change the links such as "[[Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement|TAFI]]" and others so that it goes directly to the main page without redirecting, and 2) update the script for links/pages that are generated to match everything else, so it's all consistent. North America 1000 06:10, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
@ MusikAnimal and Sdkb:Still having some problems at the Schedule page. For example, see this diff, scroll down to the Christmas ham entry, and then notice how the page titles are still the old "Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement". The result is red links instead of images and image captions. The [edit picture selection] and [edit caption] links go to the new project pages that I just added information for, but on the Schedule page, the old page name is being displayed. North America 1000 16:37, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Some traditional foods in
Bengali cuisine
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Hello MusikAnimal,
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
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4 | Onel5969 ( talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | JTtheOG ( talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | Mcampany ( talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven ( talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Mccapra ( talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Hughesdarren ( talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
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5th Calipha Is Not Our Islamic Calipha Kindly Change It Otherwise Remove It Because It Gives Negative Impact On Islam.Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.36.152.221 ( talk) 19:22, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
He claims to be a caliph but he is not, there is no such thing as ahmadiyya muslim, Islam is only one and only anyone can join it just do read Quran if you want to learn about Islam, we welcome all our brothers and sisters to read quran freely and learn about our religion and culture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.152.101.6 ( talk) 19:47, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Hey Musik! Wanted to follow up on this from VPT if you have time. I couldn't get the span method to work (see reply there). Any ideas? ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 11:26, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Sdkb and MusikAnimal: Just a heads up to those involved, Template:AFI/Collaborations of the day is goofed up, with a big red link atop, because it has not been configured with the new project name. It seems that the bot is involved with this, so posting here. North America 1000 06:27, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
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You have no permission to add or remove any information from any tribe history as you did. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pashtoonyad ( talk • contribs) 23:39, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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Might want to revoke their talkpage access.-- MONGO ( talk) 19:22, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
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Fish processing is a significant part of the
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Dear MusikAnimal, I recently drafted my first article for Wikipedia, and when it was deleted almost at once, I was referred to a list of Users who could help reinstate the deleted draft for me. I clicked on your name more or less at random (though as a musician myself I was drawn to it). So I was trying to follow the directions carefully, and thought I was creating a draft that I would be able to come back to and keep working on before actually submitting it for review. But it seems to have gotten deleted before I could even get to the next step with it. It's not a vanity or promotion piece, and there's quite a bit more to do in terms of sourcing and documentation. Any help you might be able to give me would be much appreciated. All best wishes to you. Joseph1772 ( talk) 16:17, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi, why is MusikBot II protecting template sandboxes, specifically Template:WPBannerMeta/core/sandbox? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 00:06, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Note also the bot links to the
documentation in the protection summary, which reads …template sandboxes are sometimes erroneously called by non-sandbox template … The fix in this situation is to not transclude the sandbox.
I assume the same holds true here. We could adjust the bot's config to ignore sandboxes, but in my opinion sandboxes should not be transcluded for large-scale testing like this. Instead you can use "Preview page with this template" feature to test your changes; or if feasible (not so much in this case), simply implement the sandbox code directly into the caller template, which has the same impact on the job queue and is just as easy to revert. —
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Is there any way to get a list of previous range blocks that affected a particular IP or some (sub)set of a range? Or a task hiding somewhere on Phab? -- Izno ( talk) 21:18, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
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Dear MusikAnimal, I recently updated Javed Jabbar's page based on his request. He had mentioned to me that the information is misleading and sent me a detailed write up on himself along with the link to his website. It seems to be reverted back.
Can you please help me update it? Please see below his draft:
Javed Jabbar ( Urdu: جاوید جبار ) ( www.javedjabbar.net) has distinctions in diverse fields. He is a public intellectual who resides in Karachi, Pakistan and contributes to leading think tanks, research centres, public forums on a range of subjects. He has received numerous international and national honours for his services and achievements.
He is the husband of Shabnam Jabbar, an independent entrepreneur, designer and home-maker. They have two children: Mehreen Jabbar, the award-winning director of TV plays and cinema films; Barrister Kamal Kadeer Jabbar who specializes in banking and financial law and is a partner in Keystone Law, Dubai. His grandson is Zaka Zahir Jabbar who is exploring the marvels of school education.
Javed Jabbar's 15th book "Pathways --- selected writings 2010-2015" won the UBL Literature Prize for the Best English non-fiction book at the 9th Karachi Literature Festival 2017. His 16th book " What is Pakistaniat?" is prescribed in leading education and training institutions.
He devotes substantial working time to voluntary work for several public service organizations. He is presently the Chairman, and co-founder (with economist Dr. Hafiz Pasha in 1995) of the Social Policy & Development Centre, (SPDC, www.spdc.org.pk) Karachi, one of Asia's most reputed independent research centres and think tanks. SPDC has 700 publications to date. He is the founding chairman of the South Asian Media Association, Colombo, 1992.
He is present Chairperson and co-founder (1994) of SPO ( Strengthening Participatory Organization,( www.spopk.org ) which works in the development sector at the grass-roots level across Pakistan. He is present Chairman and co-founder of SOS Children's Villages of Sindh,( founded 1982 ) and Member, Board of Governors of SOS Pakistan which cares for hundreds of orphaned and abandoned children and provides vocational training to youth. He is founding president since 1985 of, Baanhn Beli ( www.bannhnbeli.org), the pioneer public service organization of Tharparkar, and also works in other parts of Sindh. He is founding Chairman, Publican Alumni Trust (since 2010) which operates a reputed school for students from low-income families in Korangi, Karachi. Javed Jabbar is Chairman, Advisory Council, Malir University of Science and Technology, Karachi and Member, Board of Directors, National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA).
From his school years at Cantonment Public School , Karachi , St Patrick's College and the University of Karachi 1963-66, and thereafter, he has founded or been elected to lead a large number of initiatives and organizations in Pakistan and in overseas countries.
He is a former Senator and has served in 3 Federal Cabinets as Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Science and Technology, Petroleum and Natural Resources, and Adviser to the Chief Executive of Pakistan on National Affairs. He has represented Pakistan at major UN conferences. New laws and policies initiated by him have introduced major reforms in different sectors, particularly the inception of private TV and radio channels and freedom of information. Among several conflict management and conflict resolution initiatives he is associated with, he is a Member since 1992 of the longest-running, quiet, non-media-reported Pakistan-India Track II Dialogue known as the Neemrana Initiative, suspended since 2015 .
He was elected global Vice President of IUCN ( www.iucn.org) for 8 years, 2004-2012 in the world's oldest and largest environment organization comprising over 130 countries. In 2019, he was invited to serve on an honorary basis as Adviser to the National Curriculum Council.
In the past 10 years, he has been appointed by the Supreme Court and High Courts as amicus curiae and to serve as mediator to ( successfully ) resolve media conflicts, and as Member of the Media Commission, 2013 whose landmark report was written by him. He frequently writes on a range of subjects, including national history, current affairs and political economy for leading journals.
He has received numerous national and international awards and recognition for his work in diverse fields such as writing, film-making, voluntary service, environment. The cinema film "Ramchand Pakistani" (2008) of which he was the writer and producer --- and which was directed by his daughter Mehreen Jabbar --- won several international awards in Europe and Asia. In 1976, Pakistan's first -- and so far, only -- English language cinema film "Beyond the Last Mountain" (Urdu version: " Musafir ") which he wrote, produced and directed was screened to laudatory reviews at several international film festivals. He has written and directed dozens of popular and award-winning TV commercials and documentaries .
In December 2019, at Adasia 2019 in Lahore the Asian Federation of Advertising Associations inducted him into its Hall of Fame for his distinctive contributions to mass communications. In February 2020, the All Pakistan Newspapers' Society presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015, the Pakistan Society of Advertisers presented its first Lifetime Achievement Award to him.
The Human Rights Society of Pakistan presented him with a Gold Medal for outstanding public service .He is a visiting professor at leading institutions in Pakistan and overseas.
Zenfixer ( talk) 12:49, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Cooked
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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Javed Jabbar wiki page
I am family friend of javed Jabbar who has requested me to help update the page with information about him. Can you please help me update with accurate information?
Zenfixer ( talk) 09:30, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal - you blocked the above as a spam user earlier, you might want to consider talk page access as they just published the spam there (I reverted back to your notice) JW 1961 Talk 18:56, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello, on my application for Pending Changes Reviwer renewal (I had a 3 month trial) you (or a bot of yours) marked mine as already done because I had the role already. I was reapplying so I could get the rank indefinitely, so can you maybe take the comment off? Helpthepeople9 chat? 17:32, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey, would you mind considering not removing protection templates from Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard/sandbox (assuming MusikBot has an exclusion list)? The sandbox should generally match the mainspace page, otherwise there might be an issue when copying back. I think keeping the protection template there is worth it, though I don't have too strong of an opinion here. Elliot321 ( talk | contribs) 04:00, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
{{bots|deny=MusikBot II}}
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Hello, MusikAnimal. The
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18:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
This IP range [155] needs a full block, not just from that one page. Thank you. Crossroads -talk- 21:47, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. On 12 January 2021 you blocked
182.64.0.0/16 (
talk ·
contribs) from editing the namespaces User, User talk and Template with an expiration time of 6 months
182.64.12.201 (
talk ·
contribs) has, today, created 3 draft articles - all with deliberate errors
Draft:Gagalheri is a retitling of
Kailashpur with the same population figures and reference - initially it claimed it is in
Harit Pradesh - a proposed, but non-existent state, which I changed before I smelt a rat.
Draft:Buggawala claims it is the non-existant
Buggawala district and has 2 references - both about totally different places - the dot on the map is also outside the claimed state.
Draft:Mohand Saharanpur reuses one of those references about another village, claims it is the non-existent state of
Saharanpur which is actually a district in Uttar Pradesh, not Uttarakhand, as shown on the map.
I don't know what vandalism caused the 6 month block, but it looks as if they are using Draft articles to try and circumvent that block -
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Hello Sir, I had made a request for rollback permission at WP:RFP/R on 25th of Jan but there is no progress related to that request. I request you to kindly look into this matter. Thankyou Peerzada Mohammad Iflaq ( talk) 20:03, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
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