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Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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I hope everyone is having a great year so far! -- DannyS712 ( talk) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
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wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage
was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can
read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a
list.
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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
This was pure vandalism, and your edit summary was not necessarily helpful. If you had given them a warning they might have been blocked earlier, before one or two gross BLP violations. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 03:45, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. When the bot flag is set it will show up in this log. Enterprisey ( talk!) 05:27, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Noticed there have been quite a few reverts over on EFFPR. Anything going on, or should it sort itself out normally? Enterprisey ( talk!) 19:03, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Human trafficking in Finland you nominated for
GA-status according to the
criteria.
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by
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articletopic
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17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed your bot uses colons in it's responses on WP:EFFPR when setting the page name ( 1). But the Edit Notice of that Page suggests using lists (*) instead. You might want to change this. -- Info-Screen:: Talk 10:57, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
The article
Human trafficking in Finland you nominated as a
good article has failed
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Can it also add {{
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when relevant? Thanks, --
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talk)
04:00, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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action=changecontentmodel
to specify the new model. You can read the
documentation on mediawiki.org.
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21:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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17:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Stay safe, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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Maintenance script
. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.
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19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Majavah, I don't quite understand your removal of several external links. While the reference to the subject's own cv might be questionable as self-serving, it remains. The other links seem to be relevant to the subject's public activity, history and public image, and of general interest, although not things that would fit into the article itself. AlexaVamos — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexaVamos ( talk • contribs) 16:37, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
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search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic.
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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Majavah, Thank you for your comments on the Olivier Varenne page I have created and resubmitted for review. I have added all citations I can find and that are verified. Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rubyocean ( talk • contribs) 15:45, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
In response to your message to do with COI, I am not in receipt of any payment from the musician in question. I don't appreciate the accusation given. I made this page to appreciate the artist and his work over the years. I do not know him personally. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hibaesque ( talk • contribs) 17:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Hay, do you see that someone has placed a delete template on the page AVR (2020 film), despite the page has media coverages. Please remove the template. Asomzz19 ( talk) 16:05, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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div#content
is now .mw-body
. div.portal
is now .portal
. div#footer
is now #footer
. This is so the skins can use
HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.
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18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).
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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
or getUTCMonthNameAbbrev
with Date
objects, those have been deprecated and should
be updated.Hope everyone stays safe. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
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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)
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div#p-personal
, div#p-navigation
, div#p-interaction
, div#p-tb
, div#p-lang
, div#p-namespaces
, div#p-variants
and div#footer
. They will have to remove div
. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use
HTML5.
[48]#p-variants
, #p-namespaces
, #p-personal
, #p-views
and #p-cactions
. They can no longer use > ul
. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles.
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17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
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Your assistance with UTRS 2 has been a life-saver and you have shown over and over that you really put the effort in to go the extra mile. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 13:13, 21 May 2020 (UTC) |
I think that was one of the selling points of UTRS 2. That ADMINACCT would be served by allowing extended confirmed to view UTRS. Also, UTRS 2, last I looked, was open to extended confirmed. -- Deep fried okra User talk:Deepfriedokra 13:27, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Majavah. I saw you declined my article. How can I make it better? -- Bumsowee ( talk) 13:14, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
hi how u duin. If you were trying to submit Draft:Languages of Central Asia for review, you have to add {{ subst:submit}} to that draft. – Majavah talk · edits 13:18, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
After creating a page under the name of European War 6 it seems you have deleted it for forgetting to add references. Taking your criticisms into account I added a single reference, is this enough?-Thanks Ooh Saad ( talk) 08:54, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for clearing it up! I'll try to improve! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ooh Saad ( talk • contribs) 13:03, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the Notability link, it really helped. I had to make do with a customer review, but they weren't really useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ooh Saad ( talk • contribs) 14:00, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Rolling_archive&action=history HotdogPi 22:42, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi!
I'm trying to update the Olivia von Halle page and just wondered why my edits keep being reverted?
Thanks 84.13.94.133 ( talk) 10:55, 4 June 2020 (UTC) Emma
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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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[57]WikidataPageBanner
. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice
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21:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello! You recently answered my Help Me! request on my talk page. I have a few follow-up questions.
{{User:Idell/Userbox ES}}
): I want to use this template on a page without putting it under any category. I’m unable to make |nocat=true
work in this case.{{tl|…}}
doesn’t work on the aforementioned templates either. Are there any alternative method to get the same result?I’m sorry for troubling you so much but I cannot find answers to these questions elsewhere. Your help is very much appreciated. Idell ( talk) 14:15, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
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.menu
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will no longer work in the
Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu
should be replaced by ul
. .vectorMenu
should be replaced by .vector-menu
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21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello Taavi,
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searchGoButton
for the go button. This is searchButton
for
Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton
in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton
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If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi - I really like the idea of your user script, and I think it could really come in handy. However, is it meant to just be used on the classic edit screen, or Visual Editor, or the reader view, or some combination? Nothing I am trying is working... ɱ (talk) 21:04, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, could you please advise me on how to edit Olivier Varenne's page so that it might be published? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:3706:4500:8837:5FC7:179C:5B0F ( talk) 10:50, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
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<translate nowrap></translate>
on the source page.
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16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Ping me if you'd like your page semi-protected. It's on my watchlist anyway. Glen 11:24, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
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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)
This is one time, the sub of CLOVER, CLOVER Is a group in the Philippines. Under Korean Entertainment check out clovers single "Kumakabog Kabog" Onetime ph ( talk) 11:43, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
OK but please accept now! Onetime ph ( talk) 12:13, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
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global.js
and global.css
pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read
documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin.
[96]searchGoButton
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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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Hey there, Majavah! Been a while! :)
I was wondering something. Would it be possible for your bot to be set up so it automatically scans talk pages and if it detects one exists, it "sets itself up" for archiving that page with some pre-specified settings (period, etc.)? I got the idea after monitoring IA Bot's contributions in the Albanian Wikipedia. We've set it to post talk page messages after it does anything and as you may already know, if you leave that option on, soon enough you start having big numbers of talk pages in need for archiving. I was going to ask if something could be done about it. Like using your bot to archive them in a different archive dedicated to IA Bot. But then I thought that even if the talk page wasn't created by the IA Bot, it would be nice if it could be set up automatically for archiving and I came here to ask you about it. I'm thinking mainly Mainspace but even some other tech-spaces could benefit from a function like that. If that's possible, if we could also have a dedicated IA Bot archive for mainspace that would be even better but let's ask for the basics first. :P - Klein Muçi ( talk) 11:07, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I'm not sure I fully understand your request (because it looked too easy :P ). I made this page. It has the most common settings we use when archiving pages. Of course the name of the archive will change according to article's talkpage the bot is archiving. What content can I potentially add more than that? Any suggestions? Also, what name do you suggest for the bot's subpage? Can you give me one example in English? I'm not really sure how you plan to use that so I'm not sure about the name either. For now it's just "arkivimi automatik" meaning "automatic archiving process". I'd like the name to have meaning according to the page usage. Did I answer your request? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 09:54, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
{{subst:DNAU}}
to retain a thread indefinitely, or {{subst:DNAU|<integer>}}
to retain a thread for <integer> days. see the template documentation for details about its use and function. Why would the template need to be substituted? Any particular reason? I want to add the following text to the bot's primal page so users know how to keep the bot away from a particular thread, if they so wish to. -
Klein Muçi (
talk)
10:12, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Bot: Automatically setup archiving for this talk page)? – Majavah talk · edits 08:01, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Yes and yes. The number feels right and that replacement could really help. Can we run 1-2 manual runs after you're done so we can sort out any unseen bugs/minor problems? Even though to be honest, I hope everything is all right because even 1 manual run would mean changing many pages the way it is designed. :P - Klein Muçi ( talk) 12:33, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Given that I saw this page, maybe we can have another part where we can enter our templates and the bot will know not to archive them? Or maybe you can think of a better option? Maybe just making sure that the archive config. part is below the template is a better solution? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 12:24, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you! Final question: I believe the automatic archive set up process is only for mainspace talk pages no? If that's so, do you think that's enough? Or should we also include other namespaces and even subpages? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 17:47, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
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For your help with the MajavahBot in SqWiki. We're really seeing the benefits now. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 15:32, 10 August 2020 (UTC) |
Hey there, Majavah! I'm trying to deal with a problem in SqWiki. Maybe you can help me with an idea since you deal with the tech stuff. This is not related to archiving or MajavahBot though.
In SqWiki we have +1 more CS1 citation error (compared to EnWiki). If you use a citation without setting the language, you get an error and the article gets automatically categorized here. We need it for statistical purposes. The problem is that, as you can see from that page, there are thousands of articles in need of a language parameter. Can you think of any way I can automatize this job somehow? Maybe with AWB or any kind of bot? Of course, manually is easy to do it. You just open the article, check the link used in the citation, determine its language and put it in the citation. But doing that thousands and thousands of times... That's time consuming, to say the least and impossible, to be realistic. Can you think of any way I can somehow lower that number with any kind of tool? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 17:26, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
<html>
) should have a lang
attribute that could be used. For example this page has it set to en
: <html class="client-nojs" lang="en" dir="ltr">
. –
Majavah
talk ·
edits
20:46, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
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17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, what does inherited notability mean? Does it mean that the observer should not have to deduce the relation, if so only monetary interests are linked on wikipedia. I can easily pay 10 journalists to write bogus news articles about things too, but I choose not to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raywalk ( talk • contribs) 12:08, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Well you could note the direction of inheritance should matter = One album might not be notable, but if one album is notable the author becomes notable by inheritance. In this case the product has 250.000 customers but the technology that made this possible remains unknown. That makes no sense to me. I think the major problems you guys have are 1) You think things become popular if they are good. 2) You wish for us to work on something while giving nothing back. That's not how the world works; good things almost never succeed and you need to allow drafts even without notability. Also you could learn about money and open-source and take responsibility, because the world is changing fast. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raywalk ( talk • contribs) 14:18, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
if one album is notable the author becomes notable by inheritanceNot automatically, but usually artists that have received enough coverage in reliable sources for an album to be notable also meet the musicians notability guideline or the general notability guideline. 2)
You think things become popular if they are goodWikipedia doesn't have articles on "good" things because we don't call things "good", we have articles on notable things where we summarize information from reliable sources. 3)
You wish for us to work on something while giving nothing backYes, most of Wikipedians edit as a hobby about things that interest us because we enjoy it. I'm not sure what you mean by
you could learn about money and open-source and take responsibility, because the world is changing fast; Wikipedia is one of the world's largest open-source projects; we don't have any editorial staff and all technical costs are entirely funded by donations. – Majavah talk · edits 14:17, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Stay safe -- DannyS712 ( talk) 19:42, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
This was very unhelpful. Drmies ( talk) 00:40, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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I hope everyone is having a great year so far! -- DannyS712 ( talk) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
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wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage
was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can
read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a
list.
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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
This was pure vandalism, and your edit summary was not necessarily helpful. If you had given them a warning they might have been blocked earlier, before one or two gross BLP violations. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 03:45, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. When the bot flag is set it will show up in this log. Enterprisey ( talk!) 05:27, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Noticed there have been quite a few reverts over on EFFPR. Anything going on, or should it sort itself out normally? Enterprisey ( talk!) 19:03, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Human trafficking in Finland you nominated for
GA-status according to the
criteria.
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by
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18:01, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
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articletopic
. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon.
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17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed your bot uses colons in it's responses on WP:EFFPR when setting the page name ( 1). But the Edit Notice of that Page suggests using lists (*) instead. You might want to change this. -- Info-Screen:: Talk 10:57, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
The article
Human trafficking in Finland you nominated as a
good article has failed
; see
Talk:Human trafficking in Finland for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by
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20:41, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
Can it also add {{
effp|private}}
when relevant? Thanks, --
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talk)
04:00, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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action=changecontentmodel
to specify the new model. You can read the
documentation on mediawiki.org.
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21:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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17:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Stay safe, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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Maintenance script
. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.
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19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Majavah, I don't quite understand your removal of several external links. While the reference to the subject's own cv might be questionable as self-serving, it remains. The other links seem to be relevant to the subject's public activity, history and public image, and of general interest, although not things that would fit into the article itself. AlexaVamos — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexaVamos ( talk • contribs) 16:37, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
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search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic.
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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Majavah, Thank you for your comments on the Olivier Varenne page I have created and resubmitted for review. I have added all citations I can find and that are verified. Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rubyocean ( talk • contribs) 15:45, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
In response to your message to do with COI, I am not in receipt of any payment from the musician in question. I don't appreciate the accusation given. I made this page to appreciate the artist and his work over the years. I do not know him personally. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hibaesque ( talk • contribs) 17:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Hay, do you see that someone has placed a delete template on the page AVR (2020 film), despite the page has media coverages. Please remove the template. Asomzz19 ( talk) 16:05, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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div#content
is now .mw-body
. div.portal
is now .portal
. div#footer
is now #footer
. This is so the skins can use
HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.
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18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).
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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
or getUTCMonthNameAbbrev
with Date
objects, those have been deprecated and should
be updated.Hope everyone stays safe. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
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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)
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div#p-personal
, div#p-navigation
, div#p-interaction
, div#p-tb
, div#p-lang
, div#p-namespaces
, div#p-variants
and div#footer
. They will have to remove div
. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use
HTML5.
[48]#p-variants
, #p-namespaces
, #p-personal
, #p-views
and #p-cactions
. They can no longer use > ul
. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles.
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17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
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Your assistance with UTRS 2 has been a life-saver and you have shown over and over that you really put the effort in to go the extra mile. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 13:13, 21 May 2020 (UTC) |
I think that was one of the selling points of UTRS 2. That ADMINACCT would be served by allowing extended confirmed to view UTRS. Also, UTRS 2, last I looked, was open to extended confirmed. -- Deep fried okra User talk:Deepfriedokra 13:27, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Majavah. I saw you declined my article. How can I make it better? -- Bumsowee ( talk) 13:14, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
hi how u duin. If you were trying to submit Draft:Languages of Central Asia for review, you have to add {{ subst:submit}} to that draft. – Majavah talk · edits 13:18, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
After creating a page under the name of European War 6 it seems you have deleted it for forgetting to add references. Taking your criticisms into account I added a single reference, is this enough?-Thanks Ooh Saad ( talk) 08:54, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for clearing it up! I'll try to improve! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ooh Saad ( talk • contribs) 13:03, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the Notability link, it really helped. I had to make do with a customer review, but they weren't really useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ooh Saad ( talk • contribs) 14:00, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Rolling_archive&action=history HotdogPi 22:42, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi!
I'm trying to update the Olivia von Halle page and just wondered why my edits keep being reverted?
Thanks 84.13.94.133 ( talk) 10:55, 4 June 2020 (UTC) Emma
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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 />
.
[57]WikidataPageBanner
. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice
so that editors know to test and style for mobile too.
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21:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello! You recently answered my Help Me! request on my talk page. I have a few follow-up questions.
{{User:Idell/Userbox ES}}
): I want to use this template on a page without putting it under any category. I’m unable to make |nocat=true
work in this case.{{tl|…}}
doesn’t work on the aforementioned templates either. Are there any alternative method to get the same result?I’m sorry for troubling you so much but I cannot find answers to these questions elsewhere. Your help is very much appreciated. Idell ( talk) 14:15, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
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.menu
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will no longer work in the
Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu
should be replaced by ul
. .vectorMenu
should be replaced by .vector-menu
.
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21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
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searchGoButton
for the go button. This is searchButton
for
Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton
in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton
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16:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020).
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If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi - I really like the idea of your user script, and I think it could really come in handy. However, is it meant to just be used on the classic edit screen, or Visual Editor, or the reader view, or some combination? Nothing I am trying is working... ɱ (talk) 21:04, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, could you please advise me on how to edit Olivier Varenne's page so that it might be published? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:3706:4500:8837:5FC7:179C:5B0F ( talk) 10:50, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
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<translate nowrap></translate>
on the source page.
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16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Ping me if you'd like your page semi-protected. It's on my watchlist anyway. Glen 11:24, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
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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)
This is one time, the sub of CLOVER, CLOVER Is a group in the Philippines. Under Korean Entertainment check out clovers single "Kumakabog Kabog" Onetime ph ( talk) 11:43, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
OK but please accept now! Onetime ph ( talk) 12:13, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
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global.js
and global.css
pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read
documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin.
[96]searchGoButton
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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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Hey there, Majavah! Been a while! :)
I was wondering something. Would it be possible for your bot to be set up so it automatically scans talk pages and if it detects one exists, it "sets itself up" for archiving that page with some pre-specified settings (period, etc.)? I got the idea after monitoring IA Bot's contributions in the Albanian Wikipedia. We've set it to post talk page messages after it does anything and as you may already know, if you leave that option on, soon enough you start having big numbers of talk pages in need for archiving. I was going to ask if something could be done about it. Like using your bot to archive them in a different archive dedicated to IA Bot. But then I thought that even if the talk page wasn't created by the IA Bot, it would be nice if it could be set up automatically for archiving and I came here to ask you about it. I'm thinking mainly Mainspace but even some other tech-spaces could benefit from a function like that. If that's possible, if we could also have a dedicated IA Bot archive for mainspace that would be even better but let's ask for the basics first. :P - Klein Muçi ( talk) 11:07, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I'm not sure I fully understand your request (because it looked too easy :P ). I made this page. It has the most common settings we use when archiving pages. Of course the name of the archive will change according to article's talkpage the bot is archiving. What content can I potentially add more than that? Any suggestions? Also, what name do you suggest for the bot's subpage? Can you give me one example in English? I'm not really sure how you plan to use that so I'm not sure about the name either. For now it's just "arkivimi automatik" meaning "automatic archiving process". I'd like the name to have meaning according to the page usage. Did I answer your request? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 09:54, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
{{subst:DNAU}}
to retain a thread indefinitely, or {{subst:DNAU|<integer>}}
to retain a thread for <integer> days. see the template documentation for details about its use and function. Why would the template need to be substituted? Any particular reason? I want to add the following text to the bot's primal page so users know how to keep the bot away from a particular thread, if they so wish to. -
Klein Muçi (
talk)
10:12, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Bot: Automatically setup archiving for this talk page)? – Majavah talk · edits 08:01, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Yes and yes. The number feels right and that replacement could really help. Can we run 1-2 manual runs after you're done so we can sort out any unseen bugs/minor problems? Even though to be honest, I hope everything is all right because even 1 manual run would mean changing many pages the way it is designed. :P - Klein Muçi ( talk) 12:33, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Given that I saw this page, maybe we can have another part where we can enter our templates and the bot will know not to archive them? Or maybe you can think of a better option? Maybe just making sure that the archive config. part is below the template is a better solution? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 12:24, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you! Final question: I believe the automatic archive set up process is only for mainspace talk pages no? If that's so, do you think that's enough? Or should we also include other namespaces and even subpages? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 17:47, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
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For your help with the MajavahBot in SqWiki. We're really seeing the benefits now. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 15:32, 10 August 2020 (UTC) |
Hey there, Majavah! I'm trying to deal with a problem in SqWiki. Maybe you can help me with an idea since you deal with the tech stuff. This is not related to archiving or MajavahBot though.
In SqWiki we have +1 more CS1 citation error (compared to EnWiki). If you use a citation without setting the language, you get an error and the article gets automatically categorized here. We need it for statistical purposes. The problem is that, as you can see from that page, there are thousands of articles in need of a language parameter. Can you think of any way I can automatize this job somehow? Maybe with AWB or any kind of bot? Of course, manually is easy to do it. You just open the article, check the link used in the citation, determine its language and put it in the citation. But doing that thousands and thousands of times... That's time consuming, to say the least and impossible, to be realistic. Can you think of any way I can somehow lower that number with any kind of tool? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 17:26, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
<html>
) should have a lang
attribute that could be used. For example this page has it set to en
: <html class="client-nojs" lang="en" dir="ltr">
. –
Majavah
talk ·
edits
20:46, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
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tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else.
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17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, what does inherited notability mean? Does it mean that the observer should not have to deduce the relation, if so only monetary interests are linked on wikipedia. I can easily pay 10 journalists to write bogus news articles about things too, but I choose not to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raywalk ( talk • contribs) 12:08, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Well you could note the direction of inheritance should matter = One album might not be notable, but if one album is notable the author becomes notable by inheritance. In this case the product has 250.000 customers but the technology that made this possible remains unknown. That makes no sense to me. I think the major problems you guys have are 1) You think things become popular if they are good. 2) You wish for us to work on something while giving nothing back. That's not how the world works; good things almost never succeed and you need to allow drafts even without notability. Also you could learn about money and open-source and take responsibility, because the world is changing fast. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raywalk ( talk • contribs) 14:18, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
if one album is notable the author becomes notable by inheritanceNot automatically, but usually artists that have received enough coverage in reliable sources for an album to be notable also meet the musicians notability guideline or the general notability guideline. 2)
You think things become popular if they are goodWikipedia doesn't have articles on "good" things because we don't call things "good", we have articles on notable things where we summarize information from reliable sources. 3)
You wish for us to work on something while giving nothing backYes, most of Wikipedians edit as a hobby about things that interest us because we enjoy it. I'm not sure what you mean by
you could learn about money and open-source and take responsibility, because the world is changing fast; Wikipedia is one of the world's largest open-source projects; we don't have any editorial staff and all technical costs are entirely funded by donations. – Majavah talk · edits 14:17, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Stay safe -- DannyS712 ( talk) 19:42, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
This was very unhelpful. Drmies ( talk) 00:40, 5 September 2020 (UTC)