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Posting this here because I think interested parties will be following...
From the for-what-it's-worth department, I have hastily thrown together a clean-room implementation of the "URL comparison" feature in a Windows exe creatively called "Copyvios". It has limited applicability (i.e. it scratches my own personal itch) explained in its README. I'll try to get the source on sourceforgegithub. For now, get the exe and a reference source from
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtuCZY0YF4hGop43fHSS2GiSK2fPUw?e=goT44W.
David Brooks (
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Source now at https://github.com/DavidWBrooks/Copyvios. I don't know how to handle contributions yet; be gentle. David Brooks ( talk) 22:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
In the Recently accepted table, could you add the class when it's set? Probably via the use of {{ class}} in the 'Notes' column? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 18:09, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
Here's a comparison tool that's available to people not using Windows-based machines: https://copyleaks.com/compare. It's like Duplication Detector, but has more options, and highlights the overlapping content in a more usable way.— Diannaa ( talk) 14:02, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hi! Is Copyvios down again? https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/?project=wikipedia&lang=de does not work. Kind regards Doc Taxon ( talk) 17:48, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
The Earwig, can you help me and declare the problems of Copyvios? I didn't understand the concrete reason(s) yet. Thank you, Doc Taxon ( talk) 07:46, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
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Take a look at User talk:Ryūkotsusei#Ways to improve Zero Racers. Do you need to add that website to the exclusions list? « Ryūkotsusei » 15:26, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, recently I've added http://legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp to prevent results like this, but as you can see, the URL is still displayed at the results. I thought I can happen, because I've did not included the "www.", but the editnotice of the list says that I should not. However there are other entries with www., so what is correct now? Best regards, Luke 081515 19:43, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the MediaWiki Parser From Hell! Been using it a lot at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 Gabrielaltay ( talk) 21:45, 10 May 2020 (UTC) |
Hi, I just noticed that Template:AFC statistics/pending hadn't been updated since 02:00, 14 April 2020, and then noticed that the bot had only done one edit since then as well. Cheers KylieTastic ( talk) 16:32, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hey. Yesterday and today I've tried to use the Earwig tool to check for copyvios, and have gotten the (Google Error: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests) issue that I know we had a couple months back. Not sure if something has to be re-tweaked over at Phabricator or if this is something that is screwy on Google's end. Wizardman 01:59, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I'm investigating automated WP tagging of articles for WP:LAKES as part of the revamp of the project. I'm wondering if EarwigBot could handle or might be modified to handle recursive categories limited to the pattern of the category's name within the top category Category:Lakes by country. Given the scope of WP:LAKES the tagging of these with {{WikiProject Lakes}} is non controversial since the items in the categories should all be in scope and even some assumed this has been automated already. There is great consistency in the name patterns and categorization of articles to scan and tag with the pattern filter. A few pattern of names that could have articles tagged automatically are "Lakes of *", "Artificial Lakes in *", "Reservoirs in *", and a handful of others. Since these naming conventions are well followed even future categories with this pattern would be included without modification while also avoiding out of scope categories at the deepest levels where categories like Category:Lake_Tahoe exist. The reason for the pattern is not only the dynamic, but also that categories for a specific lake include out of scope articles and are best left to manual review. Does the recursion based on pattern to compile a list then to tag the articles without WP:LAKES seem reasonable to implement? Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? ( talk) 13:31, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? ( talk) 09:58, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
I've been working on a tool which parses SPI case pages. It kept crashing on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alex Neman/Archive, apparently mis-parsing headers. To make a long story short, I eventually got down to a minimal test case showing that mwpfh breaks on mis-matched quotes (i.e. italics), and was working on opening a bug. Then I saw about skip_style_tags, which did indeed fix the problem. So, glad you added that feature. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:49, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
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EarwigBot seems to have stopped updating this page since 14 September. Could you look into it? The replag is high these days but surely that would only the bot would emit outdated statistics, rather than not work at all, right? – SD0001 ( talk) 18:36, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, following this discussion at ru-wiki I would like to clarify what do exactly mean "confidence" percents in your tool? Say here - 46.2% is like "46.2% of my confidence that the text is taken from the source at the right"? Or like "46.2% of text is taken from the source at the right"? Or something else? Best regards, -- Neolexx ( talk) 02:55, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello. For the last couple of says (including today), I've been getting a Google Error: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests when trying to use your Copyvio Detector tool. With this error, I can't use the Use search engine button but the Use links in page works fine. I seen in your talk page archive this error has happened before. Perhaps a similar issue is going on now? Thanks! -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 23:42, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Earwig! Recently Template:AFC statistics was moved to Template:AfC statistics (cc Primefac). Following this, User:EarwigBot has stopped updating AfC statistics. Could you fix the page name in the code? (As a result, User:SDZeroBot/Declined AFCs which relies on Template:AFC statistics/declined also stopped working.) Thanks, – SD0001 ( talk) 19:55, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
Good morning Ben. It's 7 AM Mountain Standard Time and we've already exhausted our quota of looks for the day (Google Error: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests). I wondler if you have a minute if you could take a look and see if there's anything you can spot that could help? Thanks, — Diannaa ( talk) 14:03, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, today I am unable to make much use of the CopyVio Detector - for the most part it just sits and spins without ever timing out or generating a report. It's been this way for about the last seven hours. If you have time to have a look that would be great. Thank you,— Diannaa ( talk) 23:52, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for making your Copyvio Detector. It has helped me soooooo much with CCI cleanup and saved me a lot of time. Keep up the great work :D MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 21:02, 24 December 2020 (UTC) |
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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
Hello,
The Editing team has scheduled a major update to mw:Extension:DiscussionTools (the new Reply tool) for next week's deployment train. Since you invoke the feature from a script ( I do, too), you're probably going to see that update next week, before it's officially released in the mw:Beta Feature system. The new update will use a similar system for starting a ==New discussion==. As before, full-page wikitext editing will not be affected. There is more information on the project page at mw:Talk pages project/New discussion.
You don't have to do anything about this; I just didn't want you to be surprised. If you encounter problems next week, please ping me or leave a note on the talk page for the project. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 22:08, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for making the semi-protection indefinite on that page, much appreciated! I can imagine what would've happened if everything had gone unnoticed! T fess up? or down? 02:54, 13 January 2021 (UTC) |
Hi, thanks for the links! The Five Pillars of Wikipedia may be helpful in a discussion about the Ripple Music page I'm having right now. Jessiemay1984 ( talk) 12:58, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Ah, so it's the entomological connection. Being on Wikipedia, I assumed a metaphorical sense. Still, something I'll remember after encountering you just once, so it's an excellent user name. — kwami ( talk) 03:19, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
I remember playing with them. A younger version of me would've delighted in putting them in my little sister's hair, except that I'd accustomed her to crawlies from such an early age (her favorite animal was the pill-bug) that she'd've been delighted to have them in her hair, and what's the fun in that? I just looked up the etymology, and evidently the final -g is the same old diminutive suffix as in dog, frog and pig. (On the off chance you didn't already know that.) So it's an odd word for an odd bug. — kwami ( talk) 03:38, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the revdel. I'm positive I've seen that exact same rant before, but I don't remember the user. Not worth remembering since they are not around long enough to be an issue. Meters ( talk) 07:03, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
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post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
In your delete closure at WP:Articles for deletion/Impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden you wrote: "The primary arguments to merge are countered by the point that all usable content has already been integrated into Efforts to impeach Joe Biden..."
In my comment I pointed out that one of the contributors who favoured delete based that opinion on arguments that were not supported by the delete policy. Administrators are supposed to discount non-policy arguments, like this one, correct? This was not the only delete argument of its type - ie not policy based - correct?
Can I ask if you considered arguments on whether they were or weren't supported by policy, or guideline? Geo Swan ( talk) 23:37, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Since there was a rather strong consensus to not keep the redirect, would you consider protecting the redirect page to some level (to prevent it being developed as a POVFORK by either unknowledgeable or badly intentioned editors [or, alternatively, the same sock as before...])? Semi should do the trick, although ECP could also work as it clearly is under the scope of the ArbCom DS on the topic. RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 04:27, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Can user:Wjae1 please be blocked ASAP for vandalism? CLCStudent ( talk) 01:52, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
This user is obviously a sock of Pcgmsrich. They've apparently reported themselves for vandalism; can you oblige them with a block? Crboyer ( talk) 05:29, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
This kitten has caught a dangerous piece of cloth, and I think you for catching my error at Abronia fragrans! I copied and pasted text from the lilac article but apparently I did not sufficiently clean up after myself.
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Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
Hi Earwig,
An error in the ELP data: the link for 10424 Ngatikese appears at Ngatik Men's Creole rather than at Ngatikese language. I'll fix if you show me how.
— kwami ( talk) 20:28, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Also 4711 Mores shows up on Ande language rather than Mores language.
Okay, straightforward. I didn't know about the data link from the article. — kwami ( talk) 04:59, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help at that massive moth CCI. Your help is greatly appreciated! Keep up the great work :) MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 19:34, 18 March 2021 (UTC) |
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Apologies for being a bit late, but to celebrate a belated π day, here's a pi for you! T fess up? or down? 04:44, 19 March 2021 (UTC) |
He is a notable musician from Cape Town South Africa. Please do search "B Major SA" because he is verified on Facebook as a public figure and got multiple news articles.
( 197.229.7.223 ( talk) 17:49, 21 March 2021 (UTC))
Hello, I'm getting timeouts for the URL comparison case, for the last 24 hours. It's unable to retrieve this article from US News, which I have no trouble accessing. Here's an example. The copyvio search case works fine. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 19:56, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for the edits that you made - It made it much clearer and easier to understand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eastcoasthawaiian ( talk • contribs) 19:14, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
I will thank him as well - much appreciated — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eastcoasthawaiian ( talk • contribs) 20:09, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Do it. ;-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 04:10, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
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delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.24.96.111.106 added inflammatory and accusatory edit summaries to several of their edits. Notably: Old revision of Eileen Donahoe, Old revision of Eileen Donahoe, Old revision of John Donahoe, Old revision of John_Donahoe, Old revision of John Donahoe. Figured I'd flag them in case they needed to be deleted. Thanks. Night S H I F T (49) (talk) 03:43, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
At AFC I accepted a barely notable submission on Harry Lawtey, but I noticed that two sentences were completely copied from a news website. I forgot the name of it, but the removed text is in the page history. Normally I would create a copyvio template, but I am unsure if the violation is egregious enough to warrant revdeletion. Is it okay if you take a look? Thanks. Scorpions13256 ( talk) 02:57, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
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technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.Sometimes the choices in the CSD don't give the appropriate choice. I chose the copyright one because it was a direct cut and paste, but understand it's outside the time parameters. My issue was that virtually the entire article is cut and paste from a source. Not sure where the exact policy is, but that's not allowed is it? Onel5969 TT me 12:46, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
hello can you give back the page i created i fixed it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lasttaps ( talk • contribs) 20:00, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello!
This is regarding the recently deleted article Messenger Premier League (see
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Messenger Premier League). You closed this discussion, and that's why I'm contacting you. Is there any way that you could add the article to
Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia? The article existed since 2008 and I'm pretty sure it was a hoax article. Thanks!
Wizzito (
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You're welcome
Wizzito (
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How can one get his/her Wikipedia artist bio BennyGram ( talk) 18:29, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for understanding my perspectives and for leading
User:Baffle gab1978. Please look over
User:ClueBot III/Indices/User talk:CJDOS and
User talk:CJDOS. I think that |archiveprefix=User_talk:CJDOS/Archive
should be |archiveprefix=User talk:CJDOS/Archive
. I insist that there is also the underscore _ issue. Best regards.
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|archiveprefix = User talk:BrandonXLF/Archives/
should be |archiveprefix=User talk:BrandonXLF/Archives/
for
User talk:BrandonXLF. There is also the blank issue. There are no bugs of User:ClueBot III. Its manual is pretty good. Users should be forced to use
User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis#Required parameters.
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Hi Earwig. I would just like to let you know there is a page revision that needs deletion because it is grossly offensive and degrading. Can you please delete revision [3]? Thanks. Train of Knowledge ( Talk) 10:31, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi Earwig! A thought for a tool that might be neat just occurred to me, and just wanted to toss it out here in case it's actually feasible and something you'd be interested in. The idea would be to take something like the editor interaction analyzer, only instead of comparing two specific users, it instead looks at a single user and identifies which other editors they interact most frequently with, thus identifying their "top wikifriends". Potential use cases would include identifying possible recipients for wikilove (i.e. who I might want to nominate for t-shirts), finding sockpuppets, etc. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 09:00, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello The Earwig, I see that the page(Manorama Mohapatra) has been deleted. This must be due to the same data between her website and the page. But I would like to inform you that, I am her grandson and I developed that website for her. The content of the pages are all written by me. I have also sent the mail regarding the copyright issue. Regards. Akshyapadma ( talk) 06:41, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
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Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
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Do it, I wanna see how it's like blocked! :) LooneyTraceYT comment • treats 00:50, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Just for 30 seconds, Just like what happened to Oshwah, but was blocked for about 7 seconds. LooneyTraceYT comment • treats 00:58, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Lol! I cant believe I don't this for real! :) LooneyTraceYT comment • treats 01:03, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
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Today I wrote
VisualEditor ref namer.py ↗. Hardly the most beautiful Python script, but made the extremely tedious work of trying to fix all the unnamed citations in
osteogenesis imperfecta very fast:
[4]. I then ran it over
Deseret alphabet with equally good results:
[5]. Most of my work I do through the VE, but I know that plenty of editors still prefer source view, so anything I can do to make my VE-produced articles less annoying is appreciated.
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Very useful tool creation award |
I use the Earwig copvio detector tool all the time. Thank you. --- Possibly ☎ 04:34, 29 August 2021 (UTC) |
PS: Due to current COVID restrictions, the awards ceremony has been cancelled. Please enjoy this virtual award. --- Possibly ☎ 04:36, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210531: "only" 12 pages but 48000 diffs, making this the largest CCI currently open (ever?). I suspect the last two or three pages and maybe another 5000+ diffs could disappear, but it requires someone who is better at regular expressions than I am to get rid of all of the "further reading" entries without false positives. Given that you managed to take out a big chunk of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Ruigeroeland after I had a swing, I suspect that might be you. See also Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#We_cannot_sweep_copyright_issues_under_the_rug_any_longer... MER-C 16:19, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
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Ideally, that would've been a full-width template, or at the very least I would've noticed it wasn't before I clicked 'save'. So, as an additional thank you, please accept this {{ clear}} template as an additional award. ◦ Trey Maturin 18:15, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of PROIV. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Djm-leighpark ( talk) 13:58, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you still personally maintain this tool or if this is the correct place to report the issue, but https://copyvios.toolforge.org/ is returning a 500 error today. Thanks! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 20:12, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
I think that Toolforge was down for a while. Other applications such as CopyPatrol are now functioning, but https://copyvios.toolforge.org/ still throwing a 500 error.— Diannaa ( talk) 23:24, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
thank you!! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 00:40, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
Thank you! Meanwhile, users may be interested to know that https://dupdet.toolforge.org/ usually works, even when Toolforge is down. Not as good a tool, but better than nothing!— Diannaa ( talk) 01:04, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
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I have just edited this article (re an advertisement source). Is my edit acceptable or not. Please revert if not. Thanks for your interest. BFP1 ( talk) 10:22, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Examples are commonly seen on the second-hand market, we'd want to see some reliable, independent source (a reputable publication that does not stand to gain from the sale of antiques) explicitly stating that brass bankers' lamps are common on the secondary market; a single instance of them doesn't illustrate that (who says they're "common"?), and it would be original research to draw this conclusion. — The Earwig ( talk) 03:56, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
Thanks @ The Earwig:. It's a bit of a Catch 22 situation as I keep seeing current adverts (eg. 2 you previously reverted and the new 'sold' advert) for the brass bankers' lamps indcating that they are commonly available second-hand but I can't use them to prove the point. I will delete my edit. BFP1 ( talk) 15:16, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
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The Earwig, you've assisted WiR in the past when its metric system goes kaput. That time has come again [6]. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics, or more specifically Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics/October 2021 has not seen an update in days.
I know these metrics are not your thing, but if there's anything you can do to assist WiR - which really has no clue about the technicalities of its own metrics system - then I'd be v.grateful for your input. thx. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 17:19, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Earwig. With mwparserfromhell, is there an easy way to get the span of a node in a wikitext string? For example, the span of the template in "hi {{pb}} hi" would be (3, 9), which is the index of the start of the template string and the index + 1 of the end of the template string. Winston ( talk) 17:56, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
wikitext.index(node)
will give the index, but that's in terms of nodes, not characters. You could sum the lengths of the nodes with a lower index to find the start and add the length of the node to find the end, which is a bit awkward. What do you want this for? There might be a better way. —
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20:57, 7 November 2021 (UTC)Here's the setup. Let's say you want to split wikitext into lines to do some processing on them. But actually, you don't want plain lines from the wikitext. You want lines from the POV of the rendering. So you cannot simply use \n
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(Note that mwparserfromhell seems unable to detect the tag in the first example, though it works as wikicode.) The most straightforward thing to do then, is to first iterate over objects in the wikitext such as tags and templates with something like mwparserfromhell to identify the newline characters inside them which should not be used as line delimiter. This is can be done by recording spans and simply avoiding newlines inside those spans later. I've been using wikitextparser since it offers a span function, but I noticed some bugs, i.e. edge cases where what works as wikitext isn't detected properly. So I tried mwparserfromhell which successfully detects some edge cases that wikitextparser doesn't, but vice versa as well. Probably no package can be catch all cases. The edge cases are usually some gnarly wikitext, but unfortunately they do exist "in the wild". I suppose all that can be done is to report edge cases to the respective packages. Winston ( talk) 21:29, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
Could you please add the "vortaro.net" dictionary? https://vortaro.net/py/serchi.py?simpla=1&s=pirato&kap=1&der=1 Caves:
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Hello The Earwig: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 21:09, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, I just marked this as a copyvio of
https://httpwwwthenrgbandcomnewshtm.blogspot.com/, which I had easily found via a web search; however, interestingly, copyvios.toolforge.org did not find any results over 2 %. Any idea why? ~~~~
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Congrats! The Copyvio Detector is really a life-saver for detecting copyvios (lol). Seriously though, where would we be without it. ~~~~
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Hi, I'm requesting the use of WikiProject tagging for WikiProject Radio Stations and the Television stations task force. (See: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Radio Stations#Project tagging (two support !votes over 2 weeks) and the discussion without any comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television/Television stations task force#Project tagging).
This is a one-time run to ensure that WPRS and TVS has all the pages in their scope. I expect most of the first two to be tagged, but this will help find anything that slipped through the cracks. The third category (television channel) is likely to result in a lot of pages being added to TVS because a lot of these were considered out of scope in the past.
Had originally requested this from AnomieBOT in October, but it has yet to happen. Thanks, Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 04:13, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
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Posting this here because I think interested parties will be following...
From the for-what-it's-worth department, I have hastily thrown together a clean-room implementation of the "URL comparison" feature in a Windows exe creatively called "Copyvios". It has limited applicability (i.e. it scratches my own personal itch) explained in its README. I'll try to get the source on sourceforgegithub. For now, get the exe and a reference source from
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtuCZY0YF4hGop43fHSS2GiSK2fPUw?e=goT44W.
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Source now at https://github.com/DavidWBrooks/Copyvios. I don't know how to handle contributions yet; be gentle. David Brooks ( talk) 22:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
In the Recently accepted table, could you add the class when it's set? Probably via the use of {{ class}} in the 'Notes' column? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 18:09, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
Here's a comparison tool that's available to people not using Windows-based machines: https://copyleaks.com/compare. It's like Duplication Detector, but has more options, and highlights the overlapping content in a more usable way.— Diannaa ( talk) 14:02, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hi! Is Copyvios down again? https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/?project=wikipedia&lang=de does not work. Kind regards Doc Taxon ( talk) 17:48, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
The Earwig, can you help me and declare the problems of Copyvios? I didn't understand the concrete reason(s) yet. Thank you, Doc Taxon ( talk) 07:46, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
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Take a look at User talk:Ryūkotsusei#Ways to improve Zero Racers. Do you need to add that website to the exclusions list? « Ryūkotsusei » 15:26, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, recently I've added http://legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp to prevent results like this, but as you can see, the URL is still displayed at the results. I thought I can happen, because I've did not included the "www.", but the editnotice of the list says that I should not. However there are other entries with www., so what is correct now? Best regards, Luke 081515 19:43, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hey. Yesterday and today I've tried to use the Earwig tool to check for copyvios, and have gotten the (Google Error: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests) issue that I know we had a couple months back. Not sure if something has to be re-tweaked over at Phabricator or if this is something that is screwy on Google's end. Wizardman 01:59, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I'm investigating automated WP tagging of articles for WP:LAKES as part of the revamp of the project. I'm wondering if EarwigBot could handle or might be modified to handle recursive categories limited to the pattern of the category's name within the top category Category:Lakes by country. Given the scope of WP:LAKES the tagging of these with {{WikiProject Lakes}} is non controversial since the items in the categories should all be in scope and even some assumed this has been automated already. There is great consistency in the name patterns and categorization of articles to scan and tag with the pattern filter. A few pattern of names that could have articles tagged automatically are "Lakes of *", "Artificial Lakes in *", "Reservoirs in *", and a handful of others. Since these naming conventions are well followed even future categories with this pattern would be included without modification while also avoiding out of scope categories at the deepest levels where categories like Category:Lake_Tahoe exist. The reason for the pattern is not only the dynamic, but also that categories for a specific lake include out of scope articles and are best left to manual review. Does the recursion based on pattern to compile a list then to tag the articles without WP:LAKES seem reasonable to implement? Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? ( talk) 13:31, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
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I've been working on a tool which parses SPI case pages. It kept crashing on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alex Neman/Archive, apparently mis-parsing headers. To make a long story short, I eventually got down to a minimal test case showing that mwpfh breaks on mis-matched quotes (i.e. italics), and was working on opening a bug. Then I saw about skip_style_tags, which did indeed fix the problem. So, glad you added that feature. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:49, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
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EarwigBot seems to have stopped updating this page since 14 September. Could you look into it? The replag is high these days but surely that would only the bot would emit outdated statistics, rather than not work at all, right? – SD0001 ( talk) 18:36, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, following this discussion at ru-wiki I would like to clarify what do exactly mean "confidence" percents in your tool? Say here - 46.2% is like "46.2% of my confidence that the text is taken from the source at the right"? Or like "46.2% of text is taken from the source at the right"? Or something else? Best regards, -- Neolexx ( talk) 02:55, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello. For the last couple of says (including today), I've been getting a Google Error: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests when trying to use your Copyvio Detector tool. With this error, I can't use the Use search engine button but the Use links in page works fine. I seen in your talk page archive this error has happened before. Perhaps a similar issue is going on now? Thanks! -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 23:42, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Earwig! Recently Template:AFC statistics was moved to Template:AfC statistics (cc Primefac). Following this, User:EarwigBot has stopped updating AfC statistics. Could you fix the page name in the code? (As a result, User:SDZeroBot/Declined AFCs which relies on Template:AFC statistics/declined also stopped working.) Thanks, – SD0001 ( talk) 19:55, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
Good morning Ben. It's 7 AM Mountain Standard Time and we've already exhausted our quota of looks for the day (Google Error: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests). I wondler if you have a minute if you could take a look and see if there's anything you can spot that could help? Thanks, — Diannaa ( talk) 14:03, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, today I am unable to make much use of the CopyVio Detector - for the most part it just sits and spins without ever timing out or generating a report. It's been this way for about the last seven hours. If you have time to have a look that would be great. Thank you,— Diannaa ( talk) 23:52, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
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Hello,
The Editing team has scheduled a major update to mw:Extension:DiscussionTools (the new Reply tool) for next week's deployment train. Since you invoke the feature from a script ( I do, too), you're probably going to see that update next week, before it's officially released in the mw:Beta Feature system. The new update will use a similar system for starting a ==New discussion==. As before, full-page wikitext editing will not be affected. There is more information on the project page at mw:Talk pages project/New discussion.
You don't have to do anything about this; I just didn't want you to be surprised. If you encounter problems next week, please ping me or leave a note on the talk page for the project. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 22:08, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for the links! The Five Pillars of Wikipedia may be helpful in a discussion about the Ripple Music page I'm having right now. Jessiemay1984 ( talk) 12:58, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Ah, so it's the entomological connection. Being on Wikipedia, I assumed a metaphorical sense. Still, something I'll remember after encountering you just once, so it's an excellent user name. — kwami ( talk) 03:19, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
I remember playing with them. A younger version of me would've delighted in putting them in my little sister's hair, except that I'd accustomed her to crawlies from such an early age (her favorite animal was the pill-bug) that she'd've been delighted to have them in her hair, and what's the fun in that? I just looked up the etymology, and evidently the final -g is the same old diminutive suffix as in dog, frog and pig. (On the off chance you didn't already know that.) So it's an odd word for an odd bug. — kwami ( talk) 03:38, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the revdel. I'm positive I've seen that exact same rant before, but I don't remember the user. Not worth remembering since they are not around long enough to be an issue. Meters ( talk) 07:03, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
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post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
In your delete closure at WP:Articles for deletion/Impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden you wrote: "The primary arguments to merge are countered by the point that all usable content has already been integrated into Efforts to impeach Joe Biden..."
In my comment I pointed out that one of the contributors who favoured delete based that opinion on arguments that were not supported by the delete policy. Administrators are supposed to discount non-policy arguments, like this one, correct? This was not the only delete argument of its type - ie not policy based - correct?
Can I ask if you considered arguments on whether they were or weren't supported by policy, or guideline? Geo Swan ( talk) 23:37, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Since there was a rather strong consensus to not keep the redirect, would you consider protecting the redirect page to some level (to prevent it being developed as a POVFORK by either unknowledgeable or badly intentioned editors [or, alternatively, the same sock as before...])? Semi should do the trick, although ECP could also work as it clearly is under the scope of the ArbCom DS on the topic. RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 04:27, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Can user:Wjae1 please be blocked ASAP for vandalism? CLCStudent ( talk) 01:52, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
This user is obviously a sock of Pcgmsrich. They've apparently reported themselves for vandalism; can you oblige them with a block? Crboyer ( talk) 05:29, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
This kitten has caught a dangerous piece of cloth, and I think you for catching my error at Abronia fragrans! I copied and pasted text from the lilac article but apparently I did not sufficiently clean up after myself.
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delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at
Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
Hi Earwig,
An error in the ELP data: the link for 10424 Ngatikese appears at Ngatik Men's Creole rather than at Ngatikese language. I'll fix if you show me how.
— kwami ( talk) 20:28, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Also 4711 Mores shows up on Ande language rather than Mores language.
Okay, straightforward. I didn't know about the data link from the article. — kwami ( talk) 04:59, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help at that massive moth CCI. Your help is greatly appreciated! Keep up the great work :) MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 19:34, 18 March 2021 (UTC) |
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Apologies for being a bit late, but to celebrate a belated π day, here's a pi for you! T fess up? or down? 04:44, 19 March 2021 (UTC) |
He is a notable musician from Cape Town South Africa. Please do search "B Major SA" because he is verified on Facebook as a public figure and got multiple news articles.
( 197.229.7.223 ( talk) 17:49, 21 March 2021 (UTC))
Hello, I'm getting timeouts for the URL comparison case, for the last 24 hours. It's unable to retrieve this article from US News, which I have no trouble accessing. Here's an example. The copyvio search case works fine. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 19:56, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for the edits that you made - It made it much clearer and easier to understand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eastcoasthawaiian ( talk • contribs) 19:14, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
I will thank him as well - much appreciated — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eastcoasthawaiian ( talk • contribs) 20:09, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Do it. ;-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 04:10, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
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delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.24.96.111.106 added inflammatory and accusatory edit summaries to several of their edits. Notably: Old revision of Eileen Donahoe, Old revision of Eileen Donahoe, Old revision of John Donahoe, Old revision of John_Donahoe, Old revision of John Donahoe. Figured I'd flag them in case they needed to be deleted. Thanks. Night S H I F T (49) (talk) 03:43, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
At AFC I accepted a barely notable submission on Harry Lawtey, but I noticed that two sentences were completely copied from a news website. I forgot the name of it, but the removed text is in the page history. Normally I would create a copyvio template, but I am unsure if the violation is egregious enough to warrant revdeletion. Is it okay if you take a look? Thanks. Scorpions13256 ( talk) 02:57, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
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oversight
will be renamed to suppress
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technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.Sometimes the choices in the CSD don't give the appropriate choice. I chose the copyright one because it was a direct cut and paste, but understand it's outside the time parameters. My issue was that virtually the entire article is cut and paste from a source. Not sure where the exact policy is, but that's not allowed is it? Onel5969 TT me 12:46, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
hello can you give back the page i created i fixed it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lasttaps ( talk • contribs) 20:00, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello!
This is regarding the recently deleted article Messenger Premier League (see
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Messenger Premier League). You closed this discussion, and that's why I'm contacting you. Is there any way that you could add the article to
Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia? The article existed since 2008 and I'm pretty sure it was a hoax article. Thanks!
Wizzito (
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You're welcome
Wizzito (
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19:38, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
How can one get his/her Wikipedia artist bio BennyGram ( talk) 18:29, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for understanding my perspectives and for leading
User:Baffle gab1978. Please look over
User:ClueBot III/Indices/User talk:CJDOS and
User talk:CJDOS. I think that |archiveprefix=User_talk:CJDOS/Archive
should be |archiveprefix=User talk:CJDOS/Archive
. I insist that there is also the underscore _ issue. Best regards.
Sawol (
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03:44, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
|archiveprefix = User talk:BrandonXLF/Archives/
should be |archiveprefix=User talk:BrandonXLF/Archives/
for
User talk:BrandonXLF. There is also the blank issue. There are no bugs of User:ClueBot III. Its manual is pretty good. Users should be forced to use
User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis#Required parameters.
Sawol (
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05:04, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi Earwig. I would just like to let you know there is a page revision that needs deletion because it is grossly offensive and degrading. Can you please delete revision [3]? Thanks. Train of Knowledge ( Talk) 10:31, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi Earwig! A thought for a tool that might be neat just occurred to me, and just wanted to toss it out here in case it's actually feasible and something you'd be interested in. The idea would be to take something like the editor interaction analyzer, only instead of comparing two specific users, it instead looks at a single user and identifies which other editors they interact most frequently with, thus identifying their "top wikifriends". Potential use cases would include identifying possible recipients for wikilove (i.e. who I might want to nominate for t-shirts), finding sockpuppets, etc. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 09:00, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello The Earwig, I see that the page(Manorama Mohapatra) has been deleted. This must be due to the same data between her website and the page. But I would like to inform you that, I am her grandson and I developed that website for her. The content of the pages are all written by me. I have also sent the mail regarding the copyright issue. Regards. Akshyapadma ( talk) 06:41, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
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Hello The Earwig:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long
Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 2800 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
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Do it, I wanna see how it's like blocked! :) LooneyTraceYT comment • treats 00:50, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Just for 30 seconds, Just like what happened to Oshwah, but was blocked for about 7 seconds. LooneyTraceYT comment • treats 00:58, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Lol! I cant believe I don't this for real! :) LooneyTraceYT comment • treats 01:03, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
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Today I wrote
VisualEditor ref namer.py ↗. Hardly the most beautiful Python script, but made the extremely tedious work of trying to fix all the unnamed citations in
osteogenesis imperfecta very fast:
[4]. I then ran it over
Deseret alphabet with equally good results:
[5]. Most of my work I do through the VE, but I know that plenty of editors still prefer source view, so anything I can do to make my VE-produced articles less annoying is appreciated.
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Very useful tool creation award |
I use the Earwig copvio detector tool all the time. Thank you. --- Possibly ☎ 04:34, 29 August 2021 (UTC) |
PS: Due to current COVID restrictions, the awards ceremony has been cancelled. Please enjoy this virtual award. --- Possibly ☎ 04:36, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210531: "only" 12 pages but 48000 diffs, making this the largest CCI currently open (ever?). I suspect the last two or three pages and maybe another 5000+ diffs could disappear, but it requires someone who is better at regular expressions than I am to get rid of all of the "further reading" entries without false positives. Given that you managed to take out a big chunk of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Ruigeroeland after I had a swing, I suspect that might be you. See also Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#We_cannot_sweep_copyright_issues_under_the_rug_any_longer... MER-C 16:19, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
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Ideally, that would've been a full-width template, or at the very least I would've noticed it wasn't before I clicked 'save'. So, as an additional thank you, please accept this {{ clear}} template as an additional award. ◦ Trey Maturin 18:15, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of PROIV. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Djm-leighpark ( talk) 13:58, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you still personally maintain this tool or if this is the correct place to report the issue, but https://copyvios.toolforge.org/ is returning a 500 error today. Thanks! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 20:12, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
I think that Toolforge was down for a while. Other applications such as CopyPatrol are now functioning, but https://copyvios.toolforge.org/ still throwing a 500 error.— Diannaa ( talk) 23:24, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
thank you!! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 00:40, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
Thank you! Meanwhile, users may be interested to know that https://dupdet.toolforge.org/ usually works, even when Toolforge is down. Not as good a tool, but better than nothing!— Diannaa ( talk) 01:04, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
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I have just edited this article (re an advertisement source). Is my edit acceptable or not. Please revert if not. Thanks for your interest. BFP1 ( talk) 10:22, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Examples are commonly seen on the second-hand market, we'd want to see some reliable, independent source (a reputable publication that does not stand to gain from the sale of antiques) explicitly stating that brass bankers' lamps are common on the secondary market; a single instance of them doesn't illustrate that (who says they're "common"?), and it would be original research to draw this conclusion. — The Earwig ( talk) 03:56, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
Thanks @ The Earwig:. It's a bit of a Catch 22 situation as I keep seeing current adverts (eg. 2 you previously reverted and the new 'sold' advert) for the brass bankers' lamps indcating that they are commonly available second-hand but I can't use them to prove the point. I will delete my edit. BFP1 ( talk) 15:16, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
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The Earwig, you've assisted WiR in the past when its metric system goes kaput. That time has come again [6]. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics, or more specifically Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics/October 2021 has not seen an update in days.
I know these metrics are not your thing, but if there's anything you can do to assist WiR - which really has no clue about the technicalities of its own metrics system - then I'd be v.grateful for your input. thx. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 17:19, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Earwig. With mwparserfromhell, is there an easy way to get the span of a node in a wikitext string? For example, the span of the template in "hi {{pb}} hi" would be (3, 9), which is the index of the start of the template string and the index + 1 of the end of the template string. Winston ( talk) 17:56, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
wikitext.index(node)
will give the index, but that's in terms of nodes, not characters. You could sum the lengths of the nodes with a lower index to find the start and add the length of the node to find the end, which is a bit awkward. What do you want this for? There might be a better way. —
The Earwig (
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20:57, 7 November 2021 (UTC)Here's the setup. Let's say you want to split wikitext into lines to do some processing on them. But actually, you don't want plain lines from the wikitext. You want lines from the POV of the rendering. So you cannot simply use \n
as a delimiter since you can have stuff like:
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<strong >Hello there.</strong> |
Hello there. |
{{ as of |2021 }} |
As of 2021 [update] |
(Note that mwparserfromhell seems unable to detect the tag in the first example, though it works as wikicode.) The most straightforward thing to do then, is to first iterate over objects in the wikitext such as tags and templates with something like mwparserfromhell to identify the newline characters inside them which should not be used as line delimiter. This is can be done by recording spans and simply avoiding newlines inside those spans later. I've been using wikitextparser since it offers a span function, but I noticed some bugs, i.e. edge cases where what works as wikitext isn't detected properly. So I tried mwparserfromhell which successfully detects some edge cases that wikitextparser doesn't, but vice versa as well. Probably no package can be catch all cases. The edge cases are usually some gnarly wikitext, but unfortunately they do exist "in the wild". I suppose all that can be done is to report edge cases to the respective packages. Winston ( talk) 21:29, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
Could you please add the "vortaro.net" dictionary? https://vortaro.net/py/serchi.py?simpla=1&s=pirato&kap=1&der=1 Caves:
Taylor 49 ( talk) 21:47, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
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A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:07, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hello The Earwig: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 21:09, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
-- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 21:09, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I just marked this as a copyvio of
https://httpwwwthenrgbandcomnewshtm.blogspot.com/, which I had easily found via a web search; however, interestingly, copyvios.toolforge.org did not find any results over 2 %. Any idea why? ~~~~
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14:53, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, The Earwig. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that
User:The Earwig/Sandbox/Draft (current), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months
may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please
edit it again or
request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot ( talk) 20:01, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
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Congrats! The Copyvio Detector is really a life-saver for detecting copyvios (lol). Seriously though, where would we be without it. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (
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Hi, I'm requesting the use of WikiProject tagging for WikiProject Radio Stations and the Television stations task force. (See: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Radio Stations#Project tagging (two support !votes over 2 weeks) and the discussion without any comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television/Television stations task force#Project tagging).
This is a one-time run to ensure that WPRS and TVS has all the pages in their scope. I expect most of the first two to be tagged, but this will help find anything that slipped through the cracks. The third category (television channel) is likely to result in a lot of pages being added to TVS because a lot of these were considered out of scope in the past.
Had originally requested this from AnomieBOT in October, but it has yet to happen. Thanks, Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 04:13, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
|television-stations=yes
to existing banners where it was missing. —
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08:54, 24 January 2022 (UTC)