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You recently added Drug checking to this navbar with this edit. About five mins before I had already added that article to the Issues with drug use group with this edit. I proceeded to bypass some redirects before closing the edit request, so I can only blame myself. Feel free to revert my addition or your addition as you see fit. Happy New Year by the way! P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 15:37, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, I would like to create an English version of the German article "Gut Hermannsberg". But I don't know exactly how and I make a lot of mistakes. Best regards, Jakobwein — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakobwein ( talk • contribs) 13:03, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Best regards Jakobwein — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakobwein ( talk • contribs) 17:14, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
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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.
Hello, Xaosflux! :) It has been a while without talking. Do you have any experience accessing Wikipedia's API? I've been trying to follow the instructions here for the last couple of days but I can't make it work. I'm trying to make my pywikibot autoupdate itself by getting its (updated) source code from a Wikipedia page periodically. For that it needs to be able to login, edit a certain page multiple times and copy the results from these edits in its source code script but I'm stuck on the first step: Logging in. I've already done the OAuth part and I'm trying to use a curl command on cmd to follow the other steps but... - Klein Muçi ( talk) 01:39, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpassword=password&lgtoken=123ABC
. With my current understanding of the subject, I tried curl -X POST api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpassword=password&lgtoken=123ABC
(of course, with my personal credentials and tokens substituted) but the response I get is nothing similar to what I should be getting (judging by the examples given on that page). It's neither a successful nor an erroneous one. I just get a very long HTML code page. I've tried sending a GET request (curl api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpassword=password&lgtoken=123ABC
) and the same thing happens. There are examples premade for Python, JavaScript and PHP there but I work on cmd, as I said, and I don't know how to convert that information in being useful to me. -
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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?
while the second one tells us to use
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/
. Do you have any idea how to "adapt" the instructions mentioned
here with the format used in the page you showed me (
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/
)? If not, I can try asking at
WP:VPT but judging from past experiences, if you lack the ability to explain clearly your request there, you'll get dragged upon on a long journey. That is if you are lucky enough to get an answer. And explaining the "adaptation" part will be difficult for me given that I lack the correct terminology or the technical side info about the subject. -
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Just curious: I know what the Unix sudo command does, but I'm not clear on the meaning you intended in MediaWiki talk:Yourgender § label text. Inquiring minds are wondering... isaacl ( talk) 18:40, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
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Would it be a good idea to reduce protection level to template editor? It would be more in-line with highly-used templates. Steve M ( talk) 00:40, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I know its been a long time but I dont understand why you wanted to delete the Stage Race page. It currently redirects to a page about cycling, nothing to do with ultramarathons and or running whatsoever. Perhaps the most famous ultra in the world is a stage race, the Marathon des Sables and there are currently 70 stage races listed for 2021 on the DUV. (see url below) There are marathons, ultramarathons and multiday races. Stage Races are a category of multiday day races as are Backyard Ultras.
Best wishes, Abichal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abichal ( talk • contribs) 2021-03-03T22:22:31 (UTC)
I apologise for my accusation. I havent been on wikipedia much recently and I just noticed the old message. If its possible to restore it that would be great. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abichal ( talk • contribs) 00:29, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Hey, I've undone the semi on Jimbo's page but I'm still not sure the standard protection thing is working properly. I got the warning (filter 803), but on User:Anarchyte/sandbox/test I was able to edit without any problems whatsoever without adding any template to the page. Is this a bug or am I just not understanding the way standard protection works? Anarchyte ( talk • work) 15:53, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Xaosflux, will you please have a look here. Thank you, – Kammill ⟨ talk⟩ 16:45, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
I'm developing a list here. Alternatively, I may also use this list also. – Kammill ⟨ talk⟩ 17:53, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello Xaosflux, hope you are fine. My message is still pending. No one dares to send it. Why? I asked Dreamy Jazz to fix errors or mistakes (if any) in the list and message but they said all is good except one indefinitely blocked user and some existing members are also included in the list. I have fixed both of these issues. For existing members, I have had already written: if you have already signed please ignore this message
. Now I'm waiting it to be sent. The requested date was on 18 March but now it is 20 March. Will you please help. By the way, have a good time! –
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... for this. I didn't know where that was located, but admittedly didn't go looking through page source or anything like that either. I considered tracking it down and wp:boldly bolding it, but thought given the scope of that edit notice it best to get some input first. Thank you again, cheers and best - — Ched ( talk) 01:52, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
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Can you block me because I am starting a clean start? Thanks. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk 17:25, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
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Dear Xaosflux, yes, please put thearticle to my personal sandbox so I can work on it! thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miscioletto ( talk • contribs) 2021-04-29T09:01:48 (UTC)
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But I did 300 real edits Ujjwal 20 ( talk) 18:03, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
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I try not to go too far off-topic on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Restricting GFDL-licensed uploads (and I'm already failing at that), so I ask here. Your response to "One does not find GFDL-licensed photos outside Wikimedia." was that "well - you could".
Where? A photo (not a software manual or something) that was recently licensed (say, in the past 2 years or even in the past 5 years) with GFDL and no CC BY or BY-SA license and unrelated to Wikimedia. Uploading a photo you took yourself to your own website for this argument wouldn't count.
I figured I might as well try to prove myself wrong. I eventually found David Michigan by Jim Winter, uploaded in 2018, on or before 1 July 2018 licensed as GFDL. This appears to be the only photo by Jim Winter with a license. I suspect the license was changed at the request of a Wikimedian, or bought by a Wikimedian, or something. There's the deleted d:Q97014525 and this David Michigan AfD. Actually, according to Dqfn13 at w:nl:Wikipedia:Te beoordelen pagina's/Toegevoegd 20200728#David Michigan his article has been deleted on Swedish, Hindi, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Wikipedia. Commons deleted the photo. All very strange. Too much of a stretch to believe this is unrelated to Wikimedia. And it's more than 2 years old. Guess I failed.
Let me know if you find something. Seriously, I'd be very interested. Btw, only disallowing own work has been considered. That was actually the original proposal from MGA73. I quickly realized because of the general nature of the few GFDL users that are left that they may simply upload their photos to Flickr with "GFDL" in the description (like the Jim Winter photo) and import that to Wikimedia or two of them would team up and upload photos for each other, making the uploads technically not own work. It would create many loopholes without any benefit because.. nobody unrelated to Wikimedia uses GFDL for photos anyway. — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 00:29, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
If I wanted to I'd probably start with original media that is included along with some free software that is all bundled under GFDL.Won't work. GFDL isn't a software license. GFDL was created to accompany the GPL (and similar) license(s) for software. Before that, the manual for GPL software was also licensed GPL, which made less sense because reasons. But if you do find GFDL-licensed software, I'd be very interested too, because it would be really weird. — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 01:53, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 09:18, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
[[User:]]
mention. I'll note I've had failures on {{
ping}} in the past. --
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10:41, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
[edit source]
edit. --
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11:05, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
The other day I made about 50 test edits to my sandbox pinging User:Example1 and checking whether I got a "mention successful/failed" notification—the aforementioned thing that kind of drove me crazy trying to find patterns. See Special:PageHistory/User:Tamzin/sandbox. As things went on I started losing track of which pinged and which didn't (since Special:Notifications somehow doesn't give precise timestamps, just minutes since), and the last 10 or so I can't really vouch for the accuracy of my summaries, but everything up to that should at least be proof of concept about failure to ping. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 14:17, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
<span style="font-family:courier;font-size:90%"><span class="nowrap">-- [[User:Tamzin|Tamzin]] ({{subst:#ifexpr:{{subst:#time:s}}mod2|she/they|they/she}})</span> | [[User talk:Tamzin|o toki tawa mi.]]</span>
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14:37, 12 May 2021 (UTC)I'm thinking about running IznoBot task 3 over the talk spaces. What's the easiest way to get that up and running? Izno ( talk) 00:30, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
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13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Xaosflux,
I've been seeing an ongoing, occasional problem for years which is tagged pages not showing up in category listings. But every time I've brought the issue to the Village Pump, someone deletes my example so it is no longer evidence of a problem. So, since you reply to many technical questions, I thought I'd come directly here and hope that no friendly talk page stalkers who are admins will take action before you can give me a reply.
The page I ran into today is User_talk:Violetcries/Placebo. It was tagged as a CSD G13 last August but was not placed in the correct CSD category for stale drafts. The interesting thing is that I think the tagging is incorrect, but that's not the issue. Is this a problem with Twinkle or is there other code here interfering with the page being categorized?
The typical category problem I've been annoyed with are twofold:
The commonality is that both of these examples involve a change in status and the pages are not tagged for deletion by an editor. I've talked with ProcrastinatingReader about the maintenance category problem and he advised waiting to see if the categories eventually show up in Category:Candidates for uncontroversial speedy deletion. But two or three times a year, I can go through Category:Clean-up categories and find dozens of now empty categories that were tagged months ago and never showed up where patrolling admins could see them.
It's not a huge problem as it doesn't affect any area that readers would see but it's just been an ongoing irritant. I brought it up at the Village Pump years ago and there either wasn't a solution or I was told that the engineers were "working on it". Any thoughts about any of this? Thanks in advance. Liz Read! Talk! 22:27, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
Draft A changes from Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions to Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions.How is this changing? Is it changing from an editor changing something on the page? A bot? Or is it some template that is using something like date math? — xaosflux Talk 09:56, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
{{category handler
| all = {{#switch:{{NAMESPACE}}|Draft|User=[[Category:Candidates for speedy deletion]][[Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions]]}}
which means that cat will only be applied if the page is in draft/user spaces – which indeed seems like sub-optimal behaviour, I'd at least expect it to populate an error category. And Xaosflux, sorry for the many talkpage edit notifications! –
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16:26, 21 May 2021 (UTC)Hey, xaosflux. Can you restore my testwiki admin bit, so I can see how the Android app displays various types of blocks? See phab:T276149 for more. Already tried on enwiki, with no success. Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 20:14, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
@ Xaosflux: Hi, Sir Can you Protected My User Page as User namespace Because in Present I'm Not Interested editing Our page.(Allow = edting only Admin|Infinte) Best Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rm1y5cx ( talk • contribs) 07:54, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
Rm1y5cx ( talk • contribs) 11:40 , 26 May 2021 (UTC)
Everybody falls sometimes, you gotta find the strength to rise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CameronMcDonald1234 ( talk • contribs) 23:16, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux. Regarding my edit request, can I ask how long I should expect it to be on hold for? Thanks, ‑‑ Neveselbert ( talk · contribs · email) 03:10, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
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I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 27 June, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up your name under the appropriate section.
Thank you for your time.-- BAnand (WMF) 02:49, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
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I am preparing to propose a new criteria for removal of the Edit Filter Manager user right, but I would like your opinion on if you think it has a chance at passing because I don't want it to get [[WP:SNOW]]ed, and you are one of the most experienced "technical" admins. I want to propose that any user with the Edit Filter Manager user right who is blocked for at least a month can have the right removed immediately as a breach of trust, even if it has nothing to do with the Edit Filter Manager user right, as it is a very potent user right that requires the upmost trust. ( Currently, the right can only be removed for abuse or misuse of the right )Do you think this proposal would have a chance at passing, or do you think it wouldn't be of any use and would fail. Jackattack1597 ( talk) 00:59, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
I saw you created the appropriate title blacklist pages but I have not seen the entries be added yet?
Is there a timeline for when you or another admin will get to it? It has been almost a day and I have waited a little patiently for a reply to be added. There is consensus to block saving books to Book: namespace in the Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Aasim ( talk) 00:08, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation is template protected, which is not suited for WT-space. Please unprotect or downgrade its protection. dud hhr Contribs 17:25, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
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... with your humorous reference. Thank you. — Quondum 23:23, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Ruedi33a and campaign boxes which may be of interest. Thank you. FDW777 ( talk) 12:43, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hey there, Xaos! :)
I wanted to propose a change in regard to edit filters overall interface. Let's take for example the bad words edit filter, pretty basic. It catches a bad word from the list, it blocks the text from being published. When I go to check the activity in regard to this filter, I'll get shown something like this: This user was blocked from publishing this edit. This works pretty fine in general. The problem is that sometimes users are bringing BIG chunks of texts in one single edit. Sometimes even full articles. This makes it pretty hard to see what word exactly caused the filter to activate and therefore to check for false positives. Can the overall infrastructure be changed to allow for automatic highlighting the exact word that caused the filter to activate? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 11:13, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
FYI when transcluding a message like this, you have to explicitly pass through $1 as a template parameter. See [71] and [72]. It got brought up as phab:T285985. We're discussing a bit in #mediawiki on IRC, but it seems like phab:T229992 might be the real solution for this. Legoktm ( talk) 17:58, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Can you change the infobox images of Guilty Gear characters with pages ( Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, Millia Rage, Faust, and I-No) to their Strive renders?
Also, can you create separate pages for Dizzy and Anji? 31.203.74.115 ( talk) 18:07, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Okay. 31.203.74.115 ( talk) 18:51, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
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Can you help me with something? I didn't know where else to ask. I want to translate the classical (?) toolbar at TranslateWiki. Terms as bold, italic, math formula, chemical formula, musical notation, hieroglyphs, etc. Can you help me by somehow showing those messages to me? I've been searching for 3 hours now at TranslateWiki but... It also doesn't help that I don't know the toolbars' exact names. :P - Klein Muçi ( talk) 08:53, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
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You currently appear to be engaged in an
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Can I get admin on testwiki? I don't really meet the 'admin on other WMF project' requirement, but there are some aspects related to the edit filter I'd like to try out on an environment with similar-to-enwiki config without doing so on enwiki itself. For example, applicability of Special:AbuseFilter/1139 to Android devices; and playing around with throttling for this. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 11:56, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
Ok, so I was sitting here, thinking that I have a bit of time on my hands (for a change), and was trying to decide what I would like to do. Yes, Wikipedia has a zillion things I could jump in and do (and I've been tempted), but I was thinking that I should see if there was a way I also could develop myself a bit as well as help out.
Once upon a time I could program in several languages and have done work in the operations side of things, among other things "computers-related" (terminal and desktop). That said, while I've taken coursework here and there, I guess I would rate my ability on certain online stuff to be barely past entry level at best. I have a feeling it's probably more to do with confidence that goes along with "just doing it", but I look around Wikipedia, and I just don't know where to start. Do I look at learning about writing bots? at helping on extention development? Do I merely dive deeper into template development? I just don't know where to begin. I guess I am not sure what to do or where to start. (And even if I should, now that I re-read the text above lol)
I've known and interacted with you over the years, and looking over the people active in BAG, I decided to ask you first to see if you had any ideas/suggestions.
If you'd rather I left you be, please let me know, and I'll go crawl back under my rock : ) - jc37 17:49, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi , @ Xaosflux: In My Opinion your heathly and very Happy in Own life. Can you let me knowhow to disable a Abus Filter.I'm a Administrator , Bureaucrats , z, Interface Administrator of Nicolopedia Wiki Just like Wikipedia.Please See - [81]. Best Regards. MXX8 Talk✍️ 12:40, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Xaosflux Thanks for Helping Me. Best Regards Jiggyziz Talk✍️ 12:35, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
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I am a long timer IP. IP by choice, less notification, arms length editing, etc and for that peace of mind and better control over life I have happily traded off tools, networking and recognition that comes with registered user. I wish to edit Template:Azad_Hind_Fauj, but it ios protected. Looking at its talk page, it seems there has been no edit wars. It is a non-contentious peaceful topic and template. Please remove the protection so that even I, as an IP, too can edit it. Want to further subcategorise stuff bunched together e.g. sub-bullets on "battles", "Soldiers", etc within INA section and so on. Thanks. 58.182.176.169 ( talk) 10:34, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, figure I'll ask you since you're good with procedure. It's a real pain building and refining high-volume LTA filters when the relevant edits get quickly revdelled. It's a bit easier when they're already set to disallow, since the entries are then visible to me, but if they're on log (i.e. before they're refined) the revdelled entries become invisible. 1125/1155/1160 in particular is a pain recently, since they make like a dozen different edits every day. What would be the process to request deletedhistory/deletedtext to be bundled into EFM? I understand the WMF requires an "RfA-like process" for those rights; would the EFM consensus process count? And if so, I guess this request would have to be an RfC somewhere? ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 16:11, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
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Howdy, Xaosflux,
I working down an old list of orphaned talk subpages and this page appears on the list. I saw you were the page creator and so I am just checking in with you to ask if it is still serving a purpose. Mostly what I've been dealing with are old Portal talk pages from Portals that were deleted years ago and were somehow missed during the deletion process. This is the only MediaWiki talk page on this list of over 1,000 pages. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 01:57, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I thought I e-mailed you but I'm not sure if it worked. Deb ( talk) 15:57, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
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Sir, some days ago i have seen Chaure Bazar Wikipedia page. The details on this page is all correct with attached references and citations. sir i am requesting u to unlock the Wikipedia page of Chaure Bazar. Thank you Sir. Rahulaybika ( talk) 13:33, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
You added me to confirmed users, then reversed that. Can I get an explanation, please? I'm confused. Thanks. WikiIsKnowledge ( talk) 00:35, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
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Do you know if there is a CSS policy/guideline/best practices page?
The reason I ask is because I found User:BeywheelzLetItRip/common.css when cleaning up user categories. And of course only an interface admin can edit it.
But setting aside that I presume that categories (or userboxes, or other content) should not be on that page, it suddenly occurred to me that adding stuff to css pages would be a way to prevent typical removal due to things like a bot renaming a category/template/etc, or (worse) a user adding copyvio or other material to the css page
If there isn't a policy page, I'm thinking one may need to be created. What do you think? - jc37 19:02, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
Hey there, Xaos! :)
Can you help me learn something? I have this page for my bot. Assuming I'd wish for the grey background to cover all page, templates below included, how would I do that? What if I wanted the above template to also be included? I tried playing around with the <div> tags but if I include those templates inside those, the ending results are very bizarre and far from what I expect. Actually it's not bad how it is but I was just curios as to what am I doing wrong for future cases. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 22:44, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
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Ref the discussion at BN, as a "vanishing", would it perhaps be possible to not list account names as prominently? Somewhat defeats the point.. ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 14:08, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
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If you have time, could you look at Talk:Sheikh Jarrah property dispute where there two open RMs. The first one ought to be closed (or the new one and wait for first one to be closed by someone else).
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Hello Sir, I'm a member of the Wikimedia Ghana User group and I organize and facilitate online Wikipedia workshops in Ghana. New editors cannot create accounts due to an IP block in various regions in Ghana and this hinders the progress of our workshops and metrics. I want to be granted this right to be able to create accounts for new participants who join our workshops. We have had more than three workshops this month and new participants find it difficult to participate. We have upcoming events and it will be difficult to track the progress of new editors. I have tried using the dashboard but It's always the same error Robertjamal12 (talk) 11:02, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hey, I just noticed that User:Kaldari retired? I was looking to add a couple of projects to the BOT. Is there something that I could do to help you manage the BOT? Mjquinn_id ( talk) 14:05, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hello! I'm a bit confused as to why my page at User:Blaze The Wolf/vector.js had to be reveiwed. ― Blaze The Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#0001 13:22, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello! How you are doing good. I've applied for the application earlier, [105]. Later I changed my username. I'm conducting training about Wikipedia. Could you please grand the permission? Agnihothri Sharath ( talk) 02:57, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
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Just wanted to clarify something, since this text-written environment is usually not great at conveying "tone"
I re-read my words, and I'm not angry, upset or disgruntled tyowards you or anyone.
I am not thrilled what I keep seeing of late where we as a community seem to value a seeming suicide-pact to following/creating process at times. All process and procedures serve the community, not the other way round.
But as I said, it's not a reflection on you or others, just a general feeling of blah about some things I've seen of late.
You're one of the hardest-working Wikipedians I see, and and you manage to do so being collaborative and civil. No one should ever be giving you attitude : ) - jc37 18:37, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your help with this query. I can confirm it's now fixed. Thanks again! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 19:40, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Xaosflux, I have a question about the Wikipedia app for iOS. I would like to prevent the app from saving my searches and the articles I read. I initially asked this question at the Teahouse, but another editor told me to ask this at WP:VPT. I moved the discussion from the Teahouse to VPT. The discussion is here. I was wondering if have any knowledge about how to do this. I appreciate your response. Thanks, Interstellarity ( talk) 12:53, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hey Xaos! :)
In SqWiki we've been using the documentation module for many years without any kind of localization. Throughout this time we have accumulated a large number of /doc subpages. Recently we started dealing with that module's translation and we were entertaining the idea of moving all the /doc subpages to an Albanian abbreviation, for example, /udh. The ideal outcome would be to somehow have each /udh subpage be automatically accompanied with a /doc redirection page to it so in a way we could keep both versions ongoing but I know that wouldn't be possible without a bot, would it? What do you think would be the best way to move a large number of subpages like in our situation? Any way this can be solved without involving bots? This is all still in the hypothetical realm so don't worry too much about it. I was mostly urged by the curiosity to know how to generally deal with situations like these when I might have to move or delete a large number of pages fast. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 23:54, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Just wanted to offer my appreciation for your help. Thank you. Mr. Darcy talk 13:44, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, I appreciate your response on @ ST47: talk page. I respect his decision which aims at maintaining and protecting Wikipedia against vandalism and sockpuppetry. We have an upcoming workshop due on October 9, 2021, in one of our major cities in Ghana. All IP's within that region is blocked by @ ST47: and @ ST47ProxyBot:. We are able to create accounts for our participants as you showed us using the dashboard but no one can edit afterwards. I've tried to reach ST47 to changed (even temporarily) to a softblock on the day of the event but he is not addressing the issue 1[ [117]] and we are 3 days away from the event. The IP is 154.160.70.27 and the event dashboard Please can you look into it and help us lift the block so that participants can edit on that day? Thank you Robertjamal12 (talk) 08:36, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello Sir Xaosflux, Sir I kindly requested permission to be a new pages reviewer, Could you please sir see it. Request Superatp 15:14, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello!
Lately I turned my attention to some of the basic features in Wikipedia, which in my community hadn't been updated for decades. One of those is the babel system. I saw that here it had evolved, like many other things, to use a Lua module. I updated accordingly. However I'm still baffled by something: Do we really need to create a template for each level of each language ever? How is such a system supposed to ever be imported considering that it would require the importation of hundreds of templates and categories? I do understand that here it has evolved organically over time to be like that, and much to my surprise, most of the templates and categories already existed even on SqWiki, having been created at an earlier time when babel userboxes were "all the rage" there (most likely that trend had the same high and low even here). But, how is such a system supposed to ever be imported anywhere else? Or maintained? I had a similar problem in this case which required the importation of ~90k templates! Has there ever been efforts to change the way the "babel system" works in that direction? To standardize it somehow, if that makes sense, making it easier to maintain and import it? Given that this is not the only occasion, as you see above, do you have any advice for me on dealing with cases like these in regard to importation? My mind screams "BOTS!" but I'm not aware of any specific ones that could help in these occasions. Klein Muçi ( talk) 12:51, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Kindly add the full lock protection to the singer K S Chithra's page to avoid the unwanted edits Simha Gorji ( talk) 14:38, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Xaosflux, I made a protected edit request to User:Community Tech bot/Popular pages config.json today, and found a mistake there.
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"Wikipedia:WikiProject Craft": { "Report": "Wikipedia:WikiProject Craft/Popular pages", "Limit": 500, "Name": "Spirits" }
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"Wikipedia:WikiProject Craft": { "Report": "Wikipedia:WikiProject Craft/Popular pages", "Limit": 500, "Name": "Craft" }
Thanks! -- Phikia ( talk) 03:32, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hello! :)
Is there any way to make voting in Wikipages have a "GUI"? Like, for example, you can create a button that when clicked, generates a new page with preloaded text, if you so choose and that's good for creating candidature pages for admins/crats, or requests for bots approvals, etc. These kind of pages are usually followed by a type of voting system (call it discussion if you want) which usually incorporates vote-like templates of the pro/against/neutral sort. Is there any way to make it possible so the said templates are "given" with the click of a button near the candidate's name, preferably with a text box that allows for inserting a rationale for the given vote? I was looking at all the pages around in regard to voting here but didn't find anything interesting. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 15:41, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
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18:12, 11 October 2021 (UTC)Hi back! Sorry for disturbing. I actually wanted to ask this at the Tech-VP but I was too shy given the broad subject this question has. Can you tell me what are some good technical/social ways to gather participation in discussions, voting, etc? We hold a sort of annual wiki competition at SqWiki where users can come and propose other users for different wikibanners but almost no one comes, even after we notify at "public pages" like the VP, etc. We hold article deletion discussions, admin/crat elections, discussions about good or featured articles but again, users rarely come to vote and everything looks like it's decided by the same 2-3 people. Can you give me any advice on this subject? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 20:22, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
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This when utilized here allows you to make a bot approval request with fewer steps. (Write a random name in the box, press the button and see what I mean.) In that request you get the magic words written which get parsed only after the page is saved, which works fine. Is there a more efficient way though that allows you to skip that step while giving you lines already completed, not with the magic words? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 02:27, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm hoping you know the answer to a question so I can avoid going to a WP:VPT. The scenario: User A is indefinitely partially blocked from editing an article. A report is filed at WP:ANEW regarding User A's violation of 3RR (obviously on a different article). The administrator (that's me) sitewide blocks User A for a week. What happens when the sitewide block expires? Does the partial block resume, or must the administrator reimpose the partial block? Assuming the partial block does not resume, do you think this would be a useful option for an administrator to have in this scenario? I think it should be the default, but perhaps I'm in a minority. Thanks for your help.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 10:55, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello! Lately I'm working on creating a standard for SqWiki's articles for deletion page. And given that in the last discussion you mentioned how what I had used before were similar to what EnWiki used, I turned my attention here to see how your system works. I do understand the basics (create an article in a subpage date related, transclude that page somehow to the main page) but I was wondering something which has bothered me for years now. First of all, considering how AfD pages are designed to work, they will have a lot of red links by which novice editor me would be very bothered because in our minds red=something is missing, you need to fill it. Secondly, and this is the main question, wouldn't all those red links there show up in "articles needed" special page? Do you get my logic? Is there any kind of block to prevent something from this happening or do we don't care at all about details like these?
In regard to what I wrote above, I feel like making text red but not clickable/a link per se or something similar would be a better solution than just keeping deleted articles in link forms. Also, what happens if someone wants to nominate more than 1 article simultaneously (usually of a similar subject) for deletion here? Can you do that? Or do the rules here prevent it and you need to create different nominations for each one of them? Feel free to give me as much info about AfDs in general as you want because I want to be able to learn more. :) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 10:13, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello! Keeping up with the general wiki questions, I have a kinda odd one that has been bothering me for quite a while now:
80% of my daily wikiwork is composed of technical/administration things like moving/deleting pages en masse, a lot of small changes in different subpages to see how they transclude to the main one, the same change done in all the pages in a single category... Stuff like this. Stuff which are done with or without the help of other tools. And, as you can think, the latest changes page tends to get overflooded a lot by my changes, especially in a project that is not that dynamic as SqWiki is. Is there a "remedy" for this situation? Should there be? (Maybe it's normal?) I mean, the latest changes page is hard to be used even on EnWiki but that's because the large sheer number of its users.
Giving myself bot status looked like an extreme choice to make and creating another account for only this kind of work would be hard to accomplish because most of the actions I mentioned require admin privileges. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 12:09, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
minor
, then others can filter those out. An option that some projects do is to create a
meta:Flooder group - it will tag things as bot, in most projects that use that you add yourself to flood, do the thing, then remove yourself from it. Also, try not to make lots of uneeded edits? :) Keep in mind you may not only be flooding RecentChanges, but also others' watchlists. —
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This one is a little embarrassing because the feature has been around forever, but I've never questioned what it means. If I block a registered user and Account creation is checked, which it is by default, what is the effect? I've read WP:OPTIONS, and putting aside blocking IPs, it says it "will restrict the user from accessing the Special:CreateAccount function for the duration of the block." I've only ever had one account, and it was a long time ago that I created it. I don't know if the Create account page existed back then or if I did it some other way. Speaking currently, how many different ways are there to create an account? By using another method, can you circumvent the restriction? Going back to what the quoted sentence says, can the blocked user create an account by simply not logging in and going to the Create account page? I'm going to stop rambling now and let you respond; otherwise this is going to get more incoherent than it already is. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:25, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
Block creation is supposed to also block creation from that IP, even if autoblock is not enabled, but I don't think that one also leverages the blocking cookies.I don't understand that; part of it is I know that some sort of cookies are involved in blocking (account creation?), but how they are involved has never been explained to me.
2021-10-17T03:03:35 User account CFalcon05 was created 2021-10-17T03:07:06 Liz talk contribs block blocked CFalcon05 with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked) 2021-10-17T03:50:46 User account All the Falcon accounts was created 2021-10-17T04:03:22 Liz talk contribs block blocked All the Falcon accounts with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked, email disabled, cannot edit own talk page)
Hello! I have a short question:
In your WP:RFA page, at the top, you have a table which shows information about the current elections taking place. How is that table updated with the newly added candidatures? Does it have a kind of automatic mechanism or is it done manually by users? (Or maybe by bots?) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 15:31, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
#time: H:i, j F Y "(UTC)"|+7 days
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Can you help me center the archive icon on this page? The whole graphical part wasn't done by me so I'm not sure what to change in the div tags so that I'm able keep everything looking the same but fixing that one detail. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 00:54, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Kategoria:
there? Check if it is some gadget or script you have enabled by trying to load that page in safemode
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You recently added Drug checking to this navbar with this edit. About five mins before I had already added that article to the Issues with drug use group with this edit. I proceeded to bypass some redirects before closing the edit request, so I can only blame myself. Feel free to revert my addition or your addition as you see fit. Happy New Year by the way! P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 15:37, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, I would like to create an English version of the German article "Gut Hermannsberg". But I don't know exactly how and I make a lot of mistakes. Best regards, Jakobwein — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakobwein ( talk • contribs) 13:03, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Best regards Jakobwein — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakobwein ( talk • contribs) 17:14, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, Xaosflux! :) It has been a while without talking. Do you have any experience accessing Wikipedia's API? I've been trying to follow the instructions here for the last couple of days but I can't make it work. I'm trying to make my pywikibot autoupdate itself by getting its (updated) source code from a Wikipedia page periodically. For that it needs to be able to login, edit a certain page multiple times and copy the results from these edits in its source code script but I'm stuck on the first step: Logging in. I've already done the OAuth part and I'm trying to use a curl command on cmd to follow the other steps but... - Klein Muçi ( talk) 01:39, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpassword=password&lgtoken=123ABC
. With my current understanding of the subject, I tried curl -X POST api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpassword=password&lgtoken=123ABC
(of course, with my personal credentials and tokens substituted) but the response I get is nothing similar to what I should be getting (judging by the examples given on that page). It's neither a successful nor an erroneous one. I just get a very long HTML code page. I've tried sending a GET request (curl api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpassword=password&lgtoken=123ABC
) and the same thing happens. There are examples premade for Python, JavaScript and PHP there but I work on cmd, as I said, and I don't know how to convert that information in being useful to me. -
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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?
while the second one tells us to use
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here with the format used in the page you showed me (
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/
)? If not, I can try asking at
WP:VPT but judging from past experiences, if you lack the ability to explain clearly your request there, you'll get dragged upon on a long journey. That is if you are lucky enough to get an answer. And explaining the "adaptation" part will be difficult for me given that I lack the correct terminology or the technical side info about the subject. -
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Just curious: I know what the Unix sudo command does, but I'm not clear on the meaning you intended in MediaWiki talk:Yourgender § label text. Inquiring minds are wondering... isaacl ( talk) 18:40, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
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Would it be a good idea to reduce protection level to template editor? It would be more in-line with highly-used templates. Steve M ( talk) 00:40, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I know its been a long time but I dont understand why you wanted to delete the Stage Race page. It currently redirects to a page about cycling, nothing to do with ultramarathons and or running whatsoever. Perhaps the most famous ultra in the world is a stage race, the Marathon des Sables and there are currently 70 stage races listed for 2021 on the DUV. (see url below) There are marathons, ultramarathons and multiday races. Stage Races are a category of multiday day races as are Backyard Ultras.
Best wishes, Abichal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abichal ( talk • contribs) 2021-03-03T22:22:31 (UTC)
I apologise for my accusation. I havent been on wikipedia much recently and I just noticed the old message. If its possible to restore it that would be great. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abichal ( talk • contribs) 00:29, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hey, I've undone the semi on Jimbo's page but I'm still not sure the standard protection thing is working properly. I got the warning (filter 803), but on User:Anarchyte/sandbox/test I was able to edit without any problems whatsoever without adding any template to the page. Is this a bug or am I just not understanding the way standard protection works? Anarchyte ( talk • work) 15:53, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Xaosflux, will you please have a look here. Thank you, – Kammill ⟨ talk⟩ 16:45, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
I'm developing a list here. Alternatively, I may also use this list also. – Kammill ⟨ talk⟩ 17:53, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello Xaosflux, hope you are fine. My message is still pending. No one dares to send it. Why? I asked Dreamy Jazz to fix errors or mistakes (if any) in the list and message but they said all is good except one indefinitely blocked user and some existing members are also included in the list. I have fixed both of these issues. For existing members, I have had already written: if you have already signed please ignore this message
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... for this. I didn't know where that was located, but admittedly didn't go looking through page source or anything like that either. I considered tracking it down and wp:boldly bolding it, but thought given the scope of that edit notice it best to get some input first. Thank you again, cheers and best - — Ched ( talk) 01:52, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
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Can you block me because I am starting a clean start? Thanks. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk 17:25, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
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Dear Xaosflux, yes, please put thearticle to my personal sandbox so I can work on it! thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miscioletto ( talk • contribs) 2021-04-29T09:01:48 (UTC)
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But I did 300 real edits Ujjwal 20 ( talk) 18:03, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
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I try not to go too far off-topic on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Restricting GFDL-licensed uploads (and I'm already failing at that), so I ask here. Your response to "One does not find GFDL-licensed photos outside Wikimedia." was that "well - you could".
Where? A photo (not a software manual or something) that was recently licensed (say, in the past 2 years or even in the past 5 years) with GFDL and no CC BY or BY-SA license and unrelated to Wikimedia. Uploading a photo you took yourself to your own website for this argument wouldn't count.
I figured I might as well try to prove myself wrong. I eventually found David Michigan by Jim Winter, uploaded in 2018, on or before 1 July 2018 licensed as GFDL. This appears to be the only photo by Jim Winter with a license. I suspect the license was changed at the request of a Wikimedian, or bought by a Wikimedian, or something. There's the deleted d:Q97014525 and this David Michigan AfD. Actually, according to Dqfn13 at w:nl:Wikipedia:Te beoordelen pagina's/Toegevoegd 20200728#David Michigan his article has been deleted on Swedish, Hindi, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Wikipedia. Commons deleted the photo. All very strange. Too much of a stretch to believe this is unrelated to Wikimedia. And it's more than 2 years old. Guess I failed.
Let me know if you find something. Seriously, I'd be very interested. Btw, only disallowing own work has been considered. That was actually the original proposal from MGA73. I quickly realized because of the general nature of the few GFDL users that are left that they may simply upload their photos to Flickr with "GFDL" in the description (like the Jim Winter photo) and import that to Wikimedia or two of them would team up and upload photos for each other, making the uploads technically not own work. It would create many loopholes without any benefit because.. nobody unrelated to Wikimedia uses GFDL for photos anyway. — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 00:29, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
If I wanted to I'd probably start with original media that is included along with some free software that is all bundled under GFDL.Won't work. GFDL isn't a software license. GFDL was created to accompany the GPL (and similar) license(s) for software. Before that, the manual for GPL software was also licensed GPL, which made less sense because reasons. But if you do find GFDL-licensed software, I'd be very interested too, because it would be really weird. — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 01:53, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 09:18, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
[[User:]]
mention. I'll note I've had failures on {{
ping}} in the past. --
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edit. --
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The other day I made about 50 test edits to my sandbox pinging User:Example1 and checking whether I got a "mention successful/failed" notification—the aforementioned thing that kind of drove me crazy trying to find patterns. See Special:PageHistory/User:Tamzin/sandbox. As things went on I started losing track of which pinged and which didn't (since Special:Notifications somehow doesn't give precise timestamps, just minutes since), and the last 10 or so I can't really vouch for the accuracy of my summaries, but everything up to that should at least be proof of concept about failure to ping. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 14:17, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
<span style="font-family:courier;font-size:90%"><span class="nowrap">-- [[User:Tamzin|Tamzin]] ({{subst:#ifexpr:{{subst:#time:s}}mod2|she/they|they/she}})</span> | [[User talk:Tamzin|o toki tawa mi.]]</span>
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Hello, Xaosflux,
I've been seeing an ongoing, occasional problem for years which is tagged pages not showing up in category listings. But every time I've brought the issue to the Village Pump, someone deletes my example so it is no longer evidence of a problem. So, since you reply to many technical questions, I thought I'd come directly here and hope that no friendly talk page stalkers who are admins will take action before you can give me a reply.
The page I ran into today is User_talk:Violetcries/Placebo. It was tagged as a CSD G13 last August but was not placed in the correct CSD category for stale drafts. The interesting thing is that I think the tagging is incorrect, but that's not the issue. Is this a problem with Twinkle or is there other code here interfering with the page being categorized?
The typical category problem I've been annoyed with are twofold:
The commonality is that both of these examples involve a change in status and the pages are not tagged for deletion by an editor. I've talked with ProcrastinatingReader about the maintenance category problem and he advised waiting to see if the categories eventually show up in Category:Candidates for uncontroversial speedy deletion. But two or three times a year, I can go through Category:Clean-up categories and find dozens of now empty categories that were tagged months ago and never showed up where patrolling admins could see them.
It's not a huge problem as it doesn't affect any area that readers would see but it's just been an ongoing irritant. I brought it up at the Village Pump years ago and there either wasn't a solution or I was told that the engineers were "working on it". Any thoughts about any of this? Thanks in advance. Liz Read! Talk! 22:27, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
Draft A changes from Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions to Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions.How is this changing? Is it changing from an editor changing something on the page? A bot? Or is it some template that is using something like date math? — xaosflux Talk 09:56, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
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@ Xaosflux: Hi, Sir Can you Protected My User Page as User namespace Because in Present I'm Not Interested editing Our page.(Allow = edting only Admin|Infinte) Best Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rm1y5cx ( talk • contribs) 07:54, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
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Everybody falls sometimes, you gotta find the strength to rise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CameronMcDonald1234 ( talk • contribs) 23:16, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux. Regarding my edit request, can I ask how long I should expect it to be on hold for? Thanks, ‑‑ Neveselbert ( talk · contribs · email) 03:10, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
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I am preparing to propose a new criteria for removal of the Edit Filter Manager user right, but I would like your opinion on if you think it has a chance at passing because I don't want it to get [[WP:SNOW]]ed, and you are one of the most experienced "technical" admins. I want to propose that any user with the Edit Filter Manager user right who is blocked for at least a month can have the right removed immediately as a breach of trust, even if it has nothing to do with the Edit Filter Manager user right, as it is a very potent user right that requires the upmost trust. ( Currently, the right can only be removed for abuse or misuse of the right )Do you think this proposal would have a chance at passing, or do you think it wouldn't be of any use and would fail. Jackattack1597 ( talk) 00:59, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
I saw you created the appropriate title blacklist pages but I have not seen the entries be added yet?
Is there a timeline for when you or another admin will get to it? It has been almost a day and I have waited a little patiently for a reply to be added. There is consensus to block saving books to Book: namespace in the Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Aasim ( talk) 00:08, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation is template protected, which is not suited for WT-space. Please unprotect or downgrade its protection. dud hhr Contribs 17:25, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
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... with your humorous reference. Thank you. — Quondum 23:23, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Ruedi33a and campaign boxes which may be of interest. Thank you. FDW777 ( talk) 12:43, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hey there, Xaos! :)
I wanted to propose a change in regard to edit filters overall interface. Let's take for example the bad words edit filter, pretty basic. It catches a bad word from the list, it blocks the text from being published. When I go to check the activity in regard to this filter, I'll get shown something like this: This user was blocked from publishing this edit. This works pretty fine in general. The problem is that sometimes users are bringing BIG chunks of texts in one single edit. Sometimes even full articles. This makes it pretty hard to see what word exactly caused the filter to activate and therefore to check for false positives. Can the overall infrastructure be changed to allow for automatic highlighting the exact word that caused the filter to activate? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 11:13, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
FYI when transcluding a message like this, you have to explicitly pass through $1 as a template parameter. See [71] and [72]. It got brought up as phab:T285985. We're discussing a bit in #mediawiki on IRC, but it seems like phab:T229992 might be the real solution for this. Legoktm ( talk) 17:58, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Can you change the infobox images of Guilty Gear characters with pages ( Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, Millia Rage, Faust, and I-No) to their Strive renders?
Also, can you create separate pages for Dizzy and Anji? 31.203.74.115 ( talk) 18:07, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Okay. 31.203.74.115 ( talk) 18:51, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
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Can you help me with something? I didn't know where else to ask. I want to translate the classical (?) toolbar at TranslateWiki. Terms as bold, italic, math formula, chemical formula, musical notation, hieroglyphs, etc. Can you help me by somehow showing those messages to me? I've been searching for 3 hours now at TranslateWiki but... It also doesn't help that I don't know the toolbars' exact names. :P - Klein Muçi ( talk) 08:53, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
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Can I get admin on testwiki? I don't really meet the 'admin on other WMF project' requirement, but there are some aspects related to the edit filter I'd like to try out on an environment with similar-to-enwiki config without doing so on enwiki itself. For example, applicability of Special:AbuseFilter/1139 to Android devices; and playing around with throttling for this. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 11:56, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
Ok, so I was sitting here, thinking that I have a bit of time on my hands (for a change), and was trying to decide what I would like to do. Yes, Wikipedia has a zillion things I could jump in and do (and I've been tempted), but I was thinking that I should see if there was a way I also could develop myself a bit as well as help out.
Once upon a time I could program in several languages and have done work in the operations side of things, among other things "computers-related" (terminal and desktop). That said, while I've taken coursework here and there, I guess I would rate my ability on certain online stuff to be barely past entry level at best. I have a feeling it's probably more to do with confidence that goes along with "just doing it", but I look around Wikipedia, and I just don't know where to start. Do I look at learning about writing bots? at helping on extention development? Do I merely dive deeper into template development? I just don't know where to begin. I guess I am not sure what to do or where to start. (And even if I should, now that I re-read the text above lol)
I've known and interacted with you over the years, and looking over the people active in BAG, I decided to ask you first to see if you had any ideas/suggestions.
If you'd rather I left you be, please let me know, and I'll go crawl back under my rock : ) - jc37 17:49, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi , @ Xaosflux: In My Opinion your heathly and very Happy in Own life. Can you let me knowhow to disable a Abus Filter.I'm a Administrator , Bureaucrats , z, Interface Administrator of Nicolopedia Wiki Just like Wikipedia.Please See - [81]. Best Regards. MXX8 Talk✍️ 12:40, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Xaosflux Thanks for Helping Me. Best Regards Jiggyziz Talk✍️ 12:35, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
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I am a long timer IP. IP by choice, less notification, arms length editing, etc and for that peace of mind and better control over life I have happily traded off tools, networking and recognition that comes with registered user. I wish to edit Template:Azad_Hind_Fauj, but it ios protected. Looking at its talk page, it seems there has been no edit wars. It is a non-contentious peaceful topic and template. Please remove the protection so that even I, as an IP, too can edit it. Want to further subcategorise stuff bunched together e.g. sub-bullets on "battles", "Soldiers", etc within INA section and so on. Thanks. 58.182.176.169 ( talk) 10:34, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, figure I'll ask you since you're good with procedure. It's a real pain building and refining high-volume LTA filters when the relevant edits get quickly revdelled. It's a bit easier when they're already set to disallow, since the entries are then visible to me, but if they're on log (i.e. before they're refined) the revdelled entries become invisible. 1125/1155/1160 in particular is a pain recently, since they make like a dozen different edits every day. What would be the process to request deletedhistory/deletedtext to be bundled into EFM? I understand the WMF requires an "RfA-like process" for those rights; would the EFM consensus process count? And if so, I guess this request would have to be an RfC somewhere? ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 16:11, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
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Regarding Special:Diff/1038171392, is linking the IP to the autoblock number in public OK? -- RoySmith (talk) 23:21, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Howdy, Xaosflux,
I working down an old list of orphaned talk subpages and this page appears on the list. I saw you were the page creator and so I am just checking in with you to ask if it is still serving a purpose. Mostly what I've been dealing with are old Portal talk pages from Portals that were deleted years ago and were somehow missed during the deletion process. This is the only MediaWiki talk page on this list of over 1,000 pages. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 01:57, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I thought I e-mailed you but I'm not sure if it worked. Deb ( talk) 15:57, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
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Sir, some days ago i have seen Chaure Bazar Wikipedia page. The details on this page is all correct with attached references and citations. sir i am requesting u to unlock the Wikipedia page of Chaure Bazar. Thank you Sir. Rahulaybika ( talk) 13:33, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
You added me to confirmed users, then reversed that. Can I get an explanation, please? I'm confused. Thanks. WikiIsKnowledge ( talk) 00:35, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
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Do you know if there is a CSS policy/guideline/best practices page?
The reason I ask is because I found User:BeywheelzLetItRip/common.css when cleaning up user categories. And of course only an interface admin can edit it.
But setting aside that I presume that categories (or userboxes, or other content) should not be on that page, it suddenly occurred to me that adding stuff to css pages would be a way to prevent typical removal due to things like a bot renaming a category/template/etc, or (worse) a user adding copyvio or other material to the css page
If there isn't a policy page, I'm thinking one may need to be created. What do you think? - jc37 19:02, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
Hey there, Xaos! :)
Can you help me learn something? I have this page for my bot. Assuming I'd wish for the grey background to cover all page, templates below included, how would I do that? What if I wanted the above template to also be included? I tried playing around with the <div> tags but if I include those templates inside those, the ending results are very bizarre and far from what I expect. Actually it's not bad how it is but I was just curios as to what am I doing wrong for future cases. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 22:44, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
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Ref the discussion at BN, as a "vanishing", would it perhaps be possible to not list account names as prominently? Somewhat defeats the point.. ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 14:08, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
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If you have time, could you look at Talk:Sheikh Jarrah property dispute where there two open RMs. The first one ought to be closed (or the new one and wait for first one to be closed by someone else).
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Hey, I just noticed that User:Kaldari retired? I was looking to add a couple of projects to the BOT. Is there something that I could do to help you manage the BOT? Mjquinn_id ( talk) 14:05, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hello! I'm a bit confused as to why my page at User:Blaze The Wolf/vector.js had to be reveiwed. ― Blaze The Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#0001 13:22, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello! How you are doing good. I've applied for the application earlier, [105]. Later I changed my username. I'm conducting training about Wikipedia. Could you please grand the permission? Agnihothri Sharath ( talk) 02:57, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
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Just wanted to clarify something, since this text-written environment is usually not great at conveying "tone"
I re-read my words, and I'm not angry, upset or disgruntled tyowards you or anyone.
I am not thrilled what I keep seeing of late where we as a community seem to value a seeming suicide-pact to following/creating process at times. All process and procedures serve the community, not the other way round.
But as I said, it's not a reflection on you or others, just a general feeling of blah about some things I've seen of late.
You're one of the hardest-working Wikipedians I see, and and you manage to do so being collaborative and civil. No one should ever be giving you attitude : ) - jc37 18:37, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your help with this query. I can confirm it's now fixed. Thanks again! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 19:40, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Xaosflux, I have a question about the Wikipedia app for iOS. I would like to prevent the app from saving my searches and the articles I read. I initially asked this question at the Teahouse, but another editor told me to ask this at WP:VPT. I moved the discussion from the Teahouse to VPT. The discussion is here. I was wondering if have any knowledge about how to do this. I appreciate your response. Thanks, Interstellarity ( talk) 12:53, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hey Xaos! :)
In SqWiki we've been using the documentation module for many years without any kind of localization. Throughout this time we have accumulated a large number of /doc subpages. Recently we started dealing with that module's translation and we were entertaining the idea of moving all the /doc subpages to an Albanian abbreviation, for example, /udh. The ideal outcome would be to somehow have each /udh subpage be automatically accompanied with a /doc redirection page to it so in a way we could keep both versions ongoing but I know that wouldn't be possible without a bot, would it? What do you think would be the best way to move a large number of subpages like in our situation? Any way this can be solved without involving bots? This is all still in the hypothetical realm so don't worry too much about it. I was mostly urged by the curiosity to know how to generally deal with situations like these when I might have to move or delete a large number of pages fast. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 23:54, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Just wanted to offer my appreciation for your help. Thank you. Mr. Darcy talk 13:44, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, I appreciate your response on @ ST47: talk page. I respect his decision which aims at maintaining and protecting Wikipedia against vandalism and sockpuppetry. We have an upcoming workshop due on October 9, 2021, in one of our major cities in Ghana. All IP's within that region is blocked by @ ST47: and @ ST47ProxyBot:. We are able to create accounts for our participants as you showed us using the dashboard but no one can edit afterwards. I've tried to reach ST47 to changed (even temporarily) to a softblock on the day of the event but he is not addressing the issue 1[ [117]] and we are 3 days away from the event. The IP is 154.160.70.27 and the event dashboard Please can you look into it and help us lift the block so that participants can edit on that day? Thank you Robertjamal12 (talk) 08:36, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello Sir Xaosflux, Sir I kindly requested permission to be a new pages reviewer, Could you please sir see it. Request Superatp 15:14, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello!
Lately I turned my attention to some of the basic features in Wikipedia, which in my community hadn't been updated for decades. One of those is the babel system. I saw that here it had evolved, like many other things, to use a Lua module. I updated accordingly. However I'm still baffled by something: Do we really need to create a template for each level of each language ever? How is such a system supposed to ever be imported considering that it would require the importation of hundreds of templates and categories? I do understand that here it has evolved organically over time to be like that, and much to my surprise, most of the templates and categories already existed even on SqWiki, having been created at an earlier time when babel userboxes were "all the rage" there (most likely that trend had the same high and low even here). But, how is such a system supposed to ever be imported anywhere else? Or maintained? I had a similar problem in this case which required the importation of ~90k templates! Has there ever been efforts to change the way the "babel system" works in that direction? To standardize it somehow, if that makes sense, making it easier to maintain and import it? Given that this is not the only occasion, as you see above, do you have any advice for me on dealing with cases like these in regard to importation? My mind screams "BOTS!" but I'm not aware of any specific ones that could help in these occasions. Klein Muçi ( talk) 12:51, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Kindly add the full lock protection to the singer K S Chithra's page to avoid the unwanted edits Simha Gorji ( talk) 14:38, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Xaosflux, I made a protected edit request to User:Community Tech bot/Popular pages config.json today, and found a mistake there.
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"Wikipedia:WikiProject Craft": { "Report": "Wikipedia:WikiProject Craft/Popular pages", "Limit": 500, "Name": "Craft" }
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Hello! :)
Is there any way to make voting in Wikipages have a "GUI"? Like, for example, you can create a button that when clicked, generates a new page with preloaded text, if you so choose and that's good for creating candidature pages for admins/crats, or requests for bots approvals, etc. These kind of pages are usually followed by a type of voting system (call it discussion if you want) which usually incorporates vote-like templates of the pro/against/neutral sort. Is there any way to make it possible so the said templates are "given" with the click of a button near the candidate's name, preferably with a text box that allows for inserting a rationale for the given vote? I was looking at all the pages around in regard to voting here but didn't find anything interesting. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 15:41, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
mw.config.get("wgPageName").includes
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18:12, 11 October 2021 (UTC)Hi back! Sorry for disturbing. I actually wanted to ask this at the Tech-VP but I was too shy given the broad subject this question has. Can you tell me what are some good technical/social ways to gather participation in discussions, voting, etc? We hold a sort of annual wiki competition at SqWiki where users can come and propose other users for different wikibanners but almost no one comes, even after we notify at "public pages" like the VP, etc. We hold article deletion discussions, admin/crat elections, discussions about good or featured articles but again, users rarely come to vote and everything looks like it's decided by the same 2-3 people. Can you give me any advice on this subject? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 20:22, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
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This when utilized here allows you to make a bot approval request with fewer steps. (Write a random name in the box, press the button and see what I mean.) In that request you get the magic words written which get parsed only after the page is saved, which works fine. Is there a more efficient way though that allows you to skip that step while giving you lines already completed, not with the magic words? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 02:27, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm hoping you know the answer to a question so I can avoid going to a WP:VPT. The scenario: User A is indefinitely partially blocked from editing an article. A report is filed at WP:ANEW regarding User A's violation of 3RR (obviously on a different article). The administrator (that's me) sitewide blocks User A for a week. What happens when the sitewide block expires? Does the partial block resume, or must the administrator reimpose the partial block? Assuming the partial block does not resume, do you think this would be a useful option for an administrator to have in this scenario? I think it should be the default, but perhaps I'm in a minority. Thanks for your help.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 10:55, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello! Lately I'm working on creating a standard for SqWiki's articles for deletion page. And given that in the last discussion you mentioned how what I had used before were similar to what EnWiki used, I turned my attention here to see how your system works. I do understand the basics (create an article in a subpage date related, transclude that page somehow to the main page) but I was wondering something which has bothered me for years now. First of all, considering how AfD pages are designed to work, they will have a lot of red links by which novice editor me would be very bothered because in our minds red=something is missing, you need to fill it. Secondly, and this is the main question, wouldn't all those red links there show up in "articles needed" special page? Do you get my logic? Is there any kind of block to prevent something from this happening or do we don't care at all about details like these?
In regard to what I wrote above, I feel like making text red but not clickable/a link per se or something similar would be a better solution than just keeping deleted articles in link forms. Also, what happens if someone wants to nominate more than 1 article simultaneously (usually of a similar subject) for deletion here? Can you do that? Or do the rules here prevent it and you need to create different nominations for each one of them? Feel free to give me as much info about AfDs in general as you want because I want to be able to learn more. :) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 10:13, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello! Keeping up with the general wiki questions, I have a kinda odd one that has been bothering me for quite a while now:
80% of my daily wikiwork is composed of technical/administration things like moving/deleting pages en masse, a lot of small changes in different subpages to see how they transclude to the main one, the same change done in all the pages in a single category... Stuff like this. Stuff which are done with or without the help of other tools. And, as you can think, the latest changes page tends to get overflooded a lot by my changes, especially in a project that is not that dynamic as SqWiki is. Is there a "remedy" for this situation? Should there be? (Maybe it's normal?) I mean, the latest changes page is hard to be used even on EnWiki but that's because the large sheer number of its users.
Giving myself bot status looked like an extreme choice to make and creating another account for only this kind of work would be hard to accomplish because most of the actions I mentioned require admin privileges. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 12:09, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
minor
, then others can filter those out. An option that some projects do is to create a
meta:Flooder group - it will tag things as bot, in most projects that use that you add yourself to flood, do the thing, then remove yourself from it. Also, try not to make lots of uneeded edits? :) Keep in mind you may not only be flooding RecentChanges, but also others' watchlists. —
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This one is a little embarrassing because the feature has been around forever, but I've never questioned what it means. If I block a registered user and Account creation is checked, which it is by default, what is the effect? I've read WP:OPTIONS, and putting aside blocking IPs, it says it "will restrict the user from accessing the Special:CreateAccount function for the duration of the block." I've only ever had one account, and it was a long time ago that I created it. I don't know if the Create account page existed back then or if I did it some other way. Speaking currently, how many different ways are there to create an account? By using another method, can you circumvent the restriction? Going back to what the quoted sentence says, can the blocked user create an account by simply not logging in and going to the Create account page? I'm going to stop rambling now and let you respond; otherwise this is going to get more incoherent than it already is. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:25, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
Block creation is supposed to also block creation from that IP, even if autoblock is not enabled, but I don't think that one also leverages the blocking cookies.I don't understand that; part of it is I know that some sort of cookies are involved in blocking (account creation?), but how they are involved has never been explained to me.
2021-10-17T03:03:35 User account CFalcon05 was created 2021-10-17T03:07:06 Liz talk contribs block blocked CFalcon05 with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked) 2021-10-17T03:50:46 User account All the Falcon accounts was created 2021-10-17T04:03:22 Liz talk contribs block blocked All the Falcon accounts with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked, email disabled, cannot edit own talk page)
Hello! I have a short question:
In your WP:RFA page, at the top, you have a table which shows information about the current elections taking place. How is that table updated with the newly added candidatures? Does it have a kind of automatic mechanism or is it done manually by users? (Or maybe by bots?) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 15:31, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
#time: H:i, j F Y "(UTC)"|+7 days
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Can you help me center the archive icon on this page? The whole graphical part wasn't done by me so I'm not sure what to change in the div tags so that I'm able keep everything looking the same but fixing that one detail. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 00:54, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Kategoria:
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