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Hi xaosflux. It would be best to use {{ inactive admin 2}} instead of {{ inactive admin}}. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 02:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
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The RfA for MB has gone to a bureaucrat chat. Please join in the discussion. Primefac ( talk) 15:02, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
Just a ping that I answered you at: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License&diff=1132579220&oldid=1132570362&diffmode=source although commenting on your discussion because we probably should move the discussion somewhere more centralized -so others can participate, too-, either on wiki or on Phabricator. :-) I pinged legal already and I am waiting for their advice, too on how flexible we can be. Regards, and thank you for answering! -- JCrespo (WMF) ( talk) 15:17, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
check_legal_html!
/info/en/?search=Main_Page
and check_legal_html!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
, and then wikibooks, aside. Only contents in
MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright are checked(and the main page redirect should not be moved without also updating that code)- but after rendering into the Main page. We should wait for legal to answer first, maybe the check is not needed anymore in the current form. Or maybe we could change the alert to just check the links exist and that would give you more flexibility, rather than forcing you to notify us every time. --
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I don't believe you actually processed the unblock for The best dude 2023. :) -- Yamla ( talk) 16:15, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Xaosflux! I find myself in need of your technical advice. I was updating the SqWiki main page some days ago when I noticed that it doesn't render nice on mobile. Then I tried seeing what happened with EnWiki (I'm not an avid mobile wikiuser myself so I hadn't concentrated on such details before) and there I saw that the whole page layout changed, its "blocks" being rearranged in a very optimized column manner. Trying to replicate the same effect, I was searching around the source code to see what made this happen and eventually I learned about the existence of flexing in CSS. Given that I just learned about it I haven't been able to achieve much yet. Can you help me make SqWiki's main page behave in a similar manner as EnWiki's does in regard to that? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 07:21, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi for some all images on wikipedia do not work please help me fix it thank you The best dude 2023 ( talk) 16:19, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi I am reporting a hacked account The best dude 2023 ( talk) 15:17, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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In other words, Reply works properly, but Edit is totally screwed up. Milkunderwood ( talk) 02:39, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[ reply
Hi, there's a community ban discussion going on at WP:AN#User:Doug Coldwell. Just before the votes, it says:
I looked at the policy and saw no guidance on what makes an editor "involved". I was hoping you might know how this works, in practice if not policy. Also, how does an "involved" editor's vote compare to an "uninvolved" editor's vote when the discussion is closed? The whole thing seems pretty odd to me, but I don't generally vote - or even pay that much attention to - these discussions. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:32, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
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Do you have plans for {{ Uw-ublock-nonsense/doc}}? It looks like the parent template uses shared documentation. If some random editor had created it, I would TFD it, but I figure that you either have plans for it or know how to use CSD G7. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:24, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, Xaosflux. I was somewhat surprised, to say the least, to receive a notification that The Night Watch is my new mentor, because you have removed Kaleeb18 from mentorship. 🤔 JBW ( talk) 17:18, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
Mentoring still exists on Wikipedia? I thought all those old processes went inactive years ago. That's nice to know. I always thought that peer mentoring was a good concept. - jc37 19:11, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
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My username is IntegerSequences. I added the code of Wikibreak Enforcer to my common.js page but later found that it was a mistake but only me and interface admins can edit that page. Please help! 10:20, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
Your userpage says User Boxen instead of Userboxes, it must have 1 capital and no typos, also you must join the two words UrSUS529 ( talk) 17:20, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux! When I recently tried to move
Draft:Pete Sutherland to
Pete Sutherland (currently a redirect to a soap opera character), it gave me the normal error, as non-admins cannot overwrite a page. I'm about to submit a request to
WP:RM#TR to usurp the title, but I noticed that the interface message does not point to it, or indeed even suggest that usurping is possible; it just says The page could not be moved, for the following reason: A redirect already exists at
Pete Sutherland, and it cannot be deleted automatically. Please choose another name.
Telling editors unilaterally to choose another name when sometimes usurping is the right course of action is bad advice (and reinforces systemic bias to the extent it gives precedence to older articles), so I think it should be changed. I couldn't find where that message is stored, as searching doesn't turn it up and I'm not able to add uselang=qqx
to the URL in the middle of submitting. You tend to be knowledgeable about this area — would you be able to help me find and modify the message? Cheers, {{u|
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Hello, Xaosflux and friendly talk-page stalkers.
The mw:Editing team is starting a new project, mw:Edit check. They are particularly seeking the views of RecentChanges patrollers and other reviewers. One of the open questions is: When should the visual editor encourage people to add a citation?
The meeting will be this Friday, 3 March 2023. More information is available at mw:Editing team/Community Conversations#3 March 2023. I hope that you will be able to attend, but if you aren't, please consider leaving your advice to the team on the talk page. They would particularly value hearing about the citation standards at different Wikipedias, and also what you think the biggest problem is with the first edits made by new editors. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:21, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Xaosflux,
Your user page is showing up on the broken redirects page as a page to be deleted or fixed because, well, it is a broken redirect. But I see in the page history that it is a test edit. So, I'm unsure what to do here. We delete broken redirects or at least remove or correct them from the page they are on but we also don't generally mess around with user pages of editors who have as much experience and advanced privileges as you have. But these error pages get updated every 6 hours and until the page is either deleted or the content altered, it will keep showing up as an error that needs to be dealt with.
So, maybe you could finish up with your test or alter the content so that it links to an existing page before my mild OCD kicks in. Thank you! Liz Read! Talk! 21:05, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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I was just archiving my old talk page and noticed you had welcomed me back. Thank you! — siro χ o 05:42, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, Xaosflux! Is there a way one can block an account from creating other multiple accounts? If you check w:sq:Speciale:Log/newusers and search the page for Të paret e Llapit you'll see that they have wrongly created 4 new accounts now, maybe attempting to write an article (they've also tried using their user page as an article page). Any function that can block this functionality from an account? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 10:25, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
Thank you so much, I have no idea why I couldn't figure this out, I'm just no good on working in variables. I will use this, if you don't mind :P - FlightTime ( open channel) 22:31, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ Xaosflux
While responding to
Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives, I came across
Abuse Filter 225 which looked like it missed something. After putting it in Regex it looked like !summary rlike ("/\* .*" + match + ".* \*/")
misses something. Would !summary rlike ("\/\* .*" + match + ".* \*\/")
fix it?
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Hello, Xaos! Can you help me solve something in SqWiki? This is our template for creating RFAs: Link. It works fine in itself ( recent example) but look what happens when you transclude it on the main page where people are expected to see RFAs: Link. The problem is with {{User|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}. I think I should be using {{ safesubst}} somewhere over there to solve it but I'm not sure where exactly. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 19:51, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
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I guess I finally figured this out 2600:1702:1F8D:1010:681:1CFE:77F4:2250 ( talk) 13:38, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Xaosflux!
I was wondering if you could provide some practical advice on matters related to categories. My homewiki has always been a mess in regard to categories. Now we're trying to put our attention to that area a bit. Any advice on how to start attending to the category-tree so we can provide a well-structure hierarchy? From what I've seen, we've started dealing from the branches: Users translate articles and with them, they create the missing categories (and sometimes their parent categories) they find on EnWiki on those articles. This makes maintenance/technical categories almost non-existent when compared with their content homologues.
Bonus question: Why can't we have redirects work on category pages? I was thinking of asking about such a thing in the technical wishlist but I thought that it looked as a too obvious request so I thought that maybe there must be a reason why that doesn't exist. —
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Not sure if anyone saw this edit, but the bot still has the flag, so I'd guess not. Could you action? Izno ( talk) 16:44, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, Xaosflux! I find myself a bit confused as how to handle a certain situation.
If you look at sq:Marrëdhëniet e jashtme të Maqedonisë së Veriut, you'll see that there are some empty sections and some other strange behaviors in it. After a bit of investigation I found out that this was coming from {{ Pb}}. In EnWiki PB=Paragraph break but in SqWiki PB=Përdorues i bllokuar (Blocked user).
If you search for Template:Pb in SqWiki you'll see that apparently that is a really old template we would use to notify users about their blocks. If you check its transclusions you'll see that it has been used less than 50 times in all these years. Now normally I want our Pb template to serve the same purpose as the one here. Most of our new articles are CX translations and for CX to work correctly it needs to have the same technical infrastructure in templates. The problem is that I don't know how to handle those ~40 old transclusions. I can use AWB for massediting but what change would I need to do exactly? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 12:56, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
@ Klein Muçi OK so you want to:
That seems overly complicated, are you sure? — xaosflux Talk 10:40, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
:Gjithashtu të hoqa edhe nga grupi i përd
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, the starting point for the next section? —
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According to policy, when a user is blocked, the only page they can edit is their Talk page, but something came up on a blocked user's Talk page that I've never seen before, and I wanted to confirm the language in WP:OPTIONS: "Sitewide block will prevent the user from editing any page on Wikipedia with the exception of their own user talk page." (emphases in original). Can a blocked user change their Preferences? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 11:28, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
"... the user from editing any page..."- those type of actions are not considered "edits" and the targets of those actions are not "pages". Such a block would prevent pseudo prefernces such as a Special:MyPage/twinkleoptions.js from being updated. Does something else seem amiss? — xaosflux Talk 13:58, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, I was blocked, possibly auto-blocked with no appeals process in place, while providing a source of information for citation as requested. I tried to reset the password on my account but the one sent to my email did not work. I am still logged in here. I am mentally disabled, and have been accused of multiple wrongdoings, all of which are not true and there being no appeals process, I am beginning to grow concerned over the validity of Wikipedia's editing processes. Please unblock. TENROU9999 ( talk) 21:44, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi there @ Xaosflux,
Once again, I want to thank you for your reply on TSventon's talkpage. Even though I could not figure it out, I think it was good advice. I do want to ask about machine translation, as I'm not sure what my problem is. Basically, I'm in the process of translating articles from the Russian Wikipedia onto here, but even though I try my best to work the phrases/sentences into logical English, it still shows up as being "machine translated". For example, I have one translation in progress that is 60% complete, but it shows 100% machine translated. As a disclaimer, I use Google Translate for assistance but only when I absolutely have to. Is there a way to find out why it's being flagged like this? Please let me know. Thanks again for any help you can provide. Losipov ( talk) 05:33, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Special:ContentTranslation?
? —
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Automatic translation is provided only as a starting point. Make sure that the content is accurate and reads naturally in your language. Your translation cannot be published without further editing., if there are many templates/etc. — xaosflux Talk 03:41, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
Hey, can you restore my testwiki +sysop again? I want to do some tests related to MediaWiki talk:Captcha-addurl-whitelist#Protected edit request on 11 April 2021 (and a few other things). Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 19:23, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
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I found a user advertising in this talk page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Yello_Mobile please remove it, thanks Notrealname1234 ( talk) 16:56, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, I noticed that my interface protected edit request in User:Shadow of the Starlit Sky/common.js isn't answered yet. Can you please look over it if possible? I'm asking you as you are a sysadmin. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sock 14:19, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello Xaos! :)
Can you help me with a small change related to an interlink?
Check sq:Stampa:Faqja kryesore/Mbyllja and click Wiki-Burimet. It sends you to the general mainpage of the Wikisource mainpage. It should instead send you to this? I'm not well informed on Wikisource and that link above does look strange but maybe that is the right place where it should lead? (Shqip=Albanian) If so, any idea how to change change the template? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 02:01, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, lately I've noticed problems with the above tool. Take a look at this comparison. It says that there is no page intersection, which is wrong. I'm not sure how many, but here are two: Draft:Riyad Al-Qasbaji and User talk:Dr-Vivoo. Is this a known problem? Should I report it and, if so, where? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:16, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
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I did NOT clogged up the edit request queue. I made three requests in the span of three days with very reasonable, clearly described, X to Y requests, and have had multiple successful requests to other protected, active admin pages. User:AnomieBOT/PERTable has not had more than 11 active protected page requests at one time. Hardly a busy list.
On the request instructions, it states "If you have noticed an error or have a suggestion for a simple, non-controversial change, you can submit an edit request by clicking the button below and following the instructions. An administrator may then make the change on your behalf. Please check the talk page first in case the issue is already being discussed".
It does NOT state that admin pages are off limits. Nor should it. Admin pages should be held to the same standard as other userpages, and if an issue is known, there should be an avenue to rectify the issue. These protected page requests ARE this avenue.
If there is a rule for only one request at a time, I am unaware of this. Apologies for having three requests open on a slow week. I will do better with timing.
I know there is procedural denial for requesting pp reduction for admin pages, but requesting valid fixes are 100% permitted, as demonstrated by the multiple, unquestioned, similar clean syntax requests in the past month I've made to active admin pages. ALL of which were accepted, by multiple administrators:
Accepted by Izno: (CJCurrie), (Materialscientist), (Nihonjoe; some discussion), (SpacemanSpiff), (Cactus.man)
Accepted by MSGJ: (Starblind) (Mojo_Hand) (Versageek)
Timotheus_Canens himself: (Timotheus_Canens)
Other than the three pages you've marked 'not done', I've had NO rejected admin page correction requests.
I've cleared over three thousand of these Tidy Font errors on Wikipedia the past few months. My edits are clean, nonproblematic, and noncontroversial. Mediawiki's July 2018 change to RemexHtml rendered the <font>[[link]]</font> format of coloring links broken on many browsers (browsers affected default back to normal blue instead of displaying the user specified colors), and this issue is a highpriority WP:LINT error to fix.
If you disagree with the side note inquiry on
User:Versageek/Talk/Archive/2, that's fine, it may be ignored. That's why I noted it as a side comment and not directly part of the request. I was surprised MSGJ lowered Versageek/Talk/Archive/1 since Versageek is Admin, but thought since there were the same errors on 2, 3, and 4 of the same user, I'd at least inquire if the same reasons for lowering 1 held for 3 and 4 so that I wouldn't need to make additional protection requests for this issue on those pages later on.
Nihonjoe has already permitted this type of request on his pages. If he wishes to directly review this change too, I welcome it. My request to one of his other pages earlier in May was the only one I've ever made that needed a discussion to pass, and it was due to our views and knowledge on ''' vs <b>. This discussion was smoothly resolved, and my requests was permitted with his approval. I don't see his Award list being any different.
Sure, User_talk:MastCell/Barnstars is a bit longer of a request, but one request for 7 X to Ys to clear a longer page of all issues seemed reasonable opposed to the idea of multiple single X to Y requests over a longer period of time. I consider and weigh my requests so they are reasonable. This is why I did not request changes to all the other, lesser issues on [User talk:Versageek/Talk/Archive/2]].
I ask that you reconsider these three requests, as I've followed the rules at WP:EDITXY as I have for all other requests, and these three requests are in line with others I've made for all admin pages; clearly defined, noncontrovertial syntax corrections that fix visually broken issues.
Thank you for your time, Zinnober9 ( talk) 07:03, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello. I was just wondering, do bots on enwiki have page mover access similar to auto-patrol? (on mrwiki bots have page mover access, but there is no special page-mover or "extended-mover" user-group there). Also, can bots move categories as well? or do they need to get page-mover flag? —usernamekiran (talk) 17:01, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux. I was hoping to upload an updated version of File:South Moravian Region CoA CZ.svg to Commons (per the request in the description), but it appears I don't have the requisite set of rights to do so. Could I kindly request the right to upload a newer version of that file on Commons? Much appreciated! Algum ( talk) 09:02, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi,I am anonymous user. बॉट has also added a description of Bangladesh Congress President Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury as acting president, even though he has not served as president.Others have added English to the official language of Equatorial Guinea. Other notes were added that Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Sudan, had served as President after I confirmed that he had never served as President. please pay attention to बॉट. By the way, it has progressed to an editing war. Please really help me. 240F:31:3402:1:44C6:DFA8:21CE:17C0 ( talk) 06:32, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
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IPv6 पते को IPv4 पते में बदलने का कोई तरीका (*) नहीं है क्योंकि उन दो प्रणालियों का स्वतंत्र रूप से उपयोग किया जाता है। (* बहुत ही विशेष मामलों को छोड़कर जो बहुत कम ही लागू होते हैं, नीचे देखें।) आप वास्तव में IPv6 पते को IPv4 पते में क्यों बदलना चाहते हैं? बेहतर समझ के लिए एक मोटा सादृश्य लैंडलाइन बनाम मोबाइल फोन हो सकता है। कुछ लोगों के पास दोनों हो सकते हैं और आप उन तक पहुंचने के लिए उनके निर्दिष्ट नंबर (आईपी पते) दोनों का उपयोग कर सकते हैं, कुछ लोगों के पास केवल एक मोबाइल फोन है और कोई लैंडलाइन नहीं है (या इसके विपरीत)। आप IPv4 और IPv6 पतों की तरह एक लैंडलाइन नंबर को एक मोबाइल नंबर में "रूपांतरित" नहीं कर सकते हैं और इसके विपरीत। वे "6to4 नोटेशन" और "IPv4-मैप्ड नोटेशन" IPv6 के शुरुआती समय से विशेष उपयोग के मामलों के बारे में हैं। IPv4 लिंक पर IPv6 को टनल करने के लिए 6to4 संकेतन का उपयोग किया गया था, और IPv4- मैप किए गए संकेतन का उपयोग IPv6 नोड्स को IPv4-केवल नोड्स का प्रतिनिधित्व करने के लिए आंतरिक प्रतिनिधित्व उद्देश्यों के लिए किया जाता है। ऐसा कुछ भी नहीं है जो आपके लिए मददगार हो। आपके उद्देश्यों के लिए, लंबे IPv6 पते पुराने, छोटे IPv4 पतों की तरह ही हैं। वे एक ही उद्देश्य की पूर्ति करते हैं, वे बहुत बड़ी पता सीमा के कारण अधिक लंबे होते हैं। बॉट ( talk) 07:48, 4 June 2023 (UTC) |
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In one of my wikiworkshops some weeks ago I remember encountering a rather unexpected behavior in 2 of my attendees: They had forgotten the password and were trying to go through the "I forgot the password" method to log in with the email method. However they weren't being allowed to go through with that because apparently the IP they were using was part of an IP range block. I've tried researching a bit about this phenomenon around meanwhile but couldn't find much information. Is this a well-known thing? Is it "accepted"? It looked rather disturbing to me that one basically may lose control of their account if they have forgotten their password and had the bad luck of being part of an IP range block. Of course, one may ask an exemption and then go through with that but people who have forgotten passwords usually aren't that calm and no new user really knows how and where to ask for an exemption because they don't understand what's going on in the first place, or as they put it, "why was I blocked???". In my case both users ended up opening a new account straight away, without even letting me time to intervene and help. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 09:29, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
Nice to meet you, Im a anonymous user. I have never created an account.Do you have any questions about me. 240F:31:3402:1:44C6:DFA8:21CE:17C0 ( talk) 10:01, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
Pahunkat hasn't edited since last year and is not on break. Special:ManageMentors Sungodtemple ( talk • contribs) 01:51, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, can I email you about a special request involving global usurps? Les Yper-Sound ( talk) 22:02, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you were one of the main contributors to the {{ Photo requested}} template. I'm new to templates so was hoping you could help me with something. Specifically, adding a parameter for satellite images and adding a category for Satellite images requested. I've been uploading a lot of Sentinel-2 satellite images recently and I'd be nice to have a category for requests. I'm also sending this message to Swpb. PalauanLibertarian 🗣️ 12:45, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
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There is a new bullet on account contributions pages:
• JavaScript-enhanced contributions lookup 0.2 enabled. You may enter a CIDR range or append an asterisk to do a prefix search. For IPv6, you must use capital letters for gadget matching; native contribution matching is not case-sensitive.
I don't understand what it's for. Was it announced or explained anywhere?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:45, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Allow /16, /24 and /27 – /32 CIDR ranges on Special:Contributions forms, as well as wildcard prefix searches (e.g., "Splark*")You can turn that of in preferences if you don't want it. — xaosflux Talk 13:56, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to re-create a previously deleted page. The article is about a well-known Indian television actress. Please assist.
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Can you take a quick look at SqWiki's main page? The body is made up of 4 blocks which can have dynamic content (especially the 2 on the left side of it). Is there a way I can make them be always aligned with CSS? (Maybe by making them auto-increase the padding around content on the smallest blocks to match the content on the bigger blocks?) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 10:08, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
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I want to submit an official investigation into what happened today regarding the two articles Draft:Khaled Al Saif, Draft:Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City and either the result of the investigation is that I am guilty and I am banned from editing on Wikipedia, or that the editors who treated me disrespectfully apologize to me and take back the article and a clear and frank apology on my talk page.
What happened was the clear disregard of the editors for people's minds and the use of their absolute power and acting as if Wikipedia belonged to them after fulfilling the conditions for the articles and talking to the help section in Wikipedia, and in the end they agreed with me on the note of the two articles. The editors come here and their words and their dealings differ. After advising the user @ DoubleGrazing to apply for a revision of the draft to become an article, he deletes the draft and recklessly thinks about it. Is this a trap or what? After adding all the sources they want, he says that this is a paid article. As for the second article, he did not find anything that says except that this article was written by me in a publicity way. Deleting it from the beginning of the post I will not be sad, but I am saddened by the lack of respect he found here. I don't care about the two articles as much as I care about a clear and frank apology.
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Is there a way to see a list of all former administrators, or, better still, all desysopped administrators, or, even more precisely, all desysopped, blocked/banned administrators? I'm trying to remember the username of an admin who was blocked for socking (a good while ago) and, IIRC, said the reason he socked was because he was "bored". I think the username was a common Anglo-Saxon first name followed by some numbers.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 01:30, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
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Can you change these from normal text to CSS for me? It is necessary to do some repair work on Signpost styling. Thanks. jp× g 20:26, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
I noticed you removed the {{in use}} tag from Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Mosque even though it was actively being edited. Also, it seems the edit history has been suppressed. May I ask why? There's nothing in the in-use template instructions that says not to use it logged-out.
Not saying it's wrong, I genuinely want to understand if there's a policy at play. By way of context, there's a proposal to substantially change the article at the AfD discussion, and these changes seem to be a constructive part of that. Oblivy ( talk) 10:28, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
So this is twice now that I've pinged you about that topic. I hope that that's been ok. I don't know where else or who else would be good to point people to. Well, that and I know that when I ask you, I can trust the answer : )
Thanks again for all that you do : ) - jc37 12:04, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
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I went to look at the WP:BAG list and saw that you were on it : )
I thought I'd ask you here, rather than ping you there, this time, but you are of course welcome to answer here or there (or not) as you prefer.
Anyway, my main question is: I remember (somewhat vaguely) the various messes and Betacommand. And one of the things that I remember being talked about are edit rates, and so on. I'm not sure how they would specifically apply here, but speed of editing and perhaps not being as diligent as some might want, seeems to be the crux of things here. But I'm not sure how serious we should see this to be. For example, how fast is "bot fast"? Do we have any sort of rough benchmarks for semi-automated editing? Basically I want to AGF of the editor here. But if this is a genuine problem, then I'd like to see it faitly addressed. What comes to my mind is the second half of "Be bold, but not reckless".
I guess I'm in the spot of: I don't know what I don't know. And I'd like to make a better-informed decision on this. - jc37 17:04, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hello xaosflux! While I regularly help in WP:EFFPR dealing with false positives by public filters, how could I make sure I could be trusted to have the edit filter helper right? Note that despite reading the granting guidelines [I am currently an extended confirmed user, have a secure password with 2FA enabled, have never been blocked or sanctioned (a clean block log), and can understand the English language (near native ability)], how can the community trust me to have the right?
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Hi Xaosflux. This year if you're one of the top 3 vote getters do you intended to serve or might you step back into the reserve commissioner role as you did last year? Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 08:13, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hi xaosflux. It would be best to use {{ inactive admin 2}} instead of {{ inactive admin}}. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 02:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
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Just a ping that I answered you at: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License&diff=1132579220&oldid=1132570362&diffmode=source although commenting on your discussion because we probably should move the discussion somewhere more centralized -so others can participate, too-, either on wiki or on Phabricator. :-) I pinged legal already and I am waiting for their advice, too on how flexible we can be. Regards, and thank you for answering! -- JCrespo (WMF) ( talk) 15:17, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, Xaosflux! I find myself in need of your technical advice. I was updating the SqWiki main page some days ago when I noticed that it doesn't render nice on mobile. Then I tried seeing what happened with EnWiki (I'm not an avid mobile wikiuser myself so I hadn't concentrated on such details before) and there I saw that the whole page layout changed, its "blocks" being rearranged in a very optimized column manner. Trying to replicate the same effect, I was searching around the source code to see what made this happen and eventually I learned about the existence of flexing in CSS. Given that I just learned about it I haven't been able to achieve much yet. Can you help me make SqWiki's main page behave in a similar manner as EnWiki's does in regard to that? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 07:21, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi for some all images on wikipedia do not work please help me fix it thank you The best dude 2023 ( talk) 16:19, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
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In other words, Reply works properly, but Edit is totally screwed up. Milkunderwood ( talk) 02:39, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[ reply
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Hi, Xaosflux. I was somewhat surprised, to say the least, to receive a notification that The Night Watch is my new mentor, because you have removed Kaleeb18 from mentorship. 🤔 JBW ( talk) 17:18, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
Mentoring still exists on Wikipedia? I thought all those old processes went inactive years ago. That's nice to know. I always thought that peer mentoring was a good concept. - jc37 19:11, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
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My username is IntegerSequences. I added the code of Wikibreak Enforcer to my common.js page but later found that it was a mistake but only me and interface admins can edit that page. Please help! 10:20, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
Your userpage says User Boxen instead of Userboxes, it must have 1 capital and no typos, also you must join the two words UrSUS529 ( talk) 17:20, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux! When I recently tried to move
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Pete Sutherland (currently a redirect to a soap opera character), it gave me the normal error, as non-admins cannot overwrite a page. I'm about to submit a request to
WP:RM#TR to usurp the title, but I noticed that the interface message does not point to it, or indeed even suggest that usurping is possible; it just says The page could not be moved, for the following reason: A redirect already exists at
Pete Sutherland, and it cannot be deleted automatically. Please choose another name.
Telling editors unilaterally to choose another name when sometimes usurping is the right course of action is bad advice (and reinforces systemic bias to the extent it gives precedence to older articles), so I think it should be changed. I couldn't find where that message is stored, as searching doesn't turn it up and I'm not able to add uselang=qqx
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Hello, Xaosflux and friendly talk-page stalkers.
The mw:Editing team is starting a new project, mw:Edit check. They are particularly seeking the views of RecentChanges patrollers and other reviewers. One of the open questions is: When should the visual editor encourage people to add a citation?
The meeting will be this Friday, 3 March 2023. More information is available at mw:Editing team/Community Conversations#3 March 2023. I hope that you will be able to attend, but if you aren't, please consider leaving your advice to the team on the talk page. They would particularly value hearing about the citation standards at different Wikipedias, and also what you think the biggest problem is with the first edits made by new editors. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:21, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Xaosflux,
Your user page is showing up on the broken redirects page as a page to be deleted or fixed because, well, it is a broken redirect. But I see in the page history that it is a test edit. So, I'm unsure what to do here. We delete broken redirects or at least remove or correct them from the page they are on but we also don't generally mess around with user pages of editors who have as much experience and advanced privileges as you have. But these error pages get updated every 6 hours and until the page is either deleted or the content altered, it will keep showing up as an error that needs to be dealt with.
So, maybe you could finish up with your test or alter the content so that it links to an existing page before my mild OCD kicks in. Thank you! Liz Read! Talk! 21:05, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, Xaosflux! Is there a way one can block an account from creating other multiple accounts? If you check w:sq:Speciale:Log/newusers and search the page for Të paret e Llapit you'll see that they have wrongly created 4 new accounts now, maybe attempting to write an article (they've also tried using their user page as an article page). Any function that can block this functionality from an account? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 10:25, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
Thank you so much, I have no idea why I couldn't figure this out, I'm just no good on working in variables. I will use this, if you don't mind :P - FlightTime ( open channel) 22:31, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
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While responding to
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misses something. Would !summary rlike ("\/\* .*" + match + ".* \*\/")
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Hello, Xaos! Can you help me solve something in SqWiki? This is our template for creating RFAs: Link. It works fine in itself ( recent example) but look what happens when you transclude it on the main page where people are expected to see RFAs: Link. The problem is with {{User|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}. I think I should be using {{ safesubst}} somewhere over there to solve it but I'm not sure where exactly. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 19:51, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
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I guess I finally figured this out 2600:1702:1F8D:1010:681:1CFE:77F4:2250 ( talk) 13:38, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Xaosflux!
I was wondering if you could provide some practical advice on matters related to categories. My homewiki has always been a mess in regard to categories. Now we're trying to put our attention to that area a bit. Any advice on how to start attending to the category-tree so we can provide a well-structure hierarchy? From what I've seen, we've started dealing from the branches: Users translate articles and with them, they create the missing categories (and sometimes their parent categories) they find on EnWiki on those articles. This makes maintenance/technical categories almost non-existent when compared with their content homologues.
Bonus question: Why can't we have redirects work on category pages? I was thinking of asking about such a thing in the technical wishlist but I thought that it looked as a too obvious request so I thought that maybe there must be a reason why that doesn't exist. —
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Hello, Xaosflux! I find myself a bit confused as how to handle a certain situation.
If you look at sq:Marrëdhëniet e jashtme të Maqedonisë së Veriut, you'll see that there are some empty sections and some other strange behaviors in it. After a bit of investigation I found out that this was coming from {{ Pb}}. In EnWiki PB=Paragraph break but in SqWiki PB=Përdorues i bllokuar (Blocked user).
If you search for Template:Pb in SqWiki you'll see that apparently that is a really old template we would use to notify users about their blocks. If you check its transclusions you'll see that it has been used less than 50 times in all these years. Now normally I want our Pb template to serve the same purpose as the one here. Most of our new articles are CX translations and for CX to work correctly it needs to have the same technical infrastructure in templates. The problem is that I don't know how to handle those ~40 old transclusions. I can use AWB for massediting but what change would I need to do exactly? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 12:56, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
@ Klein Muçi OK so you want to:
That seems overly complicated, are you sure? — xaosflux Talk 10:40, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
:Gjithashtu të hoqa edhe nga grupi i përd
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According to policy, when a user is blocked, the only page they can edit is their Talk page, but something came up on a blocked user's Talk page that I've never seen before, and I wanted to confirm the language in WP:OPTIONS: "Sitewide block will prevent the user from editing any page on Wikipedia with the exception of their own user talk page." (emphases in original). Can a blocked user change their Preferences? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 11:28, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
"... the user from editing any page..."- those type of actions are not considered "edits" and the targets of those actions are not "pages". Such a block would prevent pseudo prefernces such as a Special:MyPage/twinkleoptions.js from being updated. Does something else seem amiss? — xaosflux Talk 13:58, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, I was blocked, possibly auto-blocked with no appeals process in place, while providing a source of information for citation as requested. I tried to reset the password on my account but the one sent to my email did not work. I am still logged in here. I am mentally disabled, and have been accused of multiple wrongdoings, all of which are not true and there being no appeals process, I am beginning to grow concerned over the validity of Wikipedia's editing processes. Please unblock. TENROU9999 ( talk) 21:44, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi there @ Xaosflux,
Once again, I want to thank you for your reply on TSventon's talkpage. Even though I could not figure it out, I think it was good advice. I do want to ask about machine translation, as I'm not sure what my problem is. Basically, I'm in the process of translating articles from the Russian Wikipedia onto here, but even though I try my best to work the phrases/sentences into logical English, it still shows up as being "machine translated". For example, I have one translation in progress that is 60% complete, but it shows 100% machine translated. As a disclaimer, I use Google Translate for assistance but only when I absolutely have to. Is there a way to find out why it's being flagged like this? Please let me know. Thanks again for any help you can provide. Losipov ( talk) 05:33, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
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Automatic translation is provided only as a starting point. Make sure that the content is accurate and reads naturally in your language. Your translation cannot be published without further editing., if there are many templates/etc. — xaosflux Talk 03:41, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
Hey, can you restore my testwiki +sysop again? I want to do some tests related to MediaWiki talk:Captcha-addurl-whitelist#Protected edit request on 11 April 2021 (and a few other things). Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 19:23, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
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I found a user advertising in this talk page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Yello_Mobile please remove it, thanks Notrealname1234 ( talk) 16:56, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, I noticed that my interface protected edit request in User:Shadow of the Starlit Sky/common.js isn't answered yet. Can you please look over it if possible? I'm asking you as you are a sysadmin. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sock 14:19, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
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Can you help me with a small change related to an interlink?
Check sq:Stampa:Faqja kryesore/Mbyllja and click Wiki-Burimet. It sends you to the general mainpage of the Wikisource mainpage. It should instead send you to this? I'm not well informed on Wikisource and that link above does look strange but maybe that is the right place where it should lead? (Shqip=Albanian) If so, any idea how to change change the template? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 02:01, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, lately I've noticed problems with the above tool. Take a look at this comparison. It says that there is no page intersection, which is wrong. I'm not sure how many, but here are two: Draft:Riyad Al-Qasbaji and User talk:Dr-Vivoo. Is this a known problem? Should I report it and, if so, where? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:16, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
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I did NOT clogged up the edit request queue. I made three requests in the span of three days with very reasonable, clearly described, X to Y requests, and have had multiple successful requests to other protected, active admin pages. User:AnomieBOT/PERTable has not had more than 11 active protected page requests at one time. Hardly a busy list.
On the request instructions, it states "If you have noticed an error or have a suggestion for a simple, non-controversial change, you can submit an edit request by clicking the button below and following the instructions. An administrator may then make the change on your behalf. Please check the talk page first in case the issue is already being discussed".
It does NOT state that admin pages are off limits. Nor should it. Admin pages should be held to the same standard as other userpages, and if an issue is known, there should be an avenue to rectify the issue. These protected page requests ARE this avenue.
If there is a rule for only one request at a time, I am unaware of this. Apologies for having three requests open on a slow week. I will do better with timing.
I know there is procedural denial for requesting pp reduction for admin pages, but requesting valid fixes are 100% permitted, as demonstrated by the multiple, unquestioned, similar clean syntax requests in the past month I've made to active admin pages. ALL of which were accepted, by multiple administrators:
Accepted by Izno: (CJCurrie), (Materialscientist), (Nihonjoe; some discussion), (SpacemanSpiff), (Cactus.man)
Accepted by MSGJ: (Starblind) (Mojo_Hand) (Versageek)
Timotheus_Canens himself: (Timotheus_Canens)
Other than the three pages you've marked 'not done', I've had NO rejected admin page correction requests.
I've cleared over three thousand of these Tidy Font errors on Wikipedia the past few months. My edits are clean, nonproblematic, and noncontroversial. Mediawiki's July 2018 change to RemexHtml rendered the <font>[[link]]</font> format of coloring links broken on many browsers (browsers affected default back to normal blue instead of displaying the user specified colors), and this issue is a highpriority WP:LINT error to fix.
If you disagree with the side note inquiry on
User:Versageek/Talk/Archive/2, that's fine, it may be ignored. That's why I noted it as a side comment and not directly part of the request. I was surprised MSGJ lowered Versageek/Talk/Archive/1 since Versageek is Admin, but thought since there were the same errors on 2, 3, and 4 of the same user, I'd at least inquire if the same reasons for lowering 1 held for 3 and 4 so that I wouldn't need to make additional protection requests for this issue on those pages later on.
Nihonjoe has already permitted this type of request on his pages. If he wishes to directly review this change too, I welcome it. My request to one of his other pages earlier in May was the only one I've ever made that needed a discussion to pass, and it was due to our views and knowledge on ''' vs <b>. This discussion was smoothly resolved, and my requests was permitted with his approval. I don't see his Award list being any different.
Sure, User_talk:MastCell/Barnstars is a bit longer of a request, but one request for 7 X to Ys to clear a longer page of all issues seemed reasonable opposed to the idea of multiple single X to Y requests over a longer period of time. I consider and weigh my requests so they are reasonable. This is why I did not request changes to all the other, lesser issues on [User talk:Versageek/Talk/Archive/2]].
I ask that you reconsider these three requests, as I've followed the rules at WP:EDITXY as I have for all other requests, and these three requests are in line with others I've made for all admin pages; clearly defined, noncontrovertial syntax corrections that fix visually broken issues.
Thank you for your time, Zinnober9 ( talk) 07:03, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello. I was just wondering, do bots on enwiki have page mover access similar to auto-patrol? (on mrwiki bots have page mover access, but there is no special page-mover or "extended-mover" user-group there). Also, can bots move categories as well? or do they need to get page-mover flag? —usernamekiran (talk) 17:01, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux. I was hoping to upload an updated version of File:South Moravian Region CoA CZ.svg to Commons (per the request in the description), but it appears I don't have the requisite set of rights to do so. Could I kindly request the right to upload a newer version of that file on Commons? Much appreciated! Algum ( talk) 09:02, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi,I am anonymous user. बॉट has also added a description of Bangladesh Congress President Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury as acting president, even though he has not served as president.Others have added English to the official language of Equatorial Guinea. Other notes were added that Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Sudan, had served as President after I confirmed that he had never served as President. please pay attention to बॉट. By the way, it has progressed to an editing war. Please really help me. 240F:31:3402:1:44C6:DFA8:21CE:17C0 ( talk) 06:32, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
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IPv6 पते को IPv4 पते में बदलने का कोई तरीका (*) नहीं है क्योंकि उन दो प्रणालियों का स्वतंत्र रूप से उपयोग किया जाता है। (* बहुत ही विशेष मामलों को छोड़कर जो बहुत कम ही लागू होते हैं, नीचे देखें।) आप वास्तव में IPv6 पते को IPv4 पते में क्यों बदलना चाहते हैं? बेहतर समझ के लिए एक मोटा सादृश्य लैंडलाइन बनाम मोबाइल फोन हो सकता है। कुछ लोगों के पास दोनों हो सकते हैं और आप उन तक पहुंचने के लिए उनके निर्दिष्ट नंबर (आईपी पते) दोनों का उपयोग कर सकते हैं, कुछ लोगों के पास केवल एक मोबाइल फोन है और कोई लैंडलाइन नहीं है (या इसके विपरीत)। आप IPv4 और IPv6 पतों की तरह एक लैंडलाइन नंबर को एक मोबाइल नंबर में "रूपांतरित" नहीं कर सकते हैं और इसके विपरीत। वे "6to4 नोटेशन" और "IPv4-मैप्ड नोटेशन" IPv6 के शुरुआती समय से विशेष उपयोग के मामलों के बारे में हैं। IPv4 लिंक पर IPv6 को टनल करने के लिए 6to4 संकेतन का उपयोग किया गया था, और IPv4- मैप किए गए संकेतन का उपयोग IPv6 नोड्स को IPv4-केवल नोड्स का प्रतिनिधित्व करने के लिए आंतरिक प्रतिनिधित्व उद्देश्यों के लिए किया जाता है। ऐसा कुछ भी नहीं है जो आपके लिए मददगार हो। आपके उद्देश्यों के लिए, लंबे IPv6 पते पुराने, छोटे IPv4 पतों की तरह ही हैं। वे एक ही उद्देश्य की पूर्ति करते हैं, वे बहुत बड़ी पता सीमा के कारण अधिक लंबे होते हैं। बॉट ( talk) 07:48, 4 June 2023 (UTC) |
Hello Xaos!
In one of my wikiworkshops some weeks ago I remember encountering a rather unexpected behavior in 2 of my attendees: They had forgotten the password and were trying to go through the "I forgot the password" method to log in with the email method. However they weren't being allowed to go through with that because apparently the IP they were using was part of an IP range block. I've tried researching a bit about this phenomenon around meanwhile but couldn't find much information. Is this a well-known thing? Is it "accepted"? It looked rather disturbing to me that one basically may lose control of their account if they have forgotten their password and had the bad luck of being part of an IP range block. Of course, one may ask an exemption and then go through with that but people who have forgotten passwords usually aren't that calm and no new user really knows how and where to ask for an exemption because they don't understand what's going on in the first place, or as they put it, "why was I blocked???". In my case both users ended up opening a new account straight away, without even letting me time to intervene and help. - Klein Muçi ( talk) 09:29, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
Nice to meet you, Im a anonymous user. I have never created an account.Do you have any questions about me. 240F:31:3402:1:44C6:DFA8:21CE:17C0 ( talk) 10:01, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
Pahunkat hasn't edited since last year and is not on break. Special:ManageMentors Sungodtemple ( talk • contribs) 01:51, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, can I email you about a special request involving global usurps? Les Yper-Sound ( talk) 22:02, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you were one of the main contributors to the {{ Photo requested}} template. I'm new to templates so was hoping you could help me with something. Specifically, adding a parameter for satellite images and adding a category for Satellite images requested. I've been uploading a lot of Sentinel-2 satellite images recently and I'd be nice to have a category for requests. I'm also sending this message to Swpb. PalauanLibertarian 🗣️ 12:45, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
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YOU NAME GUD ME NME BED BAD SORRRRY NO ENGLIS HEHE ME NO COOCl 64.90.240.78 ( talk) 12:51, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
There is a new bullet on account contributions pages:
• JavaScript-enhanced contributions lookup 0.2 enabled. You may enter a CIDR range or append an asterisk to do a prefix search. For IPv6, you must use capital letters for gadget matching; native contribution matching is not case-sensitive.
I don't understand what it's for. Was it announced or explained anywhere?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:45, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Allow /16, /24 and /27 – /32 CIDR ranges on Special:Contributions forms, as well as wildcard prefix searches (e.g., "Splark*")You can turn that of in preferences if you don't want it. — xaosflux Talk 13:56, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to re-create a previously deleted page. The article is about a well-known Indian television actress. Please assist.
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I want to submit an official investigation into what happened today regarding the two articles Draft:Khaled Al Saif, Draft:Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City and either the result of the investigation is that I am guilty and I am banned from editing on Wikipedia, or that the editors who treated me disrespectfully apologize to me and take back the article and a clear and frank apology on my talk page.
What happened was the clear disregard of the editors for people's minds and the use of their absolute power and acting as if Wikipedia belonged to them after fulfilling the conditions for the articles and talking to the help section in Wikipedia, and in the end they agreed with me on the note of the two articles. The editors come here and their words and their dealings differ. After advising the user @ DoubleGrazing to apply for a revision of the draft to become an article, he deletes the draft and recklessly thinks about it. Is this a trap or what? After adding all the sources they want, he says that this is a paid article. As for the second article, he did not find anything that says except that this article was written by me in a publicity way. Deleting it from the beginning of the post I will not be sad, but I am saddened by the lack of respect he found here. I don't care about the two articles as much as I care about a clear and frank apology.
Here the answer from the User and the advice from him. John.GGVV ( talk) 19:38, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
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Is there a way to see a list of all former administrators, or, better still, all desysopped administrators, or, even more precisely, all desysopped, blocked/banned administrators? I'm trying to remember the username of an admin who was blocked for socking (a good while ago) and, IIRC, said the reason he socked was because he was "bored". I think the username was a common Anglo-Saxon first name followed by some numbers.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 01:30, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
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I’m contacting you as you edited Growth features configuration in the past, using Special:EditGrowthConfig. This page is visible to anyone, but only a selected group of users can edit it and configure Growth features
The Growth team plans to create a Community Configuration 2.0, based on Special:EditGrowthConfig.
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This is a really good website, because I like to type and mess around in this website. 50.219.59.3 ( talk) 15:37, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hi. Not sure what to do with Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Hey Didn't. I mean, do we close it, or do we speedy it? Bbb has blocked the bot account for "not here", but botop is not blocked. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:38, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello, this template have been found problems affect its visual appearance on mobile phone screens, however due to different configurations for CSS styles between desktop and mobile view, this would be noticed by our readers. First, the top item of the content occupied this template having a wide grey stripe at the top. Second, the left column occupied half of template width, which looks very inconsistent among different devices. I've made fix in its sandbox page, and you'll see the problems on main template via these screenshots:
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Please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pppery/Bureaucrat chat and join the discussion when you have an opportunity. Maxim ( talk) 18:12, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
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Can you change these from normal text to CSS for me? It is necessary to do some repair work on Signpost styling. Thanks. jp× g 20:26, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
I noticed you removed the {{in use}} tag from Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Mosque even though it was actively being edited. Also, it seems the edit history has been suppressed. May I ask why? There's nothing in the in-use template instructions that says not to use it logged-out.
Not saying it's wrong, I genuinely want to understand if there's a policy at play. By way of context, there's a proposal to substantially change the article at the AfD discussion, and these changes seem to be a constructive part of that. Oblivy ( talk) 10:28, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
So this is twice now that I've pinged you about that topic. I hope that that's been ok. I don't know where else or who else would be good to point people to. Well, that and I know that when I ask you, I can trust the answer : )
Thanks again for all that you do : ) - jc37 12:04, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
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I went to look at the WP:BAG list and saw that you were on it : )
I thought I'd ask you here, rather than ping you there, this time, but you are of course welcome to answer here or there (or not) as you prefer.
Anyway, my main question is: I remember (somewhat vaguely) the various messes and Betacommand. And one of the things that I remember being talked about are edit rates, and so on. I'm not sure how they would specifically apply here, but speed of editing and perhaps not being as diligent as some might want, seeems to be the crux of things here. But I'm not sure how serious we should see this to be. For example, how fast is "bot fast"? Do we have any sort of rough benchmarks for semi-automated editing? Basically I want to AGF of the editor here. But if this is a genuine problem, then I'd like to see it faitly addressed. What comes to my mind is the second half of "Be bold, but not reckless".
I guess I'm in the spot of: I don't know what I don't know. And I'd like to make a better-informed decision on this. - jc37 17:04, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
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I see that they are semi-inactive, if they aren't around to respond, I can just make a new userbox in template-space of you like. - jc37 18:01, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! Can you help me understand something better? I was checking this list of needed templates in my homewiki and a lot of them are "shortdescriptions". Apparently they come from {{ Infobox settlement}} but I'm not sure how that is supposed to work exactly. You set the type and you get an automatic template? I haven't seen such auto-generated templates in EnWiki. :/ - Klein Muçi ( talk) 09:53, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914. It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015
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Hello. I hope you are doing well.
I'm currently working on a bot to archive the ITN entries. So far, I've worked out everything, but there is only one issue now. Basically, the bot covers additions of entries, updates to existing entries (eg death tolls), and removal of entries. The bot can process multiple additions in the same edit, but I haven't been able to process removal if there is an addition at the same time. This always happens when someone updates recent deaths. While removal of death is not very much important, the removal of other news blurb/event should be mentioned in the archive page (e.g. natural disasters, bombings, and similar stuff).
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Hello xaosflux! While I regularly help in WP:EFFPR dealing with false positives by public filters, how could I make sure I could be trusted to have the edit filter helper right? Note that despite reading the granting guidelines [I am currently an extended confirmed user, have a secure password with 2FA enabled, have never been blocked or sanctioned (a clean block log), and can understand the English language (near native ability)], how can the community trust me to have the right?
I have thoroughly read WP:EFH about the revocation guidelines (sharing sensitive details to users without the right, abuse of edit filters, etc.), and I don't have any intent to assist with edit filters as I have a very basic ability to understand regex expressions, other than dealing with false positives. And note that I do not plan to request the edit filter helper right at this moment.
If there are any concerns or issues, you are welcome to ask me about them here, thank you! Signed, 64andtim ( any problems?) 04:19, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
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I see you deleted MediaWiki:Preferences-summary/en-gb and MediaWiki:Preferences-summary/en-ca after we finally got phab:T229992 (yeah!)
Searches [169] [170] currently find 67 en-gb or en-ca MediaWiki messages.
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Hi Xaosflux. This year if you're one of the top 3 vote getters do you intended to serve or might you step back into the reserve commissioner role as you did last year? Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 08:13, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
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