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Hi, thanks for signing up at Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/Wiknic/2015. The picnic is a potluck, so on the signup page please say what food or drink you are planning to bring. Thanks! -- Pine ✉ 04:07, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, weather update for Wiknic: the forecast is now for 91 degrees and a high UV index. Peaceray is bringing icewater, but everyone do please take appropriate precautions for the weather, such as sunscreen, hats, sunglasses, and staying hydrated. There will be some shade in the trees. It's ok for those of us who are more temperature and/or sunlight sensitive to come but leave early, or skip the event if you think that you should; people who are very young, elderly, or have other health issues are more vulnerable to heat stroke. Health and safety first. Cheers, -- Pine ✉ 15:05, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Please stop changing Help:Template. It is very difficult to make much sense of what you have been writing. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 20:00, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
I note the change to using a multiple image versus the "deprecated" double image at Jefferson Davis. Is there a technical reason why the double image is deprecated? If so, I'll stop using it. Thanks. TheVirginiaHistorian ( talk) 08:03, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
<center>...</center>
tags, probably because it had to when it was written. —
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Are we allowed to make subpages on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Farnell45 ( talk • contribs) 16:45, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Are we allowed to keep them or will they be deleted? Farrnell45 Farnell45 20:24, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Did I do this right?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Farnell45
Does any of this violate any of the rules here?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Farnell45 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Farnell45 ( talk • contribs) 17:37, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, what is the purpose of this page that Wikipedia:Example of a double redirect fails to fulfill? -- A Certain White Cat chi? 19:37, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, Cpiral. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
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[rights=hidden]
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in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}
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&fuzzy=1
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Hi Cpiral, I see you wrote the help pages on Searching/Features. I will ask here, but if this is not the right place, please let me know where to ask instead. Is there any syntax that can be used in connection with incategory:[name of category] search so that instead of the whole [name of category], ANY category that contains in its name TERM_A AND TERM_B AND TERM_C can be called? I am not good in terminology, and know only basic RegEx for text editing, so here is one example: suppose I want to find all comedies of director Scorsese. Now, there is a very clear category for all Scorsese films, BUT Category:Comedy films, or even Category:American comedy films, have been broken down to so many subcategories as to make any attempt of incategory search futile. However all the subcategories we need to search, do conatin the term "comedy", or to filter narrower, both "American" AND "comedy". It would be great if one could enter: incategor:Films directed by Scorsese with incategory: "American" AND "comedy" (or some regex syntax to this effect). It would save the day for many problems of categorization we face in WP Films (and not only) and maybe for the public too. Thank you for your attention. Hoverfish Talk 23:27, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
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.D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8
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Freenode. You can use the
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tidy-whitespace-bug
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about using Linter and the
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CTRL
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when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
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Template:Intitle-inline has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 00:36, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
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and on
Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F
instead of
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История
. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work.
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get_matches
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Hello, Cpiral. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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A tag has been placed on COMINT (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either
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gallery widths="150px"
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or %
instead of px
but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px
or nothing (150
). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px
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or No
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.json
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pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json
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...in case you are interested.
It's called SearchSuite.
I hope you find it useful. — The Transhumanist 23:59, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Cpiral. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Tumbleweed (software), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a valid criterion — redirects as a result of page moves aren't valid unless recently created and implausible. Try WP:RFD for deletion. Thank you. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 10:22, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
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12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
See below...
I hear hopeful things, but after looking through the manual, I don't see the functionality I'm looking for.
I want to edit every page on a MediaWiki search results page. Can AWB do that? If not, can it accept a list of titles I generate from such a search results page? And if so, will it auto-edit every page (after I press yes on a Show Changes screen)?
Sounds like AWB can only perform its own searches from a required database dump. Is that right? If so can its search engine compete with the new CirrusSearch regular expressions of the wikitext?
Finally, does AWB have any in-class competitors (AWB script? WikEd?) that can do these robo-edits from a list like AWB can somehow do, but perhaps without the database dump or IE? I'm not complaining, really, keep up the fine work. Thanks. — Cpiral Cpiral 06:34, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
SearchSuite can help. It can show search results as page names only, one per line. It also can sort the result. And applicable to using AWB on the results, it can add wikiformatting for links, which makes the whole list ready to copy/paste into a wiki-editor.
So, to do what you wanted above, you'd install the SearchSuite script, do your search, click the menu items to the format desired, and copy/paste the results to a sandbox. Then use the "Links on page" feature of AWB's list maker to input the list from the sandbox into AWB.
I hope that helps. — The Transhumanist 21:21, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
$( function() {
'use strict';
if ( mw.config.get( 'wgCanonicalSpecialPageName' ) === 'Search' ) {
$( '.mw-search-result-heading a' ).each( function() {
$( this ).after( '<span class="searchedit"> [<a href="' + $( this ).attr( 'href' ) + '?action=edit">edit</a>]</span>' );
} );
}
} );
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<inputbox>
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using AWB
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tag that says AWB
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[474]Deprecated. Use ... instead
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[475]page_age
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Hello, Cpiral. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Cpiral. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
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function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week.
Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated
in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage
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migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify
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Someone deleted my sandbox just as I was editing it. Can you please help me get this reversed?
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tiles.wmflabs.org
and wma.wmflabs.org
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the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going.
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wrapper
parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>
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namespace.
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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
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{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return ""
(empty string). When you read a page it will return "-"
(dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces.
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suggestion
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constraint checking API works.
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sameAs
meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an
A/B test.
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local storage
instead of
session storage
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect H:N. Since you had some involvement with the H:N redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 16:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
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wbeditentity
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values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values.
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user_wpzero
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Special:Contributions/newbies
will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead.
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Special:
pages. There is a
script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to.
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
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https://www.wikidata.org/
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MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry
can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip
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database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or
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{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns ""
(empty string). When you read a page it returns "-"
(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.
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setlang
in the
URL to change the
user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if
Javascript is not working in your browser.
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<ref follow="…">
to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead.
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python2
tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can
get help to do so.
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wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage
was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can
read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a
list.
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Maintenance script
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. div.portal
is now .portal
. div#footer
is now #footer
. This is so the skins can use
HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.
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can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in
a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in
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or <ref />
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so that editors know to test and style for mobile too.
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[802]searchGoButton
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T255953. This was previously mentioned in
issue 27.counter
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Template:Val/list/test has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 ( talk) 09:28, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
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Much thanks for all the regex doc you contributed, mostly in 2015 I think, that I'm finding at places like Help:Searching/Regex, Template:Template usage/doc, and pretty much all over. This is *highly* appreciated. If you ever questioned whether it was worth all the effort and if anybody was benefiting from all that work you did, rest assured that the answer is a resounding *yes* to both. I consider myself an intermediate to advanced regex user outside of WP (familiar with stuff like negative lookahead, etc.) and that's a great foundation for using it here, but the picture at WP is sufficiently different that the doc is really required; and of course, the templates are a whole, 'nother layer on top of that. This is really very helpful (and I have a feeling I'm only discovering the tip of the iceberg), and even though it was a long time ago, it continues to be really useful (and I'm probably just the tip of the iceberg of users that it is benefiting). So, a big 'Thanks' for all your effort on regular expression documentation at Wikipedia! Mathglot ( talk) 20:17, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for signing up at Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/Wiknic/2015. The picnic is a potluck, so on the signup page please say what food or drink you are planning to bring. Thanks! -- Pine ✉ 04:07, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
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Please stop changing Help:Template. It is very difficult to make much sense of what you have been writing. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 20:00, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
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Are we allowed to make subpages on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Farnell45 ( talk • contribs) 16:45, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Are we allowed to keep them or will they be deleted? Farrnell45 Farnell45 20:24, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Did I do this right?
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[rights=hidden]
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when you edit an existing page.
[88]Page information
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Ctrl
+Shift
+X
on PCs or Cmd
+Shift
+X
on Macs.
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[107][[File:Wiki.png]]
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block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util
dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in
MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.
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, Show preview
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buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the
OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1
to the URL.
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Hide categorization of pages
in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent
in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from
Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
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instead of Switch to visual editing
and Switch to code editing
. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
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-{
is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{
in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}
. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis.
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is used in
transclusions or
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escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
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in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see
the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find
false positives. You can
read more about what to fix.
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__NOGLOBAL__
to your Meta user page to stop this.
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tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext
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report new problems you think are related to this.
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&fuzzy=1
to the end of the web address when looking at
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22:59, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi Cpiral, I see you wrote the help pages on Searching/Features. I will ask here, but if this is not the right place, please let me know where to ask instead. Is there any syntax that can be used in connection with incategory:[name of category] search so that instead of the whole [name of category], ANY category that contains in its name TERM_A AND TERM_B AND TERM_C can be called? I am not good in terminology, and know only basic RegEx for text editing, so here is one example: suppose I want to find all comedies of director Scorsese. Now, there is a very clear category for all Scorsese films, BUT Category:Comedy films, or even Category:American comedy films, have been broken down to so many subcategories as to make any attempt of incategory search futile. However all the subcategories we need to search, do conatin the term "comedy", or to filter narrower, both "American" AND "comedy". It would be great if one could enter: incategor:Films directed by Scorsese with incategory: "American" AND "comedy" (or some regex syntax to this effect). It would save the day for many problems of categorization we face in WP Films (and not only) and maybe for the public too. Thank you for your attention. Hoverfish Talk 23:27, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
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Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject
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.D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8
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on
Freenode. You can use the
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Template:Intitle-inline has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 00:36, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F
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Hello, Cpiral. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on COMINT (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. feminist ( talk) 05:11, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
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gallery widths="150px"
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or %
instead of px
but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px
or nothing (150
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{{reflist}}
, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates.
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.json
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and .css
pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json
to do this without concerns.
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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
...in case you are interested.
It's called SearchSuite.
I hope you find it useful. — The Transhumanist 23:59, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
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===
and !==
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18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello Cpiral. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Tumbleweed (software), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a valid criterion — redirects as a result of page moves aren't valid unless recently created and implausible. Try WP:RFD for deletion. Thank you. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 10:22, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
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12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
See below...
I hear hopeful things, but after looking through the manual, I don't see the functionality I'm looking for.
I want to edit every page on a MediaWiki search results page. Can AWB do that? If not, can it accept a list of titles I generate from such a search results page? And if so, will it auto-edit every page (after I press yes on a Show Changes screen)?
Sounds like AWB can only perform its own searches from a required database dump. Is that right? If so can its search engine compete with the new CirrusSearch regular expressions of the wikitext?
Finally, does AWB have any in-class competitors (AWB script? WikEd?) that can do these robo-edits from a list like AWB can somehow do, but perhaps without the database dump or IE? I'm not complaining, really, keep up the fine work. Thanks. — Cpiral Cpiral 06:34, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
SearchSuite can help. It can show search results as page names only, one per line. It also can sort the result. And applicable to using AWB on the results, it can add wikiformatting for links, which makes the whole list ready to copy/paste into a wiki-editor.
So, to do what you wanted above, you'd install the SearchSuite script, do your search, click the menu items to the format desired, and copy/paste the results to a sandbox. Then use the "Links on page" feature of AWB's list maker to input the list from the sandbox into AWB.
I hope that helps. — The Transhumanist 21:21, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
$( function() {
'use strict';
if ( mw.config.get( 'wgCanonicalSpecialPageName' ) === 'Search' ) {
$( '.mw-search-result-heading a' ).each( function() {
$( this ).after( '<span class="searchedit"> [<a href="' + $( this ).attr( 'href' ) + '?action=edit">edit</a>]</span>' );
} );
}
} );
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<inputbox>
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using AWB
in the edit summary. Instead it will add a
tag that says AWB
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[474]Deprecated. Use ... instead
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[475]page_age
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ORES is now called articlequality
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[490]{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
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Hello, Cpiral. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify
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tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed.
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tiles.wmflabs.org
and wma.wmflabs.org
will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes
the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going.
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namespace.
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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.
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{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return ""
(empty string). When you read a page it will return "-"
(dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces.
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suggestion
. This
will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints
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sameAs
meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an
A/B test.
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local storage
instead of
session storage
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect H:N. Since you had some involvement with the H:N redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 16:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
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user_wpzero
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Special:Contributions/newbies
will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead.
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Special:
pages. There is a
script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to.
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MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry
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database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or
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{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns ""
(empty string). When you read a page it returns "-"
(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.
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setlang
in the
URL to change the
user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if
Javascript is not working in your browser.
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<ref follow="…">
to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead.
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python2
tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can
get help to do so.
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wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage
was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can
read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a
list.
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articletopic
. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon.
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action=changecontentmodel
to specify the new model. You can read the
documentation on mediawiki.org.
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Maintenance script
. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.
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is now #footer
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mw.config.exists()
or mw.user.tokens.exists()
. You can use exists()
or get()
to check one at a time instead.
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div#p-personal
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, div#p-tb
, div#p-lang
, div#p-namespaces
, div#p-variants
and div#footer
. They will have to remove div
. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use
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<b/>
is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr
can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in
a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in
Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references />
or <ref />
.
[763]WikidataPageBanner
. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice
so that editors know to test and style for mobile too.
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.menu
and .vectorMenu
will no longer work in the
Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu
should be replaced by ul
. .vectorMenu
should be replaced by .vector-menu
.
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should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs
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searchGoButton
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<translate nowrap></translate>
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Printable version
link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway.
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global.js
and global.css
pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read
documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin.
[802]searchGoButton
identifier is now searchButton
. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in
T255953. This was previously mentioned in
issue 27.counter
to prevent large archives was changed.
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watchlist
instead of watch
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Template:Val/list/test has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 ( talk) 09:28, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
Template:Val/sandboxlua/doc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:31, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
Much thanks for all the regex doc you contributed, mostly in 2015 I think, that I'm finding at places like Help:Searching/Regex, Template:Template usage/doc, and pretty much all over. This is *highly* appreciated. If you ever questioned whether it was worth all the effort and if anybody was benefiting from all that work you did, rest assured that the answer is a resounding *yes* to both. I consider myself an intermediate to advanced regex user outside of WP (familiar with stuff like negative lookahead, etc.) and that's a great foundation for using it here, but the picture at WP is sufficiently different that the doc is really required; and of course, the templates are a whole, 'nother layer on top of that. This is really very helpful (and I have a feeling I'm only discovering the tip of the iceberg), and even though it was a long time ago, it continues to be really useful (and I'm probably just the tip of the iceberg of users that it is benefiting). So, a big 'Thanks' for all your effort on regular expression documentation at Wikipedia! Mathglot ( talk) 20:17, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
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