News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II ( BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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Thanks for the script. If the URL is blacklisted, the script will not post. A warning would be nice. Ranghar was the case. Sam Sailor 10:45, 5 July 2020 (UTC) reply

(Fixed (I hope!), as noted above.) Enterprisey ( talk!) 08:48, 6 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Is there an issue with afdstats currently? https://afdstats.toolforge.org all files except index return 404 not found (eg afdstats.css, afdstats.py), script doesn't seem to work. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 15:41, 7 July 2020 (UTC) reply

I believe that there is a general problem with toolforge, it's probably something for WP:VPT although they may direct you to phab:. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 22:24, 7 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Redrose64, I asked in #cloud yesterday and I got the impression that there isn't a (known) issue with Toolforge, although they did do some kind of migration on it recently (I believe related to the redirects?). I can't recall the convo though, and can't check since IRCCloud has been broken all day. Just wanted to make sure there wasn't something Enterprisey or Sigma had to do on their end. (ping Σ) ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 12:59, 8 July 2020 (UTC) reply

They've migrated the domains and it might be that something needs to be fixed. My tool is working, but I needed to update a few links. The hard deadline for migration just passed yesterday I think. -- Slashme ( talk) 18:43, 8 July 2020 (UTC) reply

I just noticed the 404 errors as well. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 22:24, 8 July 2020 (UTC) reply

I turned it off and on again, which seems to have done the trick. Thanks to everyone for the bug reports. Enterprisey ( talk!) 23:06, 8 July 2020 (UTC) reply

It seems that the AfDstats tool is not working still, it shows "404". P,TO 19104 ( talk) ( contribs) 17:51, 11 July 2020 (UTC) reply

It's working now. -- Slashme ( talk) 15:05, 18 August 2020 (UTC) reply

See this user page and my sockpuppet investigation. They say imitation is the best form of flattery ... Graham 87 15:53, 17 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Hey, can you exempt me from the recently active list again please? Apparently my rename has readded me to the list. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 20:31, 17 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Enterprisey: see PR #4 for your fix :) -- Mdaniels5757 ( talk) 19:13, 23 July 2020 (UTC) reply

It may be best to migrate this list onwiki and just protect it so it doesn't require an active maintainer, or have a local user opt-out js file. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 06:20, 25 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Now that's how I should have done it in the first place! Great idea; implemented, see User:Enterprisey/recently-active-opt-out.json. Enterprisey ( talk!) 08:59, 25 July 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Enterprisey: Cool. Note that although you protected User:Enterprisey/recently-active-opt-out.json at the templateeditor level, it, like all other .json pages, is permanently protected such that only its owner and admins can edit it. If you wanted to permit others to edit it without your involvement, a message on its talk page saying that any admin should add a users name at their request is probably the best option. Best, -- Mdaniels5757 ( talk) 21:11, 26 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Ah, thanks for the heads-up. Done. Enterprisey ( talk!) 08:23, 27 July 2020 (UTC) reply

I noticed that reply-link works with AfDs really well, but on RMs, it doesn't correctly do the bullet point. diff. Can you address this issue and fix it please? Interstellarity ( talk) 19:34, 24 July 2020 (UTC) reply

hi Enterprisey, is it just me or is the afd report not registering any !votes after 27 July ( see here)? Coolabahapple ( talk) 00:42, 1 August 2020 (UTC) reply

This is WP:VPT#Toolserver replication lag for enwiki is now over 36 hours. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 07:17, 1 August 2020 (UTC) reply

thanks Redrose64, i just ran it, and theres now a few more added up to july 29, so lag it is:). Coolabahapple ( talk) 14:46, 1 August 2020 (UTC) reply

For anticipating, providing clear instructions, and making this so easy. I didn't even have to read the script, just the comment at the top :-) Cheers, Levivich  ^{dubious – discuss} 19:27, 2 August 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi Enterprisey! Thanks for attending the Wiknic Midwest breakout session today! I hope you enjoyed it, and if you're interested in continuing to chat with others about local Wikimedia organizing across the US, look no farther than Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS). WALRUS has calls twice a month – to get the invitations, shoot a message to Pharos. And, of course, always feel free to leave me a note if I can be any help. Best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 00:22, 17 August 2020 (UTC) reply

Hello, it seems the page does not mention User:Enterprisey/AFCRHS. Is there any reason for that or have you just forgotten to list it? 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 21:34, 21 August 2020 (UTC) reply

I suppose I could list it for completeness; it's just that I don't think I really made any significant contributions to it. Never really occurred to me as a particularly high-priority thing to do, I guess. Thanks for the reminder. Enterprisey ( talk!) 21:59, 21 August 2020 (UTC) reply

Hey Enterprisey, quick question - how do you usually go about testing your scripts before applying changes on-wiki? Do you use Greasemonkey or something like that? GeneralNotability ( talk) 19:53, 28 August 2020 (UTC) reply

GeneralNotability, I host scripts locally using the method described at Wikipedia:User scripts/Guide#Loading it from a localhost web server and then import them in my common.js ( example), although (perpetually) upcoming CSP changes ( T28508) may make this impossible. I have a script that serves scripts in the current directory, adapted from https://www.piware.de/2011/01/creating-an-https-server-in-python/. Manual testing that requires changing page content ought to happen on testwiki and not enwiki, although I often get lazy and make enwiki edits. I have no "UI"/browser automation/Selenium testing setup out of laziness, although I know one would probably be useful. I like the idea of Greasemonkey but never really got into it for some reason. Hope this all helps. Enterprisey ( talk!) 06:13, 29 August 2020 (UTC) reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).

Administrator changes

Eddie891

Angela • Jcw69 • Just Chilling • Philg88 • Viajero

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
• A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
• A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
• An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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Hi, why do you feel that my proposed block of BHG for disgusting mental health comments in unproductive. Sure she's been here since 2006 and some people would rate her more etc than chris and would refuse to block her. I'm astonished by the attitude being displayed on that thread TBH towards the situation that no one a part from myself seems to want to call out or acknowledge as not on and then start targeting me (and yes I agree at that point probably best to close it before I got banned for no reason, if that was your intention). Games of the world ( talk) 07:14, 23 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Games of the world, I don't think BHG's comments in the thread, especially the 20:12 comment you highlighted, violate NPA. I think most everyone else in the thread would agree with me on that point. Even if they do violate NPA, I think an indefinite block (or one of any duration, really) would be uncalled-for here; blocks aren't punitive. Therefore, a full discussion would clearly result in a consensus against a block, so to avoid wasting everyone's time I closed the section. I don't have an opinion on the other points you raised, since I don't have a deep background in the overall situation regarding BHG and Chris.sherlock. If you have further information to add, I would recommend you do that in the thread. Enterprisey ( talk!) 07:34, 23 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Yeah I'm not getting muddy in that one either, but by the looks of it someone got rather upset about that comment from BHG to the point that they left, which would suggest a PA had taken place. Anyway thought I mention it as I think that it could have been handled better by the admins. Considering I said some thing was stupid (that's right a thing not a user) and got banned from a page for a month by an admin who couldn't argue for toffee claiming that was a PA and harassment (never violated any policy), I would have expected something would have been done in regards to ill advised comments about mental health if we're going down that school of thought (from the community, not you personally). :) Games of the world ( talk) 19:50, 23 September 2020 (UTC) reply

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Just letting you know. I edit the pt.wiki by the way. I click "reply", but no box appears. -- Bageense ^(disc.) 17:29, 25 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Wait... it actually is working. It doesn't seem to work when the message I'm replying to is at the bottom of the page. I'll test it further. -- Bageense ^(disc.) 17:31, 25 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Hey, I noticed you pinged me on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 184#RedWarn and Off-Wiki WMCS hosting. I have skimmed over the rest of the discussion, but I didn't really understand what the connection between redwarn (which looks to me like a bunch of buttons on the Recent Edits page and such) and a user-script that 'takes over' the whole interface. But, if I can help by providing some information I'd be happy to help.

Regarding the way I do it with JWB is actually pretty crude. It stems from the very first version of the script, and was simply based on deleting the whole body of the page, and replacing it with my own interface. The advantages this has is that the same style sheets any other page on the wiki are included, because the script is loaded on a page on the wiki, without me having to write something in the script that checks which style sheets that wiki includes, and then copying them. Perhaps there'd be a cleaner way to do this while still maintaining this consistent look cross-wiki, but for now nobody has asked me about that, so I haven't looked into that.

So yeah, it's basically a quick and dirty way to create a custom interface without having to pay too much attention to the styles the wiki uses. Simply replace the whole <body> of the page with whatever HTML you want to have your script use. If, however, you want to have a script that actually builds upon the interface of the wiki itself, I think my script is not necessarily a good example.

I hope at least something in the above text was what you were interested in / referring to in your comment. If not, please let me know, then I can have another try at answering stuff. Joeytje50 ( talk) 22:23, 29 September 2020 (UTC) reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions ( phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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I opened https://github.com/enterprisey/delsort/pull/19 to make some updates, reported for Twinkle at Special:Permalink/981680305#Bug report - Laos in Africa?. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 20:22, 3 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Script updated - thanks! Enterprisey ( talk!) 07:50, 4 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi, when trying to use delsort to include an afd into the Ireland related sorting page, the script adds the note on the afd but fails to transclude it on to the sorting page itself. It says it throws up an error when sorting. It appears to be fine for everything else. Can you confirm if its my end at fault or an issue to investigate? Thanks Night fury 20:20, 6 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Actually its now happening on all sorting pages, not just the one as previous message. Night fury 21:26, 6 October 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Nightfury: You are not alone. I'm experiencing the same problem, help would be much appreciated. Shellwood ( talk) 19:09, 7 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Should be fixed now; sorry about that. Thanks for the bug report. Enterprisey ( talk!) 03:22, 8 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Another issue. I just changed the skin in appearance setting. I've only tried "vector/default" but when I uncheck the "use legacy vector", delsort no longer pulls up. Reverted to "use legacy" and it works again. Graywalls ( talk) 14:21, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply

That is probably phab:T265373. It looks like at some point you also broke the fix you made for me regarding Timeless since the current delsort.js script is again looking for #jump-to-nav... (see this diff for fix and the next for the break). -- Izno ( talk) 18:00, 19 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Fixed, for the record. Enterprisey ( talk!) 01:53, 14 November 2020 (UTC) reply

October 21, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. ( American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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Hi. As you might have seen, I've logged a few bugs for reply-link. As I'm a developer, and necessity is the mother of invention, I thought I might have a go at fixing them. What's the best way to set up a test harness? I was hoping that the tool would be activated on User talk:Ritchie333/sandbox, but it isn't. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:29, 3 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Ritchie333, there's a pretty minimal (and very unmaintained, sadly) test suite in the GitHub repository; otherwise, I just use the sandboxes. There's also a "test mode" built in that'll try to reply (without actually saving the page) to every single comment it can find; that's enabled by the (boolean-valued, dunno why it's undocumented) replyLinkTestMode setting. Thank you for looking into this! (If you check the talk page, I have a decently-sized update coming Real Soon that'll fix some stuff, but it won't yet fix the issue(s) with replies going under the wrong line.) Enterprisey ( talk!) 09:49, 19 November 2020 (UTC) reply

After no objections in 2 years, I've sent a patch to implement links-in-logs in core. Not sure what that will do to your script though (in terms of the two interacting), so just wanted to give you a heads-up. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:59, 13 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Just came across diff-permalink, its so great. 2 small requests though:

• Any chance you can include a "copy" button after the textbox? Example code can be copied from User:DannyS712/Easy-link.js
• It might just be a personal preference, but when combined with User:Amorymeltzer/userinfo.js it looks odd for the interface to be above the user information - any chance you could move it to after #siteSub?

Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 21:17, 13 November 2020 (UTC) reply

DannyS712, button added, but it already appears below the user information for me (i.e. after #siteSub). On your end, it looks like the textbox appears above #siteSub, right? Enterprisey ( talk!) 04:17, 1 December 2020 (UTC) reply

I have a whole bunch of user scripts that modify that area, so the issue might be on my end, but yes, it is appearing above #siteSub for me (also, might be worth wrapping it all in a div rather than the individual elements being loose) DannyS712 ( talk) 04:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC) reply

DannyS712, wrapped. And yeah, if I made it appear below #siteSub, I fear it would be above the .mw-revision.warningbox on the oldid view. Enterprisey ( talk!) 04:28, 1 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Okay, thanks for looking into it though DannyS712 ( talk) 04:30, 1 December 2020 (UTC) reply

(sorry for the message spam) as a follow-up to Special:Diff/953988289, I suggest changing mw.loader.using( [], function () { mw.notify( "Jumping to the new content..." ); } ); to just mw.notify( "Jumping to the new content..." ); Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 21:21, 13 November 2020 (UTC) reply

{{ done}} Enterprisey ( talk!) 03:24, 15 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Can you give me read access to /home/aperson? -- RoySmith (talk) 04:19, 16 November 2020 (UTC) reply

RoySmith, there aren't any files in it; was I depending on it somewhere? That would probably be my mistake. Enterprisey ( talk!) 04:48, 17 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Enterprisey, Ooops, accidentally forked the thread onto your talk page. I'll pick this back up on mine where it started. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:14, 17 November 2020 (UTC) reply

October 18, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Thanks for blocking, but this is probably Wyatt2049, and has vandalized on numerous IPs. Would suggest updating the block reason. HurricaneTracker495 ( talk) 15:42, 22 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Rangeblocked by a CU. Enterprisey ( talk!) 22:33, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

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	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	You were awarded the Anti-Vandalism Barnstar! Wikireverse-ho ( talk) 06:14, 25 November 2020 (UTC) reply

The LTA keeps using it. Also, User:Southern Confederate Pride needs his talk page revoked. 4thfile4thrank ( talk) 22:07, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

I don't know enough about this LTA or the exact operations of the bad image list to make a decision either way, although I suspect it might not be appropriate for the list yet. Talk page access was revoked by another admin. Enterprisey ( talk!) 22:32, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi, thanks for your help at Laurence Fishburne. However, I noticed that the protection you put in is significantly shorter than the previous protection, which expired only a short time ago. Would you please review the page's protection history and consider making the protection longer? The page has been a vandalism target for a long time. Thanks. Simmyrak ( talk) 23:35, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Simmyrak, I see L235 has given it pending-changes protection, which should cover that. Enterprisey ( talk!) 23:36, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Enterprisey, I see that, however the page was previously PC protected and that was not sufficient for the kind of egregious vandalism that occurred. You will see this of you scroll through the page's protection history. The page literally just came off an eight month semi-protection and was immediately vandalized with such intensity again. Would you please reconsider? Simmyrak ( talk) 23:50, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Looking at the history, I think this is more a job for an edit filter; of course, if another administrator feels this is a job for semi-protection, they're free to apply it. Enterprisey ( talk!) 23:55, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Hey, I think that longer protection is appropriate actually, so I've extended the semi for 2 years. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 00:03, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply

@ L235: I noticed the page has Pending Changes protection for 1 year and Semi-Protection for 2 years. Wouldn't be more effective if the page was indefinitely Pending Changes protected just on the off chance the vandalism occurs again after 2022? I was curious on that since Pending Changes protection is effectively useless while Semi-Protection is in effect. Alucard 16 _{❯❯❯ chat?} 00:26, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Yeah, I'm not ready for indef pc yet, but we'll see if we want indef semi next time semi expires. I've removed PC. KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 01:00, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

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(script added to awards page)

Thank you, MrLinkinPark333! (I was shamed by this barnstar into finally fixing the script's awful handling of the spam blacklist.) Enterprisey ( talk!) 08:46, 6 December 2020 (UTC) reply

	Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021!
	Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! In this toughest of years, thank you for continuing to care about others - both in your editing, your words, and just in your being. Roll on 2021 and I'll see you there! Nosebagbear ( talk) 14:37, 24 December 2020 (UTC) reply Spread the love by adding {{ subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021!

Hello Enterprisey, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2021. Happy editing, Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 05:36, 25 December 2020 (UTC) reply Spread the love by adding {{ subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

File:Christmas tree in field.jpg	Merry Christmas Enterprisey
	Hi Enterprisey, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year, Thanks for all your contributions to Wikipedia this past year, like this tree, you are a light shining in the darkness. – SD0001 ( talk) 14:56, 25 December 2020 (UTC) reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

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(moved to User talk:Vinish Kumar V#January 2021 Enterprisey ( talk!) 08:57, 24 January 2021 (UTC)) reply

In the NYC video for Wikipedia at 20, I enjoyed your analogy of the Wikipedia being built from bricks. Also, you made a great point about how wonderful the world of Wikimedia which allows user-contributed interfaces is rare in the sea of glass buildings. Thanks for deligient work and expertise. - DutchTreat ( talk) 15:09, 24 January 2021 (UTC) reply

Thank you! I appreciated the opportunity to share my thoughts. This level of user control, while we pay for it with additional technical complexity, truly provides countless new ways to interact with the website. Enterprisey ( talk!) 00:36, 30 January 2021 (UTC) reply

Wishing Enterprisey a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! History DMZ ( HQ) † ( wire) 04:06, 26 January 2021 (UTC) reply

Hey Enterprisey, FYI it looks like you've got two userscripts used by others with bare globals: User:Enterprisey/AFCFFU.js and User:Enterprisey/StatusChanger.js. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 19:24, 29 January 2021 (UTC) reply

2013 scripts? Vintage! Thanks for the note, will fix. Enterprisey ( talk!) 00:31, 30 January 2021 (UTC) reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Arbitration

• The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

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Hi! I've only just discovered your vandal block script and I love it. I've been blocking vandals since before Twinkle was capable of doing it and that was revolutionary in cutting down the amount of time and clicking it took to block a vandal; this is even more so! Just one question: why does it revoke talk page access? Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:37, 2 February 2021 (UTC) reply

HJ Mitchell, honestly, I'm not sure; perhaps the LTA it was originally designed for required that treatment. Probably a mistake now, so I've changed it to stop doing that. Enterprisey ( talk!) 20:03, 2 February 2021 (UTC) reply

Yes, I can well imagine needing to quickly block certain LTAs without talk page access. For the average bored schoolkid, it's usually overkill, so thanks for making the change. And thanks for such a quick reply! All the best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:09, 2 February 2021 (UTC) reply

February 6th, 11am-1pm E.S.T: Coronavirus in New York City: Translate-A-Thon - ONLINE

Hello user:Enterprisey! You are invited to join the Brooklyn based Sure We Can community for our 3rd NYC COVID-19 themed Wikipedia Edit-a-thon / translate-a-thon - ONLINE - Saturday, Feb 6th, 2021 11am - 1pm. The edit-a-thon is part of Sure We Can's work with NYC Health + Hospitals to stop the spread of Covid-19. We plan to continue to work on translating the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into the many languages spoken in New York City; as well as, work on other ideas about how information on wikipedia could slow the spread of Covid-19. We'd love to hear if you have any ideas. If you can not attend, please feel free to comment on my talk page. Saturday February 6 Coronavirus in New York City: Translate-A-Thon - ONLINE ( optional RSVP on-wiki). 11:00am - 1:00 pm E.S.T online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms available)

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February 17, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Feb 25, 1:30-5pm: Black Wiki History Month at the Schomburg Center

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Thanks for reviewing the Minetest article :D SoylentCow ( talk) 21:55, 28 February 2021 (UTC) reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
• There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved ( phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist ( phab:T275322).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

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March 6, 12:30pm: Met Women's History Month Virtual Edit Meet-up

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-- Wikimedia New York City Team 01:54, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Heya. Just started using User:Enterprisey/search-shortcuts and it simple but helpful. Do you mind adding WP:CCI and WP:SPI?

I'm wondering if we could also expand the pseudo-namespaces like T:, C:, P:, and H:. It would be nice to type "T:AfC su"... and have that autocomplete to "Template:AfC submission". Though legitimate titles start with those prefixes, so always expanding might not be the right thing to do. Maybe only expand if the title is not a prefix of an existing article? Another, wilder option would be to have the script search for both prefixes and aggregate the results in the search box. A more complex feature for sure, but wanted to throw it out there in case you had any thoughts. —  The Earwig ( talk) 05:29, 9 March 2021 (UTC) reply

 Done Enterprisey ( talk!) 02:41, 13 November 2023 (UTC) reply

March 13, 12-5pm: Asia Art Archive in America: Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon

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A token of thanks Hi Enterprisey! I've nominated you to receive a gift from the Wikimedia Foundation. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u| Sdkb}}  talk 05:31, 14 March 2021 (UTC) reply

March 17, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with Wikimedia Community Ireland for St Patrick's Day

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-- Wikimedia New York City Team 14:47, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for making this. Have you considered adding notformat: "model" to the api call? This causes a bunch of useful stuff to be returned, including icon image path, primary link url (including the mark-as-read id/wiki), and appropriate text snippets (with html tags, but that's easy enough to remove) translated into the user's language as selected in Special:Preferences. Also, the line 109 console.log should be "browser-notifs" not "simple-notifs". - Evad37 [ talk 02:42, 3 January 2021 (UTC) reply

I figured I'd keep the notifications minimal, although you're right that it would give the user more information (and I hadn't considered the localization angle - will certainly have to look into that). And good catch. I wrote the script in a big hurry (during half an hour, live, during a panel at WikiConference NA 2020), so it could certainly use a little fixing up. Enterprisey ( talk!) 09:55, 3 January 2021 (UTC) reply

Hey Enterprisey, I know you mentioned on IRC that there had been a recent update to AFCHScript? I think something might be a little wonky, as the automated edit summaries are coming up with "(AFCH undefined)" in them? See [1] [2] [3] [4] etc. . Cheers, -- Jack Frost ( talk) 09:18, 2 March 2021 (UTC) reply

Fixed; may take a bit of time for the caches to update. Enterprisey ( talk!) 20:21, 2 March 2021 (UTC) reply

Hello friend. When I go to an AFD and I click delsort, I get a Javascript prompt similar to this: [5]

And if I don't type anything into it and press enter, it does this: [6]

Any idea why I'm not getting a modal like in the official userscript screenshot? Thank you. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 03:07, 18 March 2021 (UTC) reply

Disregard, I figured it out. Confusingly, I had another script named delsort installed at the same time as your delsort. User:Fox Wilson/delsort.js. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 17:43, 18 March 2021 (UTC) reply

Hello Enterprisey. This edit of an article about a US army general triggered a hit on 1118, whose name is 'band vandalism'. General Newman was not known for his musical activities, and the code of the filter does not suggest any reason for a hit. I am assuming you might know what could lead to this since you are the last person to change the filter. This is not a crisis for me, just a curiosity. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 22:06, 22 March 2021 (UTC) reply

@ EdJohnston: (talk page stalker) ("FOLLOW ME" in ucase(added_lines)) | is probably why it matches - the text His cry of "Follow Me!" is part of the paragraph that is changed and so calculated as an added line (as well as a removed line, since it was there previously) DannyS712 ( talk) 22:19, 22 March 2021 (UTC) reply

Thanks, that makes sense. EdJohnston ( talk) 22:23, 22 March 2021 (UTC) reply

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. ( T278350)
• Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. ( T277803)

Arbitration

• A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

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Feature request: "If the first two characters are '{{', replace them with 'Template:'" as a work-around for phab:T185126. That would allow copy-pasting from the source editor into the search-box rather than having to type "Template:" before pasting in just the template-name. Or for those who manually type template-names a lot, that could help us quickly jump to them. About half the time, I typo it as "Tempalate:" or other variants. DMacks ( talk) 04:39, 13 April 2021 (UTC) reply

DMacks, done! Seems to work. Couldn't get it to work with copy-paste, though; just type a space afterwards. Enterprisey ( talk!) 09:14, 6 June 2021 (UTC) reply

April 21, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with Environmental focus

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Hello, could Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Awards please be added to your script? Thanks. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 ( 𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 14:48, 22 April 2021 (UTC) reply

This seems to have been done at some point. Enterprisey ( talk!) 07:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC) reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
• The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

• The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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Hello! I noticed that your bot's status table ( permalink) includes several sections which are not sections (the ones with asterisks around them and supposedly with -1 replies). It seems that this may be because it looks for things in double equals signs and takes them to be headings. I would like to suggest that it looks for a newline followed by things in double equals signs; this should fix this issue. Sincerely, Tol | Talk | Contribs 00:17, 9 May 2021 (UTC) reply

Fixed, thanks for reporting. Enterprisey ( talk!) 04:59, 11 May 2021 (UTC) reply

IDs changed it seems. Special:Diff/1022438836/1022440182 fixes the test link in User:Enterprisey/abusefilter-diff-check.js ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 14:45, 10 May 2021 (UTC) reply

Fixed, thanks for the patch. Enterprisey ( talk!) 05:06, 11 May 2021 (UTC) reply

May 19, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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―  Qwerfjkl |  𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂  (please use {{ reply to|Qwerfjkl}} on reply) 12:30, 30 May 2021 (UTC) reply

Could you please close and determine consensus for the discussion at WPTC? There are some additional related comments here. Thanks. Noah ^Talk 02:18, 2 June 2021 (UTC) reply

Hurricane Noah, looks a bit premature for a close. Either way, I suppose WP:ANRFC would be a possible place to ask for a close once it's ready - but any uninvolved editor would probably do. Enterprisey ( talk!) 05:16, 2 June 2021 (UTC) reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless

Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
• Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news

• Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

• After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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June 16, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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-- Wikimedia New York City Team 16:18, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

A while ago (a long time ago) you said you might look into making a script for CCI to help with cases there, and asked for a list of suggestions. I've tried to make a few realistic suggestions, and here they are:

• Probably the most useful function would be being able to quickly mark a diff as {{ y}} for a copyvio, {{ n}} for not a copyvio and ? for tentative, and appending a signature. Usually the diff is remove but the name of the article is kept, e.g. " Example (1 edits, 1 major, +1780) (+1780)" would become " Example N ~~~~". Maybe the program used to generate the report ( source) may help? It would be useful if this would support marking diffs in bulk as well, so you can go through multiple, then publish the edit.

That's really the main thing I can think of. Here are a few smaller things that would be useful but not required:

• appending a small button or similar (maybe something like ^[C]) next to each diff that would run it through Earwig's copyvio detector (copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=&oldid=<DIFF>&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0)
• Maybe something that could scrape through CCI stats and add the number of remaining diffs to the page (this might be quite hard but I'm not sure :P)

If you do happen to get the time it would be greatly helpful to everyone at CCI to have a script that at least automates diff marking, it would be very useful. — Berrely •  ^Talk∕ _Contribs 18:09, 14 June 2021 (UTC) reply

Late to the party, but I am interested in working on some of this stuff, and a couple of the things you've posted here seem like they'd be pretty simple. @ Berrely: I'll take a look at it when the Oracle is complete. jp× g 03:33, 20 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Done. Check out https://github.com/jp-x-g/wigout as well as the test page I tried it on ( User:JPxG/CCIsandbox). I'm not sure that the formatting for the check links is perfect, but it'd be very easy to change, and better than nothing. Let me know what you all think. jp× g 05:17, 20 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Hello i am from bnwiki. I use popups gadget there. Last couple of days, when i hover my mouse on a username, i am seeing "he/him". Please make it translatable. -- আফতাবুজ্জামান ( talk) 13:55, 18 June 2021 (UTC) reply

আফতাবুজ্জামান, done, sorry for not doing that earlier. Enterprisey ( talk!) 02:07, 19 June 2021 (UTC) reply

Hey there Enterprisey, mind taking a look at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-ShowJavascriptErrors? Thanks! 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk, FAQ, contribs) 16:09, 18 June 2021 (UTC) reply

done Enterprisey ( talk!) 02:07, 19 June 2021 (UTC) reply

Hi,@ Enterprisey: your created Reply link js doesn't work.he worked propperly.but in three days he does n't work please fix it probelm soon as possible.Best Regards MXX8 ^Talk✍️ 02:56, 28 June 2021 (UTC) reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
• An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

• IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

• The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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...and for approving it. It is nice to see it being developed further in the main namespace now. Appreciate your contribution to the process. Gryllida ( talk, e-mail) 02:18, 11 July 2021 (UTC) reply

July 14, 7pm: Virtual Coney Island Meetup + NYC monthly collaboration

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Hi, I'm Thienhau2003 from the Vietnamese Wikipedia. I'm planning to create a bot like the one you're running, with the sole function of calculating vandalism like this for Template:Vandalism information in Vietnamese Wikipedia. I looked at the defcon source code of User:EnterpriseyBot, and I wonder in "VANDALISM_KEYWORDS" and "NOT_VANDALISM_KEYWORDS", are these keywords based on the Edit Summary or the Tags of that edit? I hope you can help me as I don't know much about Pywikibot and just created a bot server at PAWS but don't know how to set it up to run regularly. Thank you-- Thienhau2003-test ( talk) 04:09, 22 July 2021 (UTC) reply

Thienhau2003-test, they are based on the edit summary. That code is a little old, so let me know if you run into any problems with it. I have a newer version in Rust that reads its password from a file (so you don't have to mess around with logins) as well, at https://github.com/enterprisey/EnterpriseyBot/blob/master/defcon/src/main.rs. Enterprisey ( talk!) 08:17, 22 July 2021 (UTC) reply

Enterprisey It worked, although sadly it said 5 (Very Low Risk) (0.08 RPM). This Python source code, when you set it up, did you do an automatic update after 1 hour right in the source code?-- Thienhau2003 ( talk) 14:23, 22 July 2021 (UTC) reply

I used cron to run it every hour - see wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Grid#Scheduling_jobs_at_regular_intervals_with_cron. Make sure the Pywikibot login works first, or it'll just fail every hour. Enterprisey ( talk!) 05:29, 23 July 2021 (UTC) reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

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hey @ Enterprisey – abusefilter diff check caught @ MMiller (WMF)'s and my attention. Reason being: it stood out to us as an example of the kind of tool developers seeking to ensure edits align with Wikipedia's policies could use to debug new filters they are writing.

Related to the above, we wonder: would you be interested in participating in a 45-minute discussion at the upcoming Virtual Wikimania Conference with Marshall, myself, and other volunteer tool builders about how our editing software can evolve to more effectively help newcomers make contributions that fit Wikipedia's policies? Note: the session is scheduled for Saturday, 14 August, from 17:45 to 18:30 UTC.

Below, are two other things:

1. The objectives of the session
2. Details about what you would be asked to do should you decide to participate

If anything here raises questions for you, please let me know.

Session objectives

• Generate ideas for how new software tools could help newcomers understand what is expected of them when they edit Wikipedia.
• Identify ways in which existing software can be improved to encourage more tool/gadget development.

Details about participation

If you decided to participate, we would ask you to:

• Create and present three to five slides about the experiences you've had working on abusefilter diff check (or another tool/gadget/script/etc. you think fits this session)
• Attend one, 20-minute, practice session before the event so we can go over the format

PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) 19:08, 6 August 2021 (UTC) reply

PPelberg (WMF), yes, I would be interested! I've in fact been thinking a lot about how new software tools could help newcomers; I wrote some stuff in this unfinished essay. I figure that would be more interesting than the abusefilter diff check script. Enterprisey ( talk!) 08:59, 7 August 2021 (UTC) reply

What great news, @ Enterprisey! A couple of comments and questions in response below...

I wrote some stuff in this unfinished essay.

Oh, this is wonderful; the "brick" / "skyscraper" metaphor you're introducing resonates...I'm going to borrow this :)

I figure that would be more interesting than the abusefilter diff check script.

Have you written any tools/gadgets/scripts/etc. that demonstrate what you are articulating in the draft you shared? The reason I ask: while I think there will be opportunities for you to share this thinking during the session, we're asking presenters to include a demo of something they have built.

The above aside, a couple of more logistical questions:

1. Will you be available to attend the Wikimania session this upcoming Saturday, 14 August, from 17:45 – 18:30 UTC?
2. Are you available for 20 minutes for a call this Wednesday or Thursday to go over the format of the session? If so, can you share the time(s) you will be free? PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) 21:32, 9 August 2021 (UTC) reply

@ PPelberg (WMF), I haven't coded anything for this, although I've had mockups floating around in my head for years. I can certainly whip up something tangible. Yes, I will be available to attend the Wikimania session. I am available on weekdays from - in order of increasing preference - 16:00 to 17:00 UTC, 19:00 to 20:00 UTC, and 02:00 UTC to 09:00 UTC. Enterprisey ( talk!) 04:06, 10 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Yes, I will be available to attend the Wikimania session.

Excellent!

I am available on weekdays from - in order of increasing preference - 16:00 to 17:00 UTC, 19:00 to 20:00 UTC, and 02:00 UTC to 09:00 UTC.

Wonderful. Let's talk on Thursday, 12 August, from 16:00 - 16:30 UTC. I've just sent a calendar invite with the Google Meet instructions to – what I think is – your email address...can you please comment here if you did NOT receive it?

I can certainly whip up something tangible.

Gotcha, okay. IF you have time, it would be helpful to see a sketch of what you've been thinking of building when we talk on Thursday. This way, you, @ MMiller (WMF), and I can talk about what might be best for you to present on Saturday (e.g. something you've already written or the idea you have in mind). PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) 21:44, 10 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Hello, Enterprisey,

I saw these pages on an internal maintenance list of empty pages and found that you created these pages:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/July 2021 Backlog Drive/Participants/Daask
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/July 2021 Backlog Drive/Participants/Godsy
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/July 2021 Backlog Drive/Participants/GRuban
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/July 2021 Backlog Drive/Participants/G. Moore

If this backlog drive is over and you don't expect these pages to be utilized, could you tag them for deletion? I'm not involved in this AFC drive so I'd prefer someone involved with the drive say that these pages are unnecessary. Thanks! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:29, 7 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the notification; I'll delete them. Enterprisey ( talk!) 08:56, 7 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Can you please add the recently created Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Royalty and nobility cat to the delsort script? Curbon7 ( talk) 00:54, 9 August 2021 (UTC) reply

@ Curbon7, you're in luck - I recently made it possible for anyone to add new cats to the delsort script. Just edit Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Computer-readable.json and add your cat to the appropriate section. The previous few edits to that page are good examples of how to do it. Let me know if you run into any issues. Enterprisey ( talk!) 00:57, 9 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Awesome, thanks! Curbon7 ( talk) 00:58, 9 August 2021 (UTC) reply

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Hi Enterprisey. Is there a short guide to the tech needed to complete the AfC backlog drive? I mean award the barnstars and such. I have some of the skills that appear to be needed (some python, some docker, interest in the subject area), but I'm not sure where to start. Stuartyeates ( talk) 21:11, 31 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the offer to help. Fortunately, I finished the hard part (fixing the API library I've been using) so all that's left is writing a little script to send the barnstars out, which shouldn't be too bad to do solo. Enterprisey ( talk!) 09:46, 4 September 2021 (UTC) reply

I think the toolset behind the backlog drive has potential for encouraging competitive contributions in across a whole lot of wikiprojects (Women in Red, etc) with a bit of work. Stuartyeates ( talk) 03:48, 5 September 2021 (UTC) reply

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Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
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• A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

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• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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Hi - thank you for the barnstars for the AfC drive. Just as a heads up, not sure if this is a flaw in your tool, but it indicates I did 39 rereviews, whereas my count is 46 [7]. I'm guessing the difference is that the tool counts edits to the pages, rather than entries (as some of my edits contained multiple rereviews)? Again, thank you for all your work and regards, -- Goldsztajn ( talk) 23:53, 5 September 2021 (UTC) reply

@ Goldsztajn, hm, I can't say I agree with that count of 46 - maybe I'm counting wrong? On that page, it says there are 35 edits as of now, counting the edit to this talk page, so there were 34 edits to logs. Of those edits, the edit summaries of two of them indicate multiple reviews were left: the chris troutman edit had two, and the TheBirdsShedTears edit had five. Since we already counted each once, we need to add one more for chris troutman and four more for TheBirdsShedTears, for a total of 39 reviews - assuming each edit with a summary that was just the word "rereview" was just a single rereview. I also re-ran my leaderboard script and it produced the following counts of the number of reviews you left on each log page: Bilorv 2, Bogger 2, Chris troutman 4, Clearfrienda 1, Dan arndt 1, DoubleGrazing 2, Extraordinary Writ 2, KylieTastic 4, MurielMary 1, Novem Linguae 2, Qwerfjkl 2, Robert McClenon 3, TheBirdsShedTears 6, Theroadislong 4, Timtrent 3, which also adds up to 39. Enterprisey ( talk!) 00:15, 6 September 2021 (UTC) reply

My numbers differ here: 2 for Dan Arndt (#49 I struck my Fail, but didn't write pass), 5 for Roadislong (#396 was a comment, didn't feel strong enough to write pass or fail ... perhaps an abstain option for next time?). I realise now what I did was double count reviews I had made where originally I put down a comment and then changed to a pass or fail. I feel somewhat silly doing this, because I was dissatisfied with myself for missing out on the AfC barnstar! Regards, Goldsztajn ( talk) 01:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC) reply

should be simple probably but: see eg [8]. it would be nice if it were possible to filter this to "non-reverted diffs" only, to make it easier to see what might still need review. so that means removing all the entries that don't contain a "diff" link (blocked by another filter), and then also the ones that are already reverted. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 02:22, 9 September 2021 (UTC) reply

@ ProcrastinatingReader: User:Suffusion of Yellow/mark-reverted can already do this. It just highlights the entries instead of removing them, but that should be good enough, yes? Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 00:45, 13 September 2021 (UTC) reply

Hi. I have been using your scripts for quite a while, and surely love them. However, the new CSL now (intentionally?) display underscores, which I dislike. Would you mind removing them? (I will still be using it anyway.) Thanks in advance. UnnamedUser

Oops! Dunno how I left that in. Should be fixed now, thanks for letting me know. Enterprisey ( talk!) 04:06, 10 September 2021 (UTC) reply

It would have been nice if popups created by copy-section-link had "Copy" buttons, similar to what User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink does. —⁠ andrybak ( talk) 12:50, 11 September 2021 (UTC) reply

Great suggestion. Will do. Enterprisey ( talk!) 06:03, 12 September 2021 (UTC) reply

Hi Enterprisey, I saw the great success you had with the AfC drive back in July. Congratulations for your success in backlog elimination! There has been interest in organizing a NPP drive as our backlog has been trending upward. I think it would be great to pattern off the AfC drive including the re-reviewing requirement for quality control. I'm planning to coordinate, but one thing I noticed was that you used EnterpriseyBot to do a lot of the heavy lifting—sparing the need for participants or coordinators to manually list reviewed articles like we do on the GAN reviews. How difficult would it be to modify the bot to handle NPP reviewing? (I'm tentatively planning on running the drive 15 October to 15 November). For AfC the outcomes are decline and accept, for NPP I think it should be: accept, draftify, speedy deletion, prod, and AfD. However, it may not be necessary to track that as I was thinking one point would be awarded for each article that's removed from the reviewing queue (with points subtracted for missing copyvio or other serious flaws). ( t · c) buidhe 17:51, 18 September 2021 (UTC) reply

Sorry for not responding! Responded at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/November 2021. Enterprisey ( talk!) 08:30, 17 October 2021 (UTC) reply

Hi, Enterprisey! Thanks for approving my bot! Should the recent edits it made be tagged as bot, or an I missing something? ―  Qwerfjkl talk 20:14, 27 September 2021 (UTC) reply

Yep, bot flag sounds good; I imagine they don't really need to show up in recent changes. Enterprisey ( talk!) 21:07, 27 September 2021 (UTC) reply

Hi, just thought I'd let you know that I'm adding the following the following line to the bot code, to correctly hand pages with RegEx characters in their title. Cheers!

title = title.replace(/(\(|\)|\.|\?|\!)/g, '\\$1')

 ―  Qwerfjkl talk 19:00, 29 September 2021 (UTC) reply

@ Qwerfjkl, works for me; you might want to make sure that comprehensively covers every regex special character, since there might be square brackets or something else (perhaps? idk). Enterprisey ( talk!) 23:43, 29 September 2021 (UTC) reply

Yes, I've added a few more to User:Qwerfjkl (bot)/code. Some characters (<>[] etc.) won't be allowed in titles. I think it'll be easiest to fix all the articles, then check which articles were skipped and add those. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 06:09, 30 September 2021 (UTC) reply

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• Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
• Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news

• DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.

Arbitration

• A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
• Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
• The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

• Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
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Just wanted to acknowledge your "hello" in the chat. Cheers! ☆ Bri ( talk) 21:26, 9 October 2021 (UTC) reply

Since I've come into possession of a shell account and user account on Toolforge, I am looking to modify the Oracle for Deletion to run on that instead of my home computer. This allows some adaptation of the programs; currently, it uses Xtools API queries to fetch page statistics, which often takes about half an hour to run and update the page (since one month can be thousands of AfDs). I see that you've got "AfD stats" connecting to the MySQL database and querying that instead; my question relates to this line of afdstats.py:

db = MySQLdb.connect(db='enwiki_p', host="enwiki.labsdb", read_default_file=os.path.expanduser("~/replica.my.cnf"))

It looks like replica.my.cnf contains authentication credentials for the Wikipedia database; do you know where I can find a valid one of these, or failing that, where I can go to learn how to make one? I'd appreciate a little guidance in this (I am all right with SQL, but authentication has never been my favorite part of programming). jp× g 22:25, 12 October 2021 (UTC) reply

Never mind, it was literally right there. I forgot to turn on the oxygen in my brain today. jp× g 23:28, 12 October 2021 (UTC) reply

TOC for WP:BOTREQ has not updated since October 4. -- Green C 15:19, 15 October 2021 (UTC) reply

Hm. Login issues, I think. Should be fixed. Enterprisey ( talk!) 08:19, 17 October 2021 (UTC) reply

Thanks. -- Green C 15:55, 17 October 2021 (UTC) reply

Hi, I assume I'm in the right place and this is how WP:GO is archived these days -- archiving doesn't seem to have occurred for a couple of weeks. Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 06:28, 21 October 2021 (UTC) reply

Yeah, unfortunately I fixed the bot about eight hours after the archiver usually runs. It should run again next Sunday. Enterprisey ( talk!) 02:13, 22 October 2021 (UTC) reply

Cool, tks for that. Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 05:08, 22 October 2021 (UTC) reply

Hey Enterprisey, EnterpriseyBot hasn't updated User:EnterpriseyBot/defcon in about a week but the bot still seems to be working in other areas. Could you take a look? Thanks. -- Ferien ( talk) 13:52, 22 October 2021 (UTC) reply

Alright, should be fixed. Thanks for letting me know. Enterprisey ( talk!) 06:45, 23 October 2021 (UTC) reply

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• Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

• GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
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