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Save page
button now says Publish page
or Publish changes
on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page
is when you save a new page and Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
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17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey Musik, was wondering what a "spider" is?? It's one of the options in the page view stats, and I notice that if I click on just that one, it has been pretty busy on my home page...lol. What does it do, and what the heck is it? Thanks, your pal→ Pocketthis ( talk) 15:38, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. I have the gadget version of User:MusikAnimal/confirmationRollback-mobile selected in my preferences, so when a thumb accidentally landed on the rollback link on an arbcom page while using my iPad a short time ago, I immediately tapped the "cancel" button. Unfortunately, the rollback happened anyway, so I had to rollback that edit. I thought that maybe I had missed the cancel button, but when I tried it again on my own talk, the same thing happened. I can send you details (OS version, browser, etc.) via email or IRC if you need it. Thanks — DoRD ( talk) 09:50, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
Is he your creation? —usernamekiran [talk] 06:35, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
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18:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, April 2017 | |
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Greetings! The BAG Newsletter is now the Bots Newsletter, per discussion. As such, we've subscribed all bot operators to the newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
Magioladitis ARBCOM case has closed. The remedies of the case include:
We currently have 27 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!
There are multiple ongoing discussions surrounding bot-related matters. In particular:
Several new things are around:
Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know! Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 11:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC) (You can unsubscribe from future newsletters by removing your name from this list.) |
Also about Twinkle. One year ago I made a proposal to make optional loading of XFD discussion page, but there were no other opinions and it was archived. How can I draw the attention of TW devs or other interested people? Take a look at this - more than 50 times a day Twinkle loaded the FFD page for me without my explicit permission:) A similar situation for the previous day. Thanks to newly enabled PROD for files, there will be less FFD entries from users (including me), but an option that makes optional loading of XFD discussion page still be needed IMO. XXN, 20:37, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Wednesday April 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
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?safemode=1
to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal
CSS and
JavaScript. Example: /info/en/?search=Literature?safemode=1
. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
[11][[File:Wiki.png]]
. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see
how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.
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19:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Test5. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Test5 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. UpsandDowns1234 ( 🗨) ( My Contribs) 19:03, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello, GA Cup competitors! Saturday, April 1 concluded the 2016-2017 GA Cup. 64 reviews were completed by our finalists. Although the backlog increased by 42 over the reviewing period instead of declining, the increase suggests that the contest is encouraging editors to nominate articles for review. Congratulations to Shearonink, who is the winner of the Cup, finishing with 672 points! Once again, just as in last round, this is more than the point totals for all the other competitors combined! It was a close race for second place between Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, who achieved 164 points, and Sturmvogel_66, who earned 150. Though Sturmvogel_66 reviewed one more article than Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga managed to earn 14 points more due to reviewing older articles. Our two wildcard competitors, Kees08 and Chris troutman, came in fourth and fifth, respectively. There were some bumps in the competition this time: The sign-up deadline and the first round were both extended due to fewer competitors signing up then was planned for. And there were delays in tallying points and getting out the newsletter. The judges apologize for this latter difficulty. Lastly, mid-way through the competition we bid farewell to Zwerg Nase, who stepped down from their position as judge due to other commitments. Information about the Final can be found here. Thank you to all of our competitors, and congrats to our winners! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. —Preceding undated comment added 17:16, 10 April 2017 (UTC) To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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NgYShung has been renamed twice, first to QianLing and then QianCheng. But Special:Diff/774972019 only follows the first rename, not the second. If a user has been renamed twice, from A to B and then C, the bot should place C rather than B in WP:AWB/CP. Similarly, if A is renamed to B, which is in turn renamed to C and then D, the bot should place D on the check page, and so on for more renames. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 20:56, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
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16:40, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
See this. If you want me to see your reply please ping me or use TB. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 10:27, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
I hope you enjoyed your time in Cuba. There is a user in NYC, Anelsona, who works with Cuban people on the Cuban government Wikipedia equivalent and who wants to bring more Wikimedia access into Cuba. If you have interest in Cuba beyond your vacation then maybe you could talk with her sometime.
I am writing to ask for some guidance. I would like to see a 2016 traffic report on all English Wikipedia articles about drugs. I suppose that might mean all articles drilling down in Category:Drugs, or it might mean all English Wikipedia articles which are instances of medication (Q12140). I have some assistance in this; there is a statistics team at Consumer Reports who would help me sort and present data, if only I could get them a dataset of the daily 2016 traffic to every Wikipedia article on a drug.
Can you give me a suggestion on how to do the following -
Thanks for anything you can share. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:58, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal: Is it just me, or has https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews been petering out? Over the last few days when I have tried to use it for various articles, it doesn't load any data, times out and then a message is provided stating, "Fatal error: Operation timed out. Please refresh the page to try again or report this issue". North America 1000 23:40, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
The Remorse of
Orestes, where he is surrounded by the
Erinyes, who were identified as
chthonic beings, by
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1862
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Hi, I noticed that this script is not enforcing dom ready before accessing the dom, and not declaring its dependency on mediawiki.util RL module. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 17:04, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
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mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' )
block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util
dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in
MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.
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Publish changes
, Show preview
and Show changes
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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19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Salzburger Kunstverein is a classic example of tag-bombing and typical of the reasons I campaigned for a user right for page patrolling. The patroller doesn’t appear to have done any research and therefore ignores what a ‘’Kunsteverein’’ is in the German language region and even its German WP article, and did not provide this good faith new-article creator with any tips. As you know, I’ve given up on my 6-year campaign to get NPP improved, so as you accorded the right here, perhaps you could have a word with them and maybe also run a check across their other patrols - MrX is generally a user whose knowledge and work I appreciate. Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 00:05, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
@ MrX, Exemplo347, Ymblanter, and JJMC89: Nevermind the above, I am curious why all of you made patroller-like edits to Salzburger Kunstverein but did not mark the page as patrolled? Did you intentionally leave it unpatrolled? Is there a bug in the software? Maybe Mz7 and Exemplo just wanted a second opinion, but Ymblanter and JJMC89, you both (nobly) made substantial edits to bring the article to an acceptable state. At that point surely you are OK with removing the article from the backlog? — MusikAnimal talk 21:02, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).
Isn't that exactly what the outer $(function() { ... });
does? —
Earwig
talk 00:30, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
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I noticed your JavaScript genius userbox, and was hoping you could help me with a problem I've run into writing a userscript.
Please see my post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject JavaScript#Nested RegExp.
Thank you. The Transhumanist 11:31, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Massive removal of content without consensus and there also seems to be some sort of filter setting,can you check whether this account is a single purpose account and whether this user has initiated this filter to circumvent any changes of theirs. Meanwhile kindly revert to Arjayay's last edit. Thank You.
Arjayay's last edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Mar_Thoma_Syrian_Church&oldid=777121053
Can you also provide links to where to read about automated filters and its settings, for process understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.213.18.168 ( talk • contribs)
{{ping|Example}}
. Hope this helps —
MusikAnimal
talk 15:20, 8 May 2017 (UTC)For some reason, responseHelper only works for the edit summaries, but not inserting the template on the actual page. Can you help? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks! Jdcomix ( talk) 17:22, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
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Problems
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.
[29]Changes this week
Visual editing
and Source editing
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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02:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello, isn't confirmed user and autoconfirmed user are two different user group in Wikipedia? ferdous 12:58, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.
A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [36]
The team have added
multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references />
block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can
request multi-column support for your wiki.
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<chem>
tags (sometimes used as <ce>
) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
[42]Control
+Shift
+K
on a PC, or Command
+Shift
+K
on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control
+K
on a PC or Command
+K
on a Mac.
[46]<ref>
tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017.
[47]&ooui=1
to the end of the URL, like this:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.
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Morning Musik could you possibly tell me if this page has been nonindexed and if so if the template tag can be removed? Masterknighted ( talk) 12:49, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey, do you think your bot can run with a one-minute delay, given edits such as in here? It's not necessary that the bot's edits be done instantly, right? Drmies ( talk) 01:42, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
I have no idea how filters work, but I was wondering why continued edits by the IP (e.g. this) apparently hadn't been picked up the filter? Cheers, Number 5 7 11:55, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
I don't know why, but until now I thought that this was a bot account. Apparently you are an actual user - sorry I didn't notice sooner haha. -- TheSandDoctor ( talk) 05:29, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
As a non-EFM who watches the recent filter changes feed, I was a bit annoyed that the names of private filters (which are public) were not showing up in the list. The link to the filter provides no information whatsoever for private filters. So I tried changing the bot configuration JSON...as far as I know I made no syntax errors, but it appears that the bot got confused and spit out a decades-long history of filter modifications? I'm not sure what happened. – Train2104 ( t • c) 16:25, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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on may 12 the first 'on this day' entry ran--May 12: Birth of Muhammad al-Mahdi (Shia Islam, 2017) the article states that the general concensus is that he was born in 869 c.e. i posted a message on the main page errors talk page, and when i saw later that it hadn't been changed i posted a similar message. the next day i received a notification from user Stephen that my edit had been reverted, with a message that rather baldly stated 'it has already been explained to you'. i hadn't received an explanation and wrote a message to Stephen asking for clarification, if they had the time and energy, but haven't heard back. your username showed up on one of the messages, and on your userpage i was quite happy to see that you like to help beginners, but a little distressed to see that one of your specialties is dealing with vandalism. if you have the time to explain how a message on a talk page can be viewed as an edit that can be reverted it would help me understand a little more how wikipedia works, and if you could help clear my name of any charges of vandalism i may inadvertently accrued i would be very thankful. and as far as the 'on this day' entry goes, i figure if it was somehow not incorrect i don't see how it could be construed as not incomprehensible. i feel bad about asking for your time, but this has me pretty confused. thanks, Potholehotline ( talk) 03:55, 15 May 2017 (UTC) Potholehotline ( talk) 03:55, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
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mediawiki.util
library does not load automatically any more. Your
Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){
as the first line in the file and });
as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the
2017/18 issue.
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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. 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__
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21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Sunday May 21, 10:30 am - 4:30pm: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon | |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first edit-a-thon, being hosted on Sunday May 21, 2017 in Thomas J. Watson Library at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City. The Met is excited to make available over 375,000 images of public domain artworks for contribution to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse collection onsite and remotely. The event is a key marker too of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's first Wikimedian-in-Residence program, with resident Richard Knipel ( User:Pharos), along with Wikimedia NYC. We invite you to help enhance Wikimedia communities and platforms with open access images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The event requires pre-registration. To register, 1) please sign-up with Eventbrite via The Met's website and 2) add your Wikipedia username to the #Participants on the wikimeetup page. Please check-in with museum staff when you arrive at the Thomas J. Watson Library within the museum. We also welcome remote participation for the global Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (15 May - 30 June, 2017), you can sign up there at Met Open Access Artworks Challenge/Participants. -- Pharos ( talk) 16:23, 16 May 2017 (UTC) |
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I'm guilty of this form. I accidentally pressed the Save page. I need to get from the start with Admin and all other members and help to open and edit it right this article. Why? I'm responsible. Help me, please, or rearrange. The battle for the city of Mosul has nothing to do with the battle in the west of the province. These operations are aimed at Deir ez-Zor penetration from the east to the Euphrates. Similarly Airport T4 Palmyra offensive (2017) from January to March in prokrajini East Homs. Eastern Homs offensive (2017). -- Baba Mica ( talk) 19:19, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
No rush on this question - definitely don't let it interfere with what I hope is an excellent vacation.
At WP:RFP/A a request was added with User: prefixed. As a result the bot clerked it as a non-existent User:User:. The requester fixed the section header, and I fixed the transclusion of {{ rfplinks}}. I also removed MusikBot's clerking in the expectation that would force it to re-clerk the correct username - but that hasn't happened. So, my question, what triggers MusikBot to clerk a request?
Thanks, Cabayi ( talk) 09:34, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, in X!'Tools Page history tab found under Revision history statistics link at History tab ( example from cswiki) columns with fractional numbers are not sorted right: 40 gets sorted between 3.3 and 5.4. Could this be caused by comma/period delimiter issue (Czech language uses comma while X!'Tools uses periods) or are all those affected columns (%, atbe) sorted as strings? Regards --09:28, 18 May 2017 (UTC), Utar ( talk)
Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 811 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!
But do remember: Rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. Do not over-tag. Make use of the message feature to let the creator know about your maintenance tags. See the tutorial again HERE. Get help HERE.
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People enjoying some
leisure time swimming at an oasis
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Wednesday May 24, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Topics this month include the TED wikiproject, the Met wikiproject, and encouraging free video on Wikimedia Commons! We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 19:31, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, I am a crat on Wikispecies and have a couple of bot requests for there that are being considered for speedy approval. They use AWB to do repetitive editing in short bursts. Both accounts were formerly doing this on their own main accounts but it was recommended to them to make bot accounts due to high volume. The content has been previously discussed and there is no issues with the edits being performed. In any case, I have never had to consider a bot for this type of approval. I would appreciate it if you would briefly tell me, or point me to an explanation, of what would permit you to speedily approve vs approve a bot. At present I am basically assuming it would mean to approve without trial as the main difference. Thanks in advance for your help. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 16:53, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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Changes this week
<div>
tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext
parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can
report new problems you think are related to this.
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22:09, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to know if you have time to see this. Regards and Thanks. — Alvaro Molina ( ✉ - ✔) 06:58, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Okay, I just saw you approved someone for AWB who requested approval yesterday, not to mention all the other approvals of ones who've requested access after me. Some of us have been waiting a week like myself. I know there was some delay due to a leave of absence but that is over. Have I done something wrong in my request? I have over 2,000 non-automated edits. Did I not ask for the right reasons or not give enough information? If I am going to be denied, I would have preferred that happen right away, not being dragged on for so long. I have tried to be patient, but seeing today's approval is the last straw. Would sincerely appreciate some insight. Thanks! dawnleelynn (talk) 18:45, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:MusikBot/FilterMonitor/Recent_changes&oldid=782279078
There's some kind of unclosed span.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:14, 27 May 2017 (UTC).
Karl Pearson (27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was a
statistician who has been credited for establishing the discipline of
mathematical statistics.
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Sorry for being late...handling brunodam is one of the boriest tasks of mine and I've been procrastinating job execution tooooooo long. -- Vituzzu ( talk) 20:26, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
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Beverage
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Musikbot stated that I didn't meet the prerequisites for a user right, even though I do. Gamebuster19901 (Talk║ Contributions) 08:12, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
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FYI: I fixed spamublock.js — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 07:58, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Footage can be processed in a video editing room.
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Hi MA, I reenabled "warn" on this - we are giving out a lot of WP:VOA blocks on this, if they actually stop after a warning they get a pass right now. We are hoping this is a short lived attack. — xaosflux Talk 00:45, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
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Bothering you here over what is a relatively minor (and somewhat personal issue) rather than posting on one of the already too long NPP pages. I came across Pietro Campori, a a biography about a guy who was twice the runner up to be pope that I created yesterday. Page curation has him tagged as no citations, which is certainly not the case. Any idea what might be causing that? I don't want to start a phab task if there is already one on it. TonyBallioni ( talk) 01:05, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello MusikAnimal! I have noticed that the bot has been removing the pp=yes template on some pages which are still under pending change protection, which is how I find out about it. Is this an error or am I not understanding what the bot is doing? Thanks, d.g. L3X1 (distænt write) )evidence( 19:00, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
{{
pp|action=autoreview}}
and not {{
pp}} by itself. Or,
Template:Pp needs to be reworked so that it doesn't put the page in
Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates when the page is under pending-changes protection. MusikBot goes off of that category and assumes {{
pp}} by itself refers to normal edit protection. Pinging
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prop=flagged
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[84]. Hope this helps —
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talk 19:59, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Also, not sure why this revert was warranted? The change looks constructive to me, and either way "Page is protected" is not a valid reason to reject it — MusikAnimal talk 19:24, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
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A
deadpan emoji.
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Hello, wish you in good health, I wanna ask if we can use this tool in ar.wikipedia? -- Alaa :)..! 12:48, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
XTools is not reporting WPCleaner edits. '0' returned for one user who has made over 8,000 edits with it in the last month. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 10:09, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Ultraviolet photography is one of the many
visual technologies. This image of the rings of Saturn is an example of the application of
ultraviolet photography in astronomy.
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15:31, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
I think I am far more qualified to write about Cuaybeno than anybody else in the entire world. See my profiles: https://www.facebook.com/DrDaanVreugdenhil and https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdaanvreugdenhil/ and my co-authered document: http://www.birdlist.org/downloads/parks/estrategia_conservacion_areas_silvestres_sobresalientes_ecuador.pdf
I discovered processed and enlarged the area (original 150,000 ha to 600,000) but if you as a music maker chose to erase the contributions of a lifetime PhD conservationist, who processed the creation of the park, then I am not going to waste my time. Btw, what I wrote about the reserve is a fact: There is no other Amazon park in the Andes countries with plaines. That is what makes the reserve so special.
But a musician knows better, and my website score far better on cuyabeno than Wiki, so good luck with your rules. Funny to see that other lodges with far less authority are now allowed on your article.
Cheers, Dr. Daan Vreugdenhil
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Check this out please? I used curation tool for AfD, and it piggy-backed to a 2005 AfD. Atsme 📞 📧 20:35, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
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?fuzzy=1
to the URL, as with
Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.Hello, need some help, can you please tell, what is the easiest way to get top 100 rows from your tool "Topviews Analysis" to Google Sheets( in .csv format) directly and automatically from website?
Thanks! Jurr23 ( talk) 13:37, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
download=true
option was never added, but for the same reasons I described in that post, I don't think this is the best way to offer such functionality. Instead I want to implement a backend that you can hit directly. I plan work on this soon, hopefully within the coming month or two. You can follow
phab:T157830 for updates. I assume you are aware you can manually browse to Topviews and download as CSV. Hopefully that will hold you off for the time being :) Sorry I cannot help you any further! —
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talk 16:45, 5 July 2017 (UTC)Thanks for your response, but i would like to ask another question: is there any sql sentence what gives the same information as there are in your tool "Topviews Analysis" from Mediawiki database? I myself thought that watchlist could help, but i am not sure because i got errors that this table does not exists? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jurr23 ( talk • contribs) 08:02, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
/metrics/pageviews/top
endpoint. The raw data given by it does not filter out known false positives or incorporate editing data. The latter is in the MediaWiki database, and could be fetched with a query like
this. Topviews filtering data is in a private database but you might be able to use it's
API. I'm not sure if it blocks cross-origin requests. —
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Chickens at a market in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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The room of the
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Greetings! Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are now members of the BAG (see RfBAG/BU Rob13 and RfBAG/Cyberpower678 3). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are both administrators; the former operates BU RoBOT which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates Cyberbot I (which replaces old bots), Cyberbot II (which does many different things), and InternetArchiveBot which combats link rot. Welcome to the BAG!
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Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know! Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) |
I see your helper script for New Page Reviewer to add new user group members to the mailing list has been disabled and a separate button put in its place. Admins are not using it and I'm finding myself having to clean up after them and add the names manually. Was there a reason for this change that I missed? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 09:51, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
Illustration of
Dijkstra's algorithm search, a
search algorithm for finding path from a start node (lower left, red) to a goal node (upper right, green) in a
robot
motion planning problem.
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Thanks for supporting my run for administrator. I am honored and grateful. ) Cullen328 Let's discuss it 00:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC) |
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Hi MusikAnimal,
When I tried to use one of your scripts linked, it didn't work. I saw the Nightpedia link, clicked on it, got nothing. I use Google Chrome. -- 1989 00:22, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
The
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the
United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948. Pictured is an image denoting global participation in the Genocide Convention in 2008.
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Djmelt ( talk) 13:39, 2 August 2017 (UTC) Hi MusikAnimal, the page of Consumers Distributing is blocked for six months and generally it should be blocked only few days. Please unlock this page because we can't edit anything if we have something to edit. Thank you. Djmelt ( talk) 13:39, 2 August 2017 (UTC) From Djmelt, August 2 2017.
Hello, I'd like to see if the following can be added to the edit filter in question. I do not have EFM rights and cannot make this change, but I would like to request that the filter be expanded to include talk pages as well. As an editor who has witnessed the vandalizing edit requests at Talk:Cheez Whiz before that page's eventual protection, this is a concerning issue for me among many other editors who look at these edit requests.
If this is not possible, can it be included in a separate edit filter that handles such edits? Thanks in advance, and please let me know if this has already been included or addressed. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) ( talk) 16:34, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi there. Thanks for the tips at meta. I currently use the API with a query like
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&ucuser=SoWhy&uclimit=500&ucdir=older&ucnamespace=4
to get all my contributions in the Wikipedia:-namespace. I wanted to try a quarry to get the same info but I noticed that
the revision table does not store either the page name or the namespace. That seems to be in the
page table which only holds the latest revisions. I think there is a way to create a query that combines searching both but my SQL is so rusty I cannot figure it out. Would you mind giving me another tip? Regards
So
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Hello, MusikAnimal.
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I noticed that my name was put on this list when I semi-protected Richard B. Spencer for editing. The reason seems to be that there was a previous move ecp still active that I did not change (and did not enact). It occurred to me that perhaps it's not desirable for things to work this way - I don't think someone not changing a protection parameter is quite the same as enacting or endorsing it, which I suspect is what we want the list to focus on. Thoughts? Samsara 14:46, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal, I was wondering if you could help with a technical problem. Maybe others have already brought it up. When I am editing, and I click on the "preview" button, the script reverts back to the top of the page (like it used to years ago), causing me to have to scroll down to find where I was editing. I assume this is now happening with everyone. Can it be repaired? Johnsmith2116 ( talk) 10:40, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
An automobile engine is an example of an
intermediate good, and is used in the production of the
final good, the assembled automobile.
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23:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
Because I owe you one and I won't forget! Loved going to karaoke with you and making a fool of myself, and I can't wait to do it again! :-) Katie talk 23:23, 14 August 2017 (UTC) |
Hi, I have applied at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed thrice but every time it says already done.I have 150+ edits and have more than a years experience on wiki although for the first 8 months or so, I was inactive but after that I have been active continuously. Kindly help.Thank you. Bingobro (Contributions)
Nope, it says view source and a few other pages show im just fine. Im new here so thought it was some difference between Confirmed and Autoconfirmed. Bingobro (Contributions)
So, I've stopped using twinkle still no change! And the lin once opened says this page is semi protected so that only autoconfirmed users can edit it.Well I am autoconfirmed? Then why this? .I've even removed my user page's Twinkle top icon. Bingobro (Contributions)
Yes,finally I'm able to edit thank you! Bingobro (Contributions) —Preceding undated comment added 10:24, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
God!, really? now even the bypass your cache article says View Source when opened it says this article is semi-protected so, only auto confirmed users can edit it.And no improvement still view source.Although thanks everyone. Bingobro (Contributions) I'm still not able to edit semi protected pages. Bingobro (Contributions) —Preceding undated comment added 08:48, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
Well, yesterday when I had the Confirmed flag I was able to edit the Cars (franchise) article however the clear your cache article still said view source. Bingobro (Contributions) 15:16, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
Nope, not even safe mode. I think i'll just leave it and continue to edit unprotected pages. Bingobro (Contributions) 15:25, 13 August 2017 (UTC) Ok, forget what I said and also forgive me for it.I really need some help here!. Bingobro (Chat) 15:25, 14 August 2017 (UTC) I went down to Request for permisions/confirmed to seek help again by another admin or something and all I got was your bots automated response.Please help you really are my last hope! Bingobro (Chat) 15:25, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks man, you really helped with issue! Even though it hasn't yet been solved , here you go. Bingobro (Chat) 10:27, 17 August 2017 (UTC) |
Hi MusikAnimal. Because it involves New Page and AfC reviewers along with other maintenance workers (SPI, COIN), an informal chat has begun on some aspects of paid editing. See
Conflict of Interest - of a different kind. Please add your thoughts there. It is not a debate or RfC.
From
WP:NPPAFC.
Opt-out. Sent by
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 13:24, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
.
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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22:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Sam Wilson suggested I get in touch. I work at the University of Edinburgh as the Wikimedian in Residence and library staff there have suggested they would be more inclined to share content to Wikimedia Commons if there were extra metrics for the images reuse. Knowing who is downloading the image and where the downloaded image is being reused/shared elsewhere on the internet is obviously too much like surveillance but wondered if number of clicks on an image (to enlarge for instance) or number of downloads (people choosing to save by right click 'Save as' or via download link etc) could be measured? Is this something you could advise about? Apologies if I'm barking up the wrong tree. Cheers, Stinglehammer ( talk) 19:05, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Would you be able to have you bot update the StaleDraft report daily for a while? With G13 expanded to cover everything on that report, the report is shrinking. More frequent updates would help rid the report of deleted pages as well as postponed and refunded pages that are no longer G13 eligible. That would make it much easier to work with until the backlog is reduced.. Thanks in advance. Thanks. Legacypac ( talk) 03:38, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
If you're converting all of them to 1-year blocks, you got your work cut out for you. I saw Katie blocked a few ranges for two years; isn't that an easier option? Drmies ( talk) 00:38, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
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For helping me again and again with my newbie questions regarding scripting and SQL. You are truly a great editor! So Why 14:47, 31 August 2017 (UTC) |
Hi there again. After creating my AFD closes script, I was wondering about creating a script to analyze who are the main people involved in closing AFDs for a certain day but I am not really sure how to get a list of AFDs to analyze. Is there a way to find out which pages are transcluded instead of linked to using the pagelinks table? I tried this query but it is not limited to transclusions. Thanks in advance! Regards So Why 18:42, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Can I trouble you with another question? I tried working on my deletion analyzer script but I am struggling with a way to handle the huge logging table efficiently. Trying to grab a single day's deletions using this query takes quite a long time but I cannot think of a better way to limit the results to certain dates. Trying this query within a script on my local install always leads to a 504 error Can you think of a better (more efficient) way to grab those deletions? Regards So Why 19:29, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
logging_userindex
. That should make it significantly faster. Another tool I heavily rely on is Hedonil's
SQL optimizer. This doesn't tell you how to improve your query but it will tell you if it is inefficient. There if you copy your query using logging
, you'll see the
EXPLAIN suggests it will scan 68,277,806 rows!!! With logging_userindex
, you're down to just 36,690 rows :) Note that in a normal MySQL-ish environment, you can run EXPLAIN [your SQL]
directly to get this info, but EXPLAIN is not available to end users on Toolforge. Hedonil's tool does some special magic to surface the same information —
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I will no longer use my alternative account GTAlt. Can you please remove all user rights from that account except "extended confirmed"? I am asking you since you were the one who added the rights on 1 December 2016. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk, contribs) 01:52, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
I feel you deserve it. Thank you for blocking those irritating zombie proxies.
Sro23 ( talk) 22:02, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. 24.91.248.60 ( talk) 14:59, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
There is a user who has a custom "user infobox" on their userpage, this infobox contains the following line: "|girlfriend = Yes" "yes" links to a BLP, is this a violation of policy? The user also says they are unmarried as a protest for LGBT people, making it seem like they do have a girlfriend. Also the link to their email says don't count on a response unless you'r Kirsten Dunst. I don't know weather this is all a harmless joke or a BLP issue (unverifiable/false info on who a living person is dating) (I asked you because your an admin who is active at the time). Tornado chaser ( talk) 16:06, 1 September 2017 (UTC) Tornado chaser ( talk) 16:06, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
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is loading a lot of unwanted characters. Mainly hash signs, swuare brackets and curly brackets. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 19:37, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for the admin newsletter. As you are on Horn's team, can we assume from this that the Foundation is on schedule for the 7th? We have had no recent communication from them on this point. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 22:46, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
Just so you know, I normally edit under IP addresses, but I recently made an account in order to email you some information regarding the recent abuse coming from open proxies/VPN usage. Also (and most importantly), thanks for all that you're doing here... :-)
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What is the purpose of these filters? If you look at my abuse log, I've been blocked by each one already performing anti-vandal work. Filter 34 prevented me from blanking a talk page constituting promotion (I had to comment out the content instead). Filter 803 blocked me from tagging a user page as a WP:NOTWEBHOST violation.
Also, why is filter 34 private? Filter 33, which appears to do the same thing, is not. 24.91.248.60 ( talk) 18:32, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Pillowfluffyhead ( talk) 21:40, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
Meow! You're awesome.
Pillowfluffyhead (
talk) 11:57, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
One 24-ounce energy drink has 330
calories, more than a fast-food cheeseburger, and the equivalent of 18 single-serving packets of sugar.
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Hello! I understand that you are a maintainer of Xtools. I'm looking for the documentation for the Xtools timecard, which is part of the general user statistics. I haven't been able to find it on toolforge, Phabricator, or elsewhere! I'm hoping to look at the documentation, potentially contribute, and also look into what data I can get from it. Any info you can provide on where to find the timecard documentation would be appreciated! Hexatekin ( talk) 01:09, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello MusikAnimal...Not so long ago, File:WikiFilterLogo.png was recently updated. For some unknown reason, the topicon of your user page has not updated when I'm on the computer. However, I can see the updated version on your user page with my Iphone. I also have the image displayed on my user page showing the updated version both on computer and phone, however, when I clicked on the image file from my user page, it shows the 2015 version. Do you have similar issues? — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 22:03, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
A small
pond hockey field
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Thanks for fixing the rest of the jumping issue. Best Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 16:14, 12 September 2017 (UTC) |
Dear MusikAnimal, Please restore Achraf Baznani's page, I will edit it. The artist is well known, I have many informations to add to his wikipedia page. Thank you! 105.155.64.71 ( talk) 20:21, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hello there! I noticed that MusikBot is posting duplicate WP:TAFI notices at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink (see diff 1 and diff 2), and just wanted to bring this to your attention. Cheers, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 05:22, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hi! At Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017_September_14#Wikipedia:FAKENEWS you !voted for a redirect to WP:Zimdars' fake news list, but after you !voted I presented an argument against doing that, and none of the !votes after that were for that redirect. The MfD has been relisted. Would you be so kind as to re-examine the MfD and see if the arguments put forth after you !voted might cause you to reconsider? -- Guy Macon ( talk) 02:47, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
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MusikBot recently posted a notice to a redirect page. I've moved it to the redirect's target, but you might consider updating the bot to detect and follow redirects itself in future. Mitch Ames ( talk) 01:21, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Template:Holiday abroad 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?) 04:26, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
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23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal - I'd like to ask you some questions about the new edit filter helper right, if that's OK. I'm interested in applying for the right in the foreseeable future; would it be helpful for somebody like myself, who engages in anti-vandalism work and helps out at UAA? Would it help me to better spot sockpuppets, and report them, for instance? Secondly, will I have to sign the confidentiality agreement? I turn 18 this month, so I am more than willing to do so (until then I can't sign it), as I have a sound knowledge of what it means to keep matters confidential (without going into details on-wiki, I have some real-life experience in dealing with confidential matters). I do have some REGEX knowledge, although it is very basic and I won't jump into doing anything I know I can't do. So, in conclusion, do you think I am ready? Thanks in advance, and enjoy the rest of your day. :) Patient Zero talk 13:11, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia is sometimes criticized for being used as a source of
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Unfortunately I've just seen that they're back. Would it be possible to reenable it? Cheers, Number 5 7 19:51, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
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Shouldn't these templates with " thousands of transclusions" be set to Template protection ? Just asking :P - FlightTime ( open channel) 17:11, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
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Dear MusikAnimal,
When I likened your work to the shades of
blancmange
'Twas a jocular, but méfiable mensonge;
But 'tis true (to my eye) that the old shades of red
Were more crisp and succinct than the shade which instead
You have rendered so thickly, in broad crossing line
To the bars which the monthly endeavours define
(So one sees without scrolling but three or four months
Where of old one compared many more at a glance)
And the blob-charts revealing the hours of my labour
Are bulging, each button too close to its neighbour,
The colours of pastel, canary and green,
In co-ordinate artifice cover the screen,
And if to a syllabub I did compare 'em,
'Twas the jest, or the groan, of an old harum-scarum,
And nothing I said was design'd to offend:
And this, be it hoped, all offences will mend.
But chiefest of all, in the list of top edits
(found near the foot of the series of credits)
The inclusion of pages in Userspace names
Puts a lot of informal old work into frames
And brings into focus and ready access
Things for eyes unintended, and other such mess
From the old Wikipedia days, when discretion
Was not so considered as now, when profession
And care more judicious is taken to what
Should be found on the internet, and what should not.
Yet in case it should seem that I only complain,
Pray think me not thankless, nor wishful to pain,
For doubtless the X-Tool is greatly improved
By your latest additions and faults now removed,
And if your aesthetics go a
trifle too far,
Still the World may applaud with a ringing "Hurrah!"
Eebahgum (
talk) 11:03, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
Sunday October 15: Wikipedia @ Open House New York / Weekend Photo Competition | |
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The bot incorrectly removes protection templates with "removing {{pp-semi}} as page is not -protected" for the edit summary after protected pages are moved. This happened in Special:Diff/801836655 and Special:Diff/804955477 after the moves to "Zxcvbnm" by Anthony Appleyard and "Sanju(Film)" by Jack Shukla respectively, for example. What caused this bug with the bot to occur, and how can it be fixed? GeoffreyT2000 ( talk, contribs) 22:46, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello, can you design Musikbot for Azerbaijani wikipedia? We would really appreciate as we are strugling to archive links.-- Azerifactory ( talk) 03:38, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
I happened upon the most edited "User talk" pages here Is User talk:TheStrayDog supposed to be formatted the same way in the edit counter as the real talk page's title is formatted? I can't tell whether that's deliberate or not. Huon ( talk) 22:24, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
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fire sprinkler with red liquid alcohol in the capsule
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Hi, this time its no technical issue I just needed a copy of the deleted Confident Airlines article. I plan to use the copy and develop it into an article with better ref's in my sandbox. Thanks! Bingobro (Chat) 12:30, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
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I had sent you an email regarding adding exceptions but I just wanted you to know that RF implemented them. Thanks a ton anyway. :) G'day. -- QEDK ( 愛 • 海) 18:59, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi! As one of the active maintainers of XTools I was hoping you could help me. One of the statistics of the 'Page history' tab in Xtools is "Reverted edits" (under general statistics). I wanted to know if there's any way of extracting this statistic for a number of articles automatically. Say by some way of listing the articles names (maybe in a pagepile or something..) as an input and getting each article's revert number as an output. Also, if it isn't too much to ask, could you tell me how you calculate the number of reverted edits? I mean, what counts for a reverted edit? This is for academic use and could save me A LOT of time. Many thanks in advance!
Haverbemashber ( talk) 05:20, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
rev_sha1
field in the revision
table. We do not have an API to get this information from an article because it requires parsing every revision, which would be too slow for an API. If you are able to write your own application, I would recommend going off of rev_sha1
. You are also free to borrow from our
regular expressions, just look for entries that have revert: true
. Hope this helps —
MusikAnimal
talk 22:30, 16 October 2017 (UTC)Classiest nominator ever! | |
Withholding your "support" !vote so that you could be the 200th - that was awesome! MelanieN ( talk) 15:21, 17 October 2017 (UTC) |
I saw your concerns regarding {{
holiday}} and the loss of {{
holiday abroad}}. I did my best to keep the same functionality, and now |2=
(which can also be called |country=
) has been added. This means that {{holiday|2=country}}
should give almost the same result as {{holiday abroad|country}}
(and it's fewer chars!).
{{
holiday}}
{{
holiday abroad}}
If that looks good, I'll go ahead and redirect the latter into the former.
Primefac (
talk) 18:38, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi MusikAnimal,
Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. There are currently over 350 supporters from all over the world – please encourage other community members to sign the page as well! You can also read an update from the Sustainability Initiative in the most recent edition of the Wikipedia Signpost.
Thank you, and kind regards, -- Gnom ( talk) 11:46, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
A 1912 illustration of Robin Hood and
Little John
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18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
Recently you blocked several KobraRus socks. However, you missed quite a few accounts:
I have no clue who the sockmaster is; it's probably a much older LTA. Maybe @ WWGB: has an idea? Sro23 ( talk) 23:44, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
I wonder if you could take a glance at: ticket:2017102610010514
I am sure you have more insight than I have whether the request is plausible.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 21:13, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hey Musik, was wondering what a "spider" is?? It's one of the options in the page view stats, and I notice that if I click on just that one, it has been pretty busy on my home page...lol. What does it do, and what the heck is it? Thanks, your pal→ Pocketthis ( talk) 15:38, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. I have the gadget version of User:MusikAnimal/confirmationRollback-mobile selected in my preferences, so when a thumb accidentally landed on the rollback link on an arbcom page while using my iPad a short time ago, I immediately tapped the "cancel" button. Unfortunately, the rollback happened anyway, so I had to rollback that edit. I thought that maybe I had missed the cancel button, but when I tried it again on my own talk, the same thing happened. I can send you details (OS version, browser, etc.) via email or IRC if you need it. Thanks — DoRD ( talk) 09:50, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
Is he your creation? —usernamekiran [talk] 06:35, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
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Greetings! The BAG Newsletter is now the Bots Newsletter, per discussion. As such, we've subscribed all bot operators to the newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
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Also about Twinkle. One year ago I made a proposal to make optional loading of XFD discussion page, but there were no other opinions and it was archived. How can I draw the attention of TW devs or other interested people? Take a look at this - more than 50 times a day Twinkle loaded the FFD page for me without my explicit permission:) A similar situation for the previous day. Thanks to newly enabled PROD for files, there will be less FFD entries from users (including me), but an option that makes optional loading of XFD discussion page still be needed IMO. XXN, 20:37, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
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CSS and
JavaScript. Example: /info/en/?search=Literature?safemode=1
. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
[11][[File:Wiki.png]]
. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Test5. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Test5 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. UpsandDowns1234 ( 🗨) ( My Contribs) 19:03, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello, GA Cup competitors! Saturday, April 1 concluded the 2016-2017 GA Cup. 64 reviews were completed by our finalists. Although the backlog increased by 42 over the reviewing period instead of declining, the increase suggests that the contest is encouraging editors to nominate articles for review. Congratulations to Shearonink, who is the winner of the Cup, finishing with 672 points! Once again, just as in last round, this is more than the point totals for all the other competitors combined! It was a close race for second place between Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, who achieved 164 points, and Sturmvogel_66, who earned 150. Though Sturmvogel_66 reviewed one more article than Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga managed to earn 14 points more due to reviewing older articles. Our two wildcard competitors, Kees08 and Chris troutman, came in fourth and fifth, respectively. There were some bumps in the competition this time: The sign-up deadline and the first round were both extended due to fewer competitors signing up then was planned for. And there were delays in tallying points and getting out the newsletter. The judges apologize for this latter difficulty. Lastly, mid-way through the competition we bid farewell to Zwerg Nase, who stepped down from their position as judge due to other commitments. Information about the Final can be found here. Thank you to all of our competitors, and congrats to our winners! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. —Preceding undated comment added 17:16, 10 April 2017 (UTC) To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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NgYShung has been renamed twice, first to QianLing and then QianCheng. But Special:Diff/774972019 only follows the first rename, not the second. If a user has been renamed twice, from A to B and then C, the bot should place C rather than B in WP:AWB/CP. Similarly, if A is renamed to B, which is in turn renamed to C and then D, the bot should place D on the check page, and so on for more renames. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 20:56, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
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See this. If you want me to see your reply please ping me or use TB. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 10:27, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
I hope you enjoyed your time in Cuba. There is a user in NYC, Anelsona, who works with Cuban people on the Cuban government Wikipedia equivalent and who wants to bring more Wikimedia access into Cuba. If you have interest in Cuba beyond your vacation then maybe you could talk with her sometime.
I am writing to ask for some guidance. I would like to see a 2016 traffic report on all English Wikipedia articles about drugs. I suppose that might mean all articles drilling down in Category:Drugs, or it might mean all English Wikipedia articles which are instances of medication (Q12140). I have some assistance in this; there is a statistics team at Consumer Reports who would help me sort and present data, if only I could get them a dataset of the daily 2016 traffic to every Wikipedia article on a drug.
Can you give me a suggestion on how to do the following -
Thanks for anything you can share. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:58, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal: Is it just me, or has https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews been petering out? Over the last few days when I have tried to use it for various articles, it doesn't load any data, times out and then a message is provided stating, "Fatal error: Operation timed out. Please refresh the page to try again or report this issue". North America 1000 23:40, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
The Remorse of
Orestes, where he is surrounded by the
Erinyes, who were identified as
chthonic beings, by
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1862
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Hi, I noticed that this script is not enforcing dom ready before accessing the dom, and not declaring its dependency on mediawiki.util RL module. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 17:04, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
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Hi. Salzburger Kunstverein is a classic example of tag-bombing and typical of the reasons I campaigned for a user right for page patrolling. The patroller doesn’t appear to have done any research and therefore ignores what a ‘’Kunsteverein’’ is in the German language region and even its German WP article, and did not provide this good faith new-article creator with any tips. As you know, I’ve given up on my 6-year campaign to get NPP improved, so as you accorded the right here, perhaps you could have a word with them and maybe also run a check across their other patrols - MrX is generally a user whose knowledge and work I appreciate. Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 00:05, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
@ MrX, Exemplo347, Ymblanter, and JJMC89: Nevermind the above, I am curious why all of you made patroller-like edits to Salzburger Kunstverein but did not mark the page as patrolled? Did you intentionally leave it unpatrolled? Is there a bug in the software? Maybe Mz7 and Exemplo just wanted a second opinion, but Ymblanter and JJMC89, you both (nobly) made substantial edits to bring the article to an acceptable state. At that point surely you are OK with removing the article from the backlog? — MusikAnimal talk 21:02, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
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Isn't that exactly what the outer $(function() { ... });
does? —
Earwig
talk 00:30, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
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I noticed your JavaScript genius userbox, and was hoping you could help me with a problem I've run into writing a userscript.
Please see my post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject JavaScript#Nested RegExp.
Thank you. The Transhumanist 11:31, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Massive removal of content without consensus and there also seems to be some sort of filter setting,can you check whether this account is a single purpose account and whether this user has initiated this filter to circumvent any changes of theirs. Meanwhile kindly revert to Arjayay's last edit. Thank You.
Arjayay's last edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Mar_Thoma_Syrian_Church&oldid=777121053
Can you also provide links to where to read about automated filters and its settings, for process understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.213.18.168 ( talk • contribs)
{{ping|Example}}
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MusikAnimal
talk 15:20, 8 May 2017 (UTC)For some reason, responseHelper only works for the edit summaries, but not inserting the template on the actual page. Can you help? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks! Jdcomix ( talk) 17:22, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
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in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent
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and Switch to code editing
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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{
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Hello, isn't confirmed user and autoconfirmed user are two different user group in Wikipedia? ferdous 12:58, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.
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Morning Musik could you possibly tell me if this page has been nonindexed and if so if the template tag can be removed? Masterknighted ( talk) 12:49, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey, do you think your bot can run with a one-minute delay, given edits such as in here? It's not necessary that the bot's edits be done instantly, right? Drmies ( talk) 01:42, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
I have no idea how filters work, but I was wondering why continued edits by the IP (e.g. this) apparently hadn't been picked up the filter? Cheers, Number 5 7 11:55, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
I don't know why, but until now I thought that this was a bot account. Apparently you are an actual user - sorry I didn't notice sooner haha. -- TheSandDoctor ( talk) 05:29, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
As a non-EFM who watches the recent filter changes feed, I was a bit annoyed that the names of private filters (which are public) were not showing up in the list. The link to the filter provides no information whatsoever for private filters. So I tried changing the bot configuration JSON...as far as I know I made no syntax errors, but it appears that the bot got confused and spit out a decades-long history of filter modifications? I'm not sure what happened. – Train2104 ( t • c) 16:25, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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on may 12 the first 'on this day' entry ran--May 12: Birth of Muhammad al-Mahdi (Shia Islam, 2017) the article states that the general concensus is that he was born in 869 c.e. i posted a message on the main page errors talk page, and when i saw later that it hadn't been changed i posted a similar message. the next day i received a notification from user Stephen that my edit had been reverted, with a message that rather baldly stated 'it has already been explained to you'. i hadn't received an explanation and wrote a message to Stephen asking for clarification, if they had the time and energy, but haven't heard back. your username showed up on one of the messages, and on your userpage i was quite happy to see that you like to help beginners, but a little distressed to see that one of your specialties is dealing with vandalism. if you have the time to explain how a message on a talk page can be viewed as an edit that can be reverted it would help me understand a little more how wikipedia works, and if you could help clear my name of any charges of vandalism i may inadvertently accrued i would be very thankful. and as far as the 'on this day' entry goes, i figure if it was somehow not incorrect i don't see how it could be construed as not incomprehensible. i feel bad about asking for your time, but this has me pretty confused. thanks, Potholehotline ( talk) 03:55, 15 May 2017 (UTC) Potholehotline ( talk) 03:55, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first edit-a-thon, being hosted on Sunday May 21, 2017 in Thomas J. Watson Library at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City. The Met is excited to make available over 375,000 images of public domain artworks for contribution to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse collection onsite and remotely. The event is a key marker too of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's first Wikimedian-in-Residence program, with resident Richard Knipel ( User:Pharos), along with Wikimedia NYC. We invite you to help enhance Wikimedia communities and platforms with open access images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The event requires pre-registration. To register, 1) please sign-up with Eventbrite via The Met's website and 2) add your Wikipedia username to the #Participants on the wikimeetup page. Please check-in with museum staff when you arrive at the Thomas J. Watson Library within the museum. We also welcome remote participation for the global Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (15 May - 30 June, 2017), you can sign up there at Met Open Access Artworks Challenge/Participants. -- Pharos ( talk) 16:23, 16 May 2017 (UTC) |
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I'm guilty of this form. I accidentally pressed the Save page. I need to get from the start with Admin and all other members and help to open and edit it right this article. Why? I'm responsible. Help me, please, or rearrange. The battle for the city of Mosul has nothing to do with the battle in the west of the province. These operations are aimed at Deir ez-Zor penetration from the east to the Euphrates. Similarly Airport T4 Palmyra offensive (2017) from January to March in prokrajini East Homs. Eastern Homs offensive (2017). -- Baba Mica ( talk) 19:19, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
No rush on this question - definitely don't let it interfere with what I hope is an excellent vacation.
At WP:RFP/A a request was added with User: prefixed. As a result the bot clerked it as a non-existent User:User:. The requester fixed the section header, and I fixed the transclusion of {{ rfplinks}}. I also removed MusikBot's clerking in the expectation that would force it to re-clerk the correct username - but that hasn't happened. So, my question, what triggers MusikBot to clerk a request?
Thanks, Cabayi ( talk) 09:34, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, in X!'Tools Page history tab found under Revision history statistics link at History tab ( example from cswiki) columns with fractional numbers are not sorted right: 40 gets sorted between 3.3 and 5.4. Could this be caused by comma/period delimiter issue (Czech language uses comma while X!'Tools uses periods) or are all those affected columns (%, atbe) sorted as strings? Regards --09:28, 18 May 2017 (UTC), Utar ( talk)
Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 811 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!
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People enjoying some
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Hi, I am a crat on Wikispecies and have a couple of bot requests for there that are being considered for speedy approval. They use AWB to do repetitive editing in short bursts. Both accounts were formerly doing this on their own main accounts but it was recommended to them to make bot accounts due to high volume. The content has been previously discussed and there is no issues with the edits being performed. In any case, I have never had to consider a bot for this type of approval. I would appreciate it if you would briefly tell me, or point me to an explanation, of what would permit you to speedily approve vs approve a bot. At present I am basically assuming it would mean to approve without trial as the main difference. Thanks in advance for your help. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 16:53, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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<div>
tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext
parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can
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Hi, I'd like to know if you have time to see this. Regards and Thanks. — Alvaro Molina ( ✉ - ✔) 06:58, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Okay, I just saw you approved someone for AWB who requested approval yesterday, not to mention all the other approvals of ones who've requested access after me. Some of us have been waiting a week like myself. I know there was some delay due to a leave of absence but that is over. Have I done something wrong in my request? I have over 2,000 non-automated edits. Did I not ask for the right reasons or not give enough information? If I am going to be denied, I would have preferred that happen right away, not being dragged on for so long. I have tried to be patient, but seeing today's approval is the last straw. Would sincerely appreciate some insight. Thanks! dawnleelynn (talk) 18:45, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:MusikBot/FilterMonitor/Recent_changes&oldid=782279078
There's some kind of unclosed span.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:14, 27 May 2017 (UTC).
Karl Pearson (27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was a
statistician who has been credited for establishing the discipline of
mathematical statistics.
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Sorry for being late...handling brunodam is one of the boriest tasks of mine and I've been procrastinating job execution tooooooo long. -- Vituzzu ( talk) 20:26, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
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Beverage
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Musikbot stated that I didn't meet the prerequisites for a user right, even though I do. Gamebuster19901 (Talk║ Contributions) 08:12, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
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FYI: I fixed spamublock.js — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 07:58, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Footage can be processed in a video editing room.
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Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Hi MA, I reenabled "warn" on this - we are giving out a lot of WP:VOA blocks on this, if they actually stop after a warning they get a pass right now. We are hoping this is a short lived attack. — xaosflux Talk 00:45, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
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Bothering you here over what is a relatively minor (and somewhat personal issue) rather than posting on one of the already too long NPP pages. I came across Pietro Campori, a a biography about a guy who was twice the runner up to be pope that I created yesterday. Page curation has him tagged as no citations, which is certainly not the case. Any idea what might be causing that? I don't want to start a phab task if there is already one on it. TonyBallioni ( talk) 01:05, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello MusikAnimal! I have noticed that the bot has been removing the pp=yes template on some pages which are still under pending change protection, which is how I find out about it. Is this an error or am I not understanding what the bot is doing? Thanks, d.g. L3X1 (distænt write) )evidence( 19:00, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
{{
pp|action=autoreview}}
and not {{
pp}} by itself. Or,
Template:Pp needs to be reworked so that it doesn't put the page in
Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates when the page is under pending-changes protection. MusikBot goes off of that category and assumes {{
pp}} by itself refers to normal edit protection. Pinging
TheMagikCow.
prop=flagged
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[84]. Hope this helps —
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talk 19:59, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Also, not sure why this revert was warranted? The change looks constructive to me, and either way "Page is protected" is not a valid reason to reject it — MusikAnimal talk 19:24, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
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A
deadpan emoji.
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Hello, wish you in good health, I wanna ask if we can use this tool in ar.wikipedia? -- Alaa :)..! 12:48, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
XTools is not reporting WPCleaner edits. '0' returned for one user who has made over 8,000 edits with it in the last month. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 10:09, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Ultraviolet photography is one of the many
visual technologies. This image of the rings of Saturn is an example of the application of
ultraviolet photography in astronomy.
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I think I am far more qualified to write about Cuaybeno than anybody else in the entire world. See my profiles: https://www.facebook.com/DrDaanVreugdenhil and https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdaanvreugdenhil/ and my co-authered document: http://www.birdlist.org/downloads/parks/estrategia_conservacion_areas_silvestres_sobresalientes_ecuador.pdf
I discovered processed and enlarged the area (original 150,000 ha to 600,000) but if you as a music maker chose to erase the contributions of a lifetime PhD conservationist, who processed the creation of the park, then I am not going to waste my time. Btw, what I wrote about the reserve is a fact: There is no other Amazon park in the Andes countries with plaines. That is what makes the reserve so special.
But a musician knows better, and my website score far better on cuyabeno than Wiki, so good luck with your rules. Funny to see that other lodges with far less authority are now allowed on your article.
Cheers, Dr. Daan Vreugdenhil
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Check this out please? I used curation tool for AfD, and it piggy-backed to a 2005 AfD. Atsme 📞 📧 20:35, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
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?fuzzy=1
to the URL, as with
Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.Hello, need some help, can you please tell, what is the easiest way to get top 100 rows from your tool "Topviews Analysis" to Google Sheets( in .csv format) directly and automatically from website?
Thanks! Jurr23 ( talk) 13:37, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
download=true
option was never added, but for the same reasons I described in that post, I don't think this is the best way to offer such functionality. Instead I want to implement a backend that you can hit directly. I plan work on this soon, hopefully within the coming month or two. You can follow
phab:T157830 for updates. I assume you are aware you can manually browse to Topviews and download as CSV. Hopefully that will hold you off for the time being :) Sorry I cannot help you any further! —
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talk 16:45, 5 July 2017 (UTC)Thanks for your response, but i would like to ask another question: is there any sql sentence what gives the same information as there are in your tool "Topviews Analysis" from Mediawiki database? I myself thought that watchlist could help, but i am not sure because i got errors that this table does not exists? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jurr23 ( talk • contribs) 08:02, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
/metrics/pageviews/top
endpoint. The raw data given by it does not filter out known false positives or incorporate editing data. The latter is in the MediaWiki database, and could be fetched with a query like
this. Topviews filtering data is in a private database but you might be able to use it's
API. I'm not sure if it blocks cross-origin requests. —
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Chickens at a market in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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The room of the
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Greetings! Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are now members of the BAG (see RfBAG/BU Rob13 and RfBAG/Cyberpower678 3). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are both administrators; the former operates BU RoBOT which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates Cyberbot I (which replaces old bots), Cyberbot II (which does many different things), and InternetArchiveBot which combats link rot. Welcome to the BAG!
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I see your helper script for New Page Reviewer to add new user group members to the mailing list has been disabled and a separate button put in its place. Admins are not using it and I'm finding myself having to clean up after them and add the names manually. Was there a reason for this change that I missed? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 09:51, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
Illustration of
Dijkstra's algorithm search, a
search algorithm for finding path from a start node (lower left, red) to a goal node (upper right, green) in a
robot
motion planning problem.
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Thanks for supporting my run for administrator. I am honored and grateful. ) Cullen328 Let's discuss it 00:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC) |
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Hi MusikAnimal,
When I tried to use one of your scripts linked, it didn't work. I saw the Nightpedia link, clicked on it, got nothing. I use Google Chrome. -- 1989 00:22, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
The
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the
United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948. Pictured is an image denoting global participation in the Genocide Convention in 2008.
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Djmelt ( talk) 13:39, 2 August 2017 (UTC) Hi MusikAnimal, the page of Consumers Distributing is blocked for six months and generally it should be blocked only few days. Please unlock this page because we can't edit anything if we have something to edit. Thank you. Djmelt ( talk) 13:39, 2 August 2017 (UTC) From Djmelt, August 2 2017.
Hello, I'd like to see if the following can be added to the edit filter in question. I do not have EFM rights and cannot make this change, but I would like to request that the filter be expanded to include talk pages as well. As an editor who has witnessed the vandalizing edit requests at Talk:Cheez Whiz before that page's eventual protection, this is a concerning issue for me among many other editors who look at these edit requests.
If this is not possible, can it be included in a separate edit filter that handles such edits? Thanks in advance, and please let me know if this has already been included or addressed. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) ( talk) 16:34, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi there. Thanks for the tips at meta. I currently use the API with a query like
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&ucuser=SoWhy&uclimit=500&ucdir=older&ucnamespace=4
to get all my contributions in the Wikipedia:-namespace. I wanted to try a quarry to get the same info but I noticed that
the revision table does not store either the page name or the namespace. That seems to be in the
page table which only holds the latest revisions. I think there is a way to create a query that combines searching both but my SQL is so rusty I cannot figure it out. Would you mind giving me another tip? Regards
So
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Hello, MusikAnimal.
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I noticed that my name was put on this list when I semi-protected Richard B. Spencer for editing. The reason seems to be that there was a previous move ecp still active that I did not change (and did not enact). It occurred to me that perhaps it's not desirable for things to work this way - I don't think someone not changing a protection parameter is quite the same as enacting or endorsing it, which I suspect is what we want the list to focus on. Thoughts? Samsara 14:46, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal, I was wondering if you could help with a technical problem. Maybe others have already brought it up. When I am editing, and I click on the "preview" button, the script reverts back to the top of the page (like it used to years ago), causing me to have to scroll down to find where I was editing. I assume this is now happening with everyone. Can it be repaired? Johnsmith2116 ( talk) 10:40, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
An automobile engine is an example of an
intermediate good, and is used in the production of the
final good, the assembled automobile.
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23:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
Because I owe you one and I won't forget! Loved going to karaoke with you and making a fool of myself, and I can't wait to do it again! :-) Katie talk 23:23, 14 August 2017 (UTC) |
Hi, I have applied at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed thrice but every time it says already done.I have 150+ edits and have more than a years experience on wiki although for the first 8 months or so, I was inactive but after that I have been active continuously. Kindly help.Thank you. Bingobro (Contributions)
Nope, it says view source and a few other pages show im just fine. Im new here so thought it was some difference between Confirmed and Autoconfirmed. Bingobro (Contributions)
So, I've stopped using twinkle still no change! And the lin once opened says this page is semi protected so that only autoconfirmed users can edit it.Well I am autoconfirmed? Then why this? .I've even removed my user page's Twinkle top icon. Bingobro (Contributions)
Yes,finally I'm able to edit thank you! Bingobro (Contributions) —Preceding undated comment added 10:24, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
God!, really? now even the bypass your cache article says View Source when opened it says this article is semi-protected so, only auto confirmed users can edit it.And no improvement still view source.Although thanks everyone. Bingobro (Contributions) I'm still not able to edit semi protected pages. Bingobro (Contributions) —Preceding undated comment added 08:48, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
Well, yesterday when I had the Confirmed flag I was able to edit the Cars (franchise) article however the clear your cache article still said view source. Bingobro (Contributions) 15:16, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
Nope, not even safe mode. I think i'll just leave it and continue to edit unprotected pages. Bingobro (Contributions) 15:25, 13 August 2017 (UTC) Ok, forget what I said and also forgive me for it.I really need some help here!. Bingobro (Chat) 15:25, 14 August 2017 (UTC) I went down to Request for permisions/confirmed to seek help again by another admin or something and all I got was your bots automated response.Please help you really are my last hope! Bingobro (Chat) 15:25, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks man, you really helped with issue! Even though it hasn't yet been solved , here you go. Bingobro (Chat) 10:27, 17 August 2017 (UTC) |
Hi MusikAnimal. Because it involves New Page and AfC reviewers along with other maintenance workers (SPI, COIN), an informal chat has begun on some aspects of paid editing. See
Conflict of Interest - of a different kind. Please add your thoughts there. It is not a debate or RfC.
From
WP:NPPAFC.
Opt-out. Sent by
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 13:24, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
.
Hello, MusikAnimal.
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Hi, Sam Wilson suggested I get in touch. I work at the University of Edinburgh as the Wikimedian in Residence and library staff there have suggested they would be more inclined to share content to Wikimedia Commons if there were extra metrics for the images reuse. Knowing who is downloading the image and where the downloaded image is being reused/shared elsewhere on the internet is obviously too much like surveillance but wondered if number of clicks on an image (to enlarge for instance) or number of downloads (people choosing to save by right click 'Save as' or via download link etc) could be measured? Is this something you could advise about? Apologies if I'm barking up the wrong tree. Cheers, Stinglehammer ( talk) 19:05, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Would you be able to have you bot update the StaleDraft report daily for a while? With G13 expanded to cover everything on that report, the report is shrinking. More frequent updates would help rid the report of deleted pages as well as postponed and refunded pages that are no longer G13 eligible. That would make it much easier to work with until the backlog is reduced.. Thanks in advance. Thanks. Legacypac ( talk) 03:38, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
If you're converting all of them to 1-year blocks, you got your work cut out for you. I saw Katie blocked a few ranges for two years; isn't that an easier option? Drmies ( talk) 00:38, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
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For helping me again and again with my newbie questions regarding scripting and SQL. You are truly a great editor! So Why 14:47, 31 August 2017 (UTC) |
Hi there again. After creating my AFD closes script, I was wondering about creating a script to analyze who are the main people involved in closing AFDs for a certain day but I am not really sure how to get a list of AFDs to analyze. Is there a way to find out which pages are transcluded instead of linked to using the pagelinks table? I tried this query but it is not limited to transclusions. Thanks in advance! Regards So Why 18:42, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Can I trouble you with another question? I tried working on my deletion analyzer script but I am struggling with a way to handle the huge logging table efficiently. Trying to grab a single day's deletions using this query takes quite a long time but I cannot think of a better way to limit the results to certain dates. Trying this query within a script on my local install always leads to a 504 error Can you think of a better (more efficient) way to grab those deletions? Regards So Why 19:29, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
logging_userindex
. That should make it significantly faster. Another tool I heavily rely on is Hedonil's
SQL optimizer. This doesn't tell you how to improve your query but it will tell you if it is inefficient. There if you copy your query using logging
, you'll see the
EXPLAIN suggests it will scan 68,277,806 rows!!! With logging_userindex
, you're down to just 36,690 rows :) Note that in a normal MySQL-ish environment, you can run EXPLAIN [your SQL]
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I will no longer use my alternative account GTAlt. Can you please remove all user rights from that account except "extended confirmed"? I am asking you since you were the one who added the rights on 1 December 2016. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk, contribs) 01:52, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
I feel you deserve it. Thank you for blocking those irritating zombie proxies.
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There is a user who has a custom "user infobox" on their userpage, this infobox contains the following line: "|girlfriend = Yes" "yes" links to a BLP, is this a violation of policy? The user also says they are unmarried as a protest for LGBT people, making it seem like they do have a girlfriend. Also the link to their email says don't count on a response unless you'r Kirsten Dunst. I don't know weather this is all a harmless joke or a BLP issue (unverifiable/false info on who a living person is dating) (I asked you because your an admin who is active at the time). Tornado chaser ( talk) 16:06, 1 September 2017 (UTC) Tornado chaser ( talk) 16:06, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for the admin newsletter. As you are on Horn's team, can we assume from this that the Foundation is on schedule for the 7th? We have had no recent communication from them on this point. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 22:46, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
Just so you know, I normally edit under IP addresses, but I recently made an account in order to email you some information regarding the recent abuse coming from open proxies/VPN usage. Also (and most importantly), thanks for all that you're doing here... :-)
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What is the purpose of these filters? If you look at my abuse log, I've been blocked by each one already performing anti-vandal work. Filter 34 prevented me from blanking a talk page constituting promotion (I had to comment out the content instead). Filter 803 blocked me from tagging a user page as a WP:NOTWEBHOST violation.
Also, why is filter 34 private? Filter 33, which appears to do the same thing, is not. 24.91.248.60 ( talk) 18:32, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
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Meow! You're awesome.
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talk) 11:57, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
One 24-ounce energy drink has 330
calories, more than a fast-food cheeseburger, and the equivalent of 18 single-serving packets of sugar.
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Hello! I understand that you are a maintainer of Xtools. I'm looking for the documentation for the Xtools timecard, which is part of the general user statistics. I haven't been able to find it on toolforge, Phabricator, or elsewhere! I'm hoping to look at the documentation, potentially contribute, and also look into what data I can get from it. Any info you can provide on where to find the timecard documentation would be appreciated! Hexatekin ( talk) 01:09, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello MusikAnimal...Not so long ago, File:WikiFilterLogo.png was recently updated. For some unknown reason, the topicon of your user page has not updated when I'm on the computer. However, I can see the updated version on your user page with my Iphone. I also have the image displayed on my user page showing the updated version both on computer and phone, however, when I clicked on the image file from my user page, it shows the 2015 version. Do you have similar issues? — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 22:03, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
A small
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Thanks for fixing the rest of the jumping issue. Best Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 16:14, 12 September 2017 (UTC) |
Dear MusikAnimal, Please restore Achraf Baznani's page, I will edit it. The artist is well known, I have many informations to add to his wikipedia page. Thank you! 105.155.64.71 ( talk) 20:21, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hello there! I noticed that MusikBot is posting duplicate WP:TAFI notices at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink (see diff 1 and diff 2), and just wanted to bring this to your attention. Cheers, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 05:22, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hi! At Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017_September_14#Wikipedia:FAKENEWS you !voted for a redirect to WP:Zimdars' fake news list, but after you !voted I presented an argument against doing that, and none of the !votes after that were for that redirect. The MfD has been relisted. Would you be so kind as to re-examine the MfD and see if the arguments put forth after you !voted might cause you to reconsider? -- Guy Macon ( talk) 02:47, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
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MusikBot recently posted a notice to a redirect page. I've moved it to the redirect's target, but you might consider updating the bot to detect and follow redirects itself in future. Mitch Ames ( talk) 01:21, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Template:Holiday abroad 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?) 04:26, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hi MusikAnimal - I'd like to ask you some questions about the new edit filter helper right, if that's OK. I'm interested in applying for the right in the foreseeable future; would it be helpful for somebody like myself, who engages in anti-vandalism work and helps out at UAA? Would it help me to better spot sockpuppets, and report them, for instance? Secondly, will I have to sign the confidentiality agreement? I turn 18 this month, so I am more than willing to do so (until then I can't sign it), as I have a sound knowledge of what it means to keep matters confidential (without going into details on-wiki, I have some real-life experience in dealing with confidential matters). I do have some REGEX knowledge, although it is very basic and I won't jump into doing anything I know I can't do. So, in conclusion, do you think I am ready? Thanks in advance, and enjoy the rest of your day. :) Patient Zero talk 13:11, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia is sometimes criticized for being used as a source of
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Unfortunately I've just seen that they're back. Would it be possible to reenable it? Cheers, Number 5 7 19:51, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
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Shouldn't these templates with " thousands of transclusions" be set to Template protection ? Just asking :P - FlightTime ( open channel) 17:11, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
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Dear MusikAnimal,
When I likened your work to the shades of
blancmange
'Twas a jocular, but méfiable mensonge;
But 'tis true (to my eye) that the old shades of red
Were more crisp and succinct than the shade which instead
You have rendered so thickly, in broad crossing line
To the bars which the monthly endeavours define
(So one sees without scrolling but three or four months
Where of old one compared many more at a glance)
And the blob-charts revealing the hours of my labour
Are bulging, each button too close to its neighbour,
The colours of pastel, canary and green,
In co-ordinate artifice cover the screen,
And if to a syllabub I did compare 'em,
'Twas the jest, or the groan, of an old harum-scarum,
And nothing I said was design'd to offend:
And this, be it hoped, all offences will mend.
But chiefest of all, in the list of top edits
(found near the foot of the series of credits)
The inclusion of pages in Userspace names
Puts a lot of informal old work into frames
And brings into focus and ready access
Things for eyes unintended, and other such mess
From the old Wikipedia days, when discretion
Was not so considered as now, when profession
And care more judicious is taken to what
Should be found on the internet, and what should not.
Yet in case it should seem that I only complain,
Pray think me not thankless, nor wishful to pain,
For doubtless the X-Tool is greatly improved
By your latest additions and faults now removed,
And if your aesthetics go a
trifle too far,
Still the World may applaud with a ringing "Hurrah!"
Eebahgum (
talk) 11:03, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
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The bot incorrectly removes protection templates with "removing {{pp-semi}} as page is not -protected" for the edit summary after protected pages are moved. This happened in Special:Diff/801836655 and Special:Diff/804955477 after the moves to "Zxcvbnm" by Anthony Appleyard and "Sanju(Film)" by Jack Shukla respectively, for example. What caused this bug with the bot to occur, and how can it be fixed? GeoffreyT2000 ( talk, contribs) 22:46, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello, can you design Musikbot for Azerbaijani wikipedia? We would really appreciate as we are strugling to archive links.-- Azerifactory ( talk) 03:38, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
I happened upon the most edited "User talk" pages here Is User talk:TheStrayDog supposed to be formatted the same way in the edit counter as the real talk page's title is formatted? I can't tell whether that's deliberate or not. Huon ( talk) 22:24, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
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fire sprinkler with red liquid alcohol in the capsule
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Hi, this time its no technical issue I just needed a copy of the deleted Confident Airlines article. I plan to use the copy and develop it into an article with better ref's in my sandbox. Thanks! Bingobro (Chat) 12:30, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
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I had sent you an email regarding adding exceptions but I just wanted you to know that RF implemented them. Thanks a ton anyway. :) G'day. -- QEDK ( 愛 • 海) 18:59, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi! As one of the active maintainers of XTools I was hoping you could help me. One of the statistics of the 'Page history' tab in Xtools is "Reverted edits" (under general statistics). I wanted to know if there's any way of extracting this statistic for a number of articles automatically. Say by some way of listing the articles names (maybe in a pagepile or something..) as an input and getting each article's revert number as an output. Also, if it isn't too much to ask, could you tell me how you calculate the number of reverted edits? I mean, what counts for a reverted edit? This is for academic use and could save me A LOT of time. Many thanks in advance!
Haverbemashber ( talk) 05:20, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
rev_sha1
field in the revision
table. We do not have an API to get this information from an article because it requires parsing every revision, which would be too slow for an API. If you are able to write your own application, I would recommend going off of rev_sha1
. You are also free to borrow from our
regular expressions, just look for entries that have revert: true
. Hope this helps —
MusikAnimal
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Withholding your "support" !vote so that you could be the 200th - that was awesome! MelanieN ( talk) 15:21, 17 October 2017 (UTC) |
I saw your concerns regarding {{
holiday}} and the loss of {{
holiday abroad}}. I did my best to keep the same functionality, and now |2=
(which can also be called |country=
) has been added. This means that {{holiday|2=country}}
should give almost the same result as {{holiday abroad|country}}
(and it's fewer chars!).
{{
holiday}}
{{
holiday abroad}}
If that looks good, I'll go ahead and redirect the latter into the former.
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Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. There are currently over 350 supporters from all over the world – please encourage other community members to sign the page as well! You can also read an update from the Sustainability Initiative in the most recent edition of the Wikipedia Signpost.
Thank you, and kind regards, -- Gnom ( talk) 11:46, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
A 1912 illustration of Robin Hood and
Little John
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18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
Recently you blocked several KobraRus socks. However, you missed quite a few accounts:
I have no clue who the sockmaster is; it's probably a much older LTA. Maybe @ WWGB: has an idea? Sro23 ( talk) 23:44, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
I wonder if you could take a glance at: ticket:2017102610010514
I am sure you have more insight than I have whether the request is plausible.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 21:13, 26 October 2017 (UTC)