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I came here to greet you, but NorthAmerica1000 beat me to it. :D
Happy halloween by the way ;) —usernamekiran (talk) 21:04, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for this. If it wouldn't prove too controversial, would you mind doing the same at The Smashing Pumpkins discography? I've been reverting continuing unsourced additions to that page from IPs and newly-created accounts for a month at this stage. Cheers. Homeostasis07 ( talk) 21:43, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Done. I have left a note on the talk pages of Dhabonit and Pumpkinsdumplings, which I would recommend moving forward. It's a bit different for the logged out users because they keep IP-hopping (I think they might all be the same person), but ideally we would warn them as well — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:58, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hi Musik, any chance you could expand User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper.js into Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies/Requests? Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 01:29, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

I will look into this! I'm also in the middle of trying to get responseHelper to work with the new wikitext editor. Hopefully I can get that done and add support for the proxy request venue as well. Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:37, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

00:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

MusikBot applies protection templates on the pages, right? but then why it hasn't applied one to Zaid Ali because it's semi-protected. I found no such template on it's page 🤔. Thanks. 182.182.117.232 ( talk) 07:00, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

No, it only removes protection templates when needed. TheMagikBOT is tasked with adding the templates, but it looks like it hasn't ran since October 26. Pinging TheMagikCow who is the operator — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:39, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi! Sorry I have not run the bot in a while; I have been really busy off-wiki and have had to update the platform I run the bot on and do all of the reconfig that comes with that. It is working and running again - sorry for the inconvenience! TheMagikCow ( T) ( C) 19:34, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for firing it back up! — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:40, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Sunday November 19, 10:30 am - 4:00pm: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon

The Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met will be the Metropolitan Museum of Art's second edit-a-thon, hosted on Sunday November 19, 2017 in the Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education (81st Street entrance) at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City. Following the first Met edit-a-thon in May 2017, the museum is excited to work with Wikipedia Asian Month for the potential to seed new articles about Asian artworks, artwork types, and art traditions, from any part of Asia. These can be illustrated with thousands of its recently-released images of public domain artworks available for 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 Asian collections onsite and remotely. Sunday November 19 Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met ( RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 10:30 am - 4:00 pm in Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Uris Center for Education 81st Street entrance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks, drinks and cake will be provided. We also welcome remote participation for the global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month, running November 1-30. Thanks, and hope to see you at the museum, and/or as part of the online Wikipedia Asian Month contest!-- Pharos ( talk) 16:36, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

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Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
• A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
• Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries

• The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

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Hi.
Musikbot is not clerking at WP:PERM currently. I dont know if this is intentional, or if you know about this. Thought I should notify you. —usernamekiran (talk) 23:52, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

@ Usernamekiran: Everything looks in order to me. Is there a particular page or request it is ignoring? — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:25, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

There was something which gave me the doubt. I cant remember it now. Musikbot is working properly on PERM. (Maybe it stopped working for a limited time period?) Apologies for the false alarm. —usernamekiran (talk) 23:10, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

I still cant remember what made suspicious in first place, but here is a sort of recent edit special:diff/808405406, musikbot archived an open request. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:54, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

I'm going to guess that's because of this, which I should definitely fix. Thanks for letting me know — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:36, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

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18:45, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

I see you've been involved in the tools setup a bit, so I figured I'd check with you on this and see if there's someone else it should be forwarded to. When looking at my monthly contributions, it's difficult to see the totality of my edits because I had two months with a lot of semi-automated edits fixing templates on talk pages. Having the option to put the chart on a log-scale would clear that up. It's an extremely minor thing in the scheme of it all, but would that be a simple addition to make? Probably one for the "whenever we get around to it" pile of requests. Thanks! Kingofaces43 ( talk) 23:56, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

@ Kingofaces43: It's on the radar! See phab:T177658. I can't say for sure when this will happen, probably not terribly soon. In the meantime, try toggling off the Talk namespace. To do this, under "Namespace Totals", hover over Talk and click on the X. This will then hide that namespace from all the charts. Hope this helps! — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:51, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, and whoa that's cool! I didn't realize you could toggle those. Kingofaces43 ( talk) 01:02, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Hey MA, could this/ this be added to one of the existing filters? While it typically gets added on within the edit, the crap sometimes gets added on via edit summary too. THis is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LanguageXpert. It typically is at talk pages or as reverts of edits of those involved at Talk:Saraiki language and me (as the admin who blocks this sock farm). Cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 01:06, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

I'm on the case! Email me if you want to chat more :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 06:54, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

@ SpacemanSpiff: This deserves a ping — MusikAnimal ^talk 06:55, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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19:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thanks for assisting Oshwah and I with those meatbots! You saved the day! Nihlus 03:01, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

My pleasure. Thanks for the WikiLove! — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:18, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

It doesn't really matter, but there doesn't seem to be much point in verifying the permissions of banned users, like what happened with this edit. 134.223.230.154 ( talk) 19:03, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

That would require the bot to check if the user is blocked. While it can be done, the fact that non-banned users cannot edit the page makes me think that such a change would be rather unnecessary, though obviously I'll leave it up to MusikAnimal to determine. Primefac ( talk) 19:12, 17 November 2017 (UTC) ( talk page stalker)

Perhaps for indef'd users it could always archive as not done, but in general I don't think it should be making assumptions. Some users may be temporarily blocked, for instance. The issue basically is that the bot doesn't know where it should archive the request. Here you said it was  Done, but they don't have the permission. So is it supposed to be  Not done, or did you forget to add the permission? You can override the behaviour with {{User:MusikBot/override|d}} to force to archive as done, and nd for not done. Full documentation is at User:MusikBot/PermClerk, and also in the admin instructions — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:30, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

In this particular instance, the user was granted rollback, but in between that time and the time that the bot came back around it had been removed. So the initial tag was correct. Primefac ( talk) 21:22, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I'm back here but this time there's no problem with the user rights.I actually needed a copy of a deleted page Confident Airlines as it had been deleted due to promotional content and I would be interested in re developing it in my sandbox according to policies.Just for info my first article Supreme Airlines was also a previously deleted page due to promotional only content.Thanks! Bingobro (Chat) 13:31, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Not much to show here. The content was (slightly modified):

Confident Group has an Airline arm named Confident Airline. They provide charter service under Air-Taxi Banner. ^[1]

References

In my opinion this isn't really that promotional, and I wouldn't have deleted it — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:28, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

@ MusikAnimal: Thanks! Bingobro (Chat) 07:42, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

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19:19, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Here have this and have a great Thanksgiving! User:Felicia777 (talk) 16:50, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi there,

The XTools gadget is incredibly useful. Just a quick question to see why clicking the page creator's edit count has, since a few months ago I think, pointed to the contribs page rather than the xtools page?

Thanks. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 15:47, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Good call! I've updated the code and will get it deployed soon. Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:04, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Excellent. Thanks. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 03:41, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Wednesday November 15, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC @ NYU ITP

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts (4th floor) at 721 Broadway 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! Wednesday November 15 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC ( RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts (4th floor), 721 Broadway (note that we are not at Babycastles this month) 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) ~~~~~ P.S. You are also invited to Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday November 19!

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Bump, message was undated — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:33, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale! — Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk • contribs) 03:09, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice - something to keep in mind for next time. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao ^{Che dicono a Signa?} _{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:35, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

No problem. For the record I love the Women In Red effort and hope the contest proves to be a success like previous events! Maybe one day I will finally return to content building and help out myself :/ — MusikAnimal ^talk 06:44, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

I think you recently changed filter 602, and for some reason it isn't logging discretionary sanctions alerts. If you take a look at User talk:Anythingyouwant, I tried it twice and it didn't warn or tag. Anyway, hope your Thanksgiving was fun :) TonyBallioni ( talk) 07:51, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

My mistake. It should work now. Thanks for letting me know! — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:39, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

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Hello MusikAnimal. Over at VPP User:BD2412 has asked what is the total number of drafts in the draft space. I have noticed User:MusikBot/StaleDrafts/Report so my guess is that you know the answer to his question. Incidentally the 'stale drafts' that I checked in your list are only recently stale. (They all seem to have been edited between six and seven months ago). So is that really the list of 'expiring' drafts? Thanks for any info, EdJohnston ( talk) 23:38, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

@ EdJohnston: The total number of drafts is currently at 67,514. The stale drafts report should be accurate. The people who work off of that ( Legacypac, namely) tend to be very on top of it, so that's probably why you don't see really old drafts -- because they've either been rescued or deleted under G13. Hope this helps — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:46, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Please set Siroch Chatthong page to protected page because Indonesia fan try to break down this page by remove a big amount of infomation to unsource information. I try to make this page back to the same. Please set to protected page. please 203.131.208.141 ( talk) 05:41, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

20:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Musik, I've reverted your changes to the discretionary sanctions edit filter as the filter wasn't triggering. See history of User talk:Callanecc (alt) for an example. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 05:55, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

@ Callanecc: Okay, but we need to figure something out. It is too inefficient and is slowing down editing for some. It sometimes takes up to two seconds to run, e.g. [18] [19] (requires logstash access). TonyBalloni reported that it wasn't working above, and I fixed it. Are you sure you tested it since that fix? — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:21, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

@ Callanecc: Sorry to ping again. So using the debugging tools, I tested the revised version of the filter against your account, and this edit did show up. See [20] and click on "Test filter". I do see however that edit was not tagged... I'm guessing this is yet another instance of AbuseFilter not working when it should (more at phab:T175933). Since November 26, has anyone else mentioned that the filter wasn't working? I'm wondering if your test was a one-off failure. — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:51, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

See the log of Filter 602 for the period after 18:38 on 26 November when MusikAnimal changed the filter code. There are no intentional valid hits on the filter until Callanecc did his revert on the 28th. ( Semmendinger managed to give himself an alert on 27 November by copying a previous alert into an archive file). I can think of some optimizations for the filter if that's the issue. EdJohnston ( talk) 04:36, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

@ EdJohnston: Are we sure there were valid hits during that time? I guess given the history, there had to have been :/ The issue is indeed performance, specifically the pst variables, if I'm not mistaken. Those variables tend to be slow. Let me make sure I've got the intent of the filter right: All it does is see if someone added the DS alert, making sure it wasn't already there. If that's the case, the normal added_lines and removed_lines should suffice, no? Again, I used the debugging tools to compare my revised version with Callanecc's tests and TonyBalloni's edit (that was made when it was still broken), and it matched. Also, why do we need to check for {{ Z33}}?

I've booted up Special:AbuseFilter/637 in log-only with what I think will work (feel free to edit). I'll monitor both filters and make sure the revised one is working as expected. Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:50, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

I've no idea why the Z template and the commented out text were included. I guess it just ensures that it doesn't trigger if some one puts the commented out text onto a page. Could it be something to do with the edit filter not detecting commented out text or a template properly in the 'post' save version? Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 09:50, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

637 didn't detect this alert but the original 602 did. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 09:54, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

According to the documentation of Template:Z33, the Z-templates provide a way of tracking where other templates are used: "The z number templates, starting at and ascending (, {{ z3}}, etc.) are blank, never substituted templates, whose only purpose is to provide a tracking mechanism in other templates that are substituted." The person who would know the original background is User:AGK. EdJohnston ( talk) 15:18, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

I can see why you'd want z33 in the substituted text, but I don't know why we need to check for it in the filter, is what I mean. It would seem the text "Derived from Template:Ds/alert" is unique enough. 637 should have tripped Callanecc's last test edit. Here again, I can run it in the debugging tools, and see that it matches. Manually reviewing the variables, you can see the conditions are met. I believe what we have here is another bug with AbuseFilter. — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:24, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

I've moved my code to Special:AbuseFilter/1, to see if it matters if it's further up the chain. — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:29, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

I figured it out. Stupid mistake... we do need added_lines_pst because we're substituting the template. Despite what the debugging tools say after the edit, when the edit is first made the added_lines are {{subst:Ds/alert}}, where added_lines_pst is the result after the substitution. I've again updated Special:AbuseFilter/602, and tested it to be working (see Special:AbuseLog/19868998).

I'll continue to monitor performance. If it's still slow, I might recommend using added_lines and checking for {{subst:Ds/alert. This won't work if someone copies/pastes the notice, but in such a case I wonder if they would think to copy the "Derived from Template:Ds/alert" bit anyway.

Thank you both for your help with this! — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:04, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal, can you help me to move 2014 BWF Super Series Masters Finals page to 2014 BWF Super Series Finals. It was the correct name for the page. The word masters only used for 2007-2009 tournament. See: BWF Super Series Finals. Thank you Stvbastian ( talk) 09:11, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

@ Stvbastian: It's been over two years since the move war, so I've unprotected it. I'll let you do the honours :) Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:58, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you.. Stvbastian ( talk) 16:49, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

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Hi MusikAnimal. I've created a new (sub)module at Module:Wd/aliasesP; could you please add edit protection to it as you did with Module:Wd and Module:Wd/i18n? Thanks! Thayts ••• 17:34, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Done! Thanks for letting someone know :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:31, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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17:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

why you detected sachin g lokapure plz its my humbal request see notability granted patents having its industries and notable in social worker NGO SAGLO research foundation we i want creat this article which is blocked by u as administrator plz publish Devid1224 ( talk) 11:22, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Would you be willing to take a look at ticket:2017120510008296, If no one else has taken it up? I think our advice is that creating a stronger password is a good response but there is nothing else that will be done. However, I don't have strong enough technical knowledge to know whether the responses that we literally don't have any tools to look into it or that we just don't believe it is worth the time and effort to investigate, and I don't want to say the first if it is not technically true.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 15:09, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Replied! :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:56, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

I know your busy but I was wondering if there's been progress on [28] thank you(please let me know if I can help in any way)-- Ozzie10aaaa ( talk) 12:08, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi! I hope to get to that before too long, but first we'll be improving the revert detection in the Pages Created (aka ArticleInfo) tool. TopEdits is not nearly as popular, so it is lower priority. I will comment on the Phabricator task with updates as they happen. Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:01, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

thank you-- Ozzie10aaaa ( talk) 11:53, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

I saw you turned it back from added_links to added_lines. Unfortunately that results in 100% of the (3) caught edits being false positives (the 2 it caught while checking added_links were both proper positives, before that it had added_lines as well and most hits were false positives) ... The aim of the filter is not monitoring, the aim is to warn (which I would have set now, if I had a clean set of hits). I've returned parsing added_links .. but it is heavy

I do agree that added_links, for some reason, is too heavy .. added_links is generated anyway during a parse, why does that increase the load so much more? This is the very problem of using the filter for certain blacklist replacements. Maybe a phab ticket to get this resolved ASAP is needed? -- Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 07:44, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

@ Beetstra: I added added_lines contains "http", which basically makes sure they are attempting to add a link before checking added_links. Moving forward try to do something like this, the idea being to cancel out as many edits as possible before using expensive variables like added_links. Runtime average is now around 2 ms, down from 5.5 ms. Notice most other filters are under 1 ms runtime! So there's still room for improvement.

Those average run times by the way can be a bit misleading... the average might be really low, but in the case of 892, every other minute the filter was taking over a second to run for a particular edit. This information is currently only available on the Slow Abuse Filter dashboard which requires logstash access, but the Anti-Harassment Tools team hopes to eventually expose this in the Special:AbuseFilter interface. Until then, we have to go by a rough guideline, maybe no more than 3ms average runtime. I'm going to write at WP:EFN about this.

I have no idea why added_links is so slow. This is one of the many mysteries around the AbuseFilter extension. To make matters worse, there isn't an official owner of the extension, so bug reports can linger for months before someone does anything about it. The Anti-Harassment Tools team as I said is doing some work, but they are not by any means responsible for the extension as a whole. — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:13, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

We could then take it a step further and check the added lines first for the proxies, and then double check if they really added it. — Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 01:57, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Excellent idea! I added that and we're now averaging at around ~0.15ms, which is about as fast as a filter can get! Woot woot :) People who match the added_lines clause might still have their edit slowed down by a second or two, but the important thing is we've done our job of ensuring added_links is only ran when it has to be. There a few other filters I can think of that could benefit from this same optimization. Thanks for the fine idea! — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:36, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

Joe Roe

JzG

Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news

• Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
• A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.

Miscellaneous

• Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
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Wednesday December 13, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

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! Wednesday December 13 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC ( RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) 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) 18:43, 11 December 2017 (UTC) P.S. You are also invited to AfroCROWD Street Culture Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and Year End Celebration on Saturday December 16!

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Help for improvement this article. Thank you! Ngochue456 ( talk) 02:38, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Hoi!

Can you get the deleted file description (not the image itself) of File:Opera - Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo & Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma (From Puccini's Turandot).ogg and mail me? I was reviewing the same file ko:File:Carreras.Domingo.Pavarotti-Nessun Dorma.ogg (which goes by the .ogg but MIME with audio/mp3) and want to check what enwiki descriptions say about this file. Thanks! — regards, Revi 12:43, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for your edits in our article Draft:CA Sahil Singla. All the information is true to the best of our agency, and we encourage all our wikipedia seniors to review the article. Gearbobpr ( talk) 07:45, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

15:27, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

I noticed the IP vandal is back. Is this filter still working? Cheers, Number 5 7 17:20, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

	Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year 2018!
	Thank you for all the hard work and effort you put into Wikipedia. God bless! Onel5969 TT me 02:43, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

It's that time of the year, Leon. No fancy template, but just wishing you all the best for the holidays and the new year, and thanking you specially for all that you do. It's probably a lot warmer where I am than where you are 😎 Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:58, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

@ Kudpung: Thanks for the very kind message! I'm actually in Indonesia for the holidays, so indeed much (much) warmer than New York! ;) Or at least I hope it's not a lot warmer in Thailand, because we're burning up here in the Gilies =P Hope all is well and happy holidays — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:06, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Please as senior check validity of changes made to page Julie Hesmondhalgh Crackanory ( talk) 17:11, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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Happy Holidays

From Stave one of Dickens A Christmas Carol Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. So you see even Charles was looking for a reliable source :-) Thank you for your contributions to the 'pedia. ~ MarnetteD| Talk 23:30, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

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Sunday January 14: Wikipedia Day NYC 2018

You are invited to join us at Ace Hotel for Wikipedia Day NYC 2018, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of the project's global 16th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with keynotes, plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions. And there will be cake. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. Sunday January 14 Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 ( RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 10:00am - 6:30 pm at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street in Manhattan 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) 18:41, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
• The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration

• Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.

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user:Illlllllllll and user:ThePigInUseOf are probably sock puppets. Please do a user check on them. 99.53.112.186 ( talk) 22:49, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Sunday January 14: Wikipedia Day NYC 2018

Part of Wikipedia's global 17th birthday celebration, Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 at Ace Hotel will include a mini-conference of scheduled panels as well as unconference style talks and discussions proposed by attendees on the day of the event. We are very excited to announce speakers such as Jason Scott ( Internet Archive), Jackie Koerner (Visiting Scholar, Wiki Ed), and Andrew Lih (Wikimedia DC), as well as a fantastic line-up of panels that highlight projects and issues of relevance to the Wikimedia NYC community. See Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 speakers + schedule And there will be cake. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. Sunday January 14 Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 ( RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 10:00am - 6:30 pm at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street in Manhattan 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! -- Megs ( talk) 02:23, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Would you mind creating a list of all templates that are transcluded on 250-1000 pages please? We got another high-value template vandalized this morning and I'm going the IAR route of just semi-protecting the list without waiting for approval. Thanks. Primefac ( talk) 16:41, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

On it! — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:10, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Please ping and recruit me if any assistance is needed to go through the list and make sure that necessary template protection is applied where it should be. I'll be happy to participate :-) ~Oshwah~ ^{(talk) (contribs)} 00:48, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

We did another round of protections, and at this point I think we probably need more discussion before protecting templates with an even lower transclusion count — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:13, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello MusikAnimal, excuse me for disturbing you. I'm writing to you because I see that you're a checkuser, currently active, and so I thought that perhaps you may be able to help me. I opened last tuesday a checkuser request on meta.wikimedia because it's about a cross-wiki vandal using proxies and socks. Nobody has done anything yet, after 5 days... This is the request: [49]. Have you got any kind of advice to give me? Maybe I've done something wrong in the request, I don't know. May you suggest me somebody to call on? Let me know, please, everything you can tell me would be precious. Thank you! 151.64.180.18 ( talk) 18:31, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

That's definitely the right place to report it, but indeed it seems stewards are slow to respond. I would try asking for help on IRC at #wikimedia-stewards ^connect — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:41, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Okay, if it's just a matter of time I'll wait, I was afraid I hadn't done the right things... Thanks :-) 151.64.180.18 ( talk) 18:49, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

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18:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi! This user was removed AWB access, but why does the bot say he is approved [56]? Hhhhhkohhhhh ( talk) 14:27, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

It's saying the request is approved. BTW, may I suggest you request you change your username?— CYBERPOWER ( Chat) 14:37, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Cyberpower678 I am consider my username, thanks! But MusikAnimal remove this user access at that time, please see [57], thanks! Hhhhhkohhhhh ( talk) 14:48, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Yes, they asked to be removed and were removed. I'm not sure where the issue lies. Primefac ( talk) 14:51, 16 January 2018 (UTC) ( talk page stalker)

When MusikBot archived request, the request was archived to the approved list. I think the approved list should show users getting accesses. Hhhhhkohhhhh ( talk) 15:09, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

But the request itself, to be removed, was approved. Thus, it's in the right place. The log is not "allowed access", but "approved requests". Primefac ( talk) 15:14, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Oh! I know now, thanks a lot. Hhhhhkohhhhh ( talk) 15:18, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, the edit summary saying "1 approved" might be misleading, perhaps instead it should say "request approved". Note however in these cases admins must mark the request as {{ revoked}} instead of {{ done}}. If you don't, you need to use {{User:MusikBot/override|d}} to force it to archive as "done", otherwise it will complain thinking you forgot to add them. As you can see that code was used here. — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

But why did you {{ done}} mark on request page at that time as you remove this user AWB access? Hhhhhkohhhhh ( talk) 15:37, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

For the reasons explained above. The request was "done". Basically the user said "Can you remove me from the CheckPage?" and the admin replied " Done". Hopefully it makes sense now :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:42, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Because the request was to be removed, and that request was {{ done}}, and thus the template was used. Primefac ( talk) 15:42, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Oh! I know now, thanks a lot. Hhhhhkohhhhh ( talk) 15:46, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Now that the wiki has the option to grant permissions on a temporary or trial basis, and we have (in the nicest possible way) a guinea pig in ErgoSum who was granted TE by Primefac, and a method for requesting it be made permanent outlined by Xaosflux would it be feasible, useful, desirable to semi-automate the review and renewal process?

Some permissions, such as ACC may be temporarily granted for a particular event, and therefore may not need review/renewal. Others such as NPR are pretty much on perpetual review (enough mistakes or carelessness and it'll be stripped). But I can see a use for assistance in diarising and reviewing the use of permissions granted on a trial basis.

Building on the way the requests are archived at the moment, which includes the link that Xaosflux requested, writing a version of the record to say, Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Permission review, with a note of the expiry date, would provide the reviewing admin with a quick route to the actions needing review

• TE - user's contributions in Template: & Template talk:
• ACC - User creation log
• PM - Special:Log/move

Then, 2-3 days before the permission's expiry the record could be copied back to the relevant PERM page for action saving the need for grantor or grantee to keep an eye on the calendar.

Pinging the other admins recently active on PERMs, Alex Shih, clpo13, DoRD, Kudpung, Mz7, Nakon, TonyBallioni.

Your thoughts please, Cabayi ( talk) 16:02, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

@ Cabayi: I think that if the applicant wants to renew, they need to take action. One area for improvement would be in the bot clerking code, to list that the applicant had a previous "expired" right as opposed to a "revoked" one, a link to their last approval should be ok, but in best cases admins should include that link in the rights log already. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:15, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

I agree with xaosflux: requesting it again should go through the normal PERM process. I've talked about this concept a bit with Primefac offline, and I really like it for rollback: we get a lot of newer users there who are borderline, and this would be easy to grant for a month, see if they misuse Huggle (which is the typical claimed reason for applying), and then grant again if they apply and there are no glaring issues. Not too keen on doing temps for NPR yet, because the way the logs are set up makes it harder to review use of that tool. Still, kudos to Primefac for innovating in this area. TonyBallioni ( talk) 16:21, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

The onus should be on the requester to re-apply. If we automatically review every short-term application we might as well just make it permanent and have a mandatory review after a certain period. Primefac ( talk) 16:49, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Fair enough, perhaps I was aiming a bit too high in the labour-saving. I still think however that requiring the user to hunt out the permalink to the grant 1 or 3 months down the line is a waste of time, especially when MusikBot already logs it in the RFP archives. Would an amendment to {{ Template editor granted}} (& other grant notifications) for trial permissions, and having MusikBot deliver that template to the user's talk page along with the permalink be more in line with your needs?

Apologies to Ergo Sum for mislinking the username earlier - I should have learnt by now to spell every username as Ctrl+C Ctrl+V. Cabayi ( talk) 17:24, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

I agree with the above that requests should be made manually, on the users own accord. But also I just don't want to write all that code =p Xaosflux's recommendation should be easy to implement -- where the bot will check if the right expired, rather than having been revoked, and comment with a link to the PERM request (if there was one). I can put that on the todo's. We could make the amendments to the grant notification templates as you suggest, but I think we may have the same issue where the admin needs to go hunting for it. — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:32, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

I get the impression the article Kevin Stephens was vandalised just before you removed the protection mark? Dan Koehl ( talk) 17:40, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Indeed it looks like vandalism, so I have undone it. I don't think there is a software bug here, if that's what you were curious about. The protection expired and the vandal edited before the bot made it's rounds to remove the template. — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:36, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

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23:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello M. I hope that you are well. The Subaru article that you protected is now in the Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. Looking at the edit where you added the template I think it might be the wrong one. It looks like you added a "pending changes" protection but a regular protection template. I could be missing something so I wanted to check with you. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD| Talk 22:54, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Update. While I was typing this your bot removed that template. MarnetteD| Talk 22:56, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Yeah the pending-changes preset didn't show up in Twinkle for some reason... something I'll have to fix. I tried to manually change the options and picked the wrong template. Thanks for letting me know! — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:00, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

You are welcome. I'm glad that things got fixed. Cheers. MarnetteD| Talk 23:40, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi. MusikBot made this this edit: special:diff/822112411. —usernamekiran (talk) 03:38, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Fixed! Thanks for letting me know :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:24, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello MusikAnimal; given the recent resurgence of a recurring dork, I'd like if you would reconsider an old idea about an edit filter. Khruner ( talk) 17:36, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

I've re-enabled it and will monitor it. Thanks — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:03, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi, MusikAnimal, I'm Simon, a student at Southeast University. Now I'm on a research about scheduling, which is using wikipedia's pageview data as source data for a simulator. I'v found the the open data from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageviews/, but they are lack of request timestamp, page size and so on. The resulting format on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view is an ideal one. At the same time, I found your gorgeous work, the pageview tool. So could you please help me with getting the data?

I'm looking forward to your response. Thank you!

Simon 2018.01.16

Simonjoylet ( talk) 08:52, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

@ Simonjoylet: Hi! Do you need an entire dump of data, or just specific pages over specific time periods? Pageviews Analysis has a download option. You need to download as JSON if you want all the data, including page size, etc. Does this suit your needs? — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:08, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

@ MusikAnimal: Thank you for your rely, but it's not what I need. I need the request logs with timestamp(accurately to seconds) and target page size, instead of page-view counts of days. Maybe I need to set up a formal collaboration with WMF research team in order to get that data. Thank you all the same!

Fairly uncontroversial, but since it's in your space and many folks use it, figured I'd suggest 'em here first:

• Change AIV 4im summary from "user inappropriate warned" to "user inappropriately warned" (matches ns warning)
• Change AIV ns summary from "User has been insufficiently warned" to "User insufficiently warned" (matches 4im warning)
• Change RFPP aiv summary to wikilink AIV
• Remove extraneous periods in UAA warning summaries without "prompt" (matches most other summaries)
• Capitalize start of all edit summary texts (inconsistent throughout)

~ Amory ( u • t • c) 17:00, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

@ Amorymeltzer: First off, good to see you're active again! As the admin who granted me rollbacker and pending changes reviewer, I occasionally find myself checking your userpage. Anyhoo, I think I've made all the suggested changes. Moving forward you should definitely feel free to make simple copy edits like this :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:36, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

It's been so long, oh my how you've grown! ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 01:56, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Special:Diff/823106079. Protection has yet to expire. — PinkAmpers & ^{(Je vous invite à me parler)} 13:52, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

I was going to say that too. I think it's because the page move caused the article to get added to Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates for some reason. Not sure how though. — MRD2014  ^Talk 14:38, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello MA and PinkAmpersand and MRD2014. From my experience of working with Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates moves of protected pages do cause the page to be put into that category. A couple of years ago a page move caused the protection to be dropped from an article. That was fixed at some point. Now the page stays protected but the protection template might be removed by a bot. That can be fixed by applying a WP:NULL edit. I don't know if the current situation can be improved. Maybe MA will be able to tell us when he sees this. Regards to all. MarnetteD| Talk 16:08, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Sorry about that! Indeed this may be a server-side issue rather than an issue with the bot, but I can probably implement some sort of workaround. I'll put it on the to-dos. Thanks — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:27, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi again. I notice a lot of similar usernames, according to this history log of one article. Both accounts are blocked as sockpuppets at Wikimedia Commons: Ukrainkaworld2 and Ukrainkaworld23. I looked at en.WP contributions of Ukrainkaworld, Ukrainkaworld2 and Ukrainkaworld23. They edit the same article. I'm unsure why Ukrainkaworld's Commons contributions weren't checked. Nevertheless, their talk pages at Commons were filled with deletion notifications. George Ho ( talk) 09:29, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

I don't think it takes a CheckUser to say those are socks :) but it looks like Materialscientist already took care of it. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:29, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal, how're you doing?

May I ask how long you've been volunteering at Wiki and what your interests on here are?

Best,

AL, Antony Listerrin ( talk) 15:08, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Doing fine, thank you :) You can find out more about me on my user page. Good day — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:59, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Yugoslavia or Serbia - FIBA Basketball World Cup and Eurobasket forum wikipédia [ [63]] Yugoslavia [[ https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//tid/390/_//teams.html ]] Serbia [[ https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//tid/96799/_//teams.html ]] Serbia Nationalista User:Bozalegenda promotes war pro editions Serbia. Yugoslavia only ceased to exist in 2003. User talk:74Account) 2 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm guessing you're messaging me because MusikBot removed a protection template. This is a bot edit (not mine), and it only removed the template because the protection had expired. I see that FIBA Basketball World Cup and EuroBasket have been re-protected due to edit warring. If you want to make any changes to those articles, please use talk page. Hope this helps! — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:55, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

THANK YOU If you want help look at FIBA ARCHIVE [ [64]] THANK YOU User talk:74Account) —Preceding undated comment added 18:03, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

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Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
• Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

• A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

First off, thanks a million for making responseHelper. It's extremely useful. I just wanted to point out a typo in User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper.js. Where it says "Not voi, COI" in the UAA section, I assume it should actually be "Not vio, COI", similar to the other responses. clpo13_{( talk)} 00:02, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Yup, that's a typo! Fixed. Thanks :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:11, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

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I may be horribly mistaken, but I thought bot edits were automatically reviewed? Especially for something as straight-forward as removing a protection template? There's no issue here (yet), just me being curious. _{I understand curiosity killed the cat, but this isn't too much to ask is it? :)} Zyc1174 _chat? ^{what I did} 08:06, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

I think here it wasn't automatically accepted because the previous edit had not been reviewed yet. If it had been reviewed, then this is probably a software bug. — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:57, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

• Romelu Lukaku ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello MusikAnimal. User:MusikBot removed the pp-semi-protected template from this article unexpectedly at 20:00 as 'page is not protected' when an administrator had just finished imposing semiprotection per RFPP (at 19:53 on 10 February). Puzzling. Maybe the bot was not prepared to deal with two protection changes in less than a minute (removal of PC1 followed immediately by application of semi). Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 21:44, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi EdJohnston As I read the log it looks like a full protection was applied rather than a semi. The template that you added is the correct one. Now I could be wrong and - if so - my apologies for cluttering up this thread. MarnetteD| Talk 22:52, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Yeah that's weird... looks like it was semi that was added, so {{ pp-semi-protected}} would be valid. I just fixed a bug that I think is related. I'll keep a close eye on the bot. Thanks for letting me know — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:05, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

TonyBallioni recommended I inform you about this; that MusikBot did not fill in that information, so I did two days after the right was granted. _{Vermont | reply here} 20:54, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Fixed! Thanks for the heads up — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:26, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello,
A few days ago, I have made edits on the Wikidata item d:Q5673742 (about Ana Estefanía Lago). I have noticed that the sitelink for the English Wikipedia leads to the deleted page Ana Estefanía Lago, where I have seen a move done by MusikBot towards Draft:Ana Estefanía Lago. The final target is a draft (and has been deleted too) but the Wikidata item has not been updated during the move.
I think that the moves done by MusikBot are not automatically applied into Wikidata because the account MusikBot has never logged into Wikidata. The consequences are: outdated sitelinks (in Wikidata) and isolated pages (without their interlanguage and interproject links) here.
Could you use your account MusikBot and open one page of Wikidata ? If you do that, Wikidata should appear in meta:Special:CentralAuth/MusikBot and I suppose that the next moves will be automatically applied into Wikidata.
Regards -- NicoScribe ( talk) 17:04, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Done! The bot is done with moving pages, though, so I'm guessing we're too late :/ Thanks for the heads up — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:12, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi! This user Tatyana Malaysian ( t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created ( xtools ·  sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs ^{( blocks ·  rights ·  moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) ( assign permissions)^{( acc · ap · fm · mms · npr · pm · pcr · rb · te)} has "autoconfirmed" right after his request but why the bot didn't mark this request as  Already done after user gained "autoconfirmed" right? Hhhhhkohhhhh ( talk) 18:09, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

On WP:PERM/C Hhhhhkohhhhh ( talk) 18:20, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

I think it only checks if they already have the right at the time they made the request, or checks if an admin granted it (in which case it will wait for a few hours before marking it as already done). For Confirmed it should probably check every time and not just the first, though — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:54, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

I agree with you. So, I think the bot should place the notice if the user gained "autoconfirmed" right. So I think the bot should update the code, thanks. Hhhhhkohhhhh ( talk) 03:07, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Wednesday February 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

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! Wednesday December 13 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC ( RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) 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! -- Megs ( talk) 22:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC) P.S. You are also invited to Africa and the Diaspora Edit-a-thon @ Schomburg Center for Black Culture on Saturday February 24!

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Hi MusikAnimal I humble request to you. can you check the data in article Jaiswal Brahmin. There is whole data without reference. Can you please remove unsourced data. Atrisomkshraj ( talk) 10:52, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

I don't have time to work on this, sorry :/ But fortunately you can edit it, too! So be bold, and feel free to make any improvements yourself :) You can learn how to add references at WP:INTREF. Hope this helps. — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:02, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

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22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Can you add the tag as per https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Log&action=view&page=Bahrain&type=protect @MusikAnimal AyaanLamar ( talk) 15:15, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

@ AyaanLamar: You cannot add protection simply by adding the template. You must request protection at WP:RFPP. Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:32, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

It is already protected please refer here AyaanLamar ( talk) 18:56, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

@ AyaanLamar: That is the log of previous protections. I'm not actually sure what it doesn't say the expiry, but anyway I can assure you the page is not protected. WP:RFPP is the place to request it. Hope this helps. — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:02, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

For what it's worth, it doesn't show the expiry because technically there wasn't one - when PC changes were implemented it looks like the semiprot was turned off (whether accidental or otherwise is above my pay grade). Primefac ( talk) 02:37, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Green beans Hello, MusikAnimal. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Green bean Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: SWOT analysis • South American cuisine Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 26 February 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

The Kid who would be King isnt unlocked. Can you unlock it please? 86.177.80.181 ( talk) 11:53, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

NinjaRobotPirate is the protecting admin. Please contact them — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:56, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

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Since the last newsletter, the Editing 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 improving the visual diff tool. Their work board 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, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

• The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
• The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [99]
• Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [100]
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Let's work together

• The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Greetings! Here is the 5th 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: ARBCOM Magioladitis 2 happened, leading to further restrictions on Magioladitis ( decision, summary). Betacommand 3 was proposed to be amended to lift the indefinite ban on Δ, but was unsuccessful ( decision). A motion concerning Crosswiki issues (mostly concerning Wikidata) was passed (see discussion). BAG Hersfold was removed from the BAG due to long term inactivity. BRFAs We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing! Discussions While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up. New things WP:BOTDICT, a dictionary of common bot-related terms (see discussion). 6 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion). The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey happened. Two bot-related proposal passed, #6 deploy Article Alerts to other languages and #10 Commons deletion notification bot, although other entries may affect bots as well. Category:Wikipedia bots and its subcategories has had some cleanup. Bot-related pages that were historically important but are no longer of interests can be found in Category:Wikipedia bots (historical) The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently. You will soon be able to ping users from the edit summary (see T188469). If you wish to use this feature in your bot, please do so intelligently. Upcoming HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ). Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

Medieval world religions Hello, MusikAnimal. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: History of religions Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Green bean • SWOT analysis Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 March 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal I needed a userscript that works like refill for Marathi Wikipedia (mr.wikipedia.org). Could you please help in this? -- ✝iѵɛɳ२२४० ^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 05:30, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

@ Tiven2240: I'm not a maintainer so I'm not sure what I can do :/ It looks like you can request that your wiki be supported at User talk:Zhaofeng Li/reFill, though unfortunately the maintainer isn't too active these days, so you may have to wait a while. Note that VisualEditor is capable of expanding bare URLs too, but you'll ahve to go through them one by one. Hope this helps — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:46, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

I guess this is a thing to keep in mind? GMG ^talk 19:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

@ GreenMeansGo: Yes :) Actually @wikimedia.org should go to Gmail, so probably not necessary here since Gmail has some pretty powerful anti-spam machine learning. But in general using {{ no spam}} is a good practice, especially if you link to a mailing list (which uses Mailman). I help maintain the edit filter mailing list for instance, and spam has been a big problem. Bots scrape Wikipedia all the time, across all namespaces, and evidently take any email as a target for their Ray-Ban sales and other clickbait =p — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:40, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Not all @wm.o goes to gmail, because poor OTRS. :-p — regards, Revi 00:49, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Ted Gärdestad Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: History of religions • Green bean Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 12 March 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Am I correct that the AdminStats XTool lists only users who are currently sysops? I ask because I've been mucking through the history of JamesR's AdminStats lately for a pet project, and it seems that before March 11th, 2014, that had the opposite problem and only counted users who were sysops at the time. The fact that the XTools page gives seemingly accurate data from way back (e.g., january 2007: you and I are both there with goose eggs, but I checked Wizardman's logs and they're accurate) would lead me to believe that, theoretically anyway, one could query the database for any set of ser's with logged actions at any time. Is that absurd? ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 19:45, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

@ Amorymeltzer: I just checked the code, and it should be including former admins. It is also merging in current admins though, hence the goose eggs. I don't remember why we did this. Yes, it'd be easy to only show users who made relevant logged actions during the time period, as you suggest. I suppose that's probably what we should be doing. Maybe people like to see the zeros, but indeed that's misleading when looking at older data. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:28, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Okay, good to know I can get it if I want! I might bug you about this in the future.

Are you sure about the former sysops, though? There are some notable names missing, and even checking just the Zs there are a few that don't show up. The XTool page has 1267 users, just over the 1225 we have currently; Wikipedia:Former_administrators/full lists over 900 former admins. I should add that I'm really just curious and not criticizing, just trying to figure out what is possible. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 17:49, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

@ Amorymeltzer: Looking at the query (that 'delete' > 0 doesn't do anything, I think), it should be including former admins. I'm guessing the ones that aren't showing up hadn't made any actions in the time period? It's entirely possible there's a bug, though :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:55, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

I made a new article called Proper Einstein (musician), and I was wondering if someone could review it for me. There was a "refimprove" tag placed on it but I went back and made the necessary changes. If you can point me in the right direction, it would be great and also encourage me to create even more. Thanks. The Newbie06 ( talk) 06:14, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

I see this article was previously deleted at Proper Einstein. At cursory glance, it looks like Proper Einstein (musician) is much more well sourced and maybe now meets the notability guideline, but it's a tough call. I'm going to ping Bearcat for input, as someone who participated in the deletion discussion. It looks like you've also started a thread at WT:MUSIC#Article Review. Maybe we should continue discussing there. Hope this helps — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:47, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

For the record, no, this version isn't cutting it any better than the first one did. The sources aren't reliable ones for the purposes of establishing that a person passes a Wikipedia inclusion criterion — of the 18 footnotes here, 14 of them are complete non-starters as notability cannot be supported by MusicBrainz, Facebook, Discogs.com, Spotify, IMDb, Amazon, blogs or his own self-published PR. Literally the only footnotes here that I can actually even begin to count as potentially valid support for notability at all are the four AllMusic citations — but none of them actually help in this instance either. AllMusic only counts as support for notability if the site publishes a review of the album by one of its professional staff, and not if the album just has a purely WP:ROUTINE track listing — but all of the AllMusic citations here are of the latter type, not the former. All of which means that literally none of the sources are demonstrating that he passes WP:NMUSIC any better than the first version did. I'm willing to move the page back into TheNewbie's sandbox so that the work isn't lost entirely, but no, it still hasn't been improved enough to overturn the first AFD discussion. Bearcat ( talk) 19:08, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, glad I pinged you :) I admittedly did not do any sort of thorough review. Re: AllMusic, I also tend to use that as a gauge for notability if there are written reviews, and I did notice that was lacking here. The other thing that stood out was the "European Indie Music chart" listing, but I question how legitimate that chart is (I can't find an article for it, for instance).

@ The Newbie06: Sorry this got moved out of the mainspace, but hopefully you understand why, and that this won't deter you from creating more articles :) I do appreciate you coming forth asking for help. For future reference, you can optionally submit a draft article to be reviewed before publishing it. To do this, use the article wizard. But moreover, I'd pay close mind to the notability criteria before creating articles. In this case, the items at WP:BAND are things you should look for. Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:30, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Yeah I understand and thank you guys for your help. At least it wasn't deleted. I'll do more research and reading. The Newbie06 ( talk) 19:37, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

How do I endorse the request Aghachi7 ( talk) 23:43, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

This comment counts! But I would say something at WP:PERM/PCR#User:Aghachi7 for all to see. Sorry for the nitpick, just good to know that you actually want the right :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:49, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Does not have anthing to say, anyways, want a cookie? Thewinrat ( talk) 01:49, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

The Grand Bazaar, held in Istanbul, is one of the oldest existing examples of a bazaar. Hello, MusikAnimal. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Bazaar Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Environment of the United States • Ted Gärdestad Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 26 March 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

20:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your activities concerning the Page view statistics; it give me much more motivation to continue with placing quotes of famous artists on Wikiquote - all the best FotoDutch ( talk) 11:49, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

My pleasure, and thank you for the praise — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:46, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Here are three problems with filters (891, 80 and 249, respectively):

• Bots and talk page archives should be exempt from Filter 891 (Predatory open access journals). as it stopped (by warning) talk page archiving bots (mostly Lowercase sigmabot III, example from today) from archiving posts that link to predatory open access journals.
• Filter 80 (link spam) does not count HTTPS links. Please add the HTTPS link count to the HTTP link count.
• Filter 249 does not catch edits where the revert was made by the same user as the restored revision and the edit summary is of the form "Reverted edits by [someone else] to revision ######### by [large-scale reverter]". These edits are not self-reverts.

Could you fix these problems? Thanks. Luis150902 ( talk | contribs) 20:44, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Done, done and done! Thank you :) For future reference, WP:EFN is probably the better place to make these requests (unless maybe if the filter is exclusively authored by myself). Meanwhile, if you want to request a new filter altogether, WP:EF/R is the correct venue. Just lettin' ya know :) Cheers — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:57, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

	The Real Life Barnstar
	You are the creator of the requestion for rollback. Thewinrat ( talk) 23:11, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I guess. The "Real Life" barnstar, by the way, is intended for people who run events, or someone whom you met in real life. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:58, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Camp Ciara is a military base and home to the Irish battalion in the UN Mission in Chad and the Central African Republic, MINURCAT. Hello, MusikAnimal. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Military base Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Bazaar • Environment of the United States Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 2 April 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

• A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Precious

Four years!

-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:31, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I much appreciate these annual reminders, and your continued effort to reward hard working Wikipedians :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for removing the successful RfA category from User:Username Needed/Requests for adminship/ClueBot NG. My apologies that I didn't catch that one sooner. I have gone ahead and removed it on User:CamelCase/Requests for adminship/Easter Bunny as well. -- TheSandDoctor ^Talk 05:54, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

No problem :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:59, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Hey, this message is regarding that new dashboard button in script User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper, well most of time it works perfect, but sometimes when I click on dashboard it takes me to same page on which I clicked. For eg. If I am on /info/en/?search=User_talk:1997kB and click dashboard it takes me to /info/en/?search=User_talk:1997kB# with an extra # in link. But strange is it happens sometimes and happens not only on talk but on all pages. ‐‐ 1997kB ( talk) 06:00, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

@ 1997kB: Sounds like a race condition. I'm not able to reproduce it, though :( May I ask what browser you're using? Also, does it matter if you wait a little bit before clicking the link? My guess is the "listener" on the link isn't getting added before you click. My computer is pretty fast, so maybe that's why I can't reproduce the issue. — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:20, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Well I am using Firefox latest version and after closing and reopening the browser when I click on link it happens (not always, I am not getting the order). But when I click on dashboard link and open it in new tab it always happens. ‐‐ 1997kB ( talk) 03:25, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@ 1997kB: Aha, I can say for sure that opening the link in a new tab will not work. This is because it runs some JavaScript when you click on it, and opening in a new tab bypasses the JavaScript. What it does is check if you have a custom dashboard at Special:MyPage/Dashboard, and will go to that if it exists, otherwise Template:Admin dashboard. I could make it do this check as soon as you load the page, and fix the URL of the link, but that means we have to run a query on every page load (not ideal), even though you may not click on the DASHBOARD link. Hopefully that makes sense, sorry for the tech jargon =p Maybe what I could do is have the link always point to Template:Dashboard, unless you click on it directly. That way opening it in a new tab will at least go somewhere, but it still won't go to Special:MyPage/Dashboard if that page exists. — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:59, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Well then it is ok as it is :p. Thank you. ‐‐ 1997kB ( talk) 07:12, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Natural sponges for sale at a market in Crete Hello, MusikAnimal. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Sponge (material) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Military base • Bazaar Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 9 April 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

Would you consider reducing Template:for loop to semi-protection, given that the module it uses is only semi-protected. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 21:23, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Module:ForLoop is now template-protected, and in my opinion it should stay that way, as should Template:for loop. They have some 32,000+ transclusions. This is just too many. Sorry! — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:23, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Hey :-) I'm writing to you since I noticed this amazing feature of your bot and I was wondering whether we may use it on itwiki as well. I know the source is published on GitHub, but yet I'd like to have a confirm. Many thanks, Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 08:42, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

@ Daimona Eaytoy: Yes, I can set that up on itwiki. This same bot task runs on Porteguese and and French Wikipedias. I can also set up User:MusikBot/FilterMonitor, if you'd like. Is there a bot approval process on itwiki that we need to follow? I don't think this bot task needs the "bot" flag, but you may want to add it (so you can hide the bot edits at it:Special:RecentChanges, for instance). Note also the bot only edits in the userspace. On English Wikipedia, that means it does not need approval. I'm not sure if the same is true on itwiki.

The other thing we need is the Italian translations. If you are familiar with git, you can create a pull request on GitHub to add the translations. If not, that is okay, you can just manually give me the translations and I'll add them. The English messages can be viewed here. Some things in locale.yml may not need translations, like the "number" formats. Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:37, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

And I just realized you're that super awesome AbuseFilter developer I've been working with! :D (So obviously you're familiar with git :) One day we might try to get these features into the extension itself, but I know it's a ton of work. FilterMonitor especially (basically a watchlist), will be quite challenging, require DBA approval, and probably security review. Anyway, the bot tasks work well, and they're not hard to set up, so I'm happy to do it. — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:42, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Unrelated, at User:Daimona Eaytoy I think you can safely change your Babel template to be {{ User en-3}}, if not en-4 :) Just my opinion. You're certainly above en-2! — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:47, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, that's me :D I didn't know that this task is also performed on other wikis; actually, I asked other bot owners if they could run it, but if you can do it yourself it'd be even better. Given that the bot only touches a couple of pages, twice per day, I don't think it needs any approval, but I'll ask and will let you know. Tomorrow I'll also provide translations on git. As for FilterMonitor, that's something a bit more fragile, and I think it would need an extra approval, so I think for the moment we're fine with StaleFilters. And yeah, it would be great to have this and other features as built in. We may implement it after phabricator:T191428 will be resolved. Finally, I was unsure about en- level, but if you say so I really cannot think not to trust you. Many, many thanks, -- Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 20:57, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

BTW, I don't know whether you spend some time on IRC, but we have a tiny channel for AF development. I'd be happy if you want to join us, since we may use it to easily discuss some pending changes (as far as time zones will make it possible :-) -- Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 08:06, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

There we go with the translation. I also confirm that no bot flag is required :-) Thanks again, -- Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 13:39, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

@ Daimona Eaytoy: Sure! What's the IRC channel? I will get the bot setup tonight. Thanks for the translations :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:00, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

I got the bot working, and just when it was about to make the first report, the AbuseFilter blocked it! Ha! The block only lasts for 4 hours, but I assume you probably want to "confirm" the bot account, or something? Once things are up and running, indeed it won't edit but a few times a day at most.

I'll go ahead and explain everything else you need to know...

• The report itself will be at it:Utente:MusikBot/StaleFilters/Report
• You can use it:Utente:MusikBot/StaleFilters/Offset to set the number of days after which a filter is considered "stale". It's currently set to 30 days.
• The number of "stale" filters will be at it:Utente:MusikBot/StaleFilters/Total. You can transclude this somewhere, for instance here on enwiki we put it at MediaWiki:Abusefilter-status. The number of enabled filters is done by the FilterMonitor task, so we don't have that here.
• Within the report, you can specify a link to external tools for each filter. Do this using the page it:Utente:MusikBot/StaleFilters/Report/Links, and use $1 in place of where the filter ID should be. I currently have this set to go to toolforge:ptwikis/Filters:itwiki for the given filter. Just blank that page if you don't want those links to show.
• it:Utente:MusikBot/StaleFilters/Run is the run file, set it to anything other than true to disable the bot
• Errors are logged at it:Utente:MusikBot/StaleFilters/Error log (you can ignore the ones that are there now, that was me setting it up)

I don't know if you also want to create a page at it:Utente:MusikBot, just so people know it's a legit bot? I assume you have a {{ bot}} template or something. — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry for the block. Unfortunately, at the time we don't have many people online and thus you haven't been unblocked; anyway, I requested an increase of your bot's rights. The IRC channel is ##Mediawiki-abusefilter, feel free to join, although you may find it a bit desertic. Thanks for the thorough explanation, I'll translate it and put it somewhere useful. At last, yeah, we have a bot template, it's enough to add {{Bot|MusikAnimal}} to the UP. Many thanks again, and please let me know whether you need anything else. -- Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 06:47, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

( ←) Hello Daimona Eaytoy! The FilterMonitor task is up and running. Here's the first report, which is EVERYTHING =P So I blanked it, and it should now only report changes since the last run. I had a look at your it:MusikBot/FilterMonitor/config, and it looks the same as ours except you have private set to false. Just to clear, this means it won't report any changes to private filters. If you were to enable it, it still respects the other options. So for instance, description is off, so it won't report the name of the private filter, etc. Here on enwiki, we feel that with descriptions off, we like the private flag on because all that will tell us is if the actions changed, and at what time, but it won't say who made the changes (with lasteditor set to false). And obviously, it being private filters, it is not possible to report changes to the "pattern". Just letting you :) Whatever configuration you want is fine.

I'm going to update the code to make "blocca" appear bold and in red, like it does for "impedisci". They are both powerful actions, which is why they are emphasized in the report. Regards — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:59, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Oh, and one other bonus. This task sets it:Utente:MusikBot/FilterMonitor/Conteggio, which is the total number of enabled filters. With that, you can mimic our MediaWiki:Abusefilter-status so there are nifty links to show all enabled filters, and the stale filter report. Cheers — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:03, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed it. Despite that little problem, it looks really good. I'd also feel comfortable with the "private" option, but I'd like to wait for some opinions about it. Or for a fix to the code itself to solve this visibility problem once and for all :-) I like the reddish thing, it may also help to identify major changes. At last, I'll edit the abusefilter-status message; actually, I already had it prepared :P P.S. In case you didn't notice, there's a little pull request to fix the hopefully last problem with translations. Thanks again for your well done job, -- Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 06:41, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Wednesday March 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

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! Wednesday March 21 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC ( RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) 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! -- Megs ( talk) P.S. You are also invited to Art + Feminism Events in the New York Metropolitan Area continuing this month!

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Wednesday April 25th, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly WikiWednesday evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery. 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. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda! After the main meeting, pizza and video games in the gallery. Wednesday April 25th WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC ( RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our agenda, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Megs ( talk)

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( stalking) I believe in {{ User:MusikAnimal/Dashboard/Entry}} you want to add |R after the PAGESIZE magic word call inside #expr; right now, there's a hidden error with commas from PAGESIZE so the backlog warning won't show. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 16:29, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I don't even remember creating that template! It looks like it was coded to say "clean" when the pagesize is under specified amount, and as you say that comparison was broken. So no biggie, but hopefully fixed now. Cheers :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 12:43, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

I added response helper to my common.js a long time ago, and it works great. Within recent months/weeks, "Dashboard" has appeared above it, perhaps part of it. That also is a great help. Today I've noticed, on both Firefox and Chrome, that if I click Dashboard, it will go to dashboard ... but if I right-click Dashboard to open in a new tab or open in a new window, it opens a duplicate of the page I was already on. Never used to do that. The only recent addition to my common.jr was Zhaofeng_Li/Reflinks. Is the Reflinks now in conflict? If so, it's minor issue, but puzzling. — Maile ( talk) 15:14, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

FYI - I deleted Zhaofeng_Li/Reflinks, deleted cookies, closed my browser. Opened my browser and tried again. It's still happening. So, whatever it is, the Reflinks script has nothing to do with it. — Maile ( talk) 19:42, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

@ Maile66: Yes, sorry I didn't reply sooner! What is happening here is that there is a listener when you click on DASHBOARD. When clicked, it checks if Special:MyPage/Dashboard (your custom dashboard) exists, and if so it will go there. Otherwise it goes to Template:Admin dashboard. Opening a link in a new tab however bypasses JavaScript listeners :( BUT we can at least make it go to Template:Admin dashboard, so I've made this change. To clarify, if Special:MyPage/Dashboard does exist, opening the DASHBOARD link in a new tab won't go there, you have to click the DASHBOARD link directly. Regards, — MusikAnimal ^talk 09:30, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. It's working now. — Maile ( talk) 10:33, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

The gadget provides an http link rather than protocol-neutral or https, which, at least on firefox, leads to a mixed content failure. It wasn't immediately obvious to me where in the repo this was defined, so apologies for posting here instead of making a PR. Probably not too many issues since you manually fixed mw:XTools/ArticleInfo.js back in September. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 16:11, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Wow! Thanks for both spotting this in the source code, and attempting to fix it :) This is/was a known issue, and honestly I don't know of a solution. The HTTPS redirect is done via the Apache config. Here, it seems for some unknown reason Symfony doesn't evaluate to the hosted protocol (or at least I think Symfony is to blame). The code does in fact return a protocol-netural path, but alas we can't hard-code a protocol because XTools is meant to work on any MediaWiki installation. That's all I know... I spent too much time on it, and settled on fixing the WMF installation, and the fact it redirects to HTTPS anyway. If you have any further ideas, by all means please share :) Many thanks — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:52, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

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18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

• AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
• When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
• The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Hi Music Fan,

I know that my (it was begun by somebody else, but meanwhile more than 90% of the objects have been entered by me) list has reached the very top of the queue, one or two weeks ago.

• I hope you have noticed that I have installed some instruments to improve navigation.
  • There could be more: Where one country is devided in several parts, between each two of these parts I could place not only national navigation boards, as I have done, but also the international naviagtion board.

The parallel German list, which still is a bit shorter (I am working on it), is devided into a group of lists.

• But one list is easier to maintain.
• And still this very long list can be read by my I-Phone :)-- Ulamm ( talk) 11:31, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the reply. I have replied at Talk:List of Gothic brick buildings#Splitting out into separate articles to keep the discussion centralized. Regards — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:22, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Template:Newarticletext-unconfirmed has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 21:58, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

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Hi MusikAnimal,

I really like the Pageviews tool and its siblings that you, Kaldari and Mforns have developed.

There is however a slight issue with the calculated average page views: Whenever a page is linked from the main page or other prominent locations, there is a sudden surge in views which rapidly declines afterwards. The tools then use the total number of page views in the specified period divided by the length of that period to produce a daily average. Such singular events do however heavily skew the daily mean. That makes it hard to get an idea of how much attention the page usually gets.

Consider the page de:Brinner and its pageviews of the year-to-date as a random example of an article: In the end of January 2018 it was linked in the German equivalent of the WP:DYK section. That generated several thousand pageviews in just a few days. Going by the average metrics the article gets viewed 178 times per day. Removing the spike yields a somewhat more representative value of about 20 views per day.

An easy way to fix this would be to use the median value of views for aggregated metrics, as it is much more robust to outliers. Maybe not as the only option, but having median as well as mean values could be useful to assess general interest in an article.

In the above example the median value of views per day is 22 and thus much closer to the usual level of activity.

Thanks again for developing these very useful tools and maybe considering adding that feature! -- CorrectHorseBatteryStaple ( talk) 16:46, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

I think is a great idea! I have created a ticket at phab:T194053. You can follow it for updates. Showing the median would indeed be helpful, I just hope folks aren't confused by it. I'm thinking we might only show it if there is a spike in the timeframe. So whenever the logarithmic option would automatically be applied, it will show the median. This removes the redundancy for datasets that don't include spikes. Thanks for the fine suggestion! — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

At WP:PERM/C, MusikBot reported 0 open requests, but it does appear there is one open. Report is clean. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 19:05, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Fixed! (Along with some other changes). It was just decrementing the number of open requests twice. Legit bug. Thanks for letting me know :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:42, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

I was trying to clean up some citations on the page of a comic book character whose name starts with "D" and ends with "an Dunn". However, edit filter 917 blocked it ( abuse log). When I tried to report a false positive, the filter blocked me from adding it to the "report false positives" page ( abuse log). I saw that you were the last one to edit the filter; can you please loosen it?

Thanks, Vahurzpu ( talk) 21:46, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

That would be Cyberpower678. All I did was disable the broken filter. — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:47, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Sorry! I didn't look notice that it had been since disabled. Thanks for turning it off! Vahurzpu ( talk) 21:49, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

You're the one who deserves an apology! It was an honest mistake for sure. I'll try to monitor further changes to that filter — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:55, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Yea, sorry about that. The first version actually worked, and then I had to screw it up.  :-(— CYBERPOWER ( Chat) 21:58, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

As per a message placed on my talk page in February, I'm trying to find out if I still have access to DRN. Help is much appreciated. EnglishEfternamn _*t/c* 21:38, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

@ EnglishEfternamn: I think you mean WP:AWB, not DRN? You were automatically removed due to inactivity. As the message says, you can regain access by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Regards — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:01, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I am Anass from Arabic Wikipedia, I have a question, you are the reviewer of Zion Square and Downtown Triangle (Jerusalem), but I think they should be merged. They talk about the same place, and 70% of the informations are duplicate. What do you think?- Anass ( talk) 13:35, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Oh boy. That was a long time ago! As it stands now, I'm not familiar enough with the subject(s) to really give a good opinion. I will say however that if in fact 70% of the information is the same, you definitely make a good case for merging them. It looks like Cas Liber actually reviewed Downtown Triangle (Jerusalem) (while I did the other). Maybe they will have some meaningful input. Sorry I'm not of more help! — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:07, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Your recent BRFA ( Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MusikBot 13) has been approved. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:59, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:08, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

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hey whats good broski, i was reading an article that regarded the topic on a newspaper, i didnt know weather it was ok to use it as a source, ill give u the link special right quick u feel me http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/weird-and-wacky/how-tourists-are-getting-inside-balis-kerobokan-prison/news-story/0b3fee19bed8f9d7714170f13f1b821d Spaicol ( talk) 06:39, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

22:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

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17:34, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Wednesday May 23, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

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! Wednesday May 23 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC ( RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) 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) 03:13, 23 May 2018 (UTC) P.S. You are also invited to Action = History: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Asian American Literature on Sunday May 27!

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Hi MusikAnimal, do you suppose that there can be an update to the Page View Statistics? I have an idea: When we click on to see the numbers of views that a certain page is getting, it could also show us the city, state, and country where those views are coming from. I maintain a certain public page in Facebook, and the view statistics are constantly being shown to me in the settings, so I always know the geographic location of where the views are coming from. It would be good if we could have something similar to that for Wikipedia. Johnsmith2116 ( talk) 07:40, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

This information is not recorded for privacy reasons. The closest you can get is pageviews by country, across all of Wikipedia [171] — MusikAnimal ^talk 11:39, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Okay. Can you tell me what to click so I can see the views by country? Johnsmith2116 ( talk) 20:06, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

You can use Wikistats. To be clear, this shows pageviews of all pages on Wikipedia, combined. — MusikAnimal ^talk 12:03, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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Hello MusikAnimal! I saw MusikBot in Wikipedia:Requests for permissions and I wonder if it can perform the same activities on the same page at ckb:وپ:دم? Is that possible?--◂ ‎ épine Ⓥ 21:58, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

@ Épine: I see you are using a similar format, so yes, most likely :) I'd love to help you with this. I am away on holiday right now but will return on May 24 and we'll talk more then. For reference, all of the bots features are documented at User:MusikBot/PermClerk and are configurable. — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:21, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Awesome! Where can I translate the messages? Maybe here, I'm not gonna mess with anything until you're ready to help out of course. Also, you can request the botflag in our wiki at ckb:ویکیپیدیا:دیوەخان (تەکنیکی)/بۆت, we follow the global bot policy. Your request can be in English and I will translate it after you put it there. Have fun with your vacation!--◂ ‎ épine Ⓥ 22:30, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Messages still need to be refactored out to be translatable, but that's not hard to do. I'll get that for you soon.

Completely unrelated, your signature contains invalid HTML. I recommend:

--&#9666; [[user:Épine|<b style="color:purple;font-size:13px;display:inline-block;border:1px solid purple">épine</b>]] [[user talk:Épine|<b style="color:black;font-size:11px">'''&#9419;'''</b>]]

This will render exactly the same, but with the corrected placement of </b> and removing the apparently redundant bullet character. Regards — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:04, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I've updated it. Sometimes you guys make me feel ridiculously stupid, but then again, coding is not my field of work :P.----◂ épine Ⓥ 07:48, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

A reminder, in case you forgot about this. :p----◂ épine Ⓥ 21:52, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello, MusikAnimal, for Asian people including the Thais, people always use the metric unit to measure height. They never use foot or inch like the Americans, so if it is the Wiki page of an Asian celebrity, you should put the metric unit like 176cm first and use foot unit as a complement in the parenthesis. If you ask an Asian person how tall he/she is like Krist Perawat, they will always use "cm" and they seldom know how tall they are in the unit of foot. Please respect their custom. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.33.178.28 ( talk) 22:41, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi! I believe you are mistaken. Judging by your contributions, I think you're referring to the articles Prachaya Ruangroj and Perawat Sangpotirat. I did not edit these pages. My bot did, but it only removed protection templates ( 1, 2). It did not change the height measurements. It looks like this was done by 2001:DF3:0:D2:C1A4:45B8:DDD2:C6CD on 14 April, and Melcous on 27 May. Regards — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:32, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

• In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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