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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
A level of indentation was removed from the template {{ rfp}}, so MusikBot's automated comments at WP:PERM may now be overindented. Winston ( talk) 09:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Dettifoss, located in northeast
Iceland, is the largest
waterfall in Europe in terms of volume discharge, with an average water flow of 200 m3/s.
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stashfailed
" or "DBQueryError
" have now been fixed. An
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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services. Pictured is the
Birmingham Wholesale Markets at 4:00 AM.
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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Proposed
Lazarev Sea name (at top-middle of image) as part of the
Southern Ocean
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I need help with my JS script i used youre script loader
| Euglou talk 14:33, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I need some assistance on Deri Lorus (singer) page. An user continues to placing the CSD for an article. Not allowing me to do anything. Help me. Thank you! Nonsmoker0000 ( talk) 08:58, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The
article for improvement of the week is:
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Would you please take a look there, Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-header/Normal? -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 16:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. Per
the recent RfA RfC and
T297058, autopatrolled
will soon be unbundled from the admin toolset. Would it therefore be possible to stop MusikBot making
this kind of edit at PERM? Thanks. –
Joe (
talk) 13:52, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
sysop
user group, but nope! It's an easy fix, though. I'll get on that soon. For now, we should feel free to remind admins that they can assign autopatrolled to themselves. —
MusikAnimal
talk 19:15, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
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Special:MentorDashboard
. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the
Growth features. You can learn more about
activating the mentor list on your wiki and about
the mentor dashboard project.action=ajax
, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module.
[6]jquery.jStorage
, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage
instead.
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21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Hey! So your bot is supposed to remove protection templates from pages without protection. However on Jun Matsumoto the last protection of the page expired on November 28. However, the bot didn't remove the template for protection until today. Any reason why the bot waited so long? From what I've seen the bot removes the protection template shortly after it expires. ― Blaze The Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 22:37, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
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Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots. Overall
September 2019
October 2019
November 2019
December 2019
In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
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People experiencing an
adventure (close-up view)
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[[WB:]]
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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The
article for improvement of the week is:
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Hi,
It seems MusikBot hasn't been updated yet to acknowledge the fact that admins no longer have the autopatrolled right as part of the sysop
group, as its still marking request from admins as already done (see eg
[9]). Could the bot be updated to reflect the fact admins no longer have that right? Thanks in advance, --
Asartea
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Contribs 09:54, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I'm User:Ed6767. I'm probably best known for founding and developing Wikipedia:RedWarn, which is now one of the most used user scripts on the English Wikipedia. I couldn't help but notice that you also develop user scripts, so I was wondering if I could ask you to try and give me feedback on my new tool called EasyWikiDev. It's a new way to develop user scripts quickly and easily using Visual Studio Code, and only takes a few minutes to set up and install on your computer, whilst saving you the headache of constantly having to save edits and reload the page for every single change to your script you'd like to test. EasyWikiDev makes it so you can develop your script locally, on your own computer, and only publish the changes to your users when you are ready to - and unlike other solutions, EasyWikiDev reloads the page right away when you make a change, so you always see the latest version of your script. Plus, by using Visual Studio Code, you have access to some of the most extensive and helpful extensions and tools available to developers right now.
If you're interested, you can find the GitHub repository here and a video tutorial that shows both how to set up EasyWikiDev and how to use it (which you should watch) here. When you have tried it and would like to give feedback, or just need help, please let me know by pinging me - you'd play a big part in my goal to make user script development easier for all Wikipedians. Thanks again for your consideration, ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 12:48, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
node .wikidev
from the root directory of the project. ✨
Ed
talk! ✨ 03:09, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
window
if necessary. I was also going to ask how it knows what dependencies the script you're developing requires, but I guess the script you're developing is responsible for using mw.loader.using()
etc. (which makes sense). When working on gadgets though, you don't normally use mw.loader
because the ResourceLoader definition has that, so I guess in that situation you should have a local wrapper script. Just goes to show how complicated this process really is! :) —
MusikAnimal
talk 04:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
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{{
cite book}}
inside a <ref>...</ref>
tag block into an {{
Sfn}}
.All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp× g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp× g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. -- A.S. Brown ( talk) 08:55, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
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article for improvement of the week is:
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Hello, any idea why
this was created? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (
talk) 18:52, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hello.
I went through
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Send New Year cheer by adding {{
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Hi MusikAnimal! I've
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Hello Sir Why incomplete information attached? I want to add some information in Abhira tribe please unprotection this Page 2409:4053:E0D:579D:0:0:5789:2B10 ( talk) 07:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
A man playing the
didgeridoo, an
indigenous instrument of Australia that was developed at least 1,500 years ago. This is one of the myriad topics within the
history of music.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
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I have rised a request on Teahouse and somebody pinged you there. could you check my request ? Onmyway22 talk 17:27, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal, there have been a couple of cases recently where a template sandbox was used in article space and got a high enough transclusion count that the bot protected it and it had to got to RfPP to be unprotected. Do you think it would be sensible to exclude sandbox pages from the bot? In an ideal world recent editors of the sandbox and template would get some sort of warning that they were using the sandbox live so they could fix it. User:GKFX talk 19:35, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
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article for improvement of the week is:
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URL parameter. This can be used to replace
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01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
A
NeXTstation graphics
workstation from 1990
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19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The
article for improvement of the week is:
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21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The
article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Television ratings • Workstation Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 31 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Hello!
Is there any way that I could request some changes to filter 846 (T-Mobile/LTA tracking)?
2607:fb90:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 is currently globally blocked, so there's no real need to have that anymore. 2607:FB91:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 would be good to add, though.
Here are all the ranges used by T-Mobile as well: https://isprangefinder.toolforge.org/hint.php?type=asn&range=21928 (it's a lot)
wizzito | say hello! 20:10, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Are you the responder at Wishlist on meta right? Can I add another proposal there? – Ctrlwiki ( talk) 02:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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?withgadget
URL parameter that was
announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad
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documentation).
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oversight
will be renamed suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (
direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.Events
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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, January 2022 | ||
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Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever. Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020. Overall January 2020
February 2020
March 2020
April 2020
May 2020
June 2020
Conclusion
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will be renamed suppress
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vector
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.
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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hello, MusikAnimal. The
article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Joseph Lelyveld • Social equality Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Hi MusikAnimal! Regarding your
responseHelper script, I think it would make sense to change the indentation for
WP:AIV (line 53) and
WP:UAA (line 173) from ::
to *:
to match the current bullet formatting used on those pages. This would make the script consistent with the recommended indentation in the editnotices for those pages (see
AIV and
UAA), fix an issue that was mentioned
here, and it would also help my new script for removing false positive bot reports at UAA. Thank you!
DanCherek (
talk) 18:29, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
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function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials()
with rmwhitespace()
wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on
Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.
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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Isabella I of Castile in the Rimado de la Conquista de Granada, by Pedro Marcuello
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Could you possibly unprotect this article? It's been protected for five years and the protecting administrator is no longer active. 156.61.250.251 ( talk) 13:43, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Google's corporate headquarters is named
Googleplex, and is also the headquarters of its parent company,
Alphabet Inc.
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Hi! MusikAnimal, I know you are one of the contributors to Twinkle, I have a request given on the Twinkle talk page, the concerned users made a Ticket for my request, but still no consensus is happening. What I want to happen is, at the moment, after I revert, I warn the user, and their talk page opens in another Tab, and this is Twinkle's default settings. My request is, I would like to open after I revert, the user talk page on the same Tab, like RedWarn, because I am a mobile user. RedWarn team process RedWarn users requests promptly. In RedWarn, after rollback, the Warn menu opens and goes straight to war, and the page will reload to the user who was warned. That's what I want to happen with Twinkle, hopefully it will work out, even if it makes option settings for mobile users only, thanks. — Ctrlwiki ( talk) 12:14, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
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Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays who is best known for several series of children's books. Pictured is Lindgren around 1960.
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OMG IT'S MUSKIANIMAL THE INVENTOR OF THE MUSKIBOT. I AM JUST IN AWE! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 ( talk) 01:32, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
I was looking through Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates manually as i do a lot, and i noticed that the bot had added the {{ pp-move}} template to a move protected page ( Anantapur), which makes sense. However, the protection level was set to autoconfirmed, which is the default protection level for moving pages anyways. Because of that, {{ pp-move}} actually considers this an invalid use and flags it (See Module:Protection banner line 120). To be fair its probably more the fault of the person who protected the page for adding a functionless protection (I've already asked the acting person if the action was a mistake, so dw), but I'd recommend checking for this anyways. Hope this helps. Aidan9382 ( talk) 06:12, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
Note: The bot reverted my edit (Despite what the BRfA summary says about it not. I dunno, I probably somehow confused it or whatever), and ive noticed its not exclusion compliant. I'm not even gonna try edit war with a bot, so when you do fix this, please also correct the page. Thanks!
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Soil profile: Darkened topsoil and reddish subsoil layers are typical of
humid subtropical climate regions.
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Hi, MusikBot hasn't taken care of the daily DYK headings for a couple of days ( User:MusikBot/RotateTDYK). MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM 07:49, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
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Hi.
Nearly seven years ago you helped me with connecting to the replica database on Labs and we got as far as you can see your Labs MySQL credentials with
cat ~/replica.my.cnf
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I didn't actually ever get that far because, as I recall, someone else picked up the ball I was carrying, and... figuring it all out was just too hard and time-consuming.
Fast forward seven years and now I've picked up another ball which I resolved to hold onto until either I solved it or someone else took the ball.
I successfully installed PuTTY and finally logged into my account on
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where after getting stuck at Passphrase for key "rsa-key-20150713":
I kept getting Wrong passphrase
until ~two days later I had an epiphany and remembered it!
Then cat $HOME/replica.my.cnf
revealed my user ID and password. (I needed to type $HOME
rather than ~
)
Then I successfully installed MySQL Workbench and got it working by following these instructions. I've successfully used MySQL Workbench to make the same queries I made on Quarry (and got the same results).
Now I'm stuck at The next part is figuring out how to get your PHP app to connect to the database through the SSH tunnel... maybe with the connection open through Putty and your credentials defined in the app it will just work, I'm not sure. E.g. if the PHP app is looking for a local MySQL database and 127.0.0.1:3306 (default port) is routed to the labs db through the SSH tunnel, you might be all set
.
See the example code at wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Database#PHP (using PDO). I've tried both PDO and MySQLi and it fails the same way on both:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: PDO::__construct(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.
Warning: mysqli::__construct(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.
Connection failed: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
The line where it fails only specifies four of the nine or ten parameters I needed to set for MySQL Workbench to work.
The PHP installation manual says:
In the official PHP Windows distributions, MySQL Native Driver is enabled by default, so no additional configuration is required to use it. All MySQL database extensions will use MySQL Native Driver in this case.
So I assume that the other five or six parameters need to be specified in the MySQL Native Driver somehow? wbm1058 ( talk) 17:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
$mysqli = new mysqli("enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud",
..., I get
Connecting to the database replicas from your own computer says to set up a tunnel so that connections to port 4711 on your own computer will be relayed to the enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud database replica's MySQL server on port 3306. This tunnel will continue to work as long as the SSH session is open.
Also, Windows 10 has OpenSSH included and the
ssh
command can be used. On older versions of Windows, you can use the tool
PuTTY by add in Connection → SSH → Tunnels the following settings.
I'm still running Windows 7 on my desktop which is my main Windows machine supporting Wikipedia 24×7. I have a Windows 10 laptop which I use for backup but which is often powered down. I can try the Windows 10 SSH command later but first I want to get this running on my desktop using PuTTY. My PuTTY session is still open, and my understanding is that I need to keep my PuTTY session open 24×7 to be able to run a PHP bot that tunnels to the database 24×7. I configured my PuTTY per
How to set up PuTTY for direct access to your Toolforge account. There the Session
configuration says to specify port 22. Why 22 and not 4711 or 3306? All these port numbers are confusing for someone still trying to understand what they all mean.
I see from the banner at the top that "This user is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries." Sure wish you had a nice talk page watcher or stalker who could help. Trying to ask these questions via email or IRC seems difficult. wbm1058 ( talk) 16:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
A
turkey in a field
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At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 809 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 861 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
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Can MusikBot please have a longer delay after protection templates are added to an unprotected page before it removes them? Some more innovative vandals add protection templates on with their vandalism, and the bot's removal of the template makes rollback useless. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:37, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
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Hello Looking for a revision deletion for page Rory Phillips of all 4 edits made by IP 95.147.222.131 on 27 March 2022 as these constitute vandalism, containing defamatory and unverified accusations of abuse, as well as some frankly childish digs. Also a revision deletion of subsequent edits made undoing them If this content would still be visible in those. Appreciate your help and apologise for my lack of rhyming. I blame the timing. Letsnotstart ( talk) 13:43, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
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It seems that MusikBot perm clerking is saying that all users have 0 edits in mainspace, I have checked a few contributions pages and it seems untrue, just wondering if someone’s messed up the JSON or if the bot is broken. | Zippybonzo | Talk | 12:44, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
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Squash is a racket and ball sport played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. The players alternate in striking the ball with their rackets onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. The objective of the game is to hit the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return.
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/config, for the regex_exclusions
, Wikipedia:Tip of the day/.*
is missing an ^
, so that might be worth adding. Bit of a picky thing to point out, but I thought I'd mention it anyways. (Small request. Used to be bigger, but then I realised im a moron, so sorry about that)
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MuskiBot II which you run has placed my article "Shrien Dewani" in draft. Please kindly remove it from Draft's. Thank you kindly. WikiHuman2021 ( talk) 23:48, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
@MusikAnimal Thank you kindly for your timely response and assistance it's greatly appreciated. There is no article/page directly for the individual Shrien Dewani, only a redirect to his ex wife's murder article. Therefore that's why I've created him his own article/page. If you can please kindly assist in moving it so he can have his own. Really thankful for your help. WikiHuman2021 ( talk) 07:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
Update: I've managed to successfully fix the redirect and Shrien Dewani's page/article. The draft page will now be required to be deleted which I may need assistance in doing. Thank you again for your help. WikiHuman2021 ( talk) 08:23, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hello MusikAnimal,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 [a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size. [b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
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There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
{{subst:NPR invite}}on their talk page.
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Hi Musik. I am here to talk about MoreMenu which you have created. It is a really useful gadget, and it has helped me a lot. Analysis has been lot easy because of your gadget. But one thing I don't understand is, what is the need of the "user thanks received" section? Many things, like RfA, RfB and all are important, but why did you include the user thanks received link? Can that be removed? No, I mean, I am not telling you to remove something just for my suggestion. You can start an RFC if you want. But how can I remove that for my use only. I think that is unnecessary for me atleast. Itcouldbepossible Talk 14:33, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
#mm-user-user-thanks-received { display:none; }
These
flaming cocktails illustrate that some
liquors can readily catch fire and burn.
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Hi. Do we have an update on what's happening? It was thrown out of Phab because someone decided it needed yet another (3rd) RfC although the previous ones had clear consensus. Apparently one was started at the VP but I can't find it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 07:02, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
I finally located the post at the VP. It was indeed only a notification about the RfC at WT:NPR, which still has consensus as did the earlier original RfC which got somehow swept under the carpet. So as far as I can see there should be no reason for anyone to post at Phab in order to stall the request. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:35, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
Hey! I have a question regarding this edit and others like it. Shouldn't the bot consider using a redirect-based template (like {{ R semiprotected}}) when sorting protection templates on protected redirects? Aidan9382 ( talk) 21:53, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
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The
Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which
jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States. Pictured above are four patrons and a
flapper in 1921 awaiting the opening of the
Krazy Kat Klub, a
speakeasy.
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Hi MusikAnimal, hope you're doing well. Using the script, {{
AN3|mr}}
doesn't work properly at
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A
retractable pen is a type of ink pen that has a spring-loaded ink cartridge which retracts and extends outside a protective housing.
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Hello MusikAnimal, I'm from ckbwiki. We tried to update Twinkle on ckbwiki and after updating the ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-twinklespeedy.js, we have noticed that the "Warn user on their talk page" feature is not working. I think ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-Twinkle.js and ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-twinkleconfig.js are related to the CSD options. Do you have any idea? If you have time to take a look at this issue, please feel free to use ckb:سخ article and the warning message should available on my talk page. And please, just try to use the first (A1) CSD because we already created the Delete and Notice templates with fully translated. Thanks! ⇒ Aram Talk 21:26, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hello MusikAnimal,
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.
{{subst:NPR invite}}on their talk page.
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Hi MusikAnimal: Sorry if you're not the right person to ping here; I got your name from the bot's talk page. The Community Tech bot's popular pages bot seems to have stopped working this morning. It was progressing nicely through this month's list until midnight last night. Now it hasn't updated anything today, despite the fact that there are still dozens of projects awaiting their list. Can you please check and see if something has made it hiccup? Thanks! MeegsC ( talk) 08:12, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Christmas market in
Red Square in 2017
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I'm a bit confused by this MusikBot edit on Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/New page reviewer. The bot is claiming I have zero mainspace edits, which is off by about 27,000. Did I make an error in my application, or is this a bot error? Cheers, Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 04:43, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
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Kyushu, literally "Nine
Provinces", is the third-largest island of Japan's
five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding
Okinawa).
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A level of indentation was removed from the template {{ rfp}}, so MusikBot's automated comments at WP:PERM may now be overindented. Winston ( talk) 09:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Dettifoss, located in northeast
Iceland, is the largest
waterfall in Europe in terms of volume discharge, with an average water flow of 200 m3/s.
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Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services. Pictured is the
Birmingham Wholesale Markets at 4:00 AM.
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Proposed
Lazarev Sea name (at top-middle of image) as part of the
Southern Ocean
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Hi, I need some assistance on Deri Lorus (singer) page. An user continues to placing the CSD for an article. Not allowing me to do anything. Help me. Thank you! Nonsmoker0000 ( talk) 08:58, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
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Would you please take a look there, Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-header/Normal? -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 16:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal. Per
the recent RfA RfC and
T297058, autopatrolled
will soon be unbundled from the admin toolset. Would it therefore be possible to stop MusikBot making
this kind of edit at PERM? Thanks. –
Joe (
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sysop
user group, but nope! It's an easy fix, though. I'll get on that soon. For now, we should feel free to remind admins that they can assign autopatrolled to themselves. —
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Growth features. You can learn more about
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Hey! So your bot is supposed to remove protection templates from pages without protection. However on Jun Matsumoto the last protection of the page expired on November 28. However, the bot didn't remove the template for protection until today. Any reason why the bot waited so long? From what I've seen the bot removes the protection template shortly after it expires. ― Blaze The Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 22:37, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, MusikAnimal. The
article for improvement of the week is:
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Hi,
It seems MusikBot hasn't been updated yet to acknowledge the fact that admins no longer have the autopatrolled right as part of the sysop
group, as its still marking request from admins as already done (see eg
[9]). Could the bot be updated to reflect the fact admins no longer have that right? Thanks in advance, --
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Hi! I'm User:Ed6767. I'm probably best known for founding and developing Wikipedia:RedWarn, which is now one of the most used user scripts on the English Wikipedia. I couldn't help but notice that you also develop user scripts, so I was wondering if I could ask you to try and give me feedback on my new tool called EasyWikiDev. It's a new way to develop user scripts quickly and easily using Visual Studio Code, and only takes a few minutes to set up and install on your computer, whilst saving you the headache of constantly having to save edits and reload the page for every single change to your script you'd like to test. EasyWikiDev makes it so you can develop your script locally, on your own computer, and only publish the changes to your users when you are ready to - and unlike other solutions, EasyWikiDev reloads the page right away when you make a change, so you always see the latest version of your script. Plus, by using Visual Studio Code, you have access to some of the most extensive and helpful extensions and tools available to developers right now.
If you're interested, you can find the GitHub repository here and a video tutorial that shows both how to set up EasyWikiDev and how to use it (which you should watch) here. When you have tried it and would like to give feedback, or just need help, please let me know by pinging me - you'd play a big part in my goal to make user script development easier for all Wikipedians. Thanks again for your consideration, ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 12:48, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
node .wikidev
from the root directory of the project. ✨
Ed
talk! ✨ 03:09, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
window
if necessary. I was also going to ask how it knows what dependencies the script you're developing requires, but I guess the script you're developing is responsible for using mw.loader.using()
etc. (which makes sense). When working on gadgets though, you don't normally use mw.loader
because the ResourceLoader definition has that, so I guess in that situation you should have a local wrapper script. Just goes to show how complicated this process really is! :) —
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).
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{{
cite book}}
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tag block into an {{
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I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. -- A.S. Brown ( talk) 08:55, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, any idea why
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Hello Sir Why incomplete information attached? I want to add some information in Abhira tribe please unprotection this Page 2409:4053:E0D:579D:0:0:5789:2B10 ( talk) 07:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
A man playing the
didgeridoo, an
indigenous instrument of Australia that was developed at least 1,500 years ago. This is one of the myriad topics within the
history of music.
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I have rised a request on Teahouse and somebody pinged you there. could you check my request ? Onmyway22 talk 17:27, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi MusikAnimal, there have been a couple of cases recently where a template sandbox was used in article space and got a high enough transclusion count that the bot protected it and it had to got to RfPP to be unprotected. Do you think it would be sensible to exclude sandbox pages from the bot? In an ideal world recent editors of the sandbox and template would get some sort of warning that they were using the sandbox live so they could fix it. User:GKFX talk 19:35, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
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A
NeXTstation graphics
workstation from 1990
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Hello, MusikAnimal. The
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Hello, MusikAnimal. The
article for improvement of the week is:
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Hello!
Is there any way that I could request some changes to filter 846 (T-Mobile/LTA tracking)?
2607:fb90:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 is currently globally blocked, so there's no real need to have that anymore. 2607:FB91:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 would be good to add, though.
Here are all the ranges used by T-Mobile as well: https://isprangefinder.toolforge.org/hint.php?type=asn&range=21928 (it's a lot)
wizzito | say hello! 20:10, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Are you the responder at Wishlist on meta right? Can I add another proposal there? – Ctrlwiki ( talk) 02:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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will be renamed suppress
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Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever. Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020. Overall January 2020
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March 2020
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May 2020
June 2020
Conclusion
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vector
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article for improvement of the week is:
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Hi MusikAnimal! Regarding your
responseHelper script, I think it would make sense to change the indentation for
WP:AIV (line 53) and
WP:UAA (line 173) from ::
to *:
to match the current bullet formatting used on those pages. This would make the script consistent with the recommended indentation in the editnotices for those pages (see
AIV and
UAA), fix an issue that was mentioned
here, and it would also help my new script for removing false positive bot reports at UAA. Thank you!
DanCherek (
talk) 18:29, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Isabella I of Castile in the Rimado de la Conquista de Granada, by Pedro Marcuello
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Could you possibly unprotect this article? It's been protected for five years and the protecting administrator is no longer active. 156.61.250.251 ( talk) 13:43, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Google's corporate headquarters is named
Googleplex, and is also the headquarters of its parent company,
Alphabet Inc.
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Why is the pageviews analysis not working for massviews and others, and why did the look for the pageviews analysis change into a Times New Roman font that looks like it hasn't loaded? Could this be fixed soon? Thanks, Nearly but not perfect ( talk) 06:48, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hi MusikAnimal. MusikBot doesn't seem to want to archive this section. I'm guessing it's user error 😬, could you tell us what we're doing wrong? Courtesy ping for @ Usernamekiran Thanks, FASTILY 00:02, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
A
letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system. Pictured are uppercase and lowercase
Z with stroke letters.
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Hi! MusikAnimal, I know you are one of the contributors to Twinkle, I have a request given on the Twinkle talk page, the concerned users made a Ticket for my request, but still no consensus is happening. What I want to happen is, at the moment, after I revert, I warn the user, and their talk page opens in another Tab, and this is Twinkle's default settings. My request is, I would like to open after I revert, the user talk page on the same Tab, like RedWarn, because I am a mobile user. RedWarn team process RedWarn users requests promptly. In RedWarn, after rollback, the Warn menu opens and goes straight to war, and the page will reload to the user who was warned. That's what I want to happen with Twinkle, hopefully it will work out, even if it makes option settings for mobile users only, thanks. — Ctrlwiki ( talk) 12:14, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
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Can you either lower the protection For this page? Skyscapercity ( talk) 17:23, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
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Tomba is a drink of
Sikkimese cuisine made from
fermented
millet: warm water is added to the millet and the liquid is consumed.
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Pumpkin pie is a dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling.
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Don't open this!
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Paddle ball is a one-person game played with a paddle and an attached ball.
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broadband is wide
bandwidth
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bandwidth concentration: 3 countries have almost 50% between them; 10 countries almost 75%.
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Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays who is best known for several series of children's books. Pictured is Lindgren around 1960.
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food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dinner.
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OMG IT'S MUSKIANIMAL THE INVENTOR OF THE MUSKIBOT. I AM JUST IN AWE! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 ( talk) 01:32, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
I was looking through Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates manually as i do a lot, and i noticed that the bot had added the {{ pp-move}} template to a move protected page ( Anantapur), which makes sense. However, the protection level was set to autoconfirmed, which is the default protection level for moving pages anyways. Because of that, {{ pp-move}} actually considers this an invalid use and flags it (See Module:Protection banner line 120). To be fair its probably more the fault of the person who protected the page for adding a functionless protection (I've already asked the acting person if the action was a mistake, so dw), but I'd recommend checking for this anyways. Hope this helps. Aidan9382 ( talk) 06:12, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
Note: The bot reverted my edit (Despite what the BRfA summary says about it not. I dunno, I probably somehow confused it or whatever), and ive noticed its not exclusion compliant. I'm not even gonna try edit war with a bot, so when you do fix this, please also correct the page. Thanks!
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Soil profile: Darkened topsoil and reddish subsoil layers are typical of
humid subtropical climate regions.
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Hi, MusikBot hasn't taken care of the daily DYK headings for a couple of days ( User:MusikBot/RotateTDYK). MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM 07:49, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
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Hi.
Nearly seven years ago you helped me with connecting to the replica database on Labs and we got as far as you can see your Labs MySQL credentials with
cat ~/replica.my.cnf
.
I didn't actually ever get that far because, as I recall, someone else picked up the ball I was carrying, and... figuring it all out was just too hard and time-consuming.
Fast forward seven years and now I've picked up another ball which I resolved to hold onto until either I solved it or someone else took the ball.
I successfully installed PuTTY and finally logged into my account on
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"...a server of the tools Cloud VPS project, the home of community managed bots, webservices, and tools supporting the Wikimedia movement."
where after getting stuck at Passphrase for key "rsa-key-20150713":
I kept getting Wrong passphrase
until ~two days later I had an epiphany and remembered it!
Then cat $HOME/replica.my.cnf
revealed my user ID and password. (I needed to type $HOME
rather than ~
)
Then I successfully installed MySQL Workbench and got it working by following these instructions. I've successfully used MySQL Workbench to make the same queries I made on Quarry (and got the same results).
Now I'm stuck at The next part is figuring out how to get your PHP app to connect to the database through the SSH tunnel... maybe with the connection open through Putty and your credentials defined in the app it will just work, I'm not sure. E.g. if the PHP app is looking for a local MySQL database and 127.0.0.1:3306 (default port) is routed to the labs db through the SSH tunnel, you might be all set
.
See the example code at wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Database#PHP (using PDO). I've tried both PDO and MySQLi and it fails the same way on both:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: PDO::__construct(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.
Warning: mysqli::__construct(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.
Connection failed: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
The line where it fails only specifies four of the nine or ten parameters I needed to set for MySQL Workbench to work.
The PHP installation manual says:
In the official PHP Windows distributions, MySQL Native Driver is enabled by default, so no additional configuration is required to use it. All MySQL database extensions will use MySQL Native Driver in this case.
So I assume that the other five or six parameters need to be specified in the MySQL Native Driver somehow? wbm1058 ( talk) 17:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
$mysqli = new mysqli("enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud",
..., I get
Connecting to the database replicas from your own computer says to set up a tunnel so that connections to port 4711 on your own computer will be relayed to the enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud database replica's MySQL server on port 3306. This tunnel will continue to work as long as the SSH session is open.
Also, Windows 10 has OpenSSH included and the
ssh
command can be used. On older versions of Windows, you can use the tool
PuTTY by add in Connection → SSH → Tunnels the following settings.
I'm still running Windows 7 on my desktop which is my main Windows machine supporting Wikipedia 24×7. I have a Windows 10 laptop which I use for backup but which is often powered down. I can try the Windows 10 SSH command later but first I want to get this running on my desktop using PuTTY. My PuTTY session is still open, and my understanding is that I need to keep my PuTTY session open 24×7 to be able to run a PHP bot that tunnels to the database 24×7. I configured my PuTTY per
How to set up PuTTY for direct access to your Toolforge account. There the Session
configuration says to specify port 22. Why 22 and not 4711 or 3306? All these port numbers are confusing for someone still trying to understand what they all mean.
I see from the banner at the top that "This user is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries." Sure wish you had a nice talk page watcher or stalker who could help. Trying to ask these questions via email or IRC seems difficult. wbm1058 ( talk) 16:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
A
turkey in a field
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Hello MusikAnimal,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 809 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 861 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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Can MusikBot please have a longer delay after protection templates are added to an unprotected page before it removes them? Some more innovative vandals add protection templates on with their vandalism, and the bot's removal of the template makes rollback useless. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:37, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
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Hello Looking for a revision deletion for page Rory Phillips of all 4 edits made by IP 95.147.222.131 on 27 March 2022 as these constitute vandalism, containing defamatory and unverified accusations of abuse, as well as some frankly childish digs. Also a revision deletion of subsequent edits made undoing them If this content would still be visible in those. Appreciate your help and apologise for my lack of rhyming. I blame the timing. Letsnotstart ( talk) 13:43, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Enabling the New Topic Tool by default. You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
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It seems that MusikBot perm clerking is saying that all users have 0 edits in mainspace, I have checked a few contributions pages and it seems untrue, just wondering if someone’s messed up the JSON or if the bot is broken. | Zippybonzo | Talk | 12:44, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
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Squash is a racket and ball sport played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. The players alternate in striking the ball with their rackets onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. The objective of the game is to hit the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return.
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Hey! I was looking over
User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector for various reasons, and I noticed that, in the
/config, for the regex_exclusions
, Wikipedia:Tip of the day/.*
is missing an ^
, so that might be worth adding. Bit of a picky thing to point out, but I thought I'd mention it anyways. (Small request. Used to be bigger, but then I realised im a moron, so sorry about that)
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🍡🍕🍔🍖🍗🍘🍙🚄🚥⛅ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:18:CD:C754:69D1:3AC4:B342:B9FC ( talk) 17:01, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Bulletproof glass window of a jeweler after a burglary attempt
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Raw
pork tenderloin
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MuskiBot II which you run has placed my article "Shrien Dewani" in draft. Please kindly remove it from Draft's. Thank you kindly. WikiHuman2021 ( talk) 23:48, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
@MusikAnimal Thank you kindly for your timely response and assistance it's greatly appreciated. There is no article/page directly for the individual Shrien Dewani, only a redirect to his ex wife's murder article. Therefore that's why I've created him his own article/page. If you can please kindly assist in moving it so he can have his own. Really thankful for your help. WikiHuman2021 ( talk) 07:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
Update: I've managed to successfully fix the redirect and Shrien Dewani's page/article. The draft page will now be required to be deleted which I may need assistance in doing. Thank you again for your help. WikiHuman2021 ( talk) 08:23, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hello MusikAnimal,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 [a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size. [b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
There is a new template available, {{
NPP backlog}}
, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 15089 articles, as of 06:00, 28 April 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot
There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
{{subst:NPR invite}}on their talk page.
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Hi Musik. I am here to talk about MoreMenu which you have created. It is a really useful gadget, and it has helped me a lot. Analysis has been lot easy because of your gadget. But one thing I don't understand is, what is the need of the "user thanks received" section? Many things, like RfA, RfB and all are important, but why did you include the user thanks received link? Can that be removed? No, I mean, I am not telling you to remove something just for my suggestion. You can start an RFC if you want. But how can I remove that for my use only. I think that is unnecessary for me atleast. Itcouldbepossible Talk 14:33, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
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These
flaming cocktails illustrate that some
liquors can readily catch fire and burn.
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Hi. Do we have an update on what's happening? It was thrown out of Phab because someone decided it needed yet another (3rd) RfC although the previous ones had clear consensus. Apparently one was started at the VP but I can't find it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 07:02, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
I finally located the post at the VP. It was indeed only a notification about the RfC at WT:NPR, which still has consensus as did the earlier original RfC which got somehow swept under the carpet. So as far as I can see there should be no reason for anyone to post at Phab in order to stall the request. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:35, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
Hey! I have a question regarding this edit and others like it. Shouldn't the bot consider using a redirect-based template (like {{ R semiprotected}}) when sorting protection templates on protected redirects? Aidan9382 ( talk) 21:53, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
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T130439)Temperature map of the United States during the
Great Blizzard of 1899
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The
Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which
jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States. Pictured above are four patrons and a
flapper in 1921 awaiting the opening of the
Krazy Kat Klub, a
speakeasy.
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Hi MusikAnimal, hope you're doing well. Using the script, {{
AN3|mr}}
doesn't work properly at
WP:AN3. It puts the result in the header but not at the bottom. Thanks in advance for looking into it.--
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A
retractable pen is a type of ink pen that has a spring-loaded ink cartridge which retracts and extends outside a protective housing.
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19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
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21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hello MusikAnimal, I'm from ckbwiki. We tried to update Twinkle on ckbwiki and after updating the ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-twinklespeedy.js, we have noticed that the "Warn user on their talk page" feature is not working. I think ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-Twinkle.js and ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-twinkleconfig.js are related to the CSD options. Do you have any idea? If you have time to take a look at this issue, please feel free to use ckb:سخ article and the warning message should available on my talk page. And please, just try to use the first (A1) CSD because we already created the Delete and Notice templates with fully translated. Thanks! ⇒ Aram Talk 21:26, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hello MusikAnimal,
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.
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A
home page of Wikipedia (in 2014) displayed in a web browser.
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Hi MusikAnimal: Sorry if you're not the right person to ping here; I got your name from the bot's talk page. The Community Tech bot's popular pages bot seems to have stopped working this morning. It was progressing nicely through this month's list until midnight last night. Now it hasn't updated anything today, despite the fact that there are still dozens of projects awaiting their list. Can you please check and see if something has made it hiccup? Thanks! MeegsC ( talk) 08:12, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Christmas market in
Red Square in 2017
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21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
I'm a bit confused by this MusikBot edit on Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/New page reviewer. The bot is claiming I have zero mainspace edits, which is off by about 27,000. Did I make an error in my application, or is this a bot error? Cheers, Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 04:43, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
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Kyushu, literally "Nine
Provinces", is the third-largest island of Japan's
five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding
Okinawa).
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