User talk:AmandaNP/Archives/2016/January-February

Request of Removal Last Sanction

I'm looking to remove the last sanction (number one) from here. eurodyne (talk) 05:02, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

 Approved as we have talked. -- DQ mobile (ʞlɐʇ) 04:38, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

User:Gurumayum Arvind

Hi DeltaQuad. You recently blocked a number of socks of Gurumayum Arvind. I think they might be at it again as Special:Contributions/45.127.136.69. The articles edited are the same and the same edits are being made. Seems like WP:DUCK to me, so I 'd appreciate it if you take a look. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:27, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi again DeltaQuad. Just want to let you know that 45.127.136.69 was blocked by Drmies and another sock 45.127.138.6 was blocked by CactusWriter. There, however, appears to be a new possible "duck" Special:Contributions/45.127.138.24 who is bascially editing the same articles and making the same types of edits. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:03, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

DQ, will you do a rangeblock for under $10? Drmies (talk) 15:30, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

• I wrote them up at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gurumayum Arvind. Marchjuly, thanks for the alert. Keep 'em coming. Drmies (talk) 15:36, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Psst, DQ, some vandal put a weird little flaggie on your talk page, top right. Doesn't look very properly 'Murican to me. Drmies (talk) 15:36, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [1]
• You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [2]

Problems

• Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [3]

Changes this week

• The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [4]
• New file uploads will now be patrollable. [5]
• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [6][7]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [8]
• The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [9][10]
• There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [11][12]
• The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [13]
• Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [14]

Changes this week

• The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [15]
• MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [17][18]
• Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [19]

Changes this week

• You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [20]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [21]
• The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [22]
• Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [23]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

SPI training

Hi Amanda, seems like we've lost our leader. Vanja is frustrated because apparently you haven't contributed to the training discussion since January 2. Frankly, I don't know what to do as I think of myself as a tag-along in the first instance. I don't particularly want to take charge, but we can't leave all the trainees in the lurch, either. Based on your comment about e-mail backlog, it sounds like you have limited time, but if you can't manage to do this in the foreseeable future for whatever reason (not prying), it'd be nice to at least know that. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:06, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

I have replied at the talk. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 22:43, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Mail

Hello, AmandaNP/Archives/2016. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Acroterion (talk) 02:27, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

 Replied -- Amanda (aka DQ) 03:54, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks so much for sorting out Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Goyah! Citobun (talk) 03:34, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [24]
• Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [25][26]
• Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [27]

Changes this week

• The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [28]
• Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [29][30]
• The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [31]
• The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [32][33][34]
• The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [35][36]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [37]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, AmandaNP. You have new messages at Wikipedia_talk:Sockpuppet_investigations/SPI/Clerk_training/December_2015.
Message added 22:14, 14 January 2016 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Vanjagenije (talk) 22:14, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

User:Joseph Prasad

You recently indeffed this user's account for block evasion as a result of an SPI. I'd like to suggest the possibility of removing talk and user page access, as well (and possibly email user capability). He's asking editors (by pinging them) to proxy edit for him. He is now also editing again as the IP reported in the latest SPI -- just at his talk page (so far), but using it, nonetheless. That tells me he has impunity for policy and no intention to leave Wikipedia at all (but maybe it's just me who sees it that way). I warned him about asking editors to edit for him at his talk page, he blanked it and then edited as IP 208.53.98.113. Talk page history here. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 01:46, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

@Winkelvi: Dealt with, except the email block. I have to have actual abuse of that to turn that function off. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 03:53, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

WP:RFU question

Bonjour! Do you know how often User:DeltaQuad/UTRS Appeals is set to update? I haven't seen any change since early this morning. --Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:31, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

• DQB has continued clerking UAA, so I'm not sure if it's again an issue with being desynced from Labs? Maybe it can't login to UTRS right now? In any case there are currently no open UTRS cases... maybe... it updates only when there are new cases? Dunno ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 00:11, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

There were new cases which didn't display, but I closed them. The two that are showing now were taken care of by the time I logged in this morning. --Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 00:13, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Every 20 minutes. It appears my switch over to OAuth failed and it was requesting my password to edit. I'll try and find the fix in the next few days. Also UTRS actions run on a separate server than the rest of DeltaQuadBot. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 05:16, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Open the pod bay doors HAL...--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 06:06, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

• Unfortunately it's been down for days. I've commented the template out, please revert at will when it's back up. Cheers,--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 18:55, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

• @Ponyo: That's probably my own fault. I forgot Tool Labs != UTRS and that I have to make the adjustments over there too. I'll get to those later today, and then it should run for a long time without bugging out again. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 15:48, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

This block

I've noticed that you blocked this IP for a decade. Any reason for the unusually lengthy block? -- I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 06:11, 17 February 2016 (UTC)