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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Userinfo.js

Hello. Is there an opt-out of identifying yourself having user rights? 1989 (talk) 01:35, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Everyone's user groups are public at places like Special:UserRights, in the log, and so on, so no, you can't hide people from knowing that you have certain user group. Is there something you don't want to have anymore? ~ Amory (utc) 11:47, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
Not hide it for everyone, I meant an opt-out of not having ones own info showing to themselves. 1989 (talk) 15:37, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
Ah okay, I understand now. I just added an option to allow you do do so: put window.userinfoHideSelf = true; in your common.js before the importScript('User:Amorymeltzer/userinfo.js'); and it should work on all pages except your own. ~ Amory (utc) 16:47, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
After purging, it seems to work on other users as well. 1989 (talk) 17:04, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
Oh yeah that's because I'm an idiot. Should be fine now! ;) ~ Amory (utc) 17:12, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome
 
Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:31, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

ygm

ygm. — xaosflux Talk 03:06, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Replied but 👍 ~ Amory (utc) 03:12, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
I think that user sub pages should always suppress redirects when renaming - perhaps only leaving redirects on the base user and usertalk page. That would eliminate this at the least. It would also break imported pages from other users if they rename themselves - but I think caveat emptor should apply there anyway... — xaosflux Talk 03:16, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 January 2020

18:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Unprotect 2030 Winter Olympics

Please unblock 2030 Winter Olympics. Blocked two years ago, today - there are reliable sources about the Olympics including the candidates to host. Subtropical-man ( | en-2) 00:27, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, that seems reasonable, I've gone and done that. I haven't looked to see what state Draft:2030 Winter Olympics is in, but I do note it exists. ~ Amory (utc) 02:46, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

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

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
  • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

  Technical news

  • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [11]

  Arbitration

  • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

  Miscellaneous



20:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report
 

Our 2019 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

  • Overview of Backlog-reduction progress (a record low backlog!);
  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page;
  • Automated archiving of requests;
  • Membership news and results of elections;
  • Annual leaderboard;
  • Plans for 2020.
– Your Guild coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:10, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

19:10, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

 

Hello Amorymeltzer,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources
Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

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16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Dear Amorymeltzer

This user User:อัลเบิร์ is trying to make an edit war and I explain about the Wikipedia policy to him but I argue to block anyone who blames to edit in content that this user only thinks he is true. No one can edit on the page that the user was overseer. I need you to tell him to understand the rule and don't make another misunderstanding in Wikipedia rule, especially I need you to BLOCK him to resolve the problem that this user make.

Thank You Ministerboy (talk) 05:06, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Excuse me but are you, Ministerboy, the IP that is constantly making reverts on those pages? If you are, I believe that you are the one that are violating the rules and try to put your faults into the other's hand. The other user is asking for a discussion with you but you don't do it. Your version of edits cannot be accepted because it came later and the other user is not consenting with you. So you have to discuss first but you choose not to do it and instead, committed warring edit violation. อัลเบิร์ (talk) 05:11, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Dear User:อัลเบิร์ That another IP is my friend that sits behind me, I work for Wikipedia Thai football for 4 Year and I was work for Thai FA for 2 years until now. Why you delete the honor content of every Thai team and why you delete the history of every Thai team. All the information I find with my ability with my Wikipedia user friend for 4 year and you came here to delete and tell me to talk with you first. That was absurd and can't accept. STOP doing this action for the better way of finding the information from Wikipedia. Ministerboy (talk) 05:16, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
As info, I blocked all 3 users for 24 hours for edit warring. Didn't realize Ministerboy had left this same message to 6-7 others. -- ferret (talk) 14:00, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Just seeing this now; absolutely endorse your actions. Clear edit warring and disruption across a number of articles. Not surprised there's been sockpuppetry (noted on your talkpage), thanks for handling this. Agree with Bbb as well. ~ Amory (utc) 16:10, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

20:59, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Test-warn-deletion

 Template:Test-warn-deletion has been nominated for merging with Template:Db-test-deleted. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Train of Knowledge (Talk) 21:32, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 March 2020

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

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

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
  • A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

  Technical news

  • Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

  Miscellaneous



00:35, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

  Thanks for the support and shepherding that got me through the last couple of weeks. It's HUGELY appreciated. Cabayi (talk) 12:48, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Glad to be a part of it! ~ Amory (utc) 01:41, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

crathighlighter

Would it be possible to turn off the default highlighting. I want the text to change, but not the background. If I over-ride the default background in my css by setting the background to none, it removes the background set on pages such as closed RFAs which set their own backgrounds.

Maybe setting a crathighlighter_defaults=none in my js before calling the crathighlighter would do it without impacting on existing users?

Thanks Cabayi (talk) 14:23, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Cabayi, you don't actually want none, you want to use inherit. If I understand you correctly, changing that in your css should do the trick. ~ Amory (utc) 01:42, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
That worked beautifully thanks. There are a couple of omissions which I need to dig into to understand before bugging you further. Cabayi (talk) 11:55, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Arbitration case opened

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog/Evidence. Please add your evidence by March 23, 2020, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.

All content, links, and diffs from the original ARC and the latest ARC are being read into the evidence for this case.

The secondary mailing list is in use for this case: arbcom-en-b@wikimedia.org

For the Arbitration Committee, CThomas3 (talk) 05:55, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

17:14, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Deletion review for Parthesh Patel

User:હમઝા ઘાંચી has asked for a deletion review of Parthesh Patel. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Cryptic 03:47, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

21:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate.

January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here.

March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now!

Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone!

Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:52, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

I need emergency help to deal with user JIJJRG on Pat Day - he is trying to assassinate his character and blocks attempts to fix

The user JIJJRG has desecrated the Wikipedia page of Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day and is using it as his thiefdom to control everything that is said on the page, and has constantly deleted numerous attempts by myself, a historian and journalist, to accurately portray Day's accomplishments and balance the page against the malicious, hostile, misleading, false and denegrating words that JIJJRG has used to slander Day.

This must be stopped.

I have tried going through dispute resolution and was told this would be resolved but it has not.

This user has a serious act to grind against one of the sport's greatest jockeys in its histories and has no interest in accurately portraying his career or anything positive from it.

Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NatroneDay (talkcontribs) 18:17, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Noting for the record: User indef'd, other user CU blocked. ~ Amory (utc) 00:51, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 04:00, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Wrong editor but okay! ~ Amory (utc) 10:14, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

17:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

WP:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2018 January 28#Sinuosus

Hi Amory. You closed that redirect deletion discussion as delete. I don't have a question about that, but I know you know what you're doing so I'd like to ask a related question. C. sinuosa is a disambig page. Have you ever heard someone make the argument that pages like C. sinuosa should be deleted, rather than being a redirect or disambiguation page (in this case, pointing to Colpomenia sinuosa)? I'm asking because an awful lot of pages in the format [initial of the genus] [species name] don't exist ... and I'm wondering if someone thinks they're not supposed to. (I suspect people just haven't gotten around to creating the redir or disambig page yet.) - Dank (push to talk) 23:56, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

I think it's more about the latter, but really limitations in human interest. There are plenty of redirects and dabs, but folks have to think they'd be useful. RfD discussions can be hard to search, but there are definitely instances where G. species pages were kept when appropriate. Probably the hardest part is when there's ambiguity and someone argues for a redirect rather than a 2dab. The community has pretty heartily spoken out against mass creation of such things a few times IIRC, so it's really only done slowly and methodically as folks desire. Still, there are plenty of gaps: R. norvegicus exists, but I'm surprised M. musculus doesn't.
Does that help? ~ Amory (utc) 10:30, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, that's helpful. - Dank (push to talk) 14:17, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Just noting that I see the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Plants#Sources_useful_for_putting_together_disambig_pages, I'd absolutely recommend a larger discussion, RfC or whatever. A creation of 3,000 pages, even if 100% correct and just redirects, will almost certainly end up at AN or ANI or something. It may also run afoul of WP:BOTP, in particular see WP:MEATBOT and WP:MASSCREATION. ~ Amory (utc)
Thanks again. - Dank (push to talk) 19:35, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Twinkle delete prefs change

Thanks for that, I have noticed the change and it is a definite improvement. Guy (help!) 21:24, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

👍 Thanks! ~ Amory (utc) 01:11, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020

17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

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

  Guideline and policy news

  • There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

  Technical news

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous

  • The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

Extended confirmed protection required for Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data

Indefinite extended confirmed protection required for Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data. It seems that protection is expired. Lot of vandalism has started. No response at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Thank you. Amkgp (talk) 15:53, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Just seeing this now, but taking a quick look I generally agree that the semi protection added earlier today is doing the trick. El C seems to be on top of it! ~ Amory (utc) 02:08, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to collaborate: new NodeJS bot framework

Hi,

While I know that you are engaged with your kid(s?) (lucky you!) and that you're maybe not a bots guy, I thought you'd interested in knowing that I created a new bot framework for NodeJS called mwn. Mainly to beat the lockdown boredom, but also because existing NodeJS bot libraries suck - they have limited feature sets and use outdated methods and technologies. Your contributions would be very much appreciated! See issues for a list of open tasks. Lemme know if you want the colab bit too. SD0001 (talk) 19:53, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, looks neat! I'm definitely interest and will try to keep an eye on it, but, yeah, I'm certainly playing catch-up one or maybe two days a week. Might not contribute for a while, but hope to when things get a bit less hectic. ~ Amory (utc) 15:21, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
 
Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:48, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

18:44, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2020

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

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

 

  Administrator changes

  GnangarraKaisershatnerMalcolmxl5

  CheckUser changes

  Callanecc

  Oversight changes

  HJ Mitchell

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  Miscellaneous


16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Geological range

Hi, {{Geological range}} has a lot of sub templates to work with. So I have took the time to merge those into an only module. Also, reduced the size of the twice-processed data. The module is Module:Geological range, and the test cases can be seen here: User:HastaLaVi2/sandbox2. If we update the template with this module, we won't have to need any of the templates listed above the module page. We could also now merge {{Long fossil range}} template and its documentation into this one, since I merged all of them together and no parameter changed, nothing is affected. ~ Z (m) 09:47, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Is there a reason you're telling me? I don't know anything about those templates, so you should probably discuss something like that on the template talk page or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Palaeontology. ~ Amory (utc) 10:32, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
Well, I did actually. But the template is under protection. So I do not know how to make the change now. ~ Z (m) 13:52, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
You can always wait for more input — it seems you just recently posted it — but what you want to do is put Template:Edit template-protected on that talkpage. That will draw editors with the appropriate usergroup permissions to check it out and take care of it for you. Might take a day or two but should take care of it! ~ Amory (utc) 19:25, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

20:40, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

One hour

Something tells me that this:

cache_hours *= 60*60*10000; // milliseconds

isn't one hour :) Galobtter (pingó mió) 04:32, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Hah! Thanks. Orders of magnitude, how do they even! ~ Amory (utc) 09:43, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

User highlighter script question

Hey Amory, hope you're well. This script of yours does wonders, but I've been trying to customize it to do something logical with respect to all our users who wear many many hats, and I've been struggling a bit. Could you give me some pointers as to the order in which your script processes user-rights (or lines of script? this is where I've been mucking around) and also what the "important" field in your customization suggestions does? Vanamonde (Talk) 19:37, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

To expand a little; I see that I can alter the order of priority; but it still seems like the script can only handle one designation per user; am I correct about this? If not, I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. Vanamonde (Talk) 19:47, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Okay I get ya. Yes, that's true, only one per link. It should be easy to add all classes: it would slow things down, though, which I'd like to avoid, but I'm not sure how much or how noticeable it would be. I can do some testing and see? ~ Amory (utc) 19:54, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
That'd be great...the ARBCOM-crat-OS-CU Venn diagram has gotten quite complicated, especially since the last election. It's not a big deal if you're busy, but it would be quite useful otherwise. Vanamonde (Talk) 20:01, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
I feel ya! I threw something together quickly that should do it. I did some minimal testing, but (for me on my decade+ laptop), the difference in the script loading on WP:AN was 150ms to 250ms. That's probably the worst case scenario (well, maybe ANI) but still seemed like a big increase. So what I did was added a preference option if you like: add window.all_groups = true; to your common.js, and it should be enabled! Holla if there are issues, it was a good idea. ~ Amory (utc) 20:14, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Much appreciated...this seems to handle multiple symbols, now, but it's ability to do different colors seems to have disappeared? For instance, in my scheme, ARBCOM/OS are different from CU-only are different from sysop-only; but they've all been collapsed to the sysop color at the moment. Or maybe I've misunderstood the directions...Vanamonde (Talk) 20:49, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Vanamonde93, sorry, was writing up the details with the new changes. CSS will favor whichever rule was added last, so in your custom css page, the fact that you have the sysop rule last means it will take precedence over all the others. Basically, if you're using this, your customized CSS should try to be the reverse of the order you'd like. ~ Amory (utc) 21:01, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Ah, I had them almost precisely reversed. Perfect, thank you; works great now. Vanamonde (Talk) 21:06, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Some more info at User:Amorymeltzer/crathighlighter#Show all groups, but great! ~ Amory (utc) 21:14, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

17:18, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification!

Hi,

A comment of yours in "Village Pump#WMF" helped me clear the slight doubt (thus making me happy :]) that I had about whether VPT was the appropriate place to post maintenance announcements. I'm new to this. The fact that the description of VPT doesn't mention anything about announcements, didn't help me either.

Also, if there are other places where maintenance notices such as "Planned maintenance operation (read-only time) …" should be posted, do let me know :)

Thanks again, Kaartic correct me, if i'm wrong 18:36, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Glad to be of service! ~ Amory (utc) 00:50, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Kind of a dumb question

So I'm building up an AWB module for infobox genfixes, and among some of the more useful tidbits of code I came across RemoveExcessTemplatePipes(string templatecall). The only issue is that, unlike RemoveTemplateParameter(string articletext, string templatename, string parameter), which includes the articletext, the pipes function doesn't have that in there. Would I still set up the line of code along the lines of

 ArticleText = WikiFunctions.Tools.RemoveExcessTemplatePipes(<insert template name here>);

based on the return for that tool I feel like that would only return the new template code, so I wanted to check with you before I broke things and couldn't figure out how to fix them. Primefac (talk) 13:52, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Well, with the caveat that I've never worked with C# or done any work with AWB modules, I do believe based on the source that you're right: it only takes and only returns the new template call, so it'd be something like TemplateText = WikiFunctions.Tools.RemoveExcessTemplatePipes(<insert template name here>); or however your module ends up wanting to use it. ~ Amory (utc) 00:14, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Weird, for some odd reason I thought you were pretty well involved in that. Thank you, at least, for verifying my concerns! Primefac (talk) 00:35, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Ah, you were probably thinking of Twinkle. I'm all up in there. ~ Amory (utc) 09:32, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

WikiBreak Enforcer

Please be aware that I am using the WikiBreak Enforcer in accordance with a previous Self-Requested block approved and enforced by this user/admin. If you would like to consider an additional block alongside my Javascript command, you are welcome to do so. Please visit my user page for more details. -- Sleyece (talk) 18:24, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

That wouldn't be self-requested; regardless, I would decline to do so given the behavior and discussions leading up to this. ~ Amory (utc) 09:58, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Asking for the rollback permission

I have fully understood policy of Wikipedia.like this is an encyclopedia and neutrality should be maintained while writing on it as well as unsourced edit and copyright violation is not permitted here. I have however seen that there are a number of pages on Wikipedia specially related to South Asian politics and important personality as well as historical figures which are vandalised by new users and remain vandalised as administrator attention is not drawn on some minor edits as well as less important pages.But as a history teacher I think that such minor edit can cost a lot to people who are dependent upon Wikipedia to enhance their knowledge base as after all they end up learning falsified stuffs. In such a scenario I request rollback right to help uphold the quality of Wikipedia article. Editor wikip6 (talk) 11:11, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi there! I see you also posted this request at WP:PERM/R, so I think that's the best place for now. It will get reviewed in due time. ~ Amory (utc) 13:07, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

14:17, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice

 

Hi Amorymeltzer, you are receiving this notice because you are listed as an active Articles for Creation reviewer.

Recently a list of reviewers by area of expertise was created. This notice is being sent out to alert you to the existence of that list, and to encourage you to add your name to it. If you or other reviewers come across articles in the queue where an acceptance/decline hinges on specialist knowledge, this list should serve to facilitate contact with a fellow reviewer.

To end on a positive note, the backlog has dropped below 1,500, so thanks for all of the hard work some of you have been putting into the AfC process!

Sent to all Articles for Creation reviewers as a one-time notice. To opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Regards, Sam-2727 (talk)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2020

Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

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

 

  Administrator changes

  CaptainEekCreffettCwmhiraeth
  Anna FrodesiakBuckshot06RonhjonesSQL

  CheckUser changes

  SQL

  Guideline and policy news

  Arbitration

  • A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Question

In your edit summaries for this page, you mention that you use a script to add/remove users from the list. What script do you use to do this task? - ZLEA T\C 01:58, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

There's a link in the edit summary, but the page changed since that particular page was edited so it could be confusing! I added an anchor. It's linked at the bottom of User:Amorymeltzer/crathighlighter; it's a fairly-straightforward perl script, although with some git crap to make my life easier. I've got a version running on toolforge but there haven't been many changes lately! ~ Amory (utc) 02:26, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks. Could it be used to maintain similar lists of other user groups? - ZLEA T\C 13:08, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
It could, yes. What did you have in mind? I'll note that Bellezzasolo has a bot that maintains lists of other groups. ~ Amory (utc) 01:27, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
I was thinking of making an Admin Highlighter script that worked for all user groups with emojis. I found a script that checked the user's user groups directly and forked it, but I stopped work on it when I realized there are user groups that cannot be represented with existing emojis. At the moment I no longer have a need for your script, but I know who to talk to if I do in the future. Thanks anyway. - ZLEA T\C 02:07, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Also, Bellezzasolo's bot hasn't been active for almost a year. I looked into it early on but ultimately chose to find an alternative way of checking user groups that wasn't outdated. - ZLEA T\C 02:16, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
@ZLEA: Check out User:MDanielsBot/markAdmins-Data.js/User:MDanielsBot/markAdmins-Data.json :) (also, Amory, thanks for maintaining the Arbcom list, I've been stealing it...) --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 02:40, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC.

Current events

Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests.

Drive and blitz reports

March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Other news

Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020.

Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page.

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Your edit on MacBeth

Please check it Macbeth, looks strange to be honest... "Blank"?! CommanderWaterford (talk) 20:11, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Haha yes, thank you. Was testing something on a different wiki and got my tabs mixed up. Immediately realized but you beat me to the punch — thanks! ~ Amory (utc) 20:12, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Trainwrecks

So, Jewish Legion (WWII) and Jewish Legion (WWI) are one thing, but Jewish Legion ((WWII) is a clear typo (has an extra parenthesis), can we delete it? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here

We're talking about Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 7#Common Sense( Scottish Magazine), I think the close is pretty clear these can all be nominated again, just that the mass/indiscriminate nature of that nomination was unmanageable. That being said, in the specific case of Jewish Legion ((WWII), since it was just made May first and was started (and moved) by you, I'll delete it. ~ Amory (utc) 11:08, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

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Replacing vectorTabs with .vector-menu-tabs

As mentioned in the title of this section, please make the change in MediaWiki:Gadget-Blackskin.css file. Adithyak1997 (talk) 17:44, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Adithyak1997, thanks for the reminder! I think I took care of it — it's not something I used, so I'm not 100% on how the tabs were supposed to look, but AFAICT it's all set? ~ Amory (utc) 18:05, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

  The Technical Barnstar
Because, honestly, after reading this regular expression in Twinkle for putting maintenance templates in the right place, you absolutely deserve one. I hope you don't mind me building off it for a similar regex I'm writing in a bot task - it took me a good fifteen minutes to get my head around what you've written there (it is you, I checked git blame!) and my god that must have taken some thinking on your part when you first wrote it. Thank you so much for your amazing contributions   Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 20:23, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, but there was a lot of prior work on that regex, I really only tweaked it. It's a beast for sure! I'll take the "amazing contributions" compliment, though! ~ Amory (utc) 15:15, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

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Hi. For phab:T255903, would you be interested in trying to tackle it yourself? I can review your code and merge it (if it works, etc.) --DannyS712 (talk) 00:22, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

In a different world absolutely but it's taking a lot of effort just to stay current here. I appreciate the offer of help, though — I'd love to get set up to contribute (and pick up some php!) down the line. ~ Amory (utc) 14:56, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

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

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Template:Uw-unattribcc

Do you know how to add Template:Uw-unattribcc to the twinkle user warning menu as a single issue notice? Having the template on twinkle would make copyright work much easier. Thanks, Moneytrees🌴Talk🌲Help out at CCI! 17:51, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Moneytrees: I gotchu! Done in PR #1053. --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 18:17, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Moneytrees, have you tried putting it in your custom warnings list? I've nothing against it, but Twinkle tries not to put brand-new templates in unless there's some broad support it. There are a lot of "Hey I just made this template it should be in Twinkle" and the list can get pretty unwieldy. ~ Amory (utc) 10:48, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
Right, I should have added it to my list, sorry for being a little stupid. I've opened a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Template index/User talk namespace. Moneytrees🌴Talk🌲Help out at CCI! 14:59, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
I think it could be useful. I can think of two times I would have used it if I knew about even though I don't actively work with copyright. --Trialpears (talk) 15:10, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
Not stupid! There are lots of options, I forget about half of them myself! ~ Amory (utc) 15:37, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

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Arameans article

Hello there, could you please take a look at Arameans article from time to time due to countless edit warrings with a group of national vandalists, such as user Mugsalot, who have successfully established themselves here on English Wikipedia by spreading POV editing. This has been going for the last couple of years. Permanently violating Wikipedia's policy instead of being a neutral encyclopedia, welcoming high-quality academic sources even if it doesn't fit these people's views, which shouldn't matter here. Many thanks in advance.

--Optra2021 (talk) 08:57, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

[122] ——Serial 10:16, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Note for the archive: see also Special:Permalink/975769814#Arameans and Special:Permalink/975411432#August 2020 ~ Amory (utc) 10:44, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

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