User talk:DatGuy/Archives/2017/March

Your GA nomination of Tuvalu at the 2008 Summer Olympics

The article Tuvalu at the 2008 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Tuvalu at the 2008 Summer Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 21:41, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tuvalu at the 2016 Summer Olympics

The article Tuvalu at the 2016 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Tuvalu at the 2016 Summer Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 05:02, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-10

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 search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [1]
• When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [2]

Problems

• Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [3]
• Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [4]

Changes this week

• The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [5]
• The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [6]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (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 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification

• The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

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23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Update on Test of code

Hi DatGuy, Not sure if you had read my ping on Wikipedia_talk:Files_for_discussion#Admin_bot_to_delete_old_revisions_of_non-free_files - to read User:Ronhjones/Python, but while at work today I had a sudden idea and on a trial tonight User:Ronhjones/Python2 it was confirmed. I get the hidden file listed as I'm using my admin account - admins can see hidden files. When I use my alt account, the hidden files don't list. You have got an "#except" in there so maybe it won't be an issues if wiki tosses an error? Since no-one else is offering, shall I go and make a new Bot account so we can apply for trial/run it? and use yourself as the tech expert? Ron. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:53, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

@Ronhjones: I indeed haven't noticed the ping. Great finding! I commented out the except for debugging, but perhaps you could include it for personal preference. You could either put it on WP:BOTN, ask one of the sysop botops (which you could probably find around WP:BRFA), or go ahead and create the bot account yourself :). Keep in mind WP:BOTPOL, in particular, not to edit outside of it's userspace until it has been approved for trial. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 21:56, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

See how we go... Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RonBot Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:45, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Just reading the proposed code to run (User:RonBot/Source1) - (trying to improve my python!) - where does it remove the template??? - the one DatBot 6 adds to show it's been processed - like {{Orphaned non-free revisions|date=19:55, 22 February 2017 (UTC)}}. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 01:36, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Could you add some input at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/RonBot? Thanks Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 16:07, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

• Note to anyone reading this, input has been given. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 19:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

CVUA

@DatGuy: Can you train me in counter-vandalism?AWMSSilent (talk) 16:42, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

I already have a student. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 19:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Request to join the Counter-Vandalism Academy

Hi, I'm Algmwc5 and I wish to join the Counter-Vandalism Academy. I've been patrolling the Recent Changes and I'm interested in stopping and removing vandalism on Wikipedia. I don't know the requirements to join the Counter-Vandalism Academy though, so I'm not sure if I can join the Academy. Thanks! Algmwc5 (talk) 10:35, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tuvalu at the 2016 Summer Olympics

The article Tuvalu at the 2016 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tuvalu at the 2016 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 07:14, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-11

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

Changes this week

• You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [7][8]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (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 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [9]
• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [10][11]

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15:26, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Request to join Counter-Vandalism Unit Academy

Hello there, I was wondering if you could train me on counter-vandalism, as I saw that you had 1 open student slot over at Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy. I've been editing for some time now, and been reverting vandalism for a while. but I'm not quite certain that my fundamentals are as in-shape as they should be, and that my understanding of the process is as strong as it could be. If you could mentor me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

--Kostas20142 (talk) 12:04, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail!

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Dead links

• this edit saved a link that is not dead. It can be reported through the same interface used to run the bot as it keeps a database of false positives and relies on user input. -- GreenC 00:10, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

RonBot

Hi DatGuy, I tried a dummy run with save lines commented out - see User:RonBot/DummyRun. A few syntax errors, I think I've sorted those out, other interesting bits listed on page as well. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:33, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-12

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

• The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [12]
• DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [13]
• You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [14]
• The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [15]
• The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [16]

Problems

• On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [17]

Changes this week

• When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [18]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (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 21 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Reducing DI-tagged files

Would it be possible for DatBot not to reduce non-free files tagged with DI tags? As the file is most likely going to be deleted after a week (or 2 days), the size reduction is pointless. — Train2104 (t • c) 02:16, 22 March 2017 (UTC)