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Regarding the edit on "general elections of India 2019" article

When I posted the outcome as fact, you chided me asking "do you have a crystal ball?" Now that the result is what I posted, would you like to know how your life will be after 20 years? Will gaze into one if you'd like ;) Skullbaron (talk) 19:08, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (October 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ahecht's page swap

MoonyTheDwarf's wikimap

SD0001: hide-reverted-edits • T-Watch • W-Ping • easy-merge

Enterprisey: diff-permalink • search-links • section-redir-note • fancy-diffs • EditWarChecker

Pending requests

Inline editor for cleanup tags

Script to remove empty parameters

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Have a great November, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

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Global watchlist - Update 2

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

General notes

• To report a bug or request a feature, please create a new task on Phabricator with the script's tag

Recent additions

• Site validation has been tightened. Previously, only the language code and project name had to be valid - now, they must be a valid combination (i.e. en.wikiversity exists, and so is valid, but sco.wikiversity is not valid, because no such wiki exists).
• When the global watchlist feed is loading, an OOUI widget will be shown, rather than an animated gif.
• An option has been added to no longer group edits to the same page. For now, this isn't very useful, since metadata for the edits (editor, summary, tags, etc.) are not yet shown, but they will be soon. Until then, ungrouped edits are treated the same as pages with only 1 edit - the minor and bot flags are displayed if applicable. If edits are grouped, the minor and bot flags are only shown if they apply to all of the edits.

Upcoming changes

• Starting with version 5.0, there will be an option at the settings page to switch to and from a "stable" version of the script. When activated, the script import in your global.js should be replaced, and then the page refreshed with the new script loaded. The stable script will live at m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/stable.js, and will be updated with each full release. Otherwise, it shouldn't be edited, providing a version that is less prone to bugs as the script is developed.

Announcements

• WARNING: Starting with version 5.1, the option to mark the pages of a site as seen be implemented using the entirewatchlist API option, rather than manually listing the titles. This is being done to simplify the implementation code. This will result in the same functionality as marking all pages as seen via Special:Watchlist (i.e. even if the page isn't visible due to your filter choices, it will still be marked as seen). If you would like to keep using the current method for a while, please switch to the stable branch.

Next release

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Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:43, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

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A survey to improve the community consultation outreach process

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Activity Samraat Hasan (talk) 21:50, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

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editToken

Hello Galobtter,

Your script User:Galobtter/OrphanStatus.js is no longer functional because it attempts to get an editToken from mw.user.tokens. The script should instead get a csrfToken. editTokens were removed from mw.user.tokens on October 3, 2019 at Phabricator during this edit as they were redundant to csrfTokens.– BrandonXLF (talk) 00:06, 25 November 2019 (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/Portals. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals/Evidence. Please add your evidence by December 20, 2019, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, SQL^{Query me!} 20:37, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

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Enterprisey's reply-link

Evad37's Thanky • SuperHamster's CiteUnseen • Mattflaschen's Compare link.js

Enterprisey: diff-context • fancy-diffs • offset-history-link

BrandonXLF: NoRedirect • WatchDoc • HotDefaultSort • TodoList

Twinkle has received multiple updates

Evad37's rater is now at version 2; see the announcement here

Open tasks

• For those who haven't noticed, per phabricator:T234576, using editToken instead of csrfToken no longer works

Miscellaneous

• Following a discussion, XFDcloser is now available as a gadget
• Evad37's extra.js collection of helper functions is now available as MediaWiki:Gadget-libExtraUtil.js
• Twinkle's morebits is now a gadget, and is easier to use in as a dependency in other scripts (see here for more)
• Last month's issue misidentified the creator of the new EditWarChecker script; it was created by Evad37

Pending requests

• A button to mark templates in the TfD holding cell as ready for deletion
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Enjoy your thanksgiving --DannyS712 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
• Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

• Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Palestine-Israel articles 4: workshop reopened

Because of the nature of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 arbitration case and the importance of the exact wording of remedies, the Arbitration Committee would like to invite public comment and workshopping on the proposed decision, which will be posted soon. Accordingly, the workshop in this case is re-opened and will remain open until Friday, December 13. To opt out of further announcements, please remove yourself from the notification list. For the Arbitration Committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:45, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wow, I guess it really has been that long. Galobtter (pingó mió) 01:39, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Cheers

Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true. No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well G. MarnetteD|Talk 11:56, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!

Hello Galobtter, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Happy editing, Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 23:39, 21 December 2019 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

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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/RHaworth. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/RHaworth/Evidence. Please add your evidence by January 14, 2020, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/RHaworth/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, CodeLyoko^talk 03:24, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Question

Hi - would you know why articles like Department of Commerce v. New York are displaying an infobox error? I tried looking into it, and can't seem to find anything wrong... You seem to have worked on these templates recently, would be curious if you can identify the problem. ɱ (talk) 18:45, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The date check was looking for "tomorrow, in the current year", so it was deciding that "January 1, 2019" was in the future. That works fine every day of the year except December 31. It would have started working fine tomorrow and then broken again next December 31. I think I fixed it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:58, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes

Dreamy Jazz • Newslinger • Rosguill

Deor • Spartaz • Xeno

Angusmclellan • clpo13 • Edgar181 • Matthewedwards • NCurse

CheckUser changes

Bradv • Casliber • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Oversight changes

Bradv • Casliber • DGG • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Someguy1221

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:06, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Script question

Hi - I've had so many problems with scripts I've deleted most of them. I'd like advice on what are the best scripts to install to:

1. highlight Admins
2. give details about editors on the top of their talk page

Anything else that might give me useful information about editors. I'm not trying to do tricky things with scripts, I don't want to get too ambitious and mess things up again. In fact I'm still getting edit conflict errors just when saving so maybe I need to get rid of something else. I've lost the bit of Twinkle that helps me give DS alerts ("Arb"). If this is too much, just tell me. Doug Weller talk 16:59, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Forgot

Whenever I open an edit window I get a box that says "Javascript error" and under that "script error". Is that perhaps to with the below? (And again, if you're too busy just tell me).

Extended content

JQMIGRATE: Migrate is installed with logging active, version 3.1.0 load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:134 [Report Only] Refused to load the script 'https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/scripts/pathoschild.templatescript.js?_=1578573342481' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'unsafe-eval' 'self' meta.wikimedia.org *.wikimedia.org *.wikipedia.org *.wikinews.org *.wiktionary.org *.wikibooks.org *.wikiversity.org *.wikisource.org wikisource.org *.wikiquote.org *.wikidata.org *.wikivoyage.org *.mediawiki.org 'unsafe-inline'". Note that 'script-src-elem' was not explicitly set, so 'script-src' is used as a fallback. send @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:134 VM122:314 This page is using the deprecated ResourceLoader module "jquery.tipsy". mw.loader.implement.css @ VM122:314 load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:155 This page is using the deprecated ResourceLoader module "jquery.ui". Please use OOUI instead. mw.loader.implement.css @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:155 load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:144 JQMIGRATE: jQuery.fn.delegate() is deprecated migrateWarn @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:144 14A cookie associated with a cross-site resource at <URL> was set without the `SameSite` attribute. A future release of Chrome will only deliver cookies with cross-site requests if they are set with `SameSite=None` and `Secure`. You can review cookies in developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at <URL> and <URL>. EditCounterOptIn.js:1 [Report Only] Refused to load the script 'https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/meta/scripts/pathoschild.templatescript.js?_=1578573342481' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'unsafe-eval' 'self' meta.wikimedia.org *.wikimedia.org *.wikipedia.org *.wikinews.org *.wiktionary.org *.wikibooks.org *.wikiversity.org *.wikisource.org wikisource.org *.wikiquote.org *.wikidata.org *.wikivoyage.org *.mediawiki.org 'unsafe-inline'". Note that 'script-src-elem' was not explicitly set, so 'script-src' is used as a fallback. load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.globalCssJs.user&skin=vector&user=Doug+Weller&version=omzop:1 Uncaught TypeError: pathoschild.TemplateScript.Add is not a function at Object.success (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.globalCssJs.user&skin=vector&user=Doug+Weller&version=omzop:1) at fire (load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:46) at Object.fireWith [as resolveWith] (load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:47) at done (load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:129) at HTMLScriptElement.callback (load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:134) at HTMLScriptElement.dispatch (load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:69) at HTMLScriptElement.elemData.handle (load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:66) load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=p1adn:134 [Report Only] Refused to load the script 'https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/meta/scripts/pathoschild.util.js' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'unsafe-eval' 'self' meta.wikimedia.org *.wikimedia.org *.wikipedia.org *.wikinews.org *.wiktionary.org *.wikibooks.org *.wikiversity.org *.wikisource.org wikisource.org *.wikiquote.org *.wikidata.org *.wikivoyage.org *.mediawiki.org 'unsafe-inline'". Note that 'script-src-elem' was not explicitly set, so 'script-src' is used as a fallback.

Thanks Doug Weller talk 17:01, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

@Doug Weller: You can ignore those errors/warnings. The scripts you have installed in the previous version of the page, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Doug_Weller/common.js&oldid=883310863, all look fine to me - I would suggest restoring that (User:Bellezzasolo/Scripts/arb.js is the bit that allows you to give DS alerts using twinkle). If the issue you have is with the massRollback script, it isn't working for me either and I haven't been able to figure out why, so it isn't you. I don't think edit conflict errors have anything with the scripts you have installed either.

There's a version of the user info script that gives information about users on more pages at User:Amorymeltzer/userinfo.js and I have an admin highlighter script at User:Galobtter/scripts/adminhighlighter that's a bit faster to load and has a different look of higlighting - that's what I have re suggestions; I personally use WP:POPUPS for my user info needs so don't know much about scripts in that area. Galobtter (pingó mió) 17:29, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. That's great. No one's been able to solve my edit conflict problem, I may go back to the Village pump sometime. I've reverted to the version before massrollback. I don't really need it. Doug Weller talk 17:37, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

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

Administrator changes

Ergo Sum • Nick Moyes • QEDK • Wugapodes

Dennis Brown

Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth

CheckUser changes

Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

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. [1]

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

• Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (December 2019 and January 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

XFDcloser (now a gadget) is this issue's featured script

Suffusion of Yellow's mark-reverted • Majavah's unslashifier

Guywan's BulletSort and HistoryHighlight

BrandonXLF's QuickEdit and CompareRevisions

Enterprisey's fancy-diff should now be able to handle everything the parser can throw at it.

Twinkle has a new update (more). It now supports partial blocks and includes the select2 library as a dependency.
Select2 is available at MediaWiki:Gadget-select2.min.js for other gadgets and scripts to use.

Miscellaneous

Until now, this newsletter has been written primarily by me (DannyS712).

If others would like to contribute, help is always appreciated;

this was intended to be a community newsletter.

Pending requests
A number of requests are listed at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Some ideas.
Some of the remaining ideas include scripts to:

• expand a diff until it covers all contiguous edits made by that user
• highlight which content (in the HTML) comes from which template
• hyperlink "per X" to the last comment X made
• show a pop-up section preview when you hover over its TOC link

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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Possible short description generator for Infobox company?

I don't write Lua, but your work at Module:Settlement short description looks like it might be adaptable to other infoboxes. The one I have my eye on is {{Infobox company}}, which has 68,000 transclusions. I was thinking that something like "{industry} company based in {hq_location}" would be a reasonable place to start. The template does some intricate processing of the various "hq_location" parameters, so a module would have to do something similar to render the location correctly. Thanks for considering. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:02, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

{{Infobox football biography}} (166,747 transclusions) might also be amenable, with a short description like "Association football {position|manager|player}", where "position" is used if it is present (as it is in 95% of transclusions), "manager" is used if any of the manager parameters have values (or "and manager" if both position and manager have values), and "player" is used otherwise. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:06, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Also possibly {{Infobox book}} and {{Infobox television}}, each with tens of thousands of transclusions. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:38, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Jonesey95. You don't need a module to automatically generate short descriptions. Indeed I mostly don't use them for it. You can just add something like {{short description|{{{industry}}} company based in {{{hq_location}}} }} (replacing the hq_location with the code in the template that does the processing). With BLPs like footballers we need to be more careful and there is a bot I think which is going to add descriptions like "American footballer" which is more useful. I don't want to add descriptions that are lower quality than the Wikidata ones which usually have nationality. I actually did look at {{infobox book}} but creating a automatic short description is a lot harder than it seems with inconsistent filling of parameters.

I personally unfortunately don't have the time anytime soon to do anything with short descriptions. Galobtter (pingó mió) 03:33, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Question about possible copyright infringement

In 2015, in the Kevin Sweeney (American football) article, I wrote the following text: "After the players went on a strike on the third week of the 1987 season, those games were canceled (reducing the 16 game season to 15) and the NFL decided that the games would be played with replacement players. Sweeney was signed to be a part of the Dallas Cowboys replacement team, that was given the mock name "Rhinestone Cowboys" by the media.[6] He became the third ever rookie quarterback to start for the Cowboys, following Don Meredith (1960) and Roger Staubach (1969).[7] He was a popular player with the fans during those games; when Danny White took over the team for the third replacement team against the Washington Redskins, the crowd started chanting "We Want Sweeny, We Want Sweeny" when the team didn't performed well in the eventual 7-13 loss.[8] He was kept on the roster for the rest of the year."

Today I found out that the following book that was published much later (https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=mJuaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=%22Dallas+cowboys%22+%22rhinestone+Cowboys%22+1987&source=bl&ots=r4vCxGiJq-&sig=ACfU3U2XozkBiibN8hlQA78D7eGjoFG3jg&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiR_qL-9sXnAhVLAp0JHZazCI8Q6AEwDnoECAwQAQ#v=onepage&q=sweeney&f=false) , copied the text exactly the same. Should something be done about it ?. And I don't want to even check if the author did the same with some of the other articles where I contributed.Tecmo (talk) 02:56, 10 February 2020 (UTC)Tecmo (talk) 02:47, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

You can report the author for copyright infringement. The book is obviously a bunch of Wikipedia articles merged together, which I think is fairly commonly "published" with lulu (a self-publishing company). Galobtter (pingó mió) 03:27, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Tecmo: You can click on "Report this content" at the Lulu.com page for the book (www.lulu.com/shop/michael-harris/behind-the-star-the-history-of-back-up-quarterbacks-the-dallas-cowboys-1960-2017/paperback/product-24115366.html). – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:12, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the recommendations.Tecmo (talk) 14:45, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

AE appeal notice

I've blocked Cleisthenes2 for violation of their topic ban which you placed, but prior to their block they had filed an appeal at AE of the ban. Since they're currently blocked, I'm giving you the heads up. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 19:55, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Shortdesc helper question

Hey, Galobtter. I was wondering if it would be possible to change the gadget a bit for other Wikipedias? Since local descriptions are only a thing on this wiki, would it be possible to have the gadget just load the description from Wikidata (not copy it) and let you edit it on-wiki, and then when you're done, it could save it to Wikidata? It'd be helpful for spotting vandalism, and just seeing when a description is missing without having to go to the appropriate page on Wikidata every time. – Srdjan m (talk) 18:30, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Srdjan m, Shortdesc helper should already be detecting if it is on another wiki and do as you say. (Let me know if there are any issues with using it on another wiki as in Wikipedia:Shortdesc_helper#Installation_on_another_wiki). Galobtter (pingó mió) 01:23, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Hey. I copied MediaWiki:Gadget-Shortdesc-helper.js, MediaWiki:Gadget-Shortdesc-helper-pagestyles-vector.css, and this, but it's not loading when I turn it on. Could you take a look? – Srdjan m (talk) 09:30, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Update: after updating this per your edit, it's working. However, I'm not seeing the gear icon. Are there no settings available when it's used off en-wiki? I was thinking the Appearance section would be at least... Also, how do I change the placeholder text? – Srdjan m (talk) 20:02, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

I haven't localized that placeholder text, need to fix that. Also, there are certainly settings available for other wikis, the issue is that I have to fix the loading of the code for the settings. Galobtter (pingó mió) 07:08, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Well, please ping me when you get that sorted if it's not too much to ask. :-) – Srdjan m (talk) 21:34, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Will do Galobtter (pingó mió) 22:36, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Srdjan m, I've fixed the code to be copied at Wikipedia:Shortdesc_helper#As_a_gadget, let me know if there are any issues. Galobtter (pingó mió) 03:59, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Yep, I can change the settings now. P.S. I can't see a way to localize some of the buttons. I guess that's not implemented yet, like the placeholder text? – Srdjan m (talk) 19:43, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Srdjan m, The placeholder text is now localizable. I added how to localize the buttons to Wikipedia:Shortdesc_helper#As_a_gadget. Let me know if there is anything else that cannot be localized/if there are other issues! Galobtter (pingó mió) 01:28, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Galobot/report/Articles by Lint Errors

Your Lint Error report is great, but just wondering if you could add a few extra columns so that it would be easier to find all the errors or a similar type? Sample query here. -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:12, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

select page_title
, count(*) as page_count
, sum(case when linter_params like '%"name":"center"%' then 1 end) as tag_center
, sum(case when linter_params like '%"name":"small"%' then 1 end) as tag_small
, sum(case when linter_params like '%"name":"span"%' then 1 end) as tag_span
, sum(case when linter_params like '%"name":"div"%' then 1 end) as tag_div
, sum(case when linter_params like '%"name":"b"%' then 1 end) as tag_b
, sum(case when linter_params like '%"name":"i"%' then 1 end) as tag_i
, sum(case when linter_params like '%"name":"s"%' then 1 end) as tag_s
from linter
join page on page.page_id = linter.linter_page
where page.page_namespace=0 and linter_cat != 2
group by page.page_id
order by count(*) desc, page_title asc
limit 1000;

This would be helpful. Also, can we go back to daily updates, if it doesn't cause you extra work? WOSlinker and I, and maybe other editors, are chipping away at this backlog, and I would find daily updates to be motivational. Thanks! – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:38, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

@WOSlinker and Jonesey95:, nice to know that people are using the report. I updated the query; table should include those columns by next update, which I've made daily. Let me know if there are any issues. Galobtter (pingó mió) 04:05, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

I don't want to bother you, but the page has not been updated in four days. Can you please check the switches and dials? Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:40, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Galobtter: We're getting close. I did a manual edit to the page to correct a duplicate column, a misplaced column, and a missing label. Does that help you figure out how to tweak the script code? – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:51, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Looks like I've fixed the last issue in the script, which was a missing header for a column (tag_s). Should work fine from now on. Galobtter (pingó mió) 22:19, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

It looks great. The new columns have already proved quote useful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:46, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Module:i18n

This module is no longer high risk and no longer needs to be protected. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 14:08, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

I've unprotected it. Galobtter (pingó mió) 03:00, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Wrong link in Shortdesc helper

https://prnt.sc/r3fi0w. I made an anchor a few days ago that allowed it to work, but since the heading is unlikely to ever have mistakes in it's probably best to change it anyway. · • SUM1 • · (talk) 09:44, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

 Fixed link Galobtter (pingó mió) 04:18, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Permanent links

Hi, Galobtter. When you for example topic ban somebody, it would be helpful if you'd use permanent links for the discussion that led to the ban. Trying to do a little research about Cleisthenes's topic ban, that he recently appealed, I was frustrated at not being able to find the relevant ANI discussion here, where your link has long since rotted, nor here, where there isn't a link at all. (It's common to use such links at the enforcement log.) Also, for the benefit of the user and others, it's helpful to add a diff inside the template on their page to your own actual logging of the sanction, rather than just leave them with the existing link to the log in general. The log isn't very easy to navigate. You're very much a techie compared to me, so I won't insult you by linking to the guide for creating permanent links — but if you'd actually like one, I can! Bishonen | talk 11:24, 18 February 2020 (UTC).

Bishonen, Thanks for the note; I think I usually try to use permanent links in these cases, and I must've forgotten do there (the recent AE request caused me to look up the original ANI and rue my own lack of using a permanent link). Galobtter (pingó mió) 03:51, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Help me!

Hey admin,can you check my stubChaucer School,Blockhouse Bay?AuthorMasteroNZ (talk) 01:36, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

AuthorMasteroNZ, not sure what you mean by check, but my advice would be that you'd probably want to see if you can find some more sources about the school to add more info. You can remove the proposed deletion tag if you think the page shouldn't be deleted. Galobtter (pingó mió) 03:55, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Thinking about you...

	"Sunflower Award"
	Your work as an admin is not being graded, But it certainly is much appreciated, To know that you see with vision that's clear, A shining light of integrity we tend to hold dear. Thank you for all you do! Atsme Talk 📧 23:05, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Typo in Module:Settlement short description

Another minor thing, but Module:Settlement short description says "etxtraneous" instead of "extraneous". · • SUM1 • · (talk) 11:18, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

The typo was in a comment. I have copy-edited all of the comments, fixing multiple typos. I did not change the module code. This will probably cause settlement articles to be put in the job queue, so it is not something that should be done frequently. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:07, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Discussion on the Draft namrespace

As a user who has expressed an interest in the Wikipedia:The future of NPP and AfC, you are invited to join a discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Rethinking_draft_space. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:06, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Some articles not appearing in Linter report

I was paging through a few hundred darts-related articles yesterday (in Category:Darts by year) looking for Linter errors to fix, and I noticed that at least a dozen of the articles had 20+ missing end tag errors but were not listed at User:Galobot/report/Articles by Lint Errors. Can you think of a reason why 2013 UK Masters, 2014 Austrian Darts Open, 2014 Dutch Darts Masters, and 2014 European Darts Grand Prix, for example, would not be appearing on the report? Each of those articles has 20+ Linter missing end tag errors. I null-edited each of them yesterday to see if they would show up in today's report, but they did not appear. Null-editing is sometimes necessary to force pages to appear in categories, disappear from "What links here" lists, or otherwise register changes in the database.

Pinging WOSlinker to see if they have noticed error-rich articles that should have been on the report but are not. Please leave the errors in the above-listed articles while we are troubleshooting this possible bug. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:04, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Null edits don't always update the lint records. You can try a purge and see if that works better. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:38, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Per [2] etc, it doesn't look any of those articles actually have 20+ lint errors. Galobtter (pingó mió) 22:55, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Hmm, that seems like some kind of bug. 2014 Austrian Darts Open shows 1 missing end tag error on the Page Information page, but it shows 49 missing end tag errors with LintHint. The real figure is much closer to 49 than 1 (see the missing italics in the list following "The following players took part in the tournament:"). I purged and null-edited the page, and that didn't fix the discrepancy. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:07, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

I searched for open bugs related to this problem and did not find one, so I created T246403. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:07, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Cobaltcigs's DiffPreviewFindLine is this month's featured script

Amorymeltzer's History button links • Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector

Interstellarity's Semi-protected edit requests and Extended-protected edit requests

Amorymeltzer's Crat Highlighter now has separate colors for each user access level

Opencooper's IPtoEmoji has been updated

Pending requests

• A script to help administrators handle proposed deletions
• A script to hide newsletters when viewing another user's talk page
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

I hope everyone is having a great year so far! --DannyS712 (talk) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

Money emoji

Athaenara • DeltaQuad

Fishhead64 • Kudpung • Mikaey

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad

CheckUser changes

DeltaQuad

Oversight changes

DeltaQuad

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

• Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
• The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:20, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

UK place and airport automatic short descriptions

I've never coded Lua in my life. I made an attempt here but it didn't work, so I'm notifying you of the effort.

{{Infobox UK place}} is the predominant infobox for UK towns, villages and cities. Currently, it uses wikitext to generate the fairly useless short description "Human settlement in United Kingdom". I tried to develop a module like {{Settlement short description}} to replace this, but failed. I was thinking the format could use, for one example, "___ in [county, i.e. {{{lieutenancy_england/wales(2/3)}}}], {{{country}}}". Since UK place infoboxes don't specify whether something's a city, town or village (examples linked), perhaps this could be searched for in the lead of the article, particularly after "is a" (maybe in the next 10 words), and if it's not found, "Settlement" could be used. Further specifications could be made for the London Boroughs like Havering.

As for {{Infobox airport}}s, they currently do not generate any short description but look very primed to do so. I was thinking the format could use "___ in {{{location}}}". The underscores could be "Airport" if the {{{r1/2/3-surface}}} is asphalt or concrete and "Airfield" if it's grass, otherwise it could default to "Airport". If "military" is mentioned at all in {{{type}}}, "Military air base" or "Air base" could be used instead.

I would draft up pseudocode to represent all the eventualities I have in my head, but I wouldn't be able to get it to work (at least not at my current stage of knowledge), and you or someone else could probably come up with something better that actually works as code. · • SUM1 • · (talk) 01:30, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Take a look at the short description code for Infobox UK place again, and my explanation on the template's talk page. It uses (the undocumented parameter) |type=, as shown in Kidlington, to replace the default phrase "Human settlement". If you populate |type= in each infobox, the short description will automatically update. It may make more sense to have this conversation at the template's talk page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:53, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

SUM1, atm I don't have the time to work on more module short descriptions; I think you should try posting on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Short_descriptions to see if anyone is interesting on working on the above. Galobtter (pingó mió) 22:44, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

identifies as

I undid your Cernovich edit but the explanation got cut off so I will post it here.

The issue is not "identify" as a verb but "identify as", which is a neologism, a fad of the last few years that seems to only be used in connection with census-like categories of race, gender, and sexual orientation. It is not clear at all that there is any use of that term in reference works such as encyclopedias, and if so whether it ever goes beyond those categories. 73.149.246.232 (talk) 02:18, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Revdel

Hi Galobtter,

Can I request a WP:REVDEL? It's about streamer SSSniperwolf; someone added an address on the article. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 08:26, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Typo in Module:Type in location

Same typo as before. · • SUM1 • · (talk) 11:28, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Danski454's code-link is this month's featured script

RealFakeKim's pageInfo • Guywan: InsertShortcuts • ConfirmLogout

Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector has been updated to include more sources

• Evad37's rater script is now on version 2.5. New features include:

1. No longer showing dropdowns for projects without ratings
2. Making use of Category:WikiProject banner templates not based on WPBannerMeta to detect templates
3. Automatically detecting Good Article, Featured Article, and Featured List status, and limiting ORES predictions to B-class

• An updated version of Twinkle was released. Features relating to the recently-enabled
  partial blocks include automatic lookup of pages and expanded options for block templates.
  See a full list of changes here
• For users of Enterprisey's easy-brfa script, the bug with transcluding new BRFAs has been resolved
• Guywan's RefCruncher has had minor updates

Miscellaneous

• For any scripts that previously made use of the edit API to change a page's content model,
  a new API module is available: use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new
  content model of an existing page. Documentation is available: mw:API:ChangeContentModel.
• The dispute resolution noticeboard wizard is no longer a gadget, but rather is loaded using
  withJS and withCSS. See the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js

Pending requests

• A script to help file movers process requests, including
  1. renaming the file
  2. updating file links
  3. removing the {{Rename media}} template (when relevant)
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

Cabayi • Lee Vilenski

Boing! said Zebedee

Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT

Money emoji → Moneytrees

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes

NativeForeigner

Oversight changes

Someguy1221

Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

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.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:48, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

SD0001's find-archived-section, now a gadget, is this month's featured script

Enterprisey:

1. link-deleted-revs (On error pages for deleted revisions, show a link to the Special:Undelete page)
2. undelete-backlink (On Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions)

Epicgenius's sortcategories (sorts categories in an article alphabetically)

Awesome Aasim:

1. addmylinks (adds a customizable area for links and/or text to the sidebar)
2. editrequest (tool that allows for processing and answering edit requests)

DemonDays64's Dumb quotes (replaces smart curly single and double quotes with "dumb" quotes)

Guywan's FileMoverHelper (move files and replace their uses in one action)

Enterprisey's reply-link has been updated to fail less, especially around template transclusions.

Twinkle released new features, including a new option to disable individual modules, support for stub template nomination at CfD, and integration with the PageTriage extension used to patrol new pages. (See full list of changes)

Open tasks

• The mediawiki.notify resource loader module was deprecated and is no longer needed; its functionality is now available by default. See mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users) for more. Any dependency on it should be removed.

Pending requests

• A script to reload feeds automatically
• A script to mark templates in the TFD holding cell as ready for deletion
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

• Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts now also shows the number of active users for each script. It will now be updated by a bot periodically.
• Twinkle's Morebits library added a new Morebits.date class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using getUTCMonthName or getUTCMonthNameAbbrev with Date objects, those have been deprecated and should be updated.
• User:SD0001/find-archived-section was made a gadget. You can enable it from your gadget preferences, in the Browsing section.

Hope everyone stays safe. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

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

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Stale report

If you get a chance, could you please update User:Galobot/report/Articles by Lint Errors? Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:03, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Jonesey95, updated. I'd noticed it wasn't updating but hoped it would fix itself since it seemed related to the query timing out due to toolforge issues. It looks like the part of query that gave the number of errors by type was slowing it down quite a bit and so I nixed that and that seems to have fixed the issue. Might be able to add back errors by type using the API to query each page. Galobtter (pingó mió) 00:08, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Why'd that edit work

Regarding your fix for the formWizard re: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women writers#Join project button, it's not immediately obvious to me where that's being used. Curious what I'm missing. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 10:37, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Amorymeltzer, When making an edit MediaWiki:Gadget-formWizard-core.js grabs a token through mw.user.tokens.get('csrfToken'), and user.options is the ResourceLoader module for user.tokens - see mw:ResourceLoader/Migration_guide_(users)#MediaWiki_1.35. Galobtter (pingó mió) 16:19, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

I suspected it was related to that! I followed the issue, but I just could never trigger any difference. That is, I get that user.tokens shouldn't be loaded, but when is user.options not available? Besides, I thought doing mw.user.tokens.get('csrfToken') was supposed to load when run? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:20, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Amorymeltzer, hmm I couldn't actually figure that out. Both mw.user.tokens and mw.user.options are created by JavaScript in the HTML head and so by the time you'd click the join project button it should definitely exist. So not sure why that didn't (presumably) exist for Vanamonde unless there was some weird script blocking going on. I also feel like I've seen people have intermittent issues with formWizard before so I'm not sure any issues necessarily have to do with the recent merge of the modules. Galobtter (pingó mió) 22:19, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Okay so it's not just me! 😄 In this case, since it's an IIFE and there are no mw.loader.usings, I guess the gadget could have loaded before the base? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 09:42, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Even if MediaWiki:Gadget-formWizard-core.js loaded before the tokens did, the tokens are only queried in the modifyWikiPage/createWikiPage functions which are called at the last stage of the form - by that time certainly the tokens would have been set. Galobtter (pingó mió) 00:24, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

VPTECH thread on SHORTDESC gadget's metadata output

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Short description metadata issues.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  20:28, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

EE complaint

I complained as requested. Why is it deleted? I am on the smartphone, dome errors in the complaint are possible, but should not be decisive. Please return my complaint back.Čeha (razgovor) 06:39, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Ceha, I restored your appeal as Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Arbitration_enforcement_action_appeal_by_Čeha. Please notify Bradv as required for the appeal. Galobtter (pingó mió) 06:48, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, I will Čeha (razgovor) 06:50, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

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

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

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.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:27, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Review of the indefinite block of Cesdeva. Mz7 (talk) 21:07, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ed6767's redwarn is this month's featured script

Enterprisey: abusefilter-diff-check • abusefilter-hide-search • live-reload • quick-vand-block •

abusefilter-mass-test • simple-notifs • User:Enterprisey/rc-thanks

• DannyS712's RemindMe • Majavah's Aligner
• BrandonXLF: ShowUserGender • ReferenceExpander
• Awesome Aasim: oneclickdelete • noeditredlinks.js • editrequest
• TheTVExpert: searchForSection • scriptDocumentationTabs
• Alex 21: script-categoriessort.js • script-imageres.js
• Ed6767's redwarn

Twinkle released new features, including a rollback links on history pages and Special:Recentchanges,

the ability to rollback-in-place on Recent changes and Contributions, a new option autoselect warning

level, and an XfD log. (Enable in your prefences; See full list of changes)

• Headbomb's unreliable source detector script now allows users to add their own custom rules. See the documentation at User:Headbomb/unreliable#Custom rules.

Open tasks

• Recent changes to the vector skin may have broken some scripts and gadgets. Uses of the .vectorTabs selector

should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs. Additionally, .menu should be replaced with <ul>, and .vectorMenu

should be replaced with .vector-menu. See phabricator:T255718 and phabricator:T254797 for more.

Pending requests

• A script to simplify the process of nominating articles for good article reassessment (request)
• A script to help create navboxes (request)
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

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

Administrator changes

Malcolmxl5

John • TheCoffee • Tim!

Creffett → GeneralNotability

DeltaQuad → AmandaNP

CheckUser changes

Bbb23

Interface administrator changes

TonyBallioni

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:25, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Filter 597

Are you familiar with the LTA 597 is tracking? 597 (hist · log) has had a few hits lately (one got reported to EFFPR, which is why I noticed it), and they look like hits, but I know nothing about this LTA so I have no idea whether this is an accurate hit or not. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:13, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Line spacing

Hey, Galobtter! I noticed the other day that the spacing between the short description and the lede of an article seems to have changed. Here's what it looked like before, and here's what it looks like now. That can't be intentional, right? – Srđan (talk) 12:22, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

About filter 965

Hello, I am writing to because AFAIK you are the person responsible for maintaining filter 965, it that's not the case please ignore this message. Today I tried to add some images from Commons to the English Wiki, specifically infoboxes of some villages. As the second edit got rejected for the same reason which apparently was containing swear words I went to linked regex checker and figured out that any edit containing word *chodu will get automatically rejected. A lot of conjugated Polish words contain *chodu so that hard rule is clearly not infallible. Both of my false positive reports got ignored so I decided to write specifically to you. Regards Dominik27.09 (talk) 18:35, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

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

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

• There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
• Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
• Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
• There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:20, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Notice of ANI that mentions you in passing

Greetings, FYI I filed a request at WP:ANI titled "CIR-based community-imposed site ban re: RTG". In providing a basis for my request I mentioned you and your prior dealings with this editor. Your input at ANI is optional, i.e., invited but not specifically requested. Thanks for reading. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:55, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 17

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (July and August 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Yet another Articles for creation helper script ("AFCH"), a gadget used by Articles for creation reviewers, is this month's featured script

Opencooper's collapseBots declutters talk pages by collapsing comments made by bots

SD0001's GAR-helper is a script to easily create a GAR nomination and carry out the necessary related steps

SD0001's shortdescs-in-category can be used to view short descriptions of pages in a category

WikiMacaroons's Talk to Wiki allows for voice-activated functionality and navigation of Wikipedia

WikiMacaroons's AutoShortDesc simplifies the addition of short descriptions to pages

IagoQnsi's ipareader adds a button next to IPA pronunciations to have them read out by a text-to-speech program

Awesome Aasim's xfdvote makes it easier to participate in XFD discussions

BrandonXLF's CitationStyleMarker adds "CS1" or "CS2" beside citations to show their style with an optional toggle

GeneralNotability's spihelper a script to help CheckUsers, SPI clerks, and patrolling admins with sockpuppet investigation case pages

Evad37's TimestampDiffs adds a link at the end of every comment to the diff in which it was added

Twinkle has a number of improvements including additional redirect category templates

Updates to Enterprisey's reply-link include compatibility fixes with Mdaniels5757's markAdmins script and Kephir's unclutter script

Evad37's rater is now at version 2.6.0, which updates including OOUI tweaks and the inclusion of banners for inactive projects

Miscellaneous

• If anyone would like to help contribute to this newsletter, please leave a note at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++

Pending requests

• A script to simplify addition of "connected contributor" templates to talk pages
• A script to simplify removal of the "persondata" template on mlwiki
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Stay safe --DannyS712 (talk) 19:42, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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

Administrator changes

Eddie891

Angela • Jcw69 • Just Chilling • Philg88 • Viajero

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
• A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
• A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
• An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:56, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Module:Message box/sandbox2

Module:Message box/sandbox2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:20, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:42, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:High-use/risk

Template:High-use/risk has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 10:45, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

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

Administrator changes

John M Wolfson

Bduke • Nilfanion • Philosopher • Rspeer • Yunshui

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes

EdJohnston • Oshwah • Yamla

Yunshui

Oversight changes

Anarchyte

Yunshui

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:51, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2020 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2020 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

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

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

SD0001's W-Ping is this month's featured script

Sportzpikachu's bookmarks adds a bookmarks section to the navigation toolbar

SD0001's deleted-metadata-link.js adds links to the deletedrevisions API output for deleted pages

SD0001's GAN-helper makes it easier to create a GAN nomination.

1234qwer1234qwer4's XfDstarted scripts add links to today's XfD log pages to the personal toolbar

Awesome Aasim's rcpatrol is a tool that can be used to patrol recent changes, including reverting edits and warning users

A new JavaScript snippet, MediaWiki:AFC-add-project-tags.js, can be used to add WikiProject tags to drafts at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Add WikiProject tags without actually needing to install a user script.

Nardog's PlayAudioNow makes {{audio}} links playable while staying on the page, regardless of the format

GeneralNotability's ip-ext-info.js adds extended info on IPs in a popup with their range, ASN, and ISP

TheTVExpert's submitRMTR adds a button to Special:MovePage to submit a technical request at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests

TheTVExpert's rmCloser helps with closing and relisting requested moves.

Enterprisey's parsoid-round-trip uses Parsoid to convert wikitext to HTML and back, and then shows the result and the difference between the original wikitext and the post-conversion wikitext.

Frietjes's infoboxgap assists in renumbering infobox labels/data/classes, so that a new line can be inserted in the middle of the infobox.

Pending requests

• A request for a script to help with maintaining the lists of vital articles
• A request for a script to make it easier to archive specific list entries, rather than whole discussion sections
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Twinkle has made a number of improvements, including using a change tag to identify actions made with it and automatically filing edit requests for protected XfD nominations.

SD0001's shortdescs-in-category is now compatible with scripts modifying category listings, such as Equazcion's CatListMainTalkLinks

GhostInTheMachine's TalkHelper2 is a newer version of their prior script, TalkHelper

GeneralNotability's spihelper updated to 2.2.10, fixing a number of small bugs, automatically tagging globally locked socks as such in the sockpuppet template, and restoring open cases following an SPI history merge.

Enterprisey's script-installer gadget has been updated with more internationalization of messages, as well as addition of a user preference, window.scriptInstallerInstallTarget to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.

Open tasks

• Enterprisey is looking for beta testers for their new section-watchlist user script. See the announcement.

Miscellaneous

• The second edition of the m:Coolest Tool Award will be taking place in December.
• Enterprisey's links-in-logs script has now been implemented as part of MediaWiki core, see gerrit:640761 and phab:T207562.

My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

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Nomination for merging of Template:Hover title

Template:Hover title has been nominated for merging with Template:Tooltip. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:04, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Requesting updating of Women related laws in Pakistan with new text

Greetings,

As per Wikipedia's expected due process I have updated Talk:Women related laws in Pakistan/Temp building it from scratch with proper close paraphrasing. I suppose it would be acceptable at least as a stub.

Since updating of Talk:Women related laws in Pakistan/Temp we will not be depending on previous text of the article, I requesting to shift the text from Talk:Women related laws in Pakistan/Temp to Women related laws in Pakistan.

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku (talk) 02:53, 17 December 2020 (UTC)