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If you look at Wikipedia (a nonprofit with a noble goal) and think "Hm, I could make money off of that" then you are not the kinda person we want or need.

Mkae sure Jimbo has no special powers User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Question_on_action_needed

Stop fundraising until spending is under control.

Stop Wiki Ed.

User_talk:Kierzek#Propaganda
[[German aid to Soviet civilians in World War II]]
Check if there is a way to determine which pictures were made by a propagandakompany, and get rid of them or put them in their proper context.

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And an additional update, just for English Wikipedia: as requested in an earlier discussion, we now ask that search engines do not index pages in the user name space. [1]

"Watching" article does´t work

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Since I by now have 4000+ articles “watched", I have my preferences “ticked” for “Hide bot edits from the watchlist”. However, this means that I do not see the changes done *before* a bot edited, either! Take a look at AnomieBOT (talk · contribs), and “watch” some of the latest articles it edited, and you will see what I mean.

This is not good; a vandal could e.g. insert some vandalism, then write {{Citation needed}} knowing that a bot would be along very soon to add {{Citation needed|date=September 2015}} …and none of the people “watching” that article would note it (if they have “ticked” for “Hide bot edits from the watchlist”.)

I noticed the problem on Beit Hanina: I could not see that an IP had removed substantial material, as AnomieBOT had come along with "Rescuing orphaned refs."

Is this something the developers are aware of? Can they please change it, so we will see the edits done *before* the bot-edit? Also, either I have just been very slow, or this is a “new” feature. At least: I have never noticed it before, and I have had the ignore “bot edits from the watchlist” option for years.


This is phab:T11790, first logged in 2007. The "Hide" options only work properly when using the "expanded watchlist" - "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" on the "Watchlist" tab in the preferences. Presumably if this could be fixed easily it would have been done by now.
Thank you very much for your reply. I find this situation pretty horrible; I tried "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent", but if you keep much-used pages "watched", (like Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents) it makes the "watch-list" an unmanageable clutter. I have ended up "watching" bot-edits instead. A very unsatisfactory solution. But since I "watch" a *lot* of articles on Palestinian history, with few other "watchers", articles which are often the object of vandalism: I have to. That WMF haven´t been able to fix this since 2007 is, IMO, quite unbelievable.
I agree it's unfortunate. I documented the behaviour in [2]. It's also mentioned at mw:Help:Watching pages#Simple watchlist.


if they don´t fix the bug, at least they should give a warning on "preferences"? Now, there is nothing to warn editors against unwanted side-effects when enabling "Hide bot edits from the watch list")
Have you tried the enhanced watchlist? - File:Enhanced recent changes expanding screencast.ogv. Enable "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent” in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist first and then enable "Group changes by page in recent changes and watch list” in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc. -


Search request is longer than the maximum allowed length

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Many searches I use to find errors are now coming back with the message "An error has occurred while searching: Search request is longer than the maximum allowed length." Indicating that a search string can only be 300 characters long. Examples of such searches are at User:SchreiberBike/Workspace/Centuries1. The only reference to this I can find is at www.mail-archive.com/mediawiki.... What is the reason for this change? Is there a work around? Any other ideas? Thanks,

For reasons, see the corresponding Phabricator task. This change was also mentioned in Tech News.
Thanks for the response. I guess there is a good reason for it, and if a workaround would leave vulnerabilities to a denial-of-service attack I'm out of luck. This is a small thing Wikipedia wide, but it dramatically affects the wikignome work I do. I suspect this will similarly affect other people looking for typos etc. Any other ideas would be appreciated.


Typos

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=troughout+&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go

MediaWiki functionality

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  Done Posted at meta:Community_Tech_project_ideas#Develop_tools_to_convert_Flow_and_LQT_pages_to_normal_talkpages (and sections below) 07:12, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Contains http://http

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  Done 05:27, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Stolen from User:MER-C

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Piles of rubbish

By "pile of rubbish", I mean places where you can find rubbish (buried among some good stuff).

Userspace crap searches
  • "curriculum vitae", "employment history", any three of: employment education experience summary resume qualifications
  • "company profile"
  • follow OR like "on facebook", follow "on twitter", "on (soundcloud|last.fm|linkedin)"
  • "band from", exquisite sound, dj producer
  • proprietary innovative
  • "search engine optimization", "social media marketing"
  • introduction abstract conclusion
  • "subscribe to" youtube
  • pvt ltd



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{{db-u5}} a page in userspace consisting of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals, where the owner has made few or no edits outside of userspace.

{{db-G11}} advertising

{{db-g6}} Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup

User_talk:Kelapstick/Archive_7#Hello_Kelapstick

User_talk:Magog_the_Ogre/Archive_33#Hello_Magog.21

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=5000&offset=120&ns2=1&ns3=1&search=mob


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Bookmarklets to check common archive sites for archives of the current page
(all open in a new tab or window)
Archive site Bookmarklet
Archive.org 
javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href))
UKGWA 
javascript:void(window.open('http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/'+location.href))
WebCite 
javascript:void(window.open('http://www.webcitation.org/query.php?url='+location.href))
Wikiwix 
javascript:void(window.open('http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url='+location.href))
Mementos interface 
javascript:void(window.open('http://www.webarchive.org.uk/mementos/search/'+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'?referrer='+encodeURIComponent(document.referrer)))





CirrusSearch

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Is there any documentation for how the regular expressions in Special:Search work? Its behaviour is peculiar and tends to have weird quirks; searches containing \s or \n don't work, for instance. Jc86035 (talk) Use {{re|Jc86035}}
to reply to me 10:29, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

@Jc86035: There is some documentation at Help:Searching/Draft#Regular_expressions - not the most obvious place for it... -- John of Reading (talk) 10:38, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikimedia uses Cirrusearch, which uses elasticsearch, and that in turn uses lucene regex as the backend, and its custom regex :

Thanks, 197.218.89.59 and John of Reading. Is there another way to search the source of every article/page in the wiki, other than manually downloading every page? Jc86035 (talk) Use {{re|Jc86035}}
to reply to me 12:37, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
@Jc86035: You can download every page, see Wikipedia:Database download, and then search it with the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Database Scanner using "traditional" regular expressions. I have a copy of the 20 July dump; if that's recent enough I could search it for you. I have the "pages articles" dump, with no talk pages or user pages. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:45, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
@John of Reading: Thanks. I'm not looking to search anything right now, though, and I could download the dump myself if I needed to. Jc86035 (talk) Use {{re|Jc86035}}
to reply to me 12:49, 8 August 2017 (UTC)


Can I get a list of articles which use Wikipedia as a reference?

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Every once in a while I run into an article where Wikipedia is used as a reference. Since we don't allow Wikipedia articles to be used as references for other Wikipedia articles, it would be useful to have a list of articles with such a reference - specifically, any instance of an external link to a Wikipedia article between a set of ref tags, or as the url= field in a citation template having that field. Please let me know if this is doable. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:50, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

This is a start, though it times out. --Izno (talk) 23:45, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
Thanks. I get a manageable number with the search string, insource:wikipedia insource:/\<ref.*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*\<\/ref>/. bd2412 T 01:58, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
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