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Copy editing the Signpost
editHello! I was wondering if I could become a copy editor for the Signpost, as I want to contribute in some way, but I’m not very skilled at writing. Thanks! Shadestar474 (talk) 03:35, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Shadestar474: I would appreciate this. Could you review Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna and copyedit it? I'm unsure whether words should be italicised or placed in single quotation marks. I've tried my best! Svampesky (talk) 14:50, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Awesome, thanks for the opportunity! Cheers, Shadestar474 (talk) 09:12, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
editThe Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
[1] was a very kind comment of you to leave. The project as a whole can benefit if we all show mutual understanding and compassion towards one another. I'm also learning of WP:BITE - so, in general, thank you for setting a great example for how we all should act in our regular interactions on here (and in real life too). — That Coptic Guyping me! (talk) (contribs) 15:28, 28 July 2024 (UTC) |
Suggestion for User:JPxG/current-switcher.js
editThe check on line 6:
(window.location.href.indexOf( "Special:Contributions/" ) >= 0 ) || (window.location.href.indexOf( "Special%3AContributions" ) >= 0 )
won't work on wikis with localized "Special:Contributions". For example: de:Spezial:Beiträge and ru:Служебная:Вклад. An equivalent check without locale dependency is:
(mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber') === -1) && (mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') === 'Contributions')
See mw:mw.config for reference documentation. —andrybak (talk) 18:26, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Essay column in The Signpost
editI saw this Help:Drawing attention to new pages. I propose featuring newly published essays in the essay column to draw attention to them. These essays can vary in tone, including serious and humorous ones. The column will be a good place for readers to check on if there's any new essays, discuss and improve them. Svampesky (talk) 14:46, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- This is a very good idea. At some point, I believe it was me and Bri were combing through Category:Wikipedia essays to try to find gemmy stuff that had been forgotten. We got a couple out of that. If there were some way to actually comb through and find newer essays I think this would be fruitful. jp×g🗯️ 03:24, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
I will nitpick just this once
editYou misspelled "an" (Trolling is a art
) in your closure of Bespeak and undue edits on Sissy hypno. WADroughtOfVowelsP 21:12, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- And when you blocked Bespeak. WADroughtOfVowelsP 21:20, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- No I didn't. jp×g🗯️ 00:53, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-31
editLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.
Bugs status
- Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
- Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
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Image tagging for File:Face of the troll.png
editThanks for uploading File:Face of the troll.png. You don't seem to have said where the image came from or who created it. We require this information to verify that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia, and because most image licenses require giving credit to the image's creator.
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- The upload form literally presented this license template as the own-work option, you siliconaceous bumberchute. jp×g🗯️ 02:50, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25
editHey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
edit- inline-diff-inline-patrol by Ponor is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Inline diffs and inline patrol. Hopefully we won't need this script anymore soon, with the WMF's focus on the backlog...
Improve a script
edit- Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
- Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
- To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
- We want...
- ...watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
- ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
- ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work
Requested scripts
edit- Automatically delink all duplicate links within the same section per MOS:LINKONCE.
- Collapsible parentheses in body text, which had a ridiculously long original request title and was accidentally moved to WP:US/L by me. Oops!
- An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
- Preview an edit under the mobile viewport on desktop, with perhaps MediaWiki:Gadget-mobile-sidebar.js used for inspiration.
- ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests. Jeeputer and Nardog have been the most active on the page in the past five months.
Updated scripts
edit- After the RIIJ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
- Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
Newly maintained scripts
edit- Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
- BilledMammal/Move+ expands the powers of User:TheTVExpert/rmCloser to include common procedures done with the art of moving pages.
- On a holiday? Somewhere? Gotta learn ye ABCs? CanonNi/StatusSetter puts the fun into Enterprisey/StatusChanger with a quadruple more statuses. That starts with a C!
- In our continuing trend(s?), DaxServer/DiscussionCloser forks DannyS712/DiscussionCloser to make it work. Sadly, this is the end of our lexicographic combo.
- Andrybak:
- user-tabs-on-contribs is a fork of User:Enterprisey/user-tabs-on-contribs for Vector 2022.
- Archiver is a fork of User:Enterprisey/archiver with automatic calculation of the destination archive subpage and with support for non-Vector skins.
- Quite coincidentally, Elli/OneClickArchiver has been forked from User:Equazcion/OneClickArchiver to work with the mw:Heading HTML changes.
- FlightTime/OneClickArchiver forks the same thing but also no longer nonsensically prepends {{clear}} to page archives.
New scripts
editPadlock for semi−move protection−designed by User:Chaotic Enby - Andrybak/Not around can help you mark talk pages of inactive users with {{not around}}.
- BrandonXLF/AddCopied automatically tags talk pages of pages you've copied between with {{copied}}.
- Bugghost/UserRoleIndicator adds text labels (which default to emoji) to user links that label the user's usergroups. Wow, that's a mouthful
- CanonNi/AlertAssistant adds a Twinkle-style dialog for alerting users about contentious topics.
- CFA/AttributeTranslation automatically tags articles translated from other places with appropriate attribution.
- In the defense of the 'pedia, the humble Jeeputer/defconIndicator adds the WP:WIKIDEFCON status to the toolbar.
- Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
- Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
- fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
- TheTechie/Help Me Tool is a quick and easy way of responding to {{help me}} requests.
- Per MOS:CONFORM, ZKang123/TitleCaseConverter converts all citation titles to... title case, unfortunately.
JD Vance
editHi, could you share the link to the deletion discussion? I created that page because the joke seemed to me to be a noteworthy event. There was no attack on Vance in the slightest - the meme has gone viral beyond what would be considered a cursory interest. There is much precedent for creating pages devoted to political jokes, such as Dean scream, for instance. The article was merely a brief summary of the joke in question, but with much more weight given to the media frenzy it inspired. I made it clear in the page title it was about the meme itself. Was there consensus to delete it? Dhantegge (talk) 00:15, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- I should add, we have a page for the Campaign for the neologism "santorum". Which is arguably more "offensive". Dhantegge (talk) 00:43, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
Trout
editWhack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
Special:Diff/1237237809 — really? I seriously assumed one of the tendentious vandals common in the topic area did this; I was stunned to see it was an established editor and admin. There's no universe where tagging every other word in a sentence is constructive; if you really thought the sentence was that bad, you should have just removed it. Anyways, it should be better now. Dylnuge (Talk • Edits) 21:26, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
You might find this a little interesting
edit- Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User_is_threatening_to_report_me_for_simply_adding_relevant_Wikiproject_tag_to_talk_page
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_LGBT_studies#Imane_Khelif
- Talk:Imane_Khelif#WikiProject_LGBT_studies Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:42, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- You are correct, I just read that whole thread and then spent half of the subsequent shower winning a talk page argument against a couple of shampoo bottles. Honestly, I think Wikipedia talk pages are high in the running for the worst possible communication medium on the planet -- maybe "smoke signal" and "message in a bottle" are worse. You can't show people non-CC-licensed images, you can't link to sources if someone thinks the website is bad, you can't categorize the articles in any scheme that has the potential to bother anyone. It's hardly surprising that for twenty years people have been running entire parallel communities on IRC and Discord and Slack and mailing lists: talk pages are borderline unusable. jp×g🗯️ 22:03, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Also any comment you make (even if you edit it a couple minutes later) is perpetually preserved in amber so that if you get in an unrelated argument with anybody over any subject for the rest of your life they can link to the time you were having a bad day in 2003 and called some guy an assclown as irrefutable evidence of longrunning conduct issues jp×g🗯️ 22:05, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- You are correct, I just read that whole thread and then spent half of the subsequent shower winning a talk page argument against a couple of shampoo bottles. Honestly, I think Wikipedia talk pages are high in the running for the worst possible communication medium on the planet -- maybe "smoke signal" and "message in a bottle" are worse. You can't show people non-CC-licensed images, you can't link to sources if someone thinks the website is bad, you can't categorize the articles in any scheme that has the potential to bother anyone. It's hardly surprising that for twenty years people have been running entire parallel communities on IRC and Discord and Slack and mailing lists: talk pages are borderline unusable. jp×g🗯️ 22:03, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Boo
editIs there a way to un-thank for an edit? AviationFreak💬 19:20, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- @AviationFreak: I thought this one was for the one that makes the pretentious New Yorker ‹The template Newyorkerize is being considered for deletion.› diæresis dots on stuff that I also made today. Oh well!!!! jp×g🗯️ 03:02, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-32
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- Two new parser functions will be available this week:
{{#dir}}
and{{#bcp47}}
. These will reduce the need forTemplate:Dir
andTemplate:BCP47
on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [3][4] - Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Newyorkerize
editTemplate:Newyorkerize has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Svampesky (talk) 03:22, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Svampesky: Are you aware that the diæresis is a part of the English language? This seems like either an issue with providing metadata in the template or improving accessibility software -- not really a thing that can be fixed at TfD. jp×g🗯️ 04:39, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- To be fair, I didn't realize I was nominating it for deletion on a page called 'Templates for discussion'. I thought it functioned to pool editors in one place, especially as templates are more technical. The section header
Nomination for deletion of Template:Newyorkerize
was a template. I hope the"mods on the Wikimedia discord server"
don't find out about this! Svampesky (talk) 13:56, 6 August 2024 (UTC) - I erroneously filed it thinking it was a place to pool editors and discuss. How do I withdraw it and move the discussion to the talk page? Svampesky (talk) 16:48, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- To be fair, I didn't realize I was nominating it for deletion on a page called 'Templates for discussion'. I thought it functioned to pool editors in one place, especially as templates are more technical. The section header
Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
- Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
- Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.
- The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ
During what I assume was a script error when moving Environmental effects of aviation, it seems the talk pages have turned into a redirect loop with no significant history under either. Was the actual page potentially accidentally deleted at Talk:Environmental impactEnvironmental effects of aviation without being moved? or has it ended up somewhere else? Aidan9382 (talk) 14:19, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- It looks like JPxG tried moving the pages back, but only moved the articles (not the talk pages), before they deleted both, as you've guessed, yeah. This was posted at WP:ANI#Environmental impact of bitcoin and appears to have been fixed. – 2804:F1...F5:208E (talk) 00:01, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
It appears your script run broke dozen of talk pages
editThere is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
See WP:ANI#Environmental impact of bitcoin. Another admin is looking into restoring the broken deleted pages. Raladic (talk) 21:26, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
Ramsdell
editHi there, the article has been restored per consensus at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2024 July 27. Will leave you to remove the CCI template if that's OK? Daniel (talk) 04:07, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
"Template:Bruh" listed at Redirects for discussion
editThe redirect Template:Bruh has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 August 9 § Template:Bruh until a consensus is reached. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 04:40, 9 August 2024 (UTC)