User talk:Hoo man/Archive/2017

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Rights

Hello Hoo man! Could you please grant me the uploader rights on meta because I want to upload some files locally on meta.--DoYouLikeMe (talk) 11:45, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

@DoYouLikeMe: Meta has bureaucrats that make these determinations, rather than stewards. Please utilise Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat  — billinghurst sDrewth 20:44, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

An incident on your page this morning (my time, that is)

As the incident advertised, I ended up with a fair amount of cleanup this morning on Incubator. I think I've gotten it all. I note that you quickly reverted the change, but notwithstanding w:WP:Deny recognition, it might make sense if someone specifically says something like that for you to get the word discreetly over to someone who might have to watch for a problem. Thanks. StevenJ81 (talk) 16:10, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure I can follow along. If you need to contact me discreetly, you can mail me, or ping me on IRC (hoo). Cheers, Hoo man (talk) 19:19, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Is Hoo Bot all right?

Hello! The featured image in Lezgi Wikipedia stopped updating few days ago. Is everything's all right?--Soul Train (talk) 09:29, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Help

Hi! I am an active Tamil Wikipedian. We wish to create many articles without the help of bots. So, we need a tool which collects data and construct simple sentences according to the given data. Like, Name:-_____ Birthdate:-_______. Then it should make sentences like. _____ is an astronomer. He was born on _______. Is there are any tools like this? Or is this possible to create any tools like this. If yes, then we can create many articles about people, places, films, rivers, etc. Can you design a tool for us? Please reply--Shri (talk) 01:18, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Shri, Hoo man and others on the Wikidata team have been working hard to eliminate the need for bot-created articles. We have developed the ArticlePlaceholder extension. Have you already look at that? Here are some pages on various projects that already use it:

• nn:Special:AboutTopic/Q845189 - Spotted turtle
• ht:Special:AboutTopic/Q14384 - Triceratops
• cy:Special:AboutTopic/Q815102 - Siege of Sydney Street
• gu:Special:AboutTopic/Q33866 - Theodore Roosevelt

Cheers --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 15:00, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

SOS

Bonjour et permettez-moi de me présenter : je suis Claude Piard, jadis contributeur sous le pseudo de Claude PIARD aujourd’hui quasi-banni dans des conditions pour le moins contestables. Et vous êtes mon ultime recours pour dénoncer des dérives nuisibles in fine à la réputation de Wikepdia. J'ai en effet déjà tenté d'alerter le CAR qui s'est déclaré incompétent puis fais appel récemment aux bureaucrates où mes messages sur leur PdD, revertés dans les délais les plus brefs par Habertrix, n'entrent même plus suite à une prise de contrôle que n'approuverait probablement pas la CNIL. Mais ce genre de manœuvre risquée est bien révélateur en soi de l'urgence qu'il y a pour certain(e)s de "cacher les poussières sous le tapis". Excusez-moi donc de vous ramener loin en arrière. En novembre 2013 Litlok est intervenu sur la PaS pour TI d’un article consacré à l’ « Attitude des juifs sous le régime nazi » pour suggérer son transfert dans la catégorie Recherche en histoire de Wikiversité, ce que j’ai fait le 6 janvier 2014 non sans provoquer de réactions de Lgd/Alginatus, longtemps sous simple IP. Deux ans plus tard, en octobre 2016 la fausse manoeuvre d’un collègue et ami qui a rapatrié par erreur les travaux résultant de l'évolution de cet article sur Wikiversité a été prétexte au procès le plus rapide de l’histoire wikipédienne. Un RA pour « désorganisation de l’encyclopédie » initié par Heddryin à mon encontre déposé le 22 octobre à 12 heures 46 a abouti à mon blocage indéfini le 24 octobre à 18 heures 41, sanction prononcée par Lomita – après une large consultation certes – aux motifs allégués de « WP-POINT, meatpuppetry et contournement de décision communautaire », la décision étant appliquée par Starus. Le RA initial a été clos dès le 23 par la même Lomita à 9 heures 33 – soit 15 heures après son ouverture – pour « conflit d’édition » trois minutes exactement après le dépôt de mon argumentaire, la discussion se poursuivant ensuite uniquement sur le BA entre administrateurs où celui-ci est ignoré. Mes tentatives d’appel au RA puis au CaR sont rapidement éludés avec pour seul effet le blocage de mon IP (2A01:E35:2E8F:19D0:E574:9CCA:1C5C:7825) et l’effacement de ma page présentation ainsi que sa PdD probablement trop compromettantes pour mes détracteurs. Depuis d’épisodiques tentatives de modestes interventions lors d’éphémères déblocages de mon IP se traduisent par son reblocage immédiat par Lomita au seul prétexte du test du canard, empêchant ainsi toute remise en cause de sa décision. Et actuellement ma détermination à faire rétablir l’exactitude des faits me vaut en RA une proposition de bannissement de la part d’Heggesipe. L’IP flottante de mon téléphone me permet néanmoins de porter à votre connaissance cette situation sur laquelle je reste prêt à fournir tous les renseignements complémentaires utiles. A cette fin, et faute d'autres moyens, mon adresse e-mail était accessible via mon ancienne page Claude PIARD. Celle-ci est certes effacée et je suppose que vous avez les outils nécessaires pour la ré-ouvrir. Néanmoins je me permets de vous la confirmer : crjpiard@free.fr Merci d’avoir pris le temps de me lire et bonne semaine. Envoyé depuis une adresse flottante, faute de pouvoir le faire plus régulièrement.--37.166.90.99 16:16, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Je découvre que ma connexion n'est pas bloquée sur Meta-Wiki et vous confirme donc totalement ce qui précède.--Claude PIARD (talk) 16:41, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Cette version archivée avant effacement de ma page de discussion confirme et explicite ce qui précède. Elle démontre également que j’ai épuisé tous les recours avant de vous solliciter. Sans résultats autre que provoquer une demande de bannissement. Indifférence générale ? Complot ? Quoiqu’il en soit le remplacement du respect des principes fondateurs et des recommandations écrites par le concept de « décision communautaire » ( i.e. « au soviet ») a de quoi inquiéter pour l’avenir de Wikipédia francophone--Claude PIARD (talk) 09:42, 20 April 2017 (UTC).

Blocked IP address

Hello Hoo man. I have a blocked IP address, and I don't understand why it's blocked. The IP address is 168.1.93.46.

When I search for globally blocked addresses, I find this reference to you...

08:56, 26 November 2015: Hoo man (meta.wikimedia.org) globally blocked 168.1.64.0/18 (expires on 21 October 2018 at 18:49, anonymous only) (Cross-wiki spam: spambot: Hoster / VPN service; Converting block to anony only)

Wiki being the terribly arcane (unWiki) and tortuous project that it is, I have no idea what all this is about. Are you responsible for blocking my IP address? If so, can you explain why it's blocked, please? In any case, Id be very grateful for any advice you can give on what on earth Im supposed to do to retrieve my editing rights.

I'm an innocent man, m'lud! — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Harry Audus (talk) 06:56, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

@Harry Audus: You were not blocked for any action you have taken, but the VPN you are (probably) using got caught up in a block. If you log in before editing you will be able to edit, except on the English Wikipedia as your IP address is blocked there locally, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User%3A168.1.0.0%2F16&type=block. I can't do anything about blocks on the English Wikipedia, thus you will need to address this there, possibly with the administrator handing out the block. Another option is, if this is acceptable for you, to disable your VPN. Cheers, Hoo man (talk) 07:16, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Renaming user with 400k edits

Dear Hoo man,

a user with 400k edits would like to be renamed [1]. Could you rename when you are available? Thank you.

Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 15:20, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Mention

Hello, I mentioned you in Steward requests/Username changes --Alaa :)..! 15:58, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Scripts broken

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that (at least on Monobook) your scripts are broken suddenly. Since that post I've also tested Sledge Hammer and gives me the same problem: I'm not able to click any page tabs from above. When you've got a moment, could you please check that out? Hope that you're well. Regards, —MarcoAurelio 18:49, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Verify you've met me?

Hey, I installed Wikibase from scratch during the wikimania hackathon and you helped me with the binary vs. utf-8 collation issue. Maybe you could verify you've met me at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PB/A :) Dan scott (talk) 18:31, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Done! :) - Hoo man (talk) 22:33, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Help design a new feature to stop harassing emails

Hi there,

The Anti-Harassment Tools team plans to start develop of a new feature to allow users to restrict emails from new accounts. This feature will allow an individual user to stop harassing emails from coming through the Special:EmailUser system from abusive sockpuppeting accounts.

We’re inviting you to join the discussion because you have experience dealing with abusive sockpuppeting accounts and you work across many wikis. We think that your insights will help us build a better feature.

You can leave comments on this discussion page or send an email to the Anti-Harassment Tools team.

It is important to hear from a broad range of people who are interested in the design of the tool, so we hope you join the discussion and let us know how it would work best for you.

For the Anti-Harassment Tools team SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 21:50, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Please let us know if you wish to opt-out of all massmessage mailings from the Anti-harassment tools team.

Better hashing alhorithm for unique reference names

Hi, we've been implementing the functionality mentioned in this task description, namely generating unique reference names for references created from Wikidata (and solving some adjacent problems), in ruwiki (after T175725: Deploy HTML5 sections to WMF production was done for ruwiki and some things broke). Do you have any thoughts on which algorithm is better suited for generating hash values for references? I've done my modest research and stopped at fnv164 as it is fast, and 64-bit hash reduces collision probability to a negligibly small value. But maybe I am missing something.

The choice hash_algos() gives is the following:

"adler32", "crc32", "crc32b", "fnv132", "fnv164", "fnv1a32", "fnv1a64", "gost", "haval128,3", "haval128,4", "haval128,5", "haval160,3", "haval160,4", "haval160,5", "haval192,3", "haval192,4", "haval192,5", "haval224,3", "haval224,4", "haval224,5", "haval256,3", "haval256,4", "haval256,5", "joaat", "md2", "md4", "md5", "ripemd128", "ripemd160", "ripemd256", "ripemd320", "sha1", "sha224", "sha256", "sha3-224", "sha3-256", "sha3-384", "sha3-512", "sha384", "sha512", "snefru", "tiger128,3", "tiger128,4", "tiger160,3", "tiger160,4", "tiger192,3", "tiger192,4", "whirlpool"

Thanks in advance. If you cannot answer, but you know somebody who can, please tell. Jack who built the house (talk) 03:09, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Account renamed

Hi, Hoo man. I came to rename an account with 50k edits, by mistake. I realized that this account has more than 50k edits after accepting the change. I know that our policy says that "accounts with more than 50,000 edits altogether should not be performed [without supervision of a sysadmin]. Can you see if all is right, please? I'm sorry if something is wrong, and my apologies for it. Jmvkrecords ⚜ (Intra talk) 16:47, 23 November 2017 (UTC).