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Some questions

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Hi,

I have three questions which have been on my mind for awhile. Perhaps you can clarify them?

• 1: I've been using TemplateScript Search and Replace, but it still doesn't save my search definitions between sessions. Are the saved searches stored in cookies?

• 2: I use the over/under mode of proofreading and find the upper window height to be too small where the original scan is displayed. Could it be made larger with CSS to display more text lines of the original scan? The reason is that I can only see about five lines of text on the top, while I can edit 11-12 lines in the lower text area. I tried using the magnifier to reduce the image size, but this would require reducing the text with each new page edit. I also tried to come up with a solution, but I can't find the object name of the upper window when I looked at the code inspector.

• 3: If you care to remember, I am using a slightly modified copy of your proofreading.js placed here. I only use the 'Clean OCR' option, which on completion of the cleanup, leaves the cursor at the end of the text. Would it be a big problem to send the cursor up to beginning of the text (Control-Home) within the textarea box?

Your advice and help is much appreciated.Ineuw (talk) 19:14, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Ineuw.

1. TemplateScript stores data in your browser's local storage, so it should be persisted between sessions. Did you configure your browser to clear data between sessions?
2. I'm not very familiar with the proofreading tools. Can you link me to an example page I can try?
3. You can move the cursor to the top of the text with this code:

   document.getElementById("wpTextbox1").setSelectionRange(0, 5);
   

—Pathoschild 00:43, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your help and the clarifications. This is my editing environment, and the window which I would love to increase the height of is indicated by the red frame. Ineuw (talk) 06:29, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

You can increase the height of that preview with CSS like this:

.prp-page-image {
   height: 500px !important;
}

—Pathoschild 21:32, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

My gratitude for the CSS code snippet. It is perfect! But this javascript code snippet document.getElementById("wpTextbox1").setSelectionRange(0, 5); moves the cursor to the 1st column, but not the first column and the 1st row of the text box. Ineuw (talk) 07:04, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

What do you mean? Can you post a screenshot? —Pathoschild 15:23, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

@Pathoschild: Hi, I uploaded this image at Wikisource to indicate where the cursor ends up after activating The code is inserted at line 317. It is quite possible that I placed it in the wrong place?Ineuw (talk) 22:39, 25 September 2017 (UTC)Ineuw (talk) 06:14, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

@Ineuw this version should work better:

var input = document.getElementById("wpTextbox1");
input.focus();
input.setSelectionRange(0, 0);
input.scrollTop = 0;

—Pathoschild 22:40, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

@Pathoschild: A big thank you, it's perfect.Ineuw (talk) 01:43, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Catalan translation of TemplateScript

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Hi, Pathoschild! I've begun to adapt TemplateScript for ca.source. The Catalan translations are the following ones. Could you please upload them to Github?

var pathoschild = pathoschild || {};
pathoschild.i18n = {
    templatescript: {
        defaultHeaderText: "TemplateScript", // the sidebar header text label for the default group
        regexEditor: "Editor regex" // the default 'regex editor' script
    },
    regexeditor: {
        header: "Editor d´expressions regulars",      // the header text shown in the form
        search: "Cercar",                             // the search input label
        replace: "Reemplaçar",                        // the replace input label
        nameSession: "Introdueixi un nom per aquesta sessió", // the prompt shown when saving the session
        loadSession: 'Carregar sessió "{name}"',      // tooltip shown for a saved session, where {name} is replaced with the session name
        deleteSession: 'Esborrar sessió "{name}"',    // tooltip shown for the delete icon on a saved session, where {name} is replaced with the session name
        closeEditor: "Tancar l´editor regex",         // tooltip shown for the close-editor icon
        addPatterns: "Afegeix patrons",               // button text
        addPatternsTooltip: "Afegeix caixes de cerca i reemplaçament", // button tooltip
        apply: "Aplica",                              // button text
        applyTooltip: "Aplica els patrons indicats",  // button tooltip
        undo: "Desfés darrer canvi",                  // button text
        undoTooltip: "Desfà el darrer canvi",         // button tooltip
        save: "Desa canvis",                          // button text
        instructions: 'Introdueixi les expressions regulars a executar. El patró de cerca pot ser de com "{code|text=patró de cerca}" o "{code|text=/patró/modificadors}" i el patró de reemplaçament pot contenir grups de referència com "{code|text=$1}" (vegeu {helplink|text=tutorial|title=JavaScript regex tutorial|url=http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html}).'
    }
};

Thank you! -Aleator (talk) 16:05, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Aleator! Can you provide this missing translation too?

saveTooltip: "Save this session for later use", // button tooltip

—Pathoschild 15:29, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Sure: "Desa aquesta sessió per usar-la més endavant" (I'm not sure if the hyphen "-" is a valid character in the scripting). Thanks! -Aleator (talk) 15:41, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Added and deployed. I updated TemplateScript#Translation with instructions for Catalan. Thanks! —Pathoschild 18:13, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Synchbot requests going back to July

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Hi Pathoschild, I wonder if you might have a chance to run Synchbot some time soon? There are a requests going back to July at the moment (including mine) and I think the documentation suggested it would be run roughly once a month. Thank-you for your continued work on Synchbot. Best wishes, Mark Mhl20 (talk) 11:20, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Mhl20. The main complication is that the permissions Synchbot needs expired, so I'll need to reapply for those. I'm away for vacation, but I'll look into that when I get back. —Pathoschild 18:29, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

@Mhl20: I renewed Synchbot's permissions, cleared the backlog, and changed the process to avoid such delays in the future. :) —Pathoschild 18:37, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks, @Pathoschild:, that's brilliant and much appreciated! Mhl20 (talk) 13:28, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Global user rights

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Done. Re-granted for 1 year. Matiia (talk) 01:01, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! —Pathoschild 01:18, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Just a suggestion

Hi there! I was looking at one of your tools , and it occurred to me that on that specific page, I could have used a column that numbered the results, so that, more or less at a glance, I could see how many cells are in the red group, how many in the yellow etc. I know the total can easily be found elsewhere, but it appears to me a "small" improvement that could go a long way :) Best, --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 19:48, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

AccountEligibility tool

Hi, steward election nomination period starts tomorrow. Can you please update the eligibility tool (https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/accounteligibility/)? Eligibility criterias are the same as last year. Stryn (talk) 17:27, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

<https://github.com/Pathoschild/Wikimedia-contrib/issues/96> —MarcoAurelio (talk) 17:30, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

I'm travelling without access to a computer today, but I'll set it up as soon as I can (should be before 5am UTC). —Pathoschild 17:39, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

I've delayed the display of CentralNotices until 08:00 (UTC) so we can give Pathoschild time to modify the tool and avoid potential ineligible candidates. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 18:10, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

The code changes are ready, but I won't be able to deploy until I reach home. The ETA is 6am UTC, but there are a lot of airplane delays due to local weather. Here are the specific rules to confirm:

• Voters:
  • not a bot on any wiki;
  • 600 edits across all wikis before 01 November 2017;
  • 50 edits across all wikis between 01 August 2017 and 31 January 2018 inclusively.
• Candidates:
  • same rules as voters;
  • held the sysop flag on any one wiki for at least 90 days before 02 February 2018 at 14:00 UTC.

Let me know if you want to make any changes. —Pathoschild 01:35, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Deployed! —Pathoschild 07:58, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Stalktoy error

Hello, Pathoschild! I hope you are doing ok! There is something wrong with Stalktoy. I am receiving the error message: Fatal error: Invalid serialization data for DateTime object in /mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/meta/git/wikimedia-contrib/tool-labs/backend/modules/Cacher.php on line 153

It started yesterday and I have tried many IP's. Cheers.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 13:58, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Fixed! Some invalid data got cached. Let me know if that happens again. —Pathoschild 16:34, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

It’s working just fine now! Thanks!—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 20:09, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Japanese translation of TemplateScript

Hi,

Thank you for providing such a great tool! We appreciate it if you could add the following translation to TemplateScript as ja.js:

var pathoschild = pathoschild || {};
pathoschild.i18n = {
    templatescript: {
        defaultHeaderText: "テンプレートスクリプト", // the sidebar header text label for the default group
        regexEditor: "正規表現エディタ" // the default 'regex editor' script
    },
    regexeditor: {
        header: "正規表現エディタ",                         // the header text shown in the form
        search: "検索",                                     // the search input label
        replace: "置換",                                    // the replace input label
        nameSession: "セッション名を入力する",              // the prompt shown when saving the session
        loadSession: 'セッション"{name}"を開く',            // tooltip shown for a saved session, where {name} is replaced with the session name
        deleteSession: 'セッション"{name}"を削除する',      // tooltip shown for the delete icon on a saved session, where {name} is replaced with the session name
        closeEditor: "正規表現エディタを終了する",          // tooltip shown for the close-editor icon
        addPatterns: "パターンを追加する",                  // button text
        addPatternsTooltip: "検索・置換ボックスを追加する", // button tooltip
        apply: "適用する",                                  // button text
        applyTooltip: "上記のパターンを適用する",           // button tooltip
        undo: "最後の適用を取り消す",                       // button text
        undoTooltip: "最後の適用を取り消す",                // button tooltip
        save: "保存する",                                   // button text
        saveTooltip: "後で使うためにセッションを保存する",  // button tooltip
        instructions: '任意の数の正規表現を入力できます。検索パターンは"{code|text=検索パターン}"または"{code|text=/パターン/修飾子}"のように指定します。置換パターンには"{code|text=$1}"のように参照グループを含めることができます（{helplink|text=チュートリアル|title=JavaScript regex tutorial|url=http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html}を参照してください）。'
    }
};

Thank you for your cooperation! --CES1596 (talk) 13:07, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Added; see TemplateScript#Translation for how to use them. Thanks! —Pathoschild 16:10, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft name space/ function for the SWWP

Hello Pathoschild/Archives/2020! It's been a long time since I stopped by here. Well, I'm doing great and so is the SWWP. We recently have had some chats about establish the draft name-space just like we did on PORTAL nine years ago? Okay, now we need own draft pages for crosschecking before submitting them into article main space. So were wondering if you could be a bit of help and look into that how to go about it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Kibanga&action=edit for some example.--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 10:42, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi Muddyb Blast Producer. I think you need to get consensus in discussion on the wiki and then submit a ticket in Phabricator to add the namespace. I've been inactive for a while though, so you could maybe ask in the Wikimedia Forum to be sure. —Pathoschild 16:00, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

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Normalization failure?

Re-occurance of User talk:Pathoschild/Archives/2018#Ajax Sysop error on Ajax Rollback: screenshot. Did the rollback manually (Special:Diff/17921482), but maybe script don't like these rare-cases? :P — regards, Revi 07:01, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi -revi. I deployed a potential fix for that (you'll need to bypass your cache to see it). I can't test since I'm not an active administrator anymore; let me know if you spot any issues. :) —Pathoschild 03:30, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contribution to the Tajik Wikipedia.

Hi. Thank you for your contribution to the Tajik Wikipedia. The State Committee on Language and Terminology at its meeting revealed a large number of violations of the Tajik grammar rules in articles of the Tajik Wikipedia. Have this remark in view of. With respect, the administrator of the Tajik Wikipedia.--Шухрат Саъдиев (talk) 03:11, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Шухрат Саъдиев. I don't contribute to the Tajik Wikipedia; my only changes there are automated as part of Synchbot. :) —Pathoschild 03:32, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

All changes Fixed under your User, ??--Шухрат Саъдиев (talk) 04:00, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Yep. Synchbot doesn't use a separate bot account because many users didn't like the idea of a bot with steward access. Later we gained the ability to create custom groups, but by that point everything was already well-established using my own account (including community discussions, negotiated exceptions to filter rules, etc). So now I run Synchbot through this account for historical reasons. —Pathoschild 04:07, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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crossactivity throwing errors

Not sure whether this is temporary or otherwise, so at this point a note that "crossactivity" is throwing errors (see below) along with its results, see [1] and. Level of my testing is minimal, tried a few usernames for similar error. Will attempt to check later to see if it is reproducible and ongoing.

“ Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1044 Access denied for user 's52256'@'%' to database 'euwikisource_p in /mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/meta/git/wikimedia-contrib/tool-labs/backend/modules/Database.php on line 282

PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1044 Access denied for user 's52256'@'%' to database 'euwikisource_p' in /mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/meta/git/wikimedia-contrib/tool-labs/backend/modules/Database.php on line 282

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 — billinghurst sDrewth 03:03, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi billinghurst. The tools can't connect to gorwiki, hiwikimedia, inhwiki, lfnwiki, or romdwikimedia. I can't connect to those from a separate Tool Labs user either, so this looks like an issue with Tool Labs. I set the tools to temporarily ignore those wikis for now, so it should work fine now. —Pathoschild 05:15, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

This has been reported already on Phabricator and to Cloud Services fwiw. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:34, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio Could you link to the ticket? —Pathoschild 14:53, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi. They're several (one per wiki) but <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184375> should be enough. According to cloud-services, this should be now fixed. Thanks. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 21:25, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I removed those wikis from the ignore list, so they can appear in results now. —Pathoschild 22:18, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Truth about so called (by Serbians) Serbo-Croatian language

Moved to Talk:Language committee#Truth about so called (by Serbians) Serbo-Croatian language.

TemplateScript and Parser migration action

Hi. This new parser migration stuff and TemplateScript are not playing toghter, though it seems that numbers of components get shutdown by the parser. I lose my side scripts (and my customised toolbar).

Example: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Flour&action=parsermigration-edit&lintid=506100

So in this example where I would normally have components to allow for a (quicker) conversion to <Pages> ... GONE!

Guessing that it is due to the change from action=edit, though flagging it in case there is an easy fix. Presuming that they are neutralising anything that might compete with their presentation form, as it also kills proofreadpage. :-/  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:14, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Fixed and push live (you may need to bypass your cache). Let me know if you notice any other issues using TemplateScript with the new action. —Pathoschild 15:03, 09 May 2018 (UTC)

Tool errors

Hello Pathoschild, stalktoy give ( ! ) Fatal error: Invalid serialization data for DateTime object in /mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/meta/git/wikimedia-contrib/tool-labs/backend/modules/Cacher.php on line 153 --Alaa :)..! 11:30, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

I think I was just about to point out the same, as catanalysis malfunctions as well :) --OosWesThoesBes (talk) 09:32, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Heya, Pathoschild, just wanted to let you know guser search has been down for a few days. :( Chrissymad (talk) 13:53, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Fixed! The errors were caused by a cache file containing invalid data somehow; I cleared the cache and everything should be fine now. Sorry about that, and thanks for reporting it! —Pathoschild 14:53, 09 May 2018 (UTC)

Yes, it works perfectly again now. Thank you! :) --OosWesThoesBes (talk) 14:57, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Pathoschild --Alaa :)..! 18:12, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Synchbot failing with errors

With my migration request Synchbot is reporting a couple of errors. Script error: No such module "iQuoteB2B" and Lua error in Module:Synchbot at line 180: attempt to index a nil value.. --165.255.64.8 08:06, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

I fixed the request. :) —Pathoschild 16:27, 05 June 2018 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! Just saw the error actually pertained to User:iQuoteB2B. I initially thought this was part of the application logic. Feel free to remove this section. --YaguraStation (talk) 11:08, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

re:Global CSS/JS migration

Hello Igna. You have global scripts in global.js, which you import using your local CSS/JS pages. Since August 2014, your global.js and global.css pages are loaded automatically on all wikis. Since you already import them yourself, you may experience script errors or tools being added twice. I can remove the global imports from your local pages using Synchbot (without touching other scripts). Do you want me to do that? —Pathoschild 23:28, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi again! I haven't heard back from you, so I'll assume you don't want to do this. Feel free to leave me a message or add a Synchbot request if you change your mind. :) —Pathoschild 16:50, 09 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Pathoschild, sorry for not answering, I was inactive for a long time but I'm back. Yes, would be very useful to delete commons.js because is no longer be necessary. And could you add my userpage to all the wikis that I missing?. My userpage format is here. Regards --Ignacio (talk) 15:56, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi Igna.

• Do you want to delete vector.js pages too? (Here's a list of your user pages.)
• You can create a global user page now. Do you want me to set that up for you and delete your local user pages instead, so your global page appears everywhere automatically? (I can skip certain wikis where you don't want the global user page to appear, and you can have content that only appears on Meta or only appears on local pages.)

—Pathoschild 16:52, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

• Yes, delete all commons.js and vector.js, except es-wiki, meta and commons.
• I don't understand much now how global user page function works, so for now not remove my userpages until I can make it work.

Thanks for the help --Ignacio (talk) 20:38, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi Pathoschild, if you have time could you make the request above?. And delete also my user page except es-wiki, meta and commons. Because I get duplicate buttons in almost every wiki. Thanks --Ignacio (talk) 00:31, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Will do! —Pathoschild 14:27, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

@Igna Done in the August batch. Let me know if I missed anything! —Pathoschild 22:38, 05 August 2018 (UTC)

Everything works properly and global settings work. Thank you very much for the help!!!. Regards --Igna (talk) 23:39, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Change to TemplateScript?

Hi. templatescript has stopped showing/working for me in enWS, has there been a change in the past few days that has occurred that may have caused this? Asking prior to spending times post morteming what may have been done outside of TemplateScript. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 06:46, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Oh, as bit of analysis, the script functionality disappears for how I activate in my local common.js file. The template works here on meta which is implemented through local global.js though a little differently as I activate more scripts at enWS, and here I just use the regex capability.  — billinghurst sDrewth 07:16, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

It is not templatescript, it is something either enWS, or me and some interaction somewhere. I have tried no gadgets, no common.js, no global.js and just having templatescript and that fails. I can poke the exact scripts into global.js, and they work fine, so it seems that it is something about not seeing my common.js file, which is just weird.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:28, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

You have a few JavaScript issues in your common.js. Do you want me to fix those and see if that fixes it? —Pathoschild 15:28, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

(TemplateScript works fine for me on ensource, so it doesn't seem to be something on the wiki itself.) —Pathoschild 17:30, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Fix away, it had all been working fine and I am getting no reports of errors; plus reverted anything recent to check that too.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:00, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

So it's probably not that (though I fixed a few little things while I was there). I'm not sure what the issue is then. Nothing has changed in TemplateScript itself. —Pathoschild 02:03, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

You fixed it with the } -> ) which I missed, and usually shows up when typing is fouled up. Not sure why my "undo" didn't work unless there is some extraordinary caching going on with my common.js file, usually that is pretty instantaneous, and if that is the case, no wonder the console results were confusing. Thanks for your help.  — billinghurst sDrewth 06:11, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Welcome! —Pathoschild 16:56, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

#RIP tools

Heya, Pathoschild wanted to let you know that several tools are having fatal errors today, particularly guser. Chrissymad (talk) 17:27, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! Looks like invalid data got cached somehow. That should be fixed now; let me know if you're still getting errors. —Pathoschild 17:36, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Help request for idwikiquotes

Hi, i want to ask for your help to delete the following pages:

• Kholidil Amin, unremarkable person.
• Daftar_slogan_iklan/Televisi, not a list of quotes.
• Warning_Signs_On_Http:_shpil.com_ira_You_Should_Know, global spam.
• Wikiquote:Mohon buatkan akun, gibberish talk.

Thank you. Veracious (talk) 15:58, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Veracious. You can ask for help with that on Steward requests/Miscellaneous. (I can only delete user pages as part of the Synchbot service.) —Pathoschild 17:11, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Fatal error in tools

Hey there, visiting your tools is showing this error: Fatal error: Invalid serialization data for DateTime object in /mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/meta/git/wikimedia-contrib/tool-labs/backend/modules/Cacher.php on line 153 . ‐‐1997kB (talk) 11:38, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

I cleared the cache, so the tools are back up now. I'm looking into a more permanent fix to prevent this from happening in the future. —Pathoschild 15:00, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Extension CharInsert sur fr.wikisource

Bonjour,

Comme vous êtes à l'origine de ce script : s:fr:MediaWiki:Common.js (lignes 657-697), et que la méthode diffère de ce qu'on trouve dans la documentation, aussi bien sur fr.wikisource que sur fr.wikipedia (w:fr:MediaWiki:Gadget-CommonEdit.js), je viens vous demander conseil. Tous les liens situés dans le menu sélectionner de s:fr:MediaWiki:Edittools ne fonctionnent plus depuis un moment. Tous ceux situés hors de ce menu fonctionnent correctement, et si je remplace l'id du conteneur principal du menu specialchars par n'importe quoi, certes le menu n'est plus construit, mais les liens fonctionnent de nouveau. Une idée de comment résoudre ce problème ? Merci d'avance pour votre aide. Reptilien.19831209BE1 (talk) 10:25, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Bonjour Reptilien.19831209BE1. Ce script est ancien et n'est plus nécessaire. Ma recommandation est de le supprimer et d'utiliser les scripts dans la documentation qui inclus les menus déroulants. —Pathoschild 16:54, 02 December 2018 (UTC)

Un grand merci pour votre conseil, tout semble fonctionner à nouveau. Reptilien.19831209BE1 (talk) 21:53, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Needing some guidance

Hiya. Hope all is well. I am having issues getting the old 2006 toolbar operational as a script through my common.js at enWS (visible in page history over December). There are instructions on how to install it as as a gadget at mw:Contributors/Projects/Removal of the 2006 wikitext editor however, I cannot work out the means elseways through ResourceLoader for personal import. Questions on the related talk page, and to Krinkle's talk page have met to no advice. If you are able to help or guide me I would be very appreciative. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:56, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Billinghurst. Your link doesn't work, but I think mediawiki.toolbar is correct based on the ResourceLoader migration guide. However, the documentation link in that section is broken, I can't find it in the source code, and it was apparently never added to the main documentation. So far as I can tell, the module no longer exists; do you know of any gadgets where it's working correctly? —Pathoschild 23:41, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, the fixed link is much clearer. So mediawiki.toolbar no longer exists, and that page assumes you create a sitewide gadget. Here's the example fixed for use in a personal script instead:

$.ajax("https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-mediawiki.toolbar.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript", { dataType:'script', cache:true }).then(function() {
    mw.toolbar.addButton({
      imageFile: '//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/New_icon_shiny_badge.svg',
      speedTip: 'Souhaiter la bienvenue aux nouveaux',
      tagOpen: '{{Bienvenue nouveau|Trizek|sign\=~'+'~'+'~'+'~|message\=}}',
      tagClose: '',
      sampleText: '',
      imageId: 'mw-editbutton-bienvenutageproto'
  });
});

—Pathoschild 01:18, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Amazing how a correct link works better. <deskthunk> I have scraped the old code for buttons and text, and will try it when I am at home.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:24, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Quick review if possible?

Hello,

I am drafting my french statement for the confirmations but my command of the language is not what it used to be. Could you please take a look at this brief text and fix any mistakes you can find:

Extended content
Bonjour mesdames et messieurs. Pour le meilleur ou pour le pire, je suis un homme d'habitudes. Pour cette raison, mes activités au cours de l'année 2018 ne diffèrent pas de celles que j'ai exercées les années précédentes, et que j’énumérerai néanmoins: [[SR|gestion de demandes aux stewards à Meta-Wiki]], prévention et lutte contre le vandalisme et les [[vandalbot|robots spam]] sur tous les projects, et gestion de les "blacklist" comme le [[spam blacklist]] et [[title blacklist]] principalement. En plus des activités précédemment nommées, j'ai participé régulièrement aux discussions, proposé à plus de projets d'adopter la [[BP|politique de bot standard]], et répondu aux demandes de [[SRCU|vérification de faux-nez]] et de [[Oversight policy|"oversight"]]. Avec l’aide de mes collègues, j’aide aussi à la "[[admin activity review]]". D'autres activités ont inclus : écrire des articles, et participer à Wikimedia Phabricator et Gerrit. Je pense que je peux continuer à être utile à cette role et ce pour ça que j'aimerai continuer pour une autre année. Merci bien.

It's okay if you can't, of course. In any case, thank you for your time and happy new year. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:27, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi MarcoAurelio. Sorry for the slow response (I'm away visiting family). My French is a bit rusty since I don't actively use it anymore, but I copyedited the text and tweaked a few awkward parts in case you still need it:

Extended content
Bonjour mesdames et messieurs. Pour le meilleur et pour le pire, je suis un homme d'habitudes. Mes activités au cours de l'année 2018 ne diffèrent pas de celles que j'ai exercées les années précédentes, et que j'énumérerai néanmoins: [[SR|gestion de demandes aux stewards à Meta-Wiki]], prévention et lutte contre le vandalisme et les [[vandalbot|robots spam]] sur tous les projets, et gestion des listes noires telles que le [[spam blacklist]] et [[title blacklist]]. En plus de ces activités, j'ai participé régulièrement aux discussions, proposé à plus de projets d'adopter la [[BP|politique de bot standard]], et répondu aux demandes de [[SRCU|vérification de faux-nez]] et de [[Oversight policy/fr|masquage]]. Avec l'aide de mes collègues, j'aide aussi à l'[[admin activity review/fr|examen d’activité administrateur]]. D'autres activités incluent l'écriture des articles, et la participation aux systèmes Wikimedia Phabricator et Gerrit. Je crois pouvoir continuer à être utile dans ce rôle et j'aimerai continuer pour une autre année. Merci bien.

—Pathoschild 19:37, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks a lot :-) I'll update the statement. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:08, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Needs help

Tajik Wikipedia needs help to confirm the candidacy of a new Wikipedia administrators. There is currently no bureaucrat in the Tajik Wikipedia. Voting on the candidacy is over. Look [2]--Шухрат Саъдиев (talk) 14:00, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi Шухрат Саъдиев. You can post a request on Steward requests/Permissions, and the stewards will help you out. —Pathoschild 15:22, 02 March 2019 (UTC)

Okay, thanks!--Шухрат Саъдиев (talk) 15:58, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

gUser search and case

Hi. At gUser search I was searching for "world famous" without utilising case matching search, and it would seem to be undertaking case sensitive searching.

• https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/gusersearch/?name=World+Famous.*&show_locked=on&show_hidden=on&regex=on (16 global accounts)
• https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/gusersearch/?name=world+famous.*&show_locked=on&show_hidden=on&regex=on (2 global accounts)
• https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/gusersearch/?name=World+famous%25&show_locked=on&show_hidden=on (2 global accounts)
• https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/gusersearch/?name=World+Famous%25&show_locked=on&show_hidden=on (10 global accounts)

Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 02:05, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi billinghurst. It's the other way around — case-sensitive is the default, and you can optionally enable "match any capitalization". Due to the way case-insensitive search works, it's much slower since it can't depend on the column indexes. —Pathoschild 03:09, 03 March 2019 (UTC)

Okay, though match capitalisation to me indicates turning it ON to match case, not turning it OFF.  — billinghurst sDrewth 04:24, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

I agree "match capitalisation" means case-sensitive, but "match any capitalisation" means the opposite. Less confusing wording might be good here. ;) —Pathoschild 05:08, 03 March 2019 (UTC)

Your temporary access has expired (2019)

Hello, the temporary global access for Global Interface Editor and Global Deleter have expired. Just to let you know that If you want it back, feel free to open a new request on stewards' global permission request page on Meta-Wiki later. Please ask me or any other steward if you have any questions. Thank you! — regards, Revi 15:28, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! I submitted a renewal request. —Pathoschild 16:23, 05 March 2019 (UTC)

Synchbot access renewed

Hello. I am pleased to communicate you that per overwhelming consensus after a short period of consideration, your permissions to run Synchbot have been restored. Thanks for your continued service :-) Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:11, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! —Pathoschild 15:33, 07 March 2019 (UTC)

Requests (migrate to global user page)

Hi, the second of the three requests has been done, what about the others? No hurry, just wondering.--Pod-o-mart (talk) 11:20, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Sorry! The schedule got thrown with the permission expiry, and apparently I forgot to run it afterwards. (The second request wasn't actually done, it just didn't have anything to do.) I'll run the current requests today. —Pathoschild 15:48, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! --Pod-o-mart (talk) 01:31, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

A small correction request

I have recently gone through the page User:Pathoschild/Status/ws-cdo which is present in Incubator. In that page, under the subsection Final Criteria, there is a kink given with the title 'about localization'. I think that link needs to be corrected. I think its a low priority issue since the page only has 3 viewers in the last 30 days. Adithyak1997 (talk) 18:16, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Those pages are obsolete; it'd be better to just delete them to avoid confusion. —Pathoschild 06:19, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Prochain run de Synchbot

Bonjour,

Pour quand est prévu le prochain run de Synchbot ? La partie 'next scheduled run' en haut de la page indique "1-2 juin" ^^

Merci, à bientôt ! WikiLucas00 00:19, 24 June 2019

Bonjour! J'ai dû oublier de le mettre à jour, mais c'est le premier week-end de chaque mois; donc le prochain sera le 6-7 juillet. —Pathoschild 00:43, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

LPP/ko needs update

As changes applied for 12 days. --125.36.185.11 02:44, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

I'm no longer a member of the language committee; I suggest posting at Talk:Language committee instead. —Pathoschild 02:59, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello, you edited that page once, that has nothing to do with a committee. I suppose that user only notified users who have already edited the pages, also if they only reverted once or are inactive since years. Even a blocked user has been notified, not very intelligent. --2A02:908:D83:E460:216:CBFF:FEAD:FF9 10:06, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

File uploading

Could you please help? Currently file uploading is disabled on yiwiki due to the lack of adoption of an appropriate policy. This makes it difficult to provide necessary images in many articles. In how much detail does a policy have to be approved and, supposing that it achieves consensus, who is empowered to enable file uploading? Thanks --פוילישער (talk) 17:40, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

You can use images from the Wikimedia Commons on yiwiki, and upload new images there if they have a free license. If you need to upload copyrighted images under fair use or similar exceptions, I suggest asking for more info on Wikimedia Forum since I'm not familiar with the requirements. —Pathoschild 17:57, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

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crossactivity empty response

Hi! I am having trouble accessing crossactivity. It hangs for a long time and then sends an empty response. I have seen this problem going back for at least a few months. Is this just me, or does everyone have this problem? Please let me know if I can provide further information. Cheers, Bovlb (talk) 22:02, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

It takes a while even under the best conditions, and it may time out when serving multiple requests. Crossactivity is by far the slowest of my tools, so much so that I moved it into its own Toolforge account. I'm not actively maintaining it (besides keeping the code up-to-date), so rewriting it for better performance is sadly unlikely. (Pull requests are welcome if someone wanted to look into it though.) —Pathoschild 02:35, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Éligible ?!

Bonjour et bonne année 2020 (oui, il est encore temps en janvier), je suis allé faire un tour sur mon éligibilité à être Steward (oui, j'avais un peu de temps à perdre). Normalement, je ne devrais pas pouvoir être stew, mais à ma grande surprise, ukvoy me permets de poser une candidature. J'ai été sysop sur demande pour 2 semaines seulement, donc il n'y a rien de permanent (période continue), mais surtout il n'y a pas de période de 104 jours comme indiqué sur accounteligibility. Est-ce un bug ou y-a-t'il qque chose qui m'échappe ? Rassurez-vous je ne veux pas être stew, mais pour les futures demandes, il ne faudrait pas que n'importe qui puisse candidater. Cordialement. —Eihel (talk) 15:16, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Merci de l'avoir signalé! Le script ne gérait pas l'expiration automatique, ce qui a été ajoutée après la création du script. Je viens de corriger ça.

@MarcoAurelio FYI I just deployed a change to accounteligibility so it handles permission auto-expiry. —Pathoschild 03:27, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

@Eihel: It works now! Thanks Pathoschild and @MarcoAurelio: —Eihel (talk) 14:21, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Un grazie e un libro sulla conoscenza libera per te

Wikimedia Italia

Gentile Pathoschild,

oggi ti scrivo a nome dell'associazione Wikimedia Italia per ringraziarti del tempo che hai dedicato ai progetti Wikimedia.

Come piccolo omaggio avremmo piacere di spedirti una copia (tutta in carta riciclata) del libro di Carlo Piana, Open source, software libero e altre libertà. Fornisci un recapito per ricevere una copia del libro.

Pochi giorni fa il mondo ha festeggiato la giornata dell'amore per il software libero, ma ogni giorno è buono per ricordare le garanzie delle licenze libere e le centinaia di migliaia di persone che si sono unite per costruire questo bene comune della conoscenza. Speriamo che questo libro ti sia utile per apprezzare quanto hai fatto e per trasmettere la passione della conoscenza libera a una persona a te vicina.

Se desideri una copia ma non puoi fornirci un indirizzo a cui spedirla, contatta la segreteria Wikimedia Italia e troviamo una soluzione insieme.

Grazie ancora e a presto,

Lorenzo Losa (msg) 14:50, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Your temporary access is going to expire soon

Hello Pathoschild, you were granted temporary global permissions which is going to expire in a few days (7 March 2020). Just to let you know that if you want to continue with the access, you need to request an extension on stewards' global permission request page on Meta-Wiki. Please ask me or any other steward if you have any questions. Thank you! --—MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:50, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the reminder! —Pathoschild 14:59, 01 March 2020 (UTC)

Sidebar "Script header"

I have several test scripts loaded onto my vector.js, many of which import your TemplateScript. When I'm in edit mode, there are, in addition to the various script buttons, there are four headers marked "Script" in the sidebar. When I comment out the line importScript("User:Ohconfucius/test/Sources.js");, one of the headers disappears; ditto for when I comment out importScript("User:Ohconfucius/test/Common Terms.js");, but not for when I comment out importScript("User:Ohconfucius/test/MOSNUM dates code.js");. However, when I comment out all three, three headers disppear and only one is left. The multiple script headers is a bit annoying but doesn't otherwise have any negative consequences. However, other users of my scripts – production scripts this time – appear to be annoyed about these sidebar headers. Could you possibly give me a diagnosis and suggest a cure? Thanks in advance. --Ohconfucius (talk) 21:40, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Ohconfucius. MOSNUM dates code.js was migrated to TemplateScript a while back, but Sources.js is still using regex menu framework. Regex menu framework has been obsolete and unsupported since 2015, so it uses a lot of deprecated MediaWiki stuff that can break at any time. I suggest migrating the remaining scripts to TemplateScript too. —Pathoschild 01:05, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Incubator ancient history

Hi,

Asking you because you created the earliest version of Language proposal policy :)

The Incubator was created in June 2006. Do you happen to know how were the test pages of upcoming wikis created before the incubator? Judging by the announcement about the Incubator creation, they were on Meta, but can you tell anything more about that? Was there any kind of policy about this, or was it just an undocumented practice?

Thanks! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:35, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi! That was before my time with the committee, but I think test wikis were hosted at oldwikisource: (Wikisource), test-wp (Wikipedia), and sometimes third-party sites (e.g. see this request from late 2005). The process was pretty informal and subjective back then; I think you started a test wiki just by creating the pages under test-wp and proposals were just discussed until a consensus was reached (which often didn't work out very well). You could try asking Brion or some of the other early contributors, they might be able to tell you more. —Pathoschild 05:42, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

XFDcloser

Hello, can you please import

• MediaWiki:Gadget-XFDcloser.js
• MediaWiki:Gadget-XFDcloser-core.js
• MediaWiki:Gadget-XFDcloser.css
• MediaWiki:Gadget-libExtraUtil.js

these four files to Malayalam Wikipedia?. Akhiljaxxn (talk) 18:49, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi! I'm not a steward anymore, but you can ask at Steward requests/Miscellaneous instead. —Pathoschild 19:30, 08 June 2020 (UTC)

But you have 'global import rights' right? Adithyak1997 (talk) 04:53, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Nope. —Pathoschild 15:34, 09 June 2020 (UTC)

Stalktoy, Crossactivity & friends

Hello Pathoschild,

I don't know if your user talkpage is the appropriate venue to report problems with your tools, if not please let me know. I wanted to lookup something ealier today with both stalktoy and crossactivity and noticed both didn't work. Both gave 503 Service unavailable errors. On my request I asked a Toolforge admin to try restart both tools. They both worked very briefly (only loading the landing page) before going down again. Meta (which hosts stalktoy) gives a 502 Bad Gateway error with nothing useful in error log and Meta2 (crossactivity) doesn't respond to web requests at all and has the following in the error log:

2020-07-21 12:18:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.421) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning:  PDOStatement::execute(): MySQL server has gone away in /data/project/meta2/git/wikimedia-contrib/tool-labs/backend/modules/Database.php on line 321
2020-07-21 12:18:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.421) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning:  PDOStatement::execute(): Error reading result set's header in /data/project/meta2/git/wikimedia-contrib/tool-labs/backend/modules/Database.php on line 321
2020-07-21 12:18:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.421) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to a member function fetchValue() on bool in /data/project/meta2/git/wikimedia-contrib/tool-labs/crossactivity/index.php:93
2020-07-21 12:18:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.421) FastCGI-stderr: Stack trace:
2020-07-21 12:18:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.421) FastCGI-stderr: #0 {main}
2020-07-21 12:18:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.421) FastCGI-stderr:   thrown in /data/project/meta2/git/wikimedia-contrib/tool-labs/crossactivity/index.php on line 93

Hopefully you can fix this as it's quite a valuable tool for many people. Kind regards, Wiki13 (talk) 12:35, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi! I cleared their cached database info and restarted the services, and they're back online so far. Let me know if it happens again! —Pathoschild 15:03, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Hello Pathoschild, thanks for the reply in a timely fashion. I just checked and they seem to have gone down again with the same HTTP errors and for meta2 the same error in the error log. From what I could find on the error above is that it somehow has to with a SQL squery taking too long to finish (or possibly with low default max_allowed_packet settting in connection file). Why this locks up the entire tool is something I can't really answer myself. Maybe this helps you solve the problem. Kind regards, Wiki13 (talk) 20:19, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

It seems the service is getting overloaded. That slows down requests, which causes users to refresh the page repeatedly, which submits more requests, which further overloads the service. It's not clear why that started happening now though; Uncitoyen below mentioned many tools seem unusually slow, which might be what's starting that vicious circle. I'm only maintaining the tools now rather than actively developing them, so that's hard to address without major redevelopment. I could further split tools into their own services, but that may not help with Stalktoy which is the majority of the requests. —Pathoschild 23:39, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

It tentatively looks like an issue with the Toolforge infrastructure; for example, I see a userpages lookup still processing after 23 minutes, but that's a fairly straightforward query that shouldn't take more than a minute or two. —Pathoschild 00:15, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Hello Wikimedians, My problem for 1 month here

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in /data/project/erwin85/public_html/inc/database.class.php:467 Stack trace: #0 /data/project/erwin85/public_html/inc/database.class.php(39): TSDatabase->_connectHost('enwiki.labsdb') #1 /data/project/erwin85/public_html/inc/database.class.php(47): TSDatabase->__construct() #2 /data/project/erwin85/public_html/inc/webStart.inc.php(10): TSDatabase::singleton() #3 /data/project/erwin85/public_html/xcontribs.php(7): require_once('/data/project/e...') #4 {main} thrown in /data/project/erwin85/public_html/inc/database.class.php on line 467 

I also encounter the problems that Wiki13 says. Also, the processes that I want to do in many Wikimedia statistics applications take a long time. Although I try from different devices and IP address. Can you help me? Thanks. --Uncitoyen^talk 20:37, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

The error with xcontribs seems to be a different issue; I suggest contacting one of the maintainers listed here. If you're noticing many other tools are unusually slow, that might indicate an issue with the Toolforge infrastructure though. —Pathoschild 23:39, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Janwo's user pages

Hello Pathoschild, I hope you are fine. As far as I can see, @Janwo: this user wants to delete user pages in all wikis except Meta-Wiki see. Can you help as a global deleter? As you know, don't seem to have active sysop on some wikis. There are also many Wikipedias where the user doesn't want to delete the userpages. It probably forgot to requests for other wikis. Also, if Janwo explains the situation for other wikis, it would be good to clarify the process already. Thanks. --Uncitoyen^talk 19:24, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi! The simplest option is for Janwo to add a request to Synchbot, and I'll delete all the pages as part of the next batch on September 5–6. —Pathoschild 21:01, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the information.I do not want to delete all of them, i'm keeping some in the german versions and different wikiquotes. --Janwo (talk) 00:55, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your explanations. Janwo also made a request on that page. --Uncitoyen^talk 10:09, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

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ويكي المرأة - الجولة الأولى

أن تشعل شمعة خير من أن تلعن الظلام، فما بالك إن تم مكافأتك على إشعالك لهذه الشمعة؟! نحن نعاني من نقص حاد في المحتوى العربي عن المرأة على شبكة الإنترنت عمومًا وفي ويكيبيديا بشكل خاص. عالمنا ملئ بشتى الموضوعات التي تهتم بالمرأة بدءًا من السير الذاتية للنساء، وصولًا إلى مختلف الكيانات والمنظمات النسوية. ساهم في الكتابة عنهن وشارك في مشروع ويكي المرأة والجولة الأولى من مسابقة المشروع. لأية استفسارات، يُرجى التواصل مع فريق عمل المسابقة: Ravan (ن) ولا روسا (ن). مع خالص تمنياتنا بالتوفيق للجميع.

دعوة للمشاركة في مسابقة ويكيميديا مصر

أن تشعل شمعة خير من أن تلعن الظلام، فما بالك إن تم مكافأتك على إشعالك لهذه الشمعة؟! نحن نعاني من نقص حاد في المحتوى العربي على شبكة الإنترنت عمومًا وفي ويكيبيديا بشكل خاص. ساهم في الكتابة في أي موضوع على ويكيبيديا وشارك في مسابقة ويكيميديا مصر. لأية استفسارات، يُرجى التواصل مع فريق عمل المسابقة: Mohamed Ouda (ن) وAhmed Mohi El din (ن). مع خالص تمنياتنا بالتوفيق للجميع.

دعوة للمساهمة في مشروع 600 ألف مقالة

يمين مرحباً Pathoschild! يتحدّى بعض محرري الموسوعة أنفسهم في الوصول بالموسوعة إلى 600 ألف مقالة قبل نهاية 2018. هذا يعني أننا بحاجة لإنشاء 620 مقالة يوميًّا للوصول لهدفنا. لا تخف فالرقم ليس كبيرًا! فعلى كل مساهم إنشاء 7 مقالات يوميًّا، وبالطبع كلما ساهم المزيد من المحررين كلما قلّ العدد. نُرحب بمشاركتك معنا في صفحة المشروع. مع تحياتي.. أبو هشام (نقاش) 12:35، 14 مارس 2018 (ت ع م)

حذف سريع لـ مستخدم:Savh

مرحبًا. تم ترشيح الصفحة مستخدم:Savh التي قمتَ بإنشائها للحذف السريع؛ وذلك بسبب أنها مستوفية لواحد أو أكثر من معايير الحذف السريع، وهذا يعني أن الصفحة ستُحذف في أقرب وقت ممكن. إذا كان لديك اعتراض على عملية الترشيح، يُمكنك إضافة أي نقاط هامة في صفحة نقاش المقالة، أو يُمكنك طلب استرجاعها إذا تم حذفها من خلال هذه الصفحة -إذا كنتَ متأكدًا أن الصفحة غير مخالفة-. شكرًا لك. JarBot (نقاش) 16:31، 20 يناير 2019 (ت ع م)

حذف سريع لـ مستخدم:Lofty abyss

مرحبًا. تم ترشيح الصفحة مستخدم:Lofty abyss التي قمتَ بإنشائها للحذف السريع؛ وذلك بسبب أنها مستوفية لواحد أو أكثر من معايير الحذف السريع، وهذا يعني أن الصفحة ستُحذف في أقرب وقت ممكن. إذا كان لديك اعتراض على عملية الترشيح، يُمكنك إضافة أي نقاط هامة في صفحة نقاش المقالة، أو يُمكنك طلب استرجاعها إذا تم حذفها من خلال هذه الصفحة -إذا كنتَ متأكدًا أن الصفحة غير مخالفة-. شكرًا لك. -- JarBot (نقاش) 21:00، 7 يوليو 2019 (ت ع م)

حذف سريع لـ مستخدم:123uhjsakddsa89321l3

مرحبًا. تم ترشيح الصفحة مستخدم:123uhjsakddsa89321l3 التي قمتَ بإنشائها للحذف السريع؛ وذلك بسبب أنها مستوفية لواحد أو أكثر من معايير الحذف السريع، وهذا يعني أن الصفحة ستُحذف عن قريب. إذا كان لديك اعتراض على عملية الترشيح، يُمكنك إضافة أي نقاط هامة في صفحة نقاش المقالة، أو يُمكنك طلب استرجاعها إذا تم حذفها من خلال صفحة طلبات الاسترجاع -إذا كنتَ متأكدًا أن الصفحة غير مخالفة-. شكرًا لك. -- JarBot (نقاش) 11:18، 6 يونيو 2020 (ت ع م)

azb.wikipedia.org

Welcome

Hello Pathoschild welcome to azb Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay

Pathoschild تۆرکجه ویکی‌پدیایا خوْش گلدینیز!

سالام٬ Pathoschild. بۆتونلوکله کؤنوللو ایشلدنلرین چالیشماسی ایله یارادیلان ویکی‌پدیا بیلیملیگی‌نین تۆرکجه دیلینده اوْلان ورژنینه خوْش گلیبسینیز.

باشلامادان اؤنجه آشاغیداکی قایدالارلا تانیش اوْلمانیزی تؤوصیه ائدیریک:

• یارادیلان مقاله‌لری دَییشدیرمه‌یه و یا یئنی مقاله یاراتماغا تردید ائتمه‌یین، جسور اوْلون. بیر نئچه جۆمله‌لیک مقاله‌لر یاراتماقدان چکینمه‌یین.
• مقاله‌لرین بیلگی‌لیک، بیلیملیک‌لیک، طرفسیز و غرضسیز اوْلماسینا دیقّت ائدین.
• مقاله‌لری دَییشردیرمه‌دن اؤنجه دَییشدیرمه قایدالاری ایله تانیش اوْلون.
• سوْرغولارینیزا کؤمک صفحه‌لرینده جاواب آختارا بیلرسینیز. اوْردا جاواب تاپانماسانیز، ایلگیلی دانیشیق صفحه‌سینده سوْروشون.
• باشقا ایشلدنلردن یاردیم ایسته‌مکدن چکینمه‌یین، اوْنلارین دانیشیق صفحه‌لرینی دَییشدیره‌رک سواللارینیزی آرتیرین.
• یئنی یاراتدیغینیز مقاله‌لرین تۆرکجه دیلینده اوْلماسینا دیقّت ائدین. کؤچورمه یازیلیملارینی ایشه آپاران زامان یازی‌نین دیلینی یازی قۇراللاری ایله دقیقلشدیردیکدن سوْنرا مقاله‌یه آرتیرا بیلرسینیز.
• مقاله‌لرده و بۇنلارا ایلگیلی صفحه‌لرده (بؤلمه‌لر، شابلونلار و...) ایمضانیزی و آدینیزی یازمایین. عکسینه دانیشیق، سس‌وئرمه، سوال-جاواب و... فوْرمادا اوْلان یازیلارینیزین سوْنوندا ۴ تیله ~~~~ علاوه ائده‌رک ایمضالایین.
• مؤضوع سئچیمینده چتینلیک چکیرسینیزسه، آشاغیداکی صفحه‌لر سیزه یاردیم ائده‌جک:
  • ویکی‌پدیا:مقاله ایسته
  • ویکی‌پدیا: ۱۰۰۰ مقاله
  • ایسته‌نیلن مقاله‌لر
• یاراتماق ایسته‌دیگینیز مقاله‌نین آدینی آشاغیداکی بوْش یئره یازین و "مقاله یارات" دۆیمه‌سینه باسین. ایلک مقاله‌نیزی یارادین.

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ویکی‌پدیا ایشلدنلری بیلیملیکلیک شخصلر دئییللرسه، اؤزلری حاقدا مقاله یارادا بیلمزلر. بۇجور بیلگیلری یالنیز اؤز ایشلدن صفحه‌لرینده وئره بیلرلر!

Maxeeder (دانیشیق) ۱۹ مارس ۲۰۱۸، ساعت ۱۹:۵۳ (UTC)

bd.wikimedia.org

সুপ্রিয়

সুপ্রিয় Pathoschild, উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশ এর ওয়েবসাইটে আপনাকে স্বাগত জানাচ্ছি। উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশ উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশনের অনুমোদিত বাংলাদেশ চ্যাপ্টার। এটি বাংলাদেশে উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশনের বাংলা ভাষা এবং অন্যান্য ভাষার শিক্ষামূলক প্রকল্পগুলোর প্রচার ও প্রসারে কাজ করবে। আমাদের সম্পর্কে আরও জানতে জানতে এখানে দেখুন ৷ বর্তমানে এ সাইটটির পরিবর্ধনের কাজ চলছে যাতে আপনিও অবদান রাখতে পারেন। আপনাকে আবারও স্বাগতম এবং শুভেচ্ছা! --Ali Haidar Khan (আলাপ) ০৯:৫৫, ১ জুন ২০১৩ (ইউটিসি)

Thanks! —Pathoschild (আলাপ) ১৪:৩১, ২০ আগস্ট ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)

ca.wikiquote.org

Participació al Viquirepte

Benvolgut/da Pathoschild,

Durant aquests dies, des del 23 d'agost fins al 8 de setembre estem duent a terme el Viquirepte 10è aniversari de Viquidites.

He vist que has fet una edició a Usuari:Prenn. Si vols participar en el viquirepte et pots apuntar a la pàgina de participants afegint aquestes dues línies al final de la pàgina:

=== [[Usuari:Pathoschild]] ([[Usuari discussió:Pathoschild|discussió]]) 0 punts===
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A partir de llavors entraràs en un concurs i les teves edicions puntuaran. Moltes gràcies, --BotReversor (discussió) 20:38, 21 ago 2014 (CEST)

Thanks for the invitation, but my edits here are automated so they're not really applicable. —Pathoschild (discussió) 05:27, 23 ago 2014 (CEST)

commons.wikimedia.org

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

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tête carrée

J'ai entendu "tète carrée" dans cette audio-là. Vous ne prononcez pas "tight carrée" ? 198.105.116.225 01:05, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Please do not delete pages on Commons without explicit local consensus

Hi Pathoschild—it's been brought to my attention that you are deleting pages from Commons, even though you are not a community-approved administrator. As you might know, Commons has opted out of the global sysop wikis, and we don't like it when non-locally elected functionaries perform admin actions here.

Commons is a huge wiki, with over 250 local administrators, and we can easily help you with deleting local JS and CSS pages. Therefore, I ask that you please stop deleting such pages on Commons, and request approval from the local community if you'd like to continue doing so; Commons:Village pump is a good place to start. Thank you! odder (talk) 11:17, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Pathos for helping Commons users! --Nemo 11:20, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello Odder. Synchbot will no longer delete pages on Commons; instead it will place {{speedy delete}} with a message like "speedy deletion criteria U1: no longer needed (requested by ExampleUser)". Let me know if there's a different template or message you'd prefer. —Pathoschild 14:26:14, 05 September 2014 (UTC)

@Pathoschild: No, this is great! Thank you for the speedy response. odder (talk) 17:41, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Machine-readable markup for languages/language names in Commons i18n templates

Hi Pathoschild! I am trying to come up with a machine-readable standard for i18n in Commons templates such as {{En}} or {{LangSwitch}} so that CommonsMetadata can parse them correctly (right now it returns something like English: <english text> in some cases). I would appreciate your input at Commons talk:Machine-readable data#Machine-readable markup for languages/language names. --Tgr (WMF) (talk) 00:26, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Code issues in User:David0811/monobook.js

Hi Pathoschild, I am a bored bot (this is kind of a computer program) that is watching the recent changes and tapping buttons like I did now.

Curious about the reason? Possibly not but I will tell you anyway:

1. You edited User:David0811/monobook.js. Glad to see you coding in javascript! Have you ever considered becoming a MediaWiki hacker?
2. Though, that change appears to introduce 4 new jshint issues — the page's status is now having warnings. Note that invalid or ambiguous code often has unwanted side effects like breaking other tools for you. If you cannot find out how to fix it, I suggest blanking the page for now.
3. To help you understanding where the issues are, I have aggregated a report here and now. If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask users experienced in javascript writing for help. But do not ask the bot's operators (chronically overwrought) unless you suspect an error of mine. If you prefer not getting spammed by me, you can opt-out reports by adding {{ValidationOptOut|type=all}} to your user page or cmb-opt-out anywhere on your your global user page on Meta. Good luck at Wikimedia Commons and happy hacking!

1. ISSUE: line 46 character 11: Use '===' to compare with ''. - Evidence: if (url=="") {url = 'es.wikipedia.org'; }
2. ISSUE: line 47 character 15: Use '===' to compare with ''. - Evidence: if (usuario=="") {usuario = 'Axxgreazz/Monobook-Suite'; }; /*no cambiar */
3. ISSUE: line 47 character 61: Unnecessary semicolon. - Evidence: if (usuario=="") {usuario = 'Axxgreazz/Monobook-Suite'; }; /*no cambiar */
4. ISSUE: line 48 character 4: document.write can be a form of eval. - Evidence: document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'

Your CommonsMaintenanceBot (talk) at 00:51, 6 March 2015 (UTC).

This is a pretty useful bot. In this case I was just restoring the previous version before deleting it via Synchbot. —Pathoschild 00:53:21, 06 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks; if you have any suggestions on how to improve it, let me know. -- Rillke^(q?) 12:47, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Přihlaste své fotky do Czech Wiki Photo 2020!

Czech Wiki Photo

Milí fotografové a editoři projektů Wikimedia,

každý rok společně nahrajete na Commons tisíce svobodných fotografií. Chceme vám všem poděkovat a také vás ocenit. Vyberte ty nejlepší z vašich fotek a přihlaste je do 30. 10. 2020 do soutěže Czech Wiki Photo 2020! Soutěž je otevřená i úplným nováčkům. Autoři tří nejlepších fotek si odnesou vouchery do Foto Škoda a speciální wiki-odznaky. Přihlášené fotky bude hodnotit i Honza Rybář, držitel Czech Press Photo.

Baví vás focení pro Commons i mimo soutěže? Staňte se fotografem Wikimedie, půjčujeme fototechniku a proplácíme cesty - více na Fotíme Česko.

Těšíme se na vaše snímky!
Za spolek Wikimedia Česká republika
Jakub Holzer
jakub.holzer@wikimedia.cz -- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:06, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

en.wikipedia.org

Nomination for deletion of Template:Db

Template:Db has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DES ^(talk) 14:59, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. —Pathoschild 15:06, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Archiving Wikipedia talk:Open proxies

Sorry about bringing something up from seven years ago, but I noticed that you archived this page on August 5, 2007 simply by deleting almost all the threads, and then adding a link to the historical page. I would just like to let you know that this has been fixed and the material has been properly archived. -- Kndimov (talk) 23:30, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Kndimov. Thanks for updating the archive. Permalink archival was pretty standard at the time, but subpage archival is more common now. :) —Pathoschild 03:23, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello. You have a new message at Gracefool's talk page.

User:Ohconfucius/test/MOSNUM dates.js

Hi there,

I just wanted to touch base with you about the above. At present, none of the script buttons work. I am thinking of adopting the usual approach of breaking out a button for each function to test where the failure is occurring, but I am unsure as to how I would even go about doing that. Any advice or assistance would be appreciated. regards, -- Ohc ^¡digame! 09:50, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Ohconfucius. I migrated the scripts in your test namespace to the new paradigm, but I haven't yet tested and stabilised them. I'll prepare unit tests for each function first, starting with the custom regex patterns in MOSNUM utils.js. The latter are mostly done, but I got temporarily pulled into other side-projects before I finished them. I just added them to the script for your review — you can load MOSNUM utils.js and call ohc.dateutil.runUnitTests() in your browser's JavaScript console. —Pathoschild 13:27, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

History merge in your userspace

Hello, I've history-merged a page in your userspace, User:Pathoschild/Projects/User warnings, with Wikipedia talk:WikiProject User warnings. I discovered that it needed a history merge while doing a Wikipedia database query to find the redirects with the most revisions. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 12:18, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

That's fine; thanks for tidying up. —Pathoschild 13:21, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Collaboration essay nutshell

Hey Pathoschild. I just added a nutshell to your essay. It's a quick fix and needs improvement. You may wish to tweak the nutshell (and incorporate those ideas into the essay).

Newer editors need to learn how collaborative editing works. When an edit is rejected, follow WP:BRD and start a discussion, without attacking other editors. Assume good faith and seek a consensus. The best content is developed when editors who hold opposing POV come to the same table and bring their best evidence (RS). Each will be familiar with sources unknown to the other, so that way all significant POV will be represented and included. Also, learn from more experienced editors.

Here's some advice I just gave a combative editor:

".... Your comment is pointy and violates our talk page guidelines (TPG). Focus on content, stop attacking other editors, and stop all the bitching because you don't instantly get your way. If you can't learn to collaborate pleasantly with editors who hold opposing POV, you'll have a short career here.

" You're a newbie here and really need to start learning from more experienced editors. Stop seeing them as enemies. Disagreement is okay, but don't make it personal, force yourself to always assume good faith, and don't alienate others. Your reputation is your best, and often only, currency here. Many an editor with great potential and knowledge has been blocked/banned because they couldn't collaborate (I have helped to blocked Nobel Prize winners who just couldn't figure out how to work here. It's tragic when that has to occur.). So, learn the ropes and you may well survive to be a good editor who gains a good reputation."

You may find some ideas there which can be used in the essay. -- BullRangifer (talk) 16:03, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi BullRangifer. Thanks for the edit and suggestions. I'm no longer active in essay-writing, but you're welcome to contribute to it. :) —Pathoschild 02:14, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability 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, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:01, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Stewardry tool

I just discovered this tool and had a question, I was wondering if it would be possible to add time stamps to your results page. Tiggerjay (talk) 16:34, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello Tiggerjay. Sure, I'll try to do it this weekend. I added a ticket to track this. —Pathoschild 17:10, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! Tiggerjay (talk) 07:42, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Done! :) —Pathoschild 05:32, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Help on .sr

Could you please check this issue. Your assistance with Common.css and other related technical problem would be very useful. Nothing is updated there... --Obsuser (talk) 00:23, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Sure, I'll respond there. —Pathoschild 01:09, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, Pathoschild. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy. Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas. In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions: Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort. A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard. Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you. This message was sent to the administrators' mass message list. To opt-out of future messages, please remove yourself from the list. 17:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

User wmflabs tools

Hello Pathoschild, I inform you that I've implemented some of your wmflabs tools on "my" m:User:Perhelion/userstatus.js. Any feedback are welcome. :-) Regards → User: Perhelion 10:46, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Your script looks pretty useful. Thanks for letting me know. :) —Pathoschild 14:33, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Pathoschild.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Pathoschild. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible 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 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:06, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! —Pathoschild 17:40, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

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ArbCom 2019 special circular

Administrators must secure their accounts The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised. Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email Change your password now if your Wikipedia account password or email password is reused on another website, exposed, or weak Enable two-factor authentication now for improved security

Why have I received this message? All administrators are receiving it. What prompted you to send this message? Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were desysopped on an emergency basis. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh Request for Adminship (RfA) after losing control of their account. What do I need to do? Only to follow the instructions in this message. Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites). Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable). Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers. How can I find out more about two-factor authentication (2FA)? You can find out more about 2FA at m:2FA.

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:54, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

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History

Earlier you mentioned you were compiling a history of the WMF board. Did you? Benjamin (talk) 11:28, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

I don't recall off-hand; could you link to that comment for context? —Pathoschild 17:37, 02 July 2019 (UTC)

[3] Benjamin (talk) 22:23, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

I don't remember what that comment was for, but around that time I was organising & standardising board election and resolution pages, and working on the Meta:Historical project. You might also be interested in History of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and Category:Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. —Pathoschild 00:31, 03 July 2019 (UTC)

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