User talk:~riley/Archive 1

AJAX patrol

Hello, I see that you use AjaxPatrolLinks. I have good news for you: AJAX patrolling is now in core! On Wikimedia projects, it should arrive with MediaWiki 1.21wmf5, between 2012-11-26 and 2012-12-5. You should disable this gadget when the new feature change is enabled, because it will become redundant and to avoid double patrolling. Thanks, Nemo 08:06, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Election of stewards

Hi Riley, i saw you rejected my vote here on , i knew that i did not complete 300 edition this year but I would like to submit a proposition about conditions of eligibility to vote steward election, IMO the rule of 300 editions is not just, how about to complete with other rules about quantity of data edited or illustrations uploaded ?

Cheers --Rami75013 (talk) 09:25, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello Rami, unfortunately, I have no authority when it comes to this, I was just following procedure. @Stryn: and @Shanmugamp7:, perhaps you can advise? Riley Huntley (talk) 02:02, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Appeal: Request for voting rights

Dear Sir,
I have been working here for eight years. Last year, probably in April, my username Shahab was forcefully changed into an ugly username Shahab~urwiki for the sake of unified login/ Global account policy, by wikipedia management. Getting dishearted, I started using my another username which is شہاب, and requested to kindly merge my two accounts, about one year ago (see here- serial number 55). My request is still pending due to unavailability of merging tools.
Now, when I tried to cast vote for steward elections as شہاب, I was labelled "ineligible" by you. If my both username would have been merged, I becomes eligible to cast vote.

I have 2925 edits before 01 November 2015 on urdu wikipedia as Shahab~urwiki (only 600 required)
I have 408 edits between 01 August 2015 and 31 January 2016 on urdu wikipedia as شہاب (only 50 required)

I therefore humbly request you to kindly assess my eligibility to cast vote for steward election by manual means (instead of using some bot).

thanks
previous name: Shahab~urwiki
current name: شہاب --— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shahab~urwiki (talk) 15:05 (UTC)

• Shahab~urwiki: Hello, thank you for your message. Please remember to sign your messages with ~~~~. Please note that you're eligibility was not assessed by "some bot" but instead myself personally. You're userpage on ur.wikipedia does not identify that Shahab~urwiki is also your account, giving us no information to identify you are using two separate accounts. In any case, I have marked your account as eligible. :) Cheers, Riley Huntley (talk) 22:17, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you!

really grateful
Shahab~urwiki (talk) 22:25, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Global CSS/JS migration

Hello Riley Huntley. You have global scripts in User:Riley Huntley/global.js, which you import using your local 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. Do you want me to fix this by removing the imports from your local pages using Synchbot (without changing any other content)? —Pathoschild 20:05, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

• @Pathoschild: Yes please! Riley Huntley (talk) 22:19, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
  • Done! You can see the deletion log on your archive page. :) —Pathoschild 23:29, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
    • @Pathoschild: Thanks so much! Riley Huntley (talk) 04:57, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Global rollbacker

Welcome! :). Matiia (talk) 01:37, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Revert wars and LTAs

Please do not enter into revert wars with LTAs, especially on user talk pages. I really shouldn't be needing to have this conversation about feeding trolls. Just proceed with total indifference.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:46, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

• billinghurst: While I hear where you are coming from and quite frankly, completely understand what you are saying, I encourage you to adjust your expectations if you find yourself saying "I really shouldn't be needing to have this conversation" if it's not been explicitly discussed. I hit bot rollback on a single edit to your talk page after seeing the edit pop up in a cvn channel and had no knowledge there was an ongoing revert war. As soon as I realized there was, unlike the other people who knowly entered into revert wars on your page (and continued??), I took my finger off the mouse and moved on from your talk page. I am sorry I didn't meet your expectations with that revert and especially after this conversation, I'll be more mindful moving forward. I will admit, I am usually in the position to hit rollback and then my next step is to hit block and the revert is over - it takes me a moment sometimes to remember I am not on my home wiki. Thanks again and appreciate you dropping me a line to have this dialogue. ~riley (talk) 10:00, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, and for listening elsewhere.

There was a message there for quite a while. I have put up an overt version now. 👍  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:19, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

All-in-one

If you could elaborate what package you would like (e.g. block with talk and email disabled + nuke etc.) I can make one for you :) And also you may look at User:WhitePhosphorus/all-in-one, if there are something not clear enough please let me know. --WhitePhosphorus (talk) 14:10, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

@WhitePhosphorus: Thanks for the instructions, I misread it the first time but now understand it! Did you get my IRC note about AutoUndo? ~riley (talk) 07:40, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Hello riley,

I don't meant to be authoritative or something but this clearly isn't constructive. Constantly undoing them is just all they were looking for. If somebody don't stop after 1/2 undo/rollbacks it's good to call someone who can stop them or just simply wait for someone to pop-up. I hope you get what I am saying. Have a happy new year! ‐‐1997kB (talk) 03:50, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

• @1997kB: Woah! I was mobile when we talked on IRC so I didn't open the link; disregard what I previously said - I 100% agree with what you are bringing up! My apologies. I was running AutoUndo because this LTA's motto was to go to new pages rather than rehitting the same one (happened max 3 reverts once) and the tool was being very helpful with them hitting multiple wikis at once. Revert wars are not productive and this is not something I would consciously do. I have messaged WhitePhosphorus, who made the tool, to consider adding a maximum revert clause to it to prevent this from happening otherwise I cannot consciously run the tool knowing I could be getting into revert wars. ~riley (talk) 07:39, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations, Dear Administrator!

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Congratulations, ~riley! You now have the rights of an administrator on Meta-Wiki. Please take a moment to read the Meta:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat, and Meta:Requests for deletion, but also Talk:Spam blacklist and Talk:Interwiki map), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings, or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care. Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikimedia-admin^connect. You may find Commons:Guide to adminship to be useful reading although it doesn't always completely apply here at Meta. Please also check or add your entry to Meta:Administrators#List of administrators and the Template:List of administrators. You're also allowed to subscribe the metawiki admins private mailing list. Again, congratulations and welcome to the team. Matiia (talk) 05:11, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations!! --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 07:05, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

+1--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 07:13, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

• Thank you all! :) 07:36, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Congrats! Trijnstel_talk 21:33, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Revdelete, remove username

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_movement&diff=0&oldid=19699067 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:37, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Patroller granting

Hello,

I am not overstepping or whatsoever, please do not feel offended in any way. I noticed you granted patroller to several users, no doubt they are very competent but according to Meta:Patrollers, they do need to make a request at RFH or at times any admin talkpage for the right. In the RFC I recalled that there are consensus against unilaterally giving patrol without they asking for it.

I hope you don't take this against me and Best Regards,--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 15:20, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

@Camouflaged Mirage: I value your approach to this comment, but am also sad you feel the need to be so gentle with giving critical feedback - I think that's a reflection of how much users can bite.. While I did note walking into Meta with a new hat that this isn't my homewiki, I went off the precedence that I was used to - I was given patroller without a request on Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. Thank you for bringing to my attention, especially with a read through the RfC, that granting at an admin's discretion is not a secondary option per the policy. Thanks for approaching me and please feel free to do anytime. ~riley (talk) 17:06, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply, was unaware you were granted patroller then without a request at RFH. Maybe one day a new RFC maybe in place as I personally am fine with admins granting per discretion. The reasons opposing this approach is valid too on the other hand. I know commons and many other wikis allow admins to grant directly, my homewiki too (before I handed in the mop). Have a nice week ahead. --Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 17:18, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

@Camouflaged Mirage: Not an excuse, just wanted to provide where my ignorance was coming from. Really appreciate you having this dialogue to set me straight. FYI, you can also reach me on irc in #wikimedia-stewards as rileyh or theNorth. You too! ~riley (talk) 20:39, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Thank you and translation done

A thank you note, your push made me translate it, bravi! Have a beautiful day, --Omotecho (talk) 11:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

• @Omotecho: No, thank you! Appreciate your contributions! :) ~riley (talk) 15:35, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-03

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Recent changes

• You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [1]
• Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Lists of pages" section. [2]

Changes later this week

• Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Allow only autoconfirmed users and Allow only administrators. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [3]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

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• Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [4]
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Why?

What is the point of this? As we discussed in IRC, think maturity. Don't be the fish.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:30, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

• @Billinghurst: Wikipedia:Revert, block, ignore was the intention, however, you are right that the content was not harming anyone and removing could encourage the user. ~riley (talk) 23:32, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

  Sometimes ignore needs to come first, or be the action, especially on another's talk page.  — billinghurst sDrewth 03:11, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

  I'll have to admit, I am still adjusting to the whole "another's talk page" thing as I don't take much ownership over who removes from mine and admittedly, I just thought "I would have reverted it if it were my talk page" and while it took a second for the light to come on, the lightbulb did light up and realize the key point here is that it is not my talk page, but yours. I appreciate these frank and transparent conversation as you are one of the very few users that takes the time to give feedback; you can call it what you like, but I view it as mentoring and I will say that I have found it to be impactful in my decision making. I'll be the first to admit I make mistakes, and sometimes the smaller things (perhaps due to devaluing the importance?) take more than once to fully understand, but I get there and it sticks. Thank you, billinghurst. ~riley (talk) 09:18, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Re:User talk:MCC214/Talk page archive#Patroller and feedback

I only composing this page,because I feel this page is very orderless.

But if you don't like I do this,I can stop it.

--MCC214#ex umbra in solem 11:35, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

@MCC214: Please limit your edits to adding requests, adjusting whitespace is not necessary even if it appears orderless. ~riley (talk) 17:11, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Marking the translation group as Published

Hi, ~riley

could you help with marking this group of translations as Published. It seems that I can't do this by myself, strange, because I have sometimes been able to do this.

Many translation efforts were not visible to the local communities because of the lack of persons who would mark translations as checked/reviewed and then mark the entire group as Published.

Some pages display properly even if not marked this way, but some seem not to.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Best regards, -- Nesmir Kudilovič -- Несмир Кудилович (разговор) 03:07, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

@Nesmir Kudilovic: I can't figure this one out.. I think it is because it is a CN translationn - I am attempting to get support from CN admins on IRC. ~riley (talk) 03:35, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

• Done with some help. :) ~riley (talk) 19:41, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Threats via IP

Same message that I send to Tegel I send to You, since You both were on the action on the same page (removing vandalism, protecting). This IP maniac [6] has a fixation on hr.wiki since August 2019. Early this night he was on hr.wiki from the other IP.[7] . He appears regularly, every day. He focuses on the users that remove his vandalisms and the users that are in the correspondence with the targeted user; e.g. I write You something here, then he makes such aggressive edits. He spreads (or at least he tries to, by random guessing) personal information in the threats. Kubura (talk) 00:55, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for my talkpage. That IP is not the guy that had fixation on Antandrus, it is some other person. That IP user is persistent, and more and more graphic violence. To shorten with the translations, most common verbs are "slay, rape, f**k, impale". This night's vandalism on hr.wiki contained "imadu kite u tvome šupku kurvin sine rvacki retardirani dalekovidni" = they have cocks in Your asshole You son of whore Croatian retarded far-sighted". Sorry for the rude language on Your page, but that's the reality we've been facing for six months. And the sick guy does not show the signs of being tired or annoyed of doing the same thing on daily basis, he's getting more rude and daring. And as You see, he is hounding us everywhere. Kubura (talk) 01:06, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

• @Kubura: Thank you for bringing this to my attention - I have experienced on and off wiki harassment in a similar way so I can understand that it is both frustrating and hurtful. I recommend you email WMF's Trust & Safety team so they are aware, at ca@wikimedia.org as they have better resources to deal with this. I will keep an eye out for this guy! ~riley (talk) 01:23, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-04

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).

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• There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [8]
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19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Korean LTA

Hi Riley, there is a list of the LTA on my sandbox page on commons. I don’t have the time to check and report accordingly so I’d appreciate if you can do it. Minorax (talk) 04:44, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

• Done Good work, Minorax! ~riley (talk) 05:11, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
  • Thank you. Is there any specific LTA to mention when reporting or should I just follow what you wrote? Minorax (talk) 07:15, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
• Can you please explain which Korean LTA is? They appear to be different from the account creator who previously had been in kowiki. Or is it temporarily named Korean LTA? --Sotiale (talk) 13:49, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
  • @Sotiale and Minorax: Temporarily named Korean LTA, referring to 김괘걸/gimgwaegeol from hereon. ~riley (talk) 19:23, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
    • Oh, I understand. If so, could you please tell me why he is the target of global lock? It is true that he created multiple accounts in commons, but I wonder if he has used vandalism or any abuse action in addition to creating these accounts in commons. I remember he only has accounts in commons and no other wiki accounts in his SUL. If he is similar to the existing cross-wiki LTA, he is subject to global lock, but I have not yet found a pattern. Global locks generally require vandalism, abuse, or indefinite block on multiple wikis. Perhaps there is some information I missed, so please let me know the information that makes him the target of the global lock. Thanks! --Sotiale (talk) 00:37, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
      • I will not go into specifics of their MO to avoid copycats, however, I can confirm the disruption previously has been crosswiki, disruptive and those accounts were locked accordingly as they met the locking criteria. Looking forward, any accounts that match the MO/behavioural evidence are considered lock evasion and long-term abuse which are continued grounds for global lock. I am happy to answer your questions, but I am not understanding how this pertains to you (no offense intended). It just seems odd that you are educating an experienced SWMT member on what is required for a global lock. If stewards need more information because they do not know the history, it is available :) ~riley (talk) 01:06, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
        • I think you've jinxed it because they have now moved account creation to eswiki ;) ~riley (talk) 02:07, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
      • I have no intention of teaching anyone, and I have no capacity to do so. I'm sorry if you accepted that, but I only wanted to know where they were doing cross-wiki abuse. I was surprised that you accepted that way. Perhaps you were in a bad mood when I mentioned the criteria for global lock, which simply meant to let me know which criteria he met. I'm sorry if you felt that way. I do not intend to point out that there is a problem with your request or judgment. And I do not have focus on it. What I'm interested in is what you know about him.
        • It's a fact you know well that there was an attack on account creation recently on kowiki. I was watching to see if the commons account creator had anything to do with kowiki's account creator. But as I watched, they had different patterns. So I asked what you think of the LTA whom commons account creator is. If you have time, I hope you let me know the past case. If this talkpage is inappropriate, please let me know via email. I'm concerned that he's potentially attacking kowiki, and that's the concern of kowiki admin. --Sotiale (talk) 04:01, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
          • @Sotiale: Sorry Sotiale, lets rewind! While we both understand what each other are saying, I think tone is just being lost in translation (literal); this doesn't happen often for me when working with ESL users. Your approach to the conversation appeared as if you thought the locks weren't jusitified, I did not interpret it from a trying-to-protect-my-wiki perspective as the vandal, to my knowledge, has no connection to kowiki. While you think I know well about the kowiki account creation attack, I did not know about it until now. I am more familair with ja/zhwiki LTAs and trends. As you can see on SRG, I deal with a lot of cases so it is going to take me some time to dig into this one as a lot of my lock requests are made on IRC. I will try to send you what I know this weekend, offwiki. ~riley (talk) 04:38, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-05

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Problems

• Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [10][11]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [12]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.

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18:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

SRG

Please use on Steward requests/Global "|hidename=1" --𐐎ℹ𝕜ⅈ𝕭𝒂𝕪ⅇ𝕣 👤💬

@WikiBayer: Hey WikiBayer, this is probably the least detailed talk page message I have received - if you are looking for something to come of it, I recommend expanding on what you are discussing and including examples. As you can see from my many requests on SRG, I do know and use hidename when I believe the username will be suppressed. If I missed clicking the hidename button on TwinkleGlobal on a request, my apologies! ~riley (talk) 17:07, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

This is only meant as a hint. Youmade 2 requests yesterday with abusive usernames without hiding the names.I have left out the details here on purpose not to spread them further.-𐐎ℹ𝕜ⅈ𝕭𝒂𝕪ⅇ𝕣 👤💬 17:34, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

I usually opt for direct communication rather than hinting, but to each their own. Thanks, just took a look - I thought I hit the button on the one that involved your username, the other I just completely forgot. ~riley (talk) 17:48, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Global Sysop Report for ~riley

Hello friendly Global Sysop! Here is the information you requested...Bot873 (talk) 20:01, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Global Sysop Report for ~riley

Hello friendly Global Sysop! Here is the information you requested...Bot873 (talk) 20:01, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-06

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).

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20:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Threats via IP

Again [13]. This is fresh. Kubura (talk) 22:13, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

That sick user vandalized with "rape messages" on hr.wiki, on other usertalkpage [14]. These are his type of messages, unless he is a copycat. Recently he also vandalized Jimbo's page [15]. He created his account few months ago on Meta. It seems he attacked there Tegel, but two months after, few days ago when he had his campaign. Kubura (talk) 18:22, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

• Hey Kubura, thanks for dropping me a line. Although I am a candidate in the steward elections currently, I am not a steward and am quite limited in how I can assist with this as a GS. I recommend emailing this information, and context, to stewardswikimedia.org. As said before, I will keep an eye out on other wikis where I can help in my scope as a global sysop. Sorry that I cannot be of more help. ~riley (talk) 22:08, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Re:

Done, ty! Dec/Jan/Feb are, as usual, a mess! --Vituzzu (talk) 13:49, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

• No problem, I get it! :) ~riley (talk) 19:29, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Query

Hi Riley, kindly take a look at Meta talk:Interface administrators and see if my suggestion is appropriate enough. Minorax (talk) 08:32, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

• Done, Minorax. ~riley (talk) 08:48, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [16]

Problems

• There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [17]

Changes later this week

• The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [18]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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19:10, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Right!

You were right about that! Dthomsen8 (talk) 19:58, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

• @Dthomsen8: Thank you for posing the new question! I appreciate you being willing to do that and all the more appreciate you advocating for female editors. Immediately after you posted your first question, a female editor voiced concerns that I may not have initally thought of due to my male perspective. ~riley (talk) 20:05, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Viva la difference!--Dthomsen8 (talk) 20:23, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Dthomsen8 Hope my answer is what you were looking for, let me know if I misunderstood. ~riley (talk) 20:35, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

AF/234 merge to AF/96

Hi. Would you mind merging special:abusefilter/234 into special:abusefilter/96. Some of the terms are already there, and it would seem to be a minor tweak to the existing filter. I am seeing numerous overlaps of 234 with existing filters which seems a bit of a waste, about 1 in 8-10 seem unique. I have been trying to minimise overlap, but when we get one turning up four times, then we have a level of excess. [Wish there was an easier way to exclude another filter, however, they are not sequential in action (as it was explained to me).] Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 21:44, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

• Hi billinghurst - I meant to remove any overlapping from 96 in favor of 234 as it's more specific spam. Do you mind if I go that route rather than merge those and the unique ones into 234? If not, I understand. ~riley (talk) 21:46, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

  The repeats are not just with /96.

  Shopping spam is shopping spam, so not certain why we would want to see it separately listed with yet another filter with the same resulting actions. If we were trying to manage different actions, or trying to manage some minutiae, or have some exclusions, then sure, but for same same same I am not understanding what you would be achieving.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:00, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

  might be some value in looking for added lines (no need to do as links) "pbase.com/topics" and some of those types of legitimate #notlegitimate url snippets, which we can probably blacklist, or write those snippets into AF/69 if there is some valid use, though abused by "newusers". Seeing those snippets in COIBot reports is difficult, especially where there are already a number of legitimate uses of domains.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:11, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

• @Billinghurst: Shopping spam is shopping spam, but it is the medication spam I was hoping to break out into it's own AF (like gambling spam, etc). As always, I have trusted your judgement and I don't have any opposition to you merging or changing as you see fit. :) ~riley (talk) 22:26, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

  A label is a label. A collection is a collection. Duplicates are duplicates. More filters are more filters to cycle. If there is a practical, beneficial, and functioning reason to split it out, we split it out. MusikAnimal is more the expert, I am just the drudgery (bore|boor)—though annoyed by too many dupes.  — billinghurst sDrewth 06:57, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

  @Billinghurst: I am labelling medication spam differently as it is presenting differently than shopping spam - medication spam is primarily limited to userspace, while shopping spam can be either. Merging special:abusefilter/96 into special:abusefilter/234 would require 234 be restricted to userspace, otherwise there will be significant false positives as medication names are commonly used in mainspace while almost rarely used in userspace. I will make some changes to remove dupes. ~riley (talk) 07:06, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Question

~riley/Archive 1

"scowiki": [ { "defaultRollbackPrefix": "Revertit edit o [[Special:Contributions/$2|$2]] ([[User talk:$2|tauk]]), chynged back tae last version bi $1:", "defaultUndoSummary": "Undid edits by [[Special:Contributions/$2|$2]] ([[User talk:$2|talk]]) to last revision by $1", "defaultUndoPrefix": "Undid edits by [[Special:Contributions/$2|$2]] ([[User talk:$2|talk]]) to last revision by $1: ", "speedySummary": "Requesting deletion", "speedyWarnSummary": "Notification about SD ($1)", @This would normally be a 'vandalism in progress' noticeboard, if you don't have one, leave out. You could keep in the userpage if you want. "report": [ { "pageReport": "User:MJL/Vandals", "regexReport": "\\*\\s?\\{{2}I?P?vandal\\s?\\|\\s?$1\\s*?\\}{2}", "regexReport2": "\\*\\s?\\{{2}I?P?vandal\\s?\\|\\s?$1\\s*?\\}{2}", "sectionReport": "$1", "withoutSectionReport": true, "textReport": "*{{vandal|$1}} \u0026ndash; Vandalism after final warning. ~~~~", "textReportIP": "*{{IPvandal|$1}} \u0026ndash; Vandalism after final warning. ~~~~", "summaryReport": "Reportin [[Special:Contributions/$1|$1]].", "autoReport": true } ], "speedy": [ { "name": "Nonsense", "template": "{{delete|Nonsense}}" @translate please }, { "name": "Vandalism", "template": "{{delete|Vandalism}}" @translate please }, { "name": "Spam", "template": "{{delete|Spam}} __NOINDEX__" @translate please }, { "name": "Test page", "template": "{{delete|Test page}}" @translate please }, { "name": "Empty page", "template": "{{delete|Empty page}}" @translate please }, { "name": "No useful content", "template": "{{delete|No useful content}}" @translate please }, { "name": "Out of project scope", "template": "{{delete|Out of project scope}}" @translate please } ], "rollback": [ { "name": "Content removal", "summary": "unexplained content removal", @english? "warn": "content-removal" }, { "name": "Vandalism", "summary": "revertin vandalism", "warn": "vandalism" }, { "name": "Nonsense content", "summary": "purely nonsense content" @translate please, add warning if applicable }, { "name": "Spam/Unnecessary links", "summary": "unnecessary links or spam" @translate please, add warning if applicable }, { "name": "Test edit", "summary": "test edits, please use the sandbox" @translate please, add warning if applicable }, { "name": "Use Scots, not English", "summary": "removal of Scots", "warn": "english" }, ], "warn": [ { "summaryWarn": "sending warning (level $1)", "sectionWarn": "Wairnin", "countWarn": "2", "vandalism": [ { "tags": [ { "1": "Template:Uw-vandalism1", "2": "Template:Uw-vandalism2" } ], "templates": [ { "1": "{{subst:uw-vandalism1|$1}} ~~~~", "2": "{{subst:uw-vandalism2|$1}} ~~~~" } ] } ], "content-removal": [ { "tags": [ { "1": "Template:Uw-delete1", "2": "Template:Uw-delete2" } ], "templates": [ { "1": "{{subst:uw-delete1|$1}} ~~~~", "2": "{{subst:uw-delete2|$1}} ~~~~" } ] } ], "english": [ { "tags": [ { "1": "Template:uw-english1", "2": "Template:uw-vandalism2" } ], "templates": [ { "1": "{{subst:uw-english1|$1}} ~~~~", "2": "{{subst:uw-vandalism|$1}} ~~~~" } ] } ] } ] } ] } ],

If I add the above to SWViewer/config.json, I won't break anything right? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 23:09, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

• @MJL: See changes ~riley (talk) 23:23, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
  • Why not use levels 3 and 4 of warnings? I notice you have them for vandalism. ~riley (talk) 23:25, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
    • I suppose you could use them, but our policy only requires a single warning before a block may be implemented. Warning a user a third time seems redundant since they're already eligible to be blocked in most cases. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 23:42, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
      • @MJL: Roger, that makes sense. Just need the translations above then on those marked with @translate. ~riley (talk) 04:59, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

meta:Interface_administrators

Hello, thank you to put this page for translation. A kind reminder to what you have already planned to do; would you add tags to section titles as well, please? I tried to but was not quite getting the correct preview. Thank you for taking care of the process translators depend on to, cheers, --Omotecho (talk) 18:48, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

• @Omotecho: Thank you! Section tags added and marked for translation ~riley (talk) 19:08, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

@~riley:, you are super fast! It was fuzzied, I did my part, and case solved. Cheers, --Omotecho (talk) 14:06, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Suggestions welcome

Hi ~riley!

I received the following on my Discuss page on Wikiversity for announcing my Drafts when in my professional opinion they are ready for being moved to main page space (Resource) space: "Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia:News and all main space pages for continued violation of community consensus regarding Draft: resources. See [5] for the most recent evidence and reason for the block. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:28, 11 February 2020 (UTC)" Suggestions welcome! I think he's referring to a recent agreement among the three people in this section on my Discuss page that have been preventing links to Draft namespace. But, to my knowledge there is no consensus on this. --Marshallsumter (talk) 01:34, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

• Marshallsumter Thanks for the note, and for your support in the elections. My focus, like any other candidate right now, is on the elections so unfortanutely I cannot offer my assistance at this point in time. Post-election (week and a half from now), I am happy to look into this. I hope you understand that this is a stressful and busy time per the nature of elections and that being under the microscope doesn't put me in a position to help much until elections conclude. ~riley (talk) 16:32, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

  Thank you for your response! I understand your stress and wish you well! --Marshallsumter (talk) 17:15, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

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• Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [19][20]

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16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Please avoid misleading edit summaries. Thanks, Nemo 15:23, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Actual confirmation subpage?

Hello, could you please tell where there is the actual confirmation subpage for voting. I can't find it. There is no link or so. --Silverije (talk) 20:01, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

• @Silverije: On Stewards/Confirm/2020, click the [edit] button on each candidate section. This will take you to the candidate subpage. :) ~riley (talk) 20:05, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. --Silverije (talk) 22:19, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

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Election result

Hi ~riley, sorry to see that your support percentage dropped just under 80 in the last few days. Please do try again next year after getting some more experience; some of our best stewards were not elected on their first try. All the best, – Ajraddatz (talk) 17:31, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

+1 Stryn (talk) 17:32, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

+2. That's the closest I've seen, and often would've gotten you though. Leaderboard (talk) 23:38, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

+3. Tibi gratias ago tibi valde. —Sgd. Hasley 23:57, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

+4 You are doing a great job here, please keep on doing what you are doing now and I am sure you will be elected next year.--BRP ^ever 00:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

+1 Quite surprised it didn't work out this time. Just don't get frustrated and keep on your good work! --Mirer (talk) 04:31, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

+1. I am personally very saddened about the increase in opposes at the end. It's a good fight and many of our best stewards didn't get it at the 1st time (e.g. rxy, Matiia and etc). Take a good rest and hope you can run next year. Thanks you for all your contributions. Don't be disheartened and all the best. :)--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 06:58, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

+1 Your contributions are precious. Keep it up — take care and stay with us. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 07:10, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

+1 --Sotiale (talk) 07:12, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

+1. I know you from Commons. You are a nice guy. Maybe it is a good time to apply for bureaucrat-ship there! 4nn1l2 (talk) 07:08, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

+1 here as well. I'm not sure what to be more surprised by, that you weren't elected a Steward given your 150+ !votes of support and only relatively modest opposes or that Pete Buttigieg dropped out of the race so soon. Very sad to hear that you didn't make it as I thought you would've been a great Steward and I particularly liked that you had no direct or contract employment by Wikimedia Foundation. Dmehus (talk) 15:58, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

+1 - Genuinely surprised to see you not elected, Sorry to see that happen, I hope you retry next year as you'd make a fantastic steward with out a doubt!. –Davey2010^Talk 20:43, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

• @Ajraddatz, Stryn, Leaderboard, Hasley, BRPever, Mirer, Camouflaged Mirage, Tulsi Bhagat, Sotiale, 4nn1l2, Dmehus, Davey2010, and TheSandDoctor: Thank you all for the kind notes. I wasn't ready to respond before; I quite truthfully didn't know how to respond without sounding like a sore loser. Such a significant loss can make you re-consider how you allocate your time. In my three week break post-election, this thread was what I needed to get back to editing. Thank you all for the impact you make locally and globally. While we all support Wikimedia's mission and goals, what keeps me editing is the community - you all make a difference in that. Whenever you wonder "are my edits really helping?", just remember that your presence alone is encouraging to others. Please remember this as you go back and make a difference in your local projects; we each play a role in keeping our communities active. ~riley (talk) 18:04, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Hey Riley, You're welcome and thank you for your kind message, Your contributions and admin actions across all projects are greatly appreciated and both are helping all projects a lot - Blocking people, revdelling stuff, deleting DRs/AFDS etc may not seem like much but in reality you're helping the project(s) a lot, Anyway I wish you all the very best, Take care, –Davey2010^Talk 19:02, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

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• Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [21]

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• If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [22]
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• On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [24]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).

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• The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [25]
• There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
• wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [26]

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• There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [27][28][29]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

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• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
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• There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [31]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

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• If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [32][33]
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• Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
• There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [34][35]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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• The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [36]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

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• The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [37]
• There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [38]

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• There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [39]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).

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• MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [40]

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