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Vitaly Savelyev

Have you checked WP:RUS before moving? Do you realize that the move is not policy-based and was done on a request of a user with less than 10 edits who previously tried to insert their favorite spelling to the article and was reverted - well, on the basis that their change was not policy based.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:48, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, much appreciated. The user is welcome to start a move request.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:52, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
@Ymblanter: I corrected my reply at the Help Desk as well. Sorry for making this newbie mistake. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 14:55, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
No problem, thanks a lot for working at Refdesks.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:57, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-44

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

  • You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
  • Advanced item The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [1]

Problems

  • Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [2]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
  • The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [3][4]

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20:08, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

User page protection

Hi Abelmoschus Esculentus! After catching an LTA account trolling through one of your user pages moments ago, I went through most of your user space and added indefinite semi edit and move protection to each of your user pages to stop any further trolling and abuse by other sock users like this. I applied indefinite extended confirmed edit and move protection to a few of your "front-facing" or "public-facing" user pages as well (including your main user page). If you find that the protection I've added interferes with anything or prevents you from being able to do something, let me know and I'll be happy to fix or remove any protection I applied if you wish. I just wanted to leave you a message and let you know about the troll edits and the protection I applied following the event. Cheers! :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 06:01, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

@Oshwah: Thanks a lot for your help again! I think it’s ok to protect them since there’s no point for IPs and vandals to edit it. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 06:25, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
That's what I figured while I was going through and adding protection around your user space... the only person that would be editing them is you (lol). Your quite welcome! Cheers ;-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 06:26, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
@Oshwah: Actually I made a huge mistake! I accidentally thanked one of their edit (I was supposed to thank a revert by another user) and lead to this situation. What a shame! ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 06:44, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
HA! Oh well... I've accidentally done it before, myself... it happens... :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 06:58, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #336

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Several developers and members of the team attended to the Wikimedia Technical Conference
    • Fix an issue with interwikilinks and connection between Wikidata and sister projects (phab:T208077, phab:T208124)
    • Refactor Wikibase so that it can use alternative termbox views (phab:T206863)
    • Pass the entity data on the client side (phab:T207462) and server side (phab:T207467)
    • Investigate an error on some Wikidata pages (phab:T208142)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Draft:Campbell Grant

Hi. You left me a message earlier today warning me this page would be deleted, but it's already gone. I would have copied it into a text file on my personal machine but I can't. It's already gone. Can you restore it for me please and then maybe I can have more than just a couple hours before it redisappears? Much thanks. Thmazing (talk) 22:40, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello, again. I just saw that it was not you who acted on the warning and made the deletion. I've put in the restoration request, but anything you can do to help that happen, I will appreciate.
Hi you can just go to WP:REFUND ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 23:34, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Hi. I've declined your speedy deletion request at User talk:Mq-TW.QR-WL1H, as we pretty much never delete user talk pages, not even those of socks - we need to keep them for the record. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:44, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Boing! said Zebedee: Got it. Thanks ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 12:46, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
Sorry for the edit conflict, just thought I needed to be more accurate. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:46, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
No worries, it does happen. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 12:48, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Edit filters

Hello. I wanted to bring something small to your attention. While your help at Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports is appreciated, please limit your help to filters which you can actually see. Your response here was not correct as the filter was not working as intended. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. Thanks. Nihlus 20:59, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Reporting users

Please don't report users to AIV when people are actively blocking them like at the Teahouse especially with usernames like the last couple. It then means we have to go back and clean that page up also. We are staying on top of it without the reports. ~ GB fan 14:52, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

@GB fan: Ok. Thanks for your work. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 14:57, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Userbox

TransLink CMBC 2018 XN40 S18101

Can you design a user box for me that says "This user loves Translink" Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thegooduser (talk • contribs)

@Thegooduser: Is this ok for you? ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 10:18, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
This user loves Translink
That's Great Thanks! However how can I make the color of the userbox blue and yellow? Thanks Again. :-) Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 19:50, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
How can I set that picture as the "background" of my talk page? Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 19:51, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
@Thegooduser: I made the background colour of the userbox yellow: ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 23:01, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
This user loves Translink
Thanks!Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 23:28, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Another request

thumb|Linus awaits the Great Pumpkin. Hi. Could you design for me a normal sized user box, with an orange border and this text: "This user knows the great pumpkin will come this year" with an appropriate picture (in case your confused, it comes from a comic strip called peanuts) can you also make it public. Thanks :) --Canti60 (talk) 20:40, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

With this image please. Thanks. Help is greatly appreciated. --Canti60 (talk) 07:45, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

@Canti60: Done. Please take a look and see if it needs amendment. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 08:06, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
This user knows the great pumpkin will come this year.

Thank you, that's perfect! --Canti60 (talk) 08:19, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

@Canti60: Glad that you like it! ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 08:20, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

R188 subway cars

Dear Abel,

Please note that the R188 cars are basically R142A cars with the same WABCO RT96 braking system found on all new NTT trains. The WABCO RT5 aka P-wire braking system was discontinued many years ago, due to its troublesome, unreliability, and difficulty of maintaining same. Why should they use a troubled-prone braking system from the 1970's on these new NTT cars ???

Thanx. Joe Lee jlee39@verizon.net — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.162.153.46 (talk) 06:16, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi. I have undone my revert. Thanks for pointing that out. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 06:30, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
  • A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
  • The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
  • The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:18, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi, AE. I believe you extended a personal invitation to talk with you.

I've been adding good-quality scientific information and well-documented facts about the culture of Alcoholics Anonymous. Some of what I added was removed twice, though it was referenced carefully with empirical evidence. Is this what you wanted to help me with? -Vestapol — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vestapol (talk • contribs) 21:26, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The user is talking about this --Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 21:31, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
@Vestapol: I think you should talk to Thegooduser as he reverted your edits. Please also read the message he left in your talk page. If you have any other questions you may ask here again. Thank you. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 08:32, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Category:Requested RD1 redactions

Hi! Your page User:Abelmoschus Esculentus/cv-revdel.js is showing up in Category:Requested RD1 redactions, presumably because it contains a call to {{copyvio-revdel}}. Could you comment it out, or use html codes for the curly parentheses or something so that that doesn't happen? Many thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:20, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Done ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 23:17, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2018)

Hello, Abelmoschus Esculentus.

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Civics

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Zh:User:Thegooduser

Does the Chinese text match the english one? Thanks? --Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 21:32, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

@Thegooduser: You used Google translate? It is not very well. The whole thing should be rewritten: “感謝您到訪我的用戶頁面。我的主要用戶頁面在英語維基百科。您可以按此到訪我的主要用戶頁面，謝謝！” ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 08:28, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
Do you mind redoing it for me? I can't understand Chinese. Thanks. (Yes I used Google Translate) Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 20:48, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
Done ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 23:21, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
Thank You. I don't mean to be rude or anything, but you forgot the blue link... Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 02:17, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
I have added it already. {{{icon|[[Image:Information.svg|30px|left]]}}} 感謝您到訪我的用戶頁面。我的主要用戶頁面在英語維基百科。您可以[[:en:User:Thegooduser|按此]]到訪我的主要用戶頁面，謝謝！ ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 06:21, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-45

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

Changes later this week

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [6]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

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17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #337

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
    • Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
    • Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
    • Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
    • Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile

Request on 00:43:12, 6 November 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by Mike Armando



Mike Armando (talk) 00:43, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Mike Armando: Please read this guideline about autobiographies. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 06:31, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Grammar

I've corrected the sentence in your userpage to "It is used mainly" to "It is mainly used", you can rollback my edit if you want to. Cheers.--Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 15:46, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

You've got mail

Hello, Abelmoschus Esculentus. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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@JC7V7DC5768: Replied. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus 00:39, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

User:Web SourceContent is blocked

Hi, Abelmoschus! I thought you would not have been active here at Wikipedia. I also have a doubt about what this is about: Web SourceContent was also known user, with first main contribs, and were growling presence here and on ro.Wikipedia. But on September 27, Bbb23 decided to block it as sock of Daciproteasa09 (blocked/locked account). I just did do demonstrate what different account doing, as well known vandals does. It's pretty to know what happened and if I had the feeling of presenting to the one who wanted to know the practices of meaning. If you whish to clarify when it was blocked, you should reply this comment. Thanks in advance! 109.98.164.214 (talk) 12:01, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2018)

Distribution map of modern man (Horniman Museum)
Hello, Abelmoschus Esculentus.

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Mongoloid

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Previous selections: Civics • Gulf of Alaska

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