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Tech News: 2024-43

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

Weekly highlight

  • The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

  • Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
  • Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
  • View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [1][2][3][4][5]
  • It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "16 December 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [6][7]
  • Advanced item Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [8]
  • The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [9]

In depth

  • The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
  • The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

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Administrator Elections: Discussion phase

Administrator Elections | Discussion phase

The discussion phase of the October 2024 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

  • October 22–24 - Discussion phase
  • October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase
  • November 1–? - Scrutineering phase

During October 22–24, we will be in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages will open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Discussion phase.

On October 25, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote tallies cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's tally during the election. The suffrage requirements are different from those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose). As this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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Copied from Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § 'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally. because this page is listed on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Subscribe.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:29, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Growth News, October 2024

Current work

Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module

We will add a new module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version on beta wikis and we will soon start an A/B test on our pilot wikis. This module will only display on the Newcomer Homepage if communities decide to utilize it, so learn how to configure the Community Updates module, or share your thoughts on the project's talk page.

One design concept aimed to increase constructive activation

Constructive activation experimentation

After showcasing early design ideas at Wikimania, we conducted user testing of design prototypes. We now aim to engage communities in further discussions and plan to run a targeted experiment, presenting a structured task within the reading view to logged-in new account holders with zero edits.

Community Configuration

This Community Configuration extension was developed to help communities customize wiki features to meet their unique needs. The Growth team is now helping other Wikimedia Foundation teams make their products configurable:

  • The Moderation Tools team now provides Community Configuration for Automoderator. (T365046)
  • Certain Babel extension settings will be configurable soon. (T328171)

Future work

As part of the Growth team annual plan, we will continue to investigate ways to increase constructive activation on mobile, while also working with Data Products to move forward A/B testing functionality via the Metrics Platform.

Community events

  • Growth team members presented Community Configuration: Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together at Wikimania (slides). The session recording is available to watch on YouTube. This session provided an update on the Community Configuration project and introduced details about the upcoming features that communities will soon be able to configure. Representatives from the Moderator Tools, Editing, Web, and Campaigns teams shared their plans for utilizing Community Configuration in the future. Following these presentations, the WMF Growth team's Benoît Evellin and Martin Urbanec answered audience questions.
  • Habib Mhenni gave a presentation of how mentorship works at WikiIndaba 2024. The recording is available.

Stay informed

Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work. If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.

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Administrator Elections: Voting phase

Administrator Elections | Voting phase

The voting phase of the October 2024 administrator elections has started and continues until 23:59 31st October 2024 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

  • October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase
  • November 1–? - Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies for a vote will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote tallies cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's tally during the election. The suffrage requirements are different from those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose). As this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

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Merger discussion for Yüksek Hızlı Tren

An article that you have been involved in editing—Yüksek Hızlı Tren—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Chidgk1 (talk) 10:01, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

User:Qwerfjkl (bot)

Hey, I was wondering if it is possible for your bot's lint task edits to be tagged with the Special:Tags "fixed lint errors" so this can be better tracked. Gonnym (talk) 09:25, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Gonnym, done. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:46, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Scriptscrap (16:50, 23 October 2024)

Can I create a personal list of articles about a subject as somewhat of a checklist. Sort of like you would check off birds in a bird book? I see the watch list which is similar to what I am thinking but what if I want different lists for different things? Like check off a list of all math articles that I have read or all scientists that I have added books about to my book collection. --Scriptscrap (talk) 16:50, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Scriptscrap, the only thing I am aware of is the mobile app which allows you to create lists. Apologies for the late response. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:41, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Thank you @Qwerfjkl! I will take a look at that. Scriptscrap (talk) 14:13, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Quincy.so (13:09, 28 October 2024)

can i change my username --Quincy.so (talk) 13:09, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Quincy.so, you can. The easiest way for you to do so is discard this account and create a new one. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:59, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-44

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

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [11]
  • Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [12]

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Question from Jonannuwarinda9 (09:51, 29 October 2024)

good afternoon I wanted to know if I can download the project which I design --Jonannuwarinda9 (talk) 09:51, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Jonannuwarinda9, hi. I'm not quite sure what you're trying to ask. Can you rephrase your question? — Qwerfjkltalk 14:14, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Joseph_Ca98

Page: Antigua and Barbuda Red Cross

Diff: Special:Diff/1254937533

Comment/question:Fixed it.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

readded
removed

CheckUser changes

removed Maxim

Oversighter changes

removed Maxim

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:21, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Neha Harsora, Draft:Sonakshi Batra and Draft:Shreya Jain

Hi can you help me create these pages? Mycrushrajveer (talk) 03:51, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Mycrushrajveer, what exactly would youi like help with? I can see the three drafts are about actresses, so please make sure they pass the notability guideline before writing the articles - they will be declined if they're not notable. You'll also need to find some sources for the articles. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:44, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
I am following Pranali Rathod page. Is that ok? How can I create a direct article like Pranali's article? Mycrushrajveer (talk) 07:25, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
You can press the Submit draft for review button to submit the draft. Note that none of the articles are yet ready to be articles, so if you do so they will be declined. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:13, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Nafijul Hasan Siyam on Mendelssohn (surname) (07:35, 4 November 2024)

honestly hacking --Nafijul Hasan Siyam (talk) 07:35, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-45

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

Updates for editors

  • Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [13]
  • Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
  • The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [14]
  • View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

  • XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [15]

In depth

  • Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
  • The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.

Meetings and events

  • MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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Question from Withered11 (21:43, 6 November 2024)

What do the parentheses’ mean? --Withered11 (talk) 21:43, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

@Withered11, if you're referring to my bot User:Qwerfjkl (bot), the (bot) is to indicate the account is automated. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:42, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Shailesh Gupta Veer (18:12, 7 November 2024)

I want to edit and create Poet's pages. Please suggest me. --Shailesh Gupta Veer (talk) 18:12, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun!
That said, when you want to have a go at writing an article, try Wikipedia:Requested articles/Arts and entertainment/Literature#Authors (poets, novelists and fiction writers) if you need a subject to write about; if you already have a subject in mind, just make sure they pass the general notability guidelines, so you don't waste your time. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:41, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
Shailesh Gupta Veer. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:42, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Merajsafari (05:46, 8 November 2024)

Hello i want a create a article for some famous person that dont have page on wikipedia --Merajsafari (talk) 05:46, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Merajsafari, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 14:36, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of HH16 (disambiguation)

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on HH16 (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

  • disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
  • disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
  • is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:33, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

The Lockman Hole

I'm considering making an edit to the Lockman Hole article (Lockman Hole), after a brief mid-video interview with Jay Lockman himself where he voiced a preference for the name "Lockman Window".

I thought it might be a good courteous gesture of this community to change the beginning of the Lockman Hole article to read something more like "The Lockman Hole, or Lockman Window, is an area of the sky in which..."

Do you think this would be appropriate? Necessary Addition (talk) 20:00, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

I should add the source, timestamped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWJBAGrG0ms&t=1474s Necessary Addition (talk) 22:06, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
Necessary Addition, it would at least be worth creating a redirect at Lockman Window (which I've just done). I'm not familiar with the subject, so I don't not how common the term is - if it's unlikely to be known to most people who know the topic, it's probably not worth including - but feel free to be bold and edit it yourself — Qwerfjkltalk 15:42, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-46

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

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [18]
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

  • Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [19]

Meetings and events

  • 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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Question from VoltaireVMS (08:44, 11 November 2024)

Hi Pyrrro. How do I create a profile? --VoltaireVMS (talk) 08:44, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

VoltaireVMS, what do you mean by a "profile"? — Qwerfjkltalk 07:52, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Category:Incest in Greek mythology

Hi Qwerfjkl, earlier this year you closed the deletion discussion for Category:Incest in Greek mythology. [20] While I was the only editor in that discussion in favour of keeping the category, I don't think others really addressed my argument meaningfully, and I disagree with the category's deletion. I'm not really suggesting that you interpreted consensus incorrectly (I don't think you did), but rather that I don't think there was good reason for deletion. I was unsure whether WP:DELREV was the correct venue for this (as that seems to be for arguing that the closer misinterpreted consensus), so contacting you directly seemed logical. – Michael Aurel (talk) 01:28, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Michael Aurel, I think the best thing to do would be to start a discussion at WT:CFD and ping the participants to that discussion to see if you can work something out. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:54, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Ah ok, thanks, so there isn't an official process for this then. I might consult with the editor who created the category first, as since I left my initial comment here I've noticed that in the last month or two they created a similar but distinct category, Category:Mythological people involved in incest, but assuming they think it's necessary, I'll start a discussion at WT:CFD as you've recommended. – Michael Aurel (talk) 10:24, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Hi Im Xi (21:29, 12 November 2024)

Hello, how do I request that a page be made about a certain musician? --Hi Im Xi (talk) 21:29, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

@Hi Im Xi, you can try Requested articles, remembering to include refiable sources (and making sure they're notable), but it's unlikely anyone will write it themselves. Your best bet is to learn how to write the article yourself. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:34, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from YTHOMITY (20:04, 14 November 2024)

Hello, how can I suggest an addition to the list of 'humorous units of measurements' Thank you YTHOMITY --YTHOMITY (talk) 20:04, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@YTHOMITY, you can make a suggestion on the talk page. The easiest way to do this is to attempt to edit the page as normal, and then press the "Submit an edit request" button. Make sure to make your suggestion clear, and include a reliable source. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:48, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Midnight Racer (14:22, 13 November 2024)

Hi, I created a draft called Hennessey Venom F5 Roadster but how can I find back the draft if I leave the page, or how can I save the draft? I tried to search the draft but I can't find it. --Midnight Racer (talk) 14:22, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

@Midnight Racer, use the "Publish" button to save the draft. According to your contributions, you haven't made a draft. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:05, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
Oh, ok. I thought pressing "Publish" will make the draft an article. Thanks! Midnight Racer (talk) 10:25, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Yasmin a Beatles fan on Murusade (11:21, 15 November 2024)

Hello, am I able to make writing more formal? --Yasmin a Beatles fan (talk) 11:21, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

@Yasmin a Beatles fan, I'm not quite sure what you mean. You can copyedit writing to change the tone to a more formal one. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:04, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Task 31 oddities

This was an odd one. No lint errors at all on the page when it edited, but the bot still changed X to Y, and created an unclosed italics issue due to the closing italics being after the date/time and not matching the sig pattern. Thought it was worth noting that it created an issue in case that's something that can be prevented. If it's just a odd fluke, no big deal.

And I also see that the bot is only fixing half of Timbouctou's signature. It didn't fix the missing closer italics on the Timbouctou userpage link portion: (example 1 and example 2). If that's intentional and it'll fix the other part later, ok. Just found it surprising. Zinnober9 (talk) 00:41, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

The first issue is due to the user putting tags after the timestamp. I've just modified their other signatures that do this. The second problem is simply because I don't have that replacement listed; I've added it now. Qwerfjkltalk 11:56, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Morrison Ke (22:04, 16 November 2024)

I want to add my personal information --Morrison Ke (talk) 22:05, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

@Morrison Ke, to where? Qwerfjkltalk 10:59, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from TocaTheFrog (08:31, 18 November 2024)

Hello. Could I ask for some advice on creating a user page, I want it to show that I like memes and making jokes but also that I am passionate about cats, frogs and computers. --TocaTheFrog (talk) 08:31, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

You can put whatever you want (within reason) on your userpage; see WP:User pages. You may want to find some userboxes to express yourself. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:21, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

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New Linter patterns

If you have time to run Task 31 against more patterns, I have a new batch collected from the signature submissions page in my sandbox. If you run a test edit against each of the patterns, I'll be happy to check the edits. I have moderate confidence that I got them right, but something could definitely have gone wrong with one or more patterns during the copy-paste-find-replace-concatenate process. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:57, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

@Jonesey95, most of them look good to me.
You included
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2F%5C%3Csup%5C%3E%5C%28%5C%5B%5C%5BUser+talk%3AEditorofthewiki%5C%7C%5C%3Cfont+color%3D%5C%22Green%5C%22%5C%3Etalk%5C%3C%5C%2Ffont%5C%3E%5C%5D%5C%5D%5C%2F%5C%5B%5C%5BSpecial%3AContributions%5C%2FEditorofthewiki%5C%7C%5C%3Cfont+color%3D%5C%22Green%5C%22%5C%3Econtribs%5C%3C%5C%2Ffont%5C%3E%5C%5D%5C%5D%5C%29%5C%3C%5C%2Fsup%5C%3E%5C%27%5C%27%5C%27%5C%3C%5C%2Fspan%5C%3E%2F&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1&ns118=1&ns119=1&ns710=1&ns711=1&ns828=1&ns829=1&ns2300=1&ns2301=1&ns2302=1&ns2303=1&searchToken=4i3cyxyrejtwffnqaubj4gmer``~'''''[[User:Editorofthewiki|<font color="#F900">EDDY</font>]]'' <sup>([[User talk:Editorofthewiki|<font color="Green">talk</font>]]/[[Special:Contributions/Editorofthewiki|<font color="Green">contribs</font>]])</sup>'''</span>~``~'''''[[User:Editorofthewiki|<span style="color:#F900;">EDDY</span>]]'' <sup>([[User talk:Editorofthewiki|<span style="color:Green;">talk</span>]]/[[Special:Contributions/Editorofthewiki|<span style="color:Green;">contribs</span>]])</sup>'''~
Which produces

~EDDY (talk/contribs)~

→

~EDDY (talk/contribs)~
Because of the colour hex F900. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:00, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for checking them. That code should be #f90000:
~EDDY (talk/contribs)~
Nice catch. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:06, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
@Jonesey95, I checked over the rest and they looked good. When I ran the bot, I noticed Talk:Meal, Ready-to-Eat/Archive 1 (Diff ~1257216016) where the replacement actually introduced an error. Any idea how best to handle this? I suppose adding a space at the end of the find & replacement strings would work, though there might be other cases that have similar problems. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:02, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
Yes, include a trailing space in the "find" and the "replace" string for the Bahamut signature. I do that all the time in my regexes. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:12, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
@Jonesey95, okay, I'll add the trailing whitespace for that and any other replacements that look like they could be vulnerable to this kind of problem. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:15, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
I scanned through the rest of the entries for similar problems. It looks like the string for "DCI2026" needs a trailing space in both strings also. The rest appear to be fine, at least with respect to this potential error. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:16, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
I've made the changes. I think I'll run the batch tomorrow, I just need to do a bit more error checking. Also, one of the replacements uses the search insource:/\[\[User:Yellow Dingo\|\<b style\=\"color:\#FFCC33\">Yellow\<\/b> \<b style\=\"color:brown\">Dingo]]'''/ which returns no results. The total number of unique titles found is 24,437. Qwerfjkltalk 21:36, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
It appears that the Yellow Dingo signatures have been fixed; they were in a previous batch and it looks like I neglected to remove them from the table after that run. No worries! Thanks in advance for running the task; I look forward to tens of thousands of fixes, and I'll have another batch once that has run. There were so many this time that I didn't go digging for more patterns that weren't already listed on the table. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:06, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
@Jonesey95, I've started the batch. The code needed a little modification because it was stripping the replacements. Qwerfjkltalk 17:24, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
If you let me know what adjustments you needed to make, I can try to fix my process for generating the strings for you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:20, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
@Jonesey95, it wasn't a problem on your end, the bug was in the code. Qwerfjkltalk 18:22, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Great job with this bot run! I have updated the signature submissions page with some results and will work on a new batch of patterns. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:16, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Trimetwes_fan1003

Page: SunRail

Diff: Special:Diff/1257013265

Comment/question: This doesn't even make sense.

Trimetwes fan1003 (talk) 04:06, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@Trimetwes fan1003, you're missing the |title=. Qwerfjkltalk 09:15, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Edit request on your CFDlister.js script

See this. JJPMaster (she/they) 17:36, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

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Page: Stranger_Things

Diff: Special:Diff/1256063037

Comment/question: I don't understand what a "bare URL error" is. Could you please fix the referencing errors I made on the "Stranger Things" page for me?

JFP (talk) 04:14, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

@John Pannozzi, you added 
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.netflix.com/tudum/features/stranger-things-season-2024}}</ref>
Which is missing |title=. Qwerfjkltalk 17:02, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from JustNason (03:08, 20 November 2024)

Hello, I may need help finding some usable sources for my wiki page, considering there aren't many secondary sources out on the internet. There are mainly just primary sources and my page keeps getting denied. --JustNason (talk) 03:08, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

@JustNason, if you can't find sources then the subject might not be notable under Wikipedia's guidelines. Qwerfjkltalk 17:28, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
Alright, thank you. I will wait till I have more sources :) JustNason (talk) 22:53, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
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