RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I[edit]

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:52, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox Election is broken again.[edit]

See, e.g. this page, please fix ASAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_United_States_presidential_election_in_Nebraska. DemocraticLuntz (talk) 18:01, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Every single election page is broken, please revert or fix ASAP!! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 18:04, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DemocraticLuntz@Eejit43 All fixed. I had tested it and had it working in my sandbox, but it looks like I pasted in the wrong version. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 18:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 18:07, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also, in this code:
((#invoke:Math|max|
the final "|" should be removed. It gets a duplicate "1" parm error. Davemck (talk) 18:21, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Davemck Strange, I didn't see any errors pop up in my testing, but you're absolutely right, that pipe shouldn't be there. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 18:23, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ahecht—the alliance parameter is still going wonky (unless it is some other bad input)—please see the image I uploaded to the right. Also, please refer to Template talk:Infobox election; there is more discussion over there. — 3PPYB6 (T / C / L) — 18:55, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@3PPYB6 should be fixed (and there is now a test case in place to catch that error). --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 22:04, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bot help[edit]

Hello, Ahecht!

Some months ago you helped me with the k8s migration for your transclusion-counting script. Things have been working fine beside one detail: I use your script in two wikis: sqwiki and lawiki. I have two different versions of it with two different lang parameters. For some reason though both scripts get executed in sqwiki. Any idea what could be happening? - Klein Muçi (talk) 23:41, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Klein Muçi: Try adding the following lines above connectSuccess = True in transclusioncount.py:
		try:
			conn.close()
		except:
			pass
--Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 00:44, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Those lines exist below connectSuccess = True. Nonetheless I tried "duplicating" them before connectSuccess = True too for the sqwiki code. Tried running it. The script won't start at all, it fails immediately. — Klein Muçi (talk) 10:24, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Klein Muçi the lines that existed below only ran if the query failed, these new ones should run on success as well. Make sure that the lines are indented correctly to match what I have at User:Ahechtbot/sandbox/transclusioncount.py. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 12:56, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Replicated that. Now the jobs don't fail and they complete successfully. However the initial problem persists: Both scripts are executed at sqwiki. — Klein Muçi (talk) 14:15, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Klein Muçi only other thing I can think of is that you're specifying one language in the script and another one on the command line. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:42, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
class settings:
lang = "lawiki"
...
This is what I have. Is that correct? Do I need to specify it somewhere else too? — Klein Muçi (talk) 17:38, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Klein Muçi Oh, you're not using the sandbox version. The non-sandbox version will post to whatever site is the default in your pywikibot config file, whereas the sandbox version allows you to specify the site you post to. In the sandbox version you can either specify the code and family in the code or on the command line, there's no reason to do both. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 18:05, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! That was the problem. Now it works normally. — Klein Muçi (talk) 00:27, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Church of light[edit]

Hey, you wanna do this again? We can do a co nomination, and see if it will reach necessary quorum this time. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 10:47, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@The Herald Sure, if you want to write it up, I'd be happy to sign as co-nom. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 03:14, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Cool, I'll ping you once it's set :) The Herald (Benison) (talk) 04:25, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The church with a magnetic personality awaits :) The Herald (Benison) (talk) 08:57, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@The Herald  Done --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 13:15, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Conversations moved from User talk:Ahecht/Scripts/watchlistcleaner[edit]

Broken by New filters for edit review?

I have never been able to use this script, and mw:Help:New filters for edit review have been enabled since before I first tried to use it. I see that the script tries to add a "Clean" link to .mw-watchlist-toollinks which doesn't appear in the source of the new watchlist. Is anyone else seeing this issue, or have I misdiagnosed the problem? ClaudineChionh (talk – contribs) 03:57, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@ClaudineChionh Sorry for the very late reply, but the script now adds itself to the Tools or Toolbox menu if it can't find the appropriate place with the other Watchlist links. ----Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 03:12, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not working?

@Ahecht, I tried to install this, and after clearing my cache and trying multiple ways to bypass my browser's cache, I still can't see the "clean the watchlist". I'm on Vector 2022, btw. Cheers! Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 23:03, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cocobb8 I'll probably have to do some work to get the script working in Vector 2022. In the meantime, you can access it via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist?useskin=vector --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 04:15, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cocobb8 It should be working on all skins now. ----Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 03:12, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Ahecht Confirmed to work for Vector 2022, thanks a ton! There's a minor UI issue where notifications while cleaning will appear on the right, and on the left will appear and disappear in rapid succession, but other than that awesome job here. Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 14:26, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pageswap bug[edit]

Hello,

Your pageswap script fails to run at Draft talk:Move/Talk:Doctor Who (series 2)/GA1, Draft talk:Move/Talk:Doctor Who (series 2)/GA2, and Draft talk:Move/Talk:Doctor Who (series 2)/GA3 when trying to move to Talk:Doctor Who series 2/GA1. It gives the following error: 

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'allpages')
    at getSubpages (<anonymous>:406:25)
    at roundrobin (<anonymous>:772:17)
    at clickSwap (<anonymous>:1072:3)
    at OO.EventEmitter.emit (oojs.js:858:12)
    at OO.ui.mixin.ButtonElement.onClick (oojs-ui-core.js:2386:13)
    at HTMLButtonElement.dispatch (jquery.js:5145:27)
    at elemData.handle (jquery.js:4949:28)

~ Eejit43 (talk) 15:31, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Eejit43 Thanks for the heads up. Please leave those orphaned pages in place for now so I can do some debugging, but I think trying to swap a talk page with subpages without moving the content page may be something my testcases missed. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:53, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Will do, thanks! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 16:01, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Eejit43 I can't seem to reproduce the error, at least not in my sandbox. When you used the swap tool, what pages did you enter as the old and new titles? --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 18:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I simply clicked the "Swap" toolbar link on Draft talk:Move/Talk:Doctor Who (series 2)/GA1, which automatically set the old title to "Draft talk" and "Move/Talk:Doctor Who (series 2)/GA1", and I changed the destination title to "Talk" and "Doctor Who series 2/GA1". ~ Eejit43 (talk) 19:59, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also semi-random side note, the "Move associated talk page" button being disabled makes sense, as you changed in the latest version, but it should probably also be unchecked as that confused me when I went to try it right then. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 20:01, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Eejit43 Ahh, got it. The test case that I was missing was trying to check talk pages in the "Draft talk:" namespace specifically (other namespaces would fail gracefully since the next namespace number exists, but Draft Talk is namespace 119 and there is no namespace 120). I've updated the script and successfully moved that page to Talk:Doctor Who series 2/GA1. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:11, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much! I'll complete the other moves :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 21:25, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is it alright to either tag the following as G6 or would you tag them as G7? Thanks!
  • Draft talk:Move/User talk:Ahecht/sandbox2/1
  • Draft talk:Move/User talk:Ahecht/sandbox2/2
  • Draft talk:Move/User talk:Ahecht/sandbox2/Archive 1
  • Draft talk:Move/User talk:Ahecht/sandbox2/Archive 2
~ Eejit43 (talk) 01:03, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Eejit43 Thanks for the reminder. I took care of those 4 pages. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 01:13, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 01:13, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024[edit]

Hello Ahecht,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

Reminders:

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Allow[edit]

Let me apprise you of the following. The district has changed several names and will be changing more. Emphasis01 (talk) 06:40, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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