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Hello, you deleted my edit to the Central Park Carousel. However, it is true that the Trump Organization runs the carousel, and that its contract is set to expire in April 2021. The confusion might be that the Friedsam Memorial Carousel is an alternative name for the Central Park Carousel.

See: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/mocs/downloads/pdf/Contracting%20with%20NYC_FranchisesConcessions_Plans_2015Annual.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/16/trump-has-earned-59-million-in-three-years-running-attractions-for-new-york-city/?utm_term=.b59d39d279c3 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/16/1733224/-The-Trump-Organization-tried-to-steal-a-carousel-s-name

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Central_Park_Carousel&oldid=844440182

Best Regards, Yves155 (talk) 12:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

@Yves155: Thanks for reaching out to me about this! Allow me to apologize for reverting your edits. The issue was none of the sources you used ([1] included) said anything about Trump, nor was it clear where to get that information. Meanwhile the Washington Post source you've just provided is both reliable and supports everything you claimed, so that's the type of source we want to use :) Now that we've got this cleared this up, I've gone through and re-added your additions with the WaPo source. The exception is Lasker Rink. I don't see mention of that in the sources you provided, so I have not restored your edit to that page. If you can find a good source, of course feel free to re-add it. Sorry again for the confusion. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:44, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Template:Newarticletext-confirmed has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. ((3x|p))ery (talk) 00:10, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal, you blocked a disruptive IP and i thank you for that. However, the IP is repeatedly removing your block message from his talk page, is this allowaed ? me and other users are trying to add back your block message on his talk page but he reverts us continuously. Your opinion about that ? Best regards.---Wikaviani (talk) 17:18, 8 June 2018 (UTC) Wikaviani (talk) 17:18, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Normally, yes, removing block notices is allowed. The only thing that blocked users are not allowed to remove is a declined unblock request. However, in this case, I've reblocked with TPA removed, not for the removal of the block notice, but for the other stuff they put on their talk page. I restored the block notice as a part of that. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:26, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Ok, thank you very much for blocking this WP:NOTHERE IP and for the information about what a user can remove (or not) from his talk page. Take care. Best regards.---Wikaviani (talk) 17:31, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Ditto to Writ Keeper. Revoking talk page access was bound to happen, but agreed they are allowed to blank this type of notice. More at WP:BLANKING. The message is for them, after all, and by blanking it indicates they've read it. However it's possible this IP is shared, in which case the block notice probably should remain there. In my opinion unless it's something important for others to see (like declined unblock request), it's fine to let them remove it instead of wasting your time trying to restore it when the page has little to no visibility — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:35, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Got it, thank you very much, i learnt some new informations about the management of the talk pages. Take care. Best regards.---Wikaviani (talk) 18:05, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Back in December 2015, we stumbled on a CSD malfunction that was attributed to the Wiki software. I've come across the exact same issue again - see User:TimSGearhart/sandbox. The page was tagged as G12 back on April 16, and yet it remains visible. I checked the Category:Candidates for speedy deletion page and did not see the page listed on the general page or the specific G12 page.--Cahk (talk) 01:48, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Wow. I see the Phabriactor task still has not been marked as resolved. I have commented with your findings. I've also made a null edit to the page which forced it to recategorize. I think it's possible to run a query to find other speedy'd pages that aren't in the category (going by template translcusions). I will try to look into that soon. Thanks for letting me (or someone) know that this issue has resurfaced! — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:08, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Would it be poosible for you to write a script the would make an "RfA" link appear to the left of the "Page Curation" one? The idea is that it would turn into a "there is a new RfA" link similar to the "you have new messages" TP link when there are new messages. And also make the link revert back to it's normal appearance when clicked. I keep not seeing the watchlist notif, so that's why I'm putting forward this idea. L293D (☎ • ✎) 19:56, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Certainly possible, but I'm afraid I don't have time for it, sorry! :( Have you considered transcluding ((User:Cyberpower678/RfX Report)) on your userpage (or talk page)? This is how I find out that there are new RfAs — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:18, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

21:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Wednesday June 20, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. Wednesday June 20 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 19:12, 14 June 2018 (UTC) P.S. You are also invited to Wikiproject Women Wikipedia Design @ Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Saturday, June 16!

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Hi Why I can't see pageviews for 14 June?[7]

Thanks Shrike (talk) 14:41, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Indeed the "job" to populate the data appears to have failed on 14 June. I've reported this to the Analytics team at phab:T197542, and they should be looking into it soon if they're not already. I'm mostly confident they will be able to backfill the data. — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:09, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Regarding "already done" issue, i think there should be an option to stop the bot from doing that. Just a few days ago there was an incident where an editor kept adding tl to already done ((tl|already done)), and bot kept on adding already done. I mean, at first bot should comment it is already done, but then there should be some option to stop it from repeating it. —usernamekiran(talk) 12:42, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Good call. I've got this implemented with new logic on handling users with temporary rights. For more see this discussion ^(permalink) — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:37, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

21:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at User:Kudpung/What do admins do?. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:30, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for repairing pageviews. I did use Internet Explorer on my Samsung tablet. Mellebga (talk) 20:30, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

No problem. Glad to hear the issue is resolved for you :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:49, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Matthew Feeman, builds a fire to help combat frostbite and hypothermia during a survival, evasion, resistance and escape exercise in Alaska. Note that there is a draft for the Survival page located at Draft:Survival. Hello, MusikAnimal. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Survival Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Civil ceremony • Xenophobia Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 June 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

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Hey MA! Wondering if I could trouble you for a hand with a copyright revdel on Draft:The Prom (musical). It's another editor's creation that was draftified and marked for revdel by the NPP reviewer last week; I added sources to establish notability but I'd rather not move it back to mainspace 'til the copyvio's been fully resolved. If you have a chance, I'd be grateful for the assistance! Thanks much. Innisfree987 (talk) 23:34, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

No problem. I've revdel'd all revisions leading up to the content being removed. — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:41, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Oh terrific, thank you so much for the speedy attention to that! Innisfree987 (talk) 01:42, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Can you please undelete Relocation of Marine Corps Air Station (as a redirect to Relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma). This was a copypaste move (single author, no history merge necessary), but I'd like to take a look at the edit history to see if I can verify the US Marines attribution template. Thank you. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 16:13, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

@Finnusertop: Sorry for the late reply. I've restored it. Indeed I don't think a history merge or the like is necessary. — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:44, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

On 29 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Domino Park, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that one of New York City's newest parks was partially built using industrial materials from an abandoned sugar factory? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Domino Park. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Could you please help me. This request is for bnwiki. I need a edit filtering code for disallowing edit summary which contain word like "উদাহরণ", "এটি" etc. So, After editing (adding or removing something even if no byte changed) If anyone enter these word as edit summary and click save they will see a warning. This edit filter is for all group (admin, anon user, rollback, file mover, etc). I would be grateful if you could help me and provide me filtering code for bnwiki. Thank you. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 00:16, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

@আফতাবুজ্জামান: Try something like contains_any(summary, "উদাহরণ", "এট"). You can add more as needed. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:06, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you.--আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 16:34, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal, I'm writing you here because I've seen this is the main wiki where you edit and because here you're an abusefilter, checkuser and sysop. I think I've found a few proxies used recently by a single user who hides behind them to make similar unconstructive edits in different pages, and a few socks used to do the same kind of edits created recently. If I write here the suspicious proxies IP ranges, will you be able to block them (as they're forbidden on Wikipedia) and do the same with the socks created over such ranges (as they weren't created for reasons according to community standards)? Let me know, please, I'd like to be helpful to the project by reporting vandals in bad faith who use proxies and socks such as this one! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbtudios0121 (talk • contribs) 16:24, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

00:46, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus that the ((promising draft)) template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

• Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
• Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

• Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

Do you have a link/cite for the 2FA data? I'd be curious. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 00:49, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

@Amorymeltzer: Analytics came up with this production query back when we first asked in February 2017. I simply re-ran it myself, this time there were 1211 sysops and 240 with 2FA enabled. — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:00, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi, we wanted your MusikBot on marathi wikipedia for admin stats and bot stats. Will you like to help? --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 04:44, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

(watching) @Tiven2240: See also User talk:Cyberpower678#Adminstats Hhkohh (talk) 05:04, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day, MusikAnimal, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! ‐‐1997kB (talk) 10:40, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day, MusikAnimal, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Kpgjhpjm 15:52, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

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Thursday July 12, 5-8pm: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ Jefferson Market Library

Wikimedia NYC invites you to attend a Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon on Thursday, July 12th at Jefferson Market Library! Wiki Loves Pride is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. We are holding this year's event in July in order to support folx who want to contribute a photograph they took at one of NYC's many Pride events or edit an article about something they learned this June. Not sure what to contribute? No problem! We will have a list of articles that need your help. Thursday July 12 Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon (RSVP on-wiki or at Eventbrite). 5:00pm - 8:00 pm at Jefferson Market Library, 425 6th Ave --Megs (talk) 14:57, 10 July 2018 (UTC) P.S. You are also invited to the "picnic anyone can edit", the Great American Wiknic NYC @ Prospect Park, Sunday, July 29!

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He is not working properly at PERM. —usernamekiran(talk) 04:06, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Fixed! Thanks for letting me know. By the way, while I am male, MusikBot is a she :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:00, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

16:01, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

UDY — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yobbin (talk • contribs) 20:47, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Hey Muzik, in the history of AIV, you can find a number of IPs that me and probably others reported this morning that are proxies. Some of them are only blocked a month or less as of now, so I'm not sure if you may want to extend them. I can try and gather them all if you need. Home Lander (talk) 17:51, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

I wouldn't want to influence MA in any way, but I would point out for those not aware that the IPs are almost entirely VPN Gate, which is a very dynamic set of IPs. For that reason, when I block them I'll typically choose a month. Several months might be reasonable, and if they've been blocked before then maybe even longer. But they are mostly quite dynamic. Thanks for spotting them HL. You'll find a bunch in my blocking log :) -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 17:59, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Understood, thanks for the pointers. — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:04, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Hey zzuuzz, no problem. I looked through my entries at AIV just now and found this one that's only blocked a week. All the others appear to be a month or longer. Home Lander (talk) 18:05, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

I have another pointer for you, which you might find useful at this time. There's a different idiot running around on ctm.net (Macau) adding porn images to pages. I've generally been treating them to /17 size blocks. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 18:07, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Although I blocked some earlier today only for 31 hrs, I think a month is minimum, as they tend to sometimes return to old proxies, such as here. Widr (talk) 18:41, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Sunday July 29, 2-7pm: Annual Wiki-Picnic

You are invited to join us the "picnic anyone can edit" in Brooklyn's green Prospect Park, as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the USA. Remember it's a wiki-picnic, which means potluck. Sunday July 29 Annual Wik-Picnic (RSVP) (also on meetup.com) 2–7pm - come by any time! Our reserved picnicking area is by Bartel-Pritchard Square entrance, located at Prospect Park West and 15th Street. The picnic will be held by the park's Bartel-Pritchard Square entrance immediately on the lawn to your right as you walk through the lovely lotus columns. Look for us by the Wikipedia / Wikimedia NYC banner! We hope to see you there! --Pharos (talk) 08:23, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

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09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your help on the Hormel page. Much appreciated! Hello-Mary-H (talk) 17:58, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Sure thing. Thanks for the WikiLove :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:05, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

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Good enough, thanks. Home Lander (talk) 20:28, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal, in ptwiki we are cleaning and deleting so many lists of one term that was traslated from this wiki, like List of volcanoes in Saint Lucia. This type of list is allowed here or can open a deletion request? Mr. Fulano 🐸 20:42, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure, to be honest. If there is a rule for single-item lists, it's probably somewhere in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists. I agree that article in particular seems unnecessary and could be deleted. — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:50, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

I didn't see any saying about it in your rules, but I think that a list with one term doesn't exists. And has another list like that: List of volcanoes in Martinique and List of volcanoes in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Mr. Fulano 🐸 21:30, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. (Purge)

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June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

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• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
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• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

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• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi MA, can you take a look at a headache I'm hitting? Some of the "destructive" buttons in monobook still have bad contrast, I fixed some a ways back but am having a problem selecting some. A fairly common example appears in the "block" button a seen here on testwiki. I've blanked out my examples in testwiki:Mediawiki:Monobook.css for a fresh try. Thanks in advance if you have the time! — xaosflux ^Talk 03:44, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Woah, this looks so different from vector! I'm guessing the colours changed with the recent responsive Monobook styles? The OOUI standard doesn't seem to be a thing. Anyway, the text colour is set by .oo-ui-buttonElement-framed.oo-ui-flaggedElement-destructive > .oo-ui-buttonElement-button so you could try overriding that. — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:06, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the hints, no joy - tried lots of variants at testwiki:User:Xaosflux/monobook.css. Wonder if that special page is being overwritten in other code? — xaosflux ^Talk 10:25, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi greetings, Sir, I created a bot with the name Pathbot. I used pywikibot for creating it. I read the mw:API:Manual/login and WP:CAB#Logging in and tried to login with URL mentioned in these pages. But it shows only error messages. Sir, is this kind of log in needed or normal login in Wikipedia enough? Kindly please help me.--PATH SLOPU ^(Talk) 15:50, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

Sro23

KaisaL • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
• Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news

• The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about your edit to the GitHub page, I definitely understand why you made the change!

Also, thanks for the warm welcome!

Ethanent (talk) 23:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)Ethanent

Hi there! There's a question for you on translatewiki:Thread:Support/Deployment. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 21:34, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm not getting pings there for some reason — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:40, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Not even on Translatewiki itself? You probably know, but it's separate from Wikimedia projects, so pings there wouldn't be shown here, but they should show there. Maybe the discussion extension they're using there doesn't work with it for some reason. … aaand when typing that, I realized what is probably the cause – pings trigger when (a) a username is linked and (b) a signature is added. Since no signature is normally added – it's handled by the extension – it probably doesn't trigger a ping either. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 15:58, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Nope, no pings on translatewiki.net itself. You are probably right that it's the Semantic MediaWiki stuff that's incompatible with Echo. Oh well! — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:35, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

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There's something somewhere that keeps giving me error messages. The first bit of my last one is:

mw.loader.implement("ext.gadget.CommentsInLocalTime@0wvqexe",function($,jQuery,require,module){importScript('User:Gary/comments in local time.js');});mw.loader.implement("ext.gadget.DotsSyntaxHighlighter@0v7flyt",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.loader.load('//www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-DotsSyntaxHighlighter.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');});mw.loader.implement("ext.gadget.ExternalSearch@04xkea8",function($,jQuery,require,module){function SpecialSearchEnhanced(){var createOption=function(site,action,mainQ,addQ,addV){var

Does anything there ring a bell? Doug Weller talk 13:38, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

@Doug Weller: How dare you bother me! :) When you say you see an error, I assume you mean in the JavaScript console? The above just looks like the code that loads a few gadgets (CommentsInLocalTime, DotsSyntaxHighlighter, and ExternalSearch). To me it doesn't indicate anything is broken. Not sure if did this already, but try following the steps at WP:JSERROR, and specifically look for output that is in red.

I am curious why your View History link is moving around. Another thing you could try is viewing a page in safe mode, by adding the safemode=1 parameter to the URL. E.g. [47]. This will disable all gadgets (like MoreMenu), but the Vector skin should still operate as it would normally and move your View History link if the viewport is too small. So basically if you see this issue in safe mode, we know the issue isn't with MoreMenu or any of your other gadgets. — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:55, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I need to start looking for a pattern in what pages and actions bring up error messages. I'm getting them (they aren't always the same) a lot. It usually, but not always, doesn't repeat if I reload the page. Doug Weller talk 19:12, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

It's possible there's also a networking issue. How is the bandwidth of your internet connection, and the performance of your computer? It shouldn't matter, but they are really slow I guess those race conditions that I was talking could be the culprit. Some sort of race condition is my best guess, since you say the issue happens intermittently.

Just to double-check, you are using Vector, right? Because I did notice your User:Doug Weller/monobook.js is loading the "markblocked" script but is not declaring dependencies. I would enable this gadget in your preferences, anyway, rather than sourcing the script. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:36, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes, Vector. I've blanked monobook.js. I checked my speed and discovered that my Bitdefender VPN was slowing me way down. So I disconnected that and now have 204.7 Mbps but everytime I load this I still get the error I had before. Good to know how much the VPN was slowing me down though! I only use it to get through to some US sites. Doug Weller talk 20:46, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

When I load that page, I do get an error from Twinkle: "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '1' of null ... HTMLDocument.Twinkle.load". Is that the error you're talking about? I think that's just because Twinkle doesn't recognize that it's an IP range.

If you're seeing a different error, let me know what it is and I'll try to debug — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:57, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

No, that's the one. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 05:45, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

[48] gives me

VM4265:1 Uncaught ReferenceError: importScript is not defined

   at <anonymous>:1:1
   at domEval (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=minerva&target=mobile:52)
   at runScript (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=minerva&target=mobile:54)
   at checkCssHandles (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=minerva&target=mobile:54)
   at execute (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=minerva&target=mobile:55)

at Object.implement (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=minerva&target=mobile:61)at load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=user&skin=minerva&user=Doug+Weller&version=10ukppj:1

Doug Weller talk 06:07, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Another odd thing, I just loaded to user talkpages. One had "watch" as a star on the menu bar, the other had it under "More". Doug Weller talk 06:23, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Also getting:

jQuery.Deferred exception: element is undefined

getAccessKeyLabel@https://en.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.3d%2CCodeMirror%2Ccharinsert%2CeventLogging%2CnavigationTiming%2Cpopups%2CwikimediaEvents%7Cext.CodeMirror.data%2Clib%7Cext.CodeMirror.mode.mediawiki%7Cext.centralNotice.geoIP%7Cext.centralauth.ForeignApi%7Cext.centralauth.centralautologin.clearcookie%7Cext.echo.api%2Cinit%7Cext.eventLogging.subscriber%7Cext.uls.common%2Ceventlogger%2Cinit%2Cinterface%2Cpreferences%2Cwebfonts%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init%7Cext.visualEditor.supportCheck%2CtargetLoader%2CtempWikitextEditorWidget%2Ctrack%2Cve%7Cext.wikimediaEvents.loggedin%7Cjquery.accessKeyLabel%2Casync%2CcheckboxShiftClick%2Cclient%2Ccookie%2CgetAttrs%2ChighlightText%2ClengthLimit%2CmakeCollapsible%2Cspinner%2Csuggestions%2CtabIndex%2CtextSelection%2Cthrottle-debounce%2Ctipsy%7Cjquery.makeCollapsible.styles%7Cjquery.uls.data%7Cmediawiki.ForeignApi%2CForeignStructuredUpload%2CForeignUpload%2CRegExp%2CString%2CTitle%2CUpload%2CUri%2Capi%2…
undefined

at times. Doug Weller talk 12:41, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

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Hello MusikAnimal, I've nominated you for a temporary interface administrator access grant at Wikipedia_talk:Interface_administrators#Stop-gap_users_nominated. If you do not wish to have this foisted upon you, feel free to remove yourself from the listing. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 02:49, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:11, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hi MusikAnimal, per Special:Diff/856641107, I have temporarily added the interface administrator user-right to your account. I'm sure the temporary part of that will change to permanent once we have a mechanism to agree it! Worm^TT(talk) 17:35, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:11, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

You are welcome. Nice userpage by the way. And signature too ;) Worm^TT(talk) 09:26, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

@Worm That Turned: Haha, you hadn't noticed that before? I stole your design some ~4 years ago! And you've been given credit, too :) The signature similarity is merely a coincidence, I'm afraid. — MusikAnimal ^talk 14:13, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Don't worry, I'm not complaining, it's what Wikipedia is all about! And as much as I appreciate the credit, it's just nice that someone thinks my design is worth using! Worm^TT(talk) 14:16, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Hard to think of higher praise! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 15:05, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Hehe, the praise is certainly sincere! — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:21, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Wednesday August 29, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

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Aw, I didn't deserve this, but thanks! — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:17, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

I don't want to go volunteering you for extra work in public, so I'll just share this idea with you here.

It seems that Interface Administrator will be (ought to be) handed to Admins after a 24hr pause for objections or second thoughts. I wouldn't anticipate any applicants being denied, after all if they're to be trusted with the regular set of Admin tools, why not the Interface Admin tools? Hubris and a lack of caution are the only risks in use of the right.

If MusikBot were to do an assessment, as it does at the RFP queues, to give the applicants some bald facts for self-assessment & reflection - well, I think that would be more constructive & less confrontational than other editors questioning the applicant's competence. Something along the lines of

Applicant has made ## edits to ## userspace js pages,

and ## edits to ## userspace css pages,

and ## edits to ## sitewide js pages,

and ## edits to ## sitewide css pages.

Just my 2¢. Cabayi (talk) 14:13, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

This has been discussed to death at Wikipedia talk:Interface administrators. Interface admin is not about trust but reducing the "attack surface". More at meta:Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. That being said you're correct that counting edits to sitewide JS/CSS is something we have to do manually now (or run a query), and a clerking bot could help with that — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:07, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Cabayi (talk) 15:10, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

None

Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz

Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news

• Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

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MusikBot thanks you :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:07, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

MusikAnimal, you blocked this editor previously, and you may need to keep an eye on them again, as they're acting up right now. Just so you know... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:32, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't recall what this was about. That was a long time ago! If you think they're becoming blockworthy again I suggest reporting to AN/I, since this seems to be not-so straightforward. Kind regards — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:57, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

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Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:16, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Hey, I have questions/comments about rH. I didn't have a common.js, so I created one and added rH. It gave me an error, and to save it I had to override the error. Seems to work, though. The error was something like unexpected { at position 1. Also, it works at WP:SPI but it doesn't include that in the list of venues. Thanks!--Bbb23 (talk) 00:39, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

@Bbb23: The error was because you were substituting a template into a JS page. That template (((iusc))) produces JavaScript code, hence why the script still works. The template thing isn't really needed, so I've updated the setup instructions to just put the importScript code, so folks won't see that error that you saw. Anyways, yours is setup correctly!

I don't know why you don't see WP:SPI in your sidebar. You definitely should. You sure it's not there? :) As you already know, User:Timotheus Canens/spihelper.js is the thing to use at SPI anyway, not responseHelper. — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:16, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

You misunderstood what I said about SPI. rH does provide links in the sidebar when you edit a report, but your documentation doesn't mention SPI: "responseHelper is a user script that makes it easier to respond to requests/reports at WP:AIV, WP:ANEW, WP:PERM, WP:RFPP and WP:UAA." I do use Timotheus's spihelper (all the time) at SPI. I mentioned it because I thought you might want to add it to the doc.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:20, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Got it! Feel free to edit the docs, if you see corrections are needed :) Glad to hear everything is otherwise working properly. — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:24, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Dear MusikAnimal.

Have you watched that one episode of Dr. Phil about Bhad Bhabie under her real name of Danielle Bregoli? You know that she became famous at the age of 13 from yelling Cash Me Outside Howbow Dah to the audience after she got fed up.

Fast forward to August 24, 2017 the day when her debut single was released as a 14 year old rapper named Bhad Bhabie titled These Heaux.

In addition to that did you write her article because she has been red-linked ever since the description for that episode was typed in the Memorable Episodes section.

And you forgot to retitle the article to Bhad Bhabie and it should've said "Danielle Marie Peskowitz professionally known as Bhad Bhabie (pronounced bad baby) is an American child rapper and social media personality from Boynton Beach, Florida. As Danielle Bregoli, she became famous for the Cash Me Outside Howbow Dah meme after she appeared on an episode of Dr. Phil in September 2016."

Remember she is still 15. I wouldn't consider using teen because she will become the big 1-8 on March 26, 2021.

Sincerely,

67.81.163.178 (talk) 00:05, 13 September 2018 (UTC) 67.81.163.178 (talk) 00:05, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi 67, that page was created by User:Zawl, you can discuss it's improvements at Talk:Danielle Bregoli. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:40, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Indeed, it wasn't me! I'm guessing you saw an edit by MusikBot and that's what brought you here. As Xaosflux says, the article talk page is where you should raise your concerns. — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:33, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

I had a message from this IP too. I think they're wonderful messages. Fish+Karate 10:13, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

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21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Wednesday September 26, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. This month will also feature on our agenda, upcoming editathons, the organization's Annual Meeting, and Chapter board elections - you can add yourself as a candidate. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. Wednesday September 26 WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 20:43, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

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P.FerreiraPinto (talk) 14:04, 21 September 2018 (UTC) Hi MusikAnimal

According to the statistics, the page "União das Freguesias de Sameice e Santa Eulália" was brought by MusikAnimal, Kaldari, and Marcel Ruiz Forns.

Links:

Page https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni%C3%A3o_das_Freguesias_de_Sameice_e_Santa_Eul%C3%A1lia

Pageviews Analysis https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=de.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-20&pages=Uni%C3%A3o_das_Freguesias_de_Sameice_e_Santa_Eul%C3%A1lia

MusikAnimal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MusikAnimal Kaldari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kaldari

Marcel Ruiz Forns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mforns_(WMF)

Source Code: MusikAnimal/pageviews https://github.com/MusikAnimal/pageviews

My question is, can we edit this page? Once the source code will always automatically revert it to german, how can we create a PT page with the same 'name'? We simply can't have a dutch page describing a Portuguese Municipal Public Service on wikipedia...

Why my PT page and several editions are been constantly deleted (on this and other pages related)?

I am currently working to the União das Freguesias de Sameice e Santa Eulália and we are trying to solve the situation for about 2 to 3 weeks, yet 'nobody', including 'permissions-Wikipedia' is solving the issue.

Can you please fix it?

Thank you.

Patrícia Pinto (Mayor's Secretary) P.FerreiraPinto (talk) 14:04, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

@P.FerreiraPinto: I believe you might be mistaken. The "brought to you by..." message is referring to the Pageviews tool itself, not the articles that may appear on it. I would try posting a message on the article talk page, or contact previous authors of the page directly. Sorry I cannot help you! — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

15:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

If I've been annoying you with all the filter-related pings over the last weeks, let me know, and I'll find someone else to bother. I see you are currently busy working on a new bot, but I'm not sure who else to ask for these kinds of fixes. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:27, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

No worries, I just didn't get around to replying. Sorry for the delay — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:30, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Bot removed a protection tag from a page even though it was protected. Abequinn14 (talk) 23:24, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

I think that's because it was using ((pp)) and not ((pp-pc1)). For ((pp)) you need the action=autoreview parameter set, apparently — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:10, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Your bot removed the original Sanskrit Text of The Shiva Tandava Stotrum from said entry~ this is not at all exceptable as your edit results in SIGNIFICANT OBFUSCATION of Religious and Historical Facts. It will be re-added daily. This is a Historical Text which IS The Entry, without Ranvans Text any address of The Holy Stotrum is Utterly irrelevant nonsense/speculation. (YSR, 2075) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:284:C100:1515:7102:D1E0:99FA:B853 (talk) 18:23, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

It did not. It removed the protection template. This is routine maintenance and has nothing to do with the content of the page. You can request protection again at WP:RFPP. Concerns about the content of the article should be made on the talk page at Talk:Shiva Tandava Stotra. Hope this helps — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:41, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Can you see this page history? Why did the bot remove some users first week then readded second week then remove again third week... Hhkohh (talk) 12:54, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Long-standing bug. Needs to be fixed but not high-priority, since that's just record keeping and in the userspace. Thanks for the reminder, though! Hope to get to it soon — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:26, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

I bugged you back in March about the AdminStats tool, this is sort of a follow-up to that. I've got a few questions/clarifications, whenever you find a moment.

1. For the given date range, am I correct that these lines in the code mean the tool shows actions between 00:00 UTC on the first day and 23:59 UTC on the last day? I am not a php person, but that seems fairly straightforward!
2. The tool lists anybody who took any of those actions in the given time frame, right, without any filtering? Don't see any in the code.
3. Is there a way to indicate a date range in the API, i.e. to pull up a month from a few months or years ago?

I've been working on something using data from the tool, I just want to make sure I'm doing everything right! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 18:05, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

@Amorymeltzer: You are correct about #1 and 2. The query itself is here. We don't allow arbitrary date ranges through the API, mainly because large date ranges are really slow and this isn't suited for automation. I suppose we could allow any start date, with a maximum of one month duration. I have created phab:T205652 — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:25, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Brilliant, thank you! I figured that was the reason, just wanted to check in case I missed it. As long as I'm here, would you mind terribly if I submitted a PR to change the current max in AdminStatsController.php to 31 from 30? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 18:49, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

@Amorymeltzer: That seems reasonable, as obviously some months are 31 days. And please, don't ever hesitate to make PRs! :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:32, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

Justlettersandnumbers • L235

Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter

Interface administrator changes

Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333

Oversight changes

Guerillero • NativeForeigner • Snowolf • Xeno

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
• There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.

Technical news

• Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
• Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
• The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
• Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
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Sent another one. First one is probably irrelevant now. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:32, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

And another. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 16:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

(Moved from Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Sir Sputnik) This is a perfect example of what I meant by people considering content creation so heavily in RfA in this comment. ^Semi_Hypercube ✎ 21:36, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

@SemiHypercube:The mainspace is the most important part of Wikipedia, since most people who use Wikipedia use it for factual information, not to read the administrators noticeboard. —Eli355 (👄👄👄👄 • 📜📜📜📜 • 🍩🍩🍩🍩) 21:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

@Eli355: I understand that, you already said that before. However, contribution to the project namespaces is also rather important, as it helps determine what content is in the mainspace, how it is presented, etc. With this particular RfA candidate, working as an SPI clerk is important since it helps stop disruption to the project. ^Semi_Hypercube ✎ 21:48, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

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Project updates

• ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
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Hi MusikAnimal,

I hope my message finds you well!

Four years ago, you deleted my draft entitled "John DiLeva Halpern". I am now reinstating my efforts to create a page for this artist, and I am writing to you to see if you are able to release the page to me or otherwise make it possible for me to create a new page.

Or in another form:

Far off, a toad leaps No sound, like the empty page Halpern has no site

I would be very grateful if you could help me as I try to get going again! I look forward to beginning the creation process and I greatly appreciate your attention and concern.

All best,

Dafrontani

Dafrontani (talk) 17:55, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

@Dafrontani: The draft was deleted as a copyright violation of wakingbuddha.com/director/. The content was nearly identical. You are welcomed to create another draft, but obviously it should be written in your own words. I recommend using the article wizard to recreate it so that you can submit your draft for review. Hope this helps — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:41, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Monday, October 22, 2018, 1:55PM EST

I see you're the most recent editor to Special:AbuseFilter/249. Would it make sense to change the filter to block such actions, rather than merely logging them? It seems it would prevent vandalism like this editor and be unlikely to bother anyone making good edits. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 02:53, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535: Personally I don't think it's a bad idea. I see this came up at WP:EF/R (permalink) about a year ago. I think we need more discussion and evaluation of the log to see what good edits we'd be blocking. I don't have the time to look into it right now, but feel free to do a little analysis yourself and post your findings. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:47, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

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Hello MA. I hope you are well. I wanted to let you know that, for the last couple of days, whenever I check the Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates it has a dozen or so entries in it. That hasn't happened for a long time. As you may remember I am happy to check and remove the PP templates in my capacity as a wikignome but I did want to make you aware of the situation in case there is a problem with MusikBot. It also gave me a chance to stop by and say hello which is a good thing :-) Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 08:44, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

@MarnetteD: I think it's fixed now. Thanks for letting me know! I'm not really sure what happened... Judging by the errors, it's possible it will break again, but I'm hoping it's just a one-off thing. I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks again — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:57, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Good deal MA. Here is something that has only just come to mind. There have been a couple times where an alteration of "Pending Changes Configuration" have caused an article to appear in the category. One was Friendship (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (which I note your bot has added a different template to) and another is Zombie Land Saga (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). I've left the second one as is so you can see if you can figure out what is going on. Best regards. MarnetteD|Talk 19:08, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

It seems to have cleared itself MA. I'll see if it happens in the future and let you know. MarnetteD|Talk 02:39, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Okay! Thanks :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 14:12, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes Sir Sputnik Kudpung • Liz • Lourdes Everyking • Jackmcbarn Interface administrator changes Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes AGK • Ivanvector • Stwalkerster • TonyBallioni Oversight changes Amorymeltzer • Oshwah • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93 Keilana

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
• A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

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.

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Hi MA. I'm trying to understand Special:AbuseLog/22420688 (and related). Is there some explanation I'm missing, or is it one of them random bugs? I'm guessing you might know. Thanks. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 12:04, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

@Zzuuzz: I don't see anything wrong here. I'm guessing there were other edits to that page that caused this. We can chat over email, if you'd like — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:26, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. OK, I'll throw an email your way in a few minutes (no hurry). -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 16:28, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

..but have you thought about running for ArbCom? You're level headed, fair, patient, kind and one of the best functionaries we have - TNT ^💖 06:37, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Heh, thank you for the kind words, but indeed I'm way too busy for that! Also I historically have avoided drama boards. The committee is important, but I'm not cut out for it. Thanks anyway :) I do think YOU should run, though! — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:04, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

I've added IAdmin to your bot, please update User:MusikBot II to reflect the task. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:40, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Do you want to be a Arbcom candidate? I hope you can attend this year Arbcom election Best wishes! Hhkohh (talk) 14:28, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Special:Permalink/867870890#Not like you're already busy... Not interested, but thank you! :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:48, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

It's really good! Thank you. You know, it's really appreciated by a lot of people. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:25, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Hey thanks! A lot of work was put into it. Glad to hear people are still enjoying it :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:33, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Can you please edit Twinkle's tag function so that it doesn't show up with Template:New unreviewed article as an option as this template is going to be deleted. Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 17:17, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for the ping — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:32, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! Pkbwcgs (talk) 18:43, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi, re this edit: the edit summary has a (piped) link to Special:Diff/364384/868047883 which has an extra revision number, making it really strange to follow. I think that it should be to Special:Diff/868047883. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:01, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

@Redrose64: The problem is what to do if there are multiple edits since the last sync. Should I list out each diff individually? Edit summaries can be pretty long now, so I guess this isn't a problem. It will take me a bit to implement it, though. — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:05, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Oh wait sorry, that diff link was from before the bot's cache was updated with the current. The first rev ID was a dummy one, hence why you see something from a different page entirely. Special:Diff/868053189 is an actual example of how it generates links. — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:07, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

You can give diffs for multiple edits, the first number is the oldest revision and the second number is the newest: Special:Diff/867907996/868049461. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:03, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Yup, that's what we're doing. The first diff link in the first edit was broken due to human error. I should have put in the actual revid of what would have been the previous sync, instead of the dummy 364384. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:12, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi, I was just trying to get confidence on how to protect a page (Milan Malpensa Airport) against vandalism (I fear I add a by mistake, sorry, my bad!). Anyway, due to recurrent vandalisms to such page (mainly from un-registered users), would it be worthy, advisable and possible to add such a protection? Could you in that case (I'm not an admin) ty for your comprehension User:Riktetta (talk) 21:50, 10 November 2018 (CET)

@Riktetta: Hey! Indeed, you cannot protect a page by adding the protection template. An admin must help you. I don't have time to look into it right now, but you can make a request for page protection at WP:RFPP.

Unrelated issue, your signature indicates it's in CET and not UTC. Are you by chance manually adding your signature? You should use the syntax ~~~~ to sign your comments. It will automatically generate your username/talk links and a UTC timestamp. If you somehow configured your signature to be in CET, then please change that and ensure it's UTC. Bots, scripts, and even humans go by UTC, and will not be able to recognize any other timezone. Hope this helps — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:29, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal: Thank you for the info, useful for sure. Yes signature was just added manually Riktetta (talk) 08:16, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

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19:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

I was referred to you by @Vanamonde93: to talk about the issue to you that I stated here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Important_question.

The edit being questioned is this one : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nitwit&oldid=862024444

Thank you.  :) Aceing_Winter_Snows_Harsh_Cold (talk) 05:46, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Saw this because of the ping: done. Vanamonde (talk) 15:54, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Vanamonde! And thank you Aceing for the report :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:23, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi MA. Can you have a look at Special:AbuseLog/22505092? Not sure how it managed to trip the filter, looks nothing like it. Home Lander (talk) 21:34, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Home Lander: norm("real) and The Gov") == "REALANDTHEGOV". I don't know what that means. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:45, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

I don't know what the "real and the gov" is about, either. At quick glance I don't see any recent positive hits that involved this string, so I've removed it. The RR vandalism as a whole has died down. I suspect before long we'll want to trim the regex to the most common strings and merge them into a shared filter. — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:57, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Found it. "Ryden is real and the government knows it", apparently. "RYDENISREAL" will match that anyway. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:06, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

That'd be it! I'm guessing it's still safe to remove. Courtesy ping to Crow who first added it. Another idea here is to do away with the norm function. At this point not many are going to great lengths to evade the filter — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:14, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Wow - what are the odds "(Montreal) and The Governor" would manage to match such a phrase. Thanks for spotting that. Home Lander (talk) 01:14, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

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Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

• Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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Hi, can you please fix pageview tool? It is broken. Thanks Patriccck (talk) 16:15, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

@Patriccck: It looks like the page was recently moved. Pageviews unfortunately don't move to the new title. But, you can get around this by querying for redirects using Redirect Views. See [102] — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:30, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

We still need protection in Muangthong United F.C. page due to Edit war and in this time is during a transfer season so un-regis user may edit without reference and edit by use an unsource or rumour news. I suggust you to lock it more than one week, as you can see this page is be protect in one week for more than 2 times so I think protection for 1 week is not insufficient. I need you to protect the reference information in this page because when un-regis user edit it with unsorce information the true information will missing and the problem of true information will happen! Thank Ministerboy (talk) 23:23, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@Ministerboy: Done. For future reference you can request page protection at WP:RFPP. — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:33, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi! Does a table showing the number of votes for each proposal in the community wishlist exist yet? I was thinking of making one if not. Enterprisey (talk!) 09:31, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Ha! I just wrote you on your talk page about this. Yes a bot does exist to count the votes, but we haven't turned it on yet so as to not influence voting. We'll probably make it public in a day or two. The report lives at meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Tracking. Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:38, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for letting me know! Enterprisey (talk!) 22:29, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

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Perhaps it is time to mark Wikipedia's Today's Article For Improvement as inactive, and stop auto-running the bot on it... Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 00:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

@Eddie891: Reviewing Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Accomplishments, it would seem there are a number of editors who still actively participate in this project. I'd ask at WT:TAFI — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:01, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello, MusikAnimal. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Hey there, as you might have noticed I have tried to protect Maya‘s Wikipedia page, because someone is vandalizing the page: •He always deletes, that she lives in Belgrade, even if she stated that on her Facebook-page. •He also always deletes that she is Bosnian-Serbian, when her parents are Bosnian Serbs and she has the Serbian citizenship.

Could you try to protect the page and also maybe to ban that vandalizer? I would be so thankful!

Greetings, Србија24 Србија24 (talk) 19:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

@Србија24: You can't protect pages that way. You need an admin. The normal process is to make a request at WP:RFPP. I've gone ahead and semi-protected the page, but this means you can't edit it either right now (until you've made 2 more edits and waited 3 more days, at which point you'll become autoconfirmed). From the looks of it, you were one of those IPs that was engaging in an edit war. The way to resolve this is to start a discussion on the talk page and try to reach a consensus. If they continue to revert you, don't continue to revert them, instead report the issue at WP:ANEW. That said, these internal noticeboards (RFPP, ANEW) are probably confusing to you right now... Hopefully I can help you resolve this particular issue without you needing to do anything.

So, let's leave the protection in place, and see the other user decides to discuss on the talk page. For the record, we generally don't accept Facebook as a reliable source, but it seems that should be enough to prove your claim of living in Belgrade has some merit. I'm going to side with you here, but ideally we could find a better source than Facebook.

I've also left links to some helpful guides on your talk page. This might help you get a hang of how things work around here. I know it's complicated! Take your time, and if you need more help don't hesitate to contact me. Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:04, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

That is good, thank you so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Србија24 (talk • contribs) 20:39, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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Home Lander (talk) 18:01, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

That "temporary" filter is a great idea. Just one more example of all of the good work you do here. Risker (talk) 18:36, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Second that! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 20:38, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal, you were recommended to me here as the expert who might be able to help me. How do i find out all articles in which a certain user is the main contributor? All the best, --Ghilt (talk) 00:17, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Sir, I gladly request you to confirm my account. It is four days old and made more than 10 edits. It is not autoconfirmed therefore, please. If it is confirmed then send message on my talk page [[[110]]

(talk page stalker) @Samarth05: your account is already autoconfirmed (see Special:UserRights/Samarth05). — xaosflux ^Talk 16:27, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

What would it take to add a logged-in/logged-out option for https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews ? I've got a particular question in mind (Do non-editing readers use the content category pages as much as the rest of us?), but I think it would be useful in general. Is this possible, or would it require major changes somewhere?

(Please ping me. My watchlist is hopeless.) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:12, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

@Whatamidoing (WMF): This data is not available in the public APIs, which is what the tool goes off of. It might be accessible somewhere in the analytics cluster, I'm not sure. Either way the ball is in the Analytics team's court. I do agree such data would be useful — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:34, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Your BRFA, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MusikBot 14, has been approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux ^Talk 20:32, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:35, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello,

When reviewing pending changes I stumbled across this edit, in which MusikBot removed a ((pp-pc1)) template on a pending-changes-protected page. Is this intended behaviour? Thanks. ProgrammingGeek ^talktome 21:58, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Never mind, an IP editor changed the template and MusikBot removed the (now incorrect) one. The pending changes view hid the intermediate edit. It's now resolved and apologies for the unneeded ping. ProgrammingGeek ^talktome 22:03, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello! Just a question on the confirmationRollback-mobile gadget – does it also display the warning if I am using the desktop version in my mobile? Thank you! –FlyingAce^✈hello 02:11, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

@FlyingAce: Yes, that is the intention. There are no rollback links in the mobile interface. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:39, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Keep on rocking   –FlyingAce^✈hello 04:25, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

It's okay, that's happened to me on rare occasion before! Thanks so much! Therequiembellishere (talk) 05:24, 29 November 2018 (UTC)