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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 17

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (July and August 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Stay safe --DannyS712 (talk) 19:42, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Theda Bara

Hi. I tried to undo my vandalism because I felt bad. But it wouldn't let me because I was replacing with a large amount of text with some URL links and some of the links were like... special links that aren't allowed...? So I couldn't undo it. I'm sorry. But: THEDA BARA IS A GODDESS. Love, Internet vandal, 2A00:23C5:FE0C:2100:443:8281:DEF6:8F9E (talk) 02:02, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for trying to clean up your mess! Yes, it was a link to snipurl.com, which I've deactivated. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 02:05, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Maybe you would like to watch some old Theda Bara films. All modern films are very bad consumerist rubbish, especially superhero bullshit. Maybe you could take a couple of hours of your life and watch a good old black and white Theda Bara film. It's just a thought. I'll leave you alone now. Good night from vandaltown, England! 2A00:23C5:FE0C:2100:443:8281:DEF6:8F9E (talk) 02:15, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
Thank you, Suffusion of Yellow, for normalizing the filters for questionable sources, and for your continuing stewardship of the community's large collection of edit filters. I appreciate your care and attention, which makes a positive impact on every single edit that gets submitted to Wikipedia. — Newslinger talk 11:01, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, Newslinger! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 17:41, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

User:Firiver

Hi there, how are you?

I've noticed that you reverted the edit from this user on my talk page, thank you! The guy is the same user reported here. If you have the permissions, could you please block him? If you don't have the permissions, I think no further actions are required, since I've already notified @GiantSnowman: of the user's actions.

Cheerio, MYS77 ✉ 18:37, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Already taken care of, thank you for your help! MYS77 ✉ 18:40, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
@Suffusion of Yellow and MYS77: reverted and blocked. GiantSnowman 18:40, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
(ec) @MYS77: You're welcome. I was in the the middle of typing up an ANI report, but it seems GaintSnowman saved me the bother of finishing... Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:43, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

RfA?

Would you like me to nominate you for the sysop bit? Guy (help! - typo?) 07:33, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

@JzG: Noting that I'm not rudely ignoring you, just ... thinking ... before I reply. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:01, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Surreal Barnstar
"It takes roughly 10,000 hours of practice to attain mastery." I think you've done it. The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 14:50, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, The Eloquent Peasant! But I hope I never consider myself the "master" of anything... Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 17:29, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
Your welcome. I know that I know nothing. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 17:33, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Corruption in the United States

Why do you think that anything you disagree with is not a reliable source? 216.14.157.170 (talk) 21:20, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 278 § RfC: "The Gateway Pundit" (October). Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:27, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

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Great work

Thank you for your constant vigilance against vandalism No Swan So Fine (talk) 17:47, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the note! Not sure why that LTA picked you out, but probably not worth thinking about too much anyway. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 17:56, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Updated scripts Twinkle has made a number of improvements, including using a change tag to identify actions made with it and automatically filing edit requests for protected XfD nominations.
SD0001's shortdescs-in-category is now compatible with scripts modifying category listings, such as Equazcion's CatListMainTalkLinks
GhostInTheMachine's TalkHelper2 is a newer version of their prior script, TalkHelper
GeneralNotability's spihelper updated to 2.2.10, fixing a number of small bugs, automatically tagging globally locked socks as such in the sockpuppet template, and restoring open cases following an SPI history merge.
Enterprisey's script-installer gadget has been updated with more internationalization of messages, as well as addition of a user preference, window.scriptInstallerInstallTarget to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.

Open tasks

Miscellaneous

My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Open tasks

Pending requests Pending requests

Miscellaneous

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! --DannyS712 (talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
And for great patience! Possibly (talk) 04:53, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you, Possibly. Thanks also for the AFD; I should have thought of that option myself. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:57, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thank you for your change to the "notable person" edit filter! I have been spending a good portion of my time on-wiki tracking this stuff down. Dolotta (talk) 23:46, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks Dolotta! Any help is appreciated; some edits will always slip past the filter. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:56, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
  • Actually, you have saved me a whole bunch of time by checking the disallow option. I added every municipality and school in my native state to my watch list to catch this issue a couple years ago and it had never been more than 3-4 per day -- until the other day. It definitely needed to be done. I just checked the public filter, and at least the last few dozen or so didn't have a single false positive, so that's a good sign! Thanks again! -- Dolotta (talk) 15:02, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for fixing my edit filter issue just now. Much appreciated.

By the way, I know RegEx, PHP, JavaScript, and some other languages. Not sure if you have any openings, but I'd be happy to help with something easy (clerking some of the EFFP IP requests?) and work my way up.

Have a great day. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:07, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae: Your help would always be appreciated! There's no official "clerk" position at EFFP. Just start with the easy ones. But be warned: the situation is ... unusual ... right now. See WP:ANI § Broad-based spam adding non-notable people and WP:EFN § Filter to detect new additions to "Notable people" sections. This TikTok garbage is accounting for about 3% of all (attempted) edits, and more than half of all disallowed edits right now. I've never seen a situation like this. So we're being much much less WP:AGFy with EF/FP reports than usual. I'd recommend just removing unsourced reports from 1112 (hist · log) right now, unless you want to patiently explain WP:N and WP:V to a bunch of 14-year-olds. However, normally we only remove reports that are obviously misleading, trolling or repeating BLP vios. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:55, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Awesome. I'm excited to help. I'll read over those threads you linked, and jump in once I feel caught up.
Yeah, good luck explaining WP:N even to intermediate editors. Probably our most complicated policy. Need NPP school to really master that one.
By the way, what language are the edit filters written in? I googled "rlike" and it looks like it's SQL? I know SQL, must be more advanced syntax than the CRUD stuff I'm used to. –Novem Linguae (talk) 01:16, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
@Novem Linguae: It's a custom language, described at mw:Extension:AbuseFilter/Rules format. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:23, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Edit to 1112

I made a minor change to 1112 with an additional term that crops up frequently, due to it's use in the origin; I assume the notice I got about the filter being throttled was a coincidence? Making 1113 as a fall back was a great idea, thanks for your work on that. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:14, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

@Ohnoitsjamie: I don't think that's the reason; it just alerts the most recent editor, apparently. I don't think the throttling has any effect, either. It's still disallowing edits at least. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:50, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

User "belling the cat"

Oh, I totally agree it wasn't someone reclaiming. And while if we decide that someone doing it like that should be blocked on sight, I'll do it, I'm sure we have to allow for those people who do use it to reclaim.

However, given the minimal activity from that IP, I don't think a block would have accomplished as much as simply reverting the edits and warning them did. They could easily have moved on to another IP (and probably were/are planning to), and/or were hoping to "draw a flag" to make some martyr out of themselves by highlighting the supposed unfairness of being blocked without any warning for something so superficially innocuous. Daniel Case (talk) 05:21, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Case: Over the past few days I've broken probably ALL my two years of accumulated self-imposed EFM rules dealing with this TikTok shit. I'm always worried that my next click of "save filter" is going to block every fucking edit. This is putting me on edge a bit, and I might have been letting off some steam, truth be told. But I suppose we could bring the question of "Are triple parentheses (except reclaiming) insta-blockable?" somewhere, later. What would be an appropriate forum? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 05:32, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
I'm not sure, tbh. Maybe the village pump? That's where these things that can't readily fit into other fora wind up being discussed, usually. Daniel Case (talk) 05:41, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

We all praise you!

Your filter is amazing! Shinyeditbonjour. 15:36, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Damn you.[FBDB] Now I've got that song stuck in my head. But seriously, thank you @Shinyedit: for your help monitoring the log. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:04, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Your filter is a lifesaver. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 15:32, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
@Drmies: Thank you! Of it depends on the tireless work of people like you monitoring the filter-evaders, too! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:58, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
Well, without you our jobs would be near-impossible. Let me give a shoutout to ToBeFree; I just checked the filter log and clicked on a few, and BOOM ToBeFree is already blocking like a machine. Seriously, I cannot thank you enough--and of course the other filter-builders who make things to make it easier for us. Drmies (talk) 21:04, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
😄 ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:07, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
For consistent, extremely competent, high-quality edit filter management that is probably not only being relied upon in the English Wikipedia, but also extends to other Wikimedia projects because the creations are universally useful, almost magical. Thus, for being an edit filter wizard. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:13, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Libel

You beat me to reverting that libel. I think it needs a revdel, will you follow up? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:09, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@John Maynard Friedman: Already emailed oversight. @Drmies: See the message I sent 20:02 UTC to Special:Emailuser/Oversight Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:16, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
I don't have access to that, but I think I found what you're talking about. Please check. And man, that filter of yours, holy moly. My log is just crazy. Drmies (talk) 20:20, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
Shoot, so sorry I missed that. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 20:53, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Open tasks

  • As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing wgPageName without first assigning it a value or using mw.config.get('wgPageName') instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use mw.config instead. Some global interface editors or local interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See phab:T72470 for more.

Miscellaneous

  • For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using TypeScript, a types-mediawiki package (GitHub, NPM) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.
  • A GitHub organization has been created for hosting codebases of gadgets. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.

Pending requests Pending requests

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

New batch of warnings

(This is a test, please do not take it seriously) Information icon Hello, I'm Shinyedit. I noticed that in an edit you attempted to make, you appeared to add yourself, friends or family to an article as part of a TikTok incitement. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks.

Information icon Please refrain from attempting to make unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute the TikTok incitement and have been disallowed by an edit filter. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you.

Warning icon Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's verifability and BLP policies by adding non-notable people as part of a TikTok incitement, you may be blocked from editing.

Stop icon You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's verifiability and BLP policies by adding yourself or other non-notable people as part of a TikTok incitement.

Stop icon This is your only warning; if you correspond with the TikTok incitement by adding non-notable people (and thus violating Wikipedia's verifiability and BLP polices) again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Shinyeditbonjour. 02:19, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

@Shinyedit: Thanks. I'm not sure I'll be using those; my preference is to WP:DENY recognition to the video creators. And this is probably paranoid of me, but what if some of the IPs are reassigned to people who haven't heard of this nonsense, and they watch the video because of the warning? Wouldn't want them to restart the trend! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:24, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Oh, that is true....Well, I was originally gonna broaden the warnings once the raid concludes, but now I think it'll just be temporary. Shinyeditbonjour. 21:58, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Shinyedit, Suffusion of Yellow makes a good point about the video, and in most cases the warnings are pretty useless anyway--it won't stop the actual vandals cause they don't care, and most of the ones caught in the filters are in fact vandals. Plus, if I see a redlink I know no action has been taken; a bluelink means I have to click more things in order to see what's been happening.

Suffusion, I don't know if you're involved with 1116, but I saw this, which is a false positive. Maybe this is of use to you. Thanks again for all that work you've done. Drmies (talk) 18:01, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

@Drmies: 1116 is just town/city pages with a high volume of non-autoconfirmed edits. It doesn't even try to guess what's disruptive. Don't know if that's really useful. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 04:17, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. I think I mentioned how ignorant I am in this field; I'm flipping back and forth between filters (1112, 1113, 1116) to find what I missed--but I do check all of the hits, so to speak. It has tapered down a bit--from three per minute a few days ago to once every two or three minutes on 1112 and 1113, last time I checked. Thanks again, Drmies (talk) 17:58, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

LTA

[1] - Is this it? Should I report to AIV for block on sight? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:35, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

@RandomCanadian: This looks like it could be part of the TikTok nonsense, but as it's died down quite a bit now (last 50 hits of 1112 (hist · log) go back 3 hours; at the peak it was about 10 minutes), I don't think there's a need to block on sight. That was a "necessary evil" given the overwhelming flood; most of these users are just kids who don't know any better. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:09, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For your tireless work on filter 1112. --C o r t e x 💬talk 16:12, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
@Cortex128: Thank you! Actually, it's probably getting time to scale that back soon; the fad seems to be dying out. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:35, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Request

Done. Let me know if I missed anything. Best, SpencerT•C 05:08, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

@Spencer: Thanks! Looks good. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 05:10, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

February 2021

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is CLCStudent. Thank you. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:20, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Adminship

Hi there SOY. Your name has been ringing out around me lately in all the best ways. I see in 2018 you felt it was a little too soon to think about adminship. Well it's 2021 and so I'm wondering if you'd be open to a discussion about it. If so I'd love to adjourn to email to explore a possible candidacy. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 17:52, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I think you'd get a bunch of "content creation" opposes, but I would probably trust you with the tools because your communication / techie skills make up for it. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 18:38, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

You - Suffusion of Yellow - are AWESOME

Awesomeness...
THANK YOU for creating Edit filter 1120. It is working like a champ and I think stopping the meme'ing trolls vandalism from being published will cut down on the persistent Chucking of Sneeds. I check it from time to time and confess I sigh a sigh of relief that none of us who keep an eye on the general Sneeds have to clean up the trolls' messes anymore. HUZZAH.

I salute you. Shearonink (talk) 15:31, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Shearonink. Again, let me know about anything that slips by. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:13, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
I concur Shearonink, top notch Wikipedia editing indeed and of the variety that's probably often underappreciated. Gracias! Robvanvee 06:10, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
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