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FYI when transcluding a message like this, you have to explicitly pass through $1 as a template parameter. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AEmailpagetext%2Fen-gb&type=revision&diff=1031624004&oldid=1016471515] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AEmailpagetext&type=revision&diff=1031625689&oldid=1024045573]. It got brought up as [[phab:T285985]]. We're discussing a bit in #mediawiki on IRC, but it seems like [[phab:T229992]] might be the real solution for this. [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 17:58, 2 July 2021 (UTC) |
FYI when transcluding a message like this, you have to explicitly pass through $1 as a template parameter. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AEmailpagetext%2Fen-gb&type=revision&diff=1031624004&oldid=1016471515] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AEmailpagetext&type=revision&diff=1031625689&oldid=1024045573]. It got brought up as [[phab:T285985]]. We're discussing a bit in #mediawiki on IRC, but it seems like [[phab:T229992]] might be the real solution for this. [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 17:58, 2 July 2021 (UTC) |
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Category contents query
Hello, Xaosflux,
I've been seeing an ongoing, occasional problem for years which is tagged pages not showing up in category listings. But every time I've brought the issue to the Village Pump, someone deletes my example so it is no longer evidence of a problem. So, since you reply to many technical questions, I thought I'd come directly here and hope that no friendly talk page stalkers who are admins will take action before you can give me a reply.
The page I ran into today is User_talk:Violetcries/Placebo. It was tagged as a CSD G13 last August but was not placed in the correct CSD category for stale drafts. The interesting thing is that I think the tagging is incorrect, but that's not the issue. Is this a problem with Twinkle or is there other code here interfering with the page being categorized?
The typical category problem I've been annoyed with are twofold:
- a)There are drafts that are removed from Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions and the draft is then tagged Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions. But this G13 eligible category is always empty. Always. The drafts that were categorized as eligible soon lose that tag and are then categorized as eligible now but they do not appear as category contents. Because I use SDZeroBot's lists instead of the category, I've come across old drafts that are eligible for deletion but since they have been removed from Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions, the taggers who utilize this category don't see them because they don't reappear in the eligible now category.
- b) Dated maintenance categories, specifically ones that fall into Category:Clean-up categories. When they are emptied, they are given the red tag of CSD G6 but they never show up as category contents in Category:Candidates for uncontroversial speedy deletion. I also sometimes see this with CSD G8s but it's mostly G6s.
The commonality is that both of these examples involve a change in status and the pages are not tagged for deletion by an editor. I've talked with ProcrastinatingReader about the maintenance category problem and he advised waiting to see if the categories eventually show up in Category:Candidates for uncontroversial speedy deletion. But two or three times a year, I can go through Category:Clean-up categories and find dozens of now empty categories that were tagged months ago and never showed up where patrolling admins could see them.
It's not a huge problem as it doesn't affect any area that readers would see but it's just been an ongoing irritant. I brought it up at the Village Pump years ago and there either wasn't a solution or I was told that the engineers were "working on it". Any thoughts about any of this? Thanks in advance. Liz Read! Talk! 22:27, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Liz: there could be a couple of things at play, I may be able to at least track down the tracking bugs! In your examples is what is happening that the category a page is expected to be in changes without someone actually editing said page (such as through some sort of date magic?) — xaosflux Talk 22:53, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, categories of categories, things get confusing so I'll use the Draft example. Say Draft A is now eligible for CSD G13 deletion. So the category on the Draft A changes from Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions to Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions. The categories on Draft A are changed. But Draft A doesn't appear in Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions which (always) appears to be empty. The same thing is occurring with the maintenance categories which are tagged for CSD G6 when they become empty but do not appear in Category:Candidates for uncontroversial speedy deletion. The reason this stands out is when an editor physically changes categories on any page, it immediately appears in the correct category.
- Since posting this message, I went to ProcrastinatingReader's talk page and he is dealing with something similar with AFC drafts not updating to the right categories. These seem to all be cases of status-based category changes. If I tagged each category myself, they would appear in the right category. But if the status of category/draft changes (from a filled category to am empty category, from "eligible soon" to "eligible", from a day old draft to a week old draft), the pages show a change in status with the category changing but the pages don't appear in the new categories. On this Phabricator ticket that was raised about the AFC problem, there is a comment that "it seems not a good idea to use the category system for time related things".
- None of this really explains why this system worked before and only seems to have run into problems over the past year. Liz Read! Talk! 02:01, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Liz: hi again, when you say
Draft A changes from Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions to Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions.
How is this changing? Is it changing from an editor changing something on the page? A bot? Or is it some template that is using something like date math? — xaosflux Talk 09:56, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Liz: hi again, when you say
- Hello, Xaosflux,
- I am just terrible about not following up on talk page discussions that I started. My notifications flag is permanently at 99+ and I need to clear it so I see when I am pinged. A couple of things.
- I'm not sure what happened, but a week or so ago, empty clean up categories started showing up in Category:Candidates for uncontroversial speedy deletion! It was a surprise to see them pop up, a half dozen at a time. That happened for a few days but has not happened recently. Still, it was nice to see the change. Thanks if it was due to you.
- I've started to review User:JJMC89 bot/report/Draftifications/daily recently to find any cross-namespace redirects that were created from editors moving pages from Main space to Draft space that weren't tagged for deletion. I'm finding pages that ARE tagged for deletion but they aren't showing up Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as inappropriate cross-namespace redirects which just appears empty. This problem is slightly different from the one I mention above because these pages are being physically tagged by editors moving the pages but they not appearing in a category while the clean up categories didn't show up when they changed status (going from full categories to empty categories).
- As far as the CSD G13 drafts, the change in status is when a draft that hasn't been edited in, say, 5 months, 30 days and 23 hours becomes a draft that hasn't been edited in an exact 6 months. If you look at Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions, you can see that it contains both Drafts that have AFC tags (either drafts that haven't been submitted or drafts that were submitted & declined) as well as User sandboxes. There is no additional tagging that occurs when they reach 6 months except for observant editors who notice they are CSD G13 eligible and who tag them for deletion. But no bot tags them when they hit 6 months and there is no consistent template that is used on all of them. But they should move to Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions when they hit 6 months and they aren't.
- I'm not sure what bot classifies the pages to appear in Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions but that might help figure this out. But, if this isn't too much information for you, you could also ask SD0001 whose SDZeroBot creates an even more comprehensive list of upcoming G13s and posts them at User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon. SDZeroBot's list contains pages that don't appear in the AFC G13 category even though they qualify for deletion. I'm not sure what criteria SDZeroBot uses to put together their very helpful lists.
- I hope this helps explain what's going on currently. Liz Read! Talk! 02:22, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Liz: Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions and Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions are both populated by date math done in {{AfC submission}}; there's no bot involved. This process is inherently unreliable because it will happen only when (i) someone visits the draft page and (ii) MW doesn't have a cached version of the page. Only then would MW bother to re-parse the page causing change of categorisation (another way to make it happen is to use a bot to purge them). Also since those cats are template-populated, they can't contain pages that don't have {{AFC submission}} on them, which is why SDZeroBot lists have more entries – SDZeroBot uses direct database queries rather than rely on the categories. – SD0001 (talk) 15:25, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Liz the same problems due to caching would likely occur with emptied maintaince cats that you mention. If you want to delete them, it may be better to go by a database report here too -- I wrote one just now (source) wikified output at User:SDZeroBot/Empty_monthly_maintenance_categories. None of those cats are currently being shown at category:Candidates for uncontroversial speedy deletion though they should have. As for why User talk:Violetcries/Placebo isnt' categorised, if you see the source of {{db-g13}} you'd find
{{category handler | all = {{#switch:{{NAMESPACE}}|Draft|User=[[Category:Candidates for speedy deletion]][[Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions]]}}which means that cat will only be applied if the page is in draft/user spaces – which indeed seems like sub-optimal behaviour, I'd at least expect it to populate an error category. And Xaosflux, sorry for the many talkpage edit notifications! – SD0001 (talk) 16:26, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Liz the same problems due to caching would likely occur with emptied maintaince cats that you mention. If you want to delete them, it may be better to go by a database report here too -- I wrote one just now (source) wikified output at User:SDZeroBot/Empty_monthly_maintenance_categories. None of those cats are currently being shown at category:Candidates for uncontroversial speedy deletion though they should have. As for why User talk:Violetcries/Placebo isnt' categorised, if you see the source of {{db-g13}} you'd find
- @Liz: Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions and Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions are both populated by date math done in {{AfC submission}}; there's no bot involved. This process is inherently unreliable because it will happen only when (i) someone visits the draft page and (ii) MW doesn't have a cached version of the page. Only then would MW bother to re-parse the page causing change of categorisation (another way to make it happen is to use a bot to purge them). Also since those cats are template-populated, they can't contain pages that don't have {{AFC submission}} on them, which is why SDZeroBot lists have more entries – SDZeroBot uses direct database queries rather than rely on the categories. – SD0001 (talk) 15:25, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Testwiki
Hey, xaosflux. Can you restore my testwiki admin bit, so I can see how the Android app displays various types of blocks? See phab:T276149 for more. Already tried on enwiki, with no success. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:14, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Done — xaosflux Talk 20:18, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:26, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
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@Xaosflux: Hi, Sir Can you Protected My User Page as User namespace Because in Present I'm Not Interested editing Our page.(Allow = edting only Admin|Infinte) Best Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rm1y5cx (talk • contribs) 07:54, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Rm1y5cx: we generally only apply protection if there is a problem, we have a filter that automatically protects base userpages from unregistered editing as well. — xaosflux Talk 10:42, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Xaosflux: Thanks for this Information .Best Regards
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Hi Xaosflux. Regarding my edit request, can I ask how long I should expect it to be on hold for? Thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 03:10, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Neveselbert: someone will get to it, it is tracked on the backlog (User:AnomieBOT/IPERTable). — xaosflux Talk 10:13, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
- It's been a week now. Would you possibly be able to test to see if it works as intended? Thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 20:27, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
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- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
- German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [10]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [11][12]
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20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Your opinion on a new criteria for removal of Edit Filter Manager
I am preparing to propose a new criteria for removal of the Edit Filter Manager user right, but I would like your opinion on if you think it has a chance at passing because I don't want it to get [[WP:SNOW]]ed, and you are one of the most experienced "technical" admins. I want to propose that any user with the Edit Filter Manager user right who is blocked for at least a month can have the right removed immediately as a breach of trust, even if it has nothing to do with the Edit Filter Manager user right, as it is a very potent user right that requires the upmost trust. ( Currently, the right can only be removed for abuse or misuse of the right )Do you think this proposal would have a chance at passing, or do you think it wouldn't be of any use and would fail. Jackattack1597 (talk) 00:59, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Jackattack1597: I don't think it would pass - mostly for a bunch of nitpicky reasons. Keep in mind that almost all EFM's are also admins - so that's not going to be a good solution for them, that means we have an entire 11 other users that this could apply to -- this 'lack of need' is likely what will sink this the most. This is also the reason I probably never got around to making a proper page for WP:EFM (like the one for WP:EFH) - where this sort of stuff could have been tacked on as part of a bulk-refresh where it would likely be uncontroversial. While not explicitly written - there is precedent to review any non-admin EFM at WP:EFN for removal even without explicit "abuse" (see Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Clerks/Procedures#Enacting_bans_and_editing_restrictions). — xaosflux Talk 01:19, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
- Okay, if there is precedent to review non-admin EFM for removal then my proposal isn't really necessary. The user in particular I was thinking of is Rich Farmborough, who has EFM but was indefinitely blocked in March. Would it be worthwhile to start a discussion at EFN or would that just be seen as gravedancing? ( I feel like probably the latter, but I want a second opinion.) As a sidenote, I hope you do eventually make a proper page for EFM, as it really isn't used much less by non-admins as EFH is, especially since EFM is arguably the most "powerful" userright available to non-admins. ( 11 vs 20)Jackattack1597 (talk) 01:51, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Jackattack1597: honestly, I wouldn't bother unless you have seen actual misuse on that one (there is a lot of history). If the indef stays, we generally remove EFM for inactivity as well (takes a year though). — xaosflux Talk 10:16, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
- A quick look at the log doesn't suggest any problems, and their block is not accompanied by a ban and appears to be mostly about content-style issues. — xaosflux Talk 10:24, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Jackattack1597: honestly, I wouldn't bother unless you have seen actual misuse on that one (there is a lot of history). If the indef stays, we generally remove EFM for inactivity as well (takes a year though). — xaosflux Talk 10:16, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
- Okay, if there is precedent to review non-admin EFM for removal then my proposal isn't really necessary. The user in particular I was thinking of is Rich Farmborough, who has EFM but was indefinitely blocked in March. Would it be worthwhile to start a discussion at EFN or would that just be seen as gravedancing? ( I feel like probably the latter, but I want a second opinion.) As a sidenote, I hope you do eventually make a proper page for EFM, as it really isn't used much less by non-admins as EFH is, especially since EFM is arguably the most "powerful" userright available to non-admins. ( 11 vs 20)Jackattack1597 (talk) 01:51, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
About my edit request on MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist
I saw you created the appropriate title blacklist pages but I have not seen the entries be added yet?
Is there a timeline for when you or another admin will get to it? It has been almost a day and I have waited a little patiently for a reply to be added. There is consensus to block saving books to Book: namespace in the Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Aasim (talk) 00:08, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Awesome Aasim: it is enqueued, you can see the history of User:AnomieBOT/PERTable to see how long FPROT requests are normally open and how big the current backlog is. — xaosflux Talk 00:16, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Unprotect or downgrade WT:Articles for creation
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation is template protected, which is not suited for WT-space. Please unprotect or downgrade its protection. dudhhrContribs 17:25, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Dudhhr: the redirect? It would only be upgraded, and allowing TE's to help is fine there. WP:IAR. — xaosflux Talk 21:30, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
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- The
otrs-membergroup name is nowvrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [13]
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- You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [14]
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- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).
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15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
You made my day
... with your humorous reference. Thank you. —Quondum 23:23, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
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Ruedi33a and campaign boxes
Discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Ruedi33a and campaign boxes which may be of interest. Thank you. FDW777 (talk) 12:43, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page
Special:EditGrowthConfig. [15] - Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add
.ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; }to your common.css page. [16]
Problems
- You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [17][18]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).
Future changes
Threshold for stub link formatting,thumbnail sizeandauto-number headingscan be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.- A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [19][20]
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16:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Edit filters - Interface change
Hey there, Xaos! :)
I wanted to propose a change in regard to edit filters overall interface. Let's take for example the bad words edit filter, pretty basic. It catches a bad word from the list, it blocks the text from being published. When I go to check the activity in regard to this filter, I'll get shown something like this: This user was blocked from publishing this edit. This works pretty fine in general. The problem is that sometimes users are bringing BIG chunks of texts in one single edit. Sometimes even full articles. This makes it pretty hard to see what word exactly caused the filter to activate and therefore to check for false positives. Can the overall infrastructure be changed to allow for automatic highlighting the exact word that caused the filter to activate? - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:13, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Klein Muçi: hmm, there may be a tool for that - can you point me to a couple of specific filter hits as reference? — xaosflux Talk 13:04, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
- Yes. All my examples come from SqWiki: Here, here and here. We have a lot of cases like this which usually are just new articles getting generated by inexperienced users with CTT (Content Translation Tool). What's usually happening is that these articles usually have certain names in their citations which happen to be bad words in Albanian. Or maybe they have missed a space and accidently written a bad word. In both cases, users usually report back on me these occasions because they're not really using a bad word and I have to find out what's happening so I can tell them how to fix it. And right now, the only way I can do that is by halving the article many-many times until I can locate what the culprit is. It would be nice to have a shorter way. Even using a tool maybe is better than doing that method but to be honest, I really think this detail could be implemented on the filters' own interface. - Klein Muçi (talk) 17:47, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Klein Muçi: hmm, thought this sounded like something we've looked in to before. So short story: this isn't going to happen anytime soon - while it may be more likely to identify which AF condition(s) evaluated true or false, that's not what you really are looking for, your use case sounds like it is mostly "what is the part of this input that this filter regex matched". See phab:T72152. In most cases I've had to debug these it was exactly that scenario, a large input with a complex regex. I can see this being a similar problem with a large input and a non-regex-but-large case match. I've used local and online tools to do regex or other string comparisons when I've run across this though. Feel free to subscribe and comment at that phab task though. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 18:11, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
- Ah! At least is a known case. I'll try commenting there, hoping it will generate some action on it. Thank you! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 19:10, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
FYI when transcluding a message like this, you have to explicitly pass through $1 as a template parameter. See [21] and [22]. It got brought up as phab:T285985. We're discussing a bit in #mediawiki on IRC, but it seems like phab:T229992 might be the real solution for this. Legoktm (talk) 17:58, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Message
Can you change the infobox images of Guilty Gear characters with pages (Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, Millia Rage, Faust, and I-No) to their Strive renders? 31.203.74.115 (talk) 18:07, 2 July 2021 (UTC)