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Pageviews Analysis

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T128295

Hi MusikAnimal,

Could you please explain the dramatic decline in the number of views in the last three days on ruwiki? Somehow it concerns articles with titles in Cyrillic, compare [1] and [2]. Sealle (talk) 12:35, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Wow, very interesting! Pageviews Analysis displays data directly from the WMF-provided API, and the fact that it's showing any data at all tells me something must be wrong on their end. I can get in touch with analytics team and see if they know what's going on — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:49, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, please do. Викидим (talk) 08:31, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Any response? The problem is still existing. --Алый Король (talk) 03:24, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

@Алый Король: They are working on it! The phab task has even been given the highest priority, "Unbreak Now!" — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:57, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2016)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Music of Africa Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Molecule • Cold Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 29 February 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2016-09

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

Recent changes

• Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
• The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
• The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [3][4]
• The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [5][6]

Changes this week

• On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [7]
• Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [8]
• Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [9]

Meetings

• Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [10]
• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

2016 GA Cup-Round 1

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016 GA Cup - Round 1 Greetings, all. The 3rd Annual GA Cup has officially begun, and you can start reviewing your articles/reassessments now! However, sign-ups will not close til March 15th if anybody (who wishes to sign up) has not signed up yet. We currently have 1 group of 33 contestants in Round 1, and we will have 16 Wikipedians left in Round 2. Please be sure to review this information and the FAQ if you haven't already, If you have any questions, please ask us here where all of the judges (including our newest one, Zwerg Nase!) will be answering any questions you may have. You can also feel free to ask us on our talk pages/send an email to us (information is here). Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:38, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	You deserve it in all the requests for permissions. Winterysteppe (talk) 04:25, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! I enjoy working there and glad to hear I'm doing a good job :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:52, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Rollback

I have been fighting some nice amount of vandalism, and I am looking for rollback permission in order to use Huggle. I believe that I am ready for it, and I certainly will never abuse it. I would like to have your opinion on whether I would be granted that permission, since I wasn't able to find clear guidelines. I am not requesting it on the regular channel because I afraid that in the event that I get denied it will be harder to get it in the future. Thanks, WannaBeEditor (talk) 06:06, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Saturday, March 5: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

Saturday March 5, 10am-5pm: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

You are invited to join us for the MoMA Art+Feminism edit-a-thon on Saturday, to support the expansion of Wikipedia's coverage of women in the arts. We encourage both people new to Wikipedia, and people who have experience editing online, or have joined us for past edit-a-thon events. This is by far our biggest event of the year (over 200 participants in the last edition), and every extra hand counts, so please join and volunteer to help us engage new communities! Saturday, March 5 Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA (RSVP at Eventbrite - Participants have to bring their own laptops and power cords). 10:00am - 5:00pm (drop-in anytime!) at The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at the Museum of Modern Art, 4 West 54 Street - between 5th/6th, New York, NY 10019 Please note that this entrance is one block north of the main 53rd Street entrance, closer to 5th Avenue. And bring your interested friends and colleagues! For those outside of the city, or unable to join on Saturday, check out Art+Feminism regional and global events as well. --Pharos (talk) 21:49, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

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Regarding my rollback rights

Hi MusikAnimal. Before I start, I'd just like to thank you for granting me rollback rights in the first place, as well as letting me keep them after my unacceptable edit summary shortly after receiving them. I really do appreciate that. However, I am now starting to take my actions whilst using Huggle into question, and so are many other editors. In this month alone, I have made several accidental reverts, either by misreading a revision, by presuming an edit is vandalism when it is, in fact, not, or by accidentally pressing the "Q" button when I am reading a revision. I am therefore requesting that my rollback be revoked for the time being. I'd rather admit to my unacceptable behaviour and face a milder sanction for it now, than be in denial and risk receiving a block later.

I am unsure whether or not I will be allowed to request these rights again, but that is not a concern of mine. I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for my unacceptable behaviour, and I feel as if this revocation will be in the community's best interest. If, however, I am able to apply again, I will only do so when I feel as if I have become a more responsible user. Kindest regards, --Ches (talk) 19:39, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

 Done I don't really have time to review your contributions, but I will tell you lots of people make mistakes with Huggle – myself included. The idea I think is to not go too fast. Semi-automated software will work wonders for getting things done very fast, but consequently makes you more prone to error. Just try to be more cautious, is all. The important thing, at least going by what you're telling me, is that you are trying to do good and the fact you upfront about your shortcomings speaks volumes. If you feel you're ready for rollback again don't hesitate to reach out to me. Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:17, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you sir. --Ches (talk) 18:06, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Mail

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Eik Corell (talk) 19:54, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

If i put a request for rollback, do i have a good track record?

Hey MusikAnimal, I was wondering if my current contribution track record is good enough to get rollback. Not a formal request but im seeing if my contributions stand up to scrutiny. Winterysteppe (talk) 16:07, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Doing a very quick spot check, I would be inclined to give you rollback if I were an admin. You should go ahead and request, you are likely going to get it.—^cyberpower_{Chat:Limited Access} 16:10, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

MarcoAlbani1998

Hi. I have been away from the computer a while so I just spotted a notification after this edit at WP:AIV which have now been archieved. Hope it is okay if I answer here instead.

You are right, the edits are to templates and the extra space does not produce any visual difference. However the edits are seen as disruptive and there has been multiple times where they have been fixed instead of reverting (example diff), because it is often better to fix than make a straight revert for some extra spaces.

It might look childish to even bother about some tiny extra spaces, but it comes from long term issues with this editor and the fact that they never respond to messages at their talkpage. Despite earlier warnings and two days ago a 31 hour block, they still continue without any discussion. Qed237 (talk) 20:57, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

@Qed237: I don't think this is by any means a "fix". If they going through and adding spaces without any other modifications, I might consider that disruptive, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It could be as simple as a typo. Skimming through their contributions, I see where they removed a space (yet added another). My point is it's very, very trivial and not something to complain about. Indeed, I see that this user has a long history of unrelated disruption, but if these spaces are accompanied by an otherwise constructive edit than I'd say even issuing a warning for that alone is unjustified, much less a block — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:27, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay, I understand your point of view. I guess it is a case where different editors have different opinions and I know that an other editor got blocked for the same thing a few days ago (diff). And although it might have been hard with a week, I thought I better report this editor as well. Both these editors are vbery similar with warnings for various things and not communicating. I will take your words of wisdom, moving forward from this situation. Qed237 (talk) 22:44, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

And looking at this it looks like MarcoAlbani1998 has also started edit as IP to avoid the warnings he has got. Qed237 (talk) 00:36, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Category problem

Hey MusikAnimal, please look at User:James mccosker. If you click on "confirmed puppets", there are no accounts listed. Yet, there should be two: User:Phil1371 and User:GarryEvan777. I've never seen his happen before, and god knows I block enough masters and puppets. Any ideas? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:03, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Interesting! These were both added well over a day ago, I would think the job queue would have caught up by now. Purging, null edits, and an actual edit adding {{sockpuppet category}} didn't seem to do the trick. I'm not too sure to be honest, but I bet Redrose64 would have some idea — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:07, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)I re-entered them by hand and it seems to have done it. You may have copypasted a hidden character (or something). Debouch (talk) 00:46, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

We don't normally enter them by hand. In other words, the category remains red. Not sure what you mean by "copypasted a hidden character (or something)".--Bbb23 (talk) 01:26, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

I mean that when you edited the userpages to add {{sock||confirmed}}, that you may have picked up a non-printing character in the copy part of the copypaste, because replacing the ones that you entered with hand-typed ones fixed the problem. This is just a guess. Debouch (talk) 01:59, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

21 (number)

Editing is very slow, but almost none of edits were accepted. Renew PC? --George Ho (talk) 05:49, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello from Reedman72

Can you protect the article Nate Diaz. He just won UFC and that article is experiencing vandalism. Reedman72 (talk) 06:18, 6 March 2016 (UTC)