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Wow

thank you a lot for giving me the scoop on how well to edit Wikipedia! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atlantic Channel (talk • contribs) 21:52, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! FinalForm (talk) 00:39, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is IPv6 supported in IP range search?

An IP range search can use a CIDR range such as 10.0.0.0/8 or a wildcard asterisk, such as 10.11.12.* or 192.168.*. does the user contribution special page support IP version 6 wildcards? Example from CIDR page: the IPv6 block 2001:db8::/48 represents the block of IPv6 addresses from 2001:db8:0:0:0:0:0:0 to 2001:db8:0:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff. —⁠andrybak (talk) 17:13, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrybak: Yes, you can use the CIDR syntax to look up user contributions from IPv6 blocks, like this. Shadowjonathan (talk) 11:29, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a way to disable the contributions button popping up whenever my mouse happens to pass over it? I couldn't find an option for this in my preferences and I have accidentally clicked on "Contributions"/"Translations"/etc. in this menu many times, and I'd like to keep this from happening again. IntoThinAir (talk) 17:18, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@IntoThinAir: Disable "Automatically enable all new beta features" and "Content Translation" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:00, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It worked, thanks! IntoThinAir (talk) 21:22, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What does "r" mean?

In Special:Contributions/AllaboutBahrain, the first edit is tagged with "rN". The "N" means "new", but I don't see anything that explains what "r" means. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:50, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@RoySmith: If you use a desktop web browser, you can hover the mouse pointer over the underlined r and see a tool-tip saying 'This edit needs review.' If you look at Special:RecentChanges or your Special:Watchlist, you'll see a small frame above the main listing, with a title List of abbreviations or Legend, respectively. It contains a short description of those single-letter marks at some edits. The r mark is described as 'Edit flagged by ORES'. The acronym denotes objective revision evaluation services which is described at the linked page.

HTH.
(Yes, I know it's a late answer, but I hope better late than later.)
CiaPan (talk) 08:56, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

RoySmith, for more information about what CiaPan described, see Help:Watchlist#How to read a watchlist (or Recent Changes). —⁠andrybak (talk) 12:12, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Legend?

Legend (help):
D Edit made at Wikidata
r Edit flagged by ORES
N New page
m Minor edit
b Bot edit
(±123) Page byte size change

The Watchlist and RecentChanges show a legend. Something (that used to be) like the box on the right.

Could the User contributions page show one too? — Ghost in the machine ^{talk to me} 06:25, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created except redirects

Hi. Is it possible to configure user contributions to show only articles created except redirects? Thanks. fgnievinski (talk) 16:27, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Found this xtool: Pages Created. fgnievinski (talk) 15:51, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How to delete my Wikipedia account permanently

Please delete my account permanently JVMAURANIPUR (talk) 10:16, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Inverse tag filter

~~Is there a way to show only edits that do not have a particular tag? Specifically I'd like to view contributions while exluding anything with the "mw-new-redirect" tag.~~ Alternatively, there's a checkbox for "Only show edits that are latest revisions" but it would be awfully nice to only show edits that are not the latest revisions. Thanks, Reywas92^Talk 04:59, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind on the first part, tags only go back to 2018 anyway. I want to exlude any redirects when looking at contributions, is anything like this possible? Reywas92^Talk 05:06, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wow