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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 173.49.140.141 (talk) at 18:06, 13 June 2011 (Amalthea doesn't seem to be editing right now, rm and ask someone else). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Ping

Please get onto IRC channel #wikipedia-userscripts, →AzaToth 15:02, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Aww, I missed deployment day. :/
Good work, everyone! Amalthea 07:06, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Twinkle, Twinkle, little barnstar

Twinkle Barnstar
The new Twinkle project has clearly been a mammoth task, and this is my recognition of everyone involved (and if I missed anyone, please let me know). The new look and feel, the new features, the prefs GUI, are all great, and rewriting it to use the API sets us up for HTML 5 (if not infinity) and beyond. And considering the wide impact, the implementation went remarkably smoothly - main teething issues solved quickly, and it finally inspired me to upgrade to Firefox 4 -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:04, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, but I didn't help at all -- I believe it was all AzaToth, UncleDouggie, Tcncv, and This, That, and the Other. Well, I carved that barnstar image, but that doesn't count. :)
Cheers, Amalthea 18:10, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well, you've clearly been offering support to the project, which is all part of it (and providing the barnstar, which I shamelessly ripped off) - I've got all four of the techies, thanks -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:13, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Editnotice

I wasn't done yet, the editnotice doesn't display if there's already an editnotice on a certain page, I was going to create a blank one for the Village pumps and noticeboards. —James (Talk • Contribs) • 9:47pm • 11:47, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you started blacklisting all pages where it didn't make sense after I deleted the namespace editnotice. There are an enourmous amount of pages and prefixes where it doesn't. RFA pages? Arbcom pages? Xfd pages? Wikiprojects? FA pages? FP pages? SPI pages? If you really only want it for policy pages, why not just add specific ones where they are needed? Is this notice useful in the first place? States the obvious, IMHO.
Bottom line though, show me community consensus that this is useful, and that yours is the right approach. This is far from uncontroversial.
Amalthea 11:53, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
User:Rd232 recreated the namespace notice for the Wikipedia talk namespace and I myself was unaware of the Wikipedia namespace editnotice of ever having existed. Perhaps individually is better... there an awful lot of "non-policy pages" :S I thought the editnotice would be useful considering policy and guideline templates already say "do not make changes unless they reflect community consensus". —James (Talk • Contribs) • 10:04pm • 12:04, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't thought about it too much, but IMHO a general 'follow the rules' editnotice is not useful -- not in WP space, and not in WT space (was there a discussion about the latter anyway?). Experienced editors know that already, and whether it's really helping any newbie and preventing enough non-constructive edits to be worth it is very doubtful, IMHO. We're overbannering the place, IMHO. If edit notices are the norm, people won't even see them anymore.
Amalthea 12:14, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
My thoughts exactly and no I don't think it was discussed, perhaps you should ask Rd232 afterall, he did recreate it. I noticed that horrid editnotice at WT:FSC and blanked its respective editnotice to hide it, it states the obvious and is way too general. I'll be going to sleep now, I've got a long day tomorrow and I need to catchup on all the sleep I missed. —James (Talk • Contribs) • 10:25pm • 12:25, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Count pages

Hello Amalthea,

Could you tell me if there is a way I can count how many times a template is used?

Riannedac (talk) 08:26, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,
on the template page, follow the "What links here" link in the toolbox section of your sidebar. You can see the pages linking to or transcluding a template there, or you can follow the link to the external transclusion counter tool: http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en.
HTH, Amalthea 10:28, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Ty! Riannedac (talk) 12:27, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Do you perhaps know if there is a 'counter' image/banner/template that we can put on our project page to shows how many times the template has been used? Riannedac (talk) 10:38, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Not that I'm aware of. What exactly do you want to achieve? Amalthea 10:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
For our project we would like to reach a goal of getting 30.000 new articles about Africa on Wikipedia. I made a template for the project and I thought it would be nice to have a counter on the homepage. This way, people can see how close we are to our target. But, ok. It's not necessary, thought it would look nice. Thanks. Riannedac (talk) 12:34, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
OK. What you can do is create an appropriately named tracking category, like Category:WikiProject Africa 2011 article drive articles or some such, and put the template {{Tracking category}} on the page. Afterwards, make your template categorizes the pages it is put on, typically by adding <includeonly>[[Category:WikiProject Africa 2011 article drive articles]]</includeonly> to the template.
Once that is done, you can use the magic word PAGESINCATEGORY to count the pages in the category with {{PAGESINCATEGORY:WikiProject Africa 2011 article drive articles}}.
Amalthea 13:15, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Bug related to $wgCheckUserForceSummary?

Per User talk:Reedy/Archive 2011#when... (perm), $wgCheckUserForceSummary is already set to true for en.wiki, but for some reason doesn't seem to be working (see cu log). I figured since you have the tools, you might be best positioned to figure out what's wrong. Thanks! –xenotalk 13:36, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll look into it! Cheers, Amalthea 11:04, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

IRC

If practically possible for you, please camp on IRC channel #wikipedia-userscripts so we can communicate better. →AzaToth 10:49, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you delete a page in test-wiki?

Hello and 1st of all - sorry for my bad english. I know that you a an administrator in test wiki. Can you delete this page there? Thank you. --Askarmuk (talk) 16:35, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, done. Amalthea 16:38, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. --Askarmuk (talk) 17:36, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lock status/popups

Hi, I'm not sure if you missed this section, but I was wondering whether you thought that was a viable idea worth implementing. -- Mentifisto 23:07, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,
a useful addition, and viable in principle, but I was hesitant to try and get the required information from the globalauth log since that has a few pitfalls: It lists items besides 'setstatus', sometimes the resulting status is hidden, and it will show incorrect results for unattached accounts.
I noticed that I can get all that I need from the globaluserinfo request to the local wiki's API though, so it should now be quite simple to add that functionality. I'll look into it as soon as I can (and figure out the answer to one remaining question).
Amalthea 08:53, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Alrighty. Not quite sure whether an unattached account is handled correctly on all wikimedia wikis, still need to find that out.
Testing: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Amalthea 09:49, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
An unattached account that has its unified account locked doesn't seem to display anything, which I suppose is correct behaviour. Thanks! -- Mentifisto 23:08, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Testing?

Er, accident? Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 11:16, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, Twinkle was broken. Amalthea 11:19, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Heh, that explains it :-) Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 11:20, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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