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TfD closures

Hi, Earwig. I just wanted to stop by and thank you for helping out with closures of pending TfD discussions. In an ideal world, we would have a pool of 5 to 10 administrators who closed TfDs on a regular basis so that we could spread the burden around. If you have any admin buddies who might be interested in closing 5 to 10 TfDs per week, please let me know, and I will be glad to help recruit them to the cause. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 04:23, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that, glad to help. Sadly, most of my admin friends are no longer active. I think a more useful version of User:Doug/closetfd.js would be very nice to have, since I find myself doing the same sort of work repeatedly in simpler cases (checking/removing navbox transclusions, deleting talkpages/redirects/subpages, etc) – and I was surprised when I started that Twinkle has no template-delinking function like it has for page links. Perhaps such a tool would encourage more admins to help out? I would work on it myself, but lack of time is an issue. — Earwig talk 04:36, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, Earwig, I suggest you mention your issues to administrator User:Opabinia regalis (another recent recruit to TfD closings), and to template editor User:Alakzi. Alakzi is one of our star coders, and no doubt will have some insights into how the "Doug" TfD closing script might be improved. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 04:46, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Last I heard, Alakzi would "look into" it, which was about a week ago. Well, we'll see. I'm willing to give it a shot in a month or so if nothing happens in the meantime. — Earwig talk 04:59, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, his services are popular now. I liked it better when I had him mostly to myself, but I'm told that template editor envy is not flattering on me. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 05:10, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ha, I'll look into cloning ;)
Agreed, all Doug's script does is stop you from making a typo adding the templates. Automating the tedium would be useful. I've been vaguely thinking of adapting the closeafd.js script, but haven't had the right combination of time and motivation (and it'd have to be a rare combination to make me think 'yes, javascript sounds like fun today'), so I'd be quite pleased if someone else did it! Opabinia regalis (talk) 07:51, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I, too, happen to be quite averse to JavaScript, so if somebody else were to take the initiative... Alakzi (talk) 08:05, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oy, I guess I'll start working on that, then. @Alakzi and Opabinia regalis: can we come up with a concrete list of improvements? — Earwig talk 08:16, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Offer to choose between "keep", "delete", "merge", and "do not merge"; automatically mark as a NAC for non-admins; remove {{Tfd}} and Tfm from the template when kept or not merged, else replace with {{Being deleted}}, enclosed in <noinclude>...</noinclude>; and tag with {{Tfd end}} on the talk page. Alakzi (talk) 08:25, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Right. Would a mass-orphan or substitution function (invoked separately) be a good idea or too risky? It would only handle clear cases. Also, the option to move to the holding cell would be useful. Hmm, I have an idea how this could work. — Earwig talk 08:40, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
OK, but what would make a clear case? The HC option is a good idea. Alakzi (talk) 09:03, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure how to strictly define it yet – will see when I get to that point, since the other stuff will come first. Also, a relisting option would be simple and useful. That should be enough to start working on it. — Earwig talk 17:37, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for taking this on, Earwig :) In addition to Alakzi's list, checking for redirects and subpages would be useful. Oh, when the page reloaded after my edit I saw you already said that above. Never mind me, I need more coffee. Opabinia regalis (talk) 19:27, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just an update – progress has been slow but steady due to various real-life things. The main interface and much of the functionality is complete. I hope to finish the first version before next week. — Earwig talk 07:43, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Another update: alas, I'm not able to get back to working on the script yet, given the start of classes and a few other RL things. Tentatively suggesting a workable version by the middle of next week. — Earwig talk 00:11, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio: add lexikon.freenet.de to User:EarwigBot/Copyvios/Exclusions

toollabs:copyvios reports pages from http://lexikon.freenet.de as copyvio, but this site is mirroring content from dewiki.

FYI: Since this week my bot MerlBot is using your tool as additional check when reporting sites for quality assurance on dewiki (Example: de:Special:Diff/145071039). Your tool works great and understanding your API is simple. Merlissimo 09:50, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Same for bei www.ammanu.edu.jp. --nenntmichruhigip (Diskussion) 10:01, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you both; added the exclusions. Used http://www.ammanu.edu.jo/wiki1/* for the second one so let me know if there are other mirrored sections of that site. — Earwig talk 19:48, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Same content as lexikon.freenet.de is also available via http://wikipedia.freenet.org .
Maybe the tool could automatically exclude all pages having a link to the history view of the original page?
I added wikipedia.freenet.de. Your idea of checking for backlinks to the history page sounds good. I will work on that. — Earwig talk 02:05, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Another one: proxy2974.my-addr.org --nenntmichruhigip (Diskussion) 13:13, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, this is a proxy, not a mirror. Added. Will be unnecessary after https://github.com/earwig/earwigbot/issues/53. — Earwig talk 15:11, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Actually I haven't checked anything about it, not even read the hostname which would've made me notice the difference. Just seen another user's report of a false positive. Seems like three incidents is enough to become unattentive. --nenntmichruhigip (Diskussion) 18:48, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 August 2015

Tried your copyvio detector and failed

Hi Earwig, at first glimpse it gave me almost 90% probability of copyvio, but then I recognized, that you do not expand the templates, right? So what is left to compare on a page like this, is a one-sentence-header and the footer. Instead I would have been interested in the relevant texts. Do you think you can change your tool to expand Mediawiki templates before comparing. regards --Herzi Pinki (talk) 14:37, 23 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, thanks for the message. I will work on that soon – I have an idea how to fix it. — Earwig talk 15:22, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Quarter Million Award

The Million Award
For your contributions to bring Earwig (estimated annual readership: 326,976) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! →Σσς. (Sigma) 06:34, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

copyvio: mirror wiki2.org

Hi, please add mirror http://*.wiki2.org to User:EarwigBot/Copyvios/Exclusions. Wikipedia url rewrite documentation at http://wiki2.org Examples:

Merlissimo 04:01, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Done. Thanks! — Earwig talk 04:18, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 26 August 2015

The Signpost: 02 September 2015

Copyvio: add wikipedia.net.ru / www.de.wikitotal.info to User:EarwigBot/Copyvios/Exclusions

Mirrors
dewiki http://de.wikipedia.net.ru
enwiki http://en.wikipedia.net.ru

Maybe more languages. So i would suggest adding *.wikipedia.net.ru .

http://www.de.wikitotal.info is a mirror without linking to wikipedia, without a list of authors and opening a lot of popups.

Thx. Merlissimo 10:40, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Done. — Earwig talk 16:02, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

EarwigBot

Hello, please could you run EarwigBot to clear the 14 undated AfC submissions at Category:Undated AfC submissions. Thank you, JMHamo (talk) 14:02, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. — Earwig talk 18:25, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list

Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and MusikAnimal talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 09 September 2015

Untrusted connection

Hello Earwig, I used your Copyivo Detector on Firefox and it said that the connection to it is untrusted. It stated that the security certificate expired today. ///Racer-Ωmegα 02:34, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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