User talk:Rich Farmbrough: Difference between revisions

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
Line 1,436: Line 1,436:
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect [[Bug (album) (disambiguation)]]. Since you had some involvement with the ''Bug (album) (disambiguation)'' redirect, you might want to participate in [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 October 14#Bug (album) (disambiguation)|the redirect discussion]] if you have not already done so. <!-- from Template:RFDNote --> [[User:Steel1943|<span style="color: #2F4F4F;">'''''Steel1943'''''</span>]] ([[User talk:Steel1943|talk]]) 05:04, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect [[Bug (album) (disambiguation)]]. Since you had some involvement with the ''Bug (album) (disambiguation)'' redirect, you might want to participate in [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 October 14#Bug (album) (disambiguation)|the redirect discussion]] if you have not already done so. <!-- from Template:RFDNote --> [[User:Steel1943|<span style="color: #2F4F4F;">'''''Steel1943'''''</span>]] ([[User talk:Steel1943|talk]]) 05:04, 14 October 2017 (UTC)


== Editing restriction ==
==Editing restriction==

Can you explain how {{diff2|796244263|these}} {{diff2|805522842|two}} edits are not a violation of your [[Wikipedia:Editing restrictions|editing restriction]] (specifically the second edit)? The page in question, [[Mercedes Chacón Porras]], has a link to it on [[La Galería de las Mujeres de Costa Rica]] that has been there since at least May. One of your tags is invalid and appears to be only cosmetic in nature since one was in August and the other today. There are many others like this that you have edited today that were linked when you first added the template. [[User:Nihlus|<b style="padding:2px 2px;font-variant:small-caps;whitespace:nowrap;color:#000;letter-spacing:-0.5px">Nihlus</b>]] 23:26, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
Can you explain how {{diff2|796244263|these}} {{diff2|805522842|two}} edits are not a violation of your [[Wikipedia:Editing restrictions|editing restriction]] (specifically the second edit)? The page in question, [[Mercedes Chacón Porras]], has a link to it on [[La Galería de las Mujeres de Costa Rica]] that has been there since at least May. One of your tags is invalid and appears to be only cosmetic in nature since one was in August and the other today. There are many others like this that you have edited today that were linked when you first added the template. [[User:Nihlus|<b style="padding:2px 2px;font-variant:small-caps;whitespace:nowrap;color:#000;letter-spacing:-0.5px">Nihlus</b>]] 23:26, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
:Don't listen to Nihlus, speaks complete garbage and wants everyone to be blocked.--[[User:Biografer|Biografer]] ([[User talk:Biografer|talk]]) 05:18, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Revision as of 05:18, 16 October 2017

Note
Email may very occasionally be delayed due to spam filtering.



Links
FAQ
Talk Archive Index
follow my blog
This page-

Drama free days
3597
May
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
01 02 03 04
05 06 07 08 09 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31  
2024
RfA candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report
RfB candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report

No RfXs since 12:38, 30 April 2024 (UTC).—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online

Enchylium limosum
Enchylium limosum


Wikidata weekly summary #267

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
    • Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:26, 3 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ISBNs on Jimbo's talk page

Hallo Rich, While I'm flattered to be considered "a core wikipedian", can I point out that you talk about "the talk page" but don't seem to mention which talk page! A link would be useful.

Actually, although I can remember being very opposed to the removal of magic links when first encountering the decision, I've now got quite used to adding the template whenever I cite an ISBN, and don't feel so strongly about it. It always did seem a rather strange "magic". But we will need a bot or something which will continue to clean up new articles and new edits in the future, to make sure that all ISBNs continue to be linked.

There are other things I'm much more concerned about - as far as I know Virtual Editor is still unusable because the edit window hides the text of the article so that if you want to add categories or DEFAULTSORT based on article content you can't easily do so; and the mobile version of Wikipedia lacks a lot of key features I need for editing, or even reading, the encyclopedia. Then there's the way the AfC process upsets and confuses good faith new editors, and so on. The great ISBN non-debate seems a lost cause now, though it does raise the question of how interested parties can best be made aware of discussions in which they'd take an interest, without closely monitoring lots of technical discussion lists of no interest to them. I'm not sure we'll ever solve that one. PamD 21:57, 4 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I contributed at VPP, archived as Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_131#Removal_of_ISBN_magic_links, and there was a brief discussion at Wikipedia_talk:ISBN#Future_of_magic_links. PamD 22:08, 4 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the feedback. I have added a link to the talk page in question.
I'm hoping we can pull back the ISBN issue, it might be like turning an oil tanker...
And you are certainly right about the other issues. I have had to sigh and concede on many items because they have been widely advertised - and I have just missed them - but in some cases, including this one, the community's comments seem to have been ignored, or at least discounted. The typeface refresh was another good (or bad) example.
It's also notable that the Mediawiki wiki still uses the community unfriendly talk page software (flow?) - perhaps that could be changed if more community involvement is wanted.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:17, 4 July 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Not a typo

Just fyi: I removed an example usage you added to Template:Not a typo/doc as not helpful. Cordially, Mathglot (talk) 02:44, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for merging of Template:Catalan name

Template:Catalan name has been nominated for merging with Template:Spanish name. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 17:04, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes

added Happyme22 • Dragons flight
removed Zad68

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Miscellaneous

  • A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
  • A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
  • Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:59, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On general fixes

[1]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:23, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #268

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Search results will not only show labels but also descriptions with language fallbacks (gerrit:362215). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
    • Fixed link to the file description page in the Image Header gadget (phab:T169558)
    • Forms of the Lexeme are multi-variant (phab:T165575)
    • Preparing a demonstration of referencing Forms and Sense of a Lexeme in statements (phab:T169716)
    • Property constraint definitions will be migrated to statements (phab:T169647, Project chat)
    • Implemented “Format” constraint (phab:T102752, help page)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:16, 10 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Villon

Thanks for your recent edit at François Villon. Can you tell me which BCA edition of Pseudonyms you were using (will help resolution of page number)? Here's[1] an augmented ref. In any case, must be one of these. The original French corresponding to "more than a father" is from Le Testament and is given here.[2] The Clarke ref is correct, but since it's about pseudonyms and not mostly about Villon, a better source would be nice. The same quote with the same translation is present on page 78 of Fein-1997, already present in the article. If you don't have access to it, I can add it if you wish. Mathglot (talk) 23:59, 10 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Clarke, Joseph F. (1981). Pseudonyms: An Imaginative Sense of Fact. London: Book Club Associates. OCLC 5139561. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  2. ^ Villon, François (2013). "The Testament". Poems (in French). Translated by Georgi, David. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-8101-2878-1. OCLC 921910344. Retrieved 10 July 2017. Item, et a mon plus que pere, Maistre Guillaume de Villon / Qui esté m'a plus doulx que mere
By all means add the additional ref. There is only one 1981 version listed. I will check for the sub-title later. Clarke is surprisingly accurate, I have only found one entry that looks wrong and I have nearly completed a first pass through the entire book. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 07:47, 11 July 2017 (UTC).[reply]
The 1981 was the online version I found; the version you used in the article was 1977, and there's more than one of those. Sorry for the confusion, and I'll add the other ref. Mathglot (talk) 07:55, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I suspect there is only one such edition. For example https://www.worldcat.org/title/pseudonyms/oclc/830226383?referer=di&ht=edition is just those with Polish tags, and the pagination matches both (the penultimate page of the introduction is xiii, the last page un-numbered, followed by two un-numbered pages then pp. 3-252, and a few blank leaves). OCLC are a very messy data-set. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:15, 11 July 2017 (UTC).[reply]
Yes, I see what you mean. So, if I change your ref thus:
does this fairly represent the source you used?   Cordially, Mathglot (talk) 01:55, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
By all means. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:33, 12 July 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Ze template, vat does eet do?

What exactly does Template:Ze do and how on Earth do you use it? It has no documentation subpage as is customary. You created it, so I reckon that you would have the best idea of what it actually does and how to use it. Also, seeing as it is to do with pronouns, in what way does its use case differ from Template:Gender? --EnronEvolvedMy Talk Page 17:03, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It does a lot less than {{Gender}}, but it can be used on a user's talk page like this:-
I wonder if the owner of this page knew what {{Ze}} was doing when they created this template?
I wonder if the owner of this page knew what ze was doing when they created this template?
It was created as an illustration as much as anything else.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:00, 12 July 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Default

Template:Default has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 15:01, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 July 2017

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:48, 15 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #269

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • WikidataCon
    • The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
    • You can still suggest ideas for the program, or submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)
  • Development
    • Preparing Lexemes demo for Wikimania
    • Fixing links to non-entity namespaces (phab:T169221) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
    • Tracking labels of quantity units in parser and Lua functions (phab:T170167) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
    • Fixing checking of constraints on deprecated statements (phab:T170391)
    • Improving the Query Service UI (phab:T170279)
    • Improving wbsearchentities (phab:T103875)
    • Removing links from printable version (phab:T87108)
    • Adding customizable fallback to Special:GoToLinkedPage (phab:T166473)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:34, 17 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:¬

Template:¬ has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:28, 18 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bots Newsletter, July 2017

Bots Newsletter, July 2017

Greetings!

Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

BAG

BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are now members of the BAG (see RfBAG/BU Rob13 and RfBAG/Cyberpower678 3). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are both administrators; the former operates BU RoBOT which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates Cyberbot I (which replaces old bots), Cyberbot II (which does many different things), and InternetArchiveBot which combats link rot. Welcome to the BAG!

BRFAs

We currently have 12 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions
New things
Upcoming
Wikimania

Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know!

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

Case opened

You were recently listed as a party to or recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Maglioladitis 2. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Maglioladitis 2/Evidence. Please add your evidence by August 6, 2017, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Maglioladitis 2/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Miniapolis 17:09, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #270

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:21, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Editing at case page

Hi Rich Farmbrough

I have reverted your edit at the above case page for the following reasons.

The Arbitration case pages are intended to be verbatim copies (typos and all) of the original case request and as such should not be edited. The page itself is also only meant to be edited by Arbitrator or Clerk (obvious exceptions such as reverting vandalism etc. still apply).

If you believe something on the case page needs adjusting please bring it to the attention of the clerks on the case talkpage and we will action where necessary to do so. Amortias (T)(C) 21:26, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of 2016 Hurghada attack for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2016 Hurghada attack is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016 Hurghada attack until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. TheGracefulSlick (talk) 23:33, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notifications loading issue

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5:%D8%A5%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:57, 26 July 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Year in country category/parent 1/Albania

Template:Year in country category/parent 1/Albania has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 13:38, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ISBNs

I was not in favour of the change from magic words to templates. I even contacted the peron who was doing the conversion in the beginning. After my disscussions with Mediawiki programmers I notied is last cause to try to win this. Visual Editor team and other wanted the magic links to vanish. Just for the story: When I noticed that we hav to do that change I thought it was a good chance to have 3-4 bots to make general fixes to all pages too and save us time. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:53, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red's new initiative: 1day1woman

Women in Red is pleased to introduce...
A new initiative for worldwide online coverage: 1day1woman
  • Create articles on any day of any month
  • Cover women and their works in any field of interest
  • Feel free to add articles in other languages, too
  • Social media hashtag campaign: #1day1woman

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 03:00, 28 July 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

A kitten for you!

For constantly fixing my spelling errors!

Magioladitis (talk) 18:43, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

August 2017 at Women in Red

Welcome to Women in Red's August 2017 worldwide online editathons.


(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --

A new WiR initiative starting in August

Introducing...
WiR's new initaitve: 1day1woman for worldwide online coverage
Facilitated by Women in Red
  • Create articles on any day of any month
  • Cover women and their works in any field of interest
  • Feel free to add articles in other languages too

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:50, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #271

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • WikidataCon
    • Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program! (deadline: July 31th)
    • You can also subscribe to the existing submissions to show your interest and support your favorites
  • Development
    • Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek
    • Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
    • Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (phab:T164254)
    • Improving Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (phab:T66950)
    • Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
    • Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:26, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

Administrator changes

added Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 (first RfA to reach WP:300)
removed Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:12, 1 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence at arbitration

Please use the evidence page to present evidence, not opinions. This is now the second time I've removed parts of your statement for presenting nothing in the way of evidence. Do not re-add it. What I've left is also pretty light as evidence goes, but might perhaps be better suited to the "analysis of evidence" section on the workshop page? GoldenRing (talk) 16:30, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As indicated, the text is not complete. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:04, 4 August 2017 (UTC).[reply]

The Signpost: 5 August 2017

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Accent marks in listas parameters

Hi Rich. I have a question about listas parameters on the talk pages of biographical articles. Is it important to include the accent mark in the parameter, as I just did here, or is the accent not needed in the parameter? Lepricavark (talk) 03:33, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The accent is not needed, and on older versions of MediaWiki would cause it to be listed in a different position. For simple names you can use {{Subst:Qla}} ("Quick list as"). You can also use the {{Remove accents}} to remove accents is it helps.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:14, 5 August 2017 (UTC).[reply]
Ok, thanks for the information. By "simple names", do you mean one-word names? Lepricavark (talk) 18:40, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure if I answered this elsewhere, by "simple" I mean western style names with no prefix. I.E. the last word is the most significant part of the search order, followed by the rest. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #272

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:34, 7 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

to do

Patrick Lewis re classification of papers.


Soil types.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:34, 9 August 2017 (UTC).[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
You have done so much for the women in red project! You're great! Sbbarker19 (talk) 02:52, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 03:00, 13 August 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Magioladitis evidence phase closing soon

It's closing in a few hours. For the Arbitration Committee, Miniapolis 17:08, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #273

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
    • Wikidata reached d:Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months
  • Development

Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:07, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Nicholaevna of Russia

The article Grand Duchess Elizabeth Nicholaevna of Russia has been proposed for deletion. The proposed deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Celia Homeford (talk) 12:07, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Use of AWB

G'day,

I understand that it's all in good faith but making edits that simply expand {{cn|}} tags to {{Citation Needed|}} kinda goes against AWB rule #4 and only real effect is it slightly lengthens all the articles you've made this change to — IVORK Discuss 16:10, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@IVORK: can you please provide a diff? --Magioladitis (talk) 16:13, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. — IVORK Discuss 16:21, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
IVORK, "Officers" also got changed to "officers", and the {{cn}} isn't the main purpose of the edit. Primefac (talk) 16:28, 16 August 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)[reply]
Yes, but it's clearly a parameter within his AWB config so would take effect on pages that only had that. If anything it should be changed the other way round. I can't see what use it has other than to boost edit numbers — IVORK Discuss 16:30, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
From the edit summary, it would appear Fix caps in section header is the main purpose. I suspect Rich has the "skip if only genfixes" option enabled, which means if AWB doesn't fix the caps in the section header, it would skip the page. Primefac (talk) 16:33, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This is exactly correct. I operate on the principle of the least number of edits practicable, though I'm sure I fall short of this sometimes, and certainly whatever one does choose to do there will be critics. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:39, 16 August 2017 (UTC).[reply]


Merger discussion for Monotypic taxon and Monospecificity

Articles that you have been involved in editing—Monotypic taxon and Monospecificity—have been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Nessie (talk) 16:27, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of most expensive films

Hi, Richard, I was just wondering if you would explain an edit you made. You made this edit at List of most expensive films which resulted in some of the reference columns being labelled as "Refs and notes" while others were left as "Refs & notes". They now look inconsistent to me and I am wondering if this is just an oversight? It's not a big deal and I can easily fix it if this is the case but I just want to clarify whether it was intentional or not. All the best. Betty Logan (talk) 18:18, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes this was just an oversight. Thanks for mentioning it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:11, 18 August 2017 (UTC).[reply]

AWB

Hi there seems to be a fault with AWB as it is identifying articles as orphans when they are not so can you please check what links here before adding the orphan tag, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 14:11, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Atlantic306. I have tweaked the config to be stricter about this. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:18, 19 August 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Rich Farmbrough.

It looks like many, perhaps even thousands of, articles have been tagged as orphans by you when they are not ? Have you checked Category:Orphaned articles from August 2017. The few I have checked are not orphans as far as I can see. Eno Lirpa (talk) 12:48, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • You need a leading : in a category for it to show as a link.
Thanks - yes - just in a hurry
  • Generally the threshold for being an orphan may be >1 incoming link form a non-list article. See wp:Orphan.
A single link from a list article is sufficient to deorphan an article. The ones I checked where "main" article to "split off sub articles" so should not be orphaned I suggest.
  • I can certainly take a look.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:10, 1 September 2017 (UTC).[reply]
See above comments. I really think you need to reverse many, if not the vast majority, of your orphan tag edits. Eno Lirpa (talk) 16:10, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #274

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
    • Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (phabricator:T170531)
    • Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
    • Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T172592)
    • Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
    • Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:57, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #275

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • WikidataCon
    • The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with Lydia.
    • Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
    • The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
    • We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people, feel free to help
  • Development
    • Worked on fixing the technical glitch in the UI (phabricator:T173543)
    • Did polishing on the Constraint Checks gadget (for example phabricator:T173738)
    • Worked on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
    • Made progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
    • Worked more on making it easier to see when input in a property or value input field is not recognized (phabricator:T170531)
    • Fighting with load issues in the job queue (phabricator:T173710)
    • Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
    • Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:35, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

September 2017 at Women in Red

Welcome to Women in Red's September 2017 worldwide online editathons.

Ana Recio Harvey.jpg

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:19, 28 August 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

Administrator changes

added Nakon • Scott
removed Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
  • Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
  • In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

  • Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:35, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #276

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • New admin: congrats to علاء
    • Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
    • With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
    • The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon
  • Development
    • Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
    • Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
    • Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
    • Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
    • Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
    • Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (phabricator:T170531)
    • Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (phabricator:T151186)
    • Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987)
    • The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:05, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 6 September 2017

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:44, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #277

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • WikidataCon
    • The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
    • The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
    • The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:49, 11 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Zoë Quinn's PGPs

Hi Rich Farmbrough,

In the last several months, you've participated in a discussion on Talk:Zoë Quinn about which preferred gender pronouns to use in the article. So I thought I'd give you a heads up that I'm starting a WP:RFC to hopefully resolve this issue! You can find the relevant discussion here.

Regards. --Shibbolethink (♔ ♕) 18:32, 16 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #278

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
    • Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
    • Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (phabricator:T121274)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:36, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 September 2017

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red October editathon invitation

Welcome to Women in Red's October 2017 worldwide online editathons.



New: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/57|"Women and disability"]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/58|"Healthcare"]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/59|"Geofocus on the Nordic countries"]]

Continuing: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/00|#1day1woman Global Initiative]]

Begin preparing for November's big event: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest|Women World Contest]]

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list)

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:54, 25 September 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Let's do this? Magioladitis (talk) 16:04, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #279

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (phabricator:T151717)
    • Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (phabricator:T55619)
    • Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
    • Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (phabricator:T176062)
    • Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (phabricator:T176327)
    • Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:52, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest

Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:33, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Established

Template:Established has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 21:00, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

added Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem
removed Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
  • A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #280

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
    • Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (phabricator:T173742, phabricator:T173744)
    • Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (phabricator:T121274)
    • Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (phabricator:T176124)
    • Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (phabricator:T174794)
    • Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:53, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest

Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. The articles done may also count towards the ongoing challenge. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles please add them to the sub lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:15, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #281

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
    • A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (phabricator:T173262)
    • The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (phabricator:T142903)
    • Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
    • Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
    • Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
    • Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (phabricator:T174794)
    • Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:27, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't lint talk pages

You linted my talk page, so I got a pointless notification alert about it. Please turn your bots off for pages which create notifications for people. Thanks, Miserlou (talk) 20:08, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Miserlou, the task was to change a poorly-formatted [[::User call, which meant that invariably some people got pinged in the process. There's no way to guarantee that these changes won't ping someone; it could happen on a user, article, or Wikipedia talk page.
On a related note, Rich, fixing this error (while appreciated) goes against your cosmetic editing restriction. It looks like you've stopped, but please do not restart it (and/or request a bot task for it if you intend on continuing). Primefac (talk) 21:29, 11 October 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker) You're right, I didn't realize they had already cut off the tidy support for that. Primefac (talk) 00:00, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Of course I have been very lazy in not asking for that be be lifted. However this does not go against it, because it changes the rendering of the page. It surprises me how many knowledgeable and wise people get that wrong.
Also notice that very few active editors will have messages from 2008-2010 on their talk pages, so the pingage should be minimal.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:50, 11 October 2017 (UTC).[reply]
Sorry for the "ping". All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:50, 11 October 2017 (UTC).[reply]
Ideally, this should have been handled by a bot to prevent the thousands of notifications you are sending out because of this. Can you stop doing this and make the appropriate bot request? Thanks. Nihlus 23:35, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Since the comment from Miserlou above, I have avoided user talk pages that have comments dated this year or last. All other user talk pages that I am not skipping for other reasons have been cleaned.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:58, 11 October 2017 (UTC).[reply]
Per WP:AWBRULES #3, I am asking that you seek out consensus for these large scale edits before continuing. Nihlus 00:11, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I'm willing to fast-track a bot request on this as soon as consensus is demonstrated, which will not be hard. Best to go the path of least annoyance. ~ Rob13Talk 00:14, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:53, 12 October 2017 (UTC).[reply]
I'm not sure why you would do that when I have just told you that I have done all the AWB work on user talk pages that I intend to do. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:23, 12 October 2017 (UTC).[reply]
Just today you have fixed lint errors on talk pages after being ask to stop and after you said that you wouldn't. A bot request has been submitted for this, so please stop. Nihlus 19:08, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You are incorrect. I said that I would not be cleaning any more "User talk" pages with AWB, and that I had completed that phase before you threatened me with AWB Rule 3. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:14, 13 October 2017 (UTC).[reply]
Also I think it rather disingenuous to say "a bot request has been submitted" when you actually mean that you have submitted a bot request. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:15, 13 October 2017 (UTC).[reply]
That is a pointless distinction as you're still sending unnecessary notifications. And it doesn't matter who submitted the bot request, the fact is simple: this is a task that will require thousands of edits, will notify users on their talk page if not done by a bot, and requires approval before being completed. I will not discuss this with you further at this point. My next response will be at WP:ANI if this continues. Thanks. Nihlus 19:19, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Refusal to discuss and more threats.. not cool. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:28, 13 October 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Bug (album) (disambiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Bug (album) (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the Bug (album) (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 05:04, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Editing restriction

Can you explain how these two edits are not a violation of your editing restriction (specifically the second edit)? The page in question, Mercedes Chacón Porras, has a link to it on La Galería de las Mujeres de Costa Rica that has been there since at least May. One of your tags is invalid and appears to be only cosmetic in nature since one was in August and the other today. There are many others like this that you have edited today that were linked when you first added the template. Nihlus 23:26, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Don't listen to Nihlus, speaks complete garbage and wants everyone to be blocked.--Biografer (talk) 05:18, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Rich_Farmbrough&oldid=805562259"