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More on adminrights.js

Hi. I'm still not sure what is going on with your adminrights.js script and Firefox 4 (I'm using beta 8 now, and it's still not working for me). However, I think I've managed to come up with a workaround. Starting with a copy of User:NuclearWarfare/Mark-blocked script.js, I added code to look up admins (via the API) and mark them with a blue-green background. The result (which marks admins and blocked users in a single script) is User:Richwales/markusers.js. I should probably test it out for a while before announcing it to the general user community, but if you have time to try it, I'd be grateful for any feedback. Richwales (talk · contribs) 06:10, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

I also added a new feature — users with "more than sysop" rights (checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat, steward) are marked with a green background in my new markusers.js script. Regular admins are marked with a blue-green background — similar to your script, but lighter. Richwales (talk · contribs) 15:59, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Rich, any chance you could add a .user-is-self type of thing, which would take care of my problem below? — Huntster (t @ c) 07:32, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, that seems to make one or more reasonably substantial API calls on every page load, in a way that can't be cached easily, for something that doesn't change frequently. I suppose on modern connections, the bandwidth is likely to be insignificant anyway, although it makes me feel a little awkward reading it. The script would work fine as an alternative to mine, I think, although it works on an entirely different principle. --ais523 21:36, 1 January 2011 (U T C)

highlightmyname.js

Hey Ais, I started using your name highlighter here and on Commons a couple of weeks ago, and just today, when I try to edit certain pages (I can't find any rhyme or reason to it), something in the script blanks the edit window. Disabling the script returns everything to normal. I'm using a very slightly modified version of yours, at User:Huntster/highlightmyname.js and Commons:User:Huntster/highlightmyname.js, but the suddenness of the problem is the strange part. In any case, I'm using FF 3.6.13, so I don't think its related to the above adminhighlighter issue (though who knows). — Huntster (t @ c) 07:30, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Use User:ais523/highlightmyname2.js instead. There's a known bug on the original in some browsers (I'm not entirely sure what causes it either)... --ais523 21:31, 1 January 2011 (U T C)

Thanks muchly, I find this script very useful for picking my contribs out from the forest. — Huntster (t @ c) 23:06, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Rfd-t

Template:Rfd-t has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — This, that, and the other (talk) 11:09, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

highlightmyname2 help

Hi. I was wondering if you could take a gander at my monobook.css page and tell me why the colors aren't working? I've added the code as specified and bypassed my brower's cache (Firefox 3.6.13), but it's not showing my colors of white text with a green background, just the default red background. Thanks. ArcAngel (talk) ) 03:34, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Moving the rogue js out of my css page didn't help, as I still have the default colors. I don't think it's a brower issue as I have also tried Chrome, but I refuse to run IE. ArcAngel (talk) ) 16:15, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Stub sorting script

Greetings. I used to use your stub sorting script daily, but it hasn't worked for a while. Is it terminal?! Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 14:37, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the message, works perfectly now, thanks! – ukexpat (talk) 19:28, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

hi

do you want to be friends? how old are you?Trinitykate99 (talk) 20:54, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Catwatch to local time?

I'm using Catwatch and the only flaw that I've seen in it is that the times appear to show up in my watchlist in UTC. It is sort of disconcerting to add something to a category, make other changes and still see the catwatch generated entry as first in my watchlist. Is there any way that either the code can handle this or that I can adjust things?Naraht (talk) 13:51, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Cannot view pictures in Wikipedia

I am using Mozilla Firefox and cannot see any pictures in Wikipedia. I think I may have blocked them by accident but cannot figure out how to unblock. I have gone into Options Content under the Tools menu and everything is ticked off, Load Images automatically. Don't know what to do and would appreciate any help. email is: melodie.ramsay@cgi.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.18.221.197 (talk) 22:45, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Your mysterious signature

How did you link (UTC)? --43?9enter ^★_☭ 23:21, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Your script

Hey Ais523, I noticed yesterday that your vote symbols script changed to doubling all the icons. I am using Firefox at this time and thought I would let you know. Thanks, -- DQ (t) (e) 23:30, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Does it double this? Support? --Σ _☭^★ 23:38, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

No, it doesn't. Not to my view, anyway. --ais523 23:44, 14 May 2011 (U T C)

Not to my view, either, and I'm looking at an RfA. --Σ _☭^★ 23:47, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Can you add File:Symbol confirmed.svg to show up when someone adds "Agree"? I would make my own version but I don't know how. --Σ _☭^★ 02:21, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

FYI

Hey there, I just wanted to let you know that I've created a different version of your watchlist notifier script; it's essentially the same, but uses the secure server API rather than the standard one. The default script doesn't work unless I'm logged into both servers, which rather defeats the purpose of the secure server. :-) The secure version is here: User:Hersfold/securewatchlistnotifier.js; the only difference is the changed URLs. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 06:25, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Editcounter script

Hello. This message is to inform you that a userscript you have worked on, User:Ais523/editcount.js, is no longer working, and may need repairs or updates. Please watch the Wikipedia Signpost for alerts of new versions of MediaWiki that might break scripts, and not read the welcome page because you already know how to contribute to Wikipedia. Thank you. →Σ τ c. 00:11, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Henderson Award (2nd nomination)

In a revisit of a previous AFD you commented on, you might be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Henderson Award (2nd nomination).--GrapedApe (talk) 03:32, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

User:Ais523/adminrights.js

Hi,
SoxBot is no longer maintaining the admin list you were using because X! retired. Since I cloned your script a while ago for some reason I don't remember anymore I allowed myself to gut your script and just import mine instead. Feel of course free to revert.
Cheer, Amalthea 14:14, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Script

Hi Ais! I'm a sysop in portugueses wikipedia and I'm interested in translate your script "admrigts" but I could not find the link. Can you show me? Thanks,

Willy Weazley 15:58, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

User script listings cleanup project

I'm leaving this message for known script authors and recent contributors to Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts.

This scripts listing page is in dire need of cleanup. To facilitate this, I've created a new draft listing at Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts cleanup. You're invited to list scripts you know to be currently working and relevant. Eventually this draft page can replace the current scripts listing.

If you'd like to comment or collaborate on this proposal, see the discussion I started here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject User scripts#Scripts listing cleanup project. Thanks! Equazcion ^(talk) 01:01, 25 Mar 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted

I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon. It's 1-3 June and registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, just mention it in the registration form.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising, primarily talking about ResourceLoader and Gadgets (extending functionality with JavaScript), the switch to Lua for templates, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

Our goals for the event are to bring 100-150 people together, including lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

I also thought you might want to know about other upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC and our other events.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 14:39, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Your catwatch script

I might be having an issue with your script. Please see Wikipedia:VPT#Blank error message coming up on watchlist. Thanks, Dismas|^(talk) 14:52, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Changes to Ais523/stubtagtab.js

I've made a few small changes to your Ais523/stubtagtab.js script, which you may be interested in. In particular, I added a line to automatically remove any old {{stub}} templates, since they're being replaced anyhow. I also disabled automatic previewing, since it was slowing down my editing; you may want to consider making that a preference somehow. You can see my version at User:Wolfgang42/stubtagtab.js. Also, do you know why there's an identical version of the script at User:MC10/stubtagtab.js? It just makes things confusing. — Wolfgang42 (talk) 00:23, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Notice of change

Hello. You are receiving this message because of a recent change to the administrator policy that alters what you were told at the time of your desysopping. The effect of the change is that if you are inactive for a continuous three year period, you will be unable to request return of the administrative user right. This includes inactive time prior to your desysopping if you were desysopped for inactivity and inactive time prior to the change in policy. Inactivity is defined as the absence of edits or logged actions. Until such time as you have been inactive for three years, you may request return of the tools at the bureaucrats' noticeboard. After you have been inactive for three years, you may seek return of the tools only through WP:RFA. Thank you. MBisanz ^talk 00:20, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Catwatch.js broken

I believe your tool catwatch.js is broken. For some reason, it loads every time I refresh my watchlist. However, lately, it has not been loading at all. I greatly rely on this tool to help me find "new" pages to add to my watchlist. However, I don't know when, or what kind of, pages are being added to the categories I am watching. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 06:12, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

An RfC that you may be interested in...

As one of the previous contributors to {{Infobox film}} or as one of the commenters on it's talk page, I would like to inform you that there has been a RfC started on the talk page as to implementation of previously deprecated parameters. Your comments and thoughts on the matter would be welcomed. Happy editing!

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Naughty Legobot...

Your clever signature prevented the bot from properly reading the timestamp on your nomination and bots don't react well to be unable to parse data they expect to find in a certain format. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 21:30, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

I thought it might be that; adding another five tildes would be my next try after the {{nobots}} tag. (It's still reacting incorrectly; it should leave the page alone if it doesn't understand the timestamp. But at least it's easily fixable.) Clearly, I should have stayed active through the past six years so that bots would get more used to my signature; it predates most of the active bots, but that's no real use if they weren't around to see it. --ais523 21:36, 24 October 2014 (U T C)

Too much?

Thank you so much for your effort in the maintainability of (quotation) templates. I'm not sure if https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AQuote%2FSandbox&diff=631333220&oldid=631331105 is the way to go though. Quotation is already broken with inline styles (which gives problems on mobile, see quotations talk page). Shouldn't we strive for better (i.e. where you wrap the whole thing in a div to keep the block display on the outer level while making use of the margin on the inner - that's definitely better than my first attempt) rather than being pixel-identical to the old version in all non-obviously broken cases? I'm afraid that if we make quote terribly complicated again, the way to better will be harder to find. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 15:55, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Recent activity

Hi. I meant to stop by the other week to say that I'm quite glad to see that you're active here again. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 18:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

History of the Poles in the United States

If you can link it to the Polish language page, let me know.Pola.mola (talk) 17:54, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks for the tool

Hi! From another user I found your very useful .js script about "bracket matching". Here I thought of an additional enhancement to the tool. Do you know if/how that is possible? Best of wishes. --Paracel63 (talk) 11:48, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Catwatch

Hi, and thanks for building/sharing the CatWatch script. I'm running into a bug (or user error) I'm hoping you can help with. I have a long WatchedCategories list. Additions to some categories do pop up on my watchlist as they're supposed to, but inconsistently. For example, I know that there have been additions in the last two days to Category:Assignment Design Wizard assignment plans, Category:Articles created or improved during ArtAndFeminism 2015, and Category:Specialized encyclopedias. If I remove all but that one on the list, it shows up on my watchlist just fine. Right now I have all three there and only the first two are showing up. Oddly, the last, Specialist encyclopedias, is between those on the list, so formatting seems an unlikely culprit. Is the list just too long to process? Thanks. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 22:04, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Test pages

Hi, can we delete all at Special:Prefixindex/User:Ais523/ElC? These all seem to be from some testing back in 2006. Another editor recently created some test categories that are redlinked from these. – Fayenatic London 20:35, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I have blanked them as you suggested on my talk page. – Fayenatic London 21:01, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

WT:RFA

So, roughly speaking: I'm not arguing "viewdeleted good, buttons bad", it's just that this question of which userright is the least toxic is a question I don't have the luxury of having an opinion on, because there are so many other opinions out there ... I just have to go with the flow, or nothing will get done. Countless RfCs have shown that what most voters care most about is actual admin buttons, and from their rationales, it's clear that this has something to do with a perception of fairness and not wanting people to have power over other people unless they're well-trained and it's absolutely necessary. We don't get those complaints with viewdeleted, we get different complaints, but there's a chance something can be done about those complaints. It wouldn't bother me at all if the consensus tilts largely in your favor, and this userright is handed out rarely, though I doubt "rarely" will become "never", because some candidates fail RfA over technical issues that have nothing to do with trustworthiness or dedication (as perceived by the voters ... again, I don't have the luxury of personal opinions on much of this stuff). - Dank (push to talk) 21:20, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

I would just like to thank you for your good faith and nature over at WT:RFD with the discussion we are having. It is refreshing to find such a good-faith editor and even though we may disagree on some points I think we have done so intelligently, and to work together to make Wikipedia better is a delight. I'll happily thank you there but wanted to say so personally. Si Trew (talk) 00:43, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

MfD

I noticed that you had nominated several pages at MfD. I'm not sure what happened but the tag ended up on the talk page. It is supposed to be on the front page. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 10:58, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. That makes sense. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 14:57, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

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Updating stub script

Hello, Are you planning to update this stub sorting script? User talk:Ais523/stubtagtab.js. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 20:11, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year Ais523!

Happy New Year!

Ais523,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Poepkop (talk) 14:20, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

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Edit counter

Is it possible to develop an edit counter which I can display on a page in the form - I have made ____ contribs. Where the figure is auto updated. Thanks Varun FEB2003 ^{I am Offline} 15:29, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Technical Help needed

Can you help me. How do I use JavaScript code here. The discussion can be found at - Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Check_box Can you help me please. Varun FEB2003 ^{I am Offline} 17:57, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

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Please create documentation pages for your scripts

Hello, could you please create documentation pages for your scripts? That would be really helpful. They don't have to be long - they just need to state what the script is doing (it doesn't matter if that's already in a comment in the script or not).

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