User talk:Legoktm/December 2015

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GA submission not listed by Legobot

Hi Legoktm. Yesterday I submitted Morning/Evening for GA review, but it has not appeared at WP:GAN#Albums. Did I do something wrong? Thanks! — sparklism ^hey! 09:28, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 December 2015

Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?

News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections

In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches

Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Tech News: 2015-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [1]

Problems

Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [2]

Changes this week

You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [3]
IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [4]
You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [5]
It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [6]
You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [7]
UploadWizard will look a bit different. [8]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [9]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [10]

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17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 December 2015

News and notes: ArbCom election results announced

Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view

In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries

Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners

Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?

Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Tech News: 2015-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [11]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join. [12]

Future changes

A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [13]

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

kenzie dont foget

it will talk to you  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.1.211.189 (talk) 23:00, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 December 2015

In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges

In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015

Arbitration report: GMO case decided

Featured content: An unusually slow week

WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations

Traffic report: A feast of Spam

Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	For fixing the problem of stale pages on mobile. Pine^✉ 00:55, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Legobot hasn't made an update in 24 hours

Legoktm, I realize that this could be a false alarm, but it's extremely unusual that no updates at all are made in a 24 hour period: no nominations, no new reviews, no holds, passes, or failures. So, if you can, please take a look and make sure that Legobot is still working, and doesn't need to be requeued or the like. Many thanks, and sorry for bothering you. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:50, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: No worries :) It looks like this was caused by [14] where cron was broken on tool labs. Can you confirm that it's working again? The logs on the server look like it's running again. Legoktm (talk) 02:13, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Legoktm, the GAN updates were out for about 48 hours, and came back at 17:27 UTC on December 10 (its update before that was 18:21 UTC on December 8), and I can confirm that it has been working ever since. Oddly, if you look at Legobot's contributions, it was working during that time doing other jobs, but not the ones related to the GAN page. So it doesn't need to be requeued, it's just that its GA-related tasks were non-functional for over 47 hours. There were definitely reviews started and new nominations submitted in this period—quite a few showed up on the first successful update (and a few disappeared as well), several of which were dated December 9, indicating that this was an actual outage and not a highly unusual dry spell.

Incidentally, I've been wondering why, when someone replaces a "GA nominee" template with a "FailedGA" on an article's talk page, the bot invariably calls this "Maintenance" rather than "Failed [article name]". I've done a few myself, so I know that I'm doing the steps according to WP:GANI instructions, yet the bot doesn't seem to characterize this properly in the edit summary. Is there anything you can do to get the bot to give an accurate summary? (The same thing can happen when the "GA nominee" is supplanted by the "GA" template, indicating that the nomination passed.) Please let me know whether you think this is fixable. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:36, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

The same is basically true for "Passed [article name]"; the last time "Passed" appeared in an edit summary was November 1, and there have been dozens of articles listed since then. Any ideas of how to get the bot to give a more accurate edit summary? I'm still hoping for a reply on this issue. Thanks in advance. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:37, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

And new info: Legobot hasn't added a "Good article" icon to any articles since November 1. It could be that some change around that time broken this functionality as well as the "Passed" functionality. I know that some articles have recently sat for days before the GA icon is manually added, so the bot has had time to add them even though it hasn't. Can you please look into it and report back? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:17, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings!

Hello Legoktm: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:27, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hi

Hi Legoktm, I have removed my name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service nearly a month ago, but I am still getting RfC updates from Legobot on my talk page. I am not much active on Wikipedia or I am not commenting on RfCs anymore, so how I can stop these messages from bot. Thanks. --Human3015^TALK 19:44, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

There have also been posts at User talk:Legobot#Bot persistence problem (originally Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 421#RFC Bot Won't Quit) and Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Legobot. The bot also ignores {{bots|deny=Legobot}}. It has posted many times to User talk:Aparslet since [15]. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:22, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week

There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings

Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Request help with wikilinks from RFC/A to RFC

Hello, I left a note at WT:RFC describing a problem with the wikilinks from WP:RFC/A to an RfC, and would very much appreciate it if you could please take a look. Thank you. Hugh (talk) 05:04, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

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Problem: RFC in Flow

I really should have thought of this sooner, but Legobot never processed an RFC that's running inside Flow here. It was started Nov 29th, so there's 8 days left if we stick with the usual RFC timeline. Could you jump in an manually handle whatever RFC-workflow that Legobot usually handles? Maybe get it listed on RFC-fedback-request service for at least a few days? I considered editing the list myself, but I didn't want to risk screwing up the automated process. Thanx. Alsee (talk) 02:29, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, the bot is not Flow-aware. I don't think there's any way to subvert the process manually, the bot'll probably trip over itself if something like that happens. Maybe you could use {{cent}} or something? Legoktm (talk) 02:01, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

globalprefs on toollabs

Hi, I wanted to try your globalprefs tool on toollabs, but I only get an internal error. Is the tool still active? Need I to use another URL to use it? --° (Gradzeichen) 12:15, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

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