User talk:West.andrew.g

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This is the talk page for user West.andrew.g. Should you need to contact me in a more private manner, it is not hard to find my email address on my professional homepage. Though I am usually a good talk page watcher, sometimes professional deadlines and conference travel may slightly delay the process. If you are not a regular here, I will generally post talkback templates to your user page. If you are a regular, I operate on the assumption you've watchlisted this page. Thanks!

Request for creating "popular economics pages" page[edit]

@West.andrew.g: Hi Dr. West! It would be much appreciated and vary helpful if there was a "popular economics pages" page, like the "Popular medical pages" page. Thank you. Ra1han (talk)Ra1han (talk) 15:25, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

You'd need to begin by convincing me: (1) there is an audience for this sort of thing who is going to get some type of ROI from the list (i.e., a very active WikiProject, as is the case with WP:MED), and (2) that there is a well curated category structure surrounding economics topics. West.andrew.g (talk) 18:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Using STiki[edit]

Hi Andrew, having rollback perm give additional permissions when using STiki? Thank you! Robertgombos (talk) 19:40, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

@Robertgombos: There are no additional permissions when using STiki, only the criteria that determines if you can use it in the first place. You got access because you have 2000+ main namespace edits. One can also get access by having the "rollback" permission. Regardless the entry criteria, the tool functions identically at the surface-level (some of the interior plumbing is different, but this is transparent to an end-user). Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 06:10, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
@West.andrew.g:, great, thanks! It's awesome that users can leave custom messages or tips when warning. I love that feature. Robertgombos (talk) 06:19, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Your subpage 2013 popular pages is timing out on mobile[edit]

It appears when I try to view your page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:West.andrew.g/2013_popular_pages on mobile, the page times out displaying "Our servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem. Please try again in a few minutes."

The issue is the number of images in your article (11612). Could these be converted to unicode characters/emojis per mobile image recommendations so that this can be viewed on mobile? Jdlrobson (talk) 00:09, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

@Jdlrobson: I welcome anyone who wants to make the change -- I'm sure there are others already familiar with the tools that expedite this kind of work (AWB?). These lists are generated using Java code and database processing, but given that we are talking about the 2013 aggregate, I've long since deleted the underlying raw data that would make it possible to just re-run the script with pointers to Unicode article quality indicators instead of images. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 04:38, 18 September 2018 (UTC)