This might be the third time I've asked you to check my NPP School responses. No offense, but I want to know if you don't have the time for this program, I would like to de-register from it. TNM101 (chat) 13:27, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You left a note on the GalaxyBot user talk page saying that it had been fixed but I'm running this Quarry query and it still lists 131 drafts and sandboxes that it says are eligible for CSD G13 speedy deletion. So, something is off. This 30/31 day difference happens at the end of most months (except for January and July) and it's really messed up in February when we have a 3 day difference. So, is there something that needs fixing in the query or is it an issue with GalaxyBot?
A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
Technical news
The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
Can I ask what criteria you are using for this tagging, because it appears somewhat indiscriminate. Brick for example is not Israeli-produced or financed, the director isn't Israeli, and it's not topically about Israel. Many of the other films you've tagged seem similarly unrelated. ♠PMC♠ (talk)10:19, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This award is given in recognition to DreamRimmer for conducting 348 article reviews in 2024. Thank you so much for all your excellent work. Keep it up! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:16, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rick Bot backup
Hi. Ganesha811 pointed me at this thread. I was out of town for a bit and turned off my PC, which meant the bot was not running. This may happen again, so it's probably not a bad idea to have a backup. The source at User:Rick Bot/scripts is not necessarily current, but it's at least fairly close. I have prototyped a "meta bot" on AWS that runs as a scheduled lambda function that downloads the source from Wikipedia and runs it, but haven't switched over to that yet. I'm not entirely sure I want to pay for an AWS account to keep this running. In any event, thanks for the backup. -- Rick Block (talk) 19:15, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.
Updates for editors
On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [1]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (w:tig:) [2]
View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. [3]
Updates for technical contributors
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. [4]
Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. [5]
Hi please change your signature to <code>[[User:DreamRimmer|<span style="color:black" class="skin-invert">'''DreamRimmer'''</span>]] <small>([[User talk:DreamRimmer|'''talk''']])</small></code> (renders as DreamRimmer (talk)) for dark mode compatibility with Vector 2022. —Matrix(!)ping onewhen replying {u - t? - uselessc} 17:34, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi DreamRimmer, I know I pinged you a lot of times for the NPP School reviewing, but I wanted to let you know that I won't have the time to do this program until probably the 25th or 26th of March. If it is possible, could you please place it on hold, or you can take a new student instead. Thank you, TNM101 (chat) 18:07, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
