User talk:Enterprisey/Archive 10

Script modification
I've edited your reply-link.js script here to not reload the page. Instead it retrieves the new section content via ajax. Could you please test this version. It works intermittently for me and I am not sure why. --Gryllida (talk) 01:13, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Please check this issue and also that one in afch. If you do not have time to implement any of this then guidance about how to do it would be most appreciated, as I have a beginner knowledge of JavaScript. Gryllida (talk) 00:40, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Both have now been ✅. Enterprisey (talk!) 22:49, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

https://tools.wmflabs.org/afdstats/
For at least 2 days, the above tool hangs without results. — Maile (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Works for me, took 645.19 seconds, though. Sam Sailor 13:52, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * The wmflabs.org servers have been experiencing problems the last days, so that might have caused it. Regards So  Why  14:13, 31 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Server glitches makes sense. I wonder if it's browser specific. I just changed computers to check this, and it doesn't work for me on either computer.  Both computers use Firefox 67.0 (64-bit) Although, until yesterday, I never had an issue pulling this up. — Maile  (talk) 14:18, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Not browser-specific. I just tried it on Chrome Version 74.0.3729.169 (Official Build) (64-bit).  Still doesn't pull up for me. — Maile  (talk) 15:03, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Just put MusikAnimal's code up and it seems to be behaving (if really slowly) now. Enterprisey (talk!) 17:32, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hooray! It works! — Maile (talk) 17:49, 2 June 2019 (UTC)


 * And now it doesn't. — Maile (talk) 00:53, 3 June 2019 (UTC)


 * And now it does. Just takes forever.  — Maile  (talk) 01:51, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 6
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (May 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 6th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg userRightsManager


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Opencooper's domainRedirect* Danski454's hotcat-summary* Guywan's 12HourFormat* DannyS712's Subcategories


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Twinkle (commit 53b6bf4)

Pending requests
 * Help with helping
 * List annotator
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Enjoy your summer, --DannyS712 (talk) 23:44, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
 * An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
 * An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news
 * The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion.  You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
 * Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution!  The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous
 * The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
 * The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:48, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

AFCRHS.js
Project page was moved to Articles for creation/Redirects and categories, could you update the script? Thanks, Sam Sailor 06:32, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. Enterprisey (talk!) 22:53, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
 * (cc ) Enterprisey (talk!) 22:53, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

cv-revdel
...should fail gracefully, given an error, or do something when encountering the spam blacklist. I tried to add a rd1 tag to a page, and one of the sources tripped the blacklist. Rather than closing, giving an error, or doing anything, the script just remained in the same state, except that it didn't add the actual tag. See. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:22, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Had such a case today with Italian Islands of the Aegean. Manually trying to add copyvio-revdel with the first URL from this case brought up MediaWiki:Spamprotectiontext. Sam Sailor 06:15, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * and, this should be fixed now; sorry for the long delay. Enterprisey (talk!) 08:43, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Enterprisey bot down since June 7
See. Could you check what's going on? &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 03:36, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Although it was unfortunately out for a while, seems to be in working order now. Enterprisey (talk!) 05:00, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Tweak to bag bot sorting
 This would allow better sorting of bot ops in the table, rather than have 'none' in the middle of the sort. See for how that would affect the table. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:41, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * It would also be nice to have usernames linked. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:06, 27 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Also, there is an issue with headers with links with a leading : in them. The current TOC has
 * Bot requests
 * instead of
 * Bot requests
 * because of Category:Personal userbox galleries used to generate the link. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:18, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

Again an issue at Bot requests vs Bot requests. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:57, 22 August 2019 (UTC)


 * @Headbomb, all issues fixed (took long enough {); let me know if everything looks good. Enterprisey (talk!) 08:59, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 7
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (June 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 7th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Evad37's MoveToDraft


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg MJL's textDisallow* Opencooper's talkCount* Guywan's List Entry Annotator
 * SD0001: DYK-helper* find-archived-section* draft-sort-burst* UnassessedArticleLinks* StubSorter
 * DannyS712: Subcategories* Examine edits* ExpandHistory* Global watchlist


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DannyS712's DiscussionCloser

Open tasks
 * FR30799386's mobileUndo (maintained on enwiki by DannyS712) is currently a proposed gadget. Join the discussion at the village pump
 * Interstellarity has requested help with forking Joshua Scott's pending changes script to add a feature



Miscellaneous
 * After an MfD, DannyS712's MMS was deleted. It was originally created by . If you import either of these scripts, you may want to uninstall them, as they no longer exist.

Having published 6 issues of this newsletter, I decided it was time to move it out from my user space. It is now located at Scripts++. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 11:45, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg 28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • 1 • Flyguy649 • 2 • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe
 * 1 's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
 * 2 's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg 28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.
 * In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.
 * The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
 * The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
 * A request for comment seeks to determine whether Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous
 * In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop . This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:19, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Reply-link
Reply link does load on Minerva skin. But unfortunately preview and reply feature don't work. Could you please optimize this script for mobile? Masum Reza 📞 09:06, 19 July 2019 (UTC)


 * (Resolved, sort of, by reply-link being superseded by DiscussionTools.) Enterprisey (talk!) 09:03, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Kyoto Animation arson attack
I re-instated the info about why the names of the deceased have yet to be released. In my opinion it doesn't need a time stamp as the information is still true that the victims haven't been identified yet. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 13:29, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * - to sneak in an answer, time stamps are wanted for edits, as at some stage it won't be correct. That's fine if the editor always immediately appeared and updated, but that's not always the case. As such, it's helpful to add it in so that, in the event it's not updated, readers can know "ok that was the case 4 weeks ago, but might not be now" Nosebagbear (talk) 12:40, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Script
Yo; any chance you could still write this script when you have a moment? It would be much appreciated. Erik Humphrey (talk) 19:02, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure! Will do. Enterprisey (talk!) 06:20, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , see User:Enterprisey/edit-section-on-hover.js. Enterprisey (talk!) 06:33, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your efforts! Erik Humphrey (talk) 12:56, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 8


News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (July 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 8th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Jackmcbarn's editProtectedHelper


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Galobtter's WatchlistLinksNewTab* SD0001's Watchlist title updater* Yair rand's UserBlind
 * Anne drew Andrew and Drew's ScritSorter* Masumrezarock100's mobilemorelinks
 * Enterprisey: edit section on hover* Search shortcuts* superjump
 * ZLEA: EditRequestLinks.js* MMSLink.js


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DannyS712's Global watchlist* SD0001's StubSorter


 * Farm-Fresh error go.png After a discussion, User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/Sagittarius+.js has been redirected to
 * User:Wugapodes/Capricorn.js, and is maintaining it.

Pending requests
 * A script to fill in &#123;&#123;Template:Infobox journal&#125;&#125;
 * A tool to simplify merging articles
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Hope everyone is having a good winter (or summer, for those in the northern hemisphere). Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:40, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Johnuniq • Kosack • Valereee
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg RickinBaltimore

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Beeblebrox
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, the page Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
 * A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration
 * Editors may now use the template Ds/aware to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous
 * Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
 * The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing  here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist. Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

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Your RfBAG
Hello Enterprisey, following your successful nomination, you have been added to the Bot Approvals Group. You may want to watchlist BAG/Status to see changes to the backlog. Welcome to the BAG. — xaosflux  Talk 11:36, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Congrats! SQL Query me!  18:58, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Good idea — Congrats! ~ Amory  (u • t • c) 10:32, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to project revival
Dear user, I, with Willbb234, are a attempting to revive the Wikiproject Requested Articles, of which you are a member. If you wish to be a part of our effort, feel free to add your signature in it's talk page. Best regards, Eni vak   (speak)  16:21, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

XfD Stats malfunctiong
I'm afraid to report that the tool is malfunctioning. The "user" and "number of discussions" text boxes work fine, but pulling up the results leads to a "ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR" error message on Google Chrome. Might be a domain issue in the code. ToThAc (talk) 00:52, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Bradv • Chetsford • Izno
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Floquenbeam • Lectonar
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news
 * Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
 * The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration
 * A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous
 * A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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User_talk:Enterprisey/reply-link
Please see my message there. Interstellarity (talk) 17:31, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Barkeep49
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Beetstra • KillerChihuahua • Kusma
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno
 * Pictogram voting rename.png JamesBWatson →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Evad37

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news
 * As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration
 * The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
 * The arbitration case regarding was closed.  While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous
 * The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 9
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (August and September, 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 9th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Enterprisey's links-in-logs


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Tokenzero's infoboxJournal* SD0001's RFUD-helper* Danski454's code edit window size
 * BrandonXLF: FloatHead* ShowRevisionID* EditorFirst
 * Þjarkur: NeverUseMobileVersion* CleanDiffURLs
 * Galobtter's admin highlighter* ZLEA's Dashboard* Cobaltcigs's DisableDragDrop


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg SD0001's archived section finder

Miscellaneous
 * MJL's Archer was used to break a Wikipedia record. See the edit in question & the updated records page for more.

Sorry for falling behind a bit. Please let me know if I missed any new scripts. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Pending requests
 * A script to simplify merging
 * A script to tweak rollback links
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



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AfD stats
giving a 500 - Internal Server error :-( &#x222F; WBG converse 15:59, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , is this still happening? I just tried it and didn't get one. Enterprisey (talk!) 19:12, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Nah; it's all fixed by now! Sorry for bothering you. &#x222F; WBG converse 11:28, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Proposals regarding AfC & NPP
You are invited to comment at discussion currently taking place at Relationship of Articles for Creation and New Page Reviewer for pre-opinion on the combined functions of Articles for Creation (AfC) and New Page Review (NPR). This mass message invitation is being sent to subscribed members of the work group at the project The future of NPP and AfC. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:11, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

RfA tools
Hello there Enterprisey, I just recently became aware of some of your tool work on wiki. It looks like you've worked on/replaced/repaired some of the ScottyWong tools. Is there perhaps a fix or replacement for this one? I did see the "voting pattern" one for RfA, but was interested in seeing how a single user voted over multiple RfAs. TY for all your great work - it's appreciated. — Ched (talk) 23:44, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I remember there certainly used to be one (as in a version more recent than scottywong's). I thought it was in xtools, but I checked there and didn't see it. I put a few minutes into looking elsewhere but couldn't find anything. I would certainly be happy to make it myself if one can't be found, although I'm a bit busy IRL lately (...when is that ever not the case, haha) so we might have to delay a bit. That said, I'm going to try to get as much stuff out the door as possible before the upcoming WikiConference, so there's a good chance we'll have a tool like this by then. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:17, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

User:Enterprisey/delsort.js
User:Enterprisey/delsort.js may need to be updated to use "csrfToken" as well. It didn't work for me for the past few days. feminist (talk) 02:21, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up! Guess I gotta go through all my user scripts now. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:01, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Now fixed. Sorry about the small delay. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:13, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Phab
T233443 and sub-tasks might be of interest to you :-) &#x222F; WBG converse 12:46, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Yup, been following them! Very excited to see what comes of that. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:00, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

User:Enterprisey/delsort
Hi Enterprisey, Good'y. I have been using the above script to do the delsort at AfD; however, for the last week, it seems after I have selected the subje from the "Delsort list", I could not make a save. Kindly advise and thank you. CASSIOPEIA(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 07:25, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Fixed; thank you for letting me know! Enterprisey (talk!) 01:13, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Template:Vandalism information
EnterpriseyBot does not appear to be updating User:EnterpriseyBot/defcon anymore. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 20:37, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah, I pushed a bad code change. Should be fine now. Enterprisey (talk!) 05:10, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg GermanJoe • Girth Summit • Kees08 • Nosebagbear
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DESiegel • GB fan • MSGJ • Voice of Clam • WilyD
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • Fang Aili • Pakaran

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • Pakaran

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg MSGJ

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg L235 • Mz7 • SQL • ST47
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ivanvector
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg L235 • Mz7 • ST47 • Stwalkerster • The Blade of the Northern Lights • Xaosflux
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • DGG • Julia W

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.
 * The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).
 * A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:15, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);;" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (October 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Ahecht's page swap


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg MoonyTheDwarf's wikimap
 * SD0001: hide-reverted-edits* T-Watch* W-Ping* easy-merge
 * Enterprisey: diff-permalink* search-links* section-redir-note* fancy-diffs* EditWarChecker


 * 1009Clock.jpg Pending requests
 * Inline editor for cleanup tags
 * Script to remove empty parameters
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Have a great November, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

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fancy-diffs
Great script! Love it. I noticed a strange error here Special:Diff/924005770 (BTW, thank you for diff-permalink as well). The links on the right side diff for Paul H. O'Neill and Mary E. Peters don't seem to work correctly for me. When I click the latter, for example, I am led to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_ %3Cins_class%3D%22diffchange_diffchange-inline%22%3E E. %3C/ins%3E _Peters.--- Coffee  and crumbs  06:49, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed now. Thanks for the bug report! Enterprisey (talk!) 21:55, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Indeed it is. Thank you! --- Coffee  and crumbs  06:25, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * One more error visible in Special:Diff/925309717. Do Ctrl-F for diffchange-inline"> to find it. --- Coffee  and crumbs  07:42, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks again! Fixed. Enterprisey (talk!) 09:16, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Script installer
Script installer seems to be adding  before the name of the user script when installing. – Brandon XLF   (t@lk)  07:09, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reporting! I assumed the entire contents of the source parameter in the infobox was the script name. Now it'll just grab the first script link it sees. Enterprisey (talk!) 07:45, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

ACE2019
Hello Enterprisey, you appear to have submitted your candidacy after the nominations were closed. Would you like to proceed (to letting the commissioners decide?) — xaosflux  Talk 00:09, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , yes, I would like to proceed. Enterprisey (talk!) 00:13, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you, follow up discussion opened at Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2019/Coordination. — xaosflux  Talk 00:13, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * The commissioner team has deemed you qualified, but left a caveat if other challenges want to be raised. I doubt that will happen, best regards and good luck with the election. —  xaosflux  Talk 02:37, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Good to hear, and thanks for letting me know! Enterprisey (talk!) 02:47, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Seriously, when I said lots of people wait till the last minute, I didn't think this many of them would. I have no clue how this is going to shake out, but best of luck! Beeblebrox (talk) 07:06, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

FFU script
Could you please fork the FFU part from the AFC script like you did with AFCR? It sucks that I can't review those FFU requests quickly because my username is not listed at the AFC participants list. <u style="color:#087643;font-face:arial;text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Masum Reza <sup style="color:orange;">📞 16:22, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , as far as I'm aware, there has been no script that is compatible with the current version of FFU for many years. If you can't review requests fast enough because you can't use a script, you need to slow down. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 14:38, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Greetings from ~Boston
It was great to meet you last weekend. I'm very impressed with your work, and I'm glad you decided to run for ArbCom. See you at the next event! —Emufarmers(T/C) (Benjamin) 01:09, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Reply link
Reply link doesn't work on my talk page. Can you fix that please? Interstellarity (talk) 17:12, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

offset-history-link.js contradicting Twinkle
Just FYI, enabling User:Enterprisey/offset-history-link.js makes the AGF Rollback link from Twinkle fail to work. I liked the effect of the offset-history-link script, but Twinkle is mandatory to my work so I can't use it. Best regards and thanks again for all the work you put into these scripts. --Muhandes (talk) 12:50, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , should be fixed now thanks to a great patch from User:Þjarkur. Enterprisey (talk!) 19:32, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Fixed indeed, thanks, and thanks User:Þjarkur. --Muhandes (talk) 17:59, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

I have caused MusikAnimal some grief...
... and I have you to thank for it.

In delsort, right now the script selects an insertion point in the skin directly (it might reasonably instead be some sort of modal but I don't know how to do that myself :), a point in the skin which not all skins have (cough Timeless cough). Would you mind if you fixed that? I think the preferable way would be to target #contentSub instead of #jump-to-nav, but you could also guard against timeless using an if-else on the skin to insert it in Timeless in the else statement (since we Timeless are few and far between).

Entirely untested, but my button hasn't worked for a year now and I'd like it to. :( --Izno (talk) 22:58, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Works now, I think. (Sorry for the wait...) Enterprisey (talk!) 00:50, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Tiny bug report
Hello, thank you for your great BOTREQ status page! I just wanted to let you know that it currently says a task has -1 replies since the original post wasn't signed. Just thought you might like to know! ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 13:38, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

editToken
Hello Enterprisey,

Your scripts User:Enterprisey/sync-template-sandbox.js, User:Enterprisey/orcp-helper.js, User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter.js, User:Enterprisey/easy-brfa.js, User:Enterprisey/falsePositiveHelper.js, User:Enterprisey/req-helper.js, User:Enterprisey/Gadget-DRN-wizard.js and User:Enterprisey/AFCFFU.js are no longer functional because they attempt to get an  from. The scripts should instead get a. s were removed from  on October 3, 2019 at Phabricator during this edit as they were redundant to  s. –  Brandon XLF  (talk) 00:06, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
 * The scripts User:EnterpriseyBot/reply-dialog.js and User:EnterpriseyBot/delsort-dev.js have the same issue. – Brandon XLF  (talk) 00:14, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Fixed all of them. Enterprisey (talk!) 10:25, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);;" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Enterprisey's reply-link


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Evad37's Thanky* SuperHamster's CiteUnseen* Mattflaschen's Compare link.js
 * Enterprisey: diff-context* fancy-diffs* offset-history-link
 * BrandonXLF: NoRedirect* WatchDoc* HotDefaultSort* TodoList


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Twinkle has received multiple updates
 * Evad37's rater is now at version 2; see the announcement here

Open tasks
 * For those who haven't noticed, per T234576, using  instead of   no longer works

Miscellaneous
 * Following a discussion, XFDcloser is now available as a gadget
 * Evad37's extra.js collection of helper functions is now available as MediaWiki:Gadget-libExtraUtil.js
 * Twinkle's morebits is now a gadget, and is easier to use in as a dependency in other scripts (see here for more)
 * Last month's issue misidentified the creator of the new EditWarChecker script; it was created by Evad37

Pending requests
 * A button to mark templates in the TfD holding cell as ready for deletion
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Enjoy your thanksgiving --DannyS712 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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Discussion at Village pump (technical)
You are invited to join the discussion at Village pump (technical). —<span style="font-size: 93%; letter-spacing:1.2pt; font-family: monospace, monospace;">usernamekiran<b style="letter-spacing:1pt;">(talk)</b> 17:25, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg EvergreenFir • ToBeFree
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Beeblebrox
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Deskana

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Evad37

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
 * Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

AIV
Thank you for your note. I'm sure you know these procedures better than I do, and I trust your judgement. I added that report based on this note in WP:RAA: The vandalism is stale, but seems to have escaped cleanup. Chabala (talk) 07:23, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 * An administrator can repair damage made by a malicious user more quickly than other users: if someone is making multiple damaging edits it will be easier for you to report them than try to repair everything yourself.

Lucky
Well, lucky you, you are not going to be an arb next year, but that's a pretty strong showing for a first-time run. Just throwing in takes nerve and I for one am glad you ran. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:33, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree, especially on the lucky part Regards  So  Why  10:01, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

A new script
Hi, just wanted to let you know that I created a script (User:Majavah/Unslashifier.js) that was listed on your dashboard. Majavah (t/c) 11:05, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , looks good, and thanks for making it! Enterprisey (talk!) 07:05, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Suggestion for User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink

 * Can you auto include the Specialdiff inside double square brackets so that it is ready to post, so the script should give,  instead of
 * Can you take a look at User:GoldenRing and update its fork in your user page. It is very helpful and it stopped working for some reasons. I posted on GR's talk but looks like he is not editing nowadays. -- D Big X ray ᗙ  17:08, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!
<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background-color:#E6E6FA; border: 1px solid #7D00B3; margin: 0.5em auto; padding: 0.5em; width:90%; text-align: center"> Happy Adminship Anniversary! Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:52, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!
<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background-color:#E6E6FA; border: 1px solid #7D00B3; margin: 0.5em auto; padding: 0.5em; width:90%; text-align: center"> Looking good, Enterprise!!! Happy Adminship Anniversary! Just came across your great user page. Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Cheers!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 16:02, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Easy BRFA doesn't transclude BRFAs
Just thought I should tell you. Thanks for the great script by the way! ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 21:14, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed by the update I made last month. Thanks for letting me know! Enterprisey (talk!) 00:19, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Ergo Sum • Nick Moyes • QEDK • Wugapodes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Dennis Brown
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Partial blocks.
 * The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news
 * Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating.  There is currently one template: uw-pblock.
 * When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.

Arbitration
 * Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);;" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (December 2019 and January 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg XFDcloser (now a gadget) is this issue's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Suffusion of Yellow's mark-reverted* Majavah's unslashifier
 * Guywan's BulletSort and HistoryHighlight
 * BrandonXLF's QuickEdit and CompareRevisions


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Enterprisey's fancy-diff should now be able to handle everything the parser can throw at it.
 * Twinkle has a new update (more). It now supports partial blocks and includes the select2 library as a dependency. Select2 is available at MediaWiki:Gadget-select2.min.js for other gadgets and scripts to use.

Miscellaneous
 * Until now, this newsletter has been written primarily by me (DannyS712).
 * If others would like to contribute, help is always appreciated;
 * this was intended to be a community newsletter.

Pending requests A number of requests are listed at User scripts/Requests. Some of the remaining ideas include scripts to: ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests
 * expand a diff until it covers all contiguous edits made by that user
 * highlight which content (in the HTML) comes from which template
 * hyperlink "per X" to the last comment X made
 * show a pop-up section preview when you hover over its TOC link



Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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Finding wikitext positions for Parsoid HTML
You said you were wondering if this is possible, so here's how:


 * 1) Fetch the Parsoid HTML, e.g. from https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/The_Fighting_Temeraire/914474798. Note the revision ID and the "etag" HTTP header value.
 * 2) Fetch the Parsoid data for your HTML output, e.g. from https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/data-parsoid/The_Fighting_Temeraire/914474798/c26208b0-f29e-11e9-b2c6-a5178ebb33fb (using the revision ID and the etag – you need to pass the etag to request the data for a particular parse result, since changes in transcluded templates affect the output).
 * 3) Fetch the wikitext source, e.g. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighting_Temeraire?oldid=914474798&action=raw (or the API)

Then, to find the wikitext position corresponding to a piece of the HTML output, for example this link in the second paragraph:

…you take its  and take the JSON data for it, for this example it's:

The  numbers (I think this stands for "data source range") are the wikitext positions of the beginning and end of the markup, and the lengths of the opening and closing "tag". In this example, the characters 906 to 948 in the wikitext are:

…where the 23-character opening tag is  and the 2-character closing tag is.

Some of the other properties are documented at Parsoid/Internals/data-parsoid (which also says that this is internal and subject to change at any time, but AFAIK it hasn't changed much since Parsoid was invented).

I hope this helps, or is at least interesting :) Matma Rex talk 18:37, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes!! This is super awesome. Thank you so much! I think using this will improve reply-link quite a bit. Enterprisey (talk!) 02:15, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Discussion on the Draft namrespace
As a user who has expressed an interest in the The future of NPP and AfC, you are invited to join a discussion at Village_pump_(policy). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:06, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Cobaltcigs's DiffPreviewFindLine is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Amorymeltzer's History button links* Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector
 * Interstellarity's Semi-protected edit requests and Extended-protected edit requests


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Amorymeltzer's Crat Highlighter now has separate colors for each user access level
 * Opencooper's IPtoEmoji has been updated

Pending requests
 * A script to help administrators handle proposed deletions
 * A script to hide newsletters when viewing another user's talk page
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



I hope everyone is having a great year so far! --DannyS712 (talk) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Money emoji
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Athaenara • DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Fishhead64 • Kudpung • Mikaey

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
 * A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news
 * Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present.  You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
 * The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:20, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

BRFA thought
Just a thought, be lazy like me and let the bots handle the moving/removing/relisting of completed BRFAs; I almost missed your latest approval (and the point about the bot flag) because it wasn't transcluded properly onto the "approved" list. Primefac (talk) 12:04, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks, good to know! Does that mean that step #4 ("Does the bot need a flag?") of User:SQL/How to close a BRFA should be removed? Enterprisey (talk!) 04:46, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't think it needs to be removed, because the directions do say that #3-4 will be done by the bot. Maybe move that line further down to make it more obvious... Primefac (talk) 14:15, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Easy BRFA transclusion error
Hello Enterprisey! I keep getting this when trying to create a new BRFA with the script. Could you please take a look? Thanks! -- The SandDoctor Talk 14:38, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah getting the same error.  on line 271 needs to be changed to  . Best, SD0001 (talk) 10:46, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Done, thanks for letting me know! Enterprisey (talk!) 03:47, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Bot possibly broke
If you check |your bots contribs, you'll see nothing in over 24 hours. A stable level 3 vandalism for that long does not seem right. You might want to check on the bot and see if anything brokedown. If nothing, then turn back on vandalism info. PLEASE copy and paste the code to reply (Talk) 17:39, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed now. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:06, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I think it was partly fixed. The bot never reported level 2 level of vandalism. I don't know if this is a problem or not. Interstellarity (talk) 13:22, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Why are you pinging this person on their talk page? Yeah, it's almost always on level 5, and stays like that during typical peaks like at 19:00 (UTC). It's not the same like before. &#123;&#123;replyto&#125;&#125; Can I Log In's (talk) page 18:01, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Danski454's code-link is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg RealFakeKim's pageInfo* Guywan: InsertShortcuts* ConfirmLogout


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector has been updated to include more sources
 * Evad37's rater script is now on version 2.5. New features include:
 * No longer showing dropdowns for projects without ratings
 * Making use of Category:WikiProject banner templates not based on WPBannerMeta to detect templates
 * Automatically detecting Good Article, Featured Article, and Featured List status, and limiting ORES predictions to B-class
 * An updated version of Twinkle was released. Features relating to the recently-enabled partial blocks include automatic lookup of pages and expanded options for block templates. See a full list of changes here
 * For users of Enterprisey's easy-brfa script, the bug with transcluding new BRFAs has been resolved
 * Guywan's RefCruncher has had minor updates

Miscellaneous
 * For any scripts that previously made use of the  API to change a page's content model, a new API module is available: use   to specify the new content model of an existing page. Documentation is available: mw:API:ChangeContentModel.
 * The dispute resolution noticeboard wizard is no longer a gadget, but rather is loaded using and  . See the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js

Pending requests
 * A script to help file movers process requests, including
 * renaming the file
 * updating file links
 * removing the Rename media template (when relevant)
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Cabayi • Lee Vilenski
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Boing! said Zebedee
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg NativeForeigner

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Someguy1221
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news
 * There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous
 * The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

New NodeJS bot framework
Hi, while I know that you don't use Node.js for your bots, I thought you still might be interested in a new bot framework that I created - mwn. It's mostly written on the MWBot as a foundation with some enhancements copied from mw.Api, some original improvements like automated retries on maxlag and expired token errors, and finally I bundled in my own libApi.js functions for bulk processing tasks. It's intended to cover the limitations of the existing nodejs bot libraries - which have few features and use outdated JS techniques. Your contributions would be very much appreciated! See issues for a list of open tasks if you like. Regards, SD0001 (talk) 20:06, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

any way to scp files over to toolforge? I tried scp'ing them to login.tools.wmflabs.org but of course that didn't work
You asked "any way to scp files over to toolforge? I tried scp'ing them to login.tools.wmflabs.org but of course that didn't work"

Do you mean to an instance that is not tools.wmflabs? Not certain how you are accessing, but have you glanced at wikitech:Help:Access to Cloud VPS instances with PuTTY and WinSCP which has some configurations that may guide you. — billinghurst  sDrewth  07:28, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the thing was I had only tried doing scp during the recent brief Toolforge outage (which would certainly do it!). I tried it recently with login.tools.wmflabs.org and of course it worked fine. Thanks for the helpful link! Enterprisey (talk!) 19:08, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

malfunctioning
We've been having to manually update vandalism information as of late (the bot is/was inaccurately reporting low RPM when it's actually high at the time, and occasionally it goes hours without updating). As having to go in and manually update it is tedious, I think I speak for many when I say the errors should be fixed ASAP. Kirbanzo (userpage - talk - contribs) 01:21, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Fixed; I wasn't checking the edit summaries in a case-insensitive way - that is, the bot would only recognize "undid", not "Undid". Enterprisey (talk!) 22:18, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. Kirbanzo (userpage - talk - contribs) 00:49, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Motorola 68000
This is to report a cyberstalking editor, judging fromhis edit history, who reverted all edits on the Motorola 68000 page made by me on the 25th. Zac67 claimed to have changed just "1" of my edits, yet failed to identify which edit of mine was "unhelpful" - let alone why. 205.166.94.16 (talk) 08:04, 28 April 2020 (UTC) another Zac67 victim
 * You only made 1 edit to Motorola 68000. Also, this talk page is not the place to air grievances. Primefac (talk) 15:57, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Edit filter
Since there seems to be a lul, you may want to look at edit filter 2 and it logs as well. I'm testing some changes I hope will be harder to circumvent while easier to maintain. — Wug·a·po·des​ 01:02, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg SD0001's find-archived-section, now a gadget, is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Enterprisey:
 * link-deleted-revs (On error pages for deleted revisions, show a link to the Special:Undelete page)
 * undelete-backlink (On Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions)
 * Epicgenius's sortcategories (sorts categories in an article alphabetically)
 * Awesome Aasim:
 * addmylinks (adds a customizable area for links and/or text to the sidebar)
 * editrequest (tool that allows for processing and answering edit requests)
 * DemonDays64's Dumb quotes (replaces smart curly single and double quotes with "dumb" quotes)
 * Guywan's FileMoverHelper (move files and replace their uses in one action)


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Enterprisey's reply-link has been updated to fail less, especially around template transclusions.
 * Twinkle released new features, including a new option to disable individual modules, support for stub template nomination at CfD, and integration with the PageTriage extension used to patrol new pages. (See full list of changes)

Open tasks
 * The  resource loader module was deprecated and is no longer needed; its functionality is now available by default. See mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users) for more. Any dependency on it should be removed.

Pending requests
 * A script to reload feeds automatically
 * A script to mark templates in the TFD holding cell as ready for deletion
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Miscellaneous
 * User scripts/Most imported scripts now also shows the number of active users for each script. It will now be updated by a bot periodically.
 * Twinkle's Morebits library added a new  class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using   or   with   objects, those have been deprecated and should be updated.
 * User:SD0001/find-archived-section was made a gadget. You can enable it from your gadget preferences, in the Browsing section.

Hope everyone stays safe. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Callanecc

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news
 * Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
 * Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news
 * The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
 * created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous
 * A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Indefinite block?
Was that really necessary for User:41.176.246.114? Is there something I'm missing? Ed6767 (talk) 00:59, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , nah, it was a bug in the script I'm using. I have fixed the bug and it shouldn't happen again. Good spot, though. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:02, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying! Gl with the script. Ed6767 (talk) 01:05, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Hate to bring this up again
I mean this with all due respects, but still, I feel I need to scrutinise your blocks as they seem overly harsh. Somebody getting a 2 week ban for that? Yet vandals get 31hrs, as they should, as the purpose of a block is to prevent disruptive editing when that person hadn't even broken the 3rr yet, nor did they receive proper warnings past a Level 1 good faith. If again, there's something I'm missing please say. You're an admin so can probably see way more about this user than I can. Thanks in advance! Ed6767 (talk) 02:14, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , sure, sounds sensible. I discussed this with someone more familiar with various methods of IP-hopping and 31 hours would probably work, so I'll reduce all the blocks to that. I had 2 weeks originally to discourage re-use of IPs for this attack; probably just one week would've worked. Almost all of the IPs had no prior use on here that I could see, otherwise two weeks would've definitely been overboard. Enterprisey (talk!) 02:20, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Tysm for clarifying! Sorry if I'm being annoying, I'm still learning all the ins and outs really, I've only been editing mainly for a month. Seeming it's featured, I'll probably propose page protection if it's vandalised again. Again, thanks for clarifying. Ed6767 (talk) 02:23, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Pull request
Hi! Just to be sure: did you see this? I attempted to ping you at User talk:Enterprisey/reply-link, but maybe Echo didn't work? Helder 20:08, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yup, sorry about that! Thank you very much for the patch. I've been a bit busy lately. I will merge the patch and upload a new version shortly. Enterprisey (talk!) 00:41, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

JoshGaming2003
It is odd/disturbing that this user came to continue the blanking of that IP talk page after the IP had been blocked and lost talk page access for edit-warring over said talk page. JoshGaming2003 created his account exactly upon the expiration of the block. It almost leads me to wonder if JoshGaming2003 is a sockpuppet of the IP. He is WP:PRECOCIOUS too, with the edit filter requests. Elizium23 (talk) 04:05, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you
Hey Enterprisey! I just wanted to give a quick thank you for your help blocking some of those IPs over at Russian battleship Peresvet. I appreciate your help. --   LuK3      (Talk)   00:53, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * No problem, and thank you for all your help with patrolling the articles! Enterprisey (talk!) 07:34, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Undo speedy deletion
Hello. You have done a speedy deletion for User:Disha Gahlot/Sandbox/Dr Sumer Sethi which is quite unreasonable and wrong. The page is intended for a biography and is in no way created to promote anything like you've mentioned in your reason. It has facts and figures from reliable and published sources. Check in detail and properly before taking such extreme actions. Kindly undo, not at all acceptable. I was not done, there were still changes to be made. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Disha Gahlot (talk • contribs) 02:35, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Now at Deletion review/Log/2020 May 19. —Cryptic 03:08, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Is there a reason thiese IP are blocked indefinite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/186.91.239.228 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/69.84.105.90 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/41.215.173.76 We rarely block IPs for indefinite periods not sure why these IPs are indefinitely blocked  and the TFA  vandal changes IPs alot so a edit filter would be better then blocking IPs indefinite 17:12, 19 May 2020 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.Ayana (talk • contribs)
 * Good catch; my mistake. It was a bug in my script, and I just fixed it. I have unblocked the indefinitely blocked IPs. The IPs are blocked in the first place to prevent reuse, which the current vandal has shown will certainly occur otherwise. Enterprisey (talk!) 21:04, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Asqueladd...
(Original section header: Asqueladd: Undid revision 957274431 by Picklespitlizyr (talk) Unclear it is a better box. Less clean. You could look up for a photo of the monarch more akin to a mugshot, btw)

I not make "obviously retaliatory reports". Is true that this user makes strange edits. Thank you for put attention. --Picklespitlizyr (talk) 18:00, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

TFA Vandals
Since you seemed to take care of this before: (also reported at AIV). Thanks, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:05, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Make sure to redact the TFA vandal's edits, since the vandal sometimes reuses the URL's! Randompointofview (talk) 01:12, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Good catch; done. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:15, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Now I need help dealing with this person on Wikispecies. I'm getting the impression no administrators are monitoring the Administrator's Noticeboard there, and I think I'm the only one undoing the LTA's vandalism. --Randompointofview (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I have reached out to some stewards. I don't think repeatedly rolling back the vandal without an edit filter or block to help out is the best allocation of effort. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:43, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

reported!!!
Oh no.. seems like you have been reported here... I can't imagine how annoying it must get with these persistent people.. Thanks. GreaterPonce665 (TALK) 02:29, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

AfD stats report down for a few days
Hi I haven’t been able to get an AfD stats report to run for a couple of days now. Is this a known problem? Thanks Mccapra (talk) 21:16, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Ditto. Coolabahapple (talk) 23:45, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Aw shucks. Looking into it; no immediately obvious issues. Sure hope we're not at the point where we need a rewrite... Enterprisey (talk!) 01:16, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * It might be the replag, which was through the roof yesterday. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 08:16, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Maybe, but I was waiting 10+ minutes for it before giving up. Mccapra (talk) 09:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Actually I just got it to run in about 2 minutes so you may we’ll be right. Mccapra (talk) 09:36, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yaay! working, thanks. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:30, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

TFA vandal recycled IPs
Special:Contributions/104.172.108.167 appears to have been used very recently for the same purposes (they also vandalised the TFA of May 24th). Maybe longer blocks should be in order? Just saying. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:36, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * As a VPN is clearly being used, blocking that IP for longer would've just caused them to hop to a new one. The fallout is minimized with 31 hours - heck, a shorter period would probably work as well. On the other hand, assuming it's a peer-to-peer VPN, longer blocks might discourage people from participating in the VPN. But those IPs haven't edited too much otherwise, nor is such a strategy likely to be within policy, so 31 hours sounds about right. Enterprisey (talk!) 00:41, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Many VPNs use open proxies that are blocked for long periods of times so it would not be a issue to block them for longer times since their edits need rev deletion and are seriously bad unless there is evidence that the IP is either not a proxy or a closed proxy 🌸 1.Ayana 🌸 (talk) 10:49, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Not all VPNs should get the same treatment, so shorter blocks (or an escalating schedule) should be fine in this case. Enterprisey (talk!) 06:53, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

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Talkback
Aasim 10:33, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Quick note on User scripts/List
Thanks for your edits to User scripts/List.

Nice to find a better location for this. Aasim 19:09, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

29 May 2020
RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:04, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

tvtropes.org filter
Several IPs have used tvtropes.org as a source on TFA and there needs to be a filter to prevent posting of tvtropes.org on the TFA pages 🌸 1.Ayana 🌸 (talk) 00:06, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Done, sorta, due to the potentially high false-positive rate. Enterprisey (talk!) 00:12, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg SQL

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration
 * A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:27, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

WP:AFC/H issue
Can't accept drafts. Chrome & Windows. No relevant console logs to speak of (attached anyways). Issue persisted while on Firefox.
 * Issue
 * Tech info
 * Console logs

Some cookies are misusing the recommended “sameSite“ attribute 5 JQMIGRATE: Migrate is installed with logging active, version 3.1.0 load.php:376:171 JQMIGRATE: jQuery(window).on('load'...) called after load event occurred load.php:376:746 This page uses the non standard property “zoom”. Consider using calc in the relevant property values, or using “transform” along with “transform-origin: 0 0”. load.php:5:729 This page is using the deprecated ResourceLoader module "jquery.tipsy". load.php:459:246 This page is using the deprecated ResourceLoader module "jquery.ui". Please use OOUI instead. load.php:465:1009 JQMIGRATE: jQuery.fn.delegate is deprecated load.php:376:746 Use of "wgPageName" is deprecated. Use mw.config instead. load.php:4:473 This page is using the deprecated ResourceLoader module "mediawiki.ui". Please use OOUI instead. load.php:1:83 Use of "wgPageName" is deprecated. Use mw.config instead. load.php:4:473 From Firefox.

– MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 22:59, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , I have since fixed this issue, I think (please confirm)? Enterprisey (talk!) 06:51, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Goings-on
For some reason your bot didn't archive Goings-on today (I have done it now). Could you look into that? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 09:06, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the bot was logged out for some reason. I logged it in about three hours after UTC midnight, but I neglected to run all the tasks that it missed. Sorry about that. Enterprisey (talk!) 21:43, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The same happened today too. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 20:43, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Same issue. Time to rewrite the task so that it doesn't depend on me logging in, I guess. Sorry again. Enterprisey (talk!) 07:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

User:EnterpriseyBot/BOTREQ status and Bot Operator detection
How does the Bot determine Operator status? I ask because of this diff "Challenge Bot" (item #6) does not list me as a Bot Operator, yet I operate HasteurBot and Bots/Requests for approval/HasteurBot 15 is approved (along with many other tasks). Hasteur (talk) 17:16, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , it checks for Category:Wikipedia bot operators on your user page. Enterprisey (talk!) 22:15, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Might be nice if you documented that in the pseudo-template. I also think that if the page is being transcluded into WP project space, the "template" really belongs in the template namespace, which also means you should put the task up for a BRFA so that others have an opportunity to scrutinize/document. Hasteur (talk) 22:45, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Now anonymous IPs are adding Scott Alexander’s full name to Talk:Slate Star Codex
Now anonymous IPs are adding Scott Alexander’s full name to Talk:Slate Star Codex:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ASlate_Star_Codex&type=revision&diff=964502244&oldid=964482884

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ASlate_Star_Codex&type=revision&diff=964502386&oldid=964502244

Time to clean up the history again (the name has already been removed by another editor) SkylabField (talk) 00:31, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Seems like someone else has taken care of it, but thanks for letting me know! Enterprisey (talk!) 05:16, 27 June 2020 (UTC)