User talk:JamesR/TalkArchive/2019/March

HBC AIV helperbot5 malfunctioning
HBC AIV helperbot5 has ceased editing WP:AIV at around 00:15 UTC today. As you may know, this task is tedious done manually, so it would be appreciated if this could be fixed ASAP. Thanks, Kirbanzo (userpage - talk - contribs) 02:20, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Looking into this now. Thank you for the notification. &mdash; JamesR  ( talk ) 02:44, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I've just restarted the bot and will continue to monitor. &mdash; JamesR  ( talk ) 02:59, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Broken again - hasn't edited since ~05:15 utc. Galobtter (pingó mió) 09:21, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Looking. &mdash; JamesR  ( talk ) 10:13, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * It looks to be working again now, I have had to move the bot off Tool Labs until I get some time to troubleshoot further. &mdash; JamesR  ( talk ) 12:03, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Down again. Last edit at 19:58 Feb 28th. Zinnober9 (talk) 06:47, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It's become self-aware and has stopped doing its work. — RainFall 07:01, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
 * We're back again, apologies. I have moved it to a new home. &mdash; JamesR  ( talk ) 07:14, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

HBC AIV helperbot5 feature request
Hi JamesR,

I don't remember whether I have requested this before, and whether this is the best place. Anyway, it would be nice if HBC AIV helperbot5 could remove not just blocked accounts, but also globally locked ones. See for an example. These reports just clog the board and do not need any action. Is that feasible? Thank you and happy editing, —Kusma (t·c) 15:07, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Kusma, I'll definitely take a look at adding this. &mdash; JamesR  ( talk ) 07:01, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

HBC AIV helperbot5 malfunctioning?
AIV Helperbot hasn't edited WP:UAA since 12:53, and I noticed that some editors who have been reported to the board have been blocked, but the posts have not been removed, for example, I reported InstantPrint at 14:37, it was blocked by RHaworth at 14:49, but the report has not been removed yet. It is normally quicker than this, so may be malfunctioning? Agent00x (talk) 15:16, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It is removing reports from AIV, so seems to be just UAA affected. Agent00x (talk) 15:17, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It woke up :) I assume you gave it a kick, ta. Agent00x (talk) 15:24, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-10
 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 later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
 * The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts.

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Evad37
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Alex Shih • Brian • Mushroom • Nakon • Oscarthecat • PeruvianLlama • Ragib • Reaper Eternal • Rossami • Tom

Interface administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ritchie333



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg There'sNoTime
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Keegan • Ks0stm

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg There'sNoTime
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ks0stm • Sphilbrick

Guideline and policy news
 * The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
 * Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.

Technical news
 * A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
 *  has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
 *  has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.

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Tech News: 2019-11
 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
 * Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the  Lua function or the   parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using  mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
 * There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems
 * Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
 * Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed.
 * Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Trivial bot request
Could you have the bot say instead of just  when adding an admin backlog template to AIV? Currently it says "please change this notice when the backlog is cleared", when in fact the notice will be dealt with automaticall by the bot. &#123;&#123;3x&#124;p&#125;&#125;ery (talk) 18:30, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅, thank you for the feature request! &mdash; JamesR  ( talk ) 11:41, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12
 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 later this week
 * When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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Tech News: 2019-13
 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
 * The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version.

Problems
 * There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed.
 * The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon.
 * Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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bot malfunctioning?
Hi James, sorry to disturb you again, I think the bot stopped working about an hour and a half ago, no edits to AIV or UAA, and users have been blocked on those lists. Ta. Agent00x (talk) 12:38, 27 March 2019 (UTC)