User talk:Legoktm/December 2021

Nomination for deletion of Template:File with non-existent templates
Template:File with non-existent templates has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 remind you that pay more attention to TFD 11:15, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:File with non-existent categories
Template:File with non-existent categories has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 remind you that pay more attention to TFD 11:15, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Libera Chat for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Libera Chat is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Libera Chat until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 19:04, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Legobot Index Errors
Hey Legoktm. I've been trying to set up both lowercase sigmabot III and Legobot on my talk page. While I've got lowercase sigmabot archiving now, with it creating a new archive per year, Legobot seems to not want to index it. According to the index error log, I'm missing the first_archive= parameter, however I cannot find anything in the instructions, linked from Help:Archiving a talk page, for what that parameter does or what format it takes. I also can't see any newer documentation linked on Legobot's user page which might give me a hint. I've tried to take a look at the underlying Rust code on Gitlab for some hints, but I can't tell if first_archive is a parameter the bot reads from the page, or if it's a parameter it creates internally.

Do I just need to set first_archive in the template string as 2020, as that is the first year of the archive? If so, can we add that to the documentation? There seems to be 19 other talk pages, 20 total, that are spitting out the same error as mine. Sideswipe9th (talk) 21:12, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49
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 * MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at  . It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), , will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module.
 * Octicons-tools.svg An old ResourceLoader module, , which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to  instead.

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21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).



Administrator changes
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Technical news
 * Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page.
 * The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
 * The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-50
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Recent changes
 * There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis,  will go to the local language default for the  namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process.

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

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Legobot behaviour
Hi, have you altered Legobot recently? It made, and the lack of content for the text parameter usually means one of three things - (i) missing timestamp; (ii) timetamp present but not in the format produced by WP:4TILDES; (iii) too much text between the tag and the timestamp. Problem (i) is clearly not the case, and problem (ii) isn't either. I've never established the limit for (iii) accurately, but it's in the region of 2,000 bytes, and this RfC statement is clearly much shorter than that. So I'm stumped as to why Legobot has rejected the statement. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:25, 13 December 2021 (UTC)


 * @Redrose64: the last change I made to rfcbot.php was 3 months ago. And I just checked on Toolforge itself, there are no changes outside of the Git repo. So I'd say I have no clue, I'm pretty sure you're more knowledgeable than me at this point about how it works... Legoktm (talk) 21:32, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I've had an idea - I suspect that to a malformed older RfC on the same page will allow the newer one to list correctly. We'll find out at 22:01 (UTC). -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:40, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
 * . -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 22:16, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51
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Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes
 * Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension ( ) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes
 * The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February.

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

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