User talk:Legoktm/October 2015

Social sciences and society - problem with not listing reviewers
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations.

FYI, I removed the duplicate section, not sure if that fixes it or not, feel free to change it.

Thanks very much for your helpful Bot services,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:53, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Please see Bot adds back the duplicate entry. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 05:10, 2 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Cirt, looking back at the history of the Social sciences and society topic list, an IP deleted the BOT STARTS HERE comment from the top of the original list in late August, which may be why the full list including that BOT STARTS HERE comment keeps getting added on at the bottom. I've just tried restoring the comment at the top; with any luck that will solve the problem. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:22, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I hope that's the permanent fix to the problem, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 05:23, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article.

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 * Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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My Garifuna in Peril stuff-up
Hey, Legoktm, Hi, can you please explain why you re-deleted this less than a minute after another admin undeleted it? That's easily explained: it's because I made a stupid mistake. The question should be: "how can an admin with 35K+ edits make such a stupid mistake?" I really do not have any kind of answer to that. All I can offer is thanking you for pointing out my mistake, and hoping I will learn from it. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:59, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Interest in WP:PJTF checkback
Hi, Legoktm, just checking up on your July invitation to rejoin the Percy Jackson Task-force. Please do not feel pressured in any way to decide, but be aware that your username has been moved to the "Inactive" section of our members list, should you ever go looking for it. Thanks again for your past work, and happy editing! 2ReinreB2 (talk) 01:24, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll glance at the articles at some point, I just finished the Heroes of Olympus series, but had to return the books to the library already :/ Legoktm (talk) 15:03, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
 * You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing.
 * Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category.

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Mail call
p b  p  13:50, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * don't see it yet...if you emailed me using Special:EmailUser, do you want to try emailing me directly at legoktm [dot] wikipedia [at] gmail [dot] com? Legoktm (talk) 14:34, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ p  b  p  16:15, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Legobot suggestion re WP:GAN edit summaries
Legoktm, whenever someone starts a new review, that review shows up in the edit summary, as it should. However, every other review they have active at the moment (including the ones on hold) also show up in the edit summary, because the total number of reviews changes in each of these summaries.

Can you modify the Legobot code so only the meaningful changes show up in the edit summary? In other words, if all that's changed for a particular entry is the number of reviews, don't include it, but if the change involves starting a review, going from review to hold or second opinion or among these three, or other significant change, then it should appear? (These number-only entries sometimes crowd out actual changes that it would be useful to summarize.)

There's another issue I was wondering about, and that is when someone enters a bad subtopic in the GA nominee template on an article talk page. Right now, the article and bad subtopic appear in the edit summary but the nomination itself isn't added, and this repeats until someone spots that there's an issue and fixes the template on the article talk page. I just did that for Talk:Thomas Jefferson, where the subtopic was given as "World History" (and needed to be "World history" with a lowercase "h"). Two questions: can the bot leave a note on the nominator's talk page letting them know that they need to fix the subtopic? And might the bot be a bit more forgiving if the only problem is capitalization? (There are plenty that misspell the subtopic or make one up, but capitalization seems pretty benign.)

I hope one or both of these is feasible, and won't take up much of your time. Please let me know here. Many thanks for all your work keeping these processes running. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:42, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed.
 * Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week.
 * The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen.

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MfD nomination of Template editor/Unprotection list
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Tech News: 2015-44
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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
 * The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools.
 * You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor.
 * When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted.
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