User talk:Mr.Z-man/Archive 16

Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list
Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and  MusikAnimal  talk  18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

closeAFD.js - relisting Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of America?
I relisted Articles for deletion/History of America? and when pressing Reload page was brought to Articles for deletion/History of America. Could the question mark be triggering this? -- Sam Sailor Talk! 08:46, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Possible bug in RefToolbar preventing autofills from working
Hello, I have found what I think might be a bug in RefToolbar's code that prevents the autofill button from working unless there is at least one incremental field present in the form. Please see my description of the problem at Wikipedia_talk:RefToolbar. Thank you --Blahma (talk) 12:07, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

User:Mr.Z-bot's working and other doubts
Hi! I understand that User:Mr.Z-bot compiles and updates various "popular pages" stats (eg. WikiProject Retailing/Popular pages). Am not getting from where does the bot compile this information? Further I wanted to know how the page view states even works? Like does it count only external non-logged in readers or can editors also influence the page view count? Means for example if an article is under dispute for some reason it would automatically catch more editors and would this also increase the "popularity" ranking of that page? I don't even know if you are right person to ask these things. If you are not, please direct me to someone else you think might answer. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 12:00, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Popular pages page
Thank you for maintaining the WikiProject Mathematics/Popular pages page, but then could you also add a fields WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0/Fields collumn to the page. (also sortable so that can every now and then I can have a look at the most popular pages in a particular field of mathematics.

PS this is just a private opinion, there has not been a discussion in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics that agrees or disagrees with my standpoint. so possibly later you will get a request to remove the field collumn again. If you prefer that we first discuss it, please let me know. but then is it possible how i would like it? WillemienH (talk) 18:10, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Future of Mr.Z-bot tasks
Hey Alex, it looks like you might have retired from Wikipedia. I was just wondering if you could chat about the tasks currently performed by Mr.Z-bot and whether or not you would be interested in handing those off to other maintainers, or just adding extra maintainers so that other people can help keep them up to date and add new features to them (like adding mobile stats to the popular page reports and Citoid support to the RefToolbar API). Let me know if you have any thoughts about this. Cheers! Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 00:06, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Not quite retired, just on an extended break. But some additional help with bots/tools would certainly be appreciated. Mr.Z-man 01:32, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Glad to hear you haven't retired! The Community Tech team is interested in possibly improving a couple of your tools (see and ). If we decided to pursue making these improvements, would you prefer that we fork your Github repos and make pull requests or would you rather add other people as contributors to the repos so that they could work on the code directly? Also, would you be interested in adding other people as co-maintainers for your Tool Labs projects? Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 21:58, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Excellent :-) Would be exceedingly nice to have mobile without the numbers your tool produces. And for it to function in other languages. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 23:51, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Adding people as contributors and co-maintaners would probably be easiest. Mr.Z-man 22:16, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * That's fine by me. If you'd like to go ahead and add me to any projects, my username on both GitHub and Tool Labs is Kaldari. You can add project maintainers on Tool Labs from http://tools.wmflabs.org/ and can add contributors on GitHub via . We can involve you as much or as little as you would like in discussing feature changes and bug fixes. Ideally, we would like to make your life easier and the tools better :) Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 01:05, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've added you to the reftoolbar and popularpages projects on Tool Labs and Github, as well as the commonphp Github, which generates the HTML template for the web tools. Mr.Z-man 03:25, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Request pageview statistics for WikiProject for a longer period of time
Hi! Is it possible to get WikiProject Popular pages lists data not for just a month, but for longer period of time? Qwemaze (talk) 17:10, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Electronic Recycling Association AfD
Hi Mr.Z-man. There's something wrong with (the browser rendering) of Articles for deletion/Electronic Recycling Association. It is blank in two different browsers, but it works as a preview when editing it. I had a quick look to debug it, the rendering broke with the close edit but further work would involve editing a closed AfD (possibly multiple times) hence me asking you if it's a quick fix for you? (If it helps, the top looks ok, comparing with another AfD there's no     in the middle, so it's likely the bottom) If you need any help, ping me and I'll copy to sandbox and debug it. Widefox ; talk 13:11, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Relisted AfD debates
Hi Alex, hope you're doing well. Sorry to bug you about more script things. Could you modify User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD2.js to remove Category:Relisted AfD debates and Category:AfD debates relisted 3 or more times on closure? Discussion is here and here. There will usually be wrapped in. I don't expect it to be too difficult – I can look into it if you prefer and suggest a diff (don't feel too comfortable making a substantial edit to the script directly). —  Earwig   talk 07:34, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Popular pages for an entire Wikipedia
Could your popular pages program be set up to run for the entire Haitian Creole Wikipedia? We're trying to revive it, and knowing which pages were read might be helpful. There are only 52K articles on the entire Wikipedia, and most of them have one or two sentences. I suspect that it would be enough to make a list of the 100 (rather than 1000) most popular pages. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:52, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

New URL lookup feature in RefToolbar
Hey Alex, I added a new URL lookup feature to RefToolbar. Now you can do an autofill with a URL in any of the template interfaces. It uses the Citoid API, which in turn uses Zotero. Feel free to tweak it further if you notice any issues. Kaldari (talk) 19:42, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Popular pages
Hi, it it possible to make pages like this for other projects? FunkMonk (talk) 18:20, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

The Million Award
Heyo Mr.Z-man. Are you still interested for this? The project could use some help from Bots. Best,  Ya  sh  !   07:37, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

WP:Jainism
Hey, I have applied for popular pages for WP Jainism months ago but haven't got it yet. Please have a look into the issue. Thanks -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · [//tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Capankajsmilyo&project=en.wikipedia.org count])  06:26, 25 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Providing a link to WikiProject Jainism might be helpful.
 * —Wavelength (talk) 15:11, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Bug in User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD
Hello, I just closed Articles for deletion/Station not stream outside Canada/US as delete using your script, only to find that it had ignored everything before the second forwardslash ("/") in the page name and so deleted US and all other redirects to United States (it probably would have deleted that page as well if I had Steward rights to delete a page with so many edits). It's rare for a page name to have a forwardslash, but it does happen, and it created a big mess to clean up in this case. Thanks for taking a look at it. postdlf (talk) 14:30, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * BTW, I'm going to cross post this to WP:VPT as I see you haven't been active in months. postdlf (talk) 14:30, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

afreporter
Hey there! I'm not convinced Mr.Z-bot is reporting abuse filter trips to AIV. Could you look into it? Thanks! &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  17:11, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Also sent you an email &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  17:15, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Talkback
ansh 666 21:01, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Thank you for hard work :D

Junior5a (talk) 04:00, 2 August 2016 (UTC) 

Popular pages
Hi, I noticed that popular pages listings weren't generated for January and now it's March. Are these no longer going to be generated? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 11:46, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * We are also discussing it here Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 21:06, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd like to add that PP is a great service and I use it many times a week! I appreciate the hard work! -- DanielPenfield (talk) 13:19, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Wales - quick run?
Hi Mr.Z-man, I was wondering if it would be possible to do a one-time run of this for WikiProject Wales, a.s.a.p.? - They're having an editathon through April, and Dr. Blofeld requested the list at VPT, but I see that the service usually runs mid-month and is probably manually triggered, so I thought it worth a request. Thanks. :-) Quiddity (talk) 23:52, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Please see also User talk:Wavelength/Archive 4 (March 2012). —Wavelength (talk) 23:57, 13 April 2016 (UTC)


 * For anyone still waiting on this, you might want to track Farm-Fresh eye.png – the open ticket for WMF's community tech team to support the feature Eye close font awesome.svg  czar  23:40, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Mr. Z-bot -- unnecessary reports to WP:AIV
At Administrator intervention against vandalism/TB2, there are currently three reports, two of which appear unnecessary -- for and. What were the problems that triggered these reports by the bot? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:32, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Glitch when relisting with closeAFD2.js
Hi Alex. On occasion closeAFD2.js will skip hiding the AFD transclusion in the old log, ex.:
 * 2016-09-05 17:05:38 - AFD relisted fine:
 * No change in
 * 2016-09-05 17:05:40 - AFD transcluded fine in

Thanks for the script. — Sam Sailor 08:19, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The AFD was transcluded in Articles for deletion/Log/2016 August 29 as . Could the underscores be the culprit? — Sam Sailor 08:25, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Trim whitespace?
As somebody who closes a lot of AfDs, this is a really wonderful tool. Thanks for making it available! One suggestion, though. You should trim trailing whitespace from the closing comment. If I enter an extra newline at the end of my comment, when the signature is appended, it ends up going on a line by itself, resulting in it being set off as a code block, as in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/User:RoySmith/test_page_1. I do that surprisingly often. Trimming trailing whitespace would fix that. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:11, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Women's football task force
Hi Mr. Z-Man, This may be covered somewhere in the archives, but it's not quite clear to me. Is the Popular Pages tool still working? I've just realized that our group's page hasn't been updated since March and wanted to check with you. Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 21:36, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

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If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Mr.Z-bot
Your bot usually updated the page WikiProject Anime and manga/Popular pages. For some reason, it doesn't update it since April. Can you help us? Gabriel Yuji (talk) 18:47, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I noticed the same for WP Germany. Agathoclea (talk) 13:29, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Are you ok? Why did you leave us? We miss you and  your bot :( --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  13:05, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Subpages portlet
Could you suss out why this isn't working anymore (doesn't show up in my sidebar)?

And perhaps, any idea why User:Js/urldecoder.js doesn't show up for me anymore either? –xenotalk 20:52, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, you appear to be on an extended break. Hope all is well. –xenotalk 20:53, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Try using the below from my global.js instead.  —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:01, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Monuments 2011/Popular pages
Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Monuments 2011/Popular pages, a page which you created or substantially contributed to (or which is in your userspace), has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Monuments 2011/Popular pages and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Monuments 2011/Popular pages during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Kaldari (talk) 00:44, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Anatomy/Popular pages
Hi, Mr.Z-man! I noticed your contributions on WikiProject Anatomy/Popular pages. I'm currently working on a research project that involves anatomy pages on Wikipedia. Is this list to be updated soon? Thank you in advance. --Athikhun.suw (talk) 15:01, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * See . Kaldari (talk) 21:54, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * It has now been updated. Kaldari (talk) 00:45, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for notifying! --Athikhun.suw (talk) 00:53, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * - Is it possible to also update WikiProject Football/Women's football task force/Popular? Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 01:23, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

MfD nomination of MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-largeaddition-notice
MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-largeaddition-notice, a page which you created or substantially contributed to (or which is in your userspace), has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-largeaddition-notice and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-largeaddition-notice during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:42, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Problem with User:Mr.Z-man/moverevert2.js
Hi, I have blanked this script for now, as it is no longer up to date with current coding standards and was causing problem for people. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 16:40, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Geophotoreq tool seems to be out of date
Not sure if you're still actively supporting the tool (https://tools.wmflabs.org/geophotoreq/), but it was returning articles for me that had had their photo requests removed up to two year ago. Not sure if you're using an out of date data dump or what, but I figured you might be interested to know. No hard feelings from me if you don't want to support the tool anymore though. Thanks! Brubsby (talk) 20:07, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 01:15, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Notification of imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next several days. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 01:30, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions have been removed pending your return. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — xaosflux  Talk 00:45, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

You are missed
Hey Mr.Z just letting you know that you are missed here. Hope all is well and to see you back one day :-) Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 03:24, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at User talk:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD
For any WP:TPSs: You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD. Evad37 &#91;talk] 09:04, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Bludgeon band
New to listing. DON'T understand why you delited my band...we started in early 90s and have played all over and have a cd Victoria Decay (talk) 01:14, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Last eruption listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Last eruption. Since you had some involvement with the Last eruption redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 04:26, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

BAG inactivity
Hello Mr.Z-man, long time no see! Please see Wikipedia_talk:Bot_Approvals_Group regarding the new automatic retirement process that will impact you from WP:BAG membership. Best regards, — xaosflux  Talk 00:35, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Due to your lengthy inactivity, you have been moved to the "former" list of WP:BAG should you return and wish to re-join BAG please start a discussion at WT:BAG. Best regards, —  xaosflux  Talk 14:31, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Looking for your opinion on my RefToolbar proposal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:RefToolbar#Request_for_Wikipedia_to_add_the_%22cite_magazine%22_citation_template_to_RefToolbar

Ylevental (talk) 16:41, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Notice of inactive bot
Hello, as both your bot account and your main account have been inactive for two or more years, your bot account will be moved to retired. No action is required on your part. Should you wish to reactivate your bot in the future please request authorization at WP:BRFA. Should you need to maintain your bot status now, please review and reply to this section at the Bots Noticeboard: Bots/Noticeboard. Best regards, — xaosflux  Talk 03:32, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
We miss you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

... same today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:53, 25 October 2019 (UTC)