User talk:TheresNoTime/Archive 16

Goodbye
While we've almost never interacted, I've always seen you as a force for good on the project. Losing such a positive contributor to the community is always a shame, but it's especially sad that this all stemmed from the tiniest of misjudgements during a stressful situation.

You'll be missed, but I trust you to be doing the right thing. Take care, and thanks for all your contributions over the years. WindTempos (talk • contribs) 13:47, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for your many years of dedicated service to the project, and best of luck wherever your journey takes you! DanCherek (talk) 13:53, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

You will be missed
Joining the chorus of those saddened to see you go. I remember when I was first starting out as an editor, and at least one other admin was completely dismissive when I asked for help, you were there to help me learn the ropes, and trusted me with permissions like rollback. I honestly don't know if I would have stayed a Wikipedia editor for good after first joining if you hadn't been there to guide me. You've done an immense amount of work to make this website run smoothly, never been afraid to speak your mind even when it wasn't popular, and stood up for those who lacked a voice. We will continue on without you, but it will never be the same. Your humor, wit, and kindness above all will be sorely missed. This is the closest I've ever come to wanting to quit Wikipedia myself; I've decided to stay on behalf of the readers who depend on us every day. But I remain aghast at this situation and how poorly ArbCom handled it, and will agitate for changes, including in the membership of the committee. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 14:26, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you...
...for all you've done here and best of luck for the future. You will be missed. --Ferien (talk) 17:01, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Hey
just wanted to thank you for everything you've done for me and the community. I wish I had done more for you during these times, but I thought that if I stayed away from it all it would help deescalate things. you've always been a net positive for the project, and I hope you'll reconsider it and return. Isabelle Belato 🏴‍☠️ 19:18, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you
For every administrative action you made over the years. lol1 VNIO ( I made a mistake?  talk to me ) 19:32, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

You're awesome
I do not recall us interacting, but I have always looked up to you as a powerful voice within Wikipedia's LGBTQ+ community and all-around cool editor. Thank you for all you've done TNT. Fare thee well, and don't be a stranger. -- Dylan 620 (he/him · talk · edits) 21:46, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block closed
The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has now closed and the final decision has been posted. The following remedies and motions are part of the final decision:


 * For breaches of Wikipedia's administrative norms, Lourdes is warned.
 * For conduct which fell short of the high standards of behavior expected of functionaries, the CheckUser permissions of TheresNoTime are removed. They may seek to regain them only through the usual appointment methods.
 * For conduct which fell short of the high standards of behavior expected of functionaries, the Oversight permissions of TheresNoTime are removed. They may seek to regain them only through the usual appointment methods.
 * For serious breaches of Wikipedia's administrative norms and of the CheckUser policy, TheresNoTime is admonished.
 * The Arbitration Committee wishes to express that does not apply to TheresNoTime given that a majority of active arbitrators had opposed desysopping them at the time they relinquished their adminship.

For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 23:11, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Discuss this at: 

:(
I’m so sorry to see you go. I’m at a complete loss for words with regards to what’s happened, but I wanted to say thank you for all your help and kindness over the years. I wish you the very best. Patient Zerotalk 23:39, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Farewell
Thank you for all of the contributions you have made to this project. Until next time, — Clyde!Franklin! 17:25, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

A spiral galaxy for you!
Thank you for all you have done for the encyclopedia and its community. Our paths never closely crossed, but of course I know and admire your work as an admin and editor. I've always liked your user name because it had two distinct interpretations (if not more than two): There's no time...like get it done now because if not now when? and There's no time...like time is a construct and all things exist simultaneously. I hope the outpouring of love and appreciation from all your colleagues here gives you some sense of comfort and that you return after taking some time to rest and recover from the recent high drama. Netherzone (talk) 21:40, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

A (hopefully!!) kind human, supporting you
Very briefly: In real life I’m in my fifties and a senior attorney. (My most employment-worthy professional “superpower” is parsing procedural rules on the fly in emergency situations. [I think my compound-modifier-hyphenation reflex is of greater benefit to the written English corpus, but anyway.])

I supervise a bunch of young lawyers and you are a far better writer and a far more dedicated advocate than any of them. I don’t have hiring authority, but I would pitch a hissyfit and demand that you be interviewed upon my firm’s next opening, if you had a law license in my state.

I haven’t had the time or wherewithal to be competently up to date on this issue. You seem to have gone outside of procedure and gotten in trouble for breaching privacy concerns. That’s not good, but you meant well and you were brave.

Please don’t leave this project. Please step outside the Wikiverse and recognize that even though you might have done something inappropriate, you at least DID IT, and few would have, and you have that arrow in your quiver forever.  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  10:32, 4 November 2022 (UTC)  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  10:32, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

You are loved and appreciated
@TNT, you are such a beautiful Song and I, personally, will miss your uniqueness on this project. I stated before that I appreciate you. Now let me add that I will always appreciate you. Your impact here is undeniable. You have affected so many of us in a positive way, even when we may have disagreed. What ever you do going forward I hope with the sincerest desire that it is successful and I have no doubt it will be. Thank you for every contribution. Your passion, your compassion and your dedication to this project has been amazing to see. Many hugs and keep singing you. Remember what I said. As valuable as your contributions are here, what makes you invaluable has everything to do with you and nothing to do with this encyclopedia. Warmest hugs! You are loved! -- A Rose Wolf  15:08, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Hey, TNT, I don’t know exactly what’s happened, just that you have announced on your user page you are leaving. We didn’t interact on here much, but I was very much aware of you and thought you were a great contributor and admin, and I really admired how you put your photo up on your page, I really admire that. If you see this, thank you for your service.

Blanchey (talk) 17:49, 3 November 2022 (UTC) 

Hoping for better days ahead
I'm so sorry to see you go, and I hope that'll look less like a necessary permanent solution for you in time. Best wishes to you, either way. Valereee (talk) 15:24, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you
 Thank you for being a wonderful, inspiring person to work with on this project.

I hope you return someday, but I understand if you don't. –– FormalDude  (talk)  06:24, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 November newsletter
The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski (1752 points), who won in 2020 and was runner up in both 2019 and last year. In the final round he achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on cue sports. He was closely followed by
 * Bloom6132 (1732), who specialised in "In the news" items and DYKs, and who has reached the final round of the Cup for the past three years. Next was
 * ICS Zulu.svg BennyOnTheLoose (1238), another cue sports enthusiast, also interested in songs, followed by
 * Muboshgu (1082), an "In the news" contributor, a seasoned contestant who first took part in the Cup ten years ago. Other finalists were
 * Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie (930), who scored with a featured article, good articles and DYKs on TV and radio stations,
 * 🇺🇳 Kavyansh.Singh (370), who created various articles on famous Americans, including an FA on Louis H. Bean, famed for his prediction of election outcomes. Next was
 * PCN02WPS (292), who scored with good articles and DYKs on sporting and other topics and
 * Z1720 (25) who had DYKs on various topics including historic Canadians.

During the WikiCup, contestants achieved 37 featured articles, 349 good articles, 360 featured article reviews, 683 good article reviews and 480 In the news items, so Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors. Well done everyone! All those who reached the final round will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or the overall leader in this field.


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski wins the featured article prize, for a total of 6 FAs during the course of the competition and 3 in the final round.
 * 🇺🇳 Kavyansh.Singh wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 2.
 * Pirate Flag of Jack Rackham.svg Adam Cuerden wins the featured picture prize, for 39 FPs during the competition.
 * Z1720 wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 35 FARs in round 4.
 * Epicgenius wins the good article prize, for 32 GAs in round 1.
 * Flag of Provo, Utah (1989–2015).svg SounderBruce wins the featured topic prize, for 4 FT articles in round 1.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski wins the good topic prize, for 34 GT articles in round 5.
 * Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie wins the good article reviewer prize, for 71 GARs overall.
 * Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie wins the Did you know prize, for 30 DYKs in round 3 and 106 overall.
 * Bloom6132 wins the In the news prize, for 106 ITNs in round 5 and 289 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January and possible changes to the rules and scoring are being discussed on the discussion page. You are invited to sign up to take part in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to have a good turnout for the 2023 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners and finalists, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:29, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Goodbye
I wish you well in your future endeavors. Incredibly unfortunate how things turned out. MarioJump83 (talk) 14:16, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:30, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

NO!!!
I'm just caught up with seeing that you're gone... That makes me VERY sad. You've always seemed like a valuable editor and you always did little things to help me (and likely others,) out during my time here... I don't know what led to this, but I really hope to see you back at some point. Best of luck!!! You'll be missed. SPF121188 (talk this way) (my edits) 20:18, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi there. Being less active recently, I somehow managed to miss all of this, but I'm piecing it together now. I don't think we ever really interacted, but I've noticed and appreciated your work across Wikimedia-space. Thank you for all you've done, and I wish you well in your future endeavors. Tol (talk &#124; contribs) @ 04:45, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks
I got caught up with life recently and came back to find that you were leaving- I have to thank you for making my time here on the Wiki and the Discord amazing. I hope I'll get to see you on-wiki again someday, but that's something entirely up to you, eh. Best of luck to your future endeavors, mate. Padgriffin Griffin's Nest 13:46, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

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Re-request
TNT? Are you back? Sarrail (talk) 01:15, 22 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Looks like it — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 23:29, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

I have restored your advanced permissions
Per your request and the discussion at WP:BN --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 22:23, 22 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Many thanks — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 23:29, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

welcome back foomx
meow

Liliana UwU (talk / contribs) 00:49, 23 November 2022 (UTC) 

I'm glad you're back
See lvl2 header. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 00:52, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I too am glad to see that you have returned. Best wishes! MarnetteD&#124;Talk 01:53, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Things we like to see: this! Welcome back, TNT. :-) Patient Zerotalk 02:28, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Same here. Good to see you back. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 10:26, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I know I'm piling on here, but yes; I completely agree with the above. Welcome back!--🌈WaltCip - (talk)  14:45, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Welcome back! &colon;) lol1 VNIO🎌  ( I made a mistake?  talk to me ) 18:17, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Pronounciation of ANI
I have seen you are interested in the pronunciation and it is not the first time I see the options A-N-I or Annie. I have an other pronunciations you might also can include as a possibility. I often think of the ANI as Ahni. In Ahni the Ah is pronounced like the A of Barn and the NI like the NI in Barney. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 00:47, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Welcome back!
I didn't know that you would come back so quickly in about three weeks. I thought you were leaving Wikipedia. Well, it has been a good time to rest for a moment, I think. Welcome back to Wikipedia, and have a nice time! MarioJump83 (talk) 00:53, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Late to the party because I've been tied up with other stuff and hadn't noticed. I'm thrilled you are back and with all your bits. 🙂 Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:05, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Disruptive edit
Hello. I am a little concerned. I got a message saying I made a disruptive edit. But without being told when, or what I changed. 103.146.92.31 (talk) 23:47, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
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Welcome back!
Glad to see you back again. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 12:52, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Congratulations!
I noticed what happened. Read up on the whole case from start to back. I feel awful for you and the headache inducing mess that must have been. Jeez, why can the Wikipedia community sometimes rival Mean Girls in terms of drama? Anyways, welcome back to adminship and congrats.

Sending my best regards, Shanghai. Happy holidays PHShanghai &#124; they/them (talk) 18:42, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
good to see you back! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:04, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy Sixth Adminship Anniversary!
<div style="display: flex; align-items: center; padding: 1em; border: solid 3px #2B547E; background-color: #E6E6FA;"> Wishing TheresNoTime a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman ( talk ) 21:07, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Welcome back, my friend
I am very happy to see that you have come out of retirement, my friend. Welcome back! The wiki is better with you than without. The SandDoctor Talk 06:40, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

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Season's Greetings
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Requested revision deletion
I am requesting a deletion of this revision. Partofthemachine (talk) 21:20, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
 * done — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 23:37, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#01902a; background-color:darkred; border-width:3px; text-align:center; padding:3px; width:800px;" class="plainlinks"> Merry Christmas! ''Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua! God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce! Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством! শুভ বড়দিন! ~ 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스! สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส!'' ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành! Весела Коледа! Hello, TheresNoTime! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:11, 24 December 2022 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}}  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:11, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
 * How'd I miss this one! Thanks again  — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 22:45, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!
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 * Thank you — you too! — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 22:43, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

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CAPTAIN RAJU (T) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to their talk page with a friendly message. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 17:07, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you — same to you as well! — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 22:43, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
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Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
 * Thank you, and the same to you and yours :) — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 22:43, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, TNT!
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 * And the same to you! Thanks — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 22:44, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you and you're welcome!  The SandDoctor  Talk 23:41, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

 * Thanks same to you and yours — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 23:41, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
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 TheresNoTime , Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:09, 31 December 2022 (UTC)


 * – Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg ComplexRational · Extraordinary Writ
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Stephen
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andrew Yong · Dbenbenn · DESiegel · GlassCobra · Joe Decker · Nancy · Pathoschild · StuffOfInterest · William Pietri · Wwwwolf · Xdamr

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



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Moneytrees


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ivanvector · SilkTork

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg GeneralNotability · Moneytrees
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Guerillero · SilkTork

Guideline and policy news
 * Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration
 * Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.
 * The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
 * The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
 * Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:09, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Request to create moveToDraft tag
Hi Sammy, could you please create a tag for the MoveToDraft userscript?

Details:
 * Name: moveToDraft
 * Tag appearance: moveToDraft
 * Description: Edits made by the moveToDraft userscript. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:27, 8 January 2023 (UTC)


 * @MPGuy2824: done — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 00:26, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-02
<section begin="technews-2023-W02"/> 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
 * You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags.
 * Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
 * You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page.
 * A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time.
 * Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use  to create Matrix links on wiki pages.
 * You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages.

Changes later this week
 * Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on  at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * 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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Tech News: 2023-03
<section begin="technews-2023-W03"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg The URLs in "" links on page history now contain <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> in place of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change.

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).
 * Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on  and   namespaces.  These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as  .  They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including   pages (e.g., at the Village Pump).  You can change your preferences (beta feature).
 * On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page.
 * The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes
 * The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:08, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

New message from Compassionate727
I know you aren't logging in every day right now and don't mean to be impatient. I just wanted to make sure you are of discussion because I know some people disable pings. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 17:40, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * done, sorry for the delay — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 16:53, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

CSV file
Hi. I'm currently working on User:KiranBOT/MOSTREFS (history). I have created a pywikibot script utilising CSV files that works fine through my computer. But if I run the same script from toolforge, then the CSV files remain unchanged. I fiddled with file permissions, and path in the script but still no effect. Would it be okay if I sent you a detailed email including the .py file? If you are uncomfortable, I can send the script in plain text. —usernamekiran (talk) 01:28, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * courtesy ping to as TNT seems to be on a wikibreak, and you are the only folks that I know who are well versed in pywikibot. —usernamekiran (talk) 01:35, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * You're welcome to send me an email, though the issue you describe could indeed be caused by quite a few things.. — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 16:54, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * nvm. I think I found the issue, more testing is needed. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:40, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Tag request
Hey TNT! Would you mind creating a tag for the WP:AntiVandal script? It should link to that page and have the description  Thanks! &mdash; Ingenuity (talk &bull; contribs) 02:10, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 04:57, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-04
<section begin="technews-2023-W04"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue.

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).
 * If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity.
 * The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)