Wikipedia talk:Ultraviolet/2024/February

Cowboy icon added
Hello, RedWarn/Ultraviolet team! I am requesting the feature of the cowboy icon next to a team member gets added to Ultraviolet for parity with RedWarn, as in a box at the top of the page, it states, "If you have RedWarn installed, the cowboy logo will appear next to [an Ultraviolet team member's] name." In other words, this small detail from RedWarn should be added to Ultraviolet. It will make it less confusing for those who need to know who works on UV/RW. For example,  would become. - The Master of Hedgehogs (always up for a conversation!) 19:37, 9 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi @The Master of Hedgehogs, thanks for the feedback! I've created a phabricator task and have also added this to the compatibility matrix. Let us know if you have any other feedback! ―sportzpikachu  my talk contribs  19:45, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * You are very welcome! - The Master of Hedgehogs (always up for a conversation!) 20:29, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Histmerge RedWarn with UV
Can we do a history merge of all the RedWarn pages with Ultraviolet? I see this as necessary due to CC attribution, easier navigation in history, etc. Awesome Aasim 21:36, 15 February 2024 (UTC)


 * @Awesome Aasim: It'd be great if this were consulted with beforehand, considering RW and UV are different pages with parallel versions, which means it's ineligible for history merging (and would mean that one of these pages will have their edit history wiped, if such a merge was performed). Concerns of CC attribution are handled as it always is: an edit summary pointing to the page from which content is derived. In this case it was done here and here, the latter being done because I made a typo while entering the edit summary. I've removed the template to avoid bothering administrators with a futile history merge case. Chlod ( UV • say hi!) 00:38, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Yeah I probably should have talked with you guys about it first. :)
 * But I think after the migration is complete we should probably redirect all the RW documentation stuff and pages to UV. Otherwise it will confuse new editors who get redirected to a historical page in edit summaries. Awesome Aasim 01:11, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

RedWarn-related question possibly relevant to Ultraviolet?
Howdy Team UV- I'm copying a RedWarn-related question/suggestion I posted a while back at Template talk:Uw-editsummary2 (subsequently moved to Wikipedia_talk:Template_index/User_talk_namespace), in case it might also be relevant to Ultraviolet, or be worthwhile to consider in the development of Ultraviolet:

Question re editing this template's message, or creating another version of it: I occasionally leave talk page messages encouraging use of edit summaries. Sometimes I invoke this template via RedWarn (where it is called "Not using edit summary for more experienced users"). Ideally, where appropriate, I'd like to have the option to change the opening "Hello" to "Hello, and thank you for your contributions". Does anyone think that it might be worth considering that we change this templates message to that? I understand that the thank-you might not always be merited, so I wanted to run the idea by anyone who watches here.

Side question: Using RedWarn to post template messages always creates a section header with the month and year. Does anyone know if there is a mechanism to suggest alternate section headings to the keepers of RedWarn? For example, I would prefer that this template's message be given a header more along the lines of "Edit summaries, please". Thanks in advance for any comment. Eric talk 22:06, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi @Eric, you use the "send message" function in RedWarn, which adds text to a userpage without the date header, however you do have to type your template manually. However, as you may know it is standard format for warnings and notices to be placed under a date header, which is why this isn't an option in RW. ✨ Ed  talk!  ✨ 18:41, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Changing settings
Can an option be added so that instead of adding a user page to the watchlist after warning, it subscribes you to the monthly warning section? Thanks, voorts (talk/contributions) 17:14, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi @Voorts, you can use the Convienient Discussions userscript to do this. ✨ Ed  talk!  ✨ 18:42, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! voorts (talk/contributions) 18:47, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Incorrect edit summary?
RedWarn: I just warned a user with tier 1 of "uw-spam" (diff). The edit summary was "Adding spam links", but I think it should've been "Adding inappropriate external links" looking at the config for the template:

Am I misunderstanding something, or is this a bug somewhere? Thanks FozzieHey (talk) 12:32, 11 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi @FozzieHey, you linked to WP:Ultraviolet/configuration.json which is loaded for Ultraviolet's rule database. RedWarn currently uses a separate database at WP:RedWarn/Default Warnings, which you can update as necessary. ―sportzpikachu  my talk contribs  11:52, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah, that explains it then. I think I was caught out by the redirect on RedWarn/configuration.json. Is this needed, or could it be removed to reduce confusion?
 * Does RedWarn support the different edit summaries for different warning levels like UV does? I'm looking through the rules config and can't find any examples of it. If not, could we just rename all of the levels to "Adding inappropriate external links", to reduce the BITEyness of the first level? Thanks FozzieHey (talk) 12:37, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi @FozzieHey, it doesn't. Edit summaries are the same per warning category and not specific for any level :( ✨ Ed  talk!  ✨ 18:38, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, if I just change "Adding spam links" to "Adding inappropriate external links" in that config file, do I need to change it anywhere else? FozzieHey (talk) 18:52, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Special characters glitch
While on User_talk:"sahilmoha" s talk page, right-clicking their name brings up the popup menu. When selecting 'user contributions', I am taken to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%2522sahilmoha%2522,  which is odd. Filed on phabricator but looks like it's UV's fault 🇺🇲JayCubby✡ plz edit my user pg! Talk 22:18, 18 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi, @JayCubby! It looks like this is an issue with RedWarn and not Ultraviolet. The right click menu is planned to be re-implemented into UV, so we'll be sure to avoid this issue from popping up there. Chlod ( UV • say hi!) 01:01, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh lol you're right! I am using only redwarn. 🇺🇲JayCubby✡ plz edit my user pg! Talk 01:11, 19 February 2024 (UTC)