User talk:Enterprisey

Fancy-diffs will provide a bad link on bare references, eg. "<ref>https://example.com</ref>" will link to "https://example.com</ref>".

Test case:^[1] Special:Diff/962109019

LittlePuppers (talk) 04:13, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

This bot edit broke a WikiProject banner. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:30, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Yikes! Working on a fix for the bot. Will look into AWB for the fix. Enterprisey (talk!) 23:19, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Bot patched. Time to see how many talk pages I have to fix. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:53, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

It went on for some years, did you find them all? I guess not. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:32, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey,

I am trying to port your script to tr.wiki as a gadget (due credit to be added), but there is a small issue I would very much like to overcome. What I am trying to do is to add two separate gadgets, one for the actual script and one for a default list of preset summaries, which the user will be able to disable and use their own custom summaries instead on their own common.js file. The issue is, the summary dropdown does show up but without the summaries, unless you add them to your own common.js file. I was wondering if you could suggest a way of solving this.

Vito Genovese 23:33, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Hey Enterprisey,

I hope you're doing well. First, I wanted to say that I love your Links-in-logs user script. It is curious to me that MediaWiki includes built-in permalinks to revisions of pages, but not to specific log entries. When trying to link to a specific log entry, and with Special:Redirect relying on the log ID, it makes it extremely difficult to try and ascertain what the log ID of a specific log action is. Your script does this beautifully and glitch-free. I daresay this might easily be your best user script.

That being said, I'm wondering if you might tweak the functionality a little bit to the way in which it handles the link address cross-wiki and, in particular, on other wikis which often have the Wikimedia projects linked in Special:Interwiki. For example, on the Miraheze wikis, looking at Special:Log for Public Test Wiki, I have the script installed in my global.js file calling your script located on English Wikipedia using the mw.loader.load function. However, when I click on the log entry link with your script installed, it appears as this URL (directly pasted from "copy link address"). I realize I could export and import your script locally there, but I'm trying to avoid that as this makes it simpler for when you push through any updates. I think the issue is with the script calling both wgServer and wgScriptPath when it's called cross-wiki and/or globally. It seems like there should be a fairly easy fix for this and, with only 27 transclusions of this script, little worry of breaking things for (too many) users. Alternatively, if you wanted to fork this script as a sandbox version, I could test it on other wikis and English Wikipedia and let you know.

Cheers,
Dmehus (talk) 19:06, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Dmehus, thanks for letting me know about this issue. I'm not immediately sure what change I need to make to the script - should I be using only one of those two variables, or should I be doing an additional check for the script being called cross-wiki? A sandbox version would probably help. Enterprisey (talk!) 07:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Enterprisey, Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I initially thought it might be a problem with both those variables being called for and if the solution might be to remove one of them. I know very little, or next to no, JavaScript, so am just going from what I know about HTML/CSS and very basic PHP, so will have to defer to your expertise and judgment. However, while my programming experience is quite limited, I have experience testing and troubleshooting. I have since tried a couple things, to rule out whether it was an issue with my CSS/JS file. First, I noticed my externally loaded scripts included the https:// protocol prefix, but I have seen other users' externally loaded scripts, and a MediaWiki help documentation somewhere, use only // as the prefix, so I first made that change. Second, having recently confirmed five of my user scripts worked in my global.js file on the Miraheze wiki farm, I wanted to test whether it was a local issue on Miraheze, so I migrated those user scripts that I had confirmed were error-free cross-wiki to my global.js file on Meta Wiki (Wikimedia). No problems there, and the logs-in-links worked across Wikimedia.

I'm not sure what you had in mind after checking if the script is being called for cross-wiki, so can't really comment there, but seeing as it seems to work globally on Wikimedia, I tend to think it's a problem with (one of) those variables (I'm much less confident that it is a local Miraheze configuration issue, since I do have those English Wikipedia user scripts being called remotely using the same method). I think an additional check to determine if the script is being called for on a server other than Wikimedia or Wikipedia couldn't hurt. What would be interesting is to try testing this on the Beta Cluster servers, maybe, since that uses a different domain? That way, we could determine if an additional check is required (i.e., if the user is on Wikimedia's production servers and/or beta servers returns as true, then it could use the normal scripting; otherwise, an alternative would be used). Feel free to setup a sandbox version and {{ping}} me with the location to try it out. Dmehus (talk) 09:21, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Imported my Meta Wiki (Wikimedia) global.js file to my Meta Wiki (Beta Cluster) global.js file, and confirmed the same error as on Miraheze's wiki farm. Since there's no problem with both those variables on the production Wikimedia servers, there's probably no harm in leaving that code as is, but it seems to be a problem with the server name being called for twice, essentially, by (one of) those server configuration variables and by the full path name in the user's script file. So, perhaps a check if it's being called for by a non-Wikimedia production server is best, and then it's a matter of taking out one of those variables. My "hunch" says take out wgServer, but again, with my limited JavaScript knowledge, that's really all it is, though it does seem logical. Dmehus (talk) 09:41, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

@Enterprisey: I'm just following up with you to see if you had a chance to test my hypothesis yet on the problem of your links-in-logs user script not working on the Beta Cluster and non-Wikimedia wikis. Look forward to hearing from you when you get a chance. Dmehus (talk) 01:19, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Just FYI on spambots - Stale or not they should be blocked upon discovery. See User_talk:KillerChihuahua/Archive_23#Spambots on discussion of this issue.--Cahk (talk) 08:49, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for maintaining this extremely useful script. Unfortunately, when the shown diff is updated using the widget "Browse history interactively", the permalink to diff is not updated. —⁠andrybak (talk) 09:21, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi, When looking at my own profile at least at https://afdstats.toolforge.org/afdstats.py?name=kj_cheetham most of the dates don't have leading zeroes, e.g. "February 9, 2020". However when I was the nominator, they do, e.g. "February 08, 2020". -Kj cheetham (talk) 14:36, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Hey, Enterprisey. Firstly, thanks for serving the community with your user-scripts. I Wanted to know whether the StatusChanger script is still functional. It doesn't seem to do anything. Regards, Field Marshal (talk) 18:23, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Hello, can you add a possibility to add other WikiProject banners to the talk pages besides the AFC banners and mark them as redirect? Just a suggestion, of course you don't have to do that. --TheImaCow (talk) 18:32, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Most WikiProject banners don't need an explicit |class=redirect, it's autodetected as either Redirect-Class (if the banner allows that) or NA-Class (if it doesn't). There are only a small number of WikiProject banners that won't autodetect a redir correctly (or at all):

• {{WikiProject Anime and manga}} needs an explicit |class=redirect
• {{Maths rating}} needs an explicit |class=redirect
• {{WikiProject Military history}} needs either |class=red or |class=redirect - note that |class=redir doesn't work
• {{WikiProject Ships}} needs either |class=red, |class=redir or |class=redirect
• {{WikiProject U.S. Roads}} needs either |class=redir or |class=redirect. This one will autodetect, and also recognises |class=red, but for those two situations it gets the importance wrong (as well as a a few other things) so it's best to use an explicit |class=redirect for this one too.

I recently fixed {{WikiProject Aviation}} so that it autodetects - it already allowed the three variations on |class=redirect. At this stage I don't know of any others with non-standard behaviour. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:22, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I logged this on GitHub but I suspect here is a better place to notify you - https://apersonbot.toolforge.org/vote-history/?page=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Valereee does not parse the oppose !vote from Sachinthonakkara correctly. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:35, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Am I right that there's no real reason not to blank the pages for the old version of AFCH, before your rewrite? That'd be the pages listed at Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:Gadget-afchelper.js/, yeah? There's a baseurl thing in your gadget that I've not looked into that seems to reference at least some of them? Maybe it'd be good to move the newer gadget out of your userspace first? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 18:44, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

When User:Enterprisey/unblock-review.js is used on an {{unblock-auto}} request, it doesn't work well. See Special:Diff/973555329 for an example. Three problems are apparent:

1. It used {{unblock reviewed}} instead of {{unblock-auto reviewed}}
2. It showed the blocking admin's name as the request reason, and threw away the rest of the original information
3. It caused the page to end up in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls (cleaning out this category is what led me to notice this problem)

It should have done Special:Diff/973555207/973556032 instead of what it did. Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:00, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I created a bot to take a look at Huggle, but decided it wasn't something I wanted to use. I believe I disabled the bot, but I wanted to make sure. I don't want it doing something I didn't intend it to do and was hoping you could check that everything was disabled and secure. Not sure if I should post the name of the bot here. Hope all is well, thank you for your time.   // Timothy :: talk  10:00, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

I've had a few issues lately where the unblock script has tried to enter my decline in another unblock template. I had it happen just now where it added to the unblock template in the block notice. Here it added it to an already declined template; same here. Any idea what's going on? only (talk) 19:59, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

I don't see {{R from abbreviation}} on the category list for the Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects and categories helper script under "From abbreviation ...". Is it somewhere else or is it not there? power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:44, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

User:Enterprisey/abusefilter-mass-test.js, when combined with User:Suffusion of Yellow/batchtest-plus, results in 2 different extra mass-test inputs. Suggest changing

$( "#wpFilterForm fieldset" ).append( to only select the first fieldset.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:03, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey. I installed the script in my vector.js but its not working. When I click online/busy/sleep it just redirects me to my status page, where I have to edit it manually. Please help... ❯❯❯   S A H A 07:45, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

@ArnabSaha, probably fixed. Enterprisey (talk!) 04:00, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Enterprisey. I have a question along similar lines. I'm concerned that manually editing my status page (TBD) will artificially boost my edit count. Does your .js or another user's .js status changer alter the status directly in a way that doesn't get recorded as a user edit, as far as my account is concerned?

I would also like to share some ideas. Rather than having online, offline, and sleeping cluttering the top row, to instead just have a Status link to the user's /status subpage. There on the subpage, they can have a table of individual buttons for all of the status options available between <noinclude> tags. Clicking a button will update their status to the button they clicked, preferably without recording it as a user edit... but if they have to edit the page anyway, they might as well have the status table transcluded without it being detectable by {{UserStatus}} or {{UserStatusShort}}.

Finally, have I read correctly that a user can manually change their status directly from the template, or the prefix to the status? What I mean is, it might be fun to allure to A Charlie Brown Christmas using something like {{UserStatusShort|name=REAL}}, and the User:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}/status page being IN. 
— CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 03:53, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

@CJDOS, you would need to make a new account and run the script from there to make the edits show up on that account. For making the buttons only show up on your status page, you can write if(mw.config.get("wgPageName") === "the_title_of_your_status_page_with_underscores") in front of the line that mentions StatusChanger.js. And from the template documentation, it seems that you may set the demo parameter, like {{UserStatusShort|demo=sleeping}}, to change your status directly from the template, if I understand the question correctly. Enterprisey (talk!) 04:04, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

An alternative account, cross-linked and labeled for the purpose per WP:ALTACCN. The alternative account taking the edit count from changing the status of my primary account. That's not a bad idea; I might just do that. Thank you for the suggestion, Enterprisey. How does it work regarding signing in? Would I have to sign into each account separately, i.e. if I wanted to edit using my primary account and have the status show that I'm online, would I also have to manually sign into my alternative account as well to edit my primary account's status? I suppose I could do it without signing in an alternative account, but IP addresses may be shared, and I'd rather not edit with an IP address. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 08:09, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Yes, you would have to sign in to the alternative account. You could also look into setting up a script that runs on your computer, so you wouldn't have to keep signing in. Enterprisey (talk!) 23:13, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

If I've understood you correctly about my previous 3rd question, {{UserStatusShort|demo=REAL&nbsp;IN}} →  REAL IN. I don't know if the demo= parameter exists for {{UserStatus}}, or the name= parameter exists for {{UserStatusShort}}. I mean, I assume that the demo= parameter will default to File:Symbol neutral vote.svg and gray text when given a status it's not setup for. This is why I was asking about the name= parameter of Template:UserStatus (misattributed to UserStatusShort). I will develop my own template, so I can use File:Face-smile-christmas.svg instead of File:Medic template.svg for the "REAL IN" status icon. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 18:22, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

FYI

 – There is a related discussion at Template talk:Statustop#Mobile display. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 18:34, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello! I received a message on my talk page about a message I left for a user using the AFCH script, saying that I left them a message about a draft that they did not contribute to at all. After looking it over, this seems to be the case... The message on my talk page is at User talk:AviationFreak#Mayu Sagara (September 18), the message I left on that user's talk page is at User talk:Tlvernon#Your submission at Articles for creation: Mayu Sagara (September 18). The draft in question is Draft:Mayu Sagara, which Tlvernon has not edited at all. Not sure what's going on here, but it looks like a bug that needs fixing. Please ping me in any replies. Thanks! AviationFreak💬 13:51, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Would you be able to add a button (maybe with an alert verifying people want to press it) that allows the placement of idletimestamp in the unblock template? -- Amanda (aka DQ) 09:52, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Tried to use links-in-logs on other wikis, but mw.config.get( "wgPageName" ) doesn't return anything with "Special:Log" in it - perhaps use wgCanonicalSpecialPageName instead? Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 21:34, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

JFYI, at the moment, there are four unanswered queries at the page User talk:Enterprisey/script-installer. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:42, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Got to three of them. I obviously need to get more free time from somewhere! Asked VPT for help. Enterprisey (talk!) 10:08, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Vote history hasn't been working so well for me when I've tried to use it recently. Is it me or the tool? Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:00, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hey Enterprisey, is there any way to customize your user script helper? Currently it does not detect my redwarn dev script correctly, see this diff. Perhaps a way to signify which script to disable in the comments? For example:

mw.loader.load( '/w/index.php?title=User:Sportshead/rw17dev.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' ); // Backlink: [[User:Sportshead/rw17dev.js]] @user-script-helper:http://localhost:45991/redwarn.js Also, since importScript is deprecated, will there be support for {{subst:lusc}} in the future on both script-installer and user-script-helper? Thanks! ―sportzpikachu _{my talkcontribs} 04:33, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey, Currently the installation instructions for your userscripts say: Hint: It's much easier if you get ScriptInstaller, then navigate to User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js and click "Install" at the top.. However script-installer also allows you to install scripts by simply clicking install in the script infobox. Wouldn't it be much easier to direct users to use that? Asartea ^{Talk | Contribs} 13:13, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi! Out of curiosity, I ran the AfD Stats tool on myself, and it only identified my !vote in 1 out of 200 discussions. Should I run it with different options somehow? XOR'easter (talk) 01:32, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey, I have searched for guidance but can’t find how to get your user status script working? I’m probably missing something obvious but I would greatly appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction? Thanks, Skingo12 (talk) 00:30, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello! Does delsort update the categories it uses automatically or manually? I created some new delsorts (all under "Geographic/Americas/Canada": New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut and Saskatchewan) but they did not show up, so I am imagining it is manual... By the way, thanks VERY much for all your excellent coding work here. --- Possibly (talk) 18:26, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey! I noticed the AfD stats tool has been including April Fools nominations. Would it be possible to ask it to ignore !votes on any page that transcludes {{humor}}? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:30, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

One or more or your scripts uses the warning or success classes. Be aware that the styling for these classes may be removed in the near future. See WP:VPT#Tech News: 2021-18 for a list of scripts. --Izno (talk) 18:12, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Hey! I was looking at https://apersonbot.toolforge.org/pending-subs/ as you recently posted the link over at AfC and thought it would be good to make sure all/most submissions had projects tagged. However it appear to have a bug as 2 out of 3 I just checked did have projects added! Anyway not a biggy, just thought I'd let you know. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 17:11, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Hey Enterprisey, I'm a big fan of scriptInstaller, but I would love if it (or another script) could support stylesheets :) Just a small low-priority feature request. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk, FAQ, contribs) 00:31, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I created two templates in my namespace: User:Schrauber5/Marstime and User:Schrauber5/Mars2020time. I plan to put them in the template namespace and it would be kind if you to give me some feedback. These are my first templates. Schrauber5 (talk) 20:11, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Forgive me if we discussed this before - but https://afdstats.toolforge.org/ still lists 'redirect' verdict in 'green' as kept. I think this is wrong - redirects should be counted as deletion. On the other hand, 'merge' is counted as 'deletion', despite being more inclusive. I'd suggest counting 'merge' with 'no consensus' or in its own, separate section. PS. I see #About the AfD stats tool to which you never replied? :( _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:10, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

I suppose that sounds reasonable. It takes a bit of time to dig around in that old code, but I'll see if I can get to it this weekend. Enterprisey (talk!) 07:13, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

	The Gold Wiki Award
	On behalf of WikiProject Articles for Creation, I award you the Gold Wiki Award for organizing the technical side of the July 2021 Backlog Drive. Thank you for your work to improve Wikipedia! Pahunkat (talk) 10:46, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Seconded. The drive was an incredible success and we couldn't have done it without you. — Bilorv (talk) 10:50, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

+1 The above is literally true. Thank you for your enterprising, Enterprisey. Usedtobecool ☎️ 11:01, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

+1 Thank you, Enterprisey. ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:27, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks everyone! I appreciate it a lot. Enterprisey (talk!) 07:14, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Hey! It seems like cv-revdel is causing some visual issues on new Vector - there's an extra "search" button and a lot of the padding is broken, causing the search bar to move up. I've confimed that this occurs on Firefox and Chrome, and have attached an example screenshot. Thanks! Remagoxer ^(talk) 18:45, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Update: seems to be caused by this line - disabling the declaration removes the extra search button and fixes the padding issues. Remagoxer ^(talk) 20:20, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey! Following up from our WCNA discussion, this thread is a good example of how WP:PRESERVE isn't always followed. I'm increasingly coming around to the view that we ought to get rid of the PROD system entirely. I don't know when the last big discussion on PRODding was, but it might be time for another. Coupling the deprecation with some way to make it easier for obviously deletable articles to go through AfD might help with getting consensus.

(Sidenote: I like your time editnotice! Hope you don't mind if I copy it into a template so other users can take advantage. The only reason I won't be using it myself is that I don't want to start getting "why are you awake?!" messages haha) {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 18:15, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Sounds like it has potential. I'd have more to say but I haven't the free time, sorry! And yeah absolutely feel free to copy it into a template or do whatever you want with it. Enterprisey (talk!) 09:57, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the script. Would you consider updating the script with autoClose: true in the PopupWidget params? Also, the current version doesn't update the text-to-copy if a second popup is enabled and will still have the first text in the copy span. It's probably because it's var instead of let and is thus popup === null is only valid for the first popup. I've removed the entire if-else for popup and it seems to work fine. This also removes the need for var popup = null and you can put let popup = new OO.ui.PopupWidget. Here's my diffs: Special:Diff/1050085717 with autoClose set to true. — DaxServer (talk to me) 18:18, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

@DaxServer, hmm - do you mean you would like me to use this revision? Enterprisey (talk!) 08:33, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

This one is a much better version. I've moved the function outside of the loop and updated the navigator id as "copy-section-wikilink-{normal/permalink/oldid}+{hash without #}" to better identify. Diff: Special:Diff/1050086726/1050525234. The CSS change is just my preference and you can set it to your existing version. I'd override it in my commonjs. — DaxServer (talk) 10:48, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello Enterprisey! I enjoy using easy-brfa, but I use a global user page for TolBot, which easy-brfa does not detect, and does not let me file the BRFA. Could you please fix this? Thank you! Tol (talk | contribs) @ 17:55, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi, the copy button on the script doesn't work for me. This is probably related to the issues discussed at User talk:Rummskartoffel. ― Qwerfjkltalk 08:29, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl, thanks for the bug report. Does it work now? Enterprisey (talk!) 23:24, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

I don't think so. ― Qwerfjkltalk 07:43, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl, is there anything in the console? Enterprisey (talk!) 07:47, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I can't see my console. Sorry! ― Qwerfjkltalk 14:05, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi! I finally go around to looking at copy & pasting implementations, and found one (on stackoverflow) that does the trick: User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/test.js. ― Qwerfjkltalk 22:49, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Do you think using the {{lusc}} instead of the {{iusc}} at User:Enterprisey/USinstall would be better, since the iusc's method is deprecated? — DaxServer (talk) 10:12, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

@DaxServer, I made a somewhat similar template {{script installation text}} which does this. I believe there was also a discussion about why script installer used iusc at VPT (I know that's not what you're asking, but it may have some helpful information). ― Qwerfjkltalk 13:56, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

That looks interesting! Thanks — DaxServer (talk) 18:43, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey. I'm one of the heretics people who use the new vector skin and a big fan of your scripts; I noticed that two of them have incompatibilities with NV:

• It appears that User:Enterprisey/search-shortcuts.js doesn't work with the New Vector skin (presumably because of the new search bar)
• On high zoom levels (~140%), User:Enterprisey/superjump.js draws the leftmost part of the pop-up box "under" the left sidebar. My laptop has a pretty small screen though, so I suspect I'm one of very few people to ever run into this issue

I thought I'd drop a note here in case it's an easy fix (though the easiest one would probably be for me to just move back to old vector ). Best, --Blablubbs (talk) 11:29, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Good morning. How are you? Please help me? I need a Wikipedia mentor. I want to learning Wikipedia. Md Nahid Islam Sumon (talk) 05:44, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello Enterprisey! I had a quick question about this bot, specifically related to task 10. It removes the class parameter for redirects, but it also leaves in the importance parameter. I was wondering if there was a particular reason for this decision or if it could be changed to remove both parameters. I have never seen a project that commonly assigns importance ratings to redirects and was curious if there was a reason for keeping them in. Thanks! Jay eyem (talk) 06:15, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

I believe the idea was that high-priority redirects may someday be un-redirect-ified. (I don't particularly have strong feelings on this topic.) See Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 73#Autoassess redirects. Enterprisey (talk!) 07:25, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

(forgot the ping: Jay eyem) Enterprisey (talk!) 07:26, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I've made the script installer button green (blue is too boring):

Install Button

Could you fix any problems with the colours (at Template:TemplateStyles sandbox/script-installer button.css)? Thanks. ― Qwerfjkltalk 12:34, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey,
According to WP:MOSTIMPORTED, the afch-dev is being imported by 23 users. This may be partially responsible for errors like in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation#Acceptance Script Failures. Since this looks like a dev sandbox which you don't seem to be using anymore, I suggest replacing its contents with:

mw.loader.using(['mediawiki.api', 'user.options']).then(function() {
    if (!mw.user.options.get('gadget-afchelper')) {
        new mw.Api().saveOption('gadget-afchelper', 1);
    }
});

Thanks, and happy new year! – SD0001 (talk) 05:35, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Hm! That would do it. Thank you for the patch. Enterprisey (talk!) 05:14, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Actually I'd suggest the same for User:Timotheus Canens/afchelper4.js (the importScript call won't load the CSS), User:Tim Song/afchelper4.js (same issue 2x), User:Theopolisme/afch-rewrite.js (another outdated version with active users) and User:Enterprisey/afch-master.js (loading a gadget by having it enabled in preferences is more performant than mw.loader.load; also such indirect usage is unaccounted in Special:GadgetUsage). – SD0001 (talk) 17:33, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Are you still maintaining the old XfD Stats tool? If so, it seems to be having trouble excluding relists from the !vote count: see my stats, for instance. The problem seems to have emerged just after this change to the relist template, so that's probably what's causing it. I don't have nearly the technical know-how needed to put in a request in GitHub myself, so any help would be appreciated (if you still have any free time left after ArbCom etc.). Hope all is well with you and yours. Best regards, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:44, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

There is a bug with Recently Active Admins involving apostrophes in usernames. Clicking on someone like User:R'n'B (who is an admin and has apostrophes in their username)'s username, talk page or contributions page from the tool will take you to User:R'n, who doesn't exist (and is not an admin). There are probably more examples of this out there, but I haven't found any others yet. —GMX^{(on the go!)} 17:40, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Could do it with an API query similar to...

    async function addToWatchlist(title) {
        let apiObject = {
            url: mw.util.wikiScript('api'),
            type: 'POST',
            dataType: 'json',
            data: {
                format: 'json',
                action: 'watch',
                titles: title,
                token: mw.user.tokens.get('watchToken')
            },
        };
        await $.ajax(apiObject);
    }

or whatever the mw.Api() equivalent is :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:58, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Would you consider changing line no. 105, to read suppressor, so that it shortens after the change to the groupname? Happy Editing--IAmChaos 08:43, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi there, Enterprisey! Over the course of using your discussion analyzer tool for RfAs, I noticed that struck votes are simply treated as if there were never cast in the first place. I know it'd take longer to load, so is there a way to toggle an option where the votes-over-time graph is constructed by analyzing each revision separately? Many thanks :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 23:57, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

when it is fixed tell me on my talk page--Hvehireihghwit (talk) 15:59, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello Enterprisey! I hope you are well and know that you are busy. But the matter seems serious. I exported and localized your script installer on Bengali Wikipedia. Now I have proposed to transfer it to gadget.

One Wikipedian commented that, the script installs with importScript, which is not smooth on mobile and desktop. While reading the script I saw case 0 using importscript and case 1/2 using mw.loader.load. Does it have a special cause or rationale? Or if I use Case 1 by default in the script, will there be a problem? Because, our template installs Case 1.

Thanks for your time and reading! ~ KHATTAB TALK 08:33, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

where is the about page for User:Enterprisey/2-digit-day-of-month.js. --Hvehireihghwit (talk) 16:16, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Is there any way to use the AfD Stats tool with usernames that contain reserved characters - for example 7&6=thirteen ? HighKing⁺⁺ 08:53, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @HighKing: Percent-encoding is your friend: https://afdstats2.toolforge.org/afdstats.py?name=7%266%3Dthirteen --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:34, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

I had tried that. Weirdly while it can report the number of AfD's, the tool is not providing the stats, it reports to me as "No votes found". HighKing⁺⁺ 18:17, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

I suspect that the bot is able to work out which AfD pages link to a given user page, but is not able to identify the individual !votes. This may be because it is unable to parse the signature. Here's a sample: 7&6=thirteen (☎) - this contains the invalid attribute style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml" which should be two attributes, either style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em;" class=texhtml or style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em;" class="texhtml". Notice also the three instances of a character entity for the ampersand in 7&6=thirteen, this may also cause problems for the bot. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:54, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

I note that this page has many items in the history flagged as "assisted", linking to one of your scripts. Is there any reason why these are linked in the edit comment with underscores rather than spaces in the titles, which, apart from being able to cause problems with sideways scrolling, is simply unsightly? Phil Bridger (talk) 19:14, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

While it is doing the incremental loading of the users AfC stats, is it time based? that is loading older edits each cycle? Just idle curiosity. 15:32, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello Enterprisey, I accepted The Apparition Phase to mainspace using the AfC helper script and noticed that the script didn't add an AfC banner to the talk page. Why didn't it get the standard AfC banner? I also entered some WikiProjects when accepting the draft and they weren't automatically added, I had to manually add them after the fact. Do you know why this happened and how I can avoid it in the future? Also, is there a way to retrospectively add the AfC banner to the draft's talk page? TipsyElephant (talk) 17:24, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

I looked at my own search results for the AfD Statistics search tool (https://afdstats.toolforge.org/afdstats.py?name=TheGEICOgecko&max=&startdate=&altname=), and found that it missed something. I voted in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colorado Springs Christian Schools, but it did not detect that. Perhaps it was because my vote and signature was in different paragraphs? Would it be possible to fix whatever the error is? Thanks. TheGEICOgecko (talk) 02:37, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Here you can see it -- AfDs that the user nominated have zero-padded days (July 04, 2022), whereas others don't (July 5, 2022). I bet it's not that big of a deal. I'll probably submit a pull request if I have time and remember to. jp×g 15:08, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

It failed adding an article to social science: the script left the notice in the deletion discussion but did not change any other page. See diff. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:27, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Declined Draft:2022 A7FL championship and script notified Pats6XChamps who has never edited the article instead of creator. Slywriter (talk) 00:51, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Any chance you could update this script to create a userpage log of revdel nominations if possible? ––FormalDude talk 10:37, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

The {{cv-revdel}} template has a |comment= parameter, which allows you to specific additional information for deleting administrators. However, in your script, there isn't an option to use this parameter. Is it possible you could add a field to fill this parameter as well? Many thanks, – Berrely • ^T∕_C 09:50, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

There is also a |copypatrol parameter that may be useful. – Berrely • ^T∕_C 09:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey. I was wondering if your AFD stats has, or could have, an API that my bot could tap into of all the data collected. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, but just array style information that would normally load on the page. I am thinking of writing a new script, and the information compiled there would be very useful for it. Please ping on reply. -- Amanda (she/her) 15:22, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

It doesn't have one right now. The code is messy but it wouldn't be too tough. It would be really easy for me to add HTML classes and IDs to the elements for easier scraping, if you're ok with that. Enterprisey (talk!) 18:29, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

I don't see why that wouldn't work if you could do that. If you could just let me know when it's done. -- Amanda (she/her) 19:42, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

The User:Enterprisey/mw-ui-button.css styling makes New Vector buttons look worse (specifically the min-width:4em;). AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 18:05, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Entirely unrelated, but you should also probably update the summary link in User:Enterprisey/sync-template-sandbox.js AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:13, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Howdy Enterprisey, what do you think of this idea to honor cool wiki projects: Awesome wiki ?

We don't have a lot of things like this outside of the coolest tool awards; I thought it might be nice to have a lightweight continuous channel for this. – SJ + 18:54, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello! Hope you are well this holiday season. I am just inquiring to see if it would be possible/easy to include the rcatshell template when adding redirect categories with the AFCR script (so they don't look like this). It's a small thing, but it would be quite helpful when accepting redirects.

If this isn't easy to implement, please don't prioritise it. It's not important at all. However, if you have any spare time and it's easy to add, it would be great! Thanks, echidnaLives - talk - edits 06:40, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Looks like you need to do something like change L649 to

var redirecttext = '#REDIRECT \[\[' + redirect.to + '\]\]\n\n{{Redirect category shell|\n' + redirect.append + '\n}}';

— Qwerfjkltalk 07:48, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Commenting out Redirect class in {{WikiProject U.S. Roads}} has the side effect of adding NA-Class importance ratings. That banner template is designed to always have article assessments explicitly stated, so removing them by bot breaks things a bit. Imzadi 1979 → 12:37, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

On this revision, the banner doesn't know that it's a redirect, so it flags the page as needed a KML file, needing a map, etc. and reverts to NA-Class for importance, but when the class assessment is explicitly noted, as in this revision, the banner correctly handles everything. Imzadi 1979 → 12:41, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

@Imzadi1979 I see, thanks. Is there a way the banner template could be changed for automatic classification? Above and at Template:WikiProject U.S. Roads/class#Classification of redirects, I get the impression that the automatic classification should be happening. Enterprisey (talk!) 05:43, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

It appears that the template doc at Template:WikiProject U.S. Roads/class#Classification of redirects is out of synch with how the template actually behaves. Most WikiProject banners do indeed do that, but there are two banners which recognise Redirect-Class but still do not autodetect, this is one and Milhist is the other. This is primarily because they are the only two WikiProject banners that have not yet been converted to use {{WPBannerMeta}}. There is a proposal to alter U.S. Roads to use WPBannerMeta, and it's been sandboxed, but as yet there is no consensus to alter it. If approved, autodetection will then occur. The conversion proposal has been around for more than thirteen years, see for instance Template talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Archive 1#photo parameter proposal, Template talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Archive 1#WPBannerMeta?, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Archive 25#Banner testing. Notifying MSGJ and Imzadi1979, not sure who else would be appropriate. --Redrose64 🦌 (talk) 09:29, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

@Enterprisey, Redrose64: If |class=redirect is not specified on a redirect, as on this revision, it will detect the redirect and apply Redirect-Class, as I already noted above.

The trouble is that the banner is built to track compliance with various project standards in articles. To that end, on an article, we need to note a value for |needs-map= and |needs-jctint=. There is also |needs-KML=, but that is optional because the banner can check to see if the KML file exists at the correct name based on thee article title.

Files, redirects, dabs and the like don't need these items, so when |class=redirect is specified, the banner bypasses the requirement for it. If you look at the referenced revision produced when the bot removed the class assessment, now the banner has "This article has been identified as having the following issues:", and the collapsed section says that it doesn't know the article eras a hard-coded junction list, that it doesn't know if the article has a map, and that the article has is missing a KML. The banner also defaults to NA-importance.

When I reinstated the explicit assessment in this revision, the unneeded importance and the article issues disappear.

There are similar issues related to importance with {{WikiProject Highways}}, so this isn't related to {{WPBannerMeta}}, but rather in how banners expect to be used. Imzadi 1979 → 22:11, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Most WikiProject banners simply have

 |importance={{{importance|}}}

as a pass-through parameter to WPBannerMeta. Highways instead has the non-standard code

 |importance={{#switch:{{lc:{{{class|}}}}}
  |na|template|redirect|project|portal|fm|file|category|disambig={{{importance|NA}}}
  |#default={{{importance|Mid}}}
  }}

which will force any page where the |class= param is either blank or omitted, and the |importance= param is entirely omitted, to be treated as Mid-Importance. I don't think that's a desirable default. --Redrose64 🦌 (talk) 00:06, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

I agree with Redrose. Hmm. @Imzadi1979, could we use Module:Redirect#IsRedirect to set needs-map and needs-jctint to "no", and importance to NA, for redirects? Enterprisey (talk!) 06:38, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Hey Enterprisey. Do you remember phab:T323347? Getting a report in Discord that this issue is back. Any chance it's your user script User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js and something needs to be tweaked again like we did last time? cc ScottishFinnishRadish. Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 18:06, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Actually they don't have cv-revdel installed. User:ScottishFinnishRadish/common.js. Hmm... Any ideas my friend? If not no worries. –Novem Linguae (talk) 18:10, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi - a small observation, not sure if it has been raised before. It appears that if I use the template {{reflist talk}} in an AfD contribution, AfD stats does not register my contribution. Some recent missing examples: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Preeti Sharma Menon (2nd nomination), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Municipal Council of Istanbul (2nd nomination), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Republican Pride Coalition.... or are those part of the (current) 10 undetermined !votes? cc @Σ:. Regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 00:01, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Restating from archive here, from several years ago: "Hi, I am a fan of the wp:AFDSTATS tool (i understand it was developed by User:Scottywong and maintained by you and User:Σ), however I have a potentially easy-to-implement suggestion about ordering the outcomes for visual clarity about an editor's conformance with prevailing views. Ordering the matrix rows and columns as SK, K, M, U, NC, T, R, D, SD, instead of the current random-like order, would make perfectly conforming performance appear on the diagonal, and it will be visually more clear when a voter's tallies are far off (off-diagonal). Merge is closer to Keep because it agrees there is some material worth keeping somewhere, and similarly for Userfy/Draftify. No consensus is properly in the middle. Redirect is closer to Delete as it asserts there's nothing worth merging. T for Transwiki is rare but is useful to keep as an option to remind us of the possibility, but I put it to the right of middle because it conveys the material is inappropriate for wikipedia, unlike M and U."

Reordering display from SK to SD that way would [still] be a good improvement, methinks.

--Doncram (talk,contribs) 09:41, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

I don't necessarily disagree with your idea, it would be interesting to see how a reordered matrix changes the visualization. Although, I'm not sure if your proposed change would make as much of a difference as you think. As long as the vertical axis and the horizontal axis list the options in the same order, then you'll see the diagonal light up green for any user whose votes tend to match the eventual consensus. To get that diagonal effect, it doesn't really matter what order things are in as long as they're in the same order vertically and horizontally. However, ordering things in the way that you suggested (essentially on a continuous spectrum from keep to delete) might allow the user to understand deviations from the diagonal more easily. For instance, if an editor tends to be more of an inclusionist, then their matrix might show the green diagonal on the "keep" side of the spectrum, but then gradually veer off the diagonal as you get closer to the delete side. Either way, I haven't touched the original code for this tool in probably a decade, and I don't even know where it's hosted these days, so I probably can't be much help. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 22:17, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

You may be interested in a discussion mentioning your bot's task of removing the class from redirects, in case you missed the pings: Template talk:WikiProject banner shell#Next steps. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:29, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Yes, your comments at that thread would be very helpful — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:48, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the messages; responded there. Enterprisey (talk!) 05:50, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Any update on this? — Qwerfjkltalk 22:11, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Just to note that this edit is sub-optimal because the bot missed the WPUSA project and so the bot will need to run by this page again some day — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:41, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Enterprisey: Ideas about how can I take User:Enterprisey/script-installer to a RTL language Wikipedia like Urdu Wikipedia? ─ The Aafī (talk) 16:55, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

It hasn't been edited in over 10 months. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 12:55, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

WP:BAM also says the DYK notices haven't been sent in over a year. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 12:56, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

The ol' bot tasks haven't been doing too well lately in general and need a serious once-over. I don't currently have too much daily access to a computer, but once I'm back, I'll put the bot tasks higher on my to-do list. Enterprisey (talk!) 14:59, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

I've noticed that if I nominate an article for afd , and then, during the discussion, !vote for something else (keep, redirect), I will not be "(Nom)" in the stat page Vote-column, like with my latest afd, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fatma Hatun. It doesn't happen very often, but it happens.

"(Nom (flip-flop))" perhaps? ;-) Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:13, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey, there's an issue with the way MediaWiki:Request-page-protection-form.js currently works: WP:VPT § WP:RFPP/E broken whenever a CAPTCHA is required. Perhaps there's a way to fix this without investing hours of work to get the CAPTCHA transcluded somehow? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:09, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi. For some reason, User:Enterprisey/delsort.js is not working to me. Can you, pls, help me to understand why? Thanks. Kacamata! ^Dimmi!!! 02:28, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

I see nobody has responded to you. I have a similar question, about whether there is a browser-specific function enablement. I use FireFox and do not see the 'More' element as suggested by the documentation. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:15, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

https://github.com/enterprisey/afdstats/pulls has several more pull requests that could use your attention when you get a chance. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:46, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

@Enterprisey I also added a pull request to migrate the code to Python 3.9 so that afdstats can be run on Kubernetes once Grid Engine shuts down next week. I merged Pppery's changes into mine as well. If you need any help getting it running on Kubernetes let me know, as I was able to get my afdstats2 instance moved over after a bit of trial and error. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 02:59, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

EnterpriseyBot's task "Notify users of DYK nominations" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 2 weeks, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 17:20, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

EnterpriseyBot's task "Update WiR CSD report" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 week, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 17:20, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

This seems to have stopped working (and I think it hasn't been working for a while). Clicking on the login button does nothing. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:34, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

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Hello Enterprisey: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:23, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:23, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey!

I'm on the November 2023 Backlog Drive/Leaderboard list, but my reviews ((log don't count. Is the list not finalized yet?

Thank you, Suitskvarts (talk) 10:51, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️

Hi Enterprisey! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. It was great meeting you in Toronto, and I look forward to trying out whatever cool gadget you come up with next :) Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!

Cheers,
{{u|Sdkb}} ^talk

Solstice Celebration for Enterprisey, 2023, DALL·E 3.

(View full series)

Note: The vibes are winter solsticey. If you're in the southern hemisphere, oops, apologies.

{{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:34, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

@Sdkb: Now that is a good picture! --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:24, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, @Redrose64, and a hope your holidays and new year are rosy! :) {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:24, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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@Enterprisey, thanks for organizing the "Lightning Talks" for Wikipedia day. I just put in a talk to share my experiences (good and bad) with using LLMs to summarize RS for Wikipedia content. While on the page, I noticed that Eventbrite tickets are required. When I went to get one, I was waitlisted. I sent a note to the organizer explaining that when I "signed up" back in December, I didn't realize I also needed an Eventbrite ticket. I also explained that I will be giving a lightning talk. Hopefully, that will get me to the top of the waitlist.

In the event I do get in, should I bring a PowerPoint showing some examples? How should I send it to you?

If I don't get in, I would still be happy to give my talk remotely through Zoom.

Thanks. Nowa (talk) 13:20, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@Nowa, I will raise your waitlist question with the other organizers and I'll get back to you on that if there's any news. Regarding your presentation, you can upload a PDF of it to Wikimedia Commons and I can present it from there. Thank you for offering to do it through Zoom as well. I think that should be perfectly fine. Enterprisey (talk!) 14:09, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Super. There were about 30 people already signed up when the Eventbrite link was added. It might not be a bad idea to ping them and see how many still need to sign up on Eventbrite and how much more room might be needed. Nowa (talk) 14:39, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

All set. I just uploaded the talk

Let me know if there are any typos. Nowa (talk) 14:56, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey, I noticed that the AFD stats tool reports that Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mehrdad Nikoonahad closed as "keep", but it actually was unambiguously "delete". I'm not sure if I'm reporting this to the right place, but saw a link at the bottom of the tool window. Netherzone (talk) 17:24, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey, when I was processing WP:AFCR, this weird page got created when a redirect was created Jetlag talk: The Game. I think it was from creating Jetlag: The Game, the talk page should have been at Talk:Jetlag: The Game. Anyways, It looks like an error to me. Thanks, v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 01:57, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

AfD Statistics for User:Maile66 seems not to have updated since yesterday evening. Thanks for your attention to this. — Maile (talk) 15:07, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Never mind. There is something weird with one title, but it's not something your AFD stats did. — Maile (talk) 00:29, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Enterprisey. As you have been inactive in int-admin matters this flag has been removed from your account per the policy. Should you need this again, you may request at WP:BN. This change has no impact on your standard administrator access. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 16:39, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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This edit request to User:Enterprisey/AFCRHS.js has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

The AFC helper should appear when the page name is Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects or Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Categories, instead of the current combination target that has since been converted into a dab page. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 04:35, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

 Not done (as to the immediate edit request) - as this is not a ready to go edit request. You may want to follow up on your feature request at User talk:Enterprisey/AFCRHS. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:24, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

You mean change line 3 from

    if (mw.config.get("wgPageName").indexOf('Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Redirects_and_categories') === -1) {

to

    if (mw.config.get("wgPageName").indexOf('Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Redirects') === -1 && mw.config.get("wgPageName").indexOf('Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Categories') === -1) {

— Qwerfjkltalk 11:27, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

That should be correct (and is quite straightforward). Setting the edit request to active again. I also tried the change in a .js sandbox, and it did enable this to work at both pages. (If the IPER reviewer sees a need for further testing, at least undo this edit so that it can again be used at /Redirects if not also at /Categories.) SilverLocust 💬 07:58, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:25, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.

Newly maintained scripts

After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...

• Aaron Liu has created What redirects here from Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere; his fork includes support for every MediaWiki wiki, corrected link positions, an access key, and some rudimentary translation.
• Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
• AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
• Mesidast/Tidy citations is a fork of Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations is a fork of Waldyrious/formatcitations. It configurably harmonizes whitespace and cleans up parameters in citation templates, descriptive edit summary included.

Improve a script

Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!

• Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
• Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
• To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
• We want...

• ...a mark-as-read button and watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
• ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
• ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work

Requested scripts

• A simple script to second or archive proposed deletions
• A script to auto-expand V22 ToC sections like this demo
• A WP:3O response tool that can automatically remove the relevant request from the 3O dashboard
• A byte filter to be split from Nux/LongTableFilters
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

New scripts

• DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks add links to the "warn" and "disallow" messages in edit filters.
• Diegodlh/Web2Cit/script adds an option to use m:Web2Cit (which WP:ProveIt also uses) instead of mw:Citoid to generate citations in the Visual Editor.
• Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!

• 

  Doǵu/Adiutor (pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.

• 

  Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
  • /afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
  • /ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
  • /redirect-helper (pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
  • /rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.

• 

  Guycn2/UserInfoPopup (pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
• Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
• Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
• Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable highlights phrases commonly used in spammed and POV'd paragraphs.

• 

  NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/FormattedEditRequest (pictured) generates a wikitext-formatted diff view of any changes you've made that you can copy and paste anywhere.
• PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
• Qwerfjkl/massCFD creates mass WP:CfD nominations.
• Rublov/refspace highlights footnote spacing errors in red.
• Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.

Edit-listings

• Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
• Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
• Ingenuity/AbuseFilterContribs adds the edit filters that an edit tripped (if any) to a user's contributions page.
  • Nardog/ExamineMore makes it so the paging at Special:AbuseFilter/examine actually works, pending a fix to T292764.
• NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.

Appearance-ricing

• Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
• Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
• GhostInTheMachine/GraphicReplyLink replaces the [ reply ] link with 💬, which is some sort of rainy cloud I guess?^[Joke]

• 

  Jonesey/common (pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
  • Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
• Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
• Phlsph7/ClassicalTOC (Vector 2022) reinserts the inline table of contents to pages under Vector 2022.
• For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
• Sideswipe9th/Vector 2022 Floating Tools Menu moves the Page Tools menu to the left and makes it float along with the table of contents.
• Sm8ps/SectionEditing makes pressing Tab ↹ toggle the visibility of the tiny [ edit ] links next to section headings.. Not a great name, eh?
• The wub/tocExpandAll adds a button on top of the floating ToC to expand or collapse subheadings.

Permissions required!

• Ahecht/potd-helper: A script to post the picture of the day. A powerful upgrade for your mop.

• 

  Dragoniez
  • /AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
  • /Selective Rollback (pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
• Theleekycauldron/DYK promoter automates (nearly) all the work needed to post a DYK hook.

QOL shortcuts

• BrandonXLF/SVGEditor lets you edit any file that is an SVG, straight from the file page.
• DanCherek/UAABotRemover adds a portlet link to enable a removal shortcut of faulty reports from Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention.
• DreamRimmer/BlankUserPage helps you destroy webhost-ers' hopes and dreams with a user-friendly dialog box.
• ESanders (WMF)/commentlinks.js adds a "link" button right after the "reply" button while the WMF struggles to reach feature parity with Convenient Discussions.
• Isaacl/copy-comment-link-to-clipboard does exactly what you'd think it does, but in Wikitext.
• FenrisAureus/SimpleStatus adds a shortcut at the top to edit your /Status subpage while providing a pre-made template.
• Fred Gandt/addCloneClearButtonAboveScributoConsole: What a mouthful! Yet all it does (no offense) is add another Clear button on top of the Lua module debug console.
• Guarapiranga/GlobalWatchlistLink adds a link to metawiki:Special:GlobalWatchlist next to the normal watchlist.
• Nardog
  • PasteToCommons adds a paste handler to upload the pasted image to Wikimedia Commons.
  • Unpipe tries to detect violations of WP:NOPIPE and fix them as much as possible.
• Ohconfucius/tometricunits automatically adds unit conversions of imperial units in brackets after their uses per MOS:UNITS.
• Suntooooth
  • /flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
  • /randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
• Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.

Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes Sdkb The Night Watch East718 Isabelle Belato Mzajac Staecker Stan Shebs Sugarfish Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

Just for your information: Special:Diff/916388347/1211668783 are the changes to User:Enterprisey/user-tabs-on-contribs.js for it to be compatible with Vector 2022. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:55, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

EnterpriseyBot's task "Archive WP:GO" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 week, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 00:20, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

AFD stats https://afdstats.toolforge.org/afdstats.py does not load but says "Stats 500 Internal Server Error". Since I have no issues with my system, I am assuming this is a toolforge issue to be dealt with. — Maile (talk) 18:18, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

This one Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval#BsoykaBot 3 has open a week with no comment from an approver. Can you expedite or advise? Dicklyon (talk) 04:26, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Oh, I see you haven't been on WP for a while. Best wishes, and I'll ask elsewhere. Dicklyon (talk) 00:43, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

See user:EnterpriseyBot/defcon's page history. Aaron Liu (talk) 16:12, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

I have made a related report at ANI regarding this. Jalen Folf (Bark[s]) 22:28, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

I don't think that's the right venue... Aaron Liu (talk) 02:17, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Resolved at my user talk, see User talk:0xDeadbeef/Archive 4#Question about a bot. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 04:11, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Per this report here. It shows wrong stats after my name change. While I have taken many AFDs, I can only see few. Pls update. Thanks! Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 20:29, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @SafariScribe: Do the AfD pages use your present name, or your previous name? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:49, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Previous name pops nothing while the newly changed shows just "half". Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 21:07, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

EnterpriseyBot's task "Update {{Defcon}}" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 day, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 13:53, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello friend. Thanks for maintaining the AFC History tool. I submitted some pull requests tonight, and I have plans for more. If you like them, feel free to approve those 3 pull requests. Would be nice to base my future patches off those 3, so I think I'll pause here until those are approved. No need to deploy yet though, we can do that later. Thanks. I hope you are well! –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:46, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Doing well, thank you! I'll do one better - I've added you as a collaborator on the repo and as a maintainer on apersonbot. Let me know if there's more I need to do. Enterprisey (talk!) 18:45, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Fantastic. I'm happy to help maintain the tool during your break. Enjoy your adventures. –Novem Linguae (talk) 09:46, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

lol you are the goat get it like baaaa or whatever goats say

KoreanBro (talk) 20:32, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

Hi, thanks for creating User:Enterprisey/superjump-config.json! I would love to map that to a few Twinkle links, like Welcome and Label. How do I achieve that? Just writing the names of the functions didn't work for me. Mondo (talk) 17:09, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Enterprisey, thank you for User:Enterprisey/archiver, and good luck touching grass!

You and users of your one click archiving script might be interested in its newly upgraded fork – User:andrybak/Archiver. This userscript automatically finds the archive subpage with the highest number, just like Template:Highest archive number. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:38, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

I'm no js expert, or even a js beginner, so I can't quite suggest an exact fix that I know would work, but I think its at line 887, I have a small QOL request, if you will. For each succesful page creation if the &redirect=no were added to the url, you would be able to visit the page that was created, as opposed to following it through to a different page. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 23:26, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Do you have a link to the user script? –Novem Linguae (talk) 04:38, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae: It's at User:Enterprisey/AFCRHS.js. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 21:55, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello, is it possible if we can have this tool in Malay Wikipedia? Can you help create one? CyberTroopers (talk) 08:05, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

hi hopefully you are fine. I am having some issure to parse this logic mw.config.get( "wgPageName" ).includes( "/খেলাঘর" ) ) even if the title includes the /খেলাঘর ig it's returning false or an error R1F4T (talk) 11:03, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

Since roughly five days, multiple people have noticed that the AfD stats tool is not updating. It does update information about AfDs in which the user voted before this period, but newer AfDs are not shown. (A bit more detail at Sigma's talk page). — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 09:04, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Alien333, this is probably due to the current replag. Nothing to be done about it. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:15, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder, I should've thought of that. — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 09:17, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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~Liance^talk 17:03, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Today, three AFDs received exact duplicate notices (1; 2; 3) while using User:Enterprisey/delsort and they were duplicated at some delsort pages (1, 2, 3, 4). I'm aware Enterprisey is semi-retired, but any chance an experienced talk page watcher could help make sure the script doesn't duplicate delsort notices at XFDs nor XFDs at delsort pages? ミラP@Miraclepine 17:29, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

Hello, I intended to use your script User:Enterprisey/CustomSummaryPresets, but was not successful. The script itself has been loaded, because the option field below the summary field was visible, but I could not select one of my predefined texts. I decided for the way with var customGeneralSummaries, cf. yourself: first trial, second trial. I noticed that you in your common.js use this method yourself. The script is not loaded from your Wikipedia space, though, but from your localhost. Is this version different? At least it seems to work for you. If so, could you update the script in Wikipedia, please? — Speravir – 23:15, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello,

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Is it Legoktm and 0xDeadbeef? Is it Enterprisey? Is it someone else? I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 02:41, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

@I dream of horses: I should be able to help. What specifically is down, is it the defcon updates? Legoktm (talk) 03:04, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

@Legoktm It hasn't edited at all in six days, so I'm guessing DEFCON, and also everything else. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 03:06, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Good news! The bot is back up! Courtesy ping to Legoktm I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 23:30, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

Hello Enterprisey: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:45, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

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It appears that your bot has stopped archiving WP:GO since March of last year. GTrang (talk) 22:36, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

Administrator changes

• Arcticocean
• Wugapodes

Euryalus

CheckUser changes

• Firefly
• L235

Oversighter changes

• Firefly
• Guerillero
• L235
• Moneytrees

Technical news

• Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
• A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

 You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:Σ § total number of archived discussions. —usernamekiran (talk) 05:17, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

I have updated the code, but it needs testing. —usernamekiran (talk) 05:17, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

Administrator changes

• Jarry1250
• Lethe

CheckUser changes

• AmandaNP
• Drmies

Oversighter changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
• A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
• A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.