User talk:Waldyrious

Progress on WP:Snuggle and work log

I've been making some progress on Snuggle development recently and I could use your feedback. Specifically, I've created a work log that I plan to update every time I get a chance to work on Snuggle. My intention is that you'll be able to watch that page to track my progress so I can get your feedback on features when they are early in development. The most recent entry (also the only entry) discusses new functionality for interacting with newcomers via Snuggle. I posted some mockups in the work log that show how I imagine the new features to work and I could use some feedback before I start writing the code. Thanks! --EpochFail^{(talk • work)} 20:30, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Smn

per the discussion on template:sms, you may want to consider template:smn, which appears to either broken, or universally incorrectly applied. it claims to use a line in MediaWiki:Common.js, but it appears this was never deployed or was removed on this wiki. 64.134.48.7 (talk) 17:06, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

to see that it's broken, try sorting the second column in User:Ysangkok/Sandbox#Heading custom, and notice that it does not sort numerically, but alphabetically. 64.134.48.7 (talk) 17:10, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Please bring this up at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 February 13#Template:Sms. I'm a little busy these days and won't be able to sort this out. --Waldir ^talk 02:14, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Tau RFC

User_talk:Tazerdadog/Tau_(Proposed_mathematical_constant)#RFC:Article_Notability Please bring friends. John W. Nicholson (talk) 04:56, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that discussion. I've stated my opinion there. Cheers, Waldir ^talk 13:48, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Waldir. After you commented, the "Oppose" commenters started writing Oppose at the beginning of their statements, so the "Support" commenters started doing likewise. You might want to consider doing so, or it might look like you intentionally held back. --Joseph Lindenberg (talk) 09:42, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up :) --Waldir ^talk 11:57, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. And, please see if you can round up any help that you can. John W. Nicholson (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:54, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Yesterday I deard about and delved into the tau-stuff, and I couldn't believe my eyes. I tried to restore a Wikipedia-article on tau, but it was soon blanked again.

Imagine my surprise when I saw that you were involved in the discussions! Perhaps I shouldn't be, since you usually seem to have wise ideas going. But it's a small wiki-world, isn't it! And soon it's half-tau day. ;) –St.nerol (talk) 11:53, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Why, thanks for the kind words! I'm afraid my involvement hasn't brought much help to the cause, however... there's a fierce anti-Tau movement doing anything they can to keep information about it to a minimum and tucked into a corner of Wikipedia. Anyway, I'm confident that with time, the issue will eventually be settled reasonably. Cheers, Waldir ^talk 22:08, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Tower of the Dragon

Let me know if you are interested in creating a page for Tower of the Dragon, a movie project I'm working on. I know if I create the page, someone will flame war it. There is enough information on Google if you are interested. Tmcsheery (talk) 05:11, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

I can help you if you start the article on a subpage of your userpage. The page Help:Userspace draft has comprehensive instructions on how to do this. Cheers, Waldir ^talk 15:33, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for your kind words on the op-ed I wrote. -- Ypnypn (talk) 15:26, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Wikify/tutorial

Template:Wikify/tutorial has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. GoingBatty (talk) 17:34, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

X11 color names

Some of the X11 color names are determined by the computer coding. The hex code color codes for Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta, Black, and White are the most basic, and all other colors are generated from those eight colors. Purple (800080) is that tone of magenta which is exactly half way in hue between red and blue and halfway in value (brightness) between white and black. Most of the rest of the color names were in wide use before 1987, and the color codes were mostly accurately formulated by matching them with the color by that name in general use. However, some mistakes were made. The color shown as Brown in X11 is actually the color Red-brown. The color called Chocolate in X11 is actually the color Cocoa brown. Some new colors were formulated in X11 like Gainsboro. The color called Violet (color)#Web color "violet" in X11 is not a violet at all but is a light tone of magenta. Keraunos (talk) 05:24, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

The way I found out that the X11 colors were formulated in 1987 was by in 2008 asking a person who at that time was active in the Color Project, a woman from England who is a skilled computer programmer whose screen name is PaleAqua (talk). In the early days of Wikipedia around 2004, she created the color box template that is used on Wikipedia to display the colors (she has updated it a few times since). She is not active at present in the Color Project but still edits occasionally. You should ask her any questions regarding finding clues about who formulated the X11 color list (since she is not that active currently, it might take several days before she replies). It would certainly be interesting to find out who the person was and to e-mail them to find out how they put together the list! Please let me know about any significant information you can find out about this. Keraunos (talk) 05:24, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Waldyrious. You have new messages at PaleAqua's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Did you find the information you needed? Also sort of curious. PaleAqua (talk) 21:50, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your edits to Template:BoardChart/core! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 19:15, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Happy to help :) --Waldir ^talk 19:36, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

WP:Snuggle is live at snuggle.grouplens.org

Snuggle, the newcomer socialization tool I've been building, is finally ready for general use. All you need to do to get started is point your browser to https://snuggle.grouplens.org. Let me know if you run into any trouble. I'll be watching WT:Snuggle. Or you can also just contact me directly. Thanks for your patience.

See also:

• Documentation
• Bug tracker
• Open source code repository
• My work log describing the last few months of work

--EpochFail^{(talk • work)} 19:46, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

I just wanted to drop by to say thanks for taking the time to reports all the bugs and features. I'll be looking into them over the next couple of days. --EpochFail^{(talk • work)} 16:56, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

No problem. Reporting them is the easy part ;) The tool's looking great already, congrats :) --Waldir ^talk 18:01, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

kinetic depth perception

Hello Waldir. I am thinking about altering an edit you made on 22 Aug 2011, and since the issue is a bit complex and since you seem to have been the only editor involved, I would like to explain what I am proposing first, and see whether you agree.

In an article on Depth perception, under Monocular cues, there is a section headed "Depth from motion." It refers to our ability to perceive the distance of an object by means of the dynamic changes in its size during motion, as when we perceive the distance of an object as we are driving and can estimate the "time to crash." The article labels this as kinetic depth perception. You (as I understand it from the History pages) undersrtandbly made an internal link to a redirect page, Kinetic depth perception, and pointed the redirect to Kinetic depth effect. The problem is that the Kinetic depth effect refers to a different psychological phenomenon (although the Kinetic depth effect page is unclear and needs rewriting). The KDE refers to the fact that a viewer can perceive a three-dimensional object even when only two-dimensional information is actually seen, provided that the two-dimensional array moves in particular ways. For example, suppose I construct a wire-frame cube, and place it behind a translucent screen, with a point-source of light throwing a shadow of the cube on the screen. If the cube is stationay, an observer in front of the screen would see simply a pattern of lines. But if the cube revolves, the observer's visual system can reconstruct depth information from the particular patterns of movement in the shadowed lines, and a three-dimensional cube is seen. That is what is properly called the Kinetic depth effect. ^[1][2]

What I propose to do is to remove the internal link to Kinetic depth perception on the Depth perception page. That will make Kinetic depth perception an orphan page, since nothing else links to it. This would remove the potential confusion for the moment.

In the long run, the section "Depth from motion" ought to be revised to remove the phrase kinetic depth perception. What is described there is really not a depth cue (having to do with the three-dimensionality of an object), but rather a distance cue (having to do with how far away something is.) Also, there ought to be a description of the real kinetic depth effect on the Depth perception page. I will work on those changes. But I thought I should start by removing the link that redirects to a page that discusses a different phenomenon entirely.

Does this make sense to you? Brazzit (talk) 23:41, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Yes, all of it makes perfect sense and I agree with everything you said. Thanks for taking the time to sort through this; please proceed with the edits :) --Waldir ^talk 01:55, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I've removed the misleading link. Untangling the Depth perception page looks daunting - the confusion of depth and distance cues is laced throughout the whole article, and the Talk page looks contentious. Not sure how to deal with that one, but I'll keep you informed if you would like. Appreciate your support. Brazzit (talk) 21:18, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes, please keep me posted if you don't mind :) Cheers, Waldir ^talk 23:01, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

OK, here's the situation. You're a much more experienced editor than I am, so your opinion would be helpful.

The "Depth from motion" subsection of Depth perception was added on 29 May 2007 by an IP user (68.8.216.160). This user also edited the article Headway which deals with spacing between trains in a transit system (a related topic). No edits from this IP address have been made since.

The "Depth from motion" subsection is relevant, makes perfect sense and is clearly not vandalism, although no sources are cited. It describes the sense of depth (actually distance, but never mind) that results from the changing size of an approaching object. The editor called this kinetic depth perception without citing a source.

Well, is that a commonly used term? I only care because of the potential confusion with kinetic depth effect, which definitely is. A Google search turns up only a couple of cases where "kinetic depth perception" is used in the sense of this entry, and those are "Ask An Expert" sites that are probably mirroring the WP article. Everything else that Google yields refers to the kinetic depth effect. (tedious details omitted here)

I suspect that "kinetic depth perception" is a term invented by 68.8.216.160, who was probably unaware that a very similar term has been used since 1953 to describe a different phenomenon. I wish I could contact 68.8.216.160 to ask, but there's no way to do so. (Or is there? You're a WP administrator and maybe you know of tools that can track down long-vanished IP users...?) If only he or she had called it dynamic distance perception (which is really a more accurate term) I wouldn't be obsessing about this now.

All I really care about is to distinguish the two phenomena, so I can get back to my underlying project, which is a bio article about Hans Wallach, who (among other things) discovered and named the kinetic depth effect.

A low-impact solution would be to add a section on the KDE to the "Monocular cues" section of Depth perception, add wording to make clear that this is distinct from the "kinetic depth perception" mentioned in another subsection, and get the heck out of there.

A bolder solution would be to change "kinetic depth perception" to "dynamic distance perception," add a note to the Talk page explaining the potential for confusion and noting that KDP is unsourced, whereas KDE can be extensivelty sourced, and take the heat for the change. But the Talk page suggests that the inhabitants of the Depth perception page are a contentious bunch, and I really don't want to get into a fight.

I'm leaning toward the low-impact approach, but I'd value your advice. Brazzit (talk) 19:56, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Bill. First of all, sorry for taking a while to respond this time; I was away this weekend. Regarding the KDE issue: I must commend you on your diligence and clue. You clearly are an able editor who knows what he's doing and knows when to ask if unsure; keep it up! Now, really regarding the KDE issue :P — I think you're right that the term was likely invented by the IP. Unfortunately there is no magic way admins can use to reach IP editors, so that's out of the question.

The best solution seems, in my opinion, to change the term (I endorse your choice of words). However, I don't think that it is that much bolder; specifically, I wouldn't say a talk page message is required; an informative edit summary —something to the effect of "replaced unsourced term (inserted by 68.8.216.160 on [date]) with one less prone to confusion with kinetic depth effect"— should be enough.

In any case, should anyone raise issue with your change by reverting it and/or commenting on the talk page, please let me know and I'll post my thoughts on the matter, for what they're worth.

Cheers, and have fun with the Hans Wallach article! --Waldir ^talk 07:38, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Waldir. I had already decided to explain the problem on the Talk oage and put up a Rfc, so I have done that. Feel free to weigh in on the issue if you're so inclined. I'll wait a week or two, and see if a consensus emerges. I very much appreciate your kind words and support – I still feel very new to this whole process. Cheers. Brazzit (talk) 23:38, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Ok, I'll check it out. For future reference/convenience, here's a link: Talk:Depth perception --Waldir ^talk 11:34, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Waldir. Just FYI, I've rewritten the section in question along the lines you suggested, and I found a more appropriate term and some citations in the literature. Thanks again for your help. Brazzit (talk) 23:39, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

IRC office hours for wiki-mentors and Snuggle users

Hi. We're organizing an office hours session with the Teahouse to bring in mentors from across the wiki to try out Snuggle and discuss it's potential to support mentorship broadly. The Snuggle team would appreciate it if you would come and participate in the discussion. We'll be having it in #wikimedia-office ^connect on Wed. July 17th @ 1600 UTC. See the agenda for more info. --EpochFail^{(talk • work)}, Technical 13 (talk), TheOriginalSoni (talk) 19:13, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Waldir! I just wanted to post a reminder that this discussion will be happening in about 24 hours. See you there. --EpochFail^{(talk • work)} 15:33, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi :) Thanks for the reminder! I already had it marked in my calendar; I'll be there (at least for a while, depending on other work) --Waldir ^talk 18:02, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Template:CurrentEventsYear

{{CurrentEventsYear}}, which you made about two and a half years ago, has been rewritten to use {{calendar}}. This has improved the look of it (with consistent-sized month boxes) and got rid of the redundant previous- and next-month links. It also means that it is a hardcoded instance of {{calendar}} where the same functionality could be provided by {{calendar}} (WP:CSD#T3). Instead of deleting it though, I hope you don't mind but I thought it might be worth moving into your user space since this is where it's used (the only place it's used). Sorry to be messing around with your user space but I reckon it makes more sense than deleting it whilst it doesn't seem (to me) to make a lot of sense keeping it in the template space when it's used only by one user in their user space. Jimp 10:43, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for updating the template. You made a good call by moving it to my userspace (and updating my userspage page that used it). Of course, with the {{CurrentEventsCalendar}} deleted I can't really compare the previous version with the new one, but I trust that you made sure the result is unchanged apart from cosmetic tweaks. Speaking about which, the show_year=with month parameter doesn't allow all boxes to be the same size, at least with my browser's font settings (the year wraps to a new line in the longer month names such as "September"). It might be necessary to widen the boxes a little more if that value of the parameter is used. I looked a bit and couldn't find where the width is set, but I assume you'll know where to tweak.

Cheers, Waldir ^talk 12:24, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

I can undelete it and move it for you. I'll look into what can be done with the year wrapping. Maybe a non-breaking space would work. Jimp 13:58, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry, I could undelete it myself to check. As I said, I trust your judgment :) As for the line break, indeed a nbsp would do the trick, but it would be better to figure out why it is being compressed in the first place. Usually tables auto-expand unless a width is imposed on them. I couldn't find any but assumed you'd know the inner workings of {{calendar}} better than I do. --Waldir ^talk 14:14, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Grading/lk

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Graphics of data sets.

Hello User:Waldir, Your user page mentions some background in computer graphics. My interest is to find out if there are programs for 3-dim graphs for visualizing data which you might have experience with. In concept, the table on [Statistics are maintained in section 4 of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment] can be graphed on three dimensions and can shown the "hills" and "valleys" of the inflection points on the computer screen once the data points are plotted. Any possible thoughts? BillMoyers (talk) 18:31, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi. I don't really work much with data visualization, but I recently heard about some tools that might be useful: DataHero or D3.js (the latter requires some coding, as far as I know). Hope this helps, Waldir ^talk 15:30, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Hello Waldir, Thanks for the quick info. These two packages are very nice, yet somewhat overdone for the tiny app in mind. This is the table which would be nice to see as a 3D graph, can you think of any easy way? (x-axis is importance scale, y-axis is quality scale, and z-axis is the value from this table.) What is the simplest possible way?

More information All articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

All articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low ??? Total FA 1,649 2,611 2,490 2,118 187 9,055 FL 192 687 780 696 99 2,454 A 376 699 805 609 108 2,597 GA 3,472 7,928 15,955 22,051 1,906 51,312 B 18,064 35,450 59,429 82,393 26,952 222,288 C 17,975 58,432 148,933 364,031 105,282 694,653 Start 18,736 95,439 435,281 1,795,779 443,404 2,788,639 Stub 4,057 30,685 274,125 2,892,160 775,983 3,977,010 List 5,220 18,355 57,008 221,318 98,740 400,641 Assessed 69,741 250,286 994,806 5,381,155 1,452,661 8,148,649 Unassessed 114 396 982 13,661 351,197 366,350 Total 69,855 250,682 995,788 5,394,816 1,803,858 8,514,999 Articles in this table may be listed in multiple projects. The counts, especially the total article count, is not a count of the total number of articles in English Wikipedia. About this table

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BillMoyers (talk) 19:28, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Maybe Google Charts? --Waldir ^talk 20:20, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Hello Waldir, Remarkable. After wearing out a new grove in the left click of my mouse, one can find a Graph3d program. Could you glance at this. Since I am not an expert programmer of any sort, could you let me know if I would be able to do a one-off for the Table above. It would look well on the high traffic "Wikipedia" page next to the new section on "Internal Quality Control" there. The sequence of tabs for left clicking is

>Google Charts

>Chart Gallery

>Additional Charts page (link at top)

>CHAP Links Library

>Graph3d

Since I am no expert programmer indicating this in layman terms may help to enhance the new subsection on the "Wikipedia" wikipage. My appreciation for helping to locate this. BillMoyers (talk) 14:12, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

I would suggest you to ask in the Wikipedia:Graphics Lab. I'm sure someone there is able to help you. As I said, I have never worked with these tools myself so I can't really advise.

ps - In case you din't know, you can linked to graph3d directly :) --Waldir ^talk 20:54, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Hello User:Waldir, Good suggestion, and I did put it on the village pump there, yet the traffic there is quite low. Also Graph3D only works for continuous functions and not discrete data like this table. If you have a follow-up idea let me know. There seem to be these 3D graphs in every other issue of Time magazine or Newsweek using square columns or round cylinders of different heights to show the z-axis values. Possibly you may have seen these types of graphs somewhere in magazines or textbooks? BillMoyers (talk) 05:42, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

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It's up for deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2013_December_9#.5Cx22Weird_Al.5Cx22_Yankovic. —rybec 22:10, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up :) --Waldir ^talk 23:17, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

It's not up for deletion, that's Rybec's incorrect interpretation of the debate. Fram (talk) 08:30, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Ah, got it, thanks. I'll comment there. --Waldir ^talk 14:49, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for the encouragement, Djembayz! Looking forward to collaborate with you in making the WikiProject a success. I see you've already jumped right in assessing articles and helping out -- it's great to have you on board! Cheers, Waldir ^talk 02:18, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Template:Animation editors

Hi.

Comparing the template with before you edited and after you edited: It did not specify what method each app used to give the output. It still does not. But it was method-agnostic before you edited it; now it is vague.

Unfortunately, there is a problem that appears only after your edit: The template is now using esoteric syntax.

I am afraid I prefer the old revision, in the light of what I just said. Or we can create separate comprehensive navboxes for each category: Category:2D animation software and Category:3D animation software. Nothing good can come out of this blend.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 21:52, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I am not 100% sure what you mean by method-agnostic. Do you mean the 2D/3D distinction? Because if so, that's going to be my next step (notice in my edit summary I mentioned it was a work in progress). If you mean something else, please clarify.

Regarding the syntax, I am fully aware of that, and I'd personally have preferred to use a cleaner approach, sunch as a navbox variant. I did look up the available templates and even gave it a shot with {{navbox with columns}}, but it was impossible to build the structure (essentially a 2x3 table) using any of the existing templates I could find. I saved the table-based version for now, but I'll ask in WP:VPT to see if the wizards over there can help in making the code more standard and maintainable. I'll have to work on that tomorrow, though, as I'm out of time for today. Hope that's ok with you :) --Waldir ^talk 22:18, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

How about {{navbox with collapsible subgroups}}? In several occasions, I started writing a {{Navbox multicolumn}} but realized it is overkill in Wikipedia ecosystem and the fact that I have to repeat the row headers is a liberty instead of a redundancy. (They usually just diverge in format and you'd like it.) And then, such a navbox only invites linkfarming. In all those several occasions, either I ended up splitting the navbox or using {{navbox with collapsible subgroups}}. (Did I say several? Well, less. After all, my total number of edits isn't that high.)

Best regards,

Codename Lisa (talk) 23:19, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Hmmm. I don't quite get why "the fact that I have to repeat the row headers is a liberty instead of a redundancy". Care to clarify?

Regarding the linkfarming, here's how I see it: first, the template has clear boundaries (2D and 3D animation editors), so no other software could legitimately be added to it (those who *can* be added, should, as that's the purpose of a nav. template); second, if we don't build this through a template, users would have to browse categories, and jump up and down the hierarchy to explore the space that this template displays concisely in table form; and third, I don't see why collapsible subgroups (or the previous format, for that matter) would alleviate this issue.

I will now split the closed-source rows into 2D and 3D, so we can have a concrete proposal to discuss and compare with the alternatives :) --Waldir ^talk 17:46, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Sorry, I somehow missed this edit in my watchlist. Anyway, this is exactly what I thought every time I jumped into writing a multi-column navbox. But then, I realize how the redundancy won't remain a redundancy: Branches do not have to adhere to any form of predefined subbranches, hence they evolve, always into something better. You can see this in {{Compression algorithms}}. It is not surprising if you realize that we are working on Wikipedia, which only works in practice! Of course, since it is my experience only, if you don't agree, all that remain is going out there and experiencing it for yourself. (And we don't have a dispute anyway. I don't feel strongly about it.) Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 00:17, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

I'll assume you mean {{Compression methods}}. If that's right, we should probably create a redirect from {{Compression algorithms}}. But getting to the point, I understand what you mean, but I don't think we should refrain from displaying the current hierarchy in the most compact form it fits currently, simply because it might become more nuanced in the future. We can always rework the template should the need arise. As you say, in Wikipedia we have to stick with what works in practice, not what's theoretically ideal; in this case, the table format does work pretty well currently, so my suggestion is to use it until our needs surpass its usefulness :) Cheers, Waldir ^talk 15:44, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Codename Lisa, I've nominated List of 2D animation software for deletion. Please take a look here. Also, let me know what you think of the template now that I finished the changes. Cheers, Waldir ^talk 02:45, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Noted. Thanks. Codename Lisa (talk) 00:17, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Bliss (image)

Hi.

I have a proposition: Let's throw all Wikipedia rules out of the window, deliberately write a minimum of five blatant lies in each article, have edit warring competitions and invoke WP:IAR in our defense.

I don't believe that video is an interview with photographer, that it is done by Microsoft and the it is authentic. I myself can create fake videos very easily. If you wish to invoke IAR, please give me something beyond an assertion that can simply be your mistake; something that make be believe IAR here is protecting Wikipedia's mission of giving authentic info.

That said, I can't remember what was the last time I reverted someone and he did not respond with a counter-revert. (Okay, you aren't original author; but nevertheless, looks like there is policy that says "revert Codedname Lisa".)

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 12:38, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Rest assured that, if there's any "revert Codedname Lisa" operation, I am not part of it. Let's take the discussion to the talk page, as I'm sure we can reach reasonable understanding. --Waldir ^talk 13:34, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi again. I think I owe you an apology. I think I overreacted to what I perceived as a counter-revert on your part. In fact, now I am thinking I must have held you an exception to whatever notion of "no counter-revert" that is out there. Sorry.

Best regards,

Codename Lisa (talk) 19:57, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Don't worry about it :) I don't know how things look from your perspective, so I tried not to judge much. Cheers, Waldir ^talk 20:20, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Well, from my perspective, it looks like hell.

It is worse than the combination of the time when a certain user attempted to sabotage my FA nomination of a certain article because he felt I am peeing in his house of worship and the time when a checkuser clerk frightened the ghost out of me by flaunting my IP address check results before declaring that I cannot possibly be a sockpuppet. (Something about a goose test or swan test turned out not accidental but circumstantial...)

Best regards,

Codename Lisa (talk) 21:06, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Bliss RfC

Talk:Bliss_(image)#RfC:_Inclusion_of_external_links -- GreenC 06:28, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up :) --Waldir ^talk 21:52, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Human?

You recently said in one of your comments at WT:MMS that ...we all are different human beings.... So did you think that human beings can never make a mistake? I'm also an human, So can't I make a mistake? I told two time at the discussion that I assumed good faith while sending that mail but I see you are taking this matter to a much bigger level than it should be. I did made a mistake and I apologize for my mistake. What else should I do?? Is the error I made was so major that you can't forgive me?? Jim Carter ^(talk) 14:32, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Please don't take my comments personally. I tried purposely not to mention you directly in my comments, precisely because I am not trying to put the blame on you for this. I believe this is am issue that merits discussion, but it's a general topic, and is valid for you and for any other editor. I'm sorry if I made you feel judged or criticized, it was never my intention to do so. So, to clarify, you don't have to do anything. I have nothing against you, I just want to make sure we as a community have a sane position regarding the mass messaging tool. Cheers, Waldir ^talk 15:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

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I closed the discussion and moved some of the navboxes to match their titles, but it's still a mess. Hopefully you can sort it out :) Let me know if there is anything in particular I can do to help. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 03:09, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll take a look once I have some time to go over the details properly :) Cheers, Waldir ^talk 13:25, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

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Kabuverdianu

Olá! Vi que es um falante nativo de kaboverdianu e gostaria te pedir me ajudares na Wikipédia nesta língua. Se faz favor, escribe-me na minha página de discussao. Obrigado --Chabi1 (talk) 12:30, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Olá, Chabi1. Fico contente por haver mais pessoas interessadas na wikipédia em crioulo. O que estás a fazer, e que ajuda precisas?

ps - respondo aqui porque o link que puseste foi para a página de entrada da kea.wikipedia, e não a tua página de discussão como o texto do link indica...

--Waldir ^talk 13:23, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

A verdade é que eu não falo crioulo, mas eu poderia ajudar com as imagens, categorias e o formato dos artigos. O que acho que sería bom é primeiro traduzir a predefinição da página principal. Deixo aquí a minha página. Obrigado pela mensagem. --Chabi1 (talk) 14:59, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Hm, nesse caso não sei se vale a pena investir nisso por agora, se seria só eu a adicionar conteúdo. Tenho uma série de planos para tornar mais viável e visível a presença digital do crioulo, e trabalhar na Wikipédia faz parte deles, mas tenho isso agendado para depois. Por agora é mais importante solidificar as infraestruturas, nomeadamente: incluir dados da língua no CLDR, produzir um corretor ortográfico; contribuir um sistema de tradução para o Apertium; traduzir a interface do mediawiki; etc. Depois, em termos de conteúdo, há formas mais básicas de o fazer, antes de começar a escrever artigos; nomeadamente, introdução de dados no Wikidata, de definições no wikcionário, etc. Por isso não posso prometer envolver-me com a kea.wikipedia tão cedo, a não ser para ajudar em projectos específicos que outros precisem de ajuda.

Abraço, Waldir ^talk 15:29, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Nenhum problema. Se existir algum dicionário de kabuverdianu, eu poderia criar páginas no wikicionário e assim te ajudar. Conheces algum dicionário na internet? --Chabi1 (talk) 09:14, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

There used to be one in http://www.priberam.pt/dcvpo/ but it's been taken offline since... --Waldir ^talk 17:00, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Supercount

Thanks for your e-mail about my suggestion on Supercount, but why don't you just make the suggestions yourself? There is already a request for a count of automated edits by the way. SpinningSpark 18:19, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

I didn't email you, I just left a comment on github and you probably got notified because you're the one who opened the issue. So I did make the suggestions myself ;)

In any case, thanks for pointing out issue #5, I'll edit my comment to link to it. --Waldir ^talk 18:41, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Doh! slap me with a wet trout. SpinningSpark 20:16, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Tourist village (Indonesia)

I have no objection to moving Tourist village to Tourist village (Indonesia), but they are definitely not resorts -- basically you get to see what life is like in a rural village in the area, and some are not well-equipped at all. BTW, Holiday village has no sources, I question how broadly that term is used, e.g., Americans don't "go on holiday".--Milowent • ^hasspoken 14:30, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi! I understand the difference, thanks for the heads up; for now I'm just trying to establish a minimally organized set of articles and categories; afterwards it should be easy to fix miscategorizations such as the one you mention by only editing a category. I am considering moving "holiday village" to "tourist village", but for now I just set up the redirect so that the title doesn't point to the Indonesian concept (which seems to be a subset of resort towns, if you read the contents of that article). Let me know what other changes you'd suggest. --Waldir ^talk 14:36, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

I need to stop now but for the moment what I'm doing is going through articles containing "tourist village" and categorizing them as Resort towns or Holiday villages, as appropriate. I'm just trying to separate the concepts and categorize the corresponding articles. The terms can be later renamed (feel free to do so, btw). --Waldir ^talk 14:46, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

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Bug in Template:? replacement

Hi, just noticed the following edit: . Note that "dunno" fields preceded with additional styling do not render well. Not sure if this is a bug with "dunno" or with your mass-edit, but thought I'd let you know. Regards, László (talk) 12:37, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

That was indeed a bug with my replacement code. I tried to cater to various special cases but clearly some weren't covered. Thanks for warning me. In this case the style tag was superfluous since the table cell templates are centered by default, but in general, you can pass the style as a parameter to the template, e.g. {{dunno|style=text-align: center}}. Cheers, Waldir ^talk 13:17, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Script error

I noticed today that this edit seems to be treating links as "Wikipedia:Wikipedia:X" instead of "Wikipedia:X." I would look into it further, but I am unfamiliar with how to fix that, so would you be able to take a look and see what's up? It looks great by the way, so thank you for adding in the links! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 17:05, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Ah, right, that is the case for some user groups whose group pages are defined with a hardcoded "Wikipedia:" rather than using {{ns:project}}. I hopefully fixed it now, please see if it's working properly now. Cheers, and thanks for the heads-up :) --Waldir ^talk 19:11, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

That looks great! My one qualm is the Course Coordinator right, which reads a bit long for what it is, but I guess that's more of a preference issue. Thanks for fixing it though, as it's great to be able to have them linked at the top of the page! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 03:57, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for prompting me to fix it. Since I was on it, I also updated some other things that weren't working (e.g. some of the roles weren't being linked), which I had noticed before but didn't feel annoyed enough to actually dive back into the code. I also added "friendly" names for several extra roles, mostly based on your own (quite rich!) set ;) I am now actually inclined to propose including such a functionality in mediawiki proper, it's all very useful and handy info!

As for the course coordinator description, indeed I felt the same, so suggestions for shorter names are very welcome. --Waldir ^talk 11:57, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:WaldirBot is removing all subsection headings from Portal:Current events --70.190.111.213 (talk) 15:15, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to warn me, and sorry for any distress I may have caused you. I've commented on that thread. --Waldir ^talk 16:30, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

TeX: Authorea

I think you might be interested in reading and potentially cleaning up this article a bit. --Nemo 07:04, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I had heard about it but didn't know its scope was this wide. Pretty cool! I did take a look at the article, but didn't find anything I could immediately improve. Maybe if I end up using it I might be better positioned to contribute to the article. Cheers, Waldir ^talk 11:20, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Help

I will also help completing your tasks as well. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 00:19, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

At first I didn't understand what you were talking about, but looking at your recent contributions I realize you mean my "DateMatrix" project. I'm glad you're joining in! Cheers, Waldir ^talk 02:06, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for the heads-up :) --Waldir ^talk 00:24, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Current events/Calendar/2013/363

The page Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Current events/Calendar/2013/363 discusses the deletion of Portal:Current events/Calendar/2013/363 and related pages, which is one of the tasks under User:Waldir/DateMatrix#Assorted Todo. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 22:55, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me and cheers for your dedication in cleaning up the calendar pages :) I've been rather busy lately, so I haven't been able to help out much, but slowly we'll get there ;) --Waldir ^talk 23:49, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Get this fellow a Barnstar. (it was a chore like any other . . . thanx)

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Thanks for the warning. I can't take a look right now. If you want to use it, maybe you can ask for assistance in WP:VP/T. Otherwise, I'll try to take a look soon-ish. --Waldir ^talk 18:16, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi, ThoMiCroN. Just to let you know I've solved the problem. It was a simple fix after I found what caused it: a bot edited the helper template {{Scrolling table/top}} and removed whitespace characters that were essential for its functioning. I've reverted that edit and added the {{nobots}} template to prevent this from happening in the future. Thanks again for letting me know about the issue :) Cheers, Waldir ^talk 16:17, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

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Please, when making changes to any of the Module:Citation/CS1 files, always make them to the sandbox versions first. Changes made in the sandboxes can be tested there and won't be lost when I overwrite the live versions with the sandbox versions. The sandbox files are a collection of changes to the modules that do not require immediate implementation in the live versions.

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Thanks for the notice. I'll keep that in mind in the future. I appreciate your updating the sandbox to match my change -- sorry for the inconvenience :) --Waldir ^talk 21:41, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for reverting my bot at Template:Scrolling table/top. There are two issues there:

1. The first I have to find out is why the bot edited this page, since my bot edits only articles. This means there is something broken on MediaWiki's side and nor your fault or bot's fault. There were many similar issues in the past.
2. The second is the most probably the invisible characters should be replaced by visible ones. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:38, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi :) Thanks for reaching out. I didn't think it was necessary to bring the issue up with you because the change would probably make sense in an article. I hope you can figure out why the bot edited a template — let me know if there's anything I can do to help with that. As for "the invisible characters should be replaced by visible ones", can you clarify what you mean? Are you saying the checkwiki rule should be changed? Or that the template code needs to be adapted? Note that I used a zero-width character on purpose, to prevent undesired whitespace in the rendered table. --Waldir ^talk 21:31, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

On the first one: It is a Mediawiki bug which was supposed to be fixed. I'll just report th page and ask the Mediawiki guys to fix it for this page. What happens is that for unknown reasons one revision of the page is shown as "Article". They 'll fix this.

On the second one: I suggest that you use {{Zwsp}} in the place of the invisible character. It has the same functionality and it is visible. Thanks for the replies! -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:39, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Now I realise that the first part is already fixed. The bot visited the page in 2012! -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:40, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Haha, yes, the template has been broken for a long time and I didn't notice. It came to my attention thanks to the message above by ThoMiCroN. As for the {{zwsp}} template, I'll try it, thanks for the tip :) --Waldir ^talk 16:33, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Waldir! Thanks for a great script. Have a look at Diff of Super16 (film school), Formatcitations will shorten the cite parameter |trans_title to "trans". Best, -- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 17:02, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, @Sam Sailor: :) I've been meaning to adjust the script for a while but hadn't got the chance to do so. Please test it now, it should work as expected. Cheers, Waldir ^talk 21:05, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing! I enjoy Cesaria Évora btw, and how often do you run into a person whom you know knows her?! :) Best, -- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 21:46, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Hahah, that's great to hear! It's actually quite uncommon, but on the other hand, it's always surprising how widespread her appeal is, since I get that from people in contexts I normally wouldn't expect (like here!). Cheers, Waldir ^talk 09:01, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi Waldir, I hope this finds you well. I discovered another thing about Formatcitations the other day: if a cite template has a nested template like e.g. {{Subscription required}}, then the cite is not processed. Try User:Sam Sailor/sandbox/Sandbox3 in its current state. Best, Sam Sailor ^Talk! 16:50, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi again, Sam. Glad you're enjoying the script. In fact the limitation you mention was introduced quite recently, because the previous version of the script didn't work well with nested templates, mangling the alignment halfway through. As you can see in that diff, I am planning to implement this properly, but until then, I deactivated the processing of nested templates, so that at least it produces no harm. Anyway, I was going to ask in WP:VP/T for help doing this, so feel free to ask for it yourself :) Otherwise, I will write something when I find some free time. --Waldir ^talk 00:07, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

The cases of nested templates are not that common, so it's not a problem at all. I'm afraid I won't be the one asking for help at VT/T; I haven't done any sorts of coding since PCBoard was king and US Robotics 16k8 Dual Standard was lightning fast, so I would understand a reply as little as I understand Java syntax itself. :) Sam Sailor ^Talk! 09:17, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Nah, I wouldn't underestimate yourself -- javascript (obs: not java) is pretty straightforward. In any case, if you change your mind and decide to ask, I would certainly help out in the interpretation / implementation of any answer they give. Although it would probably be the case that they could edit the script themselves manually -- after all, this is a wiki ;) --Waldir ^talk 10:01, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

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DoctorKubla has turned many month articles into redirects to sections of the year articles per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years#Using archives of Portal:Current events for month articles. This might interest you as it relates to User:Waldir/DateMatrix. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:06, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much for keeping me on the loop. I've added a comment there. --Waldir ^talk 16:19, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

September 2005

I've made a start on moving the month articles, but September 2005 is move-protected – do you mind taking care of it? Just move it to "Portal:Current events/September 2005", then retarget the redirect to "2005#September", and replace {{R from move}} with {{R to section}}. Thanks. DoctorKubla (talk) 15:24, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Also December 2005. Thanks. DoctorKubla (talk) 15:35, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done :) I'll comment on the discussion with more details. --Waldir ^talk 19:58, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

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You should start copying sections of the subpages of Portal:Current events for months in 2003 and 2004 to the corresponding day page in the article namespace, make those day pages transclude Template:Current events header and Template:Current events footer, and move them to the Portal namespace without leaving redirects so that they will be listed in Category:2003 by day or Category:2004 by day like for days in other years. The month articles have been moved to the Portal namespace per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years#Using archives of Portal:Current events for month articles. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 02:07, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, I'll address it (and the one below) as soon as I get the time. Btw, happy new year! --Waldir ^talk 19:33, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

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All 365 days in 2015 now have a corresponding day page in the Portal namespace. You should start making those pages transclude Template:Current events footer like you already did for days in 2014 and earlier. Portal:Current events/2015 March 4 also already uses {{Current events footer}}. To avoid having to keep on doing this every time, you should start an RfC on whether new day pages should use the Current events footer template. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 00:56, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, Waldir. Are you still updating the citation spacing harmonizer? Ping me back. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 23:18, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi Checkingfax. I am not actively working on it, but I'm certainly available to make quick fixes :) Let me know if you need anything. --Waldir ^talk 04:41, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

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Comparison of scorewriters "mxl"

Hi Waldir, I saw that with this edit you changed all mentions of MusicXML on Comparison of scorewriters to "mxl." Problem is, there are actually two MusicXML formats. The original version is literally a plain XML file, with the XML extension. MXL is a ZIP-compressed version of that primary format. Some scorewriters with MusicXML support may not be able to handle MXL files at all, even while they can handle MusicXML in .XML format. So this was probably a mistake. ZackTheCardshark (talk) 04:14, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi ZackTheCardshark, thanks for the heads-up! I wasn't aware of that difference indeed. In fact, the MusicXML article speaks of three versions, appropriately numbered. I suppose we should add the mxl version to the supported formats column. Is there a correlation between the columns that said "MusicXML" versus "mxl"? Should I assume the former meant MusicXML v1.0 and the latter MusicXML v2.0? And what about MusicXML v3.0? And what about those that said "compressed MusicXML" -- do these mean they support MusicXML 2.0? --Waldir ^talk 09:04, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Actually, I wasn't even talking about that kind of "versions." Not sure of this, but I believe MusicXML 1, 2, and 3 are all compatible in both directions—if a program can open one of them, it can do all of them. The key thing is the last sentence on that page: "MusicXML v2.0 addresses this by adding a compressed zip format with a .mxl suffix that can make files roughly one-twentieth the size of the uncompressed version." (Emphasis added.) So, starting with MusicXML 2.0, the main XML format was updated, and in addition a new MXL format was introduced, which is an utterly different file type (an archive, not plain text).

Essentially, MusicXML can refer to the most mainstream file type, which is plain text with the extension XML (and does exist in MusicXML versions 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, but that's not important); OR, it may also refer to the derivative Compressed MusicXML file type, which is a ZIP archive with the extension MXL (and does exist in MusicXML versions 2.0 and 3.0, but that's not important).

Probably most scorewriters that support MusicXML can handle both file types, but some that support XML may not be able to unwind MXL. In any case, MXL refers only to Compressed MusicXML; the umbrella term for both is MusicXML.

It would be ideal to break that down another level for those scorewriters for which it's known, perhaps with "MusicXML (XML and MXL)" or "MusicXML (XML only)." For the rest, just "MusicXML." ZackTheCardshark (talk) 15:26, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Ok, got it. So I will revert all references to say "xml" with a link to MusicXML, and include "mxl" with a tooltip saying "Compressed MusicXML" to those cells that mentioned either "Compressed MusicXML" or simply "mxl" before my edit. Let me know if there's anything else I should do to fix things up. And thanks for the thorough explanation :) --Waldir ^talk 09:36, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Now that is super! 👍 ZackTheCardshark (talk) 14:20, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks! Wisalahmad523 (talk) 14:53, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi Wisalahmad523. Unfortunately at this moment I don't have the availability to help you restore the articles. I'm sure other editors will be able to help you. Best regards, Waldir ^talk 16:24, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Boas festas

Re Talk:Leap week calendar, everything is ready. Can you transfer the article to mainspace? 2A00:23C0:8601:9701:C967:8D01:9159:890C (talk) 15:47, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the wishes :) same to you. As for the article, I'd rather leave that change to editors who actually understand the contents, and are actively involved in editing that page. Consider paging some of them, and explicitly asking them to do the transfer, as your previous messages in that discussion didn't make this very clear IMO. (And make sure to mention that you can't do it yourself, since not everyone recalls that IPs can edit, but not create articles.) --Waldir ^talk 17:58, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, I'm Zchrykng. Waldir, thanks for creating Antonio Ereditato!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Probably need to trim some of the extraneous details, it currently reads too much like a CV/Resume, which isn't the purpose of Wikipedia

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Hey zchrykng. I'm sure you mean well, and this is likely an issue with the Teahouse tools you're using, but there are some issues with your message:

• First of all, I'm not the right person to contact about this issue, because if you look at the history for that article, I merely created it as a redirect. All its current content was added by other editors, who would be more appropriate people for you to message.
• And secondly, I'm not sure this sort of formulaic messages will be effective -- for example, the second paragraph in your message above addresses an editor with over a decade of editing experience and thousands of edits, with well-meaning, but ultimately inadequate, instructions about how to react to maintenance tags in articles or how to respond to messages left in their talk page. That clearly shows that the message was semi-automated and not fully adapted to the recipient, which could be misinterpreted as patronizing (don't worry, I didn't -- just calling your attention to that).

Please forward these concerns to the venues you feel are appropriate. Best, Waldir (talk) 09:17, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your considerate response. Definitely my bad, just got the New Page Review permission earlier this week and am not used to the tools yet. I will review the documentation again to make sure that I understand exactly what they are going to do when I press the button. I incorrectly assumed that it would send a message to the editor who expanded the redirect, since that is why it ended up in the new page curation feed.

Very much appreciate the advice and observation, I forget what it is like when I first started out and got less than useful template messages. Thanks! {{u|zchrykng}} {T|C} 13:08, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

No problem! It definitely looks like the tools are (at least) not sufficiently well documented, if they gave you the wrong idea. They probably should be changed to have a more sensible behavior, rather than documentation matching its current behavior. Hopefully this can be resolved soon, to prevent similar issues with other editors :) Cheers, Waldir (talk) 23:12, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Scrolling table

Hi there, I wish to ask if you can add the ability to sort in the {{Scrolling table}} template? It may be useful for tables like Škoda Auto § Sales and markets. Best, --Marianian^(talk) 19:13, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello. Unfortunately I don't think I can help you. That table IIRC works using CSS alone, but sortable tables work with javascript, so making the two work well together may not be trivial. I'm afraid I don't have the availability at the moment to investigate this issue and work on an implementation. I'd suggest asking for assistance at WP:VP/T. Cheers, --Waldir (talk) 23:16, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

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Context, for personal reference: Special:Diff/828035158. Basically, the /display subpage of the {{Age in years, months, weeks and days}} template was replaced with {{#invoke:age|age_generic|template=age_ymwd}}, so the subpage was no longer needed. The parent template remains in place. @Zackmann08: I'd have appreciated if you had provided me with some of this context rather than the mechanical message above. --Waldir (talk) 17:46, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Come on... That message is automatically generated by Wp:TWINKLE. As an admin and someone who has been on wikipedia for more than 14 years you should know that. Additionally, there is WAY to much going on for me to send personal messages to every user about why I'm nominating their page. Obviously if you had pinged me asking for some more info I would have happily replied, but you cannot really be annoyed that you got the automatic Twinkle message. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:34, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

I apologize, my previous comment ended in a harsher tone than it should have. Indeed, I wasn't particularly bothered myself about the automatic message — it was a minor annoyance at best having to figure out what happened. I don't mind the fact that the message was automated, but rather that the {{db-t3-notice}} template doesn't seem to provide a way to indicate which template the target template is a duplicate of — which is even weirder considering that the message says explicitly "If the template is not actually the same as the other template noted..." (emphasis mine). Do you know if adding an extra parameter to the template would be sufficient to ensure the other template is mentioned when when {{db-t3-notice}} is used via Twinkle? Or would there have to be extra configuration don on Twinkle's side? --Waldir (talk) 19:48, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

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Just a heads up

Just letting you know, Wikipedia:WikiProject Current events became an active project again back in April 2020. You listed yourself as a participate while it was inactive/superseded, so this is a heads up about it becoming active again. Elijahandskip (talk) 16:08, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up, Elijahandskip. My interest stems primarily from my DateMatrix project, but I don't think I'll be able to get back into working on it for the time being. Cheers! --Waldyrious (talk) 22:17, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

The Book

Hello Waldyrious, today I found your primerpedia. I had a similar project. But the focus little bit others. I want wikipedia looking like an old lexicon with mulit-coloumn pages. This is The Book. Best greetings from Germany. -- sk (talk) 15:20, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Nice! That's a cool project. Cheers! --Waldyrious (talk) 15:56, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Script

I don't find the scrip for formatcitations on the page. There must be a script to use. Tears. Empire AS ^Talk! 12:55, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello! Thanks for the heads-up. I've just updated the script's page, so hopefully you will be able to find what you're looking for. If not, let me know! --Waldyrious (talk) 11:40, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Yes, i just found the script. However, why you didn't provide script in the past? Thank you. Tears. Empire AS ^Talk! 14:06, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

It was always there, I just hadn't thought of adding the link in the documentation page. That format of using user:foo/script.js for the code and user:foo/script for the documentation was (is?) a common format for user scripts back when I first wrote this, but in retrospect I can see how it may be confusing for someone who comes across the script documentation page directly. --Waldyrious (talk) 15:23, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

I also visited its js page but found no script there to use. As I don't know much about scripts. However, I've a question that why you haven't archived your talk page. It has become too long to navigate. Thank you. Tears. Empire AS ^Talk! 06:32, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

At odds with documentation pages

This script seems to go against the formatting examples on Template:Cite web/doc and all (!) other CS1 template documentation, where there are no spaces before or after the equal signs, only before the pipe character. What do you say to that? If this issue has been raised before, please be so kind to refer me to the discussion. Debresser (talk) 20:57, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

I don't see the issue. Visual Editor adds these additional spaces to template coding when it is used to edit articles, and the template documentation doesn't prescribe any specific spacing. However, the script is useful when there are multiple ways that editors have spaced citation templates in a single article over the years to help pull them into some consistency. In short, the formatcitations script is a positive. Imzadi 1979 → 21:10, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

The script is useful, I never contested that. What I would like to know is what this script's writer and possibly other editors think about the abovementioned discrepancy between the function of this script and the documentation pages of these templates.

Imzadi1979, you have already stated your opinion on my talkpage, please let's hear other editors now. By the way, please see my talkpage, that you may be wrong regarding Visual Editor. Debresser (talk) 22:54, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Hey Debresser, thanks for the heads-up. The spacing used in the formatcitations.js script is quite deliberate, as omitting spaces around the equal signs hinders the ability to visually identify the boundaries of parameter/value pairs, especially when the values contain spaces. This is particularly useful in the horizontal format, of course, but the script does the same in the vertical format for consistency. I'm not aware of any discussion about standardizing the spacing to be used in wikicode of template parameters, and would be happy if the template documentation pages did adopt the same pattern as my script. I don't currently have the availability to pursue that standardization, but I'd be happy to support any such initiative. --Waldyrious (talk) 21:06, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. IMHO the readily recognizable equal sign is a clear visual identifier, and I personally see no need for spaces. Even though I personally would be fine with both options, but I think that consistency is very important. In addition, it is a long and well-established principle that automated tools should not make style changes. So I would suggest you conform the script to the de facto standard of the documentation pages of all CS1 citation templates. Debresser (talk) 13:17, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

For context, the script was created as a way to facilitate changes I was already doing by hand, including the spaces around the equal signs. I did (and still do) see the need for spaces as an aid to quickly scan the wikicode of citation templates. Of course, it is possible to locate the equal signs without the spaces, but it's certainly easier if they're padded by spaces. I often edit articles to fix one or two references, and end up working on all of them, and the admittedly small delay in locating the boundaries of parameter/value pairs, using equal signs alone, quickly adds up when doing so dozens of times in a single edit; and moreso over time across multiple edits. Although I agree with you about the desirability of standardization, the cumulative inconvenience that removing the spaces would cause IMO outweighs the benefit of harmonizing wikicode, especially when this change has no effect in the rendered page. If anything, I'd support an initiative to standardize the documentation towards including the spaces, not the other way around, as that would then fulfill both goals. --Waldyrious (talk) 13:53, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

As I said, I am fine with both options. Do you think there is a fitting venue to see if other editors also think this is something we should standardize? By the way, what I am not okay with is double spaces or spaces after the opening brackets or before the closing brackets. Debresser (talk) 17:58, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

I'm not up to date on what forums would be most appropriate these days. Maybe Wikipedia talk:Citing sources? I have no strong opinions, and I'm happy to follow your lead.

Also, could you show and example of what spacing you're not OK with? I'm not sure I fully understood the description you wrote. --Waldyrious (talk) 21:26, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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Hi there. I'm sorry for the situation, but I have no special insight into how to deal with reversions like this. It is true that the changes make no difference in the rendered article. I happen to believe that the wikicode source being more readable is an improvement, but I admit that's not a strong enough argument to make the edit stick.

My personal approach has always been to do those sort of cleanup edits alongside actual content changes. For example, if I edit an article to fix a reference or add a new one, I may then apply the script in that edit as a "collateral improvement"; or even, I may sometimes apply it before doing my manual edits, because it does indeed make it easier for me to navigate the wikicode. I haven't had issues with this approach, so perhaps trying something like that may also be helpful in your case.

Hope this helps! --Waldyrious (talk) 14:48, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

{{Age in years, months, weeks and days}} time zone?

So I know you made this template but haven't touched it in nearly a decade, but I doubt it's changed much since so perhaps you would know the answer to this. {{2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine infobox}} uses the template and currently displays the duration as "(1 year and 1 day)" despite the fact that it should be one year exactly. The one guess I have is that the template defaults to UTC+14:00 or some other time zone where the current date is February 25 and that's why there's an additional day. Is this the case? If not, why else might this incident be occurring and is there a way to fix it? I know it's minor but I'm curious how this works. Thank you for your time. QuietHere (talk) 14:29, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi there! I appreciate the message, but besides not recalling the details of the implementation as I did it back in the day, the reality is that the entire template's logic has been replaced with an invocation of Module:Age, so I would definitely recommend reaching out to that module's authors — perhaps leaving a message in its talk page pinging some of the most active editors, who, according to xtools appear to be Johnuniq and Dovid. Hope this helps! --Waldyrious (talk) 14:38, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Will do, thanks! QuietHere (talk) 14:45, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

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...it became clear that perhaps Bbb23 found that the content of the page, prior to deletion, did match these conditions. In the future, I would recommend that you make use of the {{userspace draft}} template to signal to other editors that the content is not yet ready for scrutiny, and to avoid violating WP:FAKEARTICLE.

As for the content, I would normally consider your message as sufficient grounds for restoring the deleted revisions per WP:REFUND. However, having read the text, I am not comfortable restoring it directly here on Wikipedia, because even though its contents are indeed supported by the references you linked above, the tone and language of the draft did not seem sufficiently neutral for an encyclopedic article, and had more of an editorial, opinion piece vibe. I will send you the content privately, but strongly urge you to consider reworking the content to a more neutral tone before publishing. (I haven't yet used ChatGPT or other tools for this, but I heard that they tend to be good at proposing ways to change the tone of an article, and could thus save you some work; maybe give them a try?)

Hope this helps, and sorry again for the late reply. Cheers, Waldyrious (talk) 21:23, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

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I'm glad that helped! I myself only recently discovered that template. It's pretty handy indeed :) Waldyrious (talk) 23:48, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

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Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

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• When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
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• Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
• Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.

Impact for administrators

• It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
• It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
• Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

• Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
• Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
• See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

• It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
  • This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
• Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
• Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
• The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

• How to use Special:IPContributions
• How automatic IP reveal works
• How to use IP Info
• How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

• For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

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