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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
- Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 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!
Cyberbot I
Cyberbot I needs to stop adding pages prefixed Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting to today's AFD page Geschichte (talk) 18:49, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
- Likely caused by mal-transcluded AfD categories from here. IceWelder [✉] 19:16, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Please ask Cyberbot to nest tags correctly
In this edit from 2 Feb 2024, Cyberbot added misnested <s>...</s> tags to a page. Please ask Cyberbot to place both the opening and closing <s>...</s> tags inside any existing tags, like this. Thanks! – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:27, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Great mess
Including @Harej:
This edit by the InternetArchiveBot didn't exacttly result into something decent at those places where the deleted template {{Wayback}} was replaced by {{cite web}}. The way it's done results in a big mess. Probably instead of "|report={{cite web| .... }}", "|report=Report<ref>{{cite web| .... }}</ref>" would have result into something proper. I'm not going to correct it, since basketball is not my beef and it wouldn't surprise me if this is not the only page where such a mess is created, like the pages of NBA finals for other years. Using {{cite web}} or other cite templates not enclosed within <ref> and </ref> doesn't seem wise to me anyway. --Sb008 (talk) 10:42, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
urldatachangestate
Hi!
I'm translating InternetArchiveBot user interface into Hebrew, and I have a question.
The message urldatachangestate says "from <b>{{logfrom}}</b> to <b>{{logto}}</b>". I guess that "{{logfrom}}" and "{{logto}}" are something like "live", "dead", etc., but can you please explain more specifically what are the possible values?
And are they always in English, or can they be translated?
I'll update the documentation for translators after you reply.
Thanks! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:13, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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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.
RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
- Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
- Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
- Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
- Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
- Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
- Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
- Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
- Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
- Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
- Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
- Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
- Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
- Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
- Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
- Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
- Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
- Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Request for global bot flag for CommonsDelinker
Hello!
This is a notification to let you know that a new request for the global bot flag for CommonsDelinker has been started.
Please note that the request will remain open for 14 days starting today. You can leave a comment or opinion on the relevant page!
Best regards --Superpes15 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 12:47, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Cyberbot I seems to have left the Wikipedia namespace
Hi there,
It's been a while since we had this problem, but Cyberbot I last did its thing in the Wikipedia namespace around 05:07 UTC today, and jobs are piling up at WP:RFPP. Could you give it a push?
Regards, Favonian (talk) 13:46, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Cyberbot has been running - it's just not updating Admin stats. — Maile (talk) 11:34, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Maile66: In the Wikipedia namespace, it has only processed AfD requests. Other tasks, like RfPP, sandbox cleaning, etc. are pending since yesterday morning. Favonian (talk) 13:09, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Last run at RfPP was 5 days ago. Lectonar (talk) 15:18, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Lectonar: Nope, yesterday: Special:Diff/1214475595. The RfPP overview page is only modified when the admin backlog status changes, and that last happened five days ago (Special:Diff/1213888207). Favonian (talk) 16:43, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Last run at RfPP was 5 days ago. Lectonar (talk) 15:18, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Maile66: In the Wikipedia namespace, it has only processed AfD requests. Other tasks, like RfPP, sandbox cleaning, etc. are pending since yesterday morning. Favonian (talk) 13:09, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- What I'm talking about is Template:Adminstats/Maile66&action=history where the last update shows as March 18. — Maile (talk) 18:26, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, template namespace, not Wikipedia ditto ;) Favonian (talk) 18:35, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- What I'm talking about is Template:Adminstats/Maile66&action=history where the last update shows as March 18. — Maile (talk) 18:26, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Bot is back in business: Special:Diff/1214776067. Thanks! Favonian (talk) 06:49, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, indeed! Thank you. — Maile (talk) 11:25, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Administrator changes
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.
Bot query
Evening.
Is it possible for Cyberbot to follow redirects? Just tagged a request I dealt with at RFPP as not being protected, the page itself was but the request was made using the redirect link due to the "–" vs "—" problem and therefore didnt read as protected despite not being the actual target.
Not sure if anything can be done to have it read redirects or not?
Amortias (T)(C) 20:25, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- How could the bot tell if what was really being requested was that the redirect be protected? * Pppery * it has begun... 20:41, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- No idea, my knowledge of how bots operate and work is limited hence the question. Amortias (T)(C) 20:54, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
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!
Cyberbot I stopped working
It's the usual: the bot last visited Wikipedia space this morning at 05:51 (UTC). Since then, it has only edited its own files under "User:Cyberbot I/". A restart would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Favonian (talk) 15:18, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- No idea if this is related, but since there's already a thread, it also hasn't updated its RfX report (ToadetteEdit has been closed for three days). Queen of ♡ | Speak 03:42, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- You should really stop using the bot's report and switch to {{RFX report}} instead. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- I'm well aware; I saw this on someone else's user page. Queen of ♡ | Speak 04:05, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- You should really stop using the bot's report and switch to {{RFX report}} instead. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- I do believe, it's back. Thanks! Favonian (talk) 15:44, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:
- Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
- Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
- Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
- Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
- Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
- Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
- Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
- Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed
See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Hungarian Wikipedia top contributor
Dear Cyberpower!
The Hungarian Wikipedia community has collected the top contributors for the year 2023, of which you have achieved the 3rd place in the category Botoperators of the Year. Congratulations from the heart on behalf of the community and the Wikimedia Hungary Association! Best regards:VRéka (WMM) (talk) 18:03, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Automated comment issue at AfD
Hi Cyperpower678, I hope you are well!
I had a quick though about a comment that your bot left at an AfD (this one). Because it is a bot, I think that the comment it left shouldn't say "I have transcluded it to..." but rather "[this] has been transcluded to...", as it's hard to think of a bot able to talk about itself using first person.
Cheers! Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 18:30, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
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!
Edit warring
I am tempted to block this bot for edit-warring on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Decrease. If the bot is reverted, it should respect WP:BRD. ~Anachronist (talk) 07:33, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Except that you deleted the comment it left behind. You shouldn't be doing that to any comment, left by a human, or a bot.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:20, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
AFD header messup
I nominated an article for deletion and the header went haywire. The last time this happened, your bot seemed to fix it. How do you do that? Pharaoh496 (talk) 20:52, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @Pharaoh496: It appears that you didn't follow the instructions exactly. At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/All Eyes on Rafah, blank out everything including the section heading and automated notices, and replace with this: Do not change any of it, but preview it and save. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:26, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
{{SUBST:afd2|pg={{SUBST:#titleparts:{{SUBST:FULLPAGENAME}}||2}}|cat=U|text=This article is about a social media slogan, with the thumbnail - essentially its main bit - a social media AI generated image which was trending on Instagram on two days. The slogan gained traction as it was used by, among many others, many social media influencers. In accordance to [[WP:NOTDIARY]], as well as [[WP:RECENT]] as a whole (because it is a small event belonging to the [[Rafah offensive]]), I believe this article should be deleted. A bit about this can be added to the "international reaction" header in the [[Rafah offensive]] article, but it should not exist standalone}} ~~~~
- @Cyberpower678: You removed the strike on your bot's comment on the page. Any reason why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pharaoh496 (talk • contribs) 21:41, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- See the section on top by Jonesey95 (talk · contribs)—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:46, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: Thanks a ton! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pharaoh496 (talk • contribs) 21:42, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Cyberpower678: You removed the strike on your bot's comment on the page. Any reason why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pharaoh496 (talk • contribs) 21:41, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
Third request: Please ask Cyberbot to nest tags properly
I asked in December 2023. Then I asked again in February 2024. Now I am asking for a third time: Please fix Cyberbot so that it nests tags properly. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:41, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
Done—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:19, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- Woo-hoo! Thanks for getting to this minor annoyance. I appreciate your work. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:57, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
Cyberbot I stopped working
Last edit to Wikipedia namespace was at 01:53, 16 June 2024 (UTC). Favonian (talk) 13:51, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
- Cyberbot I seems to be working again. 24.115.255.37 (talk) 03:10, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Cyberbot I running amok – temporarily
Referring to this excerpt from the contribution log, at around 22:43, 22 June 2024 (UTC), the bot decided to wipe out most of this month's RfPP archive. I happened just four minutes after a "regular" run. I have repaired the damage (hopefully), but it would be good to know what prompted it. Favonian (talk) 09:23, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Seems like the bot received a blank page from the API prompting it to think it needed to create a new archive page.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 13:41, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Did this occur during yesterday's server issues? See WP:VPT#Connexion problems. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 14:16, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Fits, time-wise. Guess the bot is excused. Favonian (talk) 14:56, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Did this occur during yesterday's server issues? See WP:VPT#Connexion problems. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 14:16, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
 | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Cyberpower678! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:05, 26 June 2024 (UTC) |  |
IABot high load warning
The IABot is not working at all, and the 'high load warning' starts from the day before yesterday. It gives a totally unreasonable estimated lag (currently 2338 minutes and 11 seconds), and the estimated lag is still growing. Please fix it as soon as possible. Sanmosa Outdia 10:10, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- And I need to report that this problem appears again (although as I report early this time, the lag is within 300 minutes). Sanmosa Outdia 13:20, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
InternetArchiveBot keeps breaking and duplicating refs
this edit has your name on it. The edit broke some refs and duplicated another. It's not the first time the bot has done this to that article. I have raised it on the bot talk page, but of course that has been ignored. You're an admin, can you block the bot? DuncanHill (talk) 09:21, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).
Administrator changes
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
IABot high load warning for webpage archive function
A high load warning arises again. Sanmosa Outdia 05:15, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
RFPP bot behavior
Heya Cyber. We're getting a few unusual Cyberbot I comments at WP:RFPP. This permalink includes a few "Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm."
comments that come many minutes after an admin noted protection using an approved template. Is this expected behavior, or some new issue? Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 18:36, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- This edit to WP:RFED was a bit off. The bot only archived one thread, and there were not 2 requests remaining. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 19:29, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- In the grand scheme of things the edit summary was correct, it's referring to all three pages as it performs the archiving of the three subpages simultaneously.
- As for the automated comments, no idea what's triggering it. I would keep an eye on it.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 23:10, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
Help by InternetArchiveBot derivate possible ?
Hello cyberpower678. We from the german team for chemistry stuff noticed that one of the reference source url, which is often used, is somehow dead. It now redirects always to the Wiley main page. So our references are not more valid. Is it possible and do you can find the time, that your InternetArchiveBot (or an variant of it) can replace any of that links by an webarchiv link ? today <-> previous page. Example: de:Eliminierungsreaktion (first reference). Rjh (talk) 16:19, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
I know.......
 | This page contains material that is kept because it is considered humorous. Such material is not meant to be taken seriously. |
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Cyberpower678", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because you know why.......... If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you.
I'M ONTO YOUUUUUUU!! I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU WANT!!! I CAN SEE RIIIIIIGHT THROUGH YOUR DISGUISE!!!!! YOU'RE CAUGHT, MAN!!! GIVE IT UP!!!! LOL... I'm just saying "hello" to you. It's been awhile and I just wanted to let you know that I was thinking about you... See you around, buddy! :-P :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 01:44, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
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
Fixing statusChanger.js
Hey buddy. I fixed the two problems I could find with statusChanger by making these edits. Please test it out and let me know if you find any issues. Feel free to copy it to your userspace. Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:08, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Here, I'll throw in some linter error fixes too :) Diff. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:21, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- One of the DiscussionTools devs I talked to at the hackathon says the "The reply link cannot be used to reply to this comment" message is because the [reply] button is basically inside a template. This can't be done for some reason. I think the fix would be to either subst User:Cyberpower678/Layout and similar templates, or have these templates close all their HTML tags. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:19, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- You've seen my user space complexity, so sadly, substing is out. :p Also closing out the HTML tags breaks the border feature of my user space. So I guess I'm stuck with responding in the traditional sense. Thanks for checking on this for me. Maybe they'll find a solution at some point. :-)—CYBERPOWER (Around) 07:18, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Novem Linguae: Thanks for your help at Wikimedia. You were a great help.—CYBERPOWER (Message) 05:43, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- My pleasure. Thanks for letting me try your VR headset! –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:38, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- One of the DiscussionTools devs I talked to at the hackathon says the "The reply link cannot be used to reply to this comment" message is because the [reply] button is basically inside a template. This can't be done for some reason. I think the fix would be to either subst User:Cyberpower678/Layout and similar templates, or have these templates close all their HTML tags. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:19, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Request for assistance with a troublesome template
I spoke to you at Wikimania 2024 about my issue with a Military History Project template. The situation is this:
- One of our maintenance categories, Category:Military history articles with no associated task force, is cluttered with pages from the Draft namespace. I only want task forces to be associated with articles ie pages in the Talk namespace.
- All I need is a way to detect the draft namespace.
- What I tried to do is modify our Template:WikiProject Military history/sandbox (The template is widely used so I did not want to mess it up) with this change.
- The idea was that {{Namespace detect|talk=|other=yes}} would produce "yes" on a page other than a talk page. That would cause the category to not be added.
- However, the template did not work the way I expected: {{Namespace detect|talk=yes|other=no}} produces "yes" on this user talk page when I expected that it would produce "no".
- I tried {{Namespace detect|draft=yes|other=no}} but on a draft talk page this produces "no".
Any advice or assistance you can render would be greatly appreciated. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:36, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you!!! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:59, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you @Jonesey95:. I was just coming here to take care of it, but you beat me to it.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 09:01, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Cyberbot at CHUS
Hello. May just be a fluke, but just wanted to let you know that here cyberbot missed the fact that the requested username was taken. That is all, have a good day. GrayStorm(Complaints Dept.|My Contribs.) 14:21, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).
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.
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Hi, Thanks for the inputs. I just wanted to create the category as the newly formed LPA for Karaikudi city that covers the added stations as in the page. The reason i wanted to create the page because these stations will be the suburban stations for the newly formed Karaikudi Corporation as like "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_stations_in_Madurai" for Madurai. I will add the needed details like additional references and news about these stations as i still collecting and consolidating the same for future updates.
Thanks, Cvcs84 Cvcs84 (talk) 17:50, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
IA Bot
Hi Cyberpower, I hope this finds you well. I just wanted to ask if you could see your way to joining a quiet discussion at WT:FAC. There's no suggestion at all that you're in any way responsible—nor an expectation that you can necessarily help!—but as you know the history, its approval status and how it operates, you might be able to clarify a few things. No worries if not! Cheers, SerialNumber54129 17:43, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
RFA2024 update: Discussion-only period now open for review
Hi there! The trial of the RfA discussion-only period passed at WP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
Cyberbot RFPP behavior
Hi Cyberpower! I noticed repetitive updates for an RFPP requester who was blocked after making a request. Is that intended behavior to have this many updates following a partial block? Cheers, Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 00:48, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
Aspire Energy
I think the disscussion is over im not sure, i was wondering how ill figure that out bc it was suppose to end 1 hr ago TheJodeciadams (talk) 21:42, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
Fix link?
to your presentation at Katowice, https://app.eventyay.com/talk/2024/talk/CGBQMB/ ? Vysotsky (talk) 14:49, 2 October 2024 (UTC)