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Toolserver replacements

Hi there. Viriditas suggested here that the new table Wikipedia:Wikimedia Labs/Toolserver replacements may be useful for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-07-02/Technology report. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:15, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

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Grep on Tool Labs

Hi,

Thank you for the Grep tool (I feared that it disapeared with the toolserver). I noticed a bug : with « Include redirects‎ » activated the redirects are in fact excluded ! Should I change the text on translatewiki or could you rather change the tool ?

Cdlt, VIGNERON * discut. 15:03, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi User:VIGNERON. Thanks for the bug report, I've fixed the tool accordingly. Best, - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 15:50, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Thank you. Cdlt, VIGNERON * discut. 18:37, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

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SVG upload problem (SVG Check)

Hello Jarry,

as mentioned on c:Commons:Help desk#SVG upload problem, your tool don't recognize this "heavy" problem. Linked images (or generally extern linked sources) are not allowed to upload. Regards. → User: Perhelion  07:32, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

It has one check for this, but I can easily add another. (Will push it live tomorrow). Best, - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 15:51, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Thank you very much, a better more concrete fault warning is the favour of this tool. But it seems you have now a generally warning about embedded images (but yes, a raster image is only in few cases useful)!? Best, → User: Perhelion  16:50, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

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toollabs:templatecount

Hi there, are you planning to implement non-Wikipedia projects on your template counter on tool labs? It'd be nice to have it for English Wikinews. Implementation wise, you might find toollabs:wikiinfo useful. Microchip08 (talk) 16:19, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics: 15 August 2014

It seems dead. Can we revive it? NotYetAnotherEconomist (talk) 12:24, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

@NotYetAnotherEconomist: Yes! Unfortunately I'm a little short of time at the moment, but I'll try to lend a hand where I can. - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 07:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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I understand you'll be serving as temporary editor while Ed is away. Let me know what I can do to help ... I have a little time over the next few weeks that I could contribute to writing, copyediting, etc. Let me know where you want me. Thanks. Go Phightins! 21:59, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

PIng

Email. Tony (talk) 09:44, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 August newsletter

The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

  1. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
  2. Scotland Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
  3. Nepal Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
  4. Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
  5. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
  6. Florida 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
  7. Colorado Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
  8. Canada Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Herm Matty.007 (submissions), Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions), United States WikiRedactor (submissions), Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), Greece Yellow Evan (submissions), Portugal Prism (submissions) and Bartošovice v Orlických horách Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Denise Milani

Hi, I have been recently researching the Denise Milani case on Wikipedia, and saw that her article was deleted/re-created countless of times. (I read most of the discussions, including three AfD's and several heated threads on admin's noticeboard.) At that time, the deletion might have been reasonable, due to the lack of reliable sourcing. However, I noticed that the situation has changed, because in 2012 and 2013 she was covered by The Independent ([1]), The New York Times ([2]), Daily Mail ([3]), and Jezebel ([4]). In addition, she has been covered by AskMen ([5], [6]), FHM ([7]), Mandatory ([8]), and MadeMan ([9]). I think this is enough evidence to establish her notability, so I kindly request the removal of protection from her article. Thanks. --Λeternus (talk) 10:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi @Aeternus:. Actually the original protecting editor who you should contact is @East718:. Since East seems semi-active, I would be hopeful of a reply; but if not then of course I could take a look. - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 20:40, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply. I will post the same message at his talk page, and see if he responds. --Λeternus (talk) 22:47, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi, east718 left a brief response to my request saying that he doesn't think that anybody would mind if any admin unprotected Denise Milani page or a deletion review was opened. However, he did not respond to my later request for unsalting. Can you check it out instead? --Λeternus (talk) 10:10, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

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svgcheck down

Hello there! Unfortunately, your svgcheck tool has been unavailable ("No webservice") since 2014-09-06. I've been relying on it to check my SVG files before uploading them to commons, maybe you'd want to restart it or make it available again. --Rwchhs (talk) 11:16, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

@Rwchhs: I've restarted the webservice, no idea why it died :( - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 14:52, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Recent good articles

LivingBot has not been updating Wikipedia:Good articles/recent‎.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:31, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

SVGTranslate

Hi Jarry,

first of all many thanks for the cool new version of SVGTranslate!

I just wanted to inform you of a (hopefully small) glitch: Some console output seems to be leaked into the created SVG file. I just created an SVG for manual upload for testing purposes and got the text Notice: A session had already been started - ignoring session_start() in /data/project/jarry-common/public_html/libs/OAuthHandler.php on line 27 ate the beginning of the file.

Regards, --Patrick87 (talk) 21:21, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

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List of tasks of LivingBot

Hi. If it is possible please update the list of bot's tasks. Today I was looking around and it would be really helpful if I had a list of the tasks. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 06:12, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

 Done (ping @Magioladitis:). - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 17:55, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:21, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Scotland Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

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Questions about Wikipedia articles editing

I am writing you as a fairly naive contributor and because you have provided me with a "barnstar" in the past (thanks) so thought you would be knowledgeable.

I returned to an article I contributed some time ago "Serious adverse events" - which I cleaned up as it was entirely wrong and was being conflated with a related concept of "Serious adverse events". There have been concerted efforts over decades to confuse these concepts - even today an article in Lancet discussed misrepresentation of safety evidence.

Now I see someone at Wikipedia has again combined these two concepts into a single article "Adverse Effects". This is entirely wrong. Although i have edited existing articles and even created new ones, I am not sure what to do here and would appreciate guidance.

Dhusereau (talk) 19:18, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

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SVG translate

Hello Jarry, I just noticed that SVG translate is not working anymore, despite its wide use on commons:Template:Translate and Commons:Category:Translation_possible_-_SVG. Is there something massive to fix ? Yug (talk) 15:52, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Details: I tried out this, seemed good, then fails. Yug (talk) 16:01, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
I try to assess the fix workload to see if I can help. Yug (talk) 16:04, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

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Signpost failure

Hello Jarry1250, Your bot seems to be the one who had send The Signpost: 15 October 2014 edition. The message contained however two major errors, as you can see here. The Unexpected use of template error I fixed on all wikis, the not existing red link of the Discussion report I saw too late to fix it everywhere. Please make sure that the message is send correctly. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 16:39, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

This one's on me, Jarry. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:33, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Your bot

Thanks for the great work with your bot! I have one thing though, that I think could be improved: On Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2014/log the pictures are massive, do you reckon it could just say the file name (e.g File:Foo.jpg ([[:File:Foo.jpg]])). Cheers - NickGibson3900 Talk 01:18, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

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Ayuda

Estimado Jarry1250:

Quiero hacer multi idiomas archivos .svg para Commons, pero no se como hacerlo. Lo intento aquí, pero no se como guardar los cambios.

Tendrías la amabilidad de ayudarme.

Desde ya, muchas gracias y saludos de Girardelli G.Escucho 22:12, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Girardelli G.Escucho 13:20, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014: The results

The 2014 WikiCup champion is Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Scotland Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

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Improvement suggestion for the transclusion counting tool.

Hey there Jarry! I was just using the tool to try and figure out how many pages transclude a template, and I realized, that there are a lot of redirects to the template. Currently, there is no way to see how many transclusions each redirect has. If you could add a checkbox that would return a report with all the redirects to the template and how many transclusions each has, that would be very useful information. For an example... For {{Edit protected}} it could return something like:

Template Transclusion count
Edit protected
1,669 / 3,805 (44%)
Editprotected
1,236 / 3,805 (32%)
Editrequest
169 / 3,805 (4%)
Sudo
84 / 3,805 (2%)
Edit requested
47 / 3,805 (1%)
Editprotect
42 / 3,805 (1%)
Editrequested
28 / 3,805 (0.7%)
Edit protect
20 / 3,805 (0.5%)
Protected edit
17 / 3,805 (0.4%)
Edit-protected
15 / 3,805 (0.4%)
EditProtected
6 / 3,805 (0.2%)
Edit Protected
5 / 3,805 (0.1%)
Changerequest
0 / 3,805 (0%)
Edit locked
0 / 3,805 (0%)
Mediawikiedit
0 / 3,805 (0%)
MediaWikiEdit
0 / 3,805 (0%)

Or something like that... The top entry is the remainder of the total transclusions minus the transclusions of the redirects. I envision the percent bars taking up the whole cell in that column. I also envision the whole table being sortable (except the top row, which would be static. Do you think you could do this? Thanks! — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 05:45, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

SVG Check improvement suggestion

Hallo Jarry1250,
I got a new idea on this on discussion about tagging SVGs on Commons as Valid SVG. So I suggest to install the open W3C validator as server on Tool Labs. That would make it possible to combine it with your tool and get the validity result instantly on the file page for tagging it with a script. I could install the SVG customized server. What do you think about this!? Best regards → User: Perhelion 17:49, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.

  • We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
  • In a similar vein, we hope you will all join us in welcoming Jason (Sturmvogel 66) and Christine (Figureskatingfan), who are joining Brian (Miyagawa) to form the 2015 WikiCup judging team. Jason is a WikiCup veteran, having won in 2010 and finishing in fifth this year. Christine has participated in two WikiCups, reaching the semi-finals in both, and is responsible for the GA Cup, which she now co-runs.
  • The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk), The ed17 (talk), Miyagawa (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:54, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Toolserver

So, I've apparently been off in my own little world of editing and not paying attention, and just discovered that the toolserver has gone deadpool. Quite a while back, you had built some queries for me that I used to check into from time to time and use for finding cleanup tasks, mostly to do with radio and television stations. Did those die a worthy death when the toolserver was shut down, or do they live on somewhere else now? Mlaffs (talk) 02:55, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

I have copies of all the old tools ready to revive :) Do you have the relevant URLs? At the very least I have /callsigns/, /radiostations/ and /radiostationsnone/ -- any of them yours? - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 20:35, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
Yep, you wrote those three for me. I was also using /infoboxchecker. Mlaffs (talk) 00:12, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Fonts in svgcheck tool

Hi I very often use your tool to view how a svg will render, thanks for that one it's great. I use Inkscape and the fonts Liberation Sans and Serif. They are on the approved list of fonts for Wikimedia but I still get *Warning* for this.
Starting to debug...
Line 61: *Warning* You appear to have specified a font that does not exist on Wikimedia wikis.
Line 61: *Warning* You should define a fallback font type, which should not be placed in quote marks and should be in lower case.
Allowable types are serif, sans-serif, cursive, fantasy and monospace.
In this it says You appear to have specified a font that does not exist on Wikimedia wikis and Allowable types are serif, sans-serif, cursive, fantasy and monospace but that is not true as Liberation Sans Serif are approved fonts and many more than the five that is written.
Is there something I have misunderstood about the approved fonts and is the tool updated to that list? --Goran tek-en (talk) 19:15, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Do you have a sample? If you specify a font like 
<text font-family="Liberation Sans">Text</text>
it normally works like a charm in SVG Check... --Patrick87 (talk) 19:39, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
Just cross-checked with Inkscape: Inkscape adds the font-family as a CSS property, e.g. 
<text style="font-family:Liberation Sans"><tspan>Text</tspan></text>
So far it still works nicely in SVG Check (only difference is that you're now presented with the warning to consider to add a fall-back font).
Note in the previous example that Inkscape also by default wraps text inside additional <tspan>s. If you now happen to add a new text with a not supported font-family (e.g. Arial) and then subsequently change the font-family by selecting the text Inkscape adds the changed font-family property to this <tspan> but keeps the original font specification inside the <text> element intact. You then get the "unsupported font" error in SVG Check while the conflicting font actually isn't used anywhere (because it's overwritten). --Patrick87 (talk) 19:57, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
This is what Inkscape gives;
<text
       xml:space="preserve"
       style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;text-align:start;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;writing-mode:lr-tb;text-anchor:start;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Liberation Sans;-inkscape-font-specification:Liberation Sans"
       x="142.85715"
       y="200.93361"
       id="text2985"
       sodipodi:linespacing="125%"><tspan
         sodipodi:role="line"
         id="tspan2987"
         x="142.85715"
         y="200.93361">asasas</tspan></text>
I have set Liberation Sans to be my Default font so when I start a New drawing that should be OK, as above.
Thanks for your clarification on how it works.
So if I understand you right I can keep on doing as I do but try to remove any old/previous used fonts. I thought that "Vaccum Defs" did that but obviously it has to be done by hand. Thanks for this, I'm more a "user" of a program and only to some minor extend I do things in the xml-code. --Goran tek-en (talk) 10:44, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to intrude you but please take some time to read commons:Help:SVG#Layout with text and tspan elements. It still needs proofreading but the general issue of tspan is that it does not behave consistently, especially in Inkscape. I also don't understand why you (or actually Inkscape) translate the positions of the text element and its child tspan element separately. The whole "tspan" wrapping in your last code sample is completely dispensable. -- Sameboat - 同舟 (talk · contri.) 13:02, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
I'm happy for your information regarding this as I don't really understand how it works or what to do to get the best result here on Wikimedia.
I'm not with you regarding this I also don't understand why you (or actually Inkscape) translate the positions of the text element and its child tspan element separately., the code it straight from Inkscape as I'm a user not a code person. Can you please write how you mean the code should look for my example, the whole part so I can compare, thanks!
I did read your link and I use that page from time to time but as I mentioned before I'm a USER of Inkscape and to change a lot in the code regarding text seems like a lot of work and I will probably mess up the code also.
But to my understanding I can continue using Liberation Sans and Serif but try to remove any old used fonts left in <text> element? --Goran tek-en (talk) 13:57, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
The above code can be simplified to this:
<text
       xml:space="preserve"
       style="font-size:16px;line-height:125%;fill:#000000;font-family:Liberation Sans,Arial,sans-serif"
       x="142.85715"
       y="200.93361">asasas</text>
I started creating SVG with Inkscape in the beginning but very soon abandoned it and learn to write the SVG source code in Notepad++ due to numerous flaws of Inkscape and the bloated file size it generates which makes it harder for other editors to revise. I never consider myself a "code person" for hand-writing SVG graphs like this because XML is so accessible and you can always check the W3 SVG specification for instruction. As for your initial inquiry, those warnings are very very minor, not bad enough to prevent Wikimedia from generating raster image from your SVG normally. -- Sameboat - 同舟 (talk · contri.) 15:02, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for everything it helps a lot. But I don't understand how you can "draw" like the underground map in just code. It must be very hard to understand where you are just by writing e.g. the x and y coordinates for the different lines. --Goran tek-en (talk) 17:58, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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Question for User Jarry1250

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WikiCup 2015 launch newsletter

Round one of the 2015 WikiCup has begun! So far we've had around 80 signups, which close on February 5. If you have not already signed up and want to do so, then you can add your name here. There have been changes to to several of the points scores for various categories, and the addition of Peer Reviews for the first time. These will work in the same manner as Good Article Reviews, and all of the changes are summarised here.

Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round, and one of the new changes this year is that all scores must be claimed within two weeks of an article's promotion or appearance, so don't forget to add them to your submissions pages! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs)
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Signpost fix needed

Hello Jarry1250, Your bot is sending the weekly Signpost newsletter across various Wikipedias and other projects. I am not sure who to write to, but the whole past year the Signpost had a bug in the code of the wikisyntax. This causes in certain browser style errors. This is caused by that there are 4 div opening tags and 3 div tags are closed, which results in that all the text (including of other messages) after the Signpost message is included in the Signpost newsletter. So if you send the newsletter with 4 div tags opening, you also need 4 div tags to close. It is simple to solve: like this. Can you solve this or can you point me to the person I should ask for this? Thanks! Romaine (talk) 10:39, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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Toolserver redux

Referencing back to this discussion, did you ever get a chance to have a look at this? Mlaffs (talk) 04:00, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

SVG check, "That file doesn't appear to be an SVG file."

Hi Jarry1250
I'm using your great tool svg check a lot as I do svg work here.
Now I have a complicated and heavy svg file which your tool doesn't seems to fix. You can look at or download the file from here. The message I get from your tool is this: "That file doesn't appear to be an SVG file.".
I have broken down the complete file to six different files with just one layer in each file, they render and pass without anything each on its own.
 Question: Could this file be to heavy and complicated for your tool?
 Question: If it is to heavy and complicated will this be the same when I upload it to commons?
Thankful for your input in this, thanks. --Goran tek-en (talk) 12:14, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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Hi there,


Will I not get bonus for Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2015/Submissions/The Herald?  - The Herald (here I am) 09:09, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Good articles/recent

It's not the first time that I see an article wrongly listed as recent when it was promoted a good time ago... (see: Wikipedia talk:Good articles/recent#LoveGame and Paparazzi (Lady Gaga song)) Users suggested that it's probably because of its addition on the Wikipedia:Good articles/Music. They are probably correct; today when Enema of the State added to the list it was added on the recent list... However, it was promoted on January 18, 2014... Is there a way to fix it? Gabriel Yuji (talk) 21:56, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

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New polling stuff

Hey Jarry, seeing as how it's an elaboration on your old designs I figured you'd be interested in seeing an in-wiki polling template I cooked up at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost. ResMar 01:24, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

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One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Australia Freikorp (submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

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Transclusion counter down

Hi Jarry, https://tools.wmflabs.org/templatecount/ is down. Could you have a look what's going on? Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 06:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

+1 grep; Please restart your labs tools. Boshomi (talk) 09:10, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

User:Martijn Hoekstra & Boshomi, Jarry has not been active here since December 7 2014. The tool is down. What do we do? -- GreenC 16:20, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Tools are online again. Boshomi (talk) 19:32, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Bug on automated SVG translation-Tool

Hello, When I clicked the link to translate the SVG in the image-description of this image, I get the following Error-Message:

Notice: A session had already been started - ignoring session_start() in /data/project/jarry-common/public_html/libs/OAuthHandler.php on line 27
Call Stack:
0.0016 668696 1. {main}() /data/project/svgtranslate/public_html/index.php:0
0.0555 3643368 2. OAuthHandler->__construct() /data/project/svgtranslate/public_html/index.php:46
0.0556 3643448 3. session_start() /data/project/jarry-common/public_html/libs/OAuthHandler.php:27
<!-- SVG Translate encountered an error. This error was generated by:
  1. 0 SVGtranslate->error(error-nothing) called at [/data/project/svgtranslate/public_html/svgtranslate.php:363]
  2. 1 SVGtranslate->generate_second_form() called at [/data/project/svgtranslate/public_html/svgtranslate.php:780]
  3. 2 SVGtranslate->do_step(translating) called at [/data/project/svgtranslate/public_html/index.php:57]
-->

-- Thomas1311 (talk) 16:28, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

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Gracias

Estimado Jarry1250:

Quiero hacer multi idiomas archivos .svg para Commons, pero no se como hacerlo. Lo intento aquí, pero no se como guardar los cambios.

Tendrías la amabilidad de ayudarme.

Desde ya, muchas gracias y saludos de Girardelli G.Escucho 01:46, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

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grep tool (german interface)

Labels belong to wrong check boxes; please check their id/for attributes.

Thanks -- Rillke (talk) 01:35, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks @Rillke:, should be fixed now. - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 20:09, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy; and is one of several Featured Pictures worked up by India The Herald (submissions) during the second round.

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Belarus Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:35, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

broken tool

your took at https://tools.wmflabs.org/svgtranslate is broken. its showing some error which are alos included into generated svgs which makes them invalid: 

Notice: A session had already been started - ignoring session_start() in /data/project/jarry-common/public_html/libs/OAuthHandler.php on line 27

Call Stack:
    0.0028     678736   1. {main}() /data/project/svgtranslate/public_html/index.php:0
    0.0970    3657640   2. OAuthHandler->__construct() /data/project/svgtranslate/public_html/index.php:46
    0.0970    3657720   3. session_start() /data/project/jarry-common/public_html/libs/OAuthHandler.php:27
you could fix that by deactivating this output in php with error_reporting(0); before anything else --91.3.3.77 (talk) 09:11, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

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