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Iranian rulers in the Persian Wikipedia

Hey Ladsgroup, I've recently improved several articles of Iranian rulers [1] [2] [3] [4]. Think there are some users in the Persian Wikipedia interested in translating those to Persian as they did to Shahrbaraz [5]? Perhaps you could ask around? The Persian Wikipedia badly needs work in pre-Islamic related articles. I would happily do it meself but I never learned the Persian script - perhaps one day? Thanks in advance. --HistoryofIran (talk) 00:30, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

User:HistoryofIran Hey, I think User:ImanFakhri would be interested Ladsgroupoverleg 13:09, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Global watchlist - Update 1

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

General announcements
  • Management has migrated to phabricator; to report a bug or request a feature, please create a new task with the script's tag
  • Message translation has been reduced; for common messages that are already translated in mediawiki core, the system translations are used, in order to reduce duplication of efforts
Recent additions
  • New pages are shown at the start of a site's feed
  • Log entries are shown at the end of a site's feed
  • Basic validation has been added to user settings, applied before saving
  • Site validation has also been added; a site (excluding unique projects like wikidata, meta, commons, etc.) is considered to be valid if it is the form of "language.project", where both the language code and project name are valid. It does not, however, check that the actual site is valid; only that it could be. In other words, even though sco.wiktionary refers to a site that doesn't exist, it is considered valid, because sco is a valid language code (sco.wikipedia is a working site) and wiktionary is a valid project.
Announcements
  • BREAKING CHANGE: Backwards compatibility supporting the use of sites as *.*.org (like 'en.wikipedia.org' or 'meta.wikimedia.org'), deprecated in version 1.7.5, will be removed soon; all sites should now be saved as *.* (like 'de.wikinews' or 'fr.wikisource')
  • BREAKING CHANGE: Storing user sites as window.GlobalWatchlistSites, deprecated in version version 1.11.11, will be removed soon; all settings should be stored in the window.GlobalWatchlistConfig object
  • Both of these breaking changes will be implemented alongside version 4.0; until then, any use of the config page (m:Special:BlankPage/GlobalWatchlistConfig) will result in saving settings in the newest format
Next release

Version 4.0 should be released in around a week. It will include the new features mentioned above, as well as removal of backwards compatibility for settings and sites.

I've sent this first message to users that participated in the discussion at m:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Watchlists/Revive Crosswatch tool or otherwise shown interest in the script. To subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates, see the distribution list.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 16:03, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

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Global watchlist - Update 2

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

General notes
Recent additions
  • Site validation has been tightened. Previously, only the language code and project name had to be valid - now, they must be a valid combination (i.e. en.wikiversity exists, and so is valid, but sco.wikiversity is not valid, because no such wiki exists).
  • When the global watchlist feed is loading, an OOUI widget will be shown, rather than an animated gif.
  • An option has been added to no longer group edits to the same page. For now, this isn't very useful, since metadata for the edits (editor, summary, tags, etc.) are not yet shown, but they will be soon. Until then, ungrouped edits are treated the same as pages with only 1 edit - the minor and bot flags are displayed if applicable. If edits are grouped, the minor and bot flags are only shown if they apply to all of the edits.
Upcoming changes
  • Starting with version 5.0, there will be an option at the settings page to switch to and from a "stable" version of the script. When activated, the script import in your global.js should be replaced, and then the page refreshed with the new script loaded. The stable script will live at m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/stable.js, and will be updated with each full release. Otherwise, it shouldn't be edited, providing a version that is less prone to bugs as the script is developed.
Announcements
  • WARNING: Starting with version 5.1, the option to mark the pages of a site as seen be implemented using the entirewatchlist API option, rather than manually listing the titles. This is being done to simplify the implementation code. This will result in the same functionality as marking all pages as seen via Special:Watchlist (i.e. even if the page isn't visible due to your filter choices, it will still be marked as seen). If you would like to keep using the current method for a while, please switch to the stable branch.
Next release

Version 5.0 has just gone live. It includes the new features mentioned above.

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Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:43, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

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Global watchlist - Update 3

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

Survey
  • I am investigating adding more context to each entry that is shown (such as the edit summaries, tags, patrol marks, the user who made the edit, etc.). Is there any desire for such additions? If so, what should be added first, and what is a low priority? Please leave feedback on the relevant phabricator task, phab:T238300.
Recent additions
  • Site validation has been overhauled. Rather than hard-coding a list of valid sites, users will be able to watch any site where they have an attached local user account. If a site is rejected as invalid, please ensure that there is indeed a local account attached to your global account.
  • Users will now be alerted regarding the results of attempting to update their settings.
  • Live updates have been added - when activated, the script will refresh in the background, and then load the new feed, every 7.5 seconds. In the future, this frequency may be configurable.
  • OOUI icons have been added to most buttons.
  • There is now an option to eliminate the confirmation dialog when marking all sites as seen.
Announcements
  • WARNING: Starting with version 6.1, site aliases currently used when saving settings will be removed, and only sites in the form of `lang.project` will be accepted.
  • As noted in the last update, marking a site as seen now uses entirewatchlist, which means that any changes to watched pages between when the watchlist was loaded and when the site was "marked as seen" may be ignored.
Next release

Version 6.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

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Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 21:03, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

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editToken

Hello Ladsgroup,

Your script User:Ladsgroup/RefCleaner.js is no longer functional because it attempts to get an editToken from mw.user.tokens. The script should instead get a csrfToken. editTokens were removed from mw.user.tokens on October 3, 2019 at Phabricator during this edit as they were redundant to csrfTokens.– BrandonXLF (talk) 00:06, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

User:BrandonXLF. Thanks for letting me know, it's fixed now. Ladsgroupoverleg 22:07, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
سلام. این ستاره تقدیم به شما برای انعکاس اتفاقات ایران در ویکی پدیا انگلیسی تا جهانیان درباره آن بخوانند.

پیشنهاد میشود اتفاقات قطع اینترنت و خسارات ناشی از آن در مقاله انگلیسی : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship نوشته شود. بنده دسترسی لازم را ندارم زیرا این مقاله حفاظت شده است. از شما درخواست میشود اتفاقات پیرامون قطع اینترنت در ایران را در بخش shutdown و censorship درج کنید.

به امید موفقیت برای شما و ایران Baboneh212 (talk) 05:47, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Baboneh212 ممنون از نشانتان. چشم رویش کار می‌کنم. Ladsgroupoverleg 19:12, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Global watchlist - Update 4

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

Recent additions
  • A new "fast" mode has been introduced. When used, the watchlist serves as just a list of pages that have been modified, and no longer includes context about the edits themselves.
  • More information has been added to entries. When edits are not grouped by page, or when there is only 1 edit to a page, minor and bot flags are shown, as well as the user who made the edit, the summary used, and any tags that were applied. When multiple entries are grouped, bot and minor flags are only shown if all of the grouped edits were made by bots or where marked as minor. If only 1 user edited the page, that user's name is still shown, but no summaries or tags are included.
  • All watchlists are now fetched in parallel, rather than in series, greatly reducing load time.
Technical notes
  • Most of the source code is now annotated with jsdoc notes, allowing others to more clearly understand and review the code.
  • I will be looking into creating guidelines to let others contribute to the script; see phab:T238298.
Translations
  • There is now proper qqq documentation for translations. Translation takes place at m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Translate, and help is appreciated.
  • Newly translated messages are added to the script when I notice them; if you have translated messages that aren't showing up, please let me know at m:User talk:DannyS712.
Next release

Version 7.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

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Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 04:37, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

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Global watchlist - Update 5

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

Future development
  • I have requested a grant to fund conversion of this script into an extension, as well as further development. Please see m:Grants:Project/Create a global watchlist extension.
  • If anyone is interested in reviewing the code and making suggestions regarding coding style, techniques, or something else, please let me know. See phab:T234507 for more.
Recent additions
  • I have added basic tests for the script, so bugs should be less likely to make their way to the deployed versions of the script (both the unstable development version, and the stable release version).
  • If there is an error with the script, the user will be notified and and the console will include a stack trace of the issue.
Translations
  • Many thanks to those that have contributed translations for the script's messages. Translation takes place at m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Translate, and help is appreciated.
  • Newly translated messages are added to the script when I notice them; if you have translated messages that aren't showing up, please let me know at m:User talk:DannyS712.
Next release
  • Version 8.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

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Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:25, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

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Global watchlist - Update 6

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

Future development
Recent additions
  • The results for each site, as well as the list of sites without changes, can be collapsed; the list of sites without changes starts collapsed.
  • When the username associated with an edit has been hidden (either via revision deletion or suppression) this is now properly shown in the output, rather than showing "undefined".
  • Links to view changes open in new tabs.
  • When marking a site (or all sites) as seen, only changes made prior to the watchlist loading will be marked as seen, so that any changes since then are not missed.
  • There is now a help link in the upper right hand corner that links to m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist, though it doesn't have the normal help icon.
Translations
  • Many thanks to those that have contributed translations for the script's messages. Translation takes place at m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Translate, and help is appreciated.
  • Newly translated messages are added to the script when I notice them; if you have translated messages that aren't showing up, please let me know at m:User talk:DannyS712.
Next release
  • Version 9.0.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

To subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates, see the distribution list.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 03:11, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

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Bellator MMA: Season Eight redirects

Hello, I came across the Bellator MMA: Season Eight page via the WP:Broken redirects list, and when I tried the first one for Bellator 85, it actually took me to a section instead of the top of the page like a broken anchor, but it didn't go to the correct section. I checked the history and saw that Dexbot made the edit here: [6]. It turns out the bot had already gotten to most of the redirects to this page sometime this month, but not all of them were accurate, so I just wanted to point these diffs out to you in case you need to track down a bug in the bot's script. The bot got 5/9 wrong.

The bot got 5/9 wrong, so I wanted to let you know what I found. All the best, 2pou (talk) 06:57, 28 June 2020 (UTC) !

User:2pou Thanks for reporting. Yes, I have been fixing broken section redirects (there are 70K of them, I think my bot would fix 10k). Looking at the general pattern of the edits (Special:Contributions/Dexbot) it seems okay on everything I checked but it uses fuzzy matching to match the previous and current section (through history) and renaming a Roman numeric is not easy to handle here. Do you have an idea how to proceed in this case? Ladsgroupoverleg 17:55, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, Ladsgroup, I'm not one that know much about scripts and bots and the like. I just wanted to point them out to you in case you were able to track something down easily. It looks like in this case multiple headings were changed in a single edit making the bot matching of multiple changes a little more difficult as opposed to one. I was thinking to search the lines above and below to match as well, but it looks like that would not have helped in this case, because the follow-on lines are all being updated numerically as well.
I also apologize for not being clear that this report was specific to this particular page. I did not mean to suggest that the bot gets a large number of fixes wrong in general, only in this case. Going through that maintenance page, I have come across several that the bot was doing correctly before I tried them, so it's doing great work! I think this case is an outlier, but I didn't know if this would have been an easy fix or not. -2pou (talk) 15:13, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
User:2pou Thank you for the message. I'm more than happy it's useful and works mostly fine. I try to keep looking to find a way to make it better (btw. You can check the list at 4th of each month when the report is fresh) Ladsgroupoverleg 20:50, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Global watchlist - Update 7

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script and the Global watchlist extension:

Future development

I have received a grant from the WMF to develop this script into an extension. As a result, I do not plan on any further developments being made to the user script. Please see the grant page for more information. Those interested in reviewing and providing feedback for the extension should follow the new phabricator board, phabricator:tag/mediawiki-extensions-globalwatchlist.

Translations

Many thanks to those that have contributed translations for the script's messages. Now that I am working on an extension, translation has migrated to translatewiki. Please see:


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Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 04:41, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

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Global watchlist extension: documentation

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Removal of globals

I know you got GIE to work on phab:T72470, but if you're going to be editing ancient and unused user pages, I figure I should point out this conversation. I took care of everything active in MW-space, and I think it's better to take a more targeted approach as I proposed there. I'm happy to reraise the conversation, but wanted to point you to it first. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 11:48, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Amorymeltzer. Oh Thank you. I actually started with the mentality of cleaning user scripts too but quickly learned that is a bad idea. Specially since I'm doing it globally. Now I'm only cleaning mediawiki namespace (here's an example). Thanks for the pointer to the discussion. Ladsgroupoverleg 01:47, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
User:Amorymeltzer: Hey, I just wanted to say that I wrote a hadoop query to find the most used user scripts across Wikimedia (by number of requests to that page) and I'll be cleaning those too to reduce the number, so you'll see me editing in user pages but they are used pages. Hope that's fine with you. Ladsgroupoverleg 21:23, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Well, FWIW we have a page here with that info, Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts. I went through every script there and fixed everything with an owner who hadn't edited in the last six months. I've stared notifying the remainder out of respect, since it's their userspace, offering to do it myself or letting them know what to take care of. I've got a process down, so was planning on doing the rest of the notifications this week. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 21:35, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
User:Amorymeltzer hmm, that's good. It's just that my list is based on visit numbers meaning directly contributing to the stats being really high (it's 1:100 sampling) some of them are even used by one person only but that person loads the gadget a lot. Your idea of notifying is great though. Do you want me to stop and continue later once it's all done? Ladsgroupoverleg 07:25, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
If you don't mind, I think it'd be good. Once folks are notified and things are handled or not, we can reassess. I also think the process of doing one at a time isn't great — no need to make a half dozen edits to a page. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 11:48, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
I've now notified everyone who's been active lately with any scripts on that page, but I've got a thought about the major source. I'll ping you in a bit... ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:46, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Javascript pages in Category:Foo

Your edits to various user pages have caused them to appear in the category redirect Category:Foo and the redirect bot cannot move them to Category:X1. Please can you fix all of them. Timrollpickering (talk) 13:40, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Timrollpickering. Thanks. Sure. I let it finish and then clean it up Ladsgroupoverleg 13:49, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
There's also one so far in Category:VoA scripted admins that will need cleaning as well. Timrollpickering (talk) 13:56, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Dexbot error: number of equals signs

Hi, in this edit Dexbot has correctly identified the mismatch in the number of equals signs around the section heading, but it has incorrectly fixed them:

Before: = See also ==
After: == See also ===
Ought to have been instead: == See also ==

Signing so it gets archived. Ladsgroupoverleg 17:26, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

User scripts requesting deletion after edit

Hi Ladsgroup!

After you edited them today, both of these pages:

Now show up at CAT:CSD. Would you mind taking a look at them, please? SQLQuery me! 20:03, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

User:SQL. Thanks. Fixed both. I'll fix if new cases come up. Ladsgroupoverleg 20:09, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks! SQLQuery me! 20:10, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Special:WantedTemplates

Could you or Amorymeltzer add // </nowiki> to the bottom of User:9cds/monobook.js? After your changes it's now showing up as transcluding 42 missing templates in User:Plastikspork/Script pages with missing templates/1. Thank you! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:37, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Plastikspork Hey, Sure. I will clean it up once it's done. Ladsgroupoverleg 16:56, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Great, similar problem with User:Matthew Yeager/renderboard.js which is now showing up in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. Adding // <nowiki> at the top and // </nowiki> at the bottom should fix it. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:59, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, same for User:Dl2000/DateFix.js, User:Smalleditor/dates.js, User:Keith D/Dates.js, User:Steel359/twinkle.js, User:Hazel77/tool.js, User:Dthomsen8/common.js, User:Sebcaen/monobook.js, User:Acabashi/monobook.js, User:Assawyer/monobook.js, User:Beetstra/twinklewarn.js, User:Brighterorange/svg.js, User:Cocoaguy/twwarn.js, User:Ryan Vesey/mosnum dates.js, User:Hillbillyholiday/vector.js, User:Iamthejabberwock/monobook.js, User:Garzo/monobook.js, User:Avoided/Monobook.js, User:Beetstra/twinklespeedy.js, User:BesigedB/monobook.js, User:Edgar181/monobook.js, User:D'Ranged 1/script/MOSNUM dates.js, User:GoingBatty/script/MOSNUM dates.js, User:Jj137/france.js, User:AA/monobook.js, User:Sukh17/monobook.js, User:Wizardman/vector.js, User:WAvegetarian/monobook.js, User:Svartkell/monobook.js, User:Sukh17/vector.js, User:Slakr/twinkle-oldwarn.js, User:SHOTHA/vector.js, User:RHB/monobook.js, User:CAPTAIN MEDUSA/1.js, User:Ebe123/GA.js, User:Ohconfucius/AWB modules/mdy.js, User:Ohconfucius/test/Sources.js, User:Kushboy/monobook.js, User:Ohconfucius/control.js, User:Moondyne/AUDfixes.js, User:Ohconfucius/vector.js, and User:Magnus Manske/tmpl.js. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:56, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Fan

Your presence at en.WP is most welcome! Tony (talk) 07:06, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Tony1: Thanks! Ladsgroupoverleg 20:32, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Question about recent edit

Hi Ladsgroup! Could you please help me understand this edit? You didn't leave an edit summary. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 00:22, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

User:GoingBatty: Hi, sorry for lack of edit summary. It's because of #Special:WantedTemplates and basically without the tag the pages start to parse and you can see if revert it, you'll see non-existent templates showing up as used there (or check other scripts in the list above) Ladsgroupoverleg 00:41, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Nate1481/assessment.js

Hi, I see that you were the last person to edit User:Nate1481/assessment.js and have the Interface Editor user right. The page is showing up at Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject China\n; Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject Dyslexia\n; Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject France\n; Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts\n; Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject Rowing\n; and Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject Yorkshire\n.

To prevent this, please remove the \n from lines 24, 26, 27, 28, 32 and 36. This will help to clean up Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken WikiProject templates when it runs next Thursday. Thanks. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:18, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

user:Redrose64. Thanks. Fixed now. Ladsgroupoverleg 02:34, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Thank you --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:36, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Global watchlist - Update 8

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script and the Global watchlist extension:

As I noted in the last issue, I received a grant from the WMF to develop the global watchlist script into an extension. That extension has now been deployed on Meta. Visit m:Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings to get started.

I do not plan on any further developments being made to the user script. I have released version 9.1.0 to both the dev and stable versions, which includes a notification about the extension being available when you use the user script. You can dismiss the notification, and the script still works, but it will no longer be maintained.

Those interested in providing feedback for the extension should use the phabricator board, phabricator:tag/mediawiki-extensions-globalwatchlist. Any bug reports about the extension should be filed there.

This will likely be the last update sent to this list.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 19:42, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

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Global watchlist extension: documentation

User:Clientele/monobook.js

Hello, Ladsgroup,

You added an incorrect category to this page and, for some reason, I can not revert your edit to this page. Could you? Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 20:24, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Liz. Thanks. Is it fixed now? Ladsgroupoverleg 20:26, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Noticeboard Notice

Hello Ladsgroup, a noticeboard discussion regarding some of your edits has been opened. Please see Wikipedia:Interface_administrators'_noticeboard#Bad_clean_up and respond there. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 00:12, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Done Ladsgroupoverleg 20:27, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Global watchlist - Update 9

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script and the Global watchlist extension:

Hi everyone. As I noted in the last issue, I received a grant last year from the WMF to develop the global watchlist script into an extension. That extension has now been deployed on Meta. Visit m:Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings to get started.

That grant has ended, and I have requested another grant to continue development of the extension, and figured subscribers of the newsletter about the user script might be interested. You can see and comment on the grant request at m:Grants:Project/DannyS712/Continued work on GlobalWatchlist extension - if you support this, I hope you'll consider endorsing the request.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 00:28, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

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How did you edit my javascript?

How did you edit User:Alexis Jazz/Restore-a-lot.js? You don't seem to have any permissions globally or on enwiki that would allow that? I know you're a developer, but which user right allows you to edit user JS? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 21:47, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Alexis Jazz: Ladsgroup is a meta:Global Interface Editor who is allowed to use that access here. — xaosflux Talk 22:45, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
Xaosflux, didn't show on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=rights&user=&page=User%3ALadsgroup&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype= or m:Special:UserRights/Ladsgroup or Special:UserRights/Ladsgroup. I guess it can only be seen on m:Special:GlobalUsers/global-interface-editor and m:Special:CentralAuth/Ladsgroup. Not the first places I looked. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:04, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: the global rights log is different from the user rights log. — xaosflux Talk 10:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Ombox/styles.css

Template:Ombox/styles.css has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Did Q28 make a mess today? 04:51, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Tmbox/styles.css

Template:Tmbox/styles.css has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Did Q28 make a mess today? 01:43, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-11-28/Opinion

Hey there! Is this article ready for copyediting? I don't think it needs much, if anything, just don't want to touch it until you give the go ahead. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 05:37, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

@Adam Cuerden Hi, I don't know, @Bri knows (check my talk page in meta) Ladsgroupoverleg 05:51, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
Oh, no worries! I'll poke Bri! Thanks for your contribution! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 05:54, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Congratulations, your writing is in the latest issue of The Signpost: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-11-28/Opinion. Your barnstar is in the mail. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:52, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Here's the check that I promised

The Signpost Barnstar
For your contribution to issue 11 of The Signpost ☆ Bri (talk) 17:14, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
Awesome. Thanks for everything! Ladsgroupoverleg 17:24, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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Ivote at AfD

Can I ask you why you have erased this ivote at this AfD? You have left no edit summary. Lightburst (talk) 15:22, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

@Lightburst sorry, it was probably edit conflict. My bad. Ladsgroupoverleg 15:28, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
That makes sense, thanks. Lightburst (talk) 20:01, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

What if we delete the usergroup

Hello. We, ruwiki users, want to remove one of ours usergroups for non-experienced users and join its userrights to another usergroup. We have a question: is it necessary to exclude this group from all users having it before that, which will litter the action logs, or at the moment of deleting the group it will simply disappear from all its users without visible actions in the wiki logs? MBH (talk) 14:08, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

@MBH I need to look at the code to be 100% certain but it shouldn't be an issue, worst case we run a script to mass remove everyone. Do you also need to add members of the old group to the new one? That's doable too but not too easy. Ladsgroupoverleg 14:30, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
No, they already have the new group, because this two groups were granted both at the same time for each user. MBH (talk) 15:08, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) @MBH there may be some additional dependencies to check for, for example if this is related to your flaggedrevs configuration (and assuming you are not talking about an implicit group), but as Ladsgroup said normally it is safe to delete a group without depopulating it first. w:ru:Служебная:Статистика doesn't show any groups with the exact same number of users. — xaosflux Talk 15:35, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
We want to remove suppressredirect group and join its userrights to editor (i.e. FR patroller) group. See ru:special:listgrouprights. Since 2012, every new patroller gains sr flag too. MBH (talk) 15:49, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

@MBH: That should be rather trivial: (a) have a communnity discussion to support the change; (b) open two configuration requests: (b1) Add the permissions 'move-categorypages' and 'suppressredirect' to group-editor. (b2) Delete group-suppressredirect (note that this should be blocked by having b1 completed first.)

To prepare, review your list of users that are in the group to be deleted that are not in the group to be kept (see below) - if there are any that need it, add them to the missing group.

List of users that are in suppressdirect but not in editor
  • AlexTref871
  • And S Yu
  • CheloVechek
  • Dibоt
  • Dm121
  • Emo4ka ツ
  • Fanatikvoice
  • Flakin44
  • Flavius1
  • GennadyL
  • Gruznov
  • Hdfan2
  • Icannotyet
  • Jet Jerry
  • JWBTH
  • Ksc~ruwiki
  • KVK2005
  • Levdemidov
  • Mcowkin
  • Mish-FCTM
  • Mr Artur 1974
  • Natalia Senatorova
  • Nickel nitride
  • Niruku
  • Ping08Tester
  • Radmir Far
  • Resh
  • SpecialAdviser
  • Thermicien
  • Toma646
  • Volkov
  • Vqchko
  • WoweMain
  • Всеникизаняты
  • ЗарегалсяДабыСделатьПравкуСтатьи
  • Иван Булкин
  • Кубаноид
  • Меридианец
  • Смок Вавельский
  • Спиридонов8
— xaosflux Talk 17:01, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
User:Xaosflux I know all of this. Thanks, but I'll try to make my question clearer. One ruwiki user opposed the proposal to delete the group because before deleting it 1500 users would have to be excluded from it and this would clutter up the logs. Is this true, or will deleting the group not create 1500 new entries in the rights log? MBH (talk) 14:17, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
@MBH those group should not appear in the local Special:Log; specifically ask for that behavior (which is the normal way group deletions are done anyway) on your phab request. If you want to add the remaining group to those ~38 people above, that should be done traditionally, and would be in the local log. You should be able to compare that to your community the same way removing autoreview was handled in 2021 (phab:T229596), or how an old group and users were purged here in phab:T176798. — xaosflux Talk 14:30, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

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Dashboard

Thank-you for the dashboard! I've started using it and, as a non-admin who mostly does gnoming off categories, it's very helpful.

A couple of suggestions:

  • Is it possible to make the links work with navigation popups? I'm guessing that the answer is "no, because <something complicated relating to javascript>", but it seems worth asking anyway.
  • The "stats" box is hard-coded to be in Persian, which is maybe not ideal for monoglots like me

Thanks again for sharing this! Wham2001 (talk) 07:49, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi! @Wham2001. For the first one, I need to investigate how nav popups work, it might be a piece of cake, it might be impossible. I think it's probably possible but I need to check. Regarding stats, sorry that was my laziness when I was adding i18n. I fix it ASAP. Ladsgroupoverleg 10:54, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Is Dexbot down?

WP:BAM says it hasn't edited since 5 May 2022. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 12:53, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Oh probably, I will restart it soon. Ladsgroupoverleg 12:54, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
@Headbomb The bot has been restarted. Thanks for letting me know. Ladsgroupoverleg 01:58, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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Happy Holidays! 😊

...and a Happy New Year 2024!
Hi Ladsgroup,

I think I'll be at Wikimania 2024 in Poland! Not entirely sure about WikiCon yet, as the location hasn't been decided on yet and I'm probably happy with one Wikipedia convention per year. But Wikimania likely won't be as close to me as in 2024 in the next years, so I'll probably take that opportunity. I guess in a hundred years or so, it will come back to Frankfurt where it once started... 🙂

Ceterum censeo T341626 esse delendam 😅💚 ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:58, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi! Thank you and happy holidays to you too. I hope you have a great year ahead full of joy and happiness. I'm not sure about wikicon either but I will be in Wikimania and looking forward to meeting you too! (note that 2026 will be in Paris and it's not that far, there are direct trains from Koln and Frankfurt)
I'm planning to work on that and support for regex and bypass during the holidays. Fingers crossed. Ladsgroupoverleg 21:29, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

mediawiki.cookie

You should probably go back through all the replacements you made recently, it looks like you made a lot of errors. For one, mw.cookie by default applies a prefix to all cookies while jquery.cookie does not, leading to whatever was saved in the cookies being "forgotten" due to the name change. For another, passing a number for expires to jquery.cookie sets the time in days, while for mw.cookie it sets the time in seconds, leading cookies to expire far sooner than intended. Also in spot checking I saw one case where you used mw.cookie.get rather than mw.cookie.set. Anomie⚔ 22:53, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll go through them. For the first issue, that's okay IMO. The prefix is how it should be and there is no expectation of persistence in cookies (browsers flush them all the time). For the rest, I check and fix them Ladsgroupoverleg 12:47, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
IMO it was annoying when my script suddenly reset to defaults after years of keeping the settings it stores in a cookie. People using scripts that set long-lived cookies likely do not expect browsers to randomly delete them. Anomie⚔ 13:17, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Years? Chrome actively doesn't have cookie max age more than 400 days [7] and firefox basically clears them every couple of weeks ([8] and [9]) Ladsgroupoverleg 13:21, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Yes, years. None of your links seem relevant. Anomie⚔ 20:20, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
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