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Thank you for attending! Wiki World's Fair - Your complimentary shirt!
Thank you User:Legoktm for attending the Wiki World's Fair at the Queens Museum in August! A round of applause to all who attended, socialized, gave lightning talks, edited, listened, and toured the Panorama of the City of New York. Thank you to Xavier Robles-Armas and the Queens Museum for having us. For the first time in Wikimania history, we held a T-shirt design contest during the event to generate a shirt for the conference. We are excited to announce we have produced a shirt with the winning design by User:Bagelpigeon. As previously announced, the shirts will be given, free of charge, to those that attended the conference. You are a confirmed attendee and now is your chance to claim your free shirt! If you want a shirt, we need your size!

What size are you? Please fill out this Google form or email: Wil@Wikimedianyc.org (One "L") Once we have everyone's size and we will order them and distribute them at local meet-ups or via mail. If you are out of town, please include your mailing address. The shirts will be available Feb or later.

(User:Pharos, seen here wearing a size large)

Please let us know by January 15 or come to Wikipedia Day 2023 at the Jefferson Market Library and let us know in person!

-- Wikimedia New York City Team November 19, 2024

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:22, 23 October 2024 (UTC) [reply]

TFA Protector Bot

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Hi Legoktm, TFA Protector Bot doesn't seem to have invoked TFA move protections since 15 October and now edit protection since 26 October. Regards. JennyOz (talk) 07:28, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up, something has gone wrong that I'm debugging... Legoktm (talk) 15:32, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for sincerely for fixing so quickly. JennyOz (talk) 07:14, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-44

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Perception of perceptions

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I do not see how my interpretation was wrong but I think we are speaking past each other and it might even come across as that I am not assuming good faith of you. I was, perhaps unduly, worried about the (inadvertent) implications of your statement given the incumbent government's efforts—well documented in academic scholarship—to create a homogenous identity of Indians/Hindus predicated on jingoism among other stuff.

In any case, I will like to read about your perception, if you feel comfortable sharing via email. Regards, TrangaBellam (talk) 04:27, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

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

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

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Tech News: 2024-45

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  • Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [13]
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  • XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [15]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:47, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OTD helper not working (Error 400 and 'The etag for this request is missing or invalid' errors)

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So, found out about OTD helper today, and I've been trying to work through this month's OTDs. However, when I reached November 9 and tried using your tool to help with it (https://otd-helper.toolforge.org/day/November_9), it gave me a 400 Error, stating HTTP error: HTTP status client error (400 Bad Request) for url (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page/Wikipedia%3ASelected_anniversaries%2FNovember_9/html?redirect=false).

For this first error, it looks like the requesting https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page/Wikipedia%3ASelected_anniversaries%2FNovember_9/html (without the ?redirect=false) should fix it, but, y'know, not exactly in a position to fix that myself (and idk if the ?redirect=false is actually there to stop breaking anything else or not so I'm hesitant to touch it myself anyway).

After I got this error on November 9, I decided to hit the back button to see if maybe there was an error in the way I entered November 9 or something, however, upon going back to the sixth (https://otd-helper.toolforge.org/day/November_6 or https://otd-helper.toolforge.org), I was then greeted by a different error message, saying The etag for this request is missing or invalid (presumably something related to the request to wikipedia's servers?). No idea what could have caused that to happen.

It's probably not a clientside issue, as, even on my phone, I'm encountering the same two error messages.

So yeah uhh seeing as it said to contact yourself in case of any issues with that tool, mind taking a look at these problems? Thanks in advance! 🔥HOTm̵̟͆e̷̜̓s̵̼̊s̸̜̃🔥 (talk・edits) 15:57, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well that's not good. I'll take a look soon but might take me a few days because of the election stuff. Legoktm (talk) 18:44, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's fair enough. Managed to make a decent amount of headway on the OTDing anyway this afternoon, so there's no rush. 🔥HOTm̵̟͆e̷̜̓s̵̼̊s̸̜̃🔥 (talk・edits) 19:02, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
See T374683#10294212. Legoktm (talk) 20:11, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@HotMess: it should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting, you managed to find a much bigger issue in the Wikimedia software! Legoktm (talk) 00:09, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well, so, uhh, here's the thing. It's mostly fixed (no more 400 errors or etag errors!), but the tool now decides to complain in Spanish from November 10.
https://otd-helper.toolforge.org/day/November_10
Invalid title: Title has invalid characters: "¿Por qué no te callas%3F"
You might need to pester The Powers That Be a little bit more 😅 🔥HOTm̵̟͆e̷̜̓s̵̼̊s̸̜̃🔥 (talk・edits) 00:19, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah no, that's definitely a me bug. I'll take a look in a bit. Legoktm (talk) 01:48, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@HotMess: November 10th is fixed now. Legoktm (talk) 06:21, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hooray! Thanks again :)
(and hooray for interestingly-timed bouts of insatiable urges to faff around with OTD stuff right as everything is breaking 🙃) 11:04, 6 November 2024 (UTC) 🔥HOTm̵̟͆e̷̜̓s̵̼̊s̸̜̃🔥 (talk・edits) 11:04, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC) [reply]

NDAs

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Well, it goes like this:

  • 3 different general NDAs for Arb/CU/OS; they updated them twice after my first signing, and insisted everyone sign the new version
  • 3 different OTRS/VRT NDAs; again, updated twice after my first signing, everyone had to sign the new version
  • 3 different ones during MCDC work
  • 2 different Communications Committee NDAs. Oddly, I think they both had the same text, but since the committee was reformulated, they started over.
  • 1 and maybe 2 for Funds Dissemination Committee
  • 1 (I think) for Elections Committee

And those are the ones I remember. There could have been more. Risker (talk) 05:29, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are you permitted to disclose the fact that you signed a NDA? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:48, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There's no prohibition on it. The WMF isn't dumb, they know Wikimedians would tell them where to go if they were to try to stop them from saying that they had signed an NDA. And to be honest, there aren't any on the list that are surprising. Committees are often given information in advance of public release, so reasonable to ask people to maintain the embargo. Some committees do work with non-public information (e.g., Electcom doing its own scrutineering) or otherwise sensitive information (we heard about some personnel issues when on FDC), and I think most people would find it appropriate that this information be held quite privately in keeping with the existing privacy policy. My issue isn't signing them, it's that they have proliferated to the point of silliness. Give people one and have them sign off on it yearly if you really want, but this is just weird. Risker (talk) 16:51, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Legoktm/bad idea

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Module:User:Legoktm/bad idea has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 17:22, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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