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Dear Magioladitis,
Your yobot has tagged the article John Sanborn (media artist) as an orphan. The article now has at least seven links to other wikipedia articles and more will be added soon. Please direct your bot to remove the orphan flag from this article. Thanks. (RKJonze (talk) 18:39, 31 August 2017 (UTC))
Magioladitis, I shouldn't have used your recent, and no doubt upsetting, ArbCom case as an example in the discussion on the RfA talk page. You and I have had essentially zero prior interactions and so this was extremely presumptive of me. Using you as a blunt instrument to refute another editor's point without asking you first was rude and I would like to apologize for that rudeness. Thank you for your time. Eggishorn(talk)(contrib)15:13, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Eggishorn. Thanks for the kind message. The problem discussed is a real problem of Wikipedia and I understand your point in the discussion. No worries. I am not offended or anything by your comment. My comment was mainly to bring the example, which refers to me, to its actual size. We have had problems with administrators in the past in the community and I have seen longstanding editors, administrators leave the project for various reasons. I am still puzzled of how the community will resolve this in the near and in the distant future. I am worried that there is still a large portion of contributors that does not see the problem or thinks that the tools we have so far (ArbCom, certain policies, etc.) are sufficient to maintain a healthy enviroment in the community. Thanks again for contacting me and no worries. Happy editing! -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:36, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
Your approved bots, AWB, and your closed ArbCom case
I have been following the ArbCom case, and now reviewed the remedies imposed on you. All of your current bot tasks will retain approval, and based on my interpretation you are still permitted to file new tasks for approval using AWB and WPCleaner, and you are still allowed to carry out genfixes provided the task is approved to allow genfixes. I just thought I put the obvious into writing, in case it wasn't obvious.—CYBERPOWER(Chat)07:54, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
Please ping me when you have a RfA. It's sad to see that good faith has become an argument for wikilawyers to pick apart. Looking at recent events makes me very sure that I'll not be asking for approval for any bot related improvements to this project any time soon. Hope to see you active in other places. Fæ (talk) 19:59, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
We would like to invite you to WikiFemHack! WikiFemHack is a Gender Gap/Edithon/Hackathon event organized by Wikimedia Community User Group with the help of Open Knowldge Foundation and SheSharp on October the 7th in Thessaloniki.
This year we are focusing on women participation in IT and in Wikipedia. Within this framework, we are planning an event, open to everyone, in cooperation with University groups and international participations, aiming to mitigate the Gender Gap, Gender identity and the unequal female participation in technology.
The event aims at reaching women, increasing their participation in tech, in programming and in Wikipedia. There are going to be talks about the Gender Gap in technology, Wikipedia and Wikimedia co-operative projects. It would be great for the attendees to also have the opportunity to meet people that work at the Wikimedia Foundation. At the same time, in a second room we are also going to organize an edithon and a Wikimedia projects hackathon.
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Thanks, wow it's more complicated than I expected. NestedTemplateRegex supports nested templates and comments at end of template name. Would be nice if there was a library function I could just pass in the entire page contents and get back the properly sorted page. User:RMCD bot/botclasses.php doesn't have anything that fancy. A complete "general fixes" function even. Then my bot could apply all general fixes at the same time it posted its requested-page-move notice. Including putting the hatnotes above the bot's notice. wbm1058 (talk) 13:57, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
Even better than a library function would be an API to accomplish the "general fixes" task. Then a programmer could just write an interface to the API in whatever language they were using. An API interface to AWB general fixes would be programming language-independent. – wbm1058 (talk) 14:13, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Stop your disruption
Changing a link to the English-language official website back to a link to the Swedish-language homepage, on the English wikipedia, is disruption.[1] Making enwiki worse to prove a point really is a bad idea. Please don't revert this again, and in general only make edits that make enwiki actually better for our readers. Fram (talk) 12:48, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
No. We should never have to edit Wikidata to correct an issue on enwiki, and to suggest otherwise is insulting. Furthermore, this wuold still leave the "In Swedish" description on enwiki. That you want to improve Wikidata and templates fetching data from there is no problem of course, but to claim that changing Wikidata would have been the right course of action here is totally wrong. This only makes life a lot harder for the casual editor (and even most experienced editors), for no gain at all. What Magioladitis first did was changing the page for no benefit. I then actually improved it, with Magioladitis making it worse again. Please then don't lecture me about what I should have done when the problem is with someone else's edits. Fram (talk) 13:27, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
@Fram: The change I made actually fixes the problem (and perhaps educates you and Magioladitis), barring a change to the official website module which I've already noted as a separate issue. You simply take him to task. Good luck with that attitude I guess, because while he's been a problematic editor in some ways, this is at-best for you, not obviously one of those ways. --Izno (talk) 13:32, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
How did the change I made not fix the problem (and did so with one edit, easily readable by every enwiki editor)? Your edit changed nothing at Medevi at all, and would at best (when the template eventually gets changed) have resulted in a link to the English page, with a label indicating "In Swedish". Thanks, but I prefer my fix to yours any time. No idea if you have educated Magioladitis, you do have educated me that avoiding the "official website" template is the best solution. That you don't consider someone blindly reverting a page to a worse version as obviously "problematic" is your choice. Fram (talk) 13:40, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
@Izno:, Wikipedia editors are not bound to fix crap data in Wikidata. If Wikidatans want to use templates that draw from Wikidata on Wikipedia, then they need to ensure Wikidata is correct before using those templates. Headbomb {t · c · p · b}14:19, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
@Headbomb: The Us Versus Them is very tiring; besides which, it's not even a valid comment in this case, since I would not characterize Magioladitis as a Wikidata editor first and an English Wikipedia editor second. But perhaps you have a different impression. --Izno (talk) 14:35, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Izno I consider myself as global wikignome. I have more than 1,000 contributions in Wikidata; the most receent of them are of the addition of official website. Before I was fixing ISBNs in Wikidata till a person provided me with a list and a bot did the fixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:54, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Then stop giving 'us' a reason to consider you 'them', and work within Wikipedian standards rather than Wikidatan standards. Headbomb {t · c · p · b}17:14, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Your multiple changes which had no effect here? Your changes which, when they eventually would have an effect, then would have had an English site with an "in Swedish" label? Your changes which, even if you would then have removed the label, only had the same end result as my simple change here? Yes, you told us how to do it, but I see no reason to ever use that method. Your approach in this case is a clear "Wikidata first" approach with no benefits for enwiki or its editors, only making things a lot more complicated. Fram (talk) 17:39, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Fuck off, Izno. You are inserting yourself in a discussion I started on Magioladitis' talk page. You are then giving wrong advice and pretending that you fixed an issue when you did nothing of the sort. I'll reply to you here and in every discussion you come along uninvited and disruptively as long as I want to, and as often as I want to. Keep your fake righteousness and lack of actual responses to yourself and crawl back to your own corner instead of pushing your pro-Wikidata agenda here and supporting disruptive edits because they fit your distorted view of what enwiki should become. If you don't like the responses you get, then stop spouting nonsense. Fram (talk) 19:59, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
In fact, I like the idea that Wikidata will autodetect the Wikipdia and provide customised information. Wikidata is Wikipedia's future. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:55, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
This is how Wikidata could be useful to Wikipedia: as another tool in our vandalism detection and reverting arsenal. Wikidata maintains a redundant copy of the official website URL. Wikipedia should never pull data from Wikidata, there should only be one-way data extraction in the other direction. But templates like {{official website}} should check the Wikidata entry, compare it to the URL specified as parameter {{{1}}}, and throw a "red flag" when the URLs are different. Then it will be up to a human editor to determine which is correct and then fix the value in either Wikipedia or Wikidata. Most vandals won't have the BEANS to know that they must vandalize simultaneously in two places to get their vandalism to stick. This redundancy is good, in wikis that "anyone can edit". wbm1058 (talk) 18:03, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Mags, I noticed this example at Haakon Graf at the time you did it, but didn't say anything because it was when the ArbCom case was ending. The website link worked, then you changed it to {{Official website}} and that swapped the live link for a dead one.
There are always lots of objections to using that template whenever the issue arises. If you want to keep adding it, would it not make sense to hold an RfC? SarahSV(talk)20:15, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Why did you start editing image files today. You've made no image edits for the past 2 months, it seems very strange to make a single file edit (you only de-PRODed one file today and it looks like this is the first time you've ever done so).
What is your precise rationale for deciding to de-PROD the file. What is wrong with allowing the file to remain tagged for deletion for one week, and why do you think FfD would be a better venue (taking into account the low traffic FfD also receives).
Why you think the file would be suitable to Commons.
Why you think an editor who hasn't edited for 12 years would be able to move the file to Commons.
Why you didn't move the file yourself, if you believe it should be moved to Commons.
Now, speaking as a Commons administrator in addition to being an administrator here, it's a poor quality photograph and I think PRODing was absolutely the correct course of action; whilst we appreciate all photographs and the efforts of all photographers, there comes a time where the old low resolution photographs can be removed when we have sufficient high resolution files to take their place. I can say with a high degree of certainty had the file been moved to Commons, a deletion request would occur and deletion would be the outcome.
Nick So you basically say that if the file goes to FfD will be deleted. Please send it there and make your rationale there. I am not sure why you write here the arguments. The file has been around for 12 years. Have you checked if there are any incoming external links? I am not expert in Commons and never been admin there so I am not sure whether there are specific quality rules this file does not cover or if the photo theme is already covered by better quality photos. I used to uplod photos from events by making very little job in selecting the best of them. "Why you didn't move the file yourself, if you believe it should be moved to Commons." Eh? Can yοu please do it then? I am not familiar with Commons as you are. I would like to see the editor that uploaded the photo to become active again. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:03, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
Nick I replied #3 and on. I don't like question #2. I have very few edits these two months but in general I have edits in all namespaces. I have been working with TfDs, Mfds and RfDs for a long time with thousand of edits. On #1: Why? How did yo come to this discussion anyway? Do you have my talk page in your watchlist and what for? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:22, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
I do have your talk page on my watchlist from previously dealing with an ANI thread concerning your automated editing, and from further back, when we both submitted evidence concerning OccultZone for his Arbitration case. The reason I am here, however, is Rob expressed a concern that you could perhaps be stalking his edits and wanted additional opinions on the situation. That's why I asked a series of questions, to ascertain if it was an unhappy and unfortunate coincidence or something more deliberate. It would be helpful if you answered those remaining questions, because at the moment, it does look very much like you've gone through Rob's edits and decided to be antagonistic towards him with an unhelpful edit. If you are stalking him, at this stage, all I would ask is that you stop and avoid Rob except in situations where it's genuinely unavoidable. It would be unfortunate and I think given your overlapping interests, really unhelpful, to have to pursue a more rigid, formal interaction ban. Nick (talk) 07:38, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
Nick I 've been working with items for deletion long before bots. You can check my record to Rfds (before I even become admin), TfDs and Mfds. I think it's normal for a person that wants to re-apply for admin to resume working in that area. Due to uploader's inactivity a file that I think it's not 100% clear that needs to be deleted, was up to deletion. I expressed (weak) concerns for the prod. I think it's totally OK. The are more files up to deletion with a similar rationale but exactly for not giving the impression I am after Rob I did not pursuit further in addition to the fact that at least one more photo I checked seemed to me of no importance. Check also that all my latest admin actions have to do with pages tagged for deletion.
I have been working with bots, AWB, BAG, sysop long before Rob appeared as a registered account an still I did not interpret his actions as stalking. I started to be really afraid of him when he started contacting my contacts onwiki. When I noticed that the file in question was prodded by him I hesitated a bit to act but I can't live in fear because a person keeps stalking my actions and may want to disappoint me enough that I quit editing.
By the way, I tried to provide evidence that I working with items for deletion for a long time but due to the huge number of my edits Mediawiki yields a database error.
I assure you that have no intention to stalk this person. I 've been to Wikipedia more than 11 years with a registered account, almost 9 of them as admin. My email is enabled for furter communication. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:03, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
Note to self: Trying to check my edits, I get a bug "A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.[Wd1VbwpAIC0AALVBRcQAAABL] 2017-10-10 23:20:12: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryTimeoutError"" -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:24, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
Useful edit summaries
Hello Magio, thank you for responding to other editors feedback about using the URL in {{official website}}. It is really helpful to other editors when the edit summary is used. These edit pairs were self-revision—and the standard edit summary would normally have shown this:
Perhaps a good edit summary would be "edits to test how it shows to my mobile" and "self-revert: did not like them". This would keep the explanation with the edit in the correct place. —Sladen (talk) 09:01, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Sladen I try to use the edit ummary as possible. When the edit is so minor I am not sure what exactly to write. Maybe something like "fix indent"? An what happens if I do mixed edits which I usuall do. Edit summaries were always my kryptonite. Thanks for the advice! -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:03, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Educator's meeting tonight
For the Greek educators that would like to meet me today, please use the contact info found at the Education website. We will discussing about the Wikipedia Onine school and Digital humanities today at the Conference. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:05, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Workshop on gender gap
Dear female editors! The scheduled workshop in Rethymno on gender gap is tomorrow. Find details on the gender gap page. The orientation slides are already posted on my user page! Looking forward to meet you tomorrow in person! Bring your own laptop :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:19, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Magioladitis, you really should try to avoid that sentence when possible, especially in the context of a women-related event. Regardless of how you mean it, there is way too many similarities with Make America Great Again and general association with Trumpism and a plethora of gender-related issues. Headbomb {t · c · p · b}02:22, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
Gender gap Workshop in Rethymno
Gender gap Workshop in Rethymno. Organised by Marios Magioladitis in the frame of "Why Women Don't Edit Wikipedia?"
Gender gap Workshop in Rethymno. Organised by Marios Magioladitis in the frame of "Why Women Don't Edit Wikipedia?"
Gender gap Workshop in Rethymno. Organised by Marios Magioladitis in the frame of "Why Women Don't Edit Wikipedia?"
Dear, Magioladitis, I wonder if you may be able to spare time for an AWB question?My question is refering to why I cant see, and use the Bot Tab in AWB, anymore, which should be visible once a user has logged in with an approved Bot account? Has there been any change in the AWB script lately? I think I downloaded a newer version some time ago, my present is 5.9.00. I noticed on Wikispecies, where I have an approved Bot account, that the Tab is not there anymore, possibly after updating to latest version of AWB. Or, did I accidently check any configuration that removes the tab?
I have been going though the online manual as well as searched through my configuration for a solution on this problem, but the button remains gone.
No, I dont have an approved Bot account on EnWiki. Im trying to use AWB for an approven Bot on Wikispecies. All links above point to that Bot within AWB. But I cant use the Bot, the Bot tab in AWB is gone. Do you have any idea why? Dan Koehl (talk) 19:22, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Last days caused me stress. I am going to take a wikibreak and avoid any interaction with people for a while. I am sorry if my edits, proposals caused stress to others. This was not my intention. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:08, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
Herbs and Spices That Help Reduce Stress and Anxiety
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Hello Magioladitis, Dr. Cynthia believes there are many safe nondrug remedies for anxiety you can try, such as mind-body techniques, supplements, calming teas, following a healthy diet, and adding natural herbs with medicinal benefits. Dinuraeditions (talk) 04:27, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
As one of Wikipedia's most experienced Wikipedia editors,
Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; currently Wikipedia needs experienced users at this task. (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. Thanks. — Insertcleverphrasehere(or here)21:12, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
Headbomb Hey. I start Yobot daily so any commnets do not affect Yobot's daily work. People are welcome to make comments in Yobot's page. I stopped the tasks till more things of what is to be done and in which direction is cleared. I was more disappointed by comments that I want ot push buggy software in the community. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:54, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Magioladitis. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Wikimedia Community User Group Greece organises a 24-day marathon of adding WLM 2017 photos in Greek Wikipedia articles. There will be two awards: 1st award 25 Euros in books and 2nd award 15 Euros in books. More details in Greek can be found: here. If there any questions please email me. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:33, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
I recently sent you an invitation to join NPP, but you also might be the right candidate for another related project, AfC, which is also extremely backlogged. Would you please consider becoming an Articles for Creation reviewer? Articles for Creation reviewers help new users learn the ropes of creating their first articles, and identify whether topics are suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia. Reviewing drafts doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia inclusion policies and guidelines; currently Wikipedia needs experienced users at this task. (After requesting to be added to the project, reviewing is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the reviewing instructions before making your decision. Thanks. — Insertcleverphrasehere(or here)03:07, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Interview
An online news portal asked me and I gave an interview about Wikipedia and how I see the future of Wikipedia. It will be online soon. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:41, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
My talk on MediaWiki was uploaded on FOSSCOMM's official YouTube channel
I just created a short article called Nolder, and I'm wondering if you could take a look, give some feedback. It immediately received a tag for having an advertising tone, which is really odd, since nolder's aren't for sale and nothing in the article says they're good. It's a pretty technical article actually. At any rate, if you could take a look and give me some feedback, that would be great. 842U (talk) 13:06, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Magioladitis. For amendment requests, you may want to use this link: ([3]). Your current request is malformed and might be removed in the present state. Regards, Alex Shih (talk) 22:28, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
As others have said at ARCA, it'd be good if you could clarify exactly what you are asking for. At present I can't tell what change you'd like to see, and if it's not clarified then it is likely to be removed. GoldenRing (talk) 14:32, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis: The Arbitration Committee has declined the Magioladitis 2 arbitration amendment request, which you were listed as a party to. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235·t·c) 22:04, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
"insulting"
What is "insulting" enough on this page to wholesale blank it?[4] It is not useful for enwiki, true, but complete removal as "insulting" seems in itself insulting. Fram (talk) 16:10, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
(talk page watcher)-@Fram:-_Whilst I have little regards for Mag's new hobby, I think the blanking was good-enough.I would have just left an additional note informing that we are not a social-networking site but rather a serious encyclopedia.~ Winged BladesGodric16:14, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
True, but there is quite a difference between "not a social networking site" and "insulting" as the reason for blanking a page. This time it's for an editor who is long gone, next time it may be some page from someone who is still around and won't really appreciate that description. Fram (talk) 16:41, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
@Fram: C'mon give the guy a break. I believe English is a second language for him. Perhaps this isn't the best choice in edit summaries, but I think it's far from unreasonable. If I had run into that, I might have been inclined to just make a drama-free U5: Misuse of Wikipedia as a web host deletion of the page, given that this nearly decade-old edit is the only edit that Cald85caprice ever made. You could also call it vandalism. That page has some words I personally think of as uncivil at the least, and I can easily see how some people could indeed feel insulted by it. – wbm1058 (talk) 18:04, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Magioladitis has shown sufficent proficiency in English to know the difference between two vastly different concepts such as "insulting" and "not a social network", so that excuse just doesn't cut it. No, this is part and parcel with his interpreting "obsession" as "Obsessive-Compusive Disorder" on ARCA, his attempt to change the wording of NPA, and his request at AN to have all instances of "cunt" and "pussy" removed from the project. He's on a tear about insults, and he needs to stop, because his proficiency in English is obviously not good enough to judge the subtle connotations of common English words accurately. As I've said repeatedly, M. needs to stop meta-editing, and go back to editing articles. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:34, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, March 2018
Bots Newsletter, March 2018
Greetings!
Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.
While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.
The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.
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English? Sry85 deleted her Thai Wikipedia And Using the Wrong English Version intentionally.How can the person who is not neutrality in politic be writing Wikipedia.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.171.97.171 (talk) 14:45, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Category:Pages using deprecated image syntax
Hello, around six years ago you have created the subject header category which is used to identify pages with incorrect image syntax and is used correctly. I have recently created 'Category:Pages with incorrect dash length in scorelines' but does not have anything in there. Is there something I've missed or is there something others can do to make this page work. Iggy (Swan) 17:25, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Hate to pile on, but I just noticed this edit doesn't seem to remove any invisible chars (just one normal space). Might want to check the exceptions for Task 55. Primefac (talk) 16:01, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Primefac If you tried to copy-paste the old diff then you should know that some browsers do not even let you copy the invisible character that was at the end of the paragraph. I have reported this to Mozilla for instance. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:27, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Primefac Note that the bytes change was "-2". If ther was only a space it would be "-1". Also note the "replaced:" in the edit summary which means that an invisible character was replaced by normal space. The character that was there was a no-break space (00A0). -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:34, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Hmm, you're right, my apologies. I saw the actual-space but didn't notice the -2, and it would make sense that an invisible unicode character wouldn't show up on a diff! Primefac (talk) 01:13, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
PamD The dab links list in AWB needs serious update then. I'll fix everything after the bot is done in a few hours. Very few cases I presume. It's easier to fix the ones with orphan tag and dab links. I had problems compiling to the latest revision of AWB. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:26, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!
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The 2017 Cure Award
In 2017 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.
Hi, have made changes to the essay to reflect consensus recently confirmed by rfc at village pump that only articles with no valid incoming links should be tagged as an orphan. I did this because the essay is linked to WP:Orphan but gives contradictory advice and has resulted in some editors tagging articles with 3 valid links which is now deprecated, if you disagree just revert it, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 14:31, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
I could do it myself using AWB but the procedure to get approval for tasks is so slow at the moment. I have applied for permission o use AWB to fix ISBNs two months ago and nobody from the BAG is able to address this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:07, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Namloyak until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.Shobhit102 | talk05:02, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
It depends. Any discussion for the future for the kind of fixes Yobot does seems to be stalling or moving very slowly... -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:01, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
As a previous editor to the entry, I'm giving you a heads up that a discussion is taking place as to whether the article Charles I. Ecker is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles I. Ecker until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.Bangabandhu (talk) 16:41, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
It was for this. If I use a permalink, as here, it might not pick up the final version of a thread, so I try to link to the archived copy. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:47, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
User:Redrose64 Nice. I apologise for the Talk page mess up but it was partially my fault and partially a fact that in the early days I was doing the archiving manually and then a bot followed. Trying to merge things caused a chaos. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:19, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Faces of Wikipedia
Me
In this year's Wikimania there is a photo excibition called "Faces of Wikipedia". I have the honour to be one of these faces. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:03, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
I am officially considered as Grandmaster Editor thanks to my years of service to Wikimedia Movement, Wikimedia based on the number of my edits and the time I spent to the project. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:49, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
I saw you wrote "Again, "flooding watchlists" was never directly connected to COSMETICBOT." on July 19. This is patently false. See WP:BOTDIC#Flooding in particular. That you fail to understand this, even now, leads me to believe the restriction will never be lifted. Headbomb {t · c · p · b}21:53, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
Reply to this if you want
You can freely add/remove things to WP:CWERRORS. What you can't do is classify/reclassify them as cosmetic or not cosmetic, get involved in those discussions in anyway, or deploy bots/use semi-automation to tackle them (cosmetic or not) without prior BRFAs/consensus. If you want to add a new WP:CWERRORS fix, just leave the cosmetic column alone or put a ? in it and let someone else decide the classification. Headbomb {t · c · p · b}21:53, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
This change happened after my case and in fact I was not aware since I did not have this page in my watchlist. So this means my actions contributed to define things better and in a more explicit way. It's clear that the two ArbCom cases imporoved the texting on Wikipedia policies and manuals. This will lead in peacuful coexistence in the future inside the community and probably reduce conflicts that were happening for years. Are there any other pages that now mention the same policy after 2017?
I asked from ArbCom clarification on the CWERRORS on whether they will ask the community to help with the column I can't touch. They won't take any action. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:09, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!
Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.
Highlights for this newsletter include:
ARBCOM
Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.
BAG
There were no changes in BAG membership since the last Bots Newsletter. Headbomb went from semi-active to active.
In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the backlog.
{{Automated tools}}, a new template linking to user-activated tools and scripts has been created. It can be used in articles previews, and can be placed on any non-mainspace page/template (e.g. {{Draft article}}) to provide convenient links to editors.
AWB 5.10.0.0 is out, after nearly 20 months without updates. If you run an old version, you will be prompted to install the new version automatically. See the changelog for what's new. Note that the next version will require .NET Framework 4.5. Many thanks to Reedy and the AWB team.
BotWatch, "a listing of editors that have made >2 edits per minute [without] a bot flag", is being developed by SQL (see discussion).
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Next week in Lviv
For those who want to discuss about the future of semi-automated editing with me I will be in CEE meeting in Lviv next week. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:06, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Sure. It will soon. The discussion in the community seems to be in a good state. Policies are formulated that will allow Yobot and other similar bots to function without problems. --- Magioladitis (talk) 20:31, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Suggest
Hi, the article Le SuperClub Vidéotron is up to date but the same in Wikipedia in French Here is out of date, with this text source of this: Sandbox, you could select all the text source of that page, copy the text source and then paste the text source on the article in Wikipedia in French, don’t forget to remove the actual text source of the article, the text source will work correctly on Wikipedia in French.
I don’t know why, I tried but I’m not able, maybe because that I don’t have account.
Thank you to do that for me, the article will be better after with the logo of today and a more appropriate color infobox...✋😀--72.51.45.70 (talk) 15:07, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
The text source of the sandbox is almost exactly the same that the text source of the article, it’s faster to do: select the text source, copy it and paste it, if you find other errors, you can correct them.
Don’t forget that now the result on the sandbox looks bad, but it will looks great on Wikipedia in French, it’s a text source appropriated for Wikipedia in French.✋😀--72.51.44.62 (talk) 21:32, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
For those who want to discuss about the future of semi-automated editing with me I will be in an edit party in Sofia the first week of November. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:56, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Magioladitis, please carefully follow the instructions at WP:ARCA and file a proper ARCA request. I also suggest you detail why you feel the restrictions placed against you should be lifted. Mkdwtalk20:04, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Magio! Welcome back, bro. I am so happy to see you active again on enwiki. Hopefully the restrictions on you will be lifted soon and we will be able to benefit from your contributions here as soon as possible. Just wanted to say that I missed you a lot in the past months. (You know, I, too, was on a wikibreak in the past few months but I am now back.) Wishing you the best in your life. Your friend always... --Meno25 (talk) 22:01, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi Meno25! I am always around! I am mainly working in outreach and I have little time to edit. Hopefully I will be given back the tools that will save me time from making tedious tasks manually. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:46, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
This Friday we will be in Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki for Wiki Loves Monuments. If you want to discuss about Wikipedia we are waiting for you. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:14, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
ArbCom 2018 election voter message
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A group of Wikimedians residing in Cyprus are holding an online discussion about Wikipedia. The language of the discussion will be English and it will be held via Google Hangouts. Tutor will be Marios Magioladitis, an experienced Wikimedia editor from Greece and member of Wikimedia Community User Group Greece. More info here. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:47, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Next week we will be in Goethe-Institut Athens for Wiki Loves Monuments award ceremony. If you want to discuss about Wikipedia we are waiting for you. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:08, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
Δικαιώματα στον AutoWikiBrowser για την Ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια
Καλησπέρα,
Ξεκίνησα μια προσπάθεια να μειώσω τα λάθη που βρίσκονται στον κατάλογο Check Wikipedia: https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=elwiki&view=project
Θεωρώ ότι με τον AutoWikiBrowser θα μπορώ να δουλέψω μαζικότερα αν τον μάθω. Αιτήθηκα για δικαιώματα στην αγγλική έκδοση στην αγγλική σελίδα, αλλά δεν μπορώ να βρω την αντίστοιχη για να κάνω αίτηση για το ελληνικό κομμάτι. Μπορείς να με βοηθήσεις;
Ευχαριστώ εκ των προτέρων.--Αρκάς (talk) 01:33, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Οκ, ευχαριστώ. Πρόσβαση πήρα, απλά περιμένω μια βοήθεια αν μπορώ να προσθέτω αυτόματα παραπομπές με το <references/> έναντι του {{reflist}}. Αρκάς (talk) 22:03, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
question
Please see my talk page. What do you think I should do at this point? Keep editing while the ANI is active or stop? Try to answer/comment in the ANI or not (I don't want to create an argument)? I am not experienced in this sort of thing. Thanks Hmains (talk) 16:53, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Hmains I think we should initiate a larger discussion on these matters. All ANI's, arbCom cases so far have been about individuals while it seems there is a repeated pattern here of conflicts on which edits are acceptable and in which edit ratio. I am still waiting for this discussion to happen and I asked in many occassions the ArbCom members to initiate this discussion. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:41, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Interesting article, but harassment on Wikipedia isn't limited to LBGT group memberss or women. Unfortunately, they get all the media and Foundation attention. Since I'm one of the over-represented "straight male" editors, my type of harassment is ignored by the WMF. I was viciously harassed for over five years by a gang of hackers because I "dissed" one of their friends once. I've also had genitals posted to my user page, but not my email. All of this was done by users using dynamic IPs and proxys. While I look forward to partial blocks being implemented, I think more drastic measures need to be taken. Hopefully before someone is killed. - BilCat (talk) 22:23, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Yes, I agree that discussing the harassment, in general, is an important issue which the community has to take a closer look at it. I have found many racistic, insulting comments in talk pages in the past which they not only need to be deleted but also histdeleted. I recall occasions that they have told me that removing these comments is not a priority because of the many human (or bot) resources it would need for that. I think it's mainly a matter of decision. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:03, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Dear sir
I'm new here in the world Wikipedia I need more encouragement from, my mentor like you to give me some advice that make ebullient and to strive willingness to contributes in Wikipedia and wiki media Mustaphajajjage (talk) 10:05, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
Inquiry from a Public Relations Representative for Cantel on Assessing Wikipedia Article
Hello Magioladitis,
My name is Saralynn and I am a Public Relations professional at GCI Health, an agency specializing in healthcare. We’re reaching out on behalf of our clients at Cantel to potentially update outdated information found on the Cantel Medical Corporation Wikipedia page.
We’re reaching out to you because we know Wikipedia users depend on active, qualified editors for accurate and supported articles. We felt that given your notable experience editing Wikipedia pages, you might be interested in reviewing this page through the lens of updating older information.
To further disclose our position, we are aware that per Wikipedia’s guidelines, neither the company nor the company’s representatives can make direct edits to Wikipedia pages. Respecting these rules, our priority is ensuring that the Wiki has the most up-to-date information – we’re reaching out in the hopes you may be able to assess the current state of the page against publicly available information on Cantel to make accurate and appropriate updates.
Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions.
I am still waiting for the community to decide on WP:CWERRORS. It seems the discussion is not happening over a year now and I am not allowed to initiate the discussion again. So we are just waiting I guess. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:43, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
Here is the 7th issue of the Bots Newsletter, a lot happened since last year's newsletter! You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.
BAG members are expected to be active on Wikipedia to have their finger on the pulse of the community. After two years without any bot-related activity (such as posting on bot-related pages, posting on a bot's talk page, or operating a bot), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice. Retired members can re-apply for BAG membership as normal if they wish to rejoin the BAG.
We thank former members for their service and wish Madman a happy retirement. We note that Madman and BU Rob13 were not inactive and could resume their BAG positions if they so wished, should their retirements happens to be temporary.
Activity requirements: BAG members now have an activity requirement. The requirements are very light, one only needs to be involved in a bot-related area at some point within the last two years. For purpose of meeting these requirements, discussing a bot-related matter anywhere on Wikipedia counts, as does operating a bot (RFC).
Copyvio flag: Bot accounts may be additionally marked by a bureaucrat upon BAG request as being in the "copyviobot" user group on Wikipedia. This flag allows using the API to add metadata to edits for use in the New pages feed (discussion). There is currently 1 bot using this functionality.
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IFLA in Athens
For those in Athens these days, today there is a talk about Wikipedia during IFLA. A talk about Wikidata is scheduled for tomorrow. I am participating at the Conference,s o if there is anyone around please contact me. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:29, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
AWB
Hi Magioladitis, I just installed AWB after not using for quite some time. However, when I click on the application to open it, it says it's unable to load "jit compiler (mscorjit.dll) file may be missing or corrupt". Is there something I need to download for this? Sorry for the trouble.--Mjs1991 (talk) 05:54, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
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Your nominations of template redirects are sort of clogging up the recent RfD logs. I think you should make more group nominations, so the discussions are easier to handle and don't essentially duplicate each other. (This is just a suggestion; don't feel forced to.) Geolodus (talk) 12:23, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
Up to yesterday, I had no problems using AWB in Commons but now when I try to logon I get a "Login failed {white x in red circle] aborted" box. Any ideas what might have gone wrong? Thanks Hmains (talk) 03:24, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
The problem turned out to be that I was using a password that was too short. But nothing at all told me it was a password problem that I had to fix; someone else made a good guess. Hmains (talk) 01:02, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
I will be in Belgrade for a week if any Wikimedian wants to meet me. I would be more than happy to discuss about the future of bots in English Wikipedia. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:56, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
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His academic advisor was W. Clark Still (I see that you edited Still's article).
Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
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Hi Magioladitis. Please sign your posts (~~~~) at ARCA, making sure you add a signature after each fresh comment. This helps us understand when you made each comment. Thanks, AGK ■14:32, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis. I made a draft of a japanese voice actress Draft:Misato Murai. She is a new voice actress and voice characters in famous animes and video games. she did a lead role in Stand My heroes: Piece of Truth and has attracted alot of attention. I add all the sources which i found about her. Can you published this page.(39.43.113.98 (talk) 07:45, 15 December 2019 (UTC))
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
Remedy 3: AWB prohibition of the Magioladitis case is lifted subject to a probationary period lasting 1 year from the date this motion is enacted. During this period, any uninvolved administrator may re-impose the remedy as an arbitration enforcement action, subject to appeal only to the Arbitration Committee. If the probationary period elapses without incident, the restriction is to be considered permanently lifted. For clarity, Magioladitis (talk·contribs)' prohibition on making cosmetic edits will remain in force.
Hi, I hope you're well. I think I may have posted this query somewhere else before, but I can't find it, so here goes: Is the Kingbotk plugin deprecated/obsolete, or still functional? The reason I ask is that the plugin page is tagged as {{historical}} (the edit summary was "the plugin no longer works with WP:MILITARY and WP:INDIA templates"). Please ping me if you reply. Thanks. --kingboyk (talk) 18:30, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maoist Communist Party (Italy) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Scia Della Cometa (talk) 15:19, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
creating a sports agency company
Hi
I would love to create a page of Duello Sports Management, its a sport agency of mixed martial arts and others. they currently has fighters like Kate Jackson, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Mark Godbeer, and many others who are currently fighting in UFC, Bellator and more.
www.duellogroup.com
Would love to get an help from you to create that.
If you need any link with proof pleas feel free
My email address is gokhanboxing@hotmail.com
Hello, and greetings! As part of a Starter kit project for smaller wikis, there is a work-in-progress guide around Bots & Tools here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit/Bots_and_Tools. I'm reaching out with a few questions, as there is a mention of the Yobot on this page in the list of useful bots section:
Is it okay to have the bot listed in that section? Are there any concerns?
Would you be okay with folks from smaller wikis reaching out to you for help, and would you be willing to list your preferred method of contact under "Bot owner contact"?
Is there anything like a note or reminder related to the bot that you would like to add in the "description" column?
Additionally, if you have a suggestion for any other bots or tools currently on the list which should not be there and those that are not there and should be there, I would love to know about them—looking forward to your input! Srishti (talk) 07:52, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Srishti. Thanks for contacting me. Yes, it is okay to have the bot listed in that section. I would be happy to help. I am OK with any way of contact. I'll have a look and give you more feedback. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:22, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Query re- John Kirwan page edit
vgwhelan@gmail.com
Hi, I am researching local Dunlavin History and I am interested to know where the Dunlavin connection between John Kirwan originated from as we have no records of him in the Parish records. I would be delighted if you could elaborate and shed some light! Keep up the good work! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Kirwan&oldid=525298523
I saw your bot in the starter kit for small wikis. I'm an admin at SqWiki. I liked the idea of a bot helping in categories in general but I'm not really sure if your bot can help us. The reason I say that is because I don't know how much intelligent the bot is and what's its full range of capacity. SqWiki is really a mess with categories in general and our WikiProjects basically have all gone inactive. Can you explain to me what Yobot can and can't do with the categorizing process in general? Maybe it can help us in having more clear, standardized categories, a mission only these days we've started treating with seriousness. - Klein Muçi (talk) 15:10, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
Yobot's edit to that article (diff) added a lot of maintenance tags to such a short (one-paragraph) article... I'm just wondering if that's reasonable, or overkill? ~EdGl!13:22, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) First, that edit was made in 2015. Second, the bot fixed a broken multiple issues template. It didn't change the content, it just made the issues display as the original editor intended. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:42, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
Due to network overload I have a problem keeping my connection up. It sometimes takes 2 minutes to just load the page. Yesterday, someone edited the page while I was editing the page and everything got messed up. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:52, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the prompt reply. If you have connection issues, it is even more surprising to ear that you save the page and wait for loading several times. Why do you need to save a version with an intermediate text that is removed later. The page is not so busy, however, in order to avoid edit conflicts or text loss, may I suggest you to prepare the text in an external notepad? Moreover, quick successive editing is likely to cause edit conflicts with watchlist followers. A single edit isn't. See Wikipedia:Avoiding edit-conflicts. Nothing more. Best regards. --Ideawipik (talk) 17:41, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
good to see you back!
I am actually relieved. After I sent you the email, I tracked your global contributions for two-three days, and didn't see you active. Then I saw that a wikipedia contributor passed away cuz of COVID, and the worst possibility came to my mind. I am very glad to see you safe. By the way, I solved the problem I had emailed you about. Then ran into another problem, and solved that one too. Also, it was fun to see message from Stian in your talkpage, and the conversation with Ideawipik. The latter lol'ed me. See you around :) —usernamekiran (talk)23:05, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
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Sorry to bug you now, but I'm interested what kind of background there was to theseWP:COSMETICEDITs. Clearly, they don't change anything in the output, and it seems a bit weird to me that this wasn't done with a bot, especially at that scale (how many of these changes did you make?). 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 22:44, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 This was 6 years ago. I don't recall exactly. I probably did a few hundreds of edits. Usually, it was to prevent AWB bots from causing bugs till next release. Sometimes it was a not supported template of something. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:45, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
For those who want to read something interesting: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_174#Cosmetic_Bot_Day_(CBD) which concluded that "There is consensus for the relaxing of WP:COSMETICBOT so that bots may be approved, using the normal process, to allow cosmetic edits that would run only on designated cosmetic bot days (in addition to typical trials/testing done during the Bot Request process). These bots must still have appropriate consensus for their cosmetic tasks. Several editors, both those in favor, but especially those who opposed worried that the tasks would impose preferences rather than improvements."
so through my random wiki browsing I came across a weird error on an article here: Plochingen#Land_usage.
This section seems to have been edited by Yobot in this diff: [7]
The immediately preceding revision is not faulty [8], which leads me to assume the task Yobot was working on has introduced the error. Since frankly I have no idea whatsoever why the section is broken now, I am turning to you as the bot's owner. Hopefully you can figure it out (or you know whom to ask).
--LordPeterII (talk) 20:53, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Maybe it is related to the comment above the changed lines, "The formatting blanks in the Colors-section are in fact figure spaces (U+2007)"? 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 20:55, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Magioladitis maybe? I'm still relatively new to Wikipedia and have never worked with that type of diagram-thing. Someone undid the bot edit and it is indeed back to normal now. Really, I was only reporting the problem, I've no knowledge on the technical side of things. --LordPeterII (talk) 14:50, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
There's been a general effort to reduce the number of smallcats in the year hierarchies by consolidating individual years into decade or century categories. 1500AD is the usual dividing line between years and decades but it varies depending on the likely size of the categories - companies are generally in decades up to around 1800, births/deaths are earlier. One test is to see if the category exists already, as edits such as the above one are in breach of WP:REDNOT - if the year category doesn't exist, the bot could try the equivalent decade category? Le Deluge (talk) 17:38, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Gday mate. Can you please help this clueless soul. With the wikisources using subpages for biographical works, I cannot determine how to get AWB to work with me to give me a "key" output. For a page like s:Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Accepted Frewen I want to be able to generate {{DEFAULTSORT:Frewen, Accepted}}. Or am I needing to go and put this as a feature request. Thanks for any guidance you can provide. — billinghurstsDrewth11:05, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Bot not removing punctuations already there
Hi, I was just letting you know that after your bot does that REFPUNCT fix and puts the punctuation after the reference before the reference, it doesn’t remove the punctuation already there before the reference which makes double punctuations. If this doesn’t make sense, check my contributions. Ididntknowausername (talk) 14:02, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
A cool way to help me is the keep notes of which pages could have been fixed by the bot by giving me some heads up. For instance, this one (point parentheses point) could have been fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:13, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Keith D thanks. This is impossible for a bot to fix. I expect a small portion of non-fixes that can be fixed manually. Right now the list of pages with reported errors is huge. Let's see what will be left unfixed after the bot is done. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:17, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
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BRFA activity by month
Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.
Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.
Overall
Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 2 expired).
TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebroxnoted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthonypointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!"
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Welcome to Wikipedia...?
Hello! It seems I'm your mentor for the newcomer homepage, and I saw your contributions and decided to thank you for them. However, it seems like I'm 15 years and 900,000 contributions too late to doing that. Just out of curiosity, why do you have the newcomer homepage enabled? Are you a part of its development? Panini!🥪13:14, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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BRFA activity by month
Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.
After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.
Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.
Overall
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 BRFAs. Of these, Y 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with N2 8 denied, ? 2 withdrawn, and 2 expired).
January 2020
Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.
A new Pywikibot release dropped support for Python 3.4, and it was expected that support for Python 2.7 would be removed in coming updates. Toolforge itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022.
On February 1, some concerns were raised about ListeriaBot performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator Magnus Manske (who originally coded the Phase II software|precursor of MediaWiki) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily blocked for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved.
In March, a long discussion was started at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy by Skdb about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- API changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be Toolforge hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code).
A discussion on the bot noticeboard, "Re-examination of ListeriaBot", was started by Barkeep49, who pointed out repeated operation outside the scope of its BRFA (i.e. editing pages in mainspace, and adding non-free images to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was blocked on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several safeguards were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18.
Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Wikipedia could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator or GitHub (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise anonymity) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.
May 2020
We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots
MajavahBot 3, an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Wikipedia. The page, located at User:MajavahBot/Bot status report, is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status.
In July 2017, Headbomb made a proposal that a section of the Wikipedia:Dashboard be devoted to bots and technical issues. In November 2019, Lua code was written superseding Legobot's tasks on that page, and operator Legoktm was asked to stop them so that the new code could be deployed. After no response to pings, a partial-block of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues [...] Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored.
On June 7, RexxS blocked Citation bot for disruptive editing, saying it was "still removing links after request to stop". A couple weeks later, a discussion on the bots noticeboard was opened, saying "it is a widely-used and useful bot, but it has one of the longest block logs for any recently-operating bot on Wikipedia". While its last BRFA approval was in 2011, its code and functionality had changed dramatically since then, and AntiCompositeNumber requested that BAG require a new BRFA. Maintainer AManWithNoPlan responded that most blocks were from years ago (when it lacked a proper test suite), and problems since then had mostly been one-off errors (like a June 2019 incident in which a LTA had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors).
David Tornheim opened a discussion about whether bots based on closed-source code should be permitted, and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on [the bot]". Some disagreed: Naypta said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so".
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I really like the articles you create, publish or edit on Wikipedia. I’m not a Wikipedia specialist, so I would like to collaborate with a professional who has experience in this field. I would like to publish an article about Oskar Hartmann, entrepreneur, business angel and international investor, on the German or English version of Wikipedia.
I see it as a text about his professional career, investments and philosophy of life. Not PR or advertising articles.
My name is Emma Rogers
Let me know if you are interested in such topic - describing Hartmann's biography as an author, please. I can give you more information RogEmma (talk) 08:19, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
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AWB graphical change proposal
Hi ! I saw that you are a AWB dev. I had proposed a new icon and a new loading screen in Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Dev, here is the original post: Hi, I wish do a proposal for a new logo for AWB. Here's my icons and images:
icon proposal for Wikipedia-useSoftware icon proposalWordmarkLoading screen
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Hi Magioladitis, i'm reaching out to you because i get an error message trying to access "Check wikipedia". See here. Could you have a look at this? Kind regards Saschaporsche (talk) 10:56, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
CEE Newsletter - January 2024 Issue Now Available!
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We're excited to announce the release of the January 2024 issue of the CEE Newsletter! This edition is filled with captivating stories, community highlights, and collaborative achievements from across Central and Eastern Europe region in the Wikimedia movement.
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CEE Hub and WMF Updates: Explore the latest from the Wikimedia Foundation with the Talking 2024 series and insights into the impacts on children participating in Wikimedia projects. Additionally, discover CEE Hub's plans for 2024 as outlined in the recently approved grant proposal named Stronger CEE Hub
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Persondata
I started serious cleanup of Persondata (Q5153934) from all wikis that don't use it anymore. I removed instances and I nominated it for deletion. Anyone willing to help to remove the remaining instances from wikis not using it anymore please do. Magioladitis (talk) 22:15, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Pointless edits
Hi! It seems that you're using AWB to make pointless edits again. I thought you'd undertaken to stop doing that as a condition of being unblocked? This edit made no perceptible difference to the displayed page; there was nothing broken, what did you think you were fixing? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:31, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
OK on the first bit – though wouldn't it have been more productive to show them how to make a useful edit? On the second part, a new version that made no trivial changes of that kind at all would be welcome indeed! Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:46, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Well i used the talk page to show how a template rename xan be done to avoid disruption on mainspace. I also crested a dummy article page and i requested speedy deletion. The problem with talk page fixes on awb is that they don't work in sandbox unfortunately. Magioladitis (talk) 14:42, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Multiple punctuation marks
Hi Magioladitis. Thanks for your edits dealing with punctuation around references. I’ve only looked at a few of them but in [12], [13], and (debatably) [14], the edit left two punctuation marks next to each other, for example a semicolon immediately followed by a comma. There may be others – I’ve only looked at a few. It may well be caused by an editing tool you’re using but please check the preview and fix if necessary before saving the edits. Thanks :) --Northernhenge (talk) 21:35, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment. You are right, in some cases, double punctuation marks appear but my problem is that is sometimes difficult to decide which one is correct. And if you cases I have cases I have reformulated the sentence. I left some cases to more experts. Magioladitis (talk) 21:59, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
There are currently over 500 pages with ,; or ,; before a <ref>. I’ve been slowly working through them but I wouldn’t know how to automatically choose the comma or the semicolon. It depends on the context and what other punctuation is being used in the vicinity. (I’m also finding examples of lists using a mixture of colons and semicolons, sometimes for understandable reasons but sometimes not.) The most urgent thing is to identify scripts that create the double punctuation problem so the number can stop increasing. A human could cause the problem by deleting a member from a list, but my gut feeling is that most of the problems were caused by scripts, or at least humans not checking what the script was doing. --Northernhenge (talk) 18:49, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. I try to fix many of these by myself. I am sometimes puzzled about the use of ", and" syntax which is not common in Greek for instance. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:09, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
I’ve just fixed Python (programming language). I’m surprised you’re still causing these problems. You’re turning a small problem into a bigger one that is then much harder to fix. The edits could be considered disruptive. Please stop. --Northernhenge (talk) 16:08, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
If you look at your edit to Pound sterling, in the section headed “Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories”, you changed ; into ;, and the edit was tagged AWB. I wonder if there is a problem with AWB. Is it failing to recognise semicolons as punctuation? Whatever script you are using, I suggest getting it fixed before continuing with it. --Northernhenge (talk) 18:33, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
I ma using custom module to get a warning when my edit creates a double punctuation so I can check manually and fix it. I guess I have to update my list. The older problem of saving a page without fixing anything is now 100% fixed. I am going to work on the direction of double punctuation now. Thanks for the feedback. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia workshop in Corfu 2017
Wikipedia workshop in Corfu 2017
Resolved
Gender gap Workshop in Rethymno. Organised by Marios Magioladitis in the frame of "Why Women Don't Edit Wikipedia?"
Gender gap Workshop in Rethymno. Organised by Marios Magioladitis in the frame of "Why Women Don't Edit Wikipedia?"
Gender gap Workshop in Rethymno. Organised by Marios Magioladitis in the frame of "Why Women Don't Edit Wikipedia?"
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Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:40, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
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