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Your submission at Articles for creation: afc-sandbox (May 28)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DoubleGrazing was:
We're sorry, but we cannot accept blank submissions. If in fact you did include text within the article, but it isn't showing, please make sure that any extra text above your entry is removed, as it may be causing it to hide and not be shown to the reviewer.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:59, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, SD0001! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:59, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, sorry, I rashly declined your sandbox before I realised it was yours. Were you testing something? Hope I didn't spoil your experiment! (Feel free to undo my decline, obvs.) Cheers, --DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:02, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
@DoubleGrazing No worries, I was checking how the page showed up in the db replicas - but they are lagged anyway so it wasn't showing up at all! – SD0001 (talk) 07:08, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Drafts subject to five year retention

Hi SD0001,

I understand that you maintain two tools, User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon and User:SDZeroBot/G13 eligible, used to identify drafts that are eligible to be deleted under G13. Following a recent RfC there is now a limited exception to G13; articles deleted under this process are not eligible for G13 until five years have passed since they were draftified.

These articles are denoted by a template, Template:Special draft, which includes a date parameters specifying the month and year they were moved to draft space. It is my intent to also create a monthly maintenance category, but Ambox doesn't seem cooperative of that for articles in draft space, so I am looking into that further.

Would it be possible for you to update these tools to accommodate this? If it would be easier to do this once the monthly maintenance category let me know and I will contact you again when it is.

For an example of an article subject to this, see Draft:Édouard Martin (wrestler).

BilledMammal (talk) 23:32, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

@BilledMammal A single category will be enough for the the bot to support this exception, as it can then use the cl_timestamp (time at which page entered the category) - assuming this will be roughly same as the time of draftification. – SD0001 (talk) 07:16, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
assuming this will be roughly same as the time of draftification It will be; this initial set might be slightly delayed while I learn how to use templates well enough to resolve the category issue, but a few weeks or even a month over the span of five years isn't significant.
Thank you; I'll let you know when I have the categories working. BilledMammal (talk) 08:01, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Category:Draft articles on comics and anime has been nominated for splitting

Category:Draft articles on comics and anime has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Trailblazer101 (talk) 04:25, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

reFill

Hi, that's great of you to step forward on reFill. I've added you as a maintainer on Toolforge. What's your GitHub account? Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 05:02, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

@Curb Safe Charmer: this one – SD0001 (talk) 09:14, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
A well-deserved barnstar... User:SD0001/shortdescs-in-category.js is a brilliant script, and User:SD0001/StubSorter is very useful too! Edward-Woodrow :) [talk] 19:29, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for dropping by! – SD0001 (talk) 19:53, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

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Reminders

Thanks for the SQL tip!

Hey @SD0001 just wanted to thank you for your tip on using rev_id instead of timespace over on Quarry. It's been a lifesaver, I've been able to get much larger files significantly faster than using the previous method. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 02:21, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Happy to help! – SD0001 (talk) 13:21, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Dark mode enabled for non english Wikipedia.

I do not see Dark mode checkbox in my native Hungarian (hu) wikipedia. Can you help what could be the solution? Netsmile (talk) 11:27, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

@Netsmile Please see Wikipedia:Dark mode (gadget) for details on enabling the gadget on huwiki – most of the steps require interface-admin access. – SD0001 (talk) 15:09, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

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WP:RFPP/E form broken by CAPTCHA

Hi SD0001, there's an issue with the way MediaWiki:Request-page-protection-form.js currently works: WP:VPT § WP:RFPP/E broken whenever a CAPTCHA is required. Perhaps there's a way to fix this without investing hours of work to get the CAPTCHA transcluded somehow? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:10, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Replied there. – SD0001 (talk) 08:05, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon

Hello, SD0001,

Sorry not to post on the bot talk page but I'm not sure how often you check that. Tonight's User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon report is really...odd. There are sometimes problems with formatting this page but I can make an edit and correct the page (it's usually an extra "||" somewhere) but tonight there is just a lot of missing information like dates and times for many of the drafts. Since we go by "last edit", not having this information visible is problematic. Any chance you could run this one again and hopefully get an entire report? Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 00:55, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello, SD0001,
Well, tonight's page is fine but could you please rerun yesterday's report? It's going to be an enormous hassle for editors and admins to look at every draft's page history to determine the last edit time. I hope you can help us out here. Liz Read! Talk! 00:57, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
Well, you've been active but no response here yet. My last plea, please rerun this G13 Soon report for Feb. 1, 2023 to make Tuesday not an impossible day to handle expiring drafts. Liz Read! Talk! 00:29, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

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User talk:SD0001/Archive 7#Drafts subject to five year retention

Sorry, I should have got back to you earlier, but it slipped my mind. The category is Category:All drafts subject to special procedures. BilledMammal (talk) 13:30, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

For now, I have updated the db queries to not consider any pages from this category as eligible for G13, as we have over 4.5 years before they'll be eligible. – SD0001 (talk) 17:51, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. BilledMammal (talk) 03:24, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) 24

Would you mind taking a look at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 24 when you have time? You seem to be one of the few active members of BAG at the moment. Thank you — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:02, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Done. – SD0001 (talk) 03:52, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding User:SD0001/afc-sandbox

Information icon Hello, SD0001. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that User:SD0001/afc-sandbox, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 00:07, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive

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Query

Hello, SD0001,

I have a question about User:SDZeroBot. It produced two different reports for G13 soon for May 26th, this one and this report. I think one of them should actually be for May 27th G13 soon so I'm just checking to see if there was a mistake. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 16:58, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

@Liz See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Olympics#Draftified_Olympian_microstubs. The second one was manually generated after a code update to exclude Olympian microstubs which aren't actually eligible for G13. Both reports are for 26 May but the later one is the correct one. – SD0001 (talk) 18:48, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
I don't understand. Look at the G13 list for Wednesday or Thursday's G13 list. All of those drafts are due to be deleted. Liz Read! Talk! 00:27, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

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User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon

Hey, SD0001,

It's been a while! I guess that's because problems so rarely pop up with your bot these days, fortunately.

But for some reason, the User:SDZeroBot/G13 eligible report was issued at the regular time but there is no User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon for December 22nd. But this seems to be the exception as SDZeroBot has been very active otherwise. Can you check and see what the problem is?

I hope, if you celebrate end of the year holidays, then you have a great last week of 2023! Thank you for all of your help this year. Liz Read! Talk! 02:12, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Not sure why it didn't trigger automatically – could be because of platform congestion. Triggered it manually. Happy holidays to you too! – SD0001 (talk) 06:55, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

A solstice greeting

❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️

Hi SD0001! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. I appreciate all your technical work, and am always happy to be a redirect-class user with you. Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!
Cheers,
{{u|Sdkb}} talk
Solstice Celebration for SD0001, 2023, DALL·E 3. (View full series) Note: The vibes are winter solsticey. If you're in the southern hemisphere, oops, apologies.
Solstice Celebration for SD0001, 2023, DALL·E 3.
Note: The vibes are winter solsticey. If you're in the southern hemisphere, oops, apologies.

{{u|Sdkb}} talk 07:01, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

@Sdkb Thank you for thinking of me. Happy holidays to you too! – SD0001 (talk) 12:27, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

SDZeroBot

Hello, SD0001,

First, seasons greetings! I hope you are having a good "last week of 2023" and looking forward to the year ahead.

Secondly, do you know what happened with this report? So much information, including the time of last edit, is missing from this report. Is there any way you could "rerun" the report for July 1st where it would include all of the standard data? Otherwise we will be opening drafts, looking at page histories all day long, repeatedly.

Thanks for any help you can provide. Liz Read! Talk! 02:06, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

@Liz There was a bug – the bot tripped up on encountering the broken syntax in Draft:Typhoon_Usagi_(2007). Fixed. Have re-run it for 1 July 2023. Thanks for pointing it out. – SD0001 (talk) 08:08, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for reruning a few reports. However, since then, could you take a look at this one, in the middle of the page? I can't figure out what some of those entries are, there is no time, no page title, no link...I guess we just ignore them or they will show up later on the G13 eligible list? I've been using SDZeroBot's lists since Sept. 2020 and I've never seen this before! THnks and Happy New Years! Liz Read! Talk! 21:46, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
If you mean the rows after Draft:Adam Wardziński, that's just the medal record in the draft getting accidentally included within its excerpt, probably due to some malformed syntax in the draft. – SD0001 (talk) 05:25, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

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Grant

Hi SD0001, happy new year, thank you for your help towards me on this wiki at certain times. This year, I'm planning to apply for grant for some of my software projects on wiki, similar to your project: m:Grants:Project/Rapid/SD0001/Twinkle localisation. I was wondering if you could share some experiences and advice on this matter? Many thanks! Plantaest (talk) 18:07, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Sure, you can reach me on Discord or via email. – SD0001 (talk) 18:22, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Update cycles list

Would you mind updating User:SDZeroBot/Category cycles? It's been mentioned at Wikipedia:Help_desk#Subcategorization:_Category:Historians_->_Category:Biographers_->_Category:Autobiographers so having an up-to-date report would be useful. * Pppery * it has begun... 04:12, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@Pppery  Done Turns out the code, untouched for 3 years, still works. – SD0001 (talk) 16:50, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the loader script

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User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon

Hello, SD0001,

Just a note that we didn't get a User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon report today/tonight. We got the G13 eligible report but not the G13 soon. Both January and July have 31 days in the month so that should not be an issue. Thanks for any help you can offer. Liz Read! Talk! 00:55, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

phab:T338006 strikes again. Triggered manually. – SD0001 (talk) 02:46, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Expand "Concern" column

Hi. Regarding SDZeroBot, PROD Sorting, please take a look at this edit I did:

[1]

Could this improvement be made, permanently? DonFB (talk) 09:00, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

'bot bug

Your 'bot is not checking edit histories to see whether edits occur before or entirely after nomination. People editing entirely after nomination can be presumed to have already seen the {{afd1}} notice that was right in front of their noses. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 02:07, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

If you commented in the AfD, you wouldn't have been notified. But yes, excluding users who edited the article post nomination also makes sense. – SD0001 (talk) 05:35, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

ChristieBot and GridEngine

Hi -- could I ask a favour? I'm at work and won't be able to check on ChristieBot for about ten hours. GridEngine has been shut off, and in theory ChristieBot should still be running, but it's been several hours and I've seen no activity on-wiki. There's a GA backlog drive going on so I would expect to see something. I think it's likely that something has broken. Do you have time to take a look? If it's something at the job scheduling level that you can fix, that would be great. If it's in the code I can get to it this evening. Though I think GridEngine can be turned back on again on request, per the announcement I saw here, while we/I fix whatever needs fixing. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:32, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Actually I see ChristieBot just ran, so either you fixed it or it wasn't broken. Thanks! Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:59, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
I didn't actually do anything! The cron job appears to be triggering fine every 20 minutes. – SD0001 (talk) 08:24, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

HotArticlesBot didn't run at the usual time tonight

The bot usually runs around 2:45am ET but didn't. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 08:56, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

HotArticlesBot also failed to run last night. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 17:24, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
@StefenTower The bot's main developer is retired. I volunteered to be a co-maintainer so that I can help with restarts and looking into infra issues. In this case, it appears to be an occasional issue due to the code not accounting for transient failures from Wikipedia APIs. But I don't have the bandwidth to look into it or fix it.
For the long-term sustainability of hot article lists, I would suggest trying to set them up with {{database report}} instead. Using options like row_template and silent=yes, I believe it's possible to exactly replicate the formatting of the existing lists. This bot is also actively maintained. Let me know if you do this and need any help. – SD0001 (talk) 08:22, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply and development ideas as well as restarting this bot. I probably could replicate this as I already figured out the SQL that builds the list and I have experience with template building and styling, but rolling that out to all the projects that use HotArticlesBot results seems like the hard (tedious) part. It also seems a bit concerning that doing that changes this from a single bot run to multiple ones. At any rate, I guess it won't hurt to work on an alternative - I'll let you know when I've come up with something and/or need technical assistance. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 15:26, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello SD0001,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

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Precious anniversary

Precious
Three years!

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ChristieBot/Flask

Hi -- since you were willing to become a maintainer and help sort out the setup of ChristieBot, I was hoping I could ask for another favour. Back in 2022 you helped me get an app.py to respond to https://ganfilter.toolforge.org. Under the new setup it is no longer working; I'm not sure why but I suspect it's partly because flask is not installed. I've put in the example app.py code from flask.org that you recommended last time, from here, and I just get "internal server error". I'm guessing that the venv needs to be rebuilt to include the installation of flask. I've added "flask==3.0.0" to the requirements.txt but am hesitant to rebuild the venv as I don't really understand that mechanism and don't want to disable the bot by screwing it up. If you have a moment, could you let me know what I need to do to get the example app.py to respond? If you don't have time, no problem. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:11, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Mike Christie, you can see what packages are installed by running webservice python3.11 shell, then ~/www/python/venv/bin/pip list. Flask 3.0.3 is already installed.
Looks like the issue is that the webservice is running on the python3.9 image, while the cronjobs run on the python3.11 image. Venvs are specific to python versions, which is confirmed by going into a python3.9 shell and attempting pip list (it doesn't work). So just restart the webservice and have it run on python3.11. – SD0001 (talk) 15:48, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
That worked. Thanks again! Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 18:11, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

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For development and ongoing improvement of {{Database report}}. one of the most powerful tools now available on the Wikipedia that has profoundly assisted my work in multiple ways. I have also nominated this great tool for Coolest Tool Award 2024 on Meta. Thank you for your dedication and hard work on this! Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 19:23, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

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@SD0001:Hello and good night! Sorry for bothering you in case you are busy but i need to notify two issues regarding this page (https://sdzerobot.toolforge.org/gans?user=KGRAMR): The Wing of Madoola listing has an erroneous date (1970-01-01) instead of the date when it was approved by the reviewer (2023-12-28) and Ruiner Pinball (which was approved on 2024-03-12) is not listed there at all despite that i am the person who nominated it, which is odd to say the least. If you can fix those issues in anyway i would be grateful but if not then no worries, it's just some odd stuff i noticed. Thanks and have a good day :) Roberth Martinez (talk) 02:42, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

@KGRAMR I've fixed the inconsistencies manually in the database. Ruiner Pinball was incorrectly being attributed to Shooterwalker because of this edit. – SD0001 (talk) 13:45, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
@SD0001:Thank you so much and sorry for the bothering! Roberth Martinez (talk) 15:35, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Helloooo?

Hi, SD0001,

Are you checking messages at User talk:SDZeroBot? Should I leave them here instead? Liz Read! Talk! 04:31, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks for your work on scripts like GAN helper, GAR helper, and DYK helper :) 48JCL (talk) 00:56, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

DYK/script

Hello SD0001, thank you for writing User:SD0001/GAN-helper.js. I was wondering if it was possible to write a script that helps with reviewing DYK nominations just like User:SD0001/GAN-helper.js or can the former script be updated with such ability? I'll be on the lookout for your response. dxneo (talk) 22:16, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

GAN-helper is for opening nominations. Reviewing nominations is quite different. For GANs, there's User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/GANReviewTool. Maybe NL would be interested in making a DYK review tool too. – SD0001 (talk) 11:05, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
*pinging Novem Linguae. dxneo (talk) 12:47, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Sorry my friend. I'm probably too busy to take this on. You may want to post at WP:US/R. That's where I originally got the idea for GANReviewTool :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 13:13, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Quarry bug

Hello, SD0001,

Could you look again at this phab ticket? The solution didn't resolve any of the problems I'm having, the queries just run endlessly and never finish. Just look at the current list of queries and you can see it's affecting a lot of users. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 04:43, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

SDZeroBot Lint report issue

Letting you know that I think your SDZeroBot is having an issue with the Linter reports it updates. I noticed yesterday that the error counts were counting high (Articles by Lint Errors for one was displaying 21+ errors for all 1000 displaying entries, when I know for a fact that we have it down to 2 errors max per article (barring any recent flairup)), and now today, two of the reports terminated their updates due to timing out (600 sec). There's no current replag on the Wikipedia servers, so thinking this might be a bot issue and not a server issue. Thanks, Zinnober9 (talk) 15:44, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Please contact the editor who set up the reports. The bot just executes the query you give it. Perhaps a new kind of lint error was introduced that is causing the error counts and query runtime to grow. – SD0001 (talk) 17:07, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Ah, apologies. The pages say who the bot updating the pages are, but not who to contact when issues occur, so thought you were the person to contact. I'll see if we can get those pages to display the person to contact, and see if Galobtter knows what's up. Thanks, Zinnober9 (talk) 20:29, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
A toolforge problem has been reported on VPT. That is probably the root cause. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:49, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Feverfew

Hi SD0001, I've created a new tool for checking links in articles and posted it here: Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) § Feverfew – A new link checker tool. I hope if you have time, you can give me feedback on it. Thank you! Plantaest (talk) 16:59, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Hey, quick note

The table of drafts by age and size at User:BD2412/sandbox/Drafts that was being updated by SDZeroBot has gone kerplunk. Is this fixable? Cheers! BD2412 T 03:37, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

@BD2412 I've updated the SQL, so it should work now. – SD0001 (talk) 10:18, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

DYK multi-nom question

Hi SD0001, just came across Template:Did you know nominations/Dissolution Grip. This is a multi-nom of two articles, but states only one QPQ is needed. My understanding is that the variable QPQ requirement is recent, so I thought I'd check if this was an expected outcome of the script. (Not a comment on the individual nom, just came across it and it raised the generic question in my mind.) Best, CMD (talk) 11:26, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

The text is generated by Module:NewDYKnomination – which currently doesn't consider the number of articles in the hook while determining the count. Just the nominator's previous count and whether DYK backlog mode is active, are taken into account. The number should be treated as "number of QPQs per article" until it is fixed. – SD0001 (talk) 18:19, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Bot displaying non-free images outside of article space

Greetings. SDZeroBot is displaying a non-free image (File:Shooting of Donald Trump.webp) on User:A smart kitten/databaseReports/X3 a total of 7 times, all in violation of WP:NFCC. There's no compelling reason I can see (maybe I'm wrong) that the image needs to be displayed on this bot maintained page. Could it not be made into a link, as I've linked the image in this message? Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 17:38, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

cc @A smart kitten – to fix this, I'd suggest avoiding the complex SQL to generate links and instead use the template parameters – see Template:Database_report#wikilinks. In this case, you can put log_title and log_namespace separately in the select clause, and set |wikilinks=2:2, 4:c6:show and |hide=6. – SD0001 (talk) 18:15, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping, and Hammersoft for bringing this up. I apologise for the NFCC violations - I've implemented the change to the template parameters, and the file is now being linked to rather than displayed. Thanks also for the pointer on how to do this within the template, SD0001 [/gen] - I originally thought I'd have to (do something like) implement a conditional statement to add a colon before the {{namespace name}} call if the namespace in question wasn't NS0, but this is a much better way! All the best :) ‍—‍a smart kitten[meow] 20:22, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

DYK-helper feature request

Would you be able to prevent a user from making a nomination if they don't provide a QPQ in the form? (redlinked "pending" doesn't count either). I'm not sure if this new rule is gonna hold up, but it'd be helpful to have as an alternate version. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 19:42, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Technically it's possible of course, but I'd imagine it would trip up a lot of people who do QPQs after creating the nomination. – SD0001 (talk) 14:07, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

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Special:WantedTemplates

I noticed a bunch of new "transclusions of non-existing templates" pop-up pointing to User:SDZeroBot/sync/MediaWiki:Gadget-WikiMiniAtlas.js. Would it be possible for you to add 

// <nowiki>

at the top of that page, and 

// </nowiki>

at the bottom of the page? This will prevent the backend software from thinking that the page is transcluding templates that don't exist here like Template:H:h Help. Since the <nowiki>...</nowiki> is inside of javascript comments, it won't impact the functionality of the script. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:31, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

This was from testing of buggy code. I've blanked the page. – SD0001 (talk) 18:40, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

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I nominate SD0001 to be Editor of the Week for their technical work and motivational acumen. Recently named Tech Contributor of the Year, they run SDZeroBot, a bot which allow editors to generate their own database reports based on specified SQL queries, which also elegantly generates some of our most useful reports, such as NPP sorting, AfC sorting, draftify watch, and much, much more. They have been a member of the Bot Approvals Group since late 2020, where they spend time reviewing and processing requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval. They have also spent time creating a number of useful scripts that are widely used by the community at large. Not stopping there, D0001 has also made significant contributions elsewhere, such as to existing gadgets, including Twinkle and the Articles for Creation Helper Script, as well as having made contributions to core MediaWiki. Many users speak to how much they appreciate SD's contributions and motivational skills. Recognition for all they've done is the least that we can do. This nomination was seconded by Novem Linguae, MPGuy2824, Queen of Hearts, TechnoSquirrel69 and Sohom Datta

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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 12:11, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much, you all! It feels great to be recognized. I had no idea we had such an award along with a process for handing it out. (Let me know if you need any scripting help for organizing EOTW :D) – SD0001 (talk) 18:39, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Lets pretend I don't know what "scripting" is! Which I don't. If you can help expand the range and awareness of EotW that would be good thing. Any ideas are welcome. @Isaccl: Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 00:19, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: CAPTCHA test (September 15)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Guessitsavis was:
This submission seems to be a test edit and not an article worthy of an encyclopedia. Please use the sandbox for any editing tests, but do not submit for review until you have an article that you want reviewed for inclusion in Wikipedia. Thank you.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 19:05, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
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