User talk:Legoktm/November 2013

File:Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport Opening Ceremony Plaque.jpg

Hi Legoktm,

This photograph was taken by me from my camera on 29th October 2013.

Pl see file talk page

Anuradha

අනුරාධ (talk) 08:08, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi, the deletion rationale was "This is a plaque, So FoP may not be applicable, In addition text is a literary work not art". The important part is that the plaque itself might be non-free, not who took the photo. Legoktm (talk) 16:20, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for advice.

Anuradha

අනුරාධ (talk) 17:55, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Huggle 3

Hey Legoktm! I am Petrb, one of core developers of Huggle, the antivandalism tool, which you are beta testing (according to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members#Beta_testers). I am happy to announce that Huggle 3 is ready for some testing. You can read more about it at WP:Huggle/Huggle3_Beta. Please keep in mind that this is a development version and it is not ready for regular use. That means you must:

• Watch your contribs - when anything happens you didn't want, fix it and report a bug
• Frequently checkout source code and build latest version, we change it a lot

If you find any problem with a feature that is supposed to work perfectly, please let us know. Some features are not ready yet, it is listed in known problems on Huggle3 beta page, you don't need to report these - we know it! So, that's it. Have fun testing and please let us know about any problems, either using bugzilla @ http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or #huggle ^connect. Please respond to my talk page, I am not going to watch your talk page. Thank you Petrb (talk) 10:57, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Flow Newsletter - November 14

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Legobot archiving issue

Hi Legoktm. :) I just noticed that for the old Miszabot archiving tasks, Legobot is adding whitespace to sections even if they aren't being archived. For example, in this edit (near the bottom) ==Talkback== became == Talkback ==, and an extra line break was added before the talkback notice. I assume this is unintentional? Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:13, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Miszabot always added the (horizontal) space before and after all section header titles that didn't have them when archiving my page; I'm assuming that Legobot just does what Miszabot did. It has always seemed odd to me that it would add the space when the section headers are created without them when using Wikipedia's normal New Section edit selection, but it seemed a minor point, so I never asked about it. (I don't remember about extra line break behavior.) BlueMoonset (talk) 16:40, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Yup, see User:MiszaBot/Archive FAQ Q6. Legoktm (talk) 21:11, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Ok, sorry, looks like I need to Read The Fine Manual. :) Thanks for getting back to me, and thank you BlueMoonset for your talk-page-stalkery. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 10:33, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Your continued work to sustain the bots I ran until two years ago is sincerely appreciated. Harej (talk) 06:20, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-46

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14. [1]

Future

• MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
• The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to *.wikimedia.org, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding &srbackend=CirrusSearch to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21. [2]
• The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [3]

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08:49, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

GA notification by Legobot

Hi Legoktm. Legobot is a handy little bot, though I do like to leave personal notices regarding GA nominations and listing. What is the best way to prevent Legobot leaving notices for nominators? SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 18:56, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Is there a way?

And is it possible for Legobot to do the actual GA listing - that's always a tedious fiddly operation, and some people put listings in the wrong place alphabetically. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 09:33, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

I created User:GA bot/Don't notify users for me, and have most of the code written, just need to test it to make sure it works.

Thanks for that! SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 17:43, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Do you mean updating the subpages of Wikipedia:Good articles? I can look into it, but not sure I'll have time to get it done anytime soon. Legoktm (talk) 17:17, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes. Anytime you do it will be good by me! It's the sort of fiddly tedious little job that bots are good at and humans screw up on all too easily! The hard parts will be getting your bot to recognise when a name has to be reversed, and when part or all of an article title needs to go into italics. I don't know how you would write the code for that! But please try, because it's not fun doing that bit! SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 17:43, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

User:MessengerBot

Is User:MessengerBot yours?--Jac16888 ^Talk 19:45, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Not exactly. I'll create a userpage for it in a minute. :) Legoktm (talk) 19:48, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Ok, just threw me a minute, bot with no userpage or BRFA seemingly staring a message spam--Jac16888 ^Talk 19:51, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

I've created and added more info to User:MediaWiki message delivery. Legoktm (talk) 20:01, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Why did you add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to talk pages?

You went about (adding Category:Opted-out of message delivery using HotCat) to my talk page among others. Why? I certainly didn't ask for that. Dream Focus 01:38, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikimedia wikis are switching over to a new system of message delivery, see m:MassMessage and User:MediaWiki message delivery, which is replacing User:EdwardsBot. This new system has a different opt-out method, so I went to every page on Wikipedia:Bots/Opt-out/EdwardsBot, and converted them to the new system, which is a category. You're more than free to un-opt-out, I just thought it would be annoying if people had opted-out and started receiving messages again. Legoktm (talk) 01:41, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Oh. So it has nothing to do with the edit before that, from DPL bot. "Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:04, 19 November 2013 (UTC)" Sorry, my mistake. The other bot was the irritating pointless one. Dream Focus 01:48, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

A couple of TFAs await your protection

Ping. Good luck. Bencherlite^Talk 23:24, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

@Bencherlite: so...it looks like that all the articles (Nov 19-Nov 25) all already have full move protection? Looks like you did some of them on Nov 5th (before the bot was ready) and some of the other ones just have indef set. Legoktm (talk) 02:37, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

The ones I did yesterday were Operation Crossroads (Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 4, 2013) and Ambohimanga (Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 5, 2013). Does that help? Bencherlite^Talk 07:18, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes :) Both pages have been protected, and I've commented on the BRFA. Legoktm (talk) 17:59, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Marvellous. Presumably you need to pop across to WP:BN to ask for +bot+sysop for it, and then you're ready to go. Will I need to tell you that there are TFAs awaiting protection, or will it just check every 24 hours or so? Bencherlite^Talk 22:06, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Left a note there. I'm going to set up the bot to run every hour, so it should pick up new articles when you schedule them, no notification needed. Legoktm (talk) 22:35, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Your bot now has its superpowers and invisibility cloak, so can now play "hunt the TFA" as I've scheduled half a dozen during this long, much-delayed train journey... Bencherlite^Talk 23:39, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Woo! Thanks for fixing my post, I totally wasn't paying attention. I set it up to run, it protected two articles, and then I ran into what I think is a bug in MediaWiki. :/ Working on a work-around for that. Legoktm (talk) 01:23, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

bugzilla:57389 for the record. Bot is all set up to go, running hourly on tool labs! Legoktm (talk) 03:02, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Massmessage as a new user right?

Greetings! I see that you are one of the people helping to implement the new MassMessage extension. Am I correct in thinking that all administrator have the "massmessage" user right? Is there a (technical) way for non-admins to gain this right? Thanks for any info. All the best, – Quadell ^(talk) 13:27, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Quadell: See this for the discussion about a new user right to use MM. Admins have it by default, however, EdwardsBot is about for another month+, so there is plenty of time for this to be sorted. --Mdann52talk to me! 13:43, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for that. – Quadell ^(talk) 14:01, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

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Help

Just a poke to see if your bot can archive WP:CHU/S, the page is quite long. thanx, Mlpearc (open channel) 20:22, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

The bot currently waits 36 hours before archiving requests, and it looks like Maxim just declined a bunch. It should archive it within another day I assume. Legoktm (talk) 00:38, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• The Beta Features announced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferences. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style. [4]
• Tools developers can now create tools that use the OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password. [5]

Problems

• Wikis that are currently testing CirrusSearch had problems with search results on November 18 from 16:00 to 20:00 UTC.

Future

• There will be no major code changes on the week of November 25 because many developers will be on holiday for Thanksgiving.
• The editing interface of Page: pages on Wikisource (working with the Proofread Page extension) will soon also work without JavaScript. [6]

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06:46, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

GAN December 2013 Backlog Drive

Hello! A GAN Backlog Drive will begin in less than 4 days! In past Backlog Drives, the goal was to reduce the backlog of Good article nominations. In the upcoming drive, another goal will be added - raising as much money as we can for the Wikimedia Foundation. How will this work? Well, its pretty simple. Any user interested in donating can submit a pledge at the Backlog Drive page (linked above). The pledge should mention the amount of money the user is willing to donate per review. For example, if a user pledges 5 cents per review and 100 nominations are reviewed, the total donation amount is $5.00. At the time this message was sent out, two users have submitted pledges for a total of 8 cents per review. All pledges, no matter how much money, are greatly appreciated. Also, in no way is this saying you must make a pledge. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or leave a message on the Backlog Drive talk page. And remember, there are less than 4 days before the drive starts!--EdwardsBot (talk) 03:05, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Huggle 3 beta is out - and we need more feedback!

Hey Legoktm, how are you? I am Petrb, one of huggle developers, and you are currently subscribed as a beta tester of huggle on meta (meta:Huggle/Members. You may not have noticed, but this week I released first beta precompiled installers for ubuntu and microsoft windows! Wikipedia:Huggle/Huggle3_Beta has all the links you need. So if you can, please download it, test it and report all bugs that is really what we need now. Don't forgot that as it's just a beta it's unstable and there are some known issues. Be carefull! Thank you for helping us with huggle Petrb (talk) 16:22, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

It's a bit rude to say there's not much from me. 2 of the issues I filed are still open, [7] is a major one, and [8] is annoying. Huggle really isn't usable until you fix the first one, so I haven't tested it since them. Legoktm (talk) 02:05, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

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Signing to archive... Legoktm (talk) 02:06, 30 November 2013 (UTC)