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A beer for you!

Enjoy, you deserve it! Cheers,Huldra (talk) 20:31, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Watchlist deletion

Hi. Any idea why you deleted this page? Viriditas (talk) 12:09, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi Viriditas, it was tagged for G6 with the rationale This project page may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion because The bot that generated and updated this page has been blocked along with its operator. No need to keep. The page hadn't been edited in over a year. The bot in question was Femto Bot, which is blocked, the user however is no longer blocked. I can userfy it for you if you want the list for reference. --kelapstick(bainuu) 12:39, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, kelapstick. I forgot about that. Yes, please userfy it for me. Not in my sandbox, though, as I'm using it. Can you just restore it in the previous location? Viriditas (talk) 12:46, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Moved to User:Viriditas/WikiProject Hawaii articles. --kelapstick(bainuu) 12:51, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 12:52, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Woot, thanks for taking care of it kelapstick. Legoktm (talk) 01:42, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi Legoktm. I'm generally a bit ambivalent in regard to choosing to restore edits by banned editors, and I'm not inherently opposed to doing so, but in this case do you feel it is the best move? It looks like this is an attempt to game the system, by adding "good" material to prove that the ban was unjustified. If it was a short comment or removing a bit of vandalism I'd be happy, but a full page written by a banned editor is a lot to let through. - Bilby (talk) 09:22, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

I do. We now have a well written article about an Australian diplomat who is soon going to represent her country in the UN. On top of that, Wikidata has a decent item about her now. We're now one step closer to our purpose, so I think it's a good thing. Legoktm (talk) 11:31, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
On the other hand, we've made a statement that if Russavia flaunts his community ban, we may just let him get away with it, and let him ignore the community's decision. The article could have been created another way. Well, this is going to keep going, so I guess we just have to continue to play whack-a-mole for the foreseeable future. - Bilby (talk) 12:04, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
If you're up for re-writing all of the articles Russavia plans on writing before he does, that would be amazing. But if not, it just harms the project as a whole. 5 or 10 years from now, no one will care whether he was banned or blocked or whatever. But his contributions to that article will have spread knowledge to someone (I already learned something new), and therefore will be a net benefit. Legoktm (talk) 01:41, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Calculating net benefits is tricky - having more articles is good, having the inability to effectively ban or enforce bans on editors who go against policies and disrupt the project is bad. Clearly we differ on this, but my view is, and will continue to be, than bans need to be actively enforced to be meaningful, and loosing the ability to meaningfully ban editors (as imperfect as the system is) would be a major negative for the project. - Bilby (talk) 01:57, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 July 2014

07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

RE Igloo

Hey,

Out of curiosity, which part of the privacy policy did I violate? And yes, I can move the script over to the Wikipedia namespace, something I was planning to do eventually, but never got around to doing. --Kangaroopowah 20:15, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

bump. I can't find anything in the privacy policy that says this. --Kangaroopowah 21:28, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
@Kangaroopower: Hi, sorry I missed your original message somehow. By loading external resources from github, it enables github to track users who are visiting Wikipedia, and get information like referer headers and their IP addresses. This is mainly important because there is no warning to a user that "By using this script, your information will be sent to a third-party site that may track you.". Overall, it's just easier to just serve the scripts from a wikipage or tool labs if absolutely necessary. Legoktm (talk) 22:30, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Ah, makes sense. Personally, I'd rather host it on labs, because I'm planning to add a backend to Igloo anyways. How would I go about doing this? --Kangaroopowah 03:47, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
wikitech:Nova Resource:Tools/Help is a good guide. Legoktm (talk) 23:18, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

07:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello!

You semi-protected yesterday CS Universitatea Craiova (football), but the editor is now back, using a registered account this time (Roby Iliescu). He deleted information from the History section, the Kit manufacturer info, the Ownership and finances section etc. Referenced material was eliminated.

It seems that he used to edit the encyclopedia as WP:LOGGEDOUT for the extremely "dirty work" like removing clearly legitimate stuff (the infobox, uncontroversial categories, the squad of the team) or adding "funny text" ("People coming to the game and pretend to keep this team receives social assistance free." / "nickname = The Clone" / "Mircea Sandu fucks the mayor of Craiova Lia Olguța Vasilescu and give to her 2 millions of euros."): [68] [69]

While logged out he also disruptively removed CS Universitatea Craiova (football) from the list participating at 2014–15 Liga I: [70]

Can you please restore the stable version and sanction the editor?

Also, maybe you can take a look at Talk:CS_Universitatea_Craiova_(football)#Edit_requested_-_year_of_foundation 79.117.201.70 (talk) 14:01, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

The page semiprotection has expired meanwhile, so I've done the necessary edits myself. I'll notify you if the vandalism resumes. 79.117.198.36 (talk) 08:45, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Unfortunately the editor is back and is making again disruptive edits: [71] [72]. He is altering an information that is taken from the official site of Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal, that is a Romanian governing body that runs the Liga I, the top professional division of the Romanian football league system.
Taking into account the fact that the editor is also an autoconfirmed user (he controls the account User:Roby Iliescu), can you please full protect the article for an amount of time? 79.117.156.114 (talk) 21:45, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Uhh, no. I really don't have time to look into this, try WP:ANI or another administrator? Legoktm (talk) 22:34, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

New huggle 3.1 is going to be released soon

Hi Legoktm, we are to release a new major version of huggle, but we did receive almost no feedback from our beta testing team, which you are a part of (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members). It would be of a great help if you could download it (if you have windows, all you need to do is getting http://tools.wmflabs.org/huggle/files/huggle3.1.0beta.exe and putting it to a folder where you have installed huggle) and test it. You can always get a help with making it @ #huggle connect!

Major changes:

  • Multisite support - you can now log in to unlimited number of wikis in 1 huggle session and get a huge queue of all edits made to these wikis. This is good for smaller projects which gets overlooked often.
  • Ranged diffs - you can select multiple revisions and get a huge diff that display all changes done to them.
  • Fixes of most of bug reports we had so far

In case you found a bug, please report it to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?product=Huggle&list_id=147663 thank you! Petrb (talk) 10:11, 30 July 2014 (UTC)