Hi Qwerfjkl! Hope you are doing well. Would you be able to update CFDlister to make use of the copy=1 feature (example)? It adds a handy button to copy the text within the code block to the clipboard, which makes processing listing just that much easier. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:36, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Qwerfjkl, you were the first person to send me a holiday card on Wikipedia. Thank you; this year I am returning the favor. It is a testament to your skill as a coder that CFDlister is robust enough to continue as an essential part of my work at CFD with the mop. You are always responsive to bug reports and feature requests concerning those tools, not to mention the countless newbies you help via the Growth Team mentorship program. Wishing the best to you and yours in 2025 :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:40, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
★Trekker (talk) is wishing you a MerryChristmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!
Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by Nardog, is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from WP:AutoWikiBrowser's double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo.
Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF mw:code stewardship (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the greener purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.
Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.
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I received this. I may well havce screwed something up here but, on a quick look, I can't figure out what the bot is upset about. Wtmitchell(talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:02, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.afintl.com/en/202405132724}title=Afghanistan Temporarily Loses UN Voting Rights Due To Unpaid Dues|date=May 13, 2024|newspaper=Afghanistan International}}</ref>
You're no doubt right and I had forgotten doing that. I've been snowed under off wiki lately. I've been trying to keep some WP activity going but I've been rushing and shortcutting that -- it seems like I relied on faulty memory here instead of checking the edit history. Apologies. Wtmitchell(talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:12, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Question from GovernorJason (00:26, 29 December 2024)
Thanks for your work on adding Wikiprojects to talk pages!
You might want to look at https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/72401, which is a database query for biographical articles that lack infoboxes, which is both much simpler and seemingly more reliable than using ORES. While you won't be able to run that copy of the query yourself, you can easily fork your own copy on Quarry and edit and run your own copy there.
There is a "download" button that allows the entire query result to be downloaded in a variety of formats, including CSV and TSV, suitable for loading into a bot.
Hi Qwerfjkl,
I’ve just nominated African floods (disambiguation) for deletion because nothing links to it (apart from a couple of users tracking dab redirects) and the page it redirects to is effectively a list which would be a clearer link if ever needed. Hope that’s OK. If not, please remove the deletion template from the page. Thanks. --Northernhenge (talk) 18:11, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
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The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
Riteze, I'm afraid you're looking at the wrong part: It is, on the other hand, not appropriate to use Wikidata in article text on English Wikipedia (their emphasis) at this time ... while running text is clearly not suitable for Wikidata use (my emphasis)— Qwerfjkltalk17:26, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! I just published a page for the first time. Do you know if I have it in the right space sandbox vs draft space, etc. Right now it is showing up in my sandbox User:Larriepedia/sandbox as a redirect to the page Draft:Jayne Bentzen. Did I do everything right?
xxxx --Larriepedia (talk) 20:48, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is 12:57 AM where this user lives.
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