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Short template shortcuts: are they pollution?
Under "Guidelines", the project page states:

Template function should be clear from the template name, but redirects can be created to assist everyday use of very popular templates.

This leaves it unclear whether the name of the redirect itself should also always make clear the function of the target template.

We have a great many template shortcuts that are too short to give much information about the function of the template they redirect to. The more commonly used ones are listed at List of non-self-explanatory template shortcuts.

Two recent RfD discussions, this one and this one, have raised a question over the creation or retention of such templates. They have been described as "cryptic", "obscure", "strange squiggles" and "polluting the edit window". One discussant has [seen] a trend the past few years of templates moving from short, unreadable titles, to clear full word/sentence titles. If this is so, and has consensus, should it not be documented?

The case for such shortcuts would amount to: they save typing; they take up less space in the editing window; many are already much in use.

Aspects of the issue are:


 * Should the creation of new examples of such "short" shortcuts be discouraged?


 * Should further transclusions of existing ones be discouraged?


 * Should existing uses of these shortcuts be converted to the full template names by some automated process?


 * Should the shortcut templates themselves then be deleted?


 * Should the answers to the above depend upon: template function: namespace(s) in which used; number of transclusions; whether applied only once to a page; length of the full template name; any other factor?

Bhunacat10 (talk),  14:39, 22 February 2019 (UTC)


 * In case this is thought a non-issue or a leftover from past times, these short shortcuts are still being made: within the past six months there have been created E22, SON, @A, MCN, Ea, Stc, Vad, Cih, Hir and others. Meanwhile SHD and Sdesc have been deleted, partly on objections to do with the specific Short description project, but also on the general grounds mentioned above. I'm not bothered which way this goes, but I do consider that retention or deletion of any type of template should be based on more than editorial whim Bhunacat10 (talk),  11:04, 28 February 2019 (UTC)


 * I think most of the more recent examples you gave are absolutely unacceptable and not in keeping with the originally spirit of this section of the guideline which I think was mostly written to accommodate such redirects in non-article space - such as talk pages - and a few extremly high-use templates like cn (Template:Citation needed). Fundamentally, there is no point in having a guideline to name templates clearly, if all that is seen in the edit window of articles is an obscure shortcut. As to the question "Should existing uses of these shortcuts be converted to the full template names by some automated process?" - absolutely yes, within articles. AutoWikiBrowser, for example, does this as a semi-automated, secondary function.  I think as a rule, every template called from a mainspace article should be named clearly and linked directly - and I'd be willing to support a change to the guideline to specify that. Perhaps if that's adopted, this can be a bot job, to replace all mainspace redirects with the full name, and then we can mass-delete those redirects. -- Netoholic @  12:15, 28 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Oppose. At the start of this thread is the following citation from policy


 * Template function should be clear from the template name, but redirects can be created to assist everyday use of very popular templates.


 * This is followed by this reaction:


 * This leaves it unclear whether the name of the redirect itself should also always make clear the function of the target template.


 * I submit that it is perfectly clear. The English word but indicates that what follows is in contrast to what proceeds.  If the intent of the policy was that the redirects also be completely spelled out and clear, the word but would not have been used. The threshold of how frequently used a template needs to be for cryptic template shortcuts to exist is probably higher for mainspace than for talkspace and higher for talkspace than technical spaces like template and template talk frequented primarily by experienced editors. See, for example, the use of tq by the editor who started this thread. But any attempt to establish a definitive list of acceptable exceptions based on frequency of use sounds like a proposal only the most entrenched of bureaucrat would like. A more productive solution would be to enable something akin to page previews that would explain templates when the wikitext is being edited; this would allow the experienced user to use usefully short shortcut and give the newbie an easy way to learn.

History
One of the first instances of an ethical hack being used was a "security evaluation" conducted by the United States Air Force, in which the Multics operating systems was tested for "potential use as a two-level (secret/top secret) system." The evaluation determined that while Multics was "significantly better than other conventional systems," it also had "... vulnerabilities in hardware security, software security and procedural security" that could be uncovered with "a relatively low level of effort." The authors performed their tests under a guideline of realism, so their results would accurately represent the kinds of access an intruder could potentially achieve. They performed tests involving simple information-gathering exercises, as well as outright attacks upon the system that might damage its integrity; both results were of interest to the target audience. There are several other now unclassified reports describing ethical hacking activities within the US military.

By 1981 The New York Times described white hat activities as part of a "mischievous but perversely positive 'hacker' tradition". When a National CSS employee revealed the existence of his password cracker, which he had used on customer accounts, the company chastised him not for writing the software but for not disclosing it sooner. The letter of reprimand stated "The Company realizes the benefit to NCSS and in fact encourages the efforts of employees to identify security weaknesses to the VP, the directory, and other sensitive software in files".

The idea to bring this tactic of ethical hacking to assess security of systems was formulated by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema. With the goal of raising the overall level of security on the Internet and intranets, they proceeded to describe how they were able to gather enough information about their targets to have been able to compromise security if they had chosen to do so. They provided several specific examples of how this information could be gathered and exploited to gain control of the target, and how such an attack could be prevented. They gathered up all the tools they had used during their work, packaged them in a single, easy-to-use application, and gave it away to anyone who chose to download it. Their program, called Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks, or SATAN, was met with a great amount of media attention around the world in 1992.

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Stang[edit] Vote RfP scheduled to end after 13 June 2022 22:36 (UTC) Stang (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) To get editprotected request related to js/css pages processed more quickly. I think I have have basic (but enough) knowledge related to Javascript and CSS. 2FA enabled. --Stang★ 22:36, 6 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Votes[edit]

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Comments[edit] ... Editing MassMessage (section) Jump to navigationJump to search You are editing a source translation page. Please make sure that you are familiar with the following documentation: Changing the source text Example of markup to use Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits. Latest revision	Your text Line 23:	Line 23: The configuration decision restricts local users (except on Meta) from making cross-wiki deliveries. Again, any user can easily open browser tabs and post cross-wiki without even logging in, but the option in the MassMessage extension is disabled, for now. The configuration decision restricts local users (except on Meta) from making cross-wiki deliveries. Again, any user can easily open browser tabs and post cross-wiki without even logging in, but the option in the MassMessage extension is disabled, for now. Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections Lihat Wikimedia Commons dalam Bahasa Indonesia From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository < Commons:Administrators' noticeboard Jump to navigationJump to search Shortcuts: COM:AN/B • COM:AN/P • COM:RFPP Community portal introduction Help desk Village pump copyright proposals technical Administrators' noticeboard vandalism user problems blocks and protections This is a place where users can communicate with administrators, or administrators with one another. You can report vandalism, problematic users, or anything else that needs an administrator's intervention. Do not report child pornography or other potentially illegal content here; e-mail legal-reports@wikimedia.org instead. If reporting threatened harm to self or others also email emergency@wikimedia.org. Vandalism [new section]	User problems [new section]	Blocks and protections [new section]	Other [new section] Report users for clear cases of vandalism. Block requests for any other reason should be reported to the blocks and protections noticeboard. Report disputes with users that require administrator assistance. Further steps are listed at resolve disputes. Reports that do not suit the vandalism noticeboard may be reported here. Requests for page protection/unprotection could also be requested here. Other reports that require administrator assistance which do not fit in any of the previous three noticeboards may be reported here. Requests for history merging or splitting should be filed at COM:HMS. Archives 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90, 89, 88, 87, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 79, 78, 77, 76, 75, 74, 73, 72, 71, 70, 69, 68, 67, 66, 65, 64, 63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 54, 53, 52, 51, 50, 49, 48, 47, 46, 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 89, 88, 87, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 79, 78, 77, 76, 75, 74, 73, 72, 71, 70, 69, 68, 67, 66, 65, 64, 63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 54, 53, 52, 51, 50, 49, 48, 47, 46, 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Translate this page COMMONS DISCUSSION PAGES (index) Commons Help desk Village pump (general discussion) Copyright Proposals Technical Graphics and photography discussion Photography critiques Image improvement Illustration workshop Map workshop Photography workshop Video and sound workshop Categories for discussion Undeletion requests Deletion requests Volunteer Response Team/Noticeboard Translators' noticeboard Work requests for bots Contact administrators Vandalism User problems (Dispute resolution) Blocks and protections Bureaucrats' noticeboard CheckUser requests Telegram IRC webchat Commons mailing list (archive) Commons' bugs on Phabricator Note For page protection requests, please state protection type, file name, and proposed protection time span. See also: Protection Policy. Before proposing a user be blocked, please familiarize yourself with the Commons' Blocking Policy. Remember to sign and date all comments using four tildes (180.243.8.199 15:40, 13 June 2022 (UTC)), which translates into a signature and a time stamp. Notify the user(s) concerned via their user talk page(s). is available for this. Administrators: Please make a note if a report is dealt with, to avoid unnecessary responses by other admins. [ reply ]

Contents 1	Disruptive uploads by User:SagoShader 2 User:SuperPoliceAssasin5400 3 User:AtttttttF 4	User:Df457bb 5 User:Jmallah32 6 User:Laxmi.ndt 7 user:Jamesone998899 8 User:UserRightsBot 9	Dan.M.1149 10 Crosswiki abuse 11	User:ESPN Esports 12 File:Greens of Montenegro flag.svg 13 User:Phát sáng chói 14	User:Crystal-bot 15	/* Usage */ User talk:main Disruptive uploads by User:SagoShader[edit] User:SagoShader has continued to upload files of an unofficial or fictional nature and dubious copyright origin despite previous warnings on their talk page. Would a further warning or temporary block be warranted? HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 00:49, 8 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] ✓ Done. I blocked the user for a week. Taivo (talk) 14:08, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] User:SuperPoliceAssasin5400[edit] SuperPoliceAssasin5400 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) Block evasion by Noham54000 (talk · contributions · Statistics) a.k.a. Police Assasin 54000 (talk · contributions · Statistics). — Ætoms (talk) 16:11, 8 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] ✓ Done. Эlcobbola talk 16:18, 8 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] User:AtttttttF[edit] AtttttttF (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) Interwiki sock account that uploads copyvio images only. User:Ttaajq created this account after being blocked on Chinese Wikipedia for uploading copyvio images [1]. --Wcam (talk) 04:47, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] ✓ Done. I warned AttF, but as Ttaajq has not made any edits in Commons (neither living nor dead), the user has not committed sockpuppetry and I do not block him/her. Taivo (talk) 09:10, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] User:Df457bb[edit] Df457bb (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) : user reuploads copyrighted content after warnings and block.--Renvoy (talk) 08:03, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] ✓ Done Yann (talk) 09:18, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] User:Jmallah32[edit] Just for the record: I've blocked Jmallah32 (talk · contribs) for 3 months, as even after 2 previous blocks they have uploaded blatant copyvios. --Túrelio (talk) 09:57, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] User:Laxmi.ndt[edit] Laxmi.ndt (talk · contribs) has continued to upload copyrighted images after a final warning. Please review and block if warranted. Ravensfire (talk) 15:27, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] ✓ Done Blocked for a week, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 15:31, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] user:Jamesone998899[edit] Just for the record: I've indef-blocked Jamesone998899 (talk · contribs) for spamming, as they uploaded only advert-images over several days despite being warned not to do so. --Túrelio (talk) 10:04, 11 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] User:UserRightsBot[edit] Malfunctioning bot. See 1, 2, 3. Courtesy ping: @Lystopad. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 14:25, 11 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] ✓ Done. I blocked the malfunctioning bot and made Lystopad a filemover. Taivo (talk) 09:10, 12 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Dan.M.1149[edit] Dan.M.1149 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) Uploaded copyright files. Please block and delete files. --Микола Василечко (talk) 14:19, 12 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Nearly all files deleted and final warning given. --Túrelio (talk) 15:11, 12 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Crosswiki abuse[edit] Vojvoda Gudromir (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) please delete the edits on my talkpage --WikiBayer (talk) 17:51, 12 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I blocked them half an hour ago on the English Wikipedia, and now they are already globally locked. Ymblanter (talk) 18:18, 12 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. De728631 (talk) 18:53, 12 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] User:ESPN Esports[edit] ESPN Esports (talk · contributions · Statistics) violates Commons:Username policy: use of the names of organizations without verification. – Pbrks (t • c) 22:02, 12 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] File:Greens of Montenegro flag.svg[edit] This is my first time requesting upload protection. I’d like to preemptively protect the file page to avoid controversial politics and edit wars resulting from such, which should be avoided on Wiki. --Centralismo (talk) 01:56, 13 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] User:Phát sáng chói[edit] Continue from Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections/Archive 33#User:Phát sáng chói. User continue upload duplicated images after the final warning. --minhhuy (talk) 12:59, 13 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] User:Crystal-bot[edit] The bot Crystal-bot has edited more than 800 of my uploaded files in less than 40 minutes. My watchlist is overflowing. Block this bot until it has throttled to edit no more than 200 of my files within 24 hours. C.Suthorn (talk) 15:16, 13 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] /* Usage */ User talk:main[edit] Commons:Help desk Lihat Wikimedia Commons dalam Bahasa Indonesia From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository Jump to navigationJump to search This page contains changes which are not marked for translation. Community portal introduction Help desk Village pump copyright proposals technical Administrators' noticeboard vandalism user problems blocks and protections Shortcut: COM:HD Skip to table of contents | Skip to bottom | 🌐 Help desks for other languages Human-help-browser.svg This help desk is a forum for questions and help on: How to use Commons Anyone, from newbie to experienced, can ask a question here. Questions will be replied to here as well. Any answers you receive are not legal advice and the responder cannot be held liable for them. Ask your question or In order to get quick answers consider the following points: Have you checked the frequently asked questions, help pages and the help desk archive? For licensing and copyright issues, please use the copyright village pump For proposing changes to the way Wikimedia Commons works, please use the proposals village pump For community-wide discussions, please use the main village pump For changing the name of a file, please see our file renaming guidelines For matters requiring the attention of an administrator, please use the administrators' noticeboard or contact an individual administrator directly For questions not related to this website, try English Wikipedia's reference desk Resolved sections (marked by Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. 180.243.8.199 15:19, 13 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] ) will be archived after two days. Sections with no discussion will be archived after ten days. For quicker help, join our live chat room. webchat Translate this page COMMONS DISCUSSION PAGES (index) Commons Help desk Village pump (general discussion) Copyright Proposals Technical Graphics and photography discussion Photography critiques Image improvement Illustration workshop Map workshop Photography workshop Video and sound workshop Categories for discussion Undeletion requests Deletion requests Volunteer Response Team/Noticeboard Translators' noticeboard Work requests for bots Contact administrators Vandalism User problems (Dispute resolution) Blocks and protections Bureaucrats' noticeboard CheckUser requests Telegram IRC webchat Commons mailing list (archive) Commons' bugs on Phabricator Contents 1	What are the Requests on the Media Views Analysis page? 2 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OrteliusWorldMap1570.jpg 3 publication chez vous d'un ouvrage sur l'Algérie 4	YouTube 5 Advertisement for the Atari 2600 port of Frogger 6	Can someone help move this file? 7 Text is not appearing File:OAIS Functional Model (ca).svg 8	About a map 9	White House images 10	Uploading a photo of myself 11 Copyright on File:Vivaldi Winter mvt 1 Allegro non molto - The USAF Concert.ogg 12 Fotoğraf Yarışması 13	Second cousin's photo 14 kalimera sas parakalo enimerosteme ,an uparxi Newcastle Citi Bank sti vorio IRLANDIA 15	Participating in monthly competitions 16 Publishing 17 Copyright - can I use the image uploaded to Wikipedia Commons? 18 Change Username to real name 19 Automation Tools 20	How do I add a US copyright tag to an image? 21	How to upload a new version of the picture that is bigger than 50m? 22	Copy hyperlink to image source 23	Hi I have to upload a logo from my podcast website but i can't how can I do that 24	Seems to be an error in a map -- how do I indicate this? 25 Wikidünyayı seviyor adlı 26 "Woodlands" category 27	Dragon Fractals 28	iNaturalist pop-up is not appearing against Commons Category 29	problem uploading photo's 30	I want to delete the geographical reference 31 in instead of i 32	Copyright help regarding File:Admittedly Incomplete Demos Cover - Tally Hall.jpg 33	How to change Wikimedia Commons Licensing? 34	Copyright help regarding File:Yasemin Yazıcı.01jpg.png 35 Can I publish a screenshot of a public web page? 36	Help uploading from Youtube 37	I made a consistent naming mistake in more than 10 file names and corresponding file descriptions - help wanted What are the Requests on the Media Views Analysis page?[edit] Hello, I wanted to ask a question about the Media views Analysis page. I was curious what do the Requests mean? On the side and at the bottom it says Requests I can't figure out what that means and the 2 different numbers either Requests and Daily Numbers why are they so different as in one is higher than the other. I look at my page and am curious what that means as far as my page on Wikimedia commons. Hope this is clear thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flapper the turtle (talk • contribs) 15:30, 6 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OrteliusWorldMap1570.jpg[edit] The information on this picture file (map) is not correct. The true author, as proved by his signature in the bottom part of the file, is Frans Hogenberg who did a later copy of this map, as correctly stated in the text of the article. in other words, the shown illustration, as well as most of the pictures related to it here, are later copies of the original, so they are not from 1570, but from later years — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2.138.14.212 (talk) 15:50, 19 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] publication chez vous d'un ouvrage sur l'Algérie[edit] Mon ouvrage L'Algérie aléatoire est un essai de 900 pages avec beaucoup de références. Pouvez vous m'accorder votre précieux concours à le publier cher vous et sur wikilivres car je suis d'un âge avancé (76 ans) et malade. Farid Daoudi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Farid Daoudi (talk • contribs) 17:48, 16 May 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] YouTube[edit] How to use a video on YouTube without getting copyrighted — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.0.76.113 (talk) 04:05, 3 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] If the video is copyrighted (as almost all are, by default) and there is no free license offered, then you cannot use it here on Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 14:56, 3 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Advertisement for the Atari 2600 port of Frogger[edit] Would it be legally safe to upload this advertisement of the Atari VCS port of Frogger? Copyright law required a copyright notice exclusive to the advertisement, and the only one present is this one "FROGGER game graphics © 1982 Sega Enterprises, Inc.", which are not present in the advertisement, the "graphics" for the game are actually a mockup made for the ad. The actual game didn't look like that. --Lugamo94 (talk) 14:15, 3 June 2022 (UTC) Edit: To contrast, an ad for James Bond 007 by the same company has two copyright notices "© Eon Productions/Glidrose Publications Limited 1983." and "© 1983 Parker Brothers, Beverly, MA 01915" --Lugamo94 (talk) 14:21, 3 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Can someone help move this file?[edit] Can someone help me move this file to here? I'm fixed [the errors file]. because this file is the new version.--MyWiki23Melaka (talk) 08:51, 4 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Do you want to replace the old version with the new version? Ruslik (talk) 13:54, 4 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] No, thanks. just update the new version. MyWiki23Melaka (talk) 15:18, 4 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] (I mean old version update to this new version. and if updated, delete this file.) MyWiki23Melaka (talk) 15:49, 4 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Hello there? ——MyWiki23Melaka (talk) 16:33, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Text is not appearing File:OAIS Functional Model (ca).svg[edit] Today I translated this diagram, but when I have uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons the text don't appear: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OAIS_Functional_Model_(ca).svg --Aniol (talk) 10:50, 4 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Aniol: I converted the text objects to paths which did the trick. De728631 (talk) 14:34, 4 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] About a map[edit] Appreciated community: I need your help. I'm considering to upload this map from the Barry Lawrence Ruderman map collection. I've saw several maps of this collection in Commons. However, I don't see maps from this collection in Commons that are after 1950s, so I'm having doubts. What can I do? Thanks in advance and greetings from Colombia. --Universalis (talk) 18:40, 4 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Universalis: I don't believe there is any basis to say that map is in the public domain. I'm pretty certain it is still in copyright both in Sweden and in the U.S. It has a copyright notice, which in the U.S. should keep a 1971 document in copyright until 2066. In Sweden I believe a copyright with an organization (rather than a particular person or people) as declared author is good for 70 years, which means 2041. - Jmabel ! talk 18:55, 4 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Universalis: I agree. This map was published by SAS in Stockholm, Sweden in 1971, without indication of an actual author. Per COM:Sweden, the copyright runs through 1971+70=2041. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:26, 4 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] White House images[edit] Are images posted from staff members, such as White House photographers, allowed? Btspurplegalaxy (talk) 03:24, 5 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Hi Btspurplegalaxy, all works by US federal government officials made as a part of their official duties are in the public domain and allowed on Wikimedia Commons, see Public domain	This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Note: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use. Great Seal of the United States (obverse).svg This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. and Category:PD-USGov license tags for all the license tags. Thanks, Hulged (talk) 07:20, 5 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Thank you! Btspurplegalaxy (talk) 15:08, 5 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Uploading a photo of myself[edit] I would like to upload a photo of myself to my wiki page. How can this be done — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbowden44 (talk • contribs) 18:11, 5 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mbowden44: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg photos as a new user. Each photo you tried to upload is smaller, and you indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller photo, it is a copyright violation taken from the web. If you took the photo yourself, please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including EXIF metadata. If you did not take the photo, please see Commons:Licensing for why we can't accept it as-is, and have the photographer post Commons:Licensing compliant permission for such work on their website or social media presence or send the photo and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the photo may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. See also COM:SIGN and en:WP:COI. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:36, 5 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Thanks and I actually figured out how to upload the phoots Mbowden44 (talk) 18:47, 5 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Copyright on File:Vivaldi Winter mvt 1 Allegro non molto - The USAF Concert.ogg[edit] Hello. I tried using this track in a video I made and I was told by YouTube that someone under the name Ear Parade from SoundAudio Holdings LLC was the owner of the track. Is this incorrect on YouTube's part or is it incorrect on here? Here is the page link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vivaldi_Winter_mvt_1_Allegro_non_molto_-_The_USAF_Concert.ogg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kohlolufsen (talk • contribs) 20:47, 5 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Kohlolufsen: Hard to know for sure, but probably YouTube is wrong. If it's USAF musicians performing a public-domain work, then it is public domain (U.S. military doing their jobs don't get copyright). - Jmabel ! talk 00:03, 6 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] The thing is that YouTube uses something called Content ID, which identifies songs based on sound waveform fingerprinting (kind of like how Shazam works as well). If the sound even remotely sounds like another recording, which IS copyrighted, then YouTube puts down a copyright claim or strike, depending on what copyright holder decides to use. You can of course file in a dispute and link to the original source (I also suppose it is linked in the video description), and a human reviewer takes a look at it and listens in. Then the dispute is eighter approved or declined. I understand it is frustrating. Polda18 (discussion • contributions) 06:55, 6 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Our file should have information on the PD-USGov part. Now it looks that the only potential copyright lies with the composer. I don't recognise the "USAF Concert Band", and even if I guess USAF refers to the US air forces, I have no idea of the band's relation to the government, and whether I can trust there being no contractors involved. –LPfi (talk) 13:15, 6 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Fotoğraf Yarışması[edit] Fotoğraf yarışmasındaki listede Tuz Gölü yazmıyor. Tuz Gölü'ne ait fotoğrafı nasıl yükleyebilirim? — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 31.223.9.83 (talk) 12:10, 6 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Photo Contest Salt Lake is not on the list in the photography contest. How can I upload a photo of Salt Lake? translator: Google Translate via — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:09, 6 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Merhaba ve hoş geldiniz. Lütfen giriş yapın ve yarışmayı belirtin. Giriş yaptıktan sonra, COM:FS/tr'yi takip ederek yarışma olmadan yükleme yapabilirsiniz. Hi, and welcome. Please login and specify the contest. Once logged in, you may upload without the contest by following COM:FS. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:09, 6 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Second cousin's photo[edit] Tom McGrath (my first cousin) died 37 years ago. One of his three daughters (my second cousins) took a photo of him around 1980 which they would like me to add to the wikipedia profile, Tom McGrath, Producer. It is a most suitable photo and I would be very happy to be able to add it. Can you advise me whether such a family photo would conform with Wikipedia regulations? Thank you for your guidance; User:Baile Atha Cliathach —Preceding undated comment was added at 22:20, 6 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Baile Atha Cliathach: Hi, and welcome. Please have that second cousin send permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you, and see COM:SIGN. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 22:47, 6 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] kalimera sas parakalo enimerosteme ,an uparxi Newcastle Citi Bank sti vorio IRLANDIA[edit] kalimera sas parakalo enimerosteme ,an uparxi Newcastle Citi Bank sti vorio IRLANDIA — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 176.58.136.10 (talk) 07:35, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] kalimera Please let me know if there is a Newcastle Citi Bank in northern IRELAND translator: Google Translate via — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:18, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Γεια και καλώς ήρθες. Προφανώς, δεν υπάρχει τέτοια τράπεζα ανά https://www.citibank.co.uk/personal/location.do?lid=UKWTM5CUKLOCATL08 και οι Χάρτες Google δεν μπορούν να βρουν καμία τράπεζα εκεί. Δείτε επίσης COM:SIGN. Hi, and welcome. Evidently, there is no such bank per https://www.citibank.co.uk/personal/location.do?lid=UKWTM5CUKLOCATL08 and Google Maps cannot find any bank there. See also COM:SIGN. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:18, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Participating in monthly competitions[edit] I do not fully understand the given instructions on how to add my uploads to a monthly competition, can I get a more detailed step by step procedure on how to go about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Olympian Xeus (talk • contribs) 11:05, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Olympian Xeus: Hi, and welcome. Which competitions where, exactly? See also COM:SIGN, and don't impersonate or misspell Zeus. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:10, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] The monthly competitions on commons for photos, I am not impersonating Zeus in any regard and I spelt it with an X to stand out, I don't mean to offend anyone in doing so — Preceding unsigned comment added by Olympian Xeus (talk • contribs) 11:19, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Olympian Xeus I really hope Jeff is joking about your name. Anyway, you found the right page already and this was almost correct too. Two things to do differently next time: 1) you tried adding your image to the "examples" section rather than the "entries" section a bit further down. 2) the line you added should have been Knives spoons forks etc.jpg| Wide range of kitchen ware mostly for eating with instead of  The logs say you were using the mobile interface - which unfortunately tends to suck. At least in the beginning it might be easier to do this from a normal computer rather than a phone or tablet. El Grafo (talk) 11:23, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @El Grafo thanks you, I appreciate the help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Olympian Xeus (talk • contribs) 18:02, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Publishing[edit] I've already tried to download my video but I couldn't — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tunisnazizetna (talk • contribs) 13:28, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Tunisnazizetna: Hi, and welcome. Exactly what did you try, on what page did you try, and what result did you get? See also COM:SIGN. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:41, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Copyright - can I use the image uploaded to Wikipedia Commons?[edit] I would like to use an image for a book cover, am I able to download the image from this site and use this adapted (only the clothes). It says in public domain. The image is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_George_VI_and_Queen_Elizabeth.jpg Thank you x — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.213.163.212 (talk) 20:35, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Yes, but please use internal links like File:King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.jpg, login, and see COM:SIGN. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:12, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Change Username to real name[edit] Hi, Can I change my username to my real name? I wish that my uploads are attributed to my name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mukudj (talk • contribs) 22:34, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mukudj: You can request that your account be renamed at Special:GlobalRenameRequest. This would change your username across all Wikimedia projects. --bjh21 (talk) 22:48, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mukudj: Hi, and welcome. Are you aware of (and comfortable with) the potential implications associated with using a real name? — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:15, 8 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mukudj: You can post your real name at your user page (and if you use a global user page at meta, this will show up at all WMF projects) you can set up the upload wizard in your user preferences so that it fills in your real name as a wiki link to your account name in the author field of file description pages and parametrize the license template so that it shows your real name in the attribution entry of the license info. You can use VFC to make all this changes to your existing uploads. You can create a user license template that will show your real name. Then your real name will be shown on all file descriptions and in picsome. However, if your change your account name to your real name, then your real name will show up in all logs and in every edit of every page in every name space at every WMF project and it will show up in all your existing edits. --C.Suthorn (talk) 04:30, 8 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Automation Tools[edit] I am looking to see if we have any tools that automate downloading all of my contributions. I would like to download the over 1300 pictures I has licensed under Creative Commons to Wikicommons but doing it one at a time would take days. --Don (talk) 06:26, 8 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I assume that you can get a list through the user uploads API (what are the specific API calls?). Then feed that list to wget or whatever download tool you have locally. You probably want some control over download speed etc., not to hit limits on the Commons side or slowing down your connection too much. Check control features of the tool you choose. –LPfi (talk) 10:21, 8 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] As you might want the full-size file, the description page, the version history, the description page history and possibly some other pages, you might want to construct some URLs out of the ones you get. Probably quite easy if you have tools for semi-automatic edits to the file list you got from Commons, such as with an Emacs macro or any dedicated tools. For the file list itself, the needed edits are simple. –LPfi (talk) 10:28, 8 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] How do I add a US copyright tag to an image?[edit] This image has a Croatian copyright tag, how do I add a US one? And a US copyright tag for this image? Thanks! Vice regent (talk) 02:48, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] On File:Khanji jawhar.png, if the date is 2014, how can it possibly have an expired copyright?? Or is the date simply wrong? - Jmabel ! talk 03:20, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] The blogpost that it had been taken from, was from 2011, so obviously the date is wrong. Sadly it is no longer available for context. Agathoclea (talk) 06:07, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] But waybackmachine has one snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20160519225223/http://lisaanularab.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-post_3024.html that seems to indicate that this is a book cover of a first edition held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, so likely quite dusty and out of copyright. Agathoclea (talk) 06:14, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Agathoclea: so does it mean its free to use in the US? What copyright tag do I give it? Vice regent (talk) 04:14, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] How to upload a new version of the picture that is bigger than 50m?[edit] I want to upload a new version of a picture, but it's bigger than 50m so it cannot be uploaded by "Upload file". How to deal with it? MChinaGA (talk) 09:42, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] To upload a new revision of a file, you use one of the links on the description page in the "file history" section. The left link can be used for files up to <100MB and the right link ("chunked upload") can be used for files up to 4GiB. Of course you can use any upload tool that supports revision upload and chunked upload (activate both in the preferences of the tool) C.Suthorn (talk) 10:27, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @MChinaGA: Hi, and welcome. Which picture do you have a new version of? Where did you get the new version? What is wrong with the old version? What is new about the new version? C.Suthorn's reply presupposes that you have User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js installed (documentation is on the talk page). See also COM:OW. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:42, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Uh oh, there's two versions of this picture one Chinese and one English. I change the English one to a higher quality one, and Chinese one has a lower quality. MChinaGA (talk) 11:12, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @MChinaGA: Sorry, I withdrew my tag of File:月球1：250万全月地质图缩略图.jpg, please use the Other_versions fields of Description This file has no description, and may be lacking other information. Please provide a meaningful description of this file. Source This file is lacking source information. Please edit this file's description and provide a source. Author	This file is lacking author information. to link the files. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:29, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] ok ty MChinaGA (talk) 11:57, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Copy hyperlink to image source[edit] I am trying to add a hyperlink to an image for a publication. Please help with the simplist way to do this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pattysmith02 (talk • contribs) 12:31, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Pattysmith02: Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:REUSE, mw:Help:Links, COM:TALK, and COM:SIGN. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:12, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Hi Jeff, Thank you for your quick reply. Here is what I am actually looking to accomplish ©John Pierce/Wikimedia Commons Pattysmith02 (talk) 14:13, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Hi I have to upload a logo from my podcast website but i can't how can I do that[edit] Hi I have to upload a logo from my podcast website but i can't how can I do that. I says that I can but there is no help on how to grant the permission — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anselmo00 (talk • contribs) 14:20, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Anselmo00: So many variables here. Could you: Indicate what country you are in. Provide URL of a page where we can see the logo. Indicate who designed the logo, and if it wasn't you have they formally transferred their copyright to you (in writing) or do they still hold copyright (which would be the default)? - Jmabel ! talk 14:44, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Anselmo00: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a png logo as a new user. Such uploads of png logos are not allowed at all. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png logo, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including any metadata, but it may be judged too complex to be under TOO in the country of origin, so you may need to license it on your official website or social media or send permission via VRT. Also, any png image will look fuzzy when scaled down (due to design decisions discussed in phab:T192744) or jaggy when scaled up, so you may want to upload an svg or jpg version, too. If you can't get a compliant license, the logo may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:50, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Hi @Jeff G. I was trying to upload the only way I knew I apologize. So I have to upload the image from Upload Wizard thank you. Hi @Jmabel I'm in Italy but the podcast is mainly listened in America and Australia the page is this one https://italianwinepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cin-cin-italianwinepodcast.png but the logo That i took is from this page https://justdothework.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Italian-Wine-Podcast-Logo-per-sito-Retina.png both sites were created by me and my colleagues can you please tell me how to grant the permission? Anselmo00 (talk) 16:03, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Anselmo00: That logo is definitely complicated enough that copyright applies. Whoever owns the copyright on the logo needs to choose a particular free license. Then either you can indicate that specific free license for the logo on your own web site and cite it as a source when uploading to Commons (this is usually simplest) or, if for some reason that cannot be done, then the copyright-holder can follow the instructions at COM:VRT to verify the license. - Jmabel ! talk 19:02, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Seems to be an error in a map -- how do I indicate this?[edit] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Prut_pohod_in_1711-en.png The map referred to above, English language version (and several other language versions) identify a river in the upper right (NE) of the map as the Dniepr River. The Ukrainian and French versions of the map refer to it as the Dniestr, which is correct (I'm pretty sure of this.) I'm sorry, but as a new user I don't know how to indicate this correctly to Wikimedia Commons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charles Siegel (talk • contribs) 15:21, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] You can use the template ? The factual accuracy of this description or the file name is disputed. Reason: Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page. with an explanation as a parameter: ? The factual accuracy of this description or the file name is disputed. Reason: Description of the issue or reference to the talk page. Add it to the file description page. –LPfi (talk) 18:12, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Convenience link to filepage (rather than just the image): File:Prut pohod in 1711-en.png. - Jmabel ! talk 19:06, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] This also appears to be wrong at File:Prut pohod in 1711 no.svg, File:Prut pohod in 1711 no corr.svg, possibly others. - Jmabel ! talk 19:09, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] User:Iaaasi, who uploaded the English-language version, is locked for cross-wiki abuse. User:PaulVIF, responsible for the Norwegian images, hasn't been heard from in six years. Under those circumstances, I think you could feel free to edit and correct the images. - Jmabel ! talk 19:13, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Similarly for File:Prut pohod in 1711-en.svg; User:Derfel73 hasn't been heard from in 9 years. - Jmabel ! talk 19:16, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Wikidünyayı seviyor adlı[edit] Wikidünyayı seviyor adlı programın amacının ne olduğunu merak ediyorum,yüklediğimiz resimler ne için kullanılacak ya da yüklemelerimiz sonucu herhangi bir ödül kazanacak mıyız? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Merice13 (talk • contribs) 15:34, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I wonder what the purpose of the program called Wikidünya loves, what will we use for the pictures we upload or will we earn any prize as a result of our uploads? translator: Google Translate via — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:47, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Merice13: Merhaba ve hoş geldiniz. Commons:Wiki Loves contests genellikle belirli konulara, coğrafyaya veya kavramlara duyduğumuz sevgi, bunlarla ilgili veya bunlarla ilgili çeşitli fotoğrafları toplama, fotoğrafları sıralama ve en iyi fotoğraflar için ödüller verme/kabul etme hakkındadır. Ayrıca bkz. COM:SIGN. Hi, and welcome. Commons:Wiki Loves contests are generally about our love of certain subject matter, geography, or concepts, collecting diverse photos of or about them, ranking the photos, and giving/accepting prizes for the top photos. See also COM:SIGN. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:47, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] "Woodlands" category[edit] 1) At Category:Woodlands, Category:Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub‎ is sorted under "•", appearing at the end of the list. Can anyone see any reason for this choice? @ITookSomePhotos: no, I can't see any reason for it; I've removed it :-) MPF (talk) 23:02, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @MPF: OK, thanks. ITookSomePhotos (talk) 17:33, 11 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] 2) I created container Category:Woodlands by country and placed various pre-existing country categories under it, but Category:Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub‎ does not fit there, the Mediterranean not being a country. What is the best way to deal with this? Create Category:Woodlands by region? Leave Category:Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub‎ as a top-level child of Category:Woodlands? Something else? I'd leave it where it is. But Nordvorpommersche Waldlandschaft needs a Category:Woodlands in Germany to go into the by country category - MPF (talk) 23:02, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @MPF: OK. I suppose another thing I could potentially do is change Category:Woodlands by country to Category:Woodlands by country or region, but I don't know how standard that would be. Anyway, I'll leave it how it is for now. I overlooked "Nordvorpommersche Waldlandschaft"; I've categorised that now as you suggest. ITookSomePhotos (talk) 17:33, 11 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] BTW, see also my comment at Category talk:Forests if anyone is interested in this subject area. ITookSomePhotos (talk) 21:50, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Dragon Fractals[edit] Lion Curve — Preceding unsigned comment added by Berkeleyfractal (talk • contribs) 02:30, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Did you have a question? Beeblebrox (talk) 04:53, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] iNaturalist pop-up is not appearing against Commons Category[edit] Hi, I hope someone can help. Today I created a new Commons Category:Xanthoparmelia semiviridis (see: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Xanthoparmelia_semiviridis ) I want to import images into this new category from iNaturalist, using the import button that pops up against other categories. I found that there is a Wikidata ID for Xanthoparmelia semiviridis (see: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10721635 ). I have entered the Commons Category name in the relevant statement field in Wikidata, and I now see that it is blue (ie active hyperlink that goes to the correct place). So far so good. But my problem is that the iNaturalist import button still does not appear against the new category. I am stuck. In iNaturalist, the page name is Resurrection Lichen (Xanthoparmelia semiviridis). See: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/410375-Xanthoparmelia-semiviridis Do I have to use a Commons Category name that matches the iNaturalist page name to get the button to work. I would expect that onlymatching on the numeric ID would be required. ??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marshelec (talk • contribs) 09:10, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Please help. Thanks Marshelec (talk) 09:00, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I'm not sure on how this connection works, I've never encountered the iNaturalist website and never have seen how it connects to the Commons categories. I see the page in different language than English, as English isn't my native language, I see it in Czech language, which the page name seems to be just latin nomenclature (I guess the species doesn't have a Czech name, but it has an English name). If the page name is translated, I guess the actual latin nomenclature should take a place for default name (because it is displayed in parethesis next to the national language name depending on your language). Maybe other categories have some sort of template or module that links the iNaturalist website with the category on Commons, I'm not entirely sure. Can you provide a link example to a category that has such feature? That would make the identification easier. And for the record (and convenience link), to link to a category on Commons, you don't have to use external URL link, you can use wikitext for this as well. Link it like a normal page, only add a colon before the Category keywork. Like this: Category:Xanthoparmelia semiviridis, which should produce this result: Category:Xanthoparmelia semiviridis. Polda18 (discussion • contributions) 09:59, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] The tool I am using is iNaturalist2Commons. User:Kaldari/iNaturalist2Commons. I now see that there is a link for reporting problems with the tool, so I will try that.Marshelec (talk) 20:37, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Editing Commons:Help desk(section) Lihat Wikimedia Commons dalam Bahasa Indonesia Jump to navigationJump to search Page notice The Abuse filter has recognized a possible problem with your edit Thank you for testing how editing the Commons works. The Abuse filter has recognized your edit as a test of the toolbar. Testing the wiki software is always welcome, but please use the sandbox as it's solely designed for such kind of edits. Testing the wiki software outside the sandbox should be avoided, as these pages serve to be read by people who aren't interested in reading test edits. 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Thank you! · [[Category:]] · https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/1394071. Does the tool automatically determine which photos are allowed on Commons based on the license tag? Because I doubt that the tool would be even allowed if the author didn't somehow make sure that there isn't a possibility to upload a copyrighted photo. Polda18 (discussion • contributions) 21:37, 10 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] REDIRECT · · · · · · Cite error: Invalid Cite error: Closing missing for tag · · · · · · · · (template help) Translations: · · · · · Navigation menu English Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Content pageDiscussion ReadEditView history Search Main page Wikimedia News Translations Recent changes Random page Help Babel Community Wikimedia Resource Center Wikimedia Forum Mailing lists Requests Babylon Reports Research Planet Wikimedia Beyond the Web Meet Wikimedians Events Movement affiliates Donate Tools What links here Related changes Special pages Page information Wikidata item Privacy policyAbout MetaDisclaimersMobile viewDevelopersStatisticsCookie statementWikimedia FoundationPowered by MediaWiki Translation administrator[edit] The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

Approved--Ymblanter (talk) 19:44, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

[ reply ] Lectrician1[edit] Comment Lectrician1 (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) I often create and maintain various documentation pages for Wikiprojects and data models and would like to keep them updated. I also would like to help with the maintenance of keeping any page marked for translation. I am a native speaker of English and have advanced knowledge in Spanish and translate to it. I am well-experienced with the translate extension and have even made video tutorials on how to use it. --Lectrician1 (talk) 18:07, 6 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Comments[edit] ... The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. Dandilero[edit] Comment Dandilero (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) I would like to have the role of translation administrator as I am maintaining pages of Spanish football players. I am Spanish and could translate everything into this language. I have seen several tutorials of the tool and it seems very easy to use. Thank you very much. --Dandilero (talk) 22:18, 24 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Comments[edit] Hi, I think there is some misunderstanding about this permission: you do not need to become a translateadmin to translate pages. Translation admin add or alter translation markup, and mark the latest revision of a page for translation. Stang 22:23, 24 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]

Oppose Unfortunately, you have not read Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Translation_administrators and mw:Help:Extension:Translate#For_translators_and_translation_administrators, otherwise your request would be different. Cordially. —Eihel (talk) 18:40, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

[ reply ] Bot[edit] Bot Name	Request created Last editor	Last edited William Avery Bot 6 2022-06-11, 10:14:43	William Avery	2022-06-11, 10:15:39 Crystal-bot	2022-06-03, 00:18:50 Stang	2022-06-03, 00:42:10 William Avery Bot 5	2022-06-02, 13:14:43	Daniel Baránek	2022-06-08, 10:33:43 OJSOptimetaCitationsBot 2022-06-01, 07:37:16	YucelGazi	2022-06-01, 08:18:02 TFGBot	2022-05-17, 19:22:16 Lymantria	2022-06-07, 07:52:21 AmeisenBot 2022-04-14, 16:26:16	Ameisenigel	2022-06-07, 09:21:36 Botcrux 10	2022-04-05, 09:51:09 ArthurPSmith	2022-04-05, 18:31:33 AradglBot 2022-03-14, 19:43:27	Mahir256	2022-06-08, 20:14:59 PodcastBot	2022-02-25, 04:38:31 Trade	2022-06-12, 18:34:52 Pi bot 10	2018-12-01, 22:10:53	Mike Peel	2022-01-25, 10:27:21 GretaHeng18bot	2022-01-21, 18:38:00	Gretaheng18	2022-03-04, 22:40:01 companyBot	2022-01-09, 23:44:25 Germartin1	2022-04-28, 04:47:17 StreetmathematicianBot 2	2021-11-20, 19:45:53	Lymantria	2022-01-19, 06:17:18 ConferenceCorpusBot	2021-11-06, 15:42:55 WolfgangFahl	2022-05-28, 06:42:43 TAMISBot	2021-08-27, 13:33:52	Antoine2711 2022-06-09, 02:57:13 AmmarBot 4	2021-07-19, 10:56:46	Mike Peel	2022-01-18, 22:12:43 RonniePopBot	2021-07-04, 10:06:32	RonnieV 2022-03-04, 15:41:52 William Avery Bot 6[edit] William Avery Bot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: William Avery (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID Code: https://bitbucket.org/WilliamAvery/wikipythonics/src/master/fixShakeosphere.py Function details: I scanned the items with this property, and the vast majority of the IDs require incrementing by 24638 to link to the relevant page on Shakeosphere (Q24284201). Nobody has expressed any desire to delete this property on the grounds of instability. Items where the Shakeosphere ID has a reference with retrieved (P813) on or after 10 June 2022 are ignored, on the assumption that their Shakeosphere ID has already been corrected. The script increments the existing ID by 24638, then attempts to retrieve the corresponding Shakeosphere page. An attempt is made to match the title of the Shakeosphere page with the names and aliases on the Wikidata item. The result of the matching is output to a report page to aid checking. (Example at User:William Avery Bot/Shakeosphere report) Results of previously running this matching indicate that in all cases where the new ID corresponds to a valid Shakeospere page the new ID is correct. Any existing references on Shakeosphere ID are replaced with new references, including retrieved (P813) and subject named as (P1810), and the Shakespere ID is updated to the new value I have done a few tests running the script against individual items to update under my own user: Raimondo Cocchi (Q55955507) diff Edward Buckler (Q62414748) diff Johann Andreas Eisenmenger (Q67575) diff Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby (Q5082632) diff John Theophilus Desaguliers (Q658008) diff --William Avery (talk) 10:13, 11 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Crystal-bot[edit] Crystal-bot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: Stang (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier. Code: Gist1, Gist2 Function details: Pywikibot based. Generate item list from SPARQL query, retrieve page information via moegirl API, then build and update qualifiers. Affect 2529 pages, will be a one-time run script but maybe running periodically (1d or 1w) in the future. Special thanks to BorkedBot's lovely code. --Stang★ 00:18, 3 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] William Avery Bot 5[edit] William Avery Bot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: William Avery (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at Wikidata:Bot requests#reference URL (P854) → Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109) (2021-02-05) Code: https://bitbucket.org/WilliamAvery/wikipythonics/src/master/urlRefToID.py Function details: This is a pywikibot script, which will use the following SPARQL as a generator. SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?id WHERE { ?item ?prop ?claim.

?claim prov:wasDerivedFrom [ pr:P248 wd:Q104074149 ; pr:P854 ?url ]

} Try it! Each item returned is processed by the treat_page method of the pywikibot bot class For each property present For each claim present on the property For each reference on the claim with stated in (P248) set to The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) Stop processing the reference if reference URL (P854) is not present as a claim in the reference Stop processing the reference if Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109) is not present as a substantive claim on the item Derive the value a value for P9109 from the value of P854 by removing non-numeric characters If the derived value doesn't match the value for P9109 on the item Output a warning and stop processing the reference If no P9109 claim is present in the reference Add a new P9109 claim to the reference using the derived id If the reference now has a P9109 claim with value corresponding to the P854 ref_url on the reference Remove the P854 ref_url claim Else Warn that an id was already present on the reference that did not correspond to the ref_url If item has been changed Update the item --William Avery (talk) 13:14, 2 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Can you do a test run? --Lymantria (talk) 07:46, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Test runs totalling 50 items complete. The script is behaving as expected. William Avery (talk) 09:03, 8 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] That works great. Thanks. Daniel Baránek (talk) 10:33, 8 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] OJSOptimetaCitationsBot[edit] OJSOptimetaCitationsBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: YucelGazi (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems Code: https://github.com/TIBHannover/optimetaCitations Function details: We are developing a plugin (OJSOptimetaCitations) for Open Journal Systems (OJS) which gives the publishers/authors the possibility to edit citations of publications/articles within OJS. The citations will be enriched with data from OpenAlex.org and Crossref.org, currently based on DOIs. This matching will be extended in the future with other PIDs, such as URN and other PIDs. The plugin also gives the possibility to manually edit the citations within OJS. The authors in the citations are also enriched and editable within OJS. The matching for the authors is done by their orcid ids. After this process, the citations will be published to Open Access websites such as Wikidata, OpenCitations, Crossref and so on. On Wikidata, the plugin will search via the API based on DOIs for the publication/article and all citations. Depending on if the article is already on wikidata, this will be changed or added. The citations will be matched and added/changed also. These will then be added as claims to the main article. The same process will be done for the authors of the article and the authors for the citations. The authors will be matched with their corresponding orcid ids. This plugin will be available through the official plugin gallery of OJS and will be available to all OJS versions from 3.2 and newer, which is around 25000 at the moment of writing. Project links: Optimeta Project Page Optimeta Project Document --YucelGazi (talk) 07:37, 1 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] TFGBot[edit] TFGBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: TFGBot (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: I want to upload images to wikidata to enrich the web site Code: Function details: It's basic. Just by obtaining images and descriptions in different languages I want to upload them to wikidata. Mostly the language euskara (eu). --TFGBot (talk) 19:22, 17 May 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Please create a dedicated account for operator. Images are uploaded to Commons, not Wikidata. --GZWDer (talk) 22:24, 17 May 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Oppose images should be at commons, not here. Lymantria (talk) 07:52, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] AmeisenBot[edit] AmeisenBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: Ameisenigel (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: Label unsigned comments on talk pages Code: Python Function details: Unlike many other wikis Wikidata has no bot for adding —⁠This comment was unsigned. to unsigned comments on talk pages. Since it is very helpful to see who has left a comment on a talk page I would like to propose a bot for this task. --Ameisenigel (talk) 16:25, 14 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Ameisenigel: Is the code public, please? Asking out of curiosity, although this sounds like a very good idea. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:37, 14 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mike Peel: Not yet, but it is based on https://gist.github.com/zhuyifei1999/49af65a7f07fa950a381171ea037135e I should be able to make the code public soon. --Ameisenigel (talk) 16:51, 14 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Now public: https://gist.github.com/Ameisenigel/5974064e46af281e4053644e1c99f42e --Ameisenigel (talk) 16:31, 15 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Please make some test edits Ymblanter (talk) 19:01, 20 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I support the concept. BrokenSegue (talk) 19:15, 23 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Note: per template documentation you should substitute the template.--GZWDer (talk) 20:14, 29 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Thanks, I have already noticed this. --Ameisenigel (talk) 16:16, 5 May 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Can you do a test run? --Lymantria (talk) 07:40, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I have to make some improvements to the code first, because there are some technical difficulties. --Ameisenigel (talk) 09:21, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Botcrux[edit] Botcrux (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: Horcrux (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: Change publication date (P577) of scientific articles from "1 January YYYY" to just "YYYY". Problem description: Currently we have a lot of wrong statements for publication date (P577) of scientific articles. The error lies in the precision used for stating the date. The correct precision should be 9 (year), while the current precision is 11 (day). For understanding the magnitude of the problem, please compare the items having in description "01 January" (2200K+) with "02 January" (7K+). Function details: Once selected all the instances of scholarly article (Q13442814) with some Jan 1st as publication date (P577), the bot would simply: make edits like this one, changing all the datetimes from "+YYYY-01-01T00:00:00Z/11" to "+YYYY-00-00T00:00:00Z/9" (or "+YYYY-01-01T00:00:00Z/9", for remaining consistent with the source). in a second moment, fix all the descriptions based on such wrong statements (example). If possible, the bot would use QuickStatements for solving the issue in a reasonable time. --Horcrux (talk) 09:51, 5 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Horcrux: This is definitely a problem that should be fixed, but what about those articles that legitimately were published on January 1? Can you filter based on how these articles were originally imported? ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:29, 5 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @ArthurPSmith: This chould be possible inspecting all the HTML pages looking for a match for "YYYY 1 Jan" in the header's citation. For instance, here the bot would change the date because there is no match in the citation of [1], while here the bot would keep the date because there is a match in the citation of [2]. --Horcrux (talk) 17:08, 5 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I noticed that we have to face a similar issue concerning precision 10 (months). For instance, please the numer of items having in description "01 August" (600K+) with "02 August" (10K+). Clearly, for January we have higher numbers because the two problems are mixed. Anyway, the solution for both is the same. --Horcrux (talk) 17:15, 5 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Many articles are (or were) published in paper journals with issues that came out nominally on the first of each month, or some months. So many of those could well be correct. I know where I work there are some journals that have/had 1st of month and 15th of month issues, so both the 1st and 15th would give you high counts and other dates not so much. If it really was only a monthly issue then reverting to month precision may be fine, but if the journal has multiple issues per month then losing that 1 is not a good idea. ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:12, 5 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @ArthurPSmith: This is indeed a good point, but if the source doesn't report the "1" either, why should we? --Horcrux (talk) 18:24, 5 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] As long as there's some check like that I guess it's reasonable. Anyway, the January 1 ones are clearly mostly wrong. ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:31, 5 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] AradglBot[edit] AradglBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: Aradgl (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Aragonese (Q8765) Code: Function details: --Aradgl (talk) 19:43, 14 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Using a small program and the api, the bot will create new lexemes in Aragonese specifying the lexical category, the language and some of its forms I have about 30,000 lexemes prepared and I have started uploading them In the coming weeks and months I hope to reach 100,000 or 200,000 new lexemes.

Oppose on principle, since senses (meanings) of these words, or links to references for each lexeme (such as to dictionary entries for these words, or other lexical identifiers for these words) are not also being provided. We already have massive backlogs of senseless lexemes for a bunch of languages (see the bottom of the first table); I will not support making this backlog inordinately larger. Mahir256 (talk) 20:58, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

[ reply ] We understand your observations. You are right that no meanings or links are provided at this stage. However, this is only natural since this is the beginning of a broader task that we are starting now. Due to the lack of resources of a minority language such as Aragonese (spoken by less than 30.000 people), we believe this is the most sensible way to proceed: step by step. Moreover, Aragonese is on the brink of extinction according to UNESCO. Undermining any effort to dignify its status will definitely will speed up the death of the Aragonese language. On the contrary, we ask for support to promote our beloved language. Thank you very much. Aradgl (talk) 18:46, 24 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Aradgl: I'm not sure where you're getting that I'm interested in undermining Aragonese's dignity or speeding up the death of Aragonese. On the contrary, I'd love to see Aragonese thrive as an independent and flourishing tongue, but there should be just enough in that language's lexemes to begin with such that improvements to them, both from inside and outside the language community, are actually conceivable. Consider Breton lexemes: the language itself is also endangered, and most Breton lexemes currently do not have senses, but they do have links to Lexique étymologique du breton moderne (Q19216625), so that someone else (not necessarily a Breton speaker) can come by and at least add information based on that lexicon (@VIGNERON, Envlh:, who imported them). On the other hand, consider Estonian lexemes; an Estonian non-native speaker created a bunch of them over the course of a few days, all of them without senses, and most still sit as empty shells, with no clear way for non-Estonians to improve them and no indication that actual Estonian speakers even know they exist. I am happy to look around for references you could add to potential Aragonese lexemes, such that you can add some potential resource links based on them, but that is not a reason to begin importing them now without any such resources (especially since you have not indicated how/when you plan to add senses/resource links later). Mahir256 (talk) 20:01, 24 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mahir256 Right now we are discussing our timetable in order to implement next steps within Wikidata, with the prospect of relating lexemes with concepts and meanings. We count on finishing the first phase by the end of 2022. By no means have we wanted to create lexemes as “empty shells”. We are working in a long-term project in order to provide valuable information for the sake of Aragonese language. We are working together with our Occitan counterparts (Lo Congrès) and in fact, we want to follow their example promoting further contributions from the community. Our reference is AitalDisem, a project initiated by Lo Congrès following its collaboration with Wikidata. This project is the direct continuation of the project AitalvivemBot. Aradgl (talk) 15:09, 25 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Aradgl: I'll believe that you don't want to create empty shell lexemes, but I find it difficult to believe, given the prior examples of Russian, Estonian, Latin, and Hebrew lexemes, that they won't stay empty shells forever. If you are basing your work on the example of Aitalvivem, then (at least judging from that bot's contributions, which stopped in July 2019) you are not likely to be applying the right amount of attention to senses/resource linkages that would be desired, and (at least judging from the outcome of this bot request, from a user who disappeared after January 2020) you might disappear if prompted later about them. You speak of wanting to add "valuable information for the sake of the language", but I fear that if there are no paths to this valuable information (with respect to the meanings of words) early on, then it is unlikely there ever will be such paths. If you are absolutely certain that existing printed/online references about Aragonese are not suitable/worthy of at least being linked to, and thus plan to essentially only crowdsource word meanings the same way the Occitan folks appear to have attempted, then what you could instead do (and what would change my opposition to a support) is have your system create lexemes only when an appropriate meaning has been added to that lexeme in that system by a community member, rather than creating lexemes with just the forms all at once waiting to be filled in on Wikidata. Mahir256 (talk) 15:37, 25 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mahir256: I'm the one who was supposed to continue the work about the AitalvivemBot. Unfortunately, I suffer since March 2020 from long covid and all my works has been postponed. But we still intend to add occitan lexemes in Wikidata, if it's something that you think can be useful. I thought that the purpose of Wikidata lexeme was to inventory words from languages. I never heard we needed to add senses to them as a mandatory requirement. Is that like this, now ? If it is, of course we wouldn't disturb the work done in Wikidata by uploading a lot of words without senses. Minority languages, indeed, don't have a lot of human and financial means and we can't move forward at the speed the main languages do (you see it with occitan, one person is sick and many works are postponed for years). Of course, we can't guarantee all the words we upload will be related to a meaning. But we intend to try with the poor means we have. In the other hand, all our words are from recognized dictionaries. Is that still interesting for Wikidata or will it be better if we keep them for ourselves ? Unuaiga (talk) 14:00, 28 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Unuaiga: I'm sorry to hear that you have had long COVID this whole time—I sincerely hope you can recover! Please re-read my reply from 20:01, 24 March 2022 (UTC) above, and VIGNERON's comments below (in other words, you don't need senses if you can provide a way to add them later). Wikidata lexicographical data can do so much more than "inventory(ing) words from languages"; it's only appropriate that if more isn't done immediately after creating a lexeme, then opportunities for doing so (through the linkages of references) ought to be provided. My offer to find references re: Aragonese to Aradgl from 20:01, 24 March 2022 (UTC) above is extended to you re: Occitan. As for minority languages not moving as fast as main languages, I point you to the examples, in addition to Breton, of Hausa, Igbo, and Dagbani as under-resourced languages making lots of progress on lexemes. Mahir256 (talk) 14:23, 28 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Thanks for your explanations. I will look ath the languages you talk about with great curiosity. Unuaiga (talk) 16:04, 28 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Aradgl: this is a wonderful project but I have to agree with Mahir256, this doesn't seems ready yet (for Breton, after a ~4000 lexemes import and even with some info for the meaning, I estimated at least a year of manual work every week to have good lexemes :/ this is already painfull, 100,000 to 200,000 lexemes wouldbe overwhelming). I have some additionnal questions : what is the source ? and is it public or not ? (in both case, it would be better to indicate the source in the lexemes themselves) is you bot ready yet ; if so, could you do some test edit (like creating 10 lexemes) so we can better see exactly what we are talking about and maybe provide some help. Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 13:23, 27 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @VIGNERON: It seems like the edits the requestor has been making in the Lexeme namespace of late resemble those described in this request. Mahir256 (talk) 16:09, 27 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mahir256: ah thanks, I looked at the bot edit but notat the account behind the bot ;) Indeed, these lexemes are way to empty to have any use. At the very very least, you need to add a source (and ideally, multiple). Maybe you can cross it with other dataset. I'm also wondering, why « between 100,000 and 200,000 » don't you have the exact number? Also, I'm pinging @Fjrc282a, Herrinsa, Jfblanc, Universal Life: who speak Aragonese and might want to know about this Bot and maybe even want to help. Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 16:24, 27 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Aradgl: Thoughts on VIGNERON's reply from 16:24, 27 March 2022 (UTC)? Mahir256 (talk) 20:14, 8 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] PodcastBot[edit] PodcastBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: Germartin1 (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description) It will be manually run and only for prior selected podcasts. Code: https://github.com/mshd/wikidata-to-podcast-xml/blob/main/src/import/wikidataCreate.ts Function details: Read XML Feed Read Apple podcast feed/ and spotify Get latest episode date available on Wikidata Loop all new episodes which do not exists in Wikidata yet Extract data Import to Wikidata using maxlath/wikidata-edit --Germartin1 (talk) 04:38, 25 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]

Pictogram voting comment.svg Comment What is your plan for deciding which episodes are notable? Ainali (talk) 06:40, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

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Oppose for a bot with would do blanket import of all Apple or Spotify podcasts. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 22:46, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

[ reply ] Have a look at the code, it's only for certain podcasts and will run only manually. Germartin1 (talk) 05:12, 23 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Germartin1: Bot approvals are generally for a task. If that task is more narrow, that shouldn't be just noticeable from the code but be included in the task description. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 11:39, 24 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] How about episodes to podcasts with a Wikipedia article? @Ainali:--Trade (talk) 18:34, 12 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Pi bot 10[edit] Pi bot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: Mike Peel (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: Create new Wikidata items for people with Commons categories Code: Available on BitBucket Function details: The code looks through commons:Category:People by name (and also commons:Category:Women by name and commons:Category:Men by name in a later version) to find categories about humans that don't have Wikidata items. It then searches Wikidata for the name to see if an item for that person might already exist, and skips it if there is a candidate item that hasn't been declined through the Commons category matches in the Distributed Game. Otherwise, it creates a new item, and adds the commons sitelink, instance of (P31)=human (Q5), and if available it also sets sex or gender (P21), date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570), all with imported from Wikimedia project (P143)=Wikimedia Commons (Q565) as a reference. That information is then shown in Commons through the Wikidata Infobox, which will hopefully lead to editors adding more information about the person in the future. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:10, 1 December 2018 (UTC) [ reply ] Examples at Håkon Aase (Q59342509), Morten Aass (Q59342511), Maria Pavlovna Abamelik-Lazareva (Demidova) (Q59342592), Juan Pablo Abarzúa (Q59342596). This might run weekly. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:28, 1 December 2018 (UTC) [ reply ] I am going to approve the bot in a couple of days provided no objections have been raised.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:45, 3 December 2018 (UTC) [ reply ] Template:Approved--Ymblanter (talk) 22:02, 5 December 2018 (UTC) [ reply ] Reboot[edit] I would like to restart this bot task. When I ran it after the bot approval in 2018, it was subsequently blocked by @Jean-Frédéric, Multichill: because it was "Mass creating items that fail Wikidata:Notability". The bot was unblocked per [3]. We subsequently had a discussion about this at Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2019/01#Creating_new_items_for_humans_based_on_Commons_categories, where there seemed to be general support for this task, but concerns about notability. The currently running RfC at Wikidata:Requests for comment/Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories also seems to generally support this work. I still don't have a good solution for avoiding creating new items for people that the Wikidata community think are non-notable even though they have a Commons category. In those cases, the Commons community has either decided that they are notable, or haven't spotted the existence of the category. I think the workflow with handling these cases has changed since 2018: nowadays it's more accepted that the first step to resolve them is to nominate the images and category for deletion on Commons, and if those are deleted, then nominate the item here for deletion. So I think there's now a clear cross-wiki process for handling non-notable cases. I think it's important to bring this data onto Wikidata: it benefits Wikidata directly for the notable person items that are created and linked to multimedia resources, and it benefits Commons with multilingual content and auto-categorisation. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:00, 22 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] No, Wikidata:Requests for comment/Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories doesn't support this. In that RFC you asked the community what they think about "All Wikimedia Commons categories should have a Wikidata item" and the clear answer was: The majority of the Wikidata community Opposes this. A person having a category on Commons doesn't make them notable. You'll end up creating a ton of not notable items again. Multichill (talk) 23:28, 22 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I can only agree with Multichill here. In the opinion you mentioned, there is no consensus for creating data objects for people who have a category in Wikidata. Therefore I reject the commissioning of this bot. Oppose --Gymnicus (talk) 08:40, 25 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Note that both people opposing here, also opposed in the RfC, without really giving good reasons. Read the other comments there, they are generally opposing the creation of items for combination categories, but there was more support for creating items for individual topics, including humans. In particular see the village pump discussion. Also, note that I'm not aware of any of the items created when I was running this bot before, having been deleted or otherwise having turned out to be controversial over the last few years. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:27, 25 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] GretaHeng18bot, 1[edit] GretaHeng18bot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: Gretaheng18 (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: The bot will create San Diego State University faculty profiles and create items for departments and colleges on Wikidata. It will also create relationships among SDSU colleges, departments, and faculty. Code: Haven't established one for this project but will update it here: https://github.com/gretaheng Function details: This bot is mainly used on the library faculty profile project. At here in Wikidata, it is used to create new items and add links of the new and existing SDSU faculty, departments, and colleges. --GretaHeng18bot (talk) 18:37, 21 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Discussion

Support if by faculty you mean working groups or something other than a person that can be linked to.--So9q (talk) 14:31, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

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Support Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please Lua error in Module:ping_user at line 84: Error in replyto template: Username not given. me) 15:17, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

[ reply ] Hi @So9q. I am working on creating wikidata items for departments, faculty (college/school), and faculty (professors) and will link them together (people link to the departments, departments link to the college). Now, I finished departments and faculty (college/school) part and am working on the data model for faculty (professors). Our library is collecting faculty's ORCID ID and I will add ORCID ID for faculty on wikidata once we have their ORCID ID. There are also some faculty works (books/papers) on wikidata that are not created by my institution. We'd like to change the creator information from string to wikidata number in the future. Hope this makes sense. GretaHeng18bot (talk) 19:08, 15 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Are random faculty members notable? I think only in the case they have published at least one scientific work. I hope that Wikidata will get full coverage of all the world’s scientific publications, and I would love to have more authors with orcid in WD, but only if they actually published something. Could you check if they published anything before importing?—So9q (talk) 03:57, 16 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Thanks for the concern. I think most of them have published some works, which I will verify. Since this project only focuses on tenured, tenure-track, and Emeritus faculty (I should have brought this up earlier), and publication is a requirement for the tenure status, I am confident on the publication. We have ORCID ID project and this project going on the same time to try to build the foundations of scholarly communication. We plan to migrate an institutional repository that has linked data capabilities (setting up test trial now). Creating wikidata items for the faculty in the repository will allow us to link the faculty work to faculty's wikidata page in the future. Let me know if you have further questions! Gretaheng18 (talk) 18:53, 18 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I will approve the bot in a couple of days provided no objections have been raised.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:00, 15 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Looking at the two first items I came across: Q110892606 and Q110892602, their part of (P361) statements seem problematic. Isn't there a better way to express this? --- Jura 12:44, 16 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I borrowed some properties from Stanford University Library's data model for academic faculty/staff; they use Part of as well to express the relationship between faculty members (human not institution) and departments (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Stanford_Libraries/Data_models#Core_description). When I researched which property to use, there is an alternative more specific: academic appointment (P8413). But I think part of is more flexible. Some faculty may volunteer to work in a committee or a working group that is not appointed. They may also be a lab manager that they got grant for. Part of can be applied to all these cases. If you feel not comfortable by this general part of (P361) property, do you think affiliation (P1416) works, which is a subproperty of part of? Gretaheng18 (talk) 18:28, 18 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Not sure where that page comes from. Once one tries to add the inverse has part or parts (P527), it seems fairly clear that it doesn't work well for organizations. As a general rule, if there is a more specific property available, that should be used. As I don't quite know what the link is between the values and all the persons you plan to add, I can't recommend one over the other. affiliation (P1416) is likely to work in most contexts. subproperty of (P1647) can help determine that, but I think it's use is somewhat limited in Wikidata and not necessarily conclusive. --- Jura 07:19, 20 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Thanks for the suggestions. I will discuss the data model with my colleagues! Gretaheng18 (talk) 16:17, 21 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I updated the data model here:https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot/San_Diego_State_University/SDSU_Institutional_Data_Project#Extended_description. Let me know if you have any questions. I will run a few tests over the weekend. Gretaheng18 (talk) 22:40, 4 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] companyBot[edit] companyBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: WikiFan2100 (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s:Updates ~1,000 wikidata items (all companies) with central index key, bloomberg ID, crunchbase ID, and official website properties. I checked and it should make 1,651 edits. Code:https://github.com/emg89/wiki-update Function details: this is a simple script that first checks if a company already has the property, and if not then it adds the property and value (as listed in the CSV file in the github repo), --WikiFan2100 (talk) 23:44, 9 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Seems similar to my request that I never followed up on (see Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BorkedBot_3). Definitely something I'd like to see done. I didn't do it because the joins turn out to be a little tricky to do automatically. In particular using just stock tickers can be unreliable because we don't always have good start times. Looking at your git repo you wrote that you looked all this up yourself? If so I don't think a bot approval is needed since it's really all manually done (i.e. not using code). I would like to see references added to indicate where you are getting this data from if possible. (Since you aren't using pywikibot you might want to have your bot emit quickstatement commands instead of directly editing via the API because then it is simple to add things like references.). BrokenSegue (talk) 02:32, 10 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Yes, this is from a database I have manually created for work, so it's very clean and accurate. I've always had the thought that I would like to contribute it to Wikipedia. Regarding Quickstatements, I wasn't familiar with that tool so I'll definitely take a look at that (thanks). Regarding references, I suppose all of the identifiers I am looking to add are kind of references themselves, as they can be appended to a url that will take you to the page for that company. For example, if you go to the wikidata page for Stripe and click on the CIK it will automatically take you to the SEC's page for Stripe thanks to the formatter url for the CIK property (same for crunchbase and bloomberg IDs). Also, definitely interesting what you were trying to do with BorkedBot_3, it would be great to have more of this information in wikipedia. I spend a lot of time on the SEC's website for work so I'll try to think if there is any way I can help out there. WikiFan2100 (talk) 01:02, 11 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Cool. You can see the source code for my bot that I just never really ran very long here. Though don't run it as it as-is because it has known correctness issues. My main concern about references is "how do you know this CIK maps to the item" (as opposed to, say, a different item with the same name). If the answer is "I did it by hand" then no reference is needed. If you looked it up using another identifier (like the ticker) or used some joining technique then a reference would be helpful. Generally this all LGTM. We should approve this task. BrokenSegue (talk) 03:32, 11 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Ideally we would address Property_talk:P3242#scope_and/or_datatype before adding more of them, but then 1000 isn't that much. --- Jura 11:49, 18 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]

Support Germartin1 (talk) 04:47, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

[ reply ] StreetmathematicianBot 2[edit] StreetmathematicianBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: Streetmathematician (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: Use the Crossref API to turn author name string (P2093) statements into disambiguated author (P50) statements based on ORCID iDs. Code: Function details: This task does not create new items. It adds statements linking existing author items to existing article items. Bot operation: Where there is an item with a best DOI there is another item with a best ORCID iD Crossref API data associates the DOI with the ORCID iD the existing items are not linked all names match*: Crossref's first+family name, the author item's en: label, and the author name string of the article item the positions of the author in the lists of authors also match the bot will: add the author (P50) statement with the author item as object; qualify it with object stated as (P1932) and the existing author name string. copy references, and the position, from the author name string (P2093) statement to the author (P50) statement add an extra reference to the Crossref API, since that is the reference for the actual identity of the author remove* the author name string (P2093) statement The Crossref API and the Crossref public data file are free to use for any purpose and its results are not covered by copyright, with the exception of abstracts (abstracts are not used for this task). The data quality of the data provided by the Crossref API seems good enough to me to allow adding the new statements at normal rank. I will perform test edits and link to them if there are no objections. As the code currently stands, the bot will visit articles with several authors that can be disambiguated several times. This is suboptimal for articles with many authors, since it will result in lengthy edit histories. Footnotes: Precise name matching will be used for the first runs. If there are no problems, less-precise matching (missing periods after initials; accents and diacritics missing in one version of the name but not the other; names that differ only in hyphenation of their components) may be useful, but I'm happy to restrict this request to the precise matches and create another request for less-precise matching once I can give full details on how it will operate. Whether author name string (P2093) statements should really be removed is currently being discussed on WD:PC. However, it should be pointed out that even if they are removed, the intention is that no information is lost in the process, and it will thus be possible to restore the author name string (P2093) statements at a later point automatically. --Streetmathematician (talk) 19:45, 20 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] sounds good to me BrokenSegue (talk) 02:02, 21 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] 5 test edits. Streetmathematician (talk) 08:13, 21 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @ArthurPSmith: you commented at WD:PC, but I hope it's okay to respond here: There are many articles with several matching author name strings. Some of those are mistakes, others appear legit. I would suggest to skip such articles for now, since I believe they need human attention. My plan is to start with exact name matches. After that: punctuation, capitalization, diacritics, and whitespace changes are worth handling automatically, I believe, but care must be taken to preserve or add all variants in use I'm not sure about name order and expanded names vs initials vs omitted names, which may cause a small number of false positives stemming, Damerau-Levenshtein neighbors (typos, minor spelling differences) and further transformations: as suggestions for semi-manual edits only Just to clarify, I'm not using data from ORCID, just ORCID iDs provided by Crossref and ORCID iDs already in Wikidata. Streetmathematician (talk) 07:37, 23 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @Streetmathematician: There are many subtleties in name-matching, and some previous bots doing this sort of thing have done it poorly. Examples of issues beyond punctuation/hyphenation/capitalization are: (1) Handling of suffixes: Jr, III, etc., (2) The source for many author name strings (pubmed I think) often reverses the name so last name is first, initials strung together after, eg. "Smith AP". (3) Spanish and other names with multiple "family name" components, with one source having only one of the family names as "last name" - "Jose Garcia Hernandez" may need to match a last name of "Garcia" for example. (4) Chinese and other names where the family name is often first, but in western scientific publications often reversed as an author name, and the given name is often two syllables separated by a hyphen, or sometimes joined together depending on the source: "Wang Wei-Min" might be also "Wei-Min Wang", "Wei Min Wang", "Weimin Wang", 'Wang WM', 'W.-M. Wang', 'W. Wang', 'W-M. Wang', etc. etc. Anyway, if this request is sticking to just exact matching of the name string and avoiding cases where there are multiple matches then that should be fine for now; it will certainly be a big help to start with and we can revisit the other issues later. ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:58, 23 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Thank you. I agree that matching names is very difficult. I'm proposing to do it only as a safety check to catch the (regrettably common) case in which our sources are inconsistent (so it's "is it implausible those two names refer to the same person" not "here are two lists of a million names, find out who's who"). Nevertheless, I would like to amend my original proposal to be restricted to exact matches only. Also, I've come across a few articles with very many authors, and I'd also like to leave those for later. Streetmathematician (talk) 16:53, 23 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @Streetmathematician: This seems to be stale, is this still active? Perhaps @Ymblanter, Lymantria: could comment? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:18, 18 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] The plan seems good to me, I would like to see some more test edits, say 100. Lymantria (talk) 06:17, 19 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] ConferenceCorpusBot[edit] ConferenceCorpusBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: WolfgangFahl (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: Import Scientific events and series from diverse sources e.g. dblp Code: https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ConferenceCorpus Function details: The intended functionality builds on the preparations done by Simon Cobb using OpenRefine based on the discussions in: https://github.com/SmartDataAnalytics/OpenResearch/discussions/127 So far some 4000 event series have been imported this way and linked to dblp, Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, GND and so on. See https://confident.dbis.rwth-aachen.de/dblpconf/wikidata for a list of event series available in wikidata. The list of Scientific Events is unfortunately not as complete and this bot intends to remedy the situation. In the end there should be proper scientfic event / proceedings pairs instead of the many proceedings entries that do exist but do not have a link to the corresponding conference. See https://github.com/SmartDataAnalytics/OpenResearch/discussions/162 for an overview or https://diagrams.bitplan.com/render/svg/0x589f1ec0.svg --WolfgangFahl (talk) 15:42, 6 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] What do you want to import? conferences, individual editiona of conferences, or articles published there?--GZWDer (talk) 15:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] this request feels a little vague. are you creating new items? modifying existing items? can we see a sample? BrokenSegue (talk) 16:44, 6 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Examples[edit] Today I imported some events and corresponding proceedings with openrefine: see https://scholia.toolforge.org/event-series/Q64852380 and my contribution page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/WolfgangFahl The sources are: https://confident.dbis.rwth-aachen.de/or/index.php?title=K-CAP where you'll find pointers e.g. to https://dblp.org/db/conf/kcap/index.html. We intend to create a bot that does similar work without using openrefine and a better quality by doing better matching against different sources/references. See also Proceedings Title Parser for a matching source we used until recently that only matches via acronyms. The corresponding event series can be found at: https://confident.dbis.rwth-aachen.de/or/index.php?title=TPDL and https://scholia.toolforge.org/event-series/Q5412433 The goal is to complete the event / proceedings pairs and link them via P4745 - is proceedings from New items will be created when missing and existing items amended if e.g. library references of k10plus, GND, dblp are missing. There is a core set of information that will be used as an "event signature": acronym year title location country starttime endtime homepage and those are mapped to the appropriate wikidata properties as shown in the examples. WolfgangFahl (talk) 15:59, 9 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] ok. sounds like the bot isn't implemented yet? are all the details ironed out? is the source anywhere? do you know how many edits you'll be making? by the way you should actually register the Bot user account User:ConferenceCorpusBot so nobody can steal it (and probably make the test edits under that account in the future). generally this seems like a good bot though. BrokenSegue (talk) 23:24, 9 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @WolfgangFahl, BrokenSegue: This seems to be stale, is this still active? Perhaps @Ymblanter, Lymantria: could comment? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:17, 18 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Please stay tuned see e.g. WEBIST OpenResearch Series versus WEBIST Series in Wikidata (Scholia) versus WEBIST series information from different datasources versus WEBIST from different datasources (JSON) Currently the process is still semi-automatic and we are using OpenRefine for filling wikidata. We need to implement the Backend now to make sure the Bot functionality will be achieved.WolfgangFahl (talk) 06:39, 19 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Support but I recognize that more documentation and community review is helpful. I invite this tool and its community to Wikidata:WikiProject Events, where anyone can show examples, host discussion, and build out documentation. There is already a data model for conferences documented there, so if the tool can follow that model, then use this as a community hub for explaining the too. I posted some guidance for next steps at Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Events#Bot_for_importing_conference_data. Somehow we need to see and discuss some test data to proceed and again, I suggest that the Events WikiProject is an appropriate place for central conversation. Let me know if I can assist with organizing conversation and review. Bluerasberry (talk) 18:04, 28 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Yes please. Today i started a semi-automatic import of https://scholia.toolforge.org/event-series/Q105692764 which is an interesting example since it's incomplete in dblp. WolfgangFahl (talk) 08:50, 20 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Bluerasberry, WolfgangFahl: A couple dozen events have been imported using a semi-automated approach in the meantime. The bits and pieces of the infrastructure are now available. How do i proceed from here?--WolfgangFahl (talk) 06:42, 28 May 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]

TAMISBot[edit] TAMISBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: ChristianBRoy (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: TAMISBot will import data about books using the WikiProjet Livres model. Code: n/a Function details: The bot parses data from an ONIX data source (ONIX is the metadata standard for the book industry) The data from the ONIX source is provided by the book publishers, who gave their agreement for data usage and upload to Wikidata The bot tries to find existing Wikidata items based on ISBN, title and author A human operator reviews the matches (and non matches), makes corrections if needed, and confirms that the bot can do its job without creating duplicates The bot creates new items when needed, or adds claims to existing items It does not duplicate claims when they already exist The created or updated items are all written work (Q47461344), version, edition, or translation (Q3331189) and author (Q482980) --ChristianBRoy (talk) 13:33, 27 August 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] How many new items? What about which books? --- Jura 13:58, 30 August 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] As an estimate, on the short-mid term (end of 2021 or beginning of 2022): potentially approx. 500 books (I believe 95%+ will be new items), two editions each (one paper and one ebook edition) so ~1000 more new items for editions, and one or two authors each book (a lot of the author already exist, so that part should not create that many items). The books are published by Canadian publishers, all of whom publish in French. They include publishers of fiction (for instance Éditions du Boréal (Q3579629), Éditions Alto (Q16684371) and Hurtubise (Q3579355)), non-fiction (Éditions du Septentrion (Q3579664), Q3122128), and a university press (Presses de l'Université de Montréal (Q21428306)). --ChristianBRoy (talk) 18:06, 30 August 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] How are they selected? We already had a proposal for Quebec depôt légal import, but Wikidata isn't quite equipped for that. --- Jura 22:28, 30 August 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Books will be related to Québec City (either because of their author or publisher, or because the content of the book is linked to the city by main subject (P921) or narrative location (P840)). The motivation is the city's recognition as a City of Literature (Q3467764), part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. The scope is thus a lot smaller than the dépôt légal. --ChristianBRoy (talk) 13:16, 31 August 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] I'm not really convinced by using the publisher as criterion .. essentially it would be the depot legal of a given publisher. The idea to build a comprehensive bibliography about Quebec City (topic or narrative location) seems more interesting. --- Jura 11:46, 1 September 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Understood. At the same time, having local publishers is part (in my understanding) of the UNESCO criteria. We could begin with "important" books published by those publishers... for instance, Nikolski (Q3341721) is important because it was a game changer for Éditions Alto (Q16684371) during their launch. In that case our bot would add links between the book and the publisher (currently there is no reference at all), and would create version, edition, or translation (Q3331189) items in order to make the ISBNs known in Wikidata. We could also chose to limit our projet to books written by authors who already have an item on Wikidata (in which case we would just make sure to add notable work (P800) claims to the author). --ChristianBRoy (talk) 13:48, 1 September 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] I don't see how UNESCO is relevant to this bot request. There are other websites such as Worldcat, that aim to include all books. notable work (P800) is not to list every edition or work of an author. --- Jura 05:37, 12 September 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Sorry about the UNESCO reference, this was a follow up to my answer to your previous question about the selection of books. I understand that notable work (P800) is not to list every edition or work of an author. However, it can be used to list works that are notable, and some are clearly missing in Wikidata. For instance, Jacques Lacoursière (Q674235) is a famous historian, who has received multiple awards in Canada and in France, but there is no entry about his most notable works (which we would add). ChristianBRoy (talk) @Jura1: I think you see it the wrong way. This user, ChristianBRoy, has a project with partners that are publisher in Québec. He has access to valuable and verified data from the books these publishers make. Also, using AI and manual work, this project is looking to add to books informations that are usually very hard to come by, like main subject (P921), award received (P166), based on (P144), inspired by (P941), characters (P674) and narrative location (P840) and that we lack on WD. At least 50% of his books will already be on WD, so he will bonifying existing WD elements for most of his work. I'm the one who recommended that he creates a bot for his automated modifications. I'm not really sure I understand the reservation you are expressing here. Regards, Antoine2711 (talk) 20:08, 13 September 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] What guidance on notability did you you provide? --- Jura 09:20, 14 September 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] First of all, all the publishers are ALREADY in Wikidata. There's 10 or 15, and the maximal scope in the next 10 years is the publishers in Quebec, so maybe 1000. But he's is far from there. His current project, limited to 10 publishers now in Quebec City, is about bonifying data for books published by these publishers. So the notability here is clear. I take for granted here that everybody knows that a publisher publishes books, so putting informations about book for existing publisher is pertinent in Wikidata. He will add data to already notable Wikidata publishers. I think the fact he use IA to extract and identify properties data’s not often defined in books, is also in itself a good reason to welcome this bot and encourage ChristianBRoy to be part of the Wikidata community and be a good and reliable contributor. I know I'm doing my best to show him what I've learned myself here. Can you also support him? Antoine2711 (talk) 01:41, 22 September 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] So your guidance would be that all books and editions are notable if we have items about their publisher? --- Jura 22:23, 26 September 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @Jura1: I'm not saying any book these publishers did are automatically notables. What I say is the publisher are already notable, because they exist in Wikidata. Publisher get their notoriety from books they publish, and this project with add informations about these, specially information that is hard to get but useful for the public. Antoine2711 (talk) 02:02, 29 September 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @Jura1: Actually, my understanding of Antoine's comment is that he refers to the structural need notability criteria. By linking books to publishers (and to authors as well), we make the statements about them more useful. We will also very likely improve the overall information about books, by including ISBNs in editions and linking them to works. For instance, Q3207769 is a work with an ISBN, which is not structurally correct. We would create the edition for the ISBN and correctly link it to the work. Furthermore, my understanding that books meet Wikidata's notability critera is based on the fact that they are instances of "clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity". ChristianBRoy (talk) Yeah, I see your point of view, but I don't think that's the way WD:N is generally understood. Otherwise we would end up having every book and edition for larger publishing groups. The only books that you wouldn't consider notable would be the self-published ones. There are various databases for ISBNs, maybe try these instead? --- Jura 13:37, 25 October 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] The other ISBN databases do not have the same potential reach for the greater public, I believe. Also, as far as I know, none will offer the same possibility to easily link a work to a location or a character, and then do queries around those. And as I said, the idea is not to dump a huge list of ISBNs, but rather a human curated list of a few hundred works. In complement, I am curious as to what makes "having every book and edition for larger publishing groups" not a suitable option? Is that mostly a Wikidata performance / limited ressources concern, or are there editorial reasons for this not being interesting? (honest question, not a trap, I just want to have a better understanding of what makes contributions interesting or not). ChristianBRoy (talk) 16:04, 17 November 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @ChristianBRoy: This seems to be stale, is this still active? Perhaps @Ymblanter, Lymantria: could comment? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:16, 18 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Difficult one. I have doubts about adding editions too easily. Lymantria (talk) 06:38, 19 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Lymantria I could change the bot behaviour and remove the editions feature, it that is a concern. However, this would be contrary to the model used by Wikidata:WikiProject_Books. Moreover, editions are useful for ISBN's (which in turn are very important identifiers for books). Hence the dilemma, I guess. ChristianBRoy (talk) 13:28, 19 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Thanks for asking @Mike Peel! Yes it is still active from my point of view. There is still interest in proceeding. ChristianBRoy (talk) 13:21, 19 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Staff had to plan for deleting of items created too easily for scholarly articles. Given the somewhat alarming status about Query Service at End of 2022, I don't see how would have space to mirror ISBN registries/OPACs here. If it's Wikibase's technology that interests Quebec's National Library, it's possible to set up separate instances of Wikibase on its server. --- Jura 14:39, 19 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Jura1 for sake of clarity, this bot is not at all affiliated or related to the Quebec's National Library, sorry if somehow my comments created some confusion about that. That being said, I understand from your comment regarding the query service that your concern is the number of new Wikidata items that would be created, is that correct? If so, what would be a reasonable number? I also understand from your comment that you do not see the interest of mirroring ISBN registries here... are you also saying that there is no interest at all in having books on Wikidata? Otherwise, would my suggestion above, to not create version, edition, or translation (Q3331189) items, make sense? ChristianBRoy (talk) 21:10, 21 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] The same can be run by other organizations. On Wikidata, one needs to follow WD:N. This is not met by excluding self-published books. --- Jura 10:20, 22 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] From WD:N, I understand that any book from an author that has a Wikipedia page or Wikidata item is notable. I feel that may be a bit too much (notable authors may have written non-notable books), but at least it is an objective criteria that I can code in the bot. The human operator for the bot would pick books based on their overall interest, but the bot would block uploading any book that does not have a link to an existing Wikipedia or Wikidata author page/item. It that sounds good, we could proceed to a test run for a small sample of books that could be reviewed (as per the approval process on Wikidata:Bots). ChristianBRoy (talk) 14:35, 25 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Given the long discussion here, I am trying to figure out ways to move forward... Is there anything I can do to help? My last suggestion (a test run) still holds, and I am open to other suggestions as well! --ChristianBRoy (talk) 18:46, 3 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mike Peel, Jura1, Lymantria: I have a problem here. We have a user that follow the recommandation, and come here with a reasonable request to be granted the bot status. He says he's going to curate a thousand books here on wikidata per year, saying half of them already exists, and his 10 publishers already exists. So, it's mainly enriching, certainatly not database dumping. Also, he says that ALL his data will be curated by a human, which also implies data fo a high quality. Now, Jura1 starts pretending he wants to drop hundreds of thousands of books on Wikidata, at that will create a technological problem or rather put pressure on an already concerning issue of item creation. But nowhere did he or me who came to explain his project, did we say such a thing. This project is perfect for Wikidata. It's enhancement of a small dataset of very particular data, cleaned up by human hand. We should welcome him instead of hitting him in the leg that we have been doing for the last 8 month. Or maybe I missed something, but I tell you, I've been around Wikidata and the Wikimedia Fondation for the last 4 years, so I did my homework. So, what do you need for this request to go forward? Regards, Antoine2711 (talk) 03:33, 27 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mike Peel, Lymantria: So, this user said he will modify & create 1000 wikidata elements over a period of a year. Could we start a test like we did with my bot, and have ChristianBRoy modify & create a hundred of books on Wikidata and test his robot? Me, I am an OpenRefine user, but his robot is really going to works without a human direct intervention. What would be the next step? Regards, Antoine2711 (talk) 02:57, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] AmmarBot 4[edit] AmmarBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: Ammarpad (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s:Import data for number of pages (P1104) from English Wikipedia Code: book_data.py Function details: The bot will periodically iterate through the pages using the Template:Infobox book template on English Wikipedia and primarily attempt to extract the page number value if it exists and is valid. It will then add it to the corresponding data item of the page. If the page has no data item it will be skipped. Similarly if the value is not valid. Additionally where either ISBN-13 (P212)/ISBN-10 (P957) or OCLC control number (P243) exists (or both), are not already on Wikidata, and are valid there'll be imported too. This script is also is written as part of Outreachy program work and my mentor is Mike Peel. --Ammarpad (talk) 10:56, 19 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] what if the item isn't an instance of a book? can we see sample edits? BrokenSegue (talk) 15:36, 19 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] I think number of pages (P1104) is not limited for books only; the doc says "number of pages in an edition of a written work", and written-work comprises many things beyond bounded books. I will do some some test run now. Ammarpad (talk) 09:57, 20 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] The test run is completed. Ammarpad (talk) 11:05, 20 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] I don't understand how it can apply to a written work. the same work can be published in multiple editions with different page counts.... BrokenSegue (talk) 23:38, 20 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @BrokenSegue: Different editions have different items here, and the enwp article should be linked to the correct one if appropriate. If not, the enwp article should be moved to the correct item, along with content about that specific edition. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:47, 21 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mike Peel: right so we shouldn't be adding page numbers to literary works. BrokenSegue (talk) 14:57, 21 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @BrokenSegue: There seems to be a disconnect here, your follow-up wasn't what I was meaning. Can you expand more please? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:53, 21 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @Mike Peel: Different editions have different items. Only editions of works have page counts. If a wikipedia article is linked to a literary work item but has a page number we shouldn't import the page number (works don't have page numbers, editions do). Because in this scenario wikipedia article is likely confused or linked to the wrong item. Either way don't import. BrokenSegue (talk) 20:50, 21 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Thank you BrokenSegue, I am working on this now I will restrict the script to instances of book. Ammarpad (talk) 11:32, 24 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Implemented this. Now restricted to instances of book (Q571). Ammarpad (talk) 06:12, 29 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Sorry, book is probably too restrictive. You want to include other sensible things number of pages (P1104) supports like version, edition, or translation (Q3331189). Also, the code link above no longer works. BrokenSegue (talk) 15:58, 29 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] I replaced the broken link. I also added version, edition, or translation (Q3331189) as supported instance. Ammarpad (talk) 07:42, 30 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] I share BrokeSegue's concerns. Wikipedia is unlikely to have articles on (different) editions of the same work (except the Bible). --- Jura 08:11, 7 August 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Thanks, I believe I have already made changes to the script based on his feedback above. Ammarpad (talk) 21:53, 8 August 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Can we see a new test run then? The one above still adds it to things like written works. Maybe adding it as qualifier to ISBN numbers instead could be a solution. --- Jura 09:53, 9 August 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] @Ammarpad: Is this bot request still active, or should it be archived? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:12, 18 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] RonniePopBot[edit] RonniePopBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools) Operator: RonnieV (talk • contribs • logs) Task/s: Provide the population numbers of regions, municipalities, places,... retrieved from the national Office of Statistics (INSEE, ONS, CBS, Statistični urad,...) to help Wikipedia's (and others) to show as actual numbers as possible, but also historical numbers. Updating (yearly) number of boarding train passengers from Belgian railway stations. Code: Github Function details: I, as operator, retrieve (files with) population numbers from national Offices of Statistics. I will have a look at the things we can use from these numbers, and if possible, I will tell RonniePopBot to provide this information to Wikidata. RonniePopBot will run through these numbers and if they are not yet available, it will be added. A minimal set will exist of population (P1082), with point in time (P585) and source. determination method (P459) and criterion used (P1013) will be provided when available. The script will try to find a unique Wikidata-item using a national (regional) code from the national Office. If these are not yet available in Wikidata, a table which links codes to Q-id's will be made and provided to the script. When doubles are found in Wikidata (most likely: subsequent municipalities), the script will not act, but report. If These numbers will be added later, after replacing the code with the right Q-id for the given moment. The first run will be to add the population numbers from 1968 till 2016 from INSEE for French municipalities. --RonnieV (talk) 10:06, 4 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] RonniePopBot has made a bunch of changes. [4] is reported as four changes (all at about the same moment), but consist of the adding of a number of habitants, giving it a normal preference, adding a point in time (P585), a determination method (P459) and a criterion used (P1013). In the next edit, a source is given, consisting of an reference URL (P854), a publisher (P123), a retrieved (P813) and a CELEX number (P476).

Support - We will use this updated info in infoboxes on nl-wiki, and from WikiData more languages can benefit from updates. Edoderoo (talk) 09:44, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

[ reply ] Ronnie asked me to have a look at this. Before we go over to the technical part: Adding historic population numbers to items will make these items a lot larger. I'm not sure what the current consensus is. Store the current number in population (P1082) and the full set of historic numbers in tabular population (P4179)? Last time I checked no consensus existed for importing all historic data and that's why we didn't import all the CBS data yet. I do notice that plenty of people went ahead and imported historic data anyway (with various quality issues). Probably best to first get consensus (or linking to it) before doing any mass imports? If you're up to it than we can do a pilot with publishing some of the CBS data to Commons and linking to it from Wikidata. Multichill (talk) 16:31, 15 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Thanks, Multichill, for pointing to tabular population (P4179). I was not aware of that property. I found many examples of items in Wikidata where population (P1082) (and other values) are stored as different values, each having there own, complete, source. I thought that that was the way to go. And as indicated in the description: use tijdstip (P585) as qualifier; use preferred rank for the most recent total value, so having multiple values, for different dates, should not be a problem. I see AVMbot adding yearly updates, like March 2021 and January 2020 for French communities. They reset the preferred value, so that looks fine. The population of Canada has more than hundred values, going back the early 17th century. Commons example of 2011 See source Wikidata query and sources. For all(?) French communities, we have graphs like this one stored in Commons, once made by Michiel1972 Most of these are not updated after 2011 (having data up to 2008). The information on the Commons-page says that information from INSEE is used, but there is no specific source indicated. As the INSEE now provides yearly data, we could recreate all these images each year. Just for French, there are over 30.000 municipalities. And there are many more places, municipalities, countries, regions,... that have population numbers and regular updates. Serving this with generated graphs, like described in Template:Graph:Lines, would require just the adding of 1 number and date (preferably with a source) to have an updated graph. The same graphs can be obtained from a table in XML-format, but would require an XML-formatted file like this one to exist for each municipality, place, region, country,... Files like these are clearly intended for automated use, not for humans to edit. Each time new numbers become available, it would require to update the table, and to replace the value, sources and other information in the population (P1082). A human editor wanting to add (or adjust) a value might find more troubles editing that file in the correct way. Once I get the example beneath working, in a way that we could easily indicate which table to use (preferably based on the link to Wikidata available on the Wikipedia article, completely language free, maybe by retrieving the tabular population (P4179) value and using it as the table name, I am fine with that. (Is solved) A naming convention which is fool proof, preferably language independent and which gives unique values for all places, municipalities, regions, countries,... in the world, would be needed. See or edit raw graph data. I was not aware of any issues with the use of population (P1082) for multiple values (and dates), as long as the most recent is indicated as preferred. Going for that option would make this bot require a Commons bot flag as well, to create thousands of data files there. It will require less changes in the first run, but might require more in the future (having to update the Wikidata value, with requirements and sources and having to update the data file). Can you point me to any discussion where the use of tabular population (P4179) in combination with population (P1082) is discussed, so I can join it? Thanks, RonnieV (talk) 00:51, 16 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] I got it working with a data-file, so that problem seems to be solved. But what causes graphs to be shown double? Solved now. Does one of the options have a big advantage in performance? For another page, I did try to have the actual COVID-numbers of all European countries on one page, but that led to a memory error. Would this be solved when only the actual numbers would be in the corresponding Wikidata-item, with all historic data (daily updates!) in a data file? If so, that might be of support for using more data-files. Thanks, RonnieV (talk) 14:50, 16 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Double graphs where shown by a doubling of code in Template:Graph:Lines by Bouzinac. I removed part of the code, so more problems with that. RonnieV (talk) 15:43, 16 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] Hi, thanks for correcting the typo. What's the problem with Canada ? Checking the main source https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/98-187-x/4151287-eng.htm#table1, it appears some old years does not have to be comprehended as whole Canada on that year. See source Wikidata query and sources. Bouzinac 💬●✒️●💛 20:20, 16 July 2021 (UTC) [ reply ]

@RonnieV: This seems to be stale, is this still active? Perhaps @Ymblanter, Lymantria: could comment? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:09, 18 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Hi Mike Peel, thanks for your reminder. I would like to continue adding the population for French and Slovenian places, and others in the future. The suggestion Multichill gave for tabular population (P4179) is a nice one, and I would like to investigate that in the future (later this year). For the time being, allowing me (RonniePopBot) to bring the data for France to population (P1082), as done by many for many places in France and other countries, would be a great win for the Dutch Wikipedia, at least the remaining 8k+ numbers (for about 2000 not yet updated wikidata-items) with INSEE-numbers between 16063 and 57645 would be a great win. If we decide to prefer tabular population (P4179), I got no problem with bringing all current info for population (P1082) to text files and (after uploading these files to commons) linking these files in tabular population (P4179) and deleting all but the most recent value from population (P1082). I have to dive into it to find out what I did in July (getting things to work with a data file), but I will use that for new addings above INSEE 57645, once I have the relatively small missing numbers inserted. (Currently, places with INSEE below 16063 on the Dutch Wikipedia use graphs with the wikidata-information as recent as 2018, 2019, while all other places use old PNG's, mostly with data up to 2008.) Thanks again for getting this under attention, RonnieV (talk) 22:48, 18 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I also would like to update the values of daily patronage (P1373) for the Belgian railway stations, like Q1881203#P1373, with the most recent information of the NMBS counting. I could run this script using my normal account, but using an approved bot-account would both make more clear I used a script for this edits and help me separate handmade edits and bot edits. Thanks for considering my request for permission. RonnieV (talk) 00:24, 27 January 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] What is needed to get a decision on this request? I don't know what I can do to get this to a decision. Population for French is now partly filled in, population for Slovenia does need an update, railway users for Belgium can use an update. I am willing to invest time in this, but would like it to run with a bot account, not with my main account. RonnieV (talk) 11:44, 2 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I would suggest going to Wikidata:Project Chat to discuss the issue with the population import. If there is consensus to do it, we can then quickly get the bot approved.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:09, 3 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Thanks, @Ymblanter. I started a chat at the project chat. Your input is appreciated. Thanks, RonnieV (talk) 17:38, 6 February 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] The responses at the chat were not very unanimous. I will try and find some time to get this rolling with P4179 for a few communities, to see how this behaves and if P1082 could be completely empty (how will calls to P1082 be handled if P1082 is empty, but P4179 is available with multiple values (over time). Will it use the first line, the last line, look for the most recent itself? Another issue is how to name these files in a systematic way. The INSEE value could be a good starter, but is not always related to just one WD item. I have seen communities with 2, 3, 4 WD items, due to changes over time. I also saw communities disappear and return. Something like 'Population FR  . '? Implementing the end and restart dates in P4179 files could be handled, but care should be taken, as a community with a population count on 1 January 1970 and ending ultimo 1972 will not have a steady decline in its population in this three years. Repeating the 1970 value as an estimate on 31 December 1972 and a zero value on 1 January 1973 could help. A resurrection on 1 January 1974 should be preceded by a zero-value on 31 December 1973 (the day before). But if the community has a decline (of growth) between 1970 and 1976 (both census years) and no other values are available, which values should be uses for ultimo 1972 and for beginning of 1974? Pretending an even decline/growth and giving both values as estimates? I will dive into these issues, RonnieV (talk) 15:41, 4 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Others[edit] Requests for the confirmed right[edit] Katibduul[edit] Katibduul (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)

I would like to add mappings to the UMLS metathesaurus for the following medical specialities or medical occupations pages: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q788926 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40821 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103824 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2640827 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12119633 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15924224 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18245236 Katibduul (talk) 18:05, 11 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Not done You are now autoconfirmed --Ameisenigel (talk) 15:19, 12 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Thanks. All mappings done. We can archive this thread. This is my first one and I am not sure how it works. Katibduul (talk) 01:03, 13 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] This will be done by a bot automatically. --Ameisenigel (talk) 03:07, 13 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Requests for the rollbacker right[edit] Kitrsjlhf[edit] Kitrsjlhf (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)

@Kitrsjlhf: Please give a reason why you need this userright. --Ameisenigel (talk) 06:15, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] And you are already autoconfirmed, so confirmed would be redundant and give you no additional rights. --Ameisenigel (talk) 06:17, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] Hello, I need rollbacker , Sorry, the request was submitted incorrectly Kitrsjlhf (talk) 06:26, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] I have moved the request to this section. --Ameisenigel (talk) 09:23, 7 June 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]

✓ Done --Ameisenigel (talk) 08:51, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

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Please, change it to "Panel pomocy". This formulation will be better in Polish. Marcin Łukasz Kiejzik (C, T, @) 16:45, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Skiz zerz  23:56, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. And please change MediaWiki:Manual-text/pl to "Podręcznik", add MediaWiki:Browse svn/pl with "Przeglądaj SVN", MediaWiki:Blog-text/pl with "Blog techniczny", add MediaWiki:Portal/pl (change content to "Pomoc"), change MediaWiki:Help/pl to "Dokumentacja". And one more question. Who messed up translation? Marcin Łukasz Kiejzik (C, T, @) 13:42, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, done. Authors of these translations could be looked up in page histories, as always. Max Semenik 14:33, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Techni
I am a MediaWiki developer I seek to secure the articles on my development.User: Techni 19:51, 7 August 2010
 * ❌ MediaWiki developer means "have commit access to the wikimedia svn repository", which I do not believe you have. -- Skiz zerz  00:37, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Editprotected
Could someone please take a look at my requests here and here? There doesn't seem to be an editprotected template to request attention directly there, so I thought I'd mention them here. Thanks, Waldir 07:34, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ by Happy-melon (1), Reedy (2) and MaxSem (3), (4). --Waldir 13:51, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Delete sandbox
Please delete all old versions of Sandbox (delete it and restore the latest version). The version history contains copyright violations, pornographic texts which describe actions of persons under 14 (which may be illegal in your country), personal data and perhaps other content that qualifies for deletion. On the other side, the old content of the Sandbox isn't really needed. Example: copyvio from here (other example links may be provided on request per Email, I don't want to make them public).

I didn't start a regular request for deletion (a) because I only want old versions to be deleted and (b) the content of Sandbox changes often and the request for deletion would be removed by users testing on the page. Regards, --Church of emacs 07:05, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Doned. Reedy 08:06, 28 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks :) --Church of emacs 20:46, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Requests for protection

 * Template:MW_stable_mysql_requirement, Template:MW_stable_php_requirement --Quadir 21:50, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * We tend to avoid protecting content here unless it becomes high traffic or vandalised a lot so probably going to side on not doing it but I will let someone else decide. Peachey88 22:24, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ both semiprotected indefinitely by User:Reach Out to the Truth - TBloemink 08:46, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Requests for deletion

 * $wgGroupPermissions has something funny going on. The current page is non-existant cotent, the history rev is a redirect. searching for it does not go to the Manual Manual:$wgGroupPermissions since this page exists. --Quadir 15:10, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * ,  is a redirect to   so that it goes to it when you search it, Although I don't overly like these redirects (we should just fix the search) it isn't doing any harm. Peachey88 22:24, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

User deletion? iantresman
username: iantresman I want to unify my MediaWiki account with my accounts on the other projects, but I have lost my password, and stupidly did not add my email address. No contributions were made under my account. What do I need to do to get the password reset, or the MediaWiki account deleted, so that I can start again? I believe it is possible to match my IP address with my contributions on Wikipedia. --93.97.21.214 15:42, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ by renaming the local user account so that you can merge the name in with your SUL account. -- Skiz zerz  06:36, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Problem with unified login
I normally edit on English Wikipedia as wikipedia:en:User:Bazonka. I have been trying to set up a unified login account for Bazonka, but I'm unable to do this fully because my Bazonka account here at Mediawiki is inaccessible. I don't know what the password is, and there is no email address associated with it, so the Password Reset functionality doesn't help. I had the same problem with my account at Commons. A bureaucrat helpfully renamed my unusable Bazonka account so that a new Bazonka account could be created (see here). Can the same be done to my account at Mediawiki please? If you need proof that I am the real Bazonka, then you should be able to email me via my English Wikipedia account. Thanks, Bazonka 91.125.92.179 11:01, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. The account was likely registered in past by someone else and now it was renamed in order to let you unify it. You can login to mediawiki.org using your central account now. Petrb (talk) 13:49, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much. Bazonka (talk) 14:20, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually that's not possible, Petrb. The account was created automatically according to the logs, and therefore must be unified. Me and other users have had the same problem. See 29234. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 20:00, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, I don't think it's impossible since it solved the issue? I already renamed previous holder of this name, and as you can see in reply, it worked Petrb (talk) 09:59, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * What I meant was that if an account was created automatically it cannot possibly have been done by anyone but whoever was logged in with the global account. I didn't mean that fixing it was impossible. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 17:30, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * But this account was not created automatically, you opened wrong logs. The account was renamed, so if you want to see the reason for creation of original account, you need to open logs of renamed account. Petrb (talk) 05:40, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The logs you linked actually show the process of login unification done after fix of this issue Petrb (talk) 10:01, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

New gadget: Dot's syntax highlighter
Hi, I'm trying to get meta:User:Remember the dot/Syntax highlighter made into a gadget for various projects. ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users) says that gadgets like this should be hosted on mediawiki.org. So, I'd like to ask that:


 * 1) MediaWiki:Gadget-DotsSyntaxHighlighter.js be created with the minified contents of meta:User:Remember the dot/Syntax highlighter.js: function breakerRegexWithPrefix(e){return new RegExp("("+e+")|"+breakerRegexBase,"gm")}function highlightSyntax{function u(e,t){e=e.replace(/\n/g,"\\A ");if(t==i){n+=e}else{if(webkit&&(/[!"#%&)*+,-.:;=\?>\\\]\|\}~]$/.test(n)&&/^[<\[\{]/.test(e)||n.substring(-1)=="-"&&e.substring(0,2)=="\\'")){e="​"+e}if(s){o="s"+r;if(r>maxSpanNumber){wpTextbox0.appendChild(document.createElement("span")).id=o;maxSpanNumber++}n+="'}#"+o+":before"}else{n+="'}#"+o+":after";r++}n+="{background-color:"+t+";content:'"+e;s=!s;i=t}}function a(n,r){r.lastIndex=t;var i;while(i=r.exec(e)){if(i[1]){u(e.substring(t,r.lastIndex),n);t=r.lastIndex;return}var s=e.substring(t,r.lastIndex-i[0].length);if(s!=""){u(s,n)}t=r.lastIndex;switch(i[0].charAt(0)){case"[":if(i[0].charAt(1)=="["){u("[[",syntaxHighlighterConfig.wikilinkColor||n);a(syntaxHighlighterConfig.wikilinkColor||n,wikilinkBreakerRegex)}else{u(i[0],syntaxHighlighterConfig.externalLinkColor||n);a(syntaxHighlighterConfig.externalLinkColor||n,namedExternalLinkBreakerRegex)}break;case"{":if(i[0].charAt(1)=="{"){if(i[0].charAt(2)=="{"){u("{{{",syntaxHighlighterConfig.parameterColor||n);a(syntaxHighlighterConfig.parameterColor||n,parameterBreakerRegex)}else{u("{{",syntaxHighlighterConfig.templateColor||n);a(syntaxHighlighterConfig.templateColor||n,templateBreakerRegex)}}else{u("{|",syntaxHighlighterConfig.tableColor||n);a(syntaxHighlighterConfig.tableColor||n,tableBreakerRegex)}break;case"<":if(i[0].charAt(1)=="!"){u(i[0],syntaxHighlighterConfig.commentColor||n);break}else{var o=e.indexOf(">",t)+1;if(o==0){u("<");t=t-i[0].length+1;break}if(e.charAt(o-2)=="/"){u(e.substring(t-i[0].length,o),syntaxHighlighterConfig.tagColor||n);t=o}else{var f=i[0].substring(1);var l="";if(/nowiki|pre|math|syntaxhighlight|source|timeline|hiero/.test(f)){var c=e.indexOf(l,t);if(c==-1){c=e.length}else{c+=l.length}u(e.substring(t-i[0].length,c),syntaxHighlighterConfig.tagColor||n);t=c}else{u(e.substring(t-i[0].length,o),syntaxHighlighterConfig.tagColor||n);t=o;if(!tagBreakerRegexCache[f]){tagBreakerRegexCache[f]=breakerRegexWithPrefix(l)}a(syntaxHighlighterConfig.tagColor||n,tagBreakerRegexCache[f])}}}break;case"h":case"f":case"m":u(i[0],syntaxHighlighterConfig.externalLinkColor||n);break;case"=":if(/[^=]=+$/.test(e.substring(t,e.indexOf("\n",t)))){u("=",syntaxHighlighterConfig.headingColor||n);a(syntaxHighlighterConfig.headingColor||n,headingBreakerRegex)}else{u("=",n)}break;case"*":case"#":case":":u(i[0],syntaxHighlighterConfig.listAndIndentColor||n);break;case";":u(";",syntaxHighlighterConfig.headingColor||n);a(syntaxHighlighterConfig.headingColor||n,headingBreakerRegex);break;case"-":u(i[0],syntaxHighlighterConfig["hrColor"]);break;case"\\":if(i[0].length==6){u("\\'\\'\\'",syntaxHighlighterConfig.boldColor||n);a(syntaxHighlighterConfig.boldColor||n,boldBreakerRegex)}else{u("\\'\\'",syntaxHighlighterConfig.italicColor||n);a(syntaxHighlighterConfig.italicColor||n,italicBreakerRegex)}break;case"~":u(i[0],syntaxHighlighterConfig.signatureColor||n);break;case"&":u(i[0],syntaxHighlighterConfig.entityColor||n)}r.lastIndex=t}}lastText=wpTextbox1.value;var e=lastText.replace(/['\\]/g,"\\$&")+"\n";var t=0;var n="";var r=0;var i;var s=true;var o;if(presto){e+=Array(wpTextbox1.scrollWidth).join(" ")}var f=Date.now;a("inherit",defaultBreakerRegex);u(e.substring(t),"inherit");syntaxStyleElement.textContent=n.substring(2)+"'}";var l=Date.now;if(l-f>150){clearInterval(highlightSyntaxIfNeededIntervalID);syntaxStyleElement.textContent="";wpTextbox1.removeEventListener("input",highlightSyntax);wpTextbox1.style.backgroundColor="";wpTextbox1.style.position="";wpTextbox0.style.color="red";wpTextbox0.style.fontFamily="";wpTextbox0.style.fontWeight="bold";wpTextbox0.style.height="";wpTextbox0.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Syntax highlighting on this page was disabled because your computer is too slow. The maximum allowed highlighting time is 150ms, and your computer took "+(l-f)+"ms. If you are using Chrome or Safari, this could be because the syntax highlighter has to work around "));var c=document.createElement("a");c.setAttribute("href","https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17427");c.textContent="WebKit bug 17427";wpTextbox0.appendChild(c);wpTextbox0.appendChild(document.createTextNode('. Try closing some tabs and programs and clicking "Show preview" or "Show changes". If that doesn\'t work, try a different web browser, and if that doesn\'t work, try a newer computer.'))}}function syncScrollX{wpTextbox0.scrollLeft=wpTextbox1.scrollLeft}function syncScrollY{wpTextbox0.scrollTop=wpTextbox1.scrollTop}function highlightSyntaxIfNeeded{if(wpTextbox1.value!=lastText){highlightSyntax}if(wpTextbox1.scrollLeft!=wpTextbox0.scrollLeft){syncScrollX}if(wpTextbox1.scrollTop!=wpTextbox0.scrollTop){syncScrollY}}function setupSyntaxHighlighter{function e(e,t){if(syntaxHighlighterConfig[e]=="normal"){syntaxHighlighterConfig[e]=t}else if(syntaxHighlighterConfig[e]){return}else if(typeof syntaxHighlighterConfig.defaultColor!="undefined"){syntaxHighlighterConfig[e]=syntaxHighlighterConfig.defaultColor}else{syntaxHighlighterConfig[e]=t}}window.syntaxHighlighterConfig=window.syntaxHighlighterConfig||new Object;e("commentColor","#E6FFE6");e("boldColor","#E5E5E5");e("entityColor","#E6FFE6");e("externalLinkColor","#E6FFFF");e("italicColor","#E5E5E5");e("headingColor","#E5E5E5");e("hrColor","#E5E5E5");e("listAndIndentColor","#E6FFE6");e("parameterColor","#FFCC66");e("signatureColor","#FFCC66");e("tagColor","#FFE6FF");e("tableColor","#FFFFCC");e("templateColor","#FFFFCC");e("wikilinkColor","#E6E6FF");textboxContainer=document.createElement("div");wpTextbox0=document.createElement("div");wpTextbox1=document.getElementById("wpTextbox1");syntaxStyleElement=document.createElement("style");wpTextbox0.style.backgroundColor=window.getComputedStyle(wpTextbox1).backgroundColor;if(wpTextbox0.style.backgroundColor=="transparent"){wpTextbox0.style.backgroundColor="white"}wpTextbox0.style.border="1px solid transparent";wpTextbox0.style.boxSizing="border-box";wpTextbox0.style.MozBoxSizing="border-box";wpTextbox0.style.WebkitBoxSizing="border-box";wpTextbox0.style.color="transparent";wpTextbox0.style.fontFamily=window.getComputedStyle(wpTextbox1).fontFamily;wpTextbox0.style.fontSize=window.getComputedStyle(wpTextbox1).fontSize;wpTextbox0.style.lineHeight="normal";wpTextbox0.style.overflowX="auto";wpTextbox0.style.overflowY="scroll";wpTextbox0.style.whiteSpace="pre-wrap";wpTextbox0.style.width="100%";wpTextbox0.style.wordWrap="normal";wpTextbox1.style.backgroundColor="transparent";wpTextbox1.style.border="1px inset gray";wpTextbox1.style.boxSizing="border-box";wpTextbox1.style.MozBoxSizing="border-box";wpTextbox1.style.WebkitBoxSizing="border-box";wpTextbox1.style.lineHeight="normal";wpTextbox1.style.margin=0;wpTextbox1.style.overflowX="auto";wpTextbox1.style.overflowY="scroll";wpTextbox1.style.padding=0;wpTextbox1.style.position="absolute";wpTextbox1.style.resize="none";wpTextbox1.style.left=0;wpTextbox1.style.top=0;wpTextbox1.style.width="100%";wpTextbox1.style.wordWrap="normal";wpTextbox0.style.height=wpTextbox1.offsetHeight+"px";if(gecko){wpTextbox0.style.paddingLeft="1px";wpTextbox0.style.paddingRight="1px"}else if(presto){wpTextbox1.style.overflowX="scroll"}textboxContainer.style.position="relative";wpTextbox1.parentNode.insertBefore(textboxContainer,wpTextbox1);textboxContainer.appendChild(wpTextbox1);textboxContainer.appendChild(wpTextbox0);$(".tool-select *").css({zIndex:5});document.head.appendChild(syntaxStyleElement);wpTextbox1.addEventListener("input",highlightSyntax);wpTextbox1.addEventListener("scroll",syncScrollX);wpTextbox1.addEventListener("scroll",syncScrollY);highlightSyntaxIfNeededIntervalID=setInterval(highlightSyntaxIfNeeded,500);highlightSyntax}var textboxContainer;var wpTextbox0;var wpTextbox1;var syntaxStyleElement;var lastText;var maxSpanNumber=-1;var highlightSyntaxIfNeededIntervalID;var breakerRegexBase="\\[(?:\\[|(?:https?:|ftp:)?//|mailto:)|\\{(?:\\{\\{?|\\|)|<(?:[:A-Z_a-zÀ-ÖØ-öø-˿Ͱ-ͽͿ-῿‌‍⁰-↏Ⰰ-⿯、-퟿豈-﷏ﷰ-�][:A-Z_a-zÀ-ÖØ-öø-˿Ͱ-ͽͿ-῿‌‍⁰-↏Ⰰ-⿯、-퟿豈-﷏ﷰ-�-\\.0-9·̀-ͯ‿-‿-⁀]*|!--[^]*?-->)|(?:https?://|ftp://|mailto:)[^\\s\"<>[\\]|]*[^\\s\",\\.:;<>[\\]|]|^(?:=|[*#:;]+|-{4,})|\\\\'\\\\'(?:\\\\')?|~{3,5}|&(?:[a-z]+|#(?:\\d+|[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+));";var defaultBreakerRegex=new RegExp(breakerRegexBase,"gm");var wikilinkBreakerRegex=breakerRegexWithPrefix("]][a-zA-Z]*");var namedExternalLinkBreakerRegex=breakerRegexWithPrefix("]");var parameterBreakerRegex=breakerRegexWithPrefix("}}}");var templateBreakerRegex=breakerRegexWithPrefix("}}");var tableBreakerRegex=breakerRegexWithPrefix("\\|}");var headingBreakerRegex=breakerRegexWithPrefix("\n");var boldBreakerRegex=breakerRegexWithPrefix("\\\\'\\\\'\\\\'");var italicBreakerRegex=breakerRegexWithPrefix("\\\\'\\\\'");var tagBreakerRegexCache=new Object;var gecko=$.client.profile.layout=="gecko";var presto=$.client.profile.layout=="presto";var webkit=$.client.profile.layout=="webkit";var trident=$.client.profile.layout=="trident";if((wgAction=="edit"||wgAction=="submit")&&!((wgNamespaceNumber==2||wgNamespaceNumber==8)&&/\.(css|js)$/.test(wgTitle))&&!trident){if(document.readyState=="complete"){setupSyntaxHighlighter}else{$(window).load(setupSyntaxHighlighter)}}
 * 2) The contents of [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Remember_the_dot/Syntax_highlighter&action=edit meta:User:Remember the dot/Syntax highlighter] be copied to User:Remember the dot/Syntax highlighter.
 * 3) MediaWiki:Gadget-DotsSyntaxHighlighter be created with * Dot's syntax highlighter, make syntax stand out colorfully in the edit box. Works best in Firefox, works almost all of the time in Opera, and works most of the time in Chrome. Should not be used with the browser's page zoom feature.
 * 4) The following line be added to MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition under "editing-gadgets": DotsSyntaxHighlighter[ResourceLoader]|DotsSyntaxHighlighter.js

I hope you find this gadget helpful. There is a related discussion at wikipedia:Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals about getting this onto the English Wikipedia. —Remember the dot (talk) 21:43, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've done #2, though you could've done it yourself. For #1, can we please not use minified JS? -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 21:51, 25 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I didn't want to move the documentation before the source code was moved, but I suppose it doesn't really matter. I provided minified code because I don't know of any other way to minify the script than to minify it manually. Gadgets hosted locally and used locally are minified through the local ResourceLoader, but this is not the case when loading a gadget cross-wiki. The regular source code will still be available (I'll move it here also) no matter what. —Remember the dot (talk) 22:00, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Request access to old username Jpostlethwaite
I am a former employee at the Wikimedia Foundation. I would like to get access to my username:

User:Jpostlethwaite

I am using this account on Gerrit:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:Jpostlethwaite+status:open,n,z

I would like to continue working on extensions in which I am the maintainer:


 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UnitTest
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LastModified

Note: When I try to reclaim with lost password, Mediawiki says it sent the password to my email, but nothing ever shows up. I believe it is going to my old employee email account.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jeremy.postlethwaite (talk • contribs) 17:30, 20 February 2013
 * The account is locked ([ log]). We can't help you, you'll have to ask the stewards on metawiki and they'll probably have to check with the foundation. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 17:42, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, will check on metawiki. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jeremy.postlethwaite (talk • contribs) 18:05, 20 February 2013‎

Mark Extension:Education Program page for translation
I would like to begin translating Extension:Education Program to Spanish language, but I need a Translation Admin or someone with permission to mark it for translation. Thanks. --Zerabat (talk) 17:56, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ Petrb (talk) 08:52, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Hey, man, that was not the very best of you. This page is rather useful for translation admins. -- Ата  (talk) 23:02, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Please block users for identity theft (falsely impersonating others) and repeated vandalism
Hello - Can you please block the following users for repeated vandalism: Wiki Dick heads, Don't work for Skilled!, Abused by SKILLED. Please also block the following users: Pborobokas, A Pizzoni , Richard(E) Glover , Peter Eaves. These are false impersonations of staff members at SKILLED Group and the user is posting dafamatory comments. We know who is doing this and are following this up in Australia.- ltobrien
 * Hello. This does not appear to be happening on this wiki. Did you mean to post this on some other wiki? (in that case, we have no responsibility for it).--Jasper Deng (talk) 03:30, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Deletion request
Hello, I don't know whether it is the good place to ask, but could you delete this page ? Is is a (blanked) copy of this message. I did a mistake when saving it twice. Thanks in advance, NemesisIII (talk) 19:36, 4 March 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 20:06, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Deletion request #2 - this time its serious....
Hello, I also don't know whether this is the best place to ask, but please would you delete this page? It is deprecated and it's information duplicated and expanded upon here. Thanks in advance.

Might I also be made an administrator, or at least someone with permission to delete pages I have created to avoid needing to bother you guys in future? I would understand if you decline this second element of my request. :)

Requester
 * The best place to ask is on that particular wiki. This wiki is for the documentation of the MediaWiki software, and any requests here can and will only affect pages on the mediawiki.org domain. If you have a problem with another wiki, you need to ask there. Since I see the domain for that wiki ends in ".local" either it is a company/intranet wiki or a wiki you installed locally for testing. Either way, see Help:Deleting a page for more information on how to delete pages. -- Skiz zerz  14:32, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * ❌ - As said above, this wiki is for documentation of the MediaWiki software. We cannot delete pages on that wiki since we are not local administrators there. As it is on a  domain name, we cannot access that wiki. You should navigate to Special:ListAdmins on that wiki and request one of them to delete it. --GeorgeBarnick (talk) 19:10, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Deletion of Wawa06's posts
Can an administrator look into these LQT posts and maybe delete them? whym (talk) 09:18, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ Someone else already deleted them, but I put a warning on the user's talk page. Will block if they continue. Thanks for reporting! --GeorgeBarnick (talk) 17:16, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection of How to contribute
Can you please semi-protect How to contribute and/or its translation pages for repeated vandalism? --Shirayuki (talk) 10:20, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Done on How to contribute. Which translation pages in specific? I don't have time to look at the revision histories of all of them. Or are they all in need of protection? --GeorgeBarnick (talk) 14:44, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I think the latter. Thanks in advance. --Shirayuki (talk) 21:16, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Translation pages can't be protected because they can't be edited (only Special:Translate can edit them). If vandalism is serious, we could recursively protect all translation unit pages. --Nemo 05:20, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, all unit pages should be protected recursively. e.g. be-tarask, ast
 * Done but I had forgotten cascading semiprotection is not possible. I did anyway because it doesn't prevent new translations, so we can bear for some time. --Nemo 09:30, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Undo the latest two edits on How to contribute/ksh ([ diff]) --Shirayuki (talk) 08:56, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
 * From my point of few this semi-protedtion is just frustrating. since months I try to update the lb-version of this page.


 * If you really want me to give this up please delete as well all lb-translations already done on this page: How_to_contribute/lb. --Robby (talk) 10:51, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Mark for translation
Could someone please mark the recent updates to Compatibility for translation? Please also keep an eye on Special:PageTranslation. whym (talk) 13:35, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I just did a few dozens pages, but there were virtually no real changes and where there are some they are wrong (please check the current list). I expect this task to become easier for translation admins, hence faster on average, whenever 132636 is merged (it may take hours or years though, no idea). --Nemo 13:59, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot! Did you check this? It is a meaningful change and looks right to me. (I'm no expert on this topic, though.) whym (talk) 10:18, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Please block User:AtroPix
Please block AtroPix for excessive vandalism on Multimedia/Media Viewer/de. e.g. [], [] --Shirayuki (talk) 01:31, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I've put a warning on their talk page. If they persist, I'll block them. --GeorgeBarnick (talk) 15:53, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Change Abuse filter block lengths to 3 months for IPs only
I tried enabling automatic blocking for Special:AbuseFilter/28 but I forgot that this wiki hasn't configured $wgAbuseFilterAnonBlockDuration to be a finite duration yet. I think this would require at least some form of consensus. I am proposing 3 months because that is what I usually use for blocks of those spambots.--Jasper Deng (talk) 18:41, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 months is definitely better than infinite. There's quite a huge gap however from this and, say, the 24 hours of autoblock; you may want to consider if few weeks actually suffice, for such IPs (are they even static?). If you think 3 months is best, let's go for it for now. --Nemo 09:16, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Personally I think 1 month should be all that's necessary on automatic blocks. If an IP is seen to get automatically blocked more than once, a manual, longer block can be implemented. 3 months is just a bit long as far as automatic blocks go in my opinion. Whatever works best for everyone else is fine for me though. --GeorgeBarnick (talk) 18:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Support either 3 months or 1 month (don't care which). I had this same idea myself before I even saw this here. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:50, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I've opened 70828. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:04, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ by Reedy. Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:29, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * We now have an example of a block to a "normal" IP which almost 3 months later blocked a good faith user: Special:AbuseFilter/24. Perhaps we should reduce to 1 month, as most people above seemed to be content with? Or we need to make sure that blocking filters don't block home/consumer dynamic IPs. --Nemo 07:24, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Delete user request
User: T816424

Please delete user account T816424 as created in error.

Apologies for the trouble. Thanks
 * We cannot and will not delete user accounts, for technical reasons.--Jasper Deng (talk) 20:17, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, it theoretically could be done, right? Leucosticte (talk) 18:27, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Technically it would be possible, but there is no reason to do so. And sysadmin is a usergroup "to perform actions for technical reasons". And i see no technical reason to do anything here :) --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 07:54, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * ❌ see answer of Jasper Deng --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 06:21, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Import w:fr:Aide:Pywikipedia/interwiki.py
This page is a (partially) translated version of Manual:Pywikibot/interwiki.py. Could you import it as Manual:Pywikibot/interwiki.py/fr? We don't need it anymore on Wikipedia, but it could still be useful for other projects. Thanks, Orlodrim (talk) 01:19, 1 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Could one of you do this? Manual:Pywikibot/interwiki.py doesn't use the Translate extension so this shouldn't really be a problem, afaics. Thanks, --Glaisher (talk) 07:54, 17 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Orlodrim. Here you go: Manual:Pywikibot/interwiki.py/fr. I only sort of fucked it up, nothing a quick page move couldn't fix... I've done much worse with the import tool. :-) Let me know if you wanted templates. (Thanks for the ping, Glaisher!) --MZMcBride (talk) 23:43, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Perfect, thanks. No additional templates are needed. Orlodrim (talk) 00:02, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ then, thanks for response :) --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 08:22, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Remove/reduce protection in How to contribute/Translations‎
It isn't possible to update and create new translations to the page. Thanks, Eran (talk) 20:08, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, the protection reason seems to be still actual, maybe can revisit this. (Protected "How to contribute/Translations": Excessive vandalism: High visibility page linked from the footer of all Wikimedia projects, https://www.mediawiki.org/?diff=next&oldid=1018668 (how to semiprotect recursively?), and a cascading protection is nly possible for full (only-admin) protection. The protection will expire 31 May 2015. --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 07:27, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * We could try removing the protection. Shirayuki, is it still necessary? --Nemo 09:46, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The protection should be removed per Translations talk:How to contribute/26/fr. --Shirayuki (talk) 13:11, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅, thanks for confirming. --Nemo 13:21, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * now everything works fine (at least from my point of view)--Robby (talk) 13:46, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Request block of User:Eye Compagny
Please block Special:Contributions/Eye Compagny for vandalism (see contributions) and unwanted username. It is a misspelling of a Dutch company called Eye Company. After being blocked on the Dutch Wikipedia for unwanted username, the user started vandalising here. After a short while the user stopped. However I don't think the user is planning on doing anything helpful for this project. Mbch331 (talk) 14:13, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ❌ -> "User account "Eye Compagny" is not registered." Can you check the username please? :) --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 14:24, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, made a small typo. It's Eye compagny (with a small c instead of capital C). Mbch331 (talk) 15:06, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ -> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&user=&page=User:Eye+compagny --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 15:15, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Special:Log/liquidthreads
Please remember to watch this log: LQT vandalism is not visible in contributions and has no rollback/undo button. When you see LQT vandalism by a user or IP, remember to check both their contributions and logs. Should we ad monitoring of this log to some IRC channel? --Nemo 11:03, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
 * now that there are no more LQT threads. Nemo 22:58, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Delete "coder" and "svnadmins" group
As Extension:CodeReview was migrated, coders and SVN admins have no rights related to CodeReview, though coders still have autopatrol right. Purpose to move all coders to "autoreview" user group, and then delete these two groups from MediaWiki.org.--GZWDer (talk) 11:19, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi GZWDer. I think the "coder" user group is now gone from this wiki. "SVN admins" still exists. Please file a task in Phabricator to remove that user group. --MZMcBride (talk) 13:07, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Import a few b:en:User:Ivan Shmakov, b:ru:User:Ivan Shmakov subpages
Unless I be mistaken, the documentation for MediaWiki-related software is well within the scope of this wiki. Among such packages I was loosely working on last year (and hopefully will get back to somewhat later) are:
 * MediaWiki-API2 – a fork of the [//metacpan.org/release/MediaWiki-API MediaWiki-API] MediaWiki API interface for Perl;
 * a few command-line tools (including  and  ) employing this interface.

I have a couple of reasons to prefer this wiki rather than Wikibooks for working on the documentation for these packages. (One of the reasons being, obviously, Extension:Translate.) If it indeed fits the scope of the project, could someone please import the respective subpages (see below) from English Wikibooks into my “user space” here? (I will then request removal of these pages from the former location.)
 * b:en:Special:PrefixIndex/User:Ivan Shmakov/MediaWiki-API2 CPAN distribution
 * b:en:Special:PrefixIndex/User:Ivan Shmakov/Command-line MediaWiki tools

One another package of such a kind is MW – a modular MediaWiki interface for GNU Emacs, whose documentation in Russian is now available from b:ru:Участник:Ivan Shmakov/MediaWiki как система управления редакциями. Curiously, does it make sense to move it here as well, or will it be, in essence, necessary to start this page anew in order to utilize Extension:Translate?

Anything else I should consider?

Thanks in advance.

— Ivan Shmakov (d ▞ c) 17:50, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Remove adminship from old WMF staff accounts
Purpose removing adminship from: These users are no longer working for WMF and thus their office accounts are locked. So no reason for keeping their adminship. They can still use their adminship of their personal accounts e.g. .--GZWDer (talk) 11:13, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi. It looks like Jalexander-WMF took care of this. --MZMcBride (talk) 13:05, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ by

Editing my user page has been identified as spam
Can an admin take a look at it? Thanks! --Axil42 (talk) 08:53, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Was it identified automatically or deleted by an admin? What is the exact error message you get? --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 09:18, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The user page and the talk page have not been deleted.--Syum90 (talk) 09:30, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Resolved by billinghurst.--Syum90 (talk) 11:12, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

I had the same issue. This is what it said:

This edit has been identified as spam. If it is not spam, contact an administrator. However, if you attempt this edit again, your account or IP address will be automatically blocked by the abuse filter. Warning: This action has been automatically identified as harmful.

Could someone help me out? Achildofyhwh (talk) 00:38, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I think, that talking about god and Jesus isn't the right topic for mediawiki.org. And promoting your website on your userpage without having any other contributions smells like ads, so please understand, that this edits on your user page were blocked correctly by abuse filter. Best, --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 05:23, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Request for unblock: alextif
Hello. My account was blocked with my previous username : alextif. How can I have access to it, or was attached in it. Thanks.
 * There is no registered (and therefor, no blocked) user with the username alextifin this wiki. Please check the spelling. Btw. Registering a new account to bypass a block of a previous account isn't allowed and will result in a block of the new account. --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 17:20, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * ❌: No response from requestor. --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 09:17, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Delete Help:Logging in/sq
Not translated.--Syum90 (talk) 07:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ by .--Syum90 (talk) 10:04, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Request for comment: Participate in Code of conduct process
Please participate in the ongoing work to develop a code of conduct, at Talk:Code of conduct for technical spaces/Draft. Thanks. Mattflaschen-WMF (talk) 04:09, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Delete Template:PD Help Page/core/vo
Not translated, test page.--Syum90 (talk) 08:33, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ -> deleted --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 10:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Delete Category:Extensions by category/cs
Not translated.--Syum90 (talk) 07:09, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 09:15, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Delete Project:Language policy/ase
Not translated.--Syum90 (talk) 07:14, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 09:15, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Request to publish a question on the support forum
Could you please move this to the support forum. It gets marked as spam: Subject:DB Error when searching (v.1.24.3)


 * ✅ See my answer here: Topic:Ss2uzf6aaghek1is --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 06:40, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I was able to post the question. Thank you so much!

Delete Download/tl
Not translated.--Syum90 (talk) 08:21, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅--Syum90 (talk) 10:10, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Delete How to become a MediaWiki hacker/pt
Not translated.--Syum90 (talk) 09:30, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅--Syum90 (talk) 10:10, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Broken Abuse Filter
Hi guys, can you please have a look at the AbuseFilter and fix the wrong blocks, which it is making? E.g. see the block of my IP 88.130... from today (December 2nd), 13:30 o'clock. I was answering a support request on the Support Desk and in the answer I wanted to include a link to an older Support Topic. The topic name is one of these random numbers. As soon as I try to point to a topic, it incorrectly blocks me, telling me, I would be a spam bot doing a mass attack. It would be great, if this broken spam filter could be fixed, so that it at least properly allows mediawiki.org links again. Cheers! Jörg --88.130.119.246 22:54, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Internal links inside mediawiki.org also are not working correctly. This misconfiguration currently prevents me from helping users at the Support Desk. --88.130.73.233 15:45, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello! Thanks for mentioning the problem here, and sorry for any inconvenience :( I changed the filter to not block users anymore and the filter rules should be more specific when identifying the real spam and let you post links :) Please give me some feedback, if you still have problems :) Best! --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 16:45, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Florian,
 * it is better now, but the problem is not yet solved.
 * Links to Flow topics and internal links with twice two square brackets seem to be working correctly now.
 * What is not working yet, are external links to mediawiki.org. E.g. a link to api.php or a link to the history function with an old revision or so. --88.130.73.233 19:00, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Remove User:Kate admin flags
I've just noticed I still have bureaucrat and sysop flags here. Since I'm no longer a sysadmin/developer and don't need them, would someone mind removing them? Thanks, Kate. 00:03, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Kate, it's always a pleasure and a honour to see you. It's very considerate of you to ask deflag, I've forwarded your request. See you around! Nemo 00:07, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅, rights removed. Trijnstel (talk) 00:15, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Delete Help:VisualEditor/User guide/en-gb
Not translated.--Syum90 (talk) 13:23, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * ❌. The page has a few valid translation units. e.g. 257 --Shirayuki (talk) 06:51, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Mark Manual:CategoryMembershipChanges for translation
I have updated this page and the changes should be translated ASAP! :) Addshore (talk) 22:47, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ by me --Shirayuki (talk) 06:54, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Many thanks! Addshore (talk) 15:54, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Remove adminship from old WMF staff accounts II

 * There are a couple more which are marked as WMF accounts on the respective user page, have not edited for over two years and were flagged without discussion due to staff status. Would be useful to unflag.
 * Nemo 23:03, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've ✅ those two. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 18:00, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I've ✅ those two. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 18:00, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Remove Flow of my talk page
Hello, it is that Flow is active in my talk page (no it did) and I do not want that system, can help me to remove it. Thank you. -- Alvaro Molina  ( Let's Talk ) 21:42, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * You should be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences. Please let us know at Talk:Flow how you would improve the feature, or what you had problems with. Thanks! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 04:47, 11 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi, I want the same as Alvaro Molina; I've done as you said but my talk page is still a Flow page.--Syum90 (talk) 16:05, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Fixed for you. As above, please give us any feedback at Talk:Flow that you can. Thanks. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:02, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I deleted AlvaroMolina's talk page because it was still under Flow, and was showing under speedy deletion. It seems I also can't disable Flow by normal means for myself (the feature is added on all uncreated anon. talk pages, among other areas). Tropicalkitty (talk) 19:47, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Now fixed that, too. (Using special:ChangeContentModel, as opposed to special:EnableFlow (this auto-archives existing content), both of which are available to admins on this wiki). Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:47, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know about that. Tropicalkitty (talk) 17:55, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much :-) I will provide my reasons at Talk:Flow as you asked.--Syum90 (talk) 06:42, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for the help, my talk page returned to normal. Regards. -- Alvaro Molina ( Let's Talk ) 18:27, 12 April 2016 (UTC)


 * , I have the same problem, I need User talk:Mlpearc Phone changed via Special:ChangeContentModel from Page content model-  to Page content model-, not sure how to requests this, hoping this can be resolved here. Thanx,  Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 14:57, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I did it for you. --wargo (talk) 15:08, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. Cheers, Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 15:11, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

So I've got User talk:MarcoAurelio/Archive 1 which is an old flow board. I changed its content model to wikitext, deleted it and... suprise! The flow board re-appeared. Can that be fixed? I repeated the process w/o deleting this time. Regards, MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:01, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Redlink talkpages are flow by default. If you want to keep that page as a wikitext page, the easiest solution is to either add some content (e.g. archive) or redirect it back to your existing talkpage. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:09, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Ah, so everything in User_talk: is now flow by default, even subpages? In that case I'll leave the page as it is now. Regards, MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:12, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Delete Talk:Technical Collaboration Guideline/Vision
Please delete Talk:Technical Collaboration Guideline/Vision to make space for move from the actual talk page, which was moved and made orphan without reason (the new talk page is empty). Users expect to be able to find and follow comments to a page but outside the page itself in the standard ways (clicking the "Talk" tab, watchlisting the subject page) but the moving user declined to consider solutions for that problem. Nemo 08:30, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I actually proposed a solution allowing to keep the default discussion pages based on Flow and the extra wikitext-based discussion pages created manually by a user, having both of them linked to each other and to their content page. I explained my reasoning to Nemo.--Qgil-WMF (talk) 08:51, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * ❌; I don't see a reason to fork the conversation away from the standard place. Also, please don't edit war, let alone to subvert this wiki's decision to use Flow by default on talk pages. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 14:55, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Consider importing
Greetings, folks on enwiki have discussed whether en:Pygments is content more suitable for this project than the English Wikipedia. This is a question for this page I believe - if the answer is yes, can someone please import the contents from en:Pygments here? Once that is done - or if the answer is "no" - en:Pygments should be edited and  added to it. Thanks! Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:12, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ❌ Extension:SyntaxHighlight already says all we need, for the rest there is http://pygments.org/ . Nemo 12:03, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * And I have thus deleted the enwiki article. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 12:37, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Another broken Abusefilter
Hello, I just report it : an user was catch by Special:AbuseFilter/43 Flow spam filter: low number of stopwords on topic Topic:Tbp3t0o9tjao4s4x. Thanks --Framawiki (talk) 08:05, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Just for info: The filter doesn't really consider other languages than English. This means, that languages other than english may trigger the filter for no valid reason :/ --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 05:24, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * From the abusefilter log I don't see many benefits from this filter: it seems to mostly catch non-English external links spam which should be caught for its URLs instead. Can we disable the warning? Nemo 09:51, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ per above. --Nemo 17:46, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

New Abusefilter
Can someone please set up an abusefilter that prohibits any form of garage door repair in the user space? This is ridiculous. Mainframe98 (talk) 06:36, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ wargo (talk) 15:37, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Broken default gadget breaking a lot of site functionality
In non-debug mode I get this JavaScript error which breaks at least search box autocompletion, editing toolbar and hovercards. The error does not appear in debug mode. This is related to a gadget that is enabled for everyone. Nikerabbit (talk) 08:37, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

wmf17:11Uncaught Error: Unknown dependency: ext.gadget.enwp-boxes(…)sortDependencies @ load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=0y4qflu:158sortDependencies @ load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=0y4qflu:159(anonymous function) @ load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=0y4qflu:159each @ load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=0y4qflu:5resolve @ load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=0y4qflu:159load @ load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=0y4qflu:170(anonymous function) @ wmf17:11startUp @ load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=vector:66script.onload.script.onreadystatechange @ load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=vector:66


 * I can reproduce, after switching to Vector. Nemo 08:41, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Well I fixed it on MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition, but the cache hasn't updated yet...? Legoktm (talk) 08:41, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

A feedback, surprisingly "identified as SPAM", took me here
In response to a request for feedback, on the contents translation tool, in https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tema:T2vwbskdnhgwkwek (the catalan Wikipedia) I just reported a problem (Subject "Tables translation"... or so) but, when sending it, I got a warning message saying that this had been identified as spam and suggesting that, if it wasn't, I should contact an administrator. The "user list" pages the message link took me to do recomend comming here for admin actions. My feedback provided links to original, translated and reconstructud pages, which would take me some effort to rebuild. Can someone do somethig for me: recover my contribution and take it to the proper destination? Thanks, --FranSisPac (talk) 17:24, 28 April 2016 (UTC) (also in ca:Usuari_Discussió:FranSisPac)

Flowbot flag for MediaWiki message delivery
The mass message bot has been flooding Recent changes lately whenever messages are being sent to Flow talk pages, can a bureaucrat please hand the flowbot flag to this bot so that this doesn't occur again? The bot already has the bot flag. &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 09:26, 24 February 2017 (UTC)"Apparently  doesn't actually do what it sounds like it does; there's a task, T119630, to fix the RC-flooding behaviour, which is unfortunately apparently not easy. I've asked the team to take a look. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 02:50, 25 February 2017 (UTC)"
 * Well that's disappointing. Thanks for the link, I've subscribed to the phabricator task. &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 11:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Request wikibreak enforcement
Hi. I request to block my account for wikibreak. Block time is three years. Please do not set autoblock. Thank you. -- mirinano ( talk ) 15:36, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅--Infinite0694 (talk) 17:40, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Botflag for User:Translation Notification Bot
This bot has the potential to add a bunch of messages to Special:RecentChanges when notifying users about translations. It in fact already has, when MediaWiki 1.29 was released. As it is part of the Translate extension and can be triggered by Translation Administrators by checking a box after marking a page for translation wouldn't it be better to have this bot flagged? &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 14:02, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Good point. ✅ Legoktm (talk) 16:24, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

New wiki
I need help finding links to create my own wiki. Can somebody help me? --Brynda1231 (talk) 02:17, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * See Hosting. &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 09:26, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Redirect override tool not working
As seen from my account logs, I've been moving the pages for early MediaWiki versions into their own pages rather than subpages of the Release notes pages. For the first two moves, MediaWiki 1.1 and MediaWiki 1.2, I was able to successfully delete the existing redirect and move the page to the new name with ease. However, for some reason, on MediaWiki 1.3 and up, I can no longer do this. Attempting to move Release notes/1.3 to MediaWiki 1.3 and delete the existing redirect at MediaWiki 1.3 results in an error saying that I do not have permission to do such. I've copy-pasted MediaWiki 1.3 and I need an admin to histmerge, but before copy-pasting all the other versions from 1.4 and up, I was wondering if someone would know what the problem here is. Thanks. Nestor Lozano (talk) 14:17, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The moves are incorrect: Release notes are still published under that title, see for instance Release notes/1.29 vs. MediaWiki 1.29. Please revert. --Nemo 16:44, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ again (per IAlex in 2009, inter alia). Nemo 17:57, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of subpages
Hello. I've archived Extension:Ads. Please delete Special:PrefixIndex/Extension:Ads/ as the template from Extension:Ads will display in the user language already. Thanks. &mdash;MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:49, 10 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Hey there. I'm not sure blanking the extension's page is the right approach here – don't we normally just mark it as unsupported? Happy to delete them all but can you link to equivalent examples? Don't want to set a new precedent without discussion. :-)
 * BTW, I think these kind of items should go on Project:Current issues – it's not a user rights request or other +bureaucrat task request, just a regular +sysop (well, +translateadmin) action thing. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 00:16, 11 September 2017 (UTC)


 * ✅ but by mere redirecting now that the page was removed from translation. Replacing content with the notice is an established practice for archived extensions, but no need to delete history. Nemo 06:27, 11 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Works for me. Thanks for your help. I'll keep doing that. Regards, &mdash;MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:33, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Non-MW related manual talk pages
On manual talk pages which are not directly related to mediawiki, the MediaWiki:Editnotice-101 message which appear while editing should be replaced with another message(s). There are many Pywikibot manual talk pages; try to edit one of them, and you will see how irrelevant are the links in that message. --XXN (talk) 09:19, 14 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Perhaps non-MediaWiki content shouldn't be in that namespace – would it be better to put pywikibot items in their own namespace? Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 00:26, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Testing search in deleted pages archive
Hello,

During Wikimedia Hackathon 2016, the Discovery team worked on one of the items on the 2015 community wishlist, namely enabling searching the archive of deleted pages. Now we are ready to deploy this capability in production, and are asking admins of select wikis to test-drive this feature. After accommodating any feedback from this trial, we plan to deploy it on all wikis and enable it by default.

To test it on your wiki, please go to the  page, and add   to the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1. Then search for the pages you're interested in. The results should show more results than before, due to using ElasticSearch indexing (via the CirrusSearch extension). If you find anything that is not right with the results, or that you want to be changed, please comment.

Please note that since Special:Undelete is an admin-only feature, this search capability is also only accessible to admins. CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:02, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Manual:Configuration settings/zh-hant
I think, it's dormanted, it's just possible to use which derived from Manual:Configuration settings/zh, I'm sorry that I can't place delete template because of "Translate in zh please." warning. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:46, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Keeping such pages doesn't cause great harm, but in this case the history didn't contain anything useful. Nemo 07:21, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Translations:Help:Login notifications/5/de (version 2697504)
I can't say you how it happend but at the beginning of the version text is an insult at the begining of the version text. Maybe it was a hacker that added it but I don't know why it is there. The version should be deleted. Note: I didn't add the insult myself."Now I know: It wasn't a hacker, it was the filter fuzzy from the URL. But why was it pasted?"

Need Media wiki access
I am admin on wesrten punjabi wiki (pnbwiki). I created some Media wiki gadgets for punjabi i.e (https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C:Gadget-PunjabiShabdDarustgi.js) it is for correcting punjabi words. Problem is that now I have not access in media wiki, so I can't made changes in this gadget , but we need changes and want update in this gadget , plz help me to solve this problem.--Abbas dhothar (talk) 08:42, 3 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello Abbas dhothar, this page is only for requests pertaining to this specific wiki. For requests for userrights changes on other wikis, the page you need appears to be Steward requests/Permissions. Sorry, and good luck! 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」☎ Dinoguy1000 17:04, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Mark for translation request
I wish to support translating details related to the Affiliate-selected Board seats/Resolution 2019, as this is a great new passage we are taking, and my request may include: Cheers, --Omotecho (talk) 04:34, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Affiliate-selected Board seats/Resolution 2019
 * Although still a draft, Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019/Call for Candidates could be translated sooner, as candidates are called for between 15 to 30 April. Or kindly point to versions later than this one, if any other guideline affiliates can refere to.
 * the voting system: affiliates needs to decide delegates who will be "...Voting for nominees by Affiliates from 8 to 31 May."
 * Optional, but "News" section in Aff Com could be updated for transparency reasons as: Reviewing and screening by the community from 1 to 7 May.
 * Are you sure this is about mediawiki.org? wargo (talk) 21:39, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * If you want to request for marking the page for translation, please request at Translation_requests.-- 94rain  Talk 15:44, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Oops, thank you for your reminder, and case clsoed for me. Cheers, --Omotecho (talk) 15:59, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

I will update a link to this page in a note on Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_example/ja; it should link to Translation_requests, my mistake writing _marking for translation_ is handled here on this talk, and try to solve confusion. Cheers, --Omotecho (talk) 07:06, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Sitewide gadget edit request
Hi. For MediaWiki:Gadget-userfeedback.js, there are a few checks that determine if the form should be displayed. However, it is still shown on soft redirects (eg API:Assert). Can the conditions be changed from

to

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 11:41, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ --wargo (talk) 21:08, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Sitewide gadget edit request #2
Also, for the same script (MediaWiki:Gadget-userfeedback.js), I just realized that for hard redirects, such as https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=API:Action_API&redirect=no, the form is still shown. Please change

to

and

to

so that the form isn't shown on hard redirects. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:12, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

✅ --wargo (talk) 19:43, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Undeletion request
Please restore https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:V502yhwaccxa1e3k for T230095. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 23:33, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * This was done, and subsequently deleted once the need was over. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 23:55, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Mark as translatable page
Hello. I'm looking for translations administrator to mark Extension:PortableInfobox as translatable.

Thank you, Rail01 (talk) 06:47, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 10:08, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Calvinkulit
Please keep an eye on Calvin. He's doing pretty much the same things here that got him blocked on Commons and enwiki. (Commons block just expired, but I imagine that won't last long..) Alexis Jazz (talk) 15:16, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I deleted a few pages on impulse because they were added to Commons, but now I’m not so sure if there is consensus (by the Commons regulars) to have those files imported over there. Sorry, I wasn’t aware about this situation until an hour ago. Tropicalkitty (talk) 06:34, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Did the same; I have restored the 2 files I deleted, as well as File:Readmore- desktop- prototype.png, which was deleted by . I left File:Logo The Technical Wishes Project (with background).svg deleted though; no objections if its restored, but I don't see anything worth keeping. Anyway, I suggest that, to be on the safe side, we just keep the files here. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:45, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
 * IMO, no issue here deleting the local files (screenshot of a web page of a Wikimedia Foundation project) which are already available on Commons and is acceptable. Kind regards, &mdash; Tulsi Bhagat  ( contribs  &#124;  talk ) 07:38, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for help
I translated Help:RevisionDelete(Translations:Help:RevisionDelete/1/Zh,Translations:Help:RevisionDelete/Page Display Title/Zh), but there seems to be no Help:RevisionDelete /zh. -- Catherine Laurence ( discussion ) 12:33, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Bad links: Translations:Help:RevisionDelete/1/zh, Translations:Help:RevisionDelete/Page display title/zh, Help:RevisionDelete/zh. 94rain created the page with null edit this afternoon. —Eihel (talk) 17:26, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Known issue. See and related ones. Extension:Translate got broken somehow. &mdash;MarcoAurelio (talk) 17:32, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I know . Like you, I'm subscriber of T235027 and T221119. I thought that I had already answered. Surely I haven't been explicit enough myself. A temporary solution was found by Shirayuki (topic link in Phab) and transcribed by Wargo, 7 days ago (he also add the task the same day). This is the "null edit". 6 days ago, this solution was repeated by Wladek92. He adds another solution: a 100% translated page shows the link of the language . Tacsipacsi adds a comment to this temporary solution.
 * Extra information: procedure for the null edit. —Eihel (talk) 00:19, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Xzvcxv-zxv45a
Xzvcxv-zxv45a seems to be here only for vandalism, judging by the edits the user made. Calvinkulit (talk) 09:03, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked and deleted the pages they created. In the future, these reports should go on Project:Current issues. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」☎ Dinoguy1000 09:23, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * For the technical staff of the site (admin, crats and TA), seeing the archives, it is apparently the right place to make this request. The other Project doesn't contain any such requests. Cordially. —Eihel (talk) 11:07, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

spam deletion
please delete Topic:Vcgwo3a79vsegtsv. if this is not the right place to ask, sorry. in this case, can you be so kind and move it to the right place? peace - קיפודנחש (talk) 22:01, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Already done by Clump --DannyS712 (talk) 22:57, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Please protect User:Killarnee
Please protect so that this page can only be created by administrators. Thanks, --Killarnee ( T•1•2 ) 15:05, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅, let us know if you want the protection removed --DannyS712 (talk) 15:07, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Allow TabbedWindow gadget to be used in other namespaces besides API/Help namespace
I would like to request for MediaWiki:Gadget-tabbedwindow.js to be edited so that it can be used within:
 * the Manual namespace: I would like to be able to provide a schema summary other than MySQL on core tables that have differences such as the table.
 * the main namespace: I would like to be able to provide examples of OOUI code in PHP, as currently the OOUI pages just provide JS examples. Most of the OOUI widgets and layouts have a PHP counterpart implementation.

Thank you. SamanthaNguyen (talk) 16:58, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me, should be a fairly simple change, but I'd like to give a chance to chime in since they were responsible for deploying the gadget here. --DannyS712 (talk) 02:59, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks! Ladsgroup (talk) 18:59, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you Ladsgroup and Danny! Much appreciated SamanthaNguyen (talk) 02:18, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Prepare page for translation
I'd like to translate this page and I am looking for a translation administrator to prepare it for translation. Meiræ (talk) 09:22, 22 October 2020 (UTC)


 * ✅ DannyS712 (talk) 16:54, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Meiræ (talk) 06:04, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Require formal RfA/RfB for applications
Yes, I'm aware of the fact that this website is controlled by the developers, but I think some formal record of why the user was given adminship should be needed. Just saying "trusted user" is quite generic. This problem cropped up when a MediaWiki sysop was attempting to become a steward - upon some digging, it turned out that the user never submitted an RfA and was just, quoting a user, "handled out by trust by a crat". In my opinion, this does not speak well for this site. Hence my proposal is simple: require that every user, developer or not, formally request adminship here. This is the case for every other Wikimedia site, and I am not convinced that this site needs to follow differently (even if it's not a "content site").

This does not mean that consensus should be obtained; unlike other sites I can see it reasonable for the developers to accept an application with no support votes, but I feel that record needs to be there. Leaderboard (talk) 10:37, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just don't see this being all that big of a deal. Per the box at the top of the page, all new requests for +sysop should come here unless the user is already a well-established developer. In practice, very few recent flags to +sysop have happened without an associated subpage here, so the change you're requesting is already de facto in effect (last one I can find was in April 2020). I'm not opposed to requiring it for everyone, but I feel that mountains are being made of molehills here. -- Skiz zerz  17:55, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I likewise don't see the point of this. * Pppery * it has begun 18:45, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 * All that adminship requires is trust, and if someone is already trusted I don't see the point of extra bureaucracy. Having a wiki page is really no extra benefit than a log entry, it's just more work. And to be honest, I don't like dealing with spam and vandalism, but there are people who do enjoy cleaning that stuff up, and I am happy to do whatever it takes to empower them so I can get back to doing the stuff I enjoy. I'm also getting really tired of the trope that "mediawiki.org is not a content wiki" - please, there's a ton of content on this wiki. We too are equal partners in the movement for free knowledge. Legoktm (talk) 22:34, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi I agree that it's not right that MediaWiki is frequently considered as a "non-content" wiki. However, in every other wiki (except the test ones), there is no provision for someone to get adminship just by requesting a bureaucrat. This is true even for inactive wikis (as is often the case with very small wikis); users are required to post a RfA in a village pump or similar for a week. I do not see how MediaWiki should be any different.
 * Additionally, "Having a wiki page is really no extra benefit than a log entry" - this is not quite true. The reason is that a log entry gives barely any information on why that person was given adminship. In Charitwo's case, all the log said was "trusted user". That is no better than giving no detail at all. Leaderboard (talk) 15:18, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Most RfA processes on large wikis are dysfunctional, I don't think looking to them for comparison is a good idea. Adminship here still is "no big deal" and I think we want to keep it that way. Ultimately I think we practice SoftSecurity rather well for the most part. Legoktm (talk) 17:22, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * "Adminship here still is "no big deal"" - unfortunately, that's part of the reason the average Steward election voter has a (faulty) impression of MediaWiki as a non-content wiki (In theory I agree with you, not in practice however). Leaderboard (talk) 17:55, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I think the perception has far more to do with this wiki's intended audience. We're aimed primarily at technical users who are running their own wikis, with a smattering of content for wiki editors as well. Because this isn't for a "general" audience, we get treated as a second-class citizen. Having an informal RfA process has largely nothing to do with this. Lots of the smaller "content wikis" have an informal RfA process as well.
 * Besides, we shouldn't have to adjust what we're doing just to please some arbitrary people on some other wiki. If there was a benefit for this wiki to have every rights flagging go onto a subpage here, then make the case for that. Given that the vast majority of them will be closed as complete without comment, I don't really see the difference between saying "trusted user" and flagging someone without a page vs saying "trusted user" and flagging someone with a page where all they say is "I'm a developer and I want sysop." In short, I think you're raising this for the wrong reasons and it is therefore not very productive to pursue this. -- Skiz zerz  16:56, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * This page already serves as this wiki's RfA/RfB process, and in the time I've been observing it (a couple years or so) it seems to be working just fine. I'd be okay with changing things so any non-developers requesting adminship are required to use this page, but requiring developers to do so just seems like pointless bureaucracy - they've already been entrusted with commit rights; what, exactly, would a community vetting process accomplish that the developer vetting process didn't? 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」☎ Dinoguy1000 11:43, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The problem is that often it's non-obvious that the user was promoted to sysop because they were a dev, as in the above example. Leaderboard (talk) 17:54, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The developer community interacts on more than just this wiki. We also have Gerrit and Phabricator, for example. When I flag someone, I evaluate across all 3 for trustworthiness or to determine if they qualify for the "devs are entitled to sysop" rule. Catering to users of other wikis who are digging into why someone is flagged here is not a consideration for me whatsoever, and I have no plans to change that. -- Skiz zerz  16:56, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

I've withdrawn this request seeing the opposition. Just a note to the community: you can have only one of having common-sense rules and having the Wikimedia community treat MediaWiki as equivalent to test.wikipedia. I prefer the former, but some here think otherwise. Rest in peace. Leaderboard (talk) 21:44, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Move Wikia to Fandom
Wikia was renamed to Fandom in 2016/2017, so can someone move the page (and leave a redirect behind)? Caburum (talk) 20:14, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ * Pppery * it has begun 20:26, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Help:Range_blocks/IPv6/da

 * Sorry, I have accidentally created a German translation labelled as "Danish". Please delete Help:Range_blocks/IPv6/da; I have already rescued / copied the content. Thank you very much in advance! ToBeFree (talk) 23:41, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ 94rain  Talk  13:11, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! Emoji_u1f60a.svg ToBeFree (talk) 19:38, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protect Translations:Content translation/Page display title/zh

 * Multiple vandal over the years. No need to change at all. EdwardAlexanderCrowley (talk) 07:00, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. The page title hasn't changed in 5 years so it seems non-controversial to protect it, but protecting translation units is apparently not advised, so some better solution may be needed in general. --Clump (talk) 12:34, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Marking pages for translation
Hello, I need the following pages to be marked for translation:
 * Structured Data Across Wikimedia
 * Structured Data Across Wikimedia/Image Recommendations
 * Structured Data Across Wikimedia/Potential use cases

It seems I cannot do it, since I'm not translation admin. Can someone help me please? Thanks! --Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:54, 13 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I can, but they need a fair bit of re-working to make the translations manageable. (Also this isn't the right page; I think Project:Village Pump is the normal place.) Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 14:43, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * @Sannita (WMF) All now done! Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 15:02, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you, for your work and also for noticing me of the right page. :) Sannita (WMF) (talk) 16:10, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Problem with Project:Support Desk
Hello. I am not sure if this is the right place to post.

I am trying to create a topic on Project:Support Desk, but my cursor becomes a loading circle and I cannot click on any links on the entire page content (the heading, sidebar are fine). I've tried on multiple devices when I am both logged in and not logged in, but all I get is the loading circle. Is there a problem with the site? Should I submit my support question elsewhere?

Thank you in advance.

Lyndsey022 (talk) 03:41, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
 * this seems to be a bug.  Stang  06:29, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
 * phab:T299473. Majavah (talk!) 07:46, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Which has now been fixed. * Pppery * it has begun 21:37, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Create flood group
Hi there, recently I am adjusting the aggregate group of translatable message, and it seems I flushed RC :( However, I found no "flood flag" on this site. So I wonder if we could setup such usergroup at here? It should contains permission, allow crat to grant to others and sysop should be able to grant themselves. Thanks!  Stang  16:09, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't think thats really needed, this wiki isn't as big as many of the others with such groups (and even enwiki doesn't have one) --DannyS712 (talk) 15:57, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Agreed this is not necessary. * Pppery * it has begun 21:37, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn as not necessary.  Stang  22:52, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Please delete this user page as OOS/spam and block them. Thanks in advance. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh (talk) 21:42, 15 April 2022 (UTC)


 * ✅ by Clump. &mdash; Hasley 00:10, 16 April 2022 (UTC)