User talk:Okeyes (WMF)

The Redlink was Bothering Me Yuvipanda (talk) 04:51, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Understandable :P. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:49, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Testing
Hello Okeyes! You created Golden-Crowned Sparrow article for testing as you noted on an edit summary. Can we delete that article now? Cheers, –BruTe 08:04, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Totally; it was for some user tests. Feel free to remove it :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 08:56, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Done it. Thanks for a quick reply. –BruTe 20:37, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

in five years
Thank you for writing up VisualEditor/Portal/Why / Wikipedia: Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Why.

I think it's great that you're thinking 5 years out, rather than (as I too often do) looking only at short-sighted short-term goals.

One sentence brings up more questions in my mind than it answers:
 * "if we don't, that graph is going to look a lot worse in five years."

How could you possibly know that? Do you have some knowledge of future events that is going to require us to completely re-think Wikipedia: WP:CRYSTALBALL ?

--DavidCary (talk) 18:50, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Not really; it's the way the trend is going, however. So, ultimately the problem with wikimarkup is not actually a problem with wikimarkup. The complexity of wikimarkup has remained constant (although the complexity of wikipedia articles has definitely risen). The problem is that user expectations from sites have changed - Facebook and other drainers on peoples' time have provided a far more friendly interface than has historically been present on the internet, one that shifts the complexity to the software rather than the end-user. The result is that wikimarkup is completely opposite to what users expect. This is something that's continuing to happen to a greater and greater degree, and I can't see any reason why the trend would reverse. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:26, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Help:TemplateData
Hi,

Would you know why, in the French translation of Help:TemplateData (Help:TemplateData/fr), the texte is more contracted than in the English version? You can see for example at this section.

Thanks by advance for you answer, and regards, Automatik (talk) 21:06, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I do not! I would advise asking User:guillom, who is both the author of most of our documentation and French, to boot :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 05:36, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Automatik: I suspect this is because the text in the right-side column is longer in French, and therefore squeezes the left-side column. I've increased the maximum width of the document to mitigate this issue. guillom 07:46, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I improved, it seems to be better now. Thank you. Automatik (talk) 14:14, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Possible bug in VE
You were one of the people who contacted us regarding the tests of VE, so you get this report from me.

I did a test of VE in the following scenario on my user page here, on Mediawiki, where you can see the result.

I use a highly inflected language (Polish), where inflection is often achieved by adding a suffix to the base word. Therefore we often use the possibility to create a link like this: edytorem, where suffix is directly attached to the link. I tried to use the same mechanism with VE, highlighting only the base word without the suffix and inserting link by Ctrl-K, in order to save on the editing in the link window. Then, surprisingly enough, VE produced invalid wikicode, inserting a lone closing nowiki tag between the base word and the suffix.

Best regards, Gżdacz (talk) 07:06, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, there isno bug. I did not have enough sleep... Gżdacz (talk) 07:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

GUP
If User:Okeyes (WMF) is deleted, your meta GUP will be more informative. John Vandenberg (talk) 03:15, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

noting False-positive report was blocked or intercepted
Terribly sorry to have had to have discussed here, it`s nearly unbearable! See below intercepted and disrupted text.

The imposing of restrictions upon this IP`s capacity to contribute to wikipedia is due to abuse by registered users and admins, not due to the bona-fide contributions made from this IP range. Two examples,
 * 1., a bona-fide contribution was made recently (2019 March4,5 ) in which substantiated and sourced material was intended to be shared to the talkpage of an article (Cybercrime, section of `documented cases`) for future improvements and inclusion in the article; a correct and appropriate method is to share the material to the talkpage so it can be improved and peers can review it and improve further if neccessary. The material shared (in the English Language) was not very difficult to understand, although some readers may not understand the technical terminology, thus, improvement needed tags were included. The sharing of material to the cybercrime talkpage relevent to the `Documented cases` section of the cybercrime article CAN IN NO WAY BE CONSTRUED AS ABUSIVE. wikipedia is built upon contributions of peers. Anyone can review and contribute. However, the talkpage has been locked while the article is not locked. The IP contributor does not lock talkpages preventing contributions, nor do inappropriate "editing" to articles, and has not abused anything, neither in the short nor long term.

The blocking user cites the projectpage as justification for the rangeblock ("anon. only, account creation blocked rangeblock:!-- Long-term abuse Hydro dot net") showing further deficient Due Diligence by frighteningly uncorrecting a corrective contribution.
 * 2.,The restrictions instituted upon this IP were inappropriate, as the blocking user consulted an inappropriately-escalated project page, in which the project author escalated the status of the project IN CONTRAVENTION OF EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS ("status = pending !-- Do not change if you are the one making the report --") and then proceeded to propagate the project as persistent spam, sockpuppetry, LT abuse, conspiracy, nonsensical, and on and on and on, based on IGNORANCE ("invoking Ignore All Rules"). That is not to say that the blocking user was duly aware of the ignorance.

Notifying several wikipedians of the above matters; CHeers!126.163.75.36 19:42, 6 March 2019 (UTC)