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RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:
See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Film templates parameter issues has been nominated for splitting
I have a very clear notice that states you are not to edit my user page unless you are me. Do not edit the user pages of other editors. Thank you. 9t5 (talk) 12:31, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Per WP:UOWN: pages in user space belong to the wider community. They are not a personal homepage, and do not belong to the user. They are part of Wikipedia, and exist to make collaboration among editors easier – making the collaboration easier includes avoiding polluting the maintenance categories, such as Wikipedia substituted templates.
Other popular issues on user pages to avoid:
misuse of HTML and wikitext causing so called lint errors
pollution of the category tree of User namespace templates due to copy-pasting of wikitext, which most often happens with userboxes.
Hope this helps. —andrybak (talk) 12:58, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Uploading this to wikimedia commons
Hello, Can you export File:Sun-Maid brand logo used in 1923.jpg to wikimedia commons? Gilimaster28 (talk) 23:03, 2 July 2024 (UTC) Gilimaster28[reply]
No. I'll let someone else deal with that. Thanks. —andrybak (talk) 23:04, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
template help
Hey, I noticed you're an active editor, perhaps you can help me out. How can I have a template call a specific string from a given article using the start and end position number of the string (which I get using the findpagetext function)? JoeJShmo💌 03:56, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, JoeJShmo. Could you please clarify, what are you trying to achieve? —andrybak (talk) 07:21, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Say the Monkeys page has a 10 character string that is placed 150 characters - 160 characters from the start of the article. How can I call that line to my template? Say I wanted to use that line as a string in a function, how would I do that? JoeJShmo💌 08:39, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
JoeJShmo, this is a strange thing to want to do in a Wikipedia article, that's why I asked for a clarification.
Do you have a real example? What is the purpose, the end goal? Please help me ensure we don't have an XY problem/miscommunication. —andrybak (talk) 08:49, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, I'm happy to explain. I have a template for the lead of a specific kind of article that is written about every president of the U.S., and I want the template to automatically grab certain information from the main page of the president, such as the file for his signature and his years in office. I can get the position of these bits of information using the findinpage function, but I don't know how to actually call the information itself. JoeJShmo💌 08:58, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For signature, use wikidata:P109, see Wikipedia:Wikidata for how to do it. For years in office, just copy-paste them, because they aren't going to change in the future. —andrybak (talk) 09:47, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's a template designed to work for every president. The point of the template is to automate the information and to avoid copy-pasting. I believe I'm to understand that you don't know how to implement my request, and that's fine. Thanks for the response, and for the wikidata info! JoeJShmo💌 10:22, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
JoeJShmo, I do know, but I'm choosing not to tell you, because you shouldn't try to make such a template by parsing pages in the way you've described in the first message. If the template is needed on many pages, years can stored as data in a template or a Lua module.
You can ask a wider audience at WP:VPT. —andrybak (talk) 10:46, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting. Can you explain why? Also, it isn't feasible to store all the information in the template, as every article needs different information to be parsed. JoeJShmo💌 10:57, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Because it's brittle and hard to maintain. There are more robust and maintainable alternatives.
For storing years, it could be a data template, just mapping the president to years. —andrybak (talk) 12:05, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure its that brittle. I suppose it depends how you write it. The function I wrote checked for the signature using the signature parameter in the infobox. JoeJShmo💌 20:55, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
But I'm switching over to using wikidata. The start and end year of presidency is also in wikidata. JoeJShmo💌 21:00, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25
Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
inline-diff-inline-patrol by Ponor is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Inline diffs and inline patrol. Hopefully we won't need this script anymore soon, with the WMF's focus on the backlog...
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
After the RIIJ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
Newly maintained scripts
Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome