User talk:Mr.Z-man/Archive 16
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Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list
Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new
closeAFD.js - relisting Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of America?
I relisted Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of America? and when pressing Reload page was brought to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of America. Could the question mark be triggering this? -- Sam Sailor Talk! 08:46, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Possible bug in RefToolbar preventing autofills from working
Hello, I have found what I think might be a bug in RefToolbar's code that prevents the autofill button from working unless there is at least one incremental field present in the form. Please see my description of the problem at Wikipedia_talk:RefToolbar#Autofill_not_initiating_in_absence_of_incrementables. Thank you --Blahma (talk) 12:07, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
User:Mr.Z-bot's working and other doubts
Hi! I understand that User:Mr.Z-bot compiles and updates various "popular pages" stats (eg. Wikipedia:WikiProject Retailing/Popular pages). Am not getting from where does the bot compile this information? Further I wanted to know how the page view states even works? Like does it count only external non-logged in readers or can editors also influence the page view count? Means for example if an article is under dispute for some reason it would automatically catch more editors and would this also increase the "popularity" ranking of that page?
I don't even know if you are right person to ask these things. If you are not, please direct me to someone else you think might answer. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 12:00, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Popular pages page
Thank you for maintaining the
PS this is just a private opinion, there has not been a discussion in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics that agrees or disagrees with my standpoint. so possibly later you will get a request to remove the field collumn again. If you prefer that we first discuss it, please let me know. but then is it possible how i would like it? WillemienH (talk) 18:10, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Future of Mr.Z-bot tasks
Hey Alex, it looks like you might have retired from Wikipedia. I was just wondering if you could chat about the tasks currently performed by Mr.Z-bot and whether or not you would be interested in handing those off to other maintainers, or just adding extra maintainers so that other people can help keep them up to date and add new features to them (like adding mobile stats to the popular page reports and Citoid support to the RefToolbar API). Let me know if you have any thoughts about this. Cheers! Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 00:06, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
- Not quite retired, just on an extended break. But some additional help with bots/tools would certainly be appreciated. Mr.Z-man 01:32, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
- Glad to hear you haven't retired! The Community Tech team is interested in possibly improving a couple of your tools (see T112569 and T114156). If we decided to pursue making these improvements, would you prefer that we fork your Github repos and make pull requests or would you rather add other people as contributors to the repos so that they could work on the code directly? Also, would you be interested in adding other people as co-maintainers for your Tool Labs projects? Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 21:58, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
- Excellent :-) Would be exceedingly nice to have mobile without the numbers your tool produces. And for it to function in other languages. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:51, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
- Adding people as contributors and co-maintaners would probably be easiest. Mr.Z-man 22:16, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
- That's fine by me. If you'd like to go ahead and add me to any projects, my username on both GitHub and Tool Labs is Kaldari. You can add project maintainers on Tool Labs from http://tools.wmflabs.org/ and can add contributors on GitHub via [1]. We can involve you as much or as little as you would like in discussing feature changes and bug fixes. Ideally, we would like to make your life easier and the tools better :) Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 01:05, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
- Glad to hear you haven't retired! The Community Tech team is interested in possibly improving a couple of your tools (see T112569 and T114156). If we decided to pursue making these improvements, would you prefer that we fork your Github repos and make pull requests or would you rather add other people as contributors to the repos so that they could work on the code directly? Also, would you be interested in adding other people as co-maintainers for your Tool Labs projects? Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 21:58, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
Request pageview statistics for WikiProject for a longer period of time
Hi! Is it possible to get WikiProject Popular pages lists data not for just a month, but for longer period of time? Qwemaze (talk) 17:10, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Electronic Recycling Association AfD
Hi Mr.Z-man. There's something wrong with (the browser rendering) of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electronic Recycling Association. It is blank in two different browsers, but it works as a preview when editing it. I had a quick look to debug it, the rendering broke with the close edit [2] but further work would involve editing a closed AfD (possibly multiple times) hence me asking you if it's a quick fix for you? (If it helps, the top looks ok, comparing with another AfD there's no {{ns:0|O}} in the middle, so it's likely the bottom) If you need any help, ping me and I'll copy to sandbox and debug it. Widefox; talk 13:11, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
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Relisted AfD debates
Hi Alex, hope you're doing well. Sorry to bug you about more script things. Could you modify User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD2.js to remove Category:Relisted AfD debates and Category:AfD debates relisted 3 or more times on closure? Discussion is here and here. There will usually be wrapped in <noinclude>. I don't expect it to be too difficult – I can look into it if you prefer and suggest a diff (don't feel too comfortable making a substantial edit to the script directly). — Earwig talk 07:34, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Popular pages for an entire Wikipedia
Could your popular pages program be set up to run for the entire Haitian Creole Wikipedia? We're trying to revive it, and knowing which pages were read might be helpful. There are only 52K articles on the entire Wikipedia, and most of them have one or two sentences. I suspect that it would be enough to make a list of the 100 (rather than 1000) most popular pages. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:52, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
New URL lookup feature in RefToolbar
Hey Alex, I added a new URL lookup feature to RefToolbar. Now you can do an autofill with a URL in any of the template interfaces. It uses the Citoid API, which in turn uses Zotero. Feel free to tweak it further if you notice any issues. Kaldari (talk) 19:42, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
Popular pages
Hi, it it possible to make pages like this[3] for other projects? FunkMonk (talk) 18:20, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
The Million Award
Heyo Mr.Z-man. Are you still interested for
WP:Jainism
Hey, I have applied for popular pages for WP Jainism months ago but haven't got it yet. Please have a look into the issue. Thanks -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 06:26, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
- Providing a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Jainism might be helpful.
- —Wavelength (talk) 15:11, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
Bug in User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD
Hello, I just closed
- BTW, I'm going to cross post this to ) 14:30, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
afreporter
Hey there! I'm not convinced Mr.Z-bot is reporting abuse filter trips to AIV. Could you look into it? Thanks! — MusikAnimal talk 17:11, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
- Also sent you an email — MusikAnimal talk 17:15, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Talkback
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A kitten for you!
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Thank you for hard work :D
Junior5a (talk) 04:00, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Popular pages
Hi, I noticed that popular pages listings weren't generated for January and now it's March. Are these no longer going to be generated?
- I'd like to add that PP is a great service and I use it many times a week! I appreciate the hard work! -- DanielPenfield (talk) 13:19, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Wales - quick run?
Hi Mr.Z-man, I was wondering if it would be possible to do a one-time run of this for WikiProject Wales, a.s.a.p.? - They're having an editathon through April, and Dr. Blofeld requested the list at VPT, but I see that the service usually runs mid-month and is probably manually triggered, so I thought it worth a request. Thanks. :-) Quiddity (talk) 23:52, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
Please see also User talk:Wavelength/Archive 4#Wikipedia:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject // Wales (March 2012).
—Wavelength (talk) 23:57, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
- For anyone still waiting on this, you might want to track
T141154 – the open ticket for WMF's community tech team to support the feature
czar 23:40, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
Mr. Z-bot -- unnecessary reports to WP:AIV
At Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism/TB2, there are currently three reports, two of which appear unnecessary -- for KatieEmoto (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) and 63.92.248.233 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log). What were the problems that triggered these reports by the bot? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:32, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
Glitch when relisting with closeAFD2.js
Hi Alex. On occasion closeAFD2.js will skip hiding the AFD transclusion in the old log, ex.:
- 2016-09-05 17:05:38 - AFD relisted fine: Diff of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deep Stealth Productions (2nd nomination)
- No change in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 August 29
- 2016-09-05 17:05:40 - AFD transcluded fine in Diff of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 September 5
Thanks for the script. — Sam Sailor 08:19, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
- The AFD was transcluded in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 August 29 as
{{Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deep_Stealth_Productions (2nd nomination)}}
. Could the underscores be the culprit? — Sam Sailor 08:25, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
Trim whitespace?
As somebody who closes a lot of AfDs, this is a really wonderful tool. Thanks for making it available! One suggestion, though. You should trim trailing whitespace from the closing comment. If I enter an extra newline at the end of my comment, when the signature is appended, it ends up going on a line by itself, resulting in it being set off as a code block, as in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/User:RoySmith/test_page_1. I do that surprisingly often. Trimming trailing whitespace would fix that. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:11, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection
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Women's football task force
Hi Mr. Z-Man, This may be covered somewhere in the archives, but it's not quite clear to me. Is the Popular Pages tool still working? I've just realized that our group's page hasn't been updated since March and wanted to check with you. Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 21:36, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
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Mr.Z-bot
Your bot usually updated the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Popular pages. For some reason, it doesn't update it since April. Can you help us? Gabriel Yuji (talk) 18:47, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- I noticed the same for WP Germany. Agathoclea (talk) 13:29, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- Are you ok? Why did you leave us? We miss you and your bot :( --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:05, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
Subpages portlet
// this adds a prefixindex function to find subpages of the current page. written by Mr.Z-man at my request
addOnloadHook( function () {
addPortletLink("p-tb", wgServer+wgArticlePath.replace("$1", "Special:PrefixIndex/"+wgPageName+"/"), "Subpages", "t-subpages", "See all subpages of this page");
});
Could you suss out why this isn't working anymore (doesn't show up in my sidebar)?
And perhaps, any idea why User:Js/urldecoder.js doesn't show up for me anymore either? –xenotalk 20:52, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
- @Xeno: Try using the below from my global.js instead. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:01, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util', function () { $( document ).ready( function () { // Subpages of current page mw.util.addPortletLink( 'p-tb', mw.util.getUrl( 'Special:PrefixIndex/' ) + mw.util.wikiUrlencode( mw.config.get( 'wgPageName' ) + '/' ), 'Subpages', 't-subpages', 'Subpages of this page', null, '#t-recentchangeslinked' ); } ); } );
- @Xeno: Try using the below from my global.js instead.
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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Monuments 2011/Popular pages
WikiProject Anatomy/Popular pages
Hi, Mr.Z-man! I noticed your contributions on Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy/Popular pages. I'm currently working on a research project that involves anatomy pages on Wikipedia. Is this list to be updated soon? Thank you in advance. --Athikhun.suw (talk) 15:01, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
- @Athikhun.suw: See T153790. Kaldari (talk) 21:54, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
- @Athikhun.suw: It has now been updated. Kaldari (talk) 00:45, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for notifying! --Athikhun.suw (talk) 00:53, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
- @) 01:23, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
MfD nomination of MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-largeaddition-notice
Problem with User:Mr.Z-man/moverevert2.js
Hi, I have blanked this script for now, as it is no longer up to date with current coding standards and was causing problem for people. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:40, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
Geophotoreq tool seems to be out of date
Not sure if you're still actively supporting the tool (https://tools.wmflabs.org/geophotoreq/), but it was returning articles for me that had had their photo requests removed up to two year ago. Not sure if you're using an out of date data dump or what, but I figured you might be interested to know. No hard feelings from me if you don't want to support the tool anymore though. Thanks! Brubsby (talk) 20:07, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Notification of imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
You are missed
Hey Mr.Z just letting you know that you are missed here. Hope all is well and to see you back one day :-) Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:24, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
Discussion at User talk:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD
For any
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Bludgeon band
New to listing. DON'T understand why you delited my band...we started in early 90s and have played all over and have a cd Victoria Decay (talk) 01:14, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Last eruption listed at Redirects for discussion
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Last eruption. Since you had some involvement with the Last eruption redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 04:26, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
BAG inactivity
Hello Mr.Z-man, long time no see! Please see
00:35, 17 December 2018 (UTC)- Due to your lengthy inactivity, you have been moved to the "former" list of 14:31, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Looking for your opinion on my RefToolbar proposal
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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
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We miss you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
... same today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:53, 25 October 2019 (UTC)