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There are a lot of users that's voting, that doesn't have a link to home wiki on their userpage on meta. Could you extend AccountEligibility to also checking against SUL, and homewiki. This should maybe be the default option to check against... Laaknor 07:52, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Done. You can now check an account's homewiki by selecting "auto-select homewiki" in the wiki list. If the URL parameters don't include the wiki, this option will be used automatically (for example, "accounteligibility/?event=2&user=Laaknor"). Also, the script will provide a link to check the homewiki if you check an ineligible account (if the global account exists, the homewiki is different, and the current event is crosswiki). —Pathoschild 07:50:35, 06 February 2009 (UTC)

Doesn't work. I have a SUL and it doesn't recognize that. (Says "NOTE: wiki not specified, and could not auto-select homewiki because no global account exists with this name.") -- JøMa 18:08, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry if I didn't find the right words: The problem ist that I do have a SUL that is valid in ~260 Wikis, but the tool accounteligibility/?event=2&user=JøMa Just answers NOTE: wiki not specified, and could not auto-select homewiki because no global account exists with this name.. I guess maybe there's something weird about usage of names that contain unicode letters? Greets, JøMa 23:00, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Sorry I didn't respond sooner, I wanted to look at the issue before responding. You're eligible to vote from dewiki (but not from Meta, your home wiki). —Pathoschild 01:03:59, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Huh, meta ist my home wiki? Who did that? ;-) Thank you, JøMa 08:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

According to Special:CentralAuth, you created your first account here in October 2008. So, you did. ;) You're welcome. —Pathoschild 15:06:56, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

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Doesn't this tool scan category's subcategory? It will be more useful to scan subcategory also.--Kwj2772 04:18, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it scans the entire category tree rooted at the given category. —Pathoschild 04:37:18, 06 February 2009 (UTC)

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I'm not entirely aware of your operations, as you seem to be heavily involved in the elections in numerous ways, but can I ask why this page solely consists of a transclusion of a page in your userspace? Would it not be more prudent to either delete Stewards/elections_2009/Statistics and redirect the page to your subpage, or move your subpage directly onto the page itself? Of course, I could be mistaken, and there might be a reason I'm not seeing for the setup you've installed. Best, —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 12:22, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello Anonymous Dissident. The statistics page collects various statistics pages in one place, currently:

• User:Pathoschild/2009 steward confirmation statistics,
• User:Pathoschild/2009 steward election statistics, and
• User:ST47/SE 2009.

I think it's more useful to separate their edit histories so we can easily see how each table changes over time, particularly since ST47's page is updated automatically every 15 minutes. —Pathoschild 19:40:30, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, I think that the line on Fabexplosive should be «unanswered questions (later answered), dispute on lmowiki and it.wiki, allegedly executes tasks without understanding them». Thanks, Nemo 10:56, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I updated the page. Let me know if you see any other summary needing updates. —Pathoschild 19:18:53, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

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Hello. I was wondering if we could use your account eligibility tool for the annual Picture of the Year contest for voting eligibility. Please reply on Commons account. Thanks! Pbroks13 00:47, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations, you're eligible. :) —Pathoschild 02:13:47, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Hah, thanks a bunch! Pbroks13 02:15, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. —Pathoschild 02:17:00, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

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Hi. I saw this and am sorry if I caused a bot to miscount; I'll try and not post such misconstruable messages in the future; I could wrap w/spans easily enough, but I know that's only going to be recognized by bots that choose to look for it. Do say if that's a widely understood class. Cheers, Jack Merridew 11:32, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello Jack Merridew. There's no problem as long as there's a single class used; any other bot can be coded to recognize it. Anyway, my script is the only one processing confirmation pages as far as I know. —Pathoschild 19:15:59, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Terima kasih (thank you). I'll use this technique if a similar circumstance arises. Cheers, Jack Merridew 11:22, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

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The program is not showing 2009's result for Wp/pnb prefix. Thanks.

Khalid Mahmood 12:34, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

It is toolserver problem. incubator is on s3 cluster, now replication lag of s3 is halted (more info about Toolserver status). Best regard.--Kwj2772 (論) 14:13, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Thank You for your efforts...

... but there is no more need to change the pages becouse of commons. There is a account with the same name I can´t usurp while he have some contributions from year 2006. I´m thinking about renaming. Thx again and best regards --Seha 05:36, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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TypeError: $("deleteconfirm") is null
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Pathoschild/Scripts/Ajax_sysop.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript (284)

Got this on Commons, deleting a file. Deleting pages is fine.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 20:01, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed. —Pathoschild 04:24:34, 06 April 2009 (UTC)

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Despite being a valid db name, map_bmswiki doesn't work? Using the corresponding name does work though. Mind taking a look at how that's validated/looked up?  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 17:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. —Pathoschild 23:31:00, 02 April 2009 (UTC)

// optional
	if(args.class) box.set('class', args.class + ' ' + box.get('class'));

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Can you please assist here - I have been ellected check user by Hebrew wiki comunity. This is the 8th or 9th election - but this is the first in which the voting system we use (and which was chosen by the community in according with our understanding of the Foundation's requirements) is posing a problem. Deror avi 08:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello Deror avi. Another steward has already flagged the candidates as checkusers. —Pathoschild 04:49:05, 06 February 2009 (UTC)

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Dear Pathoschild Greetings. I am writing to you in order to let you know that Pashto wikipedia does not have any Beurocrat and that wiki urgently need one. I tried to request for one but i was refused stating that i should arrange an election. Could you tell me how i can arrange such an election and how can i set up a polling system there.

Kindly guide me throgh this process i would be thankful to you for this favor

--احمد-نجيب-بياباني-ابراهيمخېل 10:54, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello احمد-نجيب-بياباني-ابراهيمخېل. Stewards normally do not grant requests for bureaucrat access on small wikis. Local bureaucrats are not needed to handle the small request traffic on small wikis, and can cause many problems due to the perception of power on the part of new community members. There does not seem to be any urgent need for a bureaucrat on that wiki; I can only find one request from that wiki was in 2008. —Pathoschild 20:50:23, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

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I have unblock the user. But please tell him to stop using bot before he got the bot permission.--Bellayet 04:11, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

I have already done so. Let me know if and when it passes. Cheers, Razorflame 04:44, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

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Hello. I ask you to complete the bot policy implementation on some wikis. I have made all below, except the last.

• arcwikipedia
• avwikipedia
• bugwikipedia
• bxrwikipedia
• cewikipedia
• chywikipedia
• crwikipedia
• dzwikipedia
• emlwikipedia
• ffwikipedia
• fjwikipedia
• glkwikipedia
• gnwikipedia
• angwiktionary (made by User:Malafaya)

Thanks. --Lucas Nunes 14:24, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 07:33:19, 03 March 2009 (UTC)

Could you also do htwikipedia? -Djsasso 02:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 06:24:40, 08 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hello again. More wikis to complete the bot policy implementation:

• hawikipedia
• hakwikipedia
• ikwikipedia
• kgwikipedia
• kiwikipedia
• kswikipedia
• lbewikipedia
• lgwikipedia
• lowikipedia
• mywikipedia
• nywikipedia
• orwikipedia
• rnwikipedia
• sgwikipedia
• stwikipedia
• tumwikipedia
• twwikipedia
• tywikipedia
• ugwikipedia
• vewikipedia
• xhwikipedia

--Lucas Nunes 23:37, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

All done except lowiki, on which the request was misplaced (I moved the request and added it to the proposal table). Thank you. —Pathoschild 09:32:02, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hello there Pathoschild. First of all, thank you for your diligence in dealing with the kind of nonsense we see here. Have you ever considered using the flood flag for sprees such as this? Your actions there, for example, were relatively uncontroversial, and it would just help to keep the RecentChanges feed clean. Just a thought. Best, —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 10:39, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello Anonymous Dissident. Does the flood flag hide events on Special:Log, or only on Special:RecentChanges? —Pathoschild 10:51:41, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Only on the recent changes. Compare the Special:RecentChanges as of 11:42, 14 March 2009 (UTC) with my deletion log, with regard for user:Anonymous Dissident/testpage. While it's in my mind, another advantage of the usage of the flood flag is stated on the page itself: "Bureaucrats may wish to use the flag when renaming indefinitely blocked accounts with inappropriate usernames." I suppose this could be extrapolated in its benefit to the implementation of the Steward tools as well. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 11:42, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Okay. —Pathoschild 12:02:07, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, proposal for bot policy is here. Cheers ;o) --Dalibor Bosits 21:58, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, implemented. —Pathoschild 06:59:49, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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Proposal for bot policy is hy:Վիքիփեդիայի քննարկում:Բոտի կարգավիճակի դիմումներ. Has been open for more than one week and has a supporter. I would like to propose implementing it. Razorflame 20:50, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Implemented. —Pathoschild 05:38:33, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, kvwiki is ready to implement the standard bot policy. I already updated the local bot policy and Bot policy/Implementation. --Silvonen 16:40, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 05:39:01, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

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More wikis:

• scwikipedia
• tiwiktionary

--Lucas Nunes 19:30, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 04:34:00, 06 April 2009 (UTC)

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I worry about applying the bot policy as currently conceived to wikis where the local community has never seen the discussion about the implementation of that policy. If we really want global bot policy to be opt-out rather than opt-in, we should clarify that here on meta, get consensus from people across a number of languages, and leave a different sort of memo. The memo could say something like "This wiki is now recognizing bots by default according to the global bot policy. To opt out of this policy and review bot requests locally, read on." An english-language message left for a week on a village pump that native-language authors do not use, on wikis where there are active editors (and sometimes active admins) simply isn't due notice, and we should not pretend that it is.

see Talk:Bot policy#Making this policy opt-out rather than opt-in

---- sj | help translate |+ 03:22, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

I've commented there. —Pathoschild 04:34:00, 06 April 2009 (UTC)

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Is there any rule against private mails to no-voters by steward candidates? --Seha 17:47, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello Seha. Unless there are specific reasons for privacy, you should contact users on their user_talk pages.

Contacting a particular voter to discuss their comment is fine. However, systematically contacting users based on their positions is called canvassing, considered disruptive, and strongly discouraged. While there is no specific policy on Meta, users caught canvassing despite requests to stop have previously been blocked indefinitely. Some wikis have specific policies against canvassing, such as the English Wikipedia. —Pathoschild 00:26:49, 05 February 2009 (UTC)

Merendetha has contact me by mail while I have change my support to oppose in his steward election. Thats why I am asking. I think that is not the best way to support his election. --Seha 09:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Contacting a few voters to discuss their objections is fine, so long as he does not systematically contact opposers to convince them to support (which is canvassing). —Pathoschild 04:52:24, 06 February 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Pathoschild, can you see this? Thanks. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 02:02, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello Mikhailov. What should I see on that page? —Pathoschild 02:15:35, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Should that page put following Warning :

Please do not add commercial links or promotional references — or links to your own private websites — to Wikimedia. Wikimedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. See the introduction page if you would like to learn more about contributing to Meta-Wiki. Thanks.

—unsigned by Mikhailov Kusserow on 02:19, 26 February 2009.

Not on that page, since Maxipuchi is not the user who placed the link. Also, it is neither a commercial link nor a promotional reference, and does not seem to be a link to a private website.` —Pathoschild 02:34:40, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Pathos, can you blocked this user? Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 05:18, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 05:32:42, 02 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help Pathos. Deo Volente, Pathoschild. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 07:56, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

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What did User talk:Budelberger do? You block him without tell reasons. --虞海 (Yú Hǎi) 12:30, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I did not block him; see his block log. —Pathoschild 19:25:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hello, Pathoschild. Initially this message I wrote to user:spacebirdy, but wasn't successfully! The message was:

Could you please show me the way to know when our Wikipedia was set up? I asked it because I'm about to create an aticle about it. And I want it because I wrote a few articles about some wikis language (English, Geraman, and Simple) their all shown when their Wikis got started! I hope you'll help me for this. My home wiki is Swahili Wikipedia. Cheers.--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 07:02, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello Muddyb Blast. The Swahili Wikipedia was created before the existing request processes on Meta existed, so there's no documentation of when it was created.

We can extrapolate, though. The first edit to the Swahili Wikipedia is dated 8 March 2003, although that's not necessarily when it was created. A Wikipedia-l message, "[Wikipedia] Re: Interlingua language list" dated 24 February 2003 (and the next response), suggests that it didn't exist yet at that time. Therefore, the wiki seems to have been created sometime between 24 February and 8 March 2003. —Pathoschild 09:05:41, 06 February 2009 (UTC)

So, I have to write the Swahili Wikipedia were established on 8 March 2003 according to the situation seemed, isn't it? If so, please let me write it! Thank you for your time. Cheers,--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 09:55, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that would be approximately correct. —Pathoschild 10:07:06, 06 February 2009 (UTC)

Searching on intl-l reveals evidence (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.international/532), that a Swahili project existed already in 2002. I guess it was batch created along with a number of other projects without anybody requesting it and 8 March 2003 was the first time somebody edited the project (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.international/1513). --::Slomox:: >< 17:41, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

If there are still some phase2 SVN archives around (are there?), that could lead to the exact date of the creation. (Or asking Brion) --::Slomox:: >< 17:45, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

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hello. I Am marchano from holland. And i wat to know ive you have any contact or emailadresses of the sranantongo translaters. my emailadress is j.ischers@hotmail.com

already thanks. —unsigned by Mchano on 17:51, 9 February 2009.

Hello Marchano. Category:User srn and w:Category:User srn list two native users, both of whom understand either English or Dutch. You can email them by viewing their user page, and clicking "Email this user" on the left sidebar. —Pathoschild 20:36:47, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

But i saw that you also can speak Sranantongo with one of the translators? can ..ive you want...please add me in your msn-messenger list? Talking om wikipedia is not a usual place... already thanks j.ischershotmail.com ( you can send me a personal message to my wikipedia-homepage by discussion...) —unsigned by Mchano on 16:56, 15 February 2009.

I cannot speak Sranan Tongo. I do not use MSN Messenger, but you can contact me on IRC as "Pathoschild" (look for me in #wikimedia). —Pathoschild 19:08:11, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

ok thanks. —unsigned by Mchano on 23:23, 15 February 2009.

You're welcome. —Pathoschild 23:33:45, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

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Hi. You tried to get this page deleted two years ago. What came of that discussion and why was it kept? It seems purposeless from what I can see. Thanks for your time. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:07, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

It apparently has some still-undefined historical significance to Japanese Wikipedians; see the deletion discussion. Try asking Aphaia. —Pathoschild 20:09:14, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. Looking at the discussion, its supposed historical importance is liberally alluded to but never explained, as you say. Perhaps I'll ask Aphaia and, depending on the way she responds and if she can rationalise the page's existence, nominate it again. Thanks for your input. Best —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 11:54, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

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Hi! I'm Chabi. How are you? I have a question about what do we have to do on Mirandese wikipedia to get our Wikipedia page (www.mwl.wikipedia.org) 'cause we've finished all vital articles and we have translated the interface. Do we need something else? Thanks a lot for your help. Best regards from Chabi

Hello Chabi. If you can maintain the current test project activity over April, it should be ready for approval. Thanks for your contributions. :) —Pathoschild 06:54:06, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hello Pathoschild, please can you tell me if the sardinian wiktionary can reopen (without request for new project)? Thank you in advance --Marzedu 13:33, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello Marzedu. No, wikis are not normally reopened without a new proposal. It is treated the same way as a proposal to create a new wiki under the language proposal policy. —Pathoschild 06:50:29, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hello. Thanks for your advice. I have already done my request for a global bot flag here in meta-wiki. TXiKi 11:50, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hello Pathoschild, I'd like to know if debates like [1] and [2] could be closed and how. Those pages have been opened from months and I don't know how to do with them. I think they have been opened enough time. Thanks for your help. —Dferg (talk) 17:06, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Btw, I've removed in error the +A flag from my account in #cvn-wp-es. Would you mind reasign me the flag again? (+vVotrifA). Thanks and sorry for the off topic. —Dferg (talk) 22:00, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello Dferg. There is no formal process for closing a wiki closure request; anyone is free to propose doing so on the request page.

I've already fixed your access in the channel. —Pathoschild 04:32:18, 06 April 2009 (UTC)

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I replied on it.source about your enquiry.

You are right about a more serious approach for bot policies. I'll start a discussion about automatically approval bots. It'll be an occasion to implement correctly the standard bot policy proposed here on meta. It'd be better if that page could be translated int Italian... Thanks for your kind attention - εΔω 23:19, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

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Hello Pathoschild. I'm interested in colaborate on WM:OP and I'd like to apply for verified user. I think I have a basic knowledge about open proxys and anonimysing networks and I feel I can help on this project. ATM I will not be very active for personal issues but I hope to return to full activity soon. If you have questions, please let me know. Thanks for your time. Kind regards, —Dferg (talk) 19:51, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Done. That project is largely dead at the moment; maybe you can help revive it. —Pathoschild 23:10:51, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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Can you delete w:it:Italia, please? We are cleaning up history from old vandalism but we got "This page has a large edit history, over 5,000 revisions....". According to this is not true. Thnk you --Melos 22:45, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 22:51:00, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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Global bots are now permitted on ml.wikipedia and ml.wiktionary. Kindly update the wiki setting. --Jacob 02:52, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Since step 3 of the process for requesting Global bot permission enabling insists on adding wiki name to Global bot table, global bot operators who don't have a bot flag on ml.wiki have already started editing on wiki. We don't want to block these bots. It will hence be very helpful if you could enable global bot permission on ml.wiki and ml.wikt soon.. --Jacob 22:40, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello Jacob. Is it correct that the two wikis allow global bots, but otherwise do not implement the standard bot policy? I've enabled global bots on both wikis. —Pathoschild 05:28:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! yes we allow global bots, but don't approve other terms in the standard bot policy like AAA. --Jacob 21:39, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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It looks like su.wiki added itself to the list of wikis that allow global bots but it doesn't appear to be implemented yet. Could you take care of that? -Djsasso 15:59, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 03:14:07, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Try this: —Pathoschild 03:50:42, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

	// append mode
	if(mode=='append' && editreason.value.match(/[^\s]/)) {
		editreason.value = editreason.value+', '+reason;
	}