User talk:Isaac (WMF)

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Hello, Isaac (WMF). Welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum if you need help with something (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). Also worthwhile acquainting yourself with the functions of global user pages. Happy editing!

 — billinghurst sDrewth 21:24, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Gender survey

I have been randomly selected (on enwiki) to participate in the gender distribution survey. I don't want to answer it. I don't even want to interact with it. There's no collapse bar and no way do get rid of the survey. How long should I expect the survey to be around, and is there any way to be rid of it? Additionally, is there any way to opt out of such surveys in the future? Other members of the community have raised concerns at Research talk:Surveys on the gender of editors. As the contact person for this survey, you may wish to answer their concerns there. Schetm (talk) 02:06, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Plant puzzle

I just noticed the photo on https://isaacjoh.com/ and it's cool! Is it on Commons too? Nemo 08:06, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: thanks! A friend 3D-printed it for me almost two years ago and I'm happy to say that the plant continues to live. I added it to Commons -- glad you like it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Plant.jpg --Isaac (WMF) (talk) 19:09, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

WikiNav - full page list

My thanks to you and your colleagues for building WikiNav. It will be especially useful for requested moves involving disambiguation, where we can gauge a primary topic by measuring clicks from the page readers land on to the page they wanted. Please could the final two tables have an option to show all incoming and outgoing pages with 10+ clicks? Sometimes the pair we're interested in is not in the top ten for either page. If HTML size is a concern, a plain list would be as useful as a pretty table for this purpose. I use a crude tool to do this locally, but it requires a wasteful 400 MB download to recover the crucial 100 bytes of information and the results are hard to share. Thanks, Certes (talk) 15:02, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping Certes and glad you're finding it useful! I documented the request on Phabricator for Portal namespace (TT296359) and showing more results on Github. Currently the tool is just being maintained as it was primarily developed by an intern but as more requests come in, we might explore what it would mean to make some updates. If you have coding experience, feel free to get involved. In the meantime, though the tool doesn't surface the information, you can still access it via the APIs that support the tool. For the Chocolate article, the full list of sources (https://wikinav.wmcloud.org/api/v1/en/Chocolate/sources/latest?limit=175) and destinations (https://wikinav.wmcloud.org/api/v1/en/Chocolate/destinations/latest?limit=175). --Isaac (WMF) (talk) 23:59, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Special:WantedTemplates

Hi, would it be possible for you to put // <pre> at the top and // </pre> at the bottom of the top comments block in en:User:Isaac (WMF)/quality viz.js and en:User:Isaac (WMF)/clickstream viz.js? Those pages are generating entries in en:Special:WantedTemplates. You could also use ‎<nowiki>...‎</nowiki> or ‎<syntaxhighlight>...‎</syntaxhighlight>. By putting the tags inside of comments, it will not impact the functionality, but will prevent the backend software from showing your pages in en:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Title: string, views: number. Thanks! Plastikspork (talk) 15:27, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

@Plastikspork: thanks for letting me know (was unaware of that page) -- should be fixed now. --Isaac (WMF) (talk) 14:36, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Current status of edit types work?

Hi Isaac (WMF), what's the current status of the edit types work? Is there a public preprint or similar about that work I can point people to? I see the repo is still getting dev work, which is awesome. (You should drink the uv kool-aid, btw.) Thanks, Suriname0 (talk) 19:25, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

@Suriname0 The closest thing to a preprint is https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03428, which is some work that used the edittypes but we don't any time describing it there. As you maybe surmised from the dev work and open issues, a few things going on:

• Building in some support for diffing article HTML. So same thing as wikitext but using rendered Wikipedia HTML as input. Right now it seems to work but is largely untested. This gives some nice benefits like seeing when infoboxes or other templated-content changes as opposed to just lumping it all under "template".
• Speeding things up to make it more feasible at scale. You can see some motivation for that at task T398482.
• I personally would like to make the text diffing component a bit more comprehensive so we can give a better estimate of e.g., which word was changed to which, as opposed to just saying that a X words were changed.

And thanks for the tip on uv -- I'll check it out! Isaac (WMF) (talk) 17:48, 9 October 2025 (UTC)