User talk:Ladsgroup/Archive 2

Access to masz

Hi. I'm a new checkuser on enwiki. I'd like to try out your masz tool. How do I get access? RoySmith (talk) 02:41, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

@RoySmith Hi, you should be able to access it automatically. Just go to https://masz.wmcloud.org Amir (talk) 11:49, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Got it, thanks. RoySmith (talk) 13:53, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

I don't imagine this is a surprise, but I've been playing around running some admins and SPI clerks through your tool. Apparently, we're all socks of each other :-) RoySmith (talk) 15:38, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

@RoySmith I will write a response about this in the internal mailing list. Amir (talk) 13:03, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Not sure which mailing list you're referring to, but could you subscribe me to it, please? RoySmith (talk) 13:52, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

@RoySmith I can't do that (I technically can but I'm not allowed to use that right for these cases). You should request to be added in https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/checkuser-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ Amir (talk) 17:12, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello Ladsgroup

I hope you're doing great. Please I want to ask for help, how we can display image for items that has our image property (image (P386)) when it is being shared on OpenGraph platforms like Discord and Telegram and Facebook, etc. For example, when Facebook (Q101) is shared on these platforms, it returns the Wiki's logo instead of the image property. Please help me.... Ugochimobi (talk) 16:16, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

آی پی

سلام.لطف می کنید دو ویرایش را پنهان کنید؟ اگه مشکلی نیست اطلاع دهید تا لینک را اینجا بگذارم.Biss Shop (talk) 17:39, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

@Biss Shop ایمیل کنید. به:

Ladsgroup@gmail.com Amir (talk) 17:41, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

خیلی ممنون.Biss Shop (talk) 17:47, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Help!

Hi, Amir,

You helped me with another Quarry query problem so I thought I'd ask you about another. I forked another editor's code to see if I could run it on enwiki to find broken category redirects. But it's from 2021 and something in the query language has changed. Can you either fix it or tell me how to?

It's here and the error message I'm getting is

Unknown column 'tl_namespace' in 'where clause'

Thanks if you can help! Liz (talk) 04:08, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Liz, It should be this https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/68024 Please check what I did there so you can do it yourself in the next cases :) Amir (talk) 10:01, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Oh, thank you so much! That's perfect. Do you know if there is a tutorial for Quarry or anything like that? I really appreciate your help! Liz (talk) 18:56, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

@Liz hmm, I think what you want is more of database querying tutorial. Something like SQL. Something like this https://www.w3schools.com/mysql/mysql_select.asp . You need to combine that with our database layout and you will know everything in no time. I suggest trying with a small wiki first so your queries won't take too long. HTH Amir (talk) 10:18, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikiquote

Hi, recently four Wikiquote was created: Igbo Wikiquote, Central Bikol Wikiquote, Tagalog Wikiquote, Bengali Wikiquote. Do you know how to add them to https://www.wikiquote.org/? I searched but didn't find any documentions about this. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 02:30, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

@আফতাবুজ্জামান Hi, it should be done automatically once we have a portals deployment, we haven't had one recently but I'm gonna do one after wikivoyage migration so you will have it soon. If it's not there by then, ping me and I check if there is a bug or something like that. Amir (talk) 09:51, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

ایمیل

سلام.آی پی من اینجا ثبت شد و آن را حذف کردم.لطفا ویرایش های مربوط به آی پی و آی پی من را پنهان کنید .یک سوال خاص دارم.برایتان در ایمیل می فرستم لطفا ببینید.Biss Shop (talk) 21:25, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Would you like to publish an essay in The Signpost?

Hi, I've been interested in your page User:Ladsgroup/On Privacy in Wikipedia in the age of AI for a while. Would you be interested in having it published as an essay in The Signpost for English Wikipedia? I am an editor there and I think we could take care of formatting issues pretty much as-is, or if you would like to expand it or anything, that would be fine too. -- Bri (talk) 23:41, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

@Bri Hi, Sure thing. Unfortunately I don't have much time to expand it these days (traveling and other stuff) but it's definitely fine by me :) Thanks! Amir (talk) 22:50, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Great! Do you have time to click the "Create opinion proposal" button in this page and paste your essay in the page it creates for you? I can take it from there. - Bri (talk) 23:02, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

@Bri Thanks. I think I did it w:User:Ladsgroup/Signpost_Opinion1. Best Amir (talk) 20:03, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, I'll handle any editing required for publication. Not sure whether it will go into this month's issue or next. Cheers Bri (talk) 19:01, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

mail

Smallbones (talk) 17:20, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Protection of the French Wikipedia main page

Hi Amir,

I contact you about the cascade protection of the French Wikipedia main page that you did on February 7 after a template vandalism.

The content of the main page is mostly maintained by non-sysop users so I would like to make some changes to make editing possible again for trusted (but non-sysop) users. As you requested on fr:Discussion Wikipédia:Accueil principal#Notice of emergency action, I'm giving you an overview of my plan (tell me if you prefer discussing this on the page of your work account or in another place, but I don't think that the discussion needs to be private so I would prefer keeping it on-wiki than exchanging emails).

In short, my goal is allow autopatrolled users to edit frames that need regular updates while removing the risk of template vandalism, with the help of a bot doing template expansion.

I intend to do the following changes on page protections :

• Include the main page in another cascade-protected page (serving only a technical purpose).
• Remove the cascade protection of the main page.
• Update the main page so that frames that need to be editable (e.g. the "News" frame) are in a <noinclude> tag. Those frames will be in "extended semi-protection" (the protection level on the French Wikipedia that only allows editing by autopatrolled users). Due to the <noinclude> tag, those frames will not be affected by the cascade protection.

The important part to prevent template vandalism is that those editable frames will be managed by a bot. Users will edit a human-friendly version of the frame not shown on the main page and a bot will copy the content to the frame displayed on the main page after doing a full template expansion (+ checks that the expanded templates have not changed recently). Thus the frames displayed on the main page will not contain any other template.

Please tell me if you have questions or concerns about that approach.

For now, we are temporarily using a variant of what I described above where we did not change any protection setting. The problem is that is requires a running a bot with a sysop account (mine at the moment), and I would prefer switching to the solution above that does not require this.

Another solution that we are considering (probably more in the long term) would be to use cascade protection with the protection level "extended semi-protection". This looks simpler, but using cascade protection with another protection level than "sysop" is intentionnally disabled at the moment (phab:T10796). Do you know how I could reopen the discussion on this? Should I create a bug on Phabricator or are there specific people? I would like to know if MediaWiki developpers are open to making a change so the frwiki community knows whether it is a realistic option or not.

Orlodrim (talk) 22:53, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

@Orlodrim Hi, Thanks for the detailed comment. This looks good in general and is similar to what I've seen in other wikis (e.g. my home wiki has a Draft subpage for news that admin move via a click of a button).

Regarding the ticket, the reasoning behind this was that cascading auto-confirmed (or extended-confirmed) protection would lead to the ability that anyone with auto-confirm right semi-protect a page by transcluding it in a cascade protected page (and basically giving admin rights to people who are not admins). I originally thought that we could full protect a page with cascading semi-protection (imagine main page being full protected but anything under it would be semi-protected automatically). This is not currently possible but could be in theory implemented. The problem is that it doesn't solve the original issue either, still someone can transclude a page in the one of the transcluded pages and practically protect it again. I don't have a good idea at the moment but I will think about it.

If you or any member of French Wikipedia community have any ideas on how to implement a more sustainable solution that could be implemented inside mediawiki so it would reduce your work (e.g. any tweak on phab:T10796), I'd make sure to convey it to higher ups for resourcing (but I can't dedicate engineering resources as I don't have that power). Amir (talk) 14:42, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

About the cascading partial protection, my hope would be that it could be enabled as an option provided that there is an agreement at the community level, despite the known issue. I would personally consider this issue as minor: abusing cascade protection to semi-protect a page sounds even less disruptive than a plain vandalism. It does not require an urgent action and can be treated as other kinds of disruptive behaviors. In a way, the common case of a page with cascade full protection whose content automatically rotates from day to day seems more dangerous (it allows non-sysops to fully protect pages).

Otherwise, I can't think of any simple technical workaround, but a different approach could be to have a protection mode where a page is not automatically regenerated when templates change, like Structured Discussions messages. In fact, this is more or less what I am going to simulate with a bot.

Orlodrim (talk) 21:19, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

@Orlodrim Yeah makes sense, another way to look at it is to have per-namespace cascading protection. For example, for pages that are transcluded in main page and are in template namespace, full protection and for pages in wikipedia ns, extended protection. It shouldn't be too hard. It has some issues as the general one (that someone could theoretically protect a wikipedia-ns page by transcluding it in another page) but much better than the general one. I will talk to people and see what we can do. Thanks. Amir (talk) 18:49, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Server switch message looks for transaltions

Hello

In the past, you helped with the translation of Tech/Server switch. This message will soon be displayed to the public. We look for translators to update this message and check if everything is okay.

I hope you can help.

Thank you very much in advance, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 14:44, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Done --Pa2chant.bis (talk) 05:48, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Queering Wikipedia 2023 conference

Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group and the organizing team of Queering Wikipedia is delivering the Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference for LGBT+ Wikimedians and allies, as a hybrid, bilingual and trans-local event. It is online on 12, 14 and 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia #IDAHOBIT, with offline events at around 10 locations on 5 continents in the 5-day span as QW2023 Nodes.

The online program is delivered as a series of keynotes, panels, presentations, workshops, lightning talks and creative interventions, starting on Friday noon (UTC) with the first keynote of Dr Nishant Shah entitled: I spy, with my little AI — Wikiway as a means to disrupt the ‘dirty queer’ impulses of emergent AI platforms. Second keynote is at Sunday’s closure by Esra’a Al Shafei, Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees vice chair, entitled: Digital Public Spaces for Queer Communities.

If you have been an active Wikimedian or enthusiast, supporting LGBT+ activities or if you identify as part of the larger LGBT+ community and allies in Wikimedia, please join us in advancing this thematic work. We encourage you to join online or in person with fellow Wikimedians if it is easy and safe to do so. Our working languages are English and Spanish, with possible local language support at sites of Nodes.

Registration for the online event is free and is open until Wednesday May 10th at 18:00 UTC, for safety protocol. Late event registration approval and event access denial is at the discretion of organizers.

More information, and registration details, may be found on Meta at QW2023

Thanks, from Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:56, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Wiki is broken

Hello ... Swedish wiktionary is broken: I can't delete pages anymore (YES I am sysop). There are other minor problems. You are the last one who successfully performed some deletions there. Is it related to phab:T337700? Taylor 49 (talk) 20:45, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

@Taylor 49 Yeah, it's very likely is. Let me see what I can fix there. Amir (talk) 20:59, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Your feedback is requested

Hello Ladsgroup, We are conducting a poll of global renamers and stewards regarding some future toolings related to some rename requests. Your feedback is requested at the poll on VRT WIKI. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 00:18, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@Xaosflux Hi, I don't think I have access to that wiki. I am a global renamer but not VRT agent. Amir (talk) 13:27, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the note, will check in to this - it is about the topic I've had on the global renamers mailing list. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:45, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Inactive bot account on da.wikipedia

Hi! I'm going through accounts that have bot flags on the Danish Wikipedia. And there I have observed that your bot account da:User:Dexbot has not been used for several years on the Danish Wikipedia. I will remove the bot flag in 30 days if you don't report back that you plan to use it. Otherwise, the account can regain bot flags by notifying Wikipedia:Bot status request if you need it again. Steenth (talk) 11:04, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Consider adding more info to new_wikis_handler.py

Since "Timezone" is typically also requested for new wikis but not done as part of "Create" tasks, could you please consider adding that to your new_wikis_handler.py script? (Also, as a minor stylistic issue, I think it makes more sense to put "Project name" above "Namespaces", since the latter tends to depend partially on the former [i.e., Project and Project_talk].) - dcljr (talk) 05:39, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

@Dcljr Hi, feel free to make MRs for it and I'd be happy to review and merge them. See mw:Gitlab Amir (talk) 00:56, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, but I can't really do that. I've never used GitLab and (frankly) don't want to take the time to figure out how. Could you do it? - dcljr (talk) 00:45, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/ladsgroup/Phabricator-maintenance-bot/-/merge_requests/12 Also https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/ladsgroup/Phabricator-maintenance-bot/-/merge_requests/11 already existed for Timezone but I didn't notice until I filed 12. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 23:56, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

fawiki as pilot wiki for WMDE TechWishes' sub-referencing feature?

Hi Ladsgroup, I hope you are alright!

You might have seen the recent village pump posts regarding the new sub-referencing feature developed by WMDE Technical Wishes (e.g. [1]).

We are currently looking for a small number of pilot wikis to continue further development for the next couple of months while already receiving feedback from communities working with the MVP. We would like to ask fawiki to become a pilot wiki for the new feature. Do you think your community would be interested in piloting? Where do you think should we start a discussion about it?

Thanks and best regards, Johannes (Johannnes89 in my volunteer capacity). --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 11:49, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

@Johannes Richter (WMDE) Hi, I can definitely ask the community, if they like it, we can go ahead. Do you want me to start the conversation there? Amir (talk) 19:34, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, that would be great!

We are currently fixing some Visual Editor workflows for sub-referencing and some RTL bugs (and also want to implement the feedback we're currently getting after to our global announcement). The pilot wiki phase will probably start in six weeks, when most of this current work is done. We'll closely work with 3-5 pilot wikis to further improve the feature and hope to deploy it globally by the end of this year. Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 09:30, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

started the discussion. Amir (talk) 18:50, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I'll respond there to provide some further information :) Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 09:25, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

@Johannes Richter (WMDE) So far it's going well fa:Special:GoToComment/c-Ladsgroup-20240820184300-نظرخواهی_برای_فعال_کردن_این_قابلیت once a week or two passes, we will close it. Amir (talk) 09:29, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

I saw the positive responses, great! Do you think it's not even necessary for me to add more details to the discussion about our our plans for pilot wikis (like the ones I mentioned above)? Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 09:33, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

I don't think it'd be needed Amir (talk) 09:37, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Ok :) I'll watch the discussion in case any questions to WMDE arise (and you can of course always ping me / Johanna). Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 09:41, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

@Johannes Richter (WMDE) ICYMI, It's overwhelmingly in favor of deployment. Amir (talk) 10:36, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks again for initiating the discussing! I've watched it frequently and was very happy about the overwhelming support. As I said above we're currently working on some RTL fixes (e.g. footnote numbering for sub-references) and also some VisualEditor workflows. Once that's done and the pilot wiki phase is starting soon, I'll leave a note on the discussion board, also explaining how we could work regarding feedback and unexpected bugs :) Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 13:04, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Asking help from Persian Wikipedia to help test our first deployment?

Dear Ladsgroup, I recently posted to the Farsi/Persian Wikipedia to ask if the community would be interested in piloting an interface change on moving the Wikidata Item data object from the General section of the sidebar menu to the In Other Projects section, as part of Phabricator:T66315.

I was recommended by colleagues at WMDE to reach out to you as both an Interface Admin and Community Leader of the Persian Wikipedia to ask for your own thoughts or feedback on this topic, as well as possibly signal-boosting or drawing attention to the post. As we have only received 2 (positive) comments so far, I do not feel this is enough community support to proceed yet.

If you should have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 11:38, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

@Danny Benjafield (WMDE) Hi, I honestly don't think people in Persian Wikipedia would care much about the difference. Larger wikis might but I don't think for us it matters much. I don't think a consensus would be needed here at all. Amir (talk) 22:24, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply and insight, we will add fawiki to the list of pilot wikis. Best, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 06:22, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

گروه کاربری ویکی‌مدین‌های ایرانی

گروه کاربری ویکی‌مدین‌های ایرانی

سلام! امیدواریم که حالتان خوب باشد. شما از اعضای ارزشمند گروه کاربری ویکی‌مدین‌های ایرانی هستید و حضور شما برای ما بسیار اهمیت دارد. همانطور که احتمالاً می‌دانید، در حال تلاش برای گسترش و تقویت فعالیت‌های گروه هستیم و برای این منظور از شما دعوت می‌کنیم که در فعالیت‌های جاری گروه مشارکت بیشتری داشته باشید.

یکی از این فعالیت‌ها، نشست‌های آنلاین ماهانه است که در آخرین جمعهٔ هر ماه میلادی برگزار می‌شود. در این نشست‌ها، به بحث دربارهٔ موضوعات مختلفی که به گروه کاربری مربوط می‌شود، می‌پردازیم. خوشحال می‌شویم اگر شما نیز در این نشست‌ها حضور داشته باشید و نظرات ارزشمندتان را با ما به اشتراک بگذارید. اطلاعات بیشتر دربارهٔ این نشست‌ها را می‌توانید از طریق این صفحه دریافت کنید.

همچنین از شما دعوت می‌کنیم که ما را در شبکه‌های اجتماعی دنبال کنید تا از آخرین اخبار و اطلاعیه‌های گروه کاربری مطلع شوید: تلگرام، اینستاگرام، و توییتر.

در حال حاضر، در حال تغییر ساختار گروه کاربری هستیم و برای این منظور نیازمند نظرات و پیشنهادهای شما هستیم تا بتوانیم یک هیئت امنا و یک هیئت مشورتی تشکیل دهیم. نظرات شما بسیار ارزشمند است.

منتظر حضور فعال شما در این فعالیت‌ها هستیم.

با احترام، گروه کاربری ویکی‌مدین‌های ایرانی. 22:08, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Notice of expiration of your global-interface-editor right

Hi, as part of Global reminder bot, this is an automated reminder to let you know that your global permission "global-interface-editor" will expire on 2025-01-20 12:25:49. If you want to renew this right, please file a request at SRGP. In other languages: click here Leaderbot (talk) 19:41, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Question about c:Template:Iranian Wikimedians User Group

Hi, is the Iranian Wikimedians User Group still using this template to upload files? Because User:Mardetanha seems to have been WMF banned. Are there any updates I can make to this template? Thanks —Matrix (_{user page} ^{(@ commons)} - _talk?) 18:23, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

@Matrix Thank you for the note. User:Darafsh and I are the contact people for the user group now. We can use the template for uploads but probably better to make a new one for new uploads? Something that wouldn't explicitly mention someone's name? I honestly don't know how to approach the problem. Do you know what other UGs do? Amir (talk) 03:53, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

As far as I know, most UGs don't have their own license tag. Maybe it's easier to just convert c:Template:Iranian Wikimedians User Group into a redirect to CC-BY-SA-4.0 and have the attribution link to the Meta page. —Matrix (_{user page} ^{(@ commons)} - _talk?) 13:06, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Let me bring it up in the user group chat and if there is no objections. I'm going to implement this. Amir (talk) 16:43, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

@Matrix The UG members all agreed this should simply turn into a redirect. Feel free to implement it. Thank you! Amir (talk) 07:04, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, Done —Matrix (_{user page} ^{(@ commons)} - _talk?) 17:30, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

دعوت‌نامه شرکت در انتخابات هیئت امنای گروه کاربری ویکی‌مدین‌های ایرانی ۲۰۲۵

عضو محترم گروه کاربری ویکی‌مدین‌های ایرانی

با سلام،

ما در حال برگزاری انتخابات هیئت امنای «گروه کاربری ویکی‌مدین‌های ایرانی» هستیم. این رویداد از تاریخ ۱ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۴ (۲۱ آوریل ۲۰۲۵) آغاز شده و تا ۳۱ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۴ (۲۱ مهٔ ۲۰۲۵) ادامه خواهد داشت. حضور شما در این انتخابات نقش مهمی در تضمین مشارکت جامعهٔ ویکی‌مدین‌های ایرانی در تصمیم‌گیری‌ها، برنامه‌ریزی‌ها و سیاست‌گذاری‌های گروه دارد.

در صورت تمایل به نامزدی برای عضویت در هیئت امنا، لطفاً «شرایط نامزدی» را مطالعه فرمایید و تا ۱۰ اردیبهشت درخواست‌تان را ثبت کنید. اطلاعات مربوط به فرایند نامزدی، شرایط، و وظایف هیئت امنا در اینجا در دسترس است.

رأی دادن از ۱۵ اردیبهشت آغاز می‌شود و می‌توانید به نامزدهای مورد نظرتان رأی موافق/مخالف دهید. برای آشنایی با نامزدها، به صفحهٔ «انتخابات هیئت امنای گروه کاربری ویکی‌مدین‌های ایرانی ۲۰۲۵/نامزدها» مراجعه کنید. .

با احترام، کمیتهٔ برگزاری انتخابات هیئت امنای گروه کاربری ویکی‌مدین‌های ایرانی 16:55, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Get started with the Lua interface to simplify the preparation of modules for translation in MetaWiki

Greetings!

The Language and Product Localization team has developed a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation in the MetaWiki platform. This means that module developers can now use the new Lua interface to load translatable strings, and the translators can translate them in the same translation interface that is used for templates and wiki pages.

This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation.

We invite you to watch our demo video and read more about translatable modules to understand how it works. Please give us your feedback on this talk page on how well the Lua interface addresses the challenges in your workflow and how useful it is in module localization tasks. You can also refer to Module:User Wikimedia project, which was recently converted to utilize these messages, for example usage.

Your feedback is important as it will help us evaluate and decide how to continue developing and improving this interface, extend it to other wikis, or change our approach.

Thank you, and we anticipate your honest feedback.

UOzurumba (WMF) 06:40, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

w:vi:Wikipedia:Thảo_luận/Lưu_84#Large_number_of_lint_errors_in_Vietnamese_Wikipedia

Hello. I'm a sysop on viwiki. In 2023, you reported this problem, and a sysop advised that we should delete them. Now, in 2025, I'm doing this task, by running this query and run a script to mass delete it, both via my main and bot account. After that, I switched to running Python code to query-and-delete automatically. But the number of pages is too large (per this query), so is there any better solution for this? – Phương Linh (T · C · CA · L · B) 10:52, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Hide on Rosé Hi, I'm actually running a massive deletion in ruwikinews too (see wikinews:ru:Special:GoToComment/c-Ladsgroup-20250901224400-Are_these_pages_needed?) I can do this for you too. I use pywikibot's delete.py and I can produce the full list from our servers. As long as the community is okay with me being admin for a bit. It's better that way too since I delete with a speed that wouldn't cause issues to the infra. I probably also skip any page that has more contributors than the bot to avoid deleting any page that has valid discussions. Does that sound good to you? Amir (talk) 11:05, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Well, I'm running a bot here: Special:Contribs/HoR bot (local approval). Since I requested the eliminator flag (not the sysop flag), I'm not able to run Pywikibot, so I have to perform the task via the raw API (with a help by @DreamRimmer). Can you describe more about your solutións? Also, the number of pages is too large, is there a way to hide them in Special:Log (but not the log when we go to the page directly)? – Phương Linh (T · C · CA · L · B) 11:24, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I have coded the script that HoR is using, which can be found at https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/66207742/HoRbot.ipynb. They have limited deletions to 15 pages per minute using PWB throttle, so processing over 4,385,000 pages, filtered to those with only one revision made by a bot, would take more than six months of nonstop running. Fifteen pages per minute is a reasonable speed, but what speed do you consider ideal for the servers? One correction to HoR’s message: we are using the raw API with Pywikibot’s data module, so it is still Pywikibot. – DreamRimmer ■ 11:28, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I think up to 60 per minute would be okay (I know it means it'll take "only" two months but I don't think we can go faster). Make sure to delete via bot flag so it doesn't show up in RC but otherwise it should be fine. Amir (talk) 11:41, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Ladsgroup Yeah the bot has its flag. – Phương Linh (T · C · CA · L · B) 11:53, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer What if I increase the speed to 120 ppm? – Phương Linh (T · C · CA · L · B) 16:04, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Hide on Rosé: I am being too cautious with the servers, which is why I initially used only 15. I think 120 might be too aggressive, since this is not a one-hour job but will run for months. What Amir suggested is a safe speed. – DreamRimmer ■ 16:17, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

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Updates from Capacity Exchange (CapX)!

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Wikimedia LGBT+ Community Meeting with WMF CEO Bernadette Meehan (March 20)

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Dexbot

Hello! I'm doing some cleanup of bots on the Swedish Wikipedia (writing here instead of at svwiki, though). Your bot, Dexbot, has not edited since 2018. Do you intend to use the bot in the foreseeable future? Otherwise, I intend to revoke its bot flag. Best regards, EPIC (talk) 22:27, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

@EPIC Thanks. Please go ahead and remove it! Amir (talk) 13:19, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your response! Done so accordingly. Thanks for your service. EPIC (talk) 16:08, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Reminder: global rename policy requirement

You are receiving this message because you are either a Steward or a global renamer. If you are steward and don't perform global rename, you can safely ignore this message.

Hello, this is a general reminder that renames or vanish requests should be reserved for someone who knows the language and local wiki affairs on their home wiki or most active wiki for the first 24 hours after the request is placed.

For the first 24 hours after a rename or vanishing request has been placed, it should only be processed by a renamer who has sufficient proficiency in the language of the requester's home or most active wiki, and is active on that wiki.

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Refer to the 2025 RFC adding this rule, and following global-renamers mailing list emails: 1, 2, 3. Thank you.

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Wind-down work for wikinews language projects

What kind of work is being done at the other language projects to wind them down prior to going read-only? Thanks. Michael.C.Wright (talk) 01:07, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

@Michael.C.Wright I don't know about anything others are doing. What I am doing is to replace uses of DPL with raw wikitext to avoid them looking bad once we undeploy the extension. For example, see n:es:Special:Contributions/Dexbot. Amir (talk) 13:28, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

I have proposed that Dexbot be unblocked at en.WN: n:Wikinews:Water cooler/proposals#Proposal to unblock bot for final DPL cleanup. Michael.C.Wright (talk) 16:24, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Leaderboard has already unblocked Dexbot at en.WN.[2] Can you evaluate n:Wikinews:Archives and let me know what you need from me prior to running the bot to replace DPL with static lists on n:Wikinews:Archives, it's sub-pages, linked pages, etc?

As mentioned on the proposal, please avoid the following pages, which I will do manually:

• n:Main page
• n:Newsroom
• n:Wikinews:Water cooler

I'll make myself available to reduce protection as-needed. You previously mentioned something about not needing flood or admin. I don't understand how that technically works, but we do have two local buearucrats that may be able to help with that if necessary. If you need me to make any requests of them, let me know or you are welcome to as well.

Thanks in advance for your help! Michael.C.Wright (talk) 16:39, 23 April 2026 (UTC)