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Special:AbuseFilter/388

Hello. It seems that this on french Wikipedia is a false positive. Maybe you can except fr.wikipedia ? Or if not a false positive, explain why. Thank you. Supertoff (talk) 17:28, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

The existence of this filter is based on a request from the SBL talk page: Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2025-01#c-XXBlackburnXx-20250106124800-TheSandDoctor-20250101165500. Normally, this link would have been added to the global spam blacklist.

That said, the edit itself looks fine, so let me see how I can fix the issue... XXBlackburnXx (talk) 17:34, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

@Supertoff: I've set the filter to log-only for now and will monitor the hits. With my steward rights coming in less than 2 days, managing the abuse aspect should be a bit easier. Apologies for the inconvenience.. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 17:44, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. Supertoff (talk) 18:35, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Spam

Beans & all, but would it be worth more aggressively disallowing spam? For instance, look at User:Terrapinelect's contribs. Cheers! JayCubby (talk) 22:39, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

For a filter? Sure! Though I have other priorities at the moment, but I'll make sure to take a look when I can. Thanks! :) XXBlackburnXx (talk) 12:58, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look. No rush. JayCubby (talk) 16:15, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-10

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• All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "Edit full page" link is accessible from the "More" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting. [1]
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MediaWiki message delivery 02:31, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Talk page

Hey there, I noticed yesterday that you deleted my talk page for G1, but I don't recall ever making in one in the first place. Was wondering what was going on with that, cheers! Sophisticatedevening ^(talk) 15:57, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Just trolls being trolls. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User+talk%3ASophisticatedevening. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 16:29, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Oh gotcha. Thanks for that, he was doing the same thing on enwiki. Sophisticatedevening ^(talk) 18:08, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-11

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• Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use. [10][11]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:09, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Dowder

Hi. In Steward requests/Global/2025-w10#Global lock for Dowder about Dowder, you wrote "I see no recent spam" and Aqurs1 wrote "What do you mean by 'knowledge of Taiwanese Traditional Chinese a plus'?". Please look at the abuse filter logs, user talk pages, and deleted contributions on Commons and Chinese Wikipedia zh.wikipedia.org. I believe it was Google Translate that determined that the language of the spam in c:File:葉直育.jpg (deleted by Túrelio under c:COM:CSD#F10 and c:COM:CSD#G10) and the abuse filter hits were in English, the Taiwanese dialect of Chinese, or "Chinese (Simplified)". The spam itself was in the form of a Wikipedia article promoting the accomplishments of the person "葉直育", translated as "Ye Zhiyu". Their spammy article zh:葉直育 has been deleted three times (by Ch.Andrew, Wing, and SCP-2000) under zh:WP:G11. -- Jeff G. ツ (please ping or talk to me) 11:34, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Yes, and that occurred a year ago. I don't believe it's appropriate to take action after such a long period, especially when the only recent edits they've made are on commonswiki, which are well-capable of handling issues on their own. A lock seems unnecessary in this case. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 11:50, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

The upload was a year ago, but the latest abuse filter hit was 04:12, 11 March 2025 (UTC), the latest article creation was 03:22, 12 March 2025 (UTC) and the latest article deletion was 03:28, 12 March 2025 (UTC), just six minutes later. -- Jeff G. ツ (please ping or talk to me) 12:06, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Still I don't believe a lock is necessary at this point. If zhwiki and commonswiki wants to block them, that's totally fine. But this doesn't reach the level that warrants a immediate lock IMO. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 12:09, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Plus what typically happens is that users who want to upload a photo are redirected to commonswiki, which many newcomers may not be familiar with. These users typically do not intend to engage in cross-wiki abuse or spam, which I believe is the situation here. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 12:13, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I warned them on the other projects. -- Jeff G. ツ (please ping or talk to me) 18:21, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Special:CentralAuth/AllenDikson

Hello, a recently locked LTA has added many links to nlwiki, you may want to consider reverting their edits. I hope this can help you. MathXplore (talk) 07:24, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting! How did I miss that... XXBlackburnXx (talk) 14:24, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/72

I am sysop on dewiki and found this edit blocked by this filter. I have no informations about the rules behind that filter but it looks like a false possitive for me. I am contacting you because you made the last edit on that filter. Could you please inspect that issue. Thank you.  @xqt 09:19, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

This is one of those old filters that's become a dumping ground for random stuff over the years and nobody knows anymore what to do with it. I've made a change to reduce most false positives this filter has, but in the end I'm afraid we'll need to prune that filter and probably rewrite it from scratch to completely eliminate the issue. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! XXBlackburnXx (talk) 15:56, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Greetings and...

Hi XXBlackburnXx! Just in case you're too busy to have spotted it, there's a noticeable pattern in the edit summaries of these two users, both of whom you have just blocked globally, User:Wór z Arabami, and whose first edit summary was similar to the half-dozen edit summaries by User:Arabski Wikipedysta. If you are already aware of it, I'm sorry you were bothered. No need to reply to this message, as your time can be better employed elsewhere. Thanks for being out there! Regards, Technopat (talk) 12:12, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you and no worries! They were already locked, but if you do happen to find more, don't hesitate to report them! XXBlackburnXx (talk) 16:33, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-12

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• Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC.

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• The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
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• The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
• Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [12]
• The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
• The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. [13]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

ticket to check

Hello XXBlackburnXx, please see ticket:2025031910004784. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 10:39, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: That ticket is about sulutil:NyandaI (with a uppercase "i"), I locked sulutil:Nyandal (a different account, with a lowercase L, belonging to Wikinger). The second account was abusively impersonating the first and actually managed to get their account renamed, which I've actually reverted an hour ago due to their edit on Talk:IRC, see User_talk:DreamRimmer#NyandaI as well. It seems they are trying to log in into Wikinger's account but they obviously can't due to the lock. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 10:51, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! I wasn't considering an unlock - just sorting for they why it is a reject. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:04, 19 March 2025 (UTC)