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CoF template URL update
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I have updated
Template:CoF
to fix the URLs, all template links are now working properly again. Thanks for working on this although it took me a while to notice due to inactivity. Hopefully this will be useful to all. Thanks for your work.
Koumz
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18:21, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
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Koumz
Thank
you
for doing all the real work. Here's to cataloging fish in 2015. —
Justin (
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vf
19:35, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
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The problem is actually a little bigger than that even, as it affects all CAS links and not just the fishes ones, but I will come at least briefly out of my semi-retirement to fire up AWB and fix them.
Koumz
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19:40, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
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Great! I more or less exclusively create and/or edit ichthyology related articles, so this is very good news. Applause! –
Tommy Kronkvist
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Autopatrolled rights
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Dear Koavf, You have been granted
autopatrolled
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Wikispecies
users who have demonstrated an understanding of
Wikispecies policies and guidelines
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Patrolling rights
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Thanks a lof for using your patroller user right and doing
some patrolling
! Please inform me if you experienced any difficaulties, or if you have any questions.
Since you have made use of your patroller user rights, you will keep them, and I will remove your autopatrol user right, since there is no need for both.
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Lectotype images for
Homo sapiens sapiens
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Someone with greater wiki technical and legal skills than myself either needs to contact Uppsala University for permission to upload to Wikimedia Commons, or upload a copy of the JPG directly to Wikipedia/Wikispecies as a fair use of the copyrighted image.
Nicole Sharp
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04:42, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
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Talk:Homo sapiens sapiens#The picture
commons:Commons:FAQ#Copyright questions
Nicole Sharp
I have actually tried to make a mosaic picture of humans before which shows different skin tones, ages, sexes, etc. because that would be a good representation of how humans look rather than choosing a single human image. Your point is a good one. —
Justin (
ko
vf
04:44, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
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My personal opinion is that it would be impossible to find a single phenotypic image for which all humans would agree upon to represent themselves as a species. Even the famous
Pioneer
plaques
sent to represent the human species to extraterrestrials had human genitalia censored by NASA. From a biotaxonomic perspective however, it is difficult to disagree with the historical contributions of Carl von Linné to the field, despite being a white (cishetero) European and perhaps not the best representative of human diversity. His spouse however would arguably make a better historical lectotype than him, since females are more common within the species. With female and male being the most common sexes present in the species, accounting for about 99% of the population, it would be good to have images of both Carl and Sara von Linné, and not the just the male of the couple.
Nicole Sharp
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05:00, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
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Nicole Sharp
Sure but having a variety of faces and body types would be even better, since humans have variation amongst them. I'm not sure how or why Linneaus' sexual orientation is relevant (in fact, how do you even know it...?) since that isn't something that is displayed in a picture, but many common differences in traits can be observed with a mosaic of images made up of many types of humans. —
Justin (
ko
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05:24, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
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(Typo for parenthetical subimportance corrected above.) I was just expressing the number of sociological privileges that von Linné enjoyed to enter such a prestigious position in the biological sciences. I agree that an image attempting to express human biogenetic diversity would be best, but I think it would be impossible to do practically. I think using the established human lectotype of von Linné is an acceptable compromise due to his historical importance to biological taxonomy. I am only arguing that an image of his spouse should also be added as a human paralectotype so that the numerical-majority female sex can be represented. Of course, sex and sexuality of historical figures is notoriously difficult to know. For all we know, one or both of the von Linnés could have been intersex, since human intersexuality was poorly understood at that time, particularly chromosomal science. All we know is that they were sexually compatible enough to successfully reproduce offspring.
Nicole Sharp
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Administrator?
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Dear, J.A. Knapp! Would you accept to be an
Administrator
on
Wikispecies
Please see
Administrators
for information about Admins rights. If you are positive, I can nominate you on the
requests for adminship
on your behalf.
Best regards,
Tommy Kronkvist
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Tommy Kronkvist
I would be honored. Thanks! —
Justin (
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02:57, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you
Koavf
please confirm
here
that you accept the nomination. –
Tommy Kronkvist
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Administrator rights
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Hello again Koavf.
You have been granted
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Again, congratulations. –
Tommy Kronkvist
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04:10, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
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Tommy Kronkvist
Thanks a lot. I hope that I can be of service. —
Justin (
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04:19, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
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Template:Zootaxa
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Hi Koavf,
there's something wrong with this template, see
Template:Bai, Xu & Dai, 2015
or [[Cameraria_%28Lithocolletinae%29]]. There's a line feed too much. Can you change this? --
Murma174
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08:52, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
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P.S. I'm not sure, but the problem coud be here in the last two rows: Instead of
or {{zootaxa|year|number|start page|end page}} otherwise
write:
or {{zootaxa|year|number|start page|end page}} otherwise
Hope this helps. Thanks --
Murma174
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17:19, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
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Murma174
That was exactly it. Good eye! —
Justin (
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03:58, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
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Patrol stats
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Thanks to
Cgt on danish Wp
, we can now see statistics on patrolling:
Dan Koehl
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19:53, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
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Please note that the patrolling stats URL has now changed from the da:WP user Cgt's personal web page (listed above) to a URL within the Wikimedia project itself, more specifically
at Wikimedia Tool Labs. The old "cgt.name" URL no longer works without a proper SSL certificate. Best regards,
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Patrol stats
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Thanks to
Cgt on danish Wp
, we can now see statistics on patrolling:
MediaWiki message delivery
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20:07, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
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Stegana
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Hi Justin. Your points on the pump are well meaning, but please look at his recent edits. He is once gain trying to impose his chosen formats onto WS as well as annoying PeterR sufficiently as to force him to move off our site. The trouble with Thorpe is that he treats WS as his chosen domain and to hell with the rest of us. Many of his edits in the last couple of days are both helpful and show a lack of knowledge. In addition, he is acting in a petty manner by refusing to listen to others and going along on his own sweet way, particularly when it comes to formats and ignoring consensus. As PeterR puts it he is not as good as he thinks he is and IMO he has made few original contributions in the last few years preferring to concentrate on categories and getting involved with the contributions of others! I also think he is perhaps trying to provoke edit wars. Do we need a checkuser ASAP?
Andyboorman
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18:45, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
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Andyboorman
It's pretty obvious--I just did it. It's sad. He has a lot to offer but just refuses to not argue with others. —
Justin (
ko
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19:47, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
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I was tempted as I added stuff to his talk page! Thanks and regards
Andyboorman
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20:11, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
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Koavf
Same old duck I guess
Eviota
. Not a new tactic continuous creation of "new" users, but how difficult is it to stop?
Andyboorman
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11:33, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
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Template:Sp
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Hi,
Please could you look at my suggestion
here
, and the demo edit mentioned there, and see what you think? We need a way to apply the class without the DIV (but in each instance of the template instead); I fear that's not achievable. If so, we may need a bot run to add a pair of top & bottom templates
Andy Mabbett
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Template:Languages
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Thank you for fixing my edit to the
{{
Languages
}}
template.
(diff.)
That was a very odd error of mine: I must have made my edit using data from an old version of the template – inadvertently of course! Again, thanks. –
Tommy Kronkvist
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07:10, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
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Tommy Kronkvist
No problem--thank you! —
Justin (
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Contributions
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Hi,
Stohner is changing my contributions again without communicate it with me. Even the references (after our agreements). See
Myriopleura isocentra
. I have already change it back, but maybe you can see his changes.
PeterR
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08:58, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
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PeterR
It looks like you created
Myriopleura isocentra
and then he edited it but there wasn't edit-warring here. If there's some disagreement, you can post to his talk or try to find some middle ground. I don't see what the problem is in this case. —
Justin (
ko
vf
14:03, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
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Apology
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Justin,
Herewith I excuse me for my remark to block you. I was and I'm very frustrated that Stho002 came back. I know what that means for me: a lot of nag. I was angry because you unblock him without consultation with others. I hope you except my apology.
PeterR
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07:44, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
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PeterR
No worries, man--you didn't do anything wrong. Thanks. —
Justin (
ko
vf
17:52, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
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Italian translations
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Hi, I wanted to start translations in Italian at
Wikispecies:Localization
: can you enable it please? Thank you --
Ruthven
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11:16, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
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Ruthven
Grazie! You can post it here, on
Wikispecies talk:Localization
or email it to me. —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:30, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
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I'm doing some translations but I need a quick information: where are messages like
MediaWiki:Paleornithologist/it
used? Those should be lower case in Italian unless they are used just after a punctation mark. --
Vituzzu
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21:43, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
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Vituzzu
Strictly speaking, we
should
have entries for both "Name" and "name" as well as "Zoologist" and "zoologist" but since there is so little actual text on Wikispecies, it's not that critical. I'd be happy to copy and paste any Italian translations you have and start adding them to our interface. —
Justin (
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vf
03:18, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
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Uhm I see (
Pigsonthewing
too), so if needed you can fix/fork those messages by yourself since the rule is pretty straightforward. Basically in Italian adjectives and nouns of things/activities/almost-anything-but-proper-nouns are lower case. So you'll say "the species was firstly described by
oologist
oavf in
ctober 2016". By the way I'm using my stewards userrights to put translations directly into mediawiki's namespace avoiding bothering you with requests to move translations, I hope this is not a problem to local policies, otherwise I'll put them in talkpages. --
Vituzzu
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21:45, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
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Vituzzu
Go for it! Thanks a lot. —
Justin (
ko
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21:47, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
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New Zealand categories
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Hi, I've seen you're engaged in cleaning the geographical categories. There remain more than 9200 categories in the form of "Category: New Zealand xxx" and "Category: xxx (New Zealand)". Can you please mop these too?
Mariusm
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14:00, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
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Mariusm
I've got a list of 11,000 that I'm working through, including those. Thanks. —
Justin (
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14:07, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
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Template:Nadi
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Hello, I reverted part of your edit in this template. In my opinion, it is better to have the distribution information only in a collapsible box. In cases like
Ochna
it would take too much space in the article. As there already have been some discussions, if distribution data should be included or not, it certainly is better to present it not too bulky. Regards --
Franz Xaver
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11:34, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
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Franz Xaver
Thanks for your note. It's a pity that we have
anything
that is collapsible, since it is
inaccessible to users
and doesn't work with some browsers/rendering agents. —
Justin (
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13:40, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
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Category:Publications of
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Koafv,
I see that you are updating the Category:Publications of, but we have already decide not to use them in the reference template. We place the reference templates in the author pages under Publications. One of the persons who delete the category in the reference templates is me. So what you are doing is overdone.
PeterR
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06:25, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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PeterR
Are you saying that the consensus is to delete these categories? —
Justin (
ko
vf
06:26, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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Yes that is and place the reference templates under the authors.If you look in the new reference templates, you don't see Category:Publications of any more. See
Template:Roberts, 1941
PeterR
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08:30, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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template NADI
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Hello, and
Orchi
Franz Xaver
. I think your edits on this template need discussion. For example, I do not think that a collapse box approach reduces accessibility, but it does reduce the size of the taxon page making it more readable. However, I do not often use the template, so perhaps others should make there views known as well.
Andyboorman
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19:06, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
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Andyboorman
I'll revert it for now and post at the pump. —
Justin (
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19:07, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
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Good plan, thanks
Andyboorman
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19:08, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
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ISBN's
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Any chance of fixing up the remaining templates with AWB?
ShakespeareFan00
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01:28, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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ShakespeareFan00
Slowly but surely. Thanks a lot. —
Justin (
ko
vf
03:11, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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The equivalent for articles was
Over 7000 entires means this is going to need a bot to get them converted at any appreciable rate of progress... I don't know any bot writers..
ShakespeareFan00
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18:24, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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KoehlBot
run by 'crat
Dan Koehl
should be able to take care of this. –
Tommy Kronkvist
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19:31, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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I will definitely have a look and let you know. The question is if I will need to apply for that function through voting, in order to not make an error? There was some angry comments before reg the Bot...
Dan Koehl
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20:00, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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In my opinion, no. I remember all the fuzz that were stirred up before, but that should be considered history. Nowadays
the bot
is
registered after having passed all tests and getting approved
, so it should be able to run just like any other approved bot. And as usual, if someone disapproves or spots an erroneous edit they are welcome to flag for this on
KoehlBot's user page
, again just like with any other bot. As a side note and regarding bots in general rather than KoehlBot, I sometimes have a difficult time understanding all the commotion regarding the bots. There are a mere total of 23 approved bots on Wikispecies, most of them inactive. As a comparison the English Wikipedia runs 312 bots, many of them
very
active and dealing with an immensely much bigger number of pages than Wikispecies. Yet there seems to be peace in enWP bot land these days... –
Tommy Kronkvist
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Documentation
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Hi! Can you explain, why you deleted and removed the documentation from
{{
Acevedo-Rodríguez, 2005
}}
? --
Franz Xaver
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07:18, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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Franz Xaver
I'll respond here. I think you are correct that this should have documentation since it has different functionality. Sorry and thanks. —
Justin (
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07:20, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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Category:Publications of D. Telnov
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We had made the decision to remove all categories except the Categories for museum and author taxa. I see you have delete publications of but not the category itself. See
Category:Publications of D. Telnov
. Why not?
PeterR
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11:59, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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PeterR
As I recall, I deleted several subcategories of Publications by author but maybe forgot some... Not sure. They are all gone now. —
Justin (
ko
vf
18:02, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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The
Category:Publications of D. Telnov
was deleted by Justin ("Koavf") at 16:56, 9 January 2017. This can be seen in the
Deletion log.
(As a note the author name should have been
Dmitry Telnov
, not "D. Telnov", but the category was named in accordance with the naming scheme used by its creator, i.e. Mr. Thorpe.)
As for the decision to remove all categories except the ones for museums and authored taxa,
PeterR
I have asked you before and I will ask you again:
where
can such a decision be found? I can't find a link to any page where we have made such a decision. I do not doubt you but I can't find
all
of the links on Wikispecies, so please help me. If instead Justin or Franz Xaver can provide me with such a link that is of course very welcome, too. –
Tommy Kronkvist
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18:11, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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Tommy Kronkvist
We're in the same boat. I really want to come to an understanding with Peter but I'm having a hard time figuring out what he wants exactly. —
Justin (
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Reverted deletions
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I've reverted some of your recent deletions. Please see
User talk:Pigsonthewing#Odd link on the CAT:SPEEDY page
Andy Mabbett
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Repositories by country categories
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Please can you explain
this edit
and your edit summary of "no scheme for this"?
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
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Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
12:54, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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Pigsonthewing
These were only redlinks and there is no greater categorization scheme of "
by country"--I don't know that we should have any but I think we should have a discussion about "by country" categories. For instance, we have deleted thousands of categories that are geographic for taxa but we have a few for taxon authorities by country. As I posted on your talk about a different template, if you are in favor of restoration, then I am happy to see you restore it (or do it myself if you'd prefer) and then we can discuss issues related to geography at the Pump. —
Justin (
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16:42, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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Paratype and holotype
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Hi Justin why do these terms redirect to Repositories? Surely they should have hit the Dictionary. I have cured the redirects, but seems odd maybe a misapplied bot? Regards
Andyboorman
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20:27, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
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Andyboorman
No clue. I just redirected it when I split the repositories article. —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:29, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
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I agree that both "holotype" and "paratype" should redirect to
Dictionary
. As for the earlier redirects to
Repositories
, please see VP archive 38:
"Holotype" redirecting to the dictionary instead of to the repositories
. –
Tommy Kronkvist
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08:45, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
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Tommy Kronkvist
Thanks. I just redirected a page when I moved it. I want to clean up some of the dross around here. —
Justin (
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08:48, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
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Incertae sedis as Taxon Pages
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Hello
Koavf
You have recently created
Incertae sedis (Roupaleae)
as a redirect from Unassigned Roupaleae. I refer you to the following discussion and poll
Incertae sedis on Taxon Pages
- the last of a few may I add. Regards
Andyboorman
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19:06, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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Andyboorman
I think you are mistaken: I did not
create
the page but simply edited it to have a correctly formed name (i.e. per this comment which I only just now saw: "One final point: the Incertae sedis(Proteoideae) page is wrongly titled, missing a space before the bracket; if consensus is for the page to be kept, it will have to be moved to add the missing space.") I was just putting a space before the parenthesis. —
Justin (
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19:09, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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Apologies. I will have a think about this. It might be best to revisit the whole family looking for new material on its classification since our last discussions. Thanks
Andyboorman
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19:20, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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Andyboorman
No problem. As you may know, I'm not knowledgeable about taxonomy, so I have a kind of outsider's perspective on the nuts and bolts of this site. —
Justin (
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19:22, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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Confusing deletion
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Zt3777.1.1
This has over 100 transclusions--why did you delete it? —
Justin (
ko
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05:57, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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Because this reference template is not after our agreements. I Have made a new one after our agreements. If I update species or genera, I update the reference templates to.
PeterR
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06:31, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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Template agreements
I'm still a little confused: did you remake it already? If so, I will replace the old template with the new one to clear out all of these redlinks. —
Justin (
ko
vf
17:42, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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I'm not a programmer. So I have done nothing. If you want known more ask Mariusm.
PeterR
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17:51, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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First you say "I have made a new one", and then you say "I'm not a programmer. So I have done nothing." How can you both make a new template, and also
not
make a new template?? –
Tommy Kronkvist
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01:53, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
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Peter, when you change a template's name which is used in many pages, please leave a REDIRECT on the old name.
Mariusm
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07:31, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
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Marius, normal I do this, may be I have forgotten it to do with this one. He could sent me a list for updating.
PeterR
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07:45, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
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On 18 july 2015 i have make a new one for Zt3777.1.1 namely Yang, Wang & Li, 2015. I have replace the new template by the species. See
Edosa bicolor
. total 24 pieces.
PeterR
talk
05:54, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
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─────────────────────────
Justin
, as you know the
{{Zt3777.1.1}}
template has over
100 transclusions
rather than just 24. Please see
User talk:PeterR#Confusing deletion
for more recent information regarding this issue. –
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
14:29, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
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Tommy Kronkvist
I did see that. Still confused. But yes, there were 100 redlinks, so something needed to be done. I don't have the expertise of you or Peter, so I'm glad someone could confirm and fill in the reference. —
Justin (
ko
vf
16:21, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
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Application for Checkuser
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Latest comment:
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1 comment
1 person in discussion
Referring to
earlier discussions
regarding a local Checkuser policy, I
herebye apply
to get
Checkuser
user rights, although we havnt reached a consensus reg Checkuser policy, but I want to give it a try if I can get the required votes. For a request to succeed a minimum of 25 support votes and an 80% positive vote are required (subject to the normal bureaucrat discretion). Requests for checkuser run for two weeks, and I ask kindly that somone starts the poll, like we do for adminship applications.
Please also note that CheckUser actions are logged, but for privacy reasons the logs are only visible to other Checkusers. Because of this,
Wikispecies must always have no fewer than two checkusers
, for mutual accountability. I dont want to suggest anyone, but hope that someone feel inspired and will step forward and
also apply for checkuser
My request to the Wikispecies community is
here
Dan Koehl
talk
01:40, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
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Another application for Check User
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Latest comment:
9 years ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
As pointed out above by
User:Dan Koehl
, we need at least two Check Users for this wiki. I am nominating myself and would be happy to receive any feedback that you have to give (positive, negative, or neutral).
Wikispecies:Checkusers/Requests/Koavf
. Thanks.
MediaWiki message delivery
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05:08, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
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Third application for checkuser
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Latest comment:
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1 person in discussion
Further to recent messages, I am also offering to serve, so that we have three checkuser operators, to ensure adequate coverage in case one of the others is unavailable. Please comment at
Wikispecies:Checkusers/Requests/Pigsonthewing
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14:47, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
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Additional Checkuser Application
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Latest comment:
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I also have added my name to those willing to be a checkuser. Please see my application here
Wikispecies:Checkusers/Requests/Faendalimas
. I listed this yeasterday but have been encouraged to do a mass mail. I would also take the opportunity to make sure everyone knows that any editor can vote but that it is imperative that as many do as possible, for all 4 of the current applicants, please have your say. Checkuser voting has strict policy rules regarding number of votes. You will have other messages from the other Users concerned you can also read about it in the discussion on the Village Pump -
Wikispecies:Village_Pump#Application_for_Checkuser
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17:53, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
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Standing for role of checkUser
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Like some of our colleagues (who I support), I am offering to serve as a checkuser, not least to ensure adequate coverage in case one of the others is unavailable.
Please comment at
Wikispecies:Checkusers/Requests/Pigsonthewing
[Apologies if you receive a duplicate notification; I wasn't aware of
Wikispecies:Mail list/active users
, and sent my original notification to the list of administrators instead.]
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13:59, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
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Templates
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Latest comment:
9 years ago
4 comments
2 people in discussion
Koavf,
Whats happened with the templates from
Rikio Sato
PeterR
talk
16:35, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
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PeterR
I don't understand your question. That page isn't missing any templates except a few for names (e.g
Rikio Sato Sato, r.
) —
Justin (
ko
vf
16:38, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
I see the problem is over. All the author names where in read, Because the capital letters after the name became small letters.
PeterR
talk
16:17, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
PeterR
Yes, they are just templates that did not exist. —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:51, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
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RFC on Checkusers
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1 comment
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With one week to go I wanted to remind everyone of the importance of voting on the current CheckUser applications. They can all be found together on a single RFC:
Wikispecies:Requests_for_Comment#Checkusers
It is extremely important with votes such as this for everyone to be involved. There are strict rules in the Wikimedia Foundation Policy guidelines on these votes. I would urge people to have a good understanding of what a CheckUser does. This can be read up on here on the page discussing CheckUser's
Wikispecies:Checkusers
. Links on this page will take you to other policy information on Meta, HowTo for our site etc.
I would also urge people to look at our own policy development and some past discussion on this can be found here:
Wikispecies_talk:Local_policies#Local_CU_Policy
Wikispecies has in the past had issues that has required the intervention that is supported by the ability to do a CheckUser. Many of us are aware of this. The capacity to do this ourselves greatly speeds up this process. Although SockPuppetry can sometimes be identified without using a CheckUser in order to do the necessary steps to stop it or even prevent it requires evidence. We all know that sockpupets can do significant damage.
This is an important step for Wikispecies. It is a clear demonstration we can run ourselves as a Wiki Project part of Wiki Media Foundation. When I and several others first discussed this we knew it would be difficult at the time to meet all the criteria. We have only now decided to try and get this feature included in Wikispecies. By doing this it can lead to other areas where Wikispecies can further develop its own policies. In some areas we have unique needs, different to the other Wiki's. It is timely we were able to develop all these policies.
Scott Thomson
Faendalimas
talk
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14:15, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
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CSS
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Latest comment:
9 years ago
7 comments
2 people in discussion
How's your understanding of CSS? I have put
{{
Archives
}}
on my talk page, having imported the template code from en.Wikipedia. As you can see, compared to my talk page there, it's misaligned. I'm not sure what CSS needs to be imported. Can you help, please? I've also asked for an archiving bot to start work on Wikispecies.
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
12:48, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Pigsonthewing
Good, not great. As you can see, my first
attempt
didn't work but I'll keep at this. —
Justin (
ko
vf
16:49, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Pigsonthewing
Second time's
a charm. I'm sure there are more elegant solutions but I woke up nine minutes ago and I have work in 70. I can take a look again if you want something prettier or simpler but this will probably have the behavior you want and is valid CSS/HTML. —
Justin (
ko
vf
16:53, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Thank you. That's working, but I was actually thinking of importing the styles (in common.css?)from en.Wikipedia.
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
17:15, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Pigsonthewing
Ah, yes--that is what you explicit wrote above. Let me take a look when I'm back from work. —
Justin (
ko
vf
17:25, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
─────────────────────────
Pigsonthewing
I have
imported several styles
from en.wp to
MediaWiki:Common.css
. The template that you imported uses several classes and I just copied the associated styling for all of those. It maybe/kinda/should work but since it's CSS and I'm doing it, I'm sure that it won't. At the
very least
the
Justin (
ko
vf
03:40, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Wonders never cease
It worked. —
Justin (
ko
vf
03:41, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
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Localization
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Latest comment:
9 years ago
2 comments
2 people in discussion
Hi! You made a small mistake when you copied the hungarian version of words at
Wikispecies:Localization
Please, change
Editor
to
Szerkesztő
and
Editors
to
Szerkesztők
(because the
Járőr
means
Patroller
see:
Wikispecies:Patrollers/hu
for demonstration), and please change the
Type data
to
Típus adat
Thank you!
BanKris
talk
10:34, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
BanKris
Actually, that page is mostly made by hand, but you'll notice that the line "Editor" is all in blue for every language because
that
term didn't need to be translated here at Wikispecies. It is translated over at
translatewiki:
and is a part of the MediaWiki software itself. (You can see this for yourself if you use other languages that no one here has translated like, "
MediaWiki:Editor/br
", which is Breton.) If
MediaWiki:Editor/hu
is incorrect, then it's incorrect across all MediaWiki sites. Go ahead and check any random wiki like,
s:fr:MediaWiki:Editor/hu
(which is the French Wikisource). So I'm a little reluctant to change that one since it is so widely used all over MediaWiki. Does that explanation make sense? —
Justin (
ko
vf
11:02, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
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Request for vote reg use of BASEPAGENAME
edit
Latest comment:
9 years ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
The
previous discussions
regarding if we should subst:ing BASEPAGENAME and change all [[
BASEPAGENAME
]] into [[
susbt:BASEPAGENAME
]] did not really reach a consensus.
Please
vote here
on the Village pump!
If you are not sure on your opinion, you can
read and join the discussion
about the claimed advantages and disadvantages of using BASEPAGENAME
MediaWiki message delivery
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13:29, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
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Wikispecies:Checkusers/Requests/Koavf
edit
Latest comment:
9 years ago
2 comments
2 people in discussion
You can close it and say something like "The poll is closed and now going through deliberation. Please do not vote on it." You added summary of the result and it gives the appearance that the whole thing is a done deal.
OhanaUnited
Talk page
20:58, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
OhanaUnited
I posted that it is pending any community discussion the first time around and now I have added space below the poll for commentary. That seems plenty sufficient. —
Justin (
ko
vf
21:01, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
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Acari
deletion
edit
Latest comment:
9 years ago
2 comments
2 people in discussion
Oh jeeze, I did that? >>;;; I think I had left it open after transferring some refs and I ended up deleting by accident while working through a bunch of speedies (same reason that Candidates for speedy deletion ended up
deleted twice itself
). Apologies, and thanks for noticing!
Circeus
talk
21:44, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Circeus
Accidents happen--that's why we have more than one editor! Thanks, man. —
Justin (
ko
vf
21:50, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Koiwaya template
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Latest comment:
9 years ago
4 comments
2 people in discussion
In view of the duplication it seemed sensible to have only one reference to this paper. I have restored it, but we now have two templates for effectively the same reference. I will see if we cannot set all links to just one version before disposing of the other.
Accassidy
talk
10:22, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Have reviewed all the links and brought them down to one template., deleting the duplicate.
Accassidy
talk
10:32, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Accassidy
Not sure if you knew this but you can redirect templates so that {{A}} is made up of #redirect[[Template:B]] and every time that someone inserts {{A}} into a page, the content from {{B}} will display. If I see more redundant templates, then I will certainly try to merge them (and, of course, fixing the redirect links is better but not necessary). Thanks. —
Justin (
ko
vf
18:32, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
I know now. will try to keep it in mind...
Accassidy
talk
12:51, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
CU
edit
Latest comment:
9 years ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
Hi Koavf. Please take a look at your email and send me a reply. Thanks.
Trijnstel
talk
13:38, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Challenger categories
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Latest comment:
9 years ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
My Challenger categories have no relationship to former geographic categories. They are integrally connected to discovery and naming of taxa and are thus central to our work. Please restore them.
Neferkheperre
talk
17:53, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
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Template:Nyctemera (Nyctemera)
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Latest comment:
9 years ago
2 comments
2 people in discussion
Koavf,
Please can you tell me what is wrong with Template:Nyctemera (Nyctemera)?
PeterR
talk
16:40, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
PeterR
You put the template inside itself. —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:21, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
PeterR
More specifically you accidentally put curly braces around the taxon name instead of apostrophes
— The preceding
unsigned
comment was added by
Circeus
talk
contribs
).
Translator admin
edit
Latest comment:
9 years ago
2 comments
2 people in discussion
Iv been puzzled by your application for Translation admin, since: "Administrators are able to add (and remove) themselves to the group"? Is there something I have missed?
Dan Koehl
talk
08:18, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Dan Koehl
I cannot add/remove myself from this group, only IP block exempt, autopatroller, patroller. —
Justin (
ko
vf
08:20, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
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Wikispecies Oversighter
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Latest comment:
9 years ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
Wikispecies has no local
Oversighter
. Since I had the communitys confidence regarding the previous application for Checkusers rights, as per
local Oversight policy on META
, I hereby apply to get
Oversighters
user rights, as a request to the Wikispecies community.
Application is located at
Requests for Comment
Please also note that Oversighter actions are logged, but for privacy reasons the logs are only visible to other Oversighters. Because of this,
Wikispecies must always have no fewer than two oversighters
, for mutual accountability. I don't want to suggest anyone, but hope that someone feel inspired and will step forward and
also apply for oversighters rights
Dan Koehl
through
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15:01, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
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Oversight nomination
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Latest comment:
9 years ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
Please refer to
Wikispecies:Oversighters/Requests/Koavf
for a second Oversight nomination. Note that we must have at least two Oversigthers in order for anyone to have these user rights. All feedback is welcome.
MediaWiki message delivery
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19:50, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
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Turkish Localization
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Latest comment:
9 years ago
2 comments
1 person in discussion
Wikispecies:Localization/row please add:
tr
MediaWiki:Taxonavigation/tr : Sınıflandırma
MediaWiki:Name/tr : Takson
MediaWiki:References/tr : Kaynaklar
MediaWiki:Vernacular names/tr : Yerel adlar
MediaWiki:Synonyms/tr : Eş adlar
--
Fagus
--
Fagus
talk
09:16, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
Reply
See,
Turkish Localization
Fagus
talk
05:17, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Template:TalkX
edit
Latest comment:
8 years ago
3 comments
2 people in discussion
Hi, Last January, you deleted
Template:TalkX
. It seems that it's used on several user-talk pages. Please review.
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
15:55, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Pigsonthewing
Done and done. Thanks. —
Justin (
ko
vf
19:08, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Reply
Thank you.
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
19:22, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
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Code errors?
edit
Latest comment:
8 years ago
2 comments
2 people in discussion
Something wrong here?
Regards,
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
11:44, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
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Pigsonthewing
Possibly... but I copied and pasted the code from en.wp, so I'm not sure how to debug it and it seems like it works, for what it's worth. —
Justin (
ko
vf
15:51, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Your request for comment
edit
Latest comment:
8 years ago
10 comments
3 people in discussion
Would it be possible to create a modified
Diceros bicornis
incorporating your proposals using the sandbox? This then can be be placed as a link on your request, as well as the link to the current live page. This will help people visualise your proposal. Cheers
Andyboorman
talk
14:40, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Andyboorman
Good point. Unfortunately, you can't do a local test in just one page here, as it involves editing
mw:Manual:LocalSettings.php
and I can't access the server. I've posted an example there. —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:03, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Is it true that you have been working here for ten years?
Penny Rose Smith
talk
10:56, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Penny Rose Smith
my
first edit
was in 2005. —
Justin (
ko
vf
10:58, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Right, what made you interested, and what month did you start?
Penny Rose Smith
talk
10:59, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Penny Rose Smith
I linked my first edit above: it was December 2005. I got interested because I was editing Wikipedia and wanted to branch out from there to the sister projects. I started using Wikipedia in 2003. —
Justin (
ko
vf
11:01, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Reply
A lot has changed now.
Penny Rose Smith
talk
11:04, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Penny Rose Smith
Oh boy and how. For instance, you're here now. —
Justin (
ko
vf
11:05, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Hahhahaa! That's funny! I only just recently just heard of this site...
Penny Rose Smith
talk
11:10, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Penny Rose Smith
Let me know how I can help. Tho Slumberland calls for now. Gnite, Penny. —
Justin (
ko
vf
11:14, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
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Nowrap
edit
Latest comment:
8 years ago
4 comments
2 people in discussion
Hi,
Template:Nowrap
isn't working, because the HTML class nowrap hasn't been defined. Can you do the honours, please?
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
20:52, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
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Pigsonthewing
This means I have to edit the site CSS? —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:55, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Yes. I thuoght that was something you did often. Have I misremembered?
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
22:06, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Pigsonthewing
You have but my CSS skills are okay so I can give it a go, sure. If you want, feel free to undercut me. I'm doing something on en.ws and en.wb at the moment. —
Justin (
ko
vf
22:29, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Input appreciated
edit
Latest comment:
8 years ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
Dear Koavf,
Your input as Translation administrator would be valued at Administrators' Noticeboard regarding
discussions about Translators and Unpatrolled Pages
Dan Koehl
talk
22:24, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Thanks! ❤
edit
Latest comment:
8 years ago
2 comments
2 people in discussion
Your help was so helpful on the Village Pump! THANK YOU!!!
GermanGamer77
talk
18:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Reply
GermanGamer77
I want this place to be welcome. Danke as well. —
Justin (
ko
vf
19:40, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
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Deletion of "Accepted tribus names" category
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Latest comment:
7 years ago
5 comments
3 people in discussion
Koavf,
Why have you delete Accepted tribus name?
PeterR
talk
08:40, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Reply
PeterR
See
Wikispecies:Village Pump#Category:Accepted species name
. —
Justin (
ko
vf
08:45, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Justin, shouldn't we also delete
Category:Accepted genus name
, a subcategory of the now deleted
Category:Accepted species names
? –
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
00:38, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Tommy Kronkvist
Agreed. Names should be assumed to be accepted unless otherwise noted. —
Justin (
ko
vf
06:22, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Indeed. The category is now deleted. I've also deleted
Category:Valid genus
which redirected to it, and removed it from all taxon pages that used to link to it.
(What Links Here?)
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
11:42, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
Reply
"Deny"
edit
Latest comment:
7 years ago
4 comments
3 people in discussion
There is a non-trivial history to that situation. I'm not going to revert your revert. But this situation no longer merits AGF, I assure you.
StevenJ81
talk
11:43, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Reply
I agree. The user account in question is indefinitely blocked from several wikis and for various reasons, together with no less than eight sock-puppets that are also indefinitely blocked. Any way: this particular case is closed, as far as I'm concerned. –
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
12:52, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Reply
StevenJ81
and
Tommy Kronkvist
Thanks. I did not see him blocked locally or on Meta, so I assumed good faith. I agree that his nomination was ridiculous but I assumed that he could help with localization, since that was his main complaint. —
Justin (
ko
vf
17:32, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Reply
In these matters I always opt for the "Global account information",
like this
. That instantly gives you all the current user group- and blocking data for
all
of the wikis at once, instead of just checking a single wiki at a time. That information can then serve as a starting point for checking other logs of a more specific nature, such as for example
user rename logs.
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
18:35, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Members of the Ten Year Society of Wikispecies editors
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Latest comment:
6 years ago
2 comments
2 people in discussion
Koavf.
I don't see my name by Members of the Ten Year Society of Wikispecies editors.
PeterR
talk
19:26, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
Reply
PeterR
Add
{{
User Ten Year Society
}}
to your userpage and you will. —
Justin (
ko
vf
19:51, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
Reply
Template:Anheader
edit
Latest comment:
6 years ago
6 comments
3 people in discussion
Are we actually going to do anything with this? If not, maybe save it to userspace until its time to shine comes? Until then, it makes a weird blip in
Special:UnusedTemplates
because of its multiple translations, and I cannot delete it myself b/c of the translation aspect.
Circeus
talk
02:43, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Reply
Circeus
It
is
used on
Wikispecies:Administrators' Noticeboard
. —
Justin (
ko
vf
03:42, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Reply
A pox on templates that call other templates mutely. Because of
{{
Dynamite
}}
(what the hell name is that),
{{
Anheader
}}
registers as unused... alright, mystery solved
Circeus
talk
03:45, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Reply
Circeus
Agreed. Transclude it onto the archives and that solves the problem. —
Justin (
ko
vf
03:49, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Reply
─────────────────────────
Circeus
& Justin: This template also has a cousin named
{{
Tanheader
}}
which is used on
Wikispecies:Translation Administrators' Noticeboard
. The
{{Dynamite}}
template most likely got its name from its predecessor
{{
Translatable template
}}
which was originally created on Wikidata and use
{{TNT}}
as a redirect shortcut. Hence the "dynamite" connection.
Justin, something seems to have gone amiss when you added the
{{Anheader}}
template to the Admins' Noticeboard archives for
2016
2017
2018
and
2019
. Or perhaps the template was altered after that, making it look bad on the archive pages. In either case, do you know how it can be fixed?
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
08:44, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
Reply
I saw that at the time and figured I would just fix it later but I'm too dumb and too distracted to do that, so removing is just easier. It's nice to have for navigation but we'll live without it. —
Justin (
ko
vf
09:12, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
Reply
Adding Sardinian to Template:Languages
edit
Latest comment:
6 years ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
Hi,
I've translated the main page to Sardinian
("Sardu", ISO code: sc) a few months ago, but even though I made
the request
to add it to the list of languages, nobody has done it yet. Could you please do it?--
L2212
talk
19:35, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
Reply
Template:Repository link/testcases
edit
Latest comment:
6 years ago
2 comments
2 people in discussion
Please restore
Template:Repository link/testcases
, and in general do not delete template testcase sub-pages.
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
15:10, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
Reply
I'll happily restore it but I'm removing the redlinks that it generated. —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:30, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
Reply
redirect
edit
Latest comment:
6 years ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
I forgot. thanks for reminding me. --
Fagus
talk
20:00, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
Reply
adding spaces between initials in taxon authority names
edit
Latest comment:
6 years ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
Please
stop adding spaces between initials in taxon authority names. While this is a matter of personal style and preference (which I myself used to follow), the great majority of double initials
do not
have spaces between them. The style of
no space
between initials is used by numerous long-time editors and administrators and we all need to be following the same style format to avoid constant needless changes. Please check this random sample of such cases: D.P. Wooldridge, N.R. Campbell, Kaio C.C. Alevi, T.A. Al-Turki etc. all set up by administrators or long-term editors. If you disagree with my analysis of the situation, please present this for discussion in the Village Pump. If you agree with me, kindly undo your recent edits. Thanks and kind regards,
Nytexcome
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18:28, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
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Unblock log?
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Hi Justin. We all of course know about the
Block log
, but do you know whether it's possible to produce any type of "Unblocked log" showing previously blocked accounts that have been manually unblocked (or changed) by admins rather than expired due to their time limit. Sort of a block log in reverse, if you see what I mean? If it can't be listed by the standard logs, perhaps this type of data could be extracted using some sort of wiki-voodoo in the Advanced Search function? –
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
20:05, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Reply
Tommy Kronkvist
At the block log, there is "Block modification" and "unblock". Correct me if I'm wrong but this is what you're looking to get, correct? —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:19, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Reply
Oh my… and LOL. :-) I usually check all menus and different search/log options quite thoroughly but somehow I've missed that one. Thanks.
Tommy Kronkvist
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11:33, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks
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Thanks for your reversion, Yes, was a non percieved accident. Apologyze.--
Hector Bottai
talk
10:48, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
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Thumbs up emoji. —
Justin (
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14:41, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, Koavf. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can
remove this notice
at any time by removing the
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22:30, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
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Special:Diff/7435777
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Why did you remove the [[]]s? Isn't it common practice to print the title of the page in bold?
𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰
𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠
17:13, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
Reply
1234qwer1234qwer4
Pages shouldn't link to themselves, instead, bold should be achieved with three apostrophes. Thanks for spotting this. —
Justin (
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vf
19:27, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
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Phabricator settings
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Hi Justin! I realize that this is a bit out of scope, but do you happen to know any swift and easy way to reset the user prefs at Phabricator to their default settings? All the best,
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
14:31, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
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Tommy Kronkvist
No. Forgive me. :/ —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:01, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Reply
Thats's okay – thanks anyway. After all the Phabricator user interface (and software) is rather different than Wikimedia's, and I'm not sure there even
is
a feature to reset the preference settings. Thought I might as well ask you anyway, since you're the only WS user I know who have been contributing to Phab. :) Happy editing!
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
22:02, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Reply
Tommy Kronkvist
I don't think there is a way to reset them all, but most of the individual settings say what the default is, and you can just choose that --
DannyS712
talk
01:24, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Reply
DannyS712
Yes I know. There's quit a lot of them though, so it will take some time to wade through them all. An equivalent to the Wikimedia feature "
Restore all default settings (in all sections)
" would have been an easier road to take, but given the technical differences I understand why such an option isn't readily available at Phabricator. Thanks anyway! Case closed.
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
05:21, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
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It might also be related to Phabricator not being developed by the Wikimedia Foundation.
𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰
𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠
20:36, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
Reply
─────────────────────────
Id est
"technical differences" as I mentioned above. :-)
Tommy Kronkvist
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),
13:35, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
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Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021
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Greetings,
I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the
Universal Code of Conduct
and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 27 June, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a
meta page
with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up your name under the appropriate section.
Thank you for your time.--
BAnand (WMF)
15:06, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
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How we will see unregistered users
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Hi!
You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.
When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.
Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin
will still be able to access the IP
. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on
better tools
to help.
If you have not seen it before, you can
read more on Meta
. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can
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the weekly technical newsletter
We have
two suggested ways
this identity could work.
We would appreciate your feedback
on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can
let us know on the talk page
. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.
Thank you.
Johan (WMF)
18:19, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Wiki code in translations
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Hi Justin. While doing some patrolling of the "Recent changes" earlier today I stumbled over
this edit
of a Chinese translation. I don't recall seeing anything like it earlier. I think that the two Chinese translations in the most recent edit are okay. If I'm correct they say 示例 → "Example" (as in "give typical example", "demonstrate") and 範例 → "example" (as in "exemplification"). However my question doesn't really involve the translation, but the wiki code. I don't think I've ever seen wiki code used in that way ever before, i.e.:
-{zh-hans:示例; zh-hant:範例;}-
Is it correct? Looks murky to me... I'm asking you since I know by experience that you're usually very apt in dealing with these kinds of oddities. All the best,
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
08:04, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
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Tommy Kronkvist
These are
language conversion blocks
made possible by
LanguageConverter
. This user is allowing for switching between
w:en:Simplified Chinese characters
and
w:en:Traditional Chinese characters
. I have no clue if the actual translation is correct, of course, but that's why it looks so funny. Great question. —
Justin (
ko
vf
08:14, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
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Thanks – especially for the conversion/Converter links. It seems I've got plenty to learn yet. –
Tommy Kronkvist
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),
08:20, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
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Tommy Kronkvist
As do I: isn't it exciting? —
Justin (
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08:21, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
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Error in ”Userdata” template
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Hello Justin. Could you please have a look at
Template:Userdata
and try to figure out why blank spaces in user names must be replaced by underscores for the (last) "Global account information" link to work? If blank spaces are used instead of underscores only the first part of the user name is linked (eg. "Tommy" instead of "Tommy Kronkvist"). It's not the end of the world of course, but the "underscore workaround" may be hard for some users to figure out and the rendered result is ugly (in some browsers a few of the underscores are randomly bolded). See the collapsed section in the "Accounts under review" paragraph
in this diff
for an example. –
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
12:24, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
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Tommy Kronkvist
You were using an URL instead of a direct wikilink. It should work after my edit.
𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰
𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠
12:27, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
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Thanks, 1234. —
Justin (
ko
vf
02:40, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
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Alternatively, the
{{urlencode:
...
}}
syntax used elsewhere in that template would have worked too.
𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰
𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠
12:28, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hello
1234qwer1234qwer4
Indeed it does work. Thanks! I guess it would be possible to change the link from Wikispecies
Special:CentralAuth
to
meta:Special:CentralAuth
? In my opinion the Meta-Wiki page is more "official" since the data regards the
global
account information. Just a thought.
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
12:43, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
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You can prepend a "m:" before the wikilink to do so. Indeed the global account (un)lock log is only shown on the CentralAuth page on Meta-Wiki.
𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰
𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠
13:22, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
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Done
Tommy Kronkvist
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13:50, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
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A question to all of Wikispecies checkusers
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Hello Koavf. As a checkuser
and
an admin, do you have an opinion about the speedy deletion-request of this user page:
User:Korosh Ardeshir Gabriele Rokni
(This message has been sent to our other two checkusers as well.) Kind regards,
Tommy Kronkvist
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10:23, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
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That account is globally locked now and I have deleted the page. Thanks for asking. —
Justin (
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vf
10:31, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
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Translations:Category:Wikispecies/1/sk
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Hi, why have you undone my speedy deletion request? This page is not a translation. --
Ameisenigel
talk
06:09, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
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I can't delete the category, as it contains legit content. The introductory text should be translated to Slovak, but it shouldn't be deleted: having a redlink category would be worse. —
Justin (
ko
vf
06:14, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
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Done
. Introductory text now translated. –
Tommy Kronkvist
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),
06:41, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
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Just for the record: If you only delete one specific translation unit, the according page will not be deleted. Even if every single translation unit would be deleted, the according page will still exist with "0 % translated". --
Ameisenigel
talk
13:12, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
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True. Thanks Ameisenigel. –
Tommy Kronkvist
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03:23, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
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Interface Admin
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Koavf I have closed your election to Interface Admin as successfull and granted the additional rights for you. Cheers
Scott Thomson
Faendalimas
talk
00:11, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
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Merci, amigo. —
Justin (
ko
vf
00:33, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
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Regrant the autopatrolled right
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Hi, could you pls remove the autopatrolled right from the account
Trongphu
and regrant/moving it to the account
Nguyentrongphu
pls, also grant him rollback or patroller right if needed because he's moved his account to the account Nguyentrongphu, and he's now a guard on viwiki/viwikt, thanks.
DefenderTienMinh07
talk
13:20, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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small ping to
Tommy Kronkvist
to resolve if Koavf himself were inactive.
DefenderTienMinh07
talk
13:26, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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No need, I'm no longer active in Wikispecies. Thanks!
Nguyentrongphu
talk
13:28, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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Not done
Let me know how I can help. —
Justin (
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vf
16:18, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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Noted. –
Tommy Kronkvist
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06:30, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
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Content model changing request
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1 year ago
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Hi @
Koavf
! Could you please help by
changing the
current 'CSS' content model of my user subpage
User:Asked42/sandbox/styles.css
to '
sanitized-css
'? I want to use it for some testing purposes regarding the bn Main page. Thank you.
Asked42
talk
17:11, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
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Done
Justin (
ko
vf
17:47, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
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Citation templates
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I'm frustrated by the lack of progress on enacting the consensus reached
Wikispecies:Requests for Comment/Archive 3#Citation templates
, but lack the technical chops to resolve a fair bit of it. Are you able and willing to work with me to do so?
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
15:00, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
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Able? Maybe. Willing? Yes. What's the next step? —
Justin (
ko
vf
15:06, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
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Thank you. AFAICT (having just tested by converting
{{
MacKay, 1951
}}
) and
{{
Green & Parke, 1975
}}
these steps need to be considered, and enacted where appropriate:
Sync with up-to-date versions of citation templates (from en.Wikipedia?)
import/ adapt or write documentation
consider version control or other issues around ongoing synchronisation
resolve non-working
|author-link1=
etc
add (or utilise)
|access=
, so we don't need to use separate
{{
Access
}}
templates
create and utilise tracking categories for errors
make
{{
Cite Q
}}
compatible
notify template maintainers elsewhere (en.Wikipedia?)
lots more testing/ resolve any issues found
write-up explainer for existing and new Wikispecies editors
Anything else you can think of?
Note that
{{
Cite journal
}}
has not been edited, on this project, since it was created, in 2010!
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
19:20, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Reply
This seems like something that a bot can/should do... :/ If only I were smarter. —
Justin (
ko
vf
19:25, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
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Are you sure about that?
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
19:53, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Reply
I'm sure I'm not smart enough, yes. It also seems like this is something that should be pretty straightforward, but labor-intensive for humans. —
Justin (
ko
vf
22:32, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
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I was referring to the idea of a bot completing the above tasks.
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
16:21, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Reply
I've thought about what you wrote and as you may recall, I absolutely hate importing, particularly for ultra-complex templates that rely on a billion modules. Am I crazy or is there some reason why we can't just have a single, local citation/reference template? —
Justin (
ko
vf
11:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
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Well we
can
, but the en.Wikipedia version, for example, includes a lot of useful validation and error-trapping code.
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
16:21, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Reply
E.g.? Other than maybe validation for ISSNs, what would we need? For that matter, as it works now, editors can insert all kinds of possibly incorrect values. I just don't want to make the perfect the enemy of the good when it's a huge pain to port over and maintain templates from en.wp. —
Justin (
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vf
16:25, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
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I fucked up
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ISSN 1347-0159
is the wrong issn for that publication. I got it wrong because databases use the same english/transliteration for the 1924-1945 and the 2000- iteration of that publication, but only the latter actually has an ISSN. Not being an admin anymore, I can't move it back and delete the redirect myself.
Circeus
talk
13:05, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reply
I moved it back. Is the correct title
ISSN 0368-6264
? Just so I'm not compounding things, the actions are to move the page to that title and delete the redirect at 1347-0159, correct? —
Justin (
ko
vf
18:10, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
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Malfunctioning talk page template
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Hello Justin. Arriving 31 December 2025 you're eligible to join the
Wikispecies Twenty Year Society
, should you like to. Yesterday I created the "society's" main page as well as a category and user box to go with it. I also created
Template:Twenty Year Society invitation
, using
Template:Ten Year Society invitation
as a starting point (or perhaps
Template:Fifteen Year Society invitation
, I don't really remember and they're all very similar.)
As I guess you know, all of those three "invitational" templates are supposed to be used on a user's talk page, adding a new thread welcoming the user to the respective group. However, there's something amiss with all of them… As with any new message, adding those templates to a user talk page also adds an "Edit" link next to the new thread's heading. Here's the tricky part: clicking that link doesn't give the opportunity to reply on that same user talk page, instead it open's up an edit window on the
template
page, e.g. this:
What's up with
that?
You can use for example
User talk:MPF#Invitation to join the Twenty Year Society
as a "live" example to replicate the error.
–Regards,
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
19:18, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
Reply
The simple solution is
substituting the template
, as I did at
User talk:MPF
. I'll dig in more... —
Justin (
ko
vf
21:00, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
Reply
If we just leave it like it is now, the documentation says to subst:, so that's a start. I can also add the
magic word
to NOEDIT. —
Justin (
ko
vf
21:09, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
Reply
Yes of course, the subst'ing should have been obvious to me. Guess I've been editing for too long today… Thanks for creating the template documentation pages: I think that makes adding NOEDIT magic words unnecessary. As you've seen I've added code examples to the template documentation, for those users who might not know what template substitution is. Nice touch of you to add the note about signing them!
I've now subst'ed the "20 year" template on the three other user talk pages I've added it to, in the same way as you did on MPF's talk page. So case closed, I guess. As always: thank you for your swift response. It's much appreciated. –
Tommy Kronkvist
talk
),
21:56, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
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Pobody's nerfect and teamwork makes the dream work, TK. Here's to the next two decades. —
Justin (
ko
vf
21:58, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
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Cite journal
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Just bumping
Wikispecies:Administrators' Noticeboard#Citation templates
in case you have time to take a look at it now, No problem if not.
Andy Mabbett
Pigsonthewing
);
Talk to Andy
Andy's edits
12:01, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Reply
Appreciated, genuinely. —
Justin (
ko
vf
06:49, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
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Opuntia spinalba
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Done
should have redirected to
Opuntia austrina
. Thanks for the heads up.
Andyboorman
talk
18:04, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
Reply
wikt:en:pobody's nerfect
. —
Justin (
ko
vf
18:06, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
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List of people pages
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I'm curious, why have you been creating list pages for all members of occupation categories recently? E.g.
Biologists
Researchers
, etc.?
Monster Iestyn
talk
12:49, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
Reply
To clear out
Special:LonelyPages
. And then I'd like to add links to those pages to clear out
Special:DeadendPages
. —
Justin (
ko
vf
15:23, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
Reply
Ahh, that makes sense, so this is cleaning up maintenance reports you're doing. I ask because I wonder if anyone will know (or want) to actually maintain these or not, and
Botanists
or
Entomologists
in particular are
massive
because of the huge lists of people in those categories. Are these lists temporary for cleaning out the reports then, or are they meant to be here to stay in some form?
I also noticed you've been adjusting categories in taxon author pages, at least from what I could tell from my Watchlist. Beware that sometimes seemingly redundant higher categories (e.g. zoologists, entomologists, botanists) may have been there to cover subfields that don't have their own categories on Wikispecies. (At least, I think this what
RLJ was talking about at Village Pump recently??
The idea being that some botanists have multiple specialities within botany including vascular plants, but vascular plant specialists don't have a category, if I understand him correctly?)
Also to warn you, a number of people with pages on Wikispecies are also not really taxon authors or even taxonomists and probably don't even really need a Wikispecies page if I'm being frank (others may disagree with me). Some Wikispecies editors seem to regularly create these pages even if their subjects' research has nothing to do with taxonomy or biological nomenclature or even biology at all... In any case, I don't think these pages belong in
Category:Taxon authorities
and I've removed them from there when I spot this. (Such as a few of the ones you edited recently e.g.
Alfredo O. Barrera-Guzmán
Matthew D. Shawkey
and
Jason T. Weir
, which is why I bring this up)
As an aside, since you're doing maintenance of people pages, I compiled some search queries on those lines a while back for my own purposes (mainly searching for categories or lack of in combination with templates, based on problematic types of taxon author pages I've encountered frequently), but I wonder if you would find them useful? If so, I listed them
here
on my userpage.
(Forgive me for the wall of text, I was doing taxon author page cleanup manually on and off for ages and felt I had a lot of comments to give based on what I was seeing of your work; I appreciate that you're doing the work!)
Monster Iestyn
talk
18:05, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
Reply
I think that ideally, these are broken up into navigable pages and maintained by a bot, similar to
ISSN
. In the immediate term, I can't do that or resolve that, but I think that would be a solution to make these reports actually useful in the future, just like how I added
Category:Pages with taxonavigation templates
to this wiki in order to clear out hundreds of thousands of uncategorized pages. Once these reports are no longer flooded with pages, it can become useful to actually refer to them for regular maintenance.
Re:
Category:Taxon authorities
, I do appreciate the heads up and have made it a point to not indiscriminately add every biographical entry to it. For what it's worth, note that (e.g.) I was just
restoring something that someone else had added
. I do try to be conservative about not adding information where I don't know, but I also do make mistakes, so I'm always open to the criticism and appreciate the warning.
Thanks for the heads up on the maintenance you've done. I'll see if I can build off of it. —
Justin (
ko
vf
18:14, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
Reply
Yeah, a bot-maintained list does sound like it would be more ideal. If you know how to write SPARQL queries and we base occupations on Wikidata, I don't think it should be super hard to set up similar Wikidata lists to the one at
ISSN
. Unfortunately from my recollection though, the Wikidata item occupations also don't always match the Wikispecies occupation categories.
Re: Category:Taxon authorities, yeah that's fair that you were just restoring the category (I see that you removed it by mistake I take it?). I just happened to see that particular change, and saw there was no taxa authored template but also saw no listed publication describing new taxa. So, I double checked the author's publication list via his Google Scholar and ResearchGate profiles and concluded he was not actually a taxon author, since none of his authored works describe new taxa. That's the kind of method I usually do for finding out if someone is a taxon author or not.
Monster Iestyn
talk
19:03, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
Reply
I did remove it by accident, so yes, I just restored it in that instance. This is some good stuff to add to
Wikispecies:Done and to do
. —
Justin (
ko
vf
22:07, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
Reply
Acopideae
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This subfamily does not actually exist that is why I removed it. I assumed in good faith that somebody was using the edit as a test, which would have been better in the Sandbox.
Andyboorman
talk
07:45, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
Reply
Ah, thanks. I'll delete the page. —
Justin (
ko
vf
15:32, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
Reply
Abusefilter
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Hi, yesterday I started to test a filter towards IPs who made stuff as
, the filter matched but the IP operator is smart and my filter was simple, so they bypassed the filter after 17 attempts, see
. The extension Abusefilter has the possibility not only to prevent from editing but also to manage blocks, but I don't see options to manage blocks, do you know if this option is enabled on Wikispecies, and otherwise how to enable it?
Christian Ferrer
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11:15, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
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I confirm this feature exist but is not enabled in Wikispecies, I checked randomly filters in Wikidata, e.g.
[1]
, in the section "Actions to take when matched" there is indeed an option "Block the user and/or IP address from editing" which would be very useful for this precise case, because even if the vandal is able to changes their IPs, this would greatly complicate his task. By the way this night they did it again but because of a high rate of matches the filter automatically disabled because of the option "Block autopromote", which I suppose is actually of no interest because the vandal is an IP so I remove it.
Christian Ferrer
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09:16, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
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As usual,
another vandalism
this night.
Tommy Kronkvist
hi, I ping you as you are interface administrator. Do you know how to enable the block option of the
Abuse Filter
? The filter (7) I created complicates their task but the if they were blocked each time they match the filter (56 times in 2 days) this would complicate things even more for them. Although I know they can change IP, making their task more difficult seems like a good idea.
Christian Ferrer
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05:57, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
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Hi,
Christian Ferrer
. Enabling the AbuseFilter block option would definitely require community consensus, but I can start a discussion at the
Village Pump
about it.
Codename Noreste
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20:04, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
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Codename Noreste
hi, yes, this discussion would be a very good idea.
Christian Ferrer
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08:01, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
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Are you trying to block a certain action from happening or block a user on the wiki from making any edits (or block a user from a given page or namespace, etc.)? —
Justin (
ko
vf
14:04, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
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@talk page watchers: I answered by mail, don't want the IP operator can read all stuff, for questions you can contact me.
Christian Ferrer
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17:23, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
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Hello, Justin. Due to a bug regarding
global filter 328
phab:T380870
), for now this project should retain filter 6. However, in addition to that, I would suggest updating the filter to include additional languages considered unnecessary.
page_namespace
==
1198
action
==
"edit"
"autopatrol"
in
user_rights
equals_to_any
translate_target_language
"en-ca"
"en-gb"
"es-419"
"es-formal"
"simple"
"zh-hans"
"zh-hant"
You might also want to switch from
warn and disallow
to only
disallow
, because custom messages can be used when disallowing. Thanks.
Codename Noreste
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20:02, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
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Done
Justin (
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07:40, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
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