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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (October 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

White hat award

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For helping protect Wikipedia from zero day hackers, as well as your other fine work with the edit filters and elsewhere. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:29, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
Hey, are you calling me a hat collector?! But seriously, thank you, zzuuzz! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:52, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Enjoy your thanksgiving --DannyS712 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

batchtest-plus

Hi. Would you be willing to support only showing edits that matched the specific action type requested?

  1. Check what type, using $('[name="wpTestAction"]').val()
  2. If the type isn't "0" (any), in getHits in the first loop with formatLogEntry, check if log.action !== filterAction (or another variable name), and if not, just continue; (you also need to have this skip in the second loop before checking if it would have matched)

I tested this using the javascript console, and it worked. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:32, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

 Done. Ideally, the API should support an aflaction= parameter (and for that matter an aflresult= one, too), but that's another discussion for another day. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 06:06, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
@Suffusion of Yellow: thanks. I used this for the first time when I was testing out the suggestion at Special:Diff/929474131 - can you take a look? I didn't see any false positives, and I looked for a bunch. Among edits that were not prevented by other filters, this would have caught the spam in, eg, Special:Contributions/রনি_শিকদার, Special:Contributions/Harami_Bangali_Shaitan, Special:Contributions/Palal_Madarchod, Special:Contributions/Shala_Harami, Special:Diff/929176154, Special:Diff/929134416, Special:Diff/929096519, and more DannyS712 (talk) 06:23, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Edits on the List of youngest killers

Hello! I have seen that you made some edits to the list. I have no disagreement with most of them except the one you say 'according to source was possibly an accident'. Nothing on the list says that only those who committed incidental deaths should be there, so by 'killers' I understand that all those who have caused a death, accidental or not, can be there. Perhaps this is something to be discussed by the community. Tell me what you think! Agente Rolf (talk) 21:25, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:List of youngest killers § Scope of this page
 – Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:11, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Zoolander edits

Can you point me to the policy which prohibits the factual information about the cast of a movie on the movie's wikipedia page? I note that wikipedia is politically neutral and the redaction of certain factual information seems to fall foul of this. Lord of Sleech (talk) 19:57, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

@Lord of Sleech: Lots, but start with WP:SYNTH. You'd need a reliable source (preferably several) which specifically discusses the impeachment in the context of Zoolander, otherwise it's just irrelevant trivia, as would be similar "firsts" about any other cast member. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:12, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

Hello Suffusion of Yellow: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, DBigXrayᗙ Happy Holidays! 18:16, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

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Happy New Year Suffusion of Yellow!

Happy New Year!
Hello Suffusion of Yellow:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Donner60 (talk) 04:13, 28 December 2019 (UTC)



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Test wiki question

When you have time, could you swing by the test wiki and have a look at filter 211. Think there's enough there for you to get the idea of what I'm looking for, don't want to spill too many WP:BEANS here. Home Lander (talk) 00:41, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

@Home Lander: My sysop bit on testwiki expired. Can you email me? Alternately, Xaosflux, can you restore my rights for a while? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:23, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 Done — xaosflux Talk 01:38, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
Thank you xaosflux. Home Lander, you don't have email enabled. I get that that's not a test filter, but you're trying to stop actual vandalism on testwiki, yes? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:51, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
Suffusion of Yellow, correct. Planned on using it as a test filter, but decided it was a waste of my time to try coding it myself. LOL. Home Lander (talk) 20:07, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
@Home Lander: See my reply at testwiki:Special:AbuseFilter/211. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:26, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (December 2019 and January 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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:-) Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:26, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

I hope everyone is having a great year so far! --DannyS712 (talk) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Sorry for bothering you, but...

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  • New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
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  • If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)(click me!) 20:58, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Use of wgMonthNamesShort in batchtest-plus.js

Hi Suffusion of Yellow,

I noticed that batchtest-plus.js uses the wgMonthNamesShort configuration variable. This was exposed by the MediaWiki software years ago for the purposes of automatic tablesorting on Wikipedia pages. The tablesorting feature no longer uses this variable, and it is as such scheduled for removal so that it doesn't get downloaded for all users on all articles.

For 99% of uses, I have migrated them automatically. However for your script I was not sure how to proceed. See T219340 for more details. Feel free to contact me, or ping me here, if you need anything. --Krinkle (talk) 19:23, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up! Fixed. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:25, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard#EFH for CAPTAIN MEDUSA (2)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard#EFH for CAPTAIN MEDUSA (2). ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 18:40, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Edit war over a COI

Hey, how are you? I was doing some cleanup of the Wickety Wak page to maintain encyclopedic tone. Someone who I assume is the original author, or the archivist mentioned at the end of the article (or both) keeps scrubbing mine and a few other editors' cleanup attempts. Myself and another editor have flagged the page with a COI but the author in question keeps removing it. (Update 23/01: They keep deleting my Talk page correspondence as well.)

Could I call upon you for assistance? LoofNeZorf (talk) 02:45, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

@LoofNeZorf: I currently (mostly) away from Wikipedia, but I'll take a look when I get back. But, COI cleanup isn't really my "area", so you may get a better response at WP:COIN. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:15, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I've taken the recommend action. LoofNeZorf (talk) 06:28, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Miscellaneous

Hope everyone stays safe. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Filter 1053

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T211101

Thanks for fixing the throttle params, I read up the docs and that wasn't there. I was wondering how does user,range,page behave? Will that track ranges as well? Also, was there any reason for disabling the tag? --qedk (t 愛 c) 06:49, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

@QEDK: It's a mess. From the source, it looks like:
		foreach ( $types as $subtype ) {
			$identifiers[] = $this->throttleIdentifier( $subtype );
		}
		$identifier = sha1( implode( ':', $identifiers ) );
#...
	protected function throttleIdentifier( $type ) {
		$request = RequestContext::getMain()->getRequest();
		switch ( $type ) {
			case 'ip':
				$identifier = $request->getIP();
				break;
			case 'user':
				$identifier = $this->user->getId();
				break;
			case 'range':
				$identifier = substr( IPUtils::toHex( $request->getIP() ), 0, 4 );
				break;
#...
			case 'page':
				$identifier = $this->title->getPrefixedText();
				break;
But according to the docs for IPUtils::toHex for an IPv6 address will be prefixed with "v6-". So if User:2600:1000:BF08:AD7:C5EA:BB73:F24C:B3FF edits Foo the throttle key for user,range,page will be 0:v6-2:Foo, i.e. the key will only depend on the first digit! Not dangerous like ip,page or range,page, which really shouldn't even be allowed on WMF wikis, but probably not all the useful either.
Not sure what you're asking about the tag; you disabled it before I made the change. If that was a bug and you didn't mean to do that, no, I don't know the cause. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 17:43, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
Oooof, that's not a good sight. No idea how I did not realize that I disabled my own tag, must've missed my morning coffee then. Either way, thanks for the help, appreciate it! --qedk (t 愛 c) 06:12, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Filters 1040/1041

Please disable filters 1040 and 1041; the log spam is getting to be too much. --Stay safe, ◊PRAHLADbalaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 02:54, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

See WP:EFN#Disable filters 1040/1041?. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:15, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:04, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

SPAM REMOVAL without verification??

So instead of verifying that Salvation Anointed is in fact a Federally Registered trademark Cannabis Christian Ministry Service founded in 2008... just remove it because you were to lazy to verify the supplied website link for reference.

Appreciate the looking out for cannabis verified religious and spiritual cannabis use but that's my REAL job... google KANEH MOVIE, REVJC, SALVATION ANOINTED... then reinstate my post and if you feel it needs to be modified or edited that cool but removing without verification is just Wikipedia control freakage... no disrespect but check it out and verify sources before removing. Salvationanointed (talk) 00:35, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

@Salvationanointed: You should not be editing subject with which you have a conflict of interest Your edits were plainly promotional and unsourced. If you have some neutral, sourced content you'd like added, you can suggest it at Talk:Cannabis and religion. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:40, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Ah so it was taken as self promotion... now that can be a conflict of interest. That is why I was replying ... my statements were not balderdash but summations yet because I was giving the information instead of a paid publicist or third party... I get that. The issue has always been staying out of public eye and serving for years... now that it is legalized I was sharing the historical significance. Yet it should have been through third party. Now that makes more sense... someone else should make the posts... thanks for the clarity and embracing my momentary frustrations with ignorance on wikipedia's process. Blessed be tree family Salvationanointed (talk) 02:57, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

@Salvationanointed: More or less but not just any "someone else." Specifically, you should just do whatever it is you're doing until mainstream academics or journalists write about you, and then someone with no connection to you reads those academics or journalists and writes about you. Don't go looking for third parties because if you contact them they're no longer third parties and the ones who would contact you are looking for money in violation of our terms of use. Ian.thomson (talk) 04:09, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

I'm sorry

I dream of horses has given you a dove! Doves promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day happier. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a dove, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past (this fits perfectly) or a good friend. Cheers!

Spread the peace of doves by adding {{subst:Peace dove}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

--I dream of horses (Contribs) Please notify me after replying off my talk page. Thank you. 23:38, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, I dream of horses! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:44, 30 August 2020 (UTC)