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DelReqHandler/deletion errors, etc

Hi Rillke. While deleting the files in Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Photographs by David Plas, I got the following error about 75 times:

API request failed (backend-fail-internal): An unknown error occurred in storage backend "local-swift-eqiad

It took 6 or 7 refreshes to get the DR closed. I've also noticed some API errors creeping back in as I've done the past week's DRs. Thanks for your time. INeverCry 07:46, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

I'm getting the same error multiple times in other mass DRs. If it continues, I guess I'll call it a night and try again later... INeverCry 07:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Still happening with mass and single DRs this afternoon. Also more API errors. INeverCry 19:42, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Some old scripts

Hi, Rainer. Some time ago, you posted some messages on User talk:Ricordisamoa/Blurry.js and User talk:Ricordisamoa/TemplateLangUpdate.js, suggesting that they might have been useful to someone else. How far have we got? And... what about ShouldBeSVG.js? --Ricordisamoa 01:29, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot about them and now there is not much I can or want do about this anymore. Code stored on wiki has no value and no future. -- Rillke^(q?) 22:56, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

(Wenn du mal bitte Zeit hast on irc zu kommen, muss dich was fragen --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:36, 3 November 2014 (UTC))

Template:Translate/layout

Kurze Frage dazu: Ist Special:Diff/111522346 wirklich nötig? Ich dachte {{Autotranslate}} erledigt das für uns? Danke und Gruß, --Patrick87 (talk) 20:50, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Wenn text_switch in einer Übersetzung fehlt, würde stattdessen gar nichts angezeigt. -- Rillke^(q?) 22:54, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Bei Nutzung der Translate-Extension ist dieses Konstrukt natürlich nicht mehr nötig, da durch die Nutzung der Extension sichergestellt sein sollte, dass die Parameter in allen Sprachversionen vorhanden sind. -- Rillke^(q?) 23:24, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Danke, dann ist klar wie's gemeint ist/war... --Patrick87 (talk) 01:00, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

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+++++ ++++[ ->+++ +++++ +<]>+ +++.< ++++[ ->+++ +<]>+ +++++ ++.<+ +++++++[-> ----- ---<] >---- ----- ---.- .<+++ ++++[ ->+++ ++++< ]>+++ +++.---.<+ ++[-> ---<] >---- -.--- ----. <++++ +[->- ----< ]>--- --.< -- Rillke^(q?) 13:41, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

+[--->++<]>.+++[->++++<]>+.+++++++++++++.+++[->+++<]>++.+++++++++++.++++++++.+++[->+++<]>.[--->+<]>---.[++>---<]>.++[--->++<]>.+++[->++<]>+.++[----->+<]>.+[->+++<]>+.++++++++.-[++>---<]>+.+[----->+<]>.------------.+++++++++++.[++>---<]>--.[->+++<]>+.--[--->+<]>.++[->+++<]>+.[--->+<]>--.+[->+++<]>+.+.+++++++++.-[->+++++<]>-.>-[--->+<]>-.[---->+++++<]>.++++.--------.[--->+<]>----.+.+[->+++<]>++.++++++++++++.+++.[->+++++<]>--.++[--->++<]>.---[->++<]>.-------------.----. --Steinsplitter (talk) 13:53, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

VisualFileChange

Hallo Rainer, VFC ist eine grossartige Hilfe. Ich verwende das tool erst seit kurzem, und bin noch nicht so recht erfahren damit.
Wenn ich eine Kategorie mit vielen Dateien durchsuchen will, muss ich da wirklich ewig runterscrollen? Das geht doch sicher einfacher?
Was ganz konkretes: Created with Inkscape enthält 57000 files, und sehr viele davon sind direkt kategorisiert statt per Vorlage. Wenn ich die finden und ändern will, muss ich doch alle 57000 durchsuchen - wie geht das? Ohne stundenlanges scrollen. Sicher hast du eine ganz einfache Lösung. mfg sarang♥사랑 10:29, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Die einzig mögliche Option ist "Amount of files to be loaded when clicking on more or when scrolling down" in den Einstellungen auf 100 oder mehr (für admins) einzustellen. Andernfalls pywiki bot, AWB o.ä. benutzen. Ich wollte schon mal eine js-command line schreiben, die es erlaubt zuerst die Aktion auszuwählen und dann über die durch Kriterien spezifizierten, aber noch nicht geladenen Dateien geht, aber dazu fehlt mir einfach die Zeit. Auf dieser Seite und mit FF scheint VFC auch irgendwie nicht zu funktionieren. -- Rillke^(q?) 12:28, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Wenn du doch irgendwann mal dazu kommst: eine Option "show whole category" oder so, die sämtliche Dateien displayed und damit selectable macht, wäre eine grossartige Erweiterung von VFC. Falls das einfacher sein sollte als die js-command line, die natürlich viel universeller wäre. Gruss sarang♥사랑 14:11, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Email

I replied to your email though idk if you can actually reply to the wikimedia server’s emails—Love, Kelvinsong talk 22:18, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

I received your reply, thank you. If you send eMail through WikiMail, the WMF server "spoofes" the sender address to be the one you verified in your user account. -- Rillke^(q?) 01:50, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Commons:User scripts/users namespace/reports

Was dagegen wenn ich da mal ein wenig aufräume? Einträge von später gelöschten Scriptseiten und deren Berichte sind ja eigentlich überflüssig. --Denniss (talk) 20:50, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Löschungen der Berichte durchführen/vorschlagen ist ein Feature das dem Bot wirklich fehlt. Auf der Übersichtsseite macht es keinen Sinn manuell aufzuräumen, da der Bot die Seiten noch in der Datenbank hält und den Bericht jedes mal aufs Neue kompiliert. -- Rillke^(q?) 01:46, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Special:Diff/134891340

Selbsterklärend … Falls kein Template vorhanden ist stattdessen vielleicht ein Archivlink? Grüße,    FDMS  4    22:47, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Au ja, das habe ich vergessen. Danke. Template:AQD error archive header habe ich prompt erstellt.

@FDMS4: Meinst Du einige der Photos die ich kürzlich zu Flickr hochgeladen habe sind nützlich für Commons? Ich meine, die meisten sind schön, aber wenig edukativ. Geo-Tags und präzisere Beschreibungen könnte ich ggf. hinzufügen. -- Rillke^(q?) 21:07, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

@Rillke: Hm, flickrphoto:15445886436 gefällt mir motivlich sehr gut, vielleicht kann das jemand zurechtzerren? Ansonsten ist Category:Ilhabela eh nicht überpopuliert, da hat etwas wie flickrphoto:15465758031 sicher Mehrwert. Auch flickrphoto:15468896545 und flickrphoto:15282349857, in anderer Hinsicht. Entweder das Panorama oder das Gipfelbild könnte man auch als Pagebanner verwenden. Hoffe damit geholfen zu haben,    FDMS  4    21:24, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Werde ich dann im Rahmen des nächsten WLE erledigen. a) Das macht die Organisatoren happy. b) Vielleicht gewinne ich einen der überteuerten WLE Brazil Preise, wenn sie wieder 14'000 U$ verpulvern c) Bekomme ich dann eine nette Dankesnachricht auf meine Disk und mehr Benutzer kümmern sich um Kategorisierung und Einbindung. -- Rillke^(q?) 22:06, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Jaja, die Brasilianer … :) WLE ist jedenfalls sicher ein nettes Event.    FDMS  4    00:36, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton has been previously blocked on several projects

Hi.

About something you said here on Rodrigo being or not aware, it may be valid bring some very brief links to point out that we are not facing that for the firts time. He has at least three accounts that have had the same behaviour:

• On br.wikimedia, he was blocked indefinitely for misbehaving. He also had OTRS access removed and same for adminship.
• On Portuguese Wikipedia, he has been blocked several times. In January, the blocking was appealed and kept by community.
• On Portuguese Wikinews, he received a warning from a former local sysop about being uncivil.
• On Portuguese Wikivoyage, he was blocked by a Steward for the same reason.
• On Meta, he was blocked for misconduct.
• On Portuguese Wiktionary, he was blocked by me for same reason. I asked a local sysop to review the block and he was agreed with it.

That is all I can remember for now and I post here for clarifying that there is strong reasons to believe that he is already aware that uncivility is not allowed here. I hope that helps. Regards.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 19:12, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Teles; I was aware of the previous blocks for this reason. Someone threw it into the meta RfC which I read in almost its length. The point I tried to make is that a) they appears to be frustrated b) their English appears to be worse than they claim to speak and I was therefore in doubt whether they could assess how grave their allegations/insults were (despite the previous blocks). -- Rillke^(q?) 22:02, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Dokumentationsvorlage mit TemplateBox mehrfach nutzen und dabei verschiedene Parameter anzeigen lassen

Hallo, du hast doch Erfahrung mit der {{TemplateBox}}? Ich versuche Dinge etwas zu vereinfachen, indem ich {{SVG created with/doc}} verwende anstatt an die 30 Mal fast dieselbe Dokumentation zu haben, und pflegen zu müssen. Das geht ganz gut, aber wenn ich dann doch einen speziellen Parameter aktivieren möchte bekomme ich das nicht hin. So zB den fakultativen Parameter IMPORTANT= der exklusiv nur von {{Inkscape}} und {{SVG-edit}} verwendet wird; anderes kann ich gut parametrieren, aber einzelne Parameter der {{TemplateBox}} ein- oder auszuschalten gelingt mir nicht. Siehst du da eine Möglichkeit? Oder weisst du jemanden der mir da weiterhelfen kann? sarang♥사랑 11:30, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Das ist momentan noch nicht möglich. Siehe letzter Punkt Template_talk:TemplateBox#Minor_improvements. Aber ich denke, das werde ich alsbald ändern (lassen). -- Rillke^(q?) 13:36, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Vielen Dank. Damit lässt sich das dann bestens realisieren; da werde ich eben noch ein wenig warten.

@Rillke: : Nun kann ich auch bitten, die drei Vorlagen lt. User:Sarang/T zu aktualisieren, damit die neue Funktionalität verwendbar ist. Die IMPORTANT-Anzeige bei Inkscape ist noch nicht ganz perfekt, aber das kann ja gemacht werden, wenn dann improved sein wird. sarang♥사랑 06:10, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

@Sarang: kann ich leider nicht mehr machen, da ich meine administrative Tätigkeit nach der Einführung von Super-Protection niedergelegt habe. -- Rillke^(q?) 14:12, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Sehr schade! Und auch problematisch für mich, es war immer mühsam jemanden zu finden der mir die Änderungen an gesperrten Vorlagen macht. Ich versuche es mal, oder kannst du mir einen volunteer empfehlen? sarang♥사랑 15:56, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Using images on an external website

Can you take a look at this note I left here please: Commons:Village pump#Using images on an external website. Many thanks once again! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 15:43, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

 Done -- Rillke^(q?) 18:05, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

JS to tag page {{Uncategorized}}

Can you make some code for this feature? Thanks! (I understand if it takes a long time to come to my common.js) — revi_msg 17:44, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

File:IE8 Tab Wikivoyage without Favicon.png

Hi. wrt this — I think the screenshot anyway contains visuals and elements of proprietary software (IE), so I think the image should instead be nominated for deletion. -Mardus (talk) 16:18, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

@Mardus: Yes, the page contains elements of proprietary software, as well as other screenshots I uploaded in the same series but I doubt the threshold of originality is met here. The image shows a single tab, which is basically a geometric shape (rounded rectangle with a gradient from blue to white and a border) and an x on it. Feel free to nominate it for deletion but before you do so, please have a look at similar deletion debates. Thank you! -- Rillke^(q?) 18:04, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Screenshots#Microsoft_products has it that screenshots of Microsoft products go against Commons policy, and I disagree about this image containing only purely geometric objects, and I understand the theme used was not the Classic theme, which mostly consists of geometric shapes. Typically, Microsoft products are only permissible on en-wiki. There are also free software alternatives available. I won't nominate this myself, but I'm sure someone will one day. -Mardus (talk) 18:22, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Re:

Hi Rillke,

The only problem that they should solve is the clear one, that one sysop used the adm tools to protect one page using the argument of edition war in one page without edition war. And that's it. Other problem related they are not capable to solve. Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton (talk) 10:35, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

VisualFileChange errors

Rillke, I am getting "An error occurred preparing to query file-information. ##### API request failed (iiurlparamnormal): Could not normalise image parameters for A_View.pdf" when opening User:Jarekt/a today. Any ideas? --Jarekt (talk) 17:03, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

It was just a corrupt file: file:A_View.pdf --Jarekt (talk) 17:30, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

implicit categorisation

Did you notice that this file is already implicitly categorised into category:Qt via category:Qt_Creator?--Kulandru mor (talk) 12:16, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed that and that's why I undid your change. But I wouldn't call it "implicit categorization". Sometimes it's perfectly fine to have a file in, both a parent category and one of its sub-categories. This is the case if you expect that there is another sub-category your file could fit into. -- Rillke^(q?) 13:08, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Congratulations, Dear Administrator!

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An offering for our new administrator from your comrades...

Rillke, congratulations! You now have administrator rights on Commons. Please take a moment to read the Commons:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Commons:Administrators' noticeboard and its subpages), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care. Have a look at the list of Gadgets (on the bottom there are the ones specifically for admins – however, for example the UserMessages are very helpful too).

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odder (talk) 20:06, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Rillke^(q?) 20:22, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Welcome back to the responsibilities. You're very useful and reliable here. Jee 05:41, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Schön, dich wieder im Boot zu haben. ;-) --Túrelio (talk) 08:14, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks you everybody, danke, merci und obrigado. -- Rillke^(q?) 11:37, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Upload Files Quantity

Rillke: ¿Is it ok this code for display all uploads files of mine (User:Guritxu)?

Subidos: ' archivos  

Thanks.

Fernando T. de Gorocica 14:53, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

 Yes :) Just wait a bit. The bot runs only once in between 24h. I gave it a kick now so it updated {{User:Guritxu/Archivos_Subidos}} so you hadn't to wait until tomorrow. -- Rillke^(q?) 15:06, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

möglicher Sicherheitslücke?

Hallo Rillke, darf ich mal auf diese mögliche Sicherheitslücke aufmerksam machen: Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard#User:Fitzlbua. --Túrelio (talk) 20:56, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Bin dran. -- Rillke^(q?) 21:23, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Future script errors

Due to mailarchive:wikitech-l/2014-December/079694.html, some of our modules that use mw.text.unstrip to process special pages is going to break (eg. Module:MyUploads, Module:Page). Do you have any ideas on how to save them? --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 06:35, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

We are primarily using it to iterate over subpages, more specifically over language subpages. I don't know whether there is a Lua module for subpages right now; if not, we will have to go with the old approach of iterating over each language variant, which is quite expensive (timely and expensive parser function count). Well, at least it lasted for 1 1/2 year. -- Rillke^(q?) 11:36, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Commons Maintenance Bot warning

Hello. Perhaps you'd like to know that your bot is incorrectly flagging code that clearly passed both JSLint and the Mediawiki version of JSHint. (Special:Diff/141692674) Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 16:12, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

I guess MediaWiki passes some options to JSHint. When I go to JSHint.com and paste the version CMB complains about, I receive said six warnings. -- Rillke^(q?) 20:39, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Indeed, they've set some options to the JSHint version running inside the webworker of CodeEditor. The warning you saw should be gone now. -- Rillke^(q?) 20:19, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Edit summary by UploadStatsBot

Hi Rillke. It would be very helpful to include the count of uploads also to the edit summary of stats pages updated by UploadStatsBot. --ŠJů (talk) 03:35, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

 Done -- Rillke^(q?) 14:13, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Language links

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T78171

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T49137

Hi; would you have any idea why the i18n links at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-HotCat.js have vanished? I don't see any recent edit in the templates involved, nor at Module:Languages. But for some reason I get served a page containing only an &nbsp; (actually, &#160;) instead of the i18n subpage links. Lupo 12:00, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

It's because Lua Sandbox will not unstrip special pages to HTML (section "Future script errors" on this page), sadly. I'm looking into this in a minute. -- Rillke^(q?) 14:12, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. So, basically Module:Page asks the parser to expand "{{special:prefixindex/%s/%s}}", which comes back as a strip marker(?), which is then unstripped, which doesn't work anymore? Is there no Scribunto/Lua infrastructure or mw.api module to perform normal Ajax API queries?? (The allpages API does what Special:Prefixindex does.) That module could even run its "API calls" entirely on the server side by going through FakeRequest (or whatever the php class is called nowadays). Shouldn't be any more expensive than making the parser jump though all it hoops to expand that transclusion, and would return data in a useable structured format, not as some HTML soup. Lupo 15:05, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

@Lupo: Indeed, I should have been more verbose. frame:preprocess() on text containing a transclusion of a special page returns a strip marker, easily spotted running, for example =mw.getCurrentFrame():preprocess( '>>{{Special:PrefixIndex/foo}}<<' ) in the Lua console. This allowed people to inject <ref> tags in one Lua sandbox call and reading their content later, in another Lua invocation through <references />. Since this violated the sandboxing principle, strip markers representing special pages are now simply killed when mw.text.unstrip() runs over those.

Allowing Lua to access API modules would be certainly powerful but also a little dangerous since API must assume the lowest possible permission level and must only respond to queries (action=query). Will you bring your suggestion to Phabricator? I like it. -- Rillke^(q?) 16:25, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

To access the API, I think there would need to be some Lua module acting as a wrapper, and I think it also would need runtime support in the Scribunto implementation to make it use FakeRequest; after all such Lua "API calls" should not actually go over the network. In this wrapper and/or runtime it should be relatively simple to make accessible only a safe (in terms of execution time and other considerations) subset of the API. I would think that simple page-related queries such as the one that would be needed here would be part of that subset.

As for suggesting this at Phabricator: I haven't bothered to create an account there, and I doubt I will. But feel free to do so. Lupo 17:45, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

API wrapper, subpages -- Rillke^(q?) 19:05, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing this. I notice that MediaWiki talk:Gadget-HotCat.js now ends up in Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls. The page source contains:

NewPP limit report
Parsed by mw1251
CPU time usage: 0.224 seconds
Real time usage: 0.368 seconds
Preprocessor visited node count: 1514/1000000
Preprocessor generated node count: 0/1500000
Post‐expand include size: 30090/2097152 bytes
Template argument size: 8995/2097152 bytes
Highest expansion depth: 20/40
Expensive parser function count: 802/500
Lua time usage: 0.149/10.000 seconds
Lua memory usage: 1.06 MB/50 MB

Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 1210.651      1 - -total
 24.63%  298.239      1 - Template:Gadget-talk
 24.41%  295.537      3 - Template:Tmbox
 24.21%  293.152      3 - Template:Tmbox/core
 22.97%  278.094      2 - Template:Lang_links
  0.77%    9.321      1 - Template:Contra
  0.75%    9.044      3 - Template:LangSwitch
  0.71%    8.597      1 - Template:Gadget-desc
  0.34%    4.162      1 - Template:Ok
  0.33%    3.973      1 - Template:Gadget-state/default

Can something be done about this without having access to the allpages API? Lupo 12:47, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Raising the Expensive parser function count limit, no longer counting #ifexist: and Lua equivalents as expensive, allowing Lua to evaluate existance of multiple pages within just one expensive call, limiting the languages that are being checked to a set of most commonly used languages or requiring an update to the language list each time a new language is added. The create-links-in-wikimarkup-and-parse-them does not work anymore. Of course, we could rely on bots for updating language listings but I'd like to rather avoid that. -- Rillke^(q?) 13:49, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

:-) Now I should have been more specific: I meant "can something be done by changing the way Module:Page is coded in Lua to avoid this while preserving the current functionality?" From your answer above I deduce the answer is "no, not really". Well, maybe that makes getting some built-in way in Lua either to get subpages or to get access to an even more general subset of the API more of a priority. (T49137 already has priority "High".) Lupo 15:04, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks :)

Thanks for the thanking of my edit. :) DLindsley ^{Need something?} 21:26, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Hehe, you are welcome! :) -- Rillke^(q?) 21:42, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Request for Patroller

Hey I was wondering if you would consider making me a patroller on Wiki Commons. My request was declined because I am facing a one month block on en.wiki for a BLP dispute with an admin (disputes with admins never end well for the regular user :p). However BLP and refs aren't really an issue on Wiki Commons. I would love to help review edits and new pages as I have been doing, and be able to mark them as patrolled so someone else doesn't have to come recheck them. I hope you will consider my request. Thanks! EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 23:50, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Looking into it. Stay tuned. -- Rillke^(q?) 23:51, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

I'll pop this on my watchlist, thanks for the quick response! EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 23:54, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

I see phrases like Sorry, but there are a number of very experienced and sensible users handling this. I trust their judgement and will leave it to them on your enwiki talk page that make me think of either this user is too lazy or doesn't have any backbone. (Please don't cite me on that. That would require backbone to defend :P)

@EoRdE6: What exactly would you do when being a patroller? Please provide a detailed response. Also note, that I will postpone your request by at least 14 days, so the earliest day you will be patroller is December, 28 (dependent on the quality of your reply and what you do in-between). If this is okay for you, please answer the question. Best -- Rillke^(q?) 00:16, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

I would do just as all other patrollers do. I would monitor Special:NewPages and Special:RecentChanges and help reduce the large backlog dating back to mid-november of unpatrolled new pages while watching for obvious vandalism, whether the page falls within the project scope, copyvios, and good-faith yet unhelpful edits and revert or correct them. I have a background in removing copyvios and solving deletion requests, as evident by my contributions. I hope this answer is sufficient and that you will allow me to help out as a patroller (on December 28 of course :p) Thanks! EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 01:24, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

P.S If you don't mind me asking, why did you make DLindsley a patroller without a 14 day waiting period? Just curious, especially given her block at en.wiki and her attack pages at wikinews... But alas, that is none of my business... Just curious. EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 01:30, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

If asked by one of my colleagues privately, I will disclose why but I am not inclined to do that publicly. It's not private information but an algorithm, I don't want to see exploited. Hope to see you doing well and not to engage in any edit war, whether here or on other projects till December, 28. -- Rillke^(q?) 01:38, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Hey no worries, I'm not botheredOk I guess we will talk again then. Thanks again! EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 01:51, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

@Rillke: Just checking in on this EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 22:47, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I have granted your request. But I also want to see you're using it. HNY. -- Rillke^(q?) 19:25, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Domaniqs

Your user page ended up getting hit by him if you didn't know already. I reverted that edit, if it helps. :) DLindsley ^{Need something?} 00:24, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Well, one more time, I am going to assume good faith. -- Rillke^(q?) 00:30, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Error

When I try to use VisualFileChange, I get an error stating, "Error: An error occurred setting up the selection dialog. ##### TypeError: this[binder] is not a function". 1989 20:31, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Sounds like phabricator:T78553 --Steinsplitter (talk) 20:41, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

It's phab:T69989. Reported this half a year ago … but didn't fix it and forgot it. Let's hope they fiddle out a solution so I don't have to. -- Rillke^(q?) 22:07, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Fixed in v.0.9.52.1

Please purge your browser’s cache or enable JavaScript in your Browser's settings. (You only need to do it once.)

Operating system Browser	Microsoft Windows or Linux	macOS
Internet Explorer	Press Ctrl+F5
Mozilla Firefox	Hold down ⇧ Shift while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+⇧ Shift+R)	Press ⌘ Cmd+R (reload page) or ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+R (reload page and rewrite cache)
Opera	Press Ctrl+F5 or ⇧ Shift+F5
Konqueror
Apple Safari	Hold down ⇧ Shift+Alt while clicking Reload
	Press Ctrl+R	Press ⌘ Cmd+⌥ Option+E (clear browser cache) or ⌘ Cmd+R (update)
Chrome	Press Ctrl+F5 or ⇧ Shift+F5 or hold down ⇧ Shift while clicking Reload	Press ⌘ Cmd+F5 or ⇧ Shift+F5 or hold down ⇧ Shift while clicking Reload

-- Rillke^(q?) 22:16, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy holidays! 2015!

		* * * Happy Holidays 2015 ! * * *
		* Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! * Joyeux Noël ! Bonne année! * Frohes Weihnachten! Frohes Neues Jahr! * Счастливого Рождества! С Новым годом! -- George Chernilevsky talk 20:28, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, George. For you, too a good 2015! -- Rillke^(q?) 19:09, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Template:Administrators' noticeboard

We're going to be in the need of new archive links soon on that template (in the "Blocks and protections" and "Other" sections). I posted a message on the template's talk page with this issue, asking for consensus before I made the change, and I didn't get a response, so I figured you would respond here on this talk page. DLindsley ^{Need something?} 13:10, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

 Done -- you may draw attention to those issues using {{Edit request}}. -- Rillke^(q?) 19:06, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Module:QuickTest

Rillke, as the creator of Module:QuickTest, would you consider applying the protected edit request at Module talk:QuickTest? —RP88 (talk) 02:24, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

 Done -- Rillke^(q?) 19:02, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

User:Rillke/LicenseReview.js

Could you add the following licenses CC-BY-4.0, CC-BY-SA-4.0 to the change license option of the javascript listed above? 1989 00:33, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

 Done -- Rillke^(q?) 19:02, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Hİ!

Hello Rillke, here and active in many Wikimedia projects. These, you are committee member. Other members think not active. Can I be on the committee? Meanwhile I also fix the date wrong. Good wikis. Uğurkent (talk) 20:54, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Do you mind if I enter the Committee? I also create some of the necessary pages. Such as eligibility tool. Uğurkent (talk) 13:41, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Hey Uğurkent, first, I wish you a happy new year; Thanks for your fixes, they look fine to me and I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to join the committee. However I can only speak for myself, so simply add your name to the committee page and see what happens :)

@Uğurkent: Before joining the committee however, I suggest you create a user page with at least babel templates of languages you are able to communicate in. Thanks for volunteering! If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask me. -- Rillke^(q?) 19:32, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Admins no longer able to administrate pages

Hi, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71445 - The WMF like to implent a code review for every MW: changes. That sounds like a big nonsese for me. --Steinsplitter (talk) 08:25, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

It's fine by me as long as quick fixes (self merging) are still possible. We would probably have less features but better code quality and that's generally a good idea. User scripts would be still editable as-one-desires. If we have a code-review system, we have one reason less for superprotect and can start a new debate to get rid of it although I am confident that Eloquence comes up with new creative inventions on how to justify it. -- Rillke^(q?) 13:53, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

POTY module update

Hi Rillke, can you update Module:POTY, so that we can start POTY2014 beta test Odisha1 (talk) 15:55, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Odisha1, all that was needed was this change. -- Rillke^(q?) 18:06, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank You Rillke :-) -- Odisha1 (talk) 18:07, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

@Uğurkent, Odisha1, Beria, and Miya: At Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2014/Candidates, there are still 400 candidates to be sorted. Every small help would be welcome. -- Rillke^(q?) 18:06, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

I created this trial. Does it work properly? Would be good if you look at the page. Whether the nomination page via bot or will do manually? Uğurkent (talk) 21:26, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

I or someone else will create the voting pages using a script or bot. -- Rillke^(q?) 23:24, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Be noted in Sitenotice? More people would be aware of the competition picture of the year. Uğurkent (talk) 20:56, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Rillke, can you create a centralbanner only in commons for POTY Beta testing periods. -- Odisha1 (talk) 12:45, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

I'll do today in the late evening or early tomorrow. -- Rillke^(q?) 16:06, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Bug in VisualFileChange - pages marked for deletion hit redirect instead of target

Hello. When I marked the pages as npd, the bot marked the redirect after the page was moved instead of the actual page.[1] Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 22:38, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Phabricator

Hallo Rillke,

ich kann plötzlich https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87062 nicht mehr anschauen. Ich hatte mich da angemeldet, mich bei diesem Task als Subscriber eingetragen, dann bekomme ich eine E-Mail, dass bei diesem Task "Rillke changed Security from none to Private Issue.", und jetzt bekomme ich die Fehlermeldung "Access Denied: Restricted Task You do not have permission to view this object.", wenn ich die Seite anschauen will. Was steckt da dahinter? Gibt es einen tieferen Sinn? Gruß --Rosenzweig τ 13:50, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Ja phab:T87100. Kurz gesagt jemand hat einen kompletten XHR gepostet ohne Session-Cookie und CentralAuth-Cookie unkenntlich zu machen. Damit kann man potentiell seine Session klauen. -- Rillke^(q?) 16:10, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Und daraus folgt, dass alle anderen nix mehr zu sehen kriegen, incl. denen, die vielleicht was beizutragen hätten? Scheint mir nicht sonderlich sinnvoll zu sein. --Rosenzweig τ 17:47, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Hatte mich tatsächlich im Dropdown verklickt, sollte eigentlich bei security landen und nicht private; ich habe auch keinen Zugriff mehr darauf. Wie auch immer; ist jedenfalls besser, als ein kompromittierter Account. Zur Not machst Du ein neues Ticket und schreibst da weiter. -- Rillke^(q?) 17:58, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Dieser "Phabricator" erlaubt es also Benutzern, sich selbst auszusperren? Scheint ein klassischer Fall von Bananensoftware zu sein, entweder kann ich solche Einstufungen ändern, das dann aber auch wieder abändern, oder ich kann es von vornherein nicht. Alles andere ist Blödsinn. Und nein, bei Bedarf einen weiteren Task zum selben Bug aufzumachen, halte ich für keine gute Idee. Es sei denn, da steht alles drin, was im alten Task auch drinstand, ggfs. bereinigt um Privates, das für das Problem unwichtig ist. --Rosenzweig τ 18:30, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Klappt der Zugriff jetzt? Generelle Diskussion ueber Zugriff von CC und Autoren ist phab:T76564. Und danke Rillke fuer das schnelle Eingreifen! --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 01:53, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

@AKlapper (WMF): I get Access Denied: Restricted Task but that might be the case because I am not a CC-member? -- Rillke^(q?) 08:35, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

@Rillke: Ja, das ist der Fall (und das erwartete Verhalten). Rosenzweig ist aber in der CC-Liste und falls Du magst kann ich Dich da auch gern hinzufuegen. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 19:32, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Nö, ist mir momentan nicht so wichtig. Hätte aber gedacht, dass die Cookies irgendwie entfernt werden können und der Task wieder auf normal gesetzt wird. -- Rillke^(q?) 00:07, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Ich weiß nicht, ob ich bei dir richtig bin

aber ich finde ein FP-Panorama von mir von vergangenem Jahr nicht in der Liste der Wahlvorschläge für as Picture of the Year. Wie kann ich das ändern? --Hubertl (talk) 22:59, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Hat sich erledigt, schöne Grüße dorthin, wo du gerade bist! --Hubertl (talk) 23:57, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Ja, bist Du und gut, dass Du so schnell reagiert hast. Momentan ist es auf Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2014/R1/Gallery/Cities_and_Bridges. Weil die Kategorie ein bisschen groß ist, wollen wir sie aber noch aufteilen. LG -- Rillke^(q?) 08:33, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Chunk upload (original : fr) : solution ? impossible to send with good Wifi with cuts, (a file of 225 Mo)

I can't send a 225 MB file with good reception Wifi (Good, 3 bars / 5) with cuts. When cutting music I know I don't have internet, and so in less than 15 seconds I again Internet with a few clicks and I have a program that sends a username and password so that an ISP internet work).

When there are cuts, sometimes it's ok (good), but occasionally it blocks (no good) « upload in progress 28% —> upload in progress 28 % » for the resumption of the internet following a failure. So it's impossible to send the file.

When there are cuts, when it's ok, "upload in progress 15% -> upload in progress 0% and the percentage increases to 100% and then" "chunk uploaded", so ok.

What is the solution to get to send the 225 MB file with "chunk upload"?

fr Je n'arrive pas à envoyer un fichier de 225 Mo avec une bonne réception Wifi (bon : 3 barres / 5) avec des coupures. Quand la musique coupe je sais que je n'ai plus internet, et donc en moins de 15 secondes j'ai de nouveau internet avec quelques clics et j'ai un logiciel qui envoie un identifiant et un mot de passe à un FAI afin qu'internet fonctionne).

Quand il y a des coupures dès fois ça va (bien), mais dès fois ça bloque (pas bien) : « in progress upload 28 % —> 28 % » à la reprise de l'internet suite à une coupure. Donc, c'est impossible d'envoyer le fichier.

Quand il y a des coupures, quand ça va, « in progress upload 15 % —> in progress upload 0 % puis le pourcentage augmente jusqu'à 100 % puis « « chunk uploaded» » , donc ok.

Quelle est la solution pour arriver à envoyer le fichier de 225 Mo avec « chunk upload » ? Videopedia4k (talk) 05:31, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Is it lowers the quality of the file sent with "chunk upload"? (Est-ce que ça fait diminuer la qualité du fichier de l'envoyer avec « chunk upload » ? ) Videopedia4k (talk) 07:33, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Videopedia4k: , I have improved the script specifically for handling cases of good WiFi with longer connection gaps. Please delete your browser's cache (Firefox, Chrome (select "empty the cache"), Internet Explorer), restart your browser and try the upload it again. If you see messages like 00328: 2/69> upload is stuck during the times of disconnection, you have the new version. Does it work? -- Rillke^(q?) 00:04, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Very well, your new version (January 24-25, 2015). Test 1: I have been several times "upload is stuck during 2 minutes and several during 3 to 20 seconds with the message « upload in stuck » " with success because then "upload in progress 0 % —> 100 % —> chunk upload —> upload in progress…" . Henceforth, you can always send with the wifi with success sends. (Très bien, ta nouvelle version (24-25 janvier 2015). Test 1 : jai eu plusieurs fois « upload is stuck » avec réussite car ensuite « avancement de l'envoie » . Désormais, on peut toujours envoyer en wifi avec réussite de l'envoie.

How to use "chunk uploaded" when sending a new (no a new version of file but a file name missing (no present) on Commons) file? I don't find the link. (Comment utiser « chunk uploaded » lors de l'envoie d'un nouveau fichier (pas une nouvelle version du fichier, donc un nom de fichier inexistant sur Commons) ? Je ne trouve pas le lien.) Videopedia4k (talk) 13:35, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Creating a new file > Navigate to File:MyDesiredFileName.ext | Press upload (chunked) from your "Tools" box in the sidebar | Fill out the file description field in the pop up and then select the file to upload. Videopedia4k (talk) 13:50, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Addition to translations

Is possible to add dot after $1 here, here and here? Years in Croatian are ordinal numbers and they are written with dot. So, in this three cases: $1 should be replaced with $1. Here $3 should be replaced with $3.--Ma▀▄Ga 19:06, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Is it correct the way I did it? -- Rillke^(q?) 19:51, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Everything is fine. Thank you very much.--Ma▀▄Ga 21:10, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Error in a vote page (POTY 2014)

Please check this page, at User:**Romina** location.

Warp3 (talk) 22:50, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

@Warp3: Check out MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-EnhancedPOTY.js#Bug_with_certain_usernames -- In short: There is a bug in the MediaWiki parser and I didn't had the time yet to test the workaround. -- Rillke^(q?) 23:20, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

For the evaluation of the votes, it would be useful, to check all pictures, user '**Romina**' voted for, see here. The vote counter had been reset in all cases, filter rules seem to block manual correction to ensure vote integrity. --MachtaUnix (talk) 01:26, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

I will do a simple find & replace operation on all vote pages after voting is over. If I would do it now, it would be just too much a mess. Also, we do not use the ordinal counter; we use a script that evaluates every single diff of every vote page for checking votes, so no worries :) -- Rillke^(q?) 13:49, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Warp3 (talk) 18:27, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, too. :-)), --MachtaUnix (talk) 22:17, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Template:Blocked proxy

Huhu, Habe das template angepasst. Kannst du bitte so enstellen dass es bei "Notify this user" nicht SUBST: wird? Danke! --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:53, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Gibt leider diese Option (noch) nicht. Am einfachsten wäre eine Vorlage zu machen, welche nur {{Blocked proxy}} enthält und MediaWiki:AxUserMsg.js entsprechend anzupassen. -- Rillke^(q?) 22:16, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Ok. :) erl. --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:56, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

MediaWiki:VisualFileChange.js bug?

Somehow File:Maithripala Sirisena.jpg was listen in Gag0409 (talk · contribs) contribution, so in was mistakenly nominated for deletion. Please take a look. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:13, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, this is shit; VisualFileChange.js still uses the log and does not match the log timestamp with the upload timestamp. -- Rillke^(q?) 15:29, 1 February 2015 (UTC)