User talk:DreamRimmer

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DR Editor

Hi. Your DR Editor is currently seems to having problem in the Minerva skin. It's tampering with the delete logs, making the [change visibility] and other user link disappears, see before and after. The history page is also affected, see before and after (talk and contribs link is disappeared). Do you have a plan to fix that? This issues happened to me some days ago but I don't know which script causing this problem. I had to disable all my script and enable each one to see which one caused the bug, and the results is your DR Editor. Nvdtn19 (talk) 04:38, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the late response. I am not sure how it is affecting this option, but I will take a look when I have some time. – DreamRimmer ■ 07:50, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review training program

I want to be trained as a New Page Reviewer and you are the trainer who lives very close to the timezone of my residency. I contribute to Wikipedia back and forth for quite a long time. My contributions since last year has been religions in East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) and some composers of music. I like to use the citation templates very attentively.

I prefer other people to review my articles that I created. I plan to use my page-reviewing skills to resolve unreviewed articles relating to entities in East Asia as long as they are not related to South Korean politics (I'm absoluely loyal to the Japanese and North Korean political establishments) due to multiple encounters of harrassment by South Korean and Korean-American contributors over a decade ago. Komitsuki (talk) 07:45, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am busy with other things at the moment, so you should ask other users for help with your training. – DreamRimmer ■ 07:48, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab) § Really Wild and Unlikely Idea

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab) § Really Wild and Unlikely Idea. — ♠ Ixtal ^{( T / C )} ⁂ Non nobis solum ♠ 08:25, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-42

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• Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for Special:AccountSecurity, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the Account Security project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.

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Question from Asiess835 (07:29, 14 October 2025)

Hey what happens if a article has a "WP:N" tag. --Asiess835 (talk) 07:29, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If an article has a "WP:N" tag, it means that editors are questioning whether the topic meets Wikipedia’s general notability guidelines. The tag indicates that the article may need reliable, independent sources providing significant coverage. If such sources cannot be found, the article could be merged, redirected, or deleted. It is essentially a prompt to provide evidence that the topic is notable enough for a standalone article. – DreamRimmer ■ 07:48, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

NPP Student

Hey - I'm interested in becoming your student for the New Page Patrol, mostly because I see the amount of unreviewed pages growing ever more larger, and I'm, at the very least, somewhat distressed. If you could take the time to train me, that would be greatly appreciated. monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 16:37, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am busy with other things at the moment, so you should ask other users for help with your training. – DreamRimmer ■ 07:41, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DCWC closing update

Two weeks ago, the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest came to a close! After three months of stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard, we have our winners. vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions), continuing his work on covering abortion in Africa, comes in third with 692 points. simongraham (submissions) comes in second with 763 points, largely from a slew of good articles about jumping spiders. And returning to the podium for the second year in a row, BeanieFan11 (submissions) takes the Gold Belt Buckle with a mind-boggling 946 points from his series of articles on sportpersons. Congratulations to our winners!

Amazingly, the award for the most countries covered goes to both BeanieFan11 (submissions) and simongraham (submissions), who each submitted articles under 30 flags! BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins for writing the most quality articles (16 good articles). For submitting 16 articles related to El Salvador, PizzaKing13 (submissions) wins the award for most submissions under one country. The award for most submissions related to women goes to both Spookyaki (submissions) (7 biographies about women) and vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) (21 related articles). And for the second year, simongraham (submissions) wins for the most reviews, having submitted 21!

Among the participants' contributions were 2 FAs, 5 FLs, 124 GAs, and an uncounted number of DYKs, ITNs, and reviews of every kind! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed towards a major step in countering the systemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating with us in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year, and we look forward to seeing you contribute again! However, before that...

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Need help

Hi @DreamRimmer:. I hope you're doing well. Sorry to bother you. Can you please look at here. When I ran code for second time tonight, the script made the first table same as it to second table. Please help me on rectifying this. Fade258 (talk) 16:49, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you make any changes to the script I shared? Even a small tweak can cause it to stop working properly, so I suspect something might have been altered that led to this issue. – DreamRimmer ■ 07:34, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have done some changes. Please see here and tell me where the mistakes is. Fade258 (talk) 09:59, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I can see that changes to the wikitable and data logic have subtly broken the script. I am not sure what you are trying to achieve, since I have already provided a script to handle the table update task. Please do not take this the wrong way, but I cannot spend time fixing modifications made by an LLM. I also hope you will preserve the original author attribution if you use my code. Let me know if you need help with anything else. – DreamRimmer ■ 10:25, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DreamRimmer. Thank you for pointing out the issues and no worries at all. I honestly tell you that, I didnot use AI to generate that codes which I provided above in a link as I only add description on what the codes function is, with the help of google. I will definitely give attribution to you when I use your code. I will contact you when I get stuck. Thank You ! Fade258 (talk) 13:37, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am happy to help with coding tasks or assist if you get stuck. What I mean is that I cannot spend time fixing code that has been changed without understanding, especially when the original code already works correctly. – DreamRimmer ■ 13:50, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DreamRimmer. Thank you for it. No worries, I understand it. I tried many times to make shareable code which you had done like this but, I didnot able to do like that. Fade258 (talk) 14:16, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Try Index of /63901352/ – DreamRimmer ■ 15:48, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder how did you get that. Fade258 (talk) 15:59, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:Fade258 would work. – DreamRimmer ■ 16:41, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You ! I think it would be easy for other users to see my codes if I write here. Fade258 (talk) 01:11, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder to send URA newsletter

Hi @DreamRimmer you said we should remind you so here we are. Could you please send the URA newsletter re: November backlog drive signups? @ARandomName123 has set up the content so we just need distribution to the list. (Really appreciate the help as I actually signed up to get permission to distribute a while ago, only to realize I would need a different machine to run the tool for technical reasons.) Thanks as always for your help. Cielquiparle (talk) 05:24, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sent – DreamRimmer ■ 07:31, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent. Many thanks! Cielquiparle (talk) 08:07, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced articles November 2025 backlog drive

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October thanks

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Autopatrolled Rights

Hi DreamRimmer! I noticed that you had correctly taken away my autopatrolled rights in May 2025 due to inactivity; but after a brief pause I am now back on Wikipedia and I was wondering if the rights can be restored to me. Thank you! —Avenue X at Cicero (t · c) sends his regards @ 22:44, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker). Hi @Avenue X at Cicero. As per xtools right changes data admin JJMC89 had revoked your Autopatrolled access citing 3 years of inactivity. You can check the link that I provided above. Thanks! Fade258 (talk) 14:36, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
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• Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
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