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See Special:Diff/1283820024, in an attempt to remove the AMP url, it made the URL an unhelpful ambiguous URL.
Luckily, the URL wasn't really necessary before since it was syndicated from another source, which I replaced with the original source. I would not be surprised if a lot of yardbarker links did this, since they mostly syndicated then pull articles from other sources, but these become harder to find when they go from this amp url to a more ambiguous one. Might need a quick review to see if this happened anywhere else. If you have a list, I can go through and try and fix them with the original source. Chew(V • T • E)22:29, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Chew: Hi. Yes, none of the yardbarker URLs were usable when I found the issue a few weeks ago. So I added the yardbarker domain to the ignore list, and removed all the problematic yardbarker URLs from the database. There were quite a few of them. Currently there are only seven yardbarker URLs in the database that were operational. I undid all the changes I could find, seems like I missed some. Unfortunately, I do not have a list (as I removed them from the database), but most of the problematic edits were undone. —usernamekiran (talk)15:09, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Awesome, thank you! I'll try and go through and just remove them all if I can for my prior reasons, just wanted to make sure you were aware as well. Appreciate it Chew(V • T • E)00:37, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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I wish to SUGGEST three prominent people to write a Wiki article about. There actions affected 1000s of people across the USA and were in front of national media cameras. They graduated from my high school. But you are impartial. I cant add their names into Wiki content unless there is already an article about them.
Here are the suggested Three Names and Major Newspaper Articles or Bio Sites about them to help you write a suggested article. They often made quite a few articles and headlines! These articles or Bios were all retrieved today, July 5, 2025.
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Hello, l have published my first article may you please help me to review it so that it can be published. The article is about Selekta Base, one of the biggest promoters of culture in Zimbabwe widely know for one of his biggest event, The Selekta Base Blowout Festival --Selekta Base (talk) 10:05, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm certain many others feel the same way. I appreciate your putting yourself forward, answering questions (including mine) with candor, and demonstrating BOLD while still maintaining AGF. Thank you, and good luck to you in the next phase. We've certainly learned more about all the candidates during the last few days. BusterD (talk) 22:53, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for approximately four days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").
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Hey, there's a bug with your bot on nlwiki where nieuwsblad.be links are getting converted to hbvl.be, even though nieuwsblad.be doesn't use AMP. You can see it happening in these diffs: 69654475, 69574270.
Could you take a look at what's causing this? It's messing up citations and potentially affecting other Belgian news sites too (though not entirely sure). XXBlackburnXx (talk) 21:11, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@XXBlackburnXx: Hello. The bot is thinking the original URL is an AMP url because of the "amper" in it. Then the bot is trying to find a canonical URL for that amp url. The issue is, original URL/page (nieuwsblad.be) is mentioning the hbvl.be URL as the canonical urls. Looking at the pages, they both seem to be exactly the same. If you want, I can blacklist the hbvl.be URLs. Kindly let me know how should I proceed. —usernamekiran (talk)22:00, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Blacklisting would be nice. The main issue isn't necessarily the websites themselves, but rather that when a site within a citation is replaced with hbvl.be, the rest of the citation parameters, such as |publisher= or |work=, no longer match appropriately. Hope you understand :). XXBlackburnXx (talk) 22:22, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@XXBlackburnXx: Hi. I was going through the logs of the bot, and I came across: Failed to save Limburg United in het seizoen 2025/26 on nl.wikipedia: Edit to page nl:Limburg United in het seizoen 2025/26 disallowed by the AbuseFilter. This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: KiranBOT bug I could not find the edit filter on nlwiki. Has it been deleted/deactivated? —usernamekiran (talk)04:16, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, and thanks for your bot, KiranBOT’s contributions. According to Chinese Wikipedia policy, global bots are required to obtain local approval unless they are solely performing tasks related to fixing interwiki links or double redirects (policy). Please submit a request for local approval at this page. Otherwise, your bot may be temporarily blocked. Thank you for your understanding! Stang00:17, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Stang: Hello. Thanks for reaching out. I had gone through the policy page beforehand, I misunderstood the policy — I thought global bots were allowed. I will stop KiranBOT in a couple of hours from now. Thanks again, —usernamekiran (talk)00:57, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 27th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 2025! Boy, does it feel good to kick off the year with an issue. Yep, it's been a year since we cleared out the 2022-2024 backlog with issues 23 and 24! Good times. Though in this case "a year" just means... 6 months? 😯 The salience of whatever joke I was planning to make here has vanished speedily. Aaron Liu (talk) 21:00, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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WikiTextExpander by Polygnotus, is this edition's featured script. At the click of a configurable hotkey, this script will find and replace or link a configurable list of phrases within the selected text in all source editors (even in the comment/reply field!). Besides allowing the quick insertion of templated messages, this script greatly mitigates the WP:WTF? problem by providing both the legibility of familiar words and the convenience of shortcuts. And to those asking, the capitalization of "Wikitext" as "WikiText" was a necessary sacrifice for far-more-memorable acronymy.
CanonNi: AlertAssistant has been fixed and rewritten using OOUI instead of Twinkle's Morebits. Such modern, very tool. (Do note that the maintainer has since become inactive.)
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader has been updated to use modern JS APIs that replace the browser's URL bar with the link you clicked on to load in place. The "back" (and "forward") buttons also work now. Cool, innit?
andrybak: Unsigned helper no longer shows an error when the message to sign was added in the earliest 50 revisions of a page's history. This is especially relevant to pages with short histories.
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.
In breaking m:Tech/News, Gadgets can now include .vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons are now also available. The documentation has examples.
Appo/Globstory integrates OpenHistoryMap, updating the map whenever hovering/clicking on a location or year, the latter of which changes the map to be (hopefully) accurate to the year selected. It's pretty interesting.
linkinfo Somewhat similar to WP:NavPops, Awesome Aasim/linkinfo(pictured) provides a collection of links to replace the right-click context menu, presented beautifully.
PreviousDiscussions provides a link to search for your username on subpages of another user's userpage and talkpage conveniently.
Twineeea/noRedLinks brings you to the "read" instead of the "create" tab when you visit a red link. Contemplate life's mysteries as you stare into the blank! Deeply.
No, this is not going to be the enduring tradition of S++ for the future. This was meant to be a joke for the special occasion on the first day of the fourth month but was delayed by four months because I'm lazy.
Hi Usernamekiran. I am sorry about the outcome at the admin election. I saw your comments at the debrief where you expressed disappointment at the lack of feedback on why your candidacy was unsuccessful. Since you and I have had positive interactions in the past, I wanted to reach out and offer my feedback. There were three main aspects of your candidacy that made it less likely to succeed, in my opinion:
Firstly, the lack of a nominator likely put you at a disadvantage to other candidates. This is not to say it is impossible to succeed without a nominator (e.g. Curbon7 successfully nominated themselves in the current election), but I think having one helps a lot. I think this is especially true in the election format, where a lot of candidates are running at the same time—most voters probably don't have enough free time to do a deep dive on each candidate, so having a trusted member of the community vouch for you in detail at the top of your candidacy goes a long way to assuring those voters that you too are trustworthy. Additionally, you and your nominator will work together on presenting your nomination—many nominators will offer to review your answers to the three standard questions, for example, and help you improve them even before you submit your candidacy.
Secondly, your content creation experience seems to be pretty weak. There are many members of the community who feel strongly that administrators should be experienced at contributing content and not just maintenance work (see e.g. User:Ritchie333/Why admins should create content, User:GregJackP/Admin criteria, WP:RFA42). Having at least one GA would be really helpful to demonstrate this, but even if you don't have any GAs, it is important that your RfA or AELECT nomination provides at least some examples of contributing sourced content to the encyclopedia. When candidates highlight only non-content-related work in Q2, I suspect many editors might see that as a red flag.
Third, I felt that your answers to the three standard questions were a little weak. Aside from the nomination statement, the standard questions are going to be the main method by which the community will get to know you (especially in the election format, where voters don't have the benefit of seeing other voters' support rationales), and if you lead Q1 with a concession that your "editing has decreased" and find it "difficult to create content", I think that immediately sets the wrong tone for the reader. In Q2, it is okay to highlight some amount of maintenance/backend work, but what many voters are really going to be looking for there is content creation. In Q3, I recommend being more specific and detailed—I tried to help a bit by asking Q15 to have you expand on the Q3 answer. Q3 is important because it is where voters will get to know how you approach conflict, and vague, generic answers to Q3 often don't leave the right impression with voters.
I hope that this feedback is helpful to you and that it might help you succeed at requesting adminship in the future. As always, my user talk page is open. Mz7 (talk) 09:30, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mz7: thank you very much for the kind words. It is appreciated a lot. You are correct about everything. Your message is appreciated a lot. —usernamekiran (talk)09:42, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome. I learned something important myself when I read your Q15 answer—I had no idea that the word "revert" can mean "reply" or "respond to" in Indian English. I suspect I am not alone. That is definitely something I can see causing confusion, and I wonder if there is a good place we can document that to raise awareness about the potential for confusion. Mz7 (talk) 09:51, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mz7: this wasnt the reason for the incident from Q15 though, it was just a random example. Another phrase that can be easily misinterpreted is "what are you talking about?", in some parts of the world, it can be taken as "what is the discussion about", but in some parts, it means "are you crazy?", or "do you know what <stupidity><the f><or some other profanity indicating lack of knowledge/manners> are you talking about?
I supported you in this election and hope to see you run again after addressing the issues you believe were the reason you were not elected. Wishing you the best of luck. – DreamRimmer■09:57, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Usernamekiran One other thing that might have hurt your chances a bit is that one of the voter guides expressed misgivings about your level of experience working in user conduct areas. While you had 200+ combined reports at WP:AIV and WP:UAA, only one was made within the last year and all but 14 were from 2020 or earlier. You similarly have 300+ edits to WP:ANI, but all but a couple dozen are over 3 years old. It wasn't enough to get me to vote oppose for you, but if you plan on running again it might help to beef up your activity in these areas, especially if you're going to put them as desired work areas in Question 1. --Ahecht (TALK PAGE)14:11, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@A. B., DreamRimmer, Ahecht, and Patient Zero: thank you everybody. Your encouragement means a lot. @Ahecht I was aware of my lack of activity, while I could have increased it, I always felt that I should comment there unless I have direct interaction with users involved in discussion. On irrelevant note, in the past some RfAs have tanked because the candidate was too much active on "drama boards". This wasnt my concern though. The only thing I can think of right now to increase the activity with NPP again - in the past it had made me involved almost everywhere SPI, ANI, AFD, and many others. Thanks again everybody. —usernamekiran (talk)05:14, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Editors can now enable the User Info card. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled in your global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences. [1]
Everybody is invited to share comments on Collaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by the Connection team. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the project talk page. [2]
Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account and use a value defined in MediaWiki:Ipboptions. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList. More documentation is available. [3]
Gadgets can now include .vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons can be loaded through the gadget definition. The documentation has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, an API module now exists to load Codex icons. [4][5]
Module developers can now use a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to watch the demo video, read more about translatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's Module:User Wikimedia project for example usage, and share their feedback on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet. [6]
Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with the user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are overusing Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent. More technical details are available, and related questions are welcome in that task.
Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [7]
Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
@usernamekiran, Hi mentor, Was going through Wikipedia and have seen the actress named " Rashi khanna", has changed the article name to " Raashii Khanna".
Thank you Kiran. I have a rather simple question (kinda embarrassed). While my username is “Alangarfield”, I want my biographical info to be under “Alan Garfield “. Is this possible? And, if appropriate, go raibh maith agat. - Alan --Alangarfield (talk) 08:29, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Alangarfield: La maith duit. I think you are getting confused between a "Wikipedia article", and a "user page". Even though Wikipedia is not a social-networking site, one can think of user-pages like the "profile page" from social sites, more information: Wikipedia:User pages. You can see my user-page at User:Usernamekiran. These pages are in the "userspace" ("user" prefix with a colon), where as articles do not have any prefix (Wikipedia:What is an article?). For example, we have a user User:DavidBrooks, and there is also an article David Brooks (author). I hope this clears your doubt. If not, feel free to ask any questions. —usernamekiran (talk)07:07, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I understand the difference now (at least I think). Thank you so very much Kiran. I will try to create the article page in a few days. You're very helpful/a gentleman. - Alan Alangarfield (talk) 07:16, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.
South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
Wikimania 2025 is happening in Nairobi, Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here now.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature. [8]
The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text. [9]
Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for. [10]
The multiwiki datasets of Unicode data have been moved to Category:Unicode Module Datasets on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at the talkpage. [11]
Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the mw.addWarning() function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected. [12]
—usernamekiran (talk) 22:39, 25 July 2025 (UTC)
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