SHB2000
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Tech News: 2024-38
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Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.- The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [1]
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Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.- Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes
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Deleting spam
editRegarding Srgholiday(s515/.com): Isn't it overkill to revision delete spam? Deleting it increases the number of admin actions that are opaque to the general community (admin activity should be as transparent as possible) and hides the actions of the spammer (raising the bar for blocking or blacklisting them). What's the harm of leaving that spam visible in the revision history? If you think this needs doing, I think a discussion in the Pub is warranted. –LPfi (talk) 13:11, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- The nature of this spammer is no different to userpage spammers. I don't mind if you unrevdel it, but leaving the mass spam up only gives the spammer exactly what they want. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 13:32, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- I don't understand. Our readers won't see the spam in old revisions. For user pages, the issue is about user pages for non-users, which we often delete as out of scope, which is another thing. If the user page is otherwise legitimate, we just remove the spam, with no deleting or hiding. –LPfi (talk) 14:29, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- As I said you're free to undelete it as you wish – we simply disagree on something where there isn't a clear policy on. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 21:31, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- I self-reverted for now; not worth having a discussion on something where there is no clear policy on. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 23:20, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- As I said you're free to undelete it as you wish – we simply disagree on something where there isn't a clear policy on. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 21:31, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- I don't understand. Our readers won't see the spam in old revisions. For user pages, the issue is about user pages for non-users, which we often delete as out of scope, which is another thing. If the user page is otherwise legitimate, we just remove the spam, with no deleting or hiding. –LPfi (talk) 14:29, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- I agree with LPfi here. Revdel should be used only when the text itself is highly objectionable -- racist, obscene, over-the-top agenda pushing, etc. -- not for mere spamming or even for denying recognition to vandals. Pashley (talk) 14:13, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Pashley, if you want to argue to not use revdel per WV:DENY for LTAs, start a discussion on Wikivoyage talk:Deny recognition instead of commenting on policies you clearly don't understand properly. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 21:30, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
Link still spam blocked
editVery (very!) belatedly, I've just tried to add the link discussed here, but it it still blocked. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:28, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
Tout issue?
editIs User:(WT-en) Fpatrick a WV:TOUT issue? It's got two lint issues, but if it's going to be blanked or revdel'd due to the content, I'll skip the delinting. Zinnober9 (talk) 09:32, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yep, I've deleted it as spam. Nice catch. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 09:41, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Great, thanks! Zinnober9 (talk) 16:55, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Another on User:(WT-en) منتديات البيان البورسعيدى talking about their linked forum/newspaper. Zinnober9 (talk) 19:26, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Others:
- Tourism agency on User:(WT-en) Le desert vit
- Restaurant on User:(WT-en) Restaurantkashmir
- Cell phone spam on User:(WT-en) Kalinka
- Tours on User:(WT-en) Tour Old Wilmington
- Tours on User:(WT-en) Bhutan2009
- .
- User:(WT-en) Hemraj is not very promotional, but does has work contact info, so less sure on this one. Zinnober9 (talk) 19:49, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- User:(WT-en) Hemraj doesn't have any contributions but their user page, so I think it can be deleted as user page of non-user. The contact info is probably out of date. –LPfi (talk) 20:00, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- I removed the number since the rest without it could be read as a user bio rather than a personal ad. If anyone has a stronger opinion, have at it, I don't have a strong opinion beyond my edit. Zinnober9 (talk) 16:41, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- I suppose it is OK like that. –LPfi (talk) 18:17, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- I removed the number since the rest without it could be read as a user bio rather than a personal ad. If anyone has a stronger opinion, have at it, I don't have a strong opinion beyond my edit. Zinnober9 (talk) 16:41, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- User:(WT-en) Hemraj doesn't have any contributions but their user page, so I think it can be deleted as user page of non-user. The contact info is probably out of date. –LPfi (talk) 20:00, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-39
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Weekly highlight
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.
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