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22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
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20:16, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
Thank you!
--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
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16:51, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
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{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns ""
(empty string). When you read a page it returns "-"
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16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
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16:37, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
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00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi! It seems that the Checkwiki tool is down (503 Service unavailable). Are you working on it? Regards, Doc Taxon (talk) 10:30, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
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in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
20:04, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Deepak P Shukla is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deepak P Shukla until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. noq (talk) 12:05, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
I'd like to request that the bot have a new article list for Methodism as I'm trying to revive the task force. I would transclude it at /new articles. I can't figure out what it wants with rules and the like though. Jerod Lycett (talk) 09:25, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
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21:19, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
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<ref follow="…">
to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi @Bamyers99:. thanks for your help recently, with my efforts to get WikiProject Council moving again. I appreciate your willingness to list ypour name there as one of the active members. I really need your help and input. My efforts are in jeopardy of being reversed or diverted if I don't get some supportive input. could you please let me know if you are available to do so? I really appreciate it. please ping me when you reply. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 03:19, 15 January 2020 (UTC) BAMYERS, filmography WAS NOT COMPLETED, in full when you put the categories and references etc. back, and was only completed only to the 2010 season, in this as the actress had credits until 2018 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.43.229.8 (talk) 02:56, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
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tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
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18:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Would it be possible to disregard the word "Grand" when it is followed by "Prix"? --kingboyk (talk) 09:23, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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20:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi Bamyers99: I've drafted an article on this young achiever, I wanted you to have a look on it :)
quantumdots-x 06:35, 7 February 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quantumdots-X (talk • contribs)
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19:10, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
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16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi Bamyers this battle has been fought during the Italian unification in 19 century. It has got nothing to do with the Republic of Florence or Venice or the 15 century. Italian unification was driven by the Kingdom of Sardinia which became Kingdom of Italy --Maxmarwiki (talk) 22:34, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
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20:59, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I find User:CleanupWorklistBot's cleanup listings very helpful.
Do you know if it is possible to update project tags and the bot when a project is renamed? E.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities is now Wikipedia:WikiProject Higher Education. TSventon (talk) 14:17, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
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wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage
was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
00:35, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Seems that the bot has stopped working yesterday in the middle of updating at User:AlexNewArtBot/KosovoSearchResult (which is just at K (for Kosovo) alphabetically). Regards, Jovanmilic97 (talk) 15:44, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
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I'd seen your TemplateParametersTool tool on templates with TemplateData (due to the template {{Template error report}}), but it was extremely hard to understand its full functionality until I'd gained some experience with it. This was made much worse by that horrible template (which you did not create or edit): I'm currently initiating discussions on clarifying the content of that template and renaming it (which is another matter to this), but I'd noticed that your documentation page for this tool was fairly small, and I wanted to suggest that I help expand it like I have done at mw:Help:TemplateData (previous). For example, I would include an outline of how to interpret the data on each page, what each link does, etc. I can start this in a sandbox on my user page. Let me know if this is okay or if you wish to coordinate the effort.
I'd also like to propose that the name be standardised to either TemplateParametersTool or Template Parameters tool; this would make it easier when referring to the tool by one name in other templates like {{Template error report}}. Personally, I prefer TemplateParametersTool, as it's in line with TemplateData, TemplateWizard, VisualEditor, WikiEditor, etc. DePiep is suggesting a rename of the tool itself to a more specific name, but until that is done, if it is done, I'd like to know your preference between these two names.
A third point is a question: I noticed that your Transclusion reporting section notes that your tool does not show non-main or non-file namespace transclusions and does not show indirect transclusions. I'm under the the belief that this is the entire reason your tool shows far fewer transclusions than the TemplateCount tool. However, your documentation page states this fact in a bullet point as if it's a separate point without an explanation. Is that explanation the entire reason? If so, I would move this out of the bullet point.
A fourth and final point is to do with the functionality of TemplateParametersTool. Understandably, when a parameter (like "date") has more than 50 unique values, it becomes too much to show in the table. Your tool provides a link for users to view every article using the template using that parameter, but it does not provide a link to list every value used for that parameter. Can this be added, like the other lists? If not, there is an existing URL that provides similar functionality. To show all articles using a template with a specific value of the "date" parameter, you can just visit https://bambots.brucemyers.com/TemplateParam.php?action=valuelinks&wiki=enwiki&template=Cleanup¶m=date&value=February+2020 (<-- note the date at the end). I propose, if possible, that a search box and link be added next to the date parameter (or even all parameters with >50 values) that allows the user to enter a month and year (or other value), which the tool can then insert into this URL at this location.
Thank you. · • SUM1 • · (talk) 21:22, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
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17:14, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
I keep seeing you in my watchlist because you keep adding coordinates to so many articles I'm watching, and I just wanted to thank you for this work. Where possible, I am following to add infoboxes, maps, etc. Not sure how you're electing to blitz, but if you happen to tackle the Oregon articles with missing coordinates, I'll be following along closely there as well. Thanks again! ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:45, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
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21:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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17:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.