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Latest comment: 9 years ago by DerHexer

Disable abuse filter

Please delete/disable on of these; they do the same thing. Special:Abusefilter/100 Special:Abusefilter/99. --Glaisher (talk) 10:15, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Keep 99, get rid of 100 if you have to. PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:04, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
Updated 99 in line with the help about article_articleid, and disabled 100 a few hours ago. Watching the stream of abuse for hours, and even resorted to turning block on, though would like to be able to do that globally, but won't/can't. Fairly large number of hacked PCs out there being zombified for this abuse. :-/  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:09, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
I don't like the idea of IPs getting indef-blocked. Also iirc, there was some discussion on not enabling block option on global filters. --Glaisher (talk) 08:18, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
It is my plan to convert them in a day or so to something like a month or two, the are hijacked computers. :-/ Yep it is a bit of a shame that the system gblocks indefinite, and it is something that we should get amended with a bugzilla for IP addresses, maybe something like a week. Re not using, sure, it was an emergency measure, and not used lightly.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:28, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Oh, I see that Tegel has one made changes to block lengths at one wiki, I am treading through others.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:32, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Media wiki

Status:    Not done

Can a global sysop block globaly this ip : 114.121.160.53 he delete translation Manual:Installation guide/id and vandalism them diff. Regards --Grind24 (talk) 10:27, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Only 3 edits globally (luxo:114.121.160.53), all in mediawikiwiki (1 valid edition and 2 not valid). I see no reason to block globally or locally. Currently exists more than 20 active local admins, if he continuous request there a local block.
Note: The GS we can't globally block, is a capacity of stewards. Cheers, Alan (talk) 11:59, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks you Alan . Regards --Grind24 (talk) 12:16, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
In future, please direct global block requests to SRG :) Snowolf How can I help? 16:40, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
of course thank for the link Snowolf :) --Regards and wonderful holiday.

Global protect

Status:    Not done

Do you stewards have tool for proect page globally, or is it even possible? I was asking article Professor_Layton_vs._Phoenix_Wright:_Ace_Attorney to be protected globally because an IPv6 user (every time with different IPv6 address) inserts fake information into the article. 80.220.251.130 16:06, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

No, there is no global protection tool currently. --Glaisher (talk) 07:57, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Ok, no more then. 80.220.251.130 14:12, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Copy a page from frwiki to mediawikiwiki

Status:    Done

Could you please copy w:fr:Aide:Pywikipedia/interwiki.py and its history to mw:Manual:Pywikibot/interwiki.py/fr? I tried to ask on mw:Project:Requests#Import w:fr:Aide:Pywikipedia/interwiki.py, but nobody answered in two weeks. Orlodrim (talk) 18:18, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

I pinged the local Importers there. --Glaisher (talk) 07:57, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, this is now done. Orlodrim (talk) 00:04, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Spam target b:cy:Arbennig:RecentChanges

To note that cyWB is being hit as a spam target, and has no active administrators. So eyes there would be useful. I have given it a clean today, and I may get back there to run some CU tests to see if we can stop the spambot creations.  — billinghurst sDrewth 04:25, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/69

@Billinghurst: Looks like this one is prone to FPs (like people trying to create articles in user space). [1] [2] [3] [4] I don't think disallow should be enabled at its current state. Some possible modifications: not match if <ref> {{templates}} are in wikitext. --Glaisher (talk) 06:51, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

I am not sure that any of those user page edits are primary material. We could look to utilise email_confirm which would have let one of the four through, we could also look to change the displayed rejection message rather than the default, so the edits being disallowed could be more helpfully supported. We could look to exclude subpages. Any person who has edited even remotely per a guideline will not be caught by that filter.
There is a whole load of blocked spambots in the abuse log, and its false positive rate had been very low for meta and small wikis. Let us find some worthy content that is caught, and we look ensure that is not caught by the log filters.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:19, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Global filters are supposed to be completely uncontroversial and I see some hits which may be considered as valid edits at some wikis and we meta users shouldn't be disallowing such edits unless it's blatant spam. This is not blatant spam, afaict. --Glaisher (talk) 14:58, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Made two changes though we now have On average, its run time is 3.37 ms, and it consumes 208 conditions of the condition limit. which is mounting up. If someone can see improvements, please suggest them.  — billinghurst sDrewth 03:18, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Hmm, it must be a calculation concerning the average, the condition count is now right down, so that is okay.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:57, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

tywiki

Status:    Locally handled

I really need this to be deleted. It has been sitting out for a while. Eurodyne (talk) 19:27, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

I don't see it as an emergency and the local admin was active today, so bring it up locally. -- Tegel (Talk) 19:33, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
  Done by local admin. Snowolf How can I help? 16:39, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

History merging

Status:    Locally handled

We need the history of Fenerbahçe SK (currently a redirect) to be merged with Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü. This operation cannot be performed by local admins (including me) as the former page has more than 5000 revisions. --Superyetkin (talk) 16:09, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Is there a discussion on trwiki where this was decided? --MF-W 01:07, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
You can do the reverse merge and then move it back. Ruslik (talk) 02:47, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
Reverse merge approach worked fine. Thanks. --Superyetkin (talk) 11:37, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

ttwikt

Status:    Done

Please delete this. No sysops at all to take care of this. Eurodyne (talk) 05:42, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

  Done - Tiptoety talk 05:44, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Enduring unability to log in - what the HELL is going on?!

Status:    Done

Ladies and gentlemen, I now experience something I haven't encountered once before though I have been a Wikipedian for 10 years. I can't log in. When I try, the system gives an "error" report, the usual "this is probably temporary, try, again in a few minutes." This is going on for a day or three now. Meanwhile, nobody else seems to suffer this problem. Clearly somethings is wrong with me, or at least with the way my computer submits data to the server. I don't understand why I was suddenly logged out everywhere in the first place (my cookie being far from stale!), but not being able to log back in is outright disastrous. I am not sure whether this is the right page to report this problem, but I suspect it has something to do with me not having a single login. I hope some of you can point out the problem. 83.82.206.10 20:48, 12 December 2014 (UTC) better known as Steinbach

This sounds like phab:T75462. --Stryn (talk) 22:20, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Issue has been solved. Thanks a lot for showing me the way, and thanks even more to the developers for solving the issue. I'll unify my account some time in 2015 (a few accounts have to be renamed first). Steinbach (formerly Caesarion) 11:09, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

False article in Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

Status:    Not done

hello.this pag is False as it tells that Egyptian Arabic is a language (and this is ridiculous) see en:Egyptian Arabic please delete it.Thanks

No thanks. --MF-W 20:46, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Nah.wikt deletions

Status:    Not done

Please, delete (at least) empty categories in wikt:nah:Neneuhcāyōtl:Para_borrar_en_breve. Some of them are here for many years and this categories causes interwiki conflicts. JAn Dudík (talk) 10:20, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

It looks like the local sysop refuses to delete the page tagged if the template don't have a reason or if the page has been replaced with the {{delete}} template. -- M\A 11:27, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
I think the local sysop is raising important points, namely that one should not replace the page's content with the deletion template and they should provide a deletion rationale, at least a generic one, for why a page needs to be deleted. This is easily done with something like User:Hoo man/Scripts/Tagger and there really is no reason not to do so. In any case, as there are active local sysops and the requesting user is in conversations with them, I do not think it appropriate for us global users to intervene. Snowolf How can I help? 16:46, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

la.wiktionary.org, deletion request

Status:    Done

It seems that la.wt has no active administrator. Thus I'm asking here: Could anyone please delete the stuff listed at wikt:la:Categoria:Delenda?
Reasons:

  • "Disputatio Usoris:Tijedug", "Helpful Tips For Buying Hand Mixer- An Evaluation" - that's spam
  • "Brunus galitias" - no entry for wiktionary, might even be spam
  • "cracia", "S. R. I" - no entry/typo
  • "Formula:[...]" (Template:[...]) - They are not in used, got replaced by other templates and are not needed. One could argue, that the templates could stay as redirects, but: 1. Other templates don't have a redirect version, too. 2. Having those templates as redirects might confuse (new) editors.
    • New templates are usually like from "Formula:B[...]" to "Formula:b[...]" (changing the capital letter at the beginning to a small letter). "Formula:wikipedia" already existed as "Formula:vicipaedia".
  • "明後日の晩" & "明後日の朝" - can't judge that...

-00:06, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

I started with some. Here is a link for other volunteers: la:wikt:Categoria:Delenda. --MF-W 00:22, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
  Done  — billinghurst sDrewth 04:00, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

pt.wy revertion request

  • Status:    Not done

Could pleas revert that: [5]. I don't know how to handle, every time that I try to put some content in wy-pt the only sysop there (for political meters) remove content, and thread me, as you can see, he simply remove content, and changed one map, by the old one that is impossible to read not even justifying, and there's no rule about the type of map... he normally do that [6], [7] (in this case, I checked all establishments and removed the non existing), [8] he deleted most of that, and the part used, no credit was giving... I could give more, but you already can see work going to the sewer, could you pleas revert? Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton (talk) 05:19, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Just to clarify, none of this reversions are base in existing rules, or he created after with no discussion. Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton (talk) 05:43, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
  •   Not done. It's not up to us to enforce local wiki matters. Please discuss it through appropiate channels, such as the user's talk page. With kind regards, Savhñ 09:05, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

q:gl:Categoría:Limpar

Status:    Done

Can a steward please delete those pages listed for speedy deletion? Thanks. -- M\A 13:38, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

  Done MBisanz talk 20:45, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

kowikt speedy queue

Status:    Done

kowikt speedy request queue has backlog. kowikt has no local sysop. Please clean it up. Thanks! — Revi 16:21, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

  Done Alan (talk) 17:45, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Javad Ramezani articles

Status:    Done

kab:Javad Ramezani and everything listed here: Cross-wiki spam.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:53, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Done by Savh. Alan (talk) 14:03, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

q:sq:Category:Candidates for speedy deletion

Status:    Done

Can you delete these? Thanks, --Epìdosis (talk) 21:24, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

The link leads me to a non-existent category. Am I looking at the wrong place? Vogone (talk) 21:28, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Ops, sq.wikiquote. --Epìdosis (talk) 21:31, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
That should be q:sq:Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. (I gave Epìdosis the wrong link.) —Pathoschild 21:31, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Done then, thanks for reporting. :-) Vogone (talk) 21:38, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Rename editinterface global group

Status:    Done

Please rename 'editinterface' global group to 'interface-editor' group. See phab:T85731. (I would prefer it if it was changed to 'global-interface-editor' so that there could be separate translations for both local and global groups but there is no one else who agrees with it on IRC).--Glaisher (talk) 16:59, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

  •   Oppose the requested ('interface-editor') name as too narrow-scoped (I'd   Support 'technician' or admin-tech or something of that nature), but   Support the idea of making them consistent and   Support there being a 'global-' version of whatever the final consensus for a name is per Glaisher. Please see the Phabricator ticket for discussion about this. {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 17:48, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
I don't understand how 'interface-editor' is too narrow-scoped for a global group which is only given out for people needing to edit the interface? John F. Lewis (talk) 17:59, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Per Interface_editors#Rights these editors get the userrights of [ 'autoconfirmed', 'edit', 'editinterface', 'editprotected', ' editsemiprotected', 'editusercss', 'editusercssjs', 'edituserjs', 'protect', 'suppressredirect', 'tboverride', 'templateeditor' ]. So, they not only can edit interface messages, they can edit all protected pages. They can edit protected templates and modules, they can edit user js and css, they can edit interface messages, they can edit fully protected content or change the protection levels of any of those pages. So, the global group laid out here should be named something of the nature of 'global-technician', 'global-admin-tech', or 'global-protected-editor', and the lesser versions of it on the other wikis should be 'technician', 'admin-tech', or 'protected-editor'. {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 18:09, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
They may have the rights but it doesn't mean it falls under the scope. The group's scope if for editing interface messages, thus the group should be named so. John F. Lewis (talk) 18:14, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
  • If the rights assigned to the group aren't in scope for the group, they should be removed. If the goal is to have a group that can only edit interface messages, a Phab ticket should be submitted to create a new userright that can override protections and only edit interface messages and that should be added to a group named 'interface_editor'. {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 18:17, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Can you please clarify if all local groups are now called interface-editor already and that there is a translation on TWN for it? The last commit mentioned in the bug seems not to be implemented yet. --MF-W 19:00, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
  • It hasn't been merged yet and the interface messages hasn't also been updated yet. Nemo_bis has suggested in the task that a steward could do the adding/removing of users to the local groups. Are stewards willing to do that? (would make things a lot easier). --Glaisher (talk) 04:23, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
  • "grouppage-interface-editor" would be "{{ns:project}}:Interface editors" so this would break links to the global group. This could be resolved by using what I originally suggested; two different names for both local and global groups. --Glaisher (talk) 04:37, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Isn't there a script which developers can run when renaming a group? (a local group of course; as global group renaming is part of the CentralAuth interface) --MF-W 16:35, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
Alright, this can be done now. i18n has been deployed to 1.25wmf17 & 1.25wmf18. Note that the global group should be renamed to 'global-interface-editor' (not what was in the original post; changed per discussion at gerrit). --Glaisher (talk) 16:55, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Done as per bug request and discussion. —DerHexer (Talk) 16:59, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

ace.wikipedia

Status:    Done

Can a steward or Gs please delete this, no sysop at all.Regards--Grind24 (talk) 22:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Various small wikis

Status:    Done

Can a steward please delete the following English stubs created on non-English Wikipedias merely to push them past article-count milestones tracked at Wikimedia News?

These deletions should be uncontroversial (all being the work of one longtime cross-wiki vandal), but if you want me to deal with ik: through the one local admin who seems to be active there recently (7 Dec 2014), let me know. The other 3 wikis have no local admins. - dcljr (talk) 05:06, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Mass deleted all the pages. --Glaisher (talk) 05:14, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. - dcljr (talk) 01:42, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Zu.wikipedia

Status:    Done

Can a steward please block this ip : 43.234.51.184 and delete all pages listed for deletion as wrong language? [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], He had been blocked by Wikitanvir (Steward) for a week, because he persistently creating inappropriate articles in Zulu Wikipedia but he restarts -- Grind24 (talk) 17:55, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Done the deletions. A block may not be necessary for now. Vogone (talk) 18:01, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

it.wikiversity

Status:    Done

There have been a number of files tagged for speedy deletion on this wiki since February 2012 (not exactly "speedy" deletion). They should either be deleted, or if not suitable for deletion, un-tagged. There are also 12 empty categories and 7 other pages to be checked and potentially deleted.

See v:it:Categoria:Da cancellare subito. This, that and the other (talk) 11:59, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

  Done--AldNonymousBicara? 12:07, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for deleting the categories and pages, but there are still a large number of files in that category, which need to be either deleted or un-tagged. This, that and the other (talk) 12:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Ping Melos. Is it okay to delete all those files?--AldNonymousBicara? 12:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
@This, that and the other and Melos:, some of the files are PD, so I'm not so sure, I must leave it to local communities to fix all those file licensing.--AldNonymousBicara? 12:22, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
There are many free files with wrong license tag and tagged by a bot. We can leave it to the local comunity. Btw I'll give a look for it. --Melos (talk) 12:30, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks!--AldNonymousBicara? 12:31, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Unhelpful logos

Status:    Not done

please delete this Unhelpful local files:

zh.wikinews

Status:    Done

Please nuke all articles created by n:zh:User:Mo517438784, they are spam.--GZWDer (talk) 04:04, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Done, thanks. Ajraddatz (talk) 04:13, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
@Ajraddatz: Also n:zh:User:Mo2220391620.--GZWDer (talk) 06:38, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Mopped, locked and gblocked the IP. Ajraddatz (talk) 06:45, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

pag.wikipedia deletion request

Status:    Done

No admins at pag.wikipedia, so request deletion of these pages pag:User:Lam-ang/vector.css, pag:User:Lam-ang/vector.js and pag:User:Lam-ang. I'll be using GlobalCssJs and GlobalUserPage instead. Thanks. --Lam-ang (talk) 17:11, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

  Done.--AldNonymousBicara? 17:18, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Interwiki prefix clashes

As part of gerrit:190642 it is planned to introduce additional interwiki prefixes on some sites. This is an uncontroversial change that will however require the deletion of a small number of pages, as listed on the comments of the Gerrit change.

Could a global sysop or steward please delete the following pages on wikis without active sysops:

Thanks, This, that and the other (talk) 23:31, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Done on th.n (locked wiki). The rest by PiRSquared. --MF-W 00:05, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

ak.wikipedia.org

Status:    Done

When I tried to post the following on my ak.wikipedia.org talk page

I prefer that messages be posted to [ https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User_talk:Guy_Macon ] instead of here...

It refused the edit with the following message:

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: New users adding external links on their user talk page

I suspect a misconfigured edit filter. Needless to say, secure.wikimedia.org is not a harmful site. --Guy Macon (talk) 01:51, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

I've updated the filters there. You should now be able to add that to your talk page. I wonder whether we should disable it now and let the global filters handle spam there since it is a very general one and there doesn't appear to be high levels of spam activity at akwiki now. --Glaisher (talk)
  Done. Tested at ak.wikipedia.org, everything works fine now. --Guy Macon (talk) 06:19, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
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