“ The entire family of citation templates has been ported over to a LUA script Module: scheme on Wikipedia. Not too many folks are that LUA-fluent (as far as I can tell) on WS so I think you'd be better off asking one of the template hawks familiar with that scheme on Wikipedia to set up the same here instead. ”

“ For someone like me who is entering the discussion late, it's hard to follow the logic being applied to say the least. I guess this opens the question 'is it better to just upload the disclaimer-less file with an "improved" yet somewhat similar name as the File: in question rather than trying to replacing it?'. We're already going to have to do some bulk moves & transclusion range adjustments thanks to 1 less page anyway so why not seem to appease the beast by speeding the deletion along re: the old file is now redundant to the new file. Something to think about.... ”

“ The wind blows on Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons is like the wind, and I feel like I am peeing against it . . . . and getting wet in the process. It seems that there is no one of any kind of authority on Wikimedia Commons, I got into arguments regarding Google notices, where the documents were marked for deletion. Should I upload these documents to Wikisource before they are deleted? — Ineuw talk 17:03, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
IMHO, Commons is Shai-Hulud, a great worm of Arrakis. The machinery is unstoppable. ”

“ It appears that user has stopped creating new works, last edit was March 6, 2014. Looking through the comments, posted to and by the user; all the works seem to have been created in good faith with language issues causing some difficulty in understanding WS:WWI. I have edited User:Castaño_Mallorca,_Oliver to remove links to out of scope works and the author template that incorrectly categorized the page. Should the user again start uploading out of scope works, I think a short term block would be appropriate. ”

“ Perform the usual check of validity of request. i.e. we're not being gamed / trolled. Check if the account is global. If not global, then proceed with rename. Else... Educate user on global versus local renames. Explain that a local rename will detach the local account from the global account. Explain how to request a global rename. If the user confirms that they really want to enact a local rename, then shrug shoulders and proceed. ”

“ Not so sure about that 'canonical namespace associations being broken'; Special:Random/file seems to work everytime I've ticked on it for example so the problem seems limited to some associations but not all of them (or the problem lies elsewhere altogether - yet the API using "file" for the namespace also fails while at the same time the interlink [seems to] work) . https://en.wikisource.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=random&rnlimit=1&rnnamespace=file (fails) Fwiw... ”

“ Historical we make reasonable efforts to communicate across language barriers, but ultimately the responsibility for understanding the rights and responsibilities of a being a contributor to the site fall on the contributor. ”

“ Changing PieterJanR status to autopatroller Because this is a new area for me, I decided not to make the change myself, but recommend that User:PieterJanR be given autopatroller status by another admin. He's been on Wikisource since February 2013, and contributed nearly 400 edits. While his contribution is exclusively focused on PSM, (another reason for me just to recommend to deflect assumed bias :-) ) , he seems to know what he is doing. ”

“ You're absolutely right. I prefer the security and can see and agree that most public places (like a coffee house frequented by dozens of uni students, pecking away at their laptops) are a risk. I have a work around, (thought of it as I write this) , by saving notes in a sandbox, of items to do which require admin rights. Thanks. — Ineuw talk 20:01, 14 September 2014 (UTC) If it is your laptop, and you are using a secure (https) connection, then you should be okay to login with your admin account. ”

“ I don't understand how the existence of a web cookie "hassles everybody else", and posting a barnstar-like banner is both not going to work for logged-out donors (which is most of them) or for donors who value their privacy. Fundraising happens year-round, with a focus in November and early December. Probably all of those hits are valid. AuFCL, one of the hypotheses is that this traffic is driven by a poorly written botnet that is scraping websites for text to add to spammy e-mail messages (to get them past e-mail filters by having "random" text at the bottom of the message) . ”

“ Actually, it seems it is the entire Autopatrollers group itself that doesn't exist - not just the option to somehow include/exclude Users to/from it.If the group existed on es.WS, it would be automatically listed on this Special page via API (?) ”

“ Every once is a while, a Fremen will learn to ride the worm, but that is a very rare thing. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:23, 20 September 2014 (UTC) So, we have a Dunes fan. I am a fan of trekkie mathematics and a student studying seven of nine.— Ineuw talk 17:34, 20 September 2014 (UTC) I don't know how to response to that < where's my 20 sided die when I need it : ( > -- George Orwell III (talk) 00:35, 21 September 2014 (UTC) What's this "new" hang-up over Google disclaimer pages all about? I see dozens of Index:s pages having their status changed to 'File needs fixing' over this. ”

“ As you can see at the Global account manager you have auto patrol at es.wikipedia.org but not at en.wikipedia.org, if they don’t have a manual change over to auto patrol at es.wikisource.org, presumably it is automatic after some number of edits. Currently you have 657, you might ask when it would be granted than you will have a target to aim for. Jeepday (talk) 11:07, 25 May 2014 (UTC) Jeepday, Indeed, and thanks for taking the time to reply. It seems that the only bureocrat in es.wikisource.org is the user that told me that it seems that the option doesn't exist". ”

“ Still waiting though the change has been committed, there has been some embargo in place, so I will wait until this coming week to start bashing ears. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:20, 4 January 2015 (UTC) @Billinghurst:, seems like having a "patch" committed is rarely the problem (err... if one can navigate an upload, its 'committed' afaict) . ”

“ I think people who love books are very sensitive regardless whether they show it or not. —Maury (talk) 02:06, 16 April 2014 (UTC) Using discussion pages in the Page: namespace Would there be a problem for the administration, if I use the discussion page of a page for explaining the formatting of objects of that page? — Ineuw talk 19:19, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
This is a wiki, go ahead. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 19:38, 19 April 2014 (UTC) Thanks.— Ineuw talk 19:46, 19 April 2014 (UTC) Template:Cite news Can I have some help please with Template:Cite news ? ”

“ Like cannot abuse filter counts, filters, etc. Anachronistic, but there you are. Phabricator is about the only place that would promote a change. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:53, 24 January 2015 (UTC) There is Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/abusefilter-helper, though that is a bit of overkill for this need. Maybe we need to see if we can get something similar for Meta, and let meta admins work it out. One less thing to access and/or the tying up of 'ancient loose ends' is not all that important at the moment. ”

“ Okie-dokie remove the ~11 million hits for November and that is still some percentage of ~3 million hits that should not be possible to count in the first place. If somebody donates to the foundation, they should recieve a barnstarn-like banner full of thank yous & such on their User: page or similar - end of story ”

“ Jeepday (talk) 12:53, 8 March 2014 (UTC) Logging simultaneously in on two browsers. I can often respond and resolve users' browser text display issues, if I log in on two browsers simultaneously. But, don't know the consequences and don't want to cause a problem to my account or the system. To avoid this, can I log in simultaneously as User:Ineuw on one, and as User:IneuwPublic on another browser? The IP address and the MAC address would be the same in most cases. — Ineuw talk 07:09, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Of course. ”

“ Wait, woah, if patrolling isn't set up on Spanish Wikisource then there's no point in having autopatrolled status there, it wouldn't do anything. Autopatrolled status just makes all your edits marked as patrolled automatically, nothing else. Prosody (talk) 19:48, 26 May 2014 (UTC) It is okay, they have RCPatrol set to true (init file and search for wgUseRCPatrol) , so they have patrollable edits, and their patrol log shows evidence of admins patrolling. ”

“ I have adapted Special:AbuseFilter/8, where you can just interpose the specific text that you want to block, and then turn the filter on. It is targetted at Talk: ns, edits by IP addresses. If not being used, we can turn it off. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:55, 5 September 2014 (UTC) Third party User name moves See Special:Contributions/Pundit and Special:Contributions/Ajraddatz
Both of the above Users recently renamed (moved) the same account in succession and as a result have created a double redirect (User:Umafiy →‎ User:FuzzyDice →‎ User:Eurodyne) in the process. ”

“ Ineuw talk 08:00, 21 September 2014 (UTC) @Ineuw: don't taunt them to delete, as they will, and that is just a PITA. We deal with bullshit arguments as bullshit. We don't want a load of deletionists taking over at Commons. ”

“ XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (Talk | block) triggered global filter 100, performing the action "edit" on Barack Obama Weekly Address - 3 October 2013. Actions taken: Tag; Filter description: shopping spam (examine) ... the local 'examine' link opens the page like it always did but I can't load anything "global" to test the log report against -- only the local filters (#'s 1 thru ~30 as before) are available. Anything that may or may not exist higher than that (like # 100) aren't accessible nor provide any indication of existing or not, active or not, deleted or not, etc. ”

“ The ~409 remaining header2 tagged revisions for example have been BOT'd to the main header template months -=if not years=- ago. Continuing to keep that many "around" in spite of being addressing so long ago is not optimal maintenance wise & only seems to make it easier for any newly created ones to "go unnoticed". -- George Orwell III (talk) 04:54, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Yes, this has been up and running within 24 hours of that update.I have updated the global filters 100-103 to eradicate false positives like that in the main namespace. ”

“ The default is always there ( [MediaWiki:Cite_references_link_many_accessibility_label/qqx] ) , lying 'in wait' even when overriden so redirecting stuff just bloats the number of jumps needed to reach a message or label - even a blank one. -- George Orwell III (talk) 20:38, 19 July 2014 (UTC) Fatal error on file move I was trying to move/rename "File:The Patents Act 1970.pdf" to "File:Patents Act 1970 (India) .pdf" and get the following internal error:
[e52a8696] 2014-08-21 01:00:26: Fatal exception of type MWException The index page was deleted before hand. What am I doing wrong? ”

“ That's just setting up the user to get stuck with an unpleasant, forced rename next year. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:44, 15 July 2014 (UTC) Two admin confirmations reach negative threshold and need to be converted to a full community vote Would a 'crat, or if they unavailable an administrator, be able to convert the two confirmations at Wikisource:Administrators into full community votes as two of the three have reached the -3 threshold. Thank to whomever has time. ”

“ Hi, the next batch of soft redirect maintenance was scheduled for tomorrow. However, it appears Category:Soft redirects/February 2013 is already gone. I left a message for User:Kathleen.wright5, see User talk:Kathleen.wright5#Soft_redirects.--GrafZahl (talk) 23:06, 6 June 2014 (UTC) I don't understand what you are replying to here.BirgitteSB 04:29, 7 June 2014 (UTC) What I meant is: TalBot is active with soft redirect maintenance again, just not in the current instance, for that has already been handled by you and Kathleen. Sorry for being unclear. ”