User talk:JJMC89

Bahnstrecke Luino–Mailand

Hallo Kollege, bitte die Headline ändern weil sie falsch ist, da Bahnstrecke kein Bayerisch ist. Danke und Pfiade -- Drahdiwaberling (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:40, 4 August 2019 (UTC).

Sorry, I don't speak German. I don't know why you're asking me about this – my bot only does routine BSicon maintenance on the German Wikipedia. — JJMC89 19:44, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

MultiLock

The behaviour of MultiLock seems strange to me. Could you take a look at Template:MultiLock/testcases please? Cabayi (talk) 22:14, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

@Cabayi: Fixed — JJMC89 02:21, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. That works great. Cabayi (talk) 05:43, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

MoreMenu

Hello JJMC89! I see that you are a user of MoreMenu. There is a new version that was just released. It works in all skins and allows you to add custom links. Would you be interested in helping test it? If so, please refer to MoreMenu/beta#Installation. Or, if you'd like, I can edit your global.js and global.css for you :) Kind regards, — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:28, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

​Installed. I'll let you konw if I run into any issues. — JJMC89 03:29, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Template:BS-KRZ

Hello JJMC89! One of your bots has recently made a change to this template on ro.wiki. The template didn't work as it should even before changing, but now it looks worse. Do you have any idea why? I am trying to import the route diagram templates on Romanian Wikipedia but I sometimes encounter such errors and I have no clue how to solve them. Any help or suggestion would be welcome. Thank you in advance! --Nenea hartia (talk) 20:55, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Jc86035, would you talk a look at this? — JJMC89 21:28, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

@Nenea hartia: The template not working shouldn't be related to the bot's changes. The reason the template documentation doesn't work is that rowiki's Template:BS doesn't have the |O12= parameter, which only some versions of the template have. A lot of wikis suffer from this issue, and the BS-series templates (BS, BS2, BS3, etc.) are generally inconsistent across wikis.

You don't need to import every template (particularly the little-used ones like BS-KRZ). Strictly speaking, Module:Routemap, Template:Routemap and Template:Routemap/styles.css are the only necessary pages for constructing diagrams, although rowiki already had some of the BS-series templates before you started importing templates so I'm not sure what would be best here.

All of rowiki's diagrams appear to use the BS-table and BS-series templates, but there aren't a lot of them. It would be possible to convert them all to the Routemap format (probably by using the convertbs function in Module:Routemap), or alternatively you could update all of the BS-series templates using the versions on the English Wikipedia. Jc86035 (talk) 13:19, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

@Jc86035: Thank you very much for your explanation! I already imported Module:Routemap, Template:Routemap and Template:Routemap/styles.css and then I randomly picked some Routemap diagrams from enwiki and I tried to see if they work on my sandbox page. They did, except for those having collapsible sections. As you can see here or here the template itself doesn't display correctly the collapsible sections. Same problem with the older Template:BS-map. If you remove the line containing BS2-startCollapsible, the rest of that diagram will be correctly displayed. @JJMC89: I apologize for continuing this topic on your page. --Nenea hartia (talk) 17:03, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

@Nenea hartia: This is because the Extinde/Restrânge button is wider in Romanian. I'll see if I can fix that. Jc86035 (talk) 17:19, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Another issue is that the .wikitable CSS is a bit different on rowiki; since it affects nested tables, the Routemap styling will break. I don't think this should affect most diagrams, though, so I'm not sure if anything needs to be done about it. Jc86035 (talk) 17:44, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

@Jc86035: I've noticed you edits, the template looks great now, thank you! Do you have any idea what is wrong with that diagram of Template:BS-map? --Nenea hartia (talk) 17:55, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

@Nenea hartia: It seems to be mainly because of the difference between the rowiki and enwiki versions of Template:BS-overlap. The enwiki version handles six layers, but the rowiki version only handles two, and so |3= is treated differently in the two templates. (Routemap, for what it's worth, does not have such a limit for overlaying icons.) I don't know if it's worth fixing, considering that this doesn't affect any of the diagrams that are actually in rowiki articles. Jc86035 (talk) 18:13, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

@Jc86035: Thank you again for your time and assistance! If I ever need help can I contact you again? Not too often, I hope.

@JJMC89: thank you! --Nenea hartia (talk) 18:29, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

@Nenea hartia: No problem. You're welcome to contact me if you do need help again. Jc86035 (talk) 18:35, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your help

@JJMC89: i just wanted to drop by to thank you for the contributions you've made to the signature validation proposal. PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 00:38, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Happy to help — JJMC89 03:50, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Mass purging transclusions of Templates/Modules..

In followup to the Phabricator ticket, I don't have tools access as far as I know.

Is a mass purge something that an interface could be written for, so that the relevant script, doesn't rely on a user having to access to something like pyWikibot on their own local shell etc.?

Alternatively could you adapt one of your bots to do the mass purge concerned? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 18:25, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: If you don't have a developer account, you can create one. (See wikitech:Help:Create a Wikimedia developer account#Toolforge users.) Do you mean a web UI or desktop GUI? They could be done, but I don't have experience doing either of those. I've started my bot on purging wiktionary:Template:th-pron transclusions. — JJMC89 03:54, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedia Forum

Hello JJMC89 As I understand you changed the order of the topices in the Wikimedia Forum. My proposed project was at first position, now on position 19. May I ask you why? Thank you! (I am a newbie) --Hodeld (talk) 10:45, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

New posts should be placed at the bottom of the page, so I moved it to where would have been if you had done that. — JJMC89 01:51, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! --Hodeld (talk) 09:52, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Grant access

Hi JJMC89! I'm a new OC member and wish to request access to some channels here. Thank you. Olugold (talk) 04:54, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

@Olugold: Please let me know your IRC nick and cloak. If you don't have a cloak yet, see IRC/Cloaks for how to get one. — JJMC89 06:10, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Okay, I'll create my IRC nick and cloak. I'll get back to you when I'm done. Thank you Olugold (talk) 21:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi @JJMC89 I have created my IRC nick. My cloak request is pending.

My IRC nick is: Olugold

Thank you. Olugold (talk) 16:36, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

@Olugold: You should have to access to the channels now. — JJMC89 17:07, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Great! Thank you Olugold (talk) 18:24, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Bot flag removed on fiwiki

Hi! Just to let you know, the bot flag of User:JJMC89 bot was removed on fiwiki due to the bot not having any activity for more than a year, as per local policy. If you need the bot flag again at some point in the future, you can reapply at fi:Wikipedia:Botit. Best regards, Lentokonefani (talk) 14:59, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
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• The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [8]

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• Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [10][11]

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• In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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• Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [18] [19]
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• The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [24]
• A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
• Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [25]
• Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [26]

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [27]

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• There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
• On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.

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• Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [28]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [29]
• Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [30][31][32]
• Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552.
• The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.

Future changes

• The Reply tool and New Topic tool will soon get a special characters menu. [33]

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• When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [34]
• In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "New users". [35]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar).
• The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [36]
• It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [37]
• It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [38]
• It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [39]

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• An updated version of the Event Registration tool is now available for testing at testwiki and test2wiki. The tool provides features for event organizers and participants. Your feedback is welcome at our project talkpage. More information about the project is available. [40]

Problems

• Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.

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• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Recent changes

• At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to redirects. It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback on the talkpage of the new proposed guideline is welcome. [41]
• The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system. [42]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar).
• There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [43]

Future changes

• Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools are enabled (these ones) will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile devices you can use media queries, such as in this example. [44]
• Starting in January 2023, Community Tech will be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years. This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting.

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• The display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661.

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• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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