User talk:StevenJ81/Archives/2015

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Two questions

Copied for reference from User talk:PiRSquared17

1. I just succeeded in having w:simple:Shabbat promoted to GA. Is there a cross-wiki bot to add the {{Link GA|simple}} template to other language versions of the article, or does that have to be done by hand?
2. Can I suppress Visual Editor in enwiki (and eventually other wikis)? I find it much harder to use than markup.

Thanks. StevenJ81 (talk) 06:19, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

1. I'm not completely sure about this, but I think reading en:Template:Link GA/doc will help. Sometimes a bot will do it[1][2], but it seems not all wikis have such bots (I haven't checked for crosswiki ones). For example, zu:Euro doesn't have Link GA/FA templates, but there are several equivalent articles with good/featured status. This might eventually become a Wikidata feature, which would make it much easier (cf. bugzilla:40810).
2. Yes. To hide VE, go to the Gadgets panel of preferences, go to the "Editing" header, and check "Remove VisualEditor from the user interface". This does not really disable VE; however, it does hide it from the interface. I'm not sure how the cross-wiki deployment will work exactly, but one way hide it from all wikis (probably) is this:
   1. Create an account on all wikis (there's a script for that!)
   2. Get global JavaScript
   3. Add

      mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-oldeditor.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
      

      to your global.js page.

   There may be an easier way, especially after bugzilla:50929 and/or global prefs and JS are implemented. This seems to be the only currently-working solution to globally disable it, but I'll ping Ironholds about that. One good thing about this solution is that you can use it to install other scripts (like popups, Twinkle, etc.) globally too, once you have global JS. And you can easily re-enable VE. PiRSquared17 (talk) 12:41, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

See response from Okeyes (Ironholds), a Community Liaison who is currently answering feedback about VE. PiRSquared17 (talk) 13:23, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Absent an interwiki bot, I'm not especially sure that running a bot is so much faster than going from wiki to wiki. So far, I've gone through the 1,000,000+ wikis, plus Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino. But I might wait; the latest Wikidata newsletter suggests this is now actively in the works.

As to the Visual Editor issue, I can work with that. Thanks for your help. Any other round foods you need these days? Pizza? Bagels? StevenJ81 (talk) 15:19, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm happy to help with any other technical things. As for the food: Pizza is still a pie (π), isn't it? :P PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:03, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

It's awfully tempting to assume the word "pie" comes from that, isn't it? (Except π wasn't used for this purpose until after 1700.) (;-) Have a good weekend. StevenJ81 (talk) 17:14, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Of course, you are always welcome to ask technical questions to me or anyone on Tech. Well, thank you for that cookie (and the offer for pizza/bagels), and have a happy weekend yourself! By the way, if we replace pi by "tau", we won't be able to make similar jokes. :( PiRSquared17 (talk) 01:20, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Oversight request

Copied for reference from a steward request Would you please oversight * * *. Sorry for the mistake, and thanks for your help. StevenJ81 (talk) 19:11, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Done--Vituzzu (talk) 19:16, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

For the record, oversight requests should not be made on a public page. --Rschen7754 19:19, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Understood. StevenJ81 (talk) 20:30, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Well, it is not necessary if it only concerns your IP; but if you want your IP hidden, it's not very advisable. --MF-W 21:02, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

I was looking to do it quickly. I wanted my IP hidden, but the way it played out someone would have had to be at just the right place and at the just right time to be able to connect it to me. It was all resolved within about four minutes of the error, more or less. But if a different approach would be just as fast, and more discreet, then I would use it. StevenJ81 (talk) 14:46, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

The fastest way is usually to ask for a steward in freenode:wikimedia-stewards (say "!steward OS request" and PM the link to one of the stewards who reacts then). You can also mail our otrs queue at stewards at wikimedia.org. --MF-W 21:15, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I've never used irc before, but I reckon I can figure it out if I need to. (But what does "PM" mean?) StevenJ81 (talk) 00:02, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Private message. You can use webchat to join IRC if you don't have an IRC client (the "connect" link here: #wikimedia-stewards^connect). However I guess I should add that your IP address is visible on IRC by default except if you have a cloak (of course you can choose a completely random nick name though and not tell your user name in a channel). --MF-W 00:11, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. If this happens again I'm not so worried if a steward sees my IP; s/he will see it when oversighting anyway. I'd just rather hide the publication of it. StevenJ81 (talk) 13:10, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

FYI, it is now also possible to disable it completely via the "Editing" panel of prefs (link). At least while it's in beta. PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:14, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

global.js help

Hi. If you need help, do not hesitate to ask. PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:12, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Did you get a response yet? PiRSquared17 (talk) 02:57, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

??? PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:09, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Template Help

Hi StevenJ81. Can you help with the template in my user page. I want to mention Farsi Wikipedia. Thanks --Gnosis (talk) 15:54, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

@Gnosis: I got it to work by creating {{fa}}. But if you want the word Farsi to translate into ... well, Farsi ... or other languages, you'll have to do that yourself. You can use {{en}} and {{fr}} as models. Good luck. StevenJ81 (talk) 04:00, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

@Gnosis: Look at how it is now set up. When your interface language is Farsi, you will see the word in Farsi. When your interface language is English, you will see the word in English. I've added languages I can manage (de, fr, he). Feel free to add others. But this is how we usually do this kind of template here. See the examples I gave above.

If you want the entire template to appear in Farsi when the user interface language is Farsi, what you need to do is to translate the template and place the translation at {{User SUL Box/fa}}. (I suspect the text for it is already available at fa:Template:User SUL Box.) StevenJ81 (talk) 15:36, 30 November 2015 (UTC)