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Thank you for improving articles in November! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:41, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded pics of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang Hevenu shalom aleichem at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:45, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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TolBot (talk) 21:00, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, DreamRimmer,

I was wondering if I could alert AFC reviewers to the presence of this AFC report. I know there are several admins and editors who run Quarry queries to get a variety of this data but I think this report presents the information in an easy to understand format. But I didn't want to post at AFC talk before I checked with you. Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:15, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am still improving it. I will post an alert at WT:AfC once everything is perfect. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:27, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha. I was just excited to see it since I see queries for this data all of the time on Quarry.

By the way GalaxyBot missed a G13 report tonight at 03:00 UTC. It usually posts a report even when there are no items on the list. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:14, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, the report came at 03:19 UTC. The report usually gets generated between xx:59 and xy:01 so it was just a little late. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:45, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: Bot was unable to query the database at 3:00 due to a connection error. After a few minutes, it retried and successfully updated the reports. If this happens again in the future, it will automatically try again after a short delay. – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:51, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stuff happens, I understand. I just tend to let bot operators know (after a few missed updates though) in case something needs tweaking. But I was here to leave another message so I thought I'd mention it. Thanks for all of your great tools! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:49, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for the encouragement! I really appreciate all your messages. Please feel free to reach out anytime if you notice something that needs fixing or have any suggestions. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:18, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 22:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @DreamRimmer,

I would like to start contributing to rename requests and found that I had to apply for the rights at Meta Wiki. While browsing through the previous successful requests, I found yours.

As a present global renamer, what advice would you give me if I wish to apply for that right. What experience should I gain, where can I contribute before applying, and anything else you would like to suggest me, especially as I am not a present admin. Below is my user toolbox for easily browsing through my contributions.

Thanks for your time! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:13, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bunnypranav: I don't have any specific tips. You can go through the old requests on Meta to get an idea. Generally, users trust if the candidate is an admin on any wiki and has experience with username policies. I'd be happy to support your request if you demonstrate a strong understanding of username policies. A good way to start would be clerking at WP:CHUS and reporting username violations at WP:UAA. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:25, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick response. I tried browsing through WP:CHUS but there is barely anything to manually clerk. I believe that existing accounts are reported by the bot clerk. I have one report at UAA, which was blocked by an admin, and will definately report more if found. So, wondering if there is anything else to gain experience and trust. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:28, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that CHU venues don't require much help from human clerks. To demonstrate your understanding of username policies, you could start by reporting username violations at UAA. If you are interested in helping out in other areas of the wiki, you can explore tasks that align with your interests here. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:37, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice, hope to apply for renamer soon. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:38, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My advice would be to report at least 250 actionable username violations at UAA before applying. Applying directly and facing opposition votes could be discouraging. Just a friendly tip, since this is a very sensitive permission and their standards for support are quite high. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:46, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for giving a number to work on. (Note:I meant I'll apply after some experience in my previous comment) ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:48, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thanks for creating this - Ratnahastin (talk) 16:10, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the barnstar :) – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:25, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seconding that. Restoring that functionality as a supported tool is a huge deal. Thank you so much. ~ Pbritti (talk) 12:51, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, DreamRimmer,

I'm not sure what's up but I was working with today's SDZeroBot G13 list (6/1/24) and found around 15 drafts in the 01:00 UTC hour whose last edit was Citation bot and whose last human edit dated back through the month of May, one all of the way back to May 5th. Then there was a draft that should have showed up whose last bot edit was by User:JJMC89 bot and I don't know if this bot was on your list. But this is a lot of drafts for the system to have missed.

I'm not sure what the problem could be here as the bot/query generally works but lately, I've noticed a few drafts that are eligible that haven't shown up when I looked at the GalaxyBot report or when I ran the Quarry query. Is it because six months ago was May 31st and we have no Nov. 31st? I don't want you to "pull" GalaxyBot because while it is not perfect, it's not reporting any drafts that are NOT eligible, it's just missing ones that are. I'd give you some draft links but because you're not an admin, you can't look at the deleted page histories.

Any way, I thought I'd let you know. I hope you are otherwise have a great weekend! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:04, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And just came across Draft:Royrf whose last edit was Citation bot and whose last human edit was March 24, 2024! So this one should have appeared back in October when the query was created. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:11, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz, Would you mind temporarily restoring a few drafts in my userspace? You can delete them again after I have checked their edit history. – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:16, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Royrf wasn't shown because it didn't have an AfC template. There are hundreds of six-month-old drafts without an AfC template. If we could delete drafts that don't have an AfC template but do have the {{Drafts moved from mainspace}} template, that would be great since Wikipedia isn't meant to be a permanent host for these drafts. – DreamRimmer (talk) 04:58, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this is awkward. Maybe you should discuss this with User:SD0001 because with SDZeroBot, which is our primarily G13 list, every draft page comes up on the G13 soon list, whether or not there is an AFC template. The AFC template is only important if it appears on a User page, like a sandbox. Then that User page is G13 eligible. But we've been deleting all draft pages without edits for six months and it's been like this since September 2020. I think this is also in-line with WP:G13 guidelines which just specify "Draft namespace".

It's almost 1 am here so I can get you those restored drafts in the morning (my time at least). But a couple of hours ago, GalaxyBot had a report listing 19 expiring drafts so maybe we are caught up. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:53, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated the query to include all bots, which is why 19 drafts were reported. Since SDZeroBot does not exclude bot edits, there is no issue with that report. However, reporting all types of drafts while excluding bot edits might not be appropriate. This is because, in some drafts, authors have used citation bot, and these drafts are not part of any AfC category. It is likely that the citation bot was run on individual pages, meaning the bot edit would count as a manual edit because the author initiated the citation bot on each individual draft. – DreamRimmer (talk) 09:11, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, here are some of the drafts that your query/bot missed from last night: Draft:Alex Cara, Draft:Royrf, Draft:List of anime series released or distributed by Crunchyroll, Draft:Delhi Sports University, Draft:Nathan Crockett and Draft:LX Xander. It was easier to restore them to Draft space and we can take care of them in 6 months. It looks like none of these drafts had AFC tags but had bot edits as the last edit and they were all eligible for deletion as CSD G13s. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:06, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SDZeroBot intentionally only lists pages which haven't been edited at all in the 6 month period, because FireflyBot doesn't notify authors of drafts that have had bot edits in that period. I feel we should not list such pages in reports as it would lead to a lot of deletions without the draft authors ever getting notified. If the new author notification bot is taking care of such pages, then I can fix SDZeroBot to include them. – SD0001 (talk) 09:25, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for offering your perspective, User:SD0001. You have very different bot results, SDZeroBot presents all CSD G13 eligible soon drafts and user pages/sandboxes while Dreamrimmer's bot/query helps us catch drafts whose last edit was by a bot but are actually eligible now. Believe it or not, to find these drafts before October, we used to comb through the contributions of CitationBot, CommonsDelinker, EarwigBot, FrescoBot, etc., looking for them so Dreamrimmer's method is much faster and saves us hours of time. You both have created invaluable tools for admins to use.

To think, before SDZeroBot, there would just be a database report issued once a day at 1:30 am (my time), listing all of the day's expired drafts, hundreds of them all at once. This new system allows us a much more manageable work flow throughout the day/evening and is more transparent. We can also see when "heavier" days are coming up by having a week's worth of G13 soon reports available to us. My only remaining wish is for FireflyBot to issue its 5 month report every time a draft gets close to expiring instead of only doing so once but I've asked and asked with no success. There might be some technical issues for this. Again, thanks to you both for your technical expertise. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:06, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 22:20, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

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• Queen of Hearts
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• SD0001
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• ThadeusOfNazereth
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• SD0001
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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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TolBot (talk) 21:00, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please remove unreliable sources from the article Pooja Hegde. Thesanas (talk) 09:03, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Thesanas, I haven't worked on this article before, so I am not sure I am the best person to help. I'd suggest reaching out to one of the regular contributors instead. – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:58, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @DreamRimmer! I hope you're doing well. I wanted to check about the NPP School Program that I had joined. I had completed the first section of the NPP Exam on the 11th of November. However, it has been almost a month since I submitted my response, and I haven't received any comments from you. I understand that you may be occupied with real-life activities, however I spent a lot of time writing down my responses and I do not want it to go to waste. Therefore, I sincerely request you to review my responses. Thank you, TNM101 (chat) 10:04, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reminder! I will go through your responses tomorrow when I have some free time. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:25, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! TNM101 (chat) 10:50, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DreamRimmer, I noticed that you removed the image I added to the infobox of Paul Begaud with a reference to INFOBOXIMAGE. Could you clarify the issue? I’d like to address it and ensure the image meets Wikipedia’s standards. Thanks! Everglass (talk) 23:19, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Everglass, when adding an image to an infobox, thumbnails should not be used. You had used thumbnails in the infobox, so I fixed it. I later noticed that the file URL was invalid (a red link), so I removed it. Feel free to add a valid image again. – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:54, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, DreamRimmer,

Do you remember, way back in October, when you first told me about your query to find G13 eligible drafts whose last edit was by a bot? Well, I ended up forking your query (see here). I hope that was okay but I realize that I should have asked you at the time. Well, I sometimes run this query, even though it was older and didn't include some bots like CommonsDelinker. Of course, GalaxyBot is the most up-to-date and efficient tool we have. But I still sometimes run this query in between GalaxyBot reports. It used to find some G13 eligible drafts but for the past week, it's come up with 0 results with every query I've run.

Is it no longer a valid query? Do you have something that is more up-to-date that I could use when I want to run a query on my own? Thanks for all of your help with all-things-technical. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:09, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You will need to update the interval time from 184 DAY to 183 DAY in four spots in this query to get the current results. – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:41, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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TolBot (talk) 21:00, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to DreamRimmer for collecting more than 3.0 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 8,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt (talk) 18:14, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]