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- Deryck Chan [ Global Accounts ]
Feb 11 2023
Jan 10 2023
From the site contributors' perspective, it remains a valid proposal to
lock the sites temporarily (with advance announcement), copy the entire
database, repoint the domain names and interwiki prefixes, then resume
editing.
Aug 18 2022
Thanks for closing. Seems to be solved by a separate, coincidental change
(the addition of zh redirect magic word 重新導向 was undone altogether),
probably something to do with T296188.
Aug 12 2022
@Stang It is also a Wikimedia-Site-requests - fixing this bug will ideally also include adding the correct localization of the REDIRECT magic word (跳轉). If you want me to open a subtask for it, I can.
Aug 11 2022
May 17 2022
I agree with ChristianKl rather than Taylor here.
Feb 18 2022
Sep 30 2021
Sep 12 2021
Nevermind, looks like it's been fixed via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_rowlett.
Aug 13 2021
Remaining Wikimania "Snacks & drinks club" (social chat) program:
Friday 13th, 21:00-24:00 UTC - Association of Stroopwafel Addicts
Saturday 14th 19:30-20:00 UTC - Green Tea Garden Table
Sunday 15th 22:30-23:00 UTC - Beer Bar Band
Monday 16th 12:30-13:00 - Coffee Craver's Corner
Jul 13 2021
I see that the badges have been created but my attempt to add the badge to a sitelink to a redirect was rejected. What is the status of this task?
Jun 22 2021
Thanks @Ladsgroup . @borogovia do you need access to the archives?
Jun 20 2021
Mar 24 2021
Jan 4 2021
Aug 27 2020
Aug 25 2020
Looks like it, thank you @Cyberpower678 and everyone else on the IABot team :)
@Dabao_qian and @Liuxinyu970226 - 麻煩望望新版 bot 有否出錯。
Jun 11 2020
I'd very much welcome this proposal: copy all of the existing zh-yue.wp
into a new database called yuewiki / yue.wikipedia.org . Once we decide on
a plan I should be able to help iron out the issues from the front-end.
May 22 2020
This has recently been brought up again at the Cantonese Wikipedia. (discussion here)
May 15 2020
Apr 22 2020
This was discussed at today's Wikipedia Weekly episode where one can watch Fuzheado and Keilana struggle with editing coronavirus statistics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NryHemUKQos
Apr 21 2020
Apr 1 2020
That's the finest bit of grammatical pedantry I have ever observed on
Phabricator lol
Aug 29 2019
But it did, and it left a message saying it fixed it -
https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:土木工程
Aug 1 2019
Thank you @matmarex . Yes I'm aware that the effort to fix T103635 will
likely fix this as well. The academically interesting observation, that
adding the colon only works when creating a link without highlighting text
first, is perhaps useful for the developers and also outside the scope of
T103635, so I started a new thread about this behaviour.
Jul 25 2019
Jun 18 2019
Chipping in: I agree that we should use "unlink" icon rather than "rubbish
bin" icon for removing a hyperlink.
Jun 10 2019
There's a Wikimania 2019 submission about Lexemes, by @Fnielsen : https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Languages/Wikidata_lexemes
May 23 2019
I'll be interested in participating in this small wiki toolkit hackathon. At the Cantonese Wikipedia we've been trying to build bots to generate league tables of best contributors and automate some routine maintenance, and it'll be nice to see whether other wikis have done similar things so we don't repeat ourselves.
Apr 18 2019
Apr 17 2019
Hi all. I think we do need a central discussion thread to make design decisions for Mobile VE, and I don't mind continuing here.
Apr 13 2019
I tested these on my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. Android 8.0.0. Chrome and
Samsung Browser gave the same behaviour.
Mar 27 2019
Yep, it works now, thank you!
Mar 26 2019
Ah, I'm very sorry. No I wasn't using the beta app. I'll wait till the
proper roll-out and test again.
No this has not been fixed: e.g.
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q133525&diff=prev&oldid=894115718
Mar 14 2019
Thanks. I take your word for it that editing a section on the same page
will be *faster* than loading the section editor on a fresh screen. The
design intent is to reduce client load by putting as little of the page as
practical in edit mode.
Feb 24 2019
@ppelberg / @Whatamidoing-WMF : Sorry for the British understatement. By "fine" and "alright" in (1) VE-Gboard interaction, (2) formatting and linking, and (3) Citoid, I meant that all features I tried behaved as expected, and to my satisfaction.
Feb 13 2019
A few thoughts so far.
Feb 8 2019
@Whatamidoing-WMF : Deryck here. Am up for trying it myself and inviting other Cantonese Wikipedia editors to take part. What should I do?
Jan 26 2019
Jan 17 2019
Please, please, please don't ever rename yuewiktionary to zh_yuewiktionary.
It is zh_yuewiki that should be renamed yuewiki, not the other way round
(T30441)
Jan 16 2019
Actually there is already a separator: a spacebar.
The spelling variant ambiguity caused a knock-on problem: a number of property proposals for phonetic transcriptions (for languages whose orthography doesn't give much information about pronunciation, e.g. Chinese) have been rejected with reasons along the lines of "they should be spelling variants". Some clarity is needed on this.
Jan 12 2019
Dec 18 2018
@Tgr: Can you please confirm what the latest state of affairs is? Has
unblock-self been removed from all WMF wikis? Are blocked sysops allowed to
block the sysop who blocked them, as of now?
Dec 14 2018
There's a parallel discussion about this on the Wikitech-Ambassadors mailing list, where an interesting idea was raised:
Dec 13 2018
Dec 10 2018
Nov 26 2018
Nov 18 2018
Depending on the specifics of "reauthentication", this may be a duplicate of T203256.
Oct 4 2018
Hi. Just adding a comment to say that the geonotice maintainers on the English Wikipedia also use wp-world to produce a map of existing geonotices.
Sep 5 2018
Thanks James, that sounds reasonable. I think Ryan's proposal is a fine
solution - we can allow sections to be edited while freezing references
that are reused elsewhere on the page, preventing them from being deleted.
Sep 4 2018
Great. It looks like the bot hasn't edited anything since last week's tests
though? Is it supposed to start scanning mainspace pages for dead links to
fix?
Aug 31 2018
Aug 26 2018
WikiLove is now turned on. I'm marking this as resolved. Thanks everyone for the work.
Aug 23 2018
Please change it to
報告程式錯誤
Agree - the language tag on Wikidata should be made to align with ISO 639 even where the siteID doesn't.
I've given it autopatrolled + confirmed flags for 24 hours and it managed to save the pages. I think the test worked. @shinjiman - I think this bot is good to go.
I did a small batch run with a few featured and formerly featured articles:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/index.php?page=viewjob&id=2390
I've edited 3 of the translated messages in my big post above per @Roy17 's comment on https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:城市論壇 after I posted my translations here yesterday.
Aug 22 2018
I agree with the comments above that until a separate machine translation engine is available for Cantonese, it can be useful to display a machine translation from a non-Sinosphere language to Modern Standard Written Chinese (MSWC) when the target language is Cantonese. This is because Cantonese and Mandarin share the vast majority of technical vocabulary; the lexical similarity rises when one considers MSWC which actually incorporates significant amounts of Cantonese vocabulary. In addition, the fact that most existing machine translation engines don't distinguish between the different kinds of Chinese languages means that the machine translations themselves are somewhat influenced by Cantonese anyway (being treated as a subset of Chinese rather than a standalone language).
Aug 21 2018
I don't think it's formally approved yet, though I don't expect any
opposition.
Okay. Here are all the answers for the translations and questions earlier in this thread:
@Cyberpower678 Will you please explain how these messages get used:
Aug 5 2018
Most wikis have retained the built-in MediaWiki feature where trailing
brackets are stripped when a page is saved:
Jul 30 2018
The issue seems to be in pywikibot class wikidatabot.create_item_for_page , which takes a page (from a pagegenerator) and auto-creates an item for it.
Jul 23 2018
Jul 10 2018
Same problem here.
Jul 1 2018
May 29 2018
May 25 2018
May 15 2018
@Mvolz Which templates' templatedata did you copy from enwiki? I think there are 4 (or 5?) templates and only a subset of them got copied, but I lost track...