User talk:Pathoschild

My name is Jesse. If you have questions or comments, feel free to post them below or send me an email.

I was an active editor and administrator on various wikis many years ago, but nowadays I quietly write scripts and make the occasional edit. My contributions are typically to technical development, with the occasional copyedit or new content. I am a steward for the Wikimedia Foundation, an observer of the language committee, and maintain a few scripts and bots. Historically, I was on the language committee in 2006–2011 and the Board elections committee in 2008 and 2009. I edit various wikis, but the English Wikisource and Meta are my main wikis.

Stalktoy bug report

The pie charts on stalktoy are slightly misconfigured.

• For content projects such as Wikipedia and Wiktionary, the domain format is language-code.wikipedia.org.
• However, for chapter and community wikis, the format is country-code.wikimedia.org.

Hence:

• uk.wikimedia.org is actually Wikimedia United Kingdom (and should be classified as en or multilingual or other);
• Wikimedia Ukraine is ua.wikimedia.org instead.

See for example Der yck C. 10:02, 3 July 2012 (UTC) Reply

Hi Deryck. Thanks for pointing that out; the errors are in the toolserver database, so I'll look into it and file a bug with the toolserver people this week. —Pathoschild 02:45, 04 July 2012 (UTC)

I looked into this and filed a toolserver bug ticket. —Pathoschild 19:44, 01 September 2012 (UTC)

Request for a script that allows locking accounts en masse

Hello Pathoschild. If you have time, interest, etc. it'd be good if a script like MediaWiki:Gadget-massblock.js / MediaWiki:Gadget-globalmassblock.js but for CentralAuth. We're getting flooded by spambots and the process of going to CA, write the name, select the box, the reason and click for sometimes more than 20 times is getting really tedious. If such a script could be created that'd be great. Regards, — MA (audiencia) 14:35, 19 July 2012 (UTC) Reply

Hi Marco. You can do this with StewardBot by typing !lock username in IRC (it will automatically do the rest). If you have a list of accounts to lock, you can also do !withlist http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List> lock. Optionally (using the !stab command), it can block them on every wiki and notify you of any edits that haven't been reverted. The bot has configurable permissions: by default only you (the bot operator) can lock an account, and you can whitelist users who can request locks (so you just do !commit request# to execute the requests, or even !commit #:# to commit a range of requests at once).

The bot is open-source and you can run it yourself if you have python, but it hasn't been maintained recently and may need to be updated. I'll look into it this weekend. —Pathoschild 15:42, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. I knew about stewardbot which is indeed a very good tool. However it seems I need IRCLib instaled to run it and each time I've tried to install it results in a complete dissaster. I'll try again and see what happens. I thank you in advance for the updates. Best regards. — MA (audiencia) 18:10, 20 July 2012 (UTC) Reply

Hello again. I finaly got it working but just partially because when I want to set myself on the ACCESS_OPERATOR in the DefaultSettings.py file, when I restart the bot and start __init__ again, it crashes and does not restart again. I just modified your cloak with mine, but it doesn't work anymore. I'm probably doing something bad. Regards. — MA (audiencia) 21:26, 20 July 2012 (UTC) Reply

I spoke too soon it seems. It works for now and did tested a couple of actions with it. In the planned updates you are going to do, may I suggest to add support for https:// conection to the wiki? Also, a !gblock> address> reason> hard for global hardblocks and an update of the whitelist of users and stewards. Best regards and thank you for your help. — MA (audiencia) 21:51, 20 July 2012 (UTC) Reply

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into adding those features next time I work on stewbot (I filed feature tickets for HTTPS links, hard !gblocking, and updating the steward list). —Pathoschild 19:53, 01 September 2012 (UTC)

Why did you delete the holy topic Bhagwad Gita (Hindi) from Wikipedia while you have no understanding of Hindi?

Namaste Brother, Holy Gita is about 5000-6000 years old Scripture. Why did you deleted its Hindi Version informations form Wikipedia? Please clear it, if you can I request you please re-post it on Wikipedia.

Hello Sanjeevnab. What is the URL of the page or pages that were deleted? —Pathoschild 13:48, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Bot policy@xmfwiki

Hello Pathoschild,
Please, add xmfwiki to global bots wikiset as per this decision. Thanks, Kilavagora (talk) 17:38, 25 July 2012 (UTC) Reply

I did it before seeing this. Regards. — MA (audiencia) 10:38, 27 July 2012 (UTC) Reply

ar:User:Pathoschild

Hi. Regarding synchbot and following this discussion, you are requested not to perform admin functions on arwiki (deletion and restoration). You are free to edit, though. --Meno25 (talk) 12:48, 27 July 2012 (UTC) Reply

Hello Meno25. The bot will no longer perform deletions on that wiki. —Pathoschild 02:12, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Gadgets on Punjabi wiki

Hello, dear. First of all I wanna advice you to archive your talk page as it's long enough and mobile users may having problem loading it fully. Second and important thing is that I need your help about edittop gadget on Punjabi wiki. I created it with a user helping me but he is now offline so reached you for help. I can see it in my preferences and can enable but it's not working. Can you please check it here and fix. Thanks. TariButtar (talk) 03:19, 6 August 2012 (UTC) Reply

Fixed; it was just missing a line-break. —Pathoschild 01:39, 07 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks and please help more

Hello, thanks for your previous help about pa.wiki gadget problem. Thanks a lot. I'm thanking you in this new section as I'm unable to load your talk page till the section as it's long enough that's why I told you to archive it. Anyway, the new section was needed also as I need your more help on pa:ਵਿਕਿਮੀਡਿਆ:ਛੋਟਾ-ਸੰਦ-ਹੌਟਕੈਟ.js, that's the HotCat gadget. This is not working. I may (actually definitly) copied a wrong code or it's Punjabi name/title creating the problem? Whatever please to check and fix again. And don't forget to archive your talk page . With Thanks. --TariButtar (talk) 15:45, 8 August 2012 (UTC) Reply

That page seems to have been deleted. Let me know if you need further help. —Pathoschild 19:55, 01 September 2012 (UTC)

Need help

Hello Pathoschild. I'm the bureaucrat of the KRC WIKIPEDIA. The user Avocato recently requested renaming his accounts, but I cannot rename them. Could you help me? Thanks. --Iltever (talk) 16:55, 8 August 2012 (UTC) Reply

Hello Iltever. You cannot rename محمد الجداوي to Avocato because Avocato is already registered. You'll first need to rename Avocato to something else (like "Avocato2") to free the name. —Pathoschild 19:58, 01 September 2012 (UTC)

CrossBlock

Hi. It seems that mi cki 11:34, 15 August 2012 (UTC) Reply

Hi micki. That script isn't compatible with the recent Wikimedia IPv6 migration, which is why you're getting the error. I merged the script into Stalktoy and added an error. I didn't port over the block links since they don't seem to be used much; let me know if you want them back. —Pathoschild 20:10, 01 September 2012 (UTC)

Simple list of wikis per user, and maybe with local bureaucrat (y/n)

Not sure whether it is something that may be applicable for billinghurst sDrewth 14:52, 20 August 2012 (UTC) Reply

Hi billinghurst. It's a good idea, but I don't know when I'll have time to add that feature. I created a feature ticket to track implementation in the meantime. (The tool is open-source if anyone else wants to work on it.) —Pathoschild 20:17, 01 September 2012 (UTC)

Twinkle

Hello sir. Can you add:

• mw.loader.load('//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Simeondahl/global.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

to all my common.js? Greeetings Simeondahl (talk) 09:54, 27 August 2012 (UTC) Reply

Hi Simeondahl. I'll take care of it this weekend. —Pathoschild 20:18, 01 September 2012 (UTC)

Are you still deal with Synchbot?

Pls deel with my request, thx --Shujenchang (talk) 15:42, 31 August 2012 (UTC) Reply

I'll take care of it this weekend. —Pathoschild 20:19, 01 September 2012 (UTC)

Blocking the wrong range

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/~magicredirect bug report

Bug in the magicredirect tool?

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User:Username/common.js

[Bug] /~magicredirect not working

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