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Has this report lead to any further conclusions? It seems this IP user resumed activity after expiry of your 1 month block. --Vogone (talk) 16:01, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Vogone: Thanks for the contact, I had forgotten to get back there following the block expiry. There was no contact, which is unfortunate. I have been and tidied up, and blocked for an extended period. I also note 189.6.16.72, and think that it may be related, though will watch more closely.

I also see a little activity at tgwikt from one of the IPs which is probably related.  — billinghurst sDrewth 20:49, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see you blocked 2804:14C:6585:429A:E9B4:A405:E5FF:F8C0 on that wiki, but have not deleted (all of?) their recent contributions — specifically the ones from March 10th, which I'm pretty sure are the exact entries that caused the wiki to pass 30K again on that date (I announced it with no "reservations" because I forgot I had just questioned similar activity in that same wiki just the month before [as linked to by Vogone above]). Any particular reason you left those pages alone? - dcljr (talk) 02:17, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Same goes for the following users on the same wiki:
These 5 IPs have been blocked as part of your March 24th block of "2804:14c:6590:8cec::/64" but their contributions from early January of this year have been left on the wiki. Have I just "jumped the gun" on this, and you're still in the process of deleting stuff over there? Or are you not sure they're actually the same person? - dcljr (talk) 02:33, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Mass delete failed due to db error, and I didn't have the time to do singly. The older are not in RC, so cannot be mass deleted.  — billinghurst sDrewth 04:39, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
OK. So, should I request this at SRM? (You would have deleted those pages if you could have, right?) - dcljr (talk) 06:04, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
They are deletions that are going to need to be bot'ified or handled individually, which takes a little time and patience. These are shared tasks, so either at SRM, or a link to list at SRM are always an option.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:38, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Range watches

Infostrada on it.wiki

Hello, I noticed your removal of part of the above article as "supposed spam". This note just to inform you that the part of information removed was not spam but just reporting a commercial rebranding due to the fact that "Infostrada" is full part of Wind-3 telecom group and starting from a precise date, the name "Infostrada" simply disappear. Removing that information (that is the plain reporting of a key episode in the company's/brand's life) would result in a kind of misleading information, inducing the reader to think that that name and logo are still alive (they aren't anymore since several years now). I understand that you could have considered it as "spam" due to the sourcing editor, but this was one of the (rare) case where it was not. --L736El'adminalcolico 16:31, 31 mar 2021 (CEST)

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Special:AbuseFilter/72

Hi Billinghurst,

In the "Notes" part of Special:AbuseFilter/72, the URL of the regex101 doesn't work because of the "/test" at its end, which should be removed. Can you do it please? Thanks!

Kind regards, — Jules* Talk 10:08, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sure Jules* though we have refactored the regexes to make them somewhat humanly readable rather than that tangled ball of wool that you will see at the url. That newform doesn't migrate.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:47, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, thanks billinghurst. We found on fr-wp several false-positive because of the word "divorce"; it has been added in March 2021. Is that OK to remove it? — Jules* Talk 18:15, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Jules*: done. Definitely shouldn't be there outside of a phrase. Thanks for raising the issue.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:35, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #470

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata: Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to understand the factors that might influence such a decision.
    • dewiki considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to replace those from Wikidata
    • User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js was improved to now
      • automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using demonstrates sense/form
      • automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label or an alias) when using item for this sense
      • and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym
  • Development
    • Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
    • Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
    • Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
    • Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
    • Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
    • Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021

Greetings,

I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 26 June, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up under the appropriate section.

Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 14:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hello Billinghurst, I noticed you declined the addition of supertennisracquet.com to the spam blacklist. Could I ask you to elaborate more on the decline reason - you declined it so that the SPI could proceed, but it was closed by a CU with a suggestion to add it to the global blacklist to stop the spam. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 08:52, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I also said that I added the domain to the revertlist for enWP and it is set to monitor for all wikis, so if it continues to be problematic we will know. I was presuming that enWP was managing the sockpuppetry and using the domain as an indicator.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:28, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hello, could you please explain to me what has been done with my topic on the Wikimedia Forum? Did it go somewhere else? Was it closed? Thanks.--Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 17:10, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I collapsed the discussion yesterday, otherwise I have no idea. Check the history.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:20, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pywikibot stable releases

Replying from IRC..."core_stable" is updated whenever a new release is made, usually Xqt does that these days. If the patch is important/fixes something crucial a stable release could probably be made sooner rather than later. Or you could just copy the version of imagecopy.py from the "core" folder and run it directly until the stable one is updated. Legoktm (talk) 18:37, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

imagecopy.py was archived with 6.0 and is not actively maintained currently. There is no difference between stable and master branch. Should imagecopy.py restored? Or was imagetransfer.py meant?  @xqt 05:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Xqt: It was imagetransfer.py  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
There was an improvement made for imagetransfer.py recently which also needs specialbots._upload to be updated (see phab:T267535). I intended to publish the next stable release at the end of this month. Or do you need it earlier?  @xqt 09:38, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Xqt: I stumbled on another work that needed to be moved from Commons to English Wikisource, so was looking to use the script that Inductiveload updated. It can wait, or it can be done by the alternate means I have been using. It was more working out which way I would go. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:15, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #471

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • You can now add a title to a query visualisation by adding #title:YourTitle to your SPARQL code (phab:T225883, example query with a title)
    • Added a new constraints type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes of a certain language (phab:T200689)
    • Working on not checking the format constraints via SPARQL to take that load off the SPARQL endpoint and make it technically better (phab:T176312)
    • Working on making the API-Sandbox not suggest edits to real Items (phab:T219215)


You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Disney ( Abuse filter 281)

I have been seeing your abuse filter. This troll used the most Time IP 62.11.3.128 and Range 5.77.64.0/19. See [2] However, there were always individual IPs that come from other ranges (which are not captured by my filter). All IPs come from Italy. He creates redirects or spams with mini articles that partially contain English words.--𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 17:35, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiBayer:I am happy for you to merge that into your filter, I see no need for separate filters for the same target. Can I recommend that you have names or embed keywords within comments so that searches identify the purpose of the filter. I didn't find anything by searches.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:48, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@WikiBayer: With regard to filters like these, are we structuring per abuse(r) or are we structuring whether there are issues with ranges, so broad but shallow view? There are other ranges outside of this problem that need review, and I can think of another specifically, so your opinion is of value.  — billinghurst sDrewth 03:47, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the filter; I've been looking at this LTA for some time as well. I added an additional regex; as it is currently logging-only and there should not be too many false positives anyway. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:33, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #472

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future.
    • WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata. Information about "the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself".
    • The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
  • Development
    • Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (phab:T176312)
    • Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (phab:T284538)
    • Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/...

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

About pages in ja.wikipedia which you've marked with Template:delete

I'm not sure if those are copy-pasted page from another wikipedia page. In case of w:ja:Template:クライド・ジェロニミ, I thought it's a copy of page on Bambfan Wikipedia. But, it doesn't exist. So, I'd like to ask; where are the originals? Semi-Brace (talk) 22:12, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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