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Update request to filter 72

• Special:AbuseFilter/72

I am suggesting some changes to filter 72:

• page_namespace == 4 is placed as the first check. Also, action == 'edit' is not necessary.
• I switched the current user_groups check to user_rights to also exclude global user groups that have the autoconfirmed user right, in addition to local user groups
• Instead of some separate page_id conditions, I used an equals_to_any(page_id condition and added three coments of what project pages are excluded, and it saves at least one condition.

page_namespace == 4 &
!("autoconfirmed" in user_rights) &
!equals_to_any(
    page_id,
    1428,    /* Sandbox */
    2084484, /* Support desk */
    1926565  /* Village Pump */
)

Codename Noreste (talk) 23:25, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Done. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 23:08, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Problems with the text "Userlogin-remembermypassword"

The text displays "Keep me logged in (for up to $1 days)" where $1 is not serving its purpose Danielyepezgarces (talk) 07:22, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Pinging @Shirayuki ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 07:59, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

@Danielyepezgarces: To make the $1 variable display correctly in this message, administrators need to create the corresponding message page for each language (e.g. MediaWiki:Userlogin-remembermypassword/fr). If the page does not exist, the variable may not be rendered properly and will appear as-is.-- Shirayuki (talk) 09:55, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

That's an utterly colossal amount of work that greatly exceeds the value. It seems better to abandon this whole system and just use the default from upstream, which I just did. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:00, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

If you ever re-introduce it, please make sure to protect the translation pages. In this case Template:Userlogin-remembermypassword was not protected, and it seems that anyone could edit it and thus change the message displayed on the login page. I was about to file a security bug about it when I noticed it has been deleted. Matma Rex (talk) 17:11, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

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Shirayuki

This administrator keeps doing nonsensical changes at times. The last one affecting me was undoing an edit of mine to fix a broken URL. He claims to use a neutral URL to allow automatic redirection to the user's preferred language version of the page but his change simply creates a dead link because in this case there's no other page than the en-US page!

This is not the first time I've had trouble with this person but this is becoming tiresome. Tactica (talk) 04:13, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

The link Shirayuki used is not a dead link - it works for me. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 05:15, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Well, here I get an error page claiming the URL doesn't exist for my preferred language (Spanish) but it does for English, pointing to the US page which is the only one I can find. Tactica (talk) 06:44, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

@Tactica This information on the MDN languages drop down might be helpful. P858snake (talk) 10:34, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

It is indeed. Looks like I got fooled by an MDN misfeature. Apologies to @Shirayuki... for now :-) Tactica (talk) 14:30, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

@Tactica: I tested this using the following steps. Based on this, the claim that the link is dead appears to be due to a temporary issue or a user-specific configuration, not because the link itself is invalid.

1. I set the preferred language to Spanish and enabled "Remember language". (This can only be done on a different page that has a Spanish version.)
2. I then tested the link used in my revision. It correctly redirected to the en-US version, which is the default.

Shirayuki (talk) 10:49, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Ah, I see now. If I set my browser's language to Spanish, disable the "Remember language" setting, and then click the link in my revision, it does indeed redirect to a "Page not found" page...

This seems to be a bug on mozilla.org, so you should just trust me and enable "Remember language".-- Shirayuki (talk) 10:58, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Review "Priority languages" settings

An empty "Priority languages" field had mistakenly been set on Template:Wikibase main page, and "Prevent translations to languages other than the priority languages" had also been enabled, which made it impossible for anyone to translate the page. I have just corrected this. Please check if there are any other pages with the same issue. Shirayuki (talk) 00:39, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:2401:4900:3000::/36

• 2401:4900:3000::/36 (talk • contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --Ankermast (talk) 11:59, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Stale. And blocking an IP range as wide as /36, especially when it does have other constructive edits, seems like an overreaction. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 02:57, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Translations:Help:Navigation/50/bn

Hi, this string may need deletion. I can't undo the edit. Thanks. ~ Mbs016 (talk) 03:34, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Done-- Shirayuki (talk) 08:44, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Kroukoto

• Kroukoto (talk • contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: vandalism-only account, though not having made edits for half an hour XReport --Ankermast (talk) 09:59, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Done --Clump (talk) 10:47, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:CallTokopedia

• CallTokopedia (talk • contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Spam XReport --Ankermast (talk) 14:36, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Done —Mainframe98 _talk 14:47, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Report not spam for Meetings/2013-04-18 on edit filter

It's not spam and this IP address have been blocked by abuse filter because, technetial blocking is wrong. Please fix for edit filter. JustAces (talk) 00:52, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Yes, blocking the IP fixing the previous IP's vandalism was a false positive. Done. --Clump (talk) 11:08, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, indeed. We get so many IPs spamming their email address where they don't belong that a fairly harsh filter is necessary, and has occasional false positives. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 20:56, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Gadget for auto numeration and Vector-2022

I’ve asked this first at the Support Desk, but because I request in effect for editing of one or two gadgets this seems to belong at the Village Pump.
First a copy of my Support Desk question:

Hello, the auto numeration activated with MediaWiki:Gadget-autonum.css and MediaWiki:Gadget-autonum.js (I load them in my global.js) does not work well together with Vector-2022 skin, because the counter reset does not work, and so all lower sections are just counted up. Note, that in vector-2022 only the else tree of the script is active and the code of the CSS is used. If you think, why I do not just ask the author Krinkle – well he wrote almost a year ago “I do not use the autonum gadget myself. For now, I have exceed the time I'm willing to spend on this gadget. I suggest gathering support and awareness of other people in the community, to hopefully find someone who is able and willing to maintain this JS/CSS snippet for further modifications.” (Krinkle’s user talk page on meta, cf. meta:Special:Diff/26715423 or the full conversation at m:Special:PermaLink/26721127#Section autonumeration with Parsoid). As an example: Manual:FAQ (itself not ready for vector-2022, at least the toc part I looked for) has 12 sections, and the latest one has 6 subsections which is fine displayed in (legacy) Vector from 2010, but with Vector 2022 I see the count 12.107.

End of copy

I was meanwhile able to fix this locally. This works only for the new DOM structure for the sections active in Wikimedia universe since last year (I’ve added a regarding note also to Krinkle, but did not remember that this is, of course, also active in Vector-2022). Since the gadgets are only for internal use this should be OK; the question is, though, how to alter Snippets/Auto-number headings, then. The CSS does not even need the selector added by the script, so it could be considered to delete this. But then all users who imported it need to get an information.
So, long story short, could one of the interface admins, please, replace the active MediaWiki:Gadget-autonum.css with the following style code:

.mw-parser-output {
  counter-reset: autonum-h2 autonum-h3 autonum-h4 autonum-h5 autonum-h6;
}
.mw-parser-output .mw-heading2 {
  counter-increment: autonum-h2;
  counter-reset: autonum-h3 autonum-h4 autonum-h5 autonum-h6;
}
.mw-parser-output .mw-heading3 {
  counter-increment: autonum-h3;
  counter-reset: autonum-h4 autonum-h5 autonum-h6;
}
.mw-parser-output .mw-heading4 {
  counter-increment: autonum-h4;
  counter-reset: autonum-h5 autonum-h6;
}
.mw-parser-output .mw-heading5 {
  counter-increment: autonum-h5;
  counter-reset: autonum-h6;
}
.mw-parser-output .mw-heading6 {
  counter-increment: autonum-h6;
}
.mw-parser-output .mw-heading h2::before {
  content: counter(autonum-h2) " ";
}
.mw-parser-output .mw-heading h3::before {
  content: counter(autonum-h2) "." counter(autonum-h3) " ";
}
.mw-parser-output .mw-heading h4::before {
  content: counter(autonum-h2) "." counter(autonum-h3) "." counter(autonum-h4) " ";
}
.mw-parser-output .mw-heading h5::before {
  content: counter(autonum-h2) "." counter(autonum-h3) "." counter(autonum-h4) "." counter(autonum-h5) " ";
}
.mw-parser-output .mw-heading h6::before {
  content: counter(autonum-h2) "." counter(autonum-h3) "." counter(autonum-h4) "." counter(autonum-h5) "." counter(autonum-h6) " ";
}

If you want to keep the script then prepend .mw-parser-output with .tpl-autonum (with a space in between, of course) like it is seen in the active version.

As a side note: Somewhere a notice could be added that the style is best loaded by user script (global/common.js) because then exceptions for pages could be added where the style should not be loaded. — Speravir (talk) – 00:10, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

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Keegan (WMF) (talk) 03:40, 29 April 2025 (UTC)