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Hi, I didn't notice until now the "fixes" you made last August on my user page. I'm wondering why you felt it important to do so. Thanks, YoPienso (talk) 04:15, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for replying. I don't understand your reply, however. What does "remove incorrect categorization of the user page" mean? I don't see what needed fixing. I don't see how you improved the encyclopedia. Since I don't understand why you feel your changes were important, they look like minor, picky things. Yet you came back to inform me they weren't minor. ???
Was there something wrong with the userboxes I copied or modified or created? If so, what? If so, what harm was done by my user page? Frankly, I feel invaded. YoPienso (talk) 14:37, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
Yopienso, just to make sure we're on the same page:
Userboxes are a kind of template. In particular, userboxes are a kind of "user template".
I hope the above answers your questions What does "remove incorrect categorization of the user page" mean? and Was there something wrong with the userboxes I copied or modified or created?. It is a common mistake for editors who copy-paste wikitext of user templates to select too much of the wikitext and paste incorrect categorization into their page.
I understand that it might be hard to see the removal of this categorization in Special:Diff/1105706652, because the edit also includes a lot of wikitext cleanup. Edit summary of my edit is "user page is not a template: removed Category:Alaska college and university user templates using HotCat, cleaned up wikitext" – the last part after the comma is about this cleanup. This wikitext cleanup was done semi-automatically to make the wikitext cleaner.
Since I don't understand why you feel your changes were important – I hope it is obvious that having correct categorization on all pages is important. Otherwise, the whole categorization system will be chaos.
they look like minor, picky things. Yet you came back to inform me they weren't minor. ??? – the phrase "minor edit" has a very specific meaning on English Wikipedia. In my message – Neither of the two edits is marked as minor, for the record. – I meant this technical, specific to Wikipedia, meaning of the word "minor".
As for Frankly, I feel invaded – correcting such errors on user pages of other editors is allowed by the guidelines.
I'm assuming the answer lies buried somewhere in this: "Your user page, i.e. the page User:Yopienso, is not a template. As such, it is incorrect for the page User:Yopienso to contain categorization into Category:Alaska college and university user templates or any other category not intended for user pages." I'm mildly interested in understanding how my page offended--not least to avoid making an error in the future--but your explanation doesn't tell me how. The history of the Category:Alaska college, etc. page doesn't show my name or use page ever having been there. I honestly don't understand at all why you felt obliged to edit my page. The diff shows you removing blank spaces. Way too picky, imo. Anyway, thank you, I guess, for saving us from chaos. YoPienso (talk) 13:58, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
I'm mildly interested in understanding how my page offended--not least to avoid making an error in the future--but your explanation doesn't tell me how.
To see the wikitext that was causing the issue on your userpage, please go to the page Special:Diff/1105706652, use the "Find on page" or similar functionality in your browser and search for Category:Alaska college and university user templates. First search result would be in my edit summary and in the second search result you will see the line where the incorrect categorization was removed.
To avoid such errors in the future, please pay closer attention to what kind of wikitext you are copying and which categories appear at the bottom of your userpage (see screenshot at Help:Categories).
The history of the Category:Alaska college, etc. page doesn't show my name or use page ever having been there.
Due to the way categorization is implemented, one cannot see the history of categorization on the page of the category. The problematic wikitext was in your userpage. It was introduced in your edit: Special:Diff/1097120261.
I honestly don't understand at all why you felt obliged to edit my page.
Because your userpage is not a template, as I mentioned in the edit summary of Special:Diff/1105706652. If you look at the top of the page Category:Alaska college and university user templates, you will see a banner with text: Templates relating to Alaska colleges and universities. The pages listed in this category are meant to be user templates, including userboxes. Your userpage does not belong in a category for templates. Examples of pages that don't belong in that category:
For your work on properly categorizing the templates on Wikipedia, something very little attention is often given to. Your work is noticed and appreciated greatly! Johnson524 (Talk!) 04:10, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello Andrybak, I hope you're doing well. I'm not sure if you like barnstars or not, but after seeing your amazing amount of recent categorization work, I felt it would only be right to show my appreciation in some way more than a simple 'thanks'. Thank you for all you do, cheers! Johnson524 (Talk!) 04:10, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
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Do you have a good and or easy point of reference as to misplaced template project tags? it would be very helpful if you could. Thanks. JarrahTree01:01, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
JarrahTree, for Template:WikiProject Templates the answer is very simple: the point of reference is its documentation, which includes a big warning sign with the text This template should almost never be used on the talk pages of templates. (emphasis in the original). If you look at the transclusion of {{WikiProject Templates}} at Special:Permalink/1162335057 and click on [show], you will see that the template produces a big red warning This template should only be transcluded in the Wikipedia talk, Help talk, or Category talk namespace(s). This warning also shows up if you preview an edit with the template before publishing it. —andrybak (talk) 07:19, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Ok thanks for the explanation - from at least one point of view - the notion that a template talk page excludes a project tag seems counter-intuitive - so in a way of speaking templates dont have their own project tag? However If I read you right, where a category talk page has it, it's ok?
The whole experience of project tagging on talk pages is and has been quite an experience at times, this adds yet another layer to the over all intrigue. Thanks for the reply. JarrahTree08:46, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
the whole thing is due to the commencement of the australian transport project - which involved seeking out and checking transport related topics of oz - in some cases the many templates used in transport material failed to have state/topic tag added - and thats how it started - the project has scratched the surface of the larger range of eligible candidates for the transport tagging so far... JarrahTree08:50, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Joseph. Thank you for messaging me about this issue.
Categorizing articles using templates like this is discouraged. Mainly because it leads too easily to miscategorization. Such indirection in categorization also makes it harder for editors (and bots) to track down the categorizations, when they need to be adjusted (due to category renaming, merging, deletion, etc).
Ok, let's migrate all catégories, then remove this from template. Otherwise these catégories would be deleted being empty. Joseph (talk) 12:33, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
As I have been cleaning up userboxes, I have noticed a few edits like this one, in which you changed "member of" to "participant of". The phrasing "participant in" makes more sense. Also, in that edit, you did not change the actual category, which is the point of the CFD. I don't think that the CFD contained any consensus about the wording used by individual WikiProjects to describe their members/participants/flunkies, so I have been leaving that wording for WikiProjects to decide for themselves, or for an RFC. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:39, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
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I have seen this colon trick before, but hadn't known that I could do this in the context of sandboxed templates. Thanks for letting me know that page. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 23:35, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
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Should I be moving the cats to the doc pages when Im making them? I still have hundreds of pages left to create. Noah, AATalk23:39, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
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I have a very clear notice that states you are not to edit my user page unless you are me. Do not edit the user pages of other editors. Thank you. 9t5 (talk) 12:31, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Per WP:UOWN: pages in user space belong to the wider community. They are not a personal homepage, and do not belong to the user. They are part of Wikipedia, and exist to make collaboration among editors easier – making the collaboration easier includes avoiding polluting the maintenance categories, such as Wikipedia substituted templates.
Other popular issues on user pages to avoid:
misuse of HTML and wikitext causing so called lint errors
pollution of the category tree of User namespace templates due to copy-pasting of wikitext, which most often happens with userboxes.
Hey, I noticed you're an active editor, perhaps you can help me out. How can I have a template call a specific string from a given article using the start and end position number of the string (which I get using the findpagetext function)? JoeJShmo💌03:56, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Say the Monkeys page has a 10 character string that is placed 150 characters - 160 characters from the start of the article. How can I call that line to my template? Say I wanted to use that line as a string in a function, how would I do that? JoeJShmo💌08:39, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
JoeJShmo, this is a strange thing to want to do in a Wikipedia article, that's why I asked for a clarification.
Sure, I'm happy to explain. I have a template for the lead of a specific kind of article that is written about every president of the U.S., and I want the template to automatically grab certain information from the main page of the president, such as the file for his signature and his years in office. I can get the position of these bits of information using the findinpage function, but I don't know how to actually call the information itself. JoeJShmo💌08:58, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
It's a template designed to work for every president. The point of the template is to automate the information and to avoid copy-pasting. I believe I'm to understand that you don't know how to implement my request, and that's fine. Thanks for the response, and for the wikidata info! JoeJShmo💌10:22, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
JoeJShmo, I do know, but I'm choosing not to tell you, because you shouldn't try to make such a template by parsing pages in the way you've described in the first message. If the template is needed on many pages, years can stored as data in a template or a Lua module.
Interesting. Can you explain why? Also, it isn't feasible to store all the information in the template, as every article needs different information to be parsed. JoeJShmo💌10:57, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Because it's brittle and hard to maintain. There are more robust and maintainable alternatives.
I'm not sure its that brittle. I suppose it depends how you write it. The function I wrote checked for the signature using the signature parameter in the infobox. JoeJShmo💌20:55, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
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To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
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Hi Andrybak. Thank you for cleaning up after my work.[1][2] For me it's often a guess as to what is the optimal way to format such things so occasionally I just copy similar code from somewhere handy.
Regarding the content category Category:Occupational safety and health: I had added that to the new template category partly because I had just got through removing it from the existing navbox cat (now a subcat) here. But also I was under the impression that it was okay to include template-containing categories in content cats based on an RfC from a while back. I dug back and found it I think here but I must have either seriously misunderstood or misremembered something because that was not the consensus at all, or I was thinking of a different discussion. Anyway, you were correct to remove it. Well done:)
Possibly a helpful note on the shortcut link: I often get the feeling that, within my edit summaries, the shortcut "WP:CAT#T" gets ignored by editors who aren't aware of what those characters point to, or that they point to anything useful at all. "CAT#T" doesn't give much of a hint as to what it's about really. The # symbol nestled among the letters is an unusual shortcut. It's quite small and sometimes I think people think it's a typo or something. Lately, in my own personal experience, it seems the full "Wikipedia:Categorization#Template categorization" gets the attention desired and it's certainly far more descriptive. Even pipe-labeling the shortcut as "Template categorization", as I've been doing more recently, is better I think...fwiw --DB1729talk20:38, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
DB1729, thank you. Other editors not being familiar with the guideline and possibly being confused by the shortcut is an excellent observation. I've adjusted my scripts to make edit summaries more readable. —andrybak (talk) 21:18, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
Conflict of interest
On your user page you say you've publicly revealed certain conflicts. I'm wondering if you've considered linking to such public statement(s). I've wrestled with maybe similar issues, as with "I'm an ex-banker" from 2012 on my user page. I'm less active with editing currently but appreciated your help with one of my recent edits, visited your user page, and had my old wrestling brought back to mind. Swliv (talk) 00:29, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
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Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF mw:code stewardship (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the greener purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.
Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.
I have been working on improving the Thai Wikipedia's main page for the past year or so. Our inspiration, of course, comes from the English Wikipedia. I noticed that you have contributed to the page we based our work on, and we would greatly appreciate it if you could take some time to review our version of the code.
As we are a smaller wiki and the output from volunteer editors varies greatly over time, there is some deviation in the implementation of the FA and DYK sections. We decided not to set regular intervals for updates to these two sections, but rather to set release dates for the following month based on the content we have available in the current month. [If nothing is available to display, we show a message encouraging people to join our project as volunteer editors.]
Even after a year of working on this main page revamp, I only realized today that I have left an important technical loophole for the four pages (main/ -2 -1 +1 +2 days). It’s surprising to me that no one had noticed the broken pages until now.
My request is broken down into two specific questions:
Thank you in advance for your time and assistance!
PS.
@Patsagorn Y.: My colleague working on this project is just promoted to admin on Thai Wikipedia and this can possibly speed up our work. The progress was very slow in the past.
BTW, apologies for the temporary issue with Wikipedia:Main Page/Day before yesterday. I mistakenly saved the code on the English Wikipedia instead of the intended page on the Thai Wikipedia. I reverted the change within a minute. This experience has made me realize that it's better to seek help from someone who recently edited the page for this project.
Template:Up-arrow/doc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Rjjiii (talk) 05:58, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
Done for all 10 subcategories of Category:Wikipedias by language. —andrybak (talk) 13:47, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
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