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Now that Dabsolver is no longer provided and the text scan function no longer highlights in blue it is far too time consuming to search for disambiguation links as the only way to do it now is to manually scan masses of text. If these functions are restored please advise and I can once again disambiguate my articles. Samrong01 (talk) 13:34, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

I'm thinking of restoring the links, I'm just a little wary of getting pulled into whatever politics are happening between Dispenser and the WMF. I'll probably restore them soon. --JaGatalk 02:39, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

You've sent me several messages saying I added "Disambiguation links" when I've edited pages -- but I have not added any of the links you've messaged me about. I don't understand why you keep sending me messages about actions I have not taken... Newchaz64 (talk) 17:44, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Newchaz64: You posted a similar comment on this page last weekend, and I took the time then to provide you a link to your own edit, showing that you did in fact add the link that the bot said you did. Do we really need to go through that exercise again? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:16, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
I really ought to make a tool that makes it easy to get the link for the diff of the dab link introduced by a given user. Maybe next month, when class lets out. --JaGatalk 02:39, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year's monetary costs come to be?
After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.
The Wikimedia Education Program currently spans 60 programs around the world; students and instructors participate at almost every level of education. The Education program Signpost series presents a snapshot of the Wikimedia Global Education Program as it exists in 2014.
Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.
As with the troubled release of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) flagship VisualEditor project, the release of the new Media Viewer has also been met with opposition from the English Wikipedia community.
Unsurprisingly, the World Cup continued to dominate the English Wikipedia's viewing statistics. In particular, the record-breaking performance of US goalkeeper Tim Howard and the tournament-ending injury to Brazil's Neymar drove large amount of views to their articles.

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry's legal team—but this action is being described as "strategic" so that they can refile the lawsuit with a "new, more comprehensive complaint."
This week it's still more and more World Cup, with five entries out of the top ten (and 14 out of the Top 25).
It all started in late 2005, when we first held lectures about Wikipedia in two educational institutions (universities) ...
Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
The Swedish Wikipedia's prolific Lsjbot, which has created a significant proportion of the site's 1.7 million articles and has nearly single-handedly pushed it to being the fourth-largest Wikipedia, was covered in the Wall Street Journal this week. The newspaper reported that the bot has created 2.7 million articles, which is apparently a reference to the Waray-Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias, where Lsjbot is also active, and that "on a good day", it creates 10,000 articles.

I am really thankful to you for appreciating me and please also guide me in future. Thanks.

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

"Great success" in Israel universities is leading to collaboration and editing in high schools.
Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.
Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.
The English Wikipedia's did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site's main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia's newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.
Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

DPLbot Monthly Challenge

I have been trying to access the monthly challenge page for some hours and getting the following error:

"Database connection error. Please try again later.

Access denied for user 'p50380g50692'@'10.68.16.28' (using password: YES)

Database connection error: Access denied for user 'p50380g50692'@'10.68.16.28' (using password: YES)"

Possible to apply fixes to it and get it back working?

Your message re 124 Squadron

Thanks for your message re disambiguation. To be honest as I hardly ever do editing and am not familiar with it, I don't really understand what is meant, but I hope what I've done is ok. Geoffhl (talk) 12:19, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

In Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak discusses Wikipedia from the standpoint of an experienced editor and administrator who is also a university professor specializing in management and organizations. In Virtual Reality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Charles Seife presents a more broadly themed work reminding us to question the reliability of information found throughout the Internet.
Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.
Another hoax on the English Wikipedia was uncovered this week—not by any thorough investigation, but through the self-disclosure of an anonymous change made when the editors were in their sophomore year of college. The deliberate misinformation had been in the article for over five years with plenty of individuals noticing, but not one suspected its authenticity. This leads to one obvious question: how many more are there?
A "program of heroes" is leading the charge in Egypt.
We indeed moved far away from football this week, and further into much more serious issues of war and death. The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to dominate the news, and the top 10, with Gaza Strip, Israel, and Hamas. The top 25 also includes Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Death also lies behind the popularity of James Garner, the American actor who died on July 19th, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and deaths in 2014.
Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

A barnstar for you!

The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
I know it's been around for some time, but DPLbot really is helpful. S Philbrick(Talk) 12:06, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Matthew Richardson

Hello JaGa / Mabelina here I've uploaded an article about Matthew Richardson (barrister) who is an elected Alderman of the City of London, who before long is to be Lord Mayor. Not sure why article has been deleted since it concerns a public figure? Looking forward to hearing - many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mabelina (talk • contribs)

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

As the start of Wikimania proper on 8 August approaches, the Signpost looks ahead to what its dozens of presentations might offer the technologically-inclined, whether attending in person or taking advantage of what promises to be a strong digital offering.
Serious news continues to dominate the most popular articles chart on Wikipedia this week, with the Ebola virus disease far and away in the top spot. In the top 25, we see the related articles Ebola virus, which talks about biological aspects, at #18 and 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak at #19.
Eight articles, fifteen pictures, and two topics were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.
"Major growth" expected in Mexican university after a Wikipedia program is formally accepted by the school's administration.
The Wikimedia Foundation has published its first transparency report, covering from July 2012 to June 2014. The move comes on the same day the organization announced that Google, in order to comply with a recent court order upholding the "right to be forgotten", has removed a number of Wikipedia articles from their European search results.

DPL Bot false positive

Hi,

User:DPL bot made a false positive and tagged a page it shouldn't have.

I contacted User:DPL bot, but the person who replied said he isn't responsible for DPL bot's edits. Someone said you are. (I don't understand why, and sorry if you're the wrong person, but I just want to get this bug fixed...)

The page is G̃. The edit by DPL bot is: [1].

The problem is that DPL bot thinks there's loads of redirects and DABs in the article, but there are actually none. There are a load of redirects and DABs in a template which the article includes.

So:

  • DPL bot shouldn't be tagging that page
  • DPL bot maybe should tag the template, or leave a talk page comment, or something

Can you fix DPL bot so it doesn't tag such pages in the future?

(And, do you know of any centralised channels where contributors can complain about bots misbehaving? This isn't the first time I've gotten the run around when trying to get a malfunctioning bot fixed. If I'm ignoring proper complaint procedure, it would be great if someone could correct me.) Gronky (talk) 18:01, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Can you fix this or tell me who I should be contacting about this? Thanks. Gronky (talk) 20:11, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Few Sections Has Been Removed

Hi, there! Thanks for your message. However, I noticed that few sections of the information has been removed. Was it removed by you? If yes, may I know what is the reason, please.

Hope to hear from you.

Thank you.

Regards, (Miamelynda) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miamelynda Yan (talk • contribs) 13:17, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

DPL bot malfunctioning?

Why did DPL bot create Template messages/Cleanup, Template messages/Cleanup/sandbox, and Enquire/sandbox? These are all in the mainspace. Is the bot malfunctioning? Piguy101 (talk) 23:08, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Nitrous oxide

I made some days ago a ref of your bot's problem. Additional question. I guess only specialists can answer.--Dartelaar [write me!] 13:01, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

Slate reports that Tom Scott, co-creator of the emoji social network Emojli, created a Twitter bot called Parliament WikiEdits to automatically tweet a link to any Wikipedia edits made from an IP address belonging to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Scott's bot initially did not tweet any links to edits made from Parliament and, according to Scott, an "insider" reports that their IP addresses changed. Despite this, Scott's Twitter bot has inspired similar creations in numerous other countries.
It's been a grim few weeks. It says something that formerly arresting crises like the war in Ukraine, Boko Haram and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, despite still being ongoing, have fallen out of the top 10 to make way for the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak and the equally if not more intense conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
"Education is at the core of the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission."
Wikimania 2014 was held last week in the Barbican Centre in London. Below, the Signpost's former "Technology report" writer Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) shares his thoughts on a bustling conference.
Wikimedia Foundation staff members have now been granted superpowers that would allow them to override community consensus. The new protection level came as a response to attempts of German Wikipedia administrators to implement a community consensus on the new Media Viewer. "Superprotect" is a level above full protection, and prevents edits by administrators.
Erythrophobia is the fear of, or sensitivity to, the colour red. Recently, I have seen more and more erythrophobic Wikipedians; specifically, Wikipedians who are scared of red links. In Wikipedia's early days, red links were encouraged and well-loved, and when I started editing in 2006, this was still mostly the case. Jump forward to 2014, and many editors now have an aversion to red links.
The Observer reported (August 2) that Google would "restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article, in the first request under Europe's controversial new 'right to be forgotten' legislation to affect the 110m-page encyclopaedia."
Eight article, six lists, and two topics were promoted to featured status last week.

DPL Bot

[2] I removed a few, but the remainder are other redirect pages that people directed to this disambig. Enigmamsg 23:19, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Lloret de Mar

Hello JaGa

Your bot DPL alerting me for disambiguation situations in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloret_de_Mar

I edit references and I hope this situation just solved. Thanks and sorry for any inconvenience --Lamontse (talk) 11:02, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Did Thomas Fortune Ryan collect Chinese art? Where is his Chinese Art Collection? Did he associate with Loo Chingtsai ( C. T. Loo)?

Hi I read the entry on Thomas Fortune Ryan with interest. Did Thomas Fortune Ryan collect Chinese art? Where is his Chinese Art Collection? Did he associate with Loo Chingtsai ( C. T. Loo)? Best, Ernie Please email me at ernieyehnj@gmail — Preceding unsigned comment added by 鄂鲵叶 (talk • contribs) 01:58, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 August 2014

Dorothy Howard interviews Michael Szajewski, archivist for digital development and university records at Ball State University.
Comedian Robin Williams' untimely death takes the top spot.
At the plate with WikiProject Baseball!
Denny Vrandečić argues that "We should focus on measuring how much knowledge we allow every human to share in, instead of number of articles or active editors."
Ten articles and three pictures were promoted to featured status last week.

DPL bot

I know you're not around here that much, but I'm wondering if you (or someone with access - maybe R'n'B or BD2412) can kick the DPL bot. It hasn't updated the recently added list today, and the rest of the DPL reports haven't run today either (the leader board hourly update has missed the last two as well - I don't care about the board, but figured I'd mention it since that's a task that it's missed). -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

I've been kicking all day. I may have sprained a toe. :-( but I don't really know what's wrong. Most of these problems are intermittent, but it seems to be getting worse. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 23:57, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Booooo on Labs! :) I'll just continue on Today's Dablink Report for now. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 01:00, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Who's running this bot? Or who can fix it?

User:JaGa hasn't replied to my bug report from three weeks ago, despite me bumping my question twice.

The post just above this one mentions that R'n'B and BD2412 have access to fix the bot. Is that correct? Can one of you two fix the problem I mentioned?

(The current situation of bots doing whatever they want without any accountability is really quite annoying. As a human editor, I'm feeling like a second class citizen here.) Gronky (talk) 11:18, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

  • Templates to be used in mainspace pages should not have direct disambiguation links. If the intent is to link to a disambiguation page, they should follow WP:INTDABLINK. Human editors are in no better a position than the bot in knowing the source of links. We can see which pages have the most links, and must invest time in checking to see if these can be fixed. bd2412 T 13:24, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
  • Sorry for the late reply, but I'm not around much these days, and school is starting up again to boot. The problem, as BD2412 said, is that you'd included a template with TONS of disambigs. The page included the template, the template brought in a ton of disambig links, so the tag got placed. This is normally not a problem because we've managed to correct all disambig links in templates, so this can only happen when someone creates/edits a template with a ton of disambigs.
I'm not sure I'd call this behavior a bug. The page does transclude the template, after all, and tagging a template would likely be disastrous, given all the different styles of template. So this is the best way to get the links in the template fixed, which I see resolved your problem. --JaGatalk 01:21, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

Journalistic integrity, Congressional edits, and other news.
More discussions about Media Viewer, Superprotect, and software development
"This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge..."
Sixteen articles, five lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted.

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

"On 1 September, the Arbitrators voted to suspend the Media Viewer case for 60 days. After the suspension period is up, the case is to be closed unless the committee votes otherwise. The case suspension comes in response to several new initiatives and policies announced by the Wikimedia Foundation that may make the case moot. In the same motion, the committee declared that Eloquence's resignation of the administrator right was "under the cloud" and that he can only regain the right through another RfA."
Two articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted
Doc James and some collaborators are working on quick detection of copyright violations
"This week we saw three of the top ten articles remain in place, with the Ice Bucket Challenge at #1, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at #2, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at #5, all for a second straight week..."
"This week, the Signpost went out to meet WikiProject Anatomy, dedicated to improving the articles about all our bones, brains, bladders and biceps, and getting them to the high standard expected of a comprehensive encyclopaedia."
The latest roundup of research about Wikimedia

Khdeir

There are issues in the Talk page to article Kidnapping and murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, not the least of which is POV (esp. inclusion of unrelated material). One particular editor seems to be trying to hijack this article, even deciding he can remove material from reliable sources. He is trying to enlist support from an Israeli moderator,[3] so for the sake of balance in the discussion, I think someone from a different POV should weigh in as well. Peleio Aquiles (talk) 07:35, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 September 2014

Last month, I wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, inviting others to join me in a simple but important request: roll back the recent actions—both technical and social—by which the Wikimedia Foundation has overruled legitimate decisions of several Wikimedia projects.
Even though it's not quite 3/4 over, it's safe to say that 2014 will go down as a year of war, mass murder, plane crashes and terrible diseases. While certainly paying it some heed, it's not surprising that Wikipedia viewers tried this week to find any alternative to that litany of tragedy and pain, and their chosen method of escape was, as usual, celebrity.
The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!
This week, the Signpost decided to have a look around with WikiProject Check Wikipedia a maintenance project not concerned so much with articles' content, but in all the tiny errors that are to be found scattered within them. Their front page gives a list of things they mainly focus on ...

The Signpost: 17 September 2014

The Hürriyet Daily News reports on a series of posts on Twitter from Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ömer Çelik.
As Scotland is deciding its future this week, we thought it might be a good idea to get to know the editors of WikiProject Scotland and talk to them about the project.
A prominent Wikipedia researcher has discovered that the encyclopedia's widely used article traffic statistics are missing out on approximately one-third of total views.
There is no unifying theme we can slap on top article popularity this week.
Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

Thank you

User:DPL bot is just gibberish to those who have not already learned the intricacies of Wiki. But thank you for the note on Topaz. I have fixed it. Henry Townsend 14:45, 18 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henrytow (talk • contribs)

Thank you from me, too

Thanks for the message about my edit. Thanks for this bot which is of help to me as well as to the encyclopedia -- I can't imagine anyone being stupid enough to opt out of this valuable service. --Hordaland (talk) 11:46, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Shaun Foist page

Greetings - a request has been made to delete the existing Wikipedia page for Shaun Foist. As his management, we were going through the proper steps to create a Wikipedia page with verifiable links and accurate information, which is currently under review by Wikipedia. In the meantime, this poorly generated page was put up by someone not affiliated with Shaun Foist or breaking benjamin riddled with incomplete information and inaccuracies - as you will see by doing page comparisons. Your kind consideration is greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiTruthTime (talk • contribs) 14:35, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 September 2014

Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
The Hindustan Times speculates (September 18) that politicians and their supporters are "sanitizing" their articles in advance of the 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election. The Times notes the absence of significant controversies in the articles of particular politicians and the presence of heavily promotional language.
0.75% of Wikipedia birthdates are inaccurate, reported Robert Viseur at WikiSym 2014. Those inaccuracies are "low, although higher than the 0.21% observed for the baseline reference sources". Given that biographies represent 15% of English Wikipedia, the third largest category after "arts" and "culture", their accuracy is important.
This could be the beginning of a new era for this list. Until now, decisions to remove suspicious content have been largely educated guesswork. This week though, we have a new collaborator who can shine a light on the origins and patterns, sorting once and for all the webwheat from the cyberchaff.
A year and a week later, we're with some of the members of WikiProject Good Articles, who wanted to share the news of their upcoming contest within the project, the GA Cup. The aim of this friendly competition, which is held in the same light friendly manner of the WikiCup and the Core Contest, is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed articles at Good article nominations which has been a constant problem for quite a few years for those running the GA process.
Banning Policy finishes the workshop phase on 23 September. Parties have proposed findings of fact on the topics of the 3RR, the role of Jimbo Wales, and proxying for banned users. A request for arbitration was posted on 20 September about Landmark Worldwide.

DPL Bot notice

The DPL bot sent me a message, noting that I had added a disambiguation link to the "Canadian English" article...which I hadn't. All I did was remove a single (verifiably innaccurate) sentence from that page page. That's it. Checking the page history shows a massive number of changes, but I made only one of them. Wassup wit that?Anmccaff (talk) 18:30, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Anmccaff: Your edit to Canadian English added 7,984 characters to the length of the article, so I find it difficult to believe that all you did was delete one sentence. Is it possible you did something other than what you intended to do? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:31, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
Sure, that's the beauty, so to speak, of an opaque kluge of an editing system; it is quite easy to do something unintentionally, but I'm damned if I can see what happened; there isn't a nearby article like those changes, at least that I saw.Anmccaff (talk) 16:18, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 October 2014

Contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do.
This article was first published in the Signpost in 2009. Written by several long-standing editors, including the late Adrianne Wadewitz, the article was subjected to extensive commentary and ultimately influenced the English Wikipedia's plagiarism guideline. With recent debates about close paraphrasing vis-à-vis plagiarism, we feel that this dispatch retains its relevance and deserves a second airing.
The argument on Wikipedia over the benefits of crowdsourcing versus the primacy of "expert" contributors stretches back to co-founder Larry Sanger's break with the project to start the alternative Citizendium.
This week, the Signpost went down to the farm to have a look at the work of WikiProject Agriculture, which has been in existence since 2007 and has a scope covering crop production, livestock management, aquaculture, dairy farming and forest management.
Jews wished each other Shanah Tovah ("Good year") this week as Rosh Hashanah was our most popular article. It was also a week not dominated by heavy news and tragedies, so aside from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (#2, sixth week in the Top 10), our popular article list runs the gamut of current events including new television series Gotham (#3), the 2014 Asian Games (#4), and Reddit-fueled popularity for German director Uwe Boll (#7).
As the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the American Civil War draws to a close, the race to improve content continues. The Battle of Franklin, fought on November 30, 1864, will, quite appropriately, be Picture of the Day for November 30, 2014, its 150th anniversary. If you want to help commemorate the American Civil War, why not help out at the Military History WikiProject's Operation Brothers at War. Or help out with the World War I centennial, just starting up, Operation Great War Centennial.

Thank You

Thanks for spotting my disambiguation error. I had intended 'Roman Catholic' and ended up with 'Roman'. Now fixed. I appreciate your help. Dskirk (talk) 12:08, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Something has gone wrong with the bot maintaining the page "Articles With Multiple Dablinks". It looks like he misses many fixed articles. Unclear what happens exactly, but for instance Age of Empires and Corfu (regional unit) were already fixed around 20/21 September. Can you take a look into it? The Banner talk 23:17, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 October 2014

Also, Wikimedia Norge and Nobel Peace Center edit-a-thon
2 Featured articles, 4 Featured lists, 62 Featured pictures, and 2 Featured portals were promoted.
The first case of the Ebola virus on US shores sent people into a tizzy, rushing to their keyboards to try and learn what they could.
No seriously, it is.

Another uncats issue

There's a new problem at the untagged uncategorized articles toolserver list which I wanted to bring to your attention — even with a replication lag of zero, the toolserver has now picked back up every single article, all the way back to May, that is tagged and is in one of the dated by-month subcategories, and is also failing to drop newly-tagged articles as well. I'm not 100% sure of how the toolserver is actually programmed to determine whether an article is tagged or not, but based on the timing I believe that this is the result of a recent CFD discussion which changed the way the categorization project categories are structured: Category:Category needed and Category:Uncategorized pages have been merged so that all the dated "Uncategorized from..." subcategories are now sitting directly in Category:Uncategorized pages, instead of having Category:Category needed sitting between them — and the undated "all uncategorized pages" master category is now called Category:All uncategorized pages instead.

So my best guess would be that the bot is programmed to compare its initial list to Category:Category needed to determine which ones are already tagged, and is thus picking everything back up because that category's now empty — so if that's indeed the case, you'll need to update the bot to reflect the new change (or figure out what else is going on if my guess is wrong). Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 18:07, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

This still needs to be fixed, as the situation is becoming unmanageable. Bearcat (talk) 04:43, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
This situation has officially crossed over into the realm of the absolutely unacceptable and intolerable, and I'm frankly about ready to rip somebody's head off and feed it to the alligators. I realize you haven't been around all that much lately — is there any way at all that you could give somebody backup rights to modify the toolserver bot so that somebody can get it fixed in your absence? Bearcat (talk) 02:37, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi,

You might be aware of this already, but all the "FIX" links from your tool go to pages of the form https://tools.wmflabs.org/dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py?page=400_metres which are 404s. I haven't got a clue what the right link is, but hopefully they can be fixed.

Many thanks for your DPL bot — it's been very helpful to me.

User:GKFXtalk 17:33, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 October 2014

Why does Wikipedia still use the gendered pronouns "she" and "her" for ships?
Ben Koo of the sports blog Awful Announcing investigated how player Joe Streater's name became involved in recent years with a historic sports scandal.
The Banning Policy case was closed on 12 October. Arbcom affirmed that users have "considerable leeway" in terms of how their talk pages are managed.
Nine articles and twenty-six pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia.
This week we sat down with The Earwig to learn about his wikitext parser.
We are pleased to report that the WP:5000 has now been updated to include mobile views, including a column reflecting the percentage of views coming from mobile devices.
Today, it's the turn of WikiProject Ohio to give us an interview probing deep into of how they manage to run a project covering one fiftieth of the United States, and the workings of how they manufacture their successes and other articles.

DPL bot problem at Brian Bennett

Please see User talk:DPL bot#Malfunction at Brian Bennett. —BarrelProof (talk) 10:55, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the (Bot) message on my talk page about re-direct to Crystal Palace. I'm afraid I don't really understand what, if anything, I got wrong here. IIRC I added a note to the list of disused circuits that Crystal Palace Circuit was still in use, once a year & added it to the list of sprint circuits. I do not recall seeing or doing anything involving re-directs at all, which TBH is something I also don't know very much about. Can you clarify so as to avoid any future probs. Thanks. Regards. Eagleash (talk) 10:42, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Update. Figured out what was wrong....should have got that right. :P Ignore message. Thanks. Eagleash (talk) 00:32, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 October 2014

Four articles, four lists, and fifty-three pictures were promoted to featured status.
Our op-ed writer this week opines that the organization of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Revolution" resembles how Wikipedia is organized.
Among many newsworthy stories this week, the Signpost notes the passing of Italian Wikipedia administrator and former Wikimedia Italia treasurer [Cotton
Ebola, movies and television articles appear in this week's top ten.
PaintedCarpet explains that "WikiProject Orphanage aims to connect all Wikipedia pages, so that pages can be found and read more easily."

The Signpost: 29 October 2014

By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article
Noam Cohen reports in The New York Times (October 26) that Wikipedia's "Ebola Virus Disease article has had 17 million page views in the last month," an indication of the public's reliance on the online encyclopedia.
Rather than the usual WikiProject Report, this week our guest author Jheald is telling us about a campaign to identify thousands of old maps which have been digitised, to make them available for georeferencing and upload
Ebola virus disease leads the Report for the fourth straight week. The rest of the list is primarily a mix of pop culture topics, including movie Avengers: Age of Ultron (#4) whose trailer was leaked early, and the death of Oscar de la Renta (#7). A BuzzFeed article on creepy Wikipedia articles, no doubt well-timed with Halloween (#9) around the corner, was responsible for three articles in the Top 25, including June and Jennifer Gibbons (#10), Taman Shud Case (#17), Joyce Vincent (#25). And the internet-run-amok controversy of Gamergate cracked the Top 25 for the first time at #19.
In new research conducted in light of proposed changes to data protection legislation in the European Union (EU), authors Bart Custers, Simone van der Hof, and Bart Schermer conducted a comparative analysis of social media and user-generated content websites’ privacy policies along with a user survey (N=8,621 in 26 countries) and interviews in 13 different EU countries on awareness, values, and attitudes toward privacy online.

The Signpost: 05 November 2014

"Rachel Feltman, in The Washington Post (November 4), examined research in which a team, mostly from Los Alamos National Laboratory, headed by Kyle Hickman developed a model that enabled them "to successfully predict the 2013-2014 flu season in real time" by employing "an algorithm to link flu-related Wikipedia searches with CDC data from the same time." Apparently when individuals search for information about the flu and its symptoms in Wikipedia when they feel ill, this generates data useful in forecasting the the flu season."
"It is, perhaps, ironic that humanity chose the week of Halloween to finally put its fears to bed. Let's face it: 2014 has been a year of tragedies, conflicts, plagues and pain, and eventually something had to break... Whether we at last came to terms with our limited ability to affect events, shoved those events under the carpet, or just decided to let go and move on, we turned our eye to more positive things, such as sports heroes, hotly anticipated movies, and lifelong learning; two Google doodles appeared in the top 25 for the first time since the beginning of August."

How to become an adminstrator, please reply. I am wanted to good contribute on wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rayaz4536 (talk • contribs) 16:23, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Need your support

Hi Buddy, i am new to Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links & wish to contribute in this project. Please check my recent contributions which i have done manually & through Wikipedia:WPCleaner & suggest me if they were right & needs any improvements.( !dea4u  12:13, 14 November 2014 (UTC))

The Signpost: 12 November 2014

"Technology media outlets are abuzz after the November 6 unveiling of the Amazon Echo, an Internet-connected voice command device"; "The EUobserver talks (November 4) with Dimitar Dimitrov (User:Dimi z) about the lack of freedom of panorama in some European Union countries and its implications for Wikimedia projects"; "Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the Dallas Morning News, recounts efforts to verify an uncited claim in the Wikipedia article for the Béla Bartók opera Bluebeard's Castle."
This was very much a week dominated by holidays and pop culture over current events, with new film Interstellar taking the top spot followed by holidays Day of the Dead (#2), Guy Fawkes and his Night (#4 and #5), and Halloween (#8, and its third week on the list). And a foursome of television shows, all return visitors, appear to setting up residence on the greater Top 25: The Walking Dead (#11), American Horror Story: Freak Show (#14), Gotham (#16), and The Flash (#18).
Nine articles, two lists, and 55 featured pictures were promoted during the week of 26 October.
We return to our interview format this week, speaking with the participants of WikiProject Hospitals. This project, formed in 2010, has no Featured content and only three Good articles, yet aided by around 30 hard-working Wikipedians covers a topic that is essential to life.

Back in 2011 you used to provide a link to Dab solver, but some time in December 2011 you stopped.

I found the inclusion of the link useful. Why did you stop including it? -- PBS (talk) 17:33, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

An expanded bot role

When you have a chance, could you offer your input on the discussion at Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_62#User talk bot for certain bad disambiguation edits? Thanks, —Swpbtalk 23:16, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Is there someone who speaks Italian ?

Sorry but I don't speak english perfect. Do you speak italian? --Charliewolf79 (talk) 10:47, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much for DPL bot! What a useful creature it is! Cheers, Basie (talk) 16:21, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

I want to join the thanks. This is a very positive and useful feature. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:28, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 November 2014

Four articles, four lists, eleven pictures, and one topic were promoted.
Numerous media outlets are reporting on a November 14 statement on the website of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library announcing the formation of a Russian "alternative" to Wikipedia, a "regional electronic encyclopedia" dedicated to "Russian regions and the life of the country".
The monthly roundup of research related to Wikimedia.
It's time for this year's edition of the Report looking at possibly our largest wikiproject: Military history. Since our last interview in June 2013, the project has had no break in its huge quest to document everything in their scope, that is, militaries and conflicts of the past. As usual, its participants were eager to answer the questions posed by The Signpost and update us on how they are doing.
Often times in popular culture, a subject will be quite popular among a distinct niche of people or region of the world, but little-known elsewhere -- like a musical artist that is boasted to be "big in Japan". The Traffic Report provides a bevy of examples this week.

hi

i have fix now on list of turkic dynastys and countries its okey now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mehmeett21 (talk • contribs) 10:52, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

DPL Bot.

Thank you. Your DPL bot is rather useful!Name Omitted (talk) 04:35, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

DPL

Thank you for giving me much education on Disambiguation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gramalow (talk • contribs) 13:24, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 December 2014

Your bot uncovered disambiguation links in some of my recent edits. Very smart! I appreciate the time you must have put in to develop and maintain it. Dkoper (talk) 21:16, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 December 2014

DPL bot

Could your DPL bot have a language selection in order to scann others wikipedia ?. I'm specially interesting in a "List of disambiguation pages with links" from the catalan wikipedia. Could you, please, provide me ?. --Amadalvarez (talk) 06:53, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks so much Jaga

I have been working in my spare time mostly on the cardiology related entries. Unfortunately there is a lot of work to be done and i am not great at editing The good news are that i speak fluently 5 languages and in a few years i will retire.

Continue the great work

Francesco Santoni — Preceding unsigned comment added by Francionyc (talk • contribs) 17:09, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 December 2014

The Signpost: 24 December 2014

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Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!!

Hello JaGa, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2015.
Happy editing,
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:01, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of {{U|Technical 13}} to all registered users whom have commented on his talk page. To prevent receiving future messages, please follow the opt-out instructions on User:Technical 13/Holiday list

JaGa

Thank you. I didn't know I'd done that, and in fact I'm not quite sure what you mean. Is there anything I need to do to reverse this disambiguation link ?

Regards

Ndstead (talk) 15:01, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi JaGa, in the same line as User:Amadalvarez (13 December 2014), I would like to know if the DPL bot could be available for the Spanish Wikipedia.

Best regards,

15:48, 29 December 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marianorico2 (talk • contribs)

The Signpost: 31 December 2014

Wikidata, Wikimedia's free linked database that supplies Wikipedia and its sister projects, is gearing up to submit a grant application to the EU that would expand Wikidata's scope by developing it as a science hub. The proposal, supported by more than 25 volunteers and half a dozen European institutions as project partners, aims to create a virtual research environment (VRE) that will enhance the project's capacity for freely sharing scientific data.
A "study tour" by the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation for the purpose of researching development projects has been the subject of much controversy and criticism in the Indian press... The Indian Express described a government report about the trip as having copied extensively from the Wikipedia articles for Port Blair and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Unlike last year, Wikipedia viewers seem to have embraced the Christmas spirit, with three topics in the top 10 (and eight in the top 25) focused on the holiday season.
Chris Troutman has been a campus ambassador for six classes in the Los Angeles area over the past four consecutive semesters. He is currently a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at University of California, Riverside.
Three articles, three lists, fifteen pictures, and one topic were promoted.
A paper titled "Factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in Higher Education" uses the technology acceptance model to shed light on faculty's (of Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) views of Wikipedia as a teaching tool.

Disambiguation

Hello, JaGa. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.—  !dea4u  11:39, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 Done I've converted the pages to go to dispenser's website. Let me know if I've missed anything. --JaGatalk 04:28, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Adopter

Hi my friend! I ask you to be my adopter. Can you do it for me?Hananeh.M.h (talk) 11:17, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 January 2015

ISIL hostage quotes Wikipedia in propaganda video; AirAsia articles draw complaints regarding Flight 8501; Article errors reveal US political approaches to Wikipedia editing; Rhode Island Governor numbering debate
User:Jakec has been a Wikipedia editor for over two years and has been a writer of many recent Did you know articles on Wikipedia, including multiple articles on rivers and streams in the state of Pennsylvania.
Two lists and twelve pictures were promoted.
We end 2014 and and start 2015 with the normal array of year-end activities, including movie watching with Bollywood film PK (#1) topping the list, followed by The Interview (#2), 2014 in film (#10), and five other films in the rest of the Top 25, plus a number of articles about the subjects of these films. We celebrated the New Year by singing "Auld Lang Syne" (#11), or perhaps watching Adam Lambert (#9) perform with Queen. But we could not avoid a final tragedy with the crash of Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (#4) on December 28.

Hi JaGa - I work for a non-profit theatre in Manhattan which is interested in using your New River Gorge image in promotional materials. Could you let me know how to get in contact with you. All the best, Kyle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quee1797 (talk • contribs) 22:23, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

You have my permission, but please credit me. --JaGatalk 06:12, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Siddha

Kindly make siddha a disambiguation link, as many different pages use work siddha like Siddha (Hinduism) (current), Siddha, Janakpur, Siddha (Jainism), Siddha medicine, Siddha Yoga & many more.talk 04:06, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the help

Hi. This is anzukiller - I think you left me a message a few hours ago today asking me to rectify what sense of the word 'straight' I meant with the correct link on a page I edited - Fit (2010 film). Looked at the disambiguation page for the word - did not realize there was so many meanings! Have now corrected straight to link to 'heterosexual'. Thanks for notifying me, it helps to have a reminder for those small things I miss.

Anzukiller (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 10:09, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 January 2015

Ever since the Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident in 2005 triggered the restriction against un-registered editors creating new pages, WikiProject Articles for creation (AfC) has stood in the breach. The WikiProject's purpose is to review draft submissions from IPs (and frequently new registered editors) to sort the wheat from the chaff.
This anniversary issue, the WikiProject report is returning to WikiProject Articles for creation for one of our largest interviews ever. Last looked at in 2011, AfC is the method used by unregistered or new users to create articles, and provides an effective filtering system to remove all unsuitable or unsourced submissions to save them needing to be found and deleted later.
On the fourteenth anniversary of the founding of the English Wikipedia, the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has announced that its prestigious annual Erasmus Prize will be awarded to the worldwide community that has built Wikipedia.
Wikipedia turned 14 on January 15. A few media outlets took note of the anniversary.
Six featured articles, five featured lists, and sixteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
It's a grim certainty what topic most interested Wikipedia viewers this week. The horrific attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine have drawn anger and resolve from around the world, and also the attention of an English-speaking world that had previously never heard of it.

The Signpost: 21 January 2015

A letter from departing Signpost editor-in-chief The ed17.
Celebrating and remembering ten years of community journalism.
Over seventy years ago, the US destroyer Mahan was patrolling off Ponson Island in the Philippines when eleven Japanese kamikaze aircraft appeared over the horizon and attacked. George Pendergast, who edits Wikipedia with the username Pendright, was eighteen years old when he joined Mahan '​s crew in April 1944.
The municipality of Esino Lario in Italy will host Wikimania 2016.
Our contributor opines that WikiProjects are failing to live up to their potential. WikiProject X is a new project funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant that focuses on figuring out what makes some WikiProjects work and not others.
Quotes from Jimbo on Wikipedia in education; net neutrality; preserving musical heritage; Wikipedia in audio; a cheerful vandal credits high school with papal visitations.
Nine articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted.
ArbCom's three open cases are GamerGate, Wifione, and Christianity and sexuality.

The Signpost: 28 January 2015

The editorial board is not complete without you. We are looking for Wikipedians with all kinds of experience levels.
The English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee has closed the colossal GamerGate arbitration case, whose size—involving 27 named parties—recalls large and complex cases of the past.
A murder suspect edits Wikipedia, Russia is kidding when it says it wants to censor Wikipedia.
Does the committee facilitate stability... or is it a circus. Two users, two perspectives.
It is pretty clear what the theme is this week: people.
A paper presented at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition last year presents an automated method to improve Wikipedia's coverage of theatre plays.
As with last year, music stars were the majority of celebrities on the list, as their frequent concerts and media appearances keep their flames alight longer than others of their stripe.
Ten featured articles, three featured lists, and 22 featured images were promoted this week.

DPL bot

Just wanted to say that I absolutely LOVE your bot!!!! Saved me so many times. Thanks a ton! --Zackmann08 (talk) 17:18, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Apology

Hello!i am aGastya and I found that DPL bot is operated by you! I am really really sorry that by mistake, i added link to a Disambiguation page! It is all my fault as i thought I would watch the page on 1st February but unfortunately my internet provider was unavailable. Will fix the link just now. By the way thank you to inform me! aGastya 17:56, 2 February 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AgastyaC (talk • contribs)

The Signpost: 04 February 2015

The Signpost talks with the creator of a grant proposal to create an on-wiki exclusive space for women to discuss issues.
Hundreds of posted jobs offer money to edit Wikipedia. These jobs appear to be thriving, with tens of thousands of dollars changing hands each month.
Media fallout continues from the January 29 decision in the mammoth Gamergate arbitration case.
The American heartland appears to dominate the Report this week, with Chris Kyle leading the Report.
Three featured articles, five featured lists, and thirty-nine featured images were promoted this week.
One case has been closed, two cases remain open, a third is undergoing a review, and three clarification or amendment requests remain open.
A small band of dedicated editors seek to improve articles relating to a less lively topic. If you haven't yet guessed, this week's focus is WikiProject Death.
The Signpost has arranged to mirror Tech news from the Meta-Wiki.
A new Signpost feature.

New toolserver problem

For some reason I can't identify, the latest run on the Untagged Uncats list is picking up a bunch of pages that it shouldn't be; this time, it's pages that are in Template:, User:, User talk: or Wikipedia: namespace, and mostly pertaining to bots and other technical issues — and one of them is even a redlink which has never actually existed in the first place, yet is still sitting on the list for some reason nonetheless. As usual, there appears to be no other viable way to make them drop from the list at my end, so you'll need to do some coding adjustments again. The pages at issue are:

  1. Template:Cratstats
  2. Template:RfA tally
  3. User talk:108.69.192.159
  4. User talk:Fatemi127
  5. User talk:War wizard90
  6. User:ClueBot III/Detailed Indices/!Viva Nueva!
  7. User:ClueBot III/Detailed Indices/Talk:HIV/AIDS/Archive 11
  8. User:ClueBot III/Detailed Indices/User talk:Jazzeur/archive4
  9. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Antidepressant
  10. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Benito Mussolini
  11. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Caligula (film)
  12. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Mircea Eliade
  13. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Pakistan-administered Kashmir
  14. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Sokal affair
  15. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:United States Constitution
  16. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Encyclopaedia Britannica
  17. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Aqua regia
  18. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Benito Mussolini
  19. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Caligula (film)
  20. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Olbers' paradox
  21. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Pakistan-administered Kashmir
  22. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Sokal affair
  23. User:Cyberbot I/Status
  24. User:Cyberbot I/adminrights-admins.js
  25. User:Cyberbot II/Status
  26. User:Cyberbot Trial Bot/Status
  27. User:Cyberpower678/RfX Report
  28. User:Cyberpower678/Tally
  29. User:GA bot/Stats
  30. User:VeblenBot/C/Good article nominees
  31. User:VeblenBot/C/January 2015 peer reviews
  32. Wikipedia:Dashboard/Help noticeboards
  33. Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy/Article alerts
  34. Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia/Article alerts
  35. Wikipedia:WikiProject New York Yankees/Article alerts
  36. Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia/Science and education in Russia task force/Article alerts
  37. Wikipedia:WikiProject Serbia/Article alerts

- Bearcat (talk) 20:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

  • This is odd. I grabbed one at random and checked it in the enwiki_p database on Tool Labs, and it (Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy/Article alerts) only exists in namespaces 4 and 5. No way that should show up in my reports. I'm going to wait until tomorrow to see if this clears up on its own. If not, I'll dig deeper. --JaGatalk 21:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
For what it's worth, there's a deletion discussion pertaining to User talk:Fatemi127, in which there's been other evidence raised that some part of Wikipedia's server architecture does seem to think that page is sitting in articlespace instead of usertalkspace — if you start typing "User talk" in the search box, it's the one and only page that immediately comes up as an autocomplete option while you're still in the middle of the word "talk", before you've even begun to type the actual name of any actual user. So there's a database corruption issue somewhere, even if neither of us have been able to actually identify it yet. Bearcat (talk) 19:21, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
We do have some corrupt data. Look at what I just found.
> select * from enwiki_p.page where page_id=45227381\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
           page_id: 45227381
    page_namespace: 0
        page_title: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anatomy/Article_alerts
 page_restrictions:
      page_counter: 0
  page_is_redirect: 0
       page_is_new: 1
       page_random: 0.412627455356
      page_touched: 20150207154319
page_links_updated: 20150203232203
       page_latest: 644378189
          page_len: 5072
page_content_model: wikitext
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
Since it's in namespace=0, it's considered an article with Wikipedia: in its title. Bad. I did a query for articles (namespace=0) with titles starting with "Wikipedia:" and got 35 results. So this is the problem. But who cleans it up? --JaGatalk 00:56, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
And by clean it up, I mean delete. The result seen above doesn't correspond to the page in WikiProject Anatomy. It's just trash in the database. --JaGatalk 01:10, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
I've got no idea how to get it fixed at the server level. It could be raised at a technical forum like Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) or as a bug report, but I've no idea how long it would take the technical gurus to fix that (or if it's even fixable at all.) I suspect it's a relatively new problem, however, since (a) this never happened before, (b) the Fatemi talk page was first created in early January this year, (c) the nonexistent IP talk page pertains to a user whose sole Wikipedia edit was on January 27 of this year. Unfortunately, I suspect you may end up having to do one of two things at your end rather than waiting for a server fix.
  1. If the toolserver isn't already programmed to directly exclude pages in those namespaces, but is simply relying on the assumption that pages in those namespaces would never get into its batch in the first place, then you might have to code those namespaces into the programming as exclusions.
  2. If it is already programmed to directly exclude pages in those namespaces but these are still getting through anyway, then the full page titles might have to be individually hardcoded as manual exclusions.
I do sometimes wish I knew anything at all about programming, so I could contribute to actually fixing these problems when they arise... Bearcat (talk) 05:51, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
It looks like this issue has been raised at Wikipedia:Village_pump (technical)#API namespace issue / page reported existing in two namespaces, but no one has offered any explanation yet. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:17, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 February 2015

Please take this survey about the Signpost.
Also: GLAM-Wiki Conference; Ombudsman Commission announced; Slovak Wikipedia now has 200,000 articles
Edina edit war illustrates disconnect between new and experienced editors; Wikipedia is "astroturf's dream come true"; Canadian government investigating even more Wikipedia editing; academics on Gamergate as "clash of civilizations"?
Two articles, three lists, and twenty five pictures became featured.
Wikipedia presents itself as a repository for the world, and while that is a noble sentiment, it is still true that, Conservapedian complaints notwithstanding, the English language Wikipedia is very often the American Wikipedia, and never has that been more apparent than this week.
This week, we bring three of the most recently created WikiProjects to come into being on the English Wikipedia. While many long-established projects are becoming inactive, (as we have covered before), that doesn't stop new ones forming every now and then to cover a topic that a group of editors feel should be better cared for.
This week, we feature subjects that are about love of all kinds.

Disambig updates not finishing

Hi, JaGa. I noticed that the disambig update didn't finish yesterday afternoon or this morning. I tried running late_dab_procs.php several times today, and every time it crashes after create_results_list() with the message "ERROR: CALL dab13_store_results(): MySQL server has gone away." Usually these MySQL server errors are intermittent, but this one seems to be occurring repeatedly at the same point in the script. I can't find anything particularly relevant in any of the logs. Is there anything you can see that might explain it? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:14, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Still no luck. As an experiment, I tried commenting out everything in dab13_store_results() except for the "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS" statements, and still got the same error message. So my belief is that the database problem is occurring before that process gets called. However, that doesn't really tell me very much. It would be great if you had a chance to look in to this. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:13, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
I'm swamped right now, but I'll try to take a look this weekend. --JaGatalk 02:20, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. Out of desperation, I commented out the line in dab_procs.php that calls create_results_list(), and that allowed the rest of the tasks to complete. But this is not a great solution since it disables some functions of the bot. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:44, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

wasted reference

Hi. In "Maya Maize God", the third reference under "References" has been interfered with in such a way that it no longer shows the title of Taube's article ('The Classic Maya Maize God: A Reappraisal'). The thing is too complicated for me to solve. Could you help out here? Thanks!Retal (talk) 13:23, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Dab-solver bot back!

Thank you for getting this back into operation - it is such a time and energy saver!!!!Parkwells (talk) 22:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 February 2015

Go Phightins! shares his thoughts on admin attrition and the size of the administrative backlog.
The Australian ("Wikipedia not destroying life as we know it", February 11) and Times Higher Education ("Wikipedia should be 'better integrated' into teaching", February 10) reported on a recent study performed at Monash University, titled "Students’ use of Wikipedia as an academic resource – patterns of use and perceptions of usefulness".
The authors of this report inform us that the "goal in the Revision Scoring project is to do the hard work of constructing and maintaining powerful AI so that tool developers don't have to. This cross-lingual, machine learning classifier service for edits will support new wiki tools that require edit quality measures."
Darwin Day is observed annually on February 12 to commemorate the life and work of scientist Charles Darwin. Here is a selection of images of life on the Galápagos Islands, where Darwin made key observations leading to his scientific theory of evolution by natural selection.
This week saw the 57th Annual Grammy Awards (#13 on the Top 25) held on 8 February dominating the traffic chart, as music lovers checked out Sam Smith (#3) picking up four awards, Beck taking album of the year, and performances including Sia (#9), Madonna (#11), and Annie Lennox (#16). But Valentine's Day (#1) proved the perfect time for the release of Fifty Shades of Grey, with the movie coming in at #5, the book of the same name at #2, and the primary actors at #14 and #15.
Five pictures, six lists, and seventeen pictures were promoted
The most significant item on ArbCom's agenda this fortnight has been the closure of the Wifione case and subsequent fallout, although the fallout from GamerGate continues to linger.

Louis, duc Decazes

Hi JaGa: the article about Louis, duc Decazes was created under the incorrect appellation of Louis, duc de Decazes - how to correct? Many thanks indeed. M Mabelina (talk) 01:57, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 February 2015

A report from the external research firm Lafayette Practice has declared that the Wikimedia Foundation is the "largest known participatory grantmaking fund." Several concerns have been raised with the report, the phrase being used (participatory grantmaking), the now-former Wikipedia article on that phrase, and an alleged conflict of interest by WMF staff members.
Doc James tells us that "The one good thing that has come out of all of this is that Wikipedia’s content passing a major textbook publisher review processes is some external validation of Wikipedia’s quality."
Andrew McMillen's February 3 profile of and his quest to rid Wikipedia of the phrase "comprised of" has been one of the most widely circulated and commented upon media stories about the encyclopedia recently.
Eleven articles and twenty pictures were promoted in the week covered by this report.
The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme, as well as an article you could help improve. This week, we feature subjects that are "far from home".
An odd juxtaposition this week, as interest in Fifty Shades of Grey coincided with the observance of the Chinese New Year and the annual festival of penance, Ash Wednesday.
A monthly roundup of Wikimedia-related research
This week's project is on a youth activity, one of the largest in the world; its project is commensurately large, containing around 136 active editors. It's WikiProject Scouting, a group of editors whose remit is everything relating to the Scouting movement, which has around 42 million members worldwide and celebrated the centenary of its founding only eight years ago.
Editor's note: the Blog will be a recurring Signpost section that will highlight a recent post from the Wikimedia blog, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. This week's installment is written by Philippe Beaudette, the Foundation's Director of Community Advocacy, and focuses on planning for the future of the Wikimedia movement.

The Signpost: 25 February 2015

A report from the external research firm Lafayette Practice has declared that the Wikimedia Foundation is the "largest known participatory grantmaking fund." Several concerns have been raised with the report, the phrase being used (participatory grantmaking), the now-former Wikipedia article on that phrase, and an alleged conflict of interest by WMF staff members.
Doc James tells us that "The one good thing that has come out of all of this is that Wikipedia’s content passing a major textbook publisher review processes is some external validation of Wikipedia’s quality."
Andrew McMillen's February 3 profile of and his quest to rid Wikipedia of the phrase "comprised of" has been one of the most widely circulated and commented upon media stories about the encyclopedia recently.
Eleven articles and twenty pictures were promoted in the week covered by this report.
The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme, as well as an article you could help improve. This week, we feature subjects that are "far from home".
An odd juxtaposition this week, as interest in Fifty Shades of Grey coincided with the observance of the Chinese New Year and the annual festival of penance, Ash Wednesday.
A monthly roundup of Wikimedia-related research
This week's project is on a youth activity, one of the largest in the world; its project is commensurately large, containing around 136 active editors. It's WikiProject Scouting, a group of editors whose remit is everything relating to the Scouting movement, which has around 42 million members worldwide and celebrated the centenary of its founding only eight years ago.
Editor's note: the Blog will be a recurring Signpost section that will highlight a recent post from the Wikimedia blog, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. This week's installment is written by Philippe Beaudette, the Foundation's Director of Community Advocacy, and focuses on planning for the future of the Wikimedia movement.

Cloud Computing Comparison

Hello, recently added more information to the page Cloud computing comparison further to which got a message saying that there was a Dablink with a note that This section may be confusing for the reader. TO address this have added and modified the section of the page. Can you please tell me a. have i do it correctly? b. can that note of confusing to reader be removed? - please help.Parmarvishalb (talk) 09:41, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

I cleared up the disambig for you, but I didn't place the "confusing to the reader" tag, so I'm not sure what that was about. --JaGatalk 16:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the DPL Bot Note

It's really appreciated. I would likely never have noticed I'd linked to the disambiguation page by accident.Carl Henderson (talk) 23:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Missed conversation

Hello JaGa, it seems you missed a conversation about a suggestion for DPL bot, which now got archived at User talk:DPL bot/Archive 6#Disambiguate "we" → "this bot". (I wish I had a bot to write this for me. ;-) — Sebastian 05:15, 18 February 2015 (UTC)    (I stopped watching this page. If you would like to continue the talk, please do so here and ping me.)

The Signpost: 04 March 2015

We received a large amount of feedback in our survey indicating that our readers found the idea of contributing to the Signpost difficult due to our opaque internal structure.
The Wikimedia Foundation released their Quarterly Report last week covering the three months October to December of 2014.
Last week, my colleagues on the Signpost produced a news report covering a minor controversy about a report commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation. Written by the staff of The Lafayette Practice, a French research firm, it proclaimed the WMF as a leader in the practice of participatory grantmaking.
The Report this week is dominated by the Academy Awards, taking the top 4 spots and 13 of the Top 25.
In the first of what the author hopes will become a regular feature of the Arbitration report, the Signpost speaks to veteran arbitrator Newyorkbrad, who recently retired from the committee after almost seven years of arbitrating. The Signpost was keen to hear his thoughts on his time on the committee and on the past, present, and future of ArbCom.
Before being indefinitely blocked, User:FergusM1970 made more than 4600 edits on the English Wikipedia, spread over eight years. In the last two years, he was paid to edit several articles for clients that included the Venezuelan energy company Derwick Associates. We spoke with him about his experiences.
Numerous news outlets are reporting that the domain loser.com now redirects to the Wikipedia article for rapper Kanye West. Page views on West's Wikipedia article skyrocketed to almost 250,000 views on March 2, up from less than 19 thousand the previous day.
Two featured articles, four featured lists, and 38 featured pictures were promoted this week..
The Signpost has arranged to mirror Tech news from Meta-Wiki to supplement the long-form tech coverage in our infrequent Technology report..
Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in February, to commemorate the history of the African diaspora. For this occasion, Wikipedians worked together to honor black history and to address Wikipedia's multicultural gaps in the encyclopedia, hosting Wikipedia edit-a-thons throughout the United States, from February 1 to 28, 2015.

City of Refuge (Abigail Washburn album)

Hey! Can You Change City of Refuge into City of Refuge? National Names 2000 (talk) 10:14, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

I'd say Cities of Refuge is going to win out per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, but you can give it a shot at WP:RM. --JaGatalk 16:26, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Actually, I think (maybe) they were just asking you to fix the link they added to Abigail Washburn, which I've done. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:09, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 March 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation gave the Signpost an advance copy of the results of a survey of English Wikipedia readers regarding Wikimedia fundraising, due for official release today.
The community has arranged a number of commemorative initiatives focused on the gender gap, under the banner "WikiWomen's History Month".
ThinkProgress tech reporter Lauren C. Williams wrote a long article on how the Gamergate controversy has spilled over onto Wikipedia.
In an effort to protect and maintain the privacy of Wikipedia's thousands of editors, the Wikimedia Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the United States' National Security Agency, Department of Justice, and the Attorney General.
A dull week, with only three new entries in the top 10; a UFC champion, a Google Doodle and a Hindu festival involving people throwing powder at each other (though that does sound fun).
Six featured articles, three featured lists, and forty featured pictures were promoted this week.
I continue to be excited about the Core Contest because I see it as a way of encouraging the expansion of broad articles that are typically neglected by our article improvement incentives.

Thank you very much for catching the Amazon disembiguation (sp) on our Dorian Awards page! :)

Much appreciated. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blurbadeeblurb (talk • contribs) 23:30, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 March 2015

We announce with sadness and gratitude that Signpost publication and newsroom manager Pine will be stepping back to focus on other Wikipedia and Wikimedia-related endeavors.
This process is now entering its long-awaited final phase with the upcoming SUL finalization, scheduled for April 15, less than a month away. ... Wikimedia Foundation chief talent and culture officer Gayle Karen Young announced her retirement from the Foundation this week. Young will be replaced in that role by interim chief operating officer Terry Gilbey. According to the Foundation's job description for the title as it was applied in the past, Gilbey will be in charge of "overall administration and business operations of the Wikimedia Foundation."
On March 13, Kelly Weill of Capital New York revealed that numerous Wikipedia edits originated from 1 Police Plaza, the headquarters of the NYPD. Most of the attention has focused on a number of their edits to articles about incidents of alleged police brutality and controversial police practices.
The publication of the Wikimedia survey findings on fundraising questions came three months after significant concerns were voiced about the design and wording of the December 2014 fundraising banners and e-mails.
Four featured articles, four featured lists, and thirty-five featured pictures were promoted this week.
If not for Kayne West's dubious repeat at #1, the 2015 Cricket World Cup (#2) would have made the top spot, albeit in a generally slow news week.
* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:34, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

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"Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Gang of Four (band), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Sara Lee (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles."

YES, this has ALWAYS been a most peculiar shortcoming of Wikipedia, especially at this late date.

While I am certainly prepared to concede that I could and should have thought of the likelihood that the particular link in question, Sara Lee, would have at least one more obvious reference to the well-known brand name, the site frankly puts the onus ENTIRELY on users to second-guess whether variations of a given link may, in fact, exist. Unless, that is, by some remote chance my latest version 7.1.4 of Safari browser running on Mac OS 10.9.5 is possibly failing to invoke some Javascript or other means of automatically cueing a drop-down menu by which users would logically be alerted to such variations and thereby given the blatant option to select the appropriate one for the edit at hand.

RRawpower (talk) 09:42, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

What do you mean now with this grumpy reply? The Banner talk 11:43, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

Last week the WMF announced the release of its long-awaited open-access policy.
Once when I was young, growing up in the 1990s, my father pulled his collection of railroad slides out from the basement, set up his projector, and shared a glimpse into American railway history with our family.
Four featured articles, three featured lists, and twenty-two featured pictures were promoted this week.
The Wikipedia Commons annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded, with 6,698 people voting, its largest participation yet.
This week's list is reminiscent of lists from the early days of this project: a preponderance of famous faces, Reddit threads, and Google Doodles.
The authors attempt to answer the question "Who are the most important people of all times?" Their findings clearly show that different Wikipedias give different prominence to different individuals.
A university gives a top Wikipedia editor free and full access to the university library's entire online content—and the Wikipedia editor, who is unpaid and not on campus, then creates and improves Wikipedia articles in a subject area of interest to the institution.
* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:25, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost, 1 April 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation this week released a State of the WMF report, a 38-page "snapshot" of where it is and where it wants to go in the future.
TruthRevolt targets another editor; edit stage right; the Nine Best Hoaxes to Have Hit Wikipedia
Six featured articles, first featured lists, and twenty-four featured pictures were promoted this week.
The Report is more of a mix of random topics than usual this week. The top spot is taken by Bhutanese passport, a Wikipedia article which contained a crazed spoken word version which drew widespread attention.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will announce later today that it will begin accepting edits by mail for all of the projects under its scope, including Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.
The Wikimedia Commons' annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded. The first 53 top-voted entries were disqualified because they were all nude.

The Signpost: 01 April 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation this week released a State of the WMF report, a 38-page "snapshot" of where it is and where it wants to go in the future.
TruthRevolt targets another editor; edit stage right; the Nine Best Hoaxes to Have Hit Wikipedia
Six featured articles, first featured lists, and twenty-four featured pictures were promoted this week.
The Report is more of a mix of random topics than usual this week. The top spot is taken by Bhutanese passport, a Wikipedia article which contained a crazed spoken word version which drew widespread attention.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will announce later today that it will begin accepting edits by mail for all of the projects under its scope, including Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.
The Wikimedia Commons' annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded. The first 53 top-voted entries were disqualified because they were all nude.

Protection at Nike, Inc.

Would you consider lifting the semi-protection at Nike, Inc.? It's been almost four years since you protected it indefinitely. Pending changes could work as a step down if you're still concerned about vandalism. Conifer (talk) 21:20, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 April 2015

Wikipedia has been gravitating towards a vehicle for business and product promotion for too long.
March saw a number of high-level hirings and executive reorganizations in the Wikimedia Foundation.
The venerable CBS news program 60 Minutes profiled Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community.
How appropriate that the theme of Easter week would be resurrection from the dead.
Four featured articles, seven featured lists, and 23 featured pictures were promoted this week.
With Holy Week having recently drawn to a close, it is an apt time to examine WikiProject Christianity, which was created in 2006, and boasts over 200 active members.
The Committee has voted on the 2015 appointments to the Functionary team.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.
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