Isochrone
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Question from 1dagnetarletarse on ResearchGate (22:49, 20 July 2024)
editWhy do fish have fishy odors naturally? --1dagnetarletarse (talk) 22:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- @1dagnetarletarse maybe a better question for the reference desk, or Google :) – Isochrone (talk) 23:27, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
"extenuate" as an example of an emerging contronym
editGreetings Isochrone! I noticed just now that you had liked my recent edit to the page for contronym, where I added extenuate to the list of English examples. Another user has rejected my edit and appears immovable. Would you consider weighing in on the entry I've created on its Talk page? Jrtuenge (talk) 00:35, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
edito hai!
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25
editHey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
edit- inline-diff-inline-patrol by Ponor is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Inline diffs and inline patrol. Hopefully we won't need this script anymore soon, with the WMF's focus on the backlog...
Improve a script
edit- Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
- Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
- 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.
- We want...
- ...watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
- ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
- ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work
Requested scripts
edit- Automatically delink all duplicate links within the same section per MOS:LINKONCE.
- Collapsible parentheses in body text, which had a ridiculously long original request title and was accidentally moved to WP:US/L by me. Oops!
- 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).
- Preview an edit under the mobile viewport on desktop, with perhaps MediaWiki:Gadget-mobile-sidebar.js used for inspiration.
- ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests. Jeeputer and Nardog have been the most active on the page in the past five months.
Updated scripts
edit- After the RIIJ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
- Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
Newly maintained scripts
edit- Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
- BilledMammal/Move+ expands the powers of User:TheTVExpert/rmCloser to include common procedures done with the art of moving pages.
- On a holiday? Somewhere? Gotta learn ye ABCs? CanonNi/StatusSetter puts the fun into Enterprisey/StatusChanger with a quadruple more statuses. That starts with a C!
- In our continuing trend(s?), DaxServer/DiscussionCloser forks DannyS712/DiscussionCloser to make it work. Sadly, this is the end of our lexicographic combo.
- Andrybak:
- user-tabs-on-contribs is a fork of User:Enterprisey/user-tabs-on-contribs for Vector 2022.
- Archiver is a fork of User:Enterprisey/archiver with automatic calculation of the destination archive subpage and with support for non-Vector skins.
- Quite coincidentally, Elli/OneClickArchiver has been forked from User:Equazcion/OneClickArchiver to work with the mw:Heading HTML changes.
- FlightTime/OneClickArchiver forks the same thing but also no longer nonsensically prepends {{clear}} to page archives.
New scripts
edit- Aaron Liu: MoveTop adds a different padlock topicon for each level of move-protection.
- Andrybak/Not around can help you mark talk pages of inactive users with {{not around}}.
- BrandonXLF/AddCopied automatically tags talk pages of pages you've copied between with {{copied}}.
- Bugghost/UserRoleIndicator adds text labels (which default to emoji) to user links that label the user's usergroups. Wow, that's a mouthful
- CanonNi/AlertAssistant adds a Twinkle-style dialog for alerting users about contentious topics.
- CFA/AttributeTranslation automatically tags articles translated from other places with appropriate attribution.
- In the defense of the 'pedia, the humble Jeeputer/defconIndicator adds the WP:WIKIDEFCON status to the toolbar.
- Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
- Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
- fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
- TheTechie/Help Me Tool is a quick and easy way of responding to {{help me}} requests.
- Per MOS:CONFORM, ZKang123/TitleCaseConverter converts all citation titles to... title case, unfortunately.
Question from Basharat254 (11:33, 1 August 2024)
editHello, My dear mentor, hopefully you will be fine. I'm a new editor of wikipedia here and wanna write biograpgy of one of the person whos has passed away recently. he was a senior doctor and his contributions are listed in many a famous and authoritative institutions' websites. please guide me how should I start? thanks a lot in advance. regards: basharat ali --Basharat254 (talk) 11:33, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Basharat254, welcome to Wikipedia.For doctors, it is important that the person you are writing about meets the criteria on this page. Generally, if they have not published works that have had a significant impact in their respective field, they are not sufficient notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. For general article advice, please see Help:Your first article. Thank you! – Isochrone (talk) 00:58, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot . Basharat254 (talk) 10:26, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
Question from De Almeida Richard (22:20, 1 August 2024)
editHola quería saber sobre una donación de Maria Elizabeth Schaeffler --De Almeida Richard (talk) 22:20, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Joseph Waksberg Wikipedia draft page
editHello Isochrone,
I just resubmitted the page after editing to remove any instances that I thought could be copyright infringement of an interview with Waksberg from the journal Statistical Science. I really hope this passes muster since it's the 5th revision of the page.
If you still see copyright issues, could you please note exactly which sentences are a problem.
Thanks
Rvstat43 Rstat43 (talk) 16:16, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Rstat43 After some changes, I have approved the article. I have removed some very excessively detailed information, and the in-text citations you included (we instead use numbered, indexed citations which they have been replaced with).From what I can tell there are no longer any copyright issues, but in the future please ensure that you use sources completely in your own words, and they in no way have even similar phrasing to the source text.Thank you for your article! – Isochrone (talk) 20:09, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Guilded screenshot 2021.png
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Question from Atulsingh.ind (10:59, 5 August 2024)
editHello I am looking to edit a page about history of bhumihar community in india. The history presented is scarce and biased and also based on rumours and not on the facts which is accepted in the article. I want to learn how to edit it or even if you could do it that would be in great interest of humanity. Because rumours and biased facts are very dangerous in this age and wikipedia is not expected to spread rumours as it has a reputation and people believes in it. --Atulsingh.ind (talk) 10:59, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
Question from Sophia Systems (10:21, 10 August 2024)
editHello Isochrone (sorry if that's not your username, I can't see it in the pop up). I have always loved Wikipedia, and now I finally feel like I have something to contribute. However, I also want to learn how Wikipedia can help me build and model my own knowledge bases and databases. Are you familiar with any such private use? --Sophia Systems (talk) 10:21, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Sophia Systems Welcome to Wikipedia. I am confused as to what your use case is. If you want to contribute, Help:Introduction is a helpful guide. What do you mean by "knowledge base"? As in, downloading a copy of Wikipedia, or rather, creating your own "wiki"? – Isochrone (talk) 11:24, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
Question from Finceptcorp (04:33, 15 August 2024)
editI have my own registered startup in India how can I make my own wiki page related to it? Please guide me it will help a lot --Finceptcorp (talk) 04:33, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
Question from OWMatPaget (22:55, 15 August 2024)
editHey Isochrone! Nice to e-meet you. :)
I am updating the Starship Troopers: Extermination page with the game's updated art, but it was rejected shortly after I uploaded the art. How do I do this without getting rejected? --OWMatPaget (talk) 22:55, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @OWMatPaget and welcome to Wikipedia :) You have unintentionally stumbled on one of the most complicated parts of contributing: copyright.
- In almost all cases, we require images to allow commercial use, even with modification, to anyone (though usually with attribution). In very limited cases, like this, we waive the rules for non-free files.
- As uploading these is very complex, I am happy to do so for you. You can link it here. In the future, you can also request on the files for upload page that this is done for you.
- If you want to learn how to do this for yourself, I am happy to teach you. – Isochrone (talk) 09:03, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
It’s okay to delete the Template:User Minor template
editI don’t feel comfortable having this up on Wikipedia, so the article can be deleted. If it gets my account into trouble, I hope not. I wish to keep adding to Wikipedia daily. Bennett1203 (talk) 23:17, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Bennett1203, you're in no way in trouble :) You had no malicious intent so it's fine. – Isochrone (talk) 08:21, 19 August 2024 (UTC)