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Changes to Special:Tags

Could an administrator please change the tag for "computer-aided-tagging-revert" such that it can also be "Applied manually by users and bots". Background is that I'm planning to use that tag for this: User:SchlurcherBot/Mass revert computer-aided tagging (further details are also availible on this page). Thanks Schlurcher (talk) 13:45, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

I would suggest to use a new tag for this for easier differentiation between manual and bot revert. GPSLeo (talk) 15:57, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

That would of course work as well. Could you set this up and let me know the tag name? Schlurcher (talk) 16:27, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Could someone please generate a tag and set up the corresponding messages?

• Add "computer-aided-tagging-mass-revert" on Special:Tags
• Change the edit change summary given in MediaWiki:Tag-computer-aided-tagging-mass-revert to "Computer-Aided Tagging mass revert
• Change the edit change detail description given in MediaWiki:Tag-computer-aided-tagging-mass-revert-description to "[[User:SchlurcherBot/Mass revert computer-aided tagging|Mass reverting]] revisions created with the [[Commons:Structured data/Computer-aided tagging|Computer-Aided Tagging tool]]

Thank you. --Schlurcher (talk) 21:35, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

@Multichill: Can you help, it seems we lack admins with experience generating tags? Thanks --Schlurcher (talk) 16:44, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

@Schlurcher:  Created. Let me know once you are finished so I can disable it for future use. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 17:11, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

@CptViraj: Thanks. I hope to remember to ping you once this is finished so it can be deactivated again. --Schlurcher (talk) 20:54, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

User:GabrielCQX002

Multiple uploads from copyrighted website after multiple notifications regarding copyvio warnings. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 14:47, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. I warned the user – (s)he was not warned previously. Taivo (talk) 15:21, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Now one week block after uploading next copyvio. Taivo (talk) 10:43, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Request to update upload wizard

Hi there, the second session of Wiki Loves Birds is going to start on February 1, 2024. So, I need help updating categories in the upload wizard of Wiki Loves Birds. - Nirmal Dulal (talk) 09:44, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@Nirmal Dulal: Do you want to change 2019 to 2024 in campaign? Additionally, do you have {{Wiki Loves Birds 2024}} ready to be created? ─ The Aafī (^talk) 10:05, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@TheAafi: Yes I want to change 2019 to 2024. I created {{Wiki Loves Birds 2024}} plz check and correct the error too. - Nirmal Dulal (talk) 10:33, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@Nirmal Dulal: I changed 2019 to 2024, and disabled the wizard until it starts. I have asked @Romaine to check if there are any other things to be taken care of. They are a master in this. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 10:05, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

@TheAafi Thank you. @Romaine is the creator of that wizard, hope he will take care. --Nirmal Dulal (talk) 13:28, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Possible POTD error

This how it looks on my end - FlightTime (open channel) 17:11, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@FlightTime: It's the picture, see File:Caracas building.jpg. -- CptViraj (talk) 17:19, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

OMG lol, now I see that its a bunch of windows :P Thanx. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:21, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@CptViraj: Can you delete the screenshot please. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:21, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Done. No problem :D -- CptViraj (talk) 17:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for what you do! - FlightTime (open channel) 17:37, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Inscrutable revisions by a user

I have no clue why, but Fry1989 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user keeps on changing a sort key from the useful "Variations" to just "V" for no discernible reason. E.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category%3ASVG_variations_on_flags_of_Western_Sahara&diff=841185764&oldid=823447654 Is there something I'm missing here? Do we have a local policy that we should only use a single letter for sort keys or something? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:53, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@Koavf I have no clue why this is being done either. I see no need to jump to AN; asking on their talk page should have been sufficient. But since we're already here, I've notified Fry on their talk page for you, as is required. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 22:43, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

I apologize: you're correct that escalating here is skipping a step or two and I also didn't post about this thread as well. I thought I had post to his talk several weeks ago when this nonsense started, but I was mistaken. Pardon me. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:46, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Do we have a policy of using a single letter? No. Do we have a policy of using a full word either? Also no. The question should not be why I shortened it. I did so as part of a much wider categorisation drive affecting hundreds of related categories. The question should be why Koavf is so insistent that a single letter is insufficient. Except where very specific sortkeying is required, a single letter is generally sufficient and that remains my position. Category:SVG flags of Western Sahara only has the one subcategory, the sortkey does not need to be so precise. The letter V accurately sorts Category:SVG variations on flags of Western Sahara under the letter V. Maybe if it had to compete with several other categories and V alone caused them to fall out of alphabetical order, using a full sortkey would make more sense, but it does not as of now. There is also the case of Koavf having insulted me. Fry1989 ^eh? 17:14, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

if i understand mediawiki correctly, the two ways of sorting here are essentially:

• VariationsSVG variations on flags of Western Sahara
• VSVG variations on flags of Western Sahara

as this user has pointed out, "Maybe if it had to compete with several other categories and V alone caused them to fall out of alphabetical order..."

it's more natural to sort with the full word. any benefit a single letter has, the full word has, but the single letter cannot pre-empt potential future confusion. RZuo (talk) 17:22, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Protected edit requests is backlogged

Category:Commons protected edit requests is significantly backlogged, to the extent that a request I made to correct a factual error in the caption of File:JAPAN AIRLINES A350-941 JA13XJ HND 30-APR-2022.jpg (which was protected due to appearing on the main page of multiple Wikipedias) went unanswered for over 11 days. The protection has since expired so I've made the change myself, and luckily the error wasn't particularly consequential, but this is not always going to be the case. Picking one request at random, File talk:PL road sign T-34.svg has been awaiting administrator attention for nearly five years. Either this needs to improve or the system needs to be marked as historical and people directed to request changes by some other method that admins actually pay attention to. Thryduulf (talk) 10:37, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

This sometimes turns out to be a huge headache. This should have a simple solution. Several edit-requests happen to be now in archives such as this, for example, Talk:Main Page/Archive 4#Images Sounds Videos ... and? ─ The Aafī (^talk) 19:34, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

There are several what seem to be uncontroversial flag requests that were made a while ago (some for modifications to the file, some to the description page) as well that have gone unanswered for more than a year. HapHaxion _{(talk / contribs)} 15:17, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Any idea why {{Qfi}} doesn't get expanded at Commons talk:Questionable Flickr images#hans castorp2010 (and other places on that page)? User:LX, you were the last to edit that template so you may have a clue. - Jmabel ! talk 21:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

I did a few of these, but it is very hard sometimes to tell which are controversial and which aren't. @HapHaxion: , I realize you aren't an admin, but if you can point at which requests you think are uncontroversial, you might more easily get admin attention for those. - Jmabel ! talk 21:20, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Based on what I can see off a preliminary search there are a some files that just need the description page edited (Flag of Poland, Flag of Peru, X logo 2023) while others seem to have suggested coding changes (Flag of Somaliland, Emblem of Vietnam and the Olympic rings without rims), both of which either with consensus or without opposition. HapHaxion _{(talk / contribs)} 21:33, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Flag of Poland, Flag of Peru and X logo 2023 have been  Done. Abzeronow (talk) 21:50, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

please also edit MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-HotCat.js#Could_a_warning_popup_appear_when_adding_a_DAB_cat_while_using_HotCat?. RZuo (talk) 22:06, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

I believe that takes some higher (or at least different) level of permission even than being an admin, because I cannot edit that page. - Jmabel ! talk 22:31, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

I try to peck away at these when I can, but most of them require comfort working with SVGs or complex templates and that's not me. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:54, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Hoping to get a different admin to follow up on a discussion

In the discussion at User talk:Björn Söderlund, Sw3dPix#Category:Photo challenge of Björn Söderlund, Sw3dPix, 2023, User:Björn Söderlund, Sw3dPix seems to think I've done something wrong and harmful to Category:Photo challenge of Björn Söderlund, Sw3dPix, 2023. I totally fail to see the problem. Clearly I'm not the one to follow this up further. Would someone else please take this on? - Jmabel ! talk 17:44, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

They were missing their rainbows which are apparently in this category that they themselves created. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 19:27, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Ameisenigel

Hi, kindly remove patroller rights from Ameisenigel (talk · contribs), as they're promoted to license reviewer see here. Thanks C1K98V ^{(💬 ✒️ 📂)} 11:44, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done ─ The Aafī (^talk) 12:09, 16 January 2024 (UTC)