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@HypeBoy: Hello. Thanks for bringing the issues to my notice. I was aware of that would happen because of the way you had denied the bot, and I was going to fix it soon. Regarding the repeated messages: the bot runs every night at 03:03, UTC. During every run, it was looking for KiranBOTmsgID:1253441495 on your talkpage, as part of the original message. The msg ID is unique to each message. As you were removing the message along with msg ID, the bot was thinking the message was never delivered, hence it was re-adding that message. I have fixed both these issues now, and no-one should receive duplicated messages. —usernamekiran (talk)17:32, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@HypeBoy: no. you denied it correctly, but my bot was looking for a few other templates, and not the one you had inserted. I have fixed the issue now - now it looks for all variants. In short, you do not have to make any changes, now all the variants of "nobots" have been covered. —usernamekiran (talk)18:31, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for working on the AMP links task - I really appreciate it! Sorry for not following up with it after I filed the request; I've been dealing with some personal issues that have taken up most of my time. Cheers!
@Synonimany: oh. I understood it now. I was thinking about the link leading to the page, or page title. I have fixed the typo now. Thank you very much for pointing it out —usernamekiran (talk)19:28, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there! There is a wikipedia page for my boss (Samir Brikho) that I just tried to edit 2 parts. 1 was his nationality (that worked) and 1 under personal life he asked me to change it as it says he is divorced but his current status is married and he has 3 children. How I do not want to cite a copy of his marriage certificate, is there anyway I can upload it to a moderator to check and allow it? Thank you for your time --CalleyMcClure (talk) 11:57, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MSGJ: Hi. That task finished around the same time. There were very few errors, I will soon fix them up in a few days time. I apologise for the inconvenience, and the errors. —usernamekiran (talk)16:01, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Batsun removed some content I had included in an article ("Nonet for Strings"), for legitimate reasons I believe. Via the "Talk" section, he explained why. I just replied to him in "Talk," and asked a question. Could you review this briefly and provide me with your expert opinion? Grateful if you are able and willing to do this. --Rhys.L.Williiams (talk) 18:53, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Question from Taniya130704 (04:02, 9 November 2024)
Hello Usernamekiran! The thread you created at the Teahouse, Teahouse thread notification bot is back, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days.
@ExclusiveEditor: Hi. Sorry, but currently no, that is not be possible. But given the low occurrences of you receiving the archival notification, I think it would be more practical to use an archive bot like Lowercase sigmabot III or ClueBot III, and using {{DNAU}} and manually archiving the notifications to your subpage. —usernamekiran (talk)12:54, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I read your post on the RRfA, which I agreed with, but had a question: what is IDHT ? I checked the list of Wikipedia abbreviations, and it’s not there ? Thanks. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 00:17, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [1]
View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [2]
Updates for technical contributors
On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [3][4]
In depth
There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.
Meetings and events
Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.
—usernamekiran (talk) 19:28, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
