User talk:Koavf

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CoF template URL update

I have updated Template:CoF to fix the URLs, all template links are now working properly again. Thanks for working on this although it took me a while to notice due to inactivity. Hopefully this will be useful to all. Thanks for your work. Koumz (talk) 18:21, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

@Koumz: Thank you for doing all the real work. Here's to cataloging fish in 2015. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:35, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

The problem is actually a little bigger than that even, as it affects all CAS links and not just the fishes ones, but I will come at least briefly out of my semi-retirement to fire up AWB and fix them. Koumz (talk) 19:40, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Great! I more or less exclusively create and/or edit ichthyology related articles, so this is very good news. Applause! –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 19:45, 26 December 2014 (UTC).

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Lectotype images for Homo sapiens sapiens

• Someone with greater wiki technical and legal skills than myself either needs to contact Uppsala University for permission to upload to Wikimedia Commons, or upload a copy of the JPG directly to Wikipedia/Wikispecies as a fair use of the copyrighted image. Nicole Sharp (talk) 04:42, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

  Talk:Homo sapiens sapiens#The picture

  commons:Commons:FAQ#Copyright questions

  • @Nicole Sharp: I have actually tried to make a mosaic picture of humans before which shows different skin tones, ages, sexes, etc. because that would be a good representation of how humans look rather than choosing a single human image. Your point is a good one. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:44, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
    • My personal opinion is that it would be impossible to find a single phenotypic image for which all humans would agree upon to represent themselves as a species. Even the famous Pioneer plaques sent to represent the human species to extraterrestrials had human genitalia censored by NASA. From a biotaxonomic perspective however, it is difficult to disagree with the historical contributions of Carl von Linné to the field, despite being a white (cishetero) European and perhaps not the best representative of human diversity. His spouse however would arguably make a better historical lectotype than him, since females are more common within the species. With female and male being the most common sexes present in the species, accounting for about 99% of the population, it would be good to have images of both Carl and Sara von Linné, and not the just the male of the couple. Nicole Sharp (talk) 05:00, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
      • @Nicole Sharp: Sure but having a variety of faces and body types would be even better, since humans have variation amongst them. I'm not sure how or why Linneaus' sexual orientation is relevant (in fact, how do you even know it...?) since that isn't something that is displayed in a picture, but many common differences in traits can be observed with a mosaic of images made up of many types of humans. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:24, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
        • (Typo for parenthetical subimportance corrected above.) I was just expressing the number of sociological privileges that von Linné enjoyed to enter such a prestigious position in the biological sciences. I agree that an image attempting to express human biogenetic diversity would be best, but I think it would be impossible to do practically. I think using the established human lectotype of von Linné is an acceptable compromise due to his historical importance to biological taxonomy. I am only arguing that an image of his spouse should also be added as a human paralectotype so that the numerical-majority female sex can be represented. Of course, sex and sexuality of historical figures is notoriously difficult to know. For all we know, one or both of the von Linnés could have been intersex, since human intersexuality was poorly understood at that time, particularly chromosomal science. All we know is that they were sexually compatible enough to successfully reproduce offspring. Nicole Sharp (talk) 00:05, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Administrator?

Dear, J.A. Knapp! Would you accept to be an Administrator on Wikispecies?
Please see Administrators for information about Admins rights. If you are positive, I can nominate you on the requests for adminship on your behalf.

Best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 21:09, 16 November 2015 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: I would be honored. Thanks! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:57, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you @Koavf: please confirm here that you accept the nomination. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 09:12, 17 November 2015 (UTC).

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Again, congratulations. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 04:10, 25 November 2015 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: Thanks a lot. I hope that I can be of service. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:19, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Template:Zootaxa

Hi Koavf,
there's something wrong with this template, see Template:Bai, Xu & Dai, 2015 or [[Cameraria_%28Lithocolletinae%29]]. There's a line feed too much. Can you change this? --Murma174 (talk) 08:52, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

P.S. I'm not sure, but the problem coud be here in the last two rows: Instead of

or {{zootaxa|year|number|start page|end page}} otherwise</nowiki></noinclude>
<noinclude>[[Category:Templates]]</noinclude>

write:

or {{zootaxa|year|number|start page|end page}} otherwise</nowiki></noinclude><noinclude>[[Category:Templates]]</noinclude>

Hope this helps. Thanks --Murma174 (talk) 17:19, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

@Murma174: That was exactly it. Good eye! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:58, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Patrol stats

Thanks to Cgt on danish Wp, we can now see statistics on patrolling: https://cgt.name/patrolstats/wikispecies.html Dan Koehl (talk) 19:53, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Please note that the patrolling stats URL has now changed from the da:WP user Cgt's personal web page (listed above) to a URL within the Wikimedia project itself, more specifically https://tools.wmflabs.org/patrolstats/specieswiki.html at Wikimedia Tool Labs. The old "cgt.name" URL no longer works without a proper SSL certificate. Best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 22:50, 17 April 2016 (UTC).

Patrol stats

Thanks to Cgt on danish Wp, we can now see statistics on patrolling: https://cgt.name/patrolstats/wikispecies.html MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:07, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Stegana

Hi Justin. Your points on the pump are well meaning, but please look at his recent edits. He is once gain trying to impose his chosen formats onto WS as well as annoying PeterR sufficiently as to force him to move off our site. The trouble with Thorpe is that he treats WS as his chosen domain and to hell with the rest of us. Many of his edits in the last couple of days are both helpful and show a lack of knowledge. In addition, he is acting in a petty manner by refusing to listen to others and going along on his own sweet way, particularly when it comes to formats and ignoring consensus. As PeterR puts it he is not as good as he thinks he is and IMO he has made few original contributions in the last few years preferring to concentrate on categories and getting involved with the contributions of others! I also think he is perhaps trying to provoke edit wars. Do we need a checkuser ASAP? Andyboorman (talk) 18:45, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

@Andyboorman: It's pretty obvious--I just did it. It's sad. He has a lot to offer but just refuses to not argue with others. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:47, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

I was tempted as I added stuff to his talk page! Thanks and regards Andyboorman (talk) 20:11, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

@Koavf: Same old duck I guess Eviota. Not a new tactic continuous creation of "new" users, but how difficult is it to stop? Andyboorman (talk) 11:33, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Template:Sp

Hi,

Please could you look at my suggestion here, and the demo edit mentioned there, and see what you think? We need a way to apply the class without the DIV (but in each instance of the template instead); I fear that's not achievable. If so, we may need a bot run to add a pair of top & bottom templates Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:25, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Template:Languages

Thank you for fixing my edit to the {{Languages}} template.^(diff.) That was a very odd error of mine: I must have made my edit using data from an old version of the template – inadvertently of course! Again, thanks. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 07:10, 12 July 2016 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: No problem--thank you! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:14, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Contributions

Hi,

Stohner is changing my contributions again without communicate it with me. Even the references (after our agreements). See Myriopleura isocentra. I have already change it back, but maybe you can see his changes. PeterR (talk) 08:58, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

@PeterR: It looks like you created Myriopleura isocentra and then he edited it but there wasn't edit-warring here. If there's some disagreement, you can post to his talk or try to find some middle ground. I don't see what the problem is in this case. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:03, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Apology

Justin,

Herewith I excuse me for my remark to block you. I was and I'm very frustrated that Stho002 came back. I know what that means for me: a lot of nag. I was angry because you unblock him without consultation with others. I hope you except my apology. PeterR (talk) 07:44, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

@PeterR: No worries, man--you didn't do anything wrong. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:52, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Italian translations

Hi, I wanted to start translations in Italian at Wikispecies:Localization: can you enable it please? Thank you --Ruthven (talk) 11:16, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

@Ruthven: Grazie! You can post it here, on Wikispecies talk:Localization or email it to me. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:30, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm doing some translations but I need a quick information: where are messages like MediaWiki:Paleornithologist/it used? Those should be lower case in Italian unless they are used just after a punctation mark. --Vituzzu (talk) 21:43, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

@Vituzzu: Strictly speaking, we should have entries for both "Name" and "name" as well as "Zoologist" and "zoologist" but since there is so little actual text on Wikispecies, it's not that critical. I'd be happy to copy and paste any Italian translations you have and start adding them to our interface. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:18, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Uhm I see (@Pigsonthewing: too), so if needed you can fix/fork those messages by yourself since the rule is pretty straightforward. Basically in Italian adjectives and nouns of things/activities/almost-anything-but-proper-nouns are lower case. So you'll say "the species was firstly described by zoologist Koavf in october 2016". By the way I'm using my stewards userrights to put translations directly into mediawiki's namespace avoiding bothering you with requests to move translations, I hope this is not a problem to local policies, otherwise I'll put them in talkpages. --Vituzzu (talk) 21:45, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

@Vituzzu: Go for it! Thanks a lot. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:47, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

New Zealand categories

Hi, I've seen you're engaged in cleaning the geographical categories. There remain more than 9200 categories in the form of "Category: New Zealand xxx" and "Category: xxx (New Zealand)". Can you please mop these too? Mariusm (talk) 14:00, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

@Mariusm: I've got a list of 11,000 that I'm working through, including those. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:07, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Template:Nadi

Hello, I reverted part of your edit in this template. In my opinion, it is better to have the distribution information only in a collapsible box. In cases like Ochna it would take too much space in the article. As there already have been some discussions, if distribution data should be included or not, it certainly is better to present it not too bulky. Regards --Franz Xaver (talk) 11:34, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

@Franz Xaver: Thanks for your note. It's a pity that we have anything that is collapsible, since it is inaccessible to users and doesn't work with some browsers/rendering agents. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 13:40, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Category:Publications of

Koafv,

I see that you are updating the Category:Publications of, but we have already decide not to use them in the reference template. We place the reference templates in the author pages under Publications. One of the persons who delete the category in the reference templates is me. So what you are doing is overdone. PeterR (talk) 06:25, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

@PeterR: Are you saying that the consensus is to delete these categories? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:26, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Yes that is and place the reference templates under the authors.If you look in the new reference templates, you don't see Category:Publications of any more. See Template:Roberts, 1941. PeterR (talk) 08:30, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

template NADI

Hello, and @Orchi: @Franz Xaver:. I think your edits on this template need discussion. For example, I do not think that a collapse box approach reduces accessibility, but it does reduce the size of the taxon page making it more readable. However, I do not often use the template, so perhaps others should make there views known as well. Andyboorman (talk) 19:06, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

@Andyboorman: I'll revert it for now and post at the pump. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:07, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Good plan, thanks Andyboorman (talk) 19:08, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

ISBN's

Any chance of fixing up the remaining templates with AWB?

https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=1000&offset=0&ns10=1&search=+insource%3AISBN&searchToken=ez8pw306lmoemftv38ir9f4go ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 01:28, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: Slowly but surely. Thanks a lot. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:11, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

The equivalent for articles was https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&profile=advanced&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Fisbn+%2Fi&searchengineselect=mediawiki&ns0=1 Over 7000 entires means this is going to need a bot to get them converted at any appreciable rate of progress... I don't know any bot writers..ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 18:24, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

KoehlBot run by 'crat Dan Koehl should be able to take care of this. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 19:31, 4 January 2017 (UTC).

I will definitely have a look and let you know. The question is if I will need to apply for that function through voting, in order to not make an error? There was some angry comments before reg the Bot... Dan Koehl (talk) 20:00, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

In my opinion, no. I remember all the fuzz that were stirred up before, but that should be considered history. Nowadays the bot is registered after having passed all tests and getting approved, so it should be able to run just like any other approved bot. And as usual, if someone disapproves or spots an erroneous edit they are welcome to flag for this on KoehlBot's user page, again just like with any other bot. As a side note and regarding bots in general rather than KoehlBot, I sometimes have a difficult time understanding all the commotion regarding the bots. There are a mere total of 23 approved bots on Wikispecies, most of them inactive. As a comparison the English Wikipedia runs 312 bots, many of them very active and dealing with an immensely much bigger number of pages than Wikispecies. Yet there seems to be peace in enWP bot land these days... –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 03:02, 5 January 2017 (UTC).

Documentation

Hi! Can you explain, why you deleted and removed the documentation from {{Acevedo-Rodríguez, 2005}}? --Franz Xaver (talk) 07:18, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

@Franz Xaver: I'll respond here. I think you are correct that this should have documentation since it has different functionality. Sorry and thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:20, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Category:Publications of D. Telnov

We had made the decision to remove all categories except the Categories for museum and author taxa. I see you have delete publications of but not the category itself. See Category:Publications of D. Telnov. Why not? PeterR (talk) 11:59, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

@PeterR: As I recall, I deleted several subcategories of Publications by author but maybe forgot some... Not sure. They are all gone now. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:02, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

The Category:Publications of D. Telnov was deleted by Justin ("Koavf") at 16:56, 9 January 2017. This can be seen in the Deletion log. (As a note the author name should have been Dmitry Telnov, not "D. Telnov", but the category was named in accordance with the naming scheme used by its creator, i.e. Mr. Thorpe.)

As for the decision to remove all categories except the ones for museums and authored taxa, @PeterR: I have asked you before and I will ask you again: where can such a decision be found? I can't find a link to any page where we have made such a decision. I do not doubt you but I can't find all of the links on Wikispecies, so please help me. If instead Justin or Franz Xaver can provide me with such a link that is of course very welcome, too. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 18:11, 9 January 2017 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: We're in the same boat. I really want to come to an understanding with Peter but I'm having a hard time figuring out what he wants exactly. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:13, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Reverted deletions

I've reverted some of your recent deletions. Please see User talk:Pigsonthewing#Odd link on the CAT:SPEEDY page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:50, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Repositories by country categories

Please can you explain this edit and your edit summary of "no scheme for this"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:54, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: These were only redlinks and there is no greater categorization scheme of "x by country"--I don't know that we should have any but I think we should have a discussion about "by country" categories. For instance, we have deleted thousands of categories that are geographic for taxa but we have a few for taxon authorities by country. As I posted on your talk about a different template, if you are in favor of restoration, then I am happy to see you restore it (or do it myself if you'd prefer) and then we can discuss issues related to geography at the Pump. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:42, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Paratype and holotype

Hi Justin why do these terms redirect to Repositories? Surely they should have hit the Dictionary. I have cured the redirects, but seems odd maybe a misapplied bot? Regards Andyboorman (talk) 20:27, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

@Andyboorman: No clue. I just redirected it when I split the repositories article. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:29, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

I agree that both "holotype" and "paratype" should redirect to Dictionary. As for the earlier redirects to Repositories, please see VP archive 38: "Holotype" redirecting to the dictionary instead of to the repositories. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 08:45, 11 January 2017 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: Thanks. I just redirected a page when I moved it. I want to clean up some of the dross around here. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:48, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Incertae sedis as Taxon Pages

Hello @Koavf: You have recently created Incertae sedis (Roupaleae) as a redirect from Unassigned Roupaleae. I refer you to the following discussion and poll Incertae sedis on Taxon Pages - the last of a few may I add. Regards Andyboorman (talk) 19:06, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

@Andyboorman: I think you are mistaken: I did not create the page but simply edited it to have a correctly formed name (i.e. per this comment which I only just now saw: "One final point: the Incertae sedis(Proteoideae) page is wrongly titled, missing a space before the bracket; if consensus is for the page to be kept, it will have to be moved to add the missing space.") I was just putting a space before the parenthesis. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:09, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Apologies. I will have a think about this. It might be best to revisit the whole family looking for new material on its classification since our last discussions. Thanks Andyboorman (talk) 19:20, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

@Andyboorman: No problem. As you may know, I'm not knowledgeable about taxonomy, so I have a kind of outsider's perspective on the nuts and bolts of this site. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:22, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Confusing deletion

Zt3777.1.1 This has over 100 transclusions--why did you delete it? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:57, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

• Because this reference template is not after our agreements. I Have made a new one after our agreements. If I update species or genera, I update the reference templates to. PeterR (talk) 06:31, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
  • Template agreements I'm still a little confused: did you remake it already? If so, I will replace the old template with the new one to clear out all of these redlinks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:42, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
    • I'm not a programmer. So I have done nothing. If you want known more ask Mariusm. PeterR (talk) 17:51, 16 January 2017 (UTC).
      • First you say "I have made a new one", and then you say "I'm not a programmer. So I have done nothing." How can you both make a new template, and also not make a new template?? –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 01:53, 17 January 2017 (UTC).
        • Peter, when you change a template's name which is used in many pages, please leave a REDIRECT on the old name. Mariusm (talk) 07:31, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
          • Marius, normal I do this, may be I have forgotten it to do with this one. He could sent me a list for updating. PeterR (talk) 07:45, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
      • On 18 july 2015 i have make a new one for Zt3777.1.1 namely Yang, Wang & Li, 2015. I have replace the new template by the species. See Edosa bicolor . total 24 pieces. PeterR (talk) 05:54, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

┌─────────────────────────┘ Justin, as you know the {{Zt3777.1.1}} template has over 100 transclusions rather than just 24. Please see User talk:PeterR#Confusing deletion for more recent information regarding this issue. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 14:29, 21 January 2017 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: I did see that. Still confused. But yes, there were 100 redlinks, so something needed to be done. I don't have the expertise of you or Peter, so I'm glad someone could confirm and fill in the reference. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:21, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Application for Checkuser

Referring to earlier discussions regarding a local Checkuser policy, I herebye apply to get Checkuser user rights, although we havnt reached a consensus reg Checkuser policy, but I want to give it a try if I can get the required votes. For a request to succeed a minimum of 25 support votes and an 80% positive vote are required (subject to the normal bureaucrat discretion). Requests for checkuser run for two weeks, and I ask kindly that somone starts the poll, like we do for adminship applications.

Please also note that CheckUser actions are logged, but for privacy reasons the logs are only visible to other Checkusers. Because of this, Wikispecies must always have no fewer than two checkusers, for mutual accountability. I dont want to suggest anyone, but hope that someone feel inspired and will step forward and also apply for checkuser.

My request to the Wikispecies community is here

Dan Koehl (talk) 01:40, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Another application for Check User

As pointed out above by User:Dan Koehl, we need at least two Check Users for this wiki. I am nominating myself and would be happy to receive any feedback that you have to give (positive, negative, or neutral). Wikispecies:Checkusers/Requests/Koavf. Thanks. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:08, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Third application for checkuser

Further to recent messages, I am also offering to serve, so that we have three checkuser operators, to ensure adequate coverage in case one of the others is unavailable. Please comment at Wikispecies:Checkusers/Requests/Pigsonthewing. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:47, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Additional Checkuser Application

I also have added my name to those willing to be a checkuser. Please see my application here Wikispecies:Checkusers/Requests/Faendalimas. I listed this yeasterday but have been encouraged to do a mass mail. I would also take the opportunity to make sure everyone knows that any editor can vote but that it is imperative that as many do as possible, for all 4 of the current applicants, please have your say. Checkuser voting has strict policy rules regarding number of votes. You will have other messages from the other Users concerned you can also read about it in the discussion on the Village Pump - Wikispecies:Village_Pump#Application_for_Checkuser. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:53, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Standing for role of checkUser

Like some of our colleagues (who I support), I am offering to serve as a checkuser, not least to ensure adequate coverage in case one of the others is unavailable.

Please comment at Wikispecies:Checkusers/Requests/Pigsonthewing.

[Apologies if you receive a duplicate notification; I wasn't aware of Wikispecies:Mail list/active users, and sent my original notification to the list of administrators instead.] MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Templates

Koavf,

Whats happened with the templates from Rikio Sato? PeterR (talk) 16:35, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

@PeterR: I don't understand your question. That page isn't missing any templates except a few for names (e.g Rikio Sato Sato, r.) —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:38, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

I see the problem is over. All the author names where in read, Because the capital letters after the name became small letters. PeterR (talk) 16:17, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

@PeterR: Yes, they are just templates that did not exist. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:51, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

RFC on Checkusers

With one week to go I wanted to remind everyone of the importance of voting on the current CheckUser applications. They can all be found together on a single RFC: Wikispecies:Requests_for_Comment#Checkusers.

It is extremely important with votes such as this for everyone to be involved. There are strict rules in the Wikimedia Foundation Policy guidelines on these votes. I would urge people to have a good understanding of what a CheckUser does. This can be read up on here on the page discussing CheckUser's Wikispecies:Checkusers. Links on this page will take you to other policy information on Meta, HowTo for our site etc.

I would also urge people to look at our own policy development and some past discussion on this can be found here: Wikispecies_talk:Local_policies#Local_CU_Policy.

Wikispecies has in the past had issues that has required the intervention that is supported by the ability to do a CheckUser. Many of us are aware of this. The capacity to do this ourselves greatly speeds up this process. Although SockPuppetry can sometimes be identified without using a CheckUser in order to do the necessary steps to stop it or even prevent it requires evidence. We all know that sockpupets can do significant damage.

This is an important step for Wikispecies. It is a clear demonstration we can run ourselves as a Wiki Project part of Wiki Media Foundation. When I and several others first discussed this we knew it would be difficult at the time to meet all the criteria. We have only now decided to try and get this feature included in Wikispecies. By doing this it can lead to other areas where Wikispecies can further develop its own policies. In some areas we have unique needs, different to the other Wiki's. It is timely we were able to develop all these policies.

Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:15, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

CSS

How's your understanding of CSS? I have put {{Archives}} on my talk page, having imported the template code from en.Wikipedia. As you can see, compared to my talk page there, it's misaligned. I'm not sure what CSS needs to be imported. Can you help, please? I've also asked for an archiving bot to start work on Wikispecies. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:48, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Good, not great. As you can see, my first attempt didn't work but I'll keep at this. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:49, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Second time's a charm. I'm sure there are more elegant solutions but I woke up nine minutes ago and I have work in 70. I can take a look again if you want something prettier or simpler but this will probably have the behavior you want and is valid CSS/HTML. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:53, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. That's working, but I was actually thinking of importing the styles (in common.css?)from en.Wikipedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:15, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Ah, yes--that is what you explicit wrote above. Let me take a look when I'm back from work. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:25, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

┌─────────────────────────┘ @Pigsonthewing: I have imported several styles from en.wp to MediaWiki:Common.css. The template that you imported uses several classes and I just copied the associated styling for all of those. It maybe/kinda/should work but since it's CSS and I'm doing it, I'm sure that it won't. At the very least the <div> float works for now... I can definitely keep at it if you want. I actually have some web design that I am doing at the moment, so it's nice to sort through these frustrations. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:40, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Wonders never cease It worked. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:41, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Localization

Hi! You made a small mistake when you copied the hungarian version of words at Wikispecies:Localization.

Please, change Editor to Szerkesztő and Editors to Szerkesztők (because the Járőr means Patroller see: Wikispecies:Patrollers/hu for demonstration), and please change the Type data to Típus adat.

Thank you! BanKris (talk) 10:34, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

@BanKris: Actually, that page is mostly made by hand, but you'll notice that the line "Editor" is all in blue for every language because that term didn't need to be translated here at Wikispecies. It is translated over at translatewiki: and is a part of the MediaWiki software itself. (You can see this for yourself if you use other languages that no one here has translated like, "MediaWiki:Editor/br", which is Breton.) If MediaWiki:Editor/hu is incorrect, then it's incorrect across all MediaWiki sites. Go ahead and check any random wiki like, s:fr:MediaWiki:Editor/hu (which is the French Wikisource). So I'm a little reluctant to change that one since it is so widely used all over MediaWiki. Does that explanation make sense? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:02, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Request for vote reg use of BASEPAGENAME

The previous discussions regarding if we should subst:ing BASEPAGENAME and change all [[BASEPAGENAME]] into [[susbt:BASEPAGENAME]] did not really reach a consensus.

Please vote here on the Village pump!

If you are not sure on your opinion, you can read and join the discussion about the claimed advantages and disadvantages of using BASEPAGENAME

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:29, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikispecies:Checkusers/Requests/Koavf

You can close it and say something like "The poll is closed and now going through deliberation. Please do not vote on it." You added summary of the result and it gives the appearance that the whole thing is a done deal. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 20:58, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

@OhanaUnited: I posted that it is pending any community discussion the first time around and now I have added space below the poll for commentary. That seems plenty sufficient. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:01, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Acari deletion

Oh jeeze, I did that? >>;;; I think I had left it open after transferring some refs and I ended up deleting by accident while working through a bunch of speedies (same reason that Candidates for speedy deletion ended up deleted twice itself). Apologies, and thanks for noticing! Circeus (talk) 21:44, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

@Circeus: Accidents happen--that's why we have more than one editor! Thanks, man. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:50, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Koiwaya template

In view of the duplication it seemed sensible to have only one reference to this paper. I have restored it, but we now have two templates for effectively the same reference. I will see if we cannot set all links to just one version before disposing of the other. Accassidy (talk) 10:22, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Have reviewed all the links and brought them down to one template., deleting the duplicate. Accassidy (talk) 10:32, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

@Accassidy: Not sure if you knew this but you can redirect templates so that {{A}} is made up of #redirect[[Template:B]] and every time that someone inserts {{A}} into a page, the content from {{B}} will display. If I see more redundant templates, then I will certainly try to merge them (and, of course, fixing the redirect links is better but not necessary). Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:32, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

I know now. will try to keep it in mind...Accassidy (talk) 12:51, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

CU

Hi Koavf. Please take a look at your email and send me a reply. Thanks. Trijnstel (talk) 13:38, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Challenger categories

My Challenger categories have no relationship to former geographic categories. They are integrally connected to discovery and naming of taxa and are thus central to our work. Please restore them. Neferkheperre (talk) 17:53, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Template:Nyctemera (Nyctemera)

Koavf,

Please can you tell me what is wrong with Template:Nyctemera (Nyctemera)? PeterR (talk) 16:40, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

@PeterR: You put the template inside itself. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:21, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

@PeterR: More specifically you accidentally put curly braces around the taxon name instead of apostrophes — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Circeus (talk • contribs).

Translator admin

Iv been puzzled by your application for Translation admin, since: "Administrators are able to add (and remove) themselves to the group"? Is there something I have missed? Dan Koehl (talk) 08:18, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

@Dan Koehl: I cannot add/remove myself from this group, only IP block exempt, autopatroller, patroller. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:20, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikispecies Oversighter

Wikispecies has no local Oversighter. Since I had the communitys confidence regarding the previous application for Checkusers rights, as per local Oversight policy on META, I hereby apply to get Oversighters user rights, as a request to the Wikispecies community.

Application is located at Requests for Comment.

Please also note that Oversighter actions are logged, but for privacy reasons the logs are only visible to other Oversighters. Because of this, Wikispecies must always have no fewer than two oversighters, for mutual accountability. I don't want to suggest anyone, but hope that someone feel inspired and will step forward and also apply for oversighters rights.

Dan Koehl through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:01, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Oversight nomination

Please refer to Wikispecies:Oversighters/Requests/Koavf for a second Oversight nomination. Note that we must have at least two Oversigthers in order for anyone to have these user rights. All feedback is welcome. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:50, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Turkish Localization

Wikispecies:Localization/row please add: tr

• MediaWiki:Taxonavigation/tr : Sınıflandırma
• MediaWiki:Name/tr : Takson
• MediaWiki:References/tr : Kaynaklar
• MediaWiki:Vernacular names/tr : Yerel adlar
• MediaWiki:Synonyms/tr : Eş adlar

--Fagus --Fagus (talk) 09:16, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

See, Turkish Localization. Fagus (talk) 05:17, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Template:TalkX

Hi, Last January, you deleted Template:TalkX. It seems that it's used on several user-talk pages. Please review. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:55, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Done and done. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:08, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:22, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Code errors?

Something wrong here?

• https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:'_%2B_name_%2B_'
• https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:%27_%2B_%27DEFAULTSORT:%27_%2B_nounPhrase_%2B_%27,_%27_%2B_article_%2B_%27
• https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:%27_%2B_%27DEFAULTSORT:%27_%2B_lastName_%2B_%27,_%27_%2B_firstNames_%2B_%27
• https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Lang-%27_%2B_code_%2B_%27
• https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Main

Regards, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:44, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Possibly... but I copied and pasted the code from en.wp, so I'm not sure how to debug it and it seems like it works, for what it's worth. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:51, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Your request for comment

Would it be possible to create a modified Diceros bicornis incorporating your proposals using the sandbox? This then can be be placed as a link on your request, as well as the link to the current live page. This will help people visualise your proposal. Cheers Andyboorman (talk) 14:40, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

@Andyboorman: Good point. Unfortunately, you can't do a local test in just one page here, as it involves editing mw:Manual:LocalSettings.php and I can't access the server. I've posted an example there. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:03, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Is it true that you have been working here for ten years? Penny Rose Smith (talk) 10:56, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

@Penny Rose Smith: my first edit was in 2005. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:58, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Right, what made you interested, and what month did you start? Penny Rose Smith (talk) 10:59, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

@Penny Rose Smith: I linked my first edit above: it was December 2005. I got interested because I was editing Wikipedia and wanted to branch out from there to the sister projects. I started using Wikipedia in 2003. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:01, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

A lot has changed now. Penny Rose Smith (talk) 11:04, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

@Penny Rose Smith: Oh boy and how. For instance, you're here now. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:05, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Hahhahaa! That's funny! I only just recently just heard of this site... Penny Rose Smith (talk) 11:10, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

@Penny Rose Smith: Let me know how I can help. Tho Slumberland calls for now. Gnite, Penny. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:14, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Nowrap

Hi, Template:Nowrap isn't working, because the HTML class nowrap hasn't been defined. Can you do the honours, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:52, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: This means I have to edit the site CSS? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:55, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Yes. I thuoght that was something you did often. Have I misremembered? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:06, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: You have but my CSS skills are okay so I can give it a go, sure. If you want, feel free to undercut me. I'm doing something on en.ws and en.wb at the moment. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:29, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Input appreciated

Dear Koavf,

Your input as Translation administrator would be valued at Administrators' Noticeboard regarding discussions about Translators and Unpatrolled Pages. Dan Koehl (talk) 22:24, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! ❤

Your help was so helpful on the Village Pump! THANK YOU!!! GermanGamer77 (talk) 18:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

@GermanGamer77: I want this place to be welcome. Danke as well. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:40, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Deletion of "Accepted tribus names" category

Koavf,

Why have you delete Accepted tribus name? PeterR (talk) 08:40, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

@PeterR: See Wikispecies:Village Pump#Category:Accepted species name. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:45, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Justin, shouldn't we also delete Category:Accepted genus name, a subcategory of the now deleted Category:Accepted species names? –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 00:38, 6 August 2018 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: Agreed. Names should be assumed to be accepted unless otherwise noted. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:22, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Indeed. The category is now deleted. I've also deleted Category:Valid genus which redirected to it, and removed it from all taxon pages that used to link to it.^{(What Links Here?)} –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 11:42, 6 August 2018 (UTC).

"Deny"

There is a non-trivial history to that situation. I'm not going to revert your revert. But this situation no longer merits AGF, I assure you. StevenJ81 (talk) 11:43, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

I agree. The user account in question is indefinitely blocked from several wikis and for various reasons, together with no less than eight sock-puppets that are also indefinitely blocked. Any way: this particular case is closed, as far as I'm concerned. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 12:52, 8 August 2018 (UTC).

@StevenJ81 and Tommy Kronkvist: Thanks. I did not see him blocked locally or on Meta, so I assumed good faith. I agree that his nomination was ridiculous but I assumed that he could help with localization, since that was his main complaint. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:32, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

In these matters I always opt for the "Global account information", like this. That instantly gives you all the current user group- and blocking data for all of the wikis at once, instead of just checking a single wiki at a time. That information can then serve as a starting point for checking other logs of a more specific nature, such as for example user rename logs. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 18:35, 8 August 2018 (UTC).

Members of the Ten Year Society of Wikispecies editors

Koavf.

I don't see my name by Members of the Ten Year Society of Wikispecies editors.PeterR (talk) 19:26, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

@PeterR: Add {{User Ten Year Society}} to your userpage and you will. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:51, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Template:Anheader

Are we actually going to do anything with this? If not, maybe save it to userspace until its time to shine comes? Until then, it makes a weird blip in Special:UnusedTemplates because of its multiple translations, and I cannot delete it myself b/c of the translation aspect. Circeus (talk) 02:43, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

@Circeus: It is used on Wikispecies:Administrators' Noticeboard. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:42, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

A pox on templates that call other templates mutely. Because of {{Dynamite}} (what the hell name is that), {{Anheader}} registers as unused... alright, mystery solved Circeus (talk) 03:45, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

@Circeus: Agreed. Transclude it onto the archives and that solves the problem. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:49, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

┌─────────────────────────┘ @Circeus & Justin: This template also has a cousin named {{Tanheader}} which is used on Wikispecies:Translation Administrators' Noticeboard. The {{Dynamite}} template most likely got its name from its predecessor {{Translatable template}} which was originally created on Wikidata and use {{TNT}} as a redirect shortcut. Hence the "dynamite" connection.

Justin, something seems to have gone amiss when you added the {{Anheader}} template to the Admins' Noticeboard archives for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Or perhaps the template was altered after that, making it look bad on the archive pages. In either case, do you know how it can be fixed? Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 08:44, 15 January 2020 (UTC).

I saw that at the time and figured I would just fix it later but I'm too dumb and too distracted to do that, so removing is just easier. It's nice to have for navigation but we'll live without it. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:12, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Adding Sardinian to Template:Languages

Hi, I've translated the main page to Sardinian ("Sardu", ISO code: sc) a few months ago, but even though I made the request to add it to the list of languages, nobody has done it yet. Could you please do it?--L2212 (talk) 19:35, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Template:Repository link/testcases

Please restore Template:Repository link/testcases, and in general do not delete template testcase sub-pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:10, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

I'll happily restore it but I'm removing the redlinks that it generated. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:30, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

redirect

I forgot. thanks for reminding me. --Fagus (talk) 20:00, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

adding spaces between initials in taxon authority names

Please stop adding spaces between initials in taxon authority names. While this is a matter of personal style and preference (which I myself used to follow), the great majority of double initials do not have spaces between them. The style of no space between initials is used by numerous long-time editors and administrators and we all need to be following the same style format to avoid constant needless changes. Please check this random sample of such cases: D.P. Wooldridge, N.R. Campbell, Kaio C.C. Alevi, T.A. Al-Turki etc. all set up by administrators or long-term editors. If you disagree with my analysis of the situation, please present this for discussion in the Village Pump. If you agree with me, kindly undo your recent edits. Thanks and kind regards, Nytexcome (talk) 18:28, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Unblock log?

Hi Justin. We all of course know about the Block log, but do you know whether it's possible to produce any type of "Unblocked log" showing previously blocked accounts that have been manually unblocked (or changed) by admins rather than expired due to their time limit. Sort of a block log in reverse, if you see what I mean? If it can't be listed by the standard logs, perhaps this type of data could be extracted using some sort of wiki-voodoo in the Advanced Search function? –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 20:05, 6 March 2020 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: At the block log, there is "Block modification" and "unblock". Correct me if I'm wrong but this is what you're looking to get, correct? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:19, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Oh my… and LOL. :-) I usually check all menus and different search/log options quite thoroughly but somehow I've missed that one. Thanks. Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 11:33, 9 March 2020 (UTC).

Thanks

Thanks for your reversion, Yes, was a non percieved accident. Apologyze.--Hector Bottai (talk) 10:48, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Thumbs up emoji. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:41, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Email

Hello, Koavf. 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 at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{Ygm}} template.

--DannyS712 (talk) 22:30, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Special:Diff/7435777

Why did you remove the [[]]s? Isn't it common practice to print the title of the page in bold? 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 17:13, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4: Pages shouldn't link to themselves, instead, bold should be achieved with three apostrophes. Thanks for spotting this. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:27, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Phabricator settings

Hi Justin! I realize that this is a bit out of scope, but do you happen to know any swift and easy way to reset the user prefs at Phabricator to their default settings? All the best, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 14:31, 18 May 2021 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: No. Forgive me. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:01, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Thats's okay – thanks anyway. After all the Phabricator user interface (and software) is rather different than Wikimedia's, and I'm not sure there even is a feature to reset the preference settings. Thought I might as well ask you anyway, since you're the only WS user I know who have been contributing to Phab. :) Happy editing! Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 22:02, 18 May 2021 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: I don't think there is a way to reset them all, but most of the individual settings say what the default is, and you can just choose that --DannyS712 (talk) 01:24, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

@DannyS712: Yes I know. There's quit a lot of them though, so it will take some time to wade through them all. An equivalent to the Wikimedia feature "Restore all default settings (in all sections)" would have been an easier road to take, but given the technical differences I understand why such an option isn't readily available at Phabricator. Thanks anyway! Case closed. Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 05:21, 21 May 2021 (UTC).

It might also be related to Phabricator not being developed by the Wikimedia Foundation. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 20:36, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

┌─────────────────────────┘ Id est "technical differences" as I mentioned above. :-) Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 13:35, 24 May 2021 (UTC).

Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021

Greetings,

I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 27 June, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up your name under the appropriate section.

Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 15:06, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.

We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:19, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Wiki code in translations

Hi Justin. While doing some patrolling of the "Recent changes" earlier today I stumbled over this edit of a Chinese translation. I don't recall seeing anything like it earlier. I think that the two Chinese translations in the most recent edit are okay. If I'm correct they say 示例 → "Example" (as in "give typical example", "demonstrate") and 範例 → "example" (as in "exemplification"). However my question doesn't really involve the translation, but the wiki code. I don't think I've ever seen wiki code used in that way ever before, i.e.: -{zh-hans:示例; zh-hant:範例;}-

Is it correct? Looks murky to me... I'm asking you since I know by experience that you're usually very apt in dealing with these kinds of oddities. All the best, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 08:04, 23 February 2022 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: These are language conversion blocks made possible by LanguageConverter. This user is allowing for switching between w:en:Simplified Chinese characters and w:en:Traditional Chinese characters. I have no clue if the actual translation is correct, of course, but that's why it looks so funny. Great question. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:14, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks – especially for the conversion/Converter links. It seems I've got plenty to learn yet. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 08:20, 23 February 2022 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: As do I: isn't it exciting? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:21, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Error in ”Userdata” template

Hello Justin. Could you please have a look at Template:Userdata and try to figure out why blank spaces in user names must be replaced by underscores for the (last) "Global account information" link to work? If blank spaces are used instead of underscores only the first part of the user name is linked (eg. "Tommy" instead of "Tommy Kronkvist"). It's not the end of the world of course, but the "underscore workaround" may be hard for some users to figure out and the rendered result is ugly (in some browsers a few of the underscores are randomly bolded). See the collapsed section in the "Accounts under review" paragraph in this diff for an example. – Tommy Kronkvist (talk) 12:24, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

@Tommy Kronkvist You were using an URL instead of a direct wikilink. It should work after my edit. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 12:27, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, 1234. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:40, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Alternatively, the {{urlencode:...}} syntax used elsewhere in that template would have worked too. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 12:28, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello 1234qwer1234qwer4. Indeed it does work. Thanks! I guess it would be possible to change the link from Wikispecies Special:CentralAuth to meta:Special:CentralAuth? In my opinion the Meta-Wiki page is more "official" since the data regards the global account information. Just a thought.
–Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 12:43, 15 June 2022 (UTC).

You can prepend a "m:" before the wikilink to do so. Indeed the global account (un)lock log is only shown on the CentralAuth page on Meta-Wiki. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 13:22, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

 Done. Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 13:50, 15 June 2022 (UTC).

A question to all of Wikispecies checkusers

Hello Koavf. As a checkuser and an admin, do you have an opinion about the speedy deletion-request of this user page: User:Korosh Ardeshir Gabriele Rokni?

(This message has been sent to our other two checkusers as well.) Kind regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 10:23, 8 May 2023 (UTC).

That account is globally locked now and I have deleted the page. Thanks for asking. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:31, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Translations:Category:Wikispecies/1/sk

Hi, why have you undone my speedy deletion request? This page is not a translation. --Ameisenigel (talk) 06:09, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

I can't delete the category, as it contains legit content. The introductory text should be translated to Slovak, but it shouldn't be deleted: having a redlink category would be worse. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:14, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

 Done. Introductory text now translated. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 06:41, 17 August 2023 (UTC).

Just for the record: If you only delete one specific translation unit, the according page will not be deleted. Even if every single translation unit would be deleted, the according page will still exist with "0 % translated". --Ameisenigel (talk) 13:12, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

True. Thanks Ameisenigel. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 03:23, 18 August 2023 (UTC).

Interface Admin

Koavf I have closed your election to Interface Admin as successfull and granted the additional rights for you. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 00:11, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Merci, amigo. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:33, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Regrant the autopatrolled right

Hi, could you pls remove the autopatrolled right from the account Trongphu and regrant/moving it to the account Nguyentrongphu pls, also grant him rollback or patroller right if needed because he's moved his account to the account Nguyentrongphu, and he's now a guard on viwiki/viwikt, thanks. DefenderTienMinh07 (talk) 13:20, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

small ping to @Tommy Kronkvist: to resolve if Koavf himself were inactive. DefenderTienMinh07 (talk) 13:26, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

No need, I'm no longer active in Wikispecies. Thanks! Nguyentrongphu (talk) 13:28, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Not done Let me know how I can help. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:18, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Noted. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 06:30, 8 February 2024 (UTC).

Content model changing request

Hi @Koavf! Could you please help by changing the current 'CSS' content model of my user subpage User:Asked42/sandbox/styles.css to 'sanitized-css'? I want to use it for some testing purposes regarding the bn Main page. Thank you. Asked42 (talk) 17:11, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:47, 16 May 2024 (UTC)