User talk:Pppery

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 — billinghurst sDrewth 21:04, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

I guess making a post to Meta:RFH (but not Meta:RFD for some reason) makes me well-known. Pppery (talk) 21:07, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Or it was time you were welcomed ... or users with redlink talk pages stand out editing in RC and those who don't need to, shouldn't <grin>  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:48, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Restricted viewer access in WikiJournals

Hi. A few people mentioned the issue of restricted viewer access to some files, discussions, and user identities. A discussion was added at Talk:WikiJournal#Hidden_contribution and I thought I should notify you incase you wanted to further comment. I'm happy to add a note under your comment if you prefer, but I wanted to avoid spamming the discussion section. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 14:02, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Some oddities around Module:Documentation / Template:Documentation. Could you please assist?

Hello Pppery, could you please assist me with Module:Documentation? Template:Documentation invokes it and somehow is generating all sorts of lint errors, such as having tt, font, and center tags, yet I cannot find any? Do you have any idea why this might be happening? (an example of a tt error flagged that is just template call, same thing for center, example search). Thank you! --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 22:06, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: Linter is rather far from my area of expertise, but I think that that just means that there is a lint error in the doc page somewhere (in this case, there are <tt> tags in the parameters section of Template:Please see/doc and <center> tags in the parameters of Template:User from WMF project/doc). * Pppery * _{it has begun} 22:12, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Yup, that appears to be it! Thanks so much --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 22:14, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!

The redirect was a better idea than I had. I appreciate very much you taking the time. :D --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 16:52, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Notifying main contributors of the page about XfD

Hello.

It is generally considered civil to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the articles that you are nominating for deletion.

— en:WP:AFDLIST

In English WP, it has been consensus for years to extend the practice to all pages, not articles only. Where is my notification? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 18:23, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

I see no point in notifying indefinitely blocked users, because they can't respond. You can see from my user talk namespace contributions that I do generally notify the creators of pages I nominate for deletion. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 19:20, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

I obviously can respond. It’s you unwilling to listen. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 05:53, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

BTW you and Fastily fouled up the only live example of table concatenation at en:Wikipedia_talk:Lua/Archive_1 #Returning the concatenation of numerous words. Note that I don’t seek undeletion; I indeed seek apologies. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 21:17, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Issues with AfroCine MassMessage list

Hello Pppery -- I wondered if you could help me with something. I'm trying to remove my Wikipedia user page from this AfroCine MassMessage list. However, my attempted edit is being repeatedly perceived as spam (it won't allow me to properly unsubscribe). Could you remove me from this list? Alanna the Brave (talk) 00:20, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Done * Pppery * _{it has begun} 00:21, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas 2021

Gifnk dlm 2020 (chat) wishes you a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Hopefully this greeting has made your day a little better. Spread WikiLove by wishing another user Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Much love! -Gifnk dlm 2020 Merry Christmas 🎄(talk) 12:32, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Identifying Lobby Teams

Hi, You archived my Community Wishlist Survey 2022 contribution, but I feel I did not express my case clearly enough. Certainly I am aware of tools like masz, but I am more concerned with corporate efforts rather than individual efforts, and such approaches are not subject to stylometric analysis; instead they are more likely to be identified via analysis of relations between editors, as well as areas of contribution.

For instance, it is not unusual, given any area of expertise, for editors to agree most of the time - however, if they agree *all* of the time then their relationship becomes suspect.

I am not aware of such tools yet existing for wikipedia. (20040302 (talk) 13:33, 11 January 2022 (UTC))

You are talking to entirely the wrong person. All I did was make an edit to the page after it was archived. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 17:39, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Special:Contribs

Hi, I see you embedded Special:Contribs in your user page. Is there any way I can embed Special:CentralAuth in mine? I tried and it doesn’t work. Thanks in advance, -📜GIFNK📚DLM💻MMXX🏰 (TALK⌚️📱⌨️🖥🖨🕹💽💾💿📀📸📹🎥📽🎞📠📺📻📡🔋CONTRIBS) 13:09, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Nope, apparently Special:CentralAuth can't be transcluded, even though Special:Contribs can. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 13:59, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

OK I see. Thank you very much! -📜GIFNK📚DLM💻MMXX🏰 (TALK⌚️📱⌨️🖥🖨🕹💽💾💿📀📸📹🎥📽🎞📠📺📻📡🔋CONTRIBS) 15:27, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Oops, thanks for that

Thanks for pulling out those stray translate tags. Proofread the message a dozen times, but I think I threw the header in at the last minute. Just curious, what effect did those tags have? Xeno (WMF) (talk) 00:44, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

They made the page appear in the list of pages proposed for translation at Special:PageTranslation, which I've been trying (without much success) to clean out. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 00:45, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Ah, that’s sub-optimal indeed. Thanks again! Xeno (WMF) (talk) 00:46, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Looking at that page I randomly see user:JSutherland (WMF)/autoTranslationMarkup.js; wonder if that would help, or if you use something similar? Xeno (WMF) (talk) 00:49, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

No, I prefer do it manually. I've seen so many pages with translation markup that's badly screwed up (but can't be fixed easily since their are already a ton of translations), that I'm not willing to risk using a script (especially one with the known caveat that "Please note that this script outputs markup that does not completely follow the guidelines for translation markup - it tags each line, which is messy"). A few months ago I fixed several pages where that or a similar script interpreted the opening bracket in an an altered quote as the beginning of a URL and added an unclosed tvar tag resulting in literal translate markup appearing -- in 2017 and no one noticed for five years. Even after I did fix the page, no other tadmin marked the fix for translation for another 3 months (which was what lead me to request translation admin rights). * Pppery * _{it has begun} 00:55, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Web2Cit/Early_adopters translation

Hi, Pppery! Thanks for enabling translation for Web2Cit/Early adopters. I saw your comment in your edition's summary and I apologize I hadn't completed all the preparation tasks I was expected to. Actually, I just followed the steps here, where it just says that I have to wrap the whole content between <translate></translate>. I didn't know I had to split the content into translate chunks, or that I had to wrap variables. Maybe the tutorial should be updated to better reflect this? What do you think? Thanks again! Diegodlh (talk) 03:24, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

I've copied this to mw:Help talk:Extension:Translate/Page translation example#Should mention more about segmentation?. There is some documentation about proper translate markup at mw:Help:Extension:Translate/Page translation administration#Segmentation and locally at Meta:Internationalization guidelines, but both of those are directed at translate admins like myself, not end users like you, so you raise a valid point. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 03:32, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Also, for what it's worth, I didn't expect you to do it perfectly (as you can tell, it took me 5 edits to properly prepare the page and even then I made a formatting mistake that I didn't catch until just now). All I was expecting was some effort in markup segmentation and tvaring content that isn't translatable like filenames and bits of code. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 03:38, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Grammar error on article

I actually caused the grammar error on the Wikimedia_Highlights,_September_2012 page about 10 years ago. I thought I should at least fix it since it's not grammatically correct to read "the Curation Toolbar, which appears next to a new page, offering..." Offering should be "offers," or else it's a sentence fragment with no active verb. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by OjdvQ9fNJWl (talk)

Look at the context; it's a list of noun phrases, not a list of sentences, so "offering" is correct. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 14:31, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Revert wording

Hello, unfortunately I did an revert of Sustainability_Initiative#How_you_can_help. I just want to let you know, I check the number from time to time, so I hope this is ok. I think we should be credible. But I was happy to read your pont of view. KR, --Wikisympathisant (talk) 09:30, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

RfA/header

The last list item (i.e. GRN) is not an admin-grantable user group and therefore should be split from the others. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 14:23, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Good point. I did indeed miss the context (it looked to me like you were just changing a standalone paragraph to a list for no good reason and in a way that invalidated translations). * Pppery * _{it has begun} 14:33, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Fixed (and I violated my usual rule against marking changes that invalidate translations for translation, which was the motivation behind reverting at first). * Pppery * _{it has begun} 14:38, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Translation question on Web2Cit main page

Hi Pppery, sorry to bother you with this, but @Diegodlh requested a while ago to mark up the main page of Web2Cit for translation. Turns out that nobody has translated it and we need to make some major updates to the main page to make it more accesible for people that wants to know in a nutshell what the project is about. We were wondering what's the best procedure for this -- shall we archive this page? What we should do? (aside from learning from our mistakes, such as not asking to mark for translation something that's not yet ready, which we sincerely apologize). Any guidance would be extremely helpful! Scann (talk) 23:17, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Since no one's translated anything of any consequence, you can just make your edits to the page without worrying about past translations. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 23:51, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! Scann (talk) 11:38, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! (2022)

Thanks for mark the translation for ESEAP Header ------- GhoziSeptiandri (talk) 14:43, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

You're welcome. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 15:40, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Template:ESEAP Conference 2022 nav/layout

Hi, Pppery! I saw you helped us mark the template so we can translate it into other languages. I modified the template recently and need your assistance to mark it again for translation. Thank you, and I appreciate your kind assistance. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 12:39, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

If you don't mind, this page also needs to be marked for translation. Thanks so much for your help! ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 12:42, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Done both. I probably would have gotten to them in a few hours anyway, but no harm in asking me now. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 13:13, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Notification

Can I sign up to get an email when the next question period starts? I got two emails saying it was time to vote, but by then the question period had long expired.Anythingyouwant (talk) 03:19, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Not via any process I'm aware of, but I have no special expertise on this matter other than happening to notice your edit, so that doesn't mean one doesn't exist. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 03:20, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Who would be a good person to ask?Anythingyouwant (talk) 03:59, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Wikimedia Foundation elections/2022 maybe? * Pppery * _{it has begun} 04:00, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Sorry...

For speedily closing that discussion, I misunderstood what you said, and assumed that it was invalid. I won't di that again. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 01:25, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

OmegaWiki

You wrote that following site is closed:

OmegaWiki

Why you made an end to it or supposed they do not exist anymore? They are still present @Social Media like:

1) LinkedIn

2) Twitter last tweet 20220618

3) ?

The only thing I know (noticed myself recently since I'm their tweep the server seems down or there is another technical problem :(  Klaas `Z4␟` V:  14:57, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

What are you talking about? Diff? If you mean Special:Diff/22322564, then I closed a proposal for Wikimedia to adopt OmegaWiki as stale, which has nothing to do with the status of OmegaWiki. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 15:00, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Indeed. I misinterpreted your decision as meaning to close the project. Sorry, my fault.  Klaas `Z4␟` V:  15:06, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Missing Marks for translation

Hello @Ppery:, Could you please edit this page: Template Ambassadors to make it available for translation, there are now just a few sentences available.--Sandra HANBO (talk) 19:36, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Done * Pppery * _{it has begun} 19:43, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Barnstar for you

Hard worker

Hello @Pppery, thank you for your tireless work making muti-linguism our movement's superpower. I often see the hard work you do marking pages up for translation. Thank you! मयूर Mayur Paul (WMF) (talk) 17:26, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, and you're welcome. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 01:56, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Flag a page for translation

Hi, how are you? I would like to know who can I flag a page for translation, so that I may translate it to my native language (portuguese)... thank you. Luís Almeida "Tuga1143 15:15, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

See mw:Help:Extension:Translate/Page translation example. Although I primarily handle keeping up with changes to existing pages marked for translation, not adding new ones. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 23:07, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Help

Given your edit, could you please reformat the image gallery in 2023 section? The third image should be in the first row - or at least the alignment should be in center. I am not able to fix it. Thanks in advance. ─ The Aafī ^(talk) 07:45, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

I can't reproduce the problem - all of the images look properly aligned to me. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 15:58, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

@Pppery, what about me sending a screenshot? ─ The Aafī ^(talk) 17:18, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

No, I have little interest in debugging this issue in the first place, especially given that my edit is presumably not responsible for the problem - all it did is stop some translations from showing up in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 17:20, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Ties in site rankings

Good day, any idea on how to fix Wikiquote#Statistics? --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 13:32, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

The reason seems to be that the Finnish and Serbian wikiquotes have the exact same number of articles as each other, which confuses the code that ranks them. This will probably be a temporary phenomenon that will fix itself, but I'll give GreenC, who maintains the bot that updates these, a ping anyway. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 14:40, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

User:Minorax: I can't see what the error looks like because the # of articles is no longer a tie. I recently updated the JSON data so ties are shown equally ie. 2 sites can share the same rank. This was requested by User:-jem-. I had no idea how this would impact existing users of the data, but honored their request, because we should post the data truthfully and let the end-user application sort out how to handle ties. This is the first I heard it caused a problem. If you can describe what the error looked like that would help. Also pinging User:Johnuniq who has been involved in the template side of the project. -- GreenC (talk) 15:47, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

I see the error. When there is a tie, one of them (Finnish in this case) ended up in the last row (#72) and looked like:

[[:en:error: language code: -1 not recognized language|error: language code: -1 not recognized]]

No idea where this error string originates, it's not in Module:NUMBEROF or its sub-modules. But NUMBEROF returns -1 in function rank() which is how it signifies an error. -- GreenC (talk) 16:17, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Probably the way Module:NUMBEROF/rank is programmed will make this difficult to resolve. The associative array indexing depends on a unique site for each rank. I'll wait for reply from Johnunique in case there is an easy fix, otherwise will need to revert the JSON data to strictly sequential ranking. -- GreenC (talk) 16:59, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

The problem is that Wikiquote/Table uses {{For nowiki|...|count={{NUMBEROF|active|wikiquote}}}} to generate the table. For example, if there are 72 projects, it will list 72 rows. However, if two projects have the same rank, only ranks from 1 to 71 inclusive exist—there is no project ranked #72. I'll think about that. NUMBEROF cheats and overwrites the duplicate rank so only the last project with a particular rank would be shown for that rank. Johnuniq (talk) 23:04, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi. I am sorry that this problem has arisen from my request to GreenC; I understand that in the long run the possibility of ties should be contemplated because they better reflect reality and our code should adapt to that, but since GreenC has separated the data version with ties (thanks!), for me it is no longer a problem. -jem- (talk) 20:56, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Why did you write that useful links are "not an improvement"?

Thanks. Apokrif (talk) 16:51, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Because they're not useful. Template redirects to a help page on how templates work. CSS redirects to a pointer to a help page on how CSS works. CentralAuth and SUL both redirects to Help:Unified login. I find it difficult to believe that anyone would want to go to any of these pages from reading the page documenting Global interface editors - they're basic-level help most readers of the page would already be familiar with. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:53, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

How do you know what readers of a page are familiar with? Apokrif (talk) 17:10, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Of course I don't know for sure, but that doesn't change my opinion that the links are likely to be redundant. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 17:13, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Fat fingers

Indeed. Thanks for noticing :) (somehow I had not done so until now) EPIC (talk) 19:18, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Template:Pie chart

Template:Pie chart isn't showing proper slices according to the data in this page. Would you please have a look at it? And is it possible to align the pie chart to center instead of right and make it bit bigger? I want to show only the pie charts in this page, no other text. BIDROHI ^Hello.. 20:21, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Why was I specifically asked about this? I'm not a one-man support forum for stuff I've had no involvement with. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 20:25, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

talk page stalker comment: Not sure about why you were asked about this. @Mrb Rafi I tested at Template:Pie chart/test to see if the latest version from en-wiki should work, but it didn't help. You should consider asking template expert editors, alongside providing a reason why you are seeking their help so that they get the context and may offer their help. Best regards, ─ Aafī (talk) 20:36, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pppery, sorry for semi-randomly asking for help. I found you in my watchlist. I created this page earlier, you did a small edit, it came to my watchlist, I checked your other edits in the template namespace and had the feeling that you are a template wizard :")

I am very noob at the template things but I need to make, use and modify them for my regular volunteer activities. I needed to use this template but wasn't sure whom to ask, my watchlist brought me to your talk page. BIDROHI ^Hello.. 06:33, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Page cleanup

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I'm grateful for your recent edits on the IP Editing project pages. Thanks! 🙇 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 22:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations, dear administrator!

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