Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2018/January

Watchlists
Recently, I've added stuff to watchlists. It would say something to the effect of

whats the source of this? Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 13:19, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
 * https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Addedwatchtext-short/en JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:44, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , can you remove the  from MediaWiki:Addedwatchtext? Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 18:58, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
 * You can set any piece of MedaiWiki to not display with CSS. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:32, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Justin, the interface message at MediaWiki:Addedwatchtext appears to be broken somehow. When I click to watchlist a page, the popup interface message is displaying the raw wikitext. The history of the interface message says it hasn't been edited in nearly 7 years. Either it has been broken for 7 years and no one on this wiki noticed, or something else is caused it to break. And even if something else broke it, the 17 November 2017 date of JackPotte post above says been broken for at least a month and a half. Alsee (discuss • contribs) 04:59, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

I mistakenly assumed Justin was an admin. This needs administrator attention. Alsee (discuss • contribs) 05:08, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Maybe in 2018! I'd like to be more active here. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:25, 31 December 2017 (UTC)


 * , Maybe. I'd like to edit it to fix it as well. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 23:08, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Removed the &lt;nowiki>. Hope that fixes it. Thanks for bringing this up. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 02:41, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Atcovi the WMF deliberately killed some or most wikitext-functionality in these messages back in Dec 2016. In particular #ifeq no longer works, and apostrophes for italics and bold. However &lt;I> and &lt;B> still work. See Phabricator T153403, declined as WONTFIX. I'm wondering how no one here noticed it for a year.
 * I suggest applying the same fix as was applied on EnWiki at the time:
 *  The page "$1" has been added to your watchlist, which will list edits to this page and its associated talk page. 
 * Alsee (discuss • contribs) 07:49, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Alas, I'm not surprised by something like that sitting around for a year. I don't think my own experience is atypical, as a fairly-long-time contributor to non-Wikipedia sister projects; and what I find is that the software temporarily breaks all the time, and there's little or no point in complaining about it because it happens while the Foundation is doing stuff that they arbitrarily define as important and the Foundation neglects non-Wikipedian sisters anyway.  It's all made even sadder by the reality that the Foundation is evidently unaware of their own long-term conditioning of the non-Wikipedian sisters; I've seen them routinely assume that their feedback from non-Wikipedia projects is unimpaired, and even dismiss the few complaints they get on the grounds that there are so few.  It's not like this is even hard to believe; I can quite see that people with all the best intentions can create an information-bubble around themselves like that; what I don't know is what, if anything, can be done about it.  I've not forgotten trying to communicate with Lila Tretikov and finding that she was already inside the Foundation information-bubble.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:32, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

✅, seems to work now. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 12:42, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Canadian History/The Wildlife of the Lands
Temporary Protection may be needed. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 00:36, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the three IPs involved thus far. For my part, I'd just as soon leave the page unprotected, on the theory that if there are any others, forcing them to go elsewhere could only make them less easy to detect.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 00:51, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I believe if there is another vandal attack, a protection should take place. But for now, leaving this page as is, is better. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 01:26, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

spam

Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 23:05, 23 January 2018 (UTC)


 * blocked, deleted. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 23:58, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Btw, this is the third time that particular page has been deleted, leaving behind one globally locked account and two locally indefinitely blocked ones. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 00:00, 24 January 2018 (UTC)