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Per discussion occurring at the linked page above, are you the present administrator of the AfD Statistics Tool? NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:17, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Joey breeding season in Tasmania

Hi my name is Gillian Polley. My adult daughter and myself work for a wildlife sanctuary here in Tasmania. We are Foster carers to all orphaned & injured joey's. We have looked after almost 900 joey's in just over two years. I noticed on reading the subspecies section that redneck wallabies started their breeding season in the summer. I can assure you that this is incorrect. Our joey's have been coming in in droves since around the middle of August. We have had approx 130 + in the last 7 weeks. We have been wildlife carers for 12 years and this had always been so. Each year over the last three seasons we have been the joey Foster carers the amount of joey's has risen. Our joey's season has been from around August to around January/February. Our summers begin on the 1 Dec. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.3.121.105 (talk) 14:11, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Political activities of the Koch brothers

Hi, the archive bot moved [some discussion to archive] today (8) . The archive doesn't exist and is redlinked. Will it appear later or is something wrong? Capitalismojo (talk) 01:56, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

The bot attempted to create the archive, but it was caught by the spam blacklist, causing the archive to fail. Then, the bot tried to restore the text it had removed from the talk page, but it was caught by the spam blacklist again.

→Σσς. (Sigma) 07:41, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! I have removed the blacklist link and restored the material to the talk page...where eventually it should be auto archived. Thanks again. Capitalismojo (talk) 12:53, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Userpage

How am I supposed to be able to view the code? Krett12 (talk) 00:35, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

That is left as an exercise to the reader. →Σσς. (Sigma) 09:34, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

usersearch server parameter

A discussion at outreach:Wikimedia:Village pump#MediaWiki:Histlegend lead to an edit at outreach:MediaWiki:Histlegend which for example on https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=history causes this link on "Edits by user": https://tools.wmflabs.org/usersearch/index.html?page=Main_Page&server=outreachwiki. server=outreachwiki is ignored and the field defaults to enwiki. The only url's I have found to select outreachwiki is when name is also specified and a search performed, for example https://tools.wmflabs.org/usersearch/usersearch.py?name=Pine&page=Main+Page&server=outreachwiki&max=100. Is it possible to select the wiki in the url without making a search? I got involved via MediaWiki talk:Histlegend#Protected edit request on 13 October 2014 but that is not relevant. The default to enwiki means that our MediaWiki:Histlegend doesn't have to worry about server. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:56, 13 October 2014 (UTC)