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'splinetools' on toolforge
[edit]Hello! My understanding is that you are the owner of the 'splinetools' tool account on Toolforge.
Every few months I run a report on the largest files using toolforge NFS storage, and a file in the 'splintetools' directory comes up every time; right now it is the #1 largest file: enwiki-20141106-pages-articles.xml. I've emailed your registered email address several times about this over the year but have never gotten a response.
Can you please either 1) respond to my email, or 2) update the email account associated with the 'reticulated spline' toolforge user? And also please delete that file if it is not in use. I have just gzipped it to avoid permanent damage; if the file is useful to ongoing work then you can just unzip it and let me know. Thank you! Andrewbogott (talk) 20:51, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Technical news
- Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
- A '
Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.
Artificial stupidity
[edit]From my talk:
Concern regarding Draft:Callanish V
Hello, Johnbod. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Callanish V, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 23:07, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
- NO, stupid bot! I set up a redirect, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN RESTORED when the draft someone else began was draftified. Same with Draft:Callanish VI below. Johnbod (talk) 04:42, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @Johnbod: The bot is working as intended. It notifies the first revision users of drafts that haven't been edited in the last five months. Since you were the first revision user for both drafts you mentioned, the bot left you notices. It can't restore redirects or perform actions it isn’t programmed for, so you would have needed to restore the redirects yourself. However, I’ve taken care of this for you now. If you don’t want to receive future notices from this bot, you can add {{nobots}} to your talk page. – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:35, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for that, anyway. Have you notified the ACTUAL creator of the drafts? I created the redirects in 2021, 3 years before he came along. Is the bot intended to work that badly? Johnbod (talk) 00:59, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @Johnbod: The bot is working as intended. It notifies the first revision users of drafts that haven't been edited in the last five months. Since you were the first revision user for both drafts you mentioned, the bot left you notices. It can't restore redirects or perform actions it isn’t programmed for, so you would have needed to restore the redirects yourself. However, I’ve taken care of this for you now. If you don’t want to receive future notices from this bot, you can add {{nobots}} to your talk page. – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:35, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
- A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
- A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.
Technical news
- A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378
Miscellaneous
- The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.