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User:Anomie/previewtemplatelastmod
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Hi, regarding User:Anomie/previewtemplatelastmod.js, I notice that in addition to the five documented classes, it also adds the class mw-watched
to the <li>
tags where applicable. I have successfully utilised this with the following pair of CSS rules:
/* indicate unwatched (white star) or watched (blue star) pages in "Pages transcluded onto the current version of this page" list, when [[:en:User:Anomie/previewtemplatelastmod]] is installed */
div.templatesUsed li::marker {
color: #c8b250;
content: "\2606\20";
}
div.templatesUsed li.mw-watched::marker {
color: #68bdff;
content: "\2605\20";
}
I'm not certain, but it might be possible to remove the div
from the two selectors without affecting other pages. The colours and characters are based on Vector Legacy's watch-star. Maybe something could be added to the script's documentation. --Redrose64 ?? (talk) 15:20, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- In my CSS, I have a bit that bolds the title of the template. I added a mention of it on the script's doc page. Anomie? 23:10, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
Thank you --Redrose64 ?? (talk) 06:43, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
[edit]![]() | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Anomie! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:51, 18 May 2025 (UTC) | ![]() |
Sort name redirects
[edit]Having noted your comment, if you can point me to a more efficient way to create sortname redirects using AWB, I would be glad to take it up. I have tried to get this taken up as a bot task, but there are too many quirks with human names generating potential false positives and false negatives for that to work, so I am chained to the wheel of creating them manually. My current method takes two clicks with no additional typing, except for the small number of redirects that are later refined for ambiguous targets or fictional characters. BD2412 T 18:16, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- I've never used AWB, so I have no idea how you might do it. WT:AWB might help. ?? Anomie? 19:59, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Consider editing the reason for closure
[edit]In closing my topic at the Pump, you wrote:
No, we will not allow this. Wikipedia is not a place to advocate for language change. WP:SNOW close.
5 July 2025 01:38 (UTC)
I kindly ask you to change the advocacy part, as it is a misunderstanding of the intentions I had. Maybe change it to something mentioning unconstrained/misguided pedantry, or that it's unnecessary, or use something from AndyTheGrump's comment, or maybe just erase it and leave the message as "No, we will not allow this. WP:SNOW close." I leave it at your own discretion.
I did not intend to advocate for language change, or to use WP as a "soapbox" to achieve that, to make everyone start saying "it's I", "that's she" and "?'twas they who done it". That'd be foolish and impossible, after all; a quixotic plan (or agenda) to espouse anywhere, which one ought to know if one has some knowledge on linguistics (which I do, though merely informally, out of curiosity).
Truly, the only "hidden intention" I had had, if any, was that the issue was a pet peeve of mine; I thought it not appropriate in formal (encyclopedic) texts, so I wanted to rid Wikipedia of it for the sake of strictly following perceived formal-language "rules" (it wasn't for my own sake, of course — I'm not that selfish); I had been misguided, indeed, as the community has shown me, and I thank them for their guidance.
This unfortunate comment may have made you (as well as the user "15224", as seen here) wary and led you two to think that I had such hidden agenda or intention behind my proposal. You can see on my later reply under that thread that I state otherwise and clarify why. I mentioned that "people need to be accustomed to it through exposure" and "it can reduce that feeling of unnaturalness " only as perceived "good reasons" for carrying out such changes, as though they'd help people get used to such pedantic and fake formal constructions. Those were never the objectives of my proposed changes.
Bytekast[ TLK : CON : LOG ] 14:08, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
- I'm going to leave the close as it is. Whether you claim it was your intention or not, advocating for language change is what I see there and what I see being rejected by the community. Anomie? 14:12, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
- I can understand why, sir. As you wish. But keep in mind that that's an unfair judgment. You are also inaccurately seeing what they rejected: if you read the whole discussion from start to finish, as I did, you'll see that most replies from the community concern pedantry, formality, the (un)necessity of the changes, and that they're unnatural or against the Manual of Style (not WP:Soapbox); only User:fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four's reply raises the issue of likely advocacy, to which I promptly and honestly clarified otherwise. I only hope that you can see this, even if you do not change the closure reason in the end. Bytekast[ TLK : CON : LOG ] 14:29, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
I wanted to rid Wikipedia of it for the sake of strictly following perceived formal-language "rules"
. That is advocacy. And what is more, it is advocacy for a ridiculous proposition, since English doesn't follow this supposed 'rule'. It never has done. Which means that it isn't a rule of the English language at all. It is the rule of an imaginary language that misguided pedants have invented. Fiction. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:47, 5 July 2025 (UTC)- Oh! I see, so that's what both of you were meaning. I was confused about the definition of advocacy here. Thought it was something worse.
- So we can say I was advocating against that common usage of to be in the Wiki... It's still not for language change though, but that's needlessly precise, so don't mind it, @Anomie.
- Note, @Andy, that it's not the rule of an imaginary language in my head, but of most European languages (German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, ...), in which they say not even "it is I", but "it am i" (like in English's "who am I?", not "who is me?"). There you go. It's beautiful and sensible. However, yes, just because almost all Eurolangs have genders, and many have case declension, doesn't mean English also needs to.
- Bytekast[ TLK : CON : LOG ] 15:33, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
- Oh! I see, so that's what both of you were meaning. I was confused about the definition of advocacy here. Thought it was something worse.
- I can understand why, sir. As you wish. But keep in mind that that's an unfair judgment. You are also inaccurately seeing what they rejected: if you read the whole discussion from start to finish, as I did, you'll see that most replies from the community concern pedantry, formality, the (un)necessity of the changes, and that they're unnatural or against the Manual of Style (not WP:Soapbox); only User:fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four's reply raises the issue of likely advocacy, to which I promptly and honestly clarified otherwise. I only hope that you can see this, even if you do not change the closure reason in the end. Bytekast[ TLK : CON : LOG ] 14:29, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
User:Anomie/User Admin adminstats broken?
[edit]Hi Anomie, I am a longtime happy user of your admin userbox. I used to be able to click on my number of actions and get a full adminstats report. Now clicking no longer does anything (neither on your userpage, and Chrome or Safari and logged in or logged out seems to make no difference). It seems that you haven't changed any of the related pages, so has there been some MediaWiki/CSS update breaking this? Or is the problem on my end? —Kusma (talk) 11:47, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah, someone must have updated the collapsible JS, wherever that is. The userbox should be working again now. Anomie? 12:25, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
- Looks like it was probably I3187e8. Anomie? 12:31, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for making it work again! —Kusma (talk) 13:07, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
- Looks like it was probably I3187e8. Anomie? 12:31, 18 July 2025 (UTC)