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The Dumbarton Rail Bridge in San Francisco Bay, July 2021. Canon EOS 650D. 1/125, ISO 100, f/6.3

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note to self[edit]

https://searchengineland.com/google-hides-search-results-count-under-tools-section-440299 wtf jp×g 🗯️ 04:08, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

mmm chezburger[edit]

good job moderating

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The Signpost: 16 May 2024[edit]

News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections

Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?

Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24

In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis

Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure

Comix: Generations

Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby

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Signpost article[edit]

In relation to your arbcom article, I've been concerned about Jonathunder since he left. We hit it off well at the 2019 North American Conference, and I was particularly impressed with his love of photography and adding images to Commons. His last posting mentioned "a long and serious illness", and hopefully you are right that he left because of the desyop and not anything worse - although at the time he didn't seem the type of personality who would stop volunteering because of that. You probably would have liked him, and it would be nice if he surfaced again (reminds me of another editor I knew only on-line who ducked out for a couple years during covid and then, happily, popped up again) Randy Kryn (talk) 13:03, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

JPxG, thanks for the ArbCom report. Well-written and informative, with a touch of levity. And thanks for confirming that I'm not the only one who had no idea was SMALLCATS was about. I tried reading the ArbCom discussions and just gave up. :) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 14:31, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Perms[edit]

Did you mean to give yourself all those perms indefinitely? – 2804:F14:80B7:8201:90E7:C193:821D:E8C2 (talk) 09:17, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Offensive usernames[edit]

It is my understanding that Stewards are able to globally hide usernames such that they stop appearing in search results and list:users, but they will do so only for names that are targeted harassment or egregiously offensive. I've emailed them before to get usernames taken down when they were attacking specific editors. Vanamonde93 (talk) 16:54, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stewards are able to globally hide usernames as above. Additionally en.wp oversighters can hide usernames from local lists, but iirc this can sometimes cause issues if they are later globally hidden (it was several years ago it was last discussed, and things may have changed since then or my memory may be faulty so don't take this as gospel). In any event, if you wish to draw attention to a username you think should be hidden, you should do so by email (see WP:STEWARDS and WP:OVERSIGHT). Thryduulf (talk) 22:13, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oracle not updating[edit]

Just wanted to ping you to let you know it appears the Oracle for Deletion page has stopped updating as of Feb 14th. Is this something that is in the works to be fixed? This information is very insightful and useful for the community, so it'd be great to see this data source continue. Thank you for all that you've done to create and maintain this. 74.109.236.228 (talk) 12:55, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed it had stopped updating when the Toolforge grid was deprecated -- what it needs is just to be SSHed into and migrated over to the new Kubernetes thing -- but while I was preparing to do this, I also noticed that nobody had said anything about it stopping, so I figured it might just not be worth the effort. Now that somebody has said something, I will go try to do something about it... jp×g 🗯️ 18:40, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-21[edit]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cheetomalik4 duck[edit]

The user, you blocked is back under a different username. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 04:09, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Dolorem ipsum/pb-cond[edit]

Template:Dolorem ipsum/pb-cond and others have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --Gonnym (talk) 09:17, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I said this at the TfD, but I'd be happy to speedy-delete those if they've been replaced by the module (it's just housekeeping at that point -- MediaWiki just makes it a pain in the ass to merge files). jp×g 🗯️ 09:19, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]