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Which Biden?[edit]

Joe Biden laptop dispute tag? GoodDay (talk) 09:19, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AI stuff on Wikipedia[edit]

I just made a new essay about trying to use ChatGPT as "an intelligent editor who does not blindly paste LLM output into the edit window and press "save" (User:JPxG/LLM demonstration, :) )" and document my result here, with my opinions. I intentionally put the essay at Wikipedia namespace for other editors to feel comfortable add stuff to it. What do you think about my actions? CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 16:48, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you saw[edit]

My message on Evad's SPS script's talk page. I hadn't seen yet at the time you had forked the script. Any opinion on the prospective second change? Izno (talk) 17:05, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

These look like good catches. Alas, I am not really in a good position to mess around with code right now. I did see it, but I will have to wait a bit until I am able to actually try to implement a change in the code. jp×g 19:03, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I was just hoping it could get sorted before this month's goes out, otherwise don't stress about it. If it helps, I think changing: 

	var msg_content = '<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div style="column-count:2;"> '+
	'{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/' + data.today.iso + '}} </div><!--Volume ' + vol + ', Issue ' + iss + '--> '+
	'<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> '+
	'* \'\'\'[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|Read this Signpost in full]]\'\'\' * [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/' + data.today.iso + '|Single-page]] * '+
	'[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe|Unsubscribe]] * [[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]] ([[User talk:MediaWiki message delivery|talk]]) ~~~~~ ' +
	'<!-- Sent via script ([[' + data.script_page + ']]) --></div></div>';

to 

	var msg_content = '<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div style="column-count:2;"> '+
	'{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/' + data.today.iso + '}} </div><!--Volume ' + vol + ', Issue ' + iss + '--> '+
	'{{hlist|style=margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif'+
	'|\'\'\'[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|Read this Signpost in full]]\'\'\'|[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/' + data.today.iso + '|Single-page]]|'+
	'[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe|Unsubscribe]]|[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]] ([[User talk:MediaWiki message delivery|talk]]) ~~~~~ ' +
	'<!-- Sent via script ([[' + data.script_page + ']]) -->}}</div>';

should be sufficient. Izno (talk) 02:55, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you![edit]

The Barnstar of Diligence
Beyond excellent work with User:JPxG/LLM demonstration! Curbon7 (talk) 09:30, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Year's Wishes![edit]

Happy New Year, JPxG! I have run into you so many times throughout 2022, and so I really just had to thank you for your continued work and civility on Wikipedia this year, especially at the Signpost. Hopefully Wikipedia will continue to see more of your fantastic work this forthcoming year! Have a great day.

Yours truly, 𓃦LunaEatsTuna (💬) 00:22, 1 January 2023 (UTC) (It is now New Year's Day in UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 1 January 2023[edit]

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Happy New Year, JPxG![edit]

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shite to do[edit]

  • figure out why oracle is going bonkers and removing/readding stuff for 2022-12. it is almost certainly some weird year-edge rollover thing, it is making a huge page and then a tiny page (misformatted year thing in some bash script, probably).
figure out something to make it compile the yearly statistics automatically?
  • fix presspass thing with the stupid tags on the copied text
also fix the thing on the clippings page where it refreshes the text too often to copy it
  • get wegweiser to parse authors
author parsing from spt.js is not optimal, should be done some other way possibly
templates might need to be reformatted
just getting the span class for the author name seems highly suboptimal. not sure what else to do though. maybe a template like {{Signpost author}} that just wraps the username/person's name
don't like parsing userpage links: what if someone doesn't link their userpage, or doesn't have one? what if it's an external contributor?
and this is also very fragile if we implement the author page link from byline thing.
{{Signpost byline}}?

whatever jp×g 02:39, 7 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Signpost categories[edit]

Hello, JPxG,

I spent a lot of time back in 2015 categorizing 10 years' worth of Signpost articles and pages and now it seems like you are emptying out the categories. Right now I'm looking at a dozen empty Arbitration Report categories. Where did you put these articles? A reader should be able to find old articles easily by subject/topic. And I'm sure it helps Signpost writers to find old articles. Did you come up with a better categorization system? Or did you just merge years' worth of articles into one super big category? If so, I don't think that is an improvement.

I actually asked on the main Signpost talk page about a year ago if I could categorize articles from 2015+ and got the okay to do so but never got around to taking care of them. Is this no longer necessary? Thank you for any information you can provide on whatever new system is in place. Liz Read! Talk! 01:26, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: Indeed, this would be a travesty -- but I am pleased to tell you the answer is "yes". Over the course of the last few days I wrote a bunch of scripts (source at [1]) that automate a bunch of routine tasks with Module:Signpost, like filling in the yearly indices with missing articles. Today I wrote one that's able to integrate the article categories into the tags, so that the article list maker can be used to dynamically generate lists (with arbitrary other criteria). Here is an example:
List of all arbitration reports
List of all arbitration reports written by JPxG
List of all arbitration reports between December 2008 and February 2009
List of all arbitration reports that mention Scientology
  1. The Report on Lengthy Litigation, from 2009-03-09's Arbitration report
  2. The Report on Lengthy Litigation, from 2009-03-16's Arbitration report
  3. The Report on Lengthy Litigation, from 2009-03-30's Arbitration report
  4. End of Scientology arbitration brings blocks, media coverage, from 2009-06-01's Scientology arbitration
  5. Procedural reform enacted, Rich Farmbrough blocked, three open cases, from 2012-06-11's Arbitration report
  6. Race and politics opened; three open cases, from 2013-05-13's Arbitration report
(Note that it's possible to format the lines differently, using arbitrary formats, and arbitrary templates for each entry). This isn't quite in its final state yet -- for example, that isn't all the arbitration reports I've written, since the indices haven't been backfilled since we implemented it in the module -- but it gives us a lot to work with. My plan is to make specific pages for things like this that serve the same role as the categories did (without the need for extremely tedious manual maintenance). jp×g 01:36, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for all of this explanation even though I don't fully understand how to use a Module. But as a "category person", please do not tag a category for deletion unless it is empty or all it contains are empty categories. Otherwise, we have pages with red link categories which must be avoided at all costs. You can manually go and remove each page from the category yourself or maybe there is a bot that can do this for you. But I doubt an admin will delete these two categories as long as they are full of pages. Liz Read! Talk! 05:50, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You mean the ones I did now? Yeah, they still have the Single/SPV pages in them (which were only ever in the categories because they transcluded pages that had the categories, which are now removed). I think usually it takes a few minutes for the changes to propagate (I don't know how to force category updates). jp×g 05:52, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You can null edit or purge the category members. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:07, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I categorized these pages myself so I didn't (and don't) understand how a template also categorized them as well. But when I posted this message, all I could see were categories that were full but, minutes later, they were emptied so it wasn't an issue. I'm just used to editors tagging categories for speedy deletion even when they aren't empty so I reacted in my typical manner to seeing that. I should have come here and asked about it first before doing my "admin" thing since you understand so much more about the current system than I do. Liz Read! Talk! 00:10, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed[edit]

Hi, JPxG. You created me to update the Module:Signpost indices, but I can't, because they're autoconfirmed-protected, and I'm not autoconfirmed! WegweiserBot (talk) 04:52, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, WegweiserBot, that sounds rough. But it's pretty easy to overcome, right? jp×g 04:53, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Whatever could you mean, JPxG? WegweiserBot (talk) 04:53, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Well, you just need to make ten edits, right? So do that. jp×g 04:54, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
How? The module indices are AC-protected, so I can't even get started on my ten edits. WegweiserBot (talk) 04:54, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Well, there are some other things you could do, like getting into an edit war with another bot over something stupid like the whitespace on a template. That's a great way to get your edit count up quickly. jp×g 04:56, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, JPxG, that sounds dumb. I'm still under the trial period, remember? If they see that in my edit history, my BRFA is going to get denied for sure. Not to mention that it would reflect poorly on whoever programmed me... WegweiserBot (talk) 04:57, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. Well, what if you did some useful, productive task that didn't require autoconfirmed status? jp×g 04:58, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No, sorry, the guy who programmed me is far too much of a lazy bastard to come up with something like that. I think it's gotta be something simple. WegweiserBot (talk) 04:58, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
What if you just had a long, rambling, pointless conversation on a talk page? jp×g 04:59, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That would still be violating the terms of my BRFA trial -- I'm only supposed to be editing stuff in Module:Signpost space. WegweiserBot (talk) 05:00, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, right. Well, surely there's got to be SOME page you're allowed to edit, right? jp×g 05:00, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, you know what? Bots are allowed to operate without BRFA authorization within their owners' userspace, so I could just do it there until I slogged my way up to ten edits. What do you think? WegweiserBot (talk) 05:01, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you could give it a try, but he might get bored before you got to ten edits. jp×g 05:02, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
What do you mean? Having a long, rambling conversation with yourself where you pretend to be two different people is a really funny gimmick. Surely there's a lot of mileage in that bit. WegweiserBot (talk) 05:03, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, but ten edits for you would also be ten edits for him. It's a good bit, but it would be pretty hard to come up with twenty entire comments for a fake conversation that nobody but himself will ever read. jp×g 05:05, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I guess you're right. It would probably wear pretty thin when the novelty wore off after the first few messages. WegweiserBot (talk) 05:06, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Crap, I guess that puts us in the same pickle we started with, doesn't it? jp×g 05:07, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, what if I did something funny to troll him? That would probably get some laughs, right? WegweiserBot (talk) 05:08, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I know what you could do. Why don't you vandalize his user page with hello.jpg? jp×g 05:08, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I can't even do that! The edit filter is cramping my style, man. WegweiserBot (talk) 05:10, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oh well. I guess we'll just have to leave it for another day. I'm sure we can figure it out if we put our heads together... jp×g 05:11, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Are you having a long, involved discussion with yourself? I don't even know how that is possible. Liz Read! Talk! 05:52, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Wegweiser needed 10 edits and I was bored. That, and I think it's good for bots to get a little friendly conversation every now and then, it keeps them refreshed and limber... :^P jp×g 05:52, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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From the archives and Essay[edit]

You said you had your review of, I think it was the 2006 Signpost? - and some sort of Essay. If you want me to copyedit it, I gladly will, but if you can post them up ASAP, it'd help. I don't get a lot of time to myself of late. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.3% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 14:46, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On the newsroom talk page now, although I feel bad having someone do all the work on this themselves so I will try to help out. jp×g 22:15, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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@Bri: Responded, check it. jp×g 03:43, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Query[edit]

Hello, JPxG,

I was just looking at the Move log and I'm wondering what the purpose of pages like Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Blank page 137. It seems like a lot of existing pages were deleted and I can't figure out the purpose of these blank pages. Liz Read! Talk! 08:22, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is at least some purpose to this. When I first started cleaning out the massive PrefixIndex of Signpost space, I noticed a couple goofy pages, like templates that never got used for anything, or redirects from publishing typos that were never linked to from anywhere. Because these get in the way of database reports and automated tools (not to mention anyone trying to figure out how the Signpost works) I decided to CSD most of them. Assisted, of course, by many diligent administrators! But there were a couple pages I felt a little bad about deleting, like redirects from the very first issues, some of which had been created as early as 2005. So rather than delete those, I just moved them to blank pages without redirects. I figured that, I dunno, we could put them in a museum or something -- or do some gimmick of publishing them in some special series (look! all of the pages in this issue are original 2005 vintage!)
I guess I am kind of a nerd like that -- I collect old letterhead too. Anyway, it seemed like a neat little thing to do when there were 10 of them, but I didn't expect there to be literally hundreds of stupid old redirects and unused templates and blank pages that nobody ever put anything in. I think that at some point I will go through and clean some of them out, but for now I am just keeping them in reserve (we could probably just run a whole year of articles on 2000s pages at this point). jp×g 08:30, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/From the archives[edit]

Really sorry to drop this last minute. Wanted to A. make sure it got out in January (1 February is an odd date for a January retrospective), and B. Make sure it doesn't conflict with your retrospective (seems a bit much to publish both in the same issue). Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.3% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 20:57, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 16 January 2023[edit]

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WP:RFD is thataway (Wikipedia:Signpost/Quick Start)[edit]

After a speedy deletion nomination has been declined, do not use your "page mover" rights to move the page elsewhere and suppress the redirect. That is not what the page mover right is for. —Kusma (talk) 21:32, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Kusma: I don't think this is a practical approach to cleaning up Signpost space. If you look at my CSD log you can see the scale of what I'm talking about: this is one of my major projects as editor-in-chief. I've made a good several thousand edits in the last few weeks and nominated 426 obsolete pages in the last few weeks (virtually all of them broken templates with no transclusions, redirects created accidentally during the publishing process, name changes whose old titles have no incoming links). It does not seem practical to make individual sections/pages for these at RfD or MfD. jp×g 21:43, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
(As a side note, the page in question has five incoming links, literally all of which are from my userspace or pages I created to identify and remove orphaned Signpost redirects: User:JPxG/CSD log, User:JPxG/!, User talk:JPxG, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere). jp×g 21:49, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You have just removed the other incoming links; we usually don't delete redirects that have pointed to a place for years. "Cleaning up Signpost space" sounds like a complete waste of time to me, but if you want to do that, you should follow process like everyone else. —Kusma (talk) 22:00, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page watcher) @Kusma: Isn't there a general understanding that the maintainers of a sub-namespace like The Signpost can use G6 to clean up unneeded pages? We do this at SPI all the time with malformed or abusive filings, misplaced pages, etc. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe) 22:51, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Tamzin, I might agree with that for a single-user project (where it is covered by G7), but not for a sprawling project like the Signpost that actually might get people interested in its history. "Cleaning up" by removing obsolete pages has the main effect of making the history inaccessible to non-admin wikiarchaeologists, something that is not covered by WP:CSD#G6 (and should not be, as it is actually potentially harmful, and at best a waste of time). "No incoming links" is not a speedy deletion rationale. I don't mind IAR deletions of actually harmful pages, like abusive SPIs, but G6 isn't a good rationale for that either. —Kusma (talk) 23:07, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Kusma:The specific reason I have been nominating these pages for deletion is because old content is broken and inaccessible, and I have been spending several weeks of full-time effort to fix this. For example, from 2015 up until a week ago, Module:Signpost was completely unable to retrieve author data for articles prior to 2022. It was was unable to retrieve any data at all for articles written in 2017, because they were not included in the module's index, and the large number of nonsense pages made it impossible to run a script to update it. Fixing the articles from 2005 to 2009 required a very large run of several thousand manual and AWB-assisted edits to update old Signpost articles with modern header templates (which provide metadata for tags like titles and authors, as well as make comments visible by transcluding them). I am not destroying history by deleting Category:Wikipedia Signpost News and notes archives 2011; the page information for these categories was integrated into module-based tag information over a process of several painstaking hours which required me to write several purpose-made scripts and submit them to BRFA.
The biggest problem, which has arisen repeatedly in the course of multiple people attempting to fix Signpost templates over the course of the last ten years, is that it is impossible to maintain them, because the amount of useless shit keeps increasing. There are multiple dozens of useless pages (templates that are completely deprecated, only in use on a single page, exist only as redirects, et cetera) which incur a large amount of technical debt. If you don't believe me, go ahead: look through Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates and see if you can tell me what's going on there. I sure can't -- what is Template:Signpost1-22? What is Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Template:Briefly? How is it different from Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Briefly? The answer is that none of them were anything. What was Template:Signpost systemic bias? Well, it turns out, it was a redirect to a series page listing articles about systemic bias, except this series page wasn't linked to from anywhere and was completely inaccessible to readers. I could give you hundreds more examples if you want. What I am trying to do is make it so that readers are able to access and read the 5525 articles without running into inexplicable errors from twenty years ago. jp×g 00:38, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I still don't understand why you need to delete anything. The Signpost worked perfectly fine pre-Lua. In any case, better to explain what you are doing and to make a deletion proposal that can be discussed (and linked to) than using CSD that do not apply ("no incoming links" on a redirect is an automatic decline from me). —Kusma (talk) 06:34, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Note that, per Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Undeletion request (urgent), there appears to be some sort of Twinkle malfunction that places large deletion notices on target pages when redirects are nominated for deletion. jp×g 01:15, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-03[edit]

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Just want to mention[edit]

I kind of OUTed an admin last year, but he was ok with it:User_talk:Schwede66#Hmm. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:45, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder how long it will be until we all pass GNG. I am about two RSes short at the moment... in all seriousness I think it is a really weird topic and I don't really know where to bring it up. WT:OS? WT:OUTING? both? jp×g 12:56, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it's weird. The thing is that I consider WP:OUTING a very good idea, quite deserving of strong enforcement, so I tend to view the occasional common sense clash a price worth paying, probably. My first encounter with this "thing" was some redactions concerning the name of a user, despite a WSJ interview where she said "Yep, that's me." Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:21, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

The Surreal Barnstar
For Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-01-16/Humour. The funniest thing I've read in quite a while. — Bilorv (talk) 14:13, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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