User talk:BRPever

RfB

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I nominated you for adminship :). RfB is available here: Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/BRPever. Good luck! Best regards, BZPN (talk) 11:07, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2028 Philippine presidential election

I need help against an ip who keeps on vandalizing 2028 Philippine presidential election. Theparties (talk) 05:51, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Closing date at RFA

I believe the closing date at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/TDKR Chicago 101 5 was supposed to change based on WP:CFA: "If the candidate is nominated by another editor, the one week period is calculated from when the nominated person accepts the nomination." Should the closing date be changed? I asked the nominator but they said it should not be changed and a bureaucrat should decide when it closes. 2601:644:907E:A70:6102:D339:5958:92DB (talk) 18:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It will probably be changed or be taken into consideration once it gets a crat's attention. BRP^ever 18:59, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, accepted. 2601:644:907E:A70:6102:D339:5958:92DB (talk) 19:18, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Unblock

I want to apologise for every wrong I did that resulted to the blocking of my accounts "Joseph4real1995 and Abu4real1995". I'm using your talk page because my talk page was block from editing. It's over a while since I was blocked and I perceive now to be appropriate for an apology following other apologies that were earlier ignored. I was actually new at that time I was blocked and most of my operations were done out of ignorant but finally I have learnt the policies governing the platform within the period of my block. If having two accounts is not according to Wikipedia standard, I will appreciate one to be unblocked and If unblocked, I promise that I will comply with the Wikipedia standard going forward. Kindly consider my plea. Thank you! 197.210.53.90 (talk) 05:45, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know the circumstances surrounding this. Please email your request at simple-admins-l@lists.wikimedia.org for admins to review. BRP^ever 06:08, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent an email before now, but no response. However, I just sent again. Thank you! 197.210.53.90 (talk) 06:57, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings! Please, in respect to my unblock request, can someone attend to my request. I have sent a mail but nobody has attended to it. This happened last year until the year ended. Sorry I'm using your talk page to communicate this, but it's quite disturbing. I will appreciate your kind response, thank you! 102.91.4.33 (talk) 14:30, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Archive22#Revisiting_Adelaja_Adeoye_accounts that you handled. MathXplore (talk) 14:34, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please also see Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Archives/2024-09#Wikipedia:Requests_for_deletion/Requests/2024/Adelaja_Adeoye for the 1st CU request. MathXplore (talk) 14:40, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alr, thanks, I will review the unblock request and respond via email. BRP^ever 14:43, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit war

These two editors, User:Tuscan Ant and User:FireBreathMan seems to be edit warring. Any action needed? — Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ツ 02:27, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cactusisme I blocked one of them after checking few of their edits. I think both of their edits needs to checked and verified. BRP^ever 02:46, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thanks — Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ツ 02:48, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your RfB was successful...

Hello, and congratulation to status change. I have added the new flag. Use the new power wisely. Eptalon (talk) 15:03, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, BRP^ever 15:07, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-03

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Weekly highlight

The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [1]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (w:tig:) [2]
View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. [3]

Updates for technical contributors

Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. [4]
Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. [5]

Meetings and events

The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.

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Tech News: 2025-04

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Updates for editors

Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [6]
On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [7]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [8]
The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.

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Help with One Piece

One of the admins told me that you´re an anime and manga person and recommended you to me. I was wondering if you could help me with the One Piece article. It´s mildly depressing, as they are missing most of the arcs and Jinbe and Brook. Would you consider helping me? -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 19:16, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@TS Rubber alt main Hi, yes, please feel free to message me with any specific help that you need. I haven't watched one piece but I will try to help out where you need it. BRP^ever 20:14, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 20:33, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-05

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Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.

Updates for editors

iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [9]
Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [10]
Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [11]
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the mediawiki_user_history dump, the anonymous field will be renamed to is_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [12]

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Remove rollbacker from a user

Please remove rollbacker from User:Kk.urban, because they're a blocked sockpuppet. 2601:644:907E:A70:E829:AA65:3608:453B (talk) 17:58, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-06

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Updates for editors

Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [13]
Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[14] You can now also insert <code> tags using a new toolbar button.[15] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.
Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json to include entries for preprint, standard, and dataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'.
- (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are archiveID, identifier, repository, organization, repositoryLocation, committee, and versionNumber. [16]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (w:knc:) [17]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [18]

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