User talk:Anomie

Anomie is still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki.

Despite T360488 asking them not to, Toolforge admins have gone ahead and broken AnomieBOT's scripts. Keeping things running properly will likely require manual intervention until they fix that or give me a usable workaround.

If you want AnomieBOT to do something, please ask at User talk:AnomieBOT. Thanks.

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Possible cleanup in your monobook.js

Hi, T373286#10106458 onward, then some searches on enwiki, brought me here.

Following up to 514424584 and 630235814, actually the issue had been fixed shortly after: 630361822 (also refs discussion). So you might want to remove the code from 630235814.

Od1n (talk) 23:28, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you're right. Thanks. Anomie ⚔ 03:11, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pending changes protection history

Regarding your comment: editors are distrustful of proposals to try pending changes protection in new ways because the initial trial deployment didn't end on schedule. (The link in question was to the RfC that reached consensus to stop deployment (with as I recall, some exceptions like pending changes protection set by WMF staff as an office action).) I wrote up a longer explanation before realizing that you were editing during that time period, so you may recall the feelings of various editors from that time. isaacl (talk) 00:51, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And then a year later in another RFC people decided to start using it again. 🤷 In the later RFC I linked, people were opposing based on vague statements that it has "problems", nothing about it not being turned off right away at the end of the original trial. Anomie ⚔ 02:06, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just saying that the linked RfC provided context of the historical distrust.

Regarding problems, pending changes has bugs, and there is no software development team currently up-to-speed on its implementation and thus readily able to fix them. As a result, some editors don't want to make pending changes more prominent in our processes, and aren't very hopeful about any enhancements. This is, however, a separate issue from the historical distrust. isaacl (talk) 22:27, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bot request

Hi Anomie - I saw your bot just corrected a reference error in a footnote at Krüper's nuthatch. There remains a problem with this footnote though; it is still giving "Error on call to Template:cnote: Parameter #1 (name of content note) and parameter #2 (text of content note) must both be entered". I couldn't work out what is wrong there (in over a dozen change attempts in preview!), could you see if you could sort it out, please? Thanks! - MPF (talk) 15:30, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, OK, I think I found it, it was a problem with an "=" sign - MPF (talk) 15:42, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

October 14 (15 for some) 2024

Hello anomie, I’ve been considering making a doppelgänger account that I will use on Spanish Wikipedia. However I have edited on this account on Spanish Wikipedia. Do you think I should? I’ve just been looking through admins to ask in the admins list and found you.

Have a good day! Interested inTaxonomy (talk) 01:54, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:18, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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