User talk:Justjourney/Archive 1

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Question

Is editing things related to the place I live in a violation of the Wikipedia's COI policy?

Whoops, I forgot to use a signature. Justjourney (talk) 01:16, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

No, it's not considered a COI. But you might not want to edit articles relating to where you are, as it might reveal your location.

If you edit things at where you live, for example, an article for a business that you know the owner personally, then that would be a COI. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 01:27, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Justjourney (talk) 01:35, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

In addition, you could view WP:ACTUALCOI and substitute "business owner" with something like "city employee". Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 01:29, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Justjourney (talk) 01:36, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Another Question

Quick question: In the default vector skin, when you scroll down, the toolbar shows at the top. Is there anyway to disable this? Justjourney (talk) 06:08, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

I don't know what you are talking about, specifically. In most cases, if you don't like the way a skin is handling something, switching to a different skin may be the easiest solution.

With patience and skill, you can look into the CSS code emitted and perhaps find something you could add your your account's common.css or vector.js file that would get the desired result - or run a user script in your browser to attempt a similar fixup. But these are all technical tasks that not everyone is prepared to undertake.

Leaving this request open in case there's someone who uses the default vector skin and recognized what you are asking about. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 06:49, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

I use the default Vector skin. I'm guessing Justjourney means the toolbar which get 'stuck' to the top of the screen when scrolling down, so that a few tools and menus are always visible without having to scroll back up to the top of the page? I've had a quick look in Preferences, but couldn't find a way to turn that off. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:08, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

@Justjourney: I'm closing this help call now; if you still have questions about this or any other aspect of general editing, please come by the Teahouse or Help desk which are there for questions just like this. Best, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:10, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I was just wondering. I'm fine with that there even if there isn't a way to turn it off. Justjourney (talk) 16:11, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

@DoubleGrazing Isn't the Teahouse semi-protected at the moment? Justjourney (talk) 22:19, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

It seems so, yes. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:28, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

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About warning vandals

Sorry to bother everyone again, but I have another question: If I catch someone vandalizing and then I revert their edit(s), do I have to warn them through their user talk page? Justjourney (talk) 22:28, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Please give the vandals a warning, and check their other contributions to see if any other recent contributions should also be reverted. The process to warn the vandals is detailed in Wikipedia:Vandalism, along with the reasons for doing so. Some people like to use WP:Twinkle to make it easier to add the warnings. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 22:49, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

(edit conflict)

Yes, please, even for IP vandals. It will help advise other editors about the bad behavior and can become the basis for an admin to block them. You know how to use TWINKLE, right? — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:51, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

@Jmcgnh Well, the documentation says I have to be autoconfirmed, which I think I am not. I might consider it in the future. Justjourney (talk) 22:53, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

True, it looks like you have a couple of days to go. But there are lots of other things on Wikipedia to learn about, so perhaps leave off the antivandalism efforts until a bit later. Doing antivandalism work without tools is not helping you learn useful things. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 23:02, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Adblocking

Is using adblockers acceptable on Wikipedia? Justjourney (talk) 03:36, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

You're the only one who can decide whether to use an ad blocker on your computer. Wikipedia has no ads, so I don't understand your question. GoingBatty (talk) 03:58, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

And if I'm adding headings, do have to put spaces in between my heading (== heading ==) or is this optional (==heading==)? Justjourney (talk) 03:40, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Spaces are not required. There are examples with and without spaces at MOS:HEADINGS. GoingBatty (talk) 03:58, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

(edit conflict)

Yes on adblockers.

The style with spaces is apparently somewhat preferred, but you can do it either way and it works the same. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 04:01, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Mute List

Where can I find a mute list (a list where I clicked mute on users). I want to know in case I accidently mute someone Justjourney (talk) 04:57, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

On your Preferences page, under the Notifications tab, near the bottom is a text bar where muted users are shown, if you have added any. You can remove them by clicking on the "x". You can add more by clicking on the "Add more" button. I hope you don't need to use this feature. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:30, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

@Jmcgnh So if I accidently mute someone from their userpage by going to Tools > Mute this user, they will appear there? Justjourney (talk) 05:36, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I just tried it. This is hardly something you would do by accident. And, if you look at the list in Preferences|Notifications, you can see what you may have done in the distant past and not remember. And it can all be done or undone with no fuss. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:58, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Talk page for my sandbox

For my talk page of my sandbox (User talk:Justjourney/sandbox), does it still count as a sandbox, where I can make test edits, and it not being an actual discussion page for my sandbox? Justjourney (talk) 01:44, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

You may use your user talk sandbox page to make test edits for an article talk page or for a discussion of your sandbox page. However, it should not be used as a place to create a draft article. GoingBatty (talk) 02:08, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Also, should I use the help me template or the teahouse for help? Justjourney (talk) 01:47, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Whichever you prefer is fine. Using {{Help me}} will typically give you one response, where using the WP:Teahouse would get more visibility. GoingBatty (talk) 02:08, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

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Reminder

Hello @Justjourney. I seen (before I edited) promotional sentences, and it was also a copyright violation. So please, do not put copyrighted material at your articles. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources. Nedia Wanna talk? Stalk my edits 02:55, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

@Nedia020415, Can you please elaborate what you mean? Justjourney (talk) 03:05, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

At Draft:Monkeytype “It is a minimalistic typing test, featuring many test modes, and many themes, an account system to save your typing speed history, and user-configurable features.” is a copyright violation. You copy and pasted the information into Wikipedia, which is plagiarism. See Wikipedia:Copyright violations and Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources. :) Nedia Wanna talk? Stalk my edits 14:40, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Did you mean this edit made by User:Paper2222? Justjourney (talk) 01:29, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

huh what? i barely remember working on the monkeytype draft. i have no idea where i got that quote, and i quickly abandoned it after realizing it didn't really have sources to begin with (also i was lazy.)

i do remember another unlogged in member working on it, it's possible that they were the one who put that quote in there

if it was indeed me, i have no memory of copy pasting that quote from anywhere, but i do truly apologize. i'm very highly against plagiarism. — ppr22📄 09:25, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

It’s fine @Paper2222. Nedia Wanna talk? Stalk my edits 20:00, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

I would like to know if this edit (diff), would still count as a WP:COPYVIO. Justjourney (talk) 22:57, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

"different test modes, use an account to save their typing speed history" is a little bit of a copyvio, I suggest you rather say, different modes and just delete "use an account to save their typing speed history" because it's useless and promotional. Nedia Wanna talk? Stalk my edits 23:03, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

 Done, with here, and here. Do you have anymore feedback to give to me @Nedia020415? Justjourney (talk) 23:08, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

I'll also suggest for you to remove more and more and replace it with more daily. Nedia Wanna talk? Stalk my edits 23:10, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Okay. Justjourney (talk) 23:11, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Talk archiving question

I've just changed my archive frequency here. Do I still need to change the part where it says {{Archives|bot=ClueBot III|age=90}} age part? Justjourney (talk) 02:28, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi there! According to Template:Archives/doc#Archive bot config, the |bot= and |age= parameters have been deprecated from {{Archives}}. GoingBatty (talk) 03:33, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

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• The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.

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• The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
• Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
• Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Special pages listing. If it does not, they should add it using * specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. [4]
• The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts. [5]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task.
• Developers who use the mw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the userAgent parameter: var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic. [6][7]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:39, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Typo about typos!

Hello @Justjourney,

I'll let others answer your Help Desk question about cut-and-paste. But I noticed that your user page mentions edits to Wikipedia that mostly fixes . . . and thought you might like to know! Musiconeologist (talk) 19:08, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

@Musiconeologist I reworded my statement, but I don't know what the typos were. Can you explain please? Justjourney (talk) 19:21, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

@Justjourney Sorry, I should have been more specific. You had "I make edits [plural] that mostly fixes [singular] grammatical errors". It should have been "edits that mostly fix grammatical errors". Musiconeologist (talk) 19:43, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

@Musiconeologist Thanks, I've fixed it. Justjourney (talk) 19:47, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Deleted my reply

Your last edit on the March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip Talk page removed my reply to user Roffaduft in the process. I'm assuming this was an oversight on your part. -- Cheers. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 22:56, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Oh, I can see that. That was an oversight on my part, sorry about that. Justjourney (talk) 23:08, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Editing team is working on a new Edit check: Peacock check. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF).
• Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
• View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for MediaWiki REST APIs. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to share feedback about your experience. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Sometimes a small, one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving maps.wikimedia.org - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a datacenter switchover. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of extensive work by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to kubernetes, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.

Meetings and events

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.

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