User talk:Lustiger seth

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Filter 1306

Hello, please fix the filter so it does not match "badminton". 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 01:26, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

Sorry for this problem, please try again. -- seth (talk) 07:44, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Johannnes89: AFAICS #1306 (at meta #342) leads to more false positives than correct positives. So it might be better to switch them off? At least it has to be fixed somehow.

-- seth (talk) 07:47, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll look at both filters later this week. Johannnes89 (talk) 08:00, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 23 October 2024 (UTC) [reply]

done -- seth (talk) 08:49, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Chaos im Camel-Bot/Totenliste

Hallo seth, ich ediere nicht mehr in der deutschen Wikipedia, deshalb von hier aus der Hinweis, dass der Bot heute verrückt gespielt und hunderte, vllt. mehr als tausend schon vor längerem Gestorbene unter heutigem Datum aufgelistet hat. Schönen Gruß, Qaswa (talk) 15:21, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gudn Tach!

Vielen Dank für den Hinweis. Seltsam. Hat heute früh 2025-02-07 07:25:29 (CET) angefangen und hört heute Nachmittag auf.

Ich schau mir das später an. Vorerst habe ich die Seite auf die letzte normale Version von heute früh revertiert.

-- seth (talk) 17:27, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Der Bot macht das Spiel aber im größten Umfang weiter, und tatsächlich "frische" Einträge scheint er nicht aufzunehmen. Qaswa (talk) 19:32, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Caramba! Ich schieße den Prozess ab. (Die Sache mit den Toten-Kategorie ist ein eigener Prozess.)

Danke für den erneuten Hinweis!

Ich muss mir das morgen in Ruhe anschauen.

-- seth (talk) 19:35, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ist wohl kein Fehler im Bot, sondern irgendwas ist aktuell bei MediaWiki schief (auch wenn ich noch nicht weiß, was der Grund dafür ist), siehe de:WP:FZW#Seltsame Kategorienupdates.

Den Toten-Kategorie-Prozess habe ich daher noch nicht wieder gestartet.

-- seth (talk) 21:57, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Willst du diesen Prozess überhaupt wieder starten ? Qaswa (talk) 13:55, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gudn Tach!

Gute Frage. Ich weiß nicht, wer die Liste aktuell noch nutzt. Wenn sie niemand mehr nutzt, kann der Prozess natürlich deaktiviert bleiben.

-- seth (talk) 16:11, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ich habe die Liste auch von der en:WP aus weiterhin täglich mehrmals genutzt, und die täglichen Abrufzahlen sprechen imo eindeutig für den Erhalt der Liste (sprich, sie erfüllt ein Bedürfnis und hat einen Nutzen.) Gruß, Qaswa (talk) 19:59, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gudn Tach!

Hmm, wie viele von den Abrufen wurden denn vom Bot selbst verursacht? :-)

Ich wollte eigentlich noch auf Antwort auf phab:T385954#10542167, also ob mit weiteren Datumsaktualisierungen zu rechnen ist. Denn nur wenn das weitgehend ausgeschlossen werden kann, wird der Bot nicht mehr die Seite fluten. Ich kann den Prozess ja mal problehalber wieder starten.

-- seth (talk) 21:21, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vllt. klappt's ja auf Anhieb ?? --- Danke jedenfalls für dein geduldiges Antworten....! Qaswa (talk) 22:03, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Du hast Recht behalten mit deiner Skepsis – allerdings erscheinen diesmal auch einige aktuelle Einträge zu kürzlich Gestorbenen. Ich drängele ab jetzt nicht mehr – du hast mehr Erfahrung mit den Abläufen .... Danke nochmal ! Qaswa (talk) 11:05, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Der Bot ist so eingestellt, dass er, wenn er gestartet wird, nicht ab diesem Zeitpunkt nach neuen Kategorie-Hinzufügungen schaut, sondern er schaut sich auch die Hinzufügungen der letzten sieben Tage an. Damit soll verhindert werden, dass er, wenn er mal ausfällt, Einträge auslässt.

Dieses Verhalten (sieben Tage zurückblicken) führt aber wegen des neuen Wikipedia-Bugs dazu, dass er diesen Wahnsinns-Schub von vor ca. vier Tagen jetzt noch nachholen will, sobald er neugestartet wird.

Wenn der Bot jetzt vier Tage lang durchläuft, gibt's keine Probleme mehr.

Wenn der Bot jedoch automatisch neugestartet wird, weil's irgendwo (z.B. mit der Datenbank) kurzzeitige Probleme gibt, dann würde das normalerweise unbemerkt bleiben, würde aber durch den Bug wieder zu dem Aufblähen der Tabelle führen.

Da merkt man mal, wie komplex doch solche eigentlich einfachen Systeme sein können.

-- seth (talk) 23:23, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Danke für die (auch für einen Laien verständliche!) Erklärung – im Moment läuft's ja sehr gut: aber die vier Tage sind noch nicht um .... Qaswa (talk) 19:46, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gudn Tach!

Ich hab gestern die sieben Tage auf zwei reduziert (hätte ich auch vorher drauf kommen können). Damit sollte alles klappen.

Später kann ich ja wieder auf die sieben Tage jeweiligen Rückblick erhöhen.

-- seth (talk) 20:01, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, Lustiger seth. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

Editing from a temporary account

When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
- There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
- There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.

Temporary account IP viewer user right

How to enable IP Reveal

Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.

Impact for administrators

It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
- This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

How to use Special:IPContributions
How automatic IP reveal works
How to use IP Info
How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]