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See Special:Diff/1283820024, in an attempt to remove the AMP url, it made the URL an unhelpful ambiguous URL.
Luckily, the URL wasn't really necessary before since it was syndicated from another source, which I replaced with the original source. I would not be surprised if a lot of yardbarker links did this, since they mostly syndicated then pull articles from other sources, but these become harder to find when they go from this amp url to a more ambiguous one. Might need a quick review to see if this happened anywhere else. If you have a list, I can go through and try and fix them with the original source. Chew(V • T • E)22:29, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Chew: Hi. Yes, none of the yardbarker URLs were usable when I found the issue a few weeks ago. So I added the yardbarker domain to the ignore list, and removed all the problematic yardbarker URLs from the database. There were quite a few of them. Currently there are only seven yardbarker URLs in the database that were operational. I undid all the changes I could find, seems like I missed some. Unfortunately, I do not have a list (as I removed them from the database), but most of the problematic edits were undone. —usernamekiran (talk)15:09, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Awesome, thank you! I'll try and go through and just remove them all if I can for my prior reasons, just wanted to make sure you were aware as well. Appreciate it Chew(V • T • E)00:37, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Suggestions: Notable People to Write Wiki Article About
Hello.
I wish to SUGGEST three prominent people to write a Wiki article about. There actions affected 1000s of people across the USA and were in front of national media cameras. They graduated from my high school. But you are impartial. I cant add their names into Wiki content unless there is already an article about them.
Here are the suggested Three Names and Major Newspaper Articles or Bio Sites about them to help you write a suggested article. They often made quite a few articles and headlines! These articles or Bios were all retrieved today, July 5, 2025.
I’m currently working on the Ravi Kumar Punia article and would appreciate it if someone with more experience could review the entire page for structure, formatting, and adherence to Wikipedia’s content guidelines.
My goal is to ensure the article is well-organized, neutrally written, and properly sourced. If you notice any areas that need improvement—such as notability, tone, layout, or citation quality—I would be grateful for your feedback or any edits you may suggest. I’m happy to collaborate and make revisions where needed to ensure the article meets Wikipedia’s standards.
Hey, there's a bug with your bot on nlwiki where nieuwsblad.be links are getting converted to hbvl.be, even though nieuwsblad.be doesn't use AMP. You can see it happening in these diffs: 69654475, 69574270.
Could you take a look at what's causing this? It's messing up citations and potentially affecting other Belgian news sites too (though not entirely sure). XXBlackburnXx (talk) 21:11, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@XXBlackburnXx: Hello. The bot is thinking the original URL is an AMP url because of the "amper" in it. Then the bot is trying to find a canonical URL for that amp url. The issue is, original URL/page (nieuwsblad.be) is mentioning the hbvl.be URL as the canonical urls. Looking at the pages, they both seem to be exactly the same. If you want, I can blacklist the hbvl.be URLs. Kindly let me know how should I proceed. —usernamekiran (talk)22:00, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Blacklisting would be nice. The main issue isn't necessarily the websites themselves, but rather that when a site within a citation is replaced with hbvl.be, the rest of the citation parameters, such as |publisher= or |work=, no longer match appropriately. Hope you understand :). XXBlackburnXx (talk) 22:22, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@XXBlackburnXx: Hi. I was going through the logs of the bot, and I came across: Failed to save Limburg United in het seizoen 2025/26 on nl.wikipedia: Edit to page nl:Limburg United in het seizoen 2025/26 disallowed by the AbuseFilter. This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: KiranBOT bug I could not find the edit filter on nlwiki. Has it been deleted/deactivated? —usernamekiran (talk)04:16, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, and thanks for your bot, KiranBOT’s contributions. According to Chinese Wikipedia policy, global bots are required to obtain local approval unless they are solely performing tasks related to fixing interwiki links or double redirects (policy). Please submit a request for local approval at this page. Otherwise, your bot may be temporarily blocked. Thank you for your understanding! Stang00:17, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Stang: Hello. Thanks for reaching out. I had gone through the policy page beforehand, I misunderstood the policy — I thought global bots were allowed. I will stop KiranBOT in a couple of hours from now. Thanks again, —usernamekiran (talk)00:57, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Usernamekiran, I noticed that there's no article yet for TRMS (The Real Me Studios), even though it's listed on MusicBrainz and is the label behind artist SXMRXXT and releases like NOTHING IS OFFICIAL. Since you enjoy working on overlooked topics, I was wondering if you'd be willing to create a stub for it? It would really mean a lot. Thank you! 117.194.108.43 (talk) 02:12, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! I kindly ask you to increase the delay time of the bot in the Russian Wikipedia after edits made by unregistered users and newly registered accounts. At the moment, your bot makes edits just a few seconds after any change. Sometimes such edits include vandalism or other violations, which makes them harder to detect or leads to incorrect reverts (1, 2, 3). I would like to request that the bot’s edits be made only a few days after such changes. Mitte27 (talk) 09:25, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mitte27: Hello. I understand your point. The bot's edit are whitelisted, so the vandalism must get whitelisted as well. I'm currently out of town. I will get back home in 4-5 days. I will look at it as soon as I get home. —usernamekiran (talk)13:59, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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A major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more. [1]
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The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
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Hello, I recently learned that Colonel Sanders' 90th birthday was proclaimed by the senate, and they passed a resolution on it. I thought I would add it to the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders. I've never edited anything here before, and it looks like that page is protected. Is there a way to suggest this information, with sources to someone who has access to edit the page? --Wellingsford (talk) 01:13, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Kiran, I just read User:KiranBOT/AMP which explains what is done and how is that done, but I missed a reasoning about why Wikipedia needs this done. Is removing AMP done to improve reader experience, to reduce the data flow to Google, to work around bugs or for some other reason ?
If Wikipedia already has a place where this is explained, I would be happy if you could link there from the bot's page, otherwise could you please add a section "Reasoning" or the like to this page ? Thank you, -- Juergen 5.147.163.199 (talk) 15:11, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Juergen. Yes, you are correct, I somehow missed/forgot to add the reasoning section. I will do it soon. You are correct. It is not entirely to "reduce the data flow to Google". The AMP URLs are, in short, privacy invasive; and they also pose a security risk. The other reason is that AMP URLs often seem to become non-operational after a while. That creates difficulties with Wikipedia's verifiability policy in case the URL was not archived. So it is preferable to use the canonical URLs. Thanks for reminding, I will add the "reasoning" section soon. —usernamekiran (talk)16:42, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Heya! I've been an avid wikipedia reader/rabbithole explorer for years by now, but I've never really thought about editing until recently. I'm into languages as a side hobby and more and more often I've been paying attention to other-language pages of the articles I stumble upon, and noticed loads of articles missing translations in loads of languages, so I'd like to attempt improving that bit by bit.
I tried starting out with the Galway City Council article, translating it to German, but I got a bit confused by the Content Translation tool and the general process, specifically by first question is about the boxes/tables/attachment - I'm a bit spooked by them in general and in the translation tool especially. I'll try to read up on the docs/tutorials in the meanwhile, but maybe could you give me some pointers? --Iokkji (talk) 19:06, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Iokkji: Hello. Editing wikipedia tables/infoboxes in articles can be difficult in the beginning. this link explains how to edit tables. It is different for source editor, and visual editor. The link I provided covers the both. But rather than translating the articles in your early days, I recommend first making normal edits/updates to pre-existing articles. That would give you general idea, and experience regarding editing the tables as well as articles in general. Once you get enough experience, then you would be comfortable with translation. Also, different language wikipedias have different guidelines, so I recommend to sticking to any one language Wikipedia for a few weeks. Kindly let me know if you have further questions/doubts. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk)15:43, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October, 22 wikis will test Paste Check. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.
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Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like en.wikipedia.org), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (like en.m.wikipedia.org). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available. Learn more. [6]
New date filters, creationdate: and lasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g. >2024) and relative dates (e.g. today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges. [7]
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Hi! I've been reading a bit about Volt on Wikipedia as I simply like it. I got to the Volt Albania article, but noticed that it simply says Centre as opposed to "Centre to centre-left". So, I'd just like to make that slight adjustment, but don't know where to start. --OccasssionallyOnline (talk) 18:30, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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