User talk:Novem Linguae

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Monitor

User:Polygnotus/Scripts/ExternalLinkMonitor. Polygnotus (talk) 05:15, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Neat. Thanks for sharing! –Novem Linguae (talk) 12:19, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hist merge needed - MediaWiki:Globalblocking-blockedtext-range → MediaWiki:Wikimedia-globalblocking-blockedtext-range

I wanted to know if you could merge the histories of these two interface pages since MediaWiki:Wikimedia-globalblocking-blockedtext-range is what should have been used on Wikimedia projects. Its history goes back to 2018 and merging the histories would help preserve attribution and would probably help future editors who may become confused why MediaWiki:Wikimedia-globalblocking-blockedtext-range is not appearing in global block messages.

I presume that you created the former page in error without realizing that this latter page existed which is why I am asking. Aasim (話す（はなす）) 20:17, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there. A history merge seems reasonable here, but I'd like a second opinion on whether it's better to use MediaWiki:Globalblocking-blockedtext-range or MediaWiki:Wikimedia-globalblocking-blockedtext-range, so I'll go ahead and move this to WP:IANB. –Novem Linguae (talk) 05:57, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to Wikipedia:Interface administrators' noticeboard

AfC Helper Script PR

Hi there! I'm not really sure if this is the best place to bring this up, but I thought I'd draw your attention to a PR I submitted on the AfC Helper Script about 3 weeks ago.

It's a fix for dark mode users that makers the script readable when it otherwise was impossible to use in dark mode.

It's not a super urgent emergency, but I think it's worth fixing sooner rather than later as it's quite annoying to have to switch to light mode and get flash-banged whenever dark mode reviewers want to review drafts :)

Please feel free to pass this on to wherever I should have posted it instead, if not here! SnowyRiver28 (talk) 23:51, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@SnowyRiver28. Howdy. Thanks for the patch. Sorry for the delay -- I have to manually test every patch and that is kind of laborious. Anyway, I went ahead and did so and left you a code review comment just now. Hope that helps. Happy coding. –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:39, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! All good, I can imagine that's time consuming.

Thanks for the review, I'll try and be more thorough in future to save you time re-testing things:) SnowyRiver28 (talk) 02:05, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk

Hey Novem. I saw there are only two election clerks listed for the upcoming administrator elections; I'm currently serving as a clerk for ACE2025 and would be happy to help again, if I can be of use. Giraffer (talk) 10:20, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Giraffer. Thanks for offering to help. I don't have room at the moment to make you an election official. However I am happy to add you as an alternate. You can step in if Robertsky or I develop a schedule conflict. Hope that's OK! Thanks and happy electing. –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:25, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, no problem. Giraffer (talk) 11:28, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Categorization of AE protection actions needed (17 November 2025)

Hello Novem Linguae,

I'm a bot that helps log arbitration enforcement (AE) protection actions on behalf of the Arbitration Committee. As a result of a September 2025 motion by the Arbitration Committee, administrators are no longer required to manually log AE protection actions. Instead, this bot is responsible for logging AE protections to the AE protection log.

While logging AE protections, this bot detected that you recently took the following page protection actions. These action(s) seemed to be AE actions based on the edit summaries, but the bot wasn't able to tell which arbitration case they related to:

08:05, 17 November 2025 (UTC) (Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Candidates)

If these were AE actions, please take a moment to log the appropriate topic code at the AE protection log. If they were not, feel free to remove the actions from the AE protection log, and optionally let the bot operator know about the false positives.

Going forward, in order to help this bot categorize AE actions, please include a link to the contentious topic under which the action was taken in the protection edit summary (for example, [[WP:CT/BLP]] or [[Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Biographies of Living Persons]]).

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the bot operator or to the arbitration clerks at the arbitration clerks' noticeboard.

Thank you! ClerkBot (talk) 23:55, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

L235. False positive. No rush to fix, just putting it in the queue. Thanks :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:07, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh no! I will take a look. I think the "WP:AE" matched there :) KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 01:09, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This should be fixed, at least with a bodge :) KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 22:50, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

UnblockReview acting up

Tracked in github.com
Issue #273
Resolved

Hi, sorry to bother, wasn't sure where to raise this, but since it's your script I thought I'd at least start here. I'm using User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/UnblockReview, and for the past maybe a week (?) I've noticed that it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. (When I say doesn't work, I mean it doesn't open up the comment window and offer the accept/decline buttons.) For example, here's one where it doesn't work: User_talk:Vinn_Lay.

I've just checked ~20 pages with open appeals, and it looks like it's not working with {{unblock-spamun}}, but works fine with the vanilla {{unblock}}. Unblock-spamun hasn't been changed for over a year, so I'm thinking it can't be that; then again, your script hasn't been changed for over four months, and I've only noticed this issue very much more recently, so that doesn't seem likely explanation, either. (I've un- and re-installed the script, but it didn't help.)

Any idea what might be behind this? Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:59, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DoubleGrazing. Hey there. I think this edit broke UnblockReview, since UnblockReview checks the color of the unblock template to see if it's been answered or not. Anyway, all

Fixed now. Thanks for reporting. Happy unblocking. –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:09, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, many thanks Novem. Yep, I've checked a few spamuns, and it's working again. :) DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:20, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

UnblockReview broken again - May 2026

Hi, me again. (Since this thread, on a related topic, is still here I'll just add to it.) For a few days now, the UnblockReview tool isn't opening up the text window and accept/decline buttons. Are you aware of any issue currently that might be causing this? From my side, the only change I've made to my common.js is that earlier in the week I installed DatGuy's new SPI helper tool User:DatGuy/spihelper, which timing-wise looks like it could be causing this, but before I go and hassle DatGuy I thought I'd ask you first (lucky you!). Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:49, 17 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh. It wouldn't be software if it didn't break all the time :) Will add it to my pile of things to look at. –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:00, 18 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Root cause was phab:T420125. –Novem Linguae (talk) 10:58, 18 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, that was quick! Yep, I just looked at a few open appeals, and in each case it seems to work fine now. Many thanks! :) DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:05, 18 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Turkey

Buster7 has given you a turkey! Turkeys promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a turkey, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy Thanksgiving! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 19:04, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the goodness of turkey by adding {{subst:Thanksgiving Turkey}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Candidates

Re this; shouldn't the priority be to have the correct date? I get the desire to easily copy and paste but I would figure having the correct date would be more important. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) 15:30, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@45dogs. Oh apologies, I didn't realize the date was wrong. Let me see if I can fix it real quick by modifying the underlying data template. –Novem Linguae (talk) 15:34, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Has USync stopped working?

I have noticed that you started manually updating your userscript: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Novem_Linguae/Scripts/anrfc-lister.js&diff=prev&oldid=1325305306 despite there being a Git commit.

Could it be because User:Matrix/anrfc-test.js is also tracking the same thing, and the bot doesn't handle multiple pages that track the same file? I will look into this later today. dbeef [talk] 18:10, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dbeef. Thanks for the message. To be honest, it's because I forgot that the bot was updating that file. Whoops.

Also, as I experimented with using the bot previously, I discovered that I like to do manual deploys of user scripts so that I can manually test the new code, then once I work the bugs out of the new code (perhaps with some follow up wiki edits and VS Code file changes) I make a single git commit. That's another reason I haven't added the bot to all my user scripts. Hope that makes sense. –Novem Linguae (talk) 03:56, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think a different approach is to host the script locally, and have something on Wikipedia that loads your local development version as you edit it. This is what I usually do for my scripts, and I push to git once the version is good, which gets published to the on-wiki version by the bot. dbeef [talk] 01:09, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/QuickVandalBlock.js

Hey! I love the script. Any chance you could update it to handle temporary accounts? Don't worry if it's too much work but it would be handy if it's an easy fix. All the best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:52, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@HJ Mitchell. Howdy! When going to a random page on my watchlist that has a temporary account, I do see an "indef" link next to the temporary account. Can you please give me a more detailed steps to reproduce and a description of what you'd like changed so I can wrap my head around this? Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:08, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The link is there but it doesn't do anything (it works fine for registered accounts). To replicate, go to AIV and find a TA that could be blocked for vandalism, open a diff or filter log, click "indef" and nothing happens. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:09, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@HJ Mitchell. Sorry for the delay on this.

Fixed. By the way, I am thinking of changing the block log summary for proxy from "Vandalism" to "Vandalism (suspected proxy IP)". Does that sound like a good idea? Also have you confirmed lately that the 31h and proxy buttons still work? –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:28, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

AELECT vote

Hi Novem. Thanks for your organisational skills with AELECT. You'll be pleased to hear that the scrutineers have begun assembling. They couldn't help but notice that four votes were made on 8 Dec before the official start of the election, including yours. They were wondering if you, along with the others, would like to vote again, to forestall any potential complications, or if you have any other views about this before we move on to pestering the others. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 21:03, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zzuuzz. Hey there. The idea behind the 10 minutes of early voting is that it doubles as a test vote. For transparency, here is the exact message I posted on Discord that probably caused those votes:

Voting is open a couple minutes early for testing. These votes will count, so for your test vote, maybe put all abstain unless you already know who you're voting for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/877
Would be great if a couple non-admins put in a test vote right now and then posted here that it's working.

I judged that it would be uncontroversial, but if anyone disagrees, they are welcome to start a thread at WT:AELECT to advocate for those votes to be disqualified. I think that would be a pretty silly thing to advocate for, but you're the third person to contact me about this, so maybe I misjudged the situation. –Novem Linguae (talk) 04:13, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Editor's Barnstar

I cannot put into words how much I appreciate you for creating DraftCleaner. As someone who spends a large chunk of their time on enwiki reviewing drafts, it is perhaps the most helpful tool I have ever come across. It is also particularly useful for articles in mainspace that need quick fixes like removing curly quotation marks or fixing citations before punctuation. I have a huge amount of respect for you and everything you do across the project. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again! Rambley ^{(talk / contribs)} 21:09, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion re early voting

This is to let you know that the scrutineers have started a discussion about how best to handle votes submitted before the official start of the current admin elections. You may wish to comment, as your vote is amongst those being discussed. Risker (talk) 20:07, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Editing team feature idea meeting on Thursday 18th

Hiyo Novem Linguae! The Editing Team is working on a new Edit Check feature that will proactively suggest edits people can consider making. The team is calling the feature "Suggestion Mode."

We'd like to invite you to a discussion (in English, for this meeting) on 18th December to show an early prototype and talk about how it might be improved, expanded, and/or reconsidered. For this conversation, we're specifically interested in learning from folks like you who have direct experience with integrating edit suggestions and signals directly into editing workflows via scripts, gadgets, browser-extensions, etc.

We're hosting a meeting on Zoom this week (18 December at 17:00–18:00 UTC, the Zoom-link will be in mw:Editing team/Community Conversations) to demonstrate how we can currently integrate some existing editing suggestions, ask for feedback and ideas about other types of editing suggestions, and talk about the feedback loops we create to ensure these suggestions have reasonable false-positive rates.

You can see a short-list of examples that we've already compiled at mw:VisualEditor/Suggestion Mode, and if you have simple suggestions (or cannot attend the meeting) then we'd greatly appreciate your questions on the talkpage and idea additions to this longer listing of ideas. If you have ideas that are most easily demonstrated via screen-sharing in a video call, or want to discuss the ideas that already exist in that list, then we'd welcome your thoughts in the meeting. If you're not already familiar with Zoom, please see Working and convening remotely/Zoom for more information. You can optionally register your planned attendance at mw:Editing team/Community Conversations so that we know roughly how many folks to expect.

Please know: this will not be the last time we'll be asking people for feedback about the feature nor will it be the last meeting we host about it! Thanks, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:09, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Quick addition: If you're not able to come to the meeting at that time, you can try the tool using this userscript and there are four questions on the talkpage that we're most interested in your/tool-dev feedback on. Thanks again! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 23:26, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A Very Merry Christmas to you!

Hello there. 'Tis the season again, believe it or not, the years pass so quickly now! Your contributions to Wikipedia in 2025 are greatly appreciated! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas, and here's to a happy and productive 2026! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:11, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seasons Greetings

Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension. Happy Holidays to you and yours. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 20:49, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2026!

Hello Novem Linguae, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2026.
Happy editing,

Wishes from Vestrian24Bio

Click here to see the Christmas message I wrote...💞! Vestrian24Bio 12:48, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Hello User:Novem Linguae: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, —Ganesha811 (talk) 12:59, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

New Years 2026

@Novem Linguae. Happy New Year! Wishing you a year filled with knowledge, collaboration, and meaningful contributions. Thank you for your dedication to building free, reliable, and accessible knowledge for everyone around the world. May the new year bring you inspiration, successful edits, respectful discussions, and strong community spirit. Here’s to another year of improving Wikipedia together! Warm regards, — A fellow Wikipedian (Iluziya7 (talk) 09:39, 30 December 2025 (UTC))[reply]

Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026

Hello! I came across your name on a previous Wikimedia hackathon participant page, so I thought you might be interested in this.

We're organizing the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026, taking place on 13–14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. It's a two-day, in-person hackathon for technical Wikimedians from the region.

Since you've attended a hackathon before, you already know how valuable these events can be for collaboration, learning, and getting things done together. We'd love to have you join us!

Apply here – registration closes mid-January or when full.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Hope to see you in Arnhem! Daanvr (talk) 14:52, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you delete "User:Novem Linguae/Essays/Community tension with the WMF"?

Hello! I realized shortly after this comment from Clovermoss, that you once made, and then deleted, a great essay about the shortcomings of the WMF, and the distrust in the community that they sparked. Looking at an archive of it, it seems to be perfectly good for today's wikimedia environment, and so I am asking why you decided to delete it. -BlueEleephant (talk) 03:48, 23 January 2026 (UTC) (I have been aware of the numerous historical failures of the WMF for a while, but not every newcomer is)[reply]

Howdy. I decided to delete that because 1) the WMF has been making good strides towards mending community relations lately under the current C-suite (Iskander, Deckelmann), 2) my views on those issues have become more moderate as I've worked more closely with WMF staff, and 3) I don't really want to help Wikipedia's enemies by presenting a concise list of everything negative about the WMF since it could be used to write a negative newspaper article about us. At the end of the day the WMF and enwiki volunteers are on the same team and we need to figure things out and work together. A list of everything we dislike about the WMF is too blunt and it is now my opinion that it's better to gently bring those issues up one at a time rather than compile an entire list. For these reasons, would be great if you could avoid linking to archived versions of that document. –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:25, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@BlueEleephant. Requesting that you remove your hyperlink to the archived copy. –Novem Linguae (talk) 18:12, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This page only has 100 watchers, so I don't quite believe that WP's enemies would see my small hyperlink before it got archived, but also you stated that you have worked with the WMF a lot, which makes me believe you are requesting me to remove the link solely for positive PR for the foundation. Then again, I am skeptical of a lot of things, (the foundation included) so I may not be aware of how shadowy some of the WMF's enemies (which are mostly dictatorial governments & fascists iirc) are. Could you explain why removal of the link is so urgent? -BlueEleephant (talk) 18:39, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

My reasoning is explained in the original post. I don't appreciate you accusing me of lying about my motives (solely for positive PR for the foundation). –Novem Linguae (talk) 18:51, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ever since I read about the ANIGATE & FRAMGATE incidents several months ago, as well as the removal of Lane Rasberry from the WMF Board election, I lost almost all faith in the WMF, and at that time, I had also heard of how non-transparent WMF staff can be when faced with questions regarding highly controversial office actions. Because of this, I became skeptical of the majority of statements members of WMF staff put out, and, by extension, the things users who work oftenly with WMF staff, even for years after those big incidents happened. When I read your comment, I partially assumed you were saying the good things about the foundation you were, and were requesting the link removal, to give the WMF good PR, which I realize now isn't your intention, which should have been obvious to me by the very friendly tone of your first reply. -BlueEleephant (talk) 20:19, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you BlueEleephant. I appreciate you giving this all a second thought and arriving at this conclusion. If you're on WP:DISCORD and want to chat more about this subject, feel free to drop me a DM and I'd be happy to chat with you more candidly about some of these sensitive issues. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:47, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. I simply asked for clarification on WP:RUD btw. TurboSuperA+_[talk] 20:42, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

		*The Signpost* Barnstar**
		For contributing in the Newsroom, in a column, or both! Vol. 22 issue 4 turned out pretty great thanks to a team that was fortunate to include you.

☆ Bri (talk) 05:23, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

NCORP and what's considered regional

Hi Novem Linguae, I've been reading over NCORP to determine whether an article I'm planning to write is notable and would like to confirm whether the Toronto Star would count as regional before I start. While it is squarely a Toronto publication, its circulation is the highest in Canada so I think that would be enough to get over the "non-local" hurdle (NCORP does mention something to the degree of "highest circulation in the state" counting as regional). ~UN6892 ^t_c 20:27, 21 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I did some additional digging and it seems my assumption was right. Additionally, the Chicago Tribune was another one of the sources I was planning to use for WP:THREE in case the article goes to AfD and that would have worked as well. ~UN6892 ^t_c 23:28, 21 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there @Username6892. This would probably be a good question for WT:NCORP. But reading WP:AUD closely, it seems it focuses on the "audience" more than the name of the paper. So the Toronto Star would probably qualify as long as it has readership outside of Toronto, which it sounds like it is probably big enough that it does. Hope that helps! –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:50, 22 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, I'd read into the explanatory essay after and realized both the Toronto Star and Chicago Tribune would cover it. Thank you. ~UN6892 ^t_c 02:29, 22 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Review log question

Hi Novem, hope you're doing well. Could you help me figure out who marked Onlymyhealth as reviewed? From the history it looks like it was Jamiebuba, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the logs anywhere. I've come across this sort of thing a couple of times recently and was curious if there's something obvious I'm missing. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 21:24, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Extraordinary Writ. I would expect it to be logged at [1] unless the person who moved it was an autopatroller, which they were not. I'm stumped. Will ask on Discord for additional ideas. The Discord message is at [2] if you'd like to follow along. –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:53, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, definitely weird. I dug through my browser history and I think the other ones I saw were Jason Tramm and Andrew G. L. Whitelaw. Those ones were created in May 2024 too, so maybe it was just a bug that's since been fixed. I'm not on Discord, so let me know if any of you figure it out! Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:04, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Jason Tramm is in the patrol log, which is an unusual spot for it, but happens when a different less well known patrol button is pressed. We fixed this in phab:T403429 (Jan 6, 2026), but that page was reviewed before our fix (May 9, 2024).

Ditto with Andrew G. L. Whitelaw. –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:17, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

NovemBot question

Tracked in github.com
Issue #107

It looks like NovemBot can identify whether a topic is promoted to good or featured topic. Would it be possible to modify it, so that if one is promoted as a good topic, then the topic page is created as a subpage of WP:Good topics instead of WP:Featured topics? Regards, Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:16, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, anything is possible with enough engineering time :) Should probably run this by the FGTC coordinators though. @FGTC coordinators:, thoughts? –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:02, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I wholeheartedly agree, this should be modified as it is unsuitable having to move good topic pages to the correct names when they are promoted as featured topics. --K. Peake 08:55, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Armbrust, @Kyle Peake.

Done. But keep in mind there are other spots where "featured topic" is used for "good topics", for example in categories such as Category:Wikipedia featured topics Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics good content and in template titles such as Template:Featuredtopictalk and Template:Featured topic log. And there are also a bunch of existing "good topics" that are Wikipedia:Featured topics subpages (for example, almost everything at Wikipedia:Good topics when I hover over the "edit" links at the top left of the topic boxes). –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:09, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this adjustment Novem. We got community consensus for the change a while back, but it seems like we never updated the bot Aza24 (talk) 22:01, 23 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

NovemBot delay

There seems to be some delay with Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics/archive1. Bgsu98 (Talk) 14:16, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Bgsu98. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I replied in detail at Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics/archive1. Short answer is MediaWiki is broken and will be fixed in about a week, so until then, NovemBot task 1 FGTC is down. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:53, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User:Novem Linguae: Thank you for taking time from your Easter to investigate. Will the WikiCup bot be able to recognize this now? Bgsu98 (Talk) 22:36, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure. If it reads one of the pages novembot needs to edit, probably not. –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:29, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiCup bot did pick it up! Thank you so much for your assistance. 😀 Bgsu98 (Talk) 12:23, 8 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Bgsu98. Fixed and processed. This is also the first bot run where it put the topic page as a subpage of Wikipedia:Good topics instead of Wikipedia:Featured topics, so please keep an eye out for bugs related to that. –Novem Linguae (talk) 09:55, 6 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Contributing to wiki projects on github

Thanks for the correction to the ticket on github! I've noted your tips for contributing to wiki projects there (I'm new to this specific mode of cross platform of collaboration). I didn't see your earlier ticket, I'll try not to duplicate things like that in the future. I'd like to be able to contribute pull requests in the future, but I can't seem to get my fork of the project to work with my editor (not sure why). ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 12:30, 28 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there. Duplicate tickets are OK. There's a button to merge them into other tickets, and this happens a lot and isn't a big deal. I would have used that button if your ticket had been 1 issue, but it was 2, so I used a different approach :)

What's your editor? What's the error message? Feel free to DM me on Discord if you'd prefer synchronous communication to debug this. Git, forking repos, and PRs have a tough learning curve. I quite dislike git because of the learning curve, but it's the industry standard, so *shrug*. –Novem Linguae (talk) 13:18, 28 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Move of Template:tfm to Template:Template for merging proposed

Hello Novem Linguae. See closure of a move request. The move seems to have had consensus, and User:Jeffrey34555 at WP:RMTR has asked for the move to go forward. The concern is that it might affect Twinkle. I'm guessing that you are involved with Twinkle. Do you have any comment on this plan? Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 22:29, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@EdJohnston. As long as a redirect is left, I assume it would be OK. Go ahead and try it if you're comfortable with it. Thanks for checking! –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:09, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Garbled response using SpeciesHelper

Hiya, hope you've been well.

I've been having some recent trouble with SpeciesHelper, where pretty much every page I run it on gives me the same kind of error (in this case on Cupha prosope):

Garbled response received from {{#invoke:Autotaxobox|listAll|Cupha}}. Is the page [[Template:Taxonomy/Cupha]] formatted correctly? Does its wikicode contain {{Don't edit this line}} and match what other Template:Taxonomy/* pages look like?

This happens even though the corresponding taxon page is formatted correctly. I'm not sure what I should do to troubleshoot it further on my end (there was nothing printed in the console or network tab of Firefox dev tools), so LMK if there is anything I can do to help figure it out. EatingCarBatteries _{(contribs | talk)} 04:56, 4 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, this is

Fixed as of about a week ago. –Novem Linguae (talk) 05:25, 22 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

NPP Coordinator

[3] concerning your edit I have being planning on applying for a while, for backlog drive assistantor newsletter assistant or both. Destinyokhiria _{(talk / cont)} 11:11, 16 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your interest. I'm going to copy paste this to WT:NPPC so that more folks can see it. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:27, 16 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Nice class of first-rate candidates

And you didn't have to do most of the work this time! Dude! Thanks for stepping back a bit. You make all wikipedians look good. BusterD (talk) 17:28, 19 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Email

I got a Wikimedia notification that you sent me an email; the email didn't arrive. Feel free to resend it. Boud (talk) 12:39, 20 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay in re-sending. Got busy with some other stuff. FYI I did get your follow up email asking for the resend. Anyway, resent. Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 12:43, 20 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Permalink

FWIW m:Community Tech#The team is transcluded from m:Community Tech/Team so your permalink at WP:VPW may not be the one you intended. Nardog (talk) 05:17, 21 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Will fix. –Novem Linguae (talk) 09:30, 21 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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Small request from BlueEleephant: Please revert Special:Diff/1355144502

Hello, yesterday, I added the WikiBreak enforcer script to my common.js so I could focus on school work without getting too caught up on Wikipedia-related matters. However, I found out today that the grading period is already over for my school, and, considering WP:COMMTECHGATE, I've made the unusual decision that it may just be better for me to cut my WikiBreak short. As such, I humbly ask you as an Interface Administrator to revert the edit that enforced the WikiBreak.

Thank you very much! ~2026-30433-20 (talk) 04:35, 22 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@BlueEleephant, @~2026-30433-20. Done. Welcome back. –Novem Linguae (talk) 05:25, 22 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot! - BlueEleephant (talk · contribs) 05:30, 22 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Git add

Hey Novem, at your earliest convenience could I please get added as a contributor to the AFC review history tool? I found some things that need updating but I obviously can't put in a pull request until I'm part of the project. Thanks! Primefac (talk) 11:54, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac. Hey there. I think anyone can submit pull requests. I think the "contributor" tag just gets added automatically once the first pull request is merged, as a little thank you for submitting patches. Then the level above that is "collaborator" which is the folks that get a button to accept pull requests. So tldr, would it be OK if you tried submitting the PR first, and if it doesn't work, we can take another look at this? Hope that helps! –Novem Linguae (talk) 15:35, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thought that might be the case, been long enough since I joined the AFCH git that I didn't remember the order of operations! Primefac (talk) 15:42, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

...and what I was really thinking of was being made whatever admin-type level is needed in order to close discussions; I noticed for neither afchistory nor xfdcloser do I have it (but I do have it on AFCH). Cheers, Primefac (talk) 00:32, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have enough access to add anyone to the afchistory repo. We'd have to ask Enterprisey. Need me to close anything for ya in the meantime? –Novem Linguae (talk) 15:02, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No, it was the "this might be a duplicate" comment on xfdc that I was going to act on that made me realise it. I'll ping Enterprisey about afc stuff though! Primefac (talk) 23:05, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have enough access to add you to XFDcloser. Added :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:44, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Primefac (talk) 08:43, 17 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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		Thank you so much for User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/Superlinks.js! I really appreciate your hard work fixing and improving Bradv's excellent script :) House Blaster (talk • he/they) 01:17, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

GTC promotion error

Just letting you know that it looks like something went wrong with the bot the other day preventing it from promoting Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/North East Line stations/archive1 despite it being approved. -- Zoo Blazer 05:35, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This diff has a pretty good error message. Something weird is going on in the wikicode of Template:Featured topic log. Will take a look. –Novem Linguae (talk) 15:06, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I think I fixed it. –Novem Linguae (talk) 15:20, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

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BlockedUserHistory

Hi Novem,

(I don't want to create a GitHub ticket yet, because it's possible – or, given that this is me, highly likely! – I've misunderstood something. Let me know if I should.)

I'm after a tool that would show all blocked users (or alternatively, all edits by blocked users) in the revision history of an article. So I was delighted to come across your User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/BlockedUserHistory.js script, but when I installed it and tried it out, I can't get it to work. For example, the Web design article has several blocked users already in the 100 newest edits, but when I activate this filter, the entire history disappears, leaving nothing: [[4]].

Am I doing something wrong, do you think, or is this script not even meant to do what I was wanting?

Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:00, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@DoubleGrazing. Howdy! What skin are you using? And you're clicking the "Show only blocked users" link in the more/tools menu, correct? Works for me on Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. –Novem Linguae (talk) 17:43, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for responding.

I'm using Vector 2022.

And yes, that is how I'm invoking it: View history > Tools > Show only blocked users.

Could this be clashing with something else in my User:DoubleGrazing/common.js? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 17:53, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds worth investigating. Want to try disabling everything except this user script in your common.js, and seeing if the problem goes away? If the problem goes away, you can then start "bisecting", that is, while keeping BlockedUserHistory.js enabled and at the top, disable half your other user scripts and see if the problem is in the other half, and keep disabling and narrowing it down until you figure out which one is clashing. –Novem Linguae (talk) 18:03, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yup. I expect to report back something in early winter. :) DoubleGrazing (talk) 18:12, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]