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How long have I been away? I forget. I got a new laptop and a new phone and neither of them had the requisite login credentials. I've moved house twice and the new place has loads that needs doing. Life has just got in the way.
The other day, I found my old phone in a bag in the garage and thought, "Hey, that's got the MFA code generator I need to login to enwiki on it!" So I borrowed my old laptop back from my son to get the password and here we are.
I don't propose to ask to be re-sysopped any time soon. I'm going to edit, lurk and comment for a bit. I'm sure lots has changed around here in the time I've been away.
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| 20 October 2025 |
And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.
Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.
Who was bumped and why? ...while Musk prepares to launch "Grokipedia".
Serial-killer miniseries, deceased scientist, government shutdowns and Sandalwood hit "Kantara" crowd the tubes.
Don't get too excited before you read this. |
My username is something I've come to regret a bit, since I wear a silver ring these days. I've also been accused of some sort of association with Sauron.
Could we at least have a bit of wit in the vandalism? If I had a dollar for every new editor who thought it was funny to insert 'butt' or 'dickhead' randomly into articles, I'd be a rich man. It seems this sort of 'humour' is ever new. If even ClueBot can spot it, it's pretty dumb.
As well as editing English Wikipedia, I also develop and maintain a couple of tools.
Therecent change patrol tool is atWikimedia Tool Labs. This tool is a new development and feedback and suggestions are very welcome atUser:GoldenRing/WRCP.
Current plans for future development include:
Themovestats tool is also hosted atTool Labs. This tool is meant to aid in identifying certain types of vandals, who register a new account and carry out many page moves quickly. It has also expanded a bit to include stats on edits by new editors. Feedback and suggestions are very welcome atUser:GoldenRing/MoveStats.
Install this by adding:
importScript('User:GoldenRing/wordcount.js');to yourcommon.js. This adds a new button to the header of each page, near the 'Read', 'Edit' and 'View history' buttons (possibly under a menu called 'More' if you have certain gadgets enabled) called 'Word count'. Clicking this (or using its shortcut key, Alt+Shift+C) will add a word count to every heading in the current page.
Word counts do not include:
:hidden selector)This script is quite new and bug reports are appreciated.
Install this by adding:
importScript('User:GoldenRing/generate-diffs.js');to yourcommon.js. This does two things:
The diffs are ordered in the reverse of whatever order jQuery selectors return them; I think this will end up as chronological order, but it's not been tested much.
This script has only been tested on whatever version of Chrome I'm running on Windowsand Ubuntu at present, with the Vector skin. Reports of problems on other browser / OS / skin combinations are welcome, though I'm not sure when I'll get to look at them.
Support on older browsers is likely to be quite limited. You will probably get the string copied to the input field and the content of the field selected, but you will likely have to copy the string to the clipboard yourself. There doesn't seem to be a lot that can be done about this, short of using a Flash applet to do the copy and I'm just not going there. Either get a modern browser or press Ctrl+C yourself.