SD0001

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User:Hey man im josh submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate SD0001 to be Editor of the Week for their technical work and motivational acumen. Recently named Tech Contributor of the Year, they run SDZeroBot, a bot which allow editors to generate their own database reports based on specified SQL queries, which also elegantly generates some of our most useful reports, such as NPP sorting, AfC sorting, draftify watch, and much, much more. They have been a member of the Bot Approvals Group since late 2020, where they spend time reviewing and processing requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval. They have also spent time creating a number of useful scripts that are widely used by the community at large. Not stopping there, D0001 has also made significant contributions elsewhere, such as to existing gadgets, including Twinkle and the Articles for Creation Helper Script, as well as having made contributions to core MediaWiki. Many users speak to how much they appreciate SD's contributions and motivational skills. Recognition for all they've done is the least that we can do. This nomination was seconded by Novem Linguae, MPGuy2824, Queen of Hearts, TechnoSquirrel69 and Sohom Datta

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SD0001

Editor of the Week for the week beginning September 8, 2024

Recently named Tech Contributor of the Year, they run SDZeroBot, a bot which allow editors to generate their own database reports based on specified SQL queries and which also elegantly generates useful reports, such as NPP sorting, AfC sorting, draftify watch. A member of the Bot Approvals Group since late 2020, where they spend time reviewing and processing requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval. They created a number of useful scripts that are widely used by the at large community. Made significant contributions to existing gadgets, including Twinkle and the Articles for Creation Helper Script and to core MediaWiki.

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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 12:11, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much, you all! It feels great to be recognized. I had no idea we had such an award along with a process for handing it out. (Let me know if you need any scripting help for organizing EOTW :D) – SD0001 (talk) 18:39, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Lets pretend I don't know what "scripting" is! Which I don't. If you can help expand the range and awareness of EotW that would be good thing. Any ideas are welcome. @Isaccl: Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 00:19, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Special:WantedTemplates

I noticed a bunch of new "transclusions of non-existing templates" pop-up pointing to User:SDZeroBot/sync/MediaWiki:Gadget-WikiMiniAtlas.js. Would it be possible for you to add

// <nowiki>

at the top of that page, and

// </nowiki>

at the bottom of the page? This will prevent the backend software from thinking that the page is transcluding templates that don't exist here like Template:H:h Help. Since the <nowiki>...</nowiki> is inside of javascript comments, it won't impact the functionality of the script. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 15:31, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

This was from testing of buggy code. I've blanked the page. – SD0001 (talk) 18:40, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: CAPTCHA test (September 15)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Guessitsavis was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 19:05, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

User:SD0001/Making user scripts load faster question

Hi SD0001. Thanks for writing this and maintaining it. Would it be possible to change the behavior for some mobile device browsers? There doesn't seem to be a reliable way to force a page refresh on iOS using Safari (i.e., without a real keyboard). I wouldn't suggest completely disabling it, but perhaps a much shorter cache duration like an hour? Regards. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 05:28, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

For now, I simply added &&window.innerWidth>768 to the outer check. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 19:49, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

@Daniel Quinlan Some people have found the snippet particularly useful on mobile as mobile internet speeds are lower. I am not sure if it's a common requirement to purge script caches on mobile, to be worth adding in extra code to set a different cache duration. It's worth keeping the minified blob as small as possible. – SD0001 (talk) 08:15, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

That's a good point about speeds. I ended up using a blank page to lower the age values to 1 second so they'll be refreshed. That only helps with the resources being loaded on that page, of course. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 03:28, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Regarding Good article promotions #2...

@SD0001:Hello and good night! Sorry for bothering you in case you are busy but i need to notify an issues regarding this page (https://sdzerobot.toolforge.org/gans?user=KGRAMR): Iron Soldier listing has an erroneous date (1970-01-01) instead of the date when it was approved by the reviewer (2024-09-03). If you can fix the issues in anyway i would be grateful but if not then no worries, it's just an odd stuff i noticed when arranging my wiki user page. Thanks and have a good day :) Roberth Martinez (talk) 22:52, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

 Fixed in the db. Not sure why it was wrong originally. – SD0001 (talk) 08:08, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Minor parsing error w/r/t User:SDZeroBot/NPP sorting

Looks like the bot doesn't filter out citations in {{sfnm}} templates; see this page which has a footnote at the bottom. Mach61 00:51, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

 Fixed [1], thanks. – SD0001 (talk) 07:48, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Maintainer of HotArticlesBot: move config page?

You're currently listed as a maintainer of HotArticlesBot. Would you be willing to change the bot so that it gets its info from, say, Wikipedia:WikiProject/Hot articles config.json? I'd like to open up editing of the config to template editors but can't do that if it's in user space; only admins and int admins have access. (I already convinced MusikAnimal to do the same with the Popular pages config.) Izno (talk) 00:07, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

 Done @Izno. The bot will now read its conf from Wikipedia:WikiProject/Hot articles config.json. – SD0001 (talk) 14:19, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't see a change in the repo that's posted on the bot's page. Has that been synced lately or are you hiding the adjustment in another repo? Izno (talk) 17:42, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

I don't have access to that repo. I updated the source link to point to my fork.

Not that I think this bot should continue to exist. It can be deprecated once I figure out a good way to make {{database report}} support templatized queries (fetch a query from another page, but substitute some values). Even without that, it's still easy to generate such lists, as already done in a few cases like Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Hot articles 2. – SD0001 (talk) 20:19, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the syntaxhighlight "copy" feature

I complain a lot about bugs that linger forever in Phabricator and are never resolved, mostly because I am not a programmer and can't fix them myself. But you actually went and implemented the 12-year-old request at T40932, and it is great! Nice work. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:23, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

My pleasure. Most of the work on this was actually done by the author of the mediawiki.org gadget which I just ported into the extension. By the way, it's a boolean attribute so just copy works the same as copy="1". – SD0001 (talk) 19:26, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

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Our Admin Election Test

Hello there. As we're preparing to move from one stage to the next, this is just a quick note from one member of the test group to another, wishing you well in the process of this new alternative to RfA. It seems that there are more of us in this group than some in the community anticipated, so i hope that doesn't make the experience any the worse for all of us. Whatever our individual results, i thank you, along with the rest, for stepping up and testing this process; happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 07:19, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Best wishes to you as well! – SD0001 (talk) 10:28, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:27, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

NPP sorting

Should have run a couple of hours ago but apparently didn’t. Thanks Mccapra (talk) 08:34, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Resolved now per User_talk:SDZeroBot#NPP sorting. – SD0001 (talk) 11:20, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations

On your election as a new admin! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:53, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations! Plantaest (talk) 13:49, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

New Admin Bâtonnets

I may not be able to offer you the baton, but I hope you can savour these bâtonnets as you study all the new admin buttons! Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 21:47, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Some bubble tea for you!

You deserve it after winning adminship. Congrats! Wikibear47 (talk) 18:58, 5 November 2024 (UTC)