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23:33, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
Greetings ! [1]
this is regarding edit on frozen 2 page. [1] The movie release date of 22nd November is for US, UK and India which i tried to add but change was reverted by you. I gave the reference as well
Kindly check and let me know of any issue here
Aftabon ( talk) 09:52, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm sorry i'm not much experienced on wiki but will soon become good with the help of experts like you.
Regarding Frozen 2 - the release is global and the movie is same. we cannot make separate Frozen 2 page for each country so i added country as well. Let me know whats the better way to approach this issue.
thanks for your support
Regards Aftabon ( talk) 08:50, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
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internal
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14:34, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
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MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry
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16:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
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22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
[user anon] Hello. There are two bands in UK called EGG. One these is decribided as an electronic and the another is a progressive rock canterbury scene. Your work is great and I am just trying to show you the difference and to say that it is can be a desambuigation about bands on UK. Anyway, thank you for notice me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.234.153.181 ( talk) 08:40, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
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centralauth
database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or
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20:16, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
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16:51, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
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{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns ""
(empty string). When you read a page it returns "-"
(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.
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16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
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16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
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00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
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setlang
in the
URL to change the
user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if
Javascript is not working in your browser.
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20:05, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
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21:20, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
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<ref follow="…">
to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead.
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:39, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
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python2
tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can
get help to do so.
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19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
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18:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
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20:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
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19:11, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
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16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
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20:59, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
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wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage
was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can
read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a
list.
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00:35, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
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articletopic
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17:14, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
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21:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you have reverted vandalism before I had a chance and I see you are using Huggle. I was wondering, how long does it take to get Huggle? I know I need to have rollback to get it, so I guess my question is really how long does it take before I can get rollback? Thanks. Woerich ( talk) 04:06, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
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17:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
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Stay safe, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
please do not revert in article because not announced yet to format of miss intermnational 2020 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.9.110.61 ( talk) 02:03, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
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Maintenance script
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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello HMSLavender, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Draft:Passthemike, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 and other speedy deletion criteria with an "A" prefix only apply to mainspace articles, not drafts. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Passenger pigeon ( talk) 04:28, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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. div.portal
is now .portal
. div#footer
is now #footer
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HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.
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18:44, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Hey! Thanks for testing RedWarn. This is an important message to notify you that effective immediately, you need to change your common.js. This is due to my usurp request to change my username from an alias, JamesHSmith6789, to a more identifiable one, Ed6767 being accepted.
To do this, edit your config.js and remove the existing RedWarn script line and replace it with this one:
importScript("User:Ed6767/redwarn.js");
Click here to edit your common.js
And, here's another reminder to please, please, leave feedback and report all bugs on the talk page. By reporting bugs, you can help get them fixed by the next daily release.
Also, if you're interested in live discussion regarding the development and help with using RedWarn, why not join our new Discord server. It's easy to sign up and you can get help and chat with other RedWarn users.
Again, thank you so much for being willing to beta test RedWarn! I really appreciate it. Ed6767 ( talk) 12:35, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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Morebits.date
class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using getUTCMonthName
or getUTCMonthNameAbbrev
with Date
objects, those have been deprecated and should
be updated.Hope everyone stays safe. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
Wouldn’t be the first time 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.235.113.116 ( talk) 02:40, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
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16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello RedWarn tester! I hate to reitterate, but thank you so much for being willing to test RedWarn, I really appreciate it.
In the past few updates, I have added AIV (admin) reporting, a preferences panel, themes, customisation options and made many, many bug fixes and added many features based on your suggestions and feedback.
Unfortunately, recently feedback has run dry.
Even if you do not use RedWarn at the moment, or you do (tysm), I would greatly appreciate feedback of any kind. While I go round Twinkle users, sounding like that broadband salesperson in the mall that nobody ever wants to speak to, I'd like some updated feedback from recent and current users.
Any sort of feedback below would be greately appreciated!
Click the button below to begin a new section on the talk page
My goal is to create the most user friendly moderation tool, and that's why I need your feedback to help make this truely the most favorable anti-vandal tool. While we will never elliminate vandalism on this site, we can get closer to fighting it quickly and easily.
Many thanks for your continued support. Ed6767 ( talk) 00:26, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
If you do not wish to get these feedback reminders, let me know on my talk page.
If you don’t think we’re not living in “1984” vs America 2020. Your not right.
Ms MickeySaffas ( talk) 03:53, 7 May 2020 (UTC)