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Rich, questioning why you made the seemingly useless updates to
List of former tractor manufacturers to change USA to US??? The common reference for the United States of America isUSA. If you want to yous the
ISO 3166 2-alpha standard of US, why wouldn't you change all of the other countries as well? (Except that most people wouldn't know what they stand for). USA makes sense, is easily understood, and is the common, accepted, abbreviation. Your edit was unnecessary and causes more confusion than anything.
I’m King, a current Junior at Stanford University. You’ve spent many years on Wikipedia. I am curious what you think about the current system of flagging articles and issues and how it could be optimized. Maybe Machine Learning tools could be implemented? I can also be reached at iamking-at-stanford-dt-edu. (Formatted weirdly to protect myself from bots) Would love to hear from you either on Wikipedia talk or via email. Thank you for your time!
P.S. I grew up using Wikipedia and would love to have the opportunity to contribute back to this community-powered knowledge base. Speaking with you would be greatly advantageous. Thank you! — Preceding
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04:51, 18 January 2019 (UTC)reply
I'm currently struggling under an IP range block, namely: 94.117.32.0/20 blocked by
User:Kuru (due to an LTA). I decided it was time to request IP Block exemption. Using the proper procedures, unfortunately does not work.
https://utrs.wmflabs.org/index.php claims
There were errors processing your unblock appeal:
We need to know which administrator placed your block.
Needless to say there is no field for this information.
The page also threw the following errors: Warning: file_get_contents(
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvlimit=1&rvprop=content&format=json&titles=User_talk:Rich Farmbrough): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /usr/utrs/production/public_html/src/appealObject.php on line 811 Notice: Undefined index: by in /usr/utrs/production/public_html/src/appealObject.php on line 226 (Note that the JSON format is deprecated so there is a deeper issue here too.)
Accept reason:
Dropped that range block down to anon-only, which should resolve the short-term issue. Not sure how to troubleshoot the error with the IPBE.
Kuru(talk)18:30, 26 January 2019 (UTC)reply
City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?
R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no
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Hi, thanks for your interest. I was specifically mystified by a template called "III", which turned out to be "Ill" though in the typeface selected by our beneficent graphic designers they cannot be distinguished - see my comments suggesting better candidates for the font stack at the time of the graphic makeover. It seemed like a good idea to remove this obfuscation, so I made a start. (A better solution would be to create the required articles on en.wikipedia, of course.) All the best: RichFarmbrough,
21:17, 3 January 2019 (UTC).reply
That doesn't at all answer my question, unless you are implying that you made your edits knowing full well that they violate your restriction.
Primefac (
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22:50, 3 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (
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Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (
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