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Hello, Alexis Jazz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! RJFJR (talk) 18:33, 11 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Template:Character info?

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Do you have a plan for {{Character info}}? Templates that are not transcluded anywhere are typically deleted. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:29, 12 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Unarchiving village pump discussion

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Hello. Is it possible for you to unarchive Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 189#Spongebob Squarepants is now freely licensed!? We are still awaiting a response from Nickelodeon from WMF Legal. JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 20:36, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

JohnCWiesenthal,   DoneAlexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:13, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 23:23, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Spongebob licensing discussion

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Hi Alexis Jazz, I saw you moved the Spongebob licensing discussion to an RfC page. If I'm reading it correctly, it's not a live RfC yet. I wanted to let you know that my colleague posted an update at the end of the discussion. Cheers, BChoo (WMF) (talk) 19:04, 30 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

BChoo, thanks! The reason I did that was because the discussion had been automatically archived. Having long discussion threads for a long period of time on the village pumps is kind of discouraged as it makes them more difficult to navigate/load, so I unarchived it to its own page.
It's not strictly an RfC, but every other discussion that was split off to its own subpage seemingly became an RfC, so I followed the naming pattern. Too bad Nick didn't reply, but I can guess why.. Sending a reply would sort of acknowledge their mistake. At least they took action.Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 21:34, 30 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Question

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Hi @Alexis Jazz: May I know what tool are you talking about here? I'm sorry to have not noticed because it appears the given page has been disrupted a lot. Best regards, ─ Aafī (talk) 14:05, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

TheAafi, the tool in question is now named Factotum. (formerly known as Bawl) At the time I mentioned it because mw:Extension:DiscussionTools was not working properly on Urdu Wikipedia while Factotum offers similar functionality.Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 15:50, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Alexis Jazz: I don't think DT works fine on Urdu Wikipedia. Is there a way to localise your tool? Responding on talk pages is a very complex task on Urdu Wikipedia. I mean, everytime, I have to open the source-editor and type the response. I'd want to provide Urdu translations to your tool if I know how it works. Best regards, ─ Aafī (talk) 19:17, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
TheAafi, there is! See User:Alexis Jazz/Factotum/Mumbo jumbo#Translations. In short, search User:Alexis Jazz/Factotum-extra.js for FTT.msgsObj.qqq and copy that section to a place you can edit. The next section begins at "FTT.msgsObj.nl" for the Dutch (NL/NederLands) translation.
Translate the entries (translate only the part after the colon) and I'll add it. Don't translate entries that start with "DUPLICATE:". They automatically copy the content from another entry for technical reasons. Most words that are in all caps shouldn't be translated either. For example "USER" gets replaced with a username. But don't worry too much about that, I'll check it to be sure.
A partial translation is also welcome. The translations for the most basic elements of the interface are automatically imported from MediaWiki.Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 20:04, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Alexis Jazz: On it. Please see this. Some other friends from ur-wiki are contributing with the translation. ─ Aafī (talk) 13:20, 12 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
TheAafi, great! Since you're doing it off-wiki (I'm not sure why?), can everyone who contributes state somewhere on-wiki the license that applies? The original is public domain (use e.g. CC0 for public domain), but CC BY(-SA) 3.0 or higher also works.Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 19:30, 12 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Sure. This should appear on User:TheAafi/Factotum Urdu. ─ Aafī (talk) 11:00, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Alexis Jazz: Just pinging to ask if you got some free time to include this translation package in the script? ─ Aafī (talk) 09:51, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
TheAafi,   DoneAlexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 13:47, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
TheAafi, I just noticed I made a mistake that probably caused the translation not to load. It should load now.Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 20:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Alexis Jazz: This script has been doing wonders. I'd appreciate if Factotum in edit-summaries like this, could be changed to کارندہ ─ Aafī (talk) 14:17, 8 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Aafi, thanks! What does کارندہ mean? Google translate says "the worker" and Bing translate says "agent". If you're looking to change " نیا قطعہ" (new section) in that edit summary, it originates from w:ur:میڈیاویکی:Newsection which in turn is defined at https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Newsection/ur.
If you're looking to change "Factotum", it's the name of the script. I made it customizable if needed, put window.FTTsummaryCredit = ' [[[w:en:User:Alexis Jazz/Factotum|link to Factotum etc something something]]]'; in common.js to change it.Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 06:57, 9 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Nomination for deletion of Template:Not public domain/mediatype

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 Template:Not public domain/mediatype has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 08:04, 21 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Factotum is broken

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Due to the recent change (see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Tech News: 2024-26), the HTML for the signatures has changed. This means that Factotum buttons don't show up (e.g. on User talk:Primefac#Watchlist emails) (the buttons still work fine on my comments, presumably because I'm using Factotum when making them). — Qwerfjkltalk 15:18, 28 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Qwerfjkl, should work again. I'm on a pretty intense vacation so not too much wiki time.Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 16:55, 28 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, and enjoy your holiday! — Qwerfjkltalk 17:17, 28 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Just letting you know that it's now not showing up for section headers, presumably due to the HTML heading changes from before that recently made it to V22. I would assume therefore that this code needs to be changed:
if ( mw.config.get('skin') == 'vector-2022' ) { //20240628 HTML changed, .mw-editsection in skins other than vector-2022 seems to be under .mw-heading now which also includes the h2/h3/etc
	FTT mwEditSec = '#mw-content-text H1>.mw-editsection,#mw-content-text H2>.mw-editsection,#mw-content-text H3>.mw-editsection,#mw-content-text H4>.mw-editsection,#mw-content-text H5>.mw-editsection,#mw-content-text H6>.mw-editsection';
} else {
	FTT mwEditSec = '#mw-content-text .mw-heading>.mw-editsection';
}
(but I couldn't get it to work fiddling around with it myself, so maybe there's more to it than that).
Obviously feel free to deal with this at your leisure (or not at all). — Qwerfjkltalk 19:38, 27 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Qwerfjkl,   DoneAlexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:06, 27 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Precious anniversary

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Precious
 
Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:54, 14 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25

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