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You may be familiar with the threat of vandalism and the constant war that is raging to keep it under control. Well, another not so well known war is being fought against a similar but distinct problem on Wikipedia: Link spam. Many people place links on Wikipedia that don't belong, for various reasons, and our anti-spam teams are struggling to keep up. Below, Yuser presents this dimension of wiki-maintenance, and explains how you can help fight the good fight. Viva la Wikipedia! The Transhumanist   22:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Topics of discussion here are open-ended, so our previous discussions are presented below as well. Feel free to contribute to those too. --TT

Congratulations, and welcome...

Congratulations to The Rambling Man (TRM), for graduating from the VC and becoming a Wikipedia sysop! TRM passed his RfA with over 128 support votes and no opposes! Way to go. I'm also pleased to announce that TRM has signed up as an admin coach, and will be participating in that capacity here. If you'd like TRM to be your admin coach, along with the rest of the coaches here, be sure to contact him (or any of us).

Congratulations are overdue to Anthony and Dweller who have also graduated from the VC, and who have each accepted the challenge of being admin coaches. Anthony is going through RfA now, and Dweller's is just around the corner.

I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome the latest addition to our team. User:JodyB has gracefully accepted my request to become an admin coach here.

Dear reader, if you are a coach and would like to train students here, feel free to jump right in and participate. Likewise, if you consider yourself a student and would like to receive training, you are also free to join in. This is a group effort, and like the rest of Wikipedia's pages, everyone is welcome to participate. Just start posting (in the coaching and/or Q&A sections) below.

By the way, we are always looking for new lessons to add to the curriculum here, and if you'd like to write one, please contact me on my talk page to work out the details. Thank you. The Transhumanist    19:39, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/Yuser, on fighting linkspam

User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/Learning the ropes

User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/Elaragirl, about deletion and deletionism

User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/The Rambling Man, on vandalism

User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/Stubbing how-to

User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/External interfaces

User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/Internal interfaces

User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/Coaching

Questions and miscellaneous comments - anything goes

Some script-related questions

Rich, I 've started looking over your monobook.js, and have some questions for you:

I've cut and pasted your Lupin popups calling script, and it works fine. And it's better than copying the whole program in. Will that syntax work for calling any script?

I noticed you have {{User:AndyZ/peerreviewer.js}} commented out on there. Did you actually have this transcluded and working?

What does the "clever watchlist stuff do?"  The Transhumanist   12:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I believe that syntax works for any script. And it's been suggested I should make some of my stuff subpages included that way.

Incidentally you will see I have a method for putting edit sections in .js. This appears to only work once the page has been edited in that session - very strange - but when it does it's useful.

I never got peereviewer.js working. The watchlist breaks your watchlist down by user spaces - well actually it's by ":" so it can break some names. For example

• 17 November 2006

Wikipedia

• (diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism‎; 18:03 . . Omicronpersei8 (Talk | contribs | block) (Reporting 131.109.123.253 with VandalSniper)
• (diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous‎; 18:02 . . Maxamegalon2000 (Talk | contribs | block) (→Science Fair)
• (diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Malplaced disambiguation pages‎; 17:38 . . TimBentley (Talk | contribs | block) (→Database dump report - fixed some, some need admin)
• (diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia:Proposed mergers‎; 17:15 . . DrKiernan (Talk | contribs | block) (→Community-supported/unopposed merger proposals)
• (diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism/TB2‎; 12:31 . . MER-C (Talk | contribs | block) (→Bot reported - -1 (blocked), empty)
• (diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval‎; 11:07 . . MacintoshApple (Talk | contribs | block)
• (diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia:Deletion review‎; 08:10 . . JzG (Talk | contribs | block) (Nov 17)

Main

• (diff) (hist) . . m Death‎; 17:59 . . Omicronpersei8 (Talk | contribs | block) (Reverted edits by 195.93.21.6 (talk) to version 88424905 by AntiVandalBot using VS)
• (diff) (hist) . . m Balrog‎; 17:58 . . Yajaec (Talk | contribs | block) (→Popular culture)
• (diff) (hist) . . Uranium‎; 17:56 . . 205.174.124.2 (Talk | block) (→External links)

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The Lord of the Rings

• (diff) (hist) . . The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)‎; 16:52 . . Wiki-newbie (Talk | contribs | block)

Wikipedia talk

• (diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion‎; 15:46 . . James086 (Talk | contribs | block) (→Martin Randall Travel - poojnted user in the right direction)
• (diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval‎; 14:53 . . Lostintherush (Talk | contribs | block) (Trial results)

Template

• (diff) (hist) . . m Template:Rating-10‎; 10:46 . . Huntster (Talk | contribs | block) (oops.)

Rich Farmbrough, 18:09 17 November 2006 (GMT).

By edit sections in .js, do you mean the in-frame editing? Like so:

/////Edit-in-frame. fast and fun! document.write('<script src="' + 'http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:ASM/quickedit.js' + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></script>'); var qeEnabled = true; // Activate Script? var qeEnableSection0 = true; // Enable QuickEdit link for section 0 (introduction)?

Also, I noticed your capitalization script seems to decapitalize all words after the initial word in a header - this might lead to problems, such as with proper nouns. --Gwern (contribs) 19:56 17 November 2006 (GMT)

Gwern, by "edit sections" I believe he meant headings, like this...

Edit section

He has a way of commenting them out, but they still work as wikicode, so the "[edit]" section buttons are made available on the right side of the screen.

Rich, it should be pretty easy to fix the peer review script not to break page names, by checking against the list of namespaces, right? "If this prefix is is not one of these, then process the line as one with a normal page on it." Right?  The Transhumanist   06:05, 20 November 2006 (UTC)