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Oh my, I had no idea such a thing existed. I need to give it a try! [[User:RoySmith|RoySmith]] [[User Talk:RoySmith|(talk)]] 10:10, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Oh my, I had no idea such a thing existed. I need to give it a try! [[User:RoySmith|RoySmith]] [[User Talk:RoySmith|(talk)]] 10:10, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

:@[[User:RoySmith|RoySmith]]: Indeed! You can find it [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RoweWilsonFrederiskHolme.wikitext at the VS Marketplace]. It’s been a really nice tool to have to edit offline for one reason or another. It can be a little janky, especially with keeping you logged in ([[Special:Diff/1233098372|case in point]] — guess the article!), but aren’t we all a little janky? 🙂 <span class=”nowrap”>—[[User:TechnoSquirrel69|<span style=”color: #0b541f;”>”’TechnoSquirrel69”'</span>]]</span> <small>([[User talk:TechnoSquirrel69|<span style=”color: #0b541f;”>”’sigh”'</span>]])</small> 15:05, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

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—Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Gerda! Coincidentally, one of the articles you awarded me for is currently at peer review to prep it for FAC. If you have the time, I’d appreciate any suggestions you have for improvement! You might also find a familiar name in the plot summary. 😉 —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:20, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I’ll look, probably next week. Right now I struggle with a nomination for Aino Pervik for WP:ITNN. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:26, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What timing, seems like it just went up! I’m in no rush on the review, by the way, I’m actually trying to get in touch with the author to see if she will freely license a portrait for use in the article. I’ve never tried doing that before, so we’ll see how it goes. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:47, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I’d like to apologize for the edits in question. I am involved in the translation of articles from English to Spanish via the translation tool, but ever since there was an overhaul in the tool a few months ago, pages using certain templates for their references appeared with an error and I did this to bypass it, though I acknowledge that this was not ideal. I pledge to stop doing this and see another way to adress the issue. (I’ll put forward the issue in the tool’s talk page, and until it is addressed, I’ll adds the refs “manually” or avoid those kinds of pages altogether.) Again, my apologies for the incoveniences caused. EdgarCabreraFariña (talk) 22:06, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Courtesy link: User talk:EdgarCabreraFariña § About your edits to Sea of VoicesNo apologies needed, EdgarCabreraFariña, it was hardly any inconvenience at all. I assumed you had a reason for doing it, I just didn’t have the context of what you were doing. Coincidentally, I saw this discussion that’s currently open, which mentions that using list-defined references using {{reflist|refs=...}} markup (like I did on Sea of Voices) might not be compatible with the content translation tool. Would it help your workflow to change the markup to <references>...</references> in these cases? The best solution would be for the tool to just be able to parse the first markup, but would that be an acceptable workaround for now (assuming it works, which you’re probably more qualified to answer)? By the way, thank you for working to translate articles into Spanish! It’s always nice to see content I’ve worked on being able to help on other projects. 🙂 —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:39, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just made the change, would you let me know if that did anything for the translation tool? —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:44, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh my God, the thought didn’t cross my mind! Now I tried it and yes, it does work! And thanks for directing me to that discussion, that was exactly what I was looking for. Yes, it seems that will be an acceptable workaround for now (given that I see that it’s also proposed in the discussion).

By the way, I’m happy that you’re happy with the translations. I just had a user a few days ago send me a message about it after I translated a bunch of Spanish football articles, though in their case it was a… weird message about how I was “stealing” their articles before (in a separate edit) adding a “I was just joking” PD (albeit the message was strongly-worded enough that a third user stepped in and issued them a 24-hour ban). You can guess how grateful I am for you being patient with me. Again, thanks. EdgarCabreraFariña (talk) 11:03, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@EdgarCabreraFariña: I’m sorry you had a negative experience over your work; I can assure you that most of the content writers here don’t have that kind of view, so keep up the good work! I’ll keep in mind to begin using <references>...</references> syntax for list-defined references in articles I work on moving forward. If you’re going to edit articles to switch one to the other so you can work on a translation, I would highly recommend an edit summary so other editors know why you’re doing that. By the way, what’s the issue that crops up with {{cite magazine}} and {{cite journal}}? That’s another change you (temporarily) made that I was confused by. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 00:33, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@TechnoSquirrel69: No worry about it, just shared the experience for how… weird it was. Anyway, I’ll most definitely have it in mind from now on too, and explain it in the edit summary to let everyone know. Oh, that one I feel even worse about: That one also didn’t appear in the translation tool, apparently because there’s no equivalent to the {{cite magazine}} template in eswiki, but there is one to {{cite journal}} which was similar (cita publicación). But then after trying the translation tool again after you told me you switched to <references>...</references> I found out I could’ve replaced the template in the tool itself, so as it turns out it was wholly unnecessary. EdgarCabreraFariña (talk) 11:15, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @TechnoSquirrel69. You marked this article a year ago as being closely paraphrased. Would you happen to recall which one that would be? I’m asking because some of them are multi-page newspaper articles where only the first page was linked. Also your effort isn’t nullified if I don’t have to duplicate it. But thanks for calling attention to this. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 23:29, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Oona Wikiwalker! I don’t remember the situation here, as it was a while ago, but I seem to have specified a URL in the banner there. The copyvios report indicates some overlap between the pages as well. If you feel the banner no longer applies (or never did), you can feel free to remove it. Hope that helps, and let me know if you have any other questions! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:21, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2025).

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please see Autopatrolled discussion, thanks. Sswonk (talk) 16:43, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Noting that I’ve responded at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled § User:Sswonk (permalink). —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 17:26, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I am working on a source review for The Snow Queen this weekend, and I’d really like to check Findon 2018 (since the article uses it so much) but I can’t access it through my library. Would you be able to share it by email? Thanks! ~ L 🌸 (talk) 00:29, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@LEvalyn: I can indeed — thank you for volunteering to take that on! I can’t attach files through Wikimedia emails, so if you’d like to email me, I’ll reply with the PDF. Alternatively, you can direct-message me on Discord. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 00:38, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh my, I had no idea such a thing existed. I need to give it a try! RoySmith (talk) 10:10, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@RoySmith: Indeed! You can find it at the VS Marketplace. It’s been a really nice tool to have to edit offline for one reason or another. It can be a little janky, especially with keeping you logged in (case in point — guess the article!), but aren’t we all a little janky? 🙂 —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 15:05, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]