https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57891
--- Comment #53 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Quiddity from comment #52) > Would we need to check anywhere except Meta itself? We need to provide a means for users to undo the mini-messes they've made, basically. For example, [[m:User:Alan/global.css]] is loaded at <https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Alan/common.js>. Some automated or semi-automated tool or script will be needed to identify and possibly correct pages such as <https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Alan/common.js>, as I understand it. For me personally, I use User:MZMcBride/monobook.js on a few wikis, which loads from m:User:MZMcBride/global.js, but I'll need to be able to figure out where specifically I've done this in order to blank or request deletion of those user subpages. Or in some cases, I'll want to only remove the line that loads global.js and leave everything else (e.g., [[mw:User:MZMcBride/monobook.js]]). Plus some of these user subpages probably have other useful edit history that we don't want to simply blow away. > IIUC, this extension would only affect the editors who already have global > files at Meta. Yes, this is true. But Legoktm, using mwgrep, discovered that there are tens of thousands of pages across Wikimedia wikis that reference "global.css" or "global.js". > So, we could probably just MassMessage the users on Meta, and reach everyone > else via Tech/News etc? Sure, but in that message, we'll need to provide some kind of remedy other than "visit over 800 wikis and check them individually". Lego and I discussed possibly a script for stewards that could delete user subpages that contain only a reference to global.js or global.css and that have very few distinct authors on an opt-in per-user basis. But, broadly, we want to be incredibly hesitant of using bots to make automated edits to or deletions of pages of this kind, due to their very sensitive nature. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
