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This is the interface administrator noticeboard, for discussion of interface administrators and coordination of edits to the interface. Currently only interface administrators can undelete JS/CSS pages, if you have an uncontroversial undelete or deleted version retrieval request, please list it below. Any administrator can delete JS/CSS/JSON pages, for speedy deletions just use a CSD template on the page or its talk page. Individual requests for edits to interface or user JavaScript/CSS pages should continue to be made on their respective talk pages.
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Page Tagged since Protection level Last protection log entry MediaWiki:Common.css (request) 2022-03-04 11:02 Site CSS page (log) Protected by Sam Korn on 2005-07-21: "As with all MW: pages, can't have vandals getting to the styles!" MediaWiki:FileUploadWizard.js (request) 2022-03-05 09:03 Site JS page (log)
Updated as needed. Last updated: 19:06, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Inactive interface administrators 2022-02-28

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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The following interface administrator(s) are inactive:

• Cyberpower678 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

— JJMC89 bot 23:18, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

No I’m not.—CYBERPOWER (Message) 23:22, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: The bot is correct, you have not sufficiently recently changed a page onwiki which requires the interface administrator permission. Izno (talk) 23:27, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Izno, Hmm. The bit is still useful for what I do, though. I haven't realized I haven't touched JS pages in a while. —CYBERPOWER (Message) 23:32, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

In the interest of disclosure, I made this edit, to fulfill a request by Harej. Bureaucrats can make of that what they want. I made this edit before I was going to lose access.—CYBERPOWER (Message) 23:39, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

 Not done Cyberpower678 has now satisfied the activity requirement so I'm not going to flip it, to follow him over to WP:BN to flip it back. This is supposed to be somewhat easy come - easy go, for the editors that really need it. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:11, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

OTRS transition to VRT

OTRS is now defunct and been replaced by VRT but it appears that the enwiki has not updated its systems to reflect that. I posted some questions User:Ruthven an itwiki, VRT and Commons admin I know and will repeat some of that for you here.

I was trying to add VRT permission ticket numbers to some en files, such as File:Image of Kaushik Basu.JPG, but the left side permission links don't work and no transition seems to have been made from OTRS to VRT in the templates. These functions all works fine on the common but now can only be done here manually and it seems the only templates available are the OTRS ones: {{Permission received}} or {{VRT received}} don't exist. I don't know who to contact to get that transition completed. The template {{OTRS pending}} is also still in use.

The 3 OTRS tools on the left of any en file page for locally hosted files are what I am asking about and User:B-bot's page also needs major corrections to remove all reference to OTRS.

A possible reason for this might be that: it's probably because en.wiki was using Commons' javascript. They have to rename their permission templates to Permission pending and PermissionTicket or import their own version of the gadget code. You should contact an interface Administrator on en.wiki to ask them to have the local version of the Gadget.

Hopefully someone knowledgeable will attend to this problem. ww2censor (talk) 14:38, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Not positive, but I don't think we have an OTRS/VRT Gadget; certainly not one that's on by default, at least. I'm guessing what you're talking about is User:Technical 13/Scripts/helpOTRS.js, which you've installed on your common.js page. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:59, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ww2censor I'm not seeing anything either. If you see an enwiki page that needs updating, please open an edit request on the corresponding talk page. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:01, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

@Xaosflux and Writ Keeper:: Thanks: the Gadget is not my suggestion but that of User:Ruthven. I have the script User:Technical 13/Scripts/helpOTRS.js installed in User:Ww2censor/common.js and on opening the actual script you refer to, it indeed only refers to OTRS, so it looks like the script needs to be revised. So who would do that? ww2censor (talk) 15:21, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ww2censor That personal userscript you are importing is linked to a user that has been indefinitely banned by our Arbitration Committee since 2015, and as such in no longer maintained. I suggest you stop importing it, however feel free to fork it to your own userspace (with attribution) and update as you like. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:44, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ww2censor I fully agree with Xaosflux: you should modify your own version of the gadget (I can help in that). I didn't know from where was coming the JS, and that you were using on en.wiki the Commons' version was just a guess. Cheers Ruthven (msg) 16:34, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

@Xaosflux, Writ Keeper, and Ruthven: Wow, I added that userscript 4 years after the user was blocked. I suppose User:Technical 13/Scripts/helpOTRS.js should be deleted or at least a not made that it does not function and should not be used. I've removed it from my common.js page for now and will see if Ruthven can help me make a new one that works with the current VRT setup. I think creating it myself is way above my pay grade, unless one of you can assist. Beside that I think new template will be needed to accompany the script. Anyway, thanks for explaining. ww2censor (talk) 22:19, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Just FYI: the blocking had nothing to do with script writing; I certainly am not reviewing them all - but it is likely they were all at least 'safe' to use at the time, just no maintenance now. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:34, 8 March 2022 (UTC)