• 21 Aug, 2019

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User Talk:Anomie

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:17, 13 November 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Just curious, are you referring to any specific action by the WMF in your page header when you say "office politics", or are you just referring to its general conduct? To be clear, I'm by no means a supporter of the WMF, though I am glad they host this project. Thanks, /home/gracen/ (yell at me here) 22:33, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I worked for the WMF from 2012 until 2020. I don't know how much things have changed there since, but during that time they had several years of management trouble. First Lila and her mismanagement and purges, then Katherine and her people's focus on social justice issues rather than the software and wikis. I wound up being managed by someone who seemed to decide he could climb the management ladder with a kiss up kick down strategy, me being unable to play the office politics games made me a target, and no one who might have been in a position to stop it would do anything. On the up side, I heard that manager later tried targeting someone else and that time it seemed to backfire, he wound up doing the "go on leave for a few months and then leave" thing. Anomie⚔ 02:25, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry to hear your experience working there was so bad. It upsets me that my love for Wikipedia as a project has to be contrasted with my (seemingly ever-growing) distaste for the WMF. Anyways, thanks for indulging my curiosity! Best, /home/gracen/ (yell at me here) 02:38, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

L.E. Rainer 20:23, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, are you aware of Strike? The next series, beginning on 16 December and entitled "The Ink Black Heart", features the detective trying to discover the real-life identity of somebody known on-line as Anomie. The BBC URL is https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025ydg --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:51, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, never heard of it. I hope this doesn't become annoying, like "Homer to the Max". Anomie⚔ 23:14, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Update: They identified the perp. --Redrose64 🦌 (talk) 17:48, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Anomie

What can i do to get my bot, Raph65BOT, Approved?.

The bot was declined by you.

—Raph Williams65 (talk) 09:46, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @Raph Williams65: Bots may only be approved through a formal request at WP:BRFA. If you made a BRFA and it was declined, please do not appeal directly to individuals. --Redrose64 🦌 (talk) 17:43, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if you can't manage to fill out the request correctly, you're unlikely to succeed in running a bot. Anomie⚔ 00:24, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I Can fill the request correctly. —Raph Williams65 (talk)

	Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
	Best of luck with all of your endeavours in the coming year, and enjoy the holiday! CR (talk) 10:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In an edit request I made, I decided to partially use User:Anomie/Penguin Cabal topicon as an example. Is that ok? I guess I am also recruiting cabals. Apenguinlover<talk>() 13:32, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Anomie:Please is there any way i can restart my request of my bot. Like starting new request ({{BRFA|bot name|TaskNumber|Open}}) Raph Williams65 (talk) 20:27, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are ways, but all indications are that it would turn out the same in the end. Go be a normal editor for a year or so, and hopefully by then you'll have learned enough to know what you did wrong before and how to do it correctly. Anomie⚔ 20:33, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've heard you, thanks. Raph Williams65 (talk) 20:37, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Anomie: I used to edit a lot on the desktop/laptop computer version of the Wikipedia website. I really liked using the linkclassifier script to see different links with just a glance. However, a few years ago, I had to stop editing that way. I now can only edit using the Android mobile app for Wikipedia. I have noticed that the app seems to ignore my script pages and even the gadgets on my preferences. Does this script work on the app? If so, how do we get it to cooperate? I'm not very active on here now, so please ping me or send me an email via my user page. Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 17:44, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Morriswa: Sorry, I don't know anything about the mobile app. If it does ignore all script pages and gadgets, it wouldn't be surprising if it has no support for them at all. You might try using the mobile site (or even the desktop site) in the web browser on your phone instead of the app, if that's possible for you. Otherwise you might try finding a help page for the app to ask on. Anomie⚔ 18:13, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any way to export the script to a different wiki? Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 04:21, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You might use Special:Export and/or Special:Import on the target wiki. Or you might copy-paste it with proper attribution (via edit summary or other method). Or you may be able to do as described at Wikipedia:User scripts#Remote scripts to load the script from here. In any case, note you'll likely need to change the lists of categories the script looks at, directly if copy-pasted or using the hook if loaded remotely. Anomie⚔ 12:47, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Anomie: I just saw your reply. I'm not very good with the technical side of wiki editing. This sounds like it might be way over my head. Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 16:23, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Anomie, I hope all is well. My name is Matt and I'm a graduate student researcher at Northwestern. Recently I've posted to the BAG IRC chat and the User Bots/Scripts Noticeboard soliciting feedback on research cases that I have selected for a research project. Given that we are looking at WMF feature deployments' impact on user bots and scripts operation, we really value the bot community's perspectives on how we are thinking about these events.

I'm sure that you're quite busy, and I completely understand if you do not have the time. Given your experiences on BAG as well as with the WMF and MediaWiki software development, I just wanted to reach out and see if you had any thoughts that you may be willing to share on our characterizations of these feature deployments. Any information you share will not be included in any research reports, I'm just curious to know your thoughts on how we are framing these events.

Thank you Ggonnemm (talk) 16:23, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]