Krinkle

OrphanTalk

Hi. First, I wanted to thank you for all those great technical helps. There is something that I noticed recently; I think OrphanTalk is out of service, just wanted to ask if you are going to fix it. Thanks. Ahmad^Talk 19:10, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

@Ahmad Hi, this happens due to phab:T166949. If you're on Freenode IRC, you can always ask in #wikimedia-cloud for the tool to be restarted (be sure to mention "T166949"). I have restarted it now. Thanks! --Krinkle (talk) 20:02, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! I'll check IRC from now on. Ahmad^Talk 20:06, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions across Wikimedia projects. Masum Reza📞 16:53, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Category:Foo

Hi Krinkle

A series of userpage scripts have recently started populating the Category:Foo, which does not exist. Per WP:REDNOT, this is an error, so it shows up at Special:WantedCategories.

the editors who usually clean up Special:WantedCategories can't fix this, because user scripts have some form of protection.

However, as far as I can see all of this results from a series of edits by you, e.g. and .

I am not certain, but I think that the problem is is in the line: // eg [[category:foo]] and [[Category:Foo]]

If so, that can be easily fixed by inserting a singe colon after the square brackets, changing it to // eg [[:category:foo]] and [[:Category:Foo]]

So please can you do whatever is needed to fix this?

Thanks. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:20, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi @BrownHairedGirl,

I'm afraid there's not much I could have done here. Note that my edit did not introduce the category link, and these handful of pages would have ended up in those categories with or without my edit (whether from someone making an invisible null-edit, or from someone editing a mentioned template, or someone purging it via action=purge).

The reason the page was not already in the category before, was that the category link happened to be after an unrelated <nowiki> tag earlier in the same user script. Before my edit, the page was last rendered in 2015. In 2015, the wiki software considered all wikitext after an extension tag (such as <nowiki>) to be processed by that extension, even if there was no </nowiki> closing tag anywhere following it. In 2016, the wiki software was changed to only parse extension tags that have an end (Example). Any purge, null-edit, template update, jobqueue update, or regular edit after 2016 would have re-parsed the page in this way. A small number of affected pages managed to go without any kind of purge in 5 years, until my edit. I hope that makes sense! --Krinkle (talk) 23:23, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. The problem was resolved in this edit by User:Amorymeltzer, which just added the colons. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:03, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

saveandedit.js

User:Mabdul/saveandedit.js isn't working anymore. You're the only one who has edited it in years, and your edits were merely to deal with updating deprecated API calls. While you're certainly welcome to troubleshoot and fix it, it's probably not worth the effort. I'd suggest replacing the script with an error message such as User:Smith609/toolbox.js. It's page protected so I can't do it myself. Daask (talk) 19:28, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

@Daask Done, --Krinkle (talk) 23:27, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

RTRC filters

Hı @Krinkle:, I'm a patroller from Turkish Wikipedia who uses usually RTRC instead of recent changes. I have a request about RTRC filters. Is it possible to do hide AWB users & Template & only category changes with additional filters? "Hide patrolled edits" filter doesn't work for AWB users & Template & there are a lot of category changes, so it's hard to follow ip users & new registered users within that much changes.--Can (talk) 09:46, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Textbox editing performance issues

Please, take a look at this discussion: WP:VP (technical)#Performance issue with syntax highlighting. Thanks! AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 18:48, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Discussion involving you

Hello Krinkle, please see MediaWiki_talk:Common.js#Oct_2022_Group-user.js_live_testing regarding an edit you made as a global interface editor. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:35, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

LessPHP and Cache Stampede

Hello! I am using the lessphp library and I have a question about its cache system - is it subject to cache stampede? Swaro32 (talk) 17:06, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

"Korteweg–deVriesequation" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Korteweg–deVriesequation has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 January 26 § Korteweg–deVriesequation until a consensus is reached. Colonies Chris (talk) 11:09, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

EU STF

I'd love your perspective on EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF) - Wikipedia Mgifford (talk) 22:18, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

March 2026

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Vici Gaming when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:05, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Care

Hallo, Please take care when linking names - the Dan Davies who wrote The Unaccountability Machine was born 1973 according to his publisher, so is not Dan Davies (writer), born 1970. PamD 20:44, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

The plot thickens: his publisher have described Daniel Davies on their page about the book, but they link from that page to a page about a Dan Davies who is not the same person! But I'm sure neither of them is the Dan Davies (writer) who wrote In Plain Sight about Jimmy Savile. PamD 20:52, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

@PamD: Thanks. I've emailed the publishing house and asked them to sort it out. Krinkle (talk) 21:18, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

So have I! PamD 21:41, 15 June 2026 (UTC)