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Tools for compiling list of Wikimedia Commons users by contributions/uploads

Commons does not appear to ever have had an automatically updated page like the one on English Wikipedia and other wikipedias that compiles a list of top users by overall contributions.

Additionally, while it does tools that are supposed to compile lists of users by uploads, neither has been working for the over a year. one stopped updating on 31 Jan 2019. This one stopped updating 28 May 2019.

Would anyone be able to repair or replace the tools that compile lists of top user by upload counts, and create one that would compile a list of top users by overall contributions? SecretName101 (talk) 03:48, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

@SecretName101: See the link on https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaCOMMONS.htm which leads to https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/commons.wikimedia.org/contributing/top-editors/normal%7Ctable%7Clast-month%7C~total%7Cmonthly --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 16:56, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

@AKlapper: But that only provides you info as to who had the most edits on a given day or month, as far as I can tell. That doesn't tell you who has had the most edits of all-time. SecretName101 (talk) 08:28, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

@SecretName101: See "Report a bug" at the bottom of the page that I linked, and follow mw:How to report a bug. (PS: Your ping did not work as you dropped half of my username. :) --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:49, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

My bad on that ping fail SecretName101 (talk) 19:31, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

@AKlapper (WMF): is it really a bug though? Because the tool is functioning to do what it was designed to. It just doesn't sufficiently supplant the former tools' use in regards to compiling an all-time list of uploaders to Commons, nor does it have a use to compile an all-time list of users by edits either. SecretName101 (talk) 19:36, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

@SecretName101: I don't see how it matters if it is a bug. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 10:31, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Trouble with Visual Editor

Today I was trying to add a reference citation to the English Wikipedia article about Blanch Armwood, and when I had completed the Visual Editor form for "Cite News" and clicked "Submit", I received the following: Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 503). Not sure if this was a one-time issue, or a more pervasive problem. - AppleBsTime (talk) 13:13, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

You'd better ask on en:Wikipedia:Village pump/technical. Ruslik (talk) 18:03, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

7-zip one of the best compressors?

Hi guys, it's 7-zip one of the best compressors to use in the ios system according to [redacted spammy link].

this is true or what do you recommend?

@Mribelina12: Hi and welcome. This page is about technology in Wikimedia, so discussion of unrelated software is off-topic here... (PS: Please sign your posts with your signature so it's clear who wrote something. PPS: Also see https://heyguys.cc/ ) Cheers, --Malyacko (talk) 16:00, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

"Watch This Page", "Permanent"

Hi as usual.

Which is the CSS syntax to hide "Permanent" part? Thanks in advance! — regards, Revi 13:10, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

@-revi: I managed to hide by adding #mw-editpage-watchlist-expiry {display:none} to my monobook.css page. HTH. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 20:55, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Graph of client side errors

Hi! Does anyone know if there is some tool to produce graphs of the number of JavaScript errors on Wikimedia projects in the last N hours/days/etc? I vaguely remember seeing a tool like that at some point, but I can't find it. Probably Jon (WMF) has access to such a tool, given this statistic he provided in a recent fix at ptwiki's common.js. Helder 20:42, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Right now the best way to get this data is via logstash or to find someone with access e.g. me and ask them to monitor the logs after potentially risky changes have shipped. Right now the data is not anonymized, but I'm hoping to fix that. I'm listing errors I need help with on User:Jdlrobson/User_scripts_with_client_errors which might be useful for identifying patterns. I'm happy to generate 24hr/7 day one off reports for given projects e.g. Portuguese if that's helpful. Jon (WMF) (talk) 00:27, 6 October 2020 (UTC)