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User:Andy M. Wang
Andy will contribute when he wishes and has time. As a result, any requests made here may not receive a timely response. If you are seeking assistance, you may need to approach someone else.
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Weekly highlight
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Updates for editors
iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [1]
Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [2]
Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [3]
For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the mediawiki_user_history dump, the anonymous field will be renamed to is_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [4]
The English Wikipedia is my wikihome. I began formal editing in October 2005, seeking to improve music-related articles. I have observed several WikiProjects, but participated mostly in Classical Music and Film. A large chunk of my early edits came in 2007–08. In 2015–16, I mostly answered edit and move requests, worked on templates and modules, patrolled DISPLAYTITLE and DEFAULTSORT issues, and monitored editnotices. I've been on an extended wikibreak through 2025.
Articles, files, other contributions
On the English Wikipedia, I credit myself with creating the following articles. I created some early ones with an old IP of an ISP I formerly used.
I have an alternate account that I use for public security and for proof-of-concept script testing. I have an inactive bot account for automated edits and maintenance work. Currently, I do not send semi-automated AWB edits through this account.
Awards
Awards
The Barnstar of High Culture
For doing a lot of good work on articles on this composer guy and a lot of other classical music pieces! Abeg92contribs 14:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
The Music Barnstar
Awarded to Andy M. Wang for your exceptional effort and dedication to music-related articles. ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 03:44, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Protector of the Wiki
Keeping the Richards at bay. Good job. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:05, 8 April 2016 (UTC)}
For fixing the entire article[5] and for reverting the vandals on the article - You're edits are very much appreciated! :),
Thanks & Happy editing, –Davey2010Talk 18:22, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar
For you assistance on multiple protected templates. You've really helped me learn! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:20, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
You've contributed much to Wikipedia's technical aspects. I think your work should receive more acknowledgement. Mr. Guye (talk) 23:33, 27 April 2017 (UTC)