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[edit] New code of Special:MovePage

Hello,
Brion VIBBER did'nt work about The new code of Special:MovePage. You can do it?
Thank You! Agbad from the Hebrew Wikipedia

[http://www.ehow.com/how_2091741_make-patch-open-source-project.html Make a patch] -- Tim Starling (talk) 17:00, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Why do I need make a patch? The code in this page. Agbad from the hebrew wikipedia
So the changes can be seen, and so any improvements since the revision you started from won't be lost. Prodego talk 18:09, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Hi. Just a simple question. How does Wikipedia hide the title on the main page without using [1]. I am looking to do this on another wiki using teh same software in the same way Wikipedia does it. Thanks. Tbo 157(talk) 21:00, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

It is done using javascript and css. See Mediawiki:Common.js, and MediaWiki:Monobook.css and search for main page. Prodego talk 23:45, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Do you know which codes in particular are necessary to hide the title on the main page of the mediawiki software? Thanks. Tbo 157(talk) 12:57, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/

Hello! The resource [2] violates HTTP/1.1: although text is virtually in UTF-8, you give Content-Type: text/plain that means ISO-8859-1 have to be used (RFC2616 3.7.1.).

You should mark the media as Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Incnis Mrsi (talk) 23:33, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

So sue me. -- Tim Starling (talk) 11:52, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] mw:API && Bug 12321

I know you manually disabled it until the patch to fix this came out and it was fixed in r28533. According to Special:Version en is running r29133, but I know that devs can, and do, do single file syncs with svn, so there's no good indication of what is actually running.

Anyways to cut to the chase I was wondering if the API hasn't been sync'd yet, or there's some other factor in keeping it disabled.

TIA. Q T C 09:29, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Bump, even a "I can neither confirm no deny" would be a good enough answer :) Just so I can have some sort of answer Q T C 02:47, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Note

I've compared a proposal of yours to one of mine. (Hopefully accurately.) I'd appreciate any thoughts/comments you have, if you wouldn't mind. - jc37 20:55, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Well it appears it's a moot point. Anyway, I hope you're having a good day. - jc37 03:12, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Are you still interested

in crackpot watching? AFAIK you started the ancient Wikipedia tradition of watching Reddi (shortly thereafter joined by Wik, whatever that may tell us), but in this case it isn't Reddi but Oxyhydrogen#Brown's Gas and Hydrogen quackery in general. --Pjacobi (talk) 00:09, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Labeled Section Transclusion

I hear your pretty busy now but just thought i'd drop you a line that there is a proposal over at the village pump to install Labeled Section Transclusion on the english wikipedia. I hear your busy now and would be happy to bring it up again in a few weeks (or months or whatever) when time frees up.

Also, on a side note if there's anything I can help with in either your current project or any upcoming ones, please feel free to let me know. (I'm not sure what assistance I can offer, but would do whatever I could). Happy Editing! --omtay38 05:22, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blacklist

Hi there, don't know if this is the right place to drop a line but anyway... There are some people who use Wikipedia in Portuguese who are definitely abusing the right of being administrators. Let's see what's happening: we've got a small site in Brazil offering information and news about the city of Itanhaém located on the Southern Shores of the State of São Paulo. We don't need wekipedia to help us increase our visits since we've got our own audience. Furthermore, there's absolutely no spam there. We don't do this as you can check it out at www.itanhaemvirtual.com.br Unfortunately, one guy who's an administrator named Reynaldo, with the generous help of another user, have put the site on the blacklist as spam!!! This way he is harming our reputation as a serious site and should be advised of what he's doing and the consequences. We believe Wikipedia is inteded for using with freedom and responsibility. Please, we kindly ask you to remove our site www.itanhaemvirtual.com.br from the blacklist as well as to keep in touch with the user who did this, in order to clear thins definitely. We won't post any link around here anymore, but we would like to have our site removed from the blacklist. Thanks in advance, Cunhambebe ;)

[edit] Nofollow whitelist (or greenlist)

Tim,

No sure if I should I-wikitech you or get you here. In May last year you wrote at interwiki links "Spam and link syntax shouldn't have anything to do with each other. If you want a nofollow whitelist, make a nofollow whitelist. It should be possible to link to untrusted sites using interwiki link syntax, and it shouldn't be necessary to replace all external links to a site with interwiki links in order to obtain the pagerank benefits."

Presumably no one could be bothered to do this any more? I only ask because another admin and I did this: Greenlist with a list of sites which I think could safely bypass nofollow. I guess Google and Yahoo will ignore nofollow on Wikipedia soon anyway so it is probably irrelevant. --BozMo talk 14:39, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lir

Lir is back after his year long ban and wanting to edit his userpage. Unfortunately he can't log in. I remember you checking for socks and finding loads with the same password but Lir claims that you then changed the passwords and emails of them so that he can no longer log in. Can you remember if that's true? Theresa Knott | The otter sank 06:11, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

It doesn't matter at all if it is true, especially since it couldn't possibly be proven without the ability to seize computer records that are two years old; in any case, the fact of the matter is, Tim Starling went out of his way to publically broadcast my password, I was then banned (while running for arbcom) specifically because I dared to ask his current wife to resign (imagine the conflicts of interest here), my password was then changed, and now my ban has expired... so I would like my password back, thanks. User:Lir

Well, for one thing, I didn't broadcast your password. I published a list of accounts which had the same password as you. I never imagined that you would be using a weak password which others would be using by coincidence. As for Angela: I did not care then, and do not care now, about what you think of her. It's not like you were the most influential person in the community. I have nothing against you, and I am doing my best to help you now. I have asked the other sysadmins to be nice to you should you go to them with this request.
I suppose your former password is now public knowledge, but I'd have to ask around to find out what it was. I don't remember it. But I wouldn't recommend using it anyway, since it'll only be a matter of time before someone logs in as you and changes it. What I'd recommend is that you either send yourself a lost password email to your old email address, or if you no longer have access to it, tell someone with shell access what your new email address is and have them change it in your account for you. Then recover your account via email, and pick a new strong password for it. -- Tim Starling (talk) 03:18, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't think he could send himself a new password to his old email because of the new confirm password thing that was put into place while he was banned. Theresa Knott | The otter sank 08:04, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't think I could ask someone with shell access because, quite simply, you have been so kind as to neglect telling me who exactly is in charge of such things; meanwhile, it is YOU who is responsible for the password problem, and you can sit around all day congratulating yourself on your judicious behavior, but the fact of the matter is that your little password page has been deleted from the Wikipedia for good reason, and replaced by all sorts of commentary critical of it, which certainly indicates that the clear consensus of the community is that your behavior was inappropriate. And don't be so inane as to suggest that you have nothing against me or don't care what I think; because, if you didn't have a grudge, I'd already have the password back, and in fact never would have lost it -- meanwhile, instead of cooperating, you are just dragging your feet and brushing me off with how "I am doing my best to help you" when in fact you have done absolutely nothing beside emit politically-correct statements. Actions, to be blunt, speak louder than words. Lir

Are you saying you don't have a password reminder email in your inbox? -- Tim Starling (talk) 01:19, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Sent it again just in case. -- Tim Starling (talk) 01:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
He's clearly got it now as he's logged in. Theresa Knott | The otter sank 13:13, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Very long reference URLs

Hi - would it be possible for the parsing software to insert linebreaks into URLs that are so long that they would otherwise go off the page? I see a lot of pages these days that are like this...[1]

Evercat (talk) 01:27, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.example.org/some-incredibly-long-and-totally-non-human-readable-url-that-is-nevertheless-cited-like-this-and-therefore-creates-a-scroll-bar-in-the-browser.html

[edit] Columbus, Ohio, university region

I hope it's acceptable to ask for assistance here. I fear I merely picked your name from the list of admins based on its resemblance to my user name.

Something needs to be done with one of these articles: University District, Columbus, Ohio and University Area. They are largely the same, with much language in common, and deal with the university region of Columbus, Ohio. University Area appears to be a recent fork, largely created by a single editor, and I would recommend the deletion of that article. I cannot find anything there that especially needs to be moved over to the parent article for preservation, and the new article's name is essentially useless as a redirect. I will be happy to help if I can. Tim Ross·talk 20:43, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Betacommandbot

Hi Tim, just to let you know I'm unblocking this account as the system resource issue is no longer. Rgds, Rich Farmbrough, 10:52 6 February 2008 (GMT).

[edit] Possible solution to anti-deletion bot problem

I have also listed the following to the administrator's noticeboard:

Attack the source of the problem:

  1. Change the revision limit protocol to only take the size of the article and history into account, not the amount of edits. (if that makes a difference)
  2. write in a permanent redirect (or add a normal redirect and protect the article) to a 404-like "article has been deleted, click to go back" page.
  3. Progressively delete the original article.

Hope this helps,

BETA 00:17, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:Boardvote entry

A tag has been placed on Template:Boardvote entry requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:09, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for comment on main page deletion incident

As you made an edit to the incident listed in the Administrators notice board, it is requested that you confirm the details of the incident here (section 1.1.2)

This is as the incident is used as the basis of an argument and needs to be confirm by persons familar with the event

Regards --User:Mitrebox talk 2008-02-22 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.11.244.78 (talk) 07:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Redlinked User pages

Could you take a look at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Can.27t_get_to_contribs_and_Talk_from_redlink_User_names_-_need_help_ASAP? Thanks. Corvus cornixtalk 03:06, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dev bots

I was going through accounts with bot flags and noticed that Pending deletion script (talk · contribs) has not edited (deleted) since May 2005 and that Portal namespace initialisation script (talk · contribs) has not edited since August 2005. Are these bots still active? Can they be deflagged? MBisanz talk 20:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't care. The bot flag doesn't give them any special privileges, they have full access regardless. They were marked as bots by people who didn't want to see their contributions in RC. -- Tim Starling (talk) 05:14, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
For the record, Bureaucrat WJBscribe has deflagged the account. AGK (contact) 17:20, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] E-mail

Hello Tim Starling, you have an E-mail from me. Thanks. Acalamari 16:53, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

On your engagement, I mean. The progress with unified login is wonderful, too, even if it can't quite compete with the other news. --Michael Snow (talk) 17:45, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations, Tim and thank you for enabling Single User Login. This is a day all Wikipedians will remember: the day when SUL was first enabled. Thank you again. --Meno25 (talk) 18:37, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SUL bug

Hello, (I'm at a public computer at the moment, where https is blocked and therefor the bugtracker is unreachable)

I'd like to inform you, that the e-mail comparism for SUL distinguishes between upper and lower case. My account at w:dsb couldn't be merged automagically, because the second level domain of the e-mail address was in upper case while it was in lower case at my (now global) account at w:de. --32X (talk) 19:58, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please Help Me!

Hello,

I realize that you are a very busy person. However, I would really appreciate if you could assist me - I'm totally lost! I have to find out how to create a wiki in a way that only certain users can access and/or edit an article. I have been trying to figure this out for over 3 weeks. I really would appreciate your help. Can you help me please?

→Thank you. Rantrom (talk) 02:04, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] PT community new feature

Hi. The wikipedia pt's community is debating if we should implement a wizard similar to Wizard-Introduction. The only difference would be that, after the unresgistered user completes the wizard, the new article would be immediately created rather than being sent to revision. Could you please let me know if this new feature can be implemented in wiki pt? Thanks and regards, --Rodrigofera (talk) 17:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help needed for the article "air-raid shelter"

I was trying to correctly enter the sources for the various sections of the article, but somehow have lost the last sections of the article. I really need the help of a system administrator to fix this. I don't know whether you are active again, Tim, after your illness, perhaps someone else might be able to help? Would be most grateful, Derek, Dieter Simon (talk) 01:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] spamblacklist

hi!
please have a look at my questions and suggestions at mw:Extension_talk:SpamBlacklist#more_detailed_manual_and_suggestions. i guess, you are the only one, who is able to respond to that. tia! -- seth (talk) 21:54, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] where to go from a straw poll

Hello Tim Starling
I recently started a thread on VPT to try to increase the number of rollbacks non-admin rollbackers can make before being throttled. Many admins who commented on VPT supported removing the limit entirely. Four days ago, I moved the thread to a new thread in WP:VPR and created a straw poll to gain consensus for the complete removal of the throttle on non-admin rollbackers' rollbacks. 30 users, including several admins, supported. Other than a couple of cynical entries, no one opposed or expressed neutrality. I am unsure of where to move forward from there, so I looked at m:Developer and chose your name at random. Can you tell me what I need to do to move forward to actually get the consensus of the straw poll implemented and/or tell me if I have not followed the proper avenues in my attempt to get the throttle removed? Thanks for your time. J.delanoygabsadds 17:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

These things go on Bugzilla. This is bug 12760 and has been for four months -- Gurchzilla (talk) 18:32, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Bugzilla and then IRC. If you put it in Bugzilla alone, it might get ignored for months. -- Tim Starling (talk) 00:19, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A question for someone who uses the software that runs Wikipedia

Would this break the software, or is the previous explanation given on that thread that: "the software doesn't record where in the article you make an edit" true, and if it is possible, could it be implemented? Just a question for you. Thanks in advance, Dreamafter (talk) 02:04, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Anything's possible. -- Tim Starling (talk) 03:49, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, not anything, see (e.g.) List of undecidable problems, and anything in List of NP-complete problems is probably not going to scale very well. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:56, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Possibility of a bot to help with SUL implementation

See Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard#Proposal for a bureaucrat bot. I was thinking that quite a bit of bureaucrat time could be saved by implementing a bot that would rename all users with zero edits and the same name as a global account. Only accounts that weren't attached to a global login could actually be renamed. It occurs to me though that this would hypothetically be something that Special:MergeAccount could do automatically, and I understand that the automatic merging of empty accounts was part of one of the early SUL pilots. So I was wondering whether it is worth trying to get the community to agree to a bureaucrat bot, or whether this is something better implemented through a change in the software? WjBscribe 17:50, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

It's better implemented through a change in the software. -- Tim Starling (talk) 02:07, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
I suspected as much - bug 14416 is about this. WjBscribe 09:12, 6 June 2008 (UTC)