HIIIIII
Hello every budy this is Raghavendra Redy............... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.124.65.53 (talk) 18:52, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:56, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 19:10, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- Gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. APK whisper in my ear 20:46, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- Why are you so difficult to Facebook stalk? :-( --MZMcBride (talk) 21:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- Yours truly no longer uses Facespace or MyBook. APK whisper in my ear 21:01, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not sure Manhunt really counts as a substitute, sir. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:07, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- But TotalTop69 and JockstrapBoi have much more interesting profiles and pictures. APK whisper in my ear 22:53, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not sure Manhunt really counts as a substitute, sir. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:07, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- Yours truly no longer uses Facespace or MyBook. APK whisper in my ear 21:01, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- Why are you so difficult to Facebook stalk? :-( --MZMcBride (talk) 21:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- Gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. APK whisper in my ear 20:46, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
- Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 19:10, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Watcher tool
Just curious what happened to your most excellent Watcher tool. It produces HTTP 500 when accessed.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); July 14, 2010; 18:14 (UTC)
- No idea. I'll take a look in a couple hours. Until then it's time for a blamestorming session. (If you need help getting started, try here.) --MZMcBride (talk) 18:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- I blame the mainstream media. APK whisper in my ear 18:50, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- Turns out it's the Chinese who are to blame. No surprises there! --MZMcBride (talk) 18:54, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- USA! USA! USA! APK whisper in my ear 18:56, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- Turns out it's the Chinese who are to blame. No surprises there! --MZMcBride (talk) 18:54, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- I blame the mainstream media. APK whisper in my ear 18:50, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- The issue should be properly resolved now. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:11, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for looking into this!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); July 14, 2010; 21:25 (UTC)
- Just came across this. A bit worrying how many centijimbos my talk has... Cheers for the handy tool! Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 13:52, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
- Most-watched pages by namespace (configuration) is pretty interesting, too. 8=========D --MZMcBride (talk) 03:51, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Not quite what you wanted...
...but close enough for government work? [1] –xenotalk 23:20, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
- Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Thanks, dude. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:24, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
More on red-linked images
Following on from here, Would you have any ideas regarding this? Carcharoth (talk) 11:49, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
- I took a look at this. It looks like it wouldn't be too difficult if you looked purely at the HTML before and after the page was changed. I think that'd be the simplest way to figure out if you had an increase in the number of red-linked files. Given two links, one like [[File:fojfdsiofjdsf.jpg]] and one like [[File:Foo.jpg]], the parsed wikitext would produce HTML that looks something like
<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload?wpDestFile=Fojfdsiofjdsf.jpg" class="new" title="File:Fojfdsiofjdsf.jpg">File:Fojfdsiofjdsf.jpg</a></p>
- and
<a href="/wiki/File:Foo.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Foo.jpg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Foo.jpg" width="300" height="197" /></a>
- respectively. So you'd look for the number of instances of these two patterns in the old and new HTML, and see if there's an increase between the two values.
- The catch is that the old_html variable (and less importantly, the old_text variable) are disabled in the AbuseFilter extension, supposedly due to performance issues (cf. bugzilla:23027). Without the old_html variable, I don't see a way to get the list you want. You could try asking someone like Prodego, though. He has an AbuseFilter fetish, as I remember. Or perhaps the technical village pump, though I imagine they'll just tell you what I'm telling you. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 21:27, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
- Hey, thanks for that. At least I know now why some things can't be done. Any chance your database report could be refined to read people's minds and work out why images are redlinked? :-) Carcharoth (talk) 23:41, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Haha.
[2]... you knew it wouldn't last. :) I may have to revert myself later though.++Lar: t/c 11:55, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
- Why must you rain on my parade? :-( --MZMcBride (talk) 03:50, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
- Brownie points with the vandalism patrollers. And because of the edit summary line opportunity. ++Lar: t/c 17:09, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
- It happened to me, too. Funny-once ;) Jack Merridew 04:29, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Bouncing ideas
Someone made a good suggestion at [3]; would it be possible for (or rather - would the developers be willing to implement a feature for) the software to check if Category:Living persons is present on the article, and display {{blp}} as a pagenotice on the talk page if so? This would save an awful lot of (never-ending) bot work. –xenotalk 13:32, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
- Well, there might be a bug about this already. I may have filed one, who can remember. When __HIDDENCAT__ was implemented, I asked Tim about the ability to categorize the talk page based on code in the subject-space page. That conversation is available here: http://toolserver.org/~mwbot/logs/%23mediawiki/20080221.txt (grep "hiddencat").
- Personally, I don't see it as a particularly large burden to use a bot to do the taggings. A feature in MediaWiki is possible, though you have to consider whether you really always want the template at the top of the page (e.g., {{skiptotoc}}). And if not, if you want to provide a workaround.
- There are other considerations to make as well. For example, having that BLP header (and a bunch of other similar headers) on every talk page causes most people to tune them out as noise. Mostly due to the fact that they are noise. As important as it is that everyone know that "Foo" is member to 25 WikiProjects.
- You could probably implement something relatively easily and cheaply using JavaScript, similar to that horrible hack that's currently in place using &editintro= (). I wouldn't really recommend further JavaScript hackery, though.
- You're free to file a bug (after searching the existing bugs) for a feature request, but I wouldn't expect it to be acted on anytime soon. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:19, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
- My filing of the bug was contingent on you lerving the idea, and based on response, I think I'll just leave it for now. =] –xenotalk 18:23, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Question
Why did you delete my user page?SeanT (talk) 14:58, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
- You blanked the page and back in July 2008, that was taken as a request to delete (now g7 excepts userpages). Do you want me to restore it? –xenotalk 15:01, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
- I think some consideration was also made regarding how long the account had been inactive. The theory being that someone who created and subsequently blanked a page and hadn't been back to edit in a few years likely didn't want the page still existing (and being mirrored, indexed, etc.). --MZMcBride (talk) 18:22, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
OK Thanks, that makes sense - I didn't realise it was blank. SeanT (talk) 14:39, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks...
It's appreciated. SirFozzie (talk) 17:10, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Article alert bot
This is in regards to your request for a reminder to look for the code for User:ArticleAlertbot. All I know about the location of the code is that it might be on the tool server. The bot was coded by User:B. Wolterding and was maintained, at least for a while by User:Legoktm. I hope this helps but please let me know if you need some more specific info than this. --Kumioko (talk) 19:48, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
- It looks like the relevant files in /home/legoktm/ aren't readable. I've no idea where B. Wolterding's home directory is. At this point, I'd suggest BOTREQ to find someone to code a new bot (or just do it yourself). Hope that helps. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:17, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
- Ok thanks, I unfortunately don't have the expertise to write this thing from scratch but at least we know we don't have the code for it. --Kumioko (talk) 12:42, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Talkback
Template:Backtalk Set Sail For The Seven Seas 324° 7' 0" NET 21:36, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Another Talkback
Template:Backtalk Set Sail For The Seven Seas 326° 47' 15" NET 21:47, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you by placing a talkback. I'll remember not to do so in the future. Set Sail For The Seven Seas 339° 49' 0" NET 22:39, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
- No offense taken. It's the end of the week and I think I'm coming off a bit more bitchy than usual.
- For what it's worth, I looked at your edit count and contribution record. You'd probably make a fine admin; God knows this site needs more admins who are proficient in templates. You'd get dinged right now for being completely inactive in May, but in a few months, it'd probably be fine. If you're into that kind of thing, anyway. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:43, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
- It's definitely a possibility, as some of the tools could come in quite handy. However, as you said, I'd best wait a few more months and increase my edit count first. Thanks. Set Sail For The Seven Seas 192° 14' 45" NET 12:48, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Could you recheck this? Yes, Wikimedia logos are technically non-free, but are not treated as such (hosted on Commons, allowed in userspace, etc etc) and so do not need a rationale. J Milburn (talk) 14:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
- Also, would it be possible for you to give me a full list on the next update? I filtered the partial list so I could deal with the album covers en masse (see my sandbox) and it'd be great if I could get through them all. J Milburn (talk) 20:57, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
bachirou
I'll add references when I get back from work tonight, so please don't add a deletion notice until tomorrow, if I've not done it! Salty1984 (talk) 06:49, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Can you help me understand something?
Hello
I am relatively new to wikipedia and have made a few entries. I was going to do one on an author I like, but I see he had a page that has been deleted. So I don't want to make a faux paus.
My question is why was it deleted (you are the admin who deleted it so I am contacting you). The author is Chuck Easttom (a computer science author). He has 11 books done (I own 2). And I can find lots of references to him including 1. Over 6 pages of Google scholar references to him, so I assume he qualifies as an academic? 2. Between the 11 books and the media references to them (listed next) does he qualify as an author?
http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/132624026.html One Page 15 of CompTIA Security+ Exam Cram (2nd Edition)those authors recomend one of his books “…The two best general information security books we know of are Computer Security Fundamentals by Chuck Easttom (Pearson 2005)” -http://www.amazon.com/CompTIA-Security-Exam-Cram-2nd/dp/078973804X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270653896&sr=1-1#reader_078973804X http://www.planostar.com/articles/2010/03/25/news_update/708.txt
3. I found other 3rd party media references to him
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/aug/06/hackers_infiltrate_web_site/ http://www.collin.edu/ce/spotlights/easttom.html http://home.mindspring.com/~grminer/cybersig/archive/03oct.htm http://www.ntxe-news.com/artman/publish/article_62766.shtml
But his article is in wikibin, so before I try to revive it, can you tell me what I am missing?
I see other author wiki articles about authors who seem to be less notable such as:
Robert Slade who has written fewer books and his books get very bad reviews on Amazon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Slade (note: many sources for this author, are the authors own page) Dr. William Stallings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stallings he is a great author, I have one of his books, but I don't see how he is more notable.
Can you educate me on this issue? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Willbennett2007 (talk • contribs) 18:05, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
- You may want to review Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chuck Easttom. –xenotalk 18:11, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks xeno. However what I read was
'can't find anything on Mr. Easttom that wasn't written by the man himself. He appears to be on a crusade of self-promotion' And I just listed several sources that are NOT by that author, but third party media. And there are author entries (Like Robert Slade)where 1/2 the entries are from the authors web site? So I don't understand? I also saw 'No notability established at all.' When I actually find more third party references to this author than I do to several others that do have wikipedia articles. So again I don't understand.
Also other people commenting in the deletion conversation stated things like 'This Google search shows that he's written books that have been required for college classes. That puts him squarely within WP:Notability (academics) (per "4. The person's academic work has made a significant impact in the area of higher education, affecting a substantial number of academic institutions." and "12. Criterion 4 may be satisfied, for example, if the person has authored several books that are widely used as textbooks (or as a basis for a course) at multiple institutions of higher education.").' and 'A search of Google News does show him with a few news mentions—a definite plus.' and someone else actually stated 'I absolutely hate this kind of self-promotional puffery. Unfortunately, seems to meet WP:ACADEMIC #4 as shown by Dori. I have done some cleanup in the article, but more is needed, especially references to his books and to the fact that they are being used as course materials. Some more cutting and slashing may be needed, too.'
I do not wish to cause any stir. Obviously there is some reason this authors article was deleted but the others are OK. I am hoping one of you with more wiki experience than me could explain it to me. ~
- Can you copy and paste the specific log action that indicates that this deletion was my doing? --MZMcBride (talk) 18:45, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
- hello when I looked up the author I got the notice saying I could write an article but it had this:
If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator using the information provided below.
* 23:35, 24 February 2009 MZMcBride (talk | contribs) deleted "Easttom" (CSD G8: Chuck Easttom) .~
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Willbennett2007 (talk • contribs) 04:13, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
- MZMcBride deleted Easttom because it was a redirect to the article that was deleted via WP:AFD. If you think you can create a well-sourced article that shows how the individual meets our inclusion criteria and addresses the concerns raised at the AFD, you might start by creating one in your userspace. –xenotalk 13:02, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you so much both MZMcBride and Xeno for your guidence. I will try to make a well sourced article on the author. If its not too much trouble, hopefully you will check it out and help correct my errors? I am sure I will make several:) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.183.110.116 (talk) 15:27, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
- I think the subject didn't want an article, for what it's worth. --MZMcBride (talk) 16:44, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
- As an addendum, in the future, please keep in mind the importance of brevity when posting talk page comments. I don't have an issue with long talk page posts in general, but only when necessary. In this case, it made the reply take longer than it normally would. Details are fine, but getting to the point is the key goal. It helps you and it helps me. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:50, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry I was trying to be thorough. My apologies. In any case I have the article up, you can search for 'Chuck Easttom'. I think I have properly sourced it and established notability, but I am certain the more experienced people in Wikipedia will find many errors that can be correctedWillbennett2007 (talk) 16:12, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you so much both MZMcBride and Xeno for your guidence. I will try to make a well sourced article on the author. If its not too much trouble, hopefully you will check it out and help correct my errors? I am sure I will make several:) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.183.110.116 (talk) 15:27, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Note
Just dropping a note as you said. - Dwayne was here! ♫ 23:47, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
- Hmm... May I remind you that there is a situation you need to deal with? —mono 01:13, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Div classes to another wiki
Hello, MZMcBride. I want to know how to add div classes to an interwiki. Specifically, the one I'm looking for is <div class="NavFrame collapsed">
to place on SimpleWiki but only <div class="NavFrame">
seems to be apparent there. The response I received from other users was to go to Mediawiki:Common.css, but it is protected. Is there any other way to add these div classes? :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 06:09, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not really sure what "add div classes to an interwiki" means. I think you mean you want to add the ability to collapse NavFrames by default? WP:NAVFRAME explains that collapsing uses JavaScript magic behind the class names. In order to make the magic work, you have to edit the global JavaScript pages. It can't be implemented on a per-page basis with special code. Hope that helps. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:12, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. However, what I really wanted was for the collapsed NavFrame to appear on any of the pages on Simple English Wikipedia. When I tried to use the
<div class="NavFrame collapsed">
only the NavFrame part of the div was displayed, and the content remained "seen" rather than "hidden," like the example here. I thought that perhaps the Wikipedia lacked a div class to express the collapsed header, and that that was the reason that the div class was displayed without "collapsed." :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 06:40, 29 July 2010 (UTC)- To be clear, there are two distinct concepts here, both described in separate sections at Wikipedia:NavFrame. One is NavFrame divs. The other is collapsible tables. Both support selecting default collapse state, I think (it's been a while since I've looked closely at either). The code for both of these features is in MediaWiki:Common.js for the most part; some styling is done at MediaWiki:Common.css. Mind the difference in the extensions between those two pages. So if you wanted a similar feature at the Simple English Wikipedia, you'd edit the corresponding pages on that wiki (or have an admin do it for you). --MZMcBride (talk) 06:45, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. However, what I really wanted was for the collapsed NavFrame to appear on any of the pages on Simple English Wikipedia. When I tried to use the
Hey, could we possibly have Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused non-free files changed so that it only includes image pages? It's picked up a load of category pages, userpages, Wikipedia pages and so on in the last run- not certain why, but I don't think they really belong there :) J Milburn (talk) 12:28, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
- Show me an example? --MZMcBride (talk) 15:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
- Never mind, I see it. I wonder what the hell that's about. The configuration seems to indicate I'm specifying page_namespace = 6 in a few places.... Odd. --MZMcBride (talk) 15:35, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Extended content
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| Category | Album_covers |
| User | Ashishvats23 |
| Category | Commercial_logos |
| Wikipedia | Files_for_upload/January_2010 |
| Category | Non-free_historic_Wikipedia_files |
| Category | Non-free_musical_artist_logos |
| User talk | PericlesofAthens/Archive_7 |
| Category | Screenshots_of_Mac_software |
| Category | Screenshots_of_Microsoft_Windows |
| Category | Screenshots_of_Windows_software |
| Category | Screenshots_of_films |
| Category | Screenshots_of_software |
| Category | Screenshots_of_television |
| Category | Screenshots_of_video_games |
| Category | Screenshots_of_videos |
| Category | Single_covers |
| User | Trisreed/Sandbox |
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