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Contents 1 bn-wiki numerical bug 2 CurrentTimeIn 3 Google Web Accelerator autoblocks cause large amounts of collateral damage 4 Why only linked dates? 5 Advice for China 6 Request creation of Cebuano Wikibooks and Wiktionary 7 Auckland meetup 8 Melbourne Wiki 9 Edit deletions 10 Wikimania 11 About MediaWiki:Bad image list 12 Capitalization 13 LT wikisource 14 Orphaned fair use image (Image:One Angry Dwarf (BFF).ogg) 15 Smile :) 16 steward 17 merge 18 CheckUser request 19 Reminder 20 MediaWiki:Tooltip-diff 21 Mediawiki 22 request 23 Static wikipedia 24 Westnet IPs now registered correctly 25 Checkuser 26 Special pages problem... 27 Solar updraft tower 28 My sincere thanks 29 Broken link 30 Hi. 31 Soft Blocking 32 Conversion script 33 SVN commit access 34 Differential Storage 35 Request 36 Test wikipedia 37 Network Link 38 Software changes 39 Edessa 40 Date format 41 short question captcha 42 date format and pref 43 Namespaces Portal and Babel 44 User: D Hill 45 "V:" redirect problem to wikiversity 46 Tabs on sign-in page 47 Adding functionality to Editbox toolbar 48 Hello 49 Wondering if you could... 50 flexible numbers of rows in template 51 category intersections 52 Developer help needed in bnwiki 53 About static dumps 54 Mailinglist of ar.wikipedia 55 Changing IP entries to my Username 56 Welcome back 57 Google Web Accelerator and XFF at WP:ANI 58 Categories 59 Sorry for my blunt action at zea: 60 Hey 61 Number format 62 special:chemicalsources 63 Creating Karakalpak Wikipedia request 64 Rollback, new proposal 65 Strange template

[edit] bn-wiki numerical bug

I had posted this to the developers talk page, could you please check it out? m:Talk:Developers#numerical_bug_in_bn-wiki. Thanks. --Ragib 22:53, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CurrentTimeIn

Tim, many thanks for the heads up. I replied in full at Template_talk:CurrentTimeIn. 193.82.16.42 17:09, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Google Web Accelerator autoblocks cause large amounts of collateral damage

Whenever a vandal uses Google Web Accelerator, the autoblock seems to affect every other user who uses it. IP ranges in question include 64.233.160.0/19, 72.14.192.0/18 and possibly others, which ARIN shows as allocated to Google. Can we do something about this (ie, XFF)? Otherwise, this is a very major denial-of-service issue. -- Curps 15:51, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Anyone using GWA can disable it by clicking on the GWA icon, and selecting "Don't accelerate this website". This will allow editing as normal. Proxied requests do give an XFF header, but I'm not going to list it until we have a sensible proxy list, rather than a couple of subnets containing 24576 addresses and counting. -- Tim Starling 06:35, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why only linked dates?

m:Dynamic dates says you "intended to code" the Dynamic Dates feature. Are you the one who actually coded it? Why does it only handle linked dates? See m:Talk:Dynamic_dates#Why only linked dates. — Omegatron 20:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Advice for China

I'm hesitant about adding lines into Privoxy which I don't understand. What does Wikipedia:Advice to Tor users in China do? What is 145.97.39.155? Please answer at Wikipedia talk:Advice to Tor users in China.

[edit] Request creation of Cebuano Wikibooks and Wiktionary

Hi Tim,

I remember you creating the Cebuano Wikipedia last year. I should say that that was not in vain, as ceb-wp has now 1,188 articles, some of them of superb quality. Last December, I requested the creation of a Cebuano Wiktionary and Wikibooks, and they were approved. However, they are not yet created. I would like to ask your help in this regard. As most members of the Lunsayng Binisaya Yahoo Group are interested in words as words and not as concepts, I expect that the Cebuano Wiktionary will surpass ceb-wp's popularity (we were featured in a local daily, in its weekend magazine supplement) in just a few months. There are also two or three active online users who want to create wikibooks in Cebuano. Thank you very much in advance. --Bentong Isles 06:50, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Auckland meetup

Just to let you know that a meetup is planned in Auckland for the 25th of June (see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland for more details), and that you are cordially invited. GeorgeStepanek\^talk 00:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Melbourne Wiki

Hi Tim, as a wikimaniac I thought you might be interested that I'm trying to start a wiki for Melbourne right now. Am still trying to find lots of people to participate... ;-)

Melbourne Wiki (or actually the first draft) can be found at http://www.melwiki.com.

[edit] Edit deletions

I was wondering if you would delete a couple edits for me (on very long articles, I've alread done the others this vandal created) -- here and this one. Thank you very much. Mak (talk) 02:47, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania

Oh trust me, Mr. Starling. I may not be there this year, but I will eventually get to Wikimania and I will learn PHP well enough and I will sit around with the Mediawiki developers randomly programming. :P

Especially when Leopard and Vista come out and I get a Macbook Pro 17" ;)

[Yes that was random, I just felt like sayin']— Ilyanep (Talk) 01:53, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] About MediaWiki:Bad image list

Hello, I am a user from Chinese Wikipedia. Thank for your nice work of MediaWiki:Bad image list. I also think it will be useful to fight vandals. However, according to your design, ONLY image's link will be displayed on linked page, I think it is not enough. As you know, not only images, but also words are affront materials, and unfortunately, image's filename may contain those words. So furthermore, I think it would be better if displaying a warning image or layer instead. Besides against word-vandalism, this is also more legitimate. Because of many country laws, displaying a warning desciption or disclaimer is necessary before porny or bloody images are displayed. If this idea can be accepted and implemented, then which users will see on linked pages are not links, but more meaningful images or layers, and users can decide to click in or not by themselves.--百楽兎 01:19, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalization

As you are a developer, could you change the part where articles have to have their first letter capitaliszed. It is a big problem with articles such as IPod and Ebay. Raichu 01:33, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LT wikisource

Please help.

Language domain requests

--Veneto 21:54, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:One Angry Dwarf (BFF).ogg)

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:One Angry Dwarf (BFF).ogg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that your image can be used under a fair use license. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If your image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why your image was deleted. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Jusjih 17:47, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Smile :)

—G.He 23:18, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] steward

hello,
i use mediawiki, but how can i creat a steward? -- Comic Book Guy

[edit] merge

Hallo. i want to merge my two useraccounts. who can i ask, or wath can i do? De:Benutzer:Robinhood and De:Benutzer:Robinhut --58.84.79.95 01:47, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CheckUser request

Hello Tim!

The list of the vandals (all dewiki_p) is:

• Glorreiche 6 Armee (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Generalfeldmarschall Paulus (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Adolf Hiter (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Hitler (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Familie Alois Hitler (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Onkel Adolf (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe Hermann Göring (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• SS (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) (nebenbei ein Verwechsler auf Benutzer:SPS)
• Fügt Hitler Bilder in diverse Artikel ein (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Horst Wessels (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Führer des deutschen Volkes (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Führerhauptquatier (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Führerbunker (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Famile Adolf H (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• SIEGREICHE 6.ARMEE! (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• HEIL DEN SIEGREICHEN WEHRMACHTSSOLDATEN! (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• ADOLF HITLER FAN CLUB! (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• HITLERS TREUER DIENER (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• SCHEISS AUSLÄNDER KANACKEN RAUS (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• AUSLÄNDER RAUS!!! (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)

All of these users have not made edits, but as de:User:-jha- and me think, that these accounts were created from IP ranges 21*.***.***.***; because if they are the accounts are new proofs for an abuse complaint to his provider.

Many thanks in advance, HardDisk 00:11, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

(and PS: sorry for my bad english)

[edit] Reminder

Tim, now that I think that you have returned, I just wanted to remind you of the email I sent at 23:42 on 3 May (Melbourne time). I haven't received a reply yet. Perhaps you did not receive my mail? -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 06:56, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MediaWiki:Tooltip-diff

Do I understand correctly that you are the human behind User:MediaWiki default? If so then you are probably the one to report this to: MediaWiki:Tooltip-diff reports a shortcut of "[alt-d]", which should probably be "[alt-v]". Wikipedia fixed this in February, and Wiktionary just today. You probably know how to fix this in the release and what other projects need a change. --teb728 00:04, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mediawiki

Hi Tim
please, check this out (p.s. great work!) --Jollyroger 16:59, 16 June 2006 (UTC) it:Utente:Jollyroger

[edit] request

Hello! I`ve got one request for you. I collect words in various languages. Now I`m looking for word "sugar" in other languages, but I can`t find an Afar dictionary. I`ve got counterparts of word "sugar" in Japanese, Ahmaric, Thai, Georgian and Chinese, so can you write me what is "sugar" in Afar language? I`ve got this word in 313 languages and dialects of many regions and countries in the world so it is very important for me! Thank you very much! Szoltys <talk>

[edit] Static wikipedia

I didn't know who to contact exactly, so here I am. Are you planning on updating the Static Wikipedia dump? Many sites are using it as the source of database dumps (i.e. Godseye) and it is vastly outdated. If the normal dumps are done so often, maybe doing this "once" wouldn't hurt too much? Thanks. -- Jared A. Hunt 02:11, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Westnet IPs now registered correctly

As I've said on the technical pump, westnet tell me that the PTRs for their IPs have been updated, and 202.72.148.102's reverse DNS now points to cache-1.wa.westnet.com.au. Cesarb pointed out that I needed to contact you directly about this, as per m:XFF. Please let me know if there's anything else I need to do. Thanks! — JEREMY

Done. -- Tim Starling 10:44, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Checkuser

Hi Tim, do you care for checkuser-requests on German Wiki? If yes, would you be so friendly to help de:Benutzer:Achates with his actual request posted here. Thank you in advance. Alexander Z. 12:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Special pages problem...

Special:Lonelypages seems bugged, it's not listing any items this week. Surely we haven't de-orphaned them all, hehe. --W.marsh 13:29, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Solar updraft tower

Please do me a favor and have a look at Solar updraft tower and Talk:Solar updraft tower. I would appreciate your input. JdH 17:43, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My sincere thanks

I was informed that you are the father of the new "Bug" on AOL/IP blocks. I will test out my new 24 hour access as soon as possible! Thank you for your magnificent effort. This will make a real difference for me and other dedicated editors. My very best wishes. WBardwin 18:12, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Tonights attempts to edit reveal that your fix does not affect the autoblocker. While I appreciate the effort you put into the "bug", I am interrupted much more often by autoblocks than by range blocks. Sigh. Would it be possible to target those next? WBardwin 08:59, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Broken link

The link on your userpage to a new version of the page move script is broken and gives a 404 - would you be kind enough to either remove/change it? Just thought I'd point it out; thanks. —Xyrael _{/ 17:34, 14 July 2006 (UTC)}

[edit] Hi.

I'm on the Homestar Runner Fanstuff Wiki under the username "Y2K" and I like those Crystal icons. Can I use them on HRFWiki? - Year2000Prob ^(email) 07:54, 10 September 2006 (UTC) 22:30, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Soft Blocking

I work at a school, so I edit a fair bit from behind the same proxy as thousands upon thousands of teenage vandals. Thank you very much for your work on soft blocking - I'm now soft-block-evangelising frantically :) What should we now do with the WP:BPP page? It's no longer a proposal, but I think the page is redundant on its own. Should we mark it as historical, and direct people to WP:BP#Options for IP blocks? --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 10:00, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Conversion script

Hi Tim.... Could you (or another dev/admin type) please have a look at my comments on User_talk:Conversion_script? Thankyou! --SJK 12:23, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SVN commit access

Hi Tim! I used to have CVS commit access on sourceforge, and I now find myself wanting to commit a trivial patch. Please could I have SVN commit access? Lupin|talk|popups 20:43, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Differential Storage

Hi Tim

I found your slides about how wikipedia compresses the data to save storage page on the web.

I'm a PhD student at the University of Zürich and the wikipedia storage touches my research area. I have a few questions how you store the data. Do you compress the data before it is stored in the database (i.e. you store a compressed file) or do you store the data in the database and the database file is then compressed?

Is there a way I could contact you by email?

Thank you very much in advance!

Stefania Leone

We compress the data first, and then store it to the database. Database systems need to have fast read/write random access, and that's something that compressed filesystems don't provide. You can contact me at tstarling@wikimedia.org. -- Tim Starling 17:17, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request

Hi. I hate to bug you for something that's kind of trivial in the overall scheme of Wikipedia, but it's rather important to me personally. I have several (281 to be exact) edits that I performed while not signed in (it was before I registered). However, the IP I had at that time belonged to someone else previously, and I would like to merge the edits that belong to me personally into my own edit history if you'd be willing, or could point me to a Developer who could. There's a bit more to the matter than just me wanting all my edits assigned to my username, but it's a personal matter, so I'll be e-mailing you the specific details. I just wanted to announce this here so that you'd know in advance (assuming you check this before you check your e-mail). Ryu Kaze 00:55, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

If my e-mail didn't reach you, by the way, please let me know. I first tried copy-pasting your e-mail as written on your user page and mailing directly from my e-mail address, but it didn't go through for some reason. I assume that there was just a typo somewhere in that, as you obviously had to confirm your e-mail for me to even be able to use the on-site Wiki e-mail feature. Just putting this out there in case something went wrong, though. Ryu Kaze 02:47, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I notice now that you make mention of another e-mail (tstarling@wikimedia.org) in the previous response area. Is that where I should have sent the e-mails? Like I say, the first one I tried sending came back to me with a message stating that it couldn't be delivered, but after I tried it here, it went through (apparently... I hope). Ryu Kaze 03:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Test wikipedia

Can you clarify that test.wikipedia.org is for developers not editors on the front page? -Ravedave 00:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Network Link

Hello Tim, my englisch ist very bad, but i have a problem and i hope you can help me. We have installed a Media Wiki in our Network. This Wiki can only achieve from this Network. It is possible to make a link in this Wiki direkt to a PC that ist Connected to this Network .e.g. \\192.168.122.15\Pictures I makes an link to your Site and I hope you can help me. Thank you an best Regards Timo--129.35.204.162 11:54, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Software changes

Hi, Tim. Hopefully you'll read this soon. Do you know of any software changes this week? We need them for the Wikipedia Signpost. Robchurch gave them to us; but then he left. If you don't know, fine but if you do know, great. People miss reading about the software changes. Carmelapple 22:18, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edessa

Hi. I'd like to ask for your help concerning the article Edessa, Greece. There seems to be a bug in the software... I can't fix it myself, but i hope u can. Thanks in advance. --Hectorian 23:33, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Date format

Could we have our date format back please? :) -- Steven Fisher 14:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] short question captcha

Hi Folks, please tell who is responsible for the design of captcha-feature? We think about some pics in other design (simple questions, answerable by using articles) to prevent account-spaming by real persons, not bots. recent picture see here [1], the design could be modified 172.158.129.188 12:30, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] date format and pref

I've built a mediawki 1.7.1 installation at work. Dates appear in whatever format I type them in (ISO, whatever), not what I have set in preferences. Also, the ISO date link as one unit (y/m/d all as one), not as m/d and year as on wikipedia. How can I fix this? Do I need a plugin or extension? Is this being caused by one or two issues? There should be a guide on "How to get mediawiki to work just like Wikipedia" somewhere-;)Rlevse 12:50, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Set $wgUseDynamicDates = true; in LocalSettings.php. -- Tim Starling 08:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!Rlevse 10:18, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Namespaces Portal and Babel

Hi Tim
Because the babel templates are going to dominate the template namespace, there are attempts to separate these templates from the others. In German wikipedia they created a pseudo-user subsuming the babel templates. So in fact they are now in the "User" namespace.

On German wikiquote I tried to move the babel templates into an own namespace "Babel", as you can see here. But since this namespace is not registered, the templates appear in the article namespace. To register the new namespace I visited meta:Help:Custom_namespaces, but I found that I have no access to the files mentioned there "/includes/DefaultSettings.php" and "LocalSettings.php" or they don't exist.

Could you tell me how I can register the namespace or name a contact person, who is competent in these things.

Also at German wikiquote it is desired to have the "Portal" namespace. The existing portals are now in the article namespace, too.

Hubert22 07:59, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

File a bug report at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org

P.S. Could you tell me, how I pass the pipe sign "|" as a parameter or part of parameter to a template?

You can't. -- Tim Starling 08:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User: D Hill

I have forgotten my password, and have no e-mail address registered to my account. I was told that a developer may be able to help restore my account. I have already contacted another developer but he has not responded. I saw that you have recent contributions and the highest level of access in wikipedia. I thought that you would be able to help.

[edit] "V:" redirect problem to wikiversity

Hi there. The helpdesk told me to contact you, so here I am. V: The New Mythology Suite now redirects to wikiversity (presumably because of the "V:" in the title). It used to be a perfectly valid page. All the links in Wikipedia to this page don't work anymore (e.g. the links in this article). How can we get this page back? Thanks Petergee1 19:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tabs on sign-in page

Hi. I hope I'm asking one of the right people this question. The field order on the sign-in page appears to have changed and is now very counter-intuitive. After User, Password, the next tab is "email a new password" instead of "log in". For those of us who prefer keyboarding to mousing, this is very frustrating! I've received 3 new passwords today. Any chance this can be changed back to a more logical field order? Thanks. -- Slowmover 21:49, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adding functionality to Editbox toolbar

Hi Tim, I am admin in Te wikipedia. Telugu input tools are not well developed so most of the folks are typing in roman script and transliterate them into telugu script by using conversion tools. They have to go through ardous task of cut and paste between windows for this task. having a conversion tool right in the wiki editbox would be great favour to telugu wiki. The script is already available in javascript. How do I go about this? Who is working on editbox toolbar in developer team. Any suggestion in this direction are very much appreciated --Vyzasatya 22:44, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

This user is unable to contanct you, so I'm acting as middle man. (S)he has been autoblocked by using a proxy IP, despite being a legitimate user. I'm not great with technical stuff like open proxies, so that's all I know. :) --172.193.194.250 02:43, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wondering if you could...

Use your oversight powers to delete my user page history? There is sensitive personal information on there that I would like removed. Everything up to the most recent edit? Magic Window 14:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] flexible numbers of rows in template

Hi Tim, I was trying to put together a template nomen actionis on the Dutch wiktionary that could show a flexible number of rows depending on a first parameter. I used the template switch and got it to work to some extent, except that it keeps giving me some extra brackets I dont want. I am a total nocie at ParserFunction and wonder how to achieve the same (actually better result that way). I'd appreciate your input. nl.wikitonary Gebruiker:Jcwf

152.1.193.141 00:20, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] category intersections

Hi - Have you seen Wikipedia:Category intersection? I'm curious what your reaction might be. Note that Radiant! implemented intersection as a special: and is soliciting feedback (see bugzilla:5244). I have a suspicion that intersections involving very large categories that produce no result might be kind of a problem (imagine Category:Living people intersected with Category:Ancient Greeks). Was the 200 category member display limit motivated at least in part by database concerns (or was it mostly VM or something in the Apaches)?

I'd really, really like to get rid of most (if not all) of the "x by y by z" sorts of categories. We spend an inordinate amount of time maintaining these sorts of categories, and it seems that they really ought to be mechanically generated. Note that there are three different UIs proposed at WP:CI. The first one attempts to tie intersections to existing categories (with a behind-the-scenes transclusion), I don't think Sam likes the third one very much and counter-proposed the second one, the third one proposes intersections be a completely separate feature including an "intersection selection table" allowing users to navigate in "intersection space". In any event, I think any time you could spend thinking about how we might actually get an effective intersection feature added to MediaWiki would be greatly appreciated. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Developer help needed in bnwiki

Hi Tim, I'm a bureaucrat in Bengali wikipedia. We have reached a consensus there to change the spelling of the Wikipedia namespace, from উইকিপেডিয়া to উইকিপিডিয়া. How do we do that, and also migrate the existing WP namespace pages there, without breaking anything? Thanks. --Ragib 21:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC) en:User:Ragib / bn:User:Ragib.

[edit] About static dumps

That's great. I meant to write Wikipedia_talk:Mirrors_and_forks#Zdnet.co.za, but I must have mixed up with godseye while working with something else. Take a look at Superm401 and WB in Wikipedia_talk:Mirrors_and_forks#JavaScript though about JS. —Jared Hunt September 13, 2006, 23:44 (UTC)

[edit] Mailinglist of ar.wikipedia

Hello Tim, can please help me with providing the name of the person responsible for running generally the mailinglists of Wikipedia. The problem is that in our ar.wikipedia the owner could't provide us with the password for running our mailinglist (#ar.wikipedia) because he forgot it himself and anyway is busy to run our local mailinglist. We intend to let another active user of our wikipedia resbonsible for it. I'm a bureaucrat on ar.wikipedia. I'll very thankful for any kind of help.--Oxydo 09:09, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Changing IP entries to my Username

I followed links for a while trying to figure out whom to ask, so I may still be in the wrong place. Is there a way to change past entries I made, having forgotten to log in, which display my IP, to my actual Username? I keep seeing stolen IP identities misused and would like to avoid it. I tried to find this in FAQ but got lost. Hoverfish(UTC) 12:46, 18 September 2006 - Also I notice sometimes that although I am logged in, I suddenly find myself logged out.Hoverfish 14:02, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back

WB, dude. nice to hear you are ok now. --Jollyroger 14:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Google Web Accelerator and XFF at WP:ANI

In case you haven't noticed it already, there's a discussion about the GWA at WP:ANI#Blocking Google Web Accelerator. Just thought you might want to comment on it. (Anyway, has there been any progress in getting a proper list of proxy IPs from Google?) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 06:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Hiya, I've been told that you're the person to contact about the list at Special:Uncategorizedpages? We've currently got a team that is aggressively identifying uncategorized articles so that they can be tagged with {{uncat}}, and it would be helpful if the Special list (which currently only shows 1000 articles, and updates twice a week), could update more frequently. Or perhaps it would be helpful if one of us could have a way of "goosing" it, when we're done with one batch and ready for another. Is that something that you could help with, or if not, do you know who we would contact? Thanks. --Elonka 21:54, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry for my blunt action at zea:

Hi Tim, sorry indeed that I blocked your import script, but I had some good reasons to do so. The case is that it seemed as if the pages at the Zeelandic test wiki had disappeared while they hadn't. The links at the main page had been changed by a bot edit but the actual pages behind the links had not been moved! Since I thought I would be the only one who could find the pages, I decided to transfer them manually. I left a note for all of you on the Zeelandic main page. To prevent any possible duplicates I blocked your script. I don't know if this makes sense at all, but I didn't want any possible mistakes to be made. Steinbach (fka Caesarion) 14:33, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

You can't block it, it accesses the backend API directly without checking permissions. The reason most pages weren't imported was because I incorrectly used the Wp/zea prefix instead of the Test-wp/zea prefix. It doesn't matter to the import script if the pages already exist, if they do, the page move to remove the incubator prefix is skipped, allowing you to merge or delete them as you see fit. -- Tim Starling 03:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

Hey Tim, Awesome to see you back... Hope you're feeling tip-top, although this really says it all :) also: bloody brilliant job yesterday fixing all the servers :) have a good 'un ;) --Deon555^talk_Review 00:04, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Number format

Hi, Tim. Thanks again for making #expr: (and all its cousins)!

Is there a way to format a long number like 299,299,678 or 300,000,001 with commas? It's hard to read 299299678 or 300000001 without commas and I've created the {{uspop commas}} template to add commas to 300234297 (current U.S. population estimate).

I hesitate to ask, except that other population estimates may benefit from some PHP coding. --Uncle Ed 09:56, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Use {{formatnum:12345678901234567890.1234567890}}, this will rendered as 12,345,678,901,234,567,890.1234567890.--AlefZet 09:45, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] special:chemicalsources

Hi, I felt like spamming you with the same message as some others, until I realized you were the same guy I am trying to bug with my extensions on #wikimedia. Nickj from the wikimedia IRC channel has set up a site for me at http://chemistry.poolspares.com. It runs two extensions I have written to the wikipedia software, a special page (for chemical sources, see also wikipedia:chemical sources and a chemform tag (for easy input of chemical formulae). Could you have a look, and comment on it (if useful I would like to try to let you or Brion enable it on wikipedia). Cheers! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 17:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Creating Karakalpak Wikipedia request

Request for Karakalpak Wikipedia was already approved on meta. So need start kaa.wikipedia.org for further works (recruiting contributors, interface translating, articles editing etc). Thanks for advance. (m:User:AlefZet, incubator:User:AlefZet kk:User:AlefZet) --AlefZet 09:42, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback, new proposal

I have proposed at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Rollback to the bots! to allows antivandalism bots to be given the rollback privilege. This proposal has meet no opposition so far (Tawker also agreeed that this could be somehow useful). If you also don't oppose it, would it be possible to recreate the rollback group so that this can be implemented? I am asking you because it seems that you were somehow involved, at least reading the archives of WP:RFR. Tizio 17:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Strange template

Template:Commentedit, what's the point of it? Punkmorten 23:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

It's an old MediaWiki namespace message which was deleted from the source files before the Template namespace was created. Because it was not a valid message at the time the template namespace was created, it was considered to be a template and hence it was moved to the template namespace. It can be deleted. -- Tim Starling 07:51, 18 November 2006 (UTC)