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:::Also, not tweeting about "fags" would probably be a wise move. Peace. [[User:AgingHippie|AgingHippie]] [[User_talk:AgingHippie|(talk)]] 16:15, 4 February 2015 (UTC) | :::Also, not tweeting about "fags" would probably be a wise move. Peace. [[User:AgingHippie|AgingHippie]] [[User_talk:AgingHippie|(talk)]] 16:15, 4 February 2015 (UTC) | ||
:::Yeah, okay. I fully acknowledge that there's no need for a technical solution to the problem. [[User:Ikanreed|Ikanreed]] ([[User talk:Ikanreed|talk]]) 16:24, 4 February 2015 (UTC) | :::Yeah, okay. I fully acknowledge that there's no need for a technical solution to the problem. [[User:Ikanreed|Ikanreed]] ([[User talk:Ikanreed|talk]]) 16:24, 4 February 2015 (UTC) | ||
| − | ::::Considering it's hosted some sort of image archive service, and all one would have to do is re-archive the image with a fresh URL, probably right. Peace. [[User:AgingHippie|AgingHippie]] [[User_talk:AgingHippie|(talk)]] 16:27, 4 February 2015 (UTC) | + | ::::Considering it's hosted on some sort of image archive service, and all one would have to do is re-archive the image with a fresh URL, probably right. Peace. [[User:AgingHippie|AgingHippie]] [[User_talk:AgingHippie|(talk)]] 16:27, 4 February 2015 (UTC) |
== Internal error in ApiResult::setIndexedTagName == | == Internal error in ApiResult::setIndexedTagName == | ||
Revision as of 16:27, 4 February 2015
Archives for this talk page: <1>, <2>, <3>, <4>, <5>, <6>, <7>, <8>, <9>, <10>, <11>, <12>
Autogenerated list of users with Tech rights: Special:ListUsers/tech.
The people with root on the servers are Tmtoulouse and David Gerard.
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Herein goeth anything regarding the technicalities of the wiki
FAQs & Problems:
- Problems with accessing the wiki
- Queries about extensions
- Javascript Help
- CSS Help
- Wikitalk Help
If you've written, or are using, some extension or script that either might give others problems or is giving you a problem, then either describe it or link to it on this page.
If you've written some piece of code that you want help with, ask here with linkage.
If your browser acts up with some code,ask here.
In short, anything techy, ask, tell or link on this page.
If you think it is a server-type issue, feel free to email the goat at ttoulouse@gmail.com or touloutm@mcmaster.ca for best results.
Slow
Like wading thru' treacle! Scream!! (talk) 17:45, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
- Working OK for me ... - David Gerard (talk) 18:19, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
"Dox in a box"
I made this account a few days ago and didn't really do anything with it. Today I tried to add my entry to the How I found RationalWiki page and my edit was immediately flagged as "harmful" for "dox in a box". The content of my edit was
- Someone said "deepity" on reddit. Google landed me here. I have since been addicted like crack.
If I can post that here, but not on the other page, what's going on?
- I have fixed it. Go ahead and try again. -RNS 65.128.164.147 (talk) 06:54, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Citation template problem
I copied a reference from Wikipedia which uses Template:Cite journal. If you look at the reference, it gives a citation error (linking to Template:Citation error; maybe we should copy that over?). Looking at the list of used templates in the edit window, it looks to me like the cause might be that Template:Cite journal wants Template:Str left, which we don't have. But I'm not completely sure since I'm not a template expert, so I thought I'd have someone else look at it. Also I don't know the procedure for copying over templates from Wikipedia; do we use Special:Import? --Ymir (talk) 18:13, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
- If you want to copy a template over, just copy the wikitext over to an equivalently-named template here. Note that we do not have Lua here yet, so any more recent WP templates that have been converted to Lua won't work on RW - David Gerard (talk) 18:32, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Safari 6.1.6 & Recent Changes
Safari 6.1.6 is not working with Recent Changes - it hangs the entire site. Everything else works on RW for me - editing, etc. - but when I click on Recent Changes, the browser blanks and never refreshes. If I close the window and try to navigate back to just rationalwiki.org, that is blank too. Moving to a non-rw webpage makes Safari work again, and then I can return to rw. This problem with Recent Changes does not happen in Chrome on the same computer. Hmmm? DogP (talk) 18:24, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
- This briefly happened to me desktop and iOS with certain combinations of OS and Safari. From Apple, as a first try:
- From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.
- Click: Remove All Website Data
- Then delete the cache.
- Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
- Type or copy paste the following
- ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
- Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
- Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
- In network preferences,meet your DNS servers to a free open server if they're pointing to your ISP's or vice versa.
If that doesn't work, post a screenshot of the network panel from the developer console and see if any part of the DOM is loading and whether you can download CSS and .js files. David, did you guys turn on file compression when traffic was intermittently overwhelming last year? When I was trying to figure this out, it looked like Safari was unable to unzip some files getting served up by the new load balancer system. Nutty Roux (talk) 19:52, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
- The real answer is probably MediaWiki 1.23. I need to get onto rationalbeta again ... - David Gerard (talk) 22:37, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
- I think it's Apache. There's some discussion of similar problems on stackoverflow mentioning Apache chunk encoding and browsers having trouble with zero file sizes. Is compression enabled on one load balancer but not the other? Does one load balancer handle cached stuff and the other dynamically generated pages? Nutty Roux (talk) 23:46, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
- That sounds completely weird. SO links welcomed. They should be configured identically, but of course without an actual mechanism slippage happens - David Gerard (talk) 23:56, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
- I think it's Apache. There's some discussion of similar problems on stackoverflow mentioning Apache chunk encoding and browsers having trouble with zero file sizes. Is compression enabled on one load balancer but not the other? Does one load balancer handle cached stuff and the other dynamically generated pages? Nutty Roux (talk) 23:46, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Intercom notice about the Board of Trustees nomination
Please. I tried to do it, but the new message page provides only a "preview" button, and it sends me to a blank page.--ZooGuard (talk) 09:05, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
- *bump* --ZooGuard (talk) 07:14, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- I tried poking it with what I knew, but it seemed to just freeze up each and every time. Looks like it is something that'll require Trent or David to fix. Noisemobile (talk) 07:20, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
I figured it out and left instructions for you on your talkpage. Let me know if you want me to do it instead, or if you have any other issues along the way to sending it out. Noisemobile (talk) 07:33, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you. I'll try posting a notice about the nominations. Apparently I'll also have to write a help page about using the Intercom.--ZooGuard (talk) 14:33, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- Ugh, apparently I can't post in the "Site wide (urgent)" group, only "General site news" and the other groups, even though I have checked it in "Configure groups" - it just doesn't appear in the drop-down list. I think one needs to have "tech" rights to post in that one.--ZooGuard (talk) 14:40, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- What's urgent about it. It will be open for weeks. IIRC preview hasn't worked for a long time. Not sure if there actually is a rights limitation, but that would make sense since we've had some real dummies posting intercom messages. Anyhow, sorted. Nutty Roux (talk) 15:48, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Link blacklist?
Is there a link blacklist to tack on a website that is consistently used to harass and harangue me because of a stupid misunderstanding that internet persons of a crocodilian variety like to use?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 04:10, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- You want to blacklist ED?--ZooGuard (talk) 08:32, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- No I want to blacklist a particular archive.today link that has been used to consistently harass me. Or maybe my ED page as well.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:04, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- There is a spam/trolling links edit filter that the link can be adeed to. You'll need somebody with Tech rights to do it. 184.97.196.109 (talk) 09:10, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Your famous use of -chan jargon ouside of a -chan board? :D I understand why you may be sick of dealing with that, but blacklisting a specific link is a bit too much. If I were you, I'd make a template explaining the situation and slap it anywhere where that showed up.--ZooGuard (talk) 14:53, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- I've got tech rights. Someone gave them to me to help monitor a recurring troll's autoblock. I think it's safe to say there's never going to be much need for linking to a page about one of our users, and I wouldn't be abusing that trust to add your couple links. Ikanreed (talk) 15:17, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- No I want to blacklist a particular archive.today link that has been used to consistently harass me. Or maybe my ED page as well.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:04, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Should we start blocking them for you too? Oh right. How about you just stop talking to them rather than asking for special treatment? They'd stop if you could just shut your mouth for a while — you'd go from "fun highly reactive and emotive target who flails like a child" to "boring". Give it a shot? Nutty Roux (talk) 15:54, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Yeah, he could do that, but you know, being purposefully targeted by an established conspiracy is a bit different from your day-to-day trolling by dumb kids. Have you considered what it's like to be told, "People are intentionally targeting you, so stop being such a target by existing"? Ikanreed (talk) 15:59, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Reading. Learn it. Not talking to people targeting you means you don't indulge them the reaction you were giving them. It is what I would call an example of being prudent. Blacklisting two links isn't going to stop them from coming over here to poke Ryulong with a stick. Ryulong would need to continue blocking them to achieve that. It's going to stop them from posting two links when they come here to poke him with a stick. I suggest you all just lock the page to anyone below sysop. Nutty Roux (talk) 16:13, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Also, not tweeting about "fags" would probably be a wise move. Peace. AgingHippie (talk) 16:15, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Yeah, okay. I fully acknowledge that there's no need for a technical solution to the problem. Ikanreed (talk) 16:24, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Considering it's hosted on some sort of image archive service, and all one would have to do is re-archive the image with a fresh URL, probably right. Peace. AgingHippie (talk) 16:27, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Reading. Learn it. Not talking to people targeting you means you don't indulge them the reaction you were giving them. It is what I would call an example of being prudent. Blacklisting two links isn't going to stop them from coming over here to poke Ryulong with a stick. Ryulong would need to continue blocking them to achieve that. It's going to stop them from posting two links when they come here to poke him with a stick. I suggest you all just lock the page to anyone below sysop. Nutty Roux (talk) 16:13, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Internal error in ApiResult::setIndexedTagName
doesn't recognize the property "loginfo" - it should work like
or
Can something be done? --larron (talk) 14:37, 4 February 2015 (UTC)