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FreeSpace 2315:27, 5 January 2011
Another one012:06, 5 January 2011
Pagination012:06, 5 January 2011
Cheers123:32, 4 January 2011
Ajax category rename?807:11, 4 January 2011
Human904:25, 4 January 2011
Templates2219:10, 3 January 2011
Congratulations!018:09, 3 January 2011
LQT sigs1221:08, 1 January 2011
Excuse me, sir/madam, but.....017:01, 30 December 2010
Nx, mi amor313:11, 30 December 2010
The hell?513:04, 26 December 2010
welcoming new users106:08, 24 December 2010
Wigo220:04, 12 December 2010
Gadgets420:33, 11 December 2010
Nomination004:31, 11 December 2010
Testing successful012:39, 6 December 2010
Why are you protecting your talk page1509:21, 4 December 2010
I found the cause and fixed it023:00, 1 December 2010
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I stumbled across your account on the Hard Light wiki. I enjoyed the game immensely, but it has some pretty major technical problems on my computer which stop me from using the MediaVPs and hence a distressing number of mods.

Time drug Hoover!15:10, 5 January 2011

Damnit, you just reminded me that I have a mod to finish. Why don't I have a device to stop time? WHY?

-- Nx / talk15:17, 5 January 2011
 

Also, why are you stalking me? :D

-- Nx / talk15:21, 5 January 2011

I wasn't! I clicked on a random screenshot and one of the other pages it appeared on was User:Nx/sandbox!

Time drug Hoover!15:27, 5 January 2011
 
 

21 threads, yay.

-- Nx / talk12:06, 5 January 2011

This page needs more threads in order to show off pagination

-- Nx / talk12:06, 5 January 2011

Thanks for the magic wiki magic.

DalekEXTERMINATE23:30, 4 January 2011

No problem.

-- Nx / talk23:32, 4 January 2011
 

Ajax category rename?

(from Armondikov's talk page:)

Couldn't someone write an extension or something similar that would let a sysop rename a category using ajax?

Elaboration:

  1. get the category members from the api
  2. for each, retrieve the wikitext, switch the old category name for new, get edittoken, save page
  3. mark all the edits as bot, or if you wanted to get fancy, make a new log for it
Picon small.pngAcer Blue21:48, 3 January 2011

Why, when category.py does the job already.

-- Nx / talk21:48, 3 January 2011

Er, for non-techies who don't have python/pywikipedia/coding know-how?

Picon small.pngAcer Blue22:01, 3 January 2011

They come to my talk page and ask me to run the bot.

-- Nx / talk22:03, 3 January 2011
 

You couldn't have asked anyone worse.

but seriously, it's not hard and you don't have to actually use the python. just command line configs.

Occasionaluse (talk)22:04, 3 January 2011

Nx appears to have understood - I meant, make an easy way to move a category that requires zero knowledge/downloading. Yes, bots are useful, but if only a few people have them, it's inefficient.

And I do know my way around python (:

Picon small.pngAcer Blue23:31, 3 January 2011

Yeah, but I've got other stuff to do. Besides, renaming a category can affect a lot of pages, and it shouldn't be done on a whim, so I think it's good that not everyone has easy access to the tools to do it.

-- Nx / talk23:38, 3 January 2011
 
 
 
 
 

My watchful eye caught this, Nx, is it true you would prefer Human blocked from this RationalWiki for 3 months? She is such a valuable contributor.Several ingredients (talk) 09:41, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Several ingredients (talk)09:41, 30 November 2010

Well, he has a fairly transparent sock already, so no loss.

- π09:44, 30 November 2010

Just one?

-- Nx / talk10:06, 30 November 2010

Well only one user that has signed up since he "left" has made more than one edit.

- π10:13, 30 November 2010

Haven't really been paying attention, but now that you mention it.

-- Nx / talk10:22, 30 November 2010
 
 
 

No, I would only prefer if he stopped abusing IP editors (take a look at his talk page). But if he wants to be a drama queen and LANCB instead, that's fine by me.

-- Nx / talk10:04, 30 November 2010

Human is this black man ?!?!

~ Lumenos (talk)23:55, 3 January 2011

LANCB stands for "Leaving And Not Coming Back." Although it is funny that a person would call themselves that on that site- it's irrelevant.

Several ingredients (talk)00:32, 4 January 2011

And Nx thinks I LANCB, which is odd, since I never did either. ħumanUser talk:Human 04:12, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

ħumanUser talk:Human04:12, 4 January 2011

Oh good, you're back.

Several ingredients (talk)04:25, 4 January 2011
 
 
 
 
 

I was wondering if you could do me a favour and evaluate this idea. I'm reconstructing the sidebar templates as a standard format. To maintain flexibility I have a header (pussbox/1) and footer (pussbox/4) and then two other templates to stick in the middle, one being content (pussbox/2) and the other being random (pussbox/3). This achieves the flexibility needed; i.e., they don't all have to follow the same format and order of content and random sections. Your thoughts would be appreciated on the workability of this.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/User:Armondikov/pussbox

Also: The vte links don't work because the vte template defaults to the template space, so won't follow back and I've changed the border to 1px, which is fitting with Vector's look.

Scarlet A.pngnarchist12:00, 19 December 2010

It occurs to me that dpl seems to have issues with transclusions. Would it therefore work best to drop the random section (pussbox/3) and just have it as a normal "content" section with the dpl code in place of the list?

Scarlet A.pngnarchist12:02, 19 December 2010
 

The current version uses the same sub-template and replaces the list content with dpl. I believe with the right documentation this is probably best.

The issue of repeating identical parameters is where I was mostly asking for ideas. Obviously, we can have one template for all, but this way allows us to construct one of any size, with multiple lists. We might even be able to add extra images as is seen on the {{pseudosciencenav}} template.

Is there a clever way around it so we can have the flexibility and ease? I just can't spot one.

Scarlet A.pngnarchist12:57, 19 December 2010
 

I think you should have a content param in /1, combine /1 and /4, then use /2 to format the content and pass that as a parameter to /1. I hope that's not too confusing.

-- Nx / talk19:51, 19 December 2010

Clear as mud, but I assume you mean embedding one template inside the other?

Scarlet A.pngnarchist20:57, 19 December 2010

yeah

-- Nx / talk21:00, 19 December 2010

Tried it. Got confused. Will try again.

Scarlet A.pngnarchist21:23, 19 December 2010
 
 
 

I have given it a shot and started with {{religion}}, {{pseudoscience}}, {{atheism}} and {{media}}. The base can be found at {{navsidebar}}. I imagine you will want to kill me but it all seems to work exactly the same as before - although I have noticed that with the fixed text size the longer titles make the template wider. I'm not too concerned about this, however, as the base can be edited to reduce the size no problem.

Scarlet A.pngnarchist13:02, 3 January 2011

Nah, I have a cold, I feel like shit, I'm working on something big-ish already (it's a surprise), and I'm trying to lose my "if you want something done properly, do it yourself" attitude, so if it works, I'm happy. And thanks, of course.

-- Nx / talk13:20, 3 January 2011

I just trust your judgement with these things. It's there if you want to take a look but I'm sure the problems can be ironed out in the usual fashion.

Scarlet A.pngnarchist13:38, 3 January 2011

At a cursory glance it looks fine, I see you've changed it as I suggested above. Nice work.

-- Nx / talk13:43, 3 January 2011

Also, cheers for the SVG-ifying the last icon. I've only just got around to reinstalling a proper vector graphics program so, in theory, should be able to do that myself next time.

Scarlet A.pngnarchist14:37, 3 January 2011
 

F**kity f**k. When you do the SVGsvgs it normalises to 200x200 and gives it a small border, when I've done it straight out of Illustrator it's gone to the edges so the icons "look" larger for the same technical size. What margins did you put on?

Scarlet A.pngnarchist18:02, 3 January 2011
 
 
 
 
 

Congratulations!

LP Ratlogo.svg It's pure formalism to announce that, butYou have won the "RW's most technical" award for 2010!
Idiot number 59 (talk)18:09, 3 January 2011

If you have a long signature, (like "I like cheeses, but I also like sea basss. But... which is better?" :P) it can run into the reply, parent and more buttons when you add the date onto the end. They're on the same line so they crash into each other as the indentation brings them closer together. It does seem to prioritise the buttons so you don't accidentally get taken to someone's user page when you want to reply!

Scarlet A.pngnarchist18:27, 1 January 2011

That's probably because I changed it a bit to decrease the huge margins in vanilla lqt. Hang on a sec.

There, should be better now.

-- Nx / talk18:30, 1 January 2011

I like the single line, it's far cleaner. But if anyone can think of a solution it'd be you.

Scarlet A.pngnarchist18:33, 1 January 2011

I just right floated it, so when they collide, the buttons will just jump above the sig. I should probably swap the order so the sig goes above the buttons.

-- Nx / talk18:37, 1 January 2011

Another issue. I've just realised that I have no idea who's talk page I'm on because I'm using the "new messages" thing. It says it on the left (and I know now), but is there a way of making it more obvious and intuitively clear?

Scarlet A.pngnarchist18:44, 1 January 2011

Hey guys, while I'm all for talking about the new liquid threads and peoples' real complaints about them, could we take this techie discussion off my talkpage? Thank you.

Lord Goonie Hooray! I'm helping!18:45, 1 January 2011
 
 
 
 
 

Excuse me, sir/madam, but.....

Can you please take a look at my talkpage and see if I set up liquid threads correctly? I am hoping to switch my talkpage to them, and just want to make sure I set them up correctly. Thanks in advance.

Lord Goonie Hooray! I'm helping!17:01, 30 December 2010

I think I've pissed off enough people to be able to say what I think. It's refreshing to be able to be pretentious and honest for once.

Nx, if I may call you Nx (or would you prefer Nx?), you are this wretched gathering of scum and villainy's last, best hope. For months I have been agreeing with practically everything you've said about the wiki, and I wish you would speak up more often. RW has rules, it just doesn't like to admit it - get them to admit that they both have and need rules, and that may be an important step in the right direction. Or leave them and turn to better things. Both are noble choices.

Picon small.pngAcer Blue05:50, 30 December 2010

I tried speaking up. The results were not pretty. And after numerous HCMs, I no longer give a shit. I still care a little bit about RationalWiki, so I can't leave completely, and I have a great deal of respect for Trent, so I would feel guilty if I left it to him to keep this wiki running alone. But I've been devoting much less of my time to RW recently, and it's no longer a top priority.

-- Nx / talk06:57, 30 December 2010

I can help you! God is with us!!

Idiot number 59 (talk)12:39, 30 December 2010
 

I think that Nx has the support of most on this wiki. IIRC those HCMs were usually started by the same few people, and most of the time I couldn't work out why people were getting pissed off at Nx. I agree that we need more rules to deal with users who are disruptive, but not vandals.

EddyP Great King! Disaster!13:11, 30 December 2010
 
 

I'm too tired to go through all the bullshit, so I'll just ask straight away: why all the use of revision delete? Eleven revisions seems like a whole shit ton to delete, in my opinion.

Lord Goonie Hooray! I'm helping!07:53, 26 December 2010

Because that's how mediawiki works. You have to delete all revisions starting from the one that added the offending text up to, but not including the one where it was removed, because every revision contains the entire text of the page. Another reason to adopt liquidthreads.

-- Nx / talk07:55, 26 December 2010

Ah, okay. Then that must follow, then, that there were 11 revisions before it got deleted. Makes sense now. Thanks.

Lord Goonie Hooray! I'm helping!07:57, 26 December 2010

Yes, that's why you should remove a link like that immediately, then discuss whether it is appropriate or not. It can be restored later easily, but deleting it after a bunch of comments have been added results in a large chunk of the history going down the memory hole.

-- Nx / talk07:59, 26 December 2010

What was it that was deleted?

ElvisHairDude420 (talk)09:29, 26 December 2010

The deletion comment is obvious enough, I think

-- Nx / talk13:04, 26 December 2010
 
 
 
 
 

welcoming new users

Is this what you meant? Am I doing it right? Burlap bags (talk) 07:48, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Burlap bags (talk)07:48, 20 December 2010

Oh, I get it. This is how it supposed to be done? And why is your talk page so weird to navigate? Burlap bags (talk) 06:08, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Burlap bags (talk)06:08, 24 December 2010
 

Is there an elegant way to retrieve the polling data of our wigos (number of up/down votes) ? I'd love to take a look at the current statistics of our wigo-page...

Thanks,

larronsicut fur in nocte19:35, 7 December 2010

No, but I can make an api function to retrieve the stats. I'm waiting for my cable modem to be replaced because my connection is dodgy and if I go offline while hacking RW I could break the site, like I did on Monday.

-- Nx / talk17:02, 9 December 2010
 

An api-function? That would be fantastic. And I'm not in a hurry... Thanks, larronsicut fur in nocte 20:04, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

larronsicut fur in nocte20:04, 12 December 2010
 

I've noticed that, since the upgrade, some of my most prized toolbox gadgets (i.e: User rights button and RenameUser button) no longer appear in my toolbox. Any ideas and or help you can offer?

Lord Goonie Hooray! I'm helping!16:04, 9 December 2010

If you put them in your monobook.js, then they'll only work with the monobook skin. If you activate them in preferences -> gadgets, they'll work on vector too.

-- Nx / talk16:58, 9 December 2010
 

I do have them activated via the preferences->gadgets and they are not working. Hmmmm.....

Lord Goonie Hooray! I'm helping!05:53, 11 December 2010

That's weird, they're working for me... Try the following:

  • View the source of any page, (preferably a user page, but that shouldn't matter), and search for gadget-userrights and gadget-userrename. There should be something like this:
<script src="/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-userrights.js&amp;action=raw&amp;ctype=text/javascript&amp;283"></script> 
<script src="/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-userrename.js&amp;action=raw&amp;ctype=text/javascript&amp;283"></script>
  • If that's not present, then try this: disable the gadget in preferences, save, enable again, save.
  • If it is present, I'll need your browser name, version, and preferably some kind of error log, (Ctrl-Shift-J in Chrome; in Firefox click Tools->Error log, click clear all, then click the errors button to show only errors, then reload a user page)
-- Nx / talk12:46, 11 December 2010

Fixed via disable/re-enable method. Thanks Nx.

Lord Goonie Hooray! I'm helping!20:33, 11 December 2010
 
 
 

You have been nominated for the board of the RWF. Please go here to accept or not!

Scarlet A.pngnarchist04:31, 11 December 2010

Why are you protecting your talk page

You authoritarian fascist scum?

89.132.239.149 (talk)17:36, 29 November 2010

I can still reply despite the protection.

Ponder Stibbons (talk)17:38, 29 November 2010
 
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Last edit: 17:39, 29 November 2010

Only the header is protected, stupid bon. You can still start threads and post replies.

--  Nx / talk17:39, 29 November 2010

The question asker has answered (number-related pronoun) own question methinks.


82.44.143.26 (talk) 18:27, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

82.44.143.26 (talk)18:27, 29 November 2010

Thank you captain obvious.

-- Nx / talk18:30, 29 November 2010

Being rude to new users again? Nice work.

Beer (talk)07:52, 4 December 2010
 
 

WHY CAN'T I COMMENT!!! He screams, in a comment...

Scarlet A.pngnarchist18:29, 29 November 2010

Aw diddums numberkins who doesn't comprehend the ettiquete of RW.

82.44.143.26 (talk)18:42, 29 November 2010
 

In case it wasn't obvious, I was talking to myself, to test how protection works.

-- Nx / talk20:28, 29 November 2010

test with captcha [1]

89.132.239.149 (talk)07:14, 30 November 2010
 

And does it work?

Scarlet A.pngnarchist12:23, 30 November 2010

Yes, since I can create a thread and reply as an IP.

-- Nx / talk12:34, 30 November 2010
 
 
 

"stupid bon"? Really? I thought we weren't supposed to bite the noobs, you asshat? Beer (talk) 07:52, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Beer (talk)07:52, 4 December 2010

The BON is himself, if you read the fucking conversation.

- π07:53, 4 December 2010
 

LOL! Hi Human

-- Nx / talk09:21, 4 December 2010
 
 
 

I found the cause and fixed it

There's a song in there.

Pointed moment (talk)23:00, 1 December 2010

Can you fix it so that I no longer get capture, say giving autoconfirmed user skip capture, please?

- π10:33, 30 November 2010

autoconfirmed users are supposed to have skipcaptcha, but I broke it when I rearranged LocalSettings.php. Fixed now.

-- Nx / talk10:47, 30 November 2010

Thanks that fixed it.

New lqt is looking good.

- π10:53, 30 November 2010
 
 
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