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::I'm not feeling Nx's dark & scary superpowers. [[Mei]]
 
::I'm not feeling Nx's dark & scary superpowers. [[Mei]]
 
:::Hey! Read this about an hour ago and it's slowly percolated through my little brain that Nx could hijack anyone's account using this? '''''Scary''''''s right. {{User:Toast/sig}} 23:53, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 
:::Hey! Read this about an hour ago and it's slowly percolated through my little brain that Nx could hijack anyone's account using this? '''''Scary''''''s right. {{User:Toast/sig}} 23:53, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
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::::Nx, could you hack Fall down's account so that you log in as him, and post a big message saying that women are superior to him in every way and that we are his masters? --{{User:Arthropleurus/sig}} 23:59, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

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whoa

The wiki is wobbling. I'm worried. Mei 00:16, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

It was just the backup script. -- Nx / talk 00:17, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Have you polished all the wheels. Mei 00:21, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
No, there's still a lot of polishing to do. -- Nx / talk 00:22, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
That is dangerous, I am confiscating your wiki license. Can you direct me to your series of tubes. Mei 00:23, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Any way to add a few more "hide/show"s to watchlist? Like blocks, moves, and stuff? In your copious spare time, of course... ħumanUser talk:Human 00:27, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Not really, not without hacking SpecialRecentchanges.php at least -- Nx / talk 00:35, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Watchlist, not RC. I hate RC. Now my WL is cluttered with pagemove, blocking, etc. crap. Oh well.... ħumanUser talk:Human 04:35, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

So what was up with Ipatrol's MW space creation spree? Aren't all those things "defaults" until changed anyway? (Like the editing tabs, for instance) ħumanUser talk:Human 23:06, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, he's customizing them with our custom language (such as replacing delete with vaporise everywhere) and adding some features. -- Nx / talk 06:43, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Oh, ok. I think I saw the results... thanks. ħumanUser talk:Human 07:42, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Bug

the "cp" interwiki link isn't working quite right.

cp:Prime Number

send you to:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Prime_Number%22_rel%3D%22nofollow

Which of course doesn't work without a little fixing.

Thanks, ħumanUser talk:Human 20:09, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Shit. It's not my extension, it must be Trent's old code that somehow didn't die in the update. I'm on it. -- Nx / talk 20:14, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Fixed. -- Nx / talk 20:21, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Excellent, thanks! ħumanUser talk:Human 21:50, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Scripts

Do I need the vandal log script any longer? - π 10:32, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

No, of course not, it's just one of the smaller things I forgot. --  Nx/talk  10:33, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Okay, thanks. - π 10:39, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

RWW

You've jumped ship too? What we really need is someone who really cares about it. I would, but I'm terrible at writing articles. Bastard harmonic Phantom Hoover! 17:59, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Noone cares, as evidenced by the saloon bar thread. The place is dead. --  Nx/talk  18:17, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Look. I care. --Prim arthropleura.jpg 21:26, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
And of course, that means everyone should care, right? Because you're the center of the world, CUR! Fall down
Very well. --  Nx/talk  21:32, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Damn. Bastard harmonic Phantom Hoover! 20:27, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Don't know about anyone else, but I gave up because of the constant CUR/falldown mutual wankfest. Could it be that other people are driven away by the stupidity? the only good thing about them doing it there is that it stops them doing it here. Totnesmartin 20:34, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
The failure of the survey proposal, the utter failure of wigo rw and Fun:Drama queen. When one of the founders of RWW decides to post their article here instead of RWW, the place is dead. --  Nx/talk  20:52, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
By the way, I think BoN was actually Jinx. --Prim arthropleura.jpg 21:00, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
I don't care any more. --  Nx/talk  21:01, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
That was eggsellent, Nx. What a way to administer the final coup! ToastToastand marmite 22:24, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
CUR has lots of free time and a reason to bitch and moan about RW, as well as a desire to prove himself as a leader. I think he is the perfect candidate. --  Nx/talk  22:32, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Not to mention that I can keep the wiki on life support virtually forever. I'm implementing several changes that I hope will stir up activity, such as making a Saloon Bar. --Prim arthropleura.jpg 22:53, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
But there's no one there to talk to besides you and FallDown. ħumanUser talk:Human 23:17, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Actually, theemperor and Redback are also there. --Prim arthropleura.jpg 23:29, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Don't forget that the domain name will expire some day, and I highly doubt RA will pay for it again. --  Nx/talk  23:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
I can pay for it. . . I hope. --Prim arthropleura.jpg 01:50, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
It is about 30 bucks a year to register rationalwiki.com; we actually pay 90 to get .net and .org as well. - π 03:55, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
That's a lot. I think godaddy.com is charging about $35 for all three registrations. I use them for my crummy websites and have never had the sticker shock that $90 a year figure gave me. But hey CUR, it's more than you'll make selling tin cans and delivering newspapers. User:Nutty Roux/signature 04:10, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, we're overpaying. I pay 20USD for two years for my dot com. ħumanUser talk:Human 04:42, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
GoDaddy is cheaper, but I think we decided to go with someone reliable. - π 04:56, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Of course, my $20 is via the site host, so they may be "discounting" the service for customers. Still, it ought to be less than $30/DN. We're gettin' chewed, I tell ya! ħumanUser talk:Human 05:02, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Actually that $90 got us three years for all three. Oh well CUR now I don't have to chip in for this years I pay for yours. - π 05:08, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Ah, ok, that's a good deal. Trent is no fool (and eats ramen noodles in order to keep the site alive). ħumanUser talk:Human 07:04, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

That's rationalwiki.org, not rationalwikiwiki.org --  Nx/talk  07:07, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Intercom timeout

3 fucking hours max? What if I am trying to leave a message at 2 AM that I want everyone to see? Bummer... :( ħumanUser talk:Human 06:20, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Oops, sorry. I see "other"... never mind... ħumanUser talk:Human 06:20, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
See also: MediaWiki:Intercom-expires --  Nx/talk  06:23, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Nice intercom. Please accept my apologies. How easy is to add the "hot new article" category? (As if we needed it, everyone here is an RC whore) ħumanUser talk:Human 06:24, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Mediawiki:Intercom-list --  Nx/talk  06:25, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

EC! haha

Thanks! (Now I know where to look in the future, too) Excellent job integrating Trent's creations into MW! ħumanUser talk:Human 06:29, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Next question: Can you make the "sig" link to the sender's user and talk pages? ħumanUser talk:Human 06:36, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes, but you can also sign with ~~~~~, it works. --  Nx/talk  06:37, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
OK, but it's mildly redundant to do so. Can't it just be automatic? Pleeaasse? ħumanUser talk:Human 06:53, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
It's giving redlinks because of the order of parsing. I'll fix it, but I have to take care not to break messages from the old intercom (that are stored unparsed in the database), and messages that are stored parsed. --  Nx/talk  06:54, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Urgh, backward compatibility... is hard work. ħumanUser talk:Human 07:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Ok, there's a link to the user's page now, although it can't be customized. --  Nx/talk  08:00, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Talk page would be better, if we can only have one link. Sorry to whine. ħumanUser talk:Human 08:20, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
We can have whatever we want, but since it's uncustomizable, it has to be a sane default. I'll add the talk page link. --  Nx/talk  08:27, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I've added a contrib link too, the intercom uses the same function that generates these links on recent changes, except the block link is suppressed. I can remove contrib if you think it's overkill. --  Nx/talk  08:35, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
The test looked good to me. Although, I haven't gotten all "prettifying" on this yet. Can you move the "tags" (mark as read, etc.) to the right? Contribs seems a bit redundant, all we really need is user talk, though user is also OK. ħumanUser talk:Human 08:37, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
It's talk only now. The buttons can be customized in Mediawiki:Intercomnotice, the html for them is inserted at $6,$7 and $8 --  Nx/talk  08:41, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. Nice work. ħumanUser talk:Human 08:50, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Some more info since I've got to go. The text in Mediawiki:Intercomnotice is for logged in users, Mediawiki:Intercommessage is for anons (site wide message group) (I know, the naming is stupid). The latter doesn't have the buttons. This text is first wikiparsed, then the $ placeholders are replaced by various parameters. This is why user and talk page links gave redlinks: they were parsed as links to User:$3, then $3 was replaced with the actual username in the html, which was already a redlink. Finally, the whole thing is placed into a div with the usermessage class and an id (intercommessage I think). Because of the id, the styling can be customized in Common.css. I gave it the usermessage class to be consistent with the "you have new messages" notice. The reason the outer div is not in Mediawiki space and is in the code and unchangeable is that a random sysop could screw it up and bork the whole intercom (the javascript that gets the next/prev message and that hides the message when it's marked as read relies on the id for example). --  Nx/talk  08:58, 30 April 2009 (UTC) incorrect, please see MediaWiki talk:Intercomnotice --  Nx/talk  07:49, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Fortnight in MW

I seriously doubt it. ħumanUser talk:Human 07:05, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Interesting, I tried to block you distance instead of time (yards, furlongs, parsecs, light years) and the form pooped it out. Funny how it let you use fortnights, yet didn't actually work. ħumanUser talk:Human 07:09, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

So it does recognize fortnight, but refuses to use it. Fascinating --  Nx/talk  07:11, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Yes. When CUR blocked himself past the heat death of the universe, it happily accepted it, but did not actually work. It is very interesting. All I was trying to do was keep you a few furlongs from here, is that so difficult to program? After all, time and relative distance in space ought to be simple enough... for a Doctor... ħumanUser talk:Human 07:27, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
PS, ain't it fun to have a wiki where we actually try to break every aspect of the software, instead of work with it? ħumanUser talk:Human 07:28, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

hmmmmm now I wonder

Hmmm yes, yes. Perfect
Ok... --  Nx/talk  07:49, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Fantastic!

I found the script. Now what do I do? --Prim arthropleura.jpg 00:43, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

RationalWiki:Bots#How to make your own --  Nx/talk  11:35, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Can't find a download link. --Prim arthropleura.jpg 19:08, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/ --  Nx/talk  19:10, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Damn it Nx, I can't find a download link! I need a direct link to a website, not some little page telling me to go to a site without a download link. --Prim arthropleura.jpg 20:29, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Allow me to translate: You can either download it using svn with the command
svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia pywikipedia
or you can download a nightly snapshot from this page. --  Nx/talk  21:16, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
This depends on whether CUR's lowly Windows machine has svn or not. Bastard harmonic Phantom Hoover! 20:44, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
It doesn't. Can I just stick the python file under User:BorkBot/web_link_checker.py? --Prim arthropleura.jpg 23:46, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Vandal brake

Doesn't it prevent the binnee from moving pages? (Well, it should, but apparently doesn't). ħumanUser talk:Human 01:14, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Now that you are the go-to guy "when things go wrong"

Look at what I did at [1] and please add more info on "what surrounds it", etc.? Or tell me things here or on my user page, I'll see them either way. Thanks! ħumanUser talk:Human 07:20, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

I've changed some things in the code (removed border from buttons, added a class so they too can be customized), I'll write detailed information on how this works on the talk page. --  Nx/talk  07:49, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, it looks great. Sorry I couldn't "finish" it on my own... ħumanUser talk:Human 20:35, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
No problem --  Nx/talk  20:36, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Vandal bin

It seems rather opaque. Can you/trent add some VB links to special pages, at least? Like, "see contents of VB"? Also, the VBuser page looks just like the block page, it's a bit confusing I think. And it doesn't show the user's VB history (or maybe it does, but the history got vaped in the upgrade?) ħumanUser talk:Human 04:40, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

No, it doesn't show the history, I didn't write/copy that part from Special:Block, will do that eventually. --  Nx/talk  09:50, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
On special pages it has: Vandal binned IP addresses and usernames, although the IPs that are auto blocked are just given a number like #42. - π 04:42, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
I'll add a link to Special:VandalBin on Special:VandalBrake. The row id is used to protect Autoblocked IPs, i.e. you shouldn't be able to determine a users IP address by vandal binning them with autoblock and then checking what IP got binned too, since that would essentially give sysops checkuser abilities. --  Nx/talk  09:50, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Doh, thanks. I hate the "new" special pages. I guess I'll learn my way around them, I'll have to. ħumanUser talk:Human 04:57, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
It is a bit of a learning curve. The old style's problem was the list was getting long and hard to find things unless you knew the exact name, now you are suppose to search by categories, but they are vague too and some of the things are placed in stupid categories. - π 05:00, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Yes. The catting was done by monkeys with typewriters and inexperienced teenagers, I assume? ħumanUser talk:Human 05:03, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
I've added several new features: Special:VandalBrake has convenience links and a log fragment similar to Special:Block (the code is mostly copied from MediaWiki), the vandal log has parole links, and Special:Contributions has links to Special:VandalBin and the vandal log in the subheading. I wanted to add a vandal link to recent changes entries (in the (Talk | contribs | block) part), but the only hook to do that would require replacing the code that generates a recent changes entry with code in an extension, or doing some nasty html-hacking. --  Nx/talk  13:21, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Barefeets (foots) and dead files

Hey, I didn't know there were other barefoot-o-philes around. ;-) Anyhow, real question I have for you. The "wanted page" list has a whole bunch of redlinks that look like "File:Wigo1128 2.png ‎(1 link)". I don't know what they are, nor can I find them to delink them or anything. Any suggestions? If I had my druthers (and the reason I spend time de-redding) is that I think the "wanted pages" is most useful when it's somewhat short, and the lists are things that people might say "oh, I can write that". But if you have to wade through "templates" and "files" and of course CP-linked pages, it's harder to figure out what would be a useful article. Any suggestions, help or advice appreciated. yes, i'm rambling. i do that. :D--Sun mowse.pngEn attendant Godot"«Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. V.Nabokov» 16:45, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I think the denizens of CP are funny enough on their own, so there's no need to vandalize the place with goatses and stuff and I don't have the talent/patience for parody. That file looks like it's a capturebot upload, I'll see if I can find it. --  Nx/talk  16:48, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Ah yes, those are images that capturebot missed because the link was added later, when the img tag was already there, causing capturebot to ignore the wigo... Not much that can be done about it unfortunately, unless the linked page is still on CP... otherwise turning the img link blue would be misleading, since we don't have a capture of that link. --  Nx/talk  16:57, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
LOL. At least I know why I can't find them in the search. Ok. Thanks! Enjoy your "color testing". Programming seems fun. "testing" however, seems a headache. --Sun mowse.pngEn attendant Godot"«Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. V.Nabokov» 17:04, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

close font tag

Was it really that lame? Thanks for finding it and fixing it. ħumanUser talk:Human 08:28, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, the new parser is a bit more sensitive, so things like that will pop up. I've fixed all the userboxes I could find, but there may still be stuff that's broken. --  Nx/talk  08:33, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. If you can tell me what to look for (and what to fix), I don't mind digging in and helping. Thanks for fixing my pile'o'shit! ħumanUser talk:Human 08:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
No problem. All the problems I've found manifested as a </div> appearing in the rendered text and the tabs moving away. Just in case only the cached version is broken, purge the page and see if it's fixed. If not, start removing stuff from it and preview to find what part is causing it. Most of the time the </div> will tell you where you should begin your search, in case of userboxen, the box before it has an unclosed tag. --  Nx/talk  08:51, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Errr, yeah, thanks again <did not understand most of what you said> But I appreciate your fixing my dumb bug. Thanks! ħumanUser talk:Human 08:55, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Password reset request

I hear you can do password resets for people. Can you please reset the password for my bot account User:Weaseldroid & email details to my Weaseloid email address. Cheers. WéáśéĺóíďWeaselly.jpgMethinks it is a Weasel 20:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

I've set weaseldroid's email to the same as your account's, you should be able to use the email new password feature now. --  Nx/talk  20:29, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm not feeling Nx's dark & scary superpowers. Mei
Hey! Read this about an hour ago and it's slowly percolated through my little brain that Nx could hijack anyone's account using this? Scary's right. ToastToastand marmite 23:53, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Nx, could you hack Fall down's account so that you log in as him, and post a big message saying that women are superior to him in every way and that we are his masters? --Prim arthropleura.jpg 23:59, 7 May 2009 (UTC)