User talk:Catrope

Please refer to my user talk page on MediaWiki.org. Don't try to contact me here, as I don't visit this page regularly.

Hi Catrope,

Ik zet toch maar heir wat neer, aangezien de battlestarwiki een account vereist, en dat juist weer van een wikinetwerk is waar ik die niet heb :) Hoop dta je het toch leest. Anyway, ging er alleen om even te zeggen dat ik je vraag op meta beantwoord heb. effeietsanders 12:32, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

XLinkBot
Hi Catrope (of, 'hoi Catrope'; maar ik ga in het Engels verder), I saw your change to XLinkbot's settings. That setting has been for a long time as it is, but has before been tested the other way around. This still seems the best between two, and is in line with the other antivandalism bots.


 * 1) Revert one edit: what happens is that a true spammer is first adding "see our rubbish at our Rubbish page", figures out that it does not give a working link, and changes "Rubbish page" to "Rubbish page" .  Or first "see our rubbish at www.ourrubbishpage.com", sees no working link, and changes to "see our rubbish at http://www.ourrubbishpage.com ".  Reverting only the last edit, leaves the rubbish, which then has to be cleaned manually.


 * 1) Revert all edits: what you said, editors do a good faith edit, and then a second, where they insert a 'offending' link.  If we revert all, it may result in good edits also be reverted.

The first scenario leaves obvious rubbish, and these things do happen regularly, especially be new users. The latter does not have that risk.

The first is less bitey, indeed. But the welcome message that is left suggests the editor to reconsider and, if necessary, undo the bot edit. That message is also designed to be as non-bitey as possible. By far the most editors stay at the friendly remark stage, not that many get to the first or higher warning levels (except for true spammers).

I hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:33, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I forgot. The second scenario is similar to an editor doing a good faith edit which includes an 'offending' link. In that case also all is reverted and the editor is asked to reconsider. Reverting one edit is not less bitey than reverting all, thát effect would be the same, but reverting one edit leaves sometimes more rubbish. Hence, we revert all. --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:35, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia research
Hi Roan,

this is Dario from the University of Surrey, thanks for setting me up! --DarTar (talk) 08:57, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! --Catrope (talk) 12:41, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

ArticleFeedback bug
Duplicate of latest post at WP:Village_pump (technical).

OK, it's happened again, on URL Breton Island, though I doubt the URL is significant. It happened on the first new page tab after restarting FF. The debug output is: "Reload to activate window console" "enabling javascript debugger to support console" >>> mw.user.options.get('articlefeedback-disable') "1" How do I "send" the screen image? Jan 1 naD (talk • contrib) 21:34, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

BTW, thanks for your interest. Jan 1 naD (talk • contrib) 21:35, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm, so Firebug is saying AFT is indeed being recognized as disabled for you. That's very, very weird. Don't bother with the screenshot, the  part was all I cared about.
 * Could you try to hard-refresh (Ctrl+F5 or Shift+Refresh button) the page with Firebug still enabled, and see if any error messages pop up in the console? If not I really wouldn't know how to debug this short of sitting down at your computer :( --Catrope (talk) 21:48, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

The refresh gave no error messages, and I could not the AFT to re-appear in that session. I think it may be the way I close and restart Firefox. When I close I save the tabs, to have them in place when I reopen the program. I have just done that, and the AFT reappeared on the tab I have been looking at, even though it was not visible when I closed FF. The Firebug console, immediately after restart, shows a few messages. Two GETs and two Errors. Copying the console as best I can I have: Firebug's log limit has been reached. 0 entries not shown. Preferences GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Specia...he=/cn.js&language=en&project=wikipedia&country= GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ABannerListLoader&cache=/cn.js&language=en&project=wikipedia&country= 200 OK		198ms load.p...203500Z (line 83) Firebug's log limit has been reached. 0 entries not shown. Preferences GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Specia...he=/cn.js&language=en&project=wikipedia&country= GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ABannerListLoader&cache=/cn.js&language=en&project=wikipedia&country= 200 OK		1.13s load.p...203500Z (line 83) ParamsHeadersPostPutResponseCacheHTMLJSON cache	/cn.js country language	en project	wikipedia title	Special:BannerListLoader Response Headersview source Date	Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:40:46 GMT Server	Apache Cache-Control	private, s-maxage=0, max-age=0, must-revalidate Content-Encoding	gzip Vary	Accept-Encoding Content-Length	122 Content-Type	text/javascript; charset=utf-8 X-Cache	MISS from sq64.wikimedia.org, HIT from knsq28.knams.wikimedia.org, HIT from knsq28.knams.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup	HIT from sq64.wikimedia.org:3128, HIT from knsq28.knams.wikimedia.org:3128, HIT from knsq28.knams.wikimedia.org:80 Age	211 Request Headersview source Host	en.wikipedia.org User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110803 Firefox/3.6.20 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Accept	application/json, text/javascript, */* Accept-Language	en-gb,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding	gzip,deflate Accept-Charset	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive	115 Connection	keep-alive X-Requested-With	XMLHttpRequest Referer	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_Island Cookie	enwikiUserName=Jan1nad; edittoolscharsubset=0; vector-nav-p-tb=true; hidegeonoticeCampusAmbassadorsUK=1; hidegeonoticeBritishLibraryEvent=1; mediaWiki.user.bucket%3Aext.articleFeedback-options=8%3Ashow; surveyStatus2=done; mediaWiki.user.bucket%3Aext.articleFeedback-tracking=8%3Aignore; stopMobileRedirect=true; hidesnmessage=1; centralauth_LoggedOut=20110818155658; centralauth_User=Jan1nad; enwikiUserID=5102871; clicktracking-session=cyxvtXQTl1Qysebg4hfHNw1MErWMWGLZY; enwiki_session=73708d4ee5e98636f9908d5d21f9e77c; centralauth_Session=a2402e2e7d12570daee5987f9c12d111

[{"name":"pifreferendum","weight":100,"display_anon":0,"display_account":1,"fundraising":0,"landing_pages":"","campaign":"pif referendum"}]

Sort by keyDo not sort 0	Object { name="pifreferendum", weight=100, more...} GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?_=131385169757...ntoken=Jan1nad&afuserrating=1&maxage=0&smaxage=0 GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?_=1313851697574&action=query&format=json&list=articlefeedback&afpageid=29333538&afanontoken=Jan1nad&afuserrating=1&maxage=0&smaxage=0 200 OK		929ms load.p...203500Z (line 83) ParamsHeadersPostPutResponseCacheHTMLJSON

{"query":{"articlefeedback":[{"pageid":"29333538","status":"current"}]}}

this.subframe.contentWindow.channelUplink is undefined [Break On This Error] function ChannelManager(b,e,d,a,c){thi....bind(this,a),this.retryInterval);}}; sMqYX-GOOLk.js (line 7) this.subframe.contentWindow.channelUplink is undefined [Break On This Error] function ChannelManager(b,e,d,a,c){thi....bind(this,a),this.retryInterval);}}; sMqYX-GOOLk.js (line 7) I freely admit that it's not causing me the greatest amount of grief, but I am certainly happy to do other tests if this is something you wish to pursue. Cheers. Jan 1 naD (talk • contrib) 15:06, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Category sorting
Hi Roan, I expect that you've been asked before, but regarding the change to category sort algorithms in March 2011, the question of why this was done has popped up again (it surfaces every few weeks on different discussion pages). Please comment at Wikipedia talk:Categorization, and if possible, provide the bugzilla ticket numbers. The best I could find was https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164#c211 - thanks. -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:57, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Documentation for gadget authors
I saw you had done some work on gadgets. We're trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there — ☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣ 19:19, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC Annual Meeting and more!




Hello, fellow Wikipedian!

I am excited to announce the upcoming Wikimedia DC Annual Meeting at the National Archives! We'll have free lunch, an introduction by Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, and a discussion featuring Ed Summers, the creator of CongressEdits. Join your fellow DC-area Wikipedians on Saturday, October 18 from 12 to 4:30 PM. RSVP today!

Also coming up we have the Human Origins edit-a-thon on October 17 and the WikiSalon on October 22. Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

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End-of-the-year meetups


Hello,

You're invited to the end-of-the-year meetup at Busboys and Poets on Sunday, December 14 at 6 PM. There is Wi-Fi, so bring your computer if you want!

You are also invited to our WikiSalon on Thursday, December 18 at 7 PM.

Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

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test of mention on talk page
did you get one notification or two? Jmatazzoni (talk) 20:00, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Just one. --Catrope (talk) 20:01, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

MfD of article feedback tool messages
See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Article feedback tool messages &#123;&#123;3x&#124;p&#125;&#125;ery (talk)  22:16, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for cleaning this up! --Catrope (talk) 06:49, 19 June 2019 (UTC)