User talk:Flominator

Hi there
Yes I am Einar, aka Carptrash, and I am not sure quite how or what to add to the picture description. Recently I've tended to let my stuff, - mostly that was added long before the various templates were set up - just be removed. There seemed to be some folks who enjoy doing that, why deprive them of their fun. But yes, that's my shot, taken in Ann Arbor MI, USA maybe a quarter of a century ago.. Carptrash 13:26, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * replied at your talk page. --Flominator 14:24, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

I can't find my message to you
but I am never bothered by talking about my pictures. Actually, I'm not bothered talking about anything unless it is some wikibureaucratic. . .  . . .  . ....... stuff. Life is good. Einar aka Carptrash 01:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Candyshelf
It's been a while since I got it from there, so I don't know where it is. -- LGagnon 14:21, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Shalmaneser IV
Wow, it's been a long time since I editted that article. Fortunately, I still have the book I think I drew the information from -- Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq, 3rd ed. (London: Penguin, 1992), p. 302. Feel free to verify that. I'm not certain because Roux provides slightly different dates for the beginning & end of his reign; not quite certain why I differ about those dates. As for the statement "some early histories of Assyria (when the evidence was not as fully understood as it is today) misidentify the various king Shalmanesers", it was an obvious conclusion from trying to reconcile the information from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica & Roux's narrative. (The EB information is clearly dated; Assyriology has made many advances since then.) -- llywrch (talk) 01:02, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiBlame
Just a simple note that when WikiBlame has found the diff, it says "Einfügung gefunden zwischen" in German instead of in English. Gary King ( talk ) 18:10, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Solved. Thank you very much. --Flominator (talk) 11:22, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Status
Wikiblame at http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php appears to be giving a 404 error - I get the following:
 * Not Found
 * The requested URL /wikiblame.php was not found on this server.

See also Wikipedia talk:Tools and de:Benutzer Diskussion:Flominator/WikiBlame. — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 00:13, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Now, it's "403 Forbidden": 08/14/09 01:01:13 Browsing http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php Fetching http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php ... GET /wikiblame.php HTTP/1.1

Host: wikipedia.ramselehof.de

Connection: close

User-Agent: Sam Spade 1.14

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:00:49 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2

Content-Length: 338

Connection: close

Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> 403 Forbidden Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wikiblame.php on this server. Apache/2.2 Server at ... Port 80 — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 05:07, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for telling me. See this for explanation and a cry for help. Regards, --Flominator (talk) 15:41, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Flo, I had something similar happen on a site that I maintained, and I had too many applications to try to figure out which one was vulnerable. What happened is that the SQL injection allowed the hacker to leave a code sequence at the bottom of a web page.  When someone displayed this webpage, it started downloading something.  Not something anyone wants on their site.  What I did was google on the exact sequence of characters - a script - which is coded in such a way so that it just looks like a string of data.  And, bingo, I found what particular SQL attack this was and what applications were vulnerable.  I was able to narrow it down to one, and when I checked, I found an update for that program had just been issued.  So, I ended up running a scan on all the pages on my website for this sequence of characters stored at the bottom of webpages, and manually removing them.
 * I realize that Wikiblame is a unique program that you wrote for Wikipedia, but I bet if you found out exactly what this particular SQL injection did, then you would probably find other applications that were susceptible and possibly a patch you could modify to fix your program. I see that you have already put some checks in for hacking, but, these jerks are always finding new tricks.  I hope this helps. --stmrlbs | talk  16:48, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Up and running again. --Flominator (talk) 07:50, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Now it's not finding any versions. :(  — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 19:09, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

WikiBlame feature
Sorry, I couldn't figure out the sourceforge site, and how to leave comments. What would be awesome is a binary search for the first occurrence of the searched text. I don't think it would be too hard to implement. Just a bit of math on the versions, if you can check how many versions there are quickly. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 06:43, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem. The site is a bit unhandy sometimes ;) Actually WikiBlame already has such a feature. Just use the radio button where it says " interpolated (faster with more versions) " --Flominator (talk) 13:38, 27 September 2009 (UTC)


 * How about capabilities (both linear and interpolated) to search for the last occurrence of the searched text (i.e. what happened to this text that used to be there)? Thanks.  — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 13:43, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * With linear you can choose "oldest first". When you want to try it with interpolated, you can try this beta version. --Flominator (talk) 16:24, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Help Using Revision History Search
I hope it's okay to post this question here. I want to be able to search the revision history of an article for a text string. My objective is to find out when the text string was FIRST introduced into the article. I used Wikiblame, but, honestly, I simply couldn't understand the results. I even looked at the manual and was still in the dark. What is the best way to achieve what I want? If you want more detail as to what I input into the program and the output from the program, I can provide it to you.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:00, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Never works for me
I read the manual, and it's not doing anything useful, and I'm frustrated. In fact, I never get useful results out of this tool, even though I never try anything even remotely complicated. In the end, it has always been much, much faster to run a binary search manually.

Here's today's question: Has the plain-text string   ever appeared in the guideline Notability?

The manual says that three red X's means that the string is not in the version, and that three green O's means that it is—but what the heck does two green O's mean? No, don't bother answering: I already know, because I manually checked all the versions in the list. Two green O's means absolutely nothing: The string is present in some of the versions and not in others. All versions it looks at are given two green O's, apparently just for their decorative value.

Is it possible to get meaningful results out of this tool? Could you, for example, tell me approximately when the phrase  was present in WP:N, assuming that it ever was? WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:12, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, that you have some problems with this tool and I'm really glad, that you decided to ask. I'll try to explain. Let's say you've opened WikiBlame and decided to run it, with these settings. When you click on the link at "Comparing differences in 23:53, 1 October 2008 between 482 and 483 while coming from 467:X 0", you'll find a revert which probably wasn't what you were looking for. So you start over by using the date the revert was performed. With some patience, you'll finally discover this edit, which probably was one the one you were looking for. Any questions left? Regards, --Flominator (talk) 11:42, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

wikiblame feature request
Hi, the binary search stops when it finds the text has been removed. This often happens when vandalism replaces the text of the article with "shit". Could wikiblame look for two consecutive revisions without the text before stopping. John Vandenberg (chat) 10:58, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Nice suggestion, I'll see, what I can do. --Flominator (talk) 12:42, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

2nd Sustainment Brigade, Fort Hood
Hi Flominator, Schwarzwald? gar nicht so weit weg von Südtirol (inzwischen wohne ich aber in Kiew). re: 2nd Sustainment Bde. The 2nd was never raised. The Army planned at first to have 32 Sustainment Brigades, then 35, then 31... and now they are raising and shuffling units around as they are not yet satisfied with the results: the latest news are incorporated into the Sustainment Brigade article, but there might be still changes coming until 2014 when the whole transformation of the Army should be finished. I hope that answers your question, cheers and happy holidays, noclador (talk) 07:27, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Nice work on the 'WikiBlame' tool. It's Indispensable!

Tdowg1 (talk) 01:11, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Flominator (talk) 14:04, 28 January 2012 (UTC)



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WikiBlame
Thanks for the tool if I had a million dollars I would give it to you.51.235.112.228 (talk) 05:57, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

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A goat for you!
You are the Goat

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WikiBlame down?
Hi, just to let you know, I think WikiBlame might be down at the moment. Going to the website is giving me a Not Found error.

Best, &zwj;—&zwj;a smart kitten[ meow] 11:34, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the hint, a smart kitten. My hoster changed something in the last days, it seems. You can currently access it via https://www.ramselehof.de/wikipedia/wikiblame.php --Flominator (talk) 11:37, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you - and thank you for hosting an incredibly useful tool! Do you know if that link will continue to work if the page is moved back to the old location (as in, is it worth me making an edit request to change the link at MediaWiki:Histlegend)? Best, &zwj;—&zwj;a smart kitten[ meow] 11:47, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * The link was active before and will remain active, but I would rather see it changed back, once this is fixed. But changing it for the moment might be smart. Flominator (talk) 11:55, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that was me, who messed up your signature, I think. It looks like I fixed it and the old URL is good again. Flominator (talk) 19:05, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * No problem - these things happen! I’ll ask for the old URL to be reinstated in MediaWiki:Histlegend :) &zwj;—&zwj;a smart kitten[ meow] 20:56, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

WikiBlame links housekeeping
FYI "This page describes the use and the idea of WikiBlame. Please post your questions here." link is the broken one. Also your Github project has the broken one. Humdepaie (talk) 16:35, 2 January 2024 (UTC)


 * My hoster messed things up, I guess it's ok again. Flominator (talk) 19:04, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

WikiBlame 403 denied depending on query submitted
I use it often to investigate promotional editing. Just stated getting 403 denied error whenever I submit query for insertion of websites. if I search like bachfestival.org it goes through, but when I query like https://bachfestival.org I get the error. Graywalls (talk) 22:43, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Stil trying to recover from the changes my hoster performed. Please try again. --Flominator (talk) 05:11, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Ping
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