User talk:X!/Archives/7/2010

edit counter help?
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Once I have created editcounteroptin.js do i have to add any code to the page itself? or is it meant to be just a blank page? Wiki ian 03:32, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It doesn't matter what's on the page as long as it exists. Regards, {&#123;Sonia &#124;ping&#124;enlist}&#125; 03:38, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I created the page and I'm not seeing anything new on the edit counter..... Does the new page only reflect future changes and not past changes? is there any reading material online regarding the edit counter? cheers Wiki ian 03:53, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

MPUploadBot for FP's
I'm not sure if something changed recently, but the bot is deleting the local file pages for featured pictures after being displayed on the page. Instead of deletion, it should be restoring the previous version with FP and POTD tags intact. I recently discovered we are slowly losing our index, and am working to correct it. Is there something you can do?  Jujutacular  T · C 18:37, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit count translation
I translated edit count Esperanto interface three times. But my translations are not shown. Please notice Unicode "Äiuj redaktoj:" should be "Ĉiuj redaktoj:". Is it possible to see translation history? Thanks Arno Lagrange  &#9993; 11:14, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Misspelling of rape?
"The string cannibal has a comment associated with it:this misspelling of "rape" is often deliberately used by vandals"

There's no way you can misspell rape as cannibal. --mboverload @ 05:48, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Soxred93 Test Upload.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Soxred93 Test Upload.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, we also need to know the terms of the license that the copyright holder has published the file under, usually done by adding a licensing tag. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the GFDL-self tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at Image copyright tags. See Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created [ in your upload log]. Unsourced and untagged files may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the file is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Fair use) then the file will be deleted 48 hours after 12:58, 5 July 2010 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:58, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

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Please install extensions, etc.
I recommend installing the following on the Peachy wiki:
 * SyntaxHighlight &mdash; Allow highlighting of source code using ? Was going to add it myself, but I wasn't sure how the bot would take that. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 00:45, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Using your CSS files.
Hey X, I just wanted to confirm that it was OK for me to use a CSS files that you use in some of your web tools. I think it's pretty well done, and what's more I can't do web-design for sh*t. The CSS file I was hoping to use was this one. Thanks, Tim  1357  talk  01:06, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for blocking the latest sock of Taztouzi. Susfele (talk) 02:45, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Encoding problem with edit counter hu translation
The Hungarian interface for your edit counter is apparently written in ISO-8859-2 but sent to the browser as UTF-8, causing a lot of errors. example Could you please re-encode it? Thanks --Tgr (talk) 09:29, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 * PHP seems to have lots of issues with UTF characters, so things get encoded wrong and whatnot. I'll look into this. ( X! ·  talk )  · @938  · 21:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

I corrected the encoding (along with other things) at your translator form. I accidentally submitted it twice, the first is half-finished. --Tgr (talk) 19:34, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, it works fine now! --Tgr (talk) 18:52, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The use of a code page for hu.conf was a wrong move. Only Unicode should be used to store localisations, because the output HTML page must be encoded in UTF-8 only (this is right, in turn, because UTF-8 is internal encoding over all Wikimedia). About a month ago, something was broken at TS and .conf files became to interpreted incorrectly. Now Soxred93 fixed it, and I suggest to restore the UTF-8 version of hu.conf. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 16:12, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Wrong
Why did you revert this and call it not constructive? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.45.90.121 (talk) 19:15, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Why are you ignoring it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.45.90.121 (talk) 19:34, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Re: Redlampredlamp SPI
True that there isn't much contributions but I was more about the interest and behaviour of the editor compared with user Thomaskh. Also I have noticed a "new" user (Alfie1980) who has posted on Redlampredlamp's talk page and that they have also copied your user page. Bidgee (talk) 22:53, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

ArticleAlertbot
Hi

Sorry to bother you but it seems that no-one has managed to get anywhere with ArticleAlertbot

There was a conversation here User_talk:ArticleAlertbot and one here Bot_owners'_noticeboard but as yet it seems that no-one has made any progress.

Can you tell me if it is easy for an admin to go to the bots page and try to reboot it?

If so how does one request that - through the toolserver admins or en.wiki admins ?

As for the actual bot itself it seems that Legoktm, as the operator from the creator/operator team of B. Woltinger and himself, has released it to others does that mean it is in the public domain now and has in effect been "released" so that someone can get to working on it ?

I appreciate that the discussions seem to involve up to five people who are "working on it" but as there is not much action I was going to approach the Toolserver admins to see if they could help and figured I would try you first :¬)

Chaosdruid (talk) 02:43, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * No, no one has the source, so no one can run it again. The toolserver admins have the source, but will not run it. The en.wiki admins have no ability to run it. It has not be released to the public if Lego sent it to a single person, and even if he released it to the public it still would not be under the public domain unless he explicitly said it was so. The toolserver admins will be no help to anyone, as they will not release the code in a user's private directory. They are very firm with that rule, and trust me: I've tried with like 2-3 other instances, and they are hard-set on this rule (understandably so). ( X! ·  talk )  · @579  · 12:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Is no way to request them to try a reboot ? (or is that just too easy to be the fix lol) Chaosdruid (talk) 14:16, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!
That was my first vandalism on my user page in nearly three years! Thanks for the watchful eye :-) Jmlk  1  7  19:48, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Woohoo!
We deleted Main Page! And they said it couldn't be done. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:20, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

~soxred93/pcount/?uselang=ru
Updated ru.conf I put to ~qq/public_html/ru.conf. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 16:12, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

And now following the link produces an error:. — Vort, 109.87.25.148 (talk) 07:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

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Veracitycounts
user:Veracitycounts is a new user, the log says (s)he has only had the account for a week. I fully understand why you have blocked the account, but I think you should add an explanation on the user's talk page why you have blocked the account, that indefinite does not mean permanent and an explanation of how they can appeal you decision if they want to. -- PBS (talk) 09:58, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Canadian International School of Beijing doesn't violate any copyrights
Our school has the right for text that is published by China Daily at this web page http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/eduonline/2009-10/10/content_8776761.htm. For original text at our official website, please go to http://www.cisb.com.cn/page/detail_static.php?id=175&moduleid=9. We created and published this text. China Daily used, copied exactly the same our school introduction that we have in our website to their website. It's funny because now we would like to put that official introduction to our own CISB Wikipedia page and we can't because we are told we violate the copyright. I've followed the procedures with sending an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org and even putting permit of text use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) notification in my official website. But I still don't hear anything from Wikipedia. That's why I removed the copyright violation tag myself. We need to have our Wikipedia page up and running properly asap. Would you be willing to give me permission to put our school introduction text back there again? Thank you.

Our Wikipedia page is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_International_School_of_Beijing —Preceding unsigned comment added by Luminouzity (talk • contribs) 08:21, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/Siddiqui
Hi. :) Thanks for your quick work on that one. John thought you might not mind my going ahead and blocking these accounts. I want to get things in order so I can get moving on the copyright cleanup, which is going to be quite a pain! We've been working on cleaning up Siddiqui's copyright mess for over a year now already. :/ Anyway, this one seemed a bit odd, so I'm not entirely sure if I approached it the best way. Since Alphagamma has a confirmed sock, I went ahead and blocked that sock accordingly, creating Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of AlphaGamma1991, but I transcluded that cat to Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Siddiqui (not Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Siddiqui). I tagged Alphagamma as a sockpuppeteer, but also transcluded him to the suspected sockpuppets of Siddiqui. Does this seem like a good way to go about things? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:49, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi. Does your lack of response mean that you think I handled it all right? If you'd rather not look at it, please just let me know, and I'll ask somebody else. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:56, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * If Alphagamma is a sock of Siddy, then ΑΓ and all his socks should be tagged as sockpuppets of Siddiqui. There is no such thing as a sub-sockmaster. :) ( X! ·  talk )  · @823  · 18:45, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks. I'll correct accordingly. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:49, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Re. the rev-del
Hi. I made the mistake of checking one of his pet targets as an anon and he'd found a way around yet another block. It occured to me that he's craving a great deal of attention. My thought was to deny him the attention by simply making everything he does disappear. After roughly four years of this nonsense stretching across six internet providers and countless lost hours of admin and user time, I feel anything he does is abusive. If you feel that I was in error, please feel free to reverse the deletions. Back to my break...thanks for asking. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 08:29, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

User:Vistasiela
This is another sock of Stopcyberbullying, which you blocked for abusing multiple accounts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kintetsubuffalo (talk • contribs) 05:28, 27 July 2010 (UTC)