Archive of September 2006 Information

Congratulations Misza13! It is our honor to inform you that you've won Esperanza's Best User Page Award! Here's a token for your efforts. Petros471 Daniel. Bryant jam es (talk) Th ε Halo Θ Nataly a Cel es tianpower háblame Ter e nce Ong ( T | C) Wikiwoohoo

If you wish, you may use this as a barnstar to decorate your page: . Congrats :) Petros471 22:58, 2 September 2006 (UTC) reply

After reviewing this user's contribs, I feel I should ask before I override your block and indef as a vandal-only account. Thoughts? :) RadioKirk ( u| t| c) 01:49, 4 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Wups, my mistake, your block was on 30 August. I can read... ;) RadioKirk ( u| t| c) 01:51, 4 September 2006 (UTC) reply

How have you been? Hope adminship has been treating you well :) Let me know if you have any articles you want help with.

I wanted to let you know that someone, right before Palpatine became featured, [ [1]] blanked their bid from the bounty board, and this may have been because it was very near succeeding. I was wondering if there was an administrative thing that could be done about this. All the best! Judgesurreal777 03:07, 6 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Hello. I'm very fine, thanks. Not much can be done really, at least in my opinion. The Bounty board is an informal thing, so it's really a question of ethics. I guess you could query Marudubshinki directly. M isza 13 17:21, 8 September 2006 (UTC) reply

No, my changes were borne out of a simple discovery that not naming the template parameters got me the same results and not out of any expertise wrt template attributes. I personally don't care for the font colouration within a template like this, but I'll self-revert given your information. -- Deathphoenix ʕ 18:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks too! I feed on vandals in freenode's #vandalism-en-* channels. I don't recall meeting you there - where are your hunting grounds? ;-) M isza 13 19:19, 15 September 2006 (UTC) reply

• I can be found there on the odd occasion, but general just hang about with the manual tools... I'm a bit old-fashioned! :o) I still usually beat people to the punch: but not tonight, as you're clearly on fire! So far you've been ahead of me on 9 out of every 10 vandal-hunts. Hence the barnstar! I think I'll quit whilst I'm behind, as I'm on holiday for a week or so from tomorrow and need my beauty sleep tonight. Still: sir, I salute you! :o) Cheers ➨ ЯEDVERS 20:17, 15 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Err... Yeah I'm having some problems getting the status changer to work. I did everything the page said. Can you help me? (and if you ask to edit/create new pages, the answer is yes as long as you don't vandalize) Thanks in advance, ҈ Đǣţĥ ɱøťőŕ ☎ 23:13, 15 September 2006 (UTC) reply

I tried it myself and it seems to work. Did the said buttons (in/busy/out) appear to the left of the "log out" button (upper right corner of the screen)? If not, you might need to bypass your browser's cache. If yes, what happens when you click one? M isza 13 07:48, 16 September 2006 (UTC) reply

I fixed it and it shows the 3 extra links, but when I click on them, it replaces the text after the | with nothing, rendering it blank. I tried this for all the links and they all produced the same result.--҈ Đǣţĥ ɱøťőŕ ☎ 14:07, 16 September 2006 (UTC) reply

A very strange behavior. What does the address bar read after clicking one of the 3 links? And does it click the "Save" button automatically? Finally, what browser are you using? M isza 13 18:06, 17 September 2006 (UTC) reply

First and foremost, it says http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Death motor/Status&action=edit&newstatus=in in the address bar. Second, it does click the save button automatically. Third, I am using the new IE7 RC1 administered by Microsoft to all Windows XP users.

Hi, I have a question and a compliment. Compliment first: I love your userpage. I actually am using the code as the basis for my own page! I'm still working on it, so it still looks a bit like yours, but I wanted to say how great it is! Okay, question. I am using your status changer script. It works great, but I'd like to add on some more status options. How do I do that? I tried just going in and adding it to my monobook but it didn't seem to work. If you could help me out with that, I would greatly appreciate it! Laur ə n ^whisper 18:39, 18 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Well, I'm flattered. :-) I've put some great effort to make my userpage stylish and functional (which was eventually rewarded by Esperanza's UserPage Award) and am happy that you like it. As of the status switcher, this shouldn't be too hard. I see your template has an extra option already. All you need is add this to your monobook:

addlilink(contribs, linkprefix+user+subpage+"&action=edit&newstatus=sleepy", "Sleepy", "pt-status-sleepy", "I'm sleepy", "");

this goes inside the // STATUS CHANGER function, together with other lines beginning with "addlilink". M isza 13 19:17, 19 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Hey Misza, it's that time again!  :) When you get a chance, could you have MiszaBot spam out the Esperanza newsletter? Thank you so much for being able to take care of this. The newsletter can be found at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter, as well as User:Natalya/Draft. The title of the post can simply be "September Esperanza Newsletter". And for everyone who is on the newsletter Opt Out list, if they could just get spammed with "For your reading pleasure, the new Esperanza newsletter can be found at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter." or something similar, that would be awesome. Many thanks again! -- Nataly a 11:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Okay. Will do, but tommorow. I'm just back from a two-day trip and an too tired to write the program that would prepare the userlists, cross-check them with the opt-out etc. M isza 13 19:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC) reply

No worries, and many thanks for whenever you get time to do it. I hope you had a lovely trip. :) -- Nataly a 22:20, 19 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Mission complete, ma'am! :-) M isza 13 19:53, 20 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks again, Misza! -- Nataly a 11:24, 21 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi. I was just wondering which version of the Esperanza newsletter you sent out...? To me it looks like a mix between these two versions, but I don't understand how the final draft didn't get sent out (which was previously copy-edited for spelling and grammar). It may be just me getting confused though. Thanks :) —  FireFox ^{( talk)} _{19:24, 20 September 2006}

As Natalya pointed out in a thread right above, these two were supposed to be identical, so I'm sending out the Wikipedia: one. Oh, well... I'm just tech support here, sir. ;-) M isza 13 19:27, 20 September 2006 (UTC) reply

=) Fair enough. Nobody should notice anyway ;) —  FireFox ^{( talk)} _{19:28, 20 September 2006}

Hi, I'm no longer an ESP member and have no interest in the newsletter. Please remove me from your bot's mailing list. Thanks-- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 19:44, 20 September 2006 (UTC) reply

There is no such list, actually. The bot is spamming along the member list located on WP:ESP/M. Please update your membership status and you won't receive one again. M isza 13 19:46, 20 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Done that for you. M isza 13 20:16, 20 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi - it may not be a bug in the status changer, but more likely in IE7 (in Vista), which means that it doesn't work (replaces "in" or whatever with nothing (same as problem above)). You probably already knew, but I thought I'd say anyways :) M a rtinp23 19:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Well, I just started to figure this has something to do with the evil M$ product. Having no copy of it, I can't work out the problem otherwise than make up a wholly different solution, keeping in mind that regular expressions in IE JavaScript are screwed. :-/ M isza 13 20:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC) reply

I placed myself in the Opt-out list, and still got the newsletter, ? —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  21:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Simple reason - on the members' list, you are still listed as CliffHarris. There is no CliffHarris on the opt-out list, so CliffHarris was marked as "to be spammed with full version". Then the bot simply got redirected to User talk:Springeragh. To work this out, I suggest that you update your entry on WP:ESP/M and note CliffHarris as being your former account instead of the other way round as it is now. Cheers, M isza 13 17:05, 21 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi,

The oldest page on the merge list, I believe, is Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by language, mainly because it would be a brace of bears to merge it with Category:Wikipedians by language. The former seems to require Wikipedians to manually enter their names according to language/proficiency; the latter is autogenerated by placing a relevant language userbox on one's user page.

The first page really needs to be deleted, since merger to an automated page is impossible. It has not yet even been AfD'd, tho.

Is there a bot that would:

1. Read the usernames on the page Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by language.
2. Look on the associated user page for any language template userboxes. If they know of the existence of one, they know of them all, so no need to cross-verify whether the box they have is the language they manually listed on the above page.
3. If has a language userbox, skip this user.
4. If no language userbox, then pop a tiny little message on the user's talk page saying, hey, we're gonna delete Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by language, you can get a language userbox, and get listed automagically on Category:Wikipedians by language.
5. Be sure not to put multiple messages on the same user's talk page. Some people are listed multiple times on Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by language.

If the bot worked, then we could AfD Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by language.

Thanks -- Ling.Nut 06:08, 21 September 2006 (UTC) reply

As fas as I know, no such bot exists as of now. I guess I could develop one, but then I'm pretty low on free time lately. I'll give it a thought this weekend though. :) Cheers, M isza 13 17:16, 21 September 2006 (UTC) reply

...for dropping by. That is a sign of a responsible administrator :-) -- HappyCamper 18:19, 24 September 2006 (UTC) reply

		The Original Barnstar
		I, Shardsofmetal, offer you this barnstar for your Status switcher user script. This script saves me time updating my status, which allows me to spend more time improving Wikipedia. Shards of metal Talk • Contribs 03:46, 25 September 2006 (UTC) reply

I have been blocked and it is not me. My user name is Wahiba and I have had nothing to do with an article "I am a negro".

There is a fault in the system that needs sorting.

I only post practical articles where everything, including pictures, is of my own creation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wahiba ( talk • contribs) 12:21, 25 September 2006

User:I am a negro is an account I have blocked. You must've shared his IP, hence the autoblock. I'd also appreciate if you signed your messages with ~~~~ - I don't fancy going through my page's history to see who left the message. Thank you. M isza 13 16:25, 25 September 2006 (UTC) reply

Wahiba here - seems it is an AOL problem. Getting in through Mozilla solved it.

Not sure what everyone has against AOL, it always works fine for me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wahiba ( talk • contribs) 12:27, 25 September 200

As I understand, the problem is now sorted out? M isza 13 16:25, 25 September 2006 (UTC) reply

this is user:Adam34- user:the Hacker under the same IPaddress as me has been taken care of. expect no further problems, but please refer any new reports of vandalism to my discussion page, as you blocking them, also blocks me, being a member of the Counter-Vandalism unit. Please wtite back asap on my talk page.

Adam34, 20:04, 4 October 2006