User talk:Ais523

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I'm somewhat busy in Real Life at the moment. While I still visit Wikipedia from time to time to write Signpost articles and perform various other administrative tasks, I'm not as active as previously. This is temporary, and things should be back to normal within a month or so. --ais523 13:43, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Contents 1 Testing talkpage selflinks 2 Strange technical glitch 3 AutoAFD 4 stub names 5 User:Ais523/watchlistnotifier.js 6 Hey 7 User:Ais523/stubtagtab2.js 8 Thanks, and question about mediaiwki version 9 Theft -- thanks 10 edmund patrick help me 11 Help regarding bold in watchlists 12 WRONG VERSION!!!!1!!11!11oneoneeleven 13 User:Ais523 non-admin/adminrights.js 14 Template:Redirect-Class

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[edit] Testing talkpage selflinks

This is a message I sent to myself as a test. --ais523 17:21, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Strange technical glitch

Was wondering if you knew what this was about? Dropping by here (instead of VP-tech), because I wanted to let you know that I enjoy reading your BRION reports for the Signpost! Carcharoth (talk) 05:05, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it's due to the new preprocessor. The way that <includeonly> works internally changed; this was not meant to affect the way that it works with legitimate uses (when the tag is matched), but in this case there was an unmatched tag, and the new preprocessor acted as if the close tag was at the end of the page (this is consistent with other tags; some users have been known to use this method to place a <div> around their entire user talk page for styling purposes), whereas the old preprocessor rendered it literally because it was invalid markup. --ais523 15:02, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. This is why I'm careful about using emoticon tags like <sarcasm>. I'm never quite sure whether that (or a more likely example) will one day become an "unmatched tag"! Just to be safe: </sarcasm> :-) How successful was the rollout of the new preprocessor, anyway? Will there be something on that in the next BRION report? Carcharoth (talk) 01:09, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

It went pretty well. I already wrote about it here, as well as giving a more technical view of what had been fixed in that week's BRION; I probably won't write about it again unless new major issues come up, or new bugs related to it are found. --ais523 11:56, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AutoAFD

Do you know if the AutoAFD script still works? It doesn't seem to for me (I've removed it for the moment, trying to get Twinkle to work with the Modern skin for me). It looks like you were the last one to make any changes to it, so I thought I'd ask. Thanks, Avruchtalk 16:04, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] stub names

I want to tell people when there is a stub, but I do not know the full list of stub names. Please can you refer to a page that I can easily find out what the stub names are so that I can help people know exactly what stubs to use. Thanks, Kes453 (talk) 15:13, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:Ais523/watchlistnotifier.js

Hey Ais523, is there a way to make your watchlist notifier script so that it won't show edits made by yourself?--Sunny910910 ^{(talk|Contributions|Guest)} 01:04, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Hmm I see. Well okay. Hey I have another question, for this script you stated that it tells you when someone edits your userpage. Can you explain more about it?--Sunny910910 ^{(talk|Contributions|Guest)} 23:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

Can any of these cool admins help me? I want to add one sentence to the world of Wikipedia. But I can't. The sentence is factual, provable, (based on the New York Times for goodness sake) but I can't get it on.

Fact: Circumcision decreases a man's risk of getting HIV Fact: Circmcision INcreases a man's risk of getting herpes and chlamydia.

The article on "circumcision" mentions the term HIV probably 100 times (I'm not joking) and mentions "herpes" or "chlamydia" not Once.

Can any of you cool administrators stop two guys named Avraham and Jakew from deleting my ONE sentence I want to add? Thanks, 70.114.38.167 (talk) 06:14, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:Ais523/stubtagtab2.js

No matter what stub type I choose, I get the error "Could not fetch stub type data." without fail. Please help? Gary King (talk) 08:38, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

I think I've fixed it; bypass your cache if you are using this script. --ais523 13:19, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Works now, but the small text for stubs with lots of sub categories, like Geography, is too small to read, at least for me. I would suggest making it into a clickable tree to expand all the way, rather than having only one link to click on (the very top-level one) so that not everything has to load at once. Basically, click on the first top-level stub, like Geography, then the next category, like United Kingdom building and structure stubs, and so on. Gary King (talk) 15:11, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks, and question about mediaiwki version

Thanks for your signpost articles, and your scripts. I've found them enormously useful.

I noticed on Village pump (technical) a bug in the latest editredlink code. I was going to report it to bugzilla, but I noticed it was *already* fixed in subversion (r31218). However, en.wikipedia.org is running an older version (r31183). Do you know what sort of schedule is used to update en.wikipedia.org's version of mediawiki?

I feel I should mention it again, thanks very much for your signpost article. It is simple, clear, concise, and makes it possible to keep up with the code changes. JackSchmidt (talk) 20:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

It's called a SCAP (synchronize all common PHP) and it's done irregularly, but generally at least once a week. Generally it's Tim Starling or Brion Vibber who does it, and it usually simply depends on much code there is to review and how busy they are. On occasion, the scap will be held up by schema database changes. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:53, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks for the quick reply. I think that means my comment on VP/T about when it will be fixed is fine. Should be within a week, and I think people can wait that long to have a rare user-interface quirk fixed (all the links are available, just in an unusual place). BTW is it a weird coincidence that the code reviewer and the code review are both called BRION? Well I guess technically one is called "Brion Vibber" and the other is called "Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News", but it seems fishy to me :) Thanks again, JackSchmidt (talk) 21:00, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't know for certain (it predates the time I started writing for the Signpost), but it strikes me has probably having been deliberate. (The fact that "The Report on Lengthy Litigation" is an acronym for TROLL seems to lend evidence to this theory.) --ais523 09:57, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Theft -- thanks

Thank you for reply. If you'd like to e-mail me via WP, I'll reply sending the original image. Thanks. adriatikus | talk 11:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. adriatikus | talk 11:42, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] edmund patrick help me

That is all it was, my lack of computer knowledge sometimes astounds me. Many Thanks Edmund Patrick ( ^confer _work) 18:23, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help regarding bold in watchlists

On my user talk page I have a section called Help regarding bold in watchlists. In it, I explain that I'm trying to get my watchlist to make bold the page titles of any new changes since my last viewing. Like how WoWWiki does it. One of the suggestions was to try User:Ais523/watchlistnotifier.js. Is there anyway I can use that script to only do what I'm looking for as expressed above?--Rockfang (talk) 02:09, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WRONG VERSION!!!!1!!11!11oneoneeleven

Thanks for your comments at my RfA. You've probably seen it before, but I just wanted to point you at m:The Wrong Version, especially the label at the top-right. Makes me giggle every time. Jouster  (whisper) 11:21, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:Ais523 non-admin/adminrights.js

Hey, this is a very useful script! One problem, though. I see new admins come up very often, and I would like to update this page (sure others want to too). I was thinking you might want to move that to the Wikipedia namespace (or just remove the JS at the end), so other people can update it. It would reduce the amount of time you would have to update it (the last time it was updated was February 18). Do you think that would be a good idea? Thanks, Soxred93 | talk bot 06:04, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Redirect-Class

Hello, I had requested an edit to the above template a week or so ago on its talk page. You replied that the edit had been completed, but no change was made to the template. I was just checking up to see if this was a mistake or if the request was declined. Thanks. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 18:28, 6 March 2008 (UTC)