Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia unreachable for some french people

I know a few years ago something similar happened to me, the only thing you can do is wait for your ISP to refresh their DNS settings, What probably happened is that either the WMF servers changed IP addresses and the ISP didnt or that the ISP has wrong information which is normally updated daily.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Get full-protecting article list monthly

ticles by month? not all of > pages but only article pages? Is that possible? Thanks! > > Zeyi > > On Sep 14 2010, John Doe wrote: > > >http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/sysopprotecton.txt<http://toolserver.org/%7Ebetacommand/reports/sysopprotecton.txt> > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Get full-protecting article list monthly

http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/sysopprotecton.txt try that On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:35 PM, wrote: > Hi, the link seems not work. > > best, > > Zeyi > > On Sep 14 2010, John Doe wrote: > > > Better yet, > > http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Get full-protecting article list monthly

Better yet, http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/sysopprotecton.txtwhich is updated daily, Δ On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:08 AM, John Doe wrote: > If you want we have a toolserver database query service, and generating > such data should be easy if you file a request &

Re: [Wikitech-l] Get full-protecting article list monthly

If you want we have a toolserver database query service, and generating such data should be easy if you file a request https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/DBQ you should be able to get the data you need. Δ On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:59 AM, wrote: > On Sep 14 2010, Roan Kattouw wrote: > > >2010/9

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to use wikipedia's images on my local mediawiki

$wgForeignFileRepos[] = array( 'class' => 'ForeignAPIRepo', 'name'=> 'enwp', 'apibase' => 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php', 'fetchDescription'=> true, // Optional 'descriptionCacheExpiry' => 43200, // 12 hours, optiona

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload protection on commons

no it hasnt, As of at least Dec 1, 2009 it was not active. It was enabled for a short period just before that due to an error. Werdna disabled it due to problems and it was only recently enabled. mediawiki has supported general protection (and thus preventing upload) via the "edit" protection metho

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload protection on commons

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Dresden_photochrom2.jpg&action=history - (cur | prev

[Wikitech-l] Upload protection on commons

I have seen that upload protection was recently enabled on commons. Where the bugs worked out and was there an announcement of that? John ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Common.css not working

Modifing commons.js should do it. I don't know JavaScript or I would give you the exact code On Wednesday, March 24, 2010, Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu wrote: > ok i will try to put the code in my skin.php file instead. > > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Happy-melon wrote: > >> >> "Makelesi Kora-

Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent:

that would work if it was single ips that where the main cause. what happens is there are wide distributions of IPs which lead to either blocking hole ISP ranges or being unable to easily identify DDoS like behavior. John On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > In the interest o

Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent:

Anthony I'm only going to say this once, either shut the fuck up or put your money where your mouth is and develop and propose a valid replacement, and stop wining when others take actions that are deemed necessary for the betterment of wikimedia related projects. UserAgents are not a big deal, Dom

Re: [Wikitech-l] Redirect disclosure on hover

or a simpler method would be to use a javascript tool like I use which was created by lupin called popups which can actually get the redirect target page show the first picture and first paragraph on mouse hover On 12/6/09, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Gregory Maxwell wr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not allowing certain external link types?

it would be as simple as adding \.exe\s to the meta spam blacklist On 9/5/09, David Gerard wrote: > See this talk page: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:189.148.6.25 > > The poster purports to be a journalist experimenting with putting > toxic links on Wikipedia to see who will follow t

Re: [Wikitech-l] removing rc_ip

wikis. what you want done cannot be done untill CU is merged into the trunk On 6/17/09, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > John Doe schrieb: >> nc the cu is an extension and not part of trunk so thst will not work > > Huh, why shouldn't it? The idea was that the extension would hijack the w

Re: [Wikitech-l] removing rc_ip

nc the cu is an extension and not part of trunk so thst will not work On 6/17/09, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Andrew Garrett schrieb: >> On 17/06/2009, at 10:39 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> I wonder if the column rc_ip can be safely removed from mediawiki. >>> As far as I >>> know,

Re: [Wikitech-l] New preferences system

thanks, I take this as the first step in creating global preferences? On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Eugene Zelenko wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Andrew Garrett > wrote: > > The advantage of this clear separation is that writing an API module > > is very simple, and it can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Providing simpler dump format (raw, SQL or CSV)?

> > what the problem is with the current Wikipedia dump process? > its choking with almost 300 million revisions. it wasnt designed for a wiki this size and needed re-written two years ago On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Aryeh Gregor > wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Ed Summers wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enwiki dump crawling since 10/15/2008

toolserver users dont have access to text On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Brian wrote: > Perhaps the toolserver can make you a current dump of current en? > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Christian Storm >wrote: > > > Thanks to everyone who got the enwiki dumps going again! Should we > e

Re: [Wikitech-l] Running deleteDefaultMessages.php on WMF wikis

This would break soo much, a lot of wikis have purposefully changed the default messages for tracking purposes and other reasons. deleting these messages would cause a lot of problems On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Eugene Zelenko wrote: > Hi! > > We need to clean up old MediaWiki messages tran

Re: [Wikitech-l] research-oriented toolserver?

The current toolserver user base is always willing to help. I for one am willing to review and run queries on the database if requested. I also am a very active python programmer and can use that to assist. If you have requests let me know. (Unless Im losing it) there have been accounts that are on

Re: [Wikitech-l] research-oriented toolserver?

I have a toolserver account and would be willing to run some queries for him, what kind of queries are you wanting to run Betacommand On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Hi all, > I'm not sure exactly where to raise this, so am asking here. > > A researcher I have been in touc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump processes seem to be dead

But server space saved by compression would be would be compensated by the stability, and flexibility provided by this method. this would allow what ever server is controlling the dump process to designate and delegate parallel processes for the same dump. so block 1 could be on server 1 and block

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should be transparently appended when missing?

Please see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16854 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:51 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > This has probably been raised before (is there a bug for it?), but it > > appears to me that it would be significantl