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[edit] From Wikipedia:Administrators and bureaucrats - February 2007
- Received another rubbish-filled message from ChristineJansson. I did a Google on the email address and found that the same user was filling up one of those paid-to-write projects with rubbish as well. Archer7 - talk 08:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
- I recieved a similar email, but the email wasn't random text. Instead, it said "Archer7 has the #5 green ball of vandalism". PullToOpenTalk 21:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- I did a little checking on En.wiki and found that they identified the Kate McAuliffe vandal's IP address last December. I blocked the IP here for 30 days (the vandal has more than enough individual blocks to get atleast to that point) in hopes of it stopping the issue here as well. I tagged the IP's talk page with the block. No idea if they will get around it, but atleast it should slow them down for a month. -- Creol(talk) 20:15, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
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- It seems that this person is working off of a range of IPs instead of just one. Another McAuliffe'y edit came from a different IP a little while ago ([1], I blocked the IP for 2 weeks on February 4), and a bunch of IP edits to the deleted (and salted) page User is blocked. PullToOpenTalk 21:02, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
- The IP block didn't stop McA; a new sock just appeared today. PullToOpenTalk 21:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- It seems that this person is working off of a range of IPs instead of just one. Another McAuliffe'y edit came from a different IP a little while ago ([1], I blocked the IP for 2 weeks on February 4), and a bunch of IP edits to the deleted (and salted) page User is blocked. PullToOpenTalk 21:02, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] History merge
The histories of Echo (Greek Mythology) and Echo (mythology) need to be merged. I'm guessing the page is meant to be at Echo (mythology). J Di 21:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Merged histories to Echo (mythology) -- Creol(talk) 22:27, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Craptons of Arabic articles
While routinely checking the wiki for problems, I noticed an editor crapflooding articles in Arabic. The editor (User:ﺉﯓﯝﮩﮦﯽ) finally stopped after I left a big red box telling him/her to stop (in arabic). However, the user is not blocked, because he/she stopped; the user might come back for more. Cheers, PullToOpenTalk 04:38, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Range contribs
We can now check the collective contributions of a range of IP addresses! Found this on en:WP:BRION:
"It is now possible to view the contributions of certain ranges of IP addresses, with the last or last two octets permitting wildcards. IP ranges are input in CIDR notation, like Special:Contributions/127.0.0.0/16 or Special:Contributions/127.0.0.0/24. Only /16 and /24 ranges are currently permitted. (patch by Maxim Semenik)"
This will be very useful for keeping on top of dynamic vandals from schools etc. Archer7 - talk 22:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- An excellent tool; range blocks would be good with the expected increase in school traffic because of the Schools Gateway. Anthonycfc [T • C] 23:03, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Renaming vandalism-created usernames
Should offensive usernames that were deliberately created to appear at the top of Special:Userlist be renamed to something more generic, such as numbers or something that begins with a character that follows Z (if such a character exists)? I personally see little need for such an action, but then it isn't me who is being accused of having a crush on "that girl" or engaging in sexual relations with trees. J Di 00:34, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- That would probably be the best course of action, it's also spamming up the new user log. :) Cbrown1023 00:36, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- This could be interesting. Maybe it's time to turn on the username blacklist? That would be a good idea, but depending on how many usernames show up, it might be an ugly work load on our two bureaucrats. Maybe the stewards could give all active administrators brief bureaucrat access to help cut down the crap if it gets too bad? PTO 00:39, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- Seems a sensible idea, none of those accounts have probably done anything productive, and they're slanderous. Majorly (o rly?) 00:53, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- It doesn't look that bad at all if I just went through and renamed them all. Unfortunately we'll have to wait for a developer to install the blacklist... Archer7 - talk 09:51, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- Does this look OK? Archer7 - talk 09:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- Looks good. Does EJ stand for anything? J Di 15:17, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Essjjay. So we can get some sort of idea which vandal it was without looking through the rename logs. Maybe 'SJ' would have been more obvious... I'll get started on the rest. Archer7 - talk 15:48, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Cleared the user list, using ^(BLOCKED-KMCA*) on some. Archer7 - talk 16:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- There are a few more on the second and third pages. There's probably loads more further down the list, but the first three or so pages are probably the most important as they are the ones people are most likely to see. J Di 16:11, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- I know there's more, there's hundreds, but I'm not too keen about doing it on anything that isn't mucking up the list too much or unless it's incredibly offensive, or at the specific request of an (offended) user. It does make things a little more difficult to track. I'll take a look through the rest of the list to try and find any that are particularly bad. Archer7 - talk 16:16, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- There are a few more on the second and third pages. There's probably loads more further down the list, but the first three or so pages are probably the most important as they are the ones people are most likely to see. J Di 16:11, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Cleared the user list, using ^(BLOCKED-KMCA*) on some. Archer7 - talk 16:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Essjjay. So we can get some sort of idea which vandal it was without looking through the rename logs. Maybe 'SJ' would have been more obvious... I'll get started on the rest. Archer7 - talk 15:48, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Looks good. Does EJ stand for anything? J Di 15:17, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Seems a sensible idea, none of those accounts have probably done anything productive, and they're slanderous. Majorly (o rly?) 00:53, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- This could be interesting. Maybe it's time to turn on the username blacklist? That would be a good idea, but depending on how many usernames show up, it might be an ugly work load on our two bureaucrats. Maybe the stewards could give all active administrators brief bureaucrat access to help cut down the crap if it gets too bad? PTO 00:39, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Quite fun making up codes. Now ^(BLOCKED-vandal) is for vandal accounts, and ^(ATTACK-attacked user) is for attack accounts. Archer7 - talk 16:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Finished renaming all the really horrible ones on the user list. Archer7 - talk 17:09, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Brilliant! This means that they are available for registration once again. Or am I missing something here? :-O Миша13 16:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- That really isn't an issue since there is little difference between !!!!!!Im A Troll and !!!!!!!Im A Troll. There are near infinite ways to use the same name, so clearing it really wouldn't matter much. On the other hand, at least when someone pulls up the user list, the first page is something other than 50 spelling variations on one troll. This also cleared out most of the more offensive names from the list. Yes, troll will be trolls and make more offensive names but they would do that anyway so no loss by renaming them and removing the effects of the troll in the first place (plus tossing the accounts to the end of the list just to get them out of the way) -- Creol(talk) 16:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- Brilliant! This means that they are available for registration once again. Or am I missing something here? :-O Миша13 16:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Optimum Online blocks
The ISP Optimum Online (Cablevision Systems) has been blocked for a period of two weeks due to recent vandalism. The block affects IP users from that ISP and prevents account creation. Existing accounts from that ISP should not be affected. -- Creol(talk) 13:16, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] How to join
Can you tell me the difference between big wiki administrators and here, how to become administrators only for this page, i may have some time and would like to contribute. On both wikis, once you become administrator, how often must you log on, is there a review period anyways, after how many months? — This unsigned comment was added by User:213.178.252.153 (talk • contribs) .
- Once you become an administrator, you do not have to log in any set amount, or do any set amount of work. We will thank you for as much work as you can do. There is no review period. --Deskana 15:08, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- You apply for adminship by putting your name (and application) onto the respective page. To have a realistic chance, you need:
- A username (only identified users can apply or vote)
- To be with the project for about 3 months time
- To have at least 1.000 edits, in SimpleWP, main namespace.
- Additionally, you will need to convince the community to support you rather than opposing you.--Eptalon 15:13, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use
I can't find a fair use policy on this Wikipedia. Should I copy the one from enwiki? --Deskana 15:53, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- I copied from en:Wikipedia:Fair use criteria, to Wikipedia:Fair use, and tagged it as proposed. --Deskana 16:33, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- Are we supposed to have local images? In Special:Upload there's a big notice saying "NO IMAGE UPLOADS!" and in Wikipedia:Image use policy it says we are not allowing local uploads. So I guess if we're only uploading image to Commons, we don't need a Fair Use policy.
- By the way, we should post a bug (I don't know if someone already did) or ask a developer to close local upload. FrancoGG ( talk ) 16:56, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, it doesn't say anywhere on Special:Upload that uploading is not allowed. Someone should change MediaWiki:Uploadtext/simple to represent as much. And can someone please delete Wikipedia:Fair use and Image:STALKER-boxart.jpg please? --Deskana 17:01, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- It has one massive bright red notice and a big blue box explaining it all. Are your browser/MediaWiki settings causing them not to show up? Anyway, we want uploads open for spoken articles, PDF stuff etc, so we left it open, but hid the 'upload file' option from the toolbar. We don't like fair use images because copyrights are a real headache, and also when people redistribute our work (pretty important for Simple English) they can do it freely and easily knowing that everything's under one license. Archer7 - talk 21:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- I don't see any big blue and red box, and I don't see the code for one in Mediawiki:Uploadtext/simple either, which is what I believe is displayed on Special:Upload. Sorry. --Deskana 00:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- That may be because in your preferences you have selected another language, but I can't find "simple" in the Language drop down menu... are you sure we have installed a language called "simple"? If not, creating Mediawiki:Uploadtext/simple doesn't make much sense.
- In fact, there is a big notice in MediaWiki:Uploadtext. FrancoGG ( talk ) 00:22, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
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- My language in my preferences is "en - English". I've never changed that. And yes, I have just checked, it's definitely that. --Deskana 01:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- Someone might want to change MediaWiki:Uploadtext/en as that seems to be the problem. --Deskana 01:22, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- My language is also 'en', but the code for all languages is on MediaWiki:Uploadtext it seems. Strange... Archer7 - talk 11:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- I rechecked Special:Upload, cleared my cache, forced refresh etc. It still has no warning for me. I can provide a screenshot if you like. --Deskana 17:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- My language in my preferences is "en - English". I've never changed that. And yes, I have just checked, it's definitely that. --Deskana 01:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
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- It has one massive bright red notice and a big blue box explaining it all. Are your browser/MediaWiki settings causing them not to show up? Anyway, we want uploads open for spoken articles, PDF stuff etc, so we left it open, but hid the 'upload file' option from the toolbar. We don't like fair use images because copyrights are a real headache, and also when people redistribute our work (pretty important for Simple English) they can do it freely and easily knowing that everything's under one license. Archer7 - talk 21:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, it doesn't say anywhere on Special:Upload that uploading is not allowed. Someone should change MediaWiki:Uploadtext/simple to represent as much. And can someone please delete Wikipedia:Fair use and Image:STALKER-boxart.jpg please? --Deskana 17:01, 14 April 2007 (UTC)