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I don't hang out on this particular wiki as often as I'd like, so may never read anything you write here. Please report problems with the software at http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/ --Brion 17:50, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

You might also find me in the Misplaced Pages:IRC channels.

Licence of your pic Image.Three-two pulldown diagram.png and upload into the commons

hi, could you please give Image.Three-two pulldown diagram.png a licnece and upload it into the commons? i would like to use your pic in other language wikis. thx, --Andreas -horn- Hornig 10:37, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey Brion

NGerda here. I just discovered this anon IP site, and you should probably be aware of it. I am making an edit with it right now. If you see this, then Wikimedia allowed the edit to go through, and we should probably figure out how to auto block it. The string I'm your user talk page is here . Try it out. If you can't autoblock it, I can try to grab a good chunk of the IPs it uses. Sincerely, NGerda 03:18, 10 September 2005 (UTC), operating under anon IP of 85.195.119.22

Thank you very much for dealing with this loophole in such an expedient, efficient, and thorough manner. I'm sure you've already thwarted hundreds of anon IP vandalism attempts. Great work. -- NGerda 03:12, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Customizing Mediawiki:Copyrightwarning list of characters

Hello,

I think I may have mentioned this earlier, but is there some way to customize the characters that appear in Mediawiki:Copyrightwarning, so that a user can choose to have Cyrillic, Greek, IPA, etc. ?

I don't think CSS can do this... CSS can make the entire list go away by setting

editpage-specialchars { display: none; }

but I don't think it can be used to customize the list of characters (otherwise, the list would be specified within CSS rather than being specified on the Mediawiki:Copyrightwarning page, no?).

Perhaps a future Mediawiki enhancement would allow this to be specified in Special:Preferences?

-- Curps 16:16, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

In theory you could rewrite the whole section with some custom JavaScript in your /monobook.js subpage (or GreaseMonkey or similar browser plugin). That's kinda ugly though maybe. :) --Brion 00:25, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Actually User:Func has gone and done just that, as of today. See his talk page. I've copied the result (for IPA) into User:Curps/monobook.js. It's fairly short and not too ugly at all. It might still be neat to have it within Mediawiki itself, so that any page that contained Arabic characters for instance would automatically offer Arabic characters at the bottom of the screen. And Func's work may be browser-dependent... it works on IE at least. -- Curps 01:08, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Brion VIBBER day

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-June/013075.html I just found that while looking through some Wik stuff. I was gonna paste it on your user page, but then I realized that would make it appear as though you had a big head. Still felt like showing you it, even though I know you've seen it. ;) Redwolf24 (talk) 00:43, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

User login statistics

I run a genealogy wiki for my family, using the Mediawiki software. It is password protected, and I would love to be able to track user login statistics, such as who logs in and when. I have so far been unable to find any info on this anywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated - thank you!

User:Alex Ramon

There's no built-in recording of logins, you would have to write it yourself. --Brion 03:45, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

pbs in nl: fr: jp:

response in nl is nonexistent at the moment 06:29 local time Aleichem 04:30, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

How to and just if...

Hi!I'm de:Benutzer:Abzt And would like to know how to get interwiki-developer and if you have to be sysop to get one.

I'm not sure what that is... --Brion 23:35, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Abzt

Hi, "Interwiki-Developers" are people who create Misplaced Pages's interface and "sysops" is another word for Administrators.Abzt 18:19, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

If you are talking about the ability to edit the pages on the MediaWiki: namespace, that capability is restricted to sysops on Misplaced Pages. --cesarb 19:39, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Unicode-garbling text-mode browsers

Hi,

Can we quickly add Lynx and other text browsers to the list of browsers that need special handling by Mediawiki to avoid garbling of Unicode characters? I'm still seeing a number of Unicode-garbling edits, for instance: and .

As an alternative, would it be possible to handle this with a test at login time? We could add a small edit window or text field to the login screen (maybe with "hidden" attribute set) that would be pre-populated with literal Unicode characters. If those characters come back garbled, then flag that information (either in a cookie, or ideally it could be incorporated into the wpEditToken itself).

-- Curps 19:19, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Apparently, I can do the impossible.

According to this diff, my 'bot renamed a page and modified its contents in a single edit. As far as I know, this is impossible. Am I doing the impossible? Or has this article lost some of its history between the edit done by my 'bot and the edit from 2005-02-08? Uncle G 23:48, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

• Seems to have picked up the wrong prior text id (first instead of last). I'll take a look... Anything interesting about how your bot works? --Brion 00:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
  • No. WIKIMOVE (see User:Uncle G's 'bot) performs the very same two HTTP transactions as would be performed by renaming pages via a web browser. Uncle G 12:28, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
• Database backup indicates that the oldest revision by date was listed as the current revision for that page, and was the 'cur' table entry at the time of the 1.5 upgrade in late June. As the listed current version it would thus have been the one reused by the page move.

  Most likely this could have been due to an old delete/restore or 'merge' attempt some months ago. --Brion 00:29, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

  • The deletion log shows nothing for that page. Do you mean a history merge? Uncle G 12:28, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Come to think of it, it was probably the problem with duplicate cur entry resolution at one point favoring old instead of recent edits. --Brion 22:25, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Please check that I've paraphrased you correctly at Misplaced Pages talk:Bots#User:Uncle_G.27s_major_work_.27bot. Uncle G 11:31, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Sounds about right. --Brion 00:23, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Has Autoblock ever displayed a blocked registered user's IP address?

Hi Brion. This concerns an ArbCom case that I'm gathering evidence for. A user claims that he was able to view the IP address of blocked registered users by clicking on the autoblock link in the block log. Has this ever been the case? I wasn't able to find any record of this bug in Bugzilla. This user has only be around since early July, so that's time period I'm mostly concerned about. He claims that the bug has now been fixed. I'd also like to know whether any user (other than developers or David Gerard) could have knowledge of registered users' IP addresses through any technical means. Thank you! Carbonite | Talk 03:51, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm not aware of such a bug offhand. There was briefly an information disclosure issue with the blocklist search feature in that searches would match on the autoblocked IP; if you went to a lot of trouble in theory you could have tried to reconstruct an IP through a lot of directed searches during the half-day that was in place. Can you provide more information about this "clicking"? --Brion 05:40, 8 October 2005 (UTC)