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Question From Japan

開発者Tim Starling様、私はMisplaced Pages日本語版ユーザーのFamsisです。

Misplaced Pages日本語版管理者であるしるふぃ氏が、Tim Starling様から通知された日本語版ログインユーザー、利用者:東村慎吾氏・利用者:災難氏・利用者:007氏のIP情報を開示しています。Tim Starling様は、IP情報がMisplaced Pagesに於いて開示されることを承知の上で、ログインユーザーのIP情報を管理者しるふぃ氏に通知したのでしょうか。

Dear Mr. Tim Starling:

I am Famsis, a Japanese Wikipedian.

Did you provid IPs of User:東村慎吾, User:災難,User:007 to User:しるふぃ(a sysop), with awareness that he would open them to the publicon Japanese Misplaced Pages?

Yours respectfully,

Famsis.

18:08, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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

Hi Tim. 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 03:48, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

There was a bug introduced by Brion on August 23 that allowed users to search for autoblocks by IP. It was fixed on August 27. I'm not aware of any similar bugs. See -- Tim Starling 01:00, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Tim! Carbonite | Talk 02:22, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Blocking policy proposal

Hi Tim, we are trying to develop a new blocking policy, and as it has technical implications for Misplaced Pages and the software, your opinions would be greatly valued, see Misplaced Pages:Blocking policy proposal. thanks - Martin 09:53, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Possible problems with the diff engine

Hi, Tim. I posted this topic to the Help Desk and was referred to you. In summary, it seems like the diffs being generated recently (as exemplified here) are not very useful in some cases where it should be possible to generate a very clear diff. See my original post for more information. If it would be more helpful for me to file a bug or something like that, just let me know! —HorsePunchKid→龜 03:55, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Slovene Misplaced Pages

As you're one of the developers I'm turning to you with request to translate some on MediaWiki software, used on :sl. As of now we're still using english command for categories, but we wish to use slovene version (Kategorija instead of Category); some of associated commands were already translated, but this wasn't. Another translation is of Template to Predloga. Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic 19:25, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi! Did you get this message? If you can not help us with this, could you please direct me to right person? TIA! Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic 08:30, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Delete my account

You are an developer, right? Please, delete my account on the german wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/Benutzer:French.tarragon - or tell me where i could ask for it, THANK YOU!

We can't delete your account because we can't delete your contributions. I suggest you remove any identifying information from it and request it be renamed, instead. -- Tim Starling 09:43, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Ok, thanks!

Sockpuppet check on Timewarp

Tim, Could you check to see if User:Timewarp is Special:Contributions/69.141.3.180 or Special:Contributions/Watchdog? Timewarp is currently edit warring on the John Lott article, trying to remove all criticism of Lott. Based on writing and argument style, he is almost certainly John Lott's sockpuppet, although he has denied this. Oddly enough, one of the things that Timewarp is trying to remove from the article is the details of Lott's use of a sockpuppet on Usenet. Because of Lott's sock puppet activities elsewhere, I have already tied IP address 69.141.3.180 to him, so if Timewarp has used that IP address, the case is proven. --TimLambert 06:54, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Celebrate!

Happy Tim Starling Day, Tim! (OK, OK, I'm about an hour and a half early, but...) We all deeply appreciate your efforts in developing Misplaced Pages to make it run more efficiently and better. Secure and split! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 23:21, 30 October 2005 (UTC) (P.S. I hope you don't mind The Misplaced Pages Signpost doing a short blurb on your holiday.)

Thanks Flcelloguy :) -- Tim Starling 03:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Happy Tim Starling Day! And Thank you! --A Chinese Wikipedianzh:User_talk:Coolgene

Happy Tim Starling Day! --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 13:01, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Looks like I am not the first, but just want to wish all of us a happy Tim Starling day!! Donama 13:17, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Singapore ISP proxies: an NTL-like solution to discover underlying IP?

There seems to be an increasing volume of complaints from Singapore-based users about being affected by IP blocks (or underlying-IP blocks of usernames). Two recent IPs involved: 165.21.154.14 () and 202.156.6.54 ().

I know that with NTL there was a solution found where we they cooperate by providing the underlying IP and we block on that instead of the ISP's proxy IP (I think it was you that implemented that?). If so, is there any possibility of the same thing for these Singapore ISPs? -- Curps 15:10, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it should be possible. I'd like to implement the ability to list entire subnets first though. SingNet in particular has quite a lot of proxies, currently we'd have to list them all individually. -- Tim Starling 02:16, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Wikispecies

Hi Tim, can you please have a look at bug 3578? This is really important for Wikispecies; it will be much easier to keep links to Misplaced Pages up-to-date with this feature. Thanks a lot, Ucucha (talk) 06:22, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

User:Username Glitch

How are these even possible: When I try to do similar in the login page, it fails. Blocking at Special:Blockip also encounters a small glitch... try it. -- Curps 02:46, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

New Zealand ISP proxy and Grutness

Grutness is squawking about his ISP's proxy (New Zealand) getting blocked. Can an NTL-like solution be implemented here as well (see Singapore comment above)?

Based on his unblocking history it seems to be just this one IP, not a range. Could a quick solution be implemented? -- Curps 02:18, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Big problem

I assume you've been told this already, but </span>, </font>, etc. tags are not working. See Misplaced Pages:Recently created admins for a good example of it. Is there any way that this can be fixed, preferably quickly? Ral315 (talk) 01:21, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Noinclude considered harmful

Hello Tim Starling, I would like to bring the attention of developers such as yourself to Misplaced Pages talk:Noinclude considered harmful. A lot of Noinclude and Includeonly information has been added to templates lately to provide "helpful" information. The conflict occurs when one wishes to subst such a template and would result in some unwanted Noinclude and Includeonly leftovers. Should the Mediawiki software be fixed to accommodate this by omitting such tags? -- Zondor 06:56, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

You response was "fixed in CVS" - do you mean that it's fixed now? Or that a fix exists and will be added in the near future? Or something else?

As a side point, what would happen if a template with "includeonly" sections was subst'ed? I believe at present that it's copied verbatim, which means that the section is there but won't be visible. Intuitively, I'd prefer it to be both there and visibile. Radiant_>|< 11:29, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

It means it's fixed in CVS. It's now also fixed on this site. I let it sit in CVS for a couple of hours for the purpose of pondering possible bugs. Any <includeonly> tags in the template will be stripped, leaving such sections both there and visible, as you suggest. -- Tim Starling 12:45, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

• Thank you for the quick response! Radiant_>|< 16:15, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

RfC on Verifiabilty, Reputable Sources

Please check out and comment on the Rfc filed against me for trying to have NBP libel about me removed. Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_comment/69.253.195.228

Greetings from the United Federation of Planets

Hey, I was wondering whats up with image servers, text comes almost instantly but images takes forever (as in often never download and instead timeout)... I do not believe this is because of wiki-traffic, but then again you are the expert :P. Just curious... --Cool Cat 20:46, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Email

Why not simply upload an image of text which spambots can't read? --Cool Cat 20:51, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

What are you talking about? -- Tim Starling 13:58, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Your email adress on your userpage is written inverse so spam bots cant "read" it right? --Cool Cat 18:47, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Bringing my old edits home...

Greetings, oh wise and mighty developer. I am told that one such as yourself may know a way to merge my anonymous contributions into my existing edit contribution history... I've confirmed over two dozen anon edits of mine primarily by identifying articles that I started, beginning with this cluster of edits, as well as this fairly large cluster, and including these three, these five, these two, these five, these two, this one, and this one. I would be most grateful if you could light the path to inclusion of these edits so as to make whole my record here. Cheers! BDAbramson T 22:55, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Image deletion warning

I have nominated Image:Beer in glass (small).jpg, the file you have uploaded, for deletion. It is not used in any articles, and its copyright status is unknown. (The link in its upload history is not working.)

Unknown to you maybe. As I said on the IFD subpage, it could have easily become known if you did a bit of research.

If you do not want the image to be deleted, you should mention its actual source and copyright status at the image's description page. Please note that per Misplaced Pages:Copyright and Misplaced Pages:Copyright FAQ, only images which are in public domain, licensed under terms compatible with GFDL license, or included under fair use laws are permitted on Misplaced Pages.

Sorry for any inconvenience. Regards, Mike Rosoft 17:23, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes, thank you for that insight into Misplaced Pages's copyright policy. Perhaps I can repay you with a barely relevant rant. For years I've been arguing against the inclusion of fair use images except those allowable under the Berne Convention. I don't particularly want to get sued for distributing Misplaced Pages in my country of residence. The laws of a country which is neither the location of the copyright holder nor the location of the infringer are probably irrelevant. -- Tim Starling 09:51, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

And I thank you for explaining the status of the image. I have updated the links at Image:Beer in glass.jpg, using the Internet Archive (as you have suggested). I also apologize for explaining to you what you already know; I quite frequently deal with new users who have no idea what is allowed on Misplaced Pages and what isn't, and I have mistakenly taken you for one. Regards, Mike Rosoft 18:35, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

The Bush

G'day, just noticed your long ago comments about 'the bush' -in outback talk from a year or two ago. The outback is one of the poorer arts I have found to date on such an issue, so i dont know if you're still of the same opinion - but I have started one (the bush' that is, and would appreciate if you could give some feedback on that one sometime down the track as technically I am on wikibreak for a while and plan to put a variety of refs specifically cultural history stuff which I reckon will justify the entry, but not in the short term. vcxlor 09:44, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Conversion script

Hello Tim,

Would you switch off the automatic modus of uppercase for the title of article on Ko Wiktionary. I think, it's necessary for the Wiktionary. -- 아흔(A-heun) 17:09, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

URL spam

How do we add the following site to the spam filter? I can't actually remember. Site is http://gallys.nastydollars.com/sl/107/katie-227.jpg - Ta bu shi da yu 08:05, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Edit m:Spam blacklist. I can do it for you but I need to have a diff showing the spam occurring. -- Tim Starling 09:35, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

OK, here you go! - Ta bu shi da yu 14:13, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Error on IE

Line: 357
Char: 5
Error: Object required
Code: 0
Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Cool_Cat

Something seems to be wrong, the page does appear to load correctly... Ideas? --Cool Cat 13:31, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Database Download as Torrent

Will Database Downloads ever be available as torrent files? - Xed 14:47, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

A thought I had...

Copied from my post at Misplaced Pages talk:Disambiguation pages with links: Frankly, I think the developers should have a program that regularly crawls through and touches all Misplaced Pages pages. (to eliminate false positives from transclusions, that is) BDAbramson T 20:43, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

How did you produce the torque diagrams?

Hi, I have created an article on the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-testing problem and I would like it to feature a diagram similar to the elegant ones you've produced for the Torque article. How were these created? Thanks. RCSB 08:52, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Screenshot from Microsoft Word. -- Tim Starling 11:33, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

SkepticWiki

Hi Tim, thought you might be interested in this new project: SkepticWiki - Zuytdorp Survivor 12:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Request for help from User:Iwanowicz

Hi Tim -- I hope all is well -- it's been a long time!

I'm "forwarding" a request from a relatively new user -- User:Iwanowicz -- who is requesting that his name and home phone number be removed from the edit history of a few pages: Special:Contributions/24.74.14.75. As you can see from this sample diff (Revision of Mount Holly Spring, Pennsylvania as of 05:52, 4 December 2005), User:24.74.14.75 has been up to no good. The request is on my talk page here.

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 23:38, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Checkuser request

I was told that you might be able to do a check user request for me. I am an admin who mainly edits literary articles. A few weeks back, I discovered in a news account that Robert Clark Young claimed he had written his own article on Misplaced Pages. While Young did deserve an article, obviously his actions irritated me so I went in and removed the extremely POV language he had crafted and also removed the hundreds of links he'd inserted to his article in other wikipedia articles (he'd inserted links where they didn't belong, such as in identity theft). Anyway, a newly created Misplaced Pages editor account, User:Berenise, has begun making POV edits to the article. I've been discussing this issue with the user but wanted to make sure this wasn't Young coming back under another name. Is it possible to check and see if the earlier anonymous IP addresses that Young used (see the history of Robert Clark Young) tie in with this new editor? Or is that not appropriate? Thanks for any info. --Alabamaboy 02:16, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks for the advice.--Alabamaboy 12:14, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Please contact the Arbitration Committee or a member of this list. -- Tim Starling 05:03, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Mcfly85

Hi there David, Im SWD316. I am informing all the users with the checkuser ability under "advice" given by Celestianpower to run a CheckUser on Mcfly85. This user "claims" to have NEVER once opened an IP address to vandalize; list of IP addresses that vandalized my user page are suspects. I also suspect he created/opened accounts to vandalize too. (ex. Rock09, 4benson3, Capnoh, Oneandon, Sigma995, Sven66 and Pwner.) A few days ago I was running for adminship and he got on there and edited. Mcfly85, Rock09 and Sigma995 all voted oppose when well noted administrators and others voted support. I suspect Mcfly has vandalized my user page 9 times. You can see conflicts there at my talk page, my RFA. I posted these accusations at the Administrators' noticeboard and nothing was done because of lack of evidence. Well, today Banes noticed something interesting. He posted:

You may want to look at the history of Frank Beard. And, less interestingly, the history of Wayne Newton. I just thought this might interest you.

It was where Mcfly85 and Rock09 edited the same articles simultaneously. Rock09 vandalized the articles and Mcfly85 does clean-up. Suspicious that an article like Frank Beard, an article with 11 edits has edits by Rock09 and Mcfly85 simultaneously. Can you please run a CheckUser on him? SWD316 18:56, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Please contact the Arbitration Committee or a member of this list. -- Tim Starling 05:03, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Simple

Tim, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but over at simple English Misplaced Pages, when you type in something that doesn't have an article already in the search bar and press go, it doesn't have a link to create the article. Instead, it displays You can <a href=":Roosevelt" class="new">create an article with this title</a> or <a href="/Wikipedia:Requested articles">ask for someone to write it</a>. Is there any way this could be fixed? Many thanks! Also, I heard that you were working on a feature to be implemented in January regarding having a stable "good" version that is viewed. Could you provide some details on this? Thanks again; your work is greatly appreciated! Flcelloguy (A note?) 16:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

To change the text displayed when "go" fails, edit simple:MediaWiki:Nogomatch. The stable version feature is Salvatore Ingala's "show verified" feature, plus a few improvements. Read this mailing list post and the associated thread.

Thanks for the reply! Flcelloguy (A note?) 23:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Checkuser Request

Hi,

Some other users and I are having a dispute here over whether Methodology and Grye are both me. I was wondering if you could check for all of our true IPs and tell the skeptics that they're not me. If you could, I would be greatly in your debt.

Sincerely,

Primetime 13:38, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Please contact the Arbitration Committee or a member of this list. -- Tim Starling 05:03, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Bad image list

Hi,

Due to a similar discussion now occuring at Doggy_style (although that one is now turning on copyright issues re the image) that caught my eye, I dug deeper into that discussion and the one concerning the Autofellatio image. After spending a great deal of time reading, I can't seem to find any consensus for moving the autofellatio image to your Mediawiki:Bad_image_list, although you state such a consensus as your reason for including it. I've searched through the old polls and talk page discussion there, and I just can't find such a compromise or consensus reached. Could you point me to where you believe this occurred, or further explain why this image should not be removed from this bad image list?

Thanks very much, --Krich 03:13, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

The image was linked rather than displayed inline at the time the feature was introduced, no discussion or edit war was taking place. Thus, there was an implicit consensus by those who were actively editing the article. I am not interested in debating the subject at the moment (nor was I then), so if you think the list should be changed, please find a sysop to change it for you. -- Tim Starling 04:57, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I appreciate the reply, and I wasn't attempting to draw you into a discussion on the value of the image itself. I wanted to know how the image ended up in Mediawiki:Bad_image_list. It appears from your answer that it's in that list because you decided it should be. Am I reading that incorrectly? From reading the history of the discussion, it doesn't appear to me that a real consensus was reached on the image, altough it reads to me that opinion was leaning well toward non-censoring of the image, and towards the image having real value to the article. The image has been included on the Autofellatio page for months now, although it doesn't display inline because your inclusion of it in your bad image list.

Pardon me, I'm not trying to be contentuous, it just looks to me as if this is a mechanism for intituting a "policy" of censoring (to a degree) images without actually going through the trouble it would be to get such a policy passed (if it were indeed possible at all).

Thanks for your suggestion about how to proceed - I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but the prospect of trying to get administrators to undo another admin's actions doesn't seem like fun to me. Thanks again for the response. --Krich (talk) 05:19, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I made my position on this quite clear in my original VP post, now at the top of MediaWiki talk:Bad image list. The feature is an anti-vandalism feature, any use of it for censorship is inappropriate. -- Tim Starling 07:47, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I read what you wrote in that VP post - but despite your intentions, that doesn't appear to be how the feature is being applied. In the wording that you now have at the top of Mediawiki:Bad_image_list you state that you did this because it was "amenable" to the then-current dispute at Autofellatio- but again, I don't see any evidence of such a consensus around any amenability toward this solution, in this case. From what I can find in the history of Autofellatio, there was no discussion of your feature at all there. Despite what you may have intended, the bad image list is currently having the effect of censoring some images from displaying inline, with no consensus shown that this is what editors at articles effected want. I ask you to reconsider your position here, and how appropriate it is for an administrator to keep images many feel are valuable and instructive in their articles from being displayed, despite any clear consensus or official policy that allows this.

Thanks again for taking the time to respond - I realize it may seem I'm trying to stir up trouble (or that I'm a fan of that particular photo), but I honestly feel there is a real principle worth discussing here. --Krich (talk) 08:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Image name conflict policy

For uploads the policy should be reject rather than replace. There are issues with the status quo that really, really should be addressed and I think the best way would be to change the handling of name conflicts as a fairly high priority. -- Curps 05:00, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry if the above was cryptic, for more details see here. -- Curps 07:14, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, Tim!

Nice to meet you, Tim. I've been hearing about you being Wikipedian, I used to be an anon user until I registered in November 2005. I've had some anon edits since like around around late 2004. Anyway, I just also thought to stop by and wish you a Merry Christmas to you and your family. Alex 101 00:30, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Special:Ipblocklist listing truncates non-ASCII usernames

The Special:Ipblocklist listing severely truncates non-ASCII usernames (eg Russian usernames).

This can lead to severe confusion and can lead to mismatches between block and unblock listings in the Special:Log/block listing, making it appear that a non-existent username was unblocked and making it difficult or impossible to tell the actual username that was unblocked (unless you can deduce it by guessing). See discussion at

-- Curps 06:02, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Dealing With Information That Presents A Security Risk

I feel this template below is an important and integral part of the development of Misplaced Pages. As an important part of WP, would you please comment on the matter? The ongoing addition of information that may cause serious security risks to the safety of not only Wikipedians, but citizens of the non-digital world as well is in need of addressing. PeterZed 22:50, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:Security Risk

Regarding the making of a Refrence desk.

Hello, I use media wiki on my website and I was wandering how I can make a refrence desk like the one here at wikipedia for my self. Thanks --(Aytakin) | Talk 00:07, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Reddi?

Are you aware of Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Reddi_2? William M. Connolley 17:56, 2 January 2006 (UTC).

Help for Malayalam Misplaced Pages

Hi ,

I don't know if it is the best place to ask this doubt. I am a Bureaucrat with Malayalam Misplaced Pages. Numbers displayed in Malayalam Misplaced Pages are not understood by most of the people who use it eventhough it is in Malayalam itself. The sad irony is that no one in Malayalam uses Malayalam digits at present(Eg.൦(0), ൧(1), ൨(2), ൩(3), ൪(4)). They insted use Arabic digits ( 1,2,3...). Hence most of the users need the numbers to be displayed in Arabic or universal digit system (1,2,3,,,,.)

When we use number of articles template the result displayed cannot be understood by the readers!. I tried to find out from where these digtis come?. Is there any way to change the default settings. I thought you could help me.... Manjithkaini 05:59, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Abrasion

I noticed a "rv vandalism" edit to Abrasion in which you removed the disambiguation link. Can you explain that edit? I'm inclined to revert it, or at least re-add the disambiguation. —BenFrantzDale 13:06, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't realise I was editing an old revision. I can't believe nobody questioned before now the assertion by an anon that non-stick padding should be used so that blood will attach to the bandage and cause extreme pain and suffering. -- Tim Starling 13:14, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Special:Whatlinkshere

Hello,

A problem was reported on the French village pump fr:Wikipédia:Le_Bistro/4_janvier_2006#Suivi_des_modèles... : fr:Special:Whatlinkshere/Modèle:Portail_HZB is showing only a few hundreds of pages instead of more than 1600 as it should. A former template fr:Modèle:HZB was renamed in November fr:Modèle:Portail HZB, thus creating a redirection. All the pages using the former template seem to have been erased from the "whatlinkshere" page. This seems to be connected to the « Special:Whatlinkshere for certain templates showing only half the requested number of pages, bug » you talked about on the wikitech list, although you say this problem is fixed. Should I report this on Bugzilla? As a new item? --Teofilo talk 16:33, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

The pages using fr:Modèle:HZB should be listed on fr:Special:Whatlinkshere/Modèle:Portail HZB, without any mention of a redirect. Whether you consider it a bug or not is up to you, it was the behaviour I observed when I was testing it and I considered it a non-issue. If there are any pages containing {{HZB}} that don't show up on fr:Special:Whatlinkshere/Modèle:Portail HZB, please tell me what they are. -- Tim Starling 08:40, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Most of the biographies of botanists and zoologists should show up, and don't. For example, using fr:modèle:HZB : fr:Adolphe Brongniart, fr:Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, and using fr:modèle:Portail HZB : fr:Adrien de Jussieu, fr:Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, fr:Bernard de Jussieu, fr:Joseph de Jussieu, etc. I was wrong yesterday when I suspected the problem to be limited to only the former template. The user who mentioned the problem says that she usually counts the number of articles in the list, and by comparing with her previous count, knows instantly if new articles were created in the meantime. It is quite obvious she cannot rely on this method any longer. --Teofilo talk 12:53, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

One way of solving the problem would be to order a bot to make dummy edits on each of the 200000 articles of the French Misplaced Pages. --Teofilo talk 13:55, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

A bot was sent on the articles to make dummy edits. Now the problem is solved and the articles I mentioned above have probably come back into the list. --Teofilo talk 15:44, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

still a problem with Recent changes "Show new changes starting from..."

Hi,

The problem I reported earlier is still occurring; the largest gap I've seen is 8 Recentchanges entries missing between the top of the previous screen and the bottom of the next screen, although usually it's just one or two or zero.

Is there any way to specify the "from" parameter as a version id rather than a timestamp? Ie, instead of:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special:Recentchanges&from=20060104205710

it would be some syntax like:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special:Recentchanges&fromversion=33885462

Presumably this would avoid the problem with the gaps. -- Curps 21:07, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Creating is.wikisource.org

Hi, sorry for pestering you here, but it was suggested to me on irc that you were the person to ask the get is.wikisource.org up and running. I have filed a bug for it number 4471 and see also the discussion at wikisource.org. Respectfully, Stefán Ingi 22:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

It's up now, thanks for your time. Stefán Ingi 15:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Again

2006-01-05 08:08:25 UTC Jonathan Cary USD 20.00 -0.68 19.32 for TimStarling's assistance tracking down my MediaWiki issues

Red Hot + Riot

Thank you very much for the Red Hot + Riot correction. How did you make it happen? Folajimi 13:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Regards, Arno 09:39, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

CheckUser status

How would I go about applying for CheckUser priviledge? I'd find it very useful, and I believe I can be trusted not to abuse it. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:12, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

So, interesting bug, no? - Ta bu shi da yu 08:51, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Request for help

Hi Tim. Could you possibly delete User:SP-KP/ToDo/Bird_species for me? I'm not able to open (presumably because of its size). Sorry to bother you with a menial task like this, I tried an admin but he wasn't able to delete it. Steve. SP-KP 19:16, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Image on your user page

Hi Tim, the image on your user page has now been listed as "orphaned fair use" for over seven days. Furthermore, the {{PermissionAndFairUse}} template is deprecated, so you should change the license of the image. Maybe you could use a Creative Commons license. If you still want to license it under fair use, please use {{Fairusein}}. Thank you. Mushroom 22:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

If I license it under CC, then 5 seconds later it'll be in the Sunglasses article. Nobody wants that. Read . -- Tim Starling 12:36, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry Tim, I made at least three mistakes:

• I didn't read the licensing rationale.
• I suggested the use of a Creative Commons license.
• I wrote that {{PermissionAndFairUse}} is deprecated, but your image uses {{Fair use}}.

So I will humbly ask you to forget that message and I will rewrite it:

Hi Tim, the image on your user page has now been listed as "orphaned fair use" for over seven days. I have removed the tag since it's not orphaned and there's absolutely no reason to delete it. Since the image is on a small number of pages (4), I suggest that you use {{Fairusein}} instead of {{Fair use}}. Please put the image in your watchlist and remove any future "orphaned" tag that is added by a bot. Thank you.

Post scriptum: the image was not "incorrectly marked" by the Roomba bot. It was correctly marked, since that bot tags every image that is fair use and is not used in the Main: namespace. All those images should be deleted according to the fair use policy. Obviously there are exceptions, but it' not Roomba's fault. He's a good bot. Mushroom 21:38, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

The {{fairusein}} template does not adequately describe the situation. I'm going to sort out the licensing of the image and make a new template for it. -- Tim Starling 00:18, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

That's a really good idea, other users could benefit from it as well. Mushroom 06:21, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

User:Tim Starling/List of crackpot theories

I don't know if you want User:Tim Starling/List of crackpot theories; I've been reverting the aetheometrists there recently. William M. Connolley 23:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC),

Forgot password + no e-mail. Request Help!

I've registered under the username Michele.B and then forgot my password, unfortunately I did not supply an email! On this page it's stated that a developer might be able to help in this problem. I found your name on this page.

I have a fixed IP address (145.94.41.95 | Contributions) all edits before July 2 were made by a friend of mine, now registerd under the name DelftUser (talk).

I hope you can help me, thank you very much. --145.94.41.95 21:39, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

URL spam II.

Hello. I'm Louis and Wikipedian for about a half year. I would really need some help, because it is my first time I confronted with a spam prevention error. How can I add a new link to a page that contains partially a word enlisted in the blacklist? The article would be on Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle, Snoop's first and breaktrough x-rated DVD, and some reference could be added to it from a Jimmy Flynt II interview providing valuable information about the sales of the DVD that can be found on adultvideonews.com, which is an acclaimed site that gives away awards each year (its importance is represented by IMDB with an up-to-date awards coverage ).Lajbi 00:45, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Should be fixed now, let's test: http://adultvideonews.com/ -- Tim Starling 01:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Appreciate it.Lajbi 01:58, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikicities stats pages

Hi Tim: I'm from Muppet Wiki on Wikicities, and I've been having a hard time trying to find out what's going on with the stats pages. As far as I know, they haven't worked right for a month or so. Our stats page has actually never worked since we started the wiki two months ago.

Anyway, I hope you're still working on fixing things at Wikicities. You helped me out a lot on the IRC a while ago, and it seems like you really know what you're doing. Can you check on the stats pages? I've asked Angela and Jason about it a few times, and they keep blowing me off. I'd appreciate anything you could tell me. Thanks! -- Danny Toughpigs 04:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)