User talk:Brooke Vibber
Old talk at User talk:Brion VIBBER (archive)
Harass me here:
I notice some comments in the deletion log about the delete function not working right -- what's up? I'll try to fix it if there's a problem... --Brion 08:28 Dec 7, 2002 (UTC)
- I'm not sure, and I don't have time to play with it because I'm behind schedule to make my deadline on Monday, but I stopped by for a minute and tried to delete a page, and it didn't go away. I thought when I deleted pages that had no links to them before, they ceased to exist, but I may just not have known how to find them again. This one doesn't go away when I delete it.
- What exactly happened? Did it tell you that it had deleted the page, or did it do something else after clicking the 'yes, delete it' button? --Brion 09:19 Dec 7, 2002 (UTC)
- It said it was deleted, but it wasn't -- the page was still there, but without any text. It may have had to do with there being an article page and a talk page and my trying to delete them one at a time. Or not. -- isis 09:46 Dec 7, 2002 (UTC)
- Hmm, "without any text" meaning a completely empty/blank article area, or meaning the "(There is currently no text in this page)" message? (This latter is very misleading -- the message only shows for pages that don't exist; a page with no text will just show blank. This needs to be replaced with something useful.) --Brion 10:05 Dec 7, 2002 (UTC)
- I don't remember whether it said anything or not, but it was an edit page, and when I clicked on 'cancel' (without typing anything on it) it turned into an article page that may have said there is no text. -- isis 10:47 Dec 7, 2002 (UTC)
- By the way, I'm not sure if this is a problem with the software or my ignorance of how to use it, but when I search I don't find articles whose titles are letters, that is, I can't find A.U.M.P. Church by searching on the letters, but on "a u m p church" it gives me all the ones with "church" in the title. -- isis 09:10 Dec 7, 2002 (UTC)
Greetings from http://sv.wikipedia.org/ ! We are having a bit of problem with a user from 217.211.91.247 who delete content of articles. I'm restoring the content, but it keeps being deleted. I have wtitten about the problem in http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage Could you please look into it, thanks! // Liftarn
Note on deletions - I haven't noticed anything odd about them... but if I do I'll get back to you :) KJ
Well, I have fixed them as soon as I noticed them, but 217.211.91.247 keeps changing them back. What has happened is
- Text is removed from the articles on Anders Klarström, Bevara Sverige Svenskt and Leif Zeilon
- In the article about Sverigedemokraterna the note about NPOV is removed.
- In the article about Combat 18 the text about the 1999 bombings was removed and the link to the article in English was made broken.
- Text about the background of Svenska motståndsrörelsen was removed.
- Text removed from the article on Nationell Ungdom.
- Much text from the article on Front National gets removed.
(please note that the changes are made in the Swedish articles) // Liftarn
- If you keep changing the pages back, they'll eventually get bored and find something more interesting to do. (Keep an eye on the user contributions list - click the IP in recentchanges or history list. If an edit they made is still the most recent, it'll be marked 'top') Or, one of your sysops can ban the IP. --Brion 09:32 Dec 10, 2002 (UTC)
- I have a pretty good idea about who it is (I think the user is identical to one at susning.nu) and it doesn't look like he/she/it is going to get bored so easily. Do you notice the common theme of the articles? // Liftarn 10:15 Dec 10, 2002 (UTC)
Brion, why does the textbox work for me here in the Normal skin, but it still doesn't work right for me in the Esperanto version? --Chuck SMITH
- Did you try turning off 'edit box full width' in your prefs? --Brion 10:49 Dec 9, 2002 (UTC)
I didn't know if it would matter, but I created a User:rambot for all the rambot entries, that way anyone can tell at a glance if it is me or the bot doing the work. I didn't know if this meant there could be some way that we could hack in some kind of special case so that the Recent Changes screen avoids all "rambot" entries. The current bot run is going to take about 7 days to complete, but after that I was planning on rechecking the remaining 10,000 city articles that were missed (to verify the data, as people were noticing problems). I didn't know if there was any new work done on trying to clear the Recent Changes screen of bot entries. -- RM
- If the rambot entries weren't on recentchanges, would people have noticed the problems in the data? --Brion 21:22 Dec 9, 2002 (UTC)
- Unless they were viewing recent changes from a month ago, yes. None of the errors that people have recently given me were about the current bot run. So it appears as if most people are ignoring those entries. That said, I understand the purpose of the RC. Nevertheless, I just wish there was some way that I could do my work without bothering others. It is also a (minor?) annoyance to have to slow the bot down this much. A filter would be a blessed thing. -- RM
Hi Brion. is it ok to change the logo for the Swedish wikipedia? So far we have one alternative ready, with swedish text and a little bit happier in color:
This is how it looks...
http://sv.wikipedia.org/upload/b/bc/Wiki.png
Dan Koehl 11:42 Dec 10, 2002 (UTC)
- Done. It should now be linked to the uploaded file 'Wiki.png', so if you upload a new version it should take over automatically (clear your cache if need be!). --Brion 21:46 Dec 10, 2002 (UTC)