User talk:Hfastedge
Ha! thanks for fixing my outdated user page.w — Toby 23:14 Sep 19, 2002 (UTC)
Hello there Hfastedge, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149
Hi, Hfastedge. Welcome! There are some good articles on Wikpedia on how to add things. For example, Wikipedia is helpful. I just discovered this and I've been here for about a year.
Hello. The duplication between athletics and track running was well-spotted, but in the changing of one to a merge stuff was lost, such as the link to the 100m record list. I've pasted the older verion of track running to Talk:Athletics, as it seems to me that there are some things in that text that aren't mentioned in the ahtletics article. If you're knowledgeable on this subject (I'm not), could you take a look? thanks. -- Tarquin 14:54 Sep 22, 2002 (UTC)
- You'll notice from my contributions page here that i just contributed piles on each athletics category. i need not even bother more than scanning what i deleted to realize that i probably covered it in my 3 pages on: sprints, middle distance, and long distance. User:Hfastedge
- Fair point. But you actually did miss a link to a page listing world records for 100m. It may be harder work to merge two texts, but it is more polite to preserve the best of what has already been written than to start completely fresh. -- Tarquin 18:49 Sep 22, 2002 (UTC)
I'm curious about how you access the wiki database for the script at the top of your use page. I think it's a great idea, I just want to make sure it's done in such a way that it doesn burden the server or risk security. Do you log into MySQL remotely with the user password, or do you download the database periodically, or do you just call up special pages and filter them? Just curious. --LDC
- I randomly download the webpages over a certain period of time to minimize load on the server. I only download ones that are listed on my user contributions page. Are there other ways (eg like accessing mysql) that are open to the public? There some more intelligence going on behind the scenes as well.
No, it was not my intent to make the MySQL database directly accessible from outside, which is one reason I was curious :-) If you're just accessing through URLs and parsing history lists, etc., that's great, and shouldn't place any load on the server unless you're hitting Recent Changes constantly or something. Keep in mind that I do update the software now and then, so you might want to keep an eye on the mailing list to see if I announce changes (one I have planned soon will change the format of history pages, which I why I bring it up).
I've responded to your question at User talk:Ram-Man -- Ram-Man
eYou asked: explain how the article count just jumped 5000 articles in a day user_talk:hfastedge
I have no idea. I have had nothing to do with the article count since january; I used to run a script to request the list of all articles and then do some subtracting of users, pages about wikipedia etc.; but the old wiki software timed out when the list got past 20K articles, so I couldn't run it anymore, and the new wiki software has it built in, AFAIK Malcolm Farmer 15:59 Oct 20, 2002 (UTC)
I'm really not sure what you're trying to ask me about Ram-Man; he's just using the normal Wikipedia access facilities over the web with a bot. You'll have to ask him any details. We have no plans to switch to Postgres soon, if ever. The database is not a bottleneck; it could be 100 times as large and not be any slower from the user's point of view--we tested that extensively. MySQL is more than up to the job. MySQL's limitations just don't come into play here (the software is pretty much written around them), and its speed is actually better than most more powerful databases for the queries we're doing. Most of the speed problems come not with the size of the database, but with the number of simultaneous users. --LDC
Hfastedge, I've explained my edits of your Python programming language contributions on the talk page there. You should consider monitoring the talk pages of articles to which you make contributions, as that is where people will explain their edits. I have attempted to merge what accurate points you make into the rest of the article, but I have removed (and will continue to remove) erroneous statements ("Python is interpreted, not compiled"), and I will severely edit that which is ungrammatical. --FOo
See my response at User talk:Ram-Man
Hi there. I don't think pages like "2000 years ago" are a good idea. -- Tarquin 18:19 Jan 2, 2003 (UTC)
Hfastedge -- to revert a page, go to the "Older versions" link and click on the one you want to revert to. When that comes up, edit and save. -- Zoe
Hi, google gave several pages with some information on simulated annealing, but I couldn't find one place with all the information. I'm still searching, if I find one I'll add it. Arvindn 17:55 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)
Hi Hfast - on the US Bill of Rights article , why wasnt it simply reverted back to before it was vandalized? -Stevert
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Hi, greetings from Korea! -- User:Hyungjin Ahn
Regarding the number of Go games. The number is not really known, but the estimate that is usually taken is 361!(=361x360x359x...x2x1), being the number if you don't consider illegal moves or captures: There are 361 possibilities to play the first move, then 360 to play the second, then 359 to play the third, etcetera.
The page Game of go gives not the number of games, but the number of positions. This is in first estimate equal to 3361: Each point can be either black or white or empty. A friend of mine has once let the computer generate a large number of random positions, and concluded that about 10% of them were legal, so a good estimate of the number of actual Go positions would be . Andre Engels 05:14 Mar 2, 2003 (UTC)
I have a bad news for you. You have been accused of violating copyright by uploading the image Image:Tibetmap.png. In your interest, I have asked this question in the Village pump for you. Speak for yourself. --142.103.108.105 23:51 Mar 26, 2003 (UTC)
- I've deleted the image in question. Hfastedge, did you remove the copyright notice, Lonely Planet logo, and legend from this image yourself, or did you just pick it up from some other site without realizing it was a third-party's copyrighted material? --Brion 00:27 Mar 27, 2003 (UTC)
See Talk:Engine displacement for discussion from the 1 E-3 m3 page. -- JohnOwens 02:53 Mar 27, 2003 (UTC)
We all need to be careful concerning copyright information. It's not YOU that will be taken to court, it's Jimbo Wales, the owner of the website, and Wikipedia can be shut down as a result. Let's just be careful instead of argumentative. -- Zoe