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[edit] Category member lists

If I want a similar lists of people who are in other categories but not Living people, can I do it myself? Or do I have to get someone else to do it for me? I couldn't find the tool you used :( . Cheers! Jarry1250 16:39, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I generated the list using a query. I'm not sure if there's actually a tool you can use. I'd expected Cat Scan to offer the possibility, but it appears it doesn't. If you want I can get you other lists as well though. You'll just need to tell me what categories you want to use. You could also ask w:de:User:Duesentrieb to modify Cat Scan to be able to find articles in category A and not in category B. --Erwin(85) 16:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
I just realised a flaw in my bot meant I missed about 75 articles that needed changing. Would you remind running exactly the same query as before to see which they are? Duesentrieb's sort of working on improving CatScan but it'll take a while, you see. Anyhow, if you could message me on wikipedia to remind me, that would also be great. Cheers, Jarry1250 19:19, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks. Jarry1250 20:32, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] your tool categorycount vs. variable PAGESINCATEGORY ...

... wins!! ;)))

how do you manage to find out the real sum of content of de:Kategorie:Wird_im_Mentorenprogramm_betreut, which has a wrong articlesumcount since several days ago? your tool doesn't have that problem and counts right! as i read in Bugzilla:16614 and elsewhere, this seems to be a severe bug. possibly you have the right hints for them? regards, --ulli purwin 12:31, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure if this is related to that bug. There's a difference of one in the counts, so I think that has to do with caching. As far as I know Wikipedia shows results from cache and doesn't update them for each pageview. --Erwin(85) 20:14, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
...no - its no caching-problem. your tool is always right - the pagesincategory change several times a day - and your tool shows always the right sum, which it couldn't do then... always one less then the variable, which is one too much! the problem is, that there had been a redirect on one of those users, which happened in between. thus this user is counted twice - but your tool is not disturbed by that ;) ! greetings, --ulli purwin 21:07, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
That's odd. To be honest I don't know how MediaWiki determines the value for pagesincategory, but apparently it uses a different method. Regards, Erwin(85) 21:18, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Translation

Thanks for translating my statement into Dutch. Unfortunately, I'm not useful enough to translate yours :)  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 23:05, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Tool Server Bug Reports

[edit] delete - wrong page count

http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/delete.php shows 380 pages to be deleted for the ksh.wikipedia.org while the wiki itself http://ksh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saachjrupp:Wikipedia:Schmie%C3%9F_Fott%21 only knows 38 such pages at the moment. The tool still lists pages that were deleted months ago, and also lists talk pages not to bel deleted at all. Often talk pages are kept as a documentation of the deletion process, or in cases of moved or renamed categories, so as to provide a link to the new category replacing it. --Purodha Blissenbach 02:22, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

The toolserver usually replicates data from Wikimedia, however at the moment it uses an old copy for a large number of projects. That's why it's outdated. Thanks for mentioning it though. --Erwin(85) 06:00, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] delete - wrong link

The "Bug report" Link on http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/delete.php goes to http://infra.ts.wikimedia.org/jira/browse/ERWIN which yields:

Not Found
The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. Please inform the site administrator of the referring page.

--Purodha Blissenbach 02:22, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll fix that as soon as possible. --Erwin(85) 06:00, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Categorycount

Yes, it's me again :) I'm currently proposing a bot that relies on category counting, and I could with a bit of advice about the best way of doing so. I could, I think, use an intermediary tool (such as your own categorycount), which would be simple and reliable, but might be unnecessary. The api itself seems quite good, but I don't think it includes subcategories (which I would need). Any thoughts? Once again, it would be best if you could reply on my en wikipedia page. Thanks! Jarry1250 12:08, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that might be a good idea, particularly as I can't find a good way to get a quick count of the number of transclusions of a template... unless you know of a good way? 92.18.220.214 10:00, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Can't you use the api for that? (Though I again suggest using the toolserver.) --Erwin(85) 10:21, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
The tool now seems broken, but that may just be me. Is it? Jarry1250 19:40, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
You're right. A new server was recently installed to the toolserver cluster, so the bot didn't work a couple of times. It should work now though. Please let me know if it doesn't. --Erwin(85) 21:15, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
It appears that everything is now working perfectly. Thanks for fixing it so quickly. Jarry1250 10:25, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Admin-aanvraag

Hoi Erwin, Ik ben weer met de blacklist aan de slag gegaan. Er staan heel veel COIbot reports. Ik zit er over te denken om de administrator-status aan te vragen. Denk je dat ik op dit moment kans maak om die verkiezing te halen? EdBever 10:40, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Mijn 2 cent .. JA ... --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 10:50, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Idem. Je hebt aangetoond daadwerkelijk werk te (willen) verzetten en voor dat werk kun je moderatorrechten heel goed gebruiken. --Erwin(85) 10:54, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
OK, bedankt voor jullie commentaar, ik heb mijn aanvraag geplaatst op Meta:Requests for adminship, ik heb de wijze van indienen afgekeken van anderen. N.B. wil je Requests for adminship/EdBever verwijderen? Dat was een foutje bij het afkijken.... EdBever 11:49, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] www.rothenburg-tourist.de/it/index.htm

Hallo Erwin, warum hast du den Externen Link www.rothenburg-tourist.de/it/index.htm aus der italienischen Version über Rothenburg ob der Tauber raus genommen? Was kann ich machen, damit der Link wieder dort erscheint? --79.208.125.222 14:45, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I removed the link because it has been spammed in the past from an IP address similar to yours. Besides that I don't think the link's relevant. Wikipedia is not a link farm. If you disagree, I suggest leaving a message at w:it:Talk:Rothenburg ob der Tauber. If a long-time contributor decides to add the link, I'll have no problems with it. --Erwin(85) 14:52, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Ok, vielen Dank für diese Information. Ich halte diesen Link für sehr relevant, da weitere Informationen über die Stadt angeboten werden, die bei Wikipedia nicht erscheinen. --79.208.125.222 15:15, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Ich habe unter w:it:Talk:Rothenburg ob der Tauber um Hilfe von einem contributor gebeten. Leider wurde meine Bitte nicht beachtet und gelöscht. Was kann ich nun tun? Danke für deine Hilfe. --79.208.125.222 16:34, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Well, unless you speak Italian I don't think there's anything you can do. I'm sorry I can't help you any further. --Erwin(85) 20:45, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I already linked the www.rothenburg-tourist.de for some month ago in the German and English version of Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Wikipedia. So, the long-time contributor check them all, because the informations in www.rothenburg-tourist.de are relevant. Now, the Italian Version is just a translation of it. Also I put further informations all of them Versions in Wikipedia, cause I am an "expert" about the city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Lot of italians come to Rothenburg in the reality. Please help to give them more Informations, because they want to. Wikipedia have to build bridge´s over the languages "border". I hope you understand want I am telling you. My User Name is Kobiwankinobi --79.208.123.40 23:27, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
If i may interrupt; I find your website, although it is attractive, not of interest for wikipedia. Rothenburg.de is already linked since it is the official website. Special tourism-related sites are generally not wanted on wikipedia since they mainly focus on generating business. Things like the history of the town should be in the wikipedia-article (as you did in the en: version), the article should not rely on the external links to make the user find the info. EdBever 15:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Stewards elections

Hello,

Since I cant vote on the election I want to say my support this way. I hope you will be chosen as Steward you have my trust.

Best regards, Abigor talk 18:36, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. :) --Erwin(85) 21:35, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] SBhandler

Erwin, Ik heb SBhandler aan staan, ik zie de nieuwe links bij de COIbot reports maar als ik op add klik wordt de pagina niet toegevoegd op de blacklist en in de log. Wat doe ik fout? Ik heb niets toegevoegd aan mijn monobook.js, als ik het goed begrijp is dat alleen nodig om een niet-standaard bericht achter te laten. EdBever 18:57, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Kun je iets specifieker zijn? Wordt een report wel opgeslagen als je op "Save and edit blacklist" klikt? Wat gebeurt er als je Special:SpamBlacklist bezoekt? Kan evt. ook via IRC. Dat gaat wat sneller. Groet, Erwin(85) 19:01, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
De link werkt niet... Andere vraag dan: hoe gebruik ik SBHandler? (ik zie je niet op IRC nu) EdBever 21:12, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
NB, ik heb [[1]] gelezen. EdBever 07:36, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Als je onderaan een XWiki report op add klikt, zou je File:SBHandlerRequest.png moeten zien. Vervolgens wordt je na het sluiten van een rapport naar bovengenoemde link geleid en daar zou je File:SBHandlerAdd.png moeten zien. De speciale pagina bestaat inderdaad niet, maar javascript zou de inhoud moeten aanpassen. Je hoeft niets in je monobook.js op te nemen, maar kun je wel even controleren of je de gadget aan hebt gevinkt? Waarschijnlijk overbodig, maar het zou het waarschijnlijk wel direct oplossen. Welke browser gebruik je? Kun je misschien ergens javascript-foutmeldingen bekijken? Groet, Erwin(85) 19:02, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Ik krijg een error: "Object wordt verwacht" in regel:6 teken: 3. Ik kan de url niet kopiëren maar hij eindigt op fakeaction=close_add. Het scherm wat je noemt wordt niet getoond. Ik gebruik IE7, maar in Firefox werkt het ook niet. EdBever 06:33, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Ik heb het nu net zelf geprobeerd in IE7 en krijg ook een foutmelding. Ik zal er nog eens naar kijken. Het zou wel moeten werken in Firefox. Krijg je daar ook een foutmelding? Groet, Erwin(85) 10:00, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Ik krijg geen foutmelding in firefox maar het werkt niet. Als ik Close probeer dan gebeurt er in ieder geval niets. EdBever 21:10, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
In IE7 werkt "Close" nu wel, de linkstatus wordt op closed gezet, maar de samenvatting wordt niet bewerkt of zo. EdBever 12:35, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
In Firefox werkt closed nu helemaal goed. EdBever 12:43, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Add werkt ook succesvol. EdBever 15:07, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Dat is mooi. Kun je zo voorlopig vooruit? Ik heb zelf namelijk geen IE7 (ik gebruik Linux), dus het kan even duren voor ik ernaar kan kijken. --Erwin(85) 14:08, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Ja, zo gaat het goed. EdBever 14:49, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] invitation

Hello,

I can not open the link : irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-admin ... Is it the right link ? Or my internet explorer is bugging ?? Jagwar 19:13, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi, it is indeed the right link. You can try just connecting to irc.freenode.net using an IRC client and then joining #wikimedia-admin (/server irc.freenode.net and then /join #wikimedia-admin). If you don't have an IRC client you can also use a web based one, e.g. java.freenode.net. --Erwin(85) 19:22, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

Congratulations on your election as a Steward! - Amgine/meta wikt wnews blog wmf-blog goog news 01:06, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. --Erwin(85) 08:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Lak wikipedia

Ik heb gezien dat je had vier artikelen op Lak wikipedia (lbe.wp) vandaag verwijderd. We hadden eigenlijk daar een vandaaal recentelijk die voeg onzin naar artikelen die leek op Lak, en ik heb zelf een aantal nieuwe artikelen te verwijderen gemarkeerd. Ik neem aan lbe:Yамхйлма was zo'n soort artiekel. Toch de andere drie (lbe:Aнжи, lbe:ЦIовкра-2 en lbe:Служебная:Технические вопросы) waren waarschijnlijk goede artikelen door hem gevandaliseerd. Kan je misschien even kijken of die drie stabiele versionen hadded (bvb door mij, AndrijkoZ of Amikeco geschreven), en, in dit geval, ze terugteplaatsen? lbe:Аракул is te verwijderen, ik heb die vandaag gemarkeedr. Bij voorbat dank.--Yaroslav Blanter 13:54, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Alle artikelen waren door Andrijko Z. voor verwijdering genomineerd en er zaten volgens mij geen goede versies tussen. Zou een van jullie misschien moderator willen worden? Ik zie dat jij bijvoorbeeld al een moderator op de Russische Wikipedia bent. Als je denkt dat de gemeenschap op de Lak Wikipedia actief genoeg is, kun je een verkiezing starten. Zo niet, dan kun je tijdelijk moderator worden. In dat geval volstaat een bericht op de Lak Wikipedia en als er geen reactie komt een verzoek op SRP. Groet, Erwin(85) 15:49, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Nee, er is geen gemeenschaap op Lak wp, slechts een antaal gebruikers die geen Lak praten en de gebeurtenissen een beetje volgen, en ik was al voor twee maanden tijdelijke moderator. Als de vandaal gaat voortzetten moeten wij inderdaad een tijdelijke moderator nomineren, maar op dit moment lijkt het niet verstandig. Bedankt ieder geval voor het werk. Groeten--Yaroslav Blanter 16:10, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


[edit] SRP

It looks like you're a fresh steward yet. So, according to this [2] I think you forgot something here.[3] 189.4.210.5 03:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I indeed did. --Erwin(85) 21:32, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] NobelBot

Thanks for your attention, I will correcting the problem of templates. Thanksجمال بركات 06:44, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] API change?

Got some errors using SBHandler - not sure what to make of the debug output:

action=edit&title=User%3ACOIBot%2FXWiki%2Fchat.com.tr&summary=%2F*%20Discussion%20*%2F%20Added&text=%3D%3D%3D%3D%3DDiscussion%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%0A%0A%7B%7BLinkStatus%7Cclosed%7D%7D%0A%0ASee%20%5B%5BUser%3ACOIBot%2FLinkReports%2Fchat.com.tr%7CCOIBot%20report%5D%5D%20for%20more%20details.%20--%5B%5BUser%3ACOIBot%7CCOIBot%5D%5D%2001%3A26%2C%2016%20March%202009%20(UTC)%3C!--%20Please%20put%20comments%20after%20this%20remark%20--%3E%0A%0A%3A%7B%7BAdded%7D%7D%20~~~~&section=6&minor=1&unwatch=1&token=4f844836e11f3348d527b337296f4178%2B%5CMediaWiki internal error.



Original exception: exception 'MWException' with message 'FauxRequest::getRequestURL() not implemented' in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/WebRequest.php:692

Stack trace:

#0 /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/WebRequest.php(713): FauxRequest->notImplemented('FauxRequest::ge...')

#1 /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/Exception.php(133): FauxRequest->getRequestURL()

#2 /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/api/ApiMain.php(265): MWException->getLogMessage()

#3 /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/api/ApiMain.php(245): ApiMain->executeActionWithErrorHandling()

#4 /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/api.php(77): ApiMain->execute()

#5 /usr/local/apache/common-local/live-1.5/api.php(3): require('/usr/local/apac...')

#6 {main}



Exception caught inside exception handler: exception 'MWException' with message 'FauxRequest::getRequestURL() not implemented' in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/WebRequest.php:692

Stack trace:

#0 /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/WebRequest.php(713): FauxRequest->notImplemented('FauxRequest::ge...')

#1 /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/Exception.php(133): FauxRequest->getRequestURL()

#2 /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/Exception.php(179): MWException->getLogMessage()

#3 /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/Exception.php(277): MWException->report()

#4 /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/Exception.php(337): wfReportException(Object(MWException))

#5 [internal function]: wfExceptionHandler(Object(MWException))

#6 {main}

 — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 16:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Hmm.. I don't know what's going on here. I first tried another report and got no error there. However this error is reproducable for this specific spam report. Please let me know if you see the error again. I'll probably won't do anything about it until then. --Erwin(85) 19:05, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Request for a new tool

Hello, since Global sysop is being started up again, I want to request to you to make a tool that will list the wikis with a certain number of sysop, including a list of wikis with no sysops. This will help where we need to propose the new policy. Thanks. Techman224Talk 03:56, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I was actually thinking about updating the existing list, but I might as well make a tool out of it. In any case, I'll look into this tomorrow. --Erwin 21:02, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
See tools:~erwin85/projects.php. --Erwin 12:03, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Get namespace code

Just to let you know that I'm going to I'd like to rip-off your toolserver getnamespaces JS for my own toolserver tools, if that's okay with you. Jarry1250 13:13, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks for letting me know. --Erwin 21:02, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] quran.waraqat.net -- per m:User:COIBot/XWiki/quran.waraqat.net.

Hey Erwin. Waht´s wrong with this link? It´s a link to online Qur´an writen in arabic. The User Abokhalel2 (global) has put it on related sites. Perhaps wrong Bot report? --Seha 22:13, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi, that's exactly the problem. The link was being added to a lot of projects. Projects where people won't speak Arabic and the link thus isn't relevant. It doesn't have to be the site itself that's the problem. In most cases it's the link placement. --Erwin 07:32, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
There is no other Qur´an but arabic written. The translations are in Islam not accepted. For those who are interessted on Islam, or are islamic, it is a nice source. I can´t see any problematic with this link, but OK. I´m gonna make an revert of your edits by this link on bs.wiki, if you don´t mind. There is no reason to see it as vandalism or spam. It´s a edit based on true will, but perhaps maded at wrong places. Best regards --Seha 07:32, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] xwiki.php

Could you tweak 2 things? In

Vanessa Marcil (L) (hist | edit  | rem ) (Reported edits: diff;)

the spacing is odd -- hist doesn't have a space before it but rem has one after it - could you add that missing space?

And instead of adding (L) to the article title, could we use colours? Probably green for unlinked and red for linked would be straightforward for folks.

Thanks  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 03:05, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Hi1

Thank you very much for hr:Suradnik:Erwin/Wantedpages. Your page caused writting frenzy ;). Check top 150 pages on the list! --Ante Perkovic 07:38, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Meta admins and discussions

Hi there. There has been mention of a meta blacklisting and admin actions (from January 2009) at a current request for arbitration over on en-Wikipedia. The request is titled "Abd and JzG". I've asked there whether I've found the right links to the meta discussions and actions mentioned at the request. If I have the right person (I think you made the edit to the blacklist to add the website in question), then this is a courtesy notification so that you are aware of this. There was also an earlier RfC, but I don't know if you were aware of that. If you could help fill out some of the background to this, either at the request or when the case opens, that would be great. Thanks. I've left a duplicate of this note at your en-Wikipedia user talk page. Carcharoth 20:16, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] St. Antonius Slek

Hallo Edwin, ik heb je wijziging in li:Echt op de LI wiki teruggedraaid. Er is niks mis met die link! Misschien eerst de link controleren voordat hij verwijderd wordt? - Pahles 18:31, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] non-capturing groups

Per bugzilla:18844, it's not worth it to use non-capturing groups. Would you change that in SBHandler please? Using non-capturing groups makes regexes much more readable. Thanks.  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 23:30, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks for the heads-up. --Erwin 10:10, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
What do you mean actually? SBHandler doesn't group URLs at all. --Erwin 17:39, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I thought it did, but looking now you're (of course) correct. Ignore the crazy person :D  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 21:24, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Robot status for your robot at svwiki_p

Hello! The bot status for your bot sv:User:Erwin85Bot at the swedish Wikipedia has been revoked due to inactivity. This is for security reasons. If/when you activate your bot again, please drop a note to anyone of our bureaucrats or at Wikipedia:Robotansökan and the robot status will be restored. --MagnusA 18:52, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

OK, thanks for letting me know. --Erwin 09:13, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Wantedpage

Hi, could you update this page on croatian wikipedia? You can answer me on my talk page here. Thanks in advance!--Phantom 09:22, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

I translated your instructions. Thanks a lot!--Phantom 16:14, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews in Portuguese

Thanks, Erwin, to help us. :) Alex Pereira falaê 19:26, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] add a project

Can you add Wikiversities in yours tools-toolserver. Thanks in advance. Crochet.david 12:32, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

I just added it. It might be that I missed a tool, so let me know if it doesn't work. --Erwin 19:58, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Idea for Tool "contribs"

To identify faster two propably different biological users: Consecutively edits from two different users under 60 sec with time-Background in yellow, under 30 sec with time-background in orange, under 10 sec with time-background in red (quite shure not the same user or it is made deliberately, but then it has mostly a similar pattern) --Fg68at 15:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

I definitely want to implement this. It has actually been suggested before, but I haven't found the time yet to make the required changes. --Erwin 20:16, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Oh, and i observed now, that i can view only maximal the first and the last 500 Edits. For the check of the same or other biolocical persons behind users, it would be good to ckeck all edits. (Sometimes i have had users with ie. 4.000 Edits and only 1 or 2 edits in timly difficult situations in their whole combined edit-life.) When there are privacy concernd then the tool can display in a modus only the timly difficult edits and maybe 5 or 10 Edits before and after. --Fg68at 20:42, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Erwin85Bot on simple.wikipedia

I am doing a cleanup of inactive bots on simple.wikipedia. Your bot hasn't been active in over a year so I have removed the flag for security concerns. Should you intend to use it again just let me or one of the other crats know and we can give the flag back. -Djsasso 16:21, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Sure, thanks for the heads-up. --Erwin 19:39, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] ChampsElysees.org

Why did you deleted ChampsElysees.org This site has been in wikipedia since 1998! And you blocked it, why? Because I added it in others languages versions, is this forbidden? And in the Tour de France page, so go to Tour de France website and look which website they choose to inform about Champs Elysees arrival for the race. This is the only 100% website in french, English and Chinese. With an unique virtual visit ( created by us like the Map). Do you know a better site to know more about Champs Elysees? It is published with the Champs Elysees Committee. It is the Offical website of Champs Elysees Paris. I dont understand.

Thx

Eric

Dear Eric, the link has been removed because Wikipedia tends to keep the number of external links at a minimum. See w:en:Wikipedia:External links for more information. The fact that you added it to other language versions as well did not help. Please note that the site has not been blocked. Long-term Wikipedia editors can still add the link, but I recommend you not to add it as it appears you are the owner or creator of the site. --Erwin 17:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Changing username for SUL account

Hello Erwin, I understand you are a steward and you can globally handle SUL issues. I recently requested to rename my main wiki, en Wikipedia, account from Marsa Lahminal to Samar. And though there were users on other projects already named Samar, the local bureaucrat created a SUL account for me. I individually requested to be renamed on Meta (which was done), Simple Wikipedia (which was not done, see here), and Commons (done). However, there are certain problems on other projects, since I cannot speak the language, I cannot request for a name change. I would really appreciate if you can help me in this regard.

Secondly, my Marsa Lahminal account is also SUL account, so when I navigated from one wiki project to other (say from Commons to en Wiki), Marsa Lahminal account was recreated there. I have requested a local bureaucrat to block my account on en wiki, but I am quite sure it will be recreated on other projects too unless I don't rename all my account. Is it possible if you could rename all the accounts and block/delete the old one? I can provide a proof if you need of my accounts on these projects. Regards. Samar 20:44, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello, at most projects it is possible to request a name change in English. Most users with SUL requests don't speak the language. For projects with bureaucrats you will have to locally request such a rename. See Index of pages where renaming can be requested for the various pages where to place your request. If there are no local bureaucrats you can place your request at Steward requests/SUL requests and a steward will help you. Regarding your second question I'm afraid I can't really help you. As said you need to request this locally for projects with bureaucrats. It is possible to request deletion of your global account, such that you won't automatically login anymore. This can also be done at Steward requests/SUL requests. Regards, Erwin 19:45, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] SBHandler bug report

Hoi Erwin, the following message appears when trying to use SBHandler:

SBHandler
Saving failed. Please close the request yourself. Use Special:SpamBlacklist to add/remove the domains to/from the blacklist.
Params:

action=edit&title=Talk%3ASpam_blacklist&summary=%2F*%20cru.ms%20*%2F%20Added&text=%3D%3D%3Dcru.ms%3D%3D%3D%0A%7B%7Blinksummary%7Ccru.ms%7D%7D%0AURL%20redirector%2Fshortener.%20%5B%5BSpecial%3AContributions%2F98.122.183.67%7C98.122.183.67%5D%5D%2013%3A07%2C%2019%20September%202009%20(UTC)%0A%0A%3A%7B%7BAdded%7D%7D%20~~~~&section=6&notminor=1&watch=1&token=b38952bb4170f9df671a964f5f16a0cf%2B%5C


Response:

The watch parameter has been deprecated.

Sorry for this ugly message & thank you. — df| 13:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, everything beyond saving the page has been broken since the last site update. Firebug isn't working at present, so I can't tell you more - but I'll do that shortly and pass info along.  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 03:55, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Dferg, thanks to your "ugly" message I was able to find the error quite fast. Mike, the software update caused an unexpected response and the script halted. It should have been possible to add a path to the blacklist by following the link to Special:SpamBlacklist. If not, that's another bug. In any case, I just added a domain from Talk:Spam blacklist. So it seems to work fine. Please let me know if it doesn't for you. Thanks for both your messages. --Erwin 17:33, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] links verwijderd

Waarom heb je links verwijderd naar allesoverhomecinema.com?

[edit] The Anti-Spam Barnstar

No spam barnstar.png The Anti-Spam Barnstar
Many thanks for your efforts on meta.wikimedia keeping the wikimedia projects clear of spam and other nonsense.--Hu12 18:55, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Cheers--Hu12 18:55, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! :) --Erwin 19:44, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Checkuser request

Thank you very much for your assistant unfortunately further checking show it is a mix contribution. Not able to block. Sigh, just have to live with it, I guess. Yosri 13:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. Too bad you can't block the IP. --Erwin 15:11, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] StringFunctions

Hi Erwin

Zou jij weten hoe ik de StringFunctions aan de praat krijg op WikiWoordenboek? Romaine dacht dat er een developper aan te pas moest komen, maar ik weet niet waar ik dat aan de orde moet stellen.

Groet nl:wikt:Gebruiker:Jcwf Jcwf 00:48, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Hoi, daar moet inderdaad een developer bij aan te pas komen. Ik heb het net even aan een aantal van hen gevraagd, maar volgens hen is het niet beschikbaar voor WMF projecten. Je kunt proberen op bugzilla: een bug te openen met het verzoek om het in te schakelen voor WikiWoordenboek, maar de verwachting is dus dat dat wordt afgewezen. Helaas, want het lijkt me erg handig. Groet, Erwin 09:16, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Hoi, StringFunctions is toegevoegd aan ParserFunctions. Die versie van ParserFunctions wordt al gebruikt, alleen moet er een regel aan LocalSettings.php worden toegevoegd, om de StringFunctions te kunnen gebruiken (Extension:ParserFunctions). Denk je dat dit een mogelijkheid is? Larzzz 12:28, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Zoals ik het begrijp is het dat dus niet, maar je moet niet te veel waarde aan mijn mening hechten. Je kunt altijd een bug aanmaken met de vraag of het ingeschakeld kan worden. Baat het niet, dan schaadt het niet. --Erwin 20:24, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bot

Hi Erwin, sorry that I contact you directly, but could you give us a temporary bot flag for some days. We want to create some subpages in DBpedia/ontology Steward_requests/Bot_status#DBpedia-Bot.40DBpedia. After that we are done. We already talked to Brion and Daniel about it. The DBpedia project will soon be connected to the Toolserver as well I guess. Now we are kind of in a hurry. Tanks, SebastianHellmann 19:59, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I'm afraid I can't give your bot a flag myself. I did move the request to the appropriate place: Meta:Requests for bot status/DBpedia-Bot. If I were you I'd start editing with your bot. A bot flag is no big deal, so I expect a bureaucrat to just give a flag as soon as he notices the recent changes being flooded. Gruss, Erwin 20:46, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Kinyarwanda Wikipedia

I want to help this wikipedia. They at those wikipedia can be translated. User:Digimon Adventure

I replied at w:rw:User talk:Digimon Adventure. --Erwin 11:20, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] SynchCrosswiki

Saw this -- but having a redirect like that creates broken redirects that folks then clean up. You probably want to make it a simple link: [[m:User:Erwin]]  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 16:45, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I think they should be ignored by the special page, but making a normal is the easiest solution. Thanks. --Erwin 18:20, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] User Pages

Actually I don't know how to request for bot flag and first question is what is bot flag. My purpose of creating user pages is so that each user gets his/her page in blue. Obviously they can change and add whatever they want to later. I'm a new user to wikipedia and that's why I don't know much about editing articles. Second thing is I'm not very good at editing Hindi language articles but still I want to make some contribution to the hiwiki so I discussed this with the admins on hiwiki and they agreed to me adding content to user pages so that I stay connected to hiwiki. In the meantime I'm learning more Hindi so that I may edit articles correctly in the future but for now I'm only adding content to user pages. हिन्दी 13:42, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

I would recommend that you not do this. Users might not want their userpage created there, so I would be of a mind to just stop doing it and move on to doing something else. I think that the decision to make a user's userpage should rest with the owner of the account, and not someone else using a bot to make it. Razorflame 17:13, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] neilsonrabelo spam

Thanks for that :) I've reverted everywhere now (thank goodness for global rollback :) ) - thanks again! - Alison ❤ 08:28, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome and thank you for noticing and reverting it, which is actually most of the work. --Erwin 08:35, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Galician Wikibooks

I'll tell an admin about that, there's one who is still active at Galician Wikipedia, so he can do the job. I can't propose myself to admin (according to Galician Wikipedia's rules, extensible to other Wikimedia projects in Galician IMO), and actually I don't really like responsabilities ;). Thanks for the warning. --GallaecioE logo? 15:19, 15 decembro 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mardetanha@fa.wiki

It is quite clear why you have not done the check user for user:Mardetanha. He is a steward and probably your friend, so he can do whatever he wants including having sockpuppets. I will definitely pursue this matter in whatever ways necessary. You won't find the results pleasant either for you or for your beloved friend.--Feuer1000 14:32, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, regardless of the outcome, who are you to blame someone for using sockpuppets? I find it improbable that your first and only edit to a WMF project is a checkuser request of a steward. --Erwin 15:51, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
First of all, I am not stupid to post a checkuser request for a steward with my main account. Have I done that, the accused party would ban my account in a matter a second! Secondly you better do your job and perform the checkuser, instead of accusing me. Although I am sure that you have done the checkuser and already observed that he uses sockpuppets. Otherwise you could easily say that the outcome is negative. Just wait a few days and you will see the true outcome for you, mardetanha and the third supporter of this dirty band who is no one but your beloved friend User:Mike.lifeguard. Goede gelukkameraad!--Feuer1000 17:29, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
So you're using sockpuppet accounts to accuse people? Seems a bit more stupid IMO... –Juliancolton | Talk 17:37, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Stupid are the people who think they can easily abuse their power and remain unharmed. Is it obvious that who are stupid then? I fully understand why you are angry. You can't revenge, huh?--Feuer1000 17:43, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
As long as you're hiding behind sockpuppets I see no reason to take you serious. --Erwin 20:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
I don't really expect you to do the checkuser (read: to announce the result of checkuser). Your friend has already started to look innocent. That's an old show, only good for tricking small children. The accused party says he is innocent and is ready to be checkusered and you say there is no need for it (yeah there is no need because you already know his sock). Indeed you are a part of this and not eligible to do the ckeckuser. You won't tell the truth even if you do it.--Feuer1000 22:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
hello erwin though this user should be troll but i don't mind to be checkusered anytime. tnx --Mardetanha talk 17:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Nevertheless, I see no reason to do so. --Erwin 20:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Username change request

Hello. Could you help me in my username change request? It have almost 2 month... Thank you! Visible Light 16:32, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Replied at SRUC. --Erwin 20:37, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
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