User talk:MER-C

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Hello MER-C, and welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Meta:Metapub (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). If you would like, feel free to ask me questions on my talk page. Happy editing!

--Herby ^{talk thyme} 09:43, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Admin?

Hi MER-C. Ever thought of requesting admin rights to edit the spam blacklist yourself? Regards, Trijnstel_talk 21:01, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't meet the adminship criteria. MER-C (talk) 01:44, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, that's too bad. Can't we make an exception for active people on the spam blacklist like you? 'Cause we desperately need them imo. :) Trijnstel_talk 10:37, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

It might be possible with some sort of temp-adminship, with rights restricted to SBL. I think there's a precedence for that. Finn Rindahl (talk) 22:37, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Top40 fails

Gday MER-C. When I try the linksearch tool for the top 40, I get

Request timed out
This is probably because you searched a domain with too many links, surveyed a user with too many image uploads or did not specify a long enough prefix.

I don't think that is just a hate of me, as it works for the top 20 okay. Thanks if you can look at it. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:58, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

1) Which domain did you search?

2) Google App Engine allows only 60s per request and if I can't make 80 complete linksearches (HTTP+HTTPS for each wiki) in that time then it dies. The usual cause is the WMF servers not being fast enough. MER-C (talk) 03:25, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

I cannot even get a top20 sites search done at the moment. :-( [1] and this isn't the only site for which it is failing for me. I would even be happy if it gave me a per wiki count, and the potential to drill down, my guess is that a count is not readily doable anyway. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:14, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Works for me (3 links on en, nl: 1, es: 2, ru: 2, ja: 3, zh: 1, no: 2). I have looked at the logs, which weren't that informative. Time to blacklist some bots for not following robots.txt. MER-C (talk) 12:52, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Done. Guess who's to blame? These idiots. MER-C (talk) 13:27, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

This should be fixed for real now. MER-C (talk) 12:50, 10 May 2013 (UTC)