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Do you want to WP:AFD this article, Miguel Condé? Real96 23:47, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Barnstar time!
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The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
| I, for one, appreciate the efforts you make in keeping Wikipedia vandal-, spam- and other-annoyance-free. Keep up the good work! Alan 13:27, 5 May 2007 (UTC) |
- You mean I'm now your robotic overlord? </sarcasm> Thanks, anyway. MER-C 14:10, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Contributions Page
What do you mean it was a non-existing user's page? So you mean someone who use to have a user page, its name was User:Jordanrschroeder Contributions? Jordanrschroeder 13:54, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
- Discussion at User talk:Jordanrschroeder#Contributions page.
Greetings Sir!
May I ask, why the articel Zongshen 200 GS is nominated for deletion? We understand that the article may sound like an advertisement, but many other bike models of other companies (i.e. Honda, Kawasaki, Aprillia, Benelli, etc.) are existing as articles in Wikipedia?
May we seek explanation, because many of us who wish and like the article to be here, feels like descriminated. Is it due to the fact that the motorcycle featured in the article is "Made in China", and no one recognizes products from China? And other bike models from well known companies are given more priority in Wikipedia, than those "Made in China".
We hope to have a common understanding regarding these, before you proceed with any deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.9.52.160 (talk • contribs)
- My rationale for deletion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zongshen 200 GS. Not because it is spam, but because it is non-notable and unverifiable. Not to mention an impersonator.
- By the way - when you go fishing, do you catch all the fish? MER-C 05:33, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
USer page
Thanks for the revert. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:57, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Re: Wikipedia != myspace
What exactly constitutes a zero tolerance approach? I'm guessing that one would need to inform an admin and have the user(s) blocked. I've found several users (notably User:Driski555 and User:E-abulous) who are using Wikipedia as a social networking site (presumably because it isn't blocked at their high school). The only edits they've made to actual articles have been vandalism (e.g. changing the first line of the article on evolution to read "evolution does not exist", adding their names to a list of famous people from Wisconsin, etc., etc.). I hate to waste time on Wikipedia chasing down users that are abusing the system, instead of making constuctive edits, but... if these people are allowed to continue using WP in such a way, it will show others that this sort of systematic abuse is tolerated. I've already warned them both, and one has even apologized to me. But they're still using WP as a sort of myspace (they even have links to myspace under a "Friends" section on their user pages). So, where should I go from here? Fuzzform 20:50, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
locateme tags
Hi. I've noticed you've been putting the {{locateme}} tag onto articles. I've been moving them to the articles' talk pages as, according to the Template:LocateMe page, they should be on the talk pages. Cheers, A bit iffy 10:22, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
comment deletion
Stp dltng m cmmnt lk y dd nWkpd:rtcls fr dltn/Mgl Cnd; d t gn nd y'r rprtd.-Eep² 03:05, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- Trolling is not tolerated here, try posting here instead. MER-C 03:22, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- Oh noes! Your goign to be reported!!11!!!! Me tooo!!!one! >Radiant< 07:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- ROFL! MER-C 08:26, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- Note that I've blocked him now. >Radiant< 09:12, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- ROFL! MER-C 08:26, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- Oh noes! Your goign to be reported!!11!!!! Me tooo!!!one! >Radiant< 07:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Hizzoner
OK. But I would still contest the prod, since I believe the article is worthy of further etymological expansion: which newspaper coined the spelling, the political climate in which it was first used, why it seems to stick to only certain mayors of certain big cities (for example, I remember it used extensively in NYC in the Koch and Giuliani years, but not very often for Bloomberg or Dinkins). Yeah, yeah, not a dictionary and all, but that last part seems beyond wiktionary and within the realm of wikipedia. You can tag it as needing expansion/context/sources, which I will try to find. Wl219 06:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Review
Hi, you placed a banner at the page Expanding earth theory in Feb. 2007.
A substantial amount of contributions and referencing has occurred and it is currently being reworked for peer review. Your template, while accurate at the time is longer warranted. I am therefore removing it, I hope you agree with this action. Can I also suggest that the talk page is the first and best place to suggest article improvement, in my personal opinion these tags are used mostly to make a point and do not improve wikipedia. If it is 'urgent', it can be removed and added to the talk page. IMHO. Anyway, regards - ☻ Fred|☝ discussion|✍ contributions 14:30, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks
Hi there, thanks for taking care of the person vandalising my user page (along with various articles) earlier today. Having not dealt with active vandals on Wikipedia for a few years, I wasn't sure where to request blocking (but now I know, from the link at the top of your talk page 
). Thanks again. —David Johnson [T|C] 15:14, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Your question
Hello, I probably should have posted this hours ago, but I just thought to do it now.... Thanks for taking the time to post a question at my RFA. I have provided an answer (which I am guessing you have noticed by now). If you would like to discuss this further, or I did not fully answer your question, please feel free to reply either in the RFA thread or here on your talk page. Regards. --After Midnight 0001 17:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- That's fine. I was just making sure your password wasn't exactly that and beyond the reach of script kiddies. MER-C 10:19, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- BTW, do you know if the DEVs will be running the checker against the admin accounts periodically and resetting passwords and emailing people to change them if necessary? Assuming that my RFA passes, I have absolutely no objection to (and would actually support) a process where the password hash was put up against a cracker for privileged accounts. Since all these accounts (better) have valid emails, any that are not strong enough can be remediated easily in that fashion. Of course, if someone doesn't have their email correct, they could be sunk, but I've been told that almost all the emails are good. --After Midnight 0001 12:29, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- No, I think it may be a once-off. See bugzilla:9816/WP:AN#Password cracker to be run over admin accounts shortly. It's happened again: WP:ANI#Account hacked?. MER-C 12:46, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- BTW, do you know if the DEVs will be running the checker against the admin accounts periodically and resetting passwords and emailing people to change them if necessary? Assuming that my RFA passes, I have absolutely no objection to (and would actually support) a process where the password hash was put up against a cracker for privileged accounts. Since all these accounts (better) have valid emails, any that are not strong enough can be remediated easily in that fashion. Of course, if someone doesn't have their email correct, they could be sunk, but I've been told that almost all the emails are good. --After Midnight 0001 12:29, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Untitled section
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The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
| Thanks for reverting vandalism done to my user page, while I was struggling between finding out who was the vandal, trying to warn him and reverting the vandalism. I recently warned the vandal after he vandalized several pages, and guess he went to play revenge. And thanks for reporting him.Optakeover 11:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC) |
- Oh and, you can open an Awards sub-page for your userpage now. Haha! Optakeover 11:16, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- If I can be bothered. Thanks. MER-C 12:46, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Surprising comment
I was surprised to learn on Eep's talk page that you fall on the wrong side of RFA cliche #1. Would you like me to fix that? >Radiant< 13:00, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- It's a bit hard running for adminship with only one hand. After my arm heals, I've got exams coming up about the time I can begin to type with two hands, so the answer's no until mid-June.
- And the edit counters become practically useless once you go over 50,000 edits. MER-C 04:13, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
- You can run as long as you have two feet :) Anyway feel free to get back to me on this. >Radiant< 08:15, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
- Or me - I'll co-nom if you want. ViridaeTalk 08:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
- I'll vote for it, too, MER-C. Yes, I remember I voted against it last time, but that was months ago, before working alongside with other volunteers on COI/N and BLP/N. We know you don't mind being in hot water :-D — Athaenara 07:13, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- Looks like you'd pass regardless of how many hands you have :) >Radiant< 09:46, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- I personally have a strong bias against people with 3 arms :0. Anyway, take care and heal fast ;). I just hope you're right handed. -- lucasbfr talk 10:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, I am. MER-C 10:44, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- I'll vote for it, too, MER-C. Yes, I remember I voted against it last time, but that was months ago, before working alongside with other volunteers on COI/N and BLP/N. We know you don't mind being in hot water :-D — Athaenara 07:13, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- Or me - I'll co-nom if you want. ViridaeTalk 08:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
- You can run as long as you have two feet :) Anyway feel free to get back to me on this. >Radiant< 08:15, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the copyright info
Thanks for pointing me to {{PD-US-patent}}! --Butseriouslyfolks 16:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Deleation of Pico (Newgrounds)
Why do you want this article to be deleated? I really like this article. Superjustinbros. 18:57, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Prod
Hi MER-C,
I'm new to deleting pages; I recently requested the removal of User:Spreading its wings, and you suggested that I use a prod. What exactly is that? Thanks, --MosheA 10:48, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- Prod refers to Wikipedia:Proposed deletion. It's the favoured method of dealing with "user page[s] appear[ing] to be used as a blog, social networking site and/or a free web host [where t]he user concerned has made few (if any) encyclopedic contributions and has not been active for a substantial period of time", as my custom made template puts it. MER-C 10:59, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my page. --Nlu (talk) 13:48, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- Just saw that you're hurt. I'm sorry to hear that. Get better soon. --Nlu (talk) 13:48, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
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| For remaining dedicated during your recovery, you are awarded the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. --Nlu (talk) 13:52, 11 May 2007 (UTC) |
Hurt?
Sounds pretty nasty :( Hope you get better soon! Don't wear yourself out tapping away at the keyboard ;) Take care, – Rianaऋ 14:45, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
- Don't worry, I've found a task that only requires the mouse. Too bad it increases the size of the image backlogs. MER-C 06:18, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
- How glorious! I look forward to getting some deleting done :) Oh, and thanks for the talk page revert, much appreciated. Cheers, – Rianaऋ 14:18, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
- Ouch, I was wondering what you meant about only having one hand at WT:FPC. Hope it's fixed soon :-) --YFB ¿ 13:56, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Licensing
I've added the appropriate tag to the Cecil Sharpe House image. [user]Matt.whitby[/user].
GFDL-presumed images
While I have no particular love for GFDL-presumed images, if the image is unquestionably user-created and is in use, it is probably worth trying to get a GFDL release. I have created a template for this purpose - {{GFDL presumed warning}}. Please feel free to tweak as desired. --BigDT 13:24, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
- I use User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js to deal with these images, as it makes dealing with these images with only one hand a lot easier, so you probably won't seeing me using it. That said, I have no qualms with the wording. MER-C 11:11, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Yulu-Mountain-Changsha.jpg
Thanks for your suggestion. really I don't learn no more informations on copyright status of images. also I've uploaded Yulu-Moutains2-en.jpg on wikisource instead of the Yulu-Mountain-Changsha.jpg with a copyright tag. delete Yulu-Mountain-Changsha.jpg,pls,thx. Cncs wikipedia 15:11, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
- It will be nuked by an admin in about a week's time if the {{no license}} tag stays in place. MER-C 09:59, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Userpage prods
Yep, you've got a point there. That was clarified at WP:PROD since the last time I looked. (Serves me right for not re-reading it after tax season. :) ) I have reverted, noting my reason for the reversion in the edit summary. Sorry about that. —C.Fred (talk) 16:41, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Fishing revisions
First of all, I would like to thank you for actively guarding our Fishing Project. I've seen all your efforts of protecting the Fishing article from those harmful vandals. I've made a major revision from all those revisions/reverts that were made previously by bots and other wikipedians because some of the important information there were lost despite the effort of each and everyone to guard the said article. Thanks and more power! Bu b0y2007 01:51, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
- I'd say this might be a case for WP:RFPP. Don't ask me. though. MER-C 10:06, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Thanks for protecting my user page from link spam. As it happens (in this case) it was actually me putting up the link to my blog although you couldn't have known that from the IP address. Barnaby dawson 07:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
my article deleted?
may i ask why my article is getting requested for deletion? my article is in beginning stages. this band is real. their myspace page is real. this site is meant to be for EVERYONE to contribute so please explain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tigs4melife (talk • contribs)
- Because Wikipedia isn't myspace and you haven't made a case as to why we should consider your band for inclusion. MER-C 08:16, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Special:Linksearch Alternative
I also posted this at WP:AN, but I thought I'd put it here as well since sometimes it's easy to overlook thinks on that page since it's so busy. Have you seen Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkSearch? They have pages for many different external websites including MySpace. They provide an alphabetic list of pages linking to those websites. Instead of plowing through Special:Linksearch, you can use their MySpace page and scroll down to the User: ones. -- JLaTondre 02:20, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
- That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. Though when I dragged my net through the userspace, I was astounded that I found 2851(!) possible myspace pages.
- The reason why I was so annoyed last night was that all I had to do to find them was google search "a href" site:en.wikipedia.org inurl:user. MER-C 03:03, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Additional Searches
Here are two additional searches you may wish to add to your /Spam page:
The first one is a variation on a search phrase you already have, but it picked up a few additional pages. The second one found about a half dozen pseudo-article type user pages. If you just use band without it being in the URL, there were too many false positives for me to weed through, but it would probably pick up more. -- JLaTondre 00:28, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
It's been more than a week since you tagged that image for eventual deletion. Why hasn't it been deleted yet? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.231.64 (talk • contribs)
- Because the admins haven't got around to deleting it. MER-C 12:12, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
"null" in edit summaries
I noticed that you recently did the following edit:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bratz:_The_Movie&oldid=132663080
- 12:15, 22 May 2007 MER-C (Talk | contribs) m (3,489 bytes) (Reverted to revision null by Tregoweth.)
The tool that you are using to help revert vandalism doesn't seem to be including the version ID number, but displays it as "null" instead. --Eastmain 13:52, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
- Twinkle got borked yesterday by a change in mediawiki. It was the next fastest way I could revert. MER-C 09:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Wiki.java
Hi,
I have started using your Wiki.java class to update wikipedia pages from a Java tool to clean-up disambiguation links. It's not working each time, for some pages I have to try 3 or 4 times before the page gets updated on wikipedia. Do you have any idea on what could be causing the problem ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NicoV (talk • contribs)
My modified class:
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/*
* WikipediaCleaner: A tool to help on Wikipedia maintenance tasks.
* Copyright (C) 2007 Nicolas Vervelle
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
* with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
*/
package org.wikipediacleaner.api.impl;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import org.wikipediacleaner.api.APIException;
import org.wikipediacleaner.api.constants.EnumWikipedia;
import org.wikipediacleaner.api.data.Page;
import org.wikipediacleaner.i18n.GT;
/**
* A helper class for updating MediaWiki pages.
* (Waiting for an implementation in the MediaWiki API)
* <p>
* This is a modified version of a class written by
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MER-C/Wiki.java">MER-C</a>.
*/
public class MediaWikiUpdate {
private final EnumWikipedia wiki;
private final Map<String, String> cookies = new HashMap<String, String>(10);
private static final boolean CHECK_REVISION = true;
/**
* Create a new object for updating a MediaWiki page.
*
* @param wiki Wikipedia.
*/
public MediaWikiUpdate(EnumWikipedia wiki) {
this.wiki = wiki;
}
/**
* Logs into Wikipedia.
*
* @param username User name
* @param password Password
* @return Flag indicating successful login.
* @throws APIException
*/
public boolean login(String username, String password) throws APIException {
try {
// sanitize
username = URLEncoder.encode(username, "UTF-8");
password = URLEncoder.encode(password, "UTF-8");
// "enable" cookies
String url = wiki.getWikiURL() + "?title=Special:Userlogin";
URLConnection connection = new URL(url).openConnection();
grabCookies(connection);
// find the target
url = wiki.getWikiURL() + "?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin&type=login";
connection = new URL(url).openConnection();
setCookies(connection);
connection.setDoOutput(true);
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
// now we send the data
out.print("wpName=");
out.print(username);
out.print("&wpPassword=");
out.print(password);
out.print("&wpRemember=1&wpLoginAttempt=Log+in");
out.close();
// make it stick by grabbing the cookie
grabCookies(connection);
BufferedReader in = null;
try {
try {
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));
} catch (IOException e) {
if (!(connection instanceof HttpURLConnection)) {
throw e;
}
InputStream err = ((HttpURLConnection) connection).getInputStream();
if (err == null) {
throw e;
}
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(err, "UTF-8"));
}
in.readLine();
// test for success
String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
if (line.indexOf(wiki.getLoginSuccessfulString()) != -1) {
return true;
}
}
} finally {
if (in != null) {
try {
in.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
//
}
}
}
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
throw new APIException("Unsupported encoding exception");
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new APIException("Login problem: " + e.getMessage());
}
return false;
}
/**
* Logs out of Wikipedia.
*/
public void logout() {
cookies.clear();
}
public void editPage(Page page, String text, String summary, boolean minor) throws APIException {
try {
// sanitize
String title = URLEncoder.encode(page.getTitle(), "UTF-8");
summary = URLEncoder.encode(summary, "UTF-8");
text = URLEncoder.encode(text, "UTF-8");
// what we need to do is get the edit page and fish out the
// wpEditToken, wpAutoSummary, wpStartTime and wpEditTime values
String url = wiki.getWikiURL() + "?title=" + title + "&action=edit";
URLConnection connection = new URL(url).openConnection();
setCookies(connection);
connection.connect();
grabCookies(connection);
BufferedReader in = null;
String wpEditToken = "";
String wpAutoSummary = "";
String wpStartTime = "";
String wpEditTime = "";
String wgCurRevisionId = "";
try {
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
// more specifically, we're looking for "name="wpEditToken"", "name="wpAutoSummary""
String line;
boolean editRetrieved = false;
boolean summaryRetrieved = false;
boolean startRetrieved = false;
boolean timeRetrieved = false;
boolean revisionIdRetrieved = false;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
if (line.indexOf("name=\"wpAutoSummary\"") != -1) {
int x = line.indexOf("value=\"") + 7;
wpAutoSummary = line.substring(x, line.indexOf('\"', x));
summaryRetrieved = true;
} else if (line.indexOf("name=\"wpEditToken\"") != -1) {
int x = line.indexOf("value=\"") + 7;
wpEditToken = line.substring(x, line.indexOf('\"', x));
editRetrieved = true;
} else if (line.indexOf("name=\"wpEdittime\"") != -1) {
int x = line.indexOf("value=\"") + 7;
wpEditTime = line.substring(x, line.indexOf('\"', x));
timeRetrieved = true;
} else if (line.indexOf("name=\"wpStarttime\"") != -1) {
int x = line.indexOf("value=\"") + 7;
wpStartTime = line.substring(x, line.indexOf('\"', x));
startRetrieved = true;
} else if (line.indexOf("wgCurRevisionId") != -1) {
int x = line.indexOf("\"") + 1;
wgCurRevisionId = line.substring(x, line.indexOf('\"', x));
revisionIdRetrieved = true;
} else if (editRetrieved &&
summaryRetrieved &&
startRetrieved &&
timeRetrieved &&
revisionIdRetrieved) {
break;
}
}
// check revision Id
if (CHECK_REVISION) {
int revisionId = -1;
try {
revisionId = Integer.parseInt(wgCurRevisionId);
} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
//
}
if ((page.getRevisionId() == null) ||
(page.getRevisionId().intValue() != revisionId)) {
throw new APIException(GT._(
"The page {0} has been modified on Wikipedia since you have loaded the page.\n" +
"To avoid modification conflicts, you need to reload the page and make your modifications again.\n" +
"(Local revision: {1}, Wikipedia revision: {2})",
new Object[] { page.getTitle(),
page.getRevisionId().toString(),
Integer.toString(revisionId) } ));
}
}
// this is what accepts the text
url = wiki.getWikiURL() + "?title=" + title + "&action=submit";
connection = new URL(url).openConnection();
setCookies(connection);
connection.setDoOutput(true);
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
// now we send the data
out.print("wpTextbox1=");
out.print(text);
out.print("&wpSummary=");
out.print(summary);
if (minor) {
out.print("&wpMinoredit=1");
}
out.print("&wpEdittime=");
out.print(wpEditTime);
out.print("&wpEditToken=");
out.print(wpEditToken);
out.print("&wpStarttime=");
out.print(wpStartTime);
out.print("&wpAutoSummary=");
out.print(wpAutoSummary);
// done, give the servers a rest
out.flush();
out.close();
try {
Thread.sleep(2000);
// it's somewhat strange that the edit only sticks when you start reading the response...
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
} catch (IOException e) {
if (!(connection instanceof HttpURLConnection)) {
throw e;
}
InputStream err = ((HttpURLConnection) connection).getInputStream();
if (err == null) {
throw e;
}
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(err));
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
//
}
in.readLine();
} finally {
if (in != null) {
try {
in.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
//
}
}
}
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
throw new APIException("Unsupported encoding exception");
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new APIException("Editing problem: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
/**
* Grab cookies from the URL connection provided.
*
* @param u An unconnected URLConnection.
*/
private void grabCookies(URLConnection u) {
// reset the cookie store
cookies.clear();
String headerName = null;
for (int i = 1; (headerName = u.getHeaderFieldKey(i)) != null; i++) {
if (headerName.equals("Set-Cookie")) {
String cookie = u.getHeaderField(i);
cookie = cookie.substring(0, cookie.indexOf(";"));
String name = cookie.substring(0, cookie.indexOf("="));
String value = cookie.substring(cookie.indexOf("=") + 1, cookie.length());
cookies.put(name, value);
}
}
}
/**
* Sets cookies to an unconnected URLConnection.
*
* @param u An unconnected URLConnection.
*/
private void setCookies(URLConnection u) {
Iterator<Entry<String, String>> i = cookies.entrySet().iterator();
StringBuffer cookie = new StringBuffer();
while (i.hasNext()) {
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cookie.append(entry.getKey());
cookie.append("=");
cookie.append(entry.getValue());
cookie.append("; ");
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- From what I can tell, fr.wikipedia requires one to press the preview button before saving (at least for anons). Would that be true for registered users? MER-C 10:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
- Normally, it's not required and the update was working most of the time (except from time to time when it could fail several times in a row), so it's probably not that. But now, I can't test any more on French Wikipedia: the Login page has just been enhanced with a capcha :( --NicoV 15:34, 23 May 2007 (UTC) Login working again :)
- I'd probably say it's a database lock, where the wiki is read only. And here's why we have captchas. MER-C 10:54, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
I have noticed that from time to time, I get an HTTP Code 400 when trying to update the page contents, mostly when update is failing. But each time I got this error code, the update was done correctly. Any idea what would be causing this ? --NicoV 13:35, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
- 400 = Bad Request (see List of HTTP status codes). Probably a cookie problem, but it's way too late where I live to think constructively. MER-C 14:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
DYK
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On 24 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tooting (crater), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
--Smee 08:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Oscar Wilde
I cannot understand why you have warned me for whatever deletion I made to the Oscar Wilde article. I am fairly certain it was either spelling, grammer or a very obvious minor error - none of which would be enough to warrant the label vandalism. If you can show me (I cannot figure out how to see the change I made), then I can explain my reasons I'm sure. Regards, Dave. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.71.181.169 (talk • contribs)
Wow, if I deleted that whole paragraph, then I apologise! I am desperately trying to remember what edit I made, and I seem to remember that the paragraph in green was duplicated, so I just took out one of them. If this resulted in the loss of material then I can only apologise. Regards, Dave.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.71.181.169 (talk • contribs)
- Don't worry about it. It was too long ago to be of any consequence. MER-C 10:33, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Please take a look and comment
Hi MER-C,
I notice you made a contribution to the List of people from Ridgefield, Connecticut page. I've gotten into a discussion with #69 over the substance of my disagreement with him. He's intransigent, and I'd like to get on record that we have a consensus to keep that section of the List of people from Ridgefield, Connecticut list. If, in fact, we have a consensus. I summarized my long argument at the bottom of the page and asked for comments. Would you please look over at least the summary (a few paragraphs) at the bottom of Talk:List of people from Ridgefield, Connecticut and give your opinion (whether in support of keeping or not). Much appreciated, Noroton 22:33, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Image:Brij.jpg
Thanks MER-C, I have changed the licensing tag for the image. Kukoo 14:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
