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The Signpost: 05 September 2011
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Just thought I'd let you know that the RfA voters! vote counter is now completely broken after not working from the X!-tools navigation menu. Are you intending to fix this or shall we find another user with a toolserver account to rewrite a tool for this? --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:01, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
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Invitation to New Orleans developers' meeting
| New Orleans Wikimedia Hackathon | ||
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 At the event, MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia operations engineers will be working on Wikimedia's gadgets/extensions/tools support, authorization/authentication strategy, dev-ops virtualization, and general training and hacking. And we'll improve and discuss the Wikimedia Labs projects infrastructure and other stuff that makes it easier for anyone to supercharge Wikimedia with awesomeness. The event is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute, and is an opportunity to spend time with senior MediaWiki developers & ops engineers, write beautiful code, and learn about the latest developments. We'll write code together, discuss the software, and hold little workshops. If you can make it to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 14-16 October 2011, we'd love to have you. Please add your name to the attendees list. Thanks! Sumanah (talk) 20:23, 24 August 2011 (UTC) (Volunteer Development Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) | ||
Sumanah (talk) 06:16, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Range contributions tool not working
Do you know why http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/rangecontribs/index.php is not working? It's a real problem, as I found the tool indispensable for checking whether a range block was suitable, and if so for how long. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:01, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
- Been having the same problems for the past couple of days and have been stuck with the tool here. Hopefully you can get it all sort out. Elockid (Talk) 21:58, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
- Hey. I just noticed that the rangecontribs tool is broken. Any idea what's going on? — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 02:49, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- I came here for the same reason! Very useful tool, that. It would be a shame to lose it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:45, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- He hasn't been on since 26 August --Guerillero | My Talk 17:56, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- No, but both I and Elockid mentioned this on that date, before X!'s last edits. Thanks, X!, for the tool, which really was extremely useful. I do hope it can be restored to active service. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:32, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- He hasn't been on since 26 August --Guerillero | My Talk 17:56, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- I have a toolserver account and am interested in rebuilding the tool. Can anybody explain (to the best of their knowledge) what X!'s tool's functionality was? Was it just to display the contributions by a range, or where there other special features? — Kudu ~I/O~ 13:14, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
- It displayed the contributions by IPs in a given range in one list in chronological order. I think it also calculated the range if you put a list of IPs in, but there's another tool on the Toolserver that does that. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:47, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
- Yup. Just type in the range, or a list of IPs (the tool will autocalculate the range), the number of results you want to show per page and it will show you the contributions from the range from the most recent to the latest contributions. Elockid (Talk) 15:34, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
- I didn't know you could do it with a list of IP addresses, but if you used, for example, the URL http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/rangecontribs/index.php?type=range&ips=188.23.0.0/16&limit=50 then it would give a list of the last 50 edits from IPs in the given range. You could then click on a link to get the previous 50, and so on. If someone can rebuild it then they will earn my undying gratitude. It is a real nuisance being without it. If there has been a lot of disruptive editing from an editor in a range it is, in my opinion, essential to be able to check whether there have also been constructive edits from other editors before deciding whether to impose a range block. I hate having make that decision in the dark. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:58, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
- Yup. Just type in the range, or a list of IPs (the tool will autocalculate the range), the number of results you want to show per page and it will show you the contributions from the range from the most recent to the latest contributions. Elockid (Talk) 15:34, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
- It displayed the contributions by IPs in a given range in one list in chronological order. I think it also calculated the range if you put a list of IPs in, but there's another tool on the Toolserver that does that. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:47, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
For the people still following this thread, I've spent the past few days cobbling together a script to do what the rangecontribs tool did. I think it works, but I need you guys to test it a bit. If you want it's up at http://toolserver.org/~helloannyong/range/ and you can report any issues with it to me. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 02:51, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
- It looks pretty good to me. There may be times when the 30 limit could be unhelpful, but it is certainly very useful in its present form. In testing it I have occasionally got a "bad gateway" error, but if I tried once or twice more it worked OK. Anyway, my guess is that it's a toolserver problem, rather than a problem with your script, in which case there's probably nothing you can do about it. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:35, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
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Research into the user pages of Wikipedians: Invitation to participate
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With your consent, I will read and analyze your user page, and ask you five short questions about it that will take about ten to fifteen minutes to answer. I am looking at about twenty user pages belonging to twenty different people. I will be looking at all user pages together, looking for common threads in the way people introduce themselves to other Wikipedians.
I hope that my research will help answer questions about how people collaborate, work together, and share knowledge. If you are open to participating in this study, please reply to this message, on your User Talk page or on mine. I will provide you with a complete description of my research, which you can use to decide if you want to participate.
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