User talk:Jerodlycett/2015/September

enwp10

Hi Jerodlycett. I'm really new as maintainer of this tool and might need a little bit more help. May you please give me a little bit more details about what fails with enwp10? Regards Kelson (talk) 04:29, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Kelson: The web interface. That's giving a No Webservice error here. It's a great tool too, so I'm hoping someone just turned something off by accident and not that it's broken. Jerod Lycett (talk) 04:32, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thx, I will have a look this evening (CET time). Do you remember the data at which it was last time working? Kelson (talk) 04:35, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Kelson: I haven't looked for a few days, just went to start assessing some articles and noticed it was down. Jerod Lycett (talk) 04:38, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think the problem is fixed. Thank you for your patience. Kelson (talk) 17:53, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Talk:Miss Cleo

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I'm hoping I did the right thing.

Hi Jerodlycett. I hope I didn't do anything wrong, but I took the liberty of moving your most recent posting on the Miss Cleo RfC up into the actual RfC section of that talk page. (You had posted it in the next section, which technically makes it not part of the RfC.) If you'd rather I'd not done that, then please accept my sincere apologies and let me know and I'll put it back where it was.
Richard27182 (talk) 07:19, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Skins

I saw your note at VPPR. This part is sort of off-topic, I thought I'd reply to your question about skins (and by extension, all other prefs) here:

There is actually an 'invisible' setting in the regular prefs.^[1] For on/off prefs, it looks like you have two options, but you actually have three: default, on, or off. For list items (like skins), there is the default, and then each item in the list: default, Vector, Monobook, Cologne Blue, and Modern.^[2]

^ This doesn't apply to Beta Features (which has only "on" and "not on"), and I don't know whether it applies to local gadgets. But it does apply to normal preferences, like skins.
^ For this particular example, there is also a database problem in which a large number of very old accounts have a setting which has no effect whatsoever. If they ever logged in, they would get the default skin, but their prefs setting is technically non-existent rather than default.

Most people have the default skin (which happens to be Vector at the moment). A large minority of active editors (about 40K) have Monobook. A handful have Vector-but-not-default (to get this setting, you had to change to Vector before it became the default five or six years ago, and not change your skin—ever—after it became the default). A small handful each use Cologne Blue and Modern.

If you change the default, then most accounts would change with it (=anyone who had not actively chosen a skin that was not the default at the time of their selection). Accounts currently set to anything except "default skin" would stay keep their old skin, including those accounts that opted into Vector before it was the default.

Feel free to ping me if you have further questions. This is a subject I was asking the devs about just last week. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:21, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Kevin Folta

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@Wuerzele:Hey, please withdraw this, as you did your math incorrectly, it was not within 24 hours. Jerod Lycett (talk) 02:30, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Kevin Folta/...

Hi, just for your information: User_talk:Tryptofish#Kevin_Folta.2FMediation

Let's hope it really does fall within the scope of the arbitration, as we had questioned on my talk page. And again thanks for pointing out that this is actually a thing. --2A02:8070:8883:CA00:20E9:98C2:7B69:41CF (talk) 01:27, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] This doesn't apply to Beta Features (which has only "on" and "not on"), and I don't know whether it applies to local gadgets. But it does apply to normal preferences, like skins.

[2] For this particular example, there is also a database problem in which a large number of very old accounts have a setting which has no effect whatsoever. If they ever logged in, they would get the default skin, but their prefs setting is technically non-existent rather than default.

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