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Just thought I'd let you know that I replaced your PNGed British Rail logo with a nice shiny new SVG version...
—Wereon 19:50, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm not sure where else to contact you since I'm now banned from making edits at Wikinews.
Mrmiscellanious banned me from wikinews in retribution for exercising my right to vote against a potential admin he supported here. As my history of edits will show, I made no other edits or comments on Wikinews since that vote at all. I just voted, then was banned by Mrmiscellanious shortly thereafter.
If there was already clear consensus of a dire problem with me existing on Wikinews, why did Mrmiscellanious wait until after I made that vote (he didn't agree with) to ban me? I signed up some time ago and Mrmiscellanious (and others) observed me in the Water Cooler back in early February, but no ban was made against me (by Mrmiscellanious or anyone else) until I made that vote.
The timing of this ban is about power and control, not truly enforcing policy, consensus and making Wikinews a better place. I also fear that this form of intimidation could adversely affect other Wikinews contributers and influence their votes when they see what happens to those who vote in ways that Mrmiscellanious doesn't like. If contributers perceive their votes may exact revenge upon themselves, I'm sure less contributers will vote and make their voices heard. That seems to be the opposite effect of what a Wiki is supposed to be all about.
Anyway, I'm sorry to waste your time with this and take away from more important things like contributions, etc. but I'm hoping you can fix this so I can make positive contributions to Wikinews when time allows.
I have no intention to talk (argue, etc.) with Mrmiscellanious about this once I'm able to edit and vote again (or even if I'm not). I'll will just drop it and moo-ve on. If he attacks or bans me for revenge again, I'll just contact you and hopefully you can get him to chill out and focus on important issues at Wikinews.
As can be observed here & elsewhere throughout Wikinews, Mrmiscellanious is embroiled in enough conflict with others right now -- and I have no desire to distract him from all those other conflicts in order to confront him with the issue of banning me. He seems to have enough conflict with others on his plate. I'll just be glad to move on, vote and contribute positively to more important, positive Wikinews tasks. Thank you for your time. Cowicide 03:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Amgine moved in quickly and has now blocked me from editing my talk page on wikinews.
Be sure to check out the last few edits in the History. He was not letting me say I thought the Chinese govt. was fascist because it might offend some Chinese contributers. I changed the "bastard" part and he still wouldn't accept my edit and banned me.
Is is really against Wiki policy to say that you think the Chinese government is fascist on your own talk page? If so, things are getting very out of control at Wikinews. Check the last few edits and you'll see what I'm talking about. This is crazy. Cowicide 07:14, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Among other things, MrM says he doesn't agree with Homosexuality on his page... that will very well offend people. Shall we ban him if he doesn't remove the "offensive" text? For me to say that I think the Chinese govt. is fascist... that is my political opinion. I removed the "bastards" reference... therefore, it was only my political opinion beyond that point. Can you HONESTLY say that political opinion is NOT allowed on talk pages? If that's the case, you and Amgine had better start cleaning house and you both can start with MrM's talk page with his opinions that very clearly offend people somewhere.
I'm going to put the statement that I think the Chinese govt. is fascist on my talk page on Wikinews. Come after me if you TRULY think that political speech on individual talk pages are against the rules. Then please come after MrM for his opinion page thereafter.
I find it sad that you two don't see the irony in removing my opinion on the Chinese govt. and its fascist censorship. Cowicide 02:13, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm just tired of the hypocrisy from Amgine and MrM. It's ruining Wikinews, period. If those 2 guys disappeared from Wikinews, quality contributions/participation would skyrocket. I don't understand the fear some of you seem to have of them, Amgine should lose his admin status and MrM should be "permabanned" instead of this too little, too late one month (now only 2 week) ban he just got for his outrageous behavior with Karen (A behavior Amgine has also exhibited with other contributers). You know very well this is NOT the first time MrM has used his admin power for revenge, ego and agenda instead of for the greater good of Wikinews. You also know very well it won't be the last time until MrM is completely banned. It's incredible that MrM still has admin status at this point. He has massively damaged the project and thwarted participation. MrM makes the environment at Wikinews absolutely nasty. For the sake of Wikinews, these guys need to go and/or lose admin privs. I'm just thankful MrM will be gone for a month so everyone can see how much the general civility & quality at Wikinews rises without him. Maybe then some more people will see the light and finally... finally... at least remove MrM's ridiculous admin status. Cowicide 18:56, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Amgine certainly does good things, but does NOT have the interpersonal skills and tact to be an admin. While I somewhat commend Amgine's recent reprimands of MrM.... it's too little, too late... overall, in the past, Amgine has been an enabler for MrM and that has absolutely ruined the spirit at Wikinews. Amgine's demeanor towards new contributers has also been nasty similar to (but not quite as venomous as) MrM.
They both have created a hostile environment with rampant hypocrisy for all to see. Wikinews would be better off with MrM gone entirely and Amgine focusing on projects instead of ego-trip power struggles. Contributership has been very low. If Amgine backed off (which is unlikely because of ego) and MrM disappeared, we both know contributership would blossom as the general good spirit increased. If you still fail to see my problem with Amgine... go take a look at Amgine's demeanor with contributers and compare it with your own. Would YOU want to be treated like that? You exhibit some of the best qualities in an admin, while I think Amgine exhibits some of the worst. And, MrM is just poison to the project, period.
Like I said, Amgine should focus on projects and leave interpersonal administration up to people that have much higher aptitude for such things. Mark my words, the Wikinews contributership and quality would improve drastically if that happened. I'd like to see more balanced views (from the middle, right & left) on wikinews from MORE contributers from all walks of life... the current environment Amgine helps to create does NOT let that happen... it just repels far too many newbies who don't want to deal with a terse, insulting tone in their spare time. They just put up their arms and split. Cowicide 21:52, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I could send you examples of Amgine's behavior (with others), but if you need to "tread lightly" that's fine. Anyway, I think you are a great admin and wish you well. Hopefully, Wikinews will "self-heal" over time and become a less hostile place as MrM and some others become too beleaguered to be nasty to other people eventually. Take care. Cowicide 15:37, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
BTW, here's some ideas for articles on my userpage (Wikinews) on the latest from China and its censorship: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Cowicide It would be great if Wikinews covered this stuff more like the rest of the Western world is starting to. Wikinews IS part of the Western world, right? ;) Thanks again for lending an ear. Cowicide 16:11, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
They removed it AND edited the History data... - here instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cowicide You know, I've heard that there might be some admins at Wikinews that may have some govt. affiliations. I didn't really think it was true before, but I'm very seriously beginning to wonder at this point... Cowicide 16:53, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! Thanks for your comment, although I haven't had much luck on Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award tho :-(! But thanks anyway! --Fir0002 www 08:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Bawolff, Thank you very much for informing me of the user Goober-peas. I would prefer it if s/he did actually remove his statement. I don't know why s/he seems to hate me; I have never heard of the user before. I am actually slightly worried about him/her beacuse I have actually been receiving e-mails about my password being reset. Thank you once again for alerting me about this. Kilo-Lima|(talk) 20:19, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That's fascinating, too, I thought I had an account at n: but I could be wrong; also, despite the notice that the person is not me, they've replicated my sig. Can someone reset the pw and send it to my fastmail addy so I can (re)claim this account? Thanks :) RadioKirk talk to me 23:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Of late, there has been a spam of newly registered users and annoyomous users trying to remove certain data from the article. While most article cites general personal data on personalities in wikipedia on a neutral basis, these editors have been removing certain data without cause to suit their taste (see Wikipedia:NPOV). Such acts have been rampant since March 2006 (check the article's history), and such behaviour can be reflected as Wikipedia:Vandalism, and this article needs Semi-protection status against such crisis. I need your help in solving this problem. Thanks. Mr Tan 17:32, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please do not hurt my feelings Dragon Emperor 05:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...here.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:27, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! I would like to inform you that the former Klingon section of Wikipedia (tlh) has moved to wikicities and will now be continued as Klingon Encyclopedia. I would be glad to hear/read from you there again.
Please acceppt my apologies if this looks like spam to you; I just saw you name on the users list of the klingon wikipedia.
Greetings, Lieven.
Yeh, i didn't see the template on the Dungeons & Dragons page before i requested it to be merged. {{split-apart}}. If i had, wouldn't have suggested merge. Ur right in sayin that it requires a article of its own, but i would suggest it should have more of a reference to it on the Dungeons & Dragons article, it has only been mentioned once. --[|.K.Z|][|.Z.K|] 05:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the welcome! BuddingJournalist 06:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You have exchanged the pictures in the HIV article on deWP. In fact the two graphics 800px-HIV Viron.png and HIV Viron.png are not identical concerning their legends. Did you realize that? Tx --87.169.108.48 08:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You say: In regards to this edit, Why do you say he was a pirate?, The article doesn't say anywhere else in it that he is a pirate. Bawolff 02:49, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I said because he was. He attacked my island, and stole the church, the st. francis monastery and the council house. He was a pirate with the royal consent, like many others british admirals. This is not a revenge or something like that, it is just the historic truth. I'm talking about San Miguel de La Palma, Canary Islands, Northwest Africa, Spanish Kingdom. Maybe I'm in a mistake, but I learned it at school. Very sorry if I have offende anyone and please excuse my horrible english grammar. I am Joe Satana in the spanish wikipedia, congratulations for this wonderfull work. bye
tell me what you think please,disscussions more user friendly, hovru 68.122.82.13 06:31, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
hi, i updated the image source to clarify.--Gerash77 20:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I saw it, I didn't respond immediately because I was attempting to communicate with the person (User:Gurch) who requested the deletion. He said he'll contact you, and I told him to refer you back to me if you still need undeletion. In any case, I apologize for not running a check on the images before deleting them. --Golbez 19:45, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'd be glad to. Do I need to take any further action (eg. adding additional tags) or is this message sufficient? Waggers 08:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I would willingly put these maps under cc-by-sa-2.5, however the location maps that I have produced are derived from content on the OpenStreetMaps website. They licence under cc-by-sa-2.0--because of the share-alike clause, I'm not sure then whether I can release these maps under any other licence. Is 2.5 backwards compatible? —Jeremy (talk) 01:06, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I didn't understand, what should I do to let you use these maps? Change the license? Don Alessandro 10:37, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Certainly. I hope this does work retroactively?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 12:18, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You can use the location maps I worked on for wikinews, as far as I'm entitled to say so. I think the only map image I actually created was an edit of a map image by User:Morwen (Greek prefectures). Markussep Talk 18:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure if this is the place to answer your query about hypersudoku, but the four extra squares in hyper sudoku have to also have numbers 1-9 in them. As they overlap the squares underneath this makes it a little trickier. The algorithm for working out the numbers is many many times more complicated. As for the image, it is the work of Chris McCusker, that's me,
and I have no problem with it being distributed or reused. The site that runs the hypersudoku hypersudoku.com [1] makes no profit from people playing the game. It's all free, go and play a game if you like. Thanks, cmccus01.
No problem. I replied here]. Sorry oir the delay, but I have been away for a fortnight. —Ian Spackman 19:52, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
And I similarly, here. Sorry for the delay, I was absent for a while. Kaveh 19:53, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Do you remember anything about the copyright of that specific image? Its currently on dr at commons - see commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Trophy.jpg, and I was hoping you might remember something about its source. Bawolff 22:06, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for uploading Image:Plusnet-logo.gif. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 05:02, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
19-Feb-2009: Thanks for reporting that text in Template:Ph:Images and other uploaded files. Actually, since Oct. 2007, the disabled-menu problem has been a recurring issue: it seems to get fixed, but then will get disabled again every few months. Yet, it always seems ok in Commons or German Wikipedia, etc. I will mention that in the text. Again, thanks for letting me know about that text; I've worked on over 20,000 articles, and I didn't even remember having added that text in that location.... -Wikid77 (talk) 06:08, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
When I was in Grade IV (1963), I had the first glimpse Edgar Allan Poe's pages in Encyclopedia Britannica, at my aunt's house, due to our class assignment. In 1973, I had used EB 2 times at the Loyola House of Studies Library. In 2006, it was the first time I opened Wikipedia researching on witches. Today, our Encyclopedia online has devastated EB, but the latter still sways - proudly displayed in almost all top libraries of this weird planet. I am fascinasted with witches[2] Six suspected witches lynched in Pokot. They were burned at stakes by the Inquisition during the Middle Ages.
Thanks for checking. Mgray (talk) M.Gray (talk) 01:27, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I want to try out the new parameters for configuring the Wiktionary gadget on my blog, but I don't know where add the configuration code to make it work.--ragesoss (talk) 02:32, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Is there a method of adding this script to my toolbox? I'd like to try it out for a while. Gatoclass (talk) 06:44, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, the tool appears not to be counting properly. It's currently only updating to about 34 verified hooks when there are over 50 on the Suggestions page. Gatoclass (talk) 07:15, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
iBendiscuss 03:51, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
iBendiscuss 06:40, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Just wanted to let you know about David's new {{test-mode}} template based on previous conversations - on my talk page and the main discussion on David's talk page stmrlbs|talk 17:58, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, After a little research, I also got it correctly. But I did more edits than you suggested.
for eg. I replaced
by
Actually I like usability of that extension. But unfortunately we cannot use it because our language not defined in iso-8859-1 :(. Your suggestions are very useful and I'll use them surely. thanks--Praveen:talk 17:51, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed the article I created, Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah on your sub page User:Bawolff/DYKVerified#Articles created/expanded on February 1. It does not have a verified stamp on it whereas the other articles do, has this article actually been verified? Thanks in advance. Supertouch (talk) 12:54, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This barnstar is awarded to Bawolff. You have always been so extremely helpful and kind to so many editors. Thank you for your dedication to the project. God bless you. Adamtheclown (talk) 06:02, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Bawolff. I noticed you are familiar with Bugzilla and MediaWiki. Was wondering if you could see into the technical posibilities of this proposal, when you get the time? Best regards. Rehman 11:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Bawolff, how can i adopt Modèle:Ticker system on Turkish wikinews? Have you any idea? Thanks, have a great day. --Duke ϡ»» ileti ^^ 21:20, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Wikinews portal has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:11, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I wouldn't have thought of that. Helder 11:32, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks :) Bawolff (talk) 20:59, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Just a reminder and a request to come to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.
Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 20:12, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
An RfC that may interest you has been opened at MediaWiki talk:Bad image list#Restricted-use media list, so please come and include your opinion. – PAINE ELLSWORTH CLIMAX! 09:41, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Recently I'm fiddling with SVG fonts due to Jarry1250's SVG Check on WMF Labs not sharing the same complete library of typefaces with Wikimedia: Liberation Sans apparently falls back to Helvetica. But my question is: Isn't Helvetica a licensed typeface? Also this Helvetica appears to be not quite the same as the commercial version. In my file:St petersburg metro map sb ru.svg, some Cyrillic alphabets rendered by Wikimedia[4] like "ж" (zhe) has greater effective width, some like "я" (ya) just look entirely different when I open the SVG file natively in my iPhone 5 by Safari. I wonder if normal user could download the fonts installed on Wikimedia server for inspection. -- Sameboat - 同舟 (talk) 03:26, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
tools.sequencer@tools-login:~/public_html/mwEmbedStandAlone$ fc-match 'Helvetica' n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular" tools.sequencer@tools-login:~/public_html/mwEmbedStandAlone$ fc-match 'Liberation Sans' n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
So both those font names end up going to Nimbus Sans L. All fonts on Wikimedia servers are open source, and from the ubuntu repositories. So in principle you can download all of them, but if you're not using linux some might be hard to install. If you're using ubuntu (or probably any other debian derivitive) you can install them using the command apt-get install <font-package>, where font-package is the things on the list at https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/operations%2Fpuppet.git/production/modules%2fmediawiki%2fmanifests%2fmultimedia.pp . All fonts on that list can also be downloaded manually, but may require some googline (e.g. first one on that list can be downloaded from https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/fonts-arabeyes/trusty/files ). Bawolff (talk) 04:03, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
apt-get install <font-package>
Hello there my Wikimania IdeaLabs fellow :D Our Idea is here if you wish to follow. --Bharel (talk) 15:06, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure if you are the person to ask, but in this version of the packed mode gallery, the gallery caption recenters when you change the browser window width. however, in this version it doesn't. the difference is with the first one, I didn't use the gallery tag's built-in caption feature, but in the second one, I did. Peter coxhead reported the problem to me after I converted some of the galleries to use the gallery tag with mode=packed. Frietjes (talk) 18:42, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Bawolff. Wikinews is hoping for a hand from you. Pi Zero has left you a semi-urgent message on your talk page there. Hope all is well with you. Cheers, --SVTCobra (talk) 21:25, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
* <nicole_> Hello. * <pizero|afk> hello. * <nicole_> Hello, is this [[user:Pi zero]] on Wikimedia? * [pizero|afk] (~chatzilla@wikinews/pi-zero): New Now Know How * [pizero|afk] #wikinews-en #wikinews * [pizero|afk] hobana.freenode.net :Bucharest, RO * [pizero|afk] idle 00:01:50, signon: Thu Nov 5 07:48:39 * [pizero|afk] is logged in as pizero * [pizero|afk] End of WHOIS list. * <pizero|afk> yes. you can tell by my irc cloak - if you type "/whois pizero|afk", your irc client should give you an address that ends with wikinews/pi-zero ; freenode has an agreement with wikimedia so those can't be faked. * <nicole_> I am not very familiar with IRC unfortunately. I am [[user:Nicole Sharp]] on Wikimedia. I left you a number of messages but have not heard back. You erroneously put a block on my WikiNews account. If you can please fix this, it would be much appreciated. * [pizero|afk] (~chatzilla@wikinews/pi-zero): New Now Know How * [pizero|afk] #wikinews-en #wikinews * [pizero|afk] hobana.freenode.net :Bucharest, RO * [pizero|afk] is logged in as pizero * [pizero|afk] End of WHOIS list. * [nicole_] ([email protected]): realname * [nicole_] #wikipedia-en #wikipedia #wikimedia-overflow #wikinews-en #wikinews * [nicole_] leguin.freenode.net :Umeå, SE, EU * [nicole_] is using a secure connection * [nicole_] is connecting from *@72-28-201-163-dhcp.jst.pa.atlanticbb.net 72.28.201.163 * [nicole_] idle 00:01:03, signon: Sat Nov 7 20:01:33 * [nicole_] End of WHOIS list. * <pizero|afk> Erroneous? As I recall, we asked you not to do something you came back a while later and were doing it again, and I blocked you to prevent you doing it. And I believe you have the ability to write on your talk page, so that's where it should be discussed. * <nicole_> The block is clearly erroneous, as I have replied to your posts on both Wikipedia and WikiNews. If you still have a dispute, the issue needs to be referred to an impartial administrator so the block can be removed. * <nicole_> I have tried to be both polite and patient on this as long as I can. Blocking is not an effective measure to prevent users from making constructive edits to Wikimedia projects. Anyone can make edits from any IP address or a new account. I'd rather edit under my own account though if I can. * <nicole_> I would like to think that your block was erroneous and misguided, and not a malicious effort to vandalize my Wikimedia account by preventing me from constructively contributing to WikiNews and maintain my own userpage there. * <nicole_> Either way though, the block needs to be fixed. * <pizero|afk> You weren't making constructive edits. You were making edits that caused a problem. This was explained to you, and instead of finding a way to be more constructive, you went away for a while and then came back and make a confusing mess again. So I blocked you to prevent you continuing to confuse things. You have continued to demonstrate an aggressively nasty attitude toward requests to... * <pizero|afk> ...not cause problems. I also note there has never been any sign whatever that you ever wanted to contribute to Wikinews, so that claim appears to be completely spurious. <nicole_> You blocked my account without allowing me to make any edits outside of my userpagespace. If you cannot fix the problem, then the issue has to be referred to other administrators. I have already explained multiple times the issue you were confused on both on your Wikipedia talkpage and on my WikiNews talkpage, as you requested. * <pizero|afk> I wasn't confused, and am not confused. You seem to have never understood that you were causing a problem. * <nicole_> There are no problems with a wikiuser updating and maintaining their own userpage. In fact, that is a very useful and helpful practice. * <nicole_> Stopping a user from updating their own userpage is erroneous and misguided at best, and malicious and vandalistic at worst. * <pizero|afk> You changed *other* users' pages. You changed those pages in a way that would be inappropriate even if you proved they were alternate accounts of yours (which you didn't). And you changed your own user talk page so as to hide administratively significant evidence, which is not acceptable. And now, instead of trying to be constructive you're spending your time and effort accusing adminstrators o * <pizero|afk> f mistakes or misconduct for a simple, non-judgemental preventative block against misbehavior on your part that you were warned about prior to the block. Moreover, you're continuing the pattern of obfuscation by making this conversation private. * <nicole_> I have never and never would alter another users' userpage. Nor have I ever attempted to "hide" or "obfuscate" any edits or changes to Wikimedia, as you can clearly see from both my Wikimedia userpages and my talkpages. I only contacting you here on IRC because you refused to reply to any of my posts on Wikimedia. Since it seems we cannot come to a resolution, I will go ahead and copy/paste our conversation here (so far) to Wikimedia for archiving so that other admins can review the facts and make the decision to correct your block if you are unwilling to do so. * <pizero|afk> I did not refuse to respond on your talk pages. Since you just reminded me, I've been trying to write a short note on your en.wn talk page, but haven't had time to do so since you've been monopolizing my time with this private conversation. * <nicole_> It would be more helpful to reply on Wikipedia, since your block does not allow me to reply to anything you post on WikiNews. * <pizero|afk> That's blatantly false (as are a number of thing things you've said here). The appropriate place for discussion is your en.wn user talk page; nothing prevents you from replying. * <nicole_> I have been unable to make any edits other than creating new posts. * <nicole_> I copied and pasted our IRC conversation above to a new WikiNews admin on Wikipedia. I posted to your Wikipedia talkpage with the wikilink. * <nicole_> I should add also that I find your actions most particularly frustrating since even if you were not in error blocking me, all I need to do to edit my WikiNews userpage is log out and edit anonymously. There are plenty of both public and private IP addresses that I can edit from. However, I would much prefer to resolve this properly by having my account unblocked so that my edits are under my usernam * <nicole_> e. * <nicole_> *frustrating and nonsensical * <pizero|afk> So, you're continuing to obfuscate the situation by spreading it all hither-and-yon across the wiki-sphere. One of my weaknesses, as you may indeed have figured out by now, is that I hate to think ill of people, so I'm sometimes slow to conclude that somebody is deliberately causing problems. But that's seeming more and more likely in your case. If you'd put a fraction of the effort into... * <pizero|afk> ...working with us that you've put into complaining, the situation would have been resolved ages ago. Enough of this, you've managed to monopolize an entire hour of my time tonight, that's more than enough.
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This script generates mixed content warnings due to loading another script over HTTP. Your script should use the HTTPS version, or use protocol relative URIs when loading scripts. So importScriptURI('http://en.wikinews.org/...') would become importScriptURI('https://en.wikinews.org/...') or just importScriptURI('//en.wikinews.org/...') AfroThundr3007730 (talk) 18:33, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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I saw that you do this. I want to run a wiki on my computer with MediaWiki syntax, not on a separate server. All search results are sparse and incomplete recipes. Can you provide a recipe?
sudu apt install mediawiki
mediawiki
lighttpd mariadb-server php-fpm
lighttpd
mysql sqlite mariadb-server
php-fpm php-apcu FastCGI
I really appreciate your assistance tonight with that little weird MediaWiki issue. I don't know why I feel like I'm the one who keeps finding these weird things, but...well... In any case, my colleagues and I will work next week to try and get all those non-attached accounts sorted, and you're subscribed to the phab task. Risker (talk) 06:30, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38189878; The_Good_Place: "Ohhhhhh, THIS is the bad place!".
I mean, the title just called for that response. ;-)
More seriously though, I do still believe wikipedia is a pretty good spot as far as internet goes, but why do I feel that that's still such a low bar? No resting on one's laurels I guess! :-/ --Kim Bruning (talk) 22:04, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/styles.css has been nominated for merging with Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/styles2.css. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. HouseBlastertalk 19:30, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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This is really creative. I've had a look to figure out how it works and think the idea is really cool. Using a grid of images is not something I would have ever come up with. ―Panamitsu (talk) 01:47, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! Seeing what you're doing with Template:Calculator, I thought you may be interested in checking out mw:Global gadgets (and linked examples like mw:Vivarium) and consider "globalizing" the Calculator gadget so that it may be re-used in other projects while keeping code centralized. In fact I'd be happy to enable and test it on eswiki if you do. Cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 12:05, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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