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::I didn't realize you were using a template.  I just modified mine in my preferences.  I actually don't want my old sigs changing if I decide to change them going forward.  That seems too weird. :-)  I don't mind if that's the way you do it.  [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 12:44, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)
::I didn't realize you were using a template.  I just modified mine in my preferences.  I actually don't want my old sigs changing if I decide to change them going forward.  That seems too weird. :-)  I don't mind if that's the way you do it.  [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 12:44, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)


:::I'm not using one. I figured I didn;t need one here since I'm pretty well satisfied with what I've got and I don't think I'll be changing it any time in the forseeable future. &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 12:49, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)
:::I'm not using one. I figured I didn;t need one here since I'm pretty well satisfied with what I've got and I don't think I'll be changing it any time in the forseeable future.
 
== re: images ==
 
Thanks for the tips.  I actually did that so I'd have various sizes available to me on other websites, without having to learn their markup for re-sizing the display.  Too many wikis! :-) [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 12:33, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)
 
== RC patrol ==
 
[[Patrol recent changes]] - feel free to change the name to something more recognizable to yourself and other familiar with this function. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 13:58, 7 Mar 2006 (EST)
:Done!
I'm sure we'll be upgraded at some point.  It seems [[John Stanton]] is hosting a ton of media wikis so will have to dig in to do them all at once at some point.  Is it worth pushing for? [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 18:06, 11 Apr 2006 (EDT)
 
::This is copied from mediawiki.org:
<blockquote>IMPORTANT: Running a 1.3 or 1.4 wiki and don't want to jump to 1.5 yet? Be sure to upgrade to 1.3.17 or 1.4.11, also released today. Versions prior to 1.3.16 and 1.4.10 have a serious data corruption bug which is triggered by a spambot known to operate in the wild.</blockquote>
:Note that they're on 1.4.1'''5''' currently. 1.4.13 added protection against WMF vulnerability attacks,  and 1.4.15 renders more accurately in the IE7 beta. Oh, and 1.6 also introduces CAPTCHA support. You could do it before, but it took a lot more work in 1.5 than before. So in summary, Yeah, it's worth pushing for. &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 20:35, 11 Apr 2006 (EDT)
Okay, I put in a plug [http://www.wikiindex.com/User_talk:John_Stanton#upgrading here]. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 00:12, 12 Apr 2006 (EDT)
 
Thing is John is the administrator for many, many wiki, fyi. :-)  [[MarkDilley]]
 
:Yeah, and maybe getthem all done slowly. Upgrading from, say, 1.5.''X'' to the latest 1.6 is a bit of a process, but as long as you don't have too much custom code in it ([[This Might Be A Wiki]] has so much that the usually simple upgrade from 1.4.10 to 1.4.11 screwed up quite a bit), then upgrading from, say, 1.5.6 to 1.5.8 is such a breeze that it probably won't even be noticed by most users. &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 11:11, 12 Apr 2006 (EDT)
 
Yea I have found lots of unknown engines to be UseMod, I am not sure John, who did the work of converting the 1000 wiki in [[SwitchWiki]] to an excell spreadsheet with 12 data fields, was very familiar with UseMod. [[MarkDilley]]
 
== monobook.js ==
 
How did it turn out? [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 17:33, 18 Apr 2006 (EDT)
 
:It didn't. More due to, what I finally figured out was a dependence on pieces of code that you don't have to explicitly state on Wikipedia, but you do everywhere else. I fixed it elsewhere, so I guess I oght to move it here. &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 03:10, 23 Apr 2006 (EDT)
::Just tried making te tabs at the top of pages round (which is only 3 lines of CSS) and &mdsah; nothing. Must not be enabled. Oh well. Whatever. &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 03:16, 23 Apr 2006 (EDT)
Maybe it'll come online after John's upgrade of MediaWiki. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 00:09, 8 May 2006 (EDT)
:::After playing around with the wiki on my PC, I've discovered it's a database setting. It's turned on by default (at least in 1.6), so it must be purposely turned off.
:::: I assume you are talking about the $wgUseSiteCss (Use the site's Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)) and/or $wgUseSiteJs - (Use the site's Javascript page) we are using the default settings which are both on as far as I can tell. These settings affect [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]] and [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]]. I know that [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]] is active because that is how I changed the linking attributes to remove the underlining [[User:John Stanton|John]] 13:48, 28 May 2006 (EDT)
:::::I had to check, but it's $wgAllowUserJs and $wgAllowUserCss. &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]]
:::: Those two are turned off by default [[User:John Stanton|John]] 14:36, 28 May 2006 (EDT)
: Are there security issues involved in turning it on?  I think that functionality could be really helpful here and totally admit that I don't know all of the ramifications. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 17:05, 28 May 2006 (EDT)
:::: There are security issues especially with Monobook.js, less with Monobook.CSS but we should talk about it together before we make a decision [[User:John Stanton|John]] 18:30, 28 May 2006 (EDT)
 
:::::Like I said, my db knowledge is strictly 1.6. &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 15:32, 31 May 2006 (EDT)
 
We're using 1.6 now, aren't we? [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 15:48, 31 May 2006 (EDT)
:We are on version 1.6.5 now. I had hoped that we could talk about turning this stuff on in our weekly conference call but we had limited participation this week :-)  [[User:John Stanton|John]] 16:04, 31 May 2006 (EDT)
:: Sorry, it didn't occur to me we'd still be on for the holiday so I didn't send my regrets.  I'll put it on the agenda for next week. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 16:40, 31 May 2006 (EDT)
 
== Image linking  ==
 
[[Talk:100GeekDinners]]
 
Ah, I see you already figured this out and fixed it for [[2kom.org Wiki]].  How do you get that actual path?  Is this bot work we're seeing or manual? [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 02:00, 4 July 2006 (EDT)
:Still me. I get the path of the actual image by viewing the image page and copying the url of the link directly under it from the right click menu. Not a bot yet. For the Pywikibot I'd have to write a custom script for it, and as I'm not a programmer I can't do that. What I will use is the Auto Wiki Browser which means I'll still be doing it manually, but it'll still be a lot faster than doing it without. &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 15:51, 4 July 2006 (EDT)
 
How will a new person adding their logo for the first time do what you're doing now? [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 15:51, 6 July 2006 (EDT)
:Geez, it never occured to me that this might cause a bit of instruction creep. I suppose we could put the instructions on the template itself encased in noinclude tags, and then just keep an eye on [[Special:Recentchanges|Recentchanges]] for pages to fix it on. I suppose I could start substituting the template and when I'm done revert it (the template) back to the other way, and then catch new pages and apply it manually. Anybody else have any ideas as to how it could be even partially automated without any instruction creep (barring I learn python so I can program the bot as any instructions beyond simple find and replace have to be scripted in python)? &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 16:05, 6 July 2006 (EDT)
 
: Very awesome what you're doing --[[Raymond King]] | <small>[[User talk:Ray King|talk]]</small> 01:09, 13 July 2006 (EDT)
 
::Thanks &mdash; I guess it's what I'm best at: [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=ACupOfCoffee&offset=20060120200517&limit=250] &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 23:04, 23 July 2006 (EDT)
 
:Sean, I see you're doing a lot of great work with the image linking and I think it really adds a lot -- Thanks!.  I'm afraid it might wear you out, however.  We've hired some people in the past to do repetitive work, do you think that would make sense here? --[[Raymond King]] | <small>[[User talk:Ray King|talk]]</small> 03:05, 2 August 2006 (EDT)
 
::Possibly, but I think it might make more sense to get somebody to write a script to do it for the pywikipedia bot so I could just use that. As for that edit summary: I am in Texas, though I guess "overseas" depends on your point of view. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 23:34, 2 August 2006 (EDT)
 
::: You are just way too cool! (oh, and sorry for the late reply, I didn't notice yours in time) --[[Raymond King]] | <small>[[User talk:Ray King|talk]]</small> 02:33, 30 August 2006 (EDT)
 
How does the bot work?  I'm intriqued! [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 11:40, 30 August 2006 (EDT)
 
:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_the_python_wikipediabot and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipedia_bot_on_non-wikimedia_projects. If we want to avoid a RecentChanges flood every time I use it, it could be granted bot access which means it's edits are hidden in RecentChanges. Clicking "Show bots" and "Hide bots" on the top of [[Special:Recentchanges]] toggles them on and off. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 11:57, 30 August 2006 (EDT)
 
:: I think I made the bot a bot. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 12:15, 31 August 2006 (EDT)
 
:::Cool! I am really diggin how recent changes patrol works! And it will be nice when all the bot edits are recent patrolled! Great work guys! [[MarkDilley]]
 
:::You did. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 23:43, 31 August 2006 (EDT)
 
== Hi ==
 
Someone said you would know the answer to my question in [[WikiIndex talk:Community talk]] under the subject, "How are you doing hotlinking in mediawiki".  [[User:ZealPalace|ZealPalace]] 09:51, 9 September 2006 (EDT)
:[URL_to_be_linked_to ''hard_link_to_exact_url_of_image''] The exact URL of an image can be found by right-clicking it and selecting "Properties". It's listed as "Location" in SeaMonkey and "Address (URL)" in IE7. I don't know about Firefox though, as I don't have it. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 14:29, 9 September 2006 (EDT)
::You also have to have "$wgAllowExternalImages" set to true. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 22:25, 9 September 2006 (EDT)
 
== visual wiki index ==
 
Hi Sean, please would you have a look on this:
[[Proposal:Visual WikiIndex]] --[[User:Peu|Peu]] 17:17, 24 October 2006 (EDT)
 
== work for your bot ==
 
Is it possible to your bot (I really don't know how bots work) to categorize all wiki pages that use the [[:Image:NoLogo.png]] with a hardlink to the [[:category:UnknownWikiLogo]]? --[[Wolf Peuker|Peu]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 15:05, 29 October 2006 (EST);
:I think if I have it change the hard link to the particular image back to a wiki link, I should be able to input the list of pages that like to the image (or possibly the backlinks) as the pages to be catrgorized, and then just have it change all the image links back. I'll give it a try. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 19:45, 29 October 2006 (EST)
::Sorry, maybe I don't understand: My intention was to have a auto-index of all wiki pages that don't have assigned a logo to it, I did it by hand for all wikis with names starting with a number or the Letter A. Then I remembered your bot (?). The pages I speak from all have included as wiki_logo the URL <nowiki>http://www.wikiindex.com/images/e/e6/NoLogo.png</nowiki>. And I wanted to have them all categorizes into the [[:category:UnknownWikiLogo]], if they aren't already categorized this way. --[[Wolf Peuker|Peu]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 03:28, 30 October 2006 (EST)
:::Don't worry, iIn my own convoluted way that's ''exactly'' what I'm doing. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 04:07, 30 October 2006 (EST)
::::Thank's it seems to be done. --[[Wolf Peuker|Peu]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 17:10, 30 October 2006 (EST)
 
== hard linking logo size ==
 
Is it documented anywhere how the size works?  [http://www.wikiindex.com/images/thumb/1/14/NetBSD_logo.png/150px-NetBSD_logo.png example].  Can you learn me? ;-) [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 13:06, 3 November 2006 (EST)
:<nowiki>[[Image:NetBSD_logo.png|150px]]</nowiki> &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 01:02, 6 November 2006 (EST)
I meant when using the full url, like this: <nowiki>http://www.wikiindex.com/images/thumb/1/14/NetBSD_logo.png/150px-NetBSD_logo.png</nowiki>.  It looks like the size is somehow in that url.  How is that done? [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 01:07, 6 November 2006 (EST)
:I've just been doing that and then right-clicking and taking the URL from the properties dialog. The small version isn't actually created by ImageMagick and placed in the /images directory until that's done, as far as I know. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 01:11, 6 November 2006 (EST)
Ah, I see.  I'll give it a try.  Thanks!  Didn't work.  Can you take a look at [[Theme Park Insider]] for me? [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 09:25, 6 November 2006 (EST)
:Done! &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 15:17, 6 November 2006 (EST)
How did you do it?  I'd like to learn so I can do these myself and not have to refer them to you every time. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 16:16, 6 November 2006 (EST)
:[[Media:Hard link example12.png|This ought to show you how]]. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 02:23, 7 November 2006 (EST)
::Hey, what do you know? The Media: pseudo namespace totally avoids the image page altogether. That's a handy discovery. I always thought before that it did the same thing as putting a colon before the Image: namespace. Neat! &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 02:27, 7 November 2006 (EST)
Thanks!  Got it now. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 13:12, 7 November 2006 (EST)
 
== name vs real name ==
 
I've been to sites where they asked you to log in with your name.  Most people used their name.  No discussion of "real name" was needed.  That's why we changed it here, to "name" instead of real name.  Maybe my logic doesn't work because there are too many mediawiki sites that don't require realnames.  I dunno. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 02:13, 20 November 2006 (EST)
:I suppose it might be clearer if there wasn't a separate place to put in your real name, which, by the way, is really only useful for GFDL wikis, and then only if they're going to eventually be published like de, fr, and en Wikipedias.
When we made those changes in the field names, I didn't have enough brain power to figure out which field meant what.  We could eliminate one, if that would make things clearer. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 10:26, 20 November 2006 (EST)
::That would probably be good. I'd vote for the "Real name" one. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 16:28, 20 November 2006 (EST)
 
== yes, that's me ==
 
[[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 09:04, 22 January 2007 (PST)

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Welcome

welcome! TedErnst | talk 14:18, 1 Mar 2006 (EST)


Gidday, Sean! Noticed you wondering about real names - just when I'd decided that I'd revert to my simple email and zeal.com abbreviation!
Anyway, I didn't even know about wikis till "early '04" so you may be ahead of me in many respects. What do you think of the (rather inconsistent) use of CamelCase here? Probably quite unnecessary and it strikes me as odd, but I guess the prime movers here are used to it (from what I've seen of their other activities), so I'm not rocking the boat. Enjoy! robinp 00:02, 2 Mar 2006 (EST)

Yeah, most everybody here is used to UseMod. I'm used to MediaWiki. That's to be expeced, I guess. Sean Fennel 03:58, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)

You saw this? Naming Conventions TedErnst | talk 11:53, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)

your sig

since this place isn't using the User namespace (except for talk), you might want to modify your sig to avoid the redirect. Excellent explanation of patrolling recent changes. I'll have to try that! TedErnst | talk 12:26, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)

Thanks. Glad you don't mind that I customized it like that. Joey Day at HRWiki taught me how to customize it with a template, so that every time you tewak it, every single instance of it will be simultaneously changed to reflect that. Wikipedia figured out people were doing that and so in version 1.6 of MediaWiki it forces the adition of the Subst: parameter to all sigs that are templates, thereby making using them pointless (which is what they wanted to do to reduce server load).
I didn't realize you were using a template. I just modified mine in my preferences. I actually don't want my old sigs changing if I decide to change them going forward. That seems too weird. :-) I don't mind if that's the way you do it. TedErnst | talk 12:44, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)
I'm not using one. I figured I didn;t need one here since I'm pretty well satisfied with what I've got and I don't think I'll be changing it any time in the forseeable future.
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