User talk:Brooke Vibber

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On WikiBreak. Will poke my head in as time permits.

Please report bugs to http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/

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When's single login coming?

Single login will arrive when more immediate concerns let up long enough that I can finish it. Hopefully this will be "soon". Asking me when it will be done does not make that time come any sooner.

Can you change my username?

There's a queue for this somewhere. I'm not sure where it is, search for it.

Can you fix bug XYZ?

Make sure you report it at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/

Can you change configuration ABC on wiki PQR?

Make sure you request it at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Use the "shell" keyword.

Anthere indicated on the Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List (2006年8月15日 01:03:33) that "you guys may bug Brion to ask for en.wikiversity.org".....maybe the next time you poke your head in?
--JWSurf 05:31, 15 August 2006 (UTC) Reply

The English language Wikiversity is now online. --JWSurf 13:31, 15 August 2006 (UTC) Reply

Sindhi

• for the sd.wikinews.org, please switch logo. The proposed one is here:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Sd_wikinews_logo.png (how can i protect it? coz at sd.wikinews upload is disabled) http://sd.wikinews.org/wiki/Image:Sd_wikinews_logo.png (the page is protected) I can't upload files because uploading is disabled. Thanks Alixafar 18:13, 2 October 2006 (UTC) Reply

Mi dankas vin pro via plibonigo de mia anglalingva proklamo. Elkore Arno Lagrange ✉ 21:59, 16 August 2006 (UTC) Reply

Can you change User:Wur-dene@enwikibooks to sysop, checkuser, thanks!! --William Shakespeare 21:56, 22 August 2006 (UTC) Reply

There's a new Nahuatl logo for nah.wp -- can we get it installed on the site? +sj 06:21, 23 August 2006 (UTC) Reply

Hi, I was wondering if there's instructions somewhere on how to impliment CheckUser on my own wiki? Perhapse it should be a standard part of the implementation? :) Thanks, justin.j.smith(at)gmail(dot).com 63.80.111.2 23:12, 24 August 2006 (UTC) Reply

Could you check if User talk:24.86.90.254 and User:Cuke monster in wiki are the same person please? My wiki user page is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Halbared

Hi Brion,

NCSU has imported wiki software but will not give even faculty sysop rights. They do contend that we can revert unwanted changes and then point at the meta help page here. I am pretty sure reverting requires sysop privs (which I have for af.wiki and af.wiktionary) but the help page does not say so. Could you clarify?

Jcwf 21:56, 15 September 2006 (UTC) Reply

Help:Reverting --brion 22:05, 15 September 2006 (UTC) Reply

OK,OK I'll re-edit old versions from now on. But that upsets the history or doesnt it?

No, how would it upset the history? --brion 06:44, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Reply

Before I knew you were working on this I put a request for enhancement on bugzilla. [1]

I want generalized revision tagging with groups and ownership. --Gbleem 21:32, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Reply

I am sysop at http://sd.wikinews.org I have 2 main problems due to my sack of knowledge. This is newly launched project in Sindhi language.

1. When I want to upload a file then the browser open wiki common, I tried from special upload then it says "upload is disabled" please give me solution, or how image files which I uploaded at wiki common?

2. I want to change the default font, how it will be possible, due to the Sindhi language display is not coming correct, is it possible for me to change the default font and font size? 202.174.136.98 16:21, 17 September 2006 (UTC) Reply

en: "Transferring databases; online again in the morning."

ja: "データベースの転送作業中です。朝には復帰する予定です。"

--Suisui 18:22, 29 September 2006 (UTC) Reply

ko: "데이터베이스 이전중입니다. 아침에 다시 복귀할 예정입니다." --Puzzlet Chung 19:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC) Reply

Saluton Brion! Cxu iel eblas tute kasxi (ankaux de la administrantoj) la 112 forigitajn versiojn de w:eo:Listo de denaskaj esperantistoj? Kiel vi povos legi sur gxia diskutpagxo, cxi tiu pagxo enhavis informojn kiuj versxajne rompas privatecajn legxojn de pluraj landoj. La fakto ke administrantoj dauxre povas legi tiujn privatajn informojn eble dauxre rompas privatecajn legxojn. Do se iel eblas tute kasxi tiujn forigitajn versiojn, neniuj legxaj problemoj povos okazi al la Vikipedio. Mi jam estis informita de Jon Harald Søby, ke stevardoj povas plenumi tian tutan kasxadon nur en la angla Vikipedio. Sed eble vi kiel cxefprogramisto povas fari tion ankaux en aliaj Vikipedioj. Antauxdankon. Marcos 21:11, 20 October 2006 (UTC) Reply

We are translating "Translation requests/WMF/Current staff" into Japanese. Since we are not sure how to pronounce you name, we cannot decide how to write your name with Japanese letters. Please help us so that we don’t create a new Japanese name (!) for you.

• Your first name:

1. ブリオン - as in Chateau Haut Brion (a famous wine).
2. ブライアン - like a name "Brian."

• Your last name:

1. ヴィバー - "vi" as in victory.
2. ヴァイバー - "vai" as in vibrate.

If this question is not appropriate for this page, you can delete this message. Thank you.--Californiacondor 01:19, 12 November 2006 (UTC) Reply

I'm fairly sure I answered this same question a couple years ago. ;) I believe ブライアン ヴィッバー is what I've used before (maybe ヴィバー, dunno). --brion 06:58, 12 November 2006 (UTC) Reply

ブライアン ヴィッバー most definitely. —Nightstallion (?) 12:47, 12 November 2006 (UTC) Reply

どうもありがとう(Thank you), ブライアン-san (Brion) and ナイトスタリオン-san (Nightstallion). I’m glad I’ve asked you. We were leaning toward Brion as in ''Chateau Haut Brion'' or Brai-on. In order to avoid asking you the same question repeatedly and to avoid any more discrepancies depending upon the translator, our translation coordinator and I have created a list of Wikimedia related proper nouns in their original languages and each corresponding spelling in Japanese. Now, your "Japanese name" is official. :) --Californiacondor 13:38, 12 November 2006 (UTC) Reply

hai, please see su:Wikipedia:Bot need set to flag bot, As soon as posible., and we need asistent to make new namespace portal there, we talk in su:Wikipedia:Sawala#Koordinasi_Keur_lumangsung, and we agree to make it . thx. --Irwangatot 12:12, 28 November 2006 (UTC) Reply

Hi Brian, We would like to have a mailing list called Wikisi-l for the Sinhala (සිංහල) Wikipedia community. The page si:Wikipedia talk:තැපැල් ලැයිස්තු has been created for discussions about Wikipedia mailing lists. I noticed that you are named as an administrator for Wikihi-l and Wikita-l mailing list, and thought you might be able to assist since Sinhala is also another Indic script like Hindi (hi) and Tamil (ta). There is a current discussion on කෝපි කඩේ under the topic "විකි තැපැල් ලැයිස්තු / Wiki mailing lists". I added the proposed mailing list (Wikisi-l) details in Mailing list and Mailing list directory pages. Your help in this regard is greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- User:Ruwan/රුවන් (:si:User:Ruwan) (අමතන්න/talk!) 14:14, 03 December 2006 (UTC) Reply

Hi Brion - is this page still useful? If so it should be moved to mw.org - if not it should be deleted. Feel free to reply here - I'll do the work for you if you can't be arsed. --HappyDog 04:12, 12 December 2006 (UTC) Reply

I was blocked from wikitionary for being a wikitroll. If you look at my edits on wikipedia simple english, wikipedia, and my earlier edits on wiktionary you will see that I am a fighter of vandalism, not someone who causes it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sir_james_paul http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sir_James_Paul Will you please unblock me. Have a nice week and god bless.§Sir James Paul 00:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)§Reply

Every single bit of this user's "help" had to be reverted/fixed. He ignored repeated requests, and then warnings, to stop RC patrolling, improperly reverting changes (not always vandalism); he himself blanked information (wikt:X). Doesn't want to learn. I blocked after trying repeatedly to get him to contribute. If someone else will undertake to monitor him, go ahead and change the block, I won't mind. (And see w:User Talk:ZimZalaBim and w:User Talk:Sir james paul, w:User Talk:Sir james paul/page 1) Robert Ullmann 06:18, 13 December 2006 (UTC) Reply

Hello Brion VIBBER. I've nominated several files for deletion, some of which you uploaded. If you'd like to comment, please see the nomination. Thanks. —{admin} Pathoschild 02:27, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello Brion,

Would it be possible to lock mo.wiktionary? This inactive wiki has become a playground for vandals.

I've notified Anthere about the issue [2]. Thanks, Korg + ⁺ 02:59, 20 December 2006 (UTC) Reply

By all means lock it, but do it with a simple message that it is locked. TAKE DOWN that offensive Romanian nationalistic ro.wk message Korg insists on redirecting the main page to. If it is not to be Moldovenesc then it must not be anything. Especially not Romanian! -- Moldy Too 03:37, 20 December 2006 (UTC) (Special name made just for this, don't reply because I will not read).Reply

Hey bro, merry X-mas. I have the same username on maybe a dozen different wiki projects. Will they all get merged with this "single user" thing? BD2412 T 02:10, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Reply

That's the theory. --brion 04:27, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Reply

Nice. Thanks! BD2412 T 17:38, 25 December 2006 (UTC) Reply

Well, you are welcome. -- ThePacker 03:17, 29 December 2006 (UTC) Reply

Is you're Sysop status temporary?

Which reason? If it's our sitenotice, then is all clear and thanks a lot for the update :-)

I at you're name on [3], so that our user know that's all correct.

-- MichaelFrey 10:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC) Reply

You have sysop acces to de.wikibooks since more then one month.

Is there a reason or to you forget to self remove this acces?

-- MichaelFrey 15:54, 8 February 2007 (UTC) Reply

2007年02月05日 en:ISO 639-3 was released.

downloadable data:

http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/iso-639-3_20070205.tab

could you set up redirects in the form eng.wikipedia.org -> en.wikipedia.org so that people using one ISO standard instead of an mix of RFC and own codes (where RFC itself is a mix of different ISO standards) can make ISO conformant links to WP? Tobias Conradi 22:12, 7 February 2007 (UTC) Reply

Hello Brion,

there has been a discussion on WikiNews about having firstname.lastname@en.wikinews.org email addresses for accredited users. A new discussion thread has been started here after a previous discussion. I'm just asking if this is technically possible, if it is we should probably ask the Board if this is ok?

Enjoy your Wikibreak,

grtz --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:02, 17 March 2007 (UTC) Reply

PS: PLEASE reply here: here (or here n:User talk:Stevenfruitsmaak).

Hypothetically we might be able to do something like that. --brion 20:06, 17 March 2007 (UTC) Reply

Hey

I translated Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer and MediaWiki release manager, since August 2005., and added it to your userpage..I hope you don't mind..here..--Alnokta 12:40, 23 March 2007 (UTC) Reply

how do i do stewards like on here, e.g.

• Test set rights for User:JamesB@enwiki from bureaucrat, sysop to checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat,sysop
• Test set rights for User:No-one@enwiki from bureaucrat, sysop to checkuser, bureaucrat,sysop
• Test set rights for User:Jayden@nowikiquote from (none) to bureaucrat, sysop

I tried the Special:Makesysop.php but it doesn't seem to work like it does here, why?? if someone could tell me how it works that would be great! --84.45.219.185 13:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC) Reply

Hello

One of the admins of be.wikipedia reported, that they've lost lots of its content. Admin log shows that you've imported data from incubator (?). Can you explain what exactly happened and why? --Leafnode 07:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC) Reply

Bonjour Brion, je profite que vous parliez très bien français ! :) J'ai demandé l'information à Florence Nibart-Devouard mais elle n'en avait jamais entendu parler. La question est simple : Est-il toujours prévu que Wikipédia supporte OpenID et si oui quand ? Nous lançons l’EOO, une fondation à but non lucratif pour organiser et structurer la mise en place du système Open Source « OpenID » en Europe. Merci de votre réponse. Philippe from --EOO 22:21, 27 March 2007 (UTC) Reply

Hello! I'm Glacious. I am an Admin and a Bureaucrat in Dhivehi Wikipedia. I would like to ask u, whether we can change the default font size of Every article and main page in our wikipedia. Redux said it may be possible and, to ask ur help. Thanks!

Please reply me in this page. I will keep in touch. Please feel free to ask again if u couldnt understand wat i said.

--Glacious 12:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC) Reply

You'd want to edit the MediaWiki:Common.css page. --brion 21:24, 28 March 2007 (UTC) Reply

I see some changes to the deletion system are planned for 1.10. Your notes look very promising! you mentioned you might want community input about it at some point, I'd am an admin on enwiki mostly doing image work. Anyway, if you need people to test something I am volunteering. :) - Cohesion 22:32, 6 May 2007 (UTC) Reply

Hello Brion,

I have got a problem with my account nepl. It seems, someone or something changed my password. It was saved on three different computers, but it is not working now for about a month. Still worse: it seems, the e-mail adress was lost as well, so I cannot build any new password. I was one of the co-founders of the Upper and Lower Sorbian wikipedias and I would not like to change the name. If you have got some questions, you can ask our admin, dundak. I hope, you can help me ...

greatings, not beeing logged in, nepl

Hi, I'm not going to ask you about date of introducing SL. My question is: will our contributions be lost after introducing SL? And, eg, will wannabakate start counting our edits after introducing it? Thank you, and please reply on your discussion page. 83.31.103.226 18:26, 8 June 2007 (UTC) Reply

on 12 July 2007 Brion VIBBER changed group membership for User:Brion VIBBER@arwiki from sysop to (none) SAYING "not needed here atm and people were buggin me about it :D"

i am sorry to let you know that your action has brought this vote to an early end :) all the best. --الأزدي 15:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC) Reply

Hi. I hope some people make big cash donations to all you programmers. :)

Since there seems little hope of getting majority support for optional advertisements, and the ensuing piles of cash that would provide to all you programmers, and to recruit more programmers.

Instead of lots of cash, or in addition to it, I suggest easing the burden of getting a single login/watchlist, by changing the goalposts a little.

Could we make these all subdomains of wikipedia or wikimedia?:

Wikibooks 
Wikimedia
Wikinews 
Wikipedia 
Wikiquote 
Wikisource 
Wikispecies 
Wikitravel
Wikiversity 
Wiktionary 

Then it would be a simpler redirect problem. Because I believe single login/watchlist is easier on a single domain?

May require some more servers just to do redirects for awhile until Google spiders and reindexes all the pages and their new URLs. --Timeshifter 22:08, 18 July 2007 (UTC) Reply

Hi, I don't know if you're the best person to talk to but I guess you can point me to the right place. Sometimes when doing a Diff in en.wikipedia.org, text that hasn't actually been deleted gets marked in red in the diff. This happened to me today when I mistakenly reverted this edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sigur_R%C3%B3s&diff=145598482&oldid=145347392 ). I thought the editor had deleted text when he hadn't. So to me, it looks like a bug in diff.

can you advise me where best to report this?

many thanks Brian --87.232.58.108 13:55, 19 July 2007 (UTC) Reply

Hello. You can report bugs at the bugzilla site. Majorly (talk ) 14:01, 19 July 2007 (UTC) Reply

Dear Sirs,

Once again...

A group of users (friends) of Portuguese Wikipédia brings more illiberal policies regarding an non free Wikipedia without a preoccupation with a environmental and social education.

This group of users (always the same) and some administrators propose and vote systematically to erase some pages with a total absence of knowledge about the subject, some of the articles with a high importance to the community. They have a chain of contacts to promote their vote and their contacts (friends) vote without common sense, reasoning, good judgment, brains or sagacity; They vote against the person and not against the article.

Less obvious for know, but perhaps as consequential over the long term, is a less participation of some users who TRY CONTRIBUTE to this projects with articles.

Because of this behavior, I decide do not agree with their conduct and I write my point of view in there discussion pages.

I have been block for suspicion of being a sock puppet after a check user. I know I am not a sock puppet, so is impossible the check user be positive.

Several of times, I and other users asked for a check user to my account to dissipate any suspicion about the issue (because they accuse-me to be a sock puppet). But our request was always reject for these (group) users.

However, know, the "group of users" decided to make a "check user". It is strange and uncommon, because 2 days ago they rejected my check user proposal.

In the past, they admit in their discussion pages, they make a me check user and the check user was inconclusive (this in half-words). Know the result is positive? Is impossible. I know that. I am not a "sock puppet".

All I ask to Wikimedia foundation is that an administrator check the merits of the block and to verify the check user. Send me the results by email, because is impossible this result.

I think these groups (with administrators) are trying making a fraud to eliminate my participation.

Put yourself in my shoes and imagine the frustration.

– The other user

– Me

– The checkuser rejected by "the group of users"

– The same checkuser approved by "the group of users"

Sincerely,

Rui Resende

Fundraising 2007/Video with Jimmy subtitles/Translations/bn is the Bengali translation for the requested page. But the status of the translation doesn't show Fundraising 2007/Video with Jimmy subtitles/Translations/status page. I hope you can please fix it. Thank you.--Bellayet 19:48, 24 October 2007 (UTC) Reply

Please make an image for the Arabic verison. Here is the translation:

1.234.567 شخص قد تبرعوا

--Alnokta 23:22, 24 October 2007 (UTC) Reply

The number comes first by the way, number then text..

We're currently having some difficulty getting the meter to render with non-Latin text; when we get it resolved, we'll put the arabic one up... --brion 14:53, 25 October 2007 (UTC) Reply

Ah, Okay then..--Alnokta 18:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC) Reply

Ĉu vi povas iel agi por ke la pretaj tradukoj estu ĉiuj elekteblaj ĉe la videofilmeto de Jimbo ? Tradukoj en lingvoj bn eo hsb hu lt pl sr tl estas ĉu tradukitaj (translated) ĉu pretaj (finished) kaj tamen ne estas elekteblaj por subtitoloj. Dankas Arno Lagrange ✉ 10:23, 3 November 2007 (UTC) Reply
Why are not available all the translated versions (bn eo hsb hu lt pl sr tl)? They need been "copyedited". Who can do that ? Arno Lagrange ✉ 19:09, 30 October 2007 (UTC) Reply

At nov. 17, I made a translation in Saterfrisian (stq). It never became active in the film, however. And now here I can't find it again! --Pyt 08:56, 21 November 2008 (UTC) Reply

Found it! Fundraising 2007/Video with Jimmy subtitles/Translations/stq. It hasn't been deleted or anything, you just didn't add it to the template. *goes to add* Cbrown1023 talk 21:34, 21 November 2008 (UTC) Reply

Thank you! Well, now three of us looked again to the text and we feel, it is right so. Still it is not clear to us, to which template it should be added and how. So please..?? --Pyt 21:15, 5 December 2008 (UTC) Reply

Add |stq |ready to Template:Translation/Fundraising 2007/Video with Jimmy subtitles/Translations. Cbrown1023 talk 02:41, 6 December 2008 (UTC) Reply

All that are declared "finished" I apply and upload the next work day. They're then marked "published". bn isn't currently published as there are technical problems preventing rendering the subtitles. --brion 13:23, 3 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

Cetere ni konstatis en la esperanta vikipedio, sed ankaŭ en alilingvaj projektoj (mi kontrolis en kelkaj) ke estas multaj problemoj kun javaskriptoj depende de la foliumilo. Ĉio bone funkcias kun Mozilo / Fajrovulpo kaj nun malfunkcias per Internet Explorer. Dum la javakonsolo ĉe Fajrovulpo konsideras la javaskripton senerara, IE sciigas ke okazis eraro, sed mi ne trovis rimedon por scii kion ĝi konsideras kiel eraro. Mi mem uzadas preskaŭ nur Fajrovulpon sed la vikipedia projektaro devus esti same alirebla al retumantojn uzantajn IE. Jen listo de aferoj kiuj ne funkcias per IE :

• WikiMiniAtlaso
• fuŝa lokigo de geografiaj koordinatoj kiam elmontritaj ĉe titolo
• kaŝskatoloj (hideboxes) eo:Ŝablono:Kaŝskatolo
• kromaj redaktobutonoj (super la redaktofenestro)

Petro Tomasovsky plendadas pri tio (vidu 1 2 kaj Evoluo de la redaktiloj precipe : Redaktobutona strio kaj Komentoj), li laŭdire jam informis vin kaj vi laŭ li estus respondita ke ĉio glatas. Tamen nur kontrolu per IE kaj vi vidos ĉion kio misfunkcias. Dankas pro la atento Arno Lagrange ✉ 10:23, 3 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

It would be good for whoever's making these custom scripts to test them and fix them. --brion 13:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

La demando gxuste estas kiel korekti dum la skriptoj aperas seneraraj. Mi ne jam trovis taŭgan ilon por trovi kion IE konsideras kiel eraroj. Mi mem ne kreis la skriptojn sed nur esperantigis diversajn trovitajn alilingve. Via respondo ne multe helpas. ;-) Arno Lagrange ✉ 22:15, 3 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

with the hebrew sitenotice. The Relativity of The Truth 16:23, 5 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

Should be fixed now. Redirects for the messages were't working properly. --brion 16:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

Please update sl translation correctly, because » Donate now! and 14.041 have donated are still missing, but as you can see I have translated. Also, MediaWiki:Centralnotice-headlines/sl is not update!

• sl - Nov 4 version
  • (update live) Tudi vi, lahko pomagate Wikimedii spremeniti svet!
  • (update live) Prispevalo je 1ドル ljudi
  • (update live) » Prispevajte zdaj!
  • (update live) Skrij sporočilo
  • (update live) Pokaži več
  • (update live) http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Zbiranje_prispevkov

Greetings, --Mihael Simonic 16:28, 5 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

Done, enjoy. :D --brion 16:31, 5 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

Thanks. --Mihael Simonic 16:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

Please update:

• • (update live) Tudi vi lahko pomagate Wikimedii spremeniti svet!

(without ",") --Mihael Simonic 13:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

MediaWiki:Centralnotice-donate/nn should be "Doner no!" I couldn't figure out a better way of updating it than poking you... --Ranveig 12:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

I've fixed some problems with the latin wikipedia translation. It should be ok now. Thanks,Rafael--130.215.96.195 13:40, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

Please update the change.--130.215.96.195 17:53, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

the donation counter is zero. The Relativity of The Truth 21:03, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

Bonvolu enmeti en MediaWiki:Centralnotice-donate/eo :
» Donacu kaj en MediaWiki:Centralnotice-counter/eo :
1ドル homoj jam donacis

dankas Arno Lagrange ✉ 20:02, 7 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

Hello Brion, I know You are very busy, but I wanted to ask You kindly if You could get to all those translated centralnotice-meter on Fundraising 2007/Text for sitenotice soon, some languages are waiting really long now.
I have marked the missing ones so You can find them more easily.
If I could help You in creating the graphics and sending them to You in any way just tell me.

Many thanks in advance, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} 12:36, 8 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

If you mean the old meter, likely not. It doesn't work properly with non-Latin-1 characters. --brion 16:11, 8 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

It is still included if the sitenotice is minorized, it should be excluded then imho, since the text is now in English, if not translated, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} 16:12, 8 November 2007 (UTC) Reply

Hello, I am a 通, a Japanese wikipedian (ja:user:通).

The sysop rules in JAWP was changed, so I came here to inform it.

One sentence in ja:Wikipedia:管理者の辞任#自動退任について(ja:wikipedia:the resignnation of sysop#about the automatic retiring) was removed([4]).

Translation

The sysop who is inactive for three months will automatically retire. But Sysop who is active as a Board of Trustees, a developer, or a Steward is exception of it.

Translation finish

and The second sentence 「sysop ... it」 was removed in this time, so if you are inactive for three months in JAWP(since 2007年12月19日 (水) 03:21(UTC)), your sysop access will be removed automatically(by Steward). Thank you.--通 04:04, 19 December 2007 (UTC) Reply

• Hey there. You're responsible for running the script to update the interwiki tables from Interwiki map, right? The page says it hasn't been updated since September 2007 and I wanted to see what was required to get the tables refreshed. Thanks! =) --69.90.216.70 05:22, 23 January 2008 (UTC) Reply

I have fixed the following problem SVG files, per your report on SVG validity checks:

• Image:Verhulst-Malthus.svg — Added encoding="ISO-8859-1". MediaWiki's renderer now handles it properly.
• Image:Igis wappen.svg — Fixed xlink namespace binding. Now displays in Firefox.
• Image:Tympanometrie Schema.svg — Fixed xlink namespace binding. Now displays in Firefox.
• Image:Romanian Army Flag - 1921 official model.svg — Couldn't fix this one by hand, but opening and resaving in Inkscape seemed to sanitize the code. It now renders in Firefox properly, which it wasn't before.

I'll see what I can do with the others. Crotalus horridus 01:34, 11 February 2008 (UTC) Reply

• By the way, any chance that MediaWiki might be modified so that SVG markup can be edited on-the-fly, rather than having to download, edit, and then re-upload? Crotalus horridus 01:35, 11 February 2008 (UTC) Reply
• I have now fixed all the files except for the two with bad element nesting. Those will take some time and effort to figure out exactly where the syntax errors are. Crotalus horridus 05:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC) Reply

Hi Brion,

You seem to be the expert on MediaWiki search. Any idea what they are currently using?

Secondly - I'm not advocating usage, but the zettair search engine from RMIT is incredibly fast. It's basically a test bed for all SE indexing/querying theory to date. It lacks many of the features that are really needed for operational work, but I'd love to see it benchmarked along side Lucene and the others. I've heard order of magnitude differences expressed about it's speedc ompared to lucene, but its obvious a hard thing to test given that query volume, processor speed, JVM, index size, RAM, blah blah make an apple-apple comparison extremely hard to do. I'm intrigued my Sphinx as well. There definitely seems to have been a marketing push by these guys.

Here is another search tool to compare:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikipedia.org

Click it and add search terms. It is extremely fast, and this search provider would pay Wikimedia millions of dollars a year to place their searchbar tool on wikipedia pages. For more info please see these proposals: en:Wikipedia:Advertisements#Income from search tools on wikipedia pages

So we get paid a lot. Instead of paying time and money to install a slower search engine. --Timeshifter 00:03, 2 April 2008 (UTC) Reply

We use an open-source custom search application built around Apache Lucene. Wikimedia has a firm commitment to providing all our tools as open source, which makes Google unacceptable as a core option -- a slower, less capable open source tool is preferable for us to a faster, more capable proprietary tool, even if they pay us, because the open source tool can be improved to everyone's benefit (both ours and everybody else who might need such a tool). --brion 17:02, 2 April 2008 (UTC) Reply

Thanks for your reply. I can imagine how busy you might be. Maybe continue to use the open-source search tool, and also charge Google, Yahoo, etc. to place their search tools in the same searchbar. As a dropdown menu choice. Kind of like the search tool options in the Firefox browser searchbar dropdown menu. In my Firefox browser I have added many search options to the Firefox searchbar menu. Firefox received 61.5 million dollars in search royalties in 2006, and Wikimedia received no search royalties. I would much prefer to do my Google-Yahoo-Amazon-Ebay-Flickr-etc searches via a Wikipedia searchbar than a Firefox searchbar. This is because I want more of the search royalties to go to the Wikimedia Foundation. In the Firefox browser I have also added dropdown searchbar options for Technorati, IMDb, Live Search, del.icio.us, Merriam-Webster dictionary, Yahoo Answers, Creative Commons, Answers.com, etc.. If there were more search options in the Wikipedia searchbar then the open-source search tool would be improved by the competition. Especially if a "search wikipedia" option button were added next to the searchbar. Then the Google and Yahoo search tools would compete directly with Apache Lucene. Right now when I search Wikipedia I click the "Search only on the current Web site" button on the Google toolbar installed on my Firefox browser. People love good searchbars! --Timeshifter 20:33, 2 April 2008 (UTC) Reply

I updated this:

en:Wikipedia:Advertisements#Income from search tools on wikipedia pages

Please go there for the latest updates. --Timeshifter 21:21, 2 April 2008 (UTC) Reply

Hi Brion: Is there any reason why changing my preferences' e-mail adress seems to be indifferent when the ULS has a "migrating" situation? The system sends the usual request for confirmation but.... the adress don't change. I've an only "conflict" with the unified login in pl:wiki. Could be the reason, or the e-mail problem isn't related with this? . Many thanks. Your answer will be apreciated here.--Antur 04:19, 4 April 2008 (UTC) Reply

• (second question for the same price) :) Which is the procedure to start a mailing list for the spanish wikiversity ? I'm admin there, it could be useful to coordinate the efforts and interchange of ideas. --Antur 04:33, 4 April 2008 (UTC) Reply

Hi Brion, could you please add details of the license of this image and check to see if any of your other uploads here require this information added. Thanks. Adambro 13:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC) Reply

Brion,

Please tell us what we can do to make these work? We sorely need an en.wikt dump.

The current process is running one thread, with the other stuck for a month in commonswiki.

There are any number of things that could easily be done to fix the basic queuing problem this process exhibits.

Please tell me how I can help fix it?

Best regards, Robert wikt:User talk:Robert Ullmann Robert Ullmann 23:21, 17 May 2008 (UTC) Reply

for the board candidates. Those will definitely help voters sort the wheat from the chaff.--Ragesoss 01:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC) Reply

Hello, Mr Brion Vibber. Thank you for creating unified login. It is very convenient. I hope that future updates are successful. Best Regards --Mayfare 17:47, 19 June 2008 (UTC) Reply

Thanks for your help Brion. I think it is best to take this issue to the Language Committee. It looks like they are the only one Wikimedia entity to solve this issue. We don't have community left at diq.wikipedia. Only two users (the other two sysops) left because of this standard/dialect issues. I have question though. How can we submit a petition to the committee. Thanks. --Xoser 19:02, 8 August 2008 (UTC) Reply

Hey, I seeked you out because you seem reliable. I've seen you around at wikipedia. I'm wikipedia:User:Happypal.

Anyways, I hope you have the answer to this. I'm trying to write a pretty complicated template, which creates a table, where each line is a sub-template. The sub-template is composed of td taged tadda. (like so:wikipedia:User:Happypal/td_tag_problem). Here, it works fine. However, over on the wikia website I am working on, it doesn't: (wikia:Supcom:User:Happypal/td_tag_problem). Html is activated on the wikia page (if I create a full table, with the table and tr tags, it works well), but if the td s are not nested, then they are processed as text, keeping me from transcluding them into the mother template.

Long story short: Do you know how to keep wikia from processing my input as text? I contacted the people at wikia, but the community is small, and I couldn't find someone with the answer.

I can wait till the end of your break ;) thnx,

-- happypal (en.wikipedia/supcom.wikia)

I believe a lot of Wikia sites are still using the old parser, which doesn't always process templates & tables quite the same as the new one (active here). Check with the Wikia site admins about whether it's ok to update that wiki to the new parser, in which case your templates should behave the same as they do here. --brion 19:58, 10 August 2008 (UTC) Reply

Thanks, I'll try to check with them. Just to make sure, and before I bother them with something wrong, the "Parser", are you referring to is the WikiMedia version (and thus its parser) right? or the parser Function extension? or something else? -- happypal (en.wikipedia/supcom.wikia) 11 August 2008

MediaWiki's wiki parser. The techs will understand what it means. :) --brion 16:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC) Reply

Hello, sorry if you are the wrong person to ask but I don't know the correct person :) I would like to know when the servers will be updated with the latest software. For example the extension InputBox is not working properly on Wikipedia even though the patch has already been applied. This is causing problems for us who are relying on this extension at Wikipedia. Any help would be appreciated. Msgj 17:49, 7 November 2008 (UTC) Reply

I'm planning to get us on a regular weekly update schedule; expect updates on Monday. --brion 20:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC) Reply

Thanks. That will be great. Msgj 00:00, 8 November 2008 (UTC) Reply

Um, did those updates go through because we are still experiencing the same issues? Msgj 11:27, 12 November 2008 (UTC) Reply

Not yet, we're still behind this week. --brion 19:07, 12 November 2008 (UTC) Reply

Hi there. I hate running to the devs for something as petty as this, but I don't suppose I can expect some action on this any time soon? <rant> It's certainly not priority, and I know it's stupid to complain when something that many folks asked and begged for is finally implemented, but the issue it has created is literally affecting thousands of files (it's made several maps, graphs, and diagrams illegible). It's also created a minor footprint problem; for SVG text to be rendered correctly, it must now be converted to curves before upload, which dramatically increases filesize (some very simple files, such as the chemical structures I upload, suffer an eightfold increase). </rant> Should I try to contact Tim Starling directly? Or should I just quietly forget about this and accept that, well, there's a bunch of way more important problems that actually need solving? :) —Fvasconcellos 00:25, 22 November 2008 (UTC) Reply

What's your specific request about it? Set fontconfig to use Nimbus instead of Liberation? Can you show a demonstration of the difference between them? --brion 18:55, 24 November 2008 (UTC) Reply

Yes, exactly; Nimbus should be restored as the default sans serif font. Here's an image, pre-Liberation on the left, post-Liberation (no pun intended) on the right: Fvasconcellos 15:56, 25 November 2008 (UTC) Reply

Here's another example of how the change has made many maps and diagrams hard to read at thumbnail size:

Hi,

Just letting you know that your user rights are up for confirmation this quarter; the discussion is currently taking place at Meta:Administrators/confirm.

Cheers,
Daniel (talk) 00:13, 1 January 2009 (UTC) Reply

Hi Brion, just letting you know that the outcome was to remove the local rights in question, (mainly) on the basis that they're redundant to your global rights. Regards, Daniel (talk) 03:14, 19 January 2009 (UTC) Reply

Bonjour, je suis journaliste et je prépare pour SVM (en France) un article expliquant les différents statuts des wikipédiens (administrateurs, stewards, bureaucrates, vérificateurs, importateurs, etc.). L’idée est d’expliquer quel est le rôle de chacun dans la communauté. Mais au-delà de cela, j’aimerais également parler tout simplement des personnes qui sont derrières (un peu de leur histoire personnelle, de leur investissement dans Wikipédia et de leur rôle). J’ai longuement parlé avec Anthere (que j’avais déjà interviewé en... 2006) et nous avons débroussaillé le terrain. Mais il me maque d’autres éclairages, peut-être le vôtre. Auriez-vous un peu de temps (une heure au plus) à me consacrer dans les tous prochains jours par téléphone ou Skype de préférence, pour en discuter. Je vais bien entendu déposer ce même texte dans d’autres pages que la vôtre pour faire le tour des statuts. Merci d’avance pour votre réponse (même négative) --Tswak 17:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC) Reply

There is an ongoing discussion in ca.wiki about desysopping inactive users. There is not any consensus yet, but your situation is atypical and we think that you do not need the status of sysop anymore. Would you mind being desysopped? I expect that you will understand that it is only for clarifying the situation and the ongoing debate. --Vriullop 16:27, 24 January 2009 (UTC) Reply

Happens all the time, no worries. ;) --brion 21:37, 27 January 2009 (UTC) Reply

I have noticed that users of the Nynorsk Wikipedia (nn.wikipedia.org) have been making requests directly to you and to other developers and mailing lists to move the Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia (no.wikipedia.org) to the URL nb.wikipedia.org. What these users are conveniently forgetting to tell you is that there is large opposition against such a move on the Norwegian Wikipedia: in a poll, almost two times as many users oppose a move than those who support it. The "nb" language code is virtually unknown in Norway, and during the many years the Norwegian Wikipedia has existed, it has built up public relations using the "no.wikipedia.org" URL. Also, the code "no" better reflects the fact that Bokmål is by far the majority language in Norway (Nynorsk usage is currently about 10% and falling).

It concerns me that users of the Nynorsk Wikipedia are trying to end-run the consensus on the Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia by going directly to developers, posting on mailing lists and so on without mentioning that the Wikipedia they are asking to move does NOT support a move. I urge all developers not to take any action without checking what the actual consensus on no.wikipedia.org is.

Since 2005 and until this incident, the two Norwegian Wikipedias had co-existed under peaceful conditions, with links to each other on main pages and other sorts of mutual agreements for the benefit of both wikis. I am dismayed to see that the Nynorsk users are now again trying to harm the Bokmål project by forcing it to move to an unpopular and unknown URL, instead of improving their own project, which would be a much more constructive endeavour. Gunnar Birch 02:17, 3 February 2009 (UTC) Reply

Thanks for the heads-up. --brion

Hi Brion! I'm Holder, sysop on Alemannic Wikipedia. I've read your wikimails concerning the als/gsw-code problem of Alemannic Wikipedia: mailarchive:wikitech-l/2008-November/040382.html and mailarchive:wikitech-l/2008-November/040414.html. We (the community of Alemannic Wikipedia) know about this problem since several years, and we agree that this discrepance has to be solved, but we disagree with the idea of moving als.wikipedia.org to gsw.wikipedia.org because the language code gsw stands for "german swiss german" and swiss german is just a part of alemannic dialects. If you look at the classification in Ethnolgue you can see that there are four codes for different alemannic dialects (swiss german, walser, swabian, and Colonia Tovar) but no code for all Alemannic dialects. Alemannic Wikipedia includes all Alemannic dialects. We have submitted an application to SIL International to assign an 4 letter code for Alemannic. My question is: is it possible to wait with the movement of als.wikipedia.org until SIL International has decided on our application? Thanks and greetings from Switzerland, Holder-als 13:11, 6 February 2009 (UTC) Reply

Hello,

Recently there was a discussion on the nl.wiki about your administrator rights, currently you still have local admin rights but your not active on the Wikipedia. (But as special moderator you don't have to be confirmed every year).

The question is now if you don't mind if we remove your rights voluntary, because you will not even notice the are gone. You are also a developer so you have the admin rights on all wikimedia projects. And a desysop will also make it possible to remove your right but it should be a waste of our and maybe your time.

I hope you will respond quickly, Abigor talk 17:22, 10 February 2009 (UTC) Reply

I think I responded on IRC already, but yes, feel free to remove my sysop rights. I can regain them for technical needs at any time. :) --brion 20:22, 10 February 2009 (UTC) Reply

Hi Brion, your admin rights also removed at fiwiki. Br, --Agony 06:32, 6 March 2009 (UTC) Reply

Apologies for posting this in English...

There is a discussion currently ongoing on meta about "tidying" the developers' user rights": now that you are members of the global "system administrators" group (with the ability to assign yourself whatever permissions you need) there's no real need for you to continue to have rights like "developer", "steward" and "bureaucrat" locally on various wikis. Obviously the intention is not to say "you can't have these rights, we're taking them away" - that would be completely silly. If you need a particular permission on a particular wiki, however, it's now easiest simply to assign that permission to the global group using Special:GlobalGroupPermissions; the idea is to establish a precedent that, in the interests of tidiness, rights assigned by the developers in the course of their work are "easy come, easy go": they can be both granted and removed at any time.

I'd greatly appreciate your input to the discussion, which is at Wikimedia forum#Tidying developers' user rights. Happy‐melon 13:38, 25 February 2009 (UTC) Reply

I noticed in various page that the lack of SVG support in IE is impairing the use of SVG. I myself had this problem for an application. There are some new interesting ways to support SVG that are coming up lately. I'd like to mention 2 that I found: SVG2VML which converts SVG converted in VML to support IE and SGWeb which is based on the SVGviewer from Adobe but continues developing SVG support since Adobe has been on the brink of discontinuing SVG support. I'll be testing them myself soon. I thought I'd let you know so you can also check these out.

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