User talk:Brooke Vibber
I am trying to do ten billion things at once right now. :( I'd appreciate it if people who have been asking me to do specific things (mostly translation updates, fixes, and other things for some of the other language wikis) could put it all in one place so I don't lose track. m:User:Brion VIBBER/Todo list would be a good place for this. --Brion 07:57, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Hi Brion,
I tried to download "wikipedia-phase3-fromcvs.tar.gz" from 'Wikipedia talk:Software Phase III' but the file not found.
Can you zip for it for me. I do a large project of Taxonomy and MediaWiki does a great job.
Thanks a lot.
- Grab the mediawiki-20030829 package off http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/ It's a little outdated, though, use CVS if you dare! Mwoo-ha-haaaaa.... See also the new mediawiki-l mailing list, http://mail.wikipedia.org/
Hi Brion,
I am inquiring about a read-only mirror for the French language Wikipedia in Paris. How much network load does it use ? Do you have a MRTG page for Wikipedia ? You can also answer by mail at <yann (at) forget-me (dot) net>. Thanks, Yann 16:28, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- I think I already answered by e-mail, but for others' sake: webalizer graphs at http://fr.wikipedia.org/stats/ etc.
I thought I should make sure my modem works and am connected now at some blazing speed of less than 56 kilobits per second. I'm seriously considering clawing my eyes out, but I don't think it would help. At least Wikipedia is slow anyway, so it doesn't make much difference here!
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Hi Brion,
I'm one of the writers in Hebrew Wikipedia.
We are only few who active but going to reach 1000 articles very very soon.
We have some problems with vandalism. Rotem Dan, the person who was in contact with you disappeared many weeks ago.
Me and few others need administrator permission to block the vandalism by users when it needs.
This is my user page, and this is my user contributions.
Let me know how you can help us.
Thanks, Yehuda.
Hi again.
This is Rotem Dan user page and this is user contributions.
As you can see, his last visit record on 6 of August. Rotem Dan also didn't leave any e-amil at the system. I hope he is fine but we can't continue without administrator.
Thanks a lot, Yehuda.
Hi, again. In case you don't Watchlist Talk:Interstate highway, wanted you to have opportunity to consider checking my full edit beginning
- Seeking further discussion of Interstates, including Route Nomenclature
- The topics of nomenclature for both Interstates & state routes have been idle 14 months on thisTalk:Interstate highway page. Before editing here on the subject, if it has been continued or made a standard elsewhere, can anyone direct me where? ... --Jerzy
Hi Brion,
there's a case of interlanguage [vandalism/newbie experiment] going on. User:217.226.214.120 adds non-commented links to unilingual german sites to articles in non-german wikipedias, including EN, FR, ES and NL (and probably others). While I reverted his changes to these 4 wikipedias, I don't want to explore all wikipedias to find all his changes. Can you do something ? --FvdP 22:46, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- What would I do that you and other capable Wikipedians haven't already done or won't already do when they find the material? --Brion 08:27, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- I expected you could do some SQL query to find an exhaustive list of edited articles. W.r.t. 217.226.214.120, he seems to have ceased adding these links so the question is now moot. --FvdP 01:40, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Hi. There seems to be some trouble on the #wikipedia IRC channel. I think you may have unintentially instructed your irc client to disregard all messages sent by me. I hope this issue will be resolved and I wish you the best. Sorry for the trouble. Alexandros 01:48, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Oh no, it was intentional. I got tired of the 'wikibot' stuff filling up my screen when I was trying to communicate with people productively about the server, nothing personal. --Brion 01:52, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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Hi Brion, this is me again, want to know about the "non-managment" of Hebrew wikipedia. Can you help us?
Thanks, Yehuda.
Hi Brion,
The operators in the hebrew wikipedia does not visit very often. I was wondering if you could add permissions to some active users so they can help in the managment of heberew version.
pending wikipedinas are listed here - http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%AA
10x.
Hi Brion, it seems your bug fix about the double articles did actually make things worse - today several pages were created which are in fact duplicate in the database, including some which are half included in the database. See Village pump. andy 16:21, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- It didn't make things worse, it just didn't fix another bug. --Brion 19:51, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)
BRIONNNNNNNN, HELLLLLLP
j'ai fait une boulette !!!!!
A la demande de Jeff, j'ai voulu merger l'historique de deux pages (Eubactérie et Eubactéries) et comme le merge ne marchait pas (un des deux historiques n apparaissait pas), j ai resupprimé la page. Maintenant, l'historique mineur apparait, mais le majeur .... ne marche plus du tout. Regarde http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eubact%E9rie
C'est affreux; il y avait un bel article la :-(((((
Donnes moi une bonne nouvelle ... sauve l'article, please.
Ta présence is an absolute requirement. Clearly. The bugs just bow in front of you, just as sea open in front of others. Amazing. Thanks :-)
btw Brion
could you fix the bug in the list of blocked users, that is responsible for the name of Papotages not to appear. Since the name does not appear, we cannot unblock or block him again. If you see the list of people agreeing and disagreeing with maintaining the block, I think you can conclude that it is not clear. However, Papotages has agreed to keep quiet, and has done so, so far. I think we should have the right to unblock a user if we decide to do so. Now we cannot; it is not correct; could you fix this please ? ant
Thanks
Cher Papo maintenant n'apparait plus. The next time he bugs the place, anyone is free to block him again. It is useless anyway, as he uses non fixed ips. I prefer we keep track of a name contributions, than of multiple ips contributions. While for a sysop, the job to block an ip or a name is the same. Bah ! This is so vain :-)
Merci pour avoir caché HasharBot, it was getting real bad. I switched to minor edits hidden :-)
Papotages is playing quietly on his unblocking page. Not peace really, but ... tolerable :-) ant
Brion, we have a potential identity usurpation case, Utilisateur:Pap'otages and Utilisateur:Papotages. The former is currently editing, while the latter edited sooner in the evening. Pap'otages says (well...) he is not Papotages. Is it possible that you infer or not ?
Second point, the top of my screen is displaying You have new messages all the time. Is it normal ? Ant
Wait no, that is the opposite...Utilisateur:Papotages is our Papotages and Utilisateur:Pap'otages is our usurper. Err... I think
Brion, do not be upset, please :-( we do not need that on top of this.
- Sorry, just in a mood. Off doing other things... --Brion
- ok. Peace and love Brion.
Brion, I want to apologise for my behaviour earlier. Listing you on problem users was immature and pointless. I can't believe I would spend so long arguing about a bunch of numbers and acting as though the existence of a web page with the title 03-08 was going to have some major influence on my life.
I have removed Ec from problem users too and shall, in future, try to find something more useful to do with my time. Like writing articles instead of deleting them maybe?
Sorry,
Angela.
Left China so soon?
Shizhao said he did an SQL search and found that you're no longer a developer at the Chinese Wikipedia. Is this a misunderstanding? Because you're obviously still responding to the cries for help from the Chinese WP (albeit sometimes it takes months.... ;-) How's that new laptop we donated, eh? *Joking!!* I understand that there are 20 WPs out there, so we'll all have to wait until Brion-clone machine is invented by scientists of Jupiter.) So, are you still a developer at the Chinese WP? --Menchi 06:51, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- The 'developer' marker in the database isn't actually needed for anything I do; the SQL write capabilities have been removed as it's safer to only do that directly over a secure login shell. As a general security rule it's best to use lower privledges when you don't need higher ones, so I've been removing my 'developer' priveledge marker when I notice it's there but don't need it. I'm not leaving! :) --Brion 06:55, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Brion, there is a spanish speaker that is beginning an encyclopedia on meta. Could you see about that :-( Thanks Anthère
Wikipedia:Orphaned articles
Something went a little wrong in your Wikipedia:Orphaned articles update yesterday. Could you make the adjustments to fix it? thanks in advance, Kingturtle 22:46, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)