Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2008/February

Partial Imports
I imported Denmark to Transwiki:Denmark today, although there was a failure and I wasn't able to import the complete edit history. However, when I look at the edit history of the page, it shows the last edit made on Wikipedia, and it also includes the import, saying "1 revision from Denmark". Now, this certainly isn't an ideal situation, but it still does give proper attribution to wikipedia, and does point the reader (in a round-about way) to the history of that page. I'm inclined to say that, in terms of GFDL compliance, that this should be sufficient in cases where a full edit history cannot be successfully imported. GFDL texts are not free unless it's technically infeasable to make a complete copy of the history section, and I think people would forgive us for doing our best under these technical limiations.

I would love to hear what other admins have to say on this point, I could easily be wrong. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 02:14, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that's exactly right, but we can easily go a step further. (put it on the talk page) provides a direct link to the WP history page. (PS someone who knows how might clean up the way the link is formed.) This provides an additional notice of attribution, and can also serve (through whatlinkshere) as an easy way to see what pages need a full history if/when these imports become possible (and we determine that the rest of the history is needed).  – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 03:50, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * In de.wb we use this tool (The server is unfortunately broken down. :. With that tool you can extract the history of a page. Then we put the extracted history on the discussion page.
 * As info if you didn't know: There is a bug that you cannot import pages with more than 100 versions. That's the export function ...
 * -- heuler06 (talk) 20:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, we have in the past posted the edit history to the talk page. This is rather cumbersome, especially when history merges are involved. I'd be happy to see them replaced by a link to the en.wp history. Unfortunately, the admins here are also all-too-aware of the import problems (but I think it's file size, not revision number...) – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 20:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by "all-too-aware". "unfortuantely" confuses me. Or I have a false meaning of "all-too-aware" in mind. Could explain it, please? :) You can also do that at my talk page if this is not the right place. ;-) -- heuler06 (talk) 08:04, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * We import a lot of pages from WP, and those imports often fail because of high revision numbers. With that in mind, we are all-too-aware of the software limits because we deal with them on a daily basis. I was under the impression that the number of revisions was over 1000 (5000 was a number I've seen somewhere), not 100. Of course, I could ask the devs if I really wanted to know for sure. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 14:42, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism
This IP has continued disruption after being warned. Νεοπτόλεμος 18:07, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll take a look at it, thanks for the heads-up. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 18:19, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Νεοπτόλεμος 18:20, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Picture copyright problem
I want to post:
 * Image:Parameters mockup.png

on G.marco's talk page. Apparently, this page has been vandalized in the past, and so I cannot warn the user. Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks, Laleena (talk) 13:34, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That page is not protected, and had never been edited until I did just now. I'm not sure what happened there. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 18:29, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Huh. That's very, very odd. The notice said that I did not have the right permissions to edit it, or something similar. Laleena (talk) 18:37, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, when I saw Laleena's post, I went to the page and got the same message. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 21:41, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Do either of you still get a protection notice when trying to edit? – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 22:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No, I don't. Laleena (talk) 00:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Try his userpage, Laleena. I can edit the talk, but not the userpage. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 01:53, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The message we get is as follows:
 * You do not have permission to do that, for the following reason:


 * The title "User:G.marco" has been banned from creation. It matches the following blacklist entry: .*\b(?:http:\/\/)?(?:[-a-z0-9]\.)+[a-z]+\b.*
 * Retrieved from "http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:G.marco" Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 01:55, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * (<- reset tabs) That sounds like the Spam-blacklist trapping it, likely because there's a '.' in the user's name. A cursory glance over it just now didn't find which expression is causing it. After lunch, I'll check it out properly if no-one else has sorted it. (Actually, I suspect it isn't this blacklist, but another one that traps page names rather than hyperlinks) Webaware talk 02:10, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The problem was MediaWiki:Titleblacklist, which has apparently been turned back on. I commented out the offending entry until someone can fix it. I believe that one was developed by User:Darklama, User:Whiteknight and I, but we made a mistake. It should prohibit a URL as a pagename, but has apparently decided to branch out :) – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 02:56, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I stuck back the simplified one that only looks for URLs in page names. Webaware talk 03:07, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I can edit his user page, and I'll prove it too. In less than one minute, it will read, "This is my user page.", just to prove I can edit it. Laleena (talk) 22:12, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe Webaware solved the problem, so the page was able to be created. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 01:15, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

My user account
I am usually logged in as Laleena. But, apparently, I cannot get into my account. I will tell the password to a checkuser who will help, but I would like to get to my username. If it doesn't workd, then I will log in under a different account name. Thoughts? 208.100.195.149 (talk) 00:44, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * If you set an email address when you registered your account, you can have it set a new random password and email you the new password. --dark lama  01:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't set an e-mail address, however I am same IP address, therefore same person. 208.100.195.78 (talk) 01:33, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Got there, no worries. Laleena (talk) 17:05, 29 February 2008 (UTC)