Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2009/May

Vandalism from 216.100.91.2
The IP 216.100.91.2 empties pages.

See --SoylentGreen (talk) 15:45, 13 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Blocked --dark lama  16:36, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

SIte Header
I am a Wikipedia user who stumbled on here by accident, so please forgive my ignorance. I just wanted to let you guys know that the site header about the survey is out of date, as the survey has expired. On Wikipedia any admin can edit the site interface, and I assume it's the same here. Thanks, Genius101 (talk) 20:40, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads-up. This seems to be a caching issue. --Swift (talk) 05:02, 17 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Caching has nothing to do with this. See [ MediaWiki:Anonnotice]. --dark lama  14:26, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Unifying Account
I have an inactive account (Due to me being in the US Military) on Wikipedia, and when I created my account here on WikiBooks I saw the opportunity to unify my account. Fantastic idea! I am back from deployment and would like to unify the accounts. When I try to have them e-mail me my new password so I can get into my Wikipedia account, I am told the account doesn't exist. I have verified the case sensitivity. Wikibooks says the account still exists, but Wikipedia doesn't. I can't continue with the unification until that account is cleared or password reset. Any help?

-Old Wolf
 * The account "OldWolf" is a global account already, with an unattached account on Spanish Wikipedia. To attach that account to the global one, you need the password, which can only be retrieved if you set and confirmed an email for it (which doesn't seem to be the case). However, since that account has no edits, the bureaucrats on Spanish Wikipedia will probably rename the account so you can re-register it (and then it'll be attached to the global account). &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 03:25, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough. Since I don't know spanish, any advice on how to contact the bureaucrats on Spanish Wikipedia? -Old Wolf
 * See w:es:Wikipedia:Cambiar el nombre de usuario: there are instructions in English (and there are several bureaucrats who speak English). &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 03:41, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

72.1.205.79 (talk) 15:56, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Block this IP Please block this ip as it is a school board. 72.1.205.79 (talk) 15:59, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

That is not a ground for blocking. Please see WB:BLOCK for more. --Swift (talk) 16:50, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I can make it grounds for blocking by vandalizing and using that as grounds for blocking. 72.1.205.79 (talk) 15:55, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Seeking attention I noticed you added your signature to a number of talk pages, but without adding any content. Only after checking this IP's contributions did I figure that you may have been trying to get attention to the request above. Please note that a better way to reach the community is to post a message in the appropriate Wikibooks:Reading room. In the case of a block request, you would be looking for the administrative assistance reading room. Take care, --Swift (talk) 16:50, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about that I did not know about the reading rooms.72.1.205.79 (talk) 15:58, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The preceding was copied from User talk:72.1.205.79 by the talk page IP holder.


 * Yes you can request a block, but this IP address has not been used for much vandalism in the past. It would be preferable that it be kept open unless there were it were the source of large amounts of blatant vandalism. Not all schools have the same amount of immature students.
 * Should this be an IP address of a school that is the source of sufficient amounts of vandalism, then we'd probably put a IP range block on it. Please give us a list of past vandlism and the IP range and we'll look into that. Thanks. --Swift (talk) 01:50, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * If the request is coming from school administration, they should email wikibooks@wikimedia.org. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 01:52, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Bug: MediaWiki:Gadget-Personalper.js hardwires "/wiki/" into personal .css and .js script names
The personal per_book gadget uses the fixed string "/wiki/" as the pathname to the personal per_book css and js filenames (see MediaWiki:Gadget-Personalper.js). This works on Wikibooks, but not on other Mediawiki installations, which may have a different path to the mediawiki code. The fix is simple. Replace "/wiki/" by wgScript, which holds the proper pathname prefix. I reported this bug on MediaWiki bugs, but was told this is a script maintained by Wikibooks administrators. Dnessett (talk) 18:54, 27 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed now. Books in a person's userspace should also work with it now too. --dark lama  21:11, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. However, there still seems to be a problem. When I follow the call chain (using Firebug) from, the resulting uri is : "/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Dnessett/per_book%2FTemplate.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript". Notice the %2F character code after per_book isn't changed to '/'. This seems to occur because of a bug in. Specifically, the uri is created using the following statement:. To properly convert the input parameter to a valid uri, the 2nd and 3rd calls to replace should use a global search, i.e.,. (I think. I have no Javascript programming experience). Dnessett (talk) 22:13, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Errata: I should have left out the ',s in the above replace. That is the correct search is:  (Found this out when I modified my local wikibits.js) Dnessett (talk) 22:35, 27 May 2009 (UTC)


 * That one would be something to report on bugzilla. We don't have any control over wikibits.js, we can just work around the bug locally until its fixed. --dark lama  23:02, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Done. Bug 18965. Thanks. Can this be fixed on Wikibooks without waiting for a MediaWiki bug-fix distribution? I hope to move my template work to Wikibooks in about a week. Dnessett (talk) 23:29, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Update: It appears the bug is fixed in r50537. Comment from mediawiki developer: "Already fixed in r50537. Will go live next scap." I'm not sure what a scap is, but I assume it is update revision. Do all mediawiki foundation projects use the same mediawiki version? If so, is it likely that Wikibooks will have the fix installed in a reasonable amount of time? Dnessett (talk) 23:52, 27 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Not all wikimedia foundation projects use the same version or are updated at the same time, but they are all usually kept pretty much up to date. It could be a week or a month before the next time the revision Wikibooks uses is next updated. --dark lama  23:55, 27 May 2009 (UTC)