Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2011/September

Change to MediaWiki page
For MediaWiki:Gadgets-prefstext, could an administrator change the collapsed box text to say to open it. Wikibooks has sometimes people who do not edit or know wikibooks that goes on gadgets. Ebe123 (discuss • contribs) 11:24, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * It was actually at MediaWiki:Clearyourcache, which was transcluded in the above page, but I have added an additional instruction to it. A good catch.  Sometimes an outside view will see things regulars miss. – Adrignola discuss 13:40, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Ebe123 (discuss • contribs) 15:56, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

CU Request
Could one of the CU's please check the IP who continues to create accounts named ILubeMyCucumbersNN where NN is a number? I have blocked about a dozen such account in the past week, as he is a proven vandal, and has a highly inappropriate username. Thanks. --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 00:47, 16 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Is that still going on? Adrignola blocked at least one of the underlying IP on 12 September (see here) QU TalkQu 07:05, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Clearly it is still going on... irritating. I blocked a raft of those too. QU TalkQu 07:06, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I suspect that User:DarthMarius and User:DarthMarius4 could be the same person, since those accounts were created at the same time, using the numeric increment, and then engaging in vandalism (with the first one). I pre-emptively blocked DarthMarius4 after Xania blocked DarthMarius.  At a minimum, it was a sock of a blocked account.  --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 12:53, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I blocked another IP address used by the latest accounts; 76.208.58.190. They're obviously IP hopping, probably using proxies or different locations.  And the new IP was also behind the DarthMarius accounts.  Feel free to send me an email or leave me a note on my talk page if it's urgent, as I haven't been as good at remembering to check my watchlist as I used to. – Adrignola discuss 14:42, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

User:ILubeMyCucumbers20 was blocked today. I guess he found another IP. --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 15:32, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, 64.184.36.191. This was sent on the mailing list but I overlooked it. I also altered the block of the other IP used to be for all users and not anonymous only with account creation blocked, in case they're registering at another wiki and SULing over to here.  They recently blocked 50 sockpuppets at en.wiki.  So we're getting a sampling of the "fun" Wikipedia has long known. – Adrignola discuss 16:43, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Opt-out of "see last reviewed version"
Hi,

I'd like to opt-out of the "see last reviewed version and not the latest draft" for the MySQL wikibook. (I had asked a while ago on IRC but didn't get an answer).
 * You should be able to select that for yourself. Go to My preferences and select the "Edit Review" tab. You should find a checkbox for "Always show the latest reviewed revision (if there is one) of a page by default."  --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 19:50, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * However you cannot opt-out for just one book. --dark lama  20:56, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Do you mean somebody opt'd in for this wikibook, but that I now cannot opt out? I object! :)
 * I ask, because I wrote a significant portion of this wikibook in the past, and I don't see any more recent significant contributor who would have been entitled to opt in.
 * Or maybe I'm missing something about the way this "default == last reviewed" feature work? Beuc (discuss • contribs) 05:47, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * What I means is if you follow the steps Jomegat gave, you will see the latest draft for every book. You asked how to opt-out for one book and I thought you might want to know there is no per book option like that in user preferences. The only options in user preferences are to see the latest draft for all books or the last reviewed version for all books. A preference on a per-page level that can be changed by Administrators exists as well, but that option either shows the latest draft for all users or depends on what the user set in their preferences. Basically the question you asked is ambiguous enough to be interpreted in a number of ways. I hope I've given you enough information to answer your question or at the very least for you to be able to clarify what you are asking for. --dark lama  07:33, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, what I'm asking is to opt-out for all users for the MySQL wikibook. Beuc (discuss • contribs) 10:25, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Flagged revisions was reconfigured at Wikibooks. All users are shown the latest edit to a page unless they change their preferences, regardless of reviewing status.  The only exception to this is for pages where the default was changed, which is limited to Wikijunior pages at this point.  So in summary, only Wikijunior pages show the latest reviewed version and not the latest draft. – Adrignola discuss 16:36, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * People that had an account before Wikibooks was reconfigured might still have the last reviewed revision shown option enabled by default in their preferences due to how the preference system works, but for the majority of books that doesn't matter because the default for pages is to show the latest revision. There are [ some pages] lingering around where the latest draft isn't the default outside of Wikijunior as well. MySQL might be one. --dark lama  17:05, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * MySQL doesn't have any special flaggedrevs configuration. There are fewer than 100 pages in mainspace that do;   --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 17:33, 21 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the noise then, I must have confused myself when I checked last month :/ I checked tested again and it displays the latest draft by default - thanks! Beuc (discuss • contribs) 22:27, 21 September 2011 (UTC)