User talk:Addshore

NDKilla Mass topicy thing

I'll try to bullet all my separate topics..

• First off I created Template:Pre style on my wiki as I like using it but wasn't sure if I should create it on here.

  Probably no point in importing it unless someone has a need for it on meta :) ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 19:30, 4 April 2015 (BST)

• I see you noticed I created CheckUser. Is there an interwiki link to the login wiki? A wikilink to login:Special:ListUsers/checkuser would be cool, but an external link could be placed too.

  Generally people that can checkuser will not have the user right, its probably best just to point to the list of stewards! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 19:30, 4 April 2015 (BST)

  I'm a little confused as to what you mean by this part.. NDKilla (talk) 20:23, 4 April 2015 (BST)

  I mean that once someone has checkusered a user they will then remove the checkuser flag from their account. ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 21:55, 4 April 2015 (BST)

• Otherwise, that page look okay? I was thinking that the MW pages (1, 2, and 3) could all be set appropriately to prevent checkuser's from being redlinked on user right pages, but I'm 99% sure I don't have permission to edit the MW namespace. Assuming global sysops do, it's something I'd be interested in but of course realize this is more far off :P still waiting for a message back from Dusti, he acknowledged me tho so I'm being patient.
• As for all the technical stuff.. well, I have 2 Apache servers and MediaWiki on a local computer, and I had some questions about wiki farms. (I'm by no means looking to replace Orain, I'm just trying to figure out the technical side of stuff, and then I might be able to help here in other ways.) Hope to talk to you on IRC about this sometime...

Thanks! NDKilla (talk) 15:23, 4 April 2015 (BST)

• I am planning on writing a blog post some time soon (maybe even today) about how orain works / how we are currently running it. I guess this will be helpfull! :) Otherwise just catch me on IRC, or even Southparkfan, and we can probably help you! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 19:30, 4 April 2015 (BST)

  Cool, hope to see this later. NDKilla (talk) 20:23, 4 April 2015 (BST)

  @NDKilla: blog post ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 11:13, 5 April 2015 (BST)

PS:

• Requests for OS and CU could be easily placed on Stewards' noticeboard (which you already moved) but I think that pages describing the tools should still exist. Would it be okay if I edited OS to include information on the tool, and do what I did with CheckUser? NDKilla (talk) 15:27, 4 April 2015 (BST)

  Yeh the pages should probably still exist, feel free to change whatever you think needs to be changed and I can review it as you go :) ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 19:30, 4 April 2015 (BST)

  Will work on OverSight later. NDKilla (talk) 20:23, 4 April 2015 (BST)

• Propose moving Meta:Bots to Bots over the redirect, since none of the other Meta pages are in the Meta: namespace. (IE: CU OS Administrators are all in mainspace.) NDKilla (talk) 15:33, 4 April 2015 (BST)

  Sounds good to me! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 19:30, 4 April 2015 (BST)

  Moving this now, NDKilla (talk) 20:23, 4 April 2015 (BST)

• Not a big deal and I think only Dusti might be able to do it, but on Identification log propose editing the first line so that it actually links to the CheckUser page and (per above, if I create it) the Oversight page. NDKilla (talk) 16:30, 4 April 2015 (BST)

  Will do! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 19:30, 4 April 2015 (BST)

• Assuming SPF didn't completely handle it, Stewards' noticeboard#Suppression request NDKilla (talk) 18:13, 4 April 2015 (BST)

   Done ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 19:30, 4 April 2015 (BST)

I'm just going to update here, since mass topicy thing go!

• I already emailed you about some shit (assuming your accounts email is valid) sorry if that bugs you!-NDKilla (talk) 02:52, 6 May 2015 (BST)
  • Sorry I havn't replied to this yet! :( ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 15:19, 13 May 2015 (BST)
    • It's fine, get to it when you can. NDKilla (talk) 15:36, 13 May 2015 (BST)

• Per above, I still propose including links to Oversight and CheckUser on the Identification log page.-NDKilla (talk) 02:52, 6 May 2015 (BST)
  • Sounds fine to me! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 15:19, 13 May 2015 (BST)
    • (PS: I don't have technical permission to edit the Identification log if I wanted to, so someone else has to include the links.)
    • On a related note, maybe I should update CheckUser and Oversight since apparently meta has a request page for them instead of the Stewards' noticeboard. Related, can someone get OS/CU locally, or are they both global, or only local? NDKilla (talk) 15:33, 13 May 2015 (BST)
      • Ahh! You should make an edit request on the talk page then! ;p Also I believe I may have deleted that request page in my big tidy up a little while back. ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 15:36, 13 May 2015 (BST)
        • I'll make an edit request :P Also Meta:Requests for permissions is still a valid page for meta-only requests (as of now). NDKilla (talk) 15:43, 13 May 2015 (BST)
• Per the switch in Template:Identvalidation, I don't think User:John should be authorized to change the Identification log (my bad if this I'm wrong, but I believe he's still resigned and persona non grata.)-NDKilla (talk) 02:52, 6 May 2015 (BST)
  • Good point! Changed here ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 15:19, 13 May 2015 (BST)
    • Cool! Saw you removed yourself too ;P I should learn how those switches work ;-; NDKilla (talk) 15:36, 13 May 2015 (BST)

• If you know the code side of it, I was wondering how you create additional protection levels? I noticed that the Identification log is protected so that only stewards may edit it. -NDKilla (talk) 02:52, 6 May 2015 (BST)
  • Take a look at this page! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 15:19, 13 May 2015 (BST)
    • Thanks, will do! NDKilla (talk) 15:36, 13 May 2015 (BST)

• Would it be possible to create a special page like Special:ListStewards like Special:ListAdmins or make it redirect to Special:ListUsers/steward -NDKilla (talk) 02:54, 6 May 2015 (BST)
  • This would probably need an extension. Take a look here and here ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 15:19, 13 May 2015 (BST)
    • Will do!

• Per #Protections/restrictions I was wondering all of the code needed to create new protection levels (like 'protected so only stewards can edit' if you could share.
  • Linked above! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 15:19, 13 May 2015 (BST)
    • Danke NDKilla (talk) 15:36, 13 May 2015 (BST)
    • Would it be hard to (or allowed) to have bcrats on my wiki able to protect pages, and allow them to protect pages so that only bureaucrats can edit some pages? (IE: If I request this would it ever be done?) NDKilla (talk) 16:32, 13 May 2015 (BST)
      • This is very possible! Fancy trying to make a pull request on github? :D ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 12:38, 14 May 2015 (BST)
        • github commit to my patch branch thingy. I have no idea if this is even close to what needs to be done ;-; NDKilla (talk) 16:15, 14 May 2015 (BST)
        • entire pull request since in the previous commit i accidentally made bcrat a default protection level NDKilla (talk) 16:27, 14 May 2015 (BST)
        • P.R. #597 replacing the above NDKilla (talk) 15:21, 20 May 2015 (BST)

• Bumping above unanswered topics. NDKilla (talk) 15:09, 13 May 2015 (BST)
  • All replied to! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 15:19, 13 May 2015 (BST)
    • Ty <3 Addshore for something above steward 2015. NDKilla (talk) 15:36, 13 May 2015 (BST)

In an unrelated note, those were some nasty things said on those user/talk pages by that person and the socks. Thanks for being awesome, Addshore. NDKilla (talk) 15:09, 13 May 2015 (BST)

Proposals for new wikis/Archive

Hello / bonhour !
Just a detail of chronology : the proposals between 24 July and 25 August 2014 are archived in the page Proposals for new wikis/Archive 2 and not at the end of Proposals for new wikis/Archive 3. Is it deliberate? Penkroff (talk) 01:01, 16 April 2015 (BST)

This was not deliberate! I probably made the mistake as only the first and second archives are listed in the heading of the page! I will aim to fix this soon! :) Thanks for pointing it out! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 08:55, 16 April 2015 (BST)

It's because Proposals for new wikis/header has not been marked for translation. Addshore, could you please do that. Wynter (talk) 22:17, 23 April 2015 (BST)

Thanks for pointing that out! Marked now! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 13:31, 27 April 2015 (BST)

Protections/restrictions

Looking at the ansible playbook, I see the code:

	// Restrictions
	'+wgRestrictionLevels' => array(
		'default' => array(
			'user',
			'steward'
		),
		'+metawiki' => array(
			'createwiki'
		),
	),
	'+wgRestrictionTypes' => array(
		'default' => array(
			'delete'
		),
	),
	'$wgRestrictDisplayTitle' => array(
		'default' => true,
		'portalwiki' => false,
	),
	// /Restrictions

This code looks firmilar, and I was wondering if this is what I think it is. I would like to create (on a test wiki i have full access to) a kind of super-protection (see WP's superprotect) that allows only my steward/sheriff groups to edit the pages. I'd also make it impossible for these super-protected pages to be deleted by sysops. NDKilla (talk) 06:16, 17 April 2015 (BST)

Hi! I dont believe the code above is to do with anything like the WP super protect bit. The change for Wikimedia that introcuded superprotect can be see here ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 13:33, 27 April 2015 (BST)

Hello

Hello and welcome. You have been really busy clearing up the backlog. I appreciate the hard work and expertise. I'll be back for more, as I really am a newbie, but with great ambitions. My next move is to try and publish the content of my wiki to a website, so I'll be asking for advice and plugins. Cheers! --Simonpa71 (talk) 21:37, 5 May 2015 (BST)

Awesome! :) ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 10:15, 13 May 2015 (BST)

Question

Read this please, and give me your opinion/thoughts. Also, reply about the Username change/contrib moving if you can please, that's mainly why I messaged you :D -CK (Editing from IP still)

P.S. Maybe you have an idea about this also- on the Not So EPF Wiki, We can type things into the search bar, but it's not actually giving any "suggestions" like it's supposed to. Do you know why that is, and is there any way for you to fix it? 184.1.246.222 23:02, 16 May 2015 (BST)

Hey! Probably best you direct your query about the search bar here ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 11:58, 31 May 2015 (BST)

How is Orain going

How is Orain going? Tau Ceti (talk) 01:01, 31 May 2015 (BST)

Just fine :) ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 11:57, 31 May 2015 (BST)

A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Thank you for working to help save Orain after a week+ of trouble :) -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 02:19, 31 May 2015 (BST)

Meh. 202.142.129.178 02:21, 1 June 2015 (BST)

Meh? Noice IP. -- Cheers, NDKilla ^{( Talk • Contribs )} 02:26, 1 June 2015 (BST)

Request Stewards NoticeBoard

Could you please check the TestWiki request on the Stewards' Noticeboard? --Reception123 (talk) 13:22, 6 June 2015 (BST)

 Done ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 14:47, 9 June 2015 (BST)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you for fixing MWException and everything else that was broken. It is truly appreciated. -- Joe G. (Talk) 16:47, 4 July 2015 (BST)

Thank you

I was told you had worked on fixing the error with the Echo extension on farmingsimulator.orain.org. I just wanted to thank you for your efforts :) --Slivicon (talk) 18:15, 21 July 2015 (BST)