Difference between revisions of "User talk:Jake"

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Server transfer and file uploads

Hi, any idea how long the transfer will take and when we can upload again because, don't mean to sound hasty or anything, but with the new episode recently airing, we would like uploads? Thanks, Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 12:31, 5 December 2011 (EST)

I was worried about the new episode too, so I actually purchased some emergency disk space for the server. I've just applied the changes and switched over to a new kernel, so you should now find that uploads are re-enabled. This is a temporary solution to a problem growing by the day, so I'm definitely going to try to move us to the new server ASAP. If you don't mind, could you please contact some of the other staff members and ask that they surrender their email accounts after deleting all personal information from it? Sadly, it doesn't look like we'll be able to offer staff email accounts on the new server. (At least until I figure out a way to override some of the system in a way that doesn't breach security.) Thanks! --Jake 16:28, 5 December 2011 (EST)

I can't access my account via web portal (forgot my password - Thunderbird remembers it). I moved it all to a local folder, do you think this will delete it form the account. I doubt there's that much personal info in there but thought I'd check.--Cook879 16:54, 5 December 2011 (EST)

It's asking for a security code and I have no idea what it is... ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 17:07, 5 December 2011 (EST)

The security code should be in one of the first emails you received. I may have also posted it in a forum PM. If you still can't find it, just let me kow and I'll manually do it. :) --Jake 17:14, 5 December 2011 (EST)

For some reason, the folder I was sure I saved it to has gone. Also, I can't find it on the forum. The Solar Dragon 17:22, 5 December 2011 (EST)

I sent you the code in a PM just now. :) --Jake 18:23, 5 December 2011 (EST)

Christmas Logo

Could you please change the logo to this for Christmas? Thanks --Smiley12 16:32, 20 December 2011 (EST)

I've created a work around using Common.css but it looks bad on the new skin. ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 16:49, 20 December 2011 (EST)

I've altered the new skin to prevent Common.css from changing the logo. Seasonal logos will definitely be implemented in the new skin soon. Right now I'm preparing for the server migration, which will occur either tomorrow or Thursday. I expect that the database will only need to be locked for a few hours at most. :) --Jake 18:56, 20 December 2011 (EST)

Broken image

Hi Jake, for some reason, the image here is broken. I've tried moving the image which has worked a lot of the time but it did nothing. Do you have any ideas why? Thanks, ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 04:28, 23 December 2011 (EST)

It seems to be a recurring problem. See The Three Stooges and this image's thumbnail. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 05:07, 23 December 2011 (EST)

Looks like the path to the image thumbnail program has changed on the new server. All thumbs should now generate correctly. :) --Jake 07:27, 23 December 2011 (EST)

Thanks :) ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 09:10, 23 December 2011 (EST)

Piwik

Piwik appears to have totally crashed and hasn't updated all day. Is this a problem you can fix? ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 17:10, 23 December 2011 (EST)

It looks like the archival script wasn't running. All stats should now be available in Piwik, and will continue to update at five after each hour (XX:05) as usual. --Jake 21:05, 23 December 2011 (EST)

Blacklist Wikia

Hi, could you possibly blacklist Wikia so that we never have to deal with another Wikia link here again please? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 18:30, 23 December 2011 (EST)

Is there a spam problem with Wikia? If not, I don't really think it's in our best interest to block them just for the sake of blocking them. --Jake 21:05, 23 December 2011 (EST)

New skin on other wikis

Sorry about another post here but could you enable the new skin on the other wikis under our name as the default please? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 19:10, 23 December 2011 (EST)

Done. :) --Jake 21:05, 23 December 2011 (EST)

Erm, when I went on fanon, this showed up: "Fatal error: Class 'AdvertisementHandler' not found in /home/karrottc/simpsonswiki/fanon/w/skins/simpsons.php on line 74". Also, can you repair the old merch wiki logo on the merch. wiki AND the fanon logo? Thanks, Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 03:29, 24 December 2011 (EST).

All logos need changing, though I don't think German ever had one.--Cook879 06:50, 24 December 2011 (EST)

No, because I translated "WIKISIMPSONS" to german on google translate and it came out the same, "WIKISIMPSONS", so no need for a German logo. Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 08:58, 24 December 2011 (EST)

We never had a logo on there though, it was just the default instructions. See this.--Cook879 09:16, 24 December 2011 (EST)

Oh, I forgot that would happen. It's why I didn't install the new skin on those wikis immediately. It has some dependancies on some custom classes I wrote for the main wiki. I'll look into fixing it soon. :) --Jake 11:41, 24 December 2011 (EST)

Imagemap extension

Could we have an Imagemap extension, like this one? link. Thanks --Cook879 06:15, 24 December 2011 (EST)

Sure! It should be installed now. :) --Jake 11:44, 24 December 2011 (EST)

Cheers Jake :)--Cook879 14:27, 24 December 2011 (EST)

Fanon wiki

The fanon wiki is not accessible, and says "Fatal error: Class 'AdvertisementHandler' not found in /home/karrottc/simpsonswiki/fanon/w/skins/simpsons.php on line 74" on the main page, implying that the wiki is unaccessable due to the new skin. Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 16:30, 27 December 2011 (EST)

Yeah, that's exactly what's happening. I also can't seem to pin down what the problem is, because that class does exist. For now I'll have to switch it back to the Vector skin. --Jake 18:30, 27 December 2011 (EST)

Random page

Hi,

I think it would be better if "Random page" on the left side wouldn't include appearance pages, only the main pages. FatHomer^Talk 08:48, 2 January 2012 (EST)

Yeah, I agree. I don't think there's any easy way for me to modify the random page functionality, but I'll look into it for sure. --Jake 09:19, 2 January 2012 (EST)

Good :) How do i verify my email adress to my piwik account? FatHomer^Talk 15:48, 2 January 2012 (EST)

Log into Piwik, and click the 'Settings' link near the top of the page. You can then change your email to a valid email account. :) --Jake 15:51, 2 January 2012 (EST)

I tried to change my email on piwik, and it came up with "You can't access this resource as it requires an admin access for at least one website." What's the problem, I clicked save and that's what came up? Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 16:24, 2 January 2012 (EST)

Same happened to me earlier, however, I'm not getting "Unable to start session." when I go to Piwik :S The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 16:39, 2 January 2012 (EST)

Oh, I guess I've got to change the emails for you. In that case, feel free to give me your new email only if you use email reports from Piwik. I didn't realize it was impossible to do. Are you able to access Piwik now? I had to change some file permissions earlier which caused that error temporarily. --Jake 16:56, 2 January 2012 (EST)

No, still unable to access Piwik. Email is wikisimpsons@talktalk.net. ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 17:00, 2 January 2012 (EST)

Hmm, that's really odd. How about now? (I've changed your email by the way.) --Jake 17:06, 2 January 2012 (EST)

Working now :) ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 17:34, 2 January 2012 (EST)

You can get email reports? Never knew that.--Cook879 19:04, 2 January 2012 (EST)

Yup! There's a link for them at the top of every Piwik page. The server sends them out as frequently as you request during its hourly processing. (My Piwik account is slightly different, so if you can't see that link just let me know and I can set up a report for you.) --Jake 19:15, 2 January 2012 (EST)

Simpsonswiki.net E-mail

I've noticed the sitenotices about the e-mail server having been down and now being back up again. Does this mean that we still have the capability to have simpsonswiki.net e-mail addresses, even now that we're on the new server? If so, can I get one, please? -- Mythigator 09:02, 13 January 2012 (EST)

I never really went into detail on this, so I suppose now's a good time. The new server is capable of hosting email addresses, but only internally to server administrators. I cannot provide email accounts to other users without compromising the security of the whole server, and I think we can all agree that security is most important. The only reason I have an account is because I have direct access to the server anyway. I'm looking into playing around with the internals of the email system to try to make the old system work again, but it doesn't look promising at the moment because the new server is an entirely different operating system. I'd really like to be able to offer staff email accounts again if possible, and I'm sorry that we can't at the moment. --Jake 14:57, 13 January 2012 (EST)

Signatures (EST) and Server Time (UTC)

Hi, this was brought up on my talk page but why are signature timestamps in EST while server time it UTC? Is there any way of getting signatures into UTC as well? The Solar Dragon 09:28, 22 January 2012 (EST)

I've noticed this before on both of my sites, and it appears to be impossible to correct. You see, server time actually is EST, which is why all signatures and Piwik use that time zone. However, MediaWiki likes to display times in UTC even though everything is written in EST from the back-end. I'm afraid that we're just going to have to live with it until MediaWiki adds the ability to change the front-end timezone from UTC to something else. :\ --Jake 11:35, 22 January 2012 (EST)

Hello

Hello Jake. I know we have never met, but I was brought here to you by Solar Dragon. I asked him here about some CSS changes and he directed me here. If there is nothing you can do that is perfectly fine, it is just a suggestion. Thanks. DaRanger ^(Talk) 12:45, 23 January 2012 (EST)

Very nice fix. I've just implemented it, and it appears to be working. Thanks! --Jake 19:08, 23 January 2012 (EST)

Problems deleting an image

Hi, I'm having problems deleting :File:Menu.gif. The actual page was deleted but the image is still here. I got the following error:

Errors were encountered while deleting the file:

   * The archive directory "deleted/6/b/z" is not writable by the webserver.
   * The archive directory "deleted/6/b/z" is not writable by the webserver.

Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 18:15, 24 January 2012 (EST)

This is fixed now. :) --Jake 19:06, 24 January 2012 (EST)

Sitename

I thought I'd message you on this one, but the sitename is currently Simpsons Wiki: Wikisimpsons (that's the variable just there). Strange. Can you change it by any chance? Randomno 15:07, 25 January 2012 (EST)

Oh yeah, how did I miss that all this time? :P Thanks! --Jake 15:17, 25 January 2012 (EST)

DISPLAYTITLE

Hi, could you activate the DISPLAYTITLE function and set it to "$wgRestrictDisplayTitle = false" please? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 15:06, 27 January 2012 (EST)

No problem. It should be working now. :) --Jake 18:20, 27 January 2012 (EST)

Thanks. The Solar Dragon 18:55, 27 January 2012 (EST)

Autoconfirmed

Hi, Randomno has been an editor for a few days now and has made over 100 edits, yet he isn't autoconfirmed yet. What is the threshold for autoconfirmed? Thanks, Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 11:54, 28 January 2012 (EST)

I'm pretty sure it's 10 edits, and 7 days. :) --Jake 11:55, 28 January 2012 (EST)

Okay, thanks. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 11:57, 28 January 2012 (EST)

I'm autoconfirmed now! Randomno 13:25, 29 January 2012 (EST)

Congrats, and thanks for all of your contributions! --Jake 13:46, 29 January 2012 (EST)

New user right

Hi, could you possibly make a new user right for one rank underneath rollback? This right could have these: autopatrolled, movefile and suppressredirect. Also, could suppressredirect be added to rollback? I do not have any idea what name we could use so if you could come up with one, even if temporary, that will be great. Thanks, Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 05:50, 3 February 2012 (EST)

No problem! Before I do however, I should point out that movefile will not function without move itself. Is it ok to add that permission as well? --Jake 07:27, 3 February 2012 (EST)

I thought that move was already a default though? If not, then yes, of course. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 12:22, 3 February 2012 (EST)

Ok, this is done. I've named the group "Trusted" for now, but we can always rename it to something better in the future. --Jake 12:06, 4 February 2012 (EST)

Tabber

Could you install Tabber please. the security risk seems to have been apparently fixed but if you still don't think we should, then don't install it. Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 12:22, 3 February 2012 (EST)

Done. :) --Jake 12:09, 4 February 2012 (EST)

It doesn't appear to be working properly. See Wikisimpsons:Sandbox for an example... The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 12:39, 7 February 2012 (EST)

According to this page, the extension appears to be broken under 1.17. We might have to wait until the next update before using it, unless we can find another way to implement tabs. --Jake 21:52, 7 February 2012 (EST)

Merchandise Wiki

The wiki move is now complete, can you delete the site and redirect http://merchandise.simpsonswiki.net to http://simpsonswiki.net/ /AleWi 11:32, 6 February 2012 (EST)

Sure. I'll leave that redirect in place for a few months just in case. :) --Jake 19:19, 6 February 2012 (EST)

Popular pages

Hi, I've noticed that some wikis have a special page called "PopularPages" (Wikia included). I was just wondering if there was any way of us getting it. An example of a non-Wikia wiki with it is WikiIndex so I know it's possible. Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 12:30, 7 February 2012 (EST)

That page is actually built into MediaWiki, but we're not currently able to use it because I had to disable page view counters for performance reasons. However, our new server is more than capable of handling the extra processing on every page view, so I've told it to re-enable them starting at midnight. At that time, Special:PopularPages should start working and new statistics will be available on Special:Statistics. :) --Jake 21:56, 7 February 2012 (EST)

Upload images

I've got an error when I try to upload images, "The upload directory (public) is not writable by the webserver." /AleWi 04:52, 18 February 2012 (EST)

I should have figured; image uploads seem to break whenever I do anything. :P It should be fixed now. Sorry about that! --Jake 08:27, 18 February 2012 (EST)

Update Svenska Wikisimpsons

Hi,

Are you going to update the Swedish Wikisimpsons? FatHomer^Talk 05:56, 18 February 2012 (EST)

If you'd like me to, I can schedule an upgrade for it sometime this weekend. :) --Jake 08:28, 18 February 2012 (EST)

That would be good :) The WikiTextLoggedInOut extension doesn't seem to work after the update. FatHomer^Talk 09:22, 18 February 2012 (EST)

The extension does work... FatHomer^Talk 10:14, 18 February 2012 (EST)

Another CSS thing

Hello again. It is me, DaRanger again. If you could add this code to the css, a problem like this (multiple "edit buttons") will not happen. If you disapprove, that is okay, I was just wondering if it would interest you.

h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
   overflow:hidden;
}

Thanks DaRanger ^(Talk) 10:18, 19 February 2012 (EST)

It's no problem at all! Thanks! :) --Jake 10:23, 19 February 2012 (EST)

Oh, no. Thank You. DaRanger ^(Talk) 10:30, 19 February 2012 (EST)

"simpsons" skin

Why is the "simpsons" skin just a copy of Nookipedia? It was never one of the candidates on the competition page. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 15:30, 20 February 2012 (EST)

I have neither the time nor the experience to develop an entirely new MediaWiki skin at the moment. Re-skinning Nookipedia is the closet thing I can get to making a dedicated skin for Wikisimpsons until this summer when I should have some more time to dedicate to learning MediaWiki skinning. As for that contest; none of those skins actually existed. They're all just mockups, so we couldn't implement one even if we wanted to. --Jake 16:24, 20 February 2012 (EST)

Categories

Hi, is there any way to make the spacing between the categories smaller, like the older version of MediaWiki? The spacing is ridicilous now and just makes the page longer and look worse in my opinion. Thanks, The Solar Dragon 17:17, 20 February 2012 (EST)

Yeah, that spacing is pretty crazy. I'm sure it can be fixed with some CSS changes. I'll get to it as soon as I can. :) --Jake 13:33, 21 February 2012 (EST)

Ok, I think we're back to normal now. --Jake 08:58, 26 February 2012 (EST)

Trusted rights

Hey, just so you know bureaucrats can't add people to the trusted group.--Cook879 12:39, 22 February 2012 (EST)

Woah, sorry about that. You should be able to manage that permission now. :) --Jake 15:38, 22 February 2012 (EST)

Cheers Jake :)--Cook879 16:20, 22 February 2012 (EST)

Special:Interwiki

Hi, I tried to delete a couple of interwiki links, merchandise and zh, but it just returned a blank page instead. Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 17:03, 22 February 2012 (EST)

That's interesting. I'll have a look at it as soon as I can. I'm a bit swamped at the moment, but I'll have some time to work on the site this weekend. Until then, I'll just delete those interwiki sites through the database. --Jake 21:33, 22 February 2012 (EST)

This should be fixed. --Jake 08:54, 26 February 2012 (EST)

Thanks again :) ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 08:58, 26 February 2012 (EST)

Special:EditProfile

Hi, the sidebar on this special page is messed up for some reason. Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 14:56, 23 February 2012 (EST)

Should be fixed now. There was a slight error in the code for that page that I had to correct. --Jake 08:50, 26 February 2012 (EST)

Thanks. ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 08:51, 26 February 2012 (EST)

QuickLink

Hi Jake, could you install the QuickLink extension please? Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 12:00, 25 February 2012 (EST)

Ok, it's installed but it does not support our editing toolbar. If you want to use it, go into preferences, click the 'Editing' tab, and uncheck all 'Beta' and 'Labs' features. The extension should then function as intended. --Jake 09:03, 26 February 2012 (EST)

Okay, thanks again. I never really used those features anyway so I don't mind not having them :P The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 09:27, 26 February 2012 (EST)

Bugs

MediaWiki:Recentchangestext ‎and Extension:WikiEditor does not work for me. AleWi 12:11, 28 February 2012 (EST)

Could you be more specific? What exactly about those pages isn't working? -Jake 12:14, 28 February 2012 (EST)

When I push a button or a link is nothing happening. I've testing Google Chorme and Internet Explorer on two diffrent computers but it dosen't work. It works at the "Svenska Wikisimpsons". AleWi 12:18, 28 February 2012 (EST)

The same seems to be happening for me. I'll look into this as soon as I can! What's wrong with MediaWiki:Recentchangestext? -Jake 12:20, 28 February 2012 (EST)

Sorry MediaWiki:Recentchangestext should be, MediaWiki:Edittools /AleWi 12:27, 28 February 2012 (EST)

List of redirects

No matter what the combination (500, 2x250, 3x100, 6x50, 15x20) I can't get to the 300th redirect on Special:ListRedirects. Any idea why?--Cook879 16:54, 28 February 2012 (EST)

That's odd. I can't think of why that would be happening. I'll take a look at the database later and see if there's anything wrong in there. -Jake 12:10, 29 February 2012 (EST)

Piwik

Hi, Merchandise and Chinese need to be removed from Piwik. Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 11:32, 29 February 2012 (EST)

I thought I did that already, but I guess I didn't. Thanks for the reminder! :P -Jake 12:11, 29 February 2012 (EST)

External links in templates

Hi, a few times now, we've put external links into templates and they haven't shown up or even counted as an element of the template. This happened before the upgrade so it isn't that. At first i thought it was specific to the table template but it's also happened for {{QuoteEx}} I have no idea what is causing this problem so could you look into it please? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 12:49, 29 February 2012 (EST)