User talk:Skizzerz/LQT Archive 1

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Safe mode
Thank you for your answer. I tried to rethink the article and published a honest opinions from both sides and made a clear article structure. --Jehy 21:23, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks once again for correcting me. I completely forgot about so many formatting issues... And my English is too bad - right now, I can translate everything in Russian with a pretty good quality - but not vice versa :( --Jehy 00:28, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

I made a mistake
And then I didn't realize what I had done until it was completed. Sorry about it, I promise it won't happen again. Drini 00:35, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * It doesn't seem like that bad of a mistake. I rebuilt it soon after and Skizzerz caught the oldid issue. By the way, at what point do you guys decide to clear out the history on the Sandbox? Just whenever, or after so many edits?Matt 00:47, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It's a matter of whenever a sysop feels like it. Generally I try to refresh it after it hits 500-1000 revisions, but sooner or later is fine, there really isn't a policy. @Drini: Don't feel bad, I made the same mistake my first time doing it (I kept clicking reset and it kept saying "No Old revision found" or something as the page text, making me very confused), and it was caught before anyone could've accidentally hit it anyway, so no harm done. Just something to keep in mind in the future :) -- Skiz zerz  01:59, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Eyecandy
Thanks very much. Your help is much appreciated. Anyway, where can I find the MediaWiki:Common.css page and will it work on MediaWiki 1.6.5 software (unfortunately the ultimate powers that be at wikicars have been dragging their feet at updating to the latest version)? I also have another question, is it possible to make images transparent via the wiki software or not?

-Red marquis 07:04, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It's the page called MediaWiki:Common.css. And no, you need image editing software to add transparency to images. -- Skiz zerz  16:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * That's strange. We don't have that page. Thanks anyway. btw, I have another question: recently, we had a server crash and after having got it back up again our site came back with an anomaly. Whenever we post a picture on a page, especially when we encase it in a thumbnail or resize it to any pixel or insert it into a gallery, we either get a blank box or we get this text: "Error creating thumbnail: sh: /usr/sfw/bin/convert: No such file or directory ". The only pictures affected are the ones uploaded after the crash, the ones before that show up fine. They also upload fine however it's linking it to a page where it gets all whack. Do you know what problem we're having and how we may be able to fix it? Thanks.

-Red marquis 13:38, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Extensions and later MediaWiki versions
Sorry if I became a nuisance while trying to be helpful. The "+" does not mean that it works with all later versions, it only means that someone thought that it would work with all later versions. A future version may break backwards compatibility and if no one checks the extension again and updates the page then people who wish to use the extension may face errors. So, we need to re-check compatibility with all later versions from time to time and note our results in the page, perhaps not in the infobox, but surely somewhere, either in the extension page or somewhere else. NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis 02:44, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Now whenever I check an extension for compatibility with a specific MediaWiki version I will note it in a Compatibility section in the extension page. If you think that's not good tell me now. NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis 02:48, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

AuthorProtect Problem
Hi Skizzerz, I'm trying to implement AuthorProtect and probably missed something very basic... when I check "Version" on my special pages, AuthorProtect shows up just fine as an extension, but when I go to my user rights management, the author and authorprotect rights do not appear. I am both a bureaucrat and sysop, so I should be seeing this... any suggestions? Thanx! Paul Z 128.107.248.220 00:13, 29 October 2008 (UTC)


 * No, you shouldn't be seeing it. They are rights, not groups. You don't assign people to the authors group, they gain the appropriate rights automatically when they are the author of a page. Since you are a sysop, the only place you will ever see it is when you click the "protect" tab and an "Authors only" option should appear. -- Skiz zerz  20:17, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Ah, very illuminating... thank you!! -Paul Z.

Sorry... one more quick question... is the author the person who created the original page or who last edited the page? Or anyone who has edited it? Thanks! (Paul Z again)

128.107.248.220 23:37, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

extensions version compatibility
No it's not pointless because even though MediaWiki authors may focus on backwards compatibility, a bug could easily break it for a specific version or svn revision. Bugs can happen any time and are unpredictable. Verifying compatibility of each extension (and its versions) with each MediaWiki version and a few selected svn revisions could help with more adoption of MediaWiki and extensions by users that need such compatibility checks, for example enterprises. Of course you could say that there are probably other tasks that are of higher priority, which is another matter than pointlessness. So, checking compatibility could be of low usefulness, depending on your priorities, but not of no usefulness at all (it is, at least, useful to some potential users). NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis 05:03, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Wiki bug
Recently, we had a server crash at Wikicars and after having got it back up again our site came back with an anomaly. Whenever we post a picture on a page, especially when we encase it in a thumbnail or resize it to any pixel or insert it into a gallery, we either get a blank box or we get this text: "Error creating thumbnail: sh: /usr/sfw/bin/convert: No such file or directory ". The only pictures affected are the ones uploaded after the crash, the ones before that show up fine. They also upload fine however it's linking it to a page where it gets all whack. Do you know what problem we're having and how we may be able to fix it? Thanks.

-Red marquis 15:43, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * No idea, but it sounds like you don't have the thumbnailing software installed. -- Skiz zerz  16:18, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

OpenID extension
Please, check, if I was wrong. I just think that the guy didn't understand what I wrote :)

Look here please --Jehy 11:37, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Why don't you ask him about it instead of me? -- Skiz zerz  23:01, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Extension:CiteNG
Hi, I thought that new extension docs should be placed there? רנדום 01:59, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, they do. However, I deleted that page because there was no code for the extension and no link to the code for the extension. Please provide the code or the appropriate link to it, now that I have restored it. -- Skiz zerz  21:50, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

GroupPermissionManager
Hi, I'm using your GroupPermission Manager. It works really good, especially with other extension. But I got a problem with this. I need to delete some group rights, but it is not possible. Everytime when I deleted all unnessecary permission and save the changes, the permissions are right back when the page is refreshed. How can I get them out off the permission?

Thank you for any help.

--Fightgnome 14:09, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Define "delete the permissions." Are you setting them to false in Special:GroupPermissions? Also, v4 is going to be a lot more intuitive when it comes to adding and removing permissions, I should hopefully get that version up before Christmas. -- Skiz zerz  14:29, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

No, I mean I don't want to have the permission in the GPM any more. I open the SortPermissions and click on (delete) right after the permission, cause I don't need it any more. But it does not remove from this list.

How could I handle this?

--Fightgnome 14:42, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, as I said it's very counter-intuitive in v3, which is one of my main focuses in v4 to fix. In order to delete a right, you have to do one of two things:
 * Set it to false in every group via Special:GroupPermissions. The right will automatically disappear afterwards.
 * Edit /extensions/GroupPermissionsManager/config/GroupPermissions.php and remove every line with that permission. The right will automatically disappear afterwards.
 *  Skiz zerz  14:44, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Now I did both, but the rights are still there. I' m just going to try an other possibility. Maybe that would work. Otherwise I have to wait on the next release. When will it be launched? We really need your extension for our MediaWiki.

--Fightgnome 15:34, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Admin
I'm very curious. What exactly do you look for in a user here for them to be a sysop? And what to be a bureaucrat? Like qualifications, contributions/occupations here and whatnot. And by the way, ''' I do not want to be an admin here. ''' I'm already a sysop at one site and my nomination is pending on another. The last thing I need is a third wiki to take care of. I'm just so curious I could stand it anymore. I'll I've seen on this site positions on this has been in the opposing votes for admin nominations. I have not seen a page that gives a detailed list of what the expected qualifications are. I'm wrong and such a page does exist the I do apologize.--Matt 10:02, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * There aren't any specific requirements, it's basically called "convince a bureaucrat that you're worthy." I've made my personal criteria for these requests available on my user page. -- Skiz zerz  23:33, 29 November 2008 (UTC)