User talk:Duesentrieb

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Me at the German Wikipedia: Duesentrieb. That's my primary account, so if I don't respond here, try on my talk page there.'''

Me at the Commons: Duesentrieb.

Me at the Meta: Duesentrieb.

Me at the English Wikipedia: Gearloose. I'm not there often.

- Hehe, herzlich willkommen :D -- :Bdk: 18:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

- Yes rob, it's me. -- Duesentrieb 00:31, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

regarding User_talk:84.190.37.196
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:84.190.37.196&oldid=70082

discussion imported from there:

If you really want to contribute useful content, talk to us, be sinsible, don't start a crusade. As every wiki, this place has conventions. As in any other wiki, contributions that don't meet those conventions are moved/removed/changed. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 14:20, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Are you kidding? This place is ruled by User:Robchurch and his friends. He is vandalizing, simply deleting away content, making flase edit summaries, marks deletions as minor, blocks User:Tobias Conradi without giving a reason. Vandalizies Tobias' user and Tobias' talk page. User:Robchurch should be blocked.


 * You have been blocked for vandalizing his user page. That's a very valid reason.
 * Reverts are automatically marked as minor - since the don't contribute content.
 * "ruled by User:Robchurch and his friends" basically means "MediaWiki developers". Which is exactly who this wiki should be maintained by, don't you think?
 * Your actions over the last few days pretty much disqualify you to make any complaint about people being rude. Crossposting accusations would get you blocked from any wiki.
 * When your contributions on a wiki are undone, look for consensus, don't pick a fight. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 17:08, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

mediawiki ca
Perhaps this is not the way, but. Would you help me?

I need help at the main-page ca, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/ca. I don't understand the reason why the older news (Informacions antigues ), appear in the front (main-page). Allman


 * Sorry, I have no clue about the main page template system. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 21:58, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Fixed. --HappyDog 17:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Makesysop
For some reason, when I used Makesysop, it didn't work! What do I need to do to make it work like the Wikimedia wikis??

I tried to set rights for "User:Westholm@northmidlandswiki" but it said no such user existed, even though I have an installation with this user.

What should I do to get it working and to make it work like the Wikimedia meta wiki?? --Westholm 12:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * what exactly does "I have an installation with this user" mean? Makesysop only works for its "own" installation. Other than that, I have no idea. I never looked at Makesysop. Why are you asking me? -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 12:56, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Extension Matrix
Fantastic page - thank you. You make a HappyDog very happy :-) --HappyDog 02:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm glad someone is using it :P -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 17:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

SimpleFeed extension
Regarding Extension:SimpleFeed,

Firstly, thanks for inforrming me of an XSS flaw in my extension.However, I am a little unsure where the flaw(s) is/are. Before anything gets sent back to the page it is parsed using $parser->parse. This seems to escape any HTML chars such as <. Is this not sufficient, or am I overlooking something else? Thanks in advance!

Jonnylamb 12:44, 25 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Oops, you are right, my bad - I missed the parser call at the bottom. Calling the variable holding the unparsed wikitext "itemhtml" added to the confusion :) I'll remove the warning. Thanks for looking into it. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 14:25, 25 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah I see- I'll clean up the variable names ASAP. Thanks again for looking into it though! Jonnylamb 16:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Applet extension
Hi,

I see you noticed a huge vulnerability in the Applet extension that I posted. I want to fix that. Do you have any examples of validation code that I can use to exclude characters with special meaning?

Thanks,Sanchom 15:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * htmlspecialchars -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 19:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Considering your News Extension
I have posted a patch for MW < 1.10 on the talk page of the extension. Jean-Lou Dupont 19:24, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Hm, as far as I know it's not always safe to recycle the parser... but how's that related to 1.9 compatibility anyway? Cloning the parser should work in earlier version too. Can you supply a diff of your changes? that would make it mach easier for me to see what you did. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 13:13, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

SVN access
Do you think I could get SVN access for the extensions I have crafted? Jean-Lou Dupont 12:37, 31 March 2007 (UTC)


 * To get SVN access, post patches to Bugzilla. Do some small improvements / bug fixes. Maybe submit some extensions that way. Someone will review your patches and apply them (or complain to you). At some point, people will know your work well enough, and be tired of committing for you - and you'll get commit access. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 13:10, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

GG Extension
I've write something in Extension_talk:GG but I don't understand what you mean. Why I should use htmlspecialhars for a digit input variable? --193.39.71.4 22:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguating extensions
Hi Duesentrieb. I saw this conversation and thought I should let you know that there is precedent for disambiguation pages to be held in the extension namespace (e.g. [1] [2]). Personally I think this is fine. The early disambiguation pages were designed to deal with extensions that have the same name (e.g. there were several that were just called 'calendar') without giving any undue prominence, but the way that page has evolved to include all calendar-style extensions is, I think, quite useful, and best kept within the extension namespace. --HappyDog 01:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Amazon extensions
I created the Amazon extensions. How do I make it XSS proof? Any tip on how to escape in javascript. Thanks! 69.177.128.119 05:57, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


 * First of all, post at the bottom of talk pages.
 * You can use Xml::escapeJsString to make safe javascript strings. Test with nasty stuff, like '"<>&\ -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 21:31, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I have changed the code to use Xml::escapeJsString instead of htmlspecialchars. 69.177.128.119 00:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for telling one more wiki PHP code for Extension:Anysite!
Thanks.. --Gabeyg 21:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)Gabeyg

Extension matrix & sub-pages
Hi - please see this comment. --HappyDog 01:25, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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I put the Categorytree in my wiki but it didn´t work !!!

I edit with:

and I put the lines below in my LocalSettings.php

$wgUseAjax = true; require_once( 'extensions/CategoryTree/CategoryTree.php' );

What is happening ? Could you help me, please ?

Thanks

Fernanda

RDF extension : download dead
Gutentag,

der Link zu http://wikitravel.org/~evan/mw-rdf-0.3.tar.gz auf die Extension:RDF-Seite ist Tot.

The link to http://wikitravel.org/~evan/mw-rdf-0.3.tar.gz seems to be dead. http://wikitravel.org/~evan redirects to http://evan.prodromou.name/, which hasn't got the gz-file http://evan.prodromou.name/mw-rdf-0.3.tar.gz.

Danke ! --193.190.154.22 10:25, 7 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Uh, what does that have to do with me? I can't do anything about it... -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 23:37, 13 August 2007 (UTC)


 * At Extension:RDF you're listed as one of the authors, and on the same page the same dead download link is provided, so I assumed you could do something about it. Like providing another link for a download. --193.190.154.22

Huh, interresting. I talked a lot about this stuff with Evan back when he started this stuff, but he wrote all the code. I didn't even know I was mentioned on that page :) I guess Evan was being overly nice... -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 11:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Would you be overly nice and respond to the Extension talk:CategoryTree questions as mentioned below? Thanks. —Eep² 07:43, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Extension Player
Can you add the mp3 format on THE Extension PlayeR? - Zizanzu

CategoryTree suggestions
Well, I tried contacting you on the German Wikipedia but you never replied so now I'm trying here. Please see Extension talk:CategoryTree for suggestions starting there (and other recent discussions that have gone unanswered...) —Eep² 10:45, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll respond there.
 * I'm currently studying for my final exam... I have accumulated a backlock of more than 100 mails, wiki messages and bug reports i need to deal with... sorry.

-- Duesentrieb ⇌ 13:41, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Extension Matrix Type Page for Hooks?
Hi. If we added a category and a proper Template:MediaWikiHook to every hook page, would you be willing to modify User:DuesenBot to create and maintain a table similar to this: Manual:Hooks? Thanks. --Cneubauer 19:10, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Would be nice, but I don't have time right now. Ask again in a month or two :) -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 21:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Upload from Web - Thanks!
Re: MW:Project:Support_desk Thanks for the quick help. I can't believe that didn't come up in all my Google searching.

I've added the following to LocalSettings.php and the Special:Upload page has changed to show both 'local' and 'web' upload boxes, however the Web upload one is grayed out. Am I missing something?

$wgAllowCopyUploads = true; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['upload_by_url'] = true;

Thanks again, -Blckdmnd99 13:40, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * There are checkboxes (or more accurately, radiobuttons) to the left of the two fields (file and url). Click the one to the left of the URL field to activate it (this will also grey out the file field). If this doesn't work for you, please try again with a different browser, and report it as a bug, clearly stating with which browsers on which OS it does or does not work. Disabling JavaScript would be another option to try.
 * Btw, you shouldn't need to thouch $wgGroupPermissions to use this - at least I didn't have to when testing this. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 20:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ooops, seems to be restricted to sysop (admin) per default. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 21:05, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I think I've narrowed it down. The issue occurs on Firefox, IE6, and Safari cross platform but based on the error 'toggle_element_activation' I see in Firefox, it looks like this has to do with MediaWiki Javascript Support Functions. Not sure exactly what that means but I'm thinking I'm missing something in my custom themes that I need to incorporate. Thanks again. Blckdmnd99 14:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Turns out I was missing the closing '>' on my opening tag in my skin. Not sure why that didn't break a ton of other stuff but it's working now! Thanks again. Blckdmnd99 14:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Bot requests
Hi Duesentrieb. Just a quick note to let you know that I have just created Project:Bot requests. I don't know if you are interested in dealing with any of the requests there, but if so drop me a line. Cheers. --HappyDog 20:12, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Please delete my crap
Hi Gyro Gearloose,

May I have a question with you, Sir? Could you help me implement the erasing of my bad named files which are already in use with their proper names? In case of yes, there are some cyber lemon drops available. In case of no, have a nice time for the rest of your life. De-Arapaima.mp3.OGG De-Fische.mp3.OGG De-Gewässer.mp3.OGG De-Karpfen-plural.mp3.OGG teacoolish 23:15 2007-10-27


 * Uh, that would be on Commons, yes? Why are you asking that here? And why are you asking me? simply tag them with . -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 09:13, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

How to make portals
I have put some resources together from your post and suggestion on documenting Project:Support_desk (which nobody responded to). --Zven 01:22, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Problem with extension matrix
Hi Duesentrieb - please see this comment regarding a problem with the Extension Matrix. --HappyDog 00:39, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Support team
Any interest in joining the MediaWiki Support Team?

Also I am going to put a warning message on the top of your page and see if you like it, just so that people start going to the support desk instead. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  17:02, 30 December 2007 (UTC)